Chapter 22 The Demon Empress
Li Xiu only stayed in Xuzhou City for a short time. In this short time, he explained everything in the future, and at the same time he also raised the morale of millions of soldiers in Xuzhou City to the peak. The queen treason and the civil strife in Chang'an City, these two hazes that had always hung in everyone's hearts began to dissipate.
For the soldiers of the Tang State, Li Xiu was different from the Tang Emperor, but there was no particular difference. Of course, they were loyal to the Tang Emperor, but the Tang Dynasty was not the Tang Emperor alone, but the Tang Dynasty was the Tang people in the world. If the Tang Emperor died and lost his leader, the people who were in a state of no leader would feel confused.
But Li Xiu has royal blood. If Emperor Tang really dies, it is not unacceptable to Li Xiu's succession to the throne in their eyes.
What's more, Li Xiu is also Li Laizhi's son, and he has a higher prestige in the army, and neither Cui Yasi nor Beidi will have any objections.
Of course, the premise is that Li Xiu is forced to take the lead, rather than taking the initiative to take the lead.
But in Li Xiu's opinion, he had no intention of becoming an emperor, and that position was far from as happy as walking on the road of cultivation.
Before leaving, he hugged Cong Xiaoxiao for a long time, leaving Xiong Pang beside Liang Xiaodao, and he found a fast horse and ran towards Chang'an City. Xuzhou City is ten days away from Chang'an City, so he dared not delay at all.
But when he rode his horse away from the city gate, he stopped.
Because Xu Yingxiu was standing there.
I haven't seen each other for several years and still have the familiar Taoist robe outfit before, but I look much more restrained and artistic than I did a few years ago.
She didn't hold the whisk in her hand, and Li Xiu's eyes were slightly red. He jumped down from his horse and hugged Xu Yingxiu.
He rarely reveals any special feelings, but Xu Yingxiu is like a real sister to him. She has been taking care of him since childhood. The person he fears most in this world is Xu Yingxiu. He is afraid that Xu Yingxiu will be angry, afraid that she will be sad, and afraid that she will not be satisfied.
So no matter how good the relationship between me and Zui Chunfeng is, no matter how much I hate Wang Zhiwei, he has never affected Xu Yingxiu's own choices.
Xu Yingxiu patted his shoulder and whispered: "Young Master has become a cultivator in the fourth realm, and he has made great progress."
Li Xiu smiled. This was the first time he had such a heartfelt smile since he returned to the Tang Dynasty. He looked at Xu Yingxiu and didn't say anything, but he had a lot to say.
Xu Yingxiu could naturally see that it was not the time to reminisce about the past, so she said, "It is important to do the important thing first. I will wait for you to come back in Xuzhou City and I will cook to reward you in person."
Li Xiu was a little disgusted: "Are green pepper fish and potatoes?"
Xu Yingxiu glared at him.
Li Xiu hugged her again and said softly: "When this incident is over, I will go to burn Wudang Mountain. Why is the girl I hold in my hand afraid of being melted and not being worthless in the eyes of others?"
Xu Yingxiu's eyes turned red, she lay in Li Xiu's arms and cried quietly.
She cried very quietly, but she cried very happily.
In the past few years on Wudang Mountain, she has been the closest years since Wang Zhiwei, but it is also the farthest years.
No one can talk about such grievances until now when he saw Li Xiu, Xu Yingxiu's thoughts that had been suppressed for several years finally flowed out with tears.
Li Xiu felt a little distressed. Since he was a child, he had only seen Xu Yingxiu cry a few times, every time it was because of himself, this time it was because of others.
"Wait for me to come back in Xuzhou City, and then we will take people to tie Wang Zhiwei down."
Li Xiu raised his hand to wipe the tears from her face, then turned over and galloped towards the capital.
Xu Yingxiu stood in front of Xuzhou City, and white snow fell in the sky. The wind and snow blew her Taoist robe, making her figure look a little blurred and confused.
Li Xiu was not the only one who wanted to rescue Chang'an City. At this moment, the twenty five-level masters who were still alive gathered together in the East Palace to fight the erosion of the city-modification formation.
Twenty masters of the fifth realm guarded the Donggong around him, resisting the city-defense formation while protecting the seriously injured Li Xianyi.
In the Eastern Palace, Li Xian lay on the bed and was in a coma. Although she had a breath left, she seemed to die at any time.
The new national teacher Chen Yanyan, the auxiliary minister Yang Feihong, the national teacher Yan Hui and Xu Ziji, Ying Zian who had retreated behind the scenes, and some imperial officials were basically gathered in the East Palace.
"Don't be sad. The most urgent task now is to find a way to wake up His Highness the Crown Prince and see if he has any way to contact His Majesty. Now the situation in Chang'an City can only be solved by Your Majesty."
Yang Feihong looked around at the officials around him and said in a deep voice.
He is very different from his previous cowardly appearance at this moment. He doesn't care about playing tricks outside the edge of walking at the critical moment.
All officials look at each other, but there is no good way.
Chen Yanyan frowned and said, "We actually don't have much to do now."
Yang Feihong turned his head and looked at him.
Chen Yanyan explained: "Since the queen dares to do such a traitor, it proves that she has enough confidence to control His Majesty. Moreover, she now has fifteen masters of the fifth realm and controls the city protection formation. We do not have the chance to get close to His Majesty's retreat."
The Snow Country of Wanxiang City and the Yin Cao sent a total of twenty-six fifth-level masters. However, although their whereabouts and aura were secret, they could not be hidden from Chang'an City. After discovering the horse, they began to fight. After paying the price of four fifth-level masters, they killed eleven powerful masters in the Queen Yifang.
Just when they thought the outcome was decided, they found that the queen took advantage of this chaos to imprison Emperor Tang, and controlled the city-protected formation, seriously injured Prince Li Xianyi. If they hadn't arrived in time, Li Xianyi would have been dead.
But even so, the royal bloodline in Li Xian's body has been stripped away. In other words, even if Li Xian wakes up at this moment, he still has no way to control the city-sharing formation.
The queen had fifteen masters of the fifth realm left, and they had to guard the prince Liushi and other officials. At present, only about seven or eight people could be used. It was precisely because of this that they could defend the Eastern Palace under the murder of the city-defying formation.
But this situation obviously cannot last too long. If you can last for at most half a month, everyone will be wiped out in the city moat formation.
This is a well-known thing and the thing that makes them feel most powerless.
The once impregnable Chang'an City became the Shura field for its own people after the accident.
Yan Hui slapped the table hard and said angrily: "Traitor, traitor, I, Tang, treat her well, but she colluded with foreign thieves to trap my Tang Dynasty in the midst of water and fire. I really regretted that I didn't make up my mind to kill her, and I was used to her ambitions, and I created this today."
"There is also the Qi Qin, who is the king of food and the king's worries. As the Grand Marshal of the Tang Kingdom, he is one person and more than ten thousand people. In times of crisis, not only does not contribute to the country, but stays in the mansion and stays in the door. What are he weighing? He has reached the point of breaking the country and destroying the mountains and rivers, but he still shrank at home and weighing what? Could it be that he still has a glimmer of hope for the demon queen now?"
"And Li Wenxuan, the dignified King of Wu and the second son of Emperor Tang, is fine if he fights for power and profit on weekdays. At this moment, can't he see the situation clearly? He always looks down on His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on weekdays, thinking that he should be the seat, and claiming that he will not be the crown prince. But is His Majesty the treason taught him to treason?"
"Is Your Highness the Crown Prince who taught him to destroy his country with his own hands?"
Yan Hui walked back and forth in the East Palace, and the sound of cursing was very far away, and even on the streets outside the East Palace could be heard clearly.
Xu Ziji frowned, looked at him but did not stop him. He knew in his heart that everyone was panic at the moment, and it was not a bad thing to vent his vent. Now he was trapped in this city-congratulatory formation, like a turtle in a jar, waiting to be slaughtered, and he had no ability to resist at all.
"Ahem!"
At this moment, a slight cough suddenly sounded in everyone's ears.
Yang Feihong and Chen Yanyan looked at each other and hurriedly got up and walked to the bed. Sure enough, Prince Li Xianyi had already woken up.
"Your Highness, you have finally woken up."
Li Xianyi's voice was very light and weak: "Mr. Yan's voice is so loud, even if I want to sleep for a while, it may be difficult for me to do it."
Yan Hui's old face turned red and hesitated, feeling embarrassed to speak.
Although the royal bloodline in Li Xian's body was stripped away, it seemed to everyone that thing would disappear. After becoming emperor, the dragon energy would naturally condense in his body and it would be regenerated.
But now that he has no royal bloodline, he has no way to compete with the queen for the right to use the city moat formation.
Chen Yanyan quickly told him what happened during his coma.
"Li Anzhi led his army to guard the East Palace, with him and twenty masters on his side to protect him. Before the city moat formation was killed, we can protect our East Palace without worries."
No one expected that at the critical moment of the queen's rebellion, the city patrol guards led by Anzhi, who should have been the queen's confidant, would send troops to guard outside the East Palace as soon as possible, and prohibit all people related to the queen from entering and leaving.
Moreover, the strength of this successor, King Chenliu, was so terrifying that no one could imagine, the fifteenth first in the Heavenly Scroll.
Li Xianyi was not surprised by this. He closed his eyes and thought about the current situation in the city. The conclusion he came to was exactly the same as Chen Yanyan, Yang Feihong and others. Now they are indeed turtles in the jar and will not last long and they will be killed.
"I can't figure out why the queen did this?"
Hearing his inquiry, all the officials in the Eastern Palace were silent. No one wanted to answer, and no one knew the answer.
If we want to support the King of Wu to take office, wouldn’t the cost of doing so be too high?
And after this incident, who will the officials in the court support the King of Wu?
Li Xian lay on the bed and thought for a long time, and finally said, "Since the Queen has joined forces with the Snow Country and the Wilderness, not only Chang'an City, but also the enemy will be attacked by the enemy at this moment. Liang Wen and the military advisor are there in the north, and the border troops in the north are the most elite, so it should be fine. The real problem is Xiaonanqiao."
"The Xiaonan Bridge will definitely be broken, and in the end, the army of deserted people will come to Xuzhou City."
Chen Yanyan said: "Chang'an City is trapped, we cannot leave, and the transfer order of Your Highness cannot be conveyed. Although Cui Yasi is in charge of the outside world, it can be guaranteed that it will not be messed up, but Cui Yasi cannot be able to arrange it freely. Xuzhou City may become an isolated city and can only last for several months at most."
Li Xian turned his head and looked out the window. He could see snowflakes falling from the sky, but none of them fell on the ground. It was obviously isolated from the city moat formation.
"Tang State is shocked and Li Xiu will definitely get news. If he rushed back from the deserted state and took charge of Xuzhou City, he could freely dispatch the world's army to relieve the dangers in Xuzhou."
When all the officials present heard Li Xiu's name, they felt relieved. Indeed, Li Xiu was the only one who was still outside Chang'an City and had the ability and prestige to dispatch the army in the world.
And this is true. If Li Xiu could really take charge of Xuzhou City, he would indeed be able to defeat the invading enemy.
Chen Yanyan sighed when he heard this and said, "Li Xiu will not stay in Xuzhou City, he is likely to come to Chang'an."
Hearing his words, all the officials looked over.
Chen Yanyan explained: "There are too many involvements in Chang'an City. Even if His Highness the Crown Prince can defeat the invading enemy in Xuzhou City, when the queen takes power in Chang'an City, even if Li Xiu is in harmony with the inside and outside, there is no good way to solve it. Moreover, in that case, His Majesty and the Crown Prince will definitely die. Li Xiu and His Highness are in love with His Highness, and will never sit idly by. Therefore, he will probably come to Chang'an City directly and find a way to solve the problems in the city first."
Hearing his explanation, the officials frowned. It was a good thing that Li Xiu wanted to solve the matter in Chang'an City first, but the problem was that the matter in Chang'an City had fallen into a dead end. If you want to turn the tables, you must first master the city protection formation.
But the royal bloodline inside Li Xian's body has been stripped away, and he cannot control the city moat formation.
Although Li Xiu had royal blood in his body, he did not know how to control the city-sharing formation. This thing took years or even ten years to be able to be achieved. Even if he was extremely talented, it would be impossible for Li Xiu to learn it in a short period of time.
"I believe he will definitely have a solution."
Li Xianyi said slowly.
Chen Yanyan and Yang Feihong looked at each other again and did not speak.
Because they didn't know what to say, all these changes happened suddenly and there was no time to react. Moreover, they never thought that the queen would be able to treason one day, and naturally they would not be prepared.
The queen sealed His Majesty with a speed of lightning speed and controlling the city-shaking formation, which was equivalent to being invincible innate.
It's hard for them to turn the tables.
Now we can only rely on what plans Li Xiu can have, and that's all. Apart from that, there is really no way to turn the tide.
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ps: You can guess what is the final way to break the deadlock?
Chapter completed!