A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 238: The Sorrow of Langguo 2

After a whole day and night of hard fighting, Xuan'an City was ultimately outnumbered and the disparity in strength was too great, so at dawn on the second day, the city gate was breached.

For a time, the once prosperous capital was reduced to a horrific hell on earth. The people in the city were panicked and fled everywhere screaming. The soldiers of Lang State still fought desperately under the iron hoofs of the Xiyue Army, and they would never surrender even if they shed their last drop of blood.

Ning Xi and Li Xu fled into the palace under the escort of only a dozen remaining guards.

At this time, Yan Han, who was blood-thirsty, led the Xiyue Army to chase the defeated Lang Kingdom army all the way to the palace gate. The Zongwang Army, which entered the city later, had always had strict military discipline. They only attacked the remaining Lang Kingdom soldiers in the city and did not hurt the civilians at all.

"His Majesty!"

Ning Xi, Li Xu and others had just arrived outside the Dragon Palace of the Imperial Palace when Queen Su appeared with several palace maids. Seeing that her husband was in a dishevel but unharmed, she finally felt relieved.

“Queen! Don’t be afraid, Queen…” Ning Xi hugged Queen Su tightly in her arms with tears in her eyes.

"Your Majesty, I am not afraid. I am satisfied to be able to accompany Your Majesty forever." Queen Su, nestled in Ning Xi's arms, showed a gentle smile and took it calmly.

"Royal brother, royal sister-in-law, you go into the hall first." Li Xu heard the shouting outside and hurriedly broke the tenderness of the couple and reminded them.

Ning Xi looked at Li Xu meaningfully, then took his wife and slowly walked into the Dragon Palace.

"In this Dragon Palace, I was incompetent, arrogant, and listened to villains who forced loyal ministers to death. Later, I violently killed innocent people... I have only been on the throne for a short year and I have made so many mistakes. In the end, I destroyed the country of Lang. I deserve to die, deserve to die!" Ning Xi dragged Queen Su towards the high-level dragon throne, feeling remorseful and self-blaming. Seeing his wife beside him silent, he felt even more guilty: "You come from a famous family and are virtuous. You should have been married to a wise monarch and a mother to the world for half your life, but you happened to meet a tyrant like me, which caused you to be implicated today..."

Before Ning Xi finished speaking, Empress Su covered her lips with her hand:

"I have no regrets meeting your majesty."

Ning Xi was speechless and choked, his eyes moistened again. He held her cold hand tightly, put it to his lips and kissed it gently. With a wife like this, what else could a husband ask for? It was a pity that he blamed himself for being too stupid and waking up too late.

The tightly closed palace gate was soon breached by King Han's army. Li Xu and housekeeper Hua Lan led a dozen guards in a bloody battle.

"whoosh whoosh"

A rain of arrows came, catching Li Xu and others off guard. Hua Lan stood in front of Li Xu, but still failed to protect the prince.

Before Li Xu fell, he turned his head to look at his brother and sister-in-law in the palace, only to see that they had already committed suicide on the dragon throne. That was good, at least they died with dignity without suffering torture and humiliation.

Thinking of this, Li Xu showed a bright smile, two lines of tears fell, and then he looked in the direction of Xuanmeng Kingdom before closing his eyes. The only person he couldn't bear to leave behind in this world was his little sister Luoying.

Yan Han glanced disdainfully at Li Xu who was lying on the ground, then entered the Dragon Palace with an evil smile. After seeing the corpses of Emperor Lang and his wife on the Dragon Throne, he just snorted contemptuously, turned around and walked out.

"Your Highness." Yan Han had just walked out of the Dragon Palace when his personal guard Leng Wu came up to him.

"How is it?" Yan Han asked with concern.

"Princess Luoying set herself on fire in the princess's mansion yesterday." Leng Wu replied with his head down.

"Where is the body?" When Yan Han heard this, anger immediately appeared in his evil eyes.

"He was hastily buried in the princess's residence, and has become a charred corpse."

"Great! I didn't expect the royal family of Langguo to be so strong-willed." Yan Han narrowed his eyes and sneered, with a terrible murderous aura all over his body.

"Your Highness Prince Han, how should we deal with these people and the people in the city?"

At this time, the Xiyue soldiers escorted a dozen Langguo civil officials in official uniforms, led by Prime Minister Lu Xiang, to the outside of the Dragon Palace and asked Yan Han on the high steps for instructions.

"Since they are determined to defend Langguo to the death, we have no choice but to grant their wish." Yan Han, who was already angry, looked at the ministers of Langguo, all of whom had an expression of unwillingness to surrender even in death, and he felt a little playful. Since he failed to get the beautiful Princess of Langguo, he had to vent his anger on these loyal ministers of Langguo.

Lu Xiang, Shangguan Jue and other ministers had originally planned to stay and face the national crisis together. When they saw King Xian died on the high ground, they guessed that Emperor Lang might also be dead. So when they heard Yan Han's words, they were not afraid but instead straightened their necks and held their chests high.

"Bah! The Xiyue Kingdom is indeed as evil as jackals. It doesn't even spare innocent civilians!" Lu Xiang shouted with disdain at Yan Han who was on the high level.

"Hmph, Prime Minister Lu, you are also an old minister, but do you still remember that thirty years ago, your Lang Kingdom invaded my Xiyue border and burned, killed, raped and looted, harming countless Xiyue people? Today, our Xiyue Kingdom is merely repaying you in kind." Yan Han disagreed and sneered evilly.

Lu Xiang frowned slightly when he heard this. Thirty years ago, there was indeed a war between Langxi Kingdom and other countries due to border frictions. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. Prince An of Xiyue Kingdom, the younger brother of the current Emperor Yan, also died in this battle. Who would have thought that this time Xiyue Kingdom was coming to avenge what happened thirty years ago?

"Wait!" Just as Yan Han ordered the massacre in the city, Yan Zong also rushed over and spoke out to stop him.

"What? Are you addicted to being a saint?" Upon seeing Yan Zong, Yan Han's cold and evil face couldn't help but show a bit more impatience.

Ever since his younger brother was ordered to come to Lang to help him capture one city after another in Lang, whenever the two of them were together, he would use the imperial edict to obstruct his plan of massacring the city. This really annoyed Yan Han, but he had to obey the imperial edict.

"Second brother, this is the will of our father. When two countries go to war, civilians should not be killed." Yan Zong's expression was cold. He raised the scroll in his hand again and said majestically. After he finished speaking, he did not look at the evil face of King Han, but turned around and looked at the soldiers of King Han's army.

Yan Zong knew from a young age that his second brother was evil, cruel and ruthless, and liked to massacre people whenever he attacked a city. In order to stop his second brother and reduce unnecessary killings, he asked his eldest brother to obtain the imperial edict for him before entering Lang.

"Since I can't kill the civilians, I can at least take action against these ministers of Lang, right?" Yan Han said coldly, and then he winked, and the soldiers surrounding the ministers of Lang suddenly drew their swords and slashed at them.

“Second brother, you…” Seeing the ministers of Lang State falling in a pool of blood one by one, Yan Zong was angry at Yan Han. After all, these people were the most important ministers of Lang State, and how to deal with them should be decided by his father. It was not right for him, Prince Han, to make the decision on his own.

"Don't forget, I am the commander-in-chief!" Before Yan Zong could finish his words, Yan Han shouted.

Yan Zong said nothing more. A sneer appeared on his gloomy face, and he turned and strode away.

With the death of Emperor Lang Ning Xi and his ministers, the State of Lang was destroyed. The surrounding countries sighed and couldn't help but worry.