Lu Qichang took half a step forward and replied in a low voice: "About. There are more than 50,000 people left."
Shi Le sighed slightly, his expression gloomy.
There are more than 50,000 people, and Long Chen has hundreds of thousands of troops. It seems that the outcome has been decided.
There is no news from Pu Xuan and Long Yao of Tang State, and there is no hope for help from Uzbek State.
The development of the situation was beyond everyone's imagination. I thought this battle would last for several years, but in the end, Xingqing City was captured in less than a year.
"Okay, let's all get down."
Shi Le stood up slowly, walked out of the hall with heavy steps, and walked to the harem alone.
Lu Qichang and Le Min looked at Shi Le's back, neither of them said anything, and each took the general out to prepare for defense.
Shi Le walked heavily into the harem. There was chaos inside, with maids and eunuchs running around in a hurry.
Like ants, they feel the fear of annihilation, but are powerless. They don't know what to do, so they can only run around in despair.
When a person is weak, he can only struggle desperately when encountering danger, watching helplessly as the wheel of fate rolls over him.
When the palace maids and eunuchs saw Shi Le, they all fled away. Shi Le ignored them and walked to the Taizu Temple alone.
The majestic-looking Taizu held a wooden sword in both hands and looked in the direction of the Golden Palace.
Taizu's original wooden sword was taken away by Long Chen. After the palace discovered it, he replaced it with a wooden sword with a similar appearance.
Shi Le stopped in front of the wooden statue of Taizu, looked up at the sacred elephant of Taizu, and slowly knelt down.
Taizu Shi Potian was the founding emperor of Xixia. Shi Le only knelt down to this wooden statue. Even the Supreme Emperor Shi Le never knelt down.
"Taizu started in his youth, followed the Martial Saint for thirteen years and made countless achievements. He was granted the title of King of Xixia, and the Great Xia was established. It has lasted for three hundred and sixty-two years and has been ruled by twelve kings."
"The descendants are unworthy, and the three hundred years of inheritance will be destroyed at the hands of thieves today."
Shi Le looked at the holy elephant, feeling sad in his heart.
At that time, Taizu Taizu of Xixia followed Wu Sheng in conquering the north and south, pacified all the countries, and was named the King of Xixia. Only then did Daxia become what it is today.
The foundation of more than three hundred years was actually destroyed by Long Chen in less than a year. Arrived outside the palace.
"Taizu has spirit in heaven, please bless Daxia!"
Shi Le couldn't think of any other way but to pray to a wooden statue.
The wooden statue stood there without saying a word.
Shi Le worshiped the icon and then returned to the bedroom.
Ma Fang came in to serve, and Shi Le said coldly: "Gather all the concubines, princesses, and princes in the palace!"
Ma Fang had a bad guess in his mind, fearing that Shi Le was going to do something bad, but as a slave, he could not resist.
After living in the palace all his life, the most important thing for him was to obey orders.
Ma Fang immediately sent people to invite the concubines, princesses and princes from each palace.
Soon, various concubines, princesses, and princes gathered in the bedroom.
There are 51 concubines, 39 princesses and 25 princes.
There were many princesses and princes in Shile, but the most favored princess was Shi Jingxiang, and the most respected princes were Shi Haoran and Shi Yuncheng.
Now, Shi Jingxiang has defected to Long Chen, and Shi Haoran and Shi Yuncheng have been killed.
More than a hundred people gathered together, and the spacious dormitory suddenly seemed smaller.
Everyone stood at the bottom. Shi Le looked a bit scary. Everyone did not dare to make a sound and stood quietly, waiting for the order.
Looking at the people below, Shi Le sighed slightly in his heart and said: "Long Chengen has killed outside the palace, and the palace has been surrounded."
Hearing what Shi Le said, the people below were not much surprised. They already knew it.
"You are the concubines of Daxia, the princesses of Daxia, and the princes of Daxia. You are the dignity of Daxia."
"If. If the palace falls, you can only die for the country. Don't be greedy for life and fear death."
"You all know what Long Chengen is. If you fall into his hands, your life will be worse than death!"
The concubines and princesses below listened with lingering fear.
Long Chen sneaked into the palace twice, and they heard a lot of miscellaneous rumors, saying that the concubine Shu was toyed with by Long Chen until she died, and the methods were extremely perverted and cruel.
"Ma Fang, go get the medicine!"
Shi Le ordered, and Ma Fang immediately went in to get the medicine.
Ma Fang had already guessed that Shi Le must have gathered these concubines, princesses and princes together in order to let them die together.
There was so much poison that Ma Fang couldn't carry it all by himself, so two eunuchs helped to carry it out and put it on the table next to Shi Le.
"Open!"
Shi Le said coldly, and Ma Fang opened the lid, revealing red poison pills inside.
Seeing the poison pill, the concubine princess began to cry out of fear.
They don't want to be played by Long Chen, nor do they want to swallow poison and die for their country.
“One for everyone!”
Shi Le looked at Li Fei, who was standing at the front.
With tears in Li Fei's eyes, she slowly walked towards the poison pill.
Ma Fang picked up one pill, Li Fei slowly stretched out her hand, Ma Fang put the poison pill in Li Fei's white hand, Li Fei's palm was trembling.
Li Fei looked at Poison Pill, then slowly turned to look at Shi Le, who looked at Li Fei coldly.
Tears fell from her eyes, Li Fei became cruel, opened her mouth and swallowed the poison pill.
Seeing that Concubine Li swallowed it, Shi Le turned his attention to Concubine Hui behind him.
With a calm face, Concubine Hui walked slowly to Ma Fang, took the poison pill, swallowed it silently, and saluted Shi Le, without any fear on her face.
Shi Le sighed secretly in his heart: It is said that Concubine Hui is generally virtuous and wise, and that is indeed the case.
When facing death, one can see a person's character. Concubine Li is frightened, while Concubine Hui is fearless and makes judgments.
Then the other concubines, princesses and princes took the poison pills and swallowed them one by one, and the whole palace burst into tears.
After everyone swallowed the poison pill, Shi Le said: "The concubines and princesses will return to the palace respectively. The prince who is higher than the wheel will stay, and the others will return to the palace."
Soon, there were only 11 tall people left in the hall The prince beyond the wheel.
Shi Le stood up and said: "You are the princes of Daxia, and you must not be slaves to the subjugation of the country."
"Wear armor, hold soldiers, and follow my king to defend against the enemy!"
Ma Fang immediately had the 11 princes put on armor, each equipped with weapons, and followed Shi Le up the palace wall.
The walls of the palace are not as good as the outer walls, but they are still three meters thick and ten meters high.
Shi Le climbed up the city wall. The fire in the city had been put out, but the doors of the people's houses were still closed. The streets were full of barbarian cavalry and Long family troops.
The strange thing is that the barbarian cavalry was in good order and prepared to attack the city under the command of the Long family army, and no looting occurred.
In Shi Le's impression, the barbarian cavalry were rioters. After entering the city, they killed, burned, looted, and committed all kinds of evil.
"Long Chengen has already begun to win people's hearts."
Lu Qichang came over and looked outside the city and said.
Shi Le looked into the distance. Long Chen did not massacre the surrendered soldiers, but instead treated the injured Xixia soldiers. The soldiers who were burned by the fire last night were also being treated.
"Isn't this what he is best at: buying off the hearts and minds of the people and buying off the soldiers."
Shi Le smiled coldly, feeling a little helpless.
He knew that he had a violent and murderous personality, but he couldn't change it.
outside the city.
Long Chen was directing the military doctors to treat the wounded soldiers, and the Long Family Army and Xixia soldiers were treating them together.
Xixia is about to be destroyed. The most important thing after the destruction is to win over people's hearts and make Xixia identify with the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
If the Xixia people did not surrender and did not agree with the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, even if Long Chen captured Xingqing City, there would be a rebel uprising.
Just like when the Qin State destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the Qin State's tiger and wolf armies were invincible in the world, but not long after, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, and the Six Kingdoms recovered one after another.
Long Chen wanted to win people's hearts. He ordered that no looting be allowed after entering the city, and that he would treat the wounded soldiers equally.
