C329 (1/2)

The military camp at the back was completely destroyed. Other than ashes and charred corpses, nothing else was left!

There was no need to clean up the camp and could only give up. With the arrival of the Duke of Ba Tian, the scouts had met with defeated soldiers along the way, allowing them to gather at their original camp. The defeated soldiers and generals slowly returned.

However, these people didn't bring back even the slightest bit of information regarding the War God King and the Iron Guard!

The War God King and the Iron Guard seemed to have vanished into thin air, not even leaving the slightest trace of them!

In the camp of the Iron Guard, those charred corpses, the tall and majestic ones, were naturally the soldiers of the Rising Sun Empire. There were also some short and thin ones who were either Iron Guards or people from the Northern Reaches. They couldn't tell who was who because of the charred corpses.

”Reporting, grand duke …”

The horse galloped over from the distance, and the knight, gasping for breath, turned around and fell down on the ground in front of the Grand Duke, speechless for a moment.

An extremely bad and ominous feeling once again arose from the bottom of Duke Ba Tian's heart. He sharply said: ”What are you panicking for? Explain what happened? ”

”The people of the northern region have set up an ambush.” The people of the northern region have set up an ambush.

”What?”

The first duke grabbed him by the neck and said, ”Say it again.”

”People of the North … Set Up... Our army was ambushed... ”Defeat …”

The soldier's face turned blue as he struggled to speak. He felt like he was being strangled to death as he looked at Duke Ba Tian with a pleading look. His two hands held tightly onto the Duke's wrist.

Duke Ba Tian realized that he had lost his composure and released the soldiers, ”Speak clearly.”

The soldier knelt on the ground, gasping for breath as he recounted what had happened.

After being ambushed, the Duke of Sky's men left, and his men continued to hunt down and kill those from the northern region. Everything had gone smoothly. The Northern Prince had been assassinated, the Ninth Prince had betrayed and fled, and his army had been utterly defeated. However, what happened afterwards was out of everyone's expectation. The Rising Sun Empire's soldiers, who were chasing after the people of the north, actually entered the ambush set by the people of the north.

The scales of victory began to tilt, rapidly slanting from the Rising Sun Empire towards the northern region!

”Impossible!”

”How is this possible?”

The Grand Duke panted heavily, unable to accept the fact that, from a great victory to a great defeat, the change in one night had been too great, completely exceeding his knowledge and control.

”Who could have set up such a deadly scheme?”

The soldier who reported back shook his head, ”This subordinate does not know, and has been ordered to risk his life to come back and report to the grand duke.”

The Grand Duke sighed. It would be too late for his men to receive any orders, even if he gave them, for them to fly their horses and pass them on. The situation on the battlefield was ever-changing. He had distanced himself from the battlefield, so how could he control the situation?

”Is there any news of the War God King or the Iron Guard?”

The soldier kneeling on the ground was at a loss. ”The Battle God King and the Iron Guard, aren't they in the barracks?”

He looked at the large camp that was still filled with black smoke, and quickly lowered his head, not daring to say anything.