The Nine Dragons have fallen!
The Southern Expedition Army suffered heavy losses, more than half of the more than one hundred sons of nobles in the imperial capital.
The chaos of sea beasts in Vatican Harbor has been settled, and the Moon Goddess Tower has resumed operation.
Just when the Southern Expedition Army returned, the news of the fall of Long Zhan, the God of War and the National Protector, Long Jiuzun, broke the long-silent imperial capital like a fast arrow.
As soon as the news came, Princess Longxue was as if petrified, with shock and disbelief in her eyes.
Holding the information in her hand, she was silent for half an hour.
Even the female officials of the imperial capital who are the best at observing words and expressions cannot guess the princess's mood at the moment.
"Everyone go back, pass on my order, the imperial city will hold a seven-day national funeral ceremony, and the city will be full of obituaries, to welcome the return of the bones of the soldiers from the Southern Expedition," Princess Longxue put the spy information on the table in a deep voice, and waved He waved his hand to signal the female officer to step back.
After the female officer retreated, Princess Longxue showed an intriguing smile.
"Yue Jinghua, you have given me a big surprise." The death of Long Jiuzun means to Princess Longxue, Yuanda and the Nanzheng Army's smooth rebellion.
Although the spies showed that Long Jiuzun was arbitrary for a while, and led more than a hundred southern expedition troops deep into the open sea, and fell to his death surrounded by sea beasts.
But Princess Longxue smelled a hint of aura from it, the aura of conspiracy.
Subconsciously, she guessed that Long Jiuzun's death must be related to someone.
Losing the lives of more than a hundred princes and nobles' heirs in exchange for the lives of a dragon and nine gods is a good deal.
One must know that Princess Longxue's request to Yue Jinghua was only to monitor Long Jiuzun before departure.
But the current result far exceeded Princess Longxue's expectation.
The new dragon knights were unscathed, and the true core elite of the empire was not damaged.
In addition, according to the spies, after the death of Long Jiuzun, Yue Minzhi put down the rebellion in an orderly manner, and wiped out the follow-up problems in Vatican Port, and he has already shown his talents as a general.
Princess Longxue was extremely satisfied with the results of this Southern Expedition, she decided that once the brothers and sisters of the Yue family returned to the imperial capital, they must be well rewarded.
As for the Palace of the General Protecting the Nation, when Long Ao was trapped in the middle of the four-chess chess, the death of Long Jiuzun was due to his reckless underestimation of the enemy. Needless to say, I am worried that they will come to your door.
Just when Princess Longxue was secretly happy, the female official who had been waiting for orders earlier rushed in again, her expression was flustered, and her usually steady steps were also messed up.
"Presumptuous, without my palace's summons, who would have allowed you to come in?" Long Teng Seventy-two Shi was seriously ill, and Princess Longxue took care of state affairs for him temporarily. These days, the memorials in the imperial study were all written by Princess Longxue.
When Princess Longxue was reviewing memorials, she disliked interruptions from her ministers the most.
This female officer, who has been with her since she was a child, knows the princess's temperament best, but she unexpectedly broke Princess Longxue's precepts today.
"Princess, this servant is convicted. It's just an urgent matter. I just sent an urgent letter from the north." leather letter.
"Frustrated in the Northern Expedition? Fa Xiaoyi, the regent of the Shang Kingdom, beheaded the Queen Mother and Emperor of the Shang Kingdom, and died in Zhan Beiao, Bloomberg. Jin Nuo was trapped in the misty canyon." The most shocking news I have received, the news from the Northern Expeditionary Army is undoubtedly a huge blow.
Princess Longxue's joy earlier had been replaced by disbelief and astonishment.
Not to mention Princess Longxue, even the entire Eastern Continent, no one would have guessed that the Dragon War Empire, which had not fought for hundreds of years, would suffer heavy losses in two small-scale rebellions that happened by chance.
If it is said that Long Jiuzun's death was due to lack of tempering in battle, and he died of underestimating the enemy, then Zhan Beiao's death was beyond Princess Longxue's expectations.
Although there was no war in the empire, Zhan Beiao led the blood prison army to go out to the four directions, suppress the mysterious beasts, and the experience of killing bandits and bandits everywhere is extremely rich.
He was born in a Shang country and knew the local situation well. His death was unreasonable both emotionally and rationally.
Princess Longxue originally thought that even if the Dragon War Empire loses the Nine Dragon Kings, Dan can control the Long family. Among the younger generation, there are also Yue Minzhi, Xiao Jinnuo, Zhan Beiao and others, and successors will not be a problem, who knows? …
"Princess? Do you want to send troops to reinforce Shang?" The female officer saw Princess Longxue's expression was uncertain.
"Go ask Jockey Zhan to come over." After learning of the setback of the Northern Expedition, Princess Longxue seemed to have aged five years. His father was physically weak, and after learning of Long Jiuzun's fall, he was already depressed. If he was told about the Northern Expedition again, he would definitely become ill.
The courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, Ji Jie, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, are duplicitous, Old Jin Nuo has a fierce temper, and the rest are all vassals, making it difficult for her to trust her to discuss this matter.
After much deliberation, Princess Longxue felt exhausted physically and mentally, only repeating the name "Zhan Tian" in her mind.
After the female officer retreated, Princess Longxue felt that the imperial study room was stuffy, so she walked out of the study room, trying to catch her breath.
He had just walked a few steps, only to hear a fierce rush of profound energy, and a black shadow rushed towards him.
"There are assassins," Princess Longxue was horrified, and several shadow guards who were lurking beside her immediately jumped out.
Under the joint attack of the shadow guards, the black shadow, whose shape could not be seen clearly, could not be attacked for a long time, and suddenly disappeared in an instant.
He came without a trace, went without a trace, like a ghost, and his attack was extremely weird, Princess Longxue was so scared that her face turned pale. Fortunately, Zhan Tian was summoned by the female officer and rushed over.
Hearing that someone had assassinated Princess Longxue, Zhan Tian's expression suddenly changed. He searched the place where the shadow appeared, and his unattractive expression turned even worse.
"Bad air," Zhan Tian found out where the assassins were haunted, and the vegetation withered, as if poisoned.
He then interrogated a few shadow guards who had fought with Hei Ying, and all of them recalled that when they fought with that assassin just now, there was an icy chill all over their bodies, which made people feel shuddering.
"That's not an ordinary assassin, I'm afraid they are demons or evil beasts. Princess, I already know about the Northern Expedition this time. I suspect that the reason for the defeat of the Northern Expedition lies in these evil beasts. There are rumors that, The Prince Regent of the Shang Kingdom is a summoner. It was his army of monsters that trapped the Northern Expeditionary Army." Zhan Tian has a good relationship with the mercenaries in Wusheng Town. The espionage from the imperial capital should be even faster.
"Summoner? You mean the long-disappeared summoner on the continent?" Princess Longxue was shocked. She never imagined that this time the Northern Expedition would involve a long-extinct summoner on the Eastern Continent.