Chapter 305: Daliang City Falls, Corpses Litter the Ground
In the Wei King’s Palace.
The Wei King lazily reclined in the embrace of a voluptuous concubine.
Compared to leaning against a pillow, he quite preferred the softness of a woman’s body.
Another beautiful concubine knelt beside him, smiling sweetly as she massaged his legs.
King Wei comfortably squinted his eyes, enjoying this simple and unpretentious life.
“Ah~”
He opened his mouth, and a concubine immediately pinched her fingers delicately, picking up a piece of orange to offer to him.
But at that moment.
A loud rumble suddenly came from afar!
The entire palace shook with it.
The concubine was startled, and the orange slipped from her hand, falling onto King Wei.
“What’s that sound?”
King Wei was jolted up by the unexpected loud noise.
With such a big commotion, the people of Daliang City must have heard it!
“You lot, go check it out quickly!”
A concubine ordered the palace guards with an air of authority.
In this special period, King Wei was rarely without his guards!
As the guards went out, the concubine turned back, snuggling into King Wei’s arms, sweetly coaxing, “Your Majesty, don’t worry, even if the sky falls, Dian Qing will be there to support you.”
King Wei laughed heartily, patting his thigh, “Indeed, indeed! Although I don’t particularly like Dian Qing’s personality, he is somewhat useful.”
“If it weren’t for his ability to hold off the Qin army, I would have executed him long ago!”
“Hmph! How dare he say that I drain the blood and flesh of the people? What is Dian Qing anyway?”
“The people of Daliang are my subjects in Wei Country; I am King Wei, they live because I allow it, and they die when I say so.”
Thinking of Dian Qing, King Wei couldn’t help but recall the words he had spoken a few days ago.
Not only did he refuse the banquet thrown in his honor, but he also had the audacity to insult him!
If it weren’t for the need for Dian Qing to fend off the Qin army’s advance, King Wei would have dealt with him for his offense last time!
But he also knew that now wasn’t the time to argue with Dian Qing about that.
After the war, he would settle all the new and old accounts with him together!
“How strange, what is that sound?”
The rumbling noise continued outside, shaking the dust from the palace roof down.
At first, King Wei thought it was thunder.
But can thunder be this continuous?
A sense of unease subtly arose in his heart. He was just about to stand up when the concubine next to him pulled him back.
“Your Majesty, please calm down. Dian Qing is just a dullard who knows nothing. Why bother getting angry with him? Let me feed you another…”
She picked up a slice of orange and, placing it in her mouth, brought it toward the King of Wei. As the King chewed the sweet orange, he eagerly groped her body.
With a beauty in his embrace, the earlier unease gradually faded away. Just as the two were catching their breath and preparing for the next step, a guard suddenly burst in like the wind.
“Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Serious news, the Qin army has broken into the city!”
“Ah!”
A piercing scream suddenly echoed through the palace. Upon hearing the soldier’s words, the King of Wei instantly lost control, nearly squeezing the concubine’s balloon to burst. Tears flowed down the concubine’s face in pain.
But the King didn’t have the heart to care for her now. He jumped up in panic, stammering, “What, what, what? Say that again!”
How could the Qin army breach Daliang City? His Daliang City was as solid as gold, not to mention it had over a hundred thousand troops defending it, plus twenty thousand Wei martial soldiers and Dian Qing. How could it be taken by the Qin army?
“Your Majesty, Daliang City has fallen, the Wei martial soldiers have suffered heavy losses, and General Dian Qing’s fate is unknown!”
The guard spoke with terror, his voice choked with tears. The King of Wei collapsed back into his seat, his entire being plunged into a daze.
“Fallen? Daliang City has fallen, the Wei martial soldiers are gone? How can his invincible Wei soldiers just disappear like that?” His two favored concubines were already pale with fright, rushing to the King’s side.
They cried out, “Your Majesty, the Qin army has invaded! We should escape quickly.”
“Yes, Your Majesty, if we don’t escape now, there will be no chance!”
Only then did the King suddenly regain his senses, speaking incoherently, “Yes, yes, escape, quickly escape! If we don’t escape, we will die!”
“Quick, quick! Let’s go!”
The King of Wei stumbled and crawled, urging his bodyguards to prepare to flee for their lives.
Outside Daliang City, the deafening explosions had finally stopped. The battlefield was a river of blood, strewn with severed limbs and charred corpses.
Wang Ben and Li Xin stared blankly at the battlefield that had been ravaged by explosives.
They swallowed hard simultaneously.
What exactly had the National Advisor thrown?
This was not a battle; it was clearly a one-sided massacre!
The Wei Martial Soldiers, who had previously left them helpless, had been blown to smithereens, let alone those ordinary Wei soldiers.
“Report! Commander, the army has entered the city.”
A vanguard rode up excitedly to update Wang Ben on the latest situation.
After the Wei Martial Soldiers were cleared out, the ordinary soldiers from Wei simply could not withstand the Qin army’s assault.
With just a few charges, they breached the city gate of Daliang.
After so long fighting over Daliang, it had finally fallen!
“Let’s go, Generals Wang and Li, we’ll enter the city and meet that King of Wei.”
Li Mo shook the reins and said to the still-shocked Wang Ben and Li Xin.
“What? What did you say?”
Li Xin tilted his head, asking loudly.
He was partially deaf from the first wave of explosions and could only see Li Mo’s mouth moving, but he couldn’t make out what he was saying.
Yan Lingji rolled her eyes.
Serves you right!
I told you to cover your ears, but you didn’t believe me!
Does the lady really strike you as someone who would lie?
The group rode through the battlefield, which resembled a hell on earth.
A pungent smell wafted through the battlefield.
Mixed with the smell of charred flesh was the acrid scent of sulfur.
Such a horrific scene caused even battle-hardened Wang Ben to frown.
Yan Lingji rode closely beside Li Mo.
“Send a few people to pull him back.”
Suddenly, Li Mo stopped his horse and accurately pointed at Dian Qing among a pile of charred corpses and severed limbs.
Dian Qing lay bloodied in a pool of blood, already dazed from the blast’s shockwave.
The blood on him was from others; although it looked gruesome and terrifying, he had no external injuries at all.
Li Mo had to admit, Dian Qing’s martial arts were indeed extraordinary.
Even under such an explosion, he hadn’t been killed.
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