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Tang Yin was silent for a long time, then raised his head and smiled at Fan Ju, and said: "Elder Fan, it has been hard on you, I'll get someone to prepare a place to stay first. You can rest at Heaven Pass for the night, and when tomorrow morning, I'll get someone to send you to Shunzhou."

"Thank you, Master Tang!" Fan Ju stood up and cupped his fists in respect.

"Elder Fan is being too courteous." Tang Yin laughed: "Just call me by my name in the future."

"Hehe, alright. This old man will take my leave first!"

After Tang Yin sent him off, he returned to the tent. Seeing that his subordinates did not leave, he looked at himself with wide eyes, then laughed out loud and asked: "Why are all of you looking at me for?"

Qiu Zhen did not have time to linger on this riddle, he straightforwardly asked: Master, what do you think?

"What do you mean?" Tang Yin pretended ignorance.

"Should we declare war on Zhong Tian?" Qiu Zhen pressed on.

Tang Yin tapped his forehead, and said: "Allow me to think about this matter."

Master, don't think about it anymore, Zhong Tian still has a foothold, it's just the right time, once Zhong Tian's power stabilizes in the future, it will be extremely difficult to move him, do you really plan to become a subject of the nation's destruction, and become a subordinate of Zhong Tian the traitor? Qiu Zhen's tone began to become anxious.

Tang Yin's face changed slightly, a bright light appeared in his eyes, but returned to normal in the blink of an eye. He laughed out loud, looked at the people around him and said: "I'm tired, everyone should go back and rest!"

This time, everyone's opinion was surprisingly unanimous, as they all advocated a move to suppress Zhong Tian, and to recover their Feng Country.

Not just them, even the soldiers and the commoners below hated Zhong Tian to the bone. Killing Your Majesty and supporting yourself as a king was already considered outrageous, but the most despicable thing was that Zhong Tian had actually changed the name of the country! It had to be known that the ancestors of the people of Feng Ren were all people of Wind, and he had already been called a man of Wind for over a thousand years, so how could it be changed so easily?

However, Tang Yin was now a County Magistrate. If he did not give out an order, no one could do anything but sit and wait for his decision.

Tang Yin was hesitating and indecisive, but the spies sent out by Sky Eye and Earth Web had already continuously sent information regarding his Yan City back.

In order to win over Ning Country, Zhong Tian had consolidated his throne. Not only had he ceded over the Tong Gate to Ning Country along with the one hundred kilometers west of it, he had also ceded an annual tribute to the Ning Country. This meant that after Feng Country, one would be a Subordinate Country, and had to obey the commands of the Ning Country.

In addition to that, in order to win over the rich and influential families like Liang Xing, Wu, and Zi Yang, Zhong Tian had also promised to continue giving high status to Liang Xing, Wu Yu, and Ziyang Haochun, as well as bestowing the title of Subordinate Territories, as well as marrying into Wu Family, so that he could marry Wu Yu, Wu Yu's eldest daughter, Wu Mei, and become the imperial concubine.

When he heard the news, Tang Yin did not do anything, but after hearing the news, Tang Yin was infuriated. In the past, he only treated Wu Mei as her close female friend and did not feel any other feelings towards her, but now that he heard that Zhong Tian wanted to make Wu Mei his princess, he felt that the treasure that he thought of was being snatched away by someone else.

Through his spy, Tang Yin found out that all the members of the house, Wu Family, and Ziyang Family had been placed under Zhong Tian's house arrest. The fact that Zhong Tian was going to marry Wu Mei was already a foregone conclusion, and the marriage date was set for the end of the next month.

The complete opposite of Tang Yin was Qiu Zhen.

Hearing that Zhong Tian wanted to marry Wu Mei, Qiu Zhen was overjoyed. At this time, he no longer tried to persuade Tang Yin, but kept on whispering in his ears. The words "hatred for the death of the monarch but hatred for the taking of a wife", "men are nothing if not protection for their own woman", etc.

If Tang Yin didn't treat Qiu Zhen as his friend or brother, he would have already killed him with a slash of his blade.

During this period of time, the heroes of all parts of the Feng Country had also surged into the Tianyuan County in large batches.

Back then, in order to reinforce the Yan City, the Feng Country had all been emptied out, and now, the only thing that possessed heavy soldiers was the Tianyuan County. It could be said that currently, the only power within the Feng Country that could contend against Zhong Tian would belong to Tang Yin's lineage. All the intelligent people within the Feng Country had placed their hopes on, and naturally began to gather towards his location.

Amongst those who fled to the Tianyuan County, there was no lack of outstanding talents, among whom three were the ones that Tang Yin paid the most attention to.

Initially, when he was reinvigorating the Yan City, he had accompanied the troops outside the city of Yan City and engaged in battle with the Ning Army. Originally, the Feng Country occupied the time of day, location, people, and a total of fifty to six hundred thousand people, and it was no problem to defeat the Ning Army which had come from a long distance of four hundred thousand. However, after fighting it, his Feng Army suffered a series of losses, especially his Central Army, which caused him to suffer heavy losses.

The latter didn't let him go home, he only allowed him to stay in the Yan City. When Zhong Tian rebelled, Peng Haochu immediately escaped out of the city in the chaos, because his home had already become a safe place where he did not dare to return to. After considering the circumstances, Peng Haochu came to the Tianyuan County to seek refuge.

With regards to Peng Haochu, Tang Yin admired him a lot, and took him in as his own, so he could be the Tianyuan Army's Deputy Commander. He could cooperate with Gu Yue to control these three divisions.

Gu Yue was loyal to him, but lacked scheming, and Peng Haochu was a person with extremely strong stratagems, but he was still a subordinate, his loyalty was hard to guarantee, making him Gu Yue's assistant, was completely complementary.

The other two were both scholars, one was called Zhang Zhe, the other was called Xuan Wang.

Xuan Wang would not advise, and would not lead his troops to war. The reason why Tang Yin valued him was because he had given Tang Yin something, a Crossbow.

At that time, Crossbow were still not prevalent, and the only dukedom that used them was Chuan Country. Although it was convenient to use and did not consume any physical strength, its shortcomings were also very fatal. That was, its power was too small, the Crossbow could not shoot out parabola like a bow and arrow, and its range of attack was also greatly reduced. The Crossbow's advantage and disadvantage were both prominent weapons, and because of this, they were not widely used.

The Crossbow that Xuan Wang had brought along had been modified by him, had three arrows, but could shoot three arrows at the same time, or three arrows at the same time, which was also convenient and fast for replenishing arrows. Now, Xuan Wang had come to find Tang Yin again, recommended his own Crossbow to Tang Yin. This time, he had finally obtained recognition, Tang Yin was not a person of this era, so naturally, he was familiar with the power of these Crossbow, and was well aware of how powerful these weapons were in close combat. He then rewarded Xuan Wang with quite a bit of gold and silver, gave him an official position, and had him supervise and manufacture even more Crossbow, so he could use them in the Sky Eye, Earth Web and Dark Arrow.

As for Zhang Zhe, he was the one Tang Yin valued the most out of the trio.

He suggested to Tang Yin that they should raise their troops to suppress Zhong Tian, but that wasn't all. He suggested three reasons why Tang Yin would definitely win.

Firstly, Zhong Tian committed treason and killed the Sovereign King. Tang Yin led the troops to suppress them.

Second, Zhong Tian wanted to sell the country for glory, so he changed its name, causing the people to hate him, Tang Yin wanted to suppress them, and had the advantage in terms of people's hearts.

Third, and also the most important, although Zhong Tian's military strength was large, it was still a mob. Two hundred thousand of the local army scattered like a pile of sand, walking around as if they were false, and three hundred thousand Central Army s were also not loyal enough, as the Directly Subordinate Army s were bought by him with a large sum of money. Naturally, they were not loyal in any way, and the Leopards, Wu Family s legion, were only controlled by Zhong Tian because the patriarchs of the three families were under his control. The only ones who were truly loyal to Zhong Tian were the six legions that he directly belonged to. As for the four hundred thousand soldiers of the Ning Country, they were nothing to worry about. They had travelled to the soil during the expedition, and the supply line was too long, so once their supplies were cut, the four hundred thousand soldiers would fall into disorder. Furthermore, they had already been at the Feng Country for several months.

The reason that Zhang Zhe proposed to Tang Yin to win against him in these three aspects made Tang Yin much more at ease, Qiu Zhen had always proposed to him that they attack Zhong Tian, but Qiu Zhen did not tell him how much of a chance they had won, nor did he tell him what they should do, so Tang Yin was not confident, he hesitated, and after Zhang Zhe analyzed everything, Tang Yin's confidence immediately increased, and realized that he had a possibility of matching up against Zhong Tian in power.

At this time, Tang Yin still did not say clearly that he was going to send out troops to suppress them.

Along with the addition of these talents and heroes, the strength of their Tianyuan Army had increased by a large margin, and there were more and more generals who were used to war and who had deep foresight. However, their main goal of joining Tang Yin was to rely on him for their army, but he did not say anything for a long time, and everyone's emotions started to fluctuate a little.

Today, the day to force Tang Yin to express his stance had finally arrived.

Zhong Tian's orders were sent to the Heaven Pass s.

The person who delivered the decree was called Zhao Er, he was Zhong Tian's retainer, as the saying goes, one man ascends to the heavens, chickens and dogs ascend to the dao, Zhong Tian established himself as the king, and all the retainers obtained positions.

Under the protection of the bodyguards accompanying Zhao Er, he arrogantly entered the Heaven Pass and looked around. Looking at the surrounding people's Tianyuan Army, his face did not have a single trace of fear, and asked in a loud voice: "Who is Tang Yin? Are you still not coming out to receive the decree? "

Under the gazes of many soldiers from the Tianyuan Army, Tang Yin walked out of the large tent in large square steps.

When they saw him come out, they all held their breaths.

Everyone knew what Zhong Tian's decree meant. As long as Tang Yin received the decree, it would be equivalent to kowtowing to Zhong Tian, and the last hope to restore his Feng Country would be shattered.

However, not a single person spoke, and time seemed to have stopped. It was frighteningly quiet, from the commander to the ordinary soldiers, all of them had their hearts in their throats, waiting for Tang Yin's decision.