"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
There was chaos in the big tent.
Except for King Zhelan, all the Tartar officials including Huyan Gu and Ogeduo Tuo were in a panic.
Before setting out on the expedition, these officials and generals were asked by King Zhelan to send some of their family members from their tribe to the royal court, ostensibly for protection but actually as hostages.
Now the Wang Ting’s family was ambushed and killed, and their family members were naturally among them.
Although they were still hostages, the people in control changed from King Zhelan to the soldiers of Dayin.
No one knows what Dayin’s soldiers will do to their families.
After a long while, King Zhelan woke up slowly in the arms of his guard.
His face was as cold as frost, his eyes as venomous as a snake. He slowly stood up and stared at the person who brought the news:
"Where is Timur now?"
"Reply...Reply to the King, Lord Qianchang is monitoring the Dayin army in the Zishui River Valley!"
The messenger replied tremblingly, then immediately knelt and begged, "Please, Your Majesty, don't kill me! We chased them day and night, circling the grasslands for a long time, and finally caught up with them in the valley!"
King Zhelan took a deep breath, calmed himself, and suppressed his anger: "I won't kill you, but you must tell me everything about your pursuit of Zhao Muyun on the grassland! But if there is even a single falsehood, I will kill you!"
"Speak, speak quickly!" Huyan Gu and others also shouted.
"Your Majesty, it is...it is like this..." The messenger told the story of Timur and his party's pursuit in a disjointed manner.
"Those remnants of the Wuhuan people, Timur is not going to eradicate them completely!"
"It's all Timur's fault, that loser. He couldn't even catch up with Dayin's pawn!"
"Our families were taken away, while his family is safe and sound. This is simply unacceptable!"
"Timur knew about this but didn't report it, leading to this huge mistake. He is to blame and must be killed!"
"You still have the nerve to say that he is the most capable tribe under the king's command, but in the end, a group of Dayin's pawns are doing whatever they want behind us. It's really embarrassing!"
"Kill Timur and divide his entire tribe into pieces as an apology!"
“…”
Huyan Gu and others immediately roared and put all the blame on Timur, and demanded that Timur die to atone for his sins.
The subordinate who was sent by Timur to report the news was already trembling with fear when he saw the angry roars in the tent and the bloodshot eyes staring at him as if they wanted to eat him.
"Shut up, everyone!"
King Zhelan suddenly roared, and the tent fell silent. "Tell me how to rescue your family!"
"My king, let me take my men back and kill all these Dayin people!" A captain in silver armor immediately stood up and shouted angrily.
"Timur is helpless, how can you save them?" King Zhelan heard this meaningless words and his eyes turned cold. "I'm afraid if you kill all the Dayin people, our families will be finished too!"
"Why don't we capture Wuzhou City or Shuozhou City and capture the people there to exchange for hostages." Someone else suggested.
"The people in Shuozhou City should know this information soon and will fight to the death. It may not be so easy to take them down!" someone retorted.
"This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either. What should we do?"
Several people argued fiercely again, and King Zhelan was extremely troubled.
"Your Majesty! We need to do more than just rescue our families now!"
Ogeduo frowned and suddenly shouted, "They're building fortifications there. I'm afraid they're going to block our way back to the grassland! This guy has a big appetite. Does he want to keep us all in Shuozhou?"
King Zhelan was almost overwhelmed by anger. When he heard Ogoto's reminder, he was shocked: "Ogoto, tell me more!"
Ogeduo immediately picked up the wine bowls on the table and set them aside. Everyone gathered around him.
"Look, this is Shuozhou, this is Weizhou, and this is Lanzhou. There are still many Dayin troops on all three sides! And we haven't taken Wuzhou City yet!"
"The river valley entrance is now blocked again. Although we broke through Dayin's previous ambush, there is now another big encirclement waiting for us!"
"If they use defense as an attack, we have no food supplies. We won't be able to hold out for long with just the food we looted!"
"Once our food supplies run out, we might be completely wiped out!"
hiss!
This is not an exaggeration.
King Zhelan looked at the wine bowls and fell into deep thought.
Dayin’s troops may be far inferior to Beidi in field battles, but they still have some strengths in defense!
This group of Dayin soldiers coming from the grassland was like a hidden chess move laid in advance by the opponent's commander.
Since he dared to build fortifications there to block the way, it meant that he had made preparations before the Northern Di army entered Shuozhou.
As soon as he appeared at this moment, it seemed to reverse the whole situation!
If what Ogeduo deduced was true, King Zhelan even suspected that the previous defeat outside the Wuzhou city might have been intentional by the opposing commander.
"Your Majesty, why don't we retreat first? The grassland is in ruins after what he did! If the soldiers knew about this, their morale would be in chaos!"
Huyan Gu hurried forward and made a suggestion.
Previously, there were many reports of small tribes being ambushed, young and old men being killed, tents being destroyed, and women and children being left homeless. However, in order not to affect the war, these reports were suppressed again and again and not spread.
But this time the royal court was attacked by surprise and so many family members were captured, it could not be covered up no matter what.
“We can evacuate anytime we want, but what about the families?” Ogeduo demanded. “We can’t just ignore them and abandon them!”
"Then, may I ask, Captain Ogkotuo, since you deduced that we were surrounded, you are the one who was surrounded. So, tell me, how are we going to rescue these families?" Huyan Gu asked back.
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