Qian Ping and Hu San also sneaked into the city. According to the news they just received, our army will be able to rush over in two days at most. However, looking at the current situation, it seems that the King of Nanzhao can't hold out for two days. If we let the Prince of Zhennan rush in like this, many problems may not be solved.
"This city is almost completely destroyed. One-fifth of the entire Nanzhao population lives here. It's lucky to have half of them alive now. Smell the air; it's almost like a dead city. Your Highness may not have achieved his goal, but the damage done to Nanzhao has been significant."
Long Jiu found a piece of cloth and sealed his nose. The smell in here was really terrible. If he had to choose, he didn't want to stay here for a minute. There were so many kinds of insects in the whole city because there were too many dead people and no one was managing these corpses.
"So what do you mean? Should we take action in advance?"
Qian Ping also felt that the smell was unpleasant. Now he had to help the King of Nanzhao to hold on. If he couldn't hold on, this guy might be killed by others at any time. If he was really killed by others, we would be in all kinds of trouble.
"We now have two choices. We can either stand here and watch while the Prince of Zhennan storms in. Then the Nanzhao King's Qian family will surely be destroyed, and fighting will break out across the country, causing chaos throughout the country. The other option is to gather our own troops outside the city, and then intervene as the advance guard of the main army. As long as we can delay it for two days until General Qin's army arrives, the matter will be over. However, this is dangerous. The Prince of Zhennan is now bloodthirsty and capable of doing anything."
Long Jiu put forward two possibilities. If he had to choose, he would prefer the second option. Although the entire Nanzhao country is not in chaos yet, the core area is already in chaos. When we take over this place, various problems will definitely arise. So it is time to stop now. If we don't stop, then the areas outside the capital will also be in chaos.
Qian Ping was also thinking at this time, now that the capital is in such a mess, we can use the areas outside the capital for disaster relief, then when His Highness takes over here, we won't have to pay too much, but if the areas outside the capital are in chaos, then the country will have no order, and if we want to provide disaster relief at that time, every penny spent will have to be transported from Chang'an, and our cost will be a bit high.
"Let's go out and ask Hu San. The three of us need to discuss this matter. I prefer to be the vanguard."
The two of them didn't have many people, but Tiger Three had hundreds of men under his command. If they wanted to be the vanguard, they had to get the tiger's consent. The two of them couldn't waste any more time. Every minute of delay meant that the palace might not be able to hold on.
The huge stone hit the wall of the palace, creating a huge gap. However, King Zhennan did not let anyone rush in because he knew that there were still 5,000 guards in the palace. These people were the most elite soldiers in the king's hands, and his two sons were also inside.
The eldest son of the Prince of Zhennan is the most useless, and he will never give the position to this guy in the future. Even if the youngest son is useless, there are still the two middle sons. Although one of them is a bastard, he is still his own son after all. If he rushes in rashly, it may bring fatal disaster to those two sons.
Qian Ping and his men soon met outside the city. After a brief discussion, the three of them decided to pretend to be the vanguard of the army tonight. After all, there were about seven or eight hundred of them in total, and all of them were cavalry, wearing the clothes of the Tang army.
As long as they show their flag, I guess King Zhennan won't dare to act recklessly. If he really dares to kill these hundreds of people, then we are not easy to deal with either. We have a lot of grenades on us. If you really want to have fun, we will die together with you.
The sky gradually darkened, and many people died near the palace. Some were directly killed by stones, some were pierced by arrows shot from outside, and some fell from the city walls. In short, the originally beautiful palace has now turned into a Shura hell.
His Majesty the King did not dare to send the Prince of Zhennan's sons. If these two sons followed that boy's example and jumped off the palace wall, it would mean that he would have no bargaining chips in his hands. Now the Prince of Zhennan did not let anyone rush in, perhaps because of these two boys. Everyone knows that a man's weakness is his sons, especially when he reaches the age of the Prince of Zhennan. If his sons died, he might not be able to have children in the future.
The arrowhead on the Third Young Master's back has been removed, but because he is too weak, he has not woken up yet. Prince Zhennan is also guarding him. Several military doctors have just said that as long as the Third Young Master can wake up, he will just be a little weaker in the future and will not have any serious illness.
Although he jumped off the wall of the royal palace, the Third Young Master was wearing thick clothes and the wall was not very high, only seven or eight meters, so he did not suffer serious injuries even if he fell from the wall.
"Didn't I tell you? Be gentle."
Hearing the hurried footsteps outside, Prince Zhennan immediately became unhappy. "My son is resting here, and you guys have no eyesight at all. If I weren't in urgent need of people, I would have dragged you guys out and chopped you off. Why am I still keeping you here?"
"Your Highness, the Tang Dynasty's special envoy has arrived. It's Eunuch Qian, who serves His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Upon hearing his subordinates' words, the Prince of Zhennan immediately sat up from his seat. He had already calculated that the Tang army would definitely intervene in this matter, but he did not expect that the Tang army would come so soon. If it were someone else, the Prince of Zhennan might not be very familiar with him, but if it was this former steward, the Prince of Zhennan was very familiar with him.
"Where are we?"
Prince Zhennan said anxiously that if they reached the border, they would have to find a way to stop these people.
