Chapter 887: The 2nd Wave

"This pup is truly ruthless, killing even his own people."

On a two-story restaurant a hundred meters from the massacre site.

Three people were lying on the roof ridge, observing everything.

The person in the middle put down the telescope and couldn't help but click his tongue.

They were the Dark Division of the Four Courts lying in ambush in Ba City.

Before they arrived, the Four Courts already had people in Ba City spying for information and conducting bribery.

This Bazhou did not originally belong to Wu, but was a place lent to Wu after the Xie Family surrendered to them.

The officials and generals of Bazhou were loyal to the Xie Family, or rather, to the orthodoxy of the First Prince as Emperor, not to Wu at all.

Therefore, after Wu moved its capital here, out of a guilty conscience, it immediately replaced most of the officials and generals in Bazhou.

Although the Bazhou officials and generals were resentful, they were not as powerful as the others and could only swallow their anger.

Moreover, among these Bazhou officials and generals, there were still some who did not recognize the First Prince, believing instead that the Emperor Zhao Heng was still in Yanzhou and that the orthodoxy of Great Song lay in Yanzhou.

But since the Prefect of Bazhou had chosen the First Prince, they were helpless.

Thus, once the people from the Four Courts made contact with these officials and generals, they easily became the Four Courts' inside men in Bazhou.

The Dark Division infiltrated Ba City with the help of these generals and officials.

As Yan Wang won victory after victory, these officials and generals became even more encouraged.

Having spent many years in officialdom, they understood one truth deeply.

Choose correctly, and the next step is a meteoric rise; choose otherwise, and one will end up like the current Liang Family, falling into an irredeemable abyss.

"Death is at their door, they've just gone mad," another person said.

Then, the three of them came down from the roof ridge, wove through the alleys for a while, and arrived at a hidden courtyard.

Xu Ke was waiting for them in the courtyard.

Last night, Xu Ke had come by small boat from the upper reaches of the Jiujiang, west of Bazhou.

With the cooperation of the inside men,

he successfully infiltrated Ba City.

"Chief, the entire Ba City is in chaos. Liang Feng led troops to kill the descendants of the other three families, and there are large numbers of soldiers looting everywhere. They are likely planning to withdraw from Ba City," one person said upon seeing Xu Ke.

Xu Ke nodded, "Since that is the case, let's act immediately. Hmph, the Liang Family wiped out the Han Family, the Wang Family, and the Xie Family, which saves us the trouble of doing it ourselves. Then, we should send the rest of them on their way."

Without a doubt, the only road they could take to withdraw from Ba City was the land route toward Yunzhou.

Before he arrived, the Dark Division members had already scouted this road clearly.

They already had a plan for where it was suitable to ambush and where it was suitable to plant landmines.

Now, they only needed to execute it.

Thus, taking advantage of the chaos, Xu Ke and the Dark Division members left the city and headed toward Niu Jin Shan in the south of Ba City.

Here, there was a main road leading to Yunzhou.

The rest of the main road was mostly hills, which were not suitable for them to hide.

Only here was it suitable for an assassination, and it would allow them to retreat unscathed.

The chaos in Ba City lasted for a full day.

The next day, the Liang Family's troops escorted a large amount of supplies toward Yunzhou.

Liang Kai and other Liang Family descendants set out with the army, along with Brook and Luse.

Regarding the fact that the Han Zheng three families were massacred by the Liang Family, neither Brook nor Luse cared.

From beginning to end, all they cared about was the silver.

Right now, they were calculating how to extort a large sum of silver from the Liang Family, and were therefore secretly delighted.

"I didn't expect these powerful clans of Great Song to be so useless. I'm afraid Yunzhou won't hold out for a month before it's recovered by Yan Wang. By then, Great Song will be unified. Sigh, he really is a terrifying person." Luse and Brook walked with their Mercenaries, discussing this matter without any avoidance.

After all, except for the translator, no one else could understand what they were saying.

And the translator was far ahead in the Liang Family's ranks.

"Indeed disappointing, but this war is not without any value. Great Song's national strength is weakened by this civil strife, and it needs time to restore agriculture and commerce. This will force Yan Wang to consider delaying military operations, which will buy us more time," Brook said.

Then, he looked at the supplies escorted by the Liang Family's troops and said, "And the powerful clans have also emptied the wealth of Jiangnan; this wealth will belong to our Britain."

Luse laughed, "That's true, but it's a pity. It is said that Southern Liang ransacked the Imperial Capital Jinling of Great Song back then and obtained countless treasures. These treasures are now going to fall into the hands of the Northern Di and the Ross people."

"One shouldn't be too greedy..." Before Brook finished speaking, he suddenly felt himself flying, then saw flames shooting into the sky and heard a massive explosion.

Immediately, an intense pain swept through his entire body, and he felt as if he were being torn apart.

After that, he lost consciousness.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

At the same time, more explosions appeared on the road.

They were currently at Jin Niu Shan, and after entering the ambush circle, the Dark Division detonated the landmines.

The violent explosions tore the Liang Family's ranks apart, and the Mercenaries following the Liang Family descendants were also affected.

After the dust, blood, and severed limbs falling from the sky settled, a chorus of wails rang out in Jin Niu Shan.

The advancing troops stopped their march due to the explosions.

Upon regaining their senses, Liang Family generals immediately came to look for Liang Kai and the others.

But all they found were the corpses of Liang Kai, Liang Feng, and the others.

Most of the core descendants of the Liang Family were dead or injured.

"Brook, Brook..." Luse had luckily survived this explosion.

It was Brook who had shielded him from the shockwave of the explosion.

But even so, he was injured; a piece of shrapnel had sliced through his shoulder, tearing the flesh and embedding itself deep inside.

Shaking Brook again, Luse raised his head to look at the surrounding mountain forest and said to the Mercenaries under his command, "The assassins must be in the mountains; find them."

"Yes." An officer immediately led the Mercenaries and charged into the mountain forest.

But after searching the entire mountain, he ultimately found nothing.

At this time, Luse and the remaining members of the Liang Family had already finished clearing away the corpses.

"Your Emperor and Crown Prince are both dead." Looking at Brook and the dead Mercenary soldiers, Luse then looked at the corpse of Liang Kai.

Liang Kai's eyes were still open; clearly, before he died, he could not believe he would die by assassination.

"This Yan Wang is truly a ruthless person; this enemy is likely to be the nightmare of the Western Lands, but there is no choice; between him and our Western Lands, there will eventually be only one victor," Luse thought to himself.

Immediately after, he continued, "Liang Feng has no heirs; now I give you a chance to choose someone with the closest blood relation to him, and from now on, he will be the Emperor of Wu recognized by Britain."

Before long, one person walked out, surrounded by the Liang Family members.

He was the Third Prince of Wu, the younger brother of Liang Feng.

Since the founding of Wu, he had always been competing with Liang Feng for the position of Crown Prince, even reaching the point of clashing with weapons.

Now that Liang Feng was dead, not only was he not sad, but he even felt a trace of secret joy.

He was finally the Emperor of Wu.

Although it was only an exiled Emperor, it was still better than living under the shadow of Liang Feng.

"From now on, Wu will be a slave to Britain." Du bowed deeply to Luse, his expression humble.

Luse nodded, only telling him to continue leading the great army south.

Passing through the mountain path of Niu Jiao Shan, Luse looked back in the direction of the Great Song.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, he said: "Yan Wang, one day, we will meet on the battlefield; at that time, it will be when we invade Yancheng."

He decided that after returning to Tianzhu, he would rejoin the British Army and fight for the glory of Britain.