Rejected Beauty Practices the Villain Play-Chapter 845 - 823: Fierce Battle

Behind the High Priest followed four priests dressed identically, as if it were a sacred ritual, his gaze passed through dozens of soldiers, landing on Xie Jue, "Your Highness, I have given you countless chances, hoping you would find your way back, yet you have disappointed me too much. You are a traitor to our Sangnan, tonight, I’ll cleanse the royal family’s reputation. Soldiers, hear my command, kill Xie Jue at all costs."

The Forbidden Army listened obediently to the High Priest, while the Grand Prince’s men shouted in panic, "No, no, no... The Grand Prince is still in Fang Chuning’s hands."

"He dares not kill!" said the High Priest indifferently.

As the words just fell, Fang Chuning swung his longsword horizontally, directly chopping off the Grand Prince’s head. At that moment, the entire Chaoyang Palace finally couldn’t withstand the fire, collapsing with a loud crash, in addition to other sounds. The High Priest was also stunned as Fang Chuning turned and swung his sword towards the High Priest.

He was like the top predator, the wolf king on the prairie, entering another wolf pack, first killing the rival wolf king, he only killed the wolf king.

The High Priest stood still as a mountain, with his dead soldiers sprang out to protect him. Meanwhile, the Forbidden Army, enraged after seeing the Grand Prince beheaded, turned all their spears towards Fang Chuning this time.

The Ningzhou Iron Cavalry reacted swiftly, taking advantage of the crazed attack on Fang Chuning, quickly breaking through with Xie Jue. Two soldiers of the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry desperately sent Xie Jue out of the Chaoyang Palace, "Your Highness, go quickly, don’t look back..."

Xie Jue was pushed stumbling, barely turning his head to see the knife and sword of the Sannan Forbidden Army pierced through the young general’s chest. Xie Jue was shocked and furious, Ying Er jumped down from the wall, grabbed Xie Jue and ran forward desperately.

As he wished, Xie Jue did not look back!

The Forbidden Army that crazily charged toward Fang Chuning came to their senses, realizing they should not focus on Fang Chuning, their target was Xie Jue.

Fang Chuning and the remaining Shadow Guards stood their ground, buying time for Xie Jue to escape. Fang Chuning, with two swords in hand, did not look back at Xie Jue, only concentrating on killing the Forbidden Army in front.

He had only one thought in mind, killing one more person means one less danger for Ting Feng!

At the palace gate, Zhang Boxin led the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry to attack. The Sannan people loved luxury, building the palace gates beautifully but impractically, unlike Beining, where palace revolts were frequent over the decades, resulting in palace gates built like city gates, easy to defend and hard to attack, very defensive. The Ningzhou Iron Cavalry positioned part of their force to attack the city gate and part threw iron chains onto the city walls, leveraging to climb up. Archers on the walls constantly shot arrows downwards, covering batch after batch as they climbed the gate.

Even with casualties, they still needed to reach the inner palace as fast as possible, the target was clear—where the fire was coming from, visible from the walls afar.

Suddenly, a black figure appeared on the wall, it was Xie Jue’s Ying Yi. He took a glance at the Chaoyang Palace, choosing between protecting his master and going to the palace gate, he chose the palace gate. His figure was as fast as lightning, quickly slaughtering the archers on the wall, after dealing with the archers, more Ningzhou Iron Cavalry climbed up the wall. Ying Yi took the opportunity to go downstairs, kill the guards below, and open the palace gate, letting Zhang Boxin and others into the palace.

"It’s already a massacre over by the Chaoyang Palace!" Ying Yi quickly reported, Zhang Boxin remained calm, assigned small-named generals to leave a hundred men guarding the palace gate, waiting for Li Ming to arrive for support, then led people toward the Chaoyang Palace.

At this time, the Sannan Royal Palace was in chaos, the attendants were scrambling with treasures, desperately trying to run out through the palace gate. The Ningzhou Iron Cavalry, led by Zhang Boxin, fought forward, quickly meeting the escaping Xie Jue and Ying Yi, along with Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao who had escaped disaster by hiding in the water, upon hearing the sounds of battle from the Chaoyang Palace, also didn’t bother with Lin Xiao, thus he crawled out, wanting to join Fang Chuning at the Chaoyang Palace. Halfway, he met Xie Jue and Ying Yi. Ying Yi and Xie Jue were in a very ragged state, still fiercely resisting the Forbidden Army pursuing them from behind. Lin Xiao guarded the rear, fighting and retreating, overjoyed upon hearing the uniform sound of hooves, frantically shouting for Zhang Boxin.

The swift horses of the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry quickly passed Xie Jue and Ying Yi, breaking the formation of the Forbidden Army to carve a path of blood, seeing Xie Jue and Ying Yi alone from afar, Zhang Boxin’s blood boiled, not knowing what had transpired, only wishing to kill all these Forbidden Army as payback!

He took a bow and arrows from afar, nocked the arrow, and shot toward a Forbidden Army charging at Lin Xiao, a shot to the throat. These clan descendants, bored in the capital, would play horseback archery, capable of shooting through a copper coin at a distance. Their archery was exceptionally accurate, making Lin Xiao shout back, "You scared me!"

Zhang Boxin lowered his eyes, releasing a second arrow, then dropped the big bow, drawing a sword to slash and kill!

Chasing after the Forbidden Army were over a dozen Jiangnan spies in Mudan City. Xie Jue collapsed due to exhaustion, and Chen Yesheng quickly rushed forward to treat his wounds, "Your Highness, where is my lord?"

"...Chaoyang Palace!" Xie Jue’s voice trembled slightly, "Go to Chaoyang Palace!"

These spies, having spent years in Jiangnan, naturally knew the direction to the Chaoyang Palace. After Chen Yesheng handed people to the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry, he quickly led them to the Chaoyang Palace.

The military doctor dismounted, applied medicine for Xie Jue, and then brought a horse over for Xie Jue to ride, "Your Highness, you should leave first, the palace gate is manned by our people, leave the palace first, leave this to us!"

Xie Jue glanced at his abdomen, suddenly turned the horse’s head, saying in a deep voice, "Join me in fighting back to Chaoyang Palace, if we’re to die today, we’ll all die here, if we leave, we leave together!"

Zhang Boxin and all the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry soldiers were ablaze with passion. Xie Jue maneuvered the horse, leading the charge at the front. Ying Yi could not stop him, Xie Jue’s whole escape was never just about survival, it was like Fang Chuning violently beheaded the Grand Prince, only to draw hatred away, carving out a path for Xie Jue.

Xie Jue running outward was also to lead away the Forbidden Army, earning Fang Chuning and the other soldiers a chance to fight another day. Had he stayed at the Chaoyang Palace, they would have been surrounded and killed by the Forbidden Army, with no escape. Dispersing the troops to flee stretched the troop lines, giving them a sliver of hope for survival!

Zhang Boxin shouted, "The Sannan people are ungrateful, we follow His Highness to kill the enemy, annihilate them all!"

"Follow His Highness to kill the enemy, charge!"

The fighting spirit of the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry surged. Having the commander personally leading the charge has always been the best way to boost morale. Lin Xiao and Zhang Boxin were to the left and right of Xie Jue, fighting the enemy while paying attention to protect him.

The Sannan Forbidden Army surrounding Xie Jue and Fang Chuning relied on their numbers and strength, with only three hundred riders following into the palace, but now there were three thousand on the scene. This group of Forbidden Army was no match, battling while retreating, blood and corpses instantly covered this once splendid and magnificent royal palace.

The flames shot into the sky, the sound of killing tore through the night, and the scent of blood lingered over Mudan City, marking a dramatic turn in Sannan’s fate.