Chapter 1661: Respective planning

Originally, this kind of urgent report would be transmitted directly to Qiu Long, but he was having a closed-door secret talk with the Yao King, so it was transferred to the small palace servant. Seeing the broken wood in the tray, Qiu Long's eyes widened again.

This, this, this meant!

He snatched the tray and turned to rush back, almost forgetting to close the door.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

The Yao King had taken his medicine and put in two drops of eye drops, and was seizing the time to rest his eyes.

"What is it again?"

"The red pear wood sign is broken, and the Jade Spring Palace sent someone to deliver it urgently." Qiu Long said hoarsely, "The Luodian people have invaded on a large scale, the northern line, the northern line has just started fighting!"

The Yao King opened his eyes and sat up straight.

News from the northern line finally came, but at this time? He saw the red pear wood sign in Qiu Long's tray, bright red, representing the color of ten thousand urgent matters.

Usually, seeing this vermilion, he would be frightened, but at this moment, he was somewhat numb.

There were truly too many big things happening tonight.

"The Luodian people also came to join the fun?"

The Yao nation was not large, but even using bird demons to transmit messages, the intelligence of a sudden war on the northern border would take at least from morning to evening. At this time, the red pear wood sign came in handy.

This sign was made from the branches of the old pear tree in the Jade Spring Palace, based on the principle of the thousand-thousand knot, refined using two branches growing from the same tree fork; the length and thickness of these twin branches were exactly the same, but as long as one branch broke, the other would also break, and the location and method of the break would be exactly the same.

Compared with the thousand-thousand knot, its effective distance was longer, reaching several hundred li.

And according to the characteristics of the twin branches, the user could also transmit more signals by breaking them in different ways. For example, this red pear wood sign marked "Northern Frontier" had scale marks, and breaking it at different scale points corresponded to different events.

The other twin branch was in Yuwen Yong's hands.

The message he transmitted to the Yao King through the wooden sign was, "The Luodian nation has invaded the northern line on a large scale."

After the Yao nation's famous general Xue Zongwu died, the Luodian nation did indeed stir up trouble, taking the opportunity to make trouble, but the Yao nation subsequently sent two great generals, Yuwen Yong and Zhong Wu, to the northern frontier to stabilize the situation.

For these three months, the Luodian nation had been very honest and hadn't made a move, but didn't expect them to suddenly make trouble at this juncture! This was seeing the Yao nation in a mess and wanting to take advantage of the situation.

Qingyang had met with the Luodian nation's Left Clan Chief Qu Ruhai many times in Tianshui City, both openly and secretly, so the Luodian nation's sudden dispatch of troops to attack the Yao north was mostly to coordinate with Qingyang from the inside and outside!

And Yuwen Yong described the Luodian nation as "invading on a large scale," so it was no longer a simple raid, but a grand and enthusiastic frontal attack! With the Luodian nation's character, they would have to send at least several thousand cavalry.

He subconsciously stood up, but his body swayed a little, and Qiu Long hurriedly supported him to sit back down: "Your Majesty, don't get angry……"

The Yao King stared at the red pear wood sign, word by word: "I understand, I finally understand! She doesn't just want to launch an uprising, she doesn't just want to rebel!"

He had thought until now that Qingyang's uprising was to drag him off the throne and support a new king.

Perhaps this was also Beijia's intention.

But it wasn't until the Luodian people suddenly invaded that he suddenly realized: Qingyang's plot was not just to overthrow him, but to uproot the entire Yao nation!

She wanted to destroy not just him, but the entire Yao nation!

No, no, Qingyang represented the Demon Emperor…… could it be that Beijia wanted to wipe the Yao nation off the map of the Golden Plain? Fear and anger were like a tide, instantly drowning him.

Strictly speaking, Qingyang was not a Yao person, but a Regent sent by Beijia, so even if she had a plot, it couldn't be called "rebellion."

But Qiu Long didn't dare to correct his grammatical error now?

The Yao King gritted his teeth: "I have always treated her with courtesy, but she, hehe, she wants to destroy the Yao nation's mountains and rivers!"

Even when he was forced to the limit by Qingyang, he had never thought of taking her life. But this poisonous woman actually wanted to destroy the Yao nation's two-hundred-year-old national destiny! The Yao nation had always served Beijia as a superior nation, being respectful and submissive, giving whatever was asked. He truly couldn't understand what had offended the superior adult, making them insist on seeing the Yao nation destroyed! "Damn it, damn it! The old hag bullies me too much, Beijia bullies me too much!" The Yao King's eyes slowly turned blood-red, "Tonight, just tonight!"

Qiu Long didn't dare to ask, but couldn't not ask: "Your Majesty?"

"Tonight, don't let her walk out of the royal palace!"

Although he was burning with anger, the Yao King's mind remained clear. The situation inside and outside Tianshui City and inside and outside the Yao nation could be called chaotic, but the focus was actually only one: Qingyang!

As long as he killed Qingyang, and the northern line of the Yao nation resisted the Luodian people, the monstrous disaster could also be eliminated by more than half.

As for the refugees, as for the chaos in Tianshui City, they were not important by comparison.

When had he ever seen refugees rebel against the sky? As long as he killed Qingyang, the culprit, he would have time to deal with the remaining problems calmly.

The Yao King knew that Qingyang did not lack strong men by her side, but this was the Yao capital, his territory!

No matter how strong Qingyang and her subordinates were, they had limited numbers; could they withstand his army? The Yao King said to Qiu Long: "Zhao Song is still waiting outside?"

"Yes."

"Very good, call him in again. I want to set a trap!"

The Yao King sneered coldly. No matter how capable Qingyang was, she was still an outsider. If she wanted to move his mountains and rivers, she had to have an inside traitor to cooperate.

The Yao King knew that the most urgent step now was not to deal with Qingyang, but to remove the threat by his own side!

"Send out the edicts, quickly!"

Qiu Long hurried out. He still had to seize the time to send out the Yao King's edicts, hoping that there was still time! ￥￥￥￥￥

The chaotic battle in Tianshui City lasted until the Hai hour, and the two sides were still locked in a stalemate. The patrol troops were defeated for the first time in facing refugees, unable to achieve an overwhelming victory quickly.

Central Commander Li Qibo and Bai Tan discussed several times, adjusted their tactics several times, used mountain-opening explosives to blow up the high walls of the refugee strongholds, and mobilized a large number of practitioners to use various divine abilities.

The power of practitioners would be discounted against the army's elemental power, but it was 100% effective against refugees.

The situation was improving for a while.

Who knew that just at this moment, Central Commander Li Qibo encountered an inexplicable assassination and died in the government office.

Bai Tan was also suddenly attacked on his way to the refugee camp; two waves of arrow rain shot down from the dark, followed by several war puppets, followed by three or four hundred refugees holding knives and guns.

Among them were strong and agile ones who injured quite a few government soldiers; Bai Tan slashed three to death, and he himself was shot in the arm and slashed in the shoulder.

Later, Bai Tan's reinforcements arrived one after another, and the refugees, seeing they were no match, retreated quickly.

Bai Tan ordered his personal guards to search the refugee corpses, and actually found tokens of the Yao King's palace guards on them, and also found that the boots they were wearing looked familiar; upon identification, ha, they were also the style of the palace guards! How could the tokens and clothing of the palace guards appear on the refugees?

Bai Tan's personal guard shouted: "General, this one is disguised as a palace guard! He also has a waist token on him!"

"This one too!"

"And this one! His weapon is a Three-Star Knife!"

The Three-Star Knife was the standard weapon of the palace guards, with a shape different from other blades.

The patrol troops in the rear were confused, not knowing what kind of situation this was.

Who were the sacred beings attacking General Bai? Did they kill refugees or palace guards? At this time, the personal guard whispered to Bai Tan: "General, the south gate of the palace city is settled."

The follow-up plan could proceed.

Bai Tan covered his wound with one hand and shouted to the patrol guard in the rear: "The palace city is in chaos, rebels disguised as palace guards first killed the Central Commander, and then came to harm me!"

"My King is in danger! You—" He was righteous and stern, pointing his long knife toward the palace gate, "follow me back to the palace to protect the King!"

He had always played a loyalist persona, being the vanguard against Qingyang; everyone knew he was the most firm supporter of the monarch, so it was not strange at all that rebels came to harm him first.

He was covered in blood in the flickering firelight, with a face of worrying about the country and the monarch.

The Yao army saw this scene, their blood boiled, and their emotions were greatly encouraged, shouting one after another: "Back to the palace! Protect the King!"

"Back to the palace! Protect the King!"

"Back to the palace! Protect the King!"

The echoes were lingering.

Bai Tan knew the general trend was set, so he quickly mobilized and organized his men according to the plan.

In the eyes of outsiders, he was selecting elites from the patrol troops of each district and reorganizing them with the Imperial Guards into an army to protect the King. Because the refugee riot in the capital was still continuing and had a trend of intensifying, Bai Tan couldn't withdraw all the military forces suppressing the riot, so he could only pick the best to return.

Although it took some time to go through such trouble, he was the supreme commander now, and others could at most curse him for being weird in their stomachs.

The scene was chaotic for a while, with armies coming and going, some entering and some leaving.

So the new team reorganized after being scattered was full of strange faces, looking at them, they all seemed to be people they didn't know. This was not strange; how could the Imperial Guards recognize the people of the City Patrol Army? The City Patrol Army itself could be subdivided into districts, gates, and alleys, and they didn't gather for meetings in peacetime, so how could they be familiar with each other's faces?

But careful people might notice that these strange faces were strong and powerful but silent; when others asked "Which district are you from?", they ignored them completely.

However, with the current chaos of war, no one had the time to meddle in other people's business, so they just muttered a few words to themselves and let it be.

In fact, those finally coordinated under Bai Tan's command were only a portion of the Imperial Guards and the City Patrol troops led by Bai Tan's confidants, while the other seventeen or eighteen hundred soldiers wearing City Patrol uniforms were actually temple soldiers and guards from the shrines! The Yao Nation had only conducted a census two years ago; there were a total of 187 shrines of various sizes in Tianshui City, scattered throughout the capital. Large temples had over two hundred guards, while small ones had three or four—could anything be more normal? The Tianshui City authorities approved the shrines to hire temple guards to drive away petty thieves and protect temple property. Thus, each shrine selected strong and sturdy believers and trained them diligently. These temple guards were both loyal and capable, no worse than the elite forces of the royal palace.

It was just that this power was dispersed among the various temples, usually causing only minor trouble at most. The Yao court never imagined it could be gathered together under their very noses and condensed into a single force!

This force would not act unless it was time, and today it finally came in handy. The temple guards and soldiers selected by the shrines to participate in today's incident had to be not only physically strong and well-trained but also fanatically devout!