Chapter 45: Horses Trampling Kyoto
In Kyoto, Ye Chong, as Emperor Qing's insider, took advantage of the fight between the Qin family's elite and the Black Cavalry to assassinate Qin Ye, leaving the rebels leaderless.

What is even more despairing is that news came from Dadong Mountain that Emperor Qing was alive and other grand masters were defeated.

Li Yunrui, the Crown Prince, and the Second Prince all collapsed to the ground.

"Aunt, we are finished!" Prince Li Chengqian couldn't stop crying.

Li Yunrui said nothing as she watched the rebels outside being gradually eliminated, memories of the past flashing through her eyes.

If it weren’t for Ye Qingmei, I wouldn’t be like this now.

The assassination attempt on Emperor Qing at Dadong Mountain also failed. It turned out that his brother was a grandmaster and he hid it so well, Emperor Qing.

The Ye family is also an undercover agent of Emperor Qing. It turns out that they have been nothing but pawns of Emperor Qing from the beginning to the end.

In terms of political strategy, I am far behind my brother.

If Emperor Qing comes back, given his personality, he will definitely torture himself to death cruelly. It would be better for him to commit suicide now.

She glanced at the Crown Prince, then at the Second Prince.

The prince kept crying there, and he also understood what would happen once Emperor Qing came back.

Only the second prince Li Chengze had not given up hope, muttering: "Ye Qi will come to save us. He promised me that he would make me the emperor of Qing."

The eldest prince thought he was insane: "Ye Qi is from Qi, what are you thinking? He was just using you before, how could he help you become the emperor of Qing!"

"Of course he will. He will not miss this opportunity. This is the best chance for Northern Qi to capture Qing. He will definitely come!" The second prince looked towards the north with a firm gaze.

The eldest princess, who was originally preparing to commit suicide, felt a glimmer of hope in her heart after hearing what the second prince said. Although the hope was slim, what if Ye Qi came? It was not impossible.

The prince sighed and said, "I will not have this illusory dream any more. When my father comes back, I will surely die miserably. I will drink this poisoned wine first. We will meet in the underworld, both of you."

The prince picked up the poisoned wine cup and drank it all.

At this moment, Xie Bian, the second prince's confidant, ran over and said excitedly: "Your Highness, Ye Qi led the Northern Qi army to capture Danzhou and is now approaching Kyoto!"

The Second Prince jumped up excitedly upon hearing this: "Order all the remaining people to go to the north gate. Open the city gate at all costs and let Ye Qi's army enter Kyoto!"

"Yes, Your Highness!" Xie Bian left quickly.

The second prince collapsed on the ground and breathed heavily. He had been too tense just now. Fortunately, he waited a little longer. Ye Qi did not break his promise and he came.

The most unlucky person was the prince. Just after he drank the poison, he heard the news that Ye Qi was about to enter Kyoto. He was regretting it so much now.

"Aunt, save me!" Li Chengqian stretched out his hand and looked at Li Yunrui.

Li Yunrui shook his head helplessly: "There is no antidote for this poison!"

Li Chengqian spat out a mouthful of blood unwillingly: "Aunt... I... I."

Li Chengqian closed his eyes and lost his breath.

Ye Qi led the army and rushed to the north gate.

The door that was closed the previous second was opened from the inside by a group of people the next second.

The journey was smooth sailing with almost no obstacles.

When we arrived in Kyoto, someone helped us open the door.

Ye Qi rode on Red Hare, led his troops into the city gate, and galloped straight towards the palace.

The people of Nanqing on the road were all shocked by the sudden appearance of so many cavalrymen.

They were so surprised that they all gave way.

Ye Qi also gave orders to the soldiers not to kill civilians indiscriminately and to rush into the palace first.

Of the 50,000-strong army, only 30,000 remained after entering the city.

Thirty thousand troops surrounded the palace.

Ye Qi was riding a horse in front of the palace gate, holding the Overlord Spear.

The palace gates were closed.

There were a large number of archers on the city wall, and Ye Zhong stood on the city gate with his hands behind his back.

Ye Chong, formerly served as the commander of the Kyoto Garrison Division and the chief envoy of the Privy Council.

This time, Li Yunrui and his men rebelled, and Ye Zhong, as an undercover agent of Emperor Qing, destroyed Li Yunrui's rebellion plan. However, they also suffered heavy casualties, and now only a few thousand soldiers are left to guard the palace.

Ye Zhong's eyes were sharp: "Don't even think about entering the palace from here!"

Ye Qi sat on his Red Hare and pointed his spear at Ye Chong: "Wang Jian, take action!"

Wang Jian then swung his sword and a stream of sword energy flew out.

The sword energy swept across the palace gate and the city wall, splitting the gate and the city wall in half.

Ye Zhong, who was standing on the city gate, raised his hand to block, but was directly blasted into pieces by Wang Jian's sword energy.

Ye Qi took out the disaster weapon Pandora, transformed it into a rocket launcher, and fired a missile at the city gate.

The missile blew a big hole in the already cracked gate.

Wang Jian, holding the Kunwu sword, swept across again, killing all the archers on the palace wall.

"Dad!" When Ye Ling'er saw her father being killed, she seemed to go crazy.

"Ye Qi, I'm going to kill you!"

Ye Ling'er jumped down from the city wall with a sword in hand and rushed towards Ye Qi.

Haitang Duoduo jumped up and hit Ye Ling'er in the chest with a palm, knocking her unconscious.

Now the palace gate is open, we can occupy the palace by just rushing in.

But Ye Qi did not move.

He was waiting for someone, and that was Emperor Qing.

As long as Emperor Qing is alive, there is no point in occupying the palace.

At this moment, Li Yunrui and Li Chengze led a small team of troops and rushed out of the palace.

"General Ye!" The second prince crawled over and knelt down in front of Ye Qi.

"General Ye!" Li Yunrui also knelt down to Ye Qi.

They understood that if they kneeled down before Ye Qi, they might survive and even have a bright future.

Since he will die anyway if he stays with Emperor Qing, he might as well surrender to Ye Qi now.

"Get up!" Ye Qi said lightly.

Li Yunrui secretly glanced at Ye Qi. At this time, Ye Qi was wearing armor, riding a warhorse, holding the Overlord Spear, and exuding a terrible murderous aura.

In her impression, Ye Qimin without armor was approachable, gentle and even a little strange.

But when he sat on his warhorse and commanded the army, he became the killing god that Nan Qing feared.

"Li Chengze, I promised you that I would make you the emperor of Qing. I will keep my word!"

"Li Chengze, thank you General Ye!"

For some reason, Ye Qi thought the alpaca was cute and liked his pre-Qin ladylike steps.

When the battle is over, let him take a few steps at the banquet.

Just then, the sky changed color.

As dark clouds approached, Emperor Qing, Fan Xian, and Wu Zhu rode in from the west gate, followed by nearly 10,000 iron-clad black cavalrymen, tiger guards, and red-armored soldiers.

Wang Qinian, Fan Jian, Chen Pingping and others also arrived.

The black cloud was pressing down on the city and the city was about to be destroyed, and Jiaguang opened golden scales to the sun.

A war is about to break out in the capital of Nanqing.

Everyone felt a suffocating feeling.

The Second Prince and Li Yunrui were so scared that they hid in Ye Qi's army.

Ye Qi's Red Hare neighed, and Ye Qi pointed his spear: "Kill!"

(End of this chapter)