Chapter 1806

Outside the Yan hall, the strong wind lifted the copper bells on the eaves, making them ring loudly. The hall was filled with astonishment.

"What?"

"General Luo failed... and surrendered?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Wushuang clenched his fists tightly. He didn't expect Gao Yang to be so lucky.

Chen Ping also frowned.

The worst result... had happened!

"General Luo is confused. That Living Yama of Da Qian is cunning. Even if he surrendered voluntarily, would the Living Yama keep his promise and let our Great Yan soldiers go?"

Yuan Xuanlin frowned and sighed heavily.

In his eyes, surrendering voluntarily was extremely stupid.

Yan Wushuang's eyes flickered, his face gloomy.

This time, his loss was huge!

Luo Cheng was a fierce general. He surrendered, and those tens of thousands of Great Yan soldiers were probably finished too.

After paying such a huge price, Hexi was still lost, and he had failed to steal a chicken and ended up losing his rice.

This made Yan Wushuang's back teeth ache.

Chen Ping took a deep breath, as if seeing through everything: "It's useless. The Living Yama of Da Qian is extremely cunning. If General Luo hadn't gone, the Living Yama would definitely have used Da Qian's reports to smear Great Yan, spreading the news throughout the world. With his style of doing things, he doesn't care about martial ethics at all; he absolutely would have done it."

"But falling into the hands of the Living Yama, the price is probably even greater!"

Yan Wushuang didn't speak, but suddenly said.

"Get the map!"

Following his voice, a map was spread out on the table, with mountains and rivers appearing before Yan Wushuang's eyes.

Yan Wushuang frowned tightly and said in a deep voice: "Trouble. Hexi connects to the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions. If this place falls into the hands of Da Qian, Da Qian can easily move west, check and balance the hundred countries of the Western Regions, and make them submit!"

"This force cannot be underestimated!"

Chen Ping stood aside, staring at the map, and also said, "What's worse is that Hexi has fertile water and grass. In the past, the Xiongnu grazed twenty thousand warhorses here, and now they have all become food for Da Qian's iron cavalry!"

"Da Qian can easily expand its cavalry and prepare for a great war!"

"The Xiongnu lost their horse-grazing land and lost the blood transfusion of the hundred countries of the Western Regions, which will be a huge blow."

"This move truly threatens the national policy of the three-nation alliance to support the Xiongnu to check and balance Da Qian."

"But in my, Chen Ping's, eyes, the most fatal thing about this battle is—the Living Yama has brought hope!"

"Hope?"

Yan Wushuang turned around suddenly, staring fixedly at Chen Ping's face.

Chen Ping's finger slid on the map, moving from the Hexi land toward the direction of the Mobei Royal Court.

His voice was indifferent, as if it contained no emotion. "Mobei is bitter and cold, and conquest is unprofitable."

"Before these few battles, the consensus in the world about fighting the Xiongnu was that winning was a small loss, and losing was a huge loss!"

"Even with great fanfare, using a lot of supplies to fight a battle, the main general might get lost and return without success."

"But since Gao Yang went on an expedition, everything has changed. In the first battle, he led eight hundred men to capture the Chanyu's grandfather alive, achieving a great victory. In the second battle, he launched a surprise attack on Hexi, killing his way from Canglan Mountain to the King of Langya's city!"

"And then, this battle. The King of Langya died, the King of Zhenyue surrendered, and even the Xiongnu holy object, the Heaven-Sacrificing Golden Man, fell into the hands of Da Qian!"

"The Hexi land... has changed hands!"

"The Xiongnu are invincible, and fighting them is in vain—this was the consensus, but Gao Yang broke all of this. He brought... hope!"

Yan Wushuang's Adam's apple rolled, staring fixedly at Chen Ping.

Chen Ping sighed heavily. "People's hearts have changed."

"The Living Yama made the civil and military officials believe that the Xiongnu are not an iron bucket, and that the heads of the Xiongnu can also be hung on the city walls of Changancheng!"

"In the past, no one in Da Qian believed they could defeat the Xiongnu. Now, I'm afraid even the old soldiers on the street in Da Qian dare to pat their chests and say that the Living Yama will sooner or later use the Xiongnu Chanyu's head as a night pot!"

"This is the most terrifying thing!"

"Then after Da Qian digests Hexi, where will the next knock on the pass be?"

Yan Wushuang's pupils shrank.

Four big words suddenly appeared in his mind—Xiongnu Royal Court! ===== CHAPTER 1808 =====