Koi Fubao: Being loved by everyone on the road to escape from famine

Xiao Zhixue smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, mother. I can distract the enemy by staying here. No one can hurt me in the slightest."

She looked at her sleeping son affectionately and solemnly told Fu Dong: "You must take good care of them."

Fu Dong nodded heavily, his voice firm: "I obey your orders, Princess, please rest assured, I swear to keep the princess and the young master safe and sound."

Watching everyone enter the tunnel safely, Xiao Zhixue carefully closed the entrance and cleverly covered it with the surrounding weeds.

She knew in her heart that Fan Yanmu should have rushed to the palace through another secret passage by now, and an indescribable sense of urgency spread in her heart.

At this moment, Fan Yanmu was fighting side by side with Xiao Yuze, Xiao Yufeng, and Xiao Yurui. Facing the iron-clad encirclement outside the palace, the two sides were in a stalemate.

At the same time, Xiao Yuxuan received a secret mission from Emperor Kang Zhong himself - to assassinate Fan Qijun.

The defense of Prince An's Mansion was already crumbling. Although Xiao Zhixue was unwilling to take anyone's life, the current situation did not allow her to hesitate at all.

She took out a small exquisite porcelain bottle from her bosom, which contained a secret powder, and handed it to the extraordinary Qingming: "You have outstanding martial arts skills. Quickly blend into the enemy group and spread this thing."

Qingming did not hesitate for a moment. He moved like the agile cheetah in the night and in the blink of an eye he had spread the powder evenly, as if a star was falling, catching everyone off guard.

In an instant, dozens or even hundreds of enemy soldiers fell down, and the government troops did not dare to move for a while because of this sudden change.

"How dare you be so despicable as to use poison!"

A general shouted in the night, the anger and fear in his voice difficult to conceal.

Although Xiao Zhixue was in the dark night, she was too familiar with the voice and immediately recognized the other party's identity: "Master Wei, I didn't expect that you were involved in this. It seems that the Wei family is determined to go along with the Prince of Huai and die together?"

This person is Wei Xingming's brother, the eldest son of the Wei family.

Xiao Zhixue had no intention of getting entangled with them, and decisively ordered: "Qingming, no need to say more, just start. These people are all private soldiers raised by the Wei family, and it is not a pity to let them die."

When Prince Wei heard this, he was furious.

He originally thought that Princess Changle's pregnant body would be easy to deal with, but he didn't expect that her methods were so fierce that she destroyed the private army that the Wei family had painstakingly built up over the years with just one move.

On the other side, the Anyang Marquis Mansion was also facing a severe situation of being surrounded by heavy troops. Xiao Wang and his youngest son Xiao Yuyu were leading the brave warriors in the mansion to resist tenaciously. Fortunately, the father and son were both proficient in civil and military affairs, and they managed to stabilize the situation temporarily.

Just when the battle was at a stalemate, Xiao Yuting hurried over and saw that Xiao Wang and his son had just repelled a fierce attack.

"Uncle, I am here to help you break out of the siege. You need to go outside the city to request reinforcements. This is the emperor's order and the prince's order."

As Xiao Yuting spoke, he handed over a gold medal with the words "As if I were here in person" engraved on it, demonstrating his authority.

Xiao Wang looked around, his eyes swept across the palace guards who were still fighting bloody, and then looked at the brave Xiao Yuyu, and said in a deep voice: "Yuting, you stay to protect your aunt and brother, I will leave immediately."

Xiao Yuting's eyes revealed a resolute light, and he responded calmly and forcefully: "Second Uncle, please rest assured that I, Xiao Yuting, will do my best to ensure the safety of this place."

Xiao Wang said nothing more, just nodded slightly, and then leaped to the flank of the mansion like a nimble cat, intending to find a gap to break through the enemy's encirclement.

He knew in his heart that this mission was extremely difficult. The capital city inside and outside had been ruthlessly trampled by the iron hooves of the Jingzhou army. The inside of the imperial palace was impregnable, while the outside of the city was tightly blocked.

Inside the palace, only 5,000 loyal guards were facing no less than 5,000 elite troops of the King of Huai. Coupled with the tight siege of tens of thousands of troops outside the city, the capital seemed to be tightly strangled by an invisible hand. Whenever Xiao Wang thought of the difficulties and obstacles that the reinforcements outside the city might face, his heart was shrouded in worries.

Xiao Zhixue's mind was as clear as a mirror like her second brother's. She knew very well that only when Fan Qijun, the leader of the enemy army, died, the enemy army would fall into chaos due to the lack of a leader and internal disputes.

This was also a strategy that Emperor Kang Zhong had carefully considered, so he sent Xiao Yuxuan to secretly carry out the task of assassinating Fan Qijun.

Time flows silently like the sand in an hourglass. In the blink of an eye, it is already the middle of the Yin hour. A faint dawn appears in the eastern sky, heralding the beginning of a new day.

Xiao Zhixue stood on the roof, looking anxiously towards the imperial palace in the distance. The fighting there had not stopped yet, and the sounds of shouting and weapons clashing intertwined into a chaotic melody.

Her heart was burning with anger, and she leaped off the roof without a care in the world, running towards the palace like a cheetah, leaving Qingming and the others with a difficult choice: if they left, Prince An's Mansion might suffer a devastating disaster; if they stayed, the princess's safety would become uncertain.

With Xiao Yuze's unremitting efforts, some middle and low-level generals of the Jingzhou army began to waver and chose to join Fan Yanmu. After all, these people were once loyal followers of the major general under Fan Yanmu.

This turn of events undoubtedly increased Fan Yanmu's chances of success in his counterattack.

However, in this crisis-ridden situation, Prince Huai sat in the rear, ready for battle, with the rage in his heart almost boiling.

They were extremely dissatisfied with the fact that there was no news from the elite troops they had sent before. The thousand elite troops were like a stone sinking in the sea, and were in great danger.

The originally planned attack from both inside and outside now seemed more like an illusion and a false hope.

As the east dawned, Prince Huai knew that if he could not break into the palace at dawn and force the emperor to abdicate, what might await him would be the tragedy of the dynasty's downfall.

What surprised him even more was that Fan Yanmu actually appeared here. Shouldn't he be sitting in Prince An's mansion?

How did Fan Yanmu sneak into the palace quietly? Why didn't he notice it at all? This made him even more uneasy.

The appearance of Fan Yanmu frightened the soldiers who wanted to storm the palace gate, and they did not dare to launch a suicidal attack on the royal residence easily.

At the same time, Xiao Wang was in a battlefield full of dangers. He killed countless enemies with his superb martial arts, but he was also surrounded and had little chance of escape.

"Marquis Anyang, listen to my advice and stop struggling in vain. When Prince Huai ascends the throne, you will still be a royal relative. Why bother with this useless resistance?"

Wei Mingzong said to Xiao Wang with a bit of sarcasm.

Xiao Wang's eyes were like winter ice, coldly sweeping over Wei Mingzong, "Humph, your Qian family has committed rebellion, have you ever foreseen that from now on, the Wei family will no longer have a place to stand in the capital?"

His words were powerful and full of warning.

Wei Mingzong sneered, "Xiao Wang, you don't need to worry about the affairs of my Wei family. Do you think you can break through the siege of 40,000 soldiers by yourself?"

Xiao Wang's body was covered with scars, at least a dozen wounds, and there was an arrow stuck in his back. The scene was shocking.