New and dark light years

Chapter 509 Let's bet on who can get into the city.
"How can I help?"

Zhang Zouzhi looked at the other person.

This woman is truly beautiful; she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, without a doubt.

His previous wives and concubines were far inferior to this woman.

The woman smiled sweetly: "I can help you open the city gate, tonight."

"Oh?" Zhang Zouzhi sized up the other person: "Why are you helping me like this?"

"I'm not helping you, I'm helping myself," the woman said with a smile. "It doesn't matter. If you don't agree, I can go find someone else."

Zhang Zouzhi snorted: "In this world, who else dares to storm the capital? Besides me, who else can you turn to?"

He looked at the woman with possessiveness in his eyes.

Moreover, his tone was full of jealousy.

"I've heard there's another one named Li Lin," the woman said with a smile. "He seems to be even more capable than you."

"Bullshit!" Zhang Zouzhi cursed angrily, "What is that pretty boy? He just has a good family background and a good father-in-law to support him. Apart from his looks, what does he have that can compare to me? What is it? I've come all the way from nothing. Who can be better than me?"

The woman raised an eyebrow: "You smell so much jealousy."

"You!" Zhang Zouzhi was furious, but seeing the other person's captivating face, he said, "Who exactly are you, and what makes you think you can help me open the city gate?"

"Who I am is none of your concern," the woman laughed. "What matters most is whether you dare to lead your troops into the city tonight."

Zhang Zouzhi snorted: "There's nothing I wouldn't dare to do."

"It better be this way."

After saying that, the woman's figure gradually disappeared.

Zhang Zouzhi panicked and lunged forward to try and stop the other person, but only managed to grab air.

"Who are you? How can I find you in the future?"

Zhang Zouzhi shouted and looked around.

He hoped the other person would reappear, but after waiting for a while, no one came.

Only a faint fragrance remained in the air.

Several guards, hearing the commotion, rushed in and asked, "Your Majesty... what's wrong?"

"fine!"

Zhang Zouzhi waved his hand, dismissing his personal guards.

…………

On the other side, Li Lin sat inside the city tower, warming himself by a charcoal fire.

Although he wasn't actually afraid of the cold, these were all brought to him by his subordinates.

The Jin County government army did a relatively good job in terms of keeping warm, after all... they had money.

Li Lin looked at the intelligence reports from the other two passes and nodded in satisfaction.

Xiao Chunzhu and Guo Yuan were not like Ji Bo, who had sympathy for the enemy. They refused to open the city gates and were unmoved by the enemy's shouts and insults.

Even... Guo Yuan sat on the city wall eating pig's head meat, making the rebels extremely envious.

Li Lin threw a document into the charcoal stove to burn, and just as he was about to look at the next one, he suddenly turned his head to look towards the window.

"What kind of strange creature dares to run wild here?"

Li Lin stood up, and the dragon horn magic weapon slid down from his sleeve and landed in his palm.

A figure slowly appeared.

She was a woman dressed in purple.

Li Lin was taken aback: "You Rong Noble Consort... no, I should call you Zi Feng Niangniang."

Before Li Lin's eyes, a woman was floating on Consort You Rong's body, and the lower half of this woman's body had already entered Consort You Rong's body.

To put it bluntly, the erosion is already about halfway complete.

“The Li family of Jin County!” Zi Feng looked at Li Lin and said with a smile, “You do have the demeanor of Minister Li back then, and you are indeed a handsome young man.”

“I am not a member of the Li family of Jin County.”

"You're lying. You do look a bit like Minister Li back then. But you're more handsome and taller." Zi Feng's eyes were filled with laughter. "Although Minister Li was handsome back then, he was a southerner and his physique was a bit weak. You're just right."

Li Lin stood up and asked, "What does Your Highness Zi Feng mean by this? Has Consort You Rong offended you?"

"You feel sorry for her?" Zi Feng asked with a smile.

“No matter what, Consort You Rong is still my ally,” Li Lin said slowly. “If possible, I hope Your Majesty can spare her.”

Li Lin could see that Zi Feng had begun to erode Yang Yourong's soul.

However, if the two separate, there is still hope for them.

"You're quite the gentleman," Zi Feng said with a smile. "What if I don't want to? After all, her body is that of a rare beauty, and it would be more comfortable to use her."

Zi Feng Niangniang was also very beautiful, but compared to You Rong Guifei, she was still somewhat inferior.

The main difference is in physique.

As long as they get enough nutrition, women in southern Xinjiang are generally... rather plump. This is an innate advantage of their race, and there's nothing that can be done about it.

"If Your Majesty is unwilling, then so be it."

Li Lin was indeed trying to give Yang Yourong a chance to survive, but he only mentioned it briefly. If she was unwilling, Li Lin would not force her.

After all, his relationship with Consort Yourong wasn't very deep.

"If you put in a little more effort, maybe I'll agree," Zi Feng said with a smile.

As she approached, the flames in the charcoal stove diminished.

It was extremely cold.

“My elders taught me that women often speak ironically, especially when it involves another woman,” Li Lin said calmly. “The more I beg, the faster Consort Rong will probably die.”

Hahaha!
Zi Feng covered her mouth with her sleeve and laughed heartily.

His chest heaved with emotion.

"As expected of the men of the Li family, they really understand us women." Zi Feng looked at Li Lin and smiled, "Back when Minister Li was young, he was known as the romantic husband, and you are no less so, known in the martial arts world as the Paper Prince. Not bad, not bad, truly a family tradition."

Li Lin sighed helplessly.

He felt that the world was a bit strange. He was clearly not a member of the Li family, and he had clarified this countless times.

But the more he tried to clarify, the more people believed he was a member of the Li family.

Even those involved back then believed he was a descendant of the Li family.

This matter cannot be let go.

Seeing Li Lin sigh, Zi Feng assumed that he simply disliked the title of "Paper Prince".

After all, Minister Li back then didn't like the title "romantic gentleman" and had been angry about it several times.

Li Lin gestured and said, "Please sit, Your Highness. What brings you here today?"

Zi Feng sat down and placed her hands on the charcoal stove. The fire almost went out in an instant, leaving only a few embers.

“This world is cold, even fire is cold,” Lady Zifeng muttered, then looked at Li Lin and said, “I know you want to go to the capital, I can help you open the city gates.”

Li Lin raised an eyebrow slightly: "What benefit would this bring to Her Majesty?"

"You don't believe me?" Zi Feng asked without a smile.

Li Lin didn't speak, but responded with a smile.

He naturally didn't believe it.

Zi Feng is, after all, a member of the Zhu family.

The current emperor is her direct descendant.

Last time in the capital, Zi Feng clearly had the opportunity to kill the descendants of the Zhu family who had imprisoned her, but she didn't.

He simply went to kill some descendants of powerful families who had "stirred up trouble" back then.

She had absolutely no intention of harming the Zhu family.

Li Lin is a very pragmatic person; he only looks at what others do, not what they say.

When Zi Feng 'escaped' from the seal, she appeared to be looking to settle scores with the Zhu family descendants, but in reality, she didn't harm or kill a single member of the Zhu family.

Those who died were all 'supporting characters'.

"Whether you believe me or not is fine." Zi Feng looked at Li Lin and said, "I will open the city gates tonight. Whether you or the rebel leader enter the city first depends on your strength."

Li Lin asked incredulously, "You didn't tell the Di leader this, did you?" "How did you know!" Zi Feng looked at the man in front of her in surprise, "You're quite clever. The other two men thought I only told them."

Li Lin clicked his tongue: "You want us to have a three-way battle, fighting to the death in front of the city gates?"

He felt that this Zi Feng was here to harm people.

Zi Feng smiled and said, "The capital city is a strategic location, so naturally only the strong can obtain it."

Li Lin asked, "What benefit does this bring to Her Majesty?"

“Yes.” Zi Feng pointed to her chest: “The little woman inside me has always refused to truly give me her body. But now she’s willing, but on one condition.”

"What conditions... for the Zhu family to die?" Li Lin asked curiously.

Zi Feng laughed and said, "She wants chaos in the capital, she wants the Zhu family to die."

Li Lin was stunned: "You agreed to her doing this, and even offered to help her. Aren't the Zhu family your descendants?"

“I’ve figured it out. I treat them as blood relatives, but they may not treat me as an elder.” Zi Feng said coldly, “Why don’t I just take a body that I like?”

Li Lin remained silent.

"Kid, are you taking your troops to the capital tonight?"

"I'm not going," Li Lin shook his head.

"Then you'll lose your advantage."

Li Lin laughed and said, "That's not necessarily true."

After looking at him for a while, Zi Feng said, "How can you get there?"

"Don't go."

"If you go, you can enjoy this body once."

"Get lost," Li Lin said coldly.

Zi Feng was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "I hope you won't regret it."

After saying that, she turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared through the window.

After she left, Li Lin summoned a messenger: "Notify the commanders of the other two passes that the Di people and the rebels may make unusual moves tonight. Ignore them and continue to defend the passes. No matter what happens, do not send troops out."

……

The purple phoenix flew to a high mountain.

From the summit, one can see the distant imperial city and the Di people to the north roaming back and forth, looking for an opportunity to attack.

They also watched as the hundreds of thousands of rebel troops began to move towards the city gates of the capital.

Zi Feng waved her cloud sleeves, and the surrounding snowflakes were swept away by an invisible force. She then found a clean rock to sit on, resting her chin on her hand and looking at the sky.

Time passed slowly, and Zi Feng suddenly said to herself, "Little Rong'er, which of these three men do you think can enter the capital and sit on the dragon throne?"

After a while, Zi Feng laughed and said, "You think it's Li Lin, why? Just because he's handsome?"

"Because he dared to curse me, he wouldn't be attracted by your looks, and he has the air of a hero? Hahahaha!" Zi Feng laughed until tears streamed down her face. She gently ran her jade finger across the corner of her eye and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense. How could any man with a bit of ability bow down to a woman's beautiful skirt? A barbarian from the north and a peasant who just got lucky are indeed not as good as a scholarly man like Li Lin."

After a while, Zi Feng said, "You're wrong, Li Lin won't be coming tonight."

"Why? Because he comes from a prominent family, unlike those two men."

And so, Zi Feng continued talking to herself.

She chatted for quite a while, and when it got dark and the snowflakes started falling again, she said, "I should go open the door. Should we take another gamble?"

"Not gambling? That would be such a waste."

As she spoke, Zi Feng transformed into wisps of green smoke and vanished into thin air.

Night falls.

The snow stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the full moon appeared. Because the snow reflected the moonlight, the night was much brighter than usual.

It was so bright that even from a mile away, one could vaguely see the city gates of the capital.

A large number of rebels arrived a mile in front of the city gate.

I don't know how many people there were, just a dense mass of heads.

The rebels had almost no formation; they were just groups of people huddled together.

There's no way around it... it's too cold, so huddling together makes it less cold.

At this point, the rebels were acting strangely, as armies generally do not launch large-scale attacks at night.

Even if it were a night raid, it should have been carried out when there was no moon, and so many people wouldn't have appeared at the same time.

The rebels were as strange as they were, but they had no choice but to obey orders.

After all... military supervisors and troop commanders are both deadly.

Just as the rebels arrived at the front lines, the Di people also arrived.

Approximately two thousand horse archers appeared on the right flank of the rebel army.

This caused some commotion among the rebels, but strangely, the Di people did not launch an attack on them.

Instead, he reined in his horse and faced the direction of the city gate.

Zhang Zouzhi glanced warily at the Di army in the distance on the right flank, then turned his gaze to the city gate.

He frowned, worried that the woman was lying to him.

But he also felt that the woman wouldn't lie to him.

After all, she's so beautiful.

Zhang Zouzhi thought that such a beautiful woman wouldn't lie to her.

Time passed little by little.

The gates of the capital city remained closed.

Many of the commanders around were already losing their composure.

Someone cupped their hands and asked, "Your Majesty, perhaps... we should disperse first? It's freezing cold, and the brothers might catch a cold if they stay outside for too long."

"hold on."

"But……"

Zhang Zouzhi turned around and slapped the commander across the face, yelling, "Damn it! I told you to wait, so wait! What's with all that nonsense?"

The commander's face was slapped to the side, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

He turned back, said nothing, simply cupped his hands in greeting, and then slowly retreated.

Just as Zhang Zouzhi was about to say something, he suddenly heard a commotion ahead.

He turned his head and saw that, without him noticing, the gates of the capital city had been opened.

Silently, without any warning.

After the city gates were wide open, there was a dark passage, so dark that you couldn't see what was behind it.

"The city gates have really opened! I knew she wouldn't lie to me. I'm going to make her my princess!" Zhang Zouzhi shouted excitedly. "All troops, charge forward! Smash into the capital! Let's keep our swords up for three days!"

"Come on!"

"Rob money, rob grain, rob women, everyone follow me!"

Upon hearing the military orders and bugle calls, the rebels, who had been frozen and starving for more than ten days, finally could not hold back any longer.

Once you enter the city, you'll find food, a warm bed to sleep in, and a warm woman to hold in your arms.

The rebel army surged toward the capital like flowing mercury.

But as the sound of horses' hooves rang out, the Di people also moved.

Although they started later, they quickly surged to the forefront, and a cavalry unit was also dispatched from the flank to charge towards the most vulnerable vanguard of the rebels.

The Di people planned to send a portion of their people into the city first, then close the city gates, and subsequently slaughter the entire capital.

In less than half an incense stick's time, the Di people had already arrived at the city gate.

The thunderous sound of horses' hooves once again startled this ancient capital of six dynasties.

Compared to the last time, this time the Northern Di... have already entered the city.

After a brief silence, the bronze bell on the city wall began to ring frantically.

It means that the city gates have been breached and the enemy has entered the city.

A bloodbath is coming.

(End of this chapter)