Chapter 209: My Host, Let Me Share the Storyline With You

Chapter 209: My Host, Let Me Share the Storyline With You

In the Uyghurs commander tent...

“What?!” The Baoyi Qaghan grabbed the messenger’s collars with blood-red eyes. “My little brother has been killed by the Anxi army? Do you know what’s the consequence of reporting false military reports?!”

The messenger was scared out of his wits.

Like a terrified quail, he fearfully replied, “Khagan, I’d never dare lie to you no matter how inflated my guts are! The Chongde Khan and his army have been massacred by the Anxi army!”

There was no way to conceal the news about Shu Yichao killing the Chongde Khan as Beiting neighbored the nomadic plains. The Chongde Khan and his soldiers were dead, but there were merchant convoys roaming the area.

These merchant convoys were the ones who spread the news, which was how it got to the Uyghurs’ commander tent.

Massacred?

Those words jolted Baoyi Qaghan, clearing his clouded mind a little. “Did he mess with the wrong person?”

The Chongde Khan’s arrogance and foolishness were an intentional decision made between the brothers.

On the one hand, the Baoyi Qaghan couldn’t let the Chongde Khan gain prestige, or else his enemies could attempt to dethrone him by rallying under Chongde Khan.

On the other hand, the Baoyi Qaghan needed someone influential but unreasonable. By him playing the ‘good cop’ and someone else taking the role of the ‘bad cop’, they could more easily maintain diplomatic ties with Great Tang while demanding more rewards and fortune.

Being arrogant and unreasonable came with a price, but no one in their right mind would pick on the Uyghur Qaghan’s little brother, the future qaghan, over minor matters.

The other Uyghur tribes had neither the guts nor the ability to do so.

Great Tang could do it, but they weren’t inclined. The Tibetan Empire could do it too, but their hands weren’t long enough to reach them.

The Baoyi Qaghan didn’t expect the Chongde Qaghan to make a misstep under such circumstances.

“How many people does the Anxi army have? What’s the situation?” the Baoyi Qaghan grimly asked. “Tell me everything you have heard; don’t hide anything!”

What he heard was so shocking that he fell into a daze.

The Anxi army has hundreds of armored war elephants?

Wait a minute. How did the Anxi army even get those?!

And you mentioned that they have pegasus cavalrymen too.

Isn’t that Chach’s specialty? How did it fall into the hands of the Anxi army?

Countless specters reminiscent of a snowstorm?

I did hear that they have a necromancer, but aren’t you exaggerating the numbers too much?

Deities riding on flying lions?

The more the Baoyi Qaghan heard, the more baffled he became.

As someone who had thrived from profiting off easy battles, he understood the importance of accurately evaluating the enemy’s military might.

“The Tangs simultaneously defeated our army and the Tibetans?” the Baoyi Qaghan bit his lips as he asked.

No city could withstand such an onslaught for more than a day.

After crushing the Tibetans and the Uyghurs, Shu Yichao successfully conquered Beiting. Decades had passed by now, but the Tang flag was finally flown in the Beiting Protectorate once more.

Shu Yichao proceeded to dispatch his army toward Yizhou, which was known in the future as Hami.

The Tibetan garrison troops in Yizhou panicked.

The Tibetans stationed in Beiting had naturally requested reinforcement from fellow vassal states in the surroundings to fend against the Anxi army, and Yizhou, Shazhou, and Guazhou had sent troops over to help out.

But their scouts returned with soul-crushing news.

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Yizhou was an important city along the Silk Road linking the Western Regions to the mainland, which was why it was aptly dubbed the chokepoint of the Western Regions.

Whether one was traveling from the Western Regions to the mainland or vice-versa, if they failed to get a stable footing in Yizhou, they would run the risk of being stabbed from behind.

“What should we do?!”

In Yizhou’s Governor Manor, Yizhou’s Tibetan city lord paced around the room with bloodshot eyes, looking like a trapped beast.

“What should we do?!”

The nobles and commanders around him had awful complexions. Just a glance at the map was enough to drive them insane.

Yizhou was so close to Beiting that a fast steed took only days to travel from one to the other.

The Anxi army had flying troops, specters, war elephants, and massive terracotta warriors. Faced with such a lineup, no one in Yizhou’s Governor Manor could figure out a plausible way to protect the city.

“Oi!” the Tibetan city lord roared. “Why are you standing around like blocks of wood? Come up with something! You people had also dispatched soldiers when we slaughtered the Shu army!

“Shu Chuanfeng and the Anxi army have returned from hell to exact vengeance on us. Those demons have been killing everyone on sight in Beiting. Even the Holywolf Warrior and the high shaman have become her zombies. I hope you aren’t so naive as to think that you can escape the ordeal just by surrendering.

“We’re all on the same boat now, so think! Figure out a solution!

“None of you will be leaving here unless you come up with something. Those demons will be heading here once they are done gobbling everyone up in Beiting. We’re going to die together at this rate! Don’t even think about escaping from this undead calamity!”

The Tibetan commanders and nobles felt a headache settling in.

What they regretted was not participating in the operation against the Shu army back then, or being dragged here by the city lord today. Instead, they regretted not grabbing everything they had and escaping when they heard about the undead army half a year ago.

The demons were now knocking on their doors; fighting was not an option, and neither was running. All of them stood in a daze like frozen chickens.

Just then, the Tibetan city lord heard an exclamation outside.

“Deer Girl!”

“It’s the Deer Girl!”

The Tibetan city lord was first stunned before narrowing his eyes in skepticism.

Seconds later, the city lord’s son excitedly barged into the room and exclaimed, “Father, there’s hope for us! The Deer Girl has come to aid us!”