Chapter 744: The Situation in the Night Country

When the Wing Emperor read out his abdication edict in public, the courtiers, whether royalists or anti-emperors, understood that the Wing Emperor intended to surrender to the night army, some of them lamented, some secretly rejoiced, and some maintained a neutral attitude.

For those who remain neutral, the Winged Country's initiative to surrender to the Night Country may be the best option. Although the name of the Wing Country will no longer exist in the future, it is better than being torn apart under the encroachment of the two countries of Fei and Yang. In any case, the Wing Emperor took all the blame on himself, making the entire hall full of sorrow.

When the court meeting ended, the palace could no longer be called the imperial palace, and the palace maids and guards were dismissed by the Yihuang, and in the end only the members of the royal family and some palace people who did not want to leave remained. Speaking of which, the Wing Emperor has long ceased to have real power, but some royalists do not realize that their Wing Kingdom has long since existed in name only.

When Emperor Tsubasa announced his abdication at the court meeting, he walked out of the palace, and the people of Kyoto, who had been terrified for many days, were respited. When the news that the 500,000 troops of Nafei and Yang were slaughtered by the night army reached Yidu, many city residents were shocked. Even now, even when they heard that the night army was coming, those city citizens would be terrified, but they were still relieved to think that if they surrendered to the night army, they would have a chance of survival.

As more and more people tend to join the Night Army, those loyal and righteous who still want to return to the country can only lament again and again.

The day after Lin Xuanzhong organized the new army, Zhao Xu received news from Yidu. The Wing Emperor not only abdicated, but also announced the surrender of the whole country before the abdication, so now all the territories of the entire Wing Country, just waiting for them to occupy in the past, as for how to deal with those royal personnel who stay in the palace to repent for the people of the Wing Country, Zhao Xu has notified the right minister to make this matter clear.

Next, the life and death of all the members of the royal family of the Wing Kingdom will be decided by Lan Ce. If Lan Ce wanted to slaughter all the royal family members of the Wing Country, Zhao Xu would not let anyone live, and the only thing that made Zhao Xu embarrassed was how to deal with the royal family members of the Wing Kingdom like Ruan Sihai who had already returned to the Night Country loyally.

There are still many royal clansmen like Ruan Sihai in various parts of the Wing Country, and it is a difficult problem to punish them together with the royal family insiders, because the implication is too wide, there are hundreds of people in Ruan Sihai's line alone, and it can be said that there are too many people related to the royal family of the Wing Kingdom. Regarding this problem, Zhao Xu could only ask the right minister to truthfully explain the situation to Lan Ce.

Now that the weather is clear and the road conditions are improving, once he can march, Zhao Xu will send troops to Yidu, and then recruit troops in Yiguo. With the current strength is simply not enough to fight against the Qingyuan power, the current night country must improve its strength as soon as possible.

At the same time, while the Qingyuan Great Power had not yet sent troops to fly and raise the two countries, Zhao Xu still had to deal with those prisoners. According to the improvement of Lin Xuanzhong's proposal to settle the soldiers, when the Yidu is occupied, the night army will fulfill its promise to give those prisoners a follow-up option. Those who are willing to surrender to the Night Kingdom can stay, and those who do not want to surrender can leave. In short, the Night Army will give them a way out.

The follow-up method for those ordinary prisoners is like this, as for Tie Xin and Shi Jiangchuan and others, Zhao Xu is still waiting for the reply of the two monarchs. Once the two monarchs agreed to their quid pro quo and wanted to redeem Shi Jiangchuan, Tiexin and others with a large sum of money, the night army would escort the hostages to the designated area to complete the deal with them.

Maybe this move is suspected of letting the tiger return to the mountain, but without killing the two enemy commanders, the best way Zhao Xu can think of at present is this.

In the past few days, unlike treating those ordinary prisoners, Zhao Xu detained Shi Jiangchuan and the others in a well-guarded place. Clothe each of them with the kind of shackles made of special materials, even an eighth-order martial cultivator can't forcibly break free, and can only be opened with a specific key.

Not only that, but the Night Army also added a medicinal powder to the food given to those people, a medicine that could make it impossible for Wu Xiu to use True Yuan. Under the double guarantee, Zhao Xu didn't have much to worry about holding those important prisoners.

Of course, because of the identity of those high-ranking enemy troops, Zhao Xu also gave them enough respect, not only did he not allow the soldiers below to humiliate those people by various means, but he even personally visited the two enemy commanders.

On the other side, they have been locked up in prison as a felony for several days, and Tie Xin, Shi Jiangchuan and others have been thinking about the reason for their defeat. The Beast Attack plan is the key to the Night Army's victory, but they don't have to be defeated. The beasts cost them at most half of their forces, and when the two sides went to war, they were no less powerful than the night army. Unfortunately, although there was not much disparity in strength between the two sides at that time, they were still unable to defeat the night army.

In fact, when the Night Army's beast attack plan succeeded, their defeat was already doomed. It's just that they didn't grasp the idea of the beast attack night army's plan before the battle, so as to detect the night army's plan. They should have avoided being attacked by the beast, but because the beast was defeated, and it was defeated, not only wasting the high hopes that their monarch had placed on them, but also putting their country in danger.

The current situation of Fei and Yang is similar to that of the current Wing Country, and the two of them know their respective sins, so both of them have thought about repaying the country with death. It's a pity that such a wretched death will make them even more ashamed of their respective lords, so the two finally choose to endure the humiliation and live with their burdens.

And since they were imprisoned, they have completely lost contact with the tens of thousands of soldiers who survived. At the beginning, it was because those soldiers surrendered, and now they naturally can't let go of those soldiers. Fortunately, they had received news from Zhao Xu a few days ago that the Night Army had not slaughtered their men after the battle.

After receiving such news, the two commanders had already died without regrets, so now they are just waiting for how their monarch will respond to Zhao Xu.

Little by little, the snow melted, adding to the cold of winter, but the warm sunshine signaled that the cold was coming to an end, and the next spring awaited them.

After several trials, the Night Kingdom is finally about to usher in a second spring. When the news of the great victory in the east reached Yedu, the Yedu, which had just calmed down, erupted into bursts of joy, and countless city residents poured into the streets to cheer and celebrate, as happy as a New Year's holiday.

In fact, many civilians do not care whether their country is strong or not, they just want to live a stable life, so the various panics caused by the war make that stability especially important, and those who want to celebrate are the stable life that the country gives them.

Reflecting the festive atmosphere of the streets and alleys of the night capital, the palace is full of lights, and the royal family members come and go one by one. Not only because of the great victory in the east, but also because in a while the five-nation alliance will be reached, and then the Night Country will no longer be the small border country that once let people eat their own meat.

Coupled with the power of the Lai Kingdom, the former Snow Country, and the former Wing Country, the Night Country will truly become a force that can compete with those big powers, and the powerful nature of the Night Country is the happiest thing for the Night Kingdom royal family.

And since receiving the news of Zhao Xu's victory in the east and the stability of the situation, in terms of the five-nation alliance, Lan Ce and the ministers have a clear plan. Next, whether it is by political means or directly using military force, the Night Kingdom will inevitably embark on the road of vertical expansion.

The Night Kingdom wants to be the master of the alliance, as long as the other four country lords don't want their people to fall into dire straits and avoid the suffering of displacement, and they are interested in forming a five-nation alliance, then the position of the leader of the alliance will be taken by Lan Ce. Once the alliance is reached, Lan Ce will also move the imperial capital to the Ziyun Kingdom in the middle of the territory of the Five Kingdoms, so as to sit in the center, take care of the overall situation, and dominate one side with the posture of a hero.

At that time, the Night Kingdom will meet the general trend with a new attitude, and survival or destruction will depend on luck. After agreeing on the alliance with the ministers, Lan Ce sent a letter to the four countries about the complete alliance of the five countries as soon as possible and the fact that he would serve as the leader of the alliance.

Next, the lords of the four countries had to consider whether to honor Lan Ce or be an enemy of Lan Ce. In short, Zhao Xu's defeat of the coalition army this time had a huge effect on the stability of the local situation in the Night Country, and the Night Country once again set off a huge wave, standing firmly on the side of the Northern Regions like many countries that are resisting the prestige of the great powers.

Not long ago, Zhao Wuna's method of exchanging people for goods was successfully realized, and the monarchs of Hong, Meng, and Tianyu used a large amount of materials to exchange their respective army commanders back, and both the Night Kingdom and the Lai Kingdom increased their power infinitely.

Now that the Tianyu Kingdom, the Hong Kingdom and the Mongolian Kingdom have lost a lot of financial and material resources, in a short period of time, they no longer have the strength to start a war, and they have no time to recuperate, and the fate that awaits them is to be completely annexed by the Luo Tian Nation, and the Night Kingdom will not send troops to them for the time being.

It is worth mentioning that Qiu Sanjie's defeat made Luo Tianguo extremely angry, and it has not been a month since the two sides fought, and now Luo Tianda is already preparing to recruit the army of the Night Country from his own country. When the army of the Great Nation of Luo Tian set off to the east, all the countries that had not surrendered to the Great Nation of Luo Heaven before or still had different intentions on the way would become the target of the expedition of the Great Army of Luo Tian, and a bigger storm was brewing, and what the Night Kingdom had to do now was to be ready to meet all the wind and rain.

While cultivating and recuperating, while recruiting troops, everything is going on in an orderly manner, and after the whole country shows strong cohesion, the Night Country is walking on the road of sharp change from weak to strong.

Now after receiving Lan Ce's intention to lead the five kingdoms, the monarchs of the four kingdoms have fallen into deep thought one after another. At the beginning, they formed the Five-Nation Alliance, firstly, because they were originally from the same line, and all of them were split from an earlier great power, and secondly, because they did not want to be manipulated by the five powers.