If I send you to join the army and marry a woman, will you conquer the Empress?

Anger was like a wildfire, burning fiercely in every corner of Longxi Castle.

At this moment, the common people who had been oppressed and exploited by the Li family for generations finally erupted!

Armed with kitchen knives and carrying hoes, they rushed out of their houses, forming a torrent of anger that surged toward the Li family mansion and toward the Li clan members who usually acted arrogantly and domineeringly!

"Kill these bloodsucking beasts!"

"Kill them! Avenge our dead loved ones!"

The entire Longxi Castle was in complete chaos.

Inside the city, shouts of battle filled the air, and flames raged everywhere.

The Li clan soldiers, who were originally supposed to be on the city walls defending against the Imperial Guards, were now forced to turn around and suppress the "lowly people" inside the city who were acting like madmen.

However, they were no longer facing the docile sheep they used to bully.

Instead, they were a pack of angry wolves driven to the brink of despair, fighting desperately for survival!

The Li clan's soldiers were numerous.

But the number of civilians in the city was ten times, a hundred times, greater than theirs!

When these people, who have been oppressed to the extreme, finally unleash their full power, that force is something no army can withstand.

"Master! Something terrible has happened! The granary in the east of the city has been looted by a mob!"

"Master! The armory in the west city has also fallen! They've taken all the weapons!"

"Master! Think of something quickly! If this continues, we'll be worn down to death by these lowly commoners before Qin Feng even attacks the city!"

One urgent battle report after another reached Li Boyong's ears.

He stood blankly on the city wall, listening to the deafening shouts of battle from within the city and watching the towering flames, his old face ashen.

He just couldn't understand it.

Why?

Why do these lowly people, who usually don't even dare to breathe loudly, dare to rebel?

How dare they?

"Psychological warfare..."

Li Zhongwen, standing to the side, collapsed to the ground, utterly dejected, muttering to himself.

"A brilliant move, winning hearts and minds is the best strategy..."

"He never even considered confronting us head-on."

"What he wants is for us to rot and collapse from within!"

"We lost..."

"A crushing defeat..."

Li Boyong swayed, almost falling headfirst off the city wall.

He finally understood.

From the very beginning, Qin Feng had never taken their 30,000 tribal soldiers seriously.

His real killer move is targeting ordinary people, whom they regard as ants!

Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it.

This simplest of truths, these high-ranking aristocratic families have long since forgotten.

"No! I haven't lost yet!"

A final, desperate glint flashed in Li Boyong's eyes!

"I still have soldiers! I still have this city!"

"Pass on my order! Kill! Kill every single one of those lowly people who participated in the riot! Leave no one alive!"

"I refuse to believe we can't kill them all!"

However, his orders could no longer be passed on.

Because at that very moment.

"boom--"

A loud bang was heard!

The castle's south gate, which they were so proud of and considered impregnable, was opened from the inside with a tremendous crash!

Countless ragged people, but with hope shining in their eyes, surrounded several blood-covered men and appeared at the city gate.

They roared with all their might at the Imperial Guards outside the city!

"Royal army! The city gates are open!"

"Welcome the royal army! Enter the city! Eliminate the traitors!"

outside the city.

Qin Feng, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them.

A chilling killing intent flashed in those deep eyes.

"The time has come."

He stood up, drew his sword from his waist, and pointed it forward.

"The entire army!"

"attack!"

"roar!"

The Imperial Guards, who had been waiting impatiently, let out a deafening roar!

Like tigers released from their cages, they launched a devastating attack on the open city gates!

A massacre, which was inevitable, began.

The Li clan soldiers, already overwhelmed and demoralized by the riots in the city, were no different from lambs to the slaughter in front of the well-equipped and highly motivated Imperial Guards.

Wherever the Imperial Guards' iron hooves trampled, rivers of blood flowed and corpses littered the fields.

The resistance is crumbling at a visible rate.

Overnight.

This castle, which had stood for nearly a thousand years and witnessed all the glory and honor of the Li family of Longxi, was stained with blood.

When the first rays of dawn illuminate the earth.

The battle is over.

Qin Feng rode his white horse, surrounded by a crowd of grateful people, and slowly walked into the magnificent council hall of the Li family.

In the center of the hall, Li Boyong, Li Zhongwen, and other core members of the Li clan were bound hand and foot and kneeling on the ground, their faces ashen and their bodies trembling.

Qin Feng ignored them.

His gaze was drawn to the plaque made of pure gold directly above the main hall.

The plaque bears four large, elegant characters carved in a flowing, dragon-and-phoenix-like style—

"Sharing the fate of the nation."

"hehe."

Qin Feng couldn't help but chuckle when he saw those four words.

"Sharing the fate of the nation? You dare to say that?"

With a flick of his wrist, a sharp sword aura shot out!

"Snap!"

The plaque symbolizing the Li family's supreme glory snapped in two and crashed to the ground with a dull thud.

This also shattered the last glimmer of hope in the hearts of Li Boyong and others.

"Your Highness...spare me...spare me!"

Li Boyong could no longer hold on. He lay on the ground like a dead dog, kowtowing desperately to Qin Feng.

"We were wrong...we were really wrong!"

"We are willing to hand over all our grain and all our possessions! We only beg Your Highness to spare the Li family a way to survive!"

Qin Feng looked down at him, his face expressionless.

"A way out?"

"When you used the lives of all the people in the city to threaten me, you should have thought this day would come."

"but……"

Qin Feng's tone suddenly changed.

"I can give you a chance to redeem yourselves through meritorious service."

He crouched down and looked at Li Boyong, his deep eyes seeming to see right through people's hearts.

"Hand over everything that your Li family has to hide."

"Especially the evidence of your clandestine dealings with 'certain people'."

"Perhaps, I can consider letting you die a quick death."

Upon hearing this, Li Boyong's body trembled violently, and a look of extreme fear flashed in his eyes!

He knew what Qin Feng was talking about!

That matter is the biggest secret of the Li family!

They are also the last hope for a comeback!

How did he know?

While Li Boyong was still hesitating.

A bodyguard strode in, knelt on one knee, and held a dusty iron box in his hands.

"Your Highness!"

"This was found in the Li family's secret vault!"