After hesitating again and again, the old man Hualong chose to follow Fang Shisan to Anning City to see the situation.
Anyway, it won't take long, and Yunyang has always been very cunning, if all this is a scam, then it would be embarrassing to go back home like this and throw it at grandma's house.
Old Man Hualong didn't want to admit that Yunyang really had the ability to kill hundreds of thousands of people with a flick of a finger, but the fact was unchangeable. When he saw the still burning city of Anning, Old Man Hualong only felt that his whole body was shaking. His strength seemed to have been drained.
That sigh carried a despair of having to face the abyss.
"As the thirteenth girl said... Yunhai has always been based on business. War is not what we want to see. Since the thirteenth girl is willing to lend us the 20 cities in the south of Tiancheng, I will represent the lord and the son. Accepted. For the follow-up, we will send envoys to Lingyun City to make an agreement with Lord Yunyang."
Fang Shisan still closed his eyes, said with a slight smile:
"Then trouble seniors."
The old man Hualong glanced at the charred corpse on the ground, and asked in a hoarse voice:
"Miss Thirteen can't see it. Today's Anning City is in flames, the city walls are pitch-black, and there are wreckage everywhere outside the city. Youdao is an ominous weapon for soldiers, and it is used as a last resort. Miss Thirteen doesn't think what she did is a little...too violent Yet?"
Fang Shisan said softly:
"As the old man said, maybe it's because I can't see it. I can't see how painful the enemies who died in the war are, but I can realize that I saved the How many real people. Just because I can't see, I have always used soldiers much more ruthlessly than others, and I don't mind what other people think of me."
The old man Hualong smiled, got up and said goodbye.
He was naturally unwilling to leave like this. Before leaving, he ordered Yunhai's soldiers to stay behind in this chaotic battlefield and find a way to investigate the reason for the defeat of the coalition forces. Fang Shisan seems to have devoted all his energy to chasing down the fleeing coalition forces, but he did not allocate enough manpower to drive away the soldiers of Yunhai. In the end, the soldiers sent back an investigation report, saying that many traces of magic were found in the soil, and it was suspected that Anning City had been bombed by ultra-ancient large-scale magic.
This result seems to be the most reasonable explanation.
Most likely, Lide reached some kind of agreement with that powerful boss, and she took the initiative to calm down the situation. Only in this way can the unimaginable scene in front of him be explained. However, while the old man Hualong comforted himself, he also inevitably had some doubts: Can a ten-level magician really destroy an elite army of more than a hundred thousand people with a snap of his fingers? Why did Skadi help Yunyang to this extent? Or is it that this devastating blow was not actually done by Skadi, but was similar to those unknown lethal weapons used by Yunyang when he attacked Yunhai back then...
The old man Hualong returned to the sea of clouds in confusion.
Compared to him, who had seen the burning city of Anning with his own eyes, the high-ranking lords and nobles behind the coalition forces were really stunned.
When the news reached King Huai's territory, Lord Huai, who was drinking tea, froze, and the precious ice-cracked teacup in his hand fell to the ground and shattered into countless pieces. Everyone present, including Duke Huai's son Kaiya, and the top nobles in Duke Huai's territory, all stood up. No one spoke, only endless silence remained.
The entire reception hall was terribly quiet, and no one even cleaned the shards of teacups on the floor.
"Annihilated...? Are you sure you're not joking?"
Lord Huai Wang looked at the soldiers covered in blood who were kneeling on the ground to report the news, and he said such a sentence after a long time.
The soldier's eyes were dull, his voice was low, and he only told his story in full. When referring to the explosion, he was incoherent for a while, and could only describe the scene he saw intermittently:
"Suddenly there was a loud noise from the city. Before we had time to see what happened, a crack appeared in the protection of the military formation. Then there was fire, everywhere was fire, and everywhere was red, as if it was going to roast us Same! The smoke cloud went straight up, and the sound was as loud as thunder from the sky exploding near us, and the broken soil under our feet was like quicksand, which could sink both feet... After we escaped, we found that there were dead people with limbs missing everywhere. None of the brothers from Chengcheng came back... When we fled, the people from Yunyang came after us, and the whole world was covered by their people..."
Lord Huai seemed to have caught some kind of flaw in his words, and hurriedly asked:
"If that's the case, then how did you break out of the encirclement and come back? This is simply contradictory, come here, take him out for strict inspection—"
Before the words were finished, Lord Huai saw the soldier looking at him with ashamed eyes, and immediately came to his senses, and he didn't speak for a while. Whether the soldier's words are true or not, there will be results soon. If the coalition forces are really destroyed, Yunyang will soon deploy defenses on the Tiancheng border, and then gather strength to attack the next territory. If the survivor didn't make up anything, there is only one possibility: he was deliberately released by Yunyang.
It's like provocation.
The person who kills you will tell you the process; not only to kill, but also to punish his heart.
Lord Huai Wang could even picture Li De crossing his legs, and said to him with a smile:
"That's right, I was the one who killed the people. Those troops you worked so hard to raise, including infantry and cavalry, are all gone. But, what can you do with me?"
Lide, who had sent a businessman to deliver the message for two meetings in a row, absolutely could not say such hurtful words.
Kaiya, the son of Prince Huai, didn't say a word the whole time, but silently clenched his fists, unable to believe every word he heard.
He has always felt that he is the chess player who is constantly calculating behind his back, and no matter how fast Lide grows, he is only qualified to wrestle with him. This time he planned two King Huai meetings, and wanted to grab most of Tian Cheng's benefits without any effort, but the only opponent in his eyes was the sea of clouds in the south. He has always been condescendingly looking at Lide and Yunyang, thinking that Lide just made a few right moves by luck, and he abused vegetables and abused him to give him a sense of superiority, right
Until today, he didn't realize a very cruel thing.
He counted Lide in the capital, counted Lide in the north, and counted Lide during the civil war in Yunyang. And Lied seems to have never launched any counterattacks against him, so that Kaiya has always regarded him as an inconspicuous pawn on the chessboard of the world, and he is at the mercy of others. It wasn't until this moment that Kaiya realized that she was the same in his eyes.
To Lied, Kaia had never been much of a chess player.
He is not even qualified to be a pawn.