Looking at the devastated and scattered army before him, Huangfu Rong felt a wave of dizziness and almost collapsed to the ground.
Fortunately, the last shred of reason he had left allowed him to stay on the horse.
He took a deep breath, and everything before his eyes turned crimson.
"Don't worry, we still have 40,000 troops outside the city. Quickly notify the troops outside the city to drop gunpowder directly into the city!"
Today, I will burn this city in the North to the ground!
At first, he was wary that the gunpowder might harm Jin Shu's life. After all, Jin Shu was a goddess, and her blood could change his luck, so he certainly couldn't let her be harmed in the slightest.
But now Huangfu Rong is completely blinded by rage.
His initial composure had completely vanished, replaced by ruthlessness and madness.
He no longer cared about Jin Shu's life; all he wanted now was to burn down this damned city behind him as soon as possible and make all these unruly people in the city pay with their lives for Jin Shu!
The order to spare the city from burning was passed down, but there was no movement outside for a long time.
Just then, a large group of Zhou soldiers, covered in blood, rushed over from not far away, collapsing in terror in front of Huangfu Rong and shouting in panic.
"Your Majesty, the 40,000 troops guarding the city have been surrounded by the cavalry of the Northern Kingdom!"
"Impossible! How many cavalrymen could they possibly surround 40,000 troops!"
The soldier roared, his eyes red.
"Sixty thousand!! A full sixty thousand Northern soldiers, divided into five groups, have completely surrounded our four hundred thousand soldiers!"
Now, the 40,000 soldiers of the Great Zhou have suffered countless casualties!
"Your Majesty! We have nowhere to retreat; both our front and rear are blocked!"
Huangfu Rong didn't believe it, so he spurred his horse out and saw the Zhou soldiers surrounded in the distance.
Thousands of warhorses galloped in a circle, accompanied by the burning smoke around them, creating a chaotic wave that completely disoriented and disoriented the Great Zhou soldiers trapped in the middle.
"How can there be so many cavalry in the North?!"
Huangfu Rong's voice was hoarse, and he was like a trapped beast, desperate and on the verge of collapse.
The general, who was standing to the side, was too weak to struggle any longer and said weakly.
"The Great Mongol rebelled and joined the Northern Kingdom; at this time, half of the cavalry were Great Mongol soldiers!!"
"Mu Han, Mu Han!! How dare he!!"
Just then, a loud neighing of a horse resounded through the chaos of battle. A white warhorse rode across the smoke, carrying a woman in golden armor on its back, who seemed to descend from the heavens and dominate the entire situation.
All I heard was her raising the gun in her hand and shouting.
"Those who surrender will not be killed!! The Northern Kingdom's ruler is a man of his word; those who surrender may remain in the Northern Kingdom and enjoy a peaceful and prosperous life!!"
A crisp and powerful female voice clearly reached the ears of every soldier of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
This resounding voice echoed in their hearts, and the terrified and desperate soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty saw hope in that moment.
Immediately afterwards, they put down their weapons one by one. As the first soldier slowly knelt down, all the soldiers around him followed suit.
A vast, dark army silently knelt before the Northern Empress, who was riding a white horse.
Jin Shu stood high above, without a saddle or reins, yet she seemed to be one with the white horse. With the horse's hooves flying and its neighing loudly, Jin Shu shouted at tens of thousands of Great Zhou soldiers.
"Afterwards, the Northern Kingdom will unify the Central Plains, and you will live in peace and prosperity, with no more war or strife in the world!"
boom!
boom!
boom!
All the soldiers laid down their weapons, knelt down, and surrounded their new king, shouting loudly.
"I swear to follow the Empress to the death!!"
This powerful shout reached Huangfu Rong's ears at the city gate.
With a loud thud, Huangfu Rong fell off his horse, but he seemed to feel no pain. He just stared blankly at the scene before him, muttering to himself.
"It's over, it's all over..."
His empire, his Great Zhou dynasty, was utterly destroyed.
In this battle, the Great Zhou Dynasty was defeated without a fight.
Tens of thousands of soldiers defected and surrendered, the emperor of the Great Zhou was captured, and Liu Lingzun, who had been waiting outside the main city of the Great Zhou, immediately led all his troops to attack the city gate.
The emperor had been captured, the soldiers had all surrendered, the people's hearts were with him, and everything was going so smoothly.
With the imperial city captured, the northern kingdom once again expanded its territory with dominance, annexing the powerful state of Great Zhou and becoming the largest country in the world.
With the Zhou dynasty destroyed, the surrounding smaller states, needless to say, surrendered and showed weakness one by one without even needing to send troops to fight.
At this moment, the entire northern army camp was in a state of jubilation. Liu Lingzun was drinking himself into a stupor while clutching a wine jar, and all the soldiers were eating and drinking to their hearts' content.
Inside the Northern Imperial Palace, Jin Shu received a series of good news regarding territorial expansion.
Without troubling the people, wasting resources, or losing a single soldier, the people surrendered voluntarily, and the soldiers surrendered without a fight.
With the Great Zhou Dynasty as our example, who would dare to resist stubbornly? Surrendering might save them some suffering.
"The Korean Kingdom has surrendered!"
"The King of Liang has surrendered!"
"The State of Qi has also surrendered!"
Upon hearing this news, Huangfu Rong, who was in prison, lost all light in his eyes.
Jin Shu was afraid they would blame her for not showing any mercy, so she locked Liang Qingqing and Huangfu Rong up together. The two of them could keep each other company and encourage each other in the prison.
Compared to Huangfu Rong's numbness and despair, Liang Qingqing was much more optimistic.
Although the current trend is completely different from what she learned in her history books, if Jin Shu can change history, why can't she?
She encouraged Huangfu Rong to persevere, as there were surely many loyal people outside who were determined to follow the Great Zhou to the death, waiting to rescue him.
So whenever Huangfu Rong was about to sleep, Liang Qingqing would pull him up and force him to continue studying the strategies for governing the country.
"Looking like this, even if you were rescued, how could you possibly convince the people? How many deposed monarchs in history seized the opportunity to restore their kingdoms? I believe you can do it too!"
Huangfu Rong was the one who would later unify the world; how could he be huddled in a prison like a beggar?
Huangfu Rong, who was already physically weak and on the verge of death from anger, collapsed after being pushed by her.
Huangfu Rong was completely ruined; his body and will were utterly destroyed and could never be rebuilt.
Liang Qingqing didn't believe any of this, and she even set her sights on the Marquis's family from the Great Zhou Dynasty.
After all, the Marquis is Jin Shu's biological parent. If she is told the truth, Jin Shu would never abandon her own parents.
Before she could even formulate a strategy, the Great Zhou was breached, and the Marquis and his family were thrown into prison.
Now the family is finally reunited.
Clinging to this last straw, Liang Qingqing told the Marquis's family everything she and Huangfu Rong had planned.
Upon hearing that the Empress of the Northern Kingdom was indeed his biological daughter, the Marquis, who had been heartbroken, was now rekindled with hope and spent his days clinging to the iron railings, shouting that he wanted to see his biological daughter.
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