Emperor Yangsheng and Empress Chu were extremely anxious in the palace.

If the clay pot thunder cannot be borrowed, and the eldest prince storms into the capital, the palace may not even be able to hold out for three days.

"Give him the position of Crown Prince, and keep him in check first!" Emperor Yangsheng made up his mind, and today he promised the position of Crown Prince, which had been vacant for more than ten years.

Chu Hanhua pinched her palm until it bled, and said with red eyes, "No, I absolutely disagree."

"What good would it do to give it to him? He'd have to be alive to receive it! Today is already the ninth day of the first lunar month. Even if Wuzhong Prefecture is captured, Chu Bubai's army is still waiting for him."

If we can hold out until after the fifteenth of the month, the sixteenth of each month will be the day when his body is at its weakest, and we will take that opportunity to kill him.

Emperor Yangsheng gritted his teeth and said, "He's not qualified to seize my throne!"

Suddenly, a guard excitedly reported: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Ling of Yulong Kingdom and Duke of Wei have led an envoy to Daxia to help Your Majesty repel the enemy."

Emperor Yangsheng was overjoyed.

Chu Hanhua was also extremely happy and said, "This must have been told to the Prince of Huainan by my sister, and the Prince of Huainan went to Emperor An for help."

Emperor Yangsheng said happily, "Quickly, prepare the carriage, I want to personally welcome Prime Minister Ling."

Just as he was instructing people to prepare the imperial carriage and welcome him from a hundred miles away, the city gate guard suddenly rode up on horseback, covered in blood. He jumped off his horse at the palace gate, staggered and scrambled into the palace to report.

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! Huo Dao is leading the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to attack the imperial city!"

Emperor Yangsheng stopped in his tracks as he was about to leave and hurriedly asked, "Where are they now?"

"At the city gate," the man said anxiously. "Your Majesty, they...they are not human..."

It's terrifying. Those people can climb with their bare hands, and they're incredibly strong. They seem fearless, oblivious to pain, and just keep killing.

"How's the city gate? Is it still standing?"

"The city gates weren't breached, yet they could climb the walls with their bare hands! Many people were killed at the city gates—no, torn to pieces..."

The report came from a junior officer at the city gate. He had never witnessed such a horrific massacre; people were being torn apart!

That's terrifying.

Emperor Yangsheng immediately mobilized archers and loudly ordered, "Shoot them with fire arrows and burn them to death!"

Chu Hanhua observed this and frowned, asking the young general, "How many Tiger and Leopard Cavalrymen have come?"

“A thousand men,” the young general said with a mournful face. “We can’t stop them; they’re not afraid to die.”

Chu Hanhua roared in a fit of rage, "What a bunch of trash! You couldn't even hold off a thousand men?"

Chu Hanhua had heard of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, but even at their best, they only numbered a thousand. To protect the palace, Emperor Yangsheng had mobilized an army of 100,000.

A hundred thousand men can't stop a thousand?

Emperor Yangsheng said impatiently, "You don't know how powerful the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are... Otherwise, why have Prime Minister Chu and I kept that bastard son around all these years? It's because we wanted to take over the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry."

However, Wei Mu never revealed the whereabouts of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry until his death. They had been searching for more than ten years without finding them.

They kept a close eye on Xiao Jin'an, but Xiao Jin'an became more foolish year by year, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry never made contact with him.

Emperor Yangsheng then ordered his men to quickly find out where Prime Minister Ling was. If he came to the capital, they were to immediately beg them to eliminate the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Their weapons can't kill those people, but the heavenly lightning of the Jade Dragon Kingdom can.

Emperor Yangsheng's confidants met Ling Xun and Gu Chongjin's delegation of several dozen people more than a hundred miles outside Xingqing Prefecture.

Ling Xun suggested going directly to the Lingzhou battlefield.

They first needed to observe what the Western Xia Crown Prince's earthenware pot thunder looked like.

However, before they even reached Wuzhong Prefecture, Emperor Yangsheng's imperial guards rushed over anxiously and said, "The rebels are attacking the capital. The imperial city is in dire need of help. We beg the Prime Minister of Yulong Kingdom and the Duke of Wei to save His Majesty first."

Ling Xun asked him to give him a detailed account of the military situation.

The imperial guard said, "The Crown Prince has rebelled, and the Liao people are also restless. Now the Crown Prince's army is locked in a fierce battle with the imperial army in Lingzhou, and he has sent a thousand elite Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to attack the imperial city."

"Even with only a thousand men, His Majesty Emperor Yangsheng couldn't defeat them? Is there no garrison in the capital?"

"Yes, but the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is too powerful; the defending troops cannot defeat them."

The imperial guards then told Ling Xun and Gu Chongjin about the ferocity of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Ling Xun was taken aback: "Is it true that the Western Xia used witchcraft to exorcise puppets in battle?"

The imperial guards tried to sow discord among Yin Jin, saying, "His Highness the Crown Prince is skilled in witchcraft. His maternal clan is the Tianshan Spirit Clan, who are most adept at using medicine and poison."

Ling Xun was well-read but didn't know much about Gu (a type of poison), though he knew it was a secret insect-repelling method used by some remote ethnic groups, and that it was extremely difficult to deal with.

"Prime Minister Ling, my Emperor is in imminent danger. I beg you, Prime Minister Ling, to first kill the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry who are besieging the capital and rescue my Emperor." The imperial guard knelt down and kowtowed.

"His Majesty the Emperor should first negotiate with His Highness the First Prince. The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will not disobey their master's orders."

Ling Xun felt that only by reaching an agreement with the eldest prince could the problem be fundamentally solved.

The imperial guard said, "But those thousand men are already attacking the city. His Majesty's intention is to resolve the immediate issue first before negotiating."

Ling Xun and his group went to the capital city—Xingqing Prefecture.

Two hours later, Huo Dao and Xue Jingfei were still attacking the city with a thousand men. Huo Dao was getting anxious and kept blowing his bamboo flute.

The bamboo flute was specially made; when it was played, all the riders on the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, regardless of height, would transform into fierce tigers descending the mountain, slaughtering without fear of death or pain.

Swords and knives broke, so I tore them apart with my bare hands.

However, they only had a thousand people.

Huo Dao had only heard Xue Jingfei say that His Highness could repel an enemy army of 100,000 by himself. He thought that even if the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was not as powerful as His Highness, it should not be a problem for 1,000 men to take down the capital.

Looking back now, it seems ridiculous.

Even the most skilled Tiger and Leopard Cavalry would eventually succumb to exhaustion in a war of attrition. For Huo Dao to lead a thousand men against a hundred thousand was far too overconfident.

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