Chapter 317 (1/2)
Chapter 317: His Majesty Ning lacks confidence
On the outskirts of northern Xiang City, Xiang Tiange gazed expressionlessly at the fire some distance away
”In order to capture Xie Wenyuan, Lou Zigui set the city on fire fire to the city?” squawked the general of the rebel troops He was stunned
”Lou Zigui's troops are also in the city, how could he be the one who started the fire? Do you think he would burn his ownhis head, ”This fire can't be the work of Lou Zigui”
”It has to be Xie Wenyuan,” Xiang Tiange concluded
Many of the rebel troops' generals harshly exhaled ”There are tens of thousands of civilians in the city though!”
Xiang Tiange's cheeks trembled as he lowered his voice, ”This is what the military counsellor meant when he said Xie Wenyuan would benefit our rebel troops if we keep hi Xiang City The sky had been dyed red by the burning inferno The generals were unable to say anything else for a long ti Tiange's expression turned cold as he ordered, ”Stop looking, there's no point The people in the city are done for Let's go”
”If we hadn't left, then ould've…”
Even though the aged general didn't finish his sentence, the rest of the generals could decipher theXiang City, they would have also been burned alive Xie Wenyuan had no intention of letting the wildly at Grand Preceptor More andin Eventually, it was just noise
”Let's go,” Xiang Tiange ordered They had rescued Xie Wenyuan from the eastern suburbs of the capital Theover it now
The aged general turned his horse to follow behind Xiang Tiange After this incident, Young Lord and the military counsellor's relationshi+p had deteriorated further This was definitely not a good thing for their rebel forces
Xiang Tiange brushed his fingers across the corner of his mouth as he whipped his warhorse to speed up
Nearly 10,000 rebel troops quickly disappeared into the night
The fire in Xiang City raged on till the afternoon of the second day The elite soldiers and the civilians who had successfully escaped could do nothing against the fire By the latter half of the night, the painful cries could no longer be heard in the city The co down on their knees Instead, they had turned nuround, motionlessly When afternoon arrived, the sky suddenly darkened and it started to rain heavily
Standing in the rain, the fire within the nuain God didn't send them rain until everyone had been burned to death!
”damn it,” Xu Feiyu wiped the rain water off his face, ”If this rain ca City! The heavens are blind!”, he spat
Lou Zigui stood in the rain, seely unaffected by the storm ”Do we still need to stay here?”, Xu Feiyu looked towards Lou Zigui as he asked in a low voice
”We can leave now”
”And let Xie Wenyuan escape?”
”We won't be able to catch hiui murmured, ”How are we supposed to catch him if we don't knohich direction he went?”
At this ate tower snapped fro sound and vibration was extreain If they hadn't escaped quickly last night, Xiang City would've been their burial site They had ed to chase Xie Wenyuan to his wits' end, yet he was still able to make a counterattack and bite them back ferociously
”This can't be Xie Wenyuan's last ui said coldly, ”This was his last escape route”
Xu Feiyu's sharp features hardened under the rain With Xie Wenyuan still alive, they can't say they've won this war
After an hour, the storui ordered the soldiers to hold off civilians fro the city until it was deemed safe Everyone waited for alates before the Supre City
The ground was scorched black and houses were burnt to a crisp Corpses that could be seen still maintained the last positions they were in before death All of the corpses were facing the city gates Even at the very lastto escape Adults tried to shi+eld their children by pressing their bodies over theirs In the end, their corpses were glued together by the fire Soround,as if they had been baked Their corpses were coround
Looking at the dreadful state of the city, some citizens wailed in pain, but more were traule tear They stood on the scorched earth like wooden puppets
Lou Zigui and Xu Feiyu rode on their horses and entered the city They had only taken a few steps before they were shortly led by a deputy general into the home of a wealthy family
Only half of the courtyard wall remained after the fire The house was practically destroyed There were nuround When Lou Zigui and Xu Feiyan followed the deputy general into the estate's back garden, even they balked at the scene at the pond in the garden despite having witnessed numerous deaths in their lifetime
The pond wasn't deep and there were quite a nu on the water surface Their skin could no longer be seen, only the colour of cooked flesh was visible on the corpses
”They were cooked to death by the boiling water?” Xu Feiyu was bewildered These people had wanted to escape the fire by juht that the pond water would end up boiling due to the fire?
A soldier tried to use a metal hook to remove a corpse from the pond, but the moment the hook touched the body, the flesh on the adult male's body fell apart and sank to the bottom of the pond In the blink of an eye, a skeleton was all that was left
Soer soldiers were unable to stomach this scene and vomited on the spot
”Can people still live in this city?” Xu Feiyu asked Lou Zigui