Chapter Sixty-two 

One week later

Ying one had confirmed news of the two hundred thousand Qitan armies attacking Tai Ping and will be reaching Yingan within two days. Ying Zetian knew is time for her to carry out the plan that she had in mind, and it is time for her to seek revenge on the Shuang Guan family. Ying Zetian do not care on who she sacrifices as long as in the end she could control and protect the country that the Ying family had been protecting for so long.

Once Ying Zetian had the news of the two hundred thousand Qitan army approaching Yingan, Ying Zetian already had in her mind the whole layout of the Yingan down to her surrounding cities in mind. One week ago, Ying Zetian had also given orders for the explosives that she had designed to be sent to her.

Night falls, and Ying Zetian lead her dark guards and her people to bury her explosives in the three cities and the surrounding paddy fields of Yingan as designated by her. In the Qitan state of Debu, quite a rich city as it was the middleman where the citizens here bought goods from Tai Ping and sell it to other cities of Qitan. The emperor of Qitan had send a strong subordinate to oversee Debu as it is responsible for two percent of Qitan annual country revenue. So, Debu is rarely subject to the hassle of smaller tribes. But today, will be the end of Debu. Debu is built in the middle of a natural range of mountains. The original inhabitants of Debu had chosen this spot to build the city as this place is rich in natural resources and is easily defensible. Another side of the mountain is literally flat and by human strength alone, it is hard to climb up the mountain.

In the early stages of her empire building, Ying Zetian had her people infiltrate into different cities of different countries. These batch of people on normal days will be your neighbor vegetable seller or the friendly bingtanghulu seller. But when Ying Zetian needed them, they could go into the army any time that she needed. Ying Zetian's people had early in the morning pretend to go into the mountains for hunting and did not go back in time. As hunters from Debu always did so, the Qitan army that is patrolling Debu did not notice anything wrong.

Ying Zetian had built her empire in the following way. All her people were placed in groups of five, and if one person in the group betray her, the whole group of people will be sentenced to death. Ying Zetian only trusted the old followers of the Ying family and her dark guards. So as additional precaution, every one hundred of her people will be control by one dark guard and one old follower of the Ying family. Each of her people in her empire, Ying Zetian had provided them a channel to directly contact her when necessary. So, Ying Zetian did not worry much about betrayal and the inability to follow her orders.

In the state of Debu, Ying Zetian had placed fifty of her people there to carried out her orders when necessary. And tonight, these fifty people were standing on the mountains surrounding Debu and looking at the city that will soon cease to exist. There were four mountains surrounding Debu, and two of Ying Zetian people will left to light the fuse of the bomb that will crash the four mountains. The rest of Ying Zetian people had already use mountain goats to climb down the side of the mountain that is said to be unclimbable by humans.

Ying Zetian, their master had already given them special orders not to worry as she had calculated if the bombs were light in the specific places that she mentioned, their lives will definitely not be affected. The two people on each mountain lit the fuse and once they see that it is slowly eating its way to the bomb. The two people then use qing gong to hurry their way to the mountain goats that were especially prepared for them, and they make their way down the mountains.

These fifty people were a distance away from the mountains where four great roars like it is coming from the pits of hell rang, and the mountains went crashing towards the direction of Debu. Each group of five people in Ying Zetian's empire were provided with binoculars that will come into use now. Ying Zetian, their master has given them orders on the safe distance to stay away from Debu. After this safe distance, Ying Zetian, their master had given them orders to camp for three days. And once the three days is up, while maintaining a safe distance away from Debu, use the binoculars to see that Debu is utterly destroyed by the mudslide caused by the explosions of the mountains. Once it is confirmed, these fifty people by orders of Ying Zetian is ordered to use a slightly longer way to make their way to Changan to find Tang Wudi where their help is needed.