Zong Sibo couldn't stop shaking.

This time it wasn't the trembling excitement of a goal almost within reach. It was fear!

He had assumed Prince Wu had lost a battle. He never imagined Prince Wu had killed Xun Ruiming, taken control of the whole army and gone straight over to Ning Chen.

Prince Wu did have some ability, but winning over most of the officers right under Xun Ruiming's close watch was beyond anything he could manage.

Ning Chen had to have had a hand in planning it.

Zong Sibo was a little frightened now!

With Lingzhou in his hands, Ning Chen wasn't far from the capital anymore.

If Ning Chen fought his way back, all Zong Sibo's plans would come to nothing.

The Great Xuan lay in pieces now, and that was his masterpiece... If Ning Chen came back to the capital, he'd be lucky if Ning Chen didn't hack him into ten thousand pieces.

So he had to pull off something big before Ning Chen got back.

He knew he didn't have much time. Once Ning Chen fought his way back, he'd never get another chance.

He looked up at the De Emperor, slumped on the dragon throne, and a sinister smile touched his lips... Getting onto the dragon throne was hard. Staying on it was harder.

"Your Majesty, now that Lingzhou has fallen, Xiuzhou and Cangzhou to the north and the rest will fall into Ning Chen's hands one after another.

Fortunately, Liangzhou is now held by the army that fell back from Yangzhou, and Nanyue is eyeing it like a tiger, so Ning Chen shouldn't attack Liangzhou lightly.

This old subject believes what we must do now is send the eastern frontier army against Leng Wenyan. If we can win back the western frontier army and join the two, we'll have more than three hundred thousand troops. Only then can we stand up to Ning Chen."

The De Emperor stared blankly!

There were only three words in his head now... Lingzhou has fallen!

Lingzhou was the heartland of the Great Xuan, the most important place of…