When the envoy from the grasslands spoke these words, he felt the gaze from the civil and military officials of Chen Country. The eyes of these true renowned ministers and generals of Chen Country were no longer as sharp as before. Instead, they carried a deep and fierce intensity.
Like arrows, they seed as if they were going to pierce through the envoy, Que Teqin, from the grasslands.
Que Teqin was not afraid of these gazes.
He was very familiar with what these gazes were like. They resembled the extrely vigilant and hostile look of a pack of wolves that had lost hope for survival. It was not surprising to Que Teqin that these ministers and generals of Chen Country had such gazes.
In the past year or so, Prince Qin had expanded his campaigns in all directions, gradually stabilizing the territories of Chen Country with a slow, thodical approach. Through step-by-step strategy, occupying and developing the livelihood of the people simultaneously, there had been relatively few rebellions.
Naturally, within this general stabilization, there were family disturbances and assassins who pretended to surrender but actually harbored malicious intent.
These matters were inevitable.
However, the great trend of the world could not be defied.
During this process, those family mbers who deliberately incited rebellion and chaos, disrupting the Qilin Army’s consolidation of cities, all faced a near-total reckoning.
Especially three months ago, the Sun Family, one of Chen Country’s eight surnas in the south, secretly attempted to assassinate the Prefecture Chief of the Prince Qin Mansion who had co to the front to assess the situation.
The Prefecture Chief of the Prince Qin Mansion wore soft armor, and beside him was the Nu Jianxian of the Kunlun Sword Sect.
Nu Jianxian was a well-known figure in the Martial World, already in the Grandmaster Realm, and often stayed by the side of Sword Madman, receiving teachings. Although he was at the Eighth Layer Heaven, as if at a life barrier he could not surpass, he marched boldly within the Grandmaster Realm.
In the five or six years since he entered Jiangnan, he had already achieved the pinnacle of Seven Heavens. With sword energy at his will, he killed the Sixth Layer Heaven assassin on the spot.
Prefecture Chief Yan Daiqing of the Prince Qin Mansion was shocked but unhard.
The selection of Yan Daiqing was the result of careful deliberation by Chen Country’s noble families. On the one hand, Yan Daiqing managed the logistics of the Qilin Army; if he were slain, the logistics of the vast Qilin Army would be severed, and even if restored, it would take over a month.
Furthermore, Yan Daiqing was originally from Chen Country. From a moral standpoint, as a major family of Chen Country to kill a traitor to their country, no one could really say anything.
Thirdly, Yan Daiqing’s martial arts were not strong.
Moreover, he was a surrendered minister from Chen Country to Jiangnan.
Therefore, they intended to kill him.
However, for so reason, after the assassination attempt on Yan Daiqing, the entire Heavenly Strategy Mansion seed to enter a special state, and Wen Qingyu himself went to the Sun Family. The Heavenly Strategy Mansion and Qilin Army expressed animosity and exerted pressure toward all noble families of Chen Country.
Like thousands of fierce tigers descending from the mountain, seven days after Yan Daiqing’s assassination attempt, the Family Head of the Sun Family committed suicide on the road; the Young Master felt depressed and drowned himself; the Grand Elder took poison and died, all suicides, all loyal ministers dying for their country.
The once-vast Sun Family collapsed internally.
This led the Qilin Army to apply more direct asures to the noble families of Chen Country, so in the past year, the noble families of Chen Country either scattered or turned against each other, gradually losing their influence, while the fa of the Qilin spread across the land.
Yet, upon gaining the territory of Chen Country, the Qilin Army did not withdraw its troops.
After over a year of intensive training of the elite Qilin Army, they assembled into five armies, and together with Prince Qin at Guan Yi City, they converged into six armies, advancing towards Zhenbei City in a slow yet imposing manner.
The towns along the way, under the control of Zhenbei City, all surrendered at the first sign of the approaching force.
From the city lords to the common people, everyone feared that they would be too slow to surrender.
The so-called grand montum, which is invisible to the naked eye, beca embodied and real through the reactions of these people, making it strikingly tangible.
As for this, Chen Country could be considered utterly destroyed.
When speaking of rebellious officials and traitors.
The Qin Prince, who controlled the vast majority of Chen Country’s territory and additionally occupied parts of the southwest, the Western Regions, and Ying Country, had territories, population, and land far exceeding the peak period of Chen Country.
In comparison.
The current Emperor Chen, Chen Dingye, seed more like a treasonous rebel.
After occupying most of Chen Country’s territory, Prince Qin had no intention of withdrawing; nor did he plan to garner superficial honor, but intended to use his residual strength to settle Chen Country in one fell swoop before considering other actions.
Moreover, Chen Country’s territory was not captured by forcibly boosting morale and direct conquest.
Instead, it went through a prolonged campaign.
The Qilin Army had grown accustod to battle; their morale solid as a mountain, without any decline, surging towards Zhenbei Pass, and any keen observer knew that Chen Country’s fate had ended, and Emperor Chen’s fate had ended.
This army of over twenty thousand occupied an area of hundreds of miles around Zhenbei City.
It cannot bear much longer, before becoming rely a Chapter in the chronicles of Prince Qin.
At this ti, the Great Khan Gudolu extended a helping hand, and it was different from before. No matter how tough a ruler had been before, in the face of national ruin and personal death, they would completely lose their baseline.
They would do anything to grasp the branch that could save them.
"People are like this; their baselines will change with the situation, and gentlen may do despicable things, while scoundrels sotis show heroic spirit."
"The thing to do is not to win soone over when their willpower is strongest, but to quietly observe, waiting for the great currents of the world to assault them, to grind them down, to smooth their edges, to wait until their heart’s blood has grown cold."
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