Eunuch Le returned to Yuejing on the tenth day after the decisive battle in Nanping Mountain.

He was covered in wounds and knew everything about him. He fell to the feet of Prince Wu Jing and burst into tears.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is gone!"

Just like the five thunders thunders, Wu Jing was frozen there. For several days, he had completely lost contact with Zhongping County City. The feeling of badness was always lingering in his heart. The anxiety of failure was like a bug scratching his heart, but he held the only hope.

The Hu Ben Army is a powerful army with all his own strengths, and his father is even a master of his master's cultivation. No matter what, he will not lose this battlefield. At most, he will be in a stalemate. He kept sending spies to investigate the direction of Zhongping, but the spy has not come back yet, and Eunuch Le, one of the two eunuchs around his father, has returned.

"Your Majesty, the entire Hu Ben Army was destroyed, Commander Kang died in battle. Your Majesty tried to open a bloody road for the remaining troops, but he was seriously injured and surrounded and killed by Taiping Army and rebel masters. Now, the only army left to fight is Zuo Fu Zhang Xiang and more than 3,000 people who are retreating. The servant is ordered by Zhang Xiang to return to Yuejing first. Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to prepare for the battle in Yuejing immediately!" Eunuch Le kowtowed heavily, and his forehead was covered with purple.

After a while, Wu Jing realized that his father had no more. From now on, he was the emperor of Yue, but what was left of Yue?

Sitting down on the dragon throne, he waved his hand weakly, "Roar the alarm bell, summon all the ministers to the palace, discuss major plans and deal with the crisis."

The sound of alarm bells began to sound over Yuejing City. One or two, three or four sounds, the bells were endless. As the bells continued to ring, the entire noisy Yuejing City quieted down.

The person who was walking stopped and looked towards the palace. The diner who was eating put down the bamboo in his hand, walked out of the restaurant, and looked in that direction. In the house and shop, more and more people walked onto the street and looked there.

The bell rang for eighty-one times.

Since the construction of Yuejing City, the sound of eighty-one alarm bells has only been born once in history. It was hundreds of years ago that dozens of barbarian troops from the mountains came out to siege Yuejing City. But that time, the Tang army, which was at its peak at that time, rushed to a hundred miles of assistance within three days. After Yu Yuejing City defeated the barbarian troops in one fell swoop, such bells never sounded again.

Because after that battle, the barbarians were greatly damaged. Under the subsequent preferential policies of the Tang Dynasty, more and more barbarians walked out of the mountains. For hundreds of years, they had already integrated with the people at the foot of the mountain and could no longer distinguish them. The remaining barbarians who insisted on guarding the mountains no longer had the energy to make trouble, and the capital city was stable.

After more than a hundred years of establishment of the State of Yue, such bells have never sounded. Even if the emperor passed away in history, it only sounded seventy-two times.

A total of eighty-one sounds represent only one thing, life and death are at ease.

Yuejing City is the largest economic and cultural center in the north. Even though there have been constant wars in Yueguo over the years, Yuejing City is still as prosperous as before. People who fled from many places have brought more popularity to Yuejing City. Among these people, there are wealthy merchants and ordinary people who have nothing. The arrival of these people has also injected new vitality into Yuejing City.

The bell stopped, and the street was silent for a moment, and then with a bang, it became chaotic, and everyone ran towards home as fast as possible.

The travelers and tourists rushed back to the inn, packed their luggage, and prepared to leave this city that had become extremely dangerous immediately. However, the local indigenous people rushed to the grain shop with a cloth bag at the first time. The stakes of grain became a major issue for their top priority. Even the poor people who did not have much money at home took out the only little savings in their family and rushed to the grain shop.

In a blink of an eye, there were already crowds of people in front of all the grain shops. The owners of the grain shops were all very smart. As soon as the alarm bell fell, all the grain shops had closed their stores tightly, letting the outside shout out loud, but there was no sound inside.

Running horses passed through the streets, and the knights on the horse whipped the pedestrians on the street without hesitation, forcing them to give way. These people were all ministers in the court. When the bell rang, they ran towards the palace. They usually looked like a sedan chair, which was no longer caring about sitting.

In the palace and above the hall, although there were many people, there were silent.

The news brought back by Eunuch Le means that the building of Dayue will collapse, and the final armed forces are also the life-saving straw of Dayue. The Tiger Army has been destroyed. The Qin people who once agreed to form an alliance with Yue Kingdom to jointly eliminate the rebels and Taiping Army and defeat the Qin people. Now, there is only one city gate army left in the entire Yuejing city, with a number of only 10,000 people. The city gate army usually does more to maintain public order, arrest thieves, and open a way to guard the gate for the ministers. If they are asked to go to the battlefield, they will escape without a trace before they see the enemy's flag.

"On weekdays, you will be proud and blessed. At this crisis in the country, you will all become a saw-mouthed gourd? You must be clear that if you are one with the country, the prosperity of the country, the prosperity of the country, and the destruction of the country, your fate will not be much better." Wu Jing roared and glared at all the civil and military officials in the hall.

The officials bowed their heads one by one, looked at their noses and their noses. It is hard to cook without rice. Now Yuejing City, what can you do to resist the joint attack between the Taiping Army and the Luo Yishui Rebels?

Wu Jing sat on the dragon throne, glanced at the ministers below the steps sadly, and sighed: "There is no more Mrs. Xiao in Yuejing? Are you even worse than a woman?"

Everyone looked ashamed. When Long You fought, Mrs. Xiao led a thousand servants and three thousand county soldiers to block the attacks of tens of thousands of Luo Yishui tribes. She was once considered a hero of Yue who turned the tide, but now, where can she find someone like this?

"Your Majesty." In the midst of silence, the Minister of War Zhou Tai stood up: "The current plan is to mobilize all the people who can be mobilized across the capital and prepare to defend the city. The servants in the ministers' offices gather together, and I am afraid there will be tens of thousands of troops. There are still tens of thousands of troops in the city gate. Then open the arsenal and arm all the young and strong men, and try their best."

"Your Majesty, you must also send someone to Qi to ask for help, ask Qi to send troops to attack the Taiping Army's nest, and force the Taiping Army to return to save themselves." Su Kairong, the Minister of Revenue, also stood up.
Chapter completed!