Chapter 242 For one person, there are thousands of ghosts
"Kill him."
Wei Yanyu made her choice.
However, no one around him dared to make a move, they all looked at each other hesitantly.
Although Xu Chengwen has betrayed the Xu family, he is Wei Yanyu's son after all, the only direct bloodline of the Xu family.
Obviously, no one wants to do such a thankless job.
Fortunately, the former is already dying. As long as he is left alone, he will probably die soon.
"Mother, mother..."
Suddenly, a weak voice sounded intermittently amid the noisy fighting.
"Baby, baby...wrong, wrong..."
"Save, save me, mother, mother, save me..."
"..."
Under the bloody moonlight, Wei Yanyu turned around and looked at Xu Chengwen who was struggling in pain.
She tried to stretch out the hand hidden in her sleeve several times, but in the end it turned into a cold word.
"I gave you a chance."
"me......"
Xu Chengwen wailed and crawled to Wei Yanyu's feet little by little, looking up and begging with blood and tears.
"Mother, mother, I, I don't want to die, I don't want to die..."
"..."
Wei Yanyu didn't speak, nor did she look away.
She just stared silently at Xu Chengwen, who was like a puddle of mud. The emotions in her eyes seemed extremely complicated, but they seemed to be empty.
A baby waiting to be fed, a child learning to talk, an ambitious young man, a man in his prime...
It's like falling into a dream when you wake up, and a picture suddenly flashes in your mind, and there seems to be waves of sounds echoing in your ears.
"Wow! Wow!!"
"Mom, sir, you praised me for being smart today!"
"Mom! Mom! My child has all sixty-four meridians! I will definitely become a peerless master in the future, and I will never let you and dad suffer even the slightest injustice!"
"Mother, I carved this jade pendant myself, and I asked the Taoist priest to bless it. It will definitely keep you safe!"
"My son will work harder in the future, just hoping to relieve his mother's worries as soon as possible!"
"..."
The water is stained with blood and the cold wind is like a knife. At this time, it is better to have children than to have none.
The pleading sounds at his feet became smaller and smaller, and Xu Chengwen's eyes changed from unwillingness to despair.
Wei Yanyu just watched helplessly as the latter's life flowed away little by little until he completely lost his breath.
As a mother, she may be able to forgive Xu Chengwen for all the mistakes he made.
But as the current head of the Xu family, for the lives of hundreds of people in the Xu family, or for the tens of millions of people in Jizhou who believed in the Xu family... she had to let Xu Chengwen die.
"..."
"Husband, madam, young master, he has..."
Someone reminded her softly, and Wei Yanyu came back to her senses, and the figure in her memory was fragmented.
Looking around, there was blood and loud noises.
She was silent for a long time, and when she spoke again, there was no emotion in her tone.
"Take the bodies of these people and follow me up the city wall."
...
"Hoola! Hoola!"
Outside Jizhou City, there is Jiangtai.
The flag embroidered with a golden dragon flutters in the wind, as if the dragon on the flag has come alive.
Ning Yongnian stood on the temporary high platform with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed, not caring about the situation on the entire battlefield. The only thing in his sight was the tightly closed city gate.
It is made of black iron, mixed with dark gold and obsidian.
Although it is much thinner than a city wall that is several feet thick, even if a second-level expert can bombard such a city gate at will, it will take at least several hours to break open.
Therefore, it is definitely unrealistic to attack by force, and we can only resort to outsmarting.
According to the previous plan, this door should have been opened a quarter of an hour ago, and then the elite guards would rush forward and catch the Jizhou Army by surprise.
But why is there no sign of the South City Gate opening until now?
The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, and no plan can be perfect.
But now the time difference is too long, and Ning Yongnian can't help but feel suspicious.
Did Xu Chengwen regret it?
Or has it been discovered?
Judging from Xu Chengwen's previous performances, he is not a stupid person and there should be no mistakes in his actions.
The only person in the court who knew about this, Xiang Shiyuan, a member of the Xu family, had already shut up forever.
So what exactly is the problem?
Ning Yongnian's brows furrowed deeper and deeper until Li Huaizhong beside him suddenly reminded him softly:
"Your Majesty, the situation on the city wall has changed..."
"Um?"
After hearing this, Ning Yongnian looked intently, and the next moment his face turned extremely gloomy.
I saw that there were no red figures on the south city gate where the fierce battle was originally going on, and all I could see was dense yellow armor.
There is no doubt that the Jizhou Army suddenly strengthened its defense on this side and forcibly cleared a section of the city wall.
But that alone doesn't really matter.
What really caused Ning Yongnian to react so violently... was the dozen or so figures hanging high on high poles.
His limbs were limp and drooped, and his body was covered in blood. It was obvious that he was already dead.
The head of the corpse in the middle was still hung up by a rope, as if it was deliberately showing to himself...
Both unexpected and expected, it was Xu Chengwen.
"Crack! Click!"
Ning Yongnian did not move at all, but the wooden railings around the platform were cracked inch by inch.
He suppressed the anger in his heart and looked carefully, and then he found the woman standing under Xu Chengwen's body.
At the woman's feet were the Imperial Guards who were still struggling to attack upwards, with fire exploding on both sides.
However, she turned a blind eye to all this and just looked calmly from a distance.
"Wei Yanyu!"
Ning Yongnian roared in his heart, and his cold eyes shot straight towards him like sharp arrows.
The two people's eyes met in mid-air amid the flames of war. Although neither could see each other's expressions clearly, the emotions contained in them were very different...
But one thing is certain.
That means from now on, the two of them will no longer leave any escape route for each other or themselves.
Until one side is destroyed.
"General Zhou..."
After a few breaths, Ning Yongnian suddenly turned to look at a man next to him wearing black armor with gold patterns.
The man's name was Zhou Xiao, and he was worshiped as General Zhenxi. He was originally the leader of the counter-rebellion army.
"Your Majesty! The general is here!"
"..."
"The south city gate will not open. Sound the gong and withdraw the troops."
No matter what, Ning Yongnian has always maintained the ability to think calmly.
Now that the plan has failed, we definitely can't attack all at once. We must wait for the follow-up troops to arrive before making plans.
"Yes! I will obey the order!"
Zhou Xiao originally felt that he could not fight like this, so he immediately responded with clasped fists, turned around and jumped down from the commander's platform to make arrangements to withdraw his troops.
At this time, as a gust of cold wind blew by, Ning Yongnian's emotions gradually returned to calm.
Tonight's battle only lasted for more than half an hour. Although there were many casualties among the soldiers on both sides, they were only a drop in the bucket in the overall battle situation.
After planning for so long, it is undoubtedly a pity that we failed to capture Jizhou City in one fell swoop.
But this is just the beginning...
Taking a deep breath, he raised his eyes and glanced at the city wall again.
But just this look made Ning Yongnian stunned again.
I saw a broken and tattered tooth flag in Wei Yanyu's hand at some point. Although the flag was full of blood stains, the word "Ning" in the middle was particularly obvious.
A bit of fire lit up, and then began to spread, swallowing up all the fang flags in the blink of an eye.
The fire looked small from a distance, but it seemed very big.
Wei Yanyu's unclear face was reflected in the firelight. Even though the flames burned her sleeves and burned the flesh of her originally white arms, she did not let go...until the "Ning" on the tooth flag
The words turned into pieces of flying black ashes in the flames.
The fly ash blew up in the wind and hit Xu Chengwen's body, which was still hanging on the high pole, and was shattered into pieces.
At this time, Ning Yongnian could no longer see Jizhou City or the battlefield of the fighting.
He just seemed to see countless new ghosts being burned into the sky by the fierce flames, and then hovering and falling in the obscure dark sky of the underworld, which never saw the light of day.