Chapter 543 Slaying the Enemy
Zhao Ying, wielding a long sword, led 800 cavalrymen to meet them. Lin Changning was like a blade; wherever he passed, the army of King Xiang would be quickly torn open, and the troops of King Chu would seize the opportunity to plunge straight in through the gap opened by Lin Changning.
Zhao Ying understood that if he wanted to escape successfully and protect his army, he had to capture the general in front of him. Moreover, the young general in front of him was clearly targeting his prince.
Lin Changning flicked the blood off her sword, glanced at the general leading his troops towards them, and hesitated slightly. Her second brother was injured, and his injuries looked quite serious. She really didn't have any more time to waste here.
So her initial idea was to capture the king first, to defeat the king of Xiang, and then quickly lead her men back to the city to treat her second brother after the enemy surrendered.
Looking at Qi Rong, whose head was slumped limply against her neck, Lin Changning tightened her grip on her long sword, her eyes flashing with a fierce light, and led a group of guards behind her straight towards Zhao Ying on the opposite side.
"Kill! Capture the bandit leader!"
Lin Changning and Zhao Ying met face to face, and Lin Changning cleaved Zhao Ying off his horse with a single blow. Zhao Ying reacted quickly, retreating rapidly after falling from his horse. He rolled on the ground to dodge Lin Changning's blow, then pulled off a guard and quickly mounted his horse.
Now, Zhao Ying looked at Lin Changning with a more wary expression. After their first exchange, Zhao Ying knew that he was no match for Lin Changning.
Innate superhuman strength...
Such a person appears only once every thousand years on the battlefield; he is a born general. After a flash of vigilance in his eyes, Zhao Ying quickly changed tactics.
He ordered his personal guards to attack Lin Changning in waves, but Lin Changning didn't even blink, cutting down each wave as it came.
Before long, a pile of corpses lay beneath him.
Zhao Ying, looking rather grim, sent a relative to deliver a message to the King of Xiang, urging him to leave first. He reasoned that the junior general on the other side was no pushover, and if they stayed any longer, his men would be no match for the enemy's attacks.
Moreover, their morale has been shattered by that young general on the other side. As more and more of Lin Changning's corpses are left on the other side, fewer and fewer of their personal guards dare to go up.
Many people, holding knives, stared at Lin Changning, their eyes flashing with fear.
Many ordinary soldiers, seeing Lin Changning approach, abandoned their armor and fled.
Annoyed by the constant entanglement, Lin Changning spurred his horse and charged towards Zhao Ying, who was being protected by soldiers in the center.
Zhao Ying was just thinking of stalling for time to buy her prince enough time to escape when she saw Lin Changning's face covered in undried blood as he charged toward her with a long sword. Her heart skipped a beat.
Without a second thought, he rode his horse backward, shouting, "Stop him!"
While retreating, he had his personal guards block Lin Changning to buy him time to escape.
The guards behind him were terrified by Lin Changning's killing. Seeing their commander run away, they looked at each other and then ran after their commander.
Lin Changning, with three hundred personal guards, chased after a group of nearly four or five hundred men, making them run all over the battlefield.
After chasing for a while, Lin Changning lost his patience. He happened to run into Wei Shao on the battlefield. With a cold face, he gave the order to surround and kill the group of people, and then led a group of cavalry to rush towards the Prince of Xiang.
Seeing himself surrounded again, the Prince of Xiang smiled slightly. He had been defeated by the Ninth Prince once more. After thinking it over, the Prince of Xiang took out the Emperor's Golden Seal from his bosom and said loudly to Li Mingde, "I am willing to surrender the Emperor's Golden Seal. Eighth Nephew, I only ask that your uncle and your aunt be spared. I will strip you of your titles and fiefdom without hesitation!"
When Li Mingde saw the golden seal in the hand of the Prince of Xiang, his heart skipped a beat. He never expected that the emperor would entrust such an important thing as the Emperor's elite to the Prince of Xiang before he died.
For a moment, I hesitated.
The King of Xiang had a clear understanding of the current situation. Since the emperor was already dead, he could simply shift all the blame onto the emperor. Besides, he hadn't actually harmed the Princess Consort of Chu and his niece.
He tossed the golden seal in his hand to the guard beside him and then gestured with his chin to indicate that it should be sent to someone.
Seeing that the other side had stopped fighting, Li Mingde waved his hand to order his men to cease hostilities for the time being. After carefully examining the gold seal he received from the other side, he handed the gold and silver to a trusted confidant left behind by his father.
The trusted confidant examined the imperial seal carefully, and after a long while, respectfully presented it to Li Mingde: "Your Highness, it is genuine."
Li Mingde hesitated; he couldn't make such a big decision on his own.
Looking at the King of Xiang opposite him, he hesitated for a moment. Just as he was about to negotiate, he suddenly noticed that Lin Changning, who was not far from the King of Xiang, was drawing his bow and nocking an arrow.
Lin Changning narrowed his eyes, and the arrow, like a shooting star, flew through the air with a loud bang, quickly passing through the crowd and heading straight for the Prince of Xiang, who was sitting on his horse.
Before Li Mingde could even call a halt, the Prince of Xiang, who had just been sitting on his horse trying to negotiate with him, suddenly rolled off his horse.
Li Mingde felt a surge of tension. The King of Xiang felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and was pulled off his horse by the impact of the arrow.
Feeling somewhat annoyed, King Xiang was helped up by those around him. He covered his wound, mounted his horse again, and turned to look at the direction from which the arrows had come.
Upon seeing Lin Changning's face, still stained with blood and exuding a fierce aura, a surge of anger rose within him. Instantly, the guards and generals beside him and Li Mingde's army on the opposite side became tense and ready to draw their swords.
Li Mingde hesitated, holding the Emperor's golden seal in his hand. The Prince of Xiang, enduring the pain in his shoulder, glanced at Lin Changning, who was looking at him from afar, then turned back to Li Mingde and waved his hand to signal the generals beside him not to be agitated.
"If my eighth nephew is willing to let us go, I will have our men surrender immediately!"
At this point, King Xiang turned to look at Lin Changning. A trusted aide whispered a few words in his ear, and King Xiang called out to Lin Changning across the crowd:
"General Lin, if I remember correctly, you should have married Ashu. When you arrived today, the city gates had already been breached. The one leading the group was my uncle's ex-husband, that bastard surnamed Ji. He's a vicious man. He was the one who assassinated the princess and my niece a few days ago, and he even framed me. Now that bastard has entered the city first, General, you should go home and check on your family first, lest something happen to them and you regret it!"
Lin Changning's pupils contracted sharply. After glancing at Li Mingde, he quickly turned the dock around and sped towards Taiyuan City.
The 300 guards behind him saw Lin Changning heading towards Taiyuan City without turning his head, and quickly followed.
Li Mingde also secretly thought that things were not good. If he continued to get entangled with the Prince of Xiang, it would be bad if something happened to the princess in the city.
Thinking of this, Li Mingde immediately ordered someone to shout: "Uncle Wang is willing to surrender. Have someone drop their weapons immediately, and I guarantee that not a single soldier will be harmed!"
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