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Chapter 140 - 130 Yelv Nanyan’s Plan t
Chapter 140 - 130 Yelv Nanyan’s Plan t
Chapter 140: Chapter 130 Yelv Nanyan’s Plan t
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Hearing Wu Yuan’s news, Yelv Nanyan and Xiao Wenyao were both stunned for a long while.
At that moment, the thought that her uncle might have also died in battle left Xiao Wenyao feeling so weak that she plumped down onto the ground.
She felt little for her father, King of the Great Sum, especially since he had sent her to the North Fre King like a tool, so she wouldn’t be overly saddened by her father’s death.
But she felt differently about her uncle, who had always treated her well and had even spoken before setting off of sending her to Great Sum after taking North City.
Alas, now all those plans had vanished into thin air.
Yelv Nanyan muttered to herself, “How could there be a defeat… There shouldn’t have been many soldiers defending North City, even if they couldn’t win, the king and his men shouldn’t have been unable to escape…”
As she spoke to herself, Yelv Nanyan suddenly looked up, staring intently at Wu Yuan, “Are you sure the news you heard is true?”
Still crying, Wu Yuan continued, “My lady, I didn’t just hear it; I also saw Great Sum’s soldiers digging many large pits to bury bodies, and when I entered the city, I saw large numbers of Barbarian Tribe soldiers being tied up and taken somewhere.”
Hearing Wu Yuan’s words, Yelv Nanyan felt her mind go blank.
If what Wu Yuan had said was true, it would be an immense disaster for the Sky Wolf King tribe.
This southern expedition involved most of the tribe’s able-bodied men, and with so many men gone, the Sky Wolf King tribe faced a catastrophic blow.
With so many men gone, the Sky Wolf King tribe would worry less about food, but without men, other tribes on the steppe would certainly target them. Especially the North Fre King’s tribe!
The Barbarian Tribes were not harmonious with each other and often waged wars.
If the Barbarian Tribes were harmonious, they wouldn’t have splintered into several major tribes each with its own royal court.
Although the North Fre King had initially lent tens of thousands of soldiers to the Sky Wolf King’s tribe, which appeared to show a good relationship between the two tribes, it was only because the Sky Wolf King’s tribe had promised many benefits in return, and the North Fre King sent the soldiers symbolically. Now that the Sky Wolf King was gone, and the tribe had lost so many men, the North Fre King would not be polite. He was very likely to lead his people to rob the Sky Wolf King tribe of food or women.
If the North Fre King took all the food from the Sky Wolf King tribe, many of the elderly and children would not survive the winter.
Perhaps by next spring, the Sky Wolf King tribe would no longer exist.
What worried Yelv Nanyan even more was that if the North Fre King brought his troops to plunder the Sky Wolf King tribe, they might capture her and force her to become the North Fre King’s woman.
Yelv Nanyan knew well what kind of man the North Fre King was, and she certainly did not want to go to his royal court.
Thinking this, Yelv Nanyan quickly collected herself; they needed to save themselves now.
Regardless of the conditions, they had to redeem the hundred thousand Barbarian Tribe soldiers captured by North City.
Among those soldiers might be men from the North Fre King’s tribe, but with a hundred thousand captives, there would undoubtedly be tens of thousands from the Sky Wolf King tribe, even if all of the North Fre King’s men survived.
Also, Yelv Nanyan planned to ransom only the soldiers from the Sky Wolf King tribe.
Having regained her composure, Yelv Nanyan immediately said, “Call a meeting of the tribal elders at once!”
“Wu Yuan, you may leave for now; I’ll call you if needed.”
Wiping his tears with his sleeve, Wu Yuan obeyed, “Yes, my lady.”
Yelv Nanyan glanced at the listless Xiao Wenyao who sat on the ground, let out a sigh, and said, “Yaoyao, you should go out too.”
Xiao Wenyao didn’t respond. She slowly got up and left Yelv Nanyan’s tent directly. At that moment, Xiao Wenyao was void of any emotion, her face expressionless, her eyes devoid of any sparkle; she seemed like a walking corpse.
The news brought by Wu Yuan was too devastating for her; so much so, she now forgot how to grieve.
Soon, the elders of the Sky Wolf King tribe appeared inside Yelv Nanyan’s large tent.
At this time, the elders did not know what had happened. They had just seen Wu Yuan leaving the lady’s tent and thought they were summoned because the Sky Wolf King had conquered all of North City.
The elders sat on the ground inside the lady’s tent, and one of them asked, “My lady, may I ask why you have called us? Could it be that the king has taken North City?”
Yelv Nanyan’s face was pale, and with a sigh, she said, “You must be prepared for what I am about to tell you.”
Seeing that Yelv Nanyan had not answered the question and instead said something so ominous, the elders were stunned and a bad feeling began to grow inside them.
At that moment, another elder pressed, “My lady, what has happened? Please, just tell us!”
Yelv Nanyan then said, “The king has been defeated, and two hundred thousand soldiers have been killed with another hundred thousand captured by North City; the king himself perished under the walls of Yan County.”
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bolt from the blue. All the elders in the tent were stunned, their minds went blank, reacting just as Yelv Nanyan had when she first heard the news.