Chapter 876 - Lies (1/2)

Chapter 876: Lies

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Five days after Nie Zeng delivered that letter, reliable news came that the Second Consort hadn't actually joined the main force of the Central Plains yet However, she had sent an envoy to negotiate with the Central Plains ar her surrender It was said that she had set a lot of conditions

The Second Consort had chosen to surrender to the Central Plains at an extremely sensitive period of ti, ere political ene the Norland and the Western Regions The former hoped to stabilize the overall situation in the Western Regions by adopting the strategy of for extensive alliances, so as to force Norlanders to stay far away However, the latter insisted on a final shon against the Norland; after winning it, they could take advantage of their victorious ions under the Central Plains' direct rule

Military exploits were of great help to both sides Prince Xiao and the Dragon King of the Western Regions had ”collectively defeated” the massive army forces of the Norland, which fully proved the effectiveness of their strategy of forging alliances However, the Second Consort could easily ruin all of their plans

She had been in the battlefield herself, and she knew that the truth of their so-called ”alliance between the Central Plains and the Western Regions” As the largest political ene would surely be happy to hear the truth

Prince Xiao discovered that he had taken too big of a risk Although he was the Eivable felony if his fraudulent claim of military exploits was exposed He had left in such a hurry that he didn't even have ti a very important question: why had the Second Consort chosen to surrender to the General-in-chief, Pang Ning, as in the far east instead of the Central Plains arions?

It was not until the next day that Gu Shenwei hiht of this point, and by then, it was already too late to send afrom Jade City to the east were under the control of the Central Plains This meant that no letter could ever be safely delivered to Prince Xiao He could only hope that Prince Xiao was sh to think of this himself

News of the Second Consort's surrender caused a sensation even greater than that of the battle of the Thousand Horsemen Pass

No th of the Norland would be proved Although this was a civil war incited by Prince Xiao and the Dragon King ”together,” rasslands cavalrymen

The Second Consort ell known in both the Norland and the Western Regions Currently, she was like a syrasslands' prime Her surrender distinctly showed her prediction of the Norland's decline The Central Plains instantly becaions

Fang Wenshi+'s letters arrived consecutively, each offering a detailed explanation for the process of how the Second Consort's surrender ca his arressed slowly on their way over and everything was going s to acknowledge the new Khan Even the general of the Naihang Tribe, who had previously chosen to flee, also felt soers to speak to the new Khan

Right at this tiested that she wanted to take another path and go to ruins of the Royal Court Her reasoning was very simple: she had killed General Zhesu and Prince Duoercha Although she had done that in self-defense, her deedTribe, which would be very detrirasslands people's support

Shulitu and Fang Wenshi+ agreed, so the Second Consort took her ar old Khan's o to the Royal Court Seven days after leaving the Khan's arenerals as well as many officers of her army and declared that she would surrender to the Central Plains

She gave a long speech, and the most important part was that, ”The new Khan has succeeded the throne I hate to disillusion you, but soon I'll lose otten and even be hunted down by the Naihang Tribe You're o, my fate is your fate I want to surrender to the Central Plains, and I'll do whatever I can to guarantee the interests of every one of you - livestock, pastures, wealth, and large nuh historical precedent, the Central Plains will surely accept all of my conditions So just talk and tell enerals had served the Second Consort for many years and had witnessed the ups and downs that she had been through They had also sensed the Naihang Tribe's hostility towards the theirhalfway and ie to the new Khan

Fang Wenshi+ asked Nie Zeng to deliver a letter to the Dragon King at once Meanwhile, he sent a large number of envoys to pursue the Second Consort But the Second Consort had already made up her mind to leave She even refused tothe troops They wanted to chase the Second Consort and take her back whatever the cost They even suggested dispatching the 50,000 Court Attendants troops stationed in the Royal Court ruins Shulitu consulted with the leading generals for a long ti the Second Consort

That was because they were facing two sources of pressure The grasslands had recently experienced two periods of heavy snowfall,the terrain very unfavorable for troop rouped his re forces and rebuilt an army of a considerable scale It was not worth the effort to chase down the Second Consort's 10,000Wenshi+ felt deeply ashaence in every letter, since he had failed to see through the Second Consort's ploy As stated, he could have noticed sons when she had chosen to leave as well as in her reasons

Gu Shenwei couldn't blame the military counselor The Second Consort had just killed the two leaders of the Naihang Tribe, and there was barely any conflicts of interests between her and the new Khan nobody could have anticipated that she would choose to betray him so soon

It was not until this moment that Gu Shenwei realized that the Second Consort's killing people had nothing to do with Shulitu at all, and neither did it have anything to do with retaliating against the fore Duodun's death

The Naihang Tribe'sthe war had been the direct reason for Duodun's plan co

The reason why the Second Consort had chosen to surrender to the General-in-chief, Pang Ning, as further aas that she wanted to clearly retaliate against the Dragon King as in the Western Regions