I did it all for the Han Dynasty!

Chapter 481 Total Collapse
Han army?

How could Han troops possibly be here?
When Zang Ba led the Han army to charge in, the Yuan soldiers, who had just experienced extreme joy and sorrow and were completely exhausted, didn't even have the strength to make a face; they just stared blankly into the distance...

Yuan Tan's heart sank when he saw Zang Ba!
"Where is that person? The one who went to see Zang Ba?"

Yuan Tan roared, but when he actually saw the Yuan army envoy, his pupils trembled!
Suddenly, the Yuan army envoy found himself standing on a rock, at the highest point among all the people present, so high that even a king like Yuan Tan had to look up at him.

"Everyone!"

The messenger, braving the cold wind, did not hesitate to expose his chest, clearly showing that his heart was burning with passion and he feared nothing.

"Everyone!"

The other side shouted again, and the strange action finally made the numb Yuan soldiers around them look up at them.

"We are all sons of Yan and Huang! We are all descendants of the Xia dynasty! But what are we doing now?"

"To associate with the Wuhuan beasts! To allow them to ravage the Han people!"

"Not only that!"

The other party pointed at Yuan Tan, his eyes burning with rage that seemed to want to tear away Yuan Tan's fig leaf from this moment on!
"He! The former governor of Qingzhou of the Han Dynasty! The current King of Qin of the Zhao Dynasty! Yet he turns a blind eye to the suffering of the people of Qingzhou!"

"If someone doesn't even care about his own people, wouldn't he become a tyrant like Jie of Xia or Zhou of Shang, even if he becomes emperor?"

Yuan Tan's face turned ashen, and he ordered his personal guards, "Drag him down! Drag him down! Kill him!"

Seeing Yuan Tan's personal guards approaching, the Yuan army envoy immediately quickened his speech.

"Everyone has witnessed Yuan Tan's atrocities these past few days!"

“When the Wuhuan people broke the law, he not only did not punish them, but also handed over his own soldiers like livestock!”

"I have been waiting for a long time without eating, but he killed his warhorse to fill his stomach!"

"Gentlemen! Don't you feel ashamed to follow such a person?"

At this moment, Yuan Tan's personal guards stepped forward menacingly, the sharp blades in their hands gleaming.

"Gentlemen! The people of Qingzhou today will be the people of Hebei and Guanzhong tomorrow!"

"Today he can kill a Han for a Wuhuan, tomorrow he can kill a group of Han for a group of Wuhuan!"

At this moment, Yuan Tan's personal guards had already climbed onto the rock and struck him heavily on the back with the hilt of their swords, causing him to stumble and fall to the ground, burying his head in the mud.

"Pooh!"

Spitting out the sand and dirt from his mouth, he uttered his last words—

"Everyone!"

"The regime of the fake Yuan and the chaos in Zhao has no future!"

"Let's go to Pengcheng! Let's go to Jiangdong!"

"There, the Han people are still there! The Han people who have lived there for generations are still there!"

puff!

A section of the blade pierced his neck, and then there was no more sound.

But those roars, how could killing one person or cutting off one mouth stop them?
The blood appeared exceptionally vivid on this vast land.

The crimson color awakened Yuan Jun's gradually numb expression.

Memories of the past flooded my mind.

They allowed the Wuhuan to slaughter their own Han people, and they allowed the Wuhuan to humiliate Han women. And there was this, and that...

The fire spread.

A series of soft, rustling sounds gradually began to emerge.

Gradually, they converged into a torrent!

"Damn it! I've been holding back for so long!"

"Damn it! The Wuhuan people are human, but we're not?"

"The Wuhuan people took so many benefits, and now they've run away, leaving us to die here?"

"..."

"Shut up! Shut up!"

A minority of voices are still maintaining order.

But soon, the sheepdogs discovered something that terrified them.

The docile sheep that were once tamed with whips have now all grown tusks.

These soldiers of Yuan's army were no longer those monotonous faces.

They were not nameless "people" or nameless "soldiers".

They are ordinary people.

Surnames of hundreds of families, names of thousands of households.

Whether it was Zhang San or Li Si, they were all angrily denouncing their dissatisfaction and their anger.

The military commanders living within the military system finally began to panic.

The scholars and advisors quickly stepped forward: "How dare you!"

"The ruler is the guide for his subjects!"

"If it weren't for His Highness, you would have starved to death somewhere! You would have been beaten to death somewhere! It is His Highness who has allowed you to live until now! It is His Highness who has ensured that you heartless bastards have not yet ended up as mere skeletons! It's one thing that you are not grateful to the Yuan family or to the Great Zhao! But what are you trying to do? Rebel? If your parents and elders in the clan knew that they had raised a traitor, they would probably have drowned you long ago!"

What are the Three Cardinal Guides? They are the relationship between ruler and subject, father and son, and husband and wife.

The six relatives are: fathers, brothers, clansmen, maternal uncles, teachers, and friends.

Bound by these constraints, some of Yuan's soldiers couldn't help but feel anxious again, and even tried to persuade others, saying, "That's right, His Highness is a prince, the son of the emperor! How can we be wrong to criticize His Highness?"

"If something were to happen and word got back to the village, what would happen to my parents? What would happen to my elders? What would happen to my wife and children? They would probably be talked about behind their backs for the rest of their lives!"

"It wouldn't matter if it were just us, but we still have weaknesses... That won't do! That won't do!" "..."

The crowd began to hesitate.

"Pooh!"

"Damn it! What a bunch of bastards!"

Suddenly, someone started cursing loudly in a Central Plains Mandarin.

“I’ve heard from those great scholars from Xiangyang that we are all raised by our parents! What does it have to do with the Yuan family? Why should we thank them?”

"And the Han Dynasty is still here! The Han Emperor is still here! We all know that the Emperor's surname is Liu! But we've never heard of him suddenly changing his surname to Yuan!"

"I've also heard that the current emperor of Ye City was once raised by a maid. Even if the Yuan family becomes emperor, they're probably born from one of God's maids, aren't they?"

"Hahahahaha."

With that endearing accent, the atmosphere in Yuan Jun's camp became cheerful again.

"Kill Yuan Tan! That way, we might have a chance to survive! We can go back to the Han Dynasty and continue our lives!"

"Otherwise, we'll all die here today!"

"Kill Yuan Tan! Kill Yuan Tan!"

Yuan Tan's face turned deathly pale amidst the crowd.

He had heard that his cousin, Yuan Yi (Yuan Boye), was killed by his own soldiers when he was tricked by Liu Miao and driven out of Yangzhou by Yuan Shu.

At the time, Yuan Tan found it funny.

For a general to be killed by his own soldiers is simply too useless.

But Yuan Tan couldn't laugh at all at this moment.

He had previously thought that if he fell into Liu Miao's hands, he would probably not live much longer.

But right now, if he falls into the hands of these soldiers, he'd be lucky to even die!

While Yuan Tan was still in a daze, a tattered robe suddenly fell from the sky, covering Yuan Tan's face.

Yuan Tan cried out in alarm, thinking he was about to be torn to pieces by his soldiers in the army, but instead felt himself being held tightly, and at the same time he heard the anxious voice of his personal guards—

"Your Highness, hurry! Don't ride your horse! Quickly take the small path west into the mountains! Then find a way to cross the river and return to Hebei!"

Upon hearing the voice of his personal guard, Yuan Tan finally relaxed.

But the other party's words enraged Yuan Tan: "I'm not leaving!"

"Your Highness! If we don't leave now, we really won't be able to leave!"

The guards were anxious.

"Your Highness may have forgotten that I raped a woman back then, but Your Highness saw that I was clever and a distant relative of the Cui family of Qinghe, so he stepped in to protect me."

"If it weren't for Your Highness, I would have been a wandering ghost long ago! How could I have served Your Highness for so many years?"

"But it seems this is the end for us today. Please take care, Your Highness!"

Yuan Tan then vaguely remembered the origins of his personal guard.

He did seem to have committed some serious crime, but because I was in charge of Qingzhou at the time, and I saw that he came from a noble family, I spared his life and kept him by my side.

It was originally a casual move, but unexpectedly it came in handy at this moment!

"Your Highness, leave quickly!"

The other party urged him again, released Yuan Tan, snatched his warhorse, mounted it, and fled into the distance.

"Yuan Tan has escaped! Yuan Tan has escaped!"

Just then, Zang Ba arrived. Upon hearing the Yuan soldiers' identification, he didn't bother to distinguish and immediately shouted, "Yuan Tan, don't run!"

Seeing that no one seemed to be paying attention to him, Yuan Tan, who had just said he wouldn't leave, suddenly crouched down and quietly left the battlefield, running towards the deep mountains to the west.

After running for a long time, Yuan Tan even discarded the things that symbolized his identity and took off his armor, leaving in a cloth robe and hastily departing.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Yuan Tan was cold and hungry, and had lost his way in the mountains and forests.

Just when Yuan Tan was at his wit's end, a hunter with a bow and arrow suddenly appeared.

When Yuan Tan saw the other party, his heart was in his throat.

He knew how he treated the people of Qingzhou.

Now, he fears that the people of Qingzhou will treat him the way he treated them...

"You! Where are you from?!"

Yuan Tan then remembered that he had taken off his armor, and quickly changed his accent to Qingzhou: "Fellow villager! Fellow villager! I'm a farmer from nearby! I got lost and wandered around in these mountains for ages!"

Upon hearing this, the hunter breathed a sigh of relief and put down his bow and arrows.

"I see."

"Looks like you've been corrupted by those Yuan dogs too! Those beasts! I'll kill two of them myself and drink their blood sooner or later!"

The words "Yuan Gou" sent a shiver down Yuan Tan's spine!
He never imagined that he would hear such harsh insults in his life!

He chuckled awkwardly twice: "Fellow villager, it's not that bad, it's not that bad..."

"Humph!"

The tough hunter's eyes were now bloodshot.

"What do you mean it's not necessary! If you personally witnessed your own mother being killed and your wife and daughters being humiliated, then you can say it's not necessary!"

"Come on! I'll lead you out of this forest. Here! I have some sesame cakes here, have a little something to tide you over—"

The hunter's eyes were bloodshot.

"If you dare say even a single good word about Yuan Gou in front of me, I, I, I'll abandon you! Humph!"

(End of this chapter)