That night, Li Muqing, who was in the army camp outside the domestic city, received a message from Maruto City.

"Your Highness Princess, is something happened?" Tie Pohan couldn't help asking when he saw Li Muqing's frown brows.

Li Muqing looked up and glanced at the generals under the tent. Tie Pohan understood and immediately ordered the generals: "You all retreat!" The generals turned their backs and withdrew from the tent one after another.

"Princess!" Tie Pohan clasped his fists.

Li Muqing walked off the position of commander and handed the short note in his hand to Tie Pohan, frowned and said, "Just a while ago, the national savage was attacked by an unidentified assassin on his way back to the house!"

After reading the short note in his hand, Tie Pohan frowned and said, "Princess, could this be done by the Han people?"

Li Muqing sneered: "In one breath, dozens of national escorts were killed. This seems that only the Han people can do it. Moreover, these assassins are holding horizontal swords! On the surface, these assassins are indeed Han people!"

Tie Pohan heard Li Muqing say this and couldn't help asking: "Does Your Highness think there is anything strange about this?"

Li Muqing thought, "No matter whether the Han people have sneaked back to Maru Capital again, there is no need for the Han people to take action at this moment!"

"Who does that princess think it's done?"

Li Muqing shook his head, "Brother is naturally the most suspicious, but my other brothers may not be without suspicion! If they want to seize the throne, they can only muddle the water first!"

Li Muqing sighed, rubbed his nose, showing a rather tired look. He turned his head and looked at Tie Pohan, and asked with emotion: "General, did you say I did something wrong?"

Tie Pohan hurriedly bowed and said, "The General of the Princess understands that the reason why His Highness the Princess did this is entirely to revitalize my Goguryeo! It is precisely because of this that the General of the Princess follows His Highness!"

Li Muqing quickly helped Tie Pohan up, nodded heavily, and said resolutely: "In order to revitalize Goguryeo, I will do whatever it takes!"

"I will follow the princess to the death!" Tie Pohan bowed down, looking very excited.

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The assassination of the national sect quickly spread in Maruto City. With this incident, various rumors also spread. The civil and military officials and generals in the court were full of uneasiness.

Two days after the assassination of the national master, a mysterious man quietly came to the national master's residence to meet with the national master. This man was the person who sent his confidants to contact him two days ago. This man was an inconspicuous person in the folk and officialdom, but he controlled half of the casinos and brothels in Goguryeo. This man had power in intelligence that no one else could reach. This man was named Gao Jue, who was about forty years old. The national master saved his life back then. He always wanted to repay the national master's life-saving grace. No one in the court knew about this.

"What was found?" the national master asked anxiously.

Gao Jue bowed to the national master, and the national master quickly helped him up. Gao Jue took out a short note from his arms and presented it to the national master, "This is the information my man obtained in the Marudu Red Hall a day ago! At that time, the man had no intention of talking to the girl who was serving the bed and told the assassination two days ago! Then our man followed him and left Marudu, and finally the man entered Li Muqing's military camp!"

The national teacher took the short note and read it carefully, frowned, and murmured: "It's her!"

After coming back to his senses, the national master said to Gao Jue with a serious look on his face: "Don't mention this matter to anyone!"

Gao Jue clasped his fists and said, "I understand, please rest assured by the national master!"

After Gao Jue left, the national master immediately called several confidants and handed over a handwritten letter. Then the several confidants left the national master's mansion.

After a moment, the national sect hurried to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

That night, a scout rushed into Li Muqing's military camp anxiously. At this moment, Li Muqing was discussing with the generals about attacking the domestic city in the future.

"Princess, something big is wrong!" The scout broke into the tent and said anxiously.

Iron Po Han took a step forward, "What's going on?"

"The National Master and several generals in the court led several guards and imperial guards to a sudden attack. General Jinyang Jinyang, who stayed in Marut, was killed. Now Marut is completely controlled by the National Master and the Prime Minister!"

"What!" Li Muqing's face changed drastically. He paused and asked anxiously: "What's wrong with my mother now?" "I don't know!"

Li Muqing frowned tightly, and his heart was in chaos.

Tie Pohan clasped his fists and said, "Princess, you should return to your army immediately to regain Maruto!"

Li Muqing thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "No! Although Maru Capital is not very big, it is built according to the mountain. The city walls are all built by bluestones. The national teacher is also very intelligent. Our army cannot capture Maru Capital in a short time!" Then he lowered his head and thought, "How could such a thing happen?" The generals stared at Li Muqing anxiously.

Li Muqing raised his head, glanced at the generals, and waved: "You guys go down first, I want to think about it!"

The generals looked at each other and Ying Nuo withdrew from the tent.

"Princess!" Tie Pohan looked at Li Muqing with a worried look on his face.

Li Muqing said calmly: "You go down too! I want to be quiet alone!"

Tie Pohan couldn't help but sigh, clasped his fists at Li Muqing, and retreated.

Early the next morning, Li Muqing received a letter from the national teacher. Not long after, Li Muqing's army drove the camp towards Maru Capital. At the same time, Li Chengyao, who was trapped in the domestic city, received news from Maru Capital, and Li Chengyao was so surprised that he almost fainted.

"Your Highness, will our army take the initiative?" a general asked for advice excitedly.

Li Chengyao shook his head and said, "The soldiers have worked very hard these days. Let's talk about how many days of rest!"

The night of this day was so beautiful for Li Chengyao. Li Chengyao, who had temporarily removed his burden, got drunk, then hugged his concubine and was on the bed, and finally fell asleep. At this time, most of Li Chengyao's troops who had been drinking all night had fallen into their sleep, and there were only a few sentries patrolling the city gate tower.

Suddenly, a slight whistling sounded in the night. Then the three patrol soldiers on the North City Gate Tower fell down with a blank look on their faces. Then dozens of black shadows appeared on the city gate tower, scattered everywhere, and quickly removed all the soldiers on the city gate tower.

The men in black came to the city gate, and one of them whispered: "Open the city gate quickly!" More than a dozen men in black rushed up.

Then the city gate was slowly opened with a rattle.

Immediately afterwards, countless torches suddenly appeared outside the city, and tens of thousands of soldiers rushed into the domestic city from the North City Gate.

Li Chengyao was sleeping soundly with his concubine in his arms, but suddenly he was awakened by the earth-shaking screams. Li Chengyao looked around with a blank look on his face, not understanding what was going on.

"Your Highness!" A coquettish voice sounded beside him, and a pair of seductive jade arms immediately wrapped around Li Chengyao's neck. Under his thin back was a scene that made people's blood boil.

Li Chengyao felt that something must have happened outside, so he pushed away the woman who was sticking to it, jumped off the bed, and started putting on his clothes with all his might.

"Kill!!" Suddenly another shout of killing came, mixed with the sound of rapid collision of weapons, which was closer than before. The woman screamed, her face turned pale. At this moment, she realized something was wrong.

At this moment, the door of the room sounded loudly, and at the same time, an extremely anxious voice shouted: "Your Highness! Your Highness!..."

Li Chengyao opened the door and asked anxiously: "What's wrong with it?"

The person who came was a young general, whose name was Cui Yang, and Li Chengyao's confidant general. Li Chengkai had been killed by Li Muqing before. At this moment, Cui Yang's face was full of anxiety and a hint of confusion, and more than a hundred soldiers were followed by him.

Cui Yang said anxiously: "Your Highness, Li Muqing's army has entered the city!"

"What!" Li Chengyao was shocked, "How is that possible!!" His mind was buzzing, and he felt as if he had fallen into a nightmare.

Cui Yang clasped his fists with a hurried look on his face and said, "Your Highness, you will not be able to leave after hesitation for a moment!"

Li Chengyao came back to his senses and asked at a loss: "But where should we go?"

Cui Yang said: "Now there is no movement in the direction of the South City Gate, we can escape from there!"

"Okay, okay! Then go quickly!" As he said that, Li Chengyao actually walked out wearing underwear.

Cui Yang quickly called Li Chengyao, took a set of armor robe from his subordinates, and presented it to Li Chengyao, "Your Highness, put on armor first!"

With the help of his subordinates, Li Chengyao put on his armor with all his might. Just as the group was about to walk out, Li Chengyao's concubine ran out in tears, hugged Li Chengyao's thigh and cried, "Your Highness, please bring me with me!"

Cui Yang was anxious and shook his head at Li Chengyao. Li Chengyao looked at the beautiful woman in front of him who was as beautiful as a flower and was very reluctant. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and he gave Cui Yang a wink. Cui Yang understood and picked up his sword and stabbed it into the woman's vest. The woman screamed and pointed at Li Chengyao's eyes wide open, with an incredible look on his face.

Li Chengyao kicked the woman away, and the group hurried out of the mansion.

About an hour later, Li Muqing's army completely controlled the domestic city, and Li Chengyao's nearly 100,000 troops were basically wiped out, of which more than 80,000 were Li Muqing's prisoners. At the same time, hundreds of cavalry were running wildly more than ten miles east of the domestic city.
Chapter completed!