Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1439

Chapter 1439: Chapter 1434: Annihilation of a Nation

She unfolded it while staring at the messenger, asking: "Defeated?"

"Your Majesty, King of Hancheng... sacrificed himself for the nation!" The messenger choked on his words.

Bai Qingyan paused in her actions of unfolding the letter, her mind filled once again with the dream of that day, the scene outside the hall as King of Hancheng bowed in farewell.

The messenger who came to deliver the letter was almost sobbing: "King of Hancheng led a few warships to escort fishermen, not expecting Dongyi Kingdom to deploy so many warships to capture our Zhou envoys! Nor did they expect a real fight to break out! Who could imagine that a tiny Dongyi Kingdom would dare to strike our great Zhou!"

Her throat rolled, as a spicy anger surged up to her Baihui acupuncture point. She handed the bamboo tube to Wei Zhong, and carefully examined the parchment...

The battle report stated, Dongyi Kingdom’s navy had nearly emptied their nests, claiming they were there to capture the Seventh Prince of Dongyi aboard the Zhou envoys’ ship, but there was no Seventh Prince aboard.

King of Hancheng escorted the civilian fishing boats and encountered the pursued Zhou envoy ship upon returning, knowing defeat was inevitable against such odds. He knocked out Cheng Yuanzhi and had him taken away, leading all his naval warships in a desperate resistance against Dongyi’s forces that outnumbered them several times, deciding to fight to the death to buy time for the envoy’s ship and fishermen’s return.

Later, having exhausted arrows and crossbows, their ships damaged by Dongyi forces, King of Hancheng rammed his warship into Dongyi’s flagship.

Afterwards... Zhou navy watched helplessly as Dongyi forces broke through their lines, every ship collided in vain.

Dongyi took King of Hancheng’s body back, demanding the Emperor of Zhou personally retrieve it, or they would chop the body to feed the dogs.

All warships and sailors accompanying King of Hancheng perished, with none left alive. The envoy ship and fishermen returned safely, yet Lu Fenglang remains missing, Liu Rushi still in Dongyi.

Bai Qingyan read here, nearly unable to contain her tears, her vision blurred by mist, as flames of wrath burned within her chest, the audacity of such a tiny Dongyi... how dare they?! How dare they!

The messenger’s voice lingered: "Your Majesty... you must avenge King of Hancheng and the fallen navy brothers!"

"Your Majesty... there’s also this!" Wei Zhong poured out a gold medal from the bamboo tube.

That gold medal was what Bai Qingyan had given to King of Hancheng, to win his loyalty!

The messenger, seeing the token, couldn’t hold back his tears as he spoke: "This token was placed in the letter tube by General Cheng. General Cheng said... that before departing, King of Hancheng asked him to convey his last words to Your Majesty, that King Xiao Ruxing failed Your Majesty’s trust, bidding farewell until serving again in the next life!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Qingyan’s tears finally broke free, clutching the gold medal tightly in her palm as guilt and sorrow wracked her heart painfully.

Her trust in King of Hancheng partially stemmed from calculatingly wanting to make him her own.

But she never expected King of Hancheng to say... serve her in the next life.

She always knew King of Hancheng never attained affirmation from the Emperor of Daliang, so gaining opportunity and affirmation from her filled him with joy, loyalty...

Knowing this, she still played tricks, never completely honest with King of Hancheng.

She didn’t treat him with utter sincerity, yet he showed such loyalty. How could she not feel guilty, nor pain!

Dongyi Kingdom!

She wants Dongyi gone from this world!

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