Chapter 559 Governing the River

After killing Xia Nan, there was only half of the Yangtze River and mountains left in the Yongye Empire, and the main forces were lost. Millions of troops gathered together east and west were stationed along the Yean River, hoping to stop the progress of the Sword Empire.

Everyone knows that this is bullshit. The Yelu River defense line did not exist a month ago. The army organized in a hurry basically had no combat effectiveness, and the little-like army in Ye Shengcai's hand was only about 200,000. These are also the main force of the new army trained by Xia Nan. Those collateral troops also have temporary conscripted troops, most of which are not even equipped with armor.

No one believes that such a force can stop the army of the Sword Empire. Even if there are still 2 million troops in Ye Shengcai's hands, the whole world is more willing to believe that the army of the Sword Empire will win.

In the battle of the Dark City, the Eternal Night Royal Family was slaughtered, and none of the other staff ministers, Ye Shengcai, did not keep up when they escaped, so the current regime of Ye Shengcai is completely empty.

And if the position is empty, there will always be people who care about these official positions are some great nobles in the northern part of the Yongye Empire. On the one hand, they threaten the night saint with more privileges and interests, and on the other hand, they put on a submissive face, hoping that the night saint can give them official positions. These ordinary places are expensive. At this moment, the clan controls the life and death of the night holy talent regime.

As a last resort, Ye Shengcai could only compromise with these people. Ye Shengcai allowed these people to give high-ranking salaries, bullying the people, and turning a blind eye to what they did in the fish village. With the support and support of these people, he reluctantly maintained his peaceful rule.

These nobles took advantage of it, but in terms of their ability to govern the country, they are not as good as Xia Changfeng. They are afraid of the arrival of the Sword Empire, but they have no ability to stop the advancement of the Sword Empire.

However, they also used their brains. These nobles knew that it was a fantasy to expect the army to resist. Rather than hoping that those old, weak soldiers were possessed by gods, they were more willing to believe that the conscience of the Sword Empire would take the initiative to stop the attack.

Thinking of this layer, they came up with the idea of letting the Sword Empire take the initiative to stop the attack, so all kinds of methods were proposed.

These nobles think that as long as Ye Shengcai removes the emperor's name by himself, changes it to the King of Eternal Night, contributes beautiful gold coins, and recognizes Emperor St. Rudolph as his godfather, the war can be avoided.

At the meeting of one day, several nobles took out the drafted documents and handed them to Ye Shengcai: "Your Majesty, in order for us to settle down, I hope you can make a correct judgment and save everyone's lives with personal shame."

As soon as the words fell, the ministers who put together temporarily knelt down on the ground like dumplings. They prayed loudly that their emperor would agree to the decision.

After taking the document and reading it, this almost insulting proposal made Ye Shengcai furious: "Bastard! I'm 35 years old! Let me recognize a person under 30 years old as my godfather? Then cut off the title of emperor and become a king?" He roared loudly and slapped the table. The compensation in the documents and things such as sending his son as a hostage in the future seemed to have been tacitly mentioned at all.

"Your Majesty is angry. If you don't do this, the emperor of the Sword Empire will not be angry. He hates you to the bone. This time you let him find face, maybe he will let us go." A minister lowered his head and said.

Before the night saint could speak, another minister added, "Your Majesty, what we need most now is time. If the humiliation you have received can be exchanged for time, it will be much wiser than the death war that consumes national strength." There is a sentence he didn't explain, that is, it takes time for them to get benefits, and it is better for everyone to divide the national strength in a decisive battle.

A general stood up at this time and said helplessly, "Your Majesty, our army is not ready for war. At this time, if the Sword Empire attacks, we will be defeated!" Now we don't know why they stopped, but once they resume their attack, the Yellan River defense line will collapse.

"What?" Ye Shengcai's eyes widened and asked, "A few days ago, you also reported that there were 1.1 million troops, and millions of troops relied on river bank defense. How could they be defeated so easily? Do you dare to lie to me?"

"Your Majesty! There are only about 200,000 troops that can fight, and less than 30,000 troops that can be called elite. Although it is claimed to be one million, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. Most of the troops are not equipped. There are only more than 1,000 magic cannons in the whole army, which is not enough for the number of cannons of a main division of the Holy Sword Empire. How can such an army meet the enemy? ?" The general bravely complained.

After shaking, Ye Shengcai almost fell down. The Yelu River defense line, which he strongly pulled and painstakingly managed, turned out to be so vulnerable. So, in the past few days, it is not so much that Ye Shengcai defended the defensive position of the Yean River as the Shengjian Empire voluntarily gave up the attack.

He was told by the generals that he really wanted to know that the Yelu River defense line was simply an empty shell of paper, and Ye Shengcai also closed his mouth knowingly. After signing the almost insulting document, Ye Sheng hurriedly ended the embarrassing meeting.

Time did not wait for anyone, and the envoys of the Eternal Night Empire were immediately sent to the Holy Sword Empire. They had only one task, that is, to seek peace at all costs.

Ten thousand miles away, these envoys rushed to Cochi City, where they met Arcado, who was reorganizing the army of the Central Front, and Arcado summoned these envoys in the palace of Cochi City.

The purpose is very simple and clear. The Yongye Empire has sacrificed enough weights that are eye-catching: millions of gold coins and 100 beautiful women are paid every year. Ye Shengcai cut the emperor's name and demoted himself to king, recognized Arcado as his godfather, and Ye Shengcai's future son was sent to the Sword Empire as a hostage... A series of conditions are simply It's humiliation to the extreme.

"These?" Arcado pointed to the documents and asked, "Ye Sheng just agreed?" He looked at the envoys kneeling on the ground with contempt.

"His Royal Highness Ye Shengcai said that he had made mistakes in the past and hoped that his majesty would forgive him. In his lifetime, he would kneel down and pray to the Holy Sword Empire every morning and evening to praise His Majesty." The envoy's treacherous smile and flattering look made General Buck, who stood aside, very much wanted to go up and slap him in the mouth.

"Go back and tell Ye Shengcai that he'd better keep the title, otherwise he won't even be qualified to be an opponent! And..." Akado paused and said calmly, "I'm not interested in being his godfather! Because I feel ashamed to have such a god-son.

"Your Majesty..." The envoy seemed to want to persuade him, kneel on the ground and kowtow.

"Enough." Arcado interrupted him: "Go back and tell Ye Shengcai to wash his neck and wait to die."