Chapter 67: Diplomatic Adjustments
The incident of the people of the Twenty-Nine Village attacking the shrine maiden doomed the Riya Shrine to break with it. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In this way, the 29th Village has sufficient reasons to withdraw its troops from Shangjin County and withdraw from this war.
Once Twenty-Nine Village withdrew from the war, the Ira coalition army on the front line of Kamijin Prefecture would be completely inferior in terms of strength. The strength of the above Imamu and Rimi Shrines cannot defeat the Republic of Bukin. In this case, the Rima Shrine, which has not yet reaped any benefits from the war and has not suffered much damage, must withdraw from the war as soon as possible so as not to lose its strength.
The long witches who secretly took the benefits of King Yongshan valued their strength the most, because their right to speak at the Satomi Shrine was all brought by military power. After Lan Xian told these long witches the news of the break between the Rimi Shrine and the Twenty-Nine Village, they held a meeting behind Lan Xian's back.
Man Yun was the eldest witch most valued by the previous Great Witch, and the military power in her hands was also the largest, so she naturally became the host of the meeting.
"Ladies and gentlemen."
Man Yun's gaze swept around the faces of the long witches, and seeing that they all looked like they wanted to retreat, their eyebrows were raised, and their tones became serious.
"Everyone understands people, so I opened the skylight and said something. I understand your thoughts, in fact, my thoughts are the same, I don't want to damage my strength. But this time it's different! Twenty-nine The people of the village have mutilated our sisters! This is absolutely intolerable! β
Although Manyun secretly violates the precepts, disrespects the current Great Witch, is greedy for money, lustful, and loves vanity, her loyalty to Satomi Shrine is not fake. The reason why she agreed to the envoy of King Yongshan and took the lead in forcing the Great Witch to participate in the war was not only because she received the benefits of King Yongsan, but also because she wanted to completely defeat the old enemy Bujin people, so that the north of Rimi Shrine would no longer be threatened by strong enemies.
After the Great Reformation, the desire to expand became stronger than it had been before the Great Reformation. If someone gains land, someone loses it, and as a neighbor of the Ilibi Allies, war between the two sides is inevitable. Instead of being beaten passively, it is better to take the initiative to attack, and offense is the best defense, this is Manyun's idea.
But now, Riya Shrine has an even more important enemy: Twenty-Nine Village. Those who once blasphemed the shrine maidens must be punished, and Man Yun also wants to personally avenge the victimized shrine maidens.
However, what makes people laugh bitterly is that Man Yun, who is bent on punishing sinners, is a sinner who has broken the precepts himself. The eldest witches present were all similar, and some of them even had done unscrupulous things in the compartments of the temple of self-reflection. But they ignore their identity as sinners and want to punish them for what they see as sinners.
The withdrawal of troops is necessary, but it cannot be withdrawn immediately, because the main force in the 29th village is in Shangjin County. The Great Witch asked Lan Xian to pass on the word to Man Yun, "Let her take care of the affairs on the battlefield herself", and also handed over the command to her. Obviously, the Great Witch who knew Manyun's character very well was instructing her to take revenge on the Twenty-Nine Village on the battlefield.
The announcement of the Satoya Shrine has not yet been announced, and the heralds who sent the announcement to the major forces have not set off. It's not that the Great Witch is hesitating, she's just giving Man Yun a chance to stab herself in the back in the Twenty-Nine Village. Regardless of whether the Nami monks on the front line knew about it or not, Man Yun could take this opportunity to stumble on her.
But the problem now is that Man Yun has already turned against Wei Xu, so she can't use Wei Xu's hand to get rid of the Twenty-Nine Village. In this case, Man Yun can only think of another way.
As the saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. At present, the Twenty-Nine Village is still in a state of war with the Bujin Republic, and although Man Yun hates the Bujin people very much, she is still ready to contact the Bujin people, wanting to use them to kill the people in the Twenty-Nine Village.
But before she could do that, she had to convince the other shrine maidens to cooperate with her actions. Because of the attack on the witches, the chief witches also regarded the twenty-nine villages as the number one enemy, so Man Yun didn't have much to convince them.
That night, Man Yun and several cronies put on their cloaks and quietly left the garrison camp. They rode to the Bujin patrol and took the initiative to make contact with the Bujin scouts. Man Yun did not identify himself, but only said that he was a messenger of the Rimi Shrine and wanted to meet the commander of the Bujin Army.
The scout took them to the vicinity of his camp, told them to wait outside the camp, and then went back to the camp to report. After about half an hour, a group of sweeping cavalry came out of the camp and welcomed Man Yun and his party into the camp.
None of them carried weapons, she was born as a war witch, and the cronies she brought were all war witches. With the melee combat ability of the Bukin, they can easily protect themselves without weapons. Besides, Man Yun is not here to fight this time, but to negotiate with the Bujin people, and there is no need to bring weapons at all.
The Bujin were very cautious, and they sent some female soldiers to search Manyun and them, and after confirming that they were not armed, they led them to a military tent to await General North's summons.
When General North and the officers learned about the messenger sent by the shrine, they all felt that there was a deception, but they did not know how the other party would deceive.
Officials suggested several possibilities. The first is to assassinate the commander, the second is to surrender, the third is to provide false information, and the third is to attract one's own attention and cover the enemy's covert operations.
So General North sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter the vicinity, and also asked a group of scouts to run to the camp of the Ira's coalition army to check the movement. After tossing and turning for half a night, the Bujin people did not notice anything unusual about the Ira.
Man Yun was not in a hurry, he sat in the military tent with his cronies, talking and laughing, and unceremoniously asked the guards for tea and refreshments. The soldiers guarding them reported Man Yun's request to General North, who agreed to her request, had tea boiled, and had his personal chef make some snacks for Man Yun.
In any case, General North was able to meet with the messenger of the shrine. Although the probability is low, it is indeed possible that the other party is coming to negotiate. In order to ensure the safety of the Supreme Commander, the officers did not want General North to want to meet the envoy in person, and under the unanimous dissuasion of the officers, General North had to let a school officer who volunteered to risk his life go to see Man Yun in his place.
Man Yun knew that the Bujin people couldn't trust him, and he didn't expect to meet the real commander, as long as the Bujin people could accept her conditions. After the school officer came to the military tent with the guard, Man Yun didn't ask about the identity of the other party, but just got up and saluted him elegantly, and then went straight to the point.
"I'm here this time to ask your army for something."
When Man Yun was planning to kill the main force in the Twenty-Nine Villages, the Great Witch had already drawn up a new diplomatic plan.
As long as Rimi Shrine withdraws its troops from Kamijin Prefecture, they will break their covenant with Kamijin Prefecture. The Great Shrine Maiden doesn't want to break the covenant with Kamijin Prefecture yet, so she plans to send an envoy to negotiate with Wei Lin after the announcement of the break, hoping that he will take the initiative to cease fire with the Bujin people, so that Riya Shrine will not have to break the contract.
But Wellin didn't necessarily have to cease fire with the Bukin, so the Great Witch had to be prepared for both. Once the two sides break the alliance, the Great Witch must find a new ally. There has never been a war between the Satomi Shrine and the Xiaohu family, the Xiaohu family is the power of the Taeyong people, and they may betray the Satomi Shrine at a critical moment, but for now, they are the only choice for the Great Witch.
However, for the entire Xiaohu family, the Rimi Shrine is too weak, and the Great Witch is not even qualified to send an envoy directly to the Xiaohu family. Therefore, the Great Witch could only retreat and discuss the alliance with Xiaohu Tengyan. Even if you can't get an alliance, you must at least sign a non-aggression pact with the other side.
In the incident of the attack on the twenty-nine villages, Lan Ning, the eldest witch under the Great Witch, caught up with Xiaohu Yishan, the lord of Liangyue City, and Yuris, the princess of the Egus Kingdom, which gave the Great Witch a certain confidence in the alliance. It's really not good, she can lend the witch to Xiaohu Tengyan for a period of time, so that he can buy people's hearts. But this is her last hole card, and she will not agree to this condition until the last moment.
"That's what our army wants."
In the military tent of the Bujin people, Man Yun smiled at the officer who received her.
"The words of the enemy are hard to believe, and I understand your suspicions of our side. Our army's request will not bring any danger to your army, but will also bring your army the victory that your army wants most. If I guess correctly, the purpose of your army is to capture the county seat of Shangjin, and in order to reduce the siege losses, your army hopes to completely annihilate the coalition forces here. And the conditions provided by our army to your army can precisely accomplish the goal of your army, but the object of annihilation is less than our army. β
"Are you trying to sell your allies to our army?"
Although the conditions offered by Man Yun are tempting, no one likes people who stab others in the back, especially those who stab friends with knives. Therefore, the face of the school officer who negotiated with Man Yun was not very good, and his tone was also very unkind.
In fact, at first, Man Yun only wanted to sell the people in Twenty-Nine Village. On the way to the Bujin camp, Man Yun felt the need to kill Wei Xu, who had already made an enmity with him. She didn't know about the deployment of the Great Witch, and wishful thinking that Rimi Shrine would definitely break the alliance with Kamijin Prefecture, so she temporarily changed her plan and betrayed the troops of Kamijin Prefecture to the Bujin people by the way.
"We just want to get out of this senseless war."
"If you knew this was the case, why did you bother in the first place?"
"We were only forced to enter the war because of the Covenant, not because we really wanted to fight you." Man Yun's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he lied, "Our Great Witch has advised Cheng Weilin of Shangjin County more than once, asking him not to get involved in the dispute between the Zarians and the King of Yongshan, but he just didn't listen, and he had to take the initiative. Now that the situation is very unfavorable to us, we have no choice but to make this decision, and we hope that your army will understand. β
The school officer calmly stared at Man Yun's eyes, and didn't see anything famous, so he could only look away unwillingly.
"Let me think about it and I'll get back to you later."
With that, the officer left the tent with his escort and explained the contents of the negotiations to General North and the officers. The officers all thought it was a trap, but General North didn't.
Man Yun's request was very simple, he just hoped that the Bujin army would take the initiative to issue a war letter to the Iraa coalition army. She promised that she would definitely let the coalition army take over the war letter, and she would tell the Bujin people the truth about the deployment of the coalition army before the war, so that the Bujin army could make targeted deployments. Mitsumo also promised that after the two sides entered the battlefield, the troops of Rimi Shrine would not provide any support to the coalition forces,
Pretending to make peace with the enemy in private, offering generous terms, leading the enemy into a trap, and then taking the enemy by surprise on the battlefield -- such a trick has been played countless times on the battlefields of the New World. The current situation is that the Bujin people have the upper hand, and it is normal for the Ira people to want to change the situation with intrigues.
But this trap of Rimi Shrine is too obvious, as long as the Bujin army is prepared, there will be no loss at all. Moreover, the side that is now eager for the next battle is the Bukin, and for the Ira, the inferior side, avoiding the battle is the best option until the strength is replenished and the morale is fully restored.
Maybe something is wrong with the Ira's internals.
General North motioned for the officers to be silenced, and pondered alone for a moment.
"You go and tell the messenger of Riya Shrine that tomorrow I will send a war letter to the Ira coalition army, hoping that she will not break the contract."
"Generalβ"
"Listen to me!"
General North interrupted his subordinates with a fierce gaze, then retracted his gaze and continued.
"But we can't take the words of the Iramen lightly. From now on, send additional scouts to closely monitor the enemy's movements! If the enemy responds to the battle and the Rimi Shrine also sends operational deployments, we can't take it lightly, and we must prepare at least three sets of preparatory plans. Let's not forget that we are fighting far from our homeland, and we must fight quickly. To that end, it's worth the right amount of risk, get it? β
"Understood!"
The school officials bowed their heads and no longer had any objections.