Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2355 The Fall of the Song Dynasty, and the Resurrection of the Celestials

"Your Majesty!" Having witnessed Zhao Kuangyin's death, the severely wounded Jing Si let out a shrill roar.

After the Battle of Yangxi, only three of Zhao Song's legendary generals remained.

However, Xia Luqi and Gao Yanping readily accepted Zhao Kuangyin's arrangement and left directly with Zhao Kuangyi and Zhao Defang.

Only Jing Si remained steadfast, determined to accompany Zhao Kuangyin on his final journey.

This demonstrates Jing Si's loyalty to Zhao Kuangyin.

This loyalty is unmatched even by many members of the Zhao family.

At this moment, Jing Si completely lost his mind, his eyes red with fury as he prepared to fight Yang Jian to the death.

However, even with the two of them fighting desperately together, they were still no match for Yang Jian, who even seized an opportunity to kill Zhao Kuangyin.

Not to mention now, he's all alone.

Even when the opponent was willing to trade his life for his, which made Yang Jian somewhat hesitant, it was still less than five rounds before Yang Jian's three-pointed double-edged sword pierced through his chest.

Following the deaths of Zhao Kuangyin and Jing Si, not long after, Shi Shouxin, the last great general of the Song Dynasty, also died at the hands of Zhao Yun.

With no leader, the remaining Crane Control Soldiers finally collapsed in morale and began to lay down their weapons and kneel down to surrender in an organized manner.

Only the Panshan Heavy Infantry, under the leadership of their commander Yanshan, were putting up a final, desperate resistance.

Compared to established elite units like the Panshan Heavy Infantry, elite battalions like the Konghe Soldiers, which haven't undergone a long period of testing, are still much more resilient than ordinary troops.

However, they still cannot reach the level of the Champions or the Black Knights, who can fight to the last man.

However, Yan Shan's resistance was destined to be futile and powerless. He was left with only a single Panshan heavy infantry unit, and their weaknesses were exposed at this moment.

Xue Rengui and Li Jing used various methods, spending almost the entire night, before finally managing to completely remove this army from the stage of history.

Xue Rengui and Li Jing did not want to expend too many more troops on this army, so they used various methods to wear it down, preferring to spend more time in order to reduce the casualties of their soldiers.

Meanwhile, when other Zhao Song generals or officials in the city received news of Zhao Kuangyin's death in battle, many followed the example of Shi Miyuan and Zhang Jun, and began to hang white flags at their gates.

However, just as there are those like Shi Miyuan who are pragmatic, there are also those like Jing Si who are willing to die for their principles.

The strategist Lou Huan, along with civil officials Miao Xian, Lu Hua, and Lu Ying, ultimately committed suicide by burning themselves in their mansions, accompanying the Song Dynasty to its end.

Wang Renzhan, one of the two commanders of the Imperial City Guard of the Song Dynasty, went into hiding after the fall of Kaifeng, intending to wait until the storm had passed before trying to find a way to reunite with Zhao Kuangyi.

He believed that as one of the two commanders of the Imperial City Guard, he still had some leverage, and that he wouldn't be relegated to the sidelines if he went there.

Those who hid with him included Sima Chou, one of the five great strategists of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Huangyan, the venerable elder of the Zhao family.

However, with the complete demise of the Zhao Song dynasty, how could the Imperial City Guard still guarantee its previous purity?
In organizations like this, the people are the most calculating, and their loyalty is the hardest to guarantee. Living in the darkest places, very few can maintain true loyalty. This is why, after the Battle of Tianjing, the once vast Northern and Southern Offices of Da Cang so easily disintegrated. With the whereabouts of the two heads of the Northern and Southern Offices still unknown, the former offices quickly disintegrated and were divided among several powerful warlords.

There was no other reason than that after the Battle of Tianjing, many high-ranking officials of the Northern and Southern Offices directly approached the various warlords to find a way out for themselves.

The North and South Offices were like this back then, and the Imperial City Guard is just like this now.

In addition, Wang Renzhan's personal abilities were ultimately somewhat weak. He trusted the wrong people under his command, and as a result, he was betrayed by Lü Xiangchuan within a few days, which led to Yan Ruohai and the Luo Wang people exposing him.

Wang Renzhan and Sima Chou died on the spot in the encirclement and annihilation of the Luo Wang. The experts of the Imperial City Guard, including Song Li, Qiu Fengcheng, Di Qinglin, Meng Hua, and Dong Yue, were also killed.

Among these people, although many possessed innate level or even grandmaster level strength, they could not escape the combined attack of the six sword slaves.

The combined attack of the Six Sword Slaves, while unable to concentrate simple power into one person like most formations, actually poses a threat to those with higher cultivation levels.

As a result, they were somewhat powerless when facing experts at the Celestial level.

However, when dealing with those below the Celestial Realm, the six of them acted as if a Celestial Realm expert were dealing with those below the Heavenly Realm. Few who had not reached the Celestial Realm could escape their combined attack.

Even grandmasters who don't have a few trump cards up their sleeves might not be able to escape their first wave of assassinations.

To be honest, Sima Chou wasn't exactly a die-hard loyalist of Zhao Kuangyin, and even Zhao Kuangyin himself knew this.

Whether it was Zhao Kuangyi's group, Zhao Pu's group, or even the group that fought to the death with Zhao Kuangyin, none of them included him in their group!
At the very beginning of the war against Song, Sima Chou did consider that if Zhao Song really couldn't hold out, what would happen after Zhao Song was destroyed?

So, like most officials, he was captured by the Han army. After a period of time, he had no choice but to submit to the trend of the times, transforming from a former important official of the Song Dynasty into a subject of the Han Dynasty.

Even if he becomes a subject of the Han Dynasty, his status may plummet, far from the glory he enjoyed during the Song Dynasty.

However, he believed that with the foundation of the Sima family, given time, as long as he integrated into the Han court, he would naturally have plenty of opportunities to rise rapidly in rank.

Unfortunately, the battle of Wen County severely damaged the Sima family, which was once one of the six great families of Da Cang. Sima Chou's biological father also fell in Wen County.

It was precisely because of this that Sima Chou, who was not a staunch resistance fighter from the beginning, eventually approached Wang Renzhan, intending to use his connections to hide together.

Unfortunately, Sima Chou's story perfectly illustrates the capriciousness of fate.

As for Zhao Huangyan, a veteran master of the Zhao family, because Lü Xiangchuan did not recognize this expert who had concealed his appearance, the information he provided to Yan Ruohai lacked the strength of such a key figure.

Unprepared, Yan Ruohai managed to break free from the encirclement of the net.

Fortunately, the Six Sword Slaves and Fu Hongxue were resilient enough to relentlessly pursue their opponent.

In addition, Kaifeng was swarming with Han soldiers at the time. Although Zhao Huangyan managed to break through the encirclement, he was unable to hide himself again.

In the end, Luo Wang received reinforcements from Thetis and Coeus. Two mid-stage Celestials surrounded and killed one early-stage Celestial. With the addition of a large number of Luo Wang experts, nothing unexpected happened.