Chapter 377

Thus, resistance was no longer optional; unity was no longer optional!

And under the combined effort of all, every noble's private army converged on the Salt Pools!

They were to assemble there temporarily!

After more than half a month of marching, the crowd finally arrived at the Salt Pools!

Counting carefully, this army actually numbered six hundred thousand!

Six hundred thousand people—that was an incomprehensibly terrifying number!

However, what was even more terrifying was not this!

It was outside the walls of Xianyang!

The Huashan Camp, less than a hundred li from this place!

After half a month of marching, finally, Meng Tian's three hundred thousand troops arrived here!

Standing atop Huashan, even from afar, one could still see Xianyang City!

However... upon arriving here, Meng Tian ordered the great army to halt!

They were to set up camp and establish a base here!

And he sent messengers to inform the nobles in Xianyang City that they could begin!

"Can we begin now?"

Inside Xianyang City, at Wanhualou!

At this very moment, many nobles were excited!

During this period, Meng Wu and Meng Tian had been acting!

And they too had not been idle!

Recruiting soldiers in every way, expanding private armies in every way!

Now, the private armies hidden within the mansions of the great nobles alone already numbered one hundred and fifty thousand!

And these one hundred and fifty thousand people could fully contend with Fu Hao's two hundred thousand!

And Fu Hao and Zhuge Liang and the others seemed to have sensed this as well; ten thousand of those two hundred thousand people were no longer stationed within Xianyang City.

They were stationed inside Outside Xianyanggong!

But all of this was irrelevant; for the nobles, all of this truly was irrelevant!

Because Meng Tian's three hundred thousand great army was already outside the city, and another six hundred thousand noble private armies were on their way to Xianyang!

Just these two sides alone made nine hundred thousand!

Plus the one hundred and fifty thousand people in their hands!

Truly a million-strong army!

Before a million-strong army, how could Fu Hao's two hundred thousand resist?

This was absolute deterrence!

And sufficient confidence!

Therefore, the crowd, without even thinking, headed straight for Outside Xianyanggong!

And this time, after the court session, without any probing, everyone directly bowed before Seeing Ying Zheng!

"Heaven has no two suns; a nation has no two lords!"

"The rebellious son Facing Ying Su, usurping power and seizing the throne!"

"Endangering the state, harming the common people!"

"The people of the world have long suffered under the persecution of the rebellious son!"

"Now, we urgently hope that the First Emperor Seeing Ying Zheng returns to the throne and resumes control of the court!"

"We beseech the First Emperor to return to the throne!"

"We beseech the First Emperor to return to the throne!"

"We beseech the First Emperor to return to the throne!"

In that moment, everyone was shouting, everyone was crying out!

And this scene made Li Si so furious he pointed directly at them: "You... you..."

"Audacious!"

He roared in anger!

However, no one in the hall paid him any heed.

Everyone looked toward the First Emperor Seeing Ying Zheng, and then bowed before him:

"We beseech the First Emperor to return to the throne!"

"We beseech the First Emperor to return to the throne!"

The crowd's cries shook the heavens.

And what shocked everyone was that, besides Li Si, even Zhuge Liang and Zuo Zuo Zongtang bowed before Facing Ying Su!

Although they did not cry out "We beseech the First Emperor to return to the throne."

But... what did this attitude mean?

Had they softened?

Was this truly a softening?

What did this indicate?

This indicated that Facing Ying Su had truly met with disaster!

And with Li Yuanba and Li Cunxiao dead, even the always-hardline Zhuge Liang and Zuo Zuo Zongtang and the others had no choice but to soften!

In that moment, the crowd became even more excited!

They were even more certain that Li Yuanba and Li Cunxiao were already dead!

There might truly be fewer than twenty thousand people left by Ying Su's side!

At that moment, everyone became even more excited!

They all shouted at Ying Zheng again:

"Please, First Emperor, return to the throne!"

The sound echoed, deafening!

Some even shouted words calling for the killing of the rebellious son and the execution of the traitorous faction!

The meaning of these words was self-evident!

Kill Zhuge Liang, kill Zuo Zuo Zongtang! Kill Xiao He, kill Li Si!

165. Refusing the path to heaven, forcing entry through the gates of hell? Blood flowing like a river.

"What?"

Wei Pao's single sentence simply terrified Xiaoyaozi into a stupor!

He never expected this group to be so bold!

However, Wei Pao paid no attention to this, but looked at him~ and continued speaking:

"There is no choice; Ying Su has exploited us, exploited us far too ruthlessly!"

"Nobles must pay ninety percent of their taxes!"

"How incredibly exaggerated, how terrifying!"

"Moreover, you are now a noble yourself; do you really want to pay ninety percent of your taxes in the future?"

"I..."

Xiaoyaozi opened his mouth; he clearly wanted to say he was unwilling!

But... Wei Pao did not let him say those words.

Instead, he continued speaking:

"You are a person of ability!"

"Previously, the reason you remained merely a sect master was that there was no opportunity to display your talents!"

"Now that the opportunity has arrived, simply display your skills!"

"Otherwise, how could you have earned the battle merit of killing five hundred people? That is the battle merit of killing five hundred people in a single battle!"

"Even Wang Jian has no record of killing five hundred people alone!"

"Bai Qi killed at most only two hundred and some people!"

"Lian Po? Li Mu?"