841 Seeking Help (2/2)
Liman immediately went to dispatch these troops. But as he looked at these panic-stricken servants, he was deeply concerned.
Mo Chu walked back to Mo Lin's side, sighed, and said, ”I've been fighting for decades, but never once have I seen such a chaotic situation. This doesn't look like a proper battle at all.”
Neither Mo Lin nor Duodun replied to the emotional remarks of this old Commander-in-chief.
Red Bat and those female soldiers also took a dozen steps backwards. Only Qian Ying stayed beside Shangguan Ru. The Second Consort glanced at her and mildly felt that she looked a little familiar. However, she didn't identify her as one of her maidservants.
Shangguan Ru turned her head back around and signaled Qian Ying to leave. ”Talk.” Her tone was still abrupt as before.
But the Second Consort had changed her attitude. She leaned her upper body slightly closer to Shangguan Ru and said with a smile, ”Sister Shangguan, you won't be angry just because I said a few words that were born out of my anxiety, will you?”
”The troops are fighting a bloody battle, so it's normal for the Second Consort to be a little anxious. We don't have much time, so if you have something to say, then please say it.”
”Tell the Dragon King to send reinforcements to help the Left Corps.”
”That's beyond my power.” Shangguan Ru didn't say that she couldn't even find the Dragon King even if she wanted to.
”The Dragon King will be rewarded greatly if he helps us.” As if she hadn't heard her words, the Second Consort resumed talking. ”Duodun won't be the Khan anymore. He'll withdraw from the race.”
”This is an affair of the Norlands. It has nothing to do with the Dragon King.”
”That's true. But there's one thing that has everything to do with the Dragon King.”
Shangguan Ru's heart lurched, but she maintained a composed look on her face as she asked, ”What is it?”
”Parentage.”
”Parentage?”
”Dragon King's parentage is different from what he thinks, and I'm the only one who knows the truth.”
”Ha-ha, so you want to pretend that you're the Dragon King's mother again? He told me that he's no longer interested.”
The Second Consort shook her head. ”I made that up, but the truth does exist, and I have definitive evidence. This is all that I can tell you. Go and tell the Dragon King, and see if he's interested. Send reinforcements, and I'll give him the evidence.”
Shangguan Ru believed her words, but she still affected an air of suspicion anyways. ”You've made up a lot of stories that you told the Dragon King. If you want him to trust you, you'll have to offer him the evidence first.”
”Believe me or not – it's up to the Dragon King. Anyways, if I die, the truth will be buried for good.”
The look on the Second Consort's face was very firm, and she obviously wouldn't make any concessions.
”I'll deliver the message to the Dragon King. Please get your evidence ready – if you really have any that is.”
”Do it quickly.”
The female soldiers of the Land of Fragrance left. All the soldiers believed that large numbers of reinforcements were coming soon.
After returning to her original position, the Second Consort found that nearly all of the troops that she had mustered up were gone. She said to Mo Lin, ”The enemies are coming. Prince Duodun should be on the battleground.”
”No. Today, His Highness must remain alive.” Mo Lin flatly refused.
The Second Consort didn't know how Duodun had managed to offend the old Khan's wing guard. She gently sighed and said, ”Maybe it's not so bad. Take Prince Duodun with you and leave when the enemies come.”
Mo Lin didn't reply.
At this point, Duodun looked at the Second Consort and asked, ”What about you? Are you going to stay?”
”I can draw a bow, so of course I'm staying.”
”I hope that you'll… die here,” Duodun coldly shot the first arrow at her.
The Second Consort gave a bright smile, ”I'll be with you even if I become a ghost. You can't escape from me.”
Duodun's eyes were blazing with fury. He still believed that it was purely the people close to him who had ruined his plan, and that the Second Consort was one of them. But what made him feel ashamed were the tears spilling from his eyes. ”No, no. I don't want you to die. Please leave with me.”
The Second Consort felt like her heart was about to melt.
Leaving aside where the Dragon King was, Shangguan Ru rode toward the Middle Corps, hoping to borrow some troops from Dugu Xian in order to have the Second Consort hand over her supposed evidence.
A group of cavalrymen were riding towards her head-on. At the sight of the female soldiers of the Land of Fragrance, they yelled, ”The King Flag is down! The King Flag is down!”
Shangguan Ru was startled and she asked, ”Whose King Flag?”
”Luoluo's Flag! The Dragon King shot it down! Luoluo has fled. We've achieved a great victory.”
”Will the Middle Corps come?” Shangguan Ru rejoiced.
After those cavalrymen arrived in front of her, their leader shook his head. ”The fight isn't over yet. The Middle Corps has gone to reinforce the Right Corps.”
After figuring out the Dragon King's whereabouts, Shangguan Ru was relieved, but she knew the Dragon King well. He probably wouldn't willingly change his operational plans in order to get some secret information on his parentage. It was also clearly against the army's overall interests to leave Shulitu's Right Corps behind and go to help Duodun's Left Corps.
”Are you going to the Left Corps to deliver the message?”
”Yes.”
”Tell them that reinforcements will arrive soon.”
”But…”
”Just do it. I'll take care of it.”
”Yes…” The leader answered hesitantly.
”Red Bat, take the others and leave with them,” Shangguan Ru ordered.
”Instructor–”
Red Bat had scarcely finished speaking that word when Shangguan Ru spurred her horse on and galloped away so quickly that even Qian Ying failed to catch up with her.
She had a plan, but she didn't know how likely it was to succeed.