The King Escapes

Chapter 869 – The King Escapes

In a short amount of time, many civilians swarmed toward the city gates.

During war time, the city gates were naturally shut tight. The civilians did not care and grumbled, asking the soldiers to open the city gates. The soldiers naturally did not agree as the enemy was still sieging and opening the gates now was just letting them in.

The civilians did not care. Before life and death, the fall of the country did not seem that important anymore. As more and more people gathered near the city gates, the situation looked like it was about to get out of control.

The people were ready to charge past the defensive line set up by the Guards troops.

Not far away from them, the fire had once again spread, and the thick smoke bellowed.