Chapter 271 A Blood-Red Night
The King of Qin was blinded by rage and personally led the Pingnan Army to charge forward.
The imperial guards in the palace were formidable, but compared to the soldiers who had actually fought on the battlefield, they were always a little lacking.
In addition, not all the imperial guards wanted to obey Empress Dowager Zheng and her people.
The Imperial Guards suffered repeated defeats, and in the end, only about ten men remained to protect Empress Dowager Zheng and the others as they retreated.
Of course, the Pingnan army also suffered heavy casualties, losing half of its men.
Empress Dowager Zheng and Duke Anguo panicked completely as they looked at the King of Qin, who was already bloodthirsty and covered in blood.
"King Qin, don't do anything foolish. This is the Empress Dowager, His Majesty's mother."
"If you dare to lay a hand on the Empress Dowager, that would be disloyal and unfilial, an offense against Heaven!" Duke Anguo roared.
The King of Qin grinned maliciously and suddenly slashed at the Duke of Anguo with his sword.
With a scream, Duke Anguo's right arm was severed.
Looking at the splattered blood, the King of Qin felt a strange excitement.
Then, with another slash, he severed the other arm of the Duke of Anguo.
Duke Anguo immediately fainted.
The King of Qin walked over and stepped on the Duke of Anguo's face, his hatred growing even stronger.
He yelled and slashed at Duke Anguo's body and face with his knife again and again...
He only stopped breathing heavily when the Duke of Anguo's body was so mangled and unrecognizable.
Empress Dowager Zheng was so frightened that she could not speak at all.
The maids around her were also so frightened that they collapsed to the ground.
The King of Qin kicked the already dead Duke Anguo again, then didn't even glance at Empress Dowager Zheng.
He walked over to Consort Zheng and slumped down beside her.
The soldiers accompanying him tried to help him up, but he refused.
The King of Qin carefully touched Consort Zheng's face, trying to tidy up her disheveled hair.
However, the blood on his hands stained Consort Zheng's head and face.
He frantically tried to wipe it clean, but found that the more he wiped, the more it spread...
The King of Qin held the lifeless Consort Zheng in his arms and suddenly burst into tears.
"Mother! Mother! Look at your child!"
Open your eyes and look at your child again! Your child has come back to take you! You said you didn't like the palace, so how about we go south instead?
The King of Qin repeated these words to Consort Zheng over and over again.
The King of Qin's subordinates had already slaughtered all the imperial guards, leaving only the terrified Queen Dowager Zheng.
"Your Highness, the Imperial Concubine has passed away. Please accept our condolences. After dealing with these people, we can then elevate her to the position of Empress."
"Wasn't Her Majesty's greatest wish before she died to become Empress?" a subordinate came over to persuade her.
The King of Qin gradually stopped crying, and then glared fiercely at Queen Dowager Zheng.
At this moment, Empress Dowager Zheng no longer had the Imperial Guards by her side, only a few nannies who had always followed her, and the Eighth Prince being held in the arms of one of the nannies.
The Eighth Prince was already sobbing uncontrollably.
The King of Qin slowly rose to his feet, first cleaving the head maid who was blocking the Empress Dowager's way to death with a single stroke, and then cleaving the other two maids to death as well.
Empress Dowager Zheng collapsed to the ground and kept crawling backward.
Her former dignity and composure were long gone; she kept repeating, "You cannot kill me."
"I am the Empress Dowager of Dayu, the most honorable Empress Dowager..."
After cornering Queen Zheng in a dead end by an artificial hill, the King of Qin simply stared at her.
"Bring that little beast to me," the King of Qin suddenly said.
A soldier immediately grabbed the eighth prince, whom he was holding, and handed him to the King of Qin.
The King of Qin glanced at the Eighth Prince, who was crying so hard he was almost exhausted, and smiled.
"You want to promote this little brat to power? Him?"
Empress Dowager Zheng dared not speak, but repeated the same words, "You cannot kill me! I am the Empress Dowager!"
The King of Qin squatted down with the Eighth Prince in his arms, and then suddenly handed the Eighth Prince to Empress Dowager Zheng.
"I will give you two choices."
The first option is for you to kill yourself. I don't want to bear the blame for killing you, as that would damage my reputation.
But after you commit suicide, I will have someone raise the Eighth Prince.
Don't worry, at least he will be reincarnated as a prince, and I will let him enjoy all the riches and honors.
There's another way: kill the Eighth Prince, and I'll spare your life.
They'll also tell people to take good care of you; you'll still be officially the Grand Empress Dowager of Dayu..."
Before the King of Qin could finish speaking, Empress Dowager Zheng grabbed the Eighth Prince from the King of Qin's hands and slammed him against the artificial hill behind her.
After the Eighth Prince let out a heart-wrenching cry, he quickly fell silent.
Empress Dowager Zheng, perhaps still fearing the Eighth Prince wasn't dead, struck him a couple more times...
"Look! I've killed this little beast!"
You cannot break your promise; you must respect me as…”
"Ahhhhhh..." Another heart-wrenching cry rang out.
Consort Die, who was originally in the Empress's palace, suddenly rushed out.
The King of Qin's men tried to stop her, but the King of Qin gestured for them to let her in.
Consort Die frantically held the lifeless Eighth Prince in her arms.
"My son! My son! Wake up! Your mother is here!"
The eighth prince's head was covered in blood, and his little hands hung limply...
Consort Die cried her heart out, repeatedly pressing her face against the Eighth Prince's head...
"You old woman, how could you be so heartless! He's not even a year old!"
"I'm going to kill you..." Consort Die suddenly put down the Eighth Prince and rushed towards Empress Dowager Zheng, who looked terrified.
Empress Dowager Zheng was old and, having suffered repeated shocks, had long since lost all her strength.
Although Consort Die had been severely tortured by the Empress, the anger she felt at losing her child suddenly gave her a lot of strength.
She grabbed Empress Dowager Zheng's head with both hands and slammed it against the artificial hill behind her.
"You old hag, give me back my son's life..."
Blow after blow, Empress Dowager Zheng had no strength left to retaliate.
She reached out and looked at the King of Qin.
"Save me! I am the Grand Empress Dowager of Dayu..."
The King of Qin stood still, watching as Consort Die repeatedly slammed Empress Dowager Zheng against the artificial hill.
Until the Empress Dowager's hands fell to her sides, and she remained motionless...
Seeing that Empress Dowager Zheng had fallen silent, Consort Die slowly stood up and embraced the Eighth Prince in her arms.
Her eyes glazed over; she glanced at the King of Qin, then suddenly laughed, turned, and crashed into the artificial hill...
Looking at the bloodstains on the artificial hill, the King of Qin didn't speak, but simply turned around.
He looked toward the Queen's palace.
The commander of the secret guards was still standing at the palace gate.
The King of Qin knew that the men he brought were no match for these secret guards.
He knew very well how capable Emperor Xiao Jing's secret guards were.
The secret guard was personally trained by the founding emperor of Dayu, and its power has remained undiminished through so many emperors.
But these secret guards only have one object of loyalty.
That was the emperor of Dayu.
The emperor of Dayu was gone, and he continued to be loyal to the next emperor.
It's always the same, generation after generation...
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