The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

The concubines were shocked and stunned, looking at each other in disbelief.

After the emperor finished speaking, no one took the initiative to take the white silk.

"What? Do you want to wait for the enemy to rush in and destroy you all? Or do you want to use your beauty to please the enemy, survive in exchange for your life, and trample on the reputation of Daliang?!"

The emperor's rage made everyone tremble.

The emperor still held the sword he had used to kill the palace maid, and the blood was still wet.

At the emperor's signal, more than a dozen guards in the hall drew their swords and surrounded the concubines.

Empress Yan declared, "If Your Majesty insists on refusing to retreat, we, the sisters in the harem, will naturally stand with Your Majesty and die to prove our resolve. However, dying here would be in vain. It would be better for everyone to grab a weapon and go out and fight the enemy. If one person dies, we'll have our money back; if two die, we'll have a profit!"

"Yes, if we really can't defeat the Tartars, we will just kill ourselves. Your Majesty, let's go out and fight!" someone echoed.

The emperor laughed in anger.

"You, just you? You're powerless, yet you want to fight the enemy? You will only be torn to pieces and trampled by the enemy, and your innocence will be tarnished! Don't delay, die quickly!"

He picked up a white silk with his sword and threw it towards the concubines.

The guards around stepped forward one after another, pointing their swords at the crowd.

The concubines all understood.

If they refused to hang themselves, they would probably be executed immediately.

Someone cried.

The concubine closest to the sword stepped forward tremblingly and slowly picked up the white silk on the plate.

"Die quickly! I only gave you a quarter of an hour, and you've already wasted half of it!"

The emperor urged with his sword.

Someone suddenly pointed at Fei Wan and asked, "What about the Imperial Concubine? Is she going to die with us? Didn't His Majesty let her take over the throne temporarily? Doesn't he want her to die?"

This is not about caring about Feiwan.

Just trying to seek inexplicable fairness out of fear.

The emperor said: "She will die with us!"

Eyes facing each other.

Fei Wan saw that the emperor's hand holding the sword was shaking, and he was staring at her, as if he was about to cry.

His eyes conveyed the pain of being forced to die with her.

"Your Majesty, I obey your command. I will die with you."

She spoke calmly, walked slowly forward, and stood beside the emperor.

He exchanged glances with Queen Yan.

Queen Yan nodded slightly, almost imperceptibly.

The emperor was about to speak, wanting Fei Wan to take the lead and set an example, but Fei Wan saw through his intention from his eyes.

Fei Wan rushed ahead of him and said to Concubine De in the crowd, "Sister Concubine De, please sing a song. Dying for chastity is a blessing. Let's not cry."

Defei immediately cooperated and started singing.

A cheerful opera excerpt, telling the story of a young girl catching butterflies and picking flowers in the back garden, was totally out of place in this scene.

De Fei sang with a light voice. Because from Fei Wan's eyes, she, who was usually straightforward and couldn't understand the situation, suddenly had a flash of inspiration and instinctively knew that no one would die.

Imperial Noble Consort Zhaohua was calm and composed, as if she had a solution!

Zhishu was the second one to step forward, picked up the white silk, and stood under the beam.

The stool was already placed, and before she stepped on it, she looked at the emperor.

"Your Majesty, there's one thing I can't understand. Why does a man's dignity have to be protected at the cost of a woman's life? Is it because you're too weak to earn your own dignity, nor do you have the ability to have the soldiers earn it for you?"

"Princess Ying! How dare you! How many times have you disobeyed me?!"

The emperor stepped forward with his sword, thrusting it forward and stabbing.

Zhishu kicked over the stool, tripping him, and dodged the sword.

"Sister Ying, how dare you contradict His Majesty!"

Fei Wan rushed towards Zhishu before the guards could reach her.

He "accidentally" stepped on the emperor's sword-holding hand and kicked the wound he sustained when he was captured.

The emperor lay on the ground and didn't get up for a while. Fei Wan pulled Zhishu and shouted at her to apologize.

"Kill her! Grant death to Concubine Ying! I don't need her to apologize!"

Before the emperor even got up, he ordered Zhishu to be killed.

Shun Fei received Fei Wan's signal and, along with several familiar concubines, surrounded Zhi Shu, blocking the guards' blades. Everyone pretended to help Fei Wan persuade Zhi Shu to admit her mistake, but no one helped the emperor who was still on the ground.

The guards were not originally there to serve the emperor. They usually stood guard or drew their swords. Now, with swords in hand, it was natural that they did not help the emperor up.

The cheerful selections of Concubine De were still being sung.

The scene was chaotic and funny.

Queen Yan suddenly stepped forward, picked up a large vase on the table, and threw it to the ground with a clang.

"Everyone stand still! This is such a mess!"

Before he could finish his curse, the door of the conference hall was suddenly kicked open from the outside, and the guards guarding the door were thrown to the ground.

"Empress, what happened? Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor!"

The ones who broke in were the personal guards who originally belonged to the Duke's Mansion. Led by Empress Yan's guards, they separated the guards in the hall in the name of protecting the emperor.

The sound of Queen Yan smashing the vase was just to let them in.

Amid the panic and chaos of the crowd, Fei Wan stepped on the back of the emperor's neck, knocking him unconscious.

Then he picked up the Qinglong Sword, jumped onto the table and shouted loudly.

"His Majesty is seriously injured and unconscious. Come quickly and carry His Majesty out. Everyone must swear to protect His Majesty's safety at all costs!"

One of the guards in the hall retorted, "Your Majesty wants to defend the city to the death, and let the ladies die..."

He was immediately killed by Empress Yan's men.

The situation was quickly brought under control.

The elite troops assigned by General Gongsun received the notice from Fei Wan's men and quickly rushed to protect the emperor.

Fei Wan acted as the emperor and immediately left Sigu Town with his concubines, clan members, court officials, and the people of the town, heading into the mountains with high peaks and dense forests.

A bloody battle lasted all night in Sigu Town.

At dawn, Fei Wan and others who had hidden far away in the mountains heard the rumbling sound of cannons like muffled thunder, one after another, stretching endlessly.

Cao Bin is here!

On the second day, the Huzhou rebel army arrived.

As tens of thousands of people headed north, the number grew to over 100,000.

The situation on the battlefield turned around and the Liang army switched from defense to offense.

On the fourth day, 30,000 cavalrymen from Beiqu rushed into the battlefield like a torrent.

But they did not come to attack Daliang, but rushed into Qu's army, cutting down melons and vegetables with unstoppable force.

This was the result of Xie Weizhou and Lan Zhaoyi working together to rescue the original wife and children of a certain king who were held hostage in Beiqujing City. The king immediately rewarded them and sent friendly troops to cooperate.

On the seventh day, Fei Wan led the team back to Sigu Town.

Corpses were strewn across the land, and everything was devastated.

Seventy percent of the residents of Sigu Town who didn't flee with the refugees died. The returning residents returned to their homes, and for an entire day, the town was filled with cries.

The emperor was not given sleeping pills today.

Woke up at sunset.

I opened my eyes and saw Fei Wan.

He was in a trance for a moment.

Ask: "Are they all dead?"

His memory still lingers on the day when he forced his concubines to commit suicide.

Since the retreat, Queen Yan and Fei Wan have never let him wake up.

Fei Wan smiled and took a handkerchief soaked in warm water, and gently wiped the eye boogers and saliva produced by his sleep.

"Your Majesty, we are all alive and well."