Chapter 1173 - In front of Hundred Victory Pass (2/2)

Hu Zhongyuan clenched his fists and his joints crackled.

Yinyu’s words were, “I have seen his concubine Kong’s beauty. I have been thinking about her recently and want to invite her to the Imperial City as hostage.”

It wasn’t much for relatives to be sent as hostage. However those words were obviously saying that Yinyu craved for her beauty.

How was that something a wise ruler would say? Not only towards Zong Shou, it was an insult to the whole Great Gan!

Even if they thought about it now, Hu Zhongyuan was filled with rage and shame.

“Why did those people in the Cabinet ask for help? They knew it was impossible but they still sent a letter, they were asking to get humiliated!”

Prime Minister was really dumb and knew that Great Shang definitely wouldn’t help them.

“The Cabinet isn’t wrong, to show politeness first to grab the moral high ground.”

Kong Yao shook her head. She agreed with Renbo’s actions. She also agreed to what Ren Tianxing had said.

Yinyu had the twelve Copper Men and also Li Biexue as Grand Teacher. He did have the ability to be so sharp and arrogant.

However the methods that this person had were still rare in the world.

To crush the Shi Family such that they had to focus all their strength to attack Jiangnan and not restrict the emperor.

To anger Zong Shou, he thought of a plan to force Great Gan into a situation where they couldn’t advance or retreat.

Yinyu also wanted to act on the various aristocratic families in the country.

Those powers would go all out to resist even if they knew they weren’t strong enough, even fighting to death.

However if Great Gan fought the Dark World Demon Court, these aristocratic families would rather survive with Great Shang than be pillaged by the Night Demons and lose all their power in Great Gan.

If Zong Shou really got angry and started to fight with Shi Qianli, no matter if they won or lost, Yinyu was happy to see it happen. He was killing many birds with one stone.

“I still think the same as two days ago! It is really dangerous here, Concubine please move away from this area.”

That Ren Tianxing stood like an iron tower, looking towards Kong Yao stubbornly.

“With me here I can defend for ten days! However if anything happens to Concubine, it would affect His Majesty’s decision making. Two days ago, you used the reason that there is no news about His Majesty and you needed to calm the hearts of the troops to not return. Now that His Majesty is about to come back, you can do so…”

Kong Yao still shook her head and didn’t agree, “The twelve Copper Men are in Yinyu’s hands. Great Gan is facing so much danger. Only by staying here can I help my husband. We can’t lose this pass. I will defend to the end and live and die along with it!”

Ren Tianxing frowned, he looked towards Hu Zhongyuan in an annoyed manner. The latter gave a helpless expression.

Kong Yao was really stubborn and if she made her mind up, even if mountains cracked and oceans broke apart it wouldn’t be changed. How could he manage to persuade her?

Ruotao and Suchen were filled with respect. As expected from Zong Shou’s woman, as expected from the famous commander to be so bold.

She just stood here and didn’t need to command. The soldiers beneath just needed to look up and they felt more confident.

Kong Yao was expressionless. She understood Ren Tianxing’s worry but she wouldn’t compromise.

Only by lasting a long enough time here could she get more troops over from Great Gan.

Only by causing Shi Qianli to see no hope of success would he turn his attention back to Great Shang to fight Yinyu and not compromise.

Only by wasting Great Shang’s money such that they had to increase taxes and continue to act on the aristocratic families.

Could they cause chaos to grow and more people to fight back and restrict Yinyu.

Zong Shou wasn’t able to get the twelve Copper Men so this was the only thing she could do for him.

That was what husband and wife should do for one another.

“What is that?”

“Fire Crow?”

“Did Huoya Demon Lord arrive?”

The discussion caused Kong Yao to be awakened. She looked up to see many red birds coming out of the cloud layer. There were more and more of them and they covered the sky.

They were all birds formed by spiritual flames, tens of thousands of them.

Kong Yao’s face sunk. If it was this person then the battle today would be problematic.

This person’s strength was late Saint Realm. However his abilities were really suited for sieging.

She was originally unafraid but due to the troops being shifted to the tomb and the Tianfang World, there were only five hundred thousand left.

Tens of miles away, a broken drum-like laughter spread forth.

“His Majesty Yuanchen has said! If Kong Yao is willing to surrender, he can let Zong Shou live!”