I embezzled 100,000 taels at the beginning, and the empress begged me to be more greedy

When the Yan army attacked Jiankang city with great momentum, the prime minister of Chen State, who was in charge of the government, was dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Suddenly, the rumbling sound in the distance interrupted his thoughts.

At this moment, Prime Minister Liu was standing in front of the dragon throne in the main hall, looking at the coveted dragon throne, with greed in his eyes.

There was still a lot of noise coming from outside the imperial city.

Prime Minister Liu walked down slowly and came to the palace gate.

At this moment, in front of him, troops were being mobilized quickly.

Prime Minister Liu frowned, sensing that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Sure enough, within a moment, his confidant came running over in a hurry: "Prime Minister! Urgent report! The Yan army has already entered Jiankang City from the north city, and the inner city is in danger!"

Upon hearing this news, Prime Minister Liu was shocked and asked in astonishment: "What's going on? Where are the defensive troops?"

Prime Minister Liu really couldn't understand how a sturdy city garrisoned by more than 100,000 people could be breached by tens of thousands of Yan troops.

The confidant said with a full forehead sweat: "The defenders in the north of the city opened the city gate and surrendered to the Yan army!"

"Surrendered? Bastards! Traitors!"

Prime Minister Liu was immediately furious.

After defending the city of Jiankang for so long, it was defeated by an internal traitor.

"It must have been done by the princelings!"

Prime Minister Liu had already guessed the general idea.

After the crown prince launched a mutiny, Prime Minister Liu and his party had already vigorously persecuted the crown prince's party. Unexpectedly, some of them still slipped through the net, leading to their current fate.

"Who is the general responsible for guarding the North City?"

Prime Minister Liu asked.

"It's Hu Mingwei."

"Hu Mingwei?"

Prime Minister Liu frowned and didn't have much other impression of this person.

Now was not the time to dwell on this. He gritted his teeth and ordered sternly, "No matter how many people die, we must take back North City, quickly!"

Now the entire Jiankang City belongs to him. If Jiankang City falls, he will definitely not be able to escape.

Most of the forces in the imperial palace are already from his Prime Minister's party. As long as he can repel the attack of the Yan army, he believes that the entire Yan Kingdom will soon belong to his Liu family.

Therefore, Prime Minister Liu must not lose this battle.

At this moment in Jiankang City, the battle was extremely fierce.

Just like the sudden attack of the Yan army, the soldiers in the north city temporarily changed sides, and the other Chen army defenders in Jiankang City almost completely stabilized their front line and retreated step by step. In less than half a day, almost the entire Jiankang City fell into the hands of the Yan army.

Outside Jiankang City, Jiang Zuo stood on a high place and observed the direction of Jiankang City with a telescope. Although he could not see the approximate direction, he could infer from the pace of the Yan army soldiers that the Yan army was advancing continuously.

As long as they captured the city, the Chen army would be unable to stop the Yan army's offensive.

"All the reserve forces must be deployed. Within today, we must occupy the entire Jiankang City and not allow the defenders any chance to catch their breath."

Jiang Zuo ordered.

Since the logistics supply line was reopened, a steady stream of reinforcements have arrived at the front line. Although Yan State is at a disadvantage in terms of military strength now, when it comes to the quality of its troops, the Yan army definitely has the advantage.

Just two hours later, news came from the city: "Sir, our army has besieged the inner city and can launch an attack at any time."

Jiang Zuo ordered again: "Pull the cannons in and blow open their inner city walls!"

Since we have sufficient logistics now, why not take advantage of this momentum to quickly capture Jiankang City.

A moment later, the cannons in the hands of the Anding Army were pulled towards the inner city.

After an unknown amount of time, deafening cannon fire was heard from Jiankang City.

The battle to attack the inner city has already begun.

At this moment, Chen State's Prince Xiao Nian was still standing beside Jiang Zuo, watching everything silently with mixed feelings in his heart.

After today, if the Yan army really breaks through Jiankang City, will he, the prince of Chen, be a sinner?

But now, perhaps this is the only path available to Xiao Nian.

The capture of Jiankang City by the Yan army was a foregone conclusion, and continuing to resist would only result in more casualties.

The battle in the city continued. As dusk approached, a fast horse galloped out of the city and arrived in front of Jiang Zuo. The soldier reported: "Sir, our army has entered the inner city and is about to surround the palace."

"Enter the city."

Only at this moment did Jiang Zuo finally enter the city in person.

The entire Jiankang city was in ruins.

The Chen soldiers who had no time to escape could only kneel on the ground, throw down their weapons, and surrender to the Yan army.

In this battle, the State of Chen was defeated miserably, and all the remaining forces retreated into the imperial city.

At this moment in the imperial city, Prime Minister Liu was already extremely worried, as battle reports from all over Jiankang City kept reaching his ears.

A miserable defeat, and still a miserable defeat...

"If you can't defend Jiankang City, you will all die!"

Prime Minister Liu has almost gone insane.

At this time, Eunuch Wang came to Prime Minister Liu with an uneasy look on his face and said, "Prime Minister, the emperor has passed away..."

After lingering on for so many days, the old emperor finally died.

Upon hearing the news, Prime Minister Liu's face showed no emotion. For him now, it didn't matter whether the emperor was dead or not.

"Where's the imperial seal? Where's the imperial seal?!"

Prime Minister Liu said with a grim look on his face.

Eunuch Wang's forehead was full of shouting, and he said in panic: "I don't know..."

Nowadays, perhaps only the deceased emperor knows where the imperial seal is hidden.

But even if Prime Minister Liu found the jade seal, the Yan army outside the city had already broken through the imperial city and was heading towards Prime Minister Liu.

I don't know how long it took, but outside the hall, there were rapid footsteps and sounds of fighting.

"Fight in!"

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of fighting outside the palace.

The Yan army has already entered the palace!

Prime Minister Liu was startled and gritted his teeth: "Bring me my sword!"

This time, even if he died, he would not definitely fall into the hands of the Yan people.

But before Prime Minister Liu went to his death, the door of the hall was kicked open, and dozens of Yan soldiers with weapons in hand rushed into the hall, targeting Prime Minister Liu.

The eunuch Wang beside him was terrified and fell to his knees: "Surrender! Spare my life!"

Prime Minister Liu tightly grasped the sword in his hand and stood there in a daze.

There were no guards protecting him.

"Put down your weapon and I will spare your life."

The soldiers shouted at Prime Minister Liu.

The soldiers of the Yan army had previously received orders to capture the court officials of the Chen State alive, and the man in front of them was dressed luxuriously and was obviously of extraordinary status.

After hearing the other party's words of persuasion to surrender, Prime Minister Liu still stayed where he was, motionless.

"Kill him, stop talking nonsense."

A soldier shouted.

The battle is fierce now and they don't have time to waste with this man.

Seeing the group of soldiers charging towards him, Prime Minister Liu, who had been ready to die, suddenly felt his legs go weak. He dropped the weapon in his hand and fell to his knees on the ground with a thud.

Then, a sharp blade was placed on his neck.

Someone tied him up from behind and kicked him to the ground.

The so-called powerful minister Liu Xiangguo was now as miserable as a stray dog.