Indestructible Body Of Vajra Of The Village Leader-Chapter 967 - 767-768: Drawing My Sword and Stirring the Ghostly Rain, Birds Startled as White Bones Pile Like Mountains
The Black Wind Village Chief is leading an army of over fifty thousand NPCs and more than forty thousand player troops, totaling nearly a hundred thousand, to soon face off against the Divine Guard’s two hundred thousand troops in Yingtian City. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
This astonishing news, like a storm, swept through the Jianghu Forum, gaining the attention of countless players.
Players from the Black Wind Village who were sparring in the Three Kingdoms battlefield of Song Country saw the scenes of the army’s assembly on the forum and felt a pang of jealousy and disappointment, finding even the once-exciting battles of the Three Kingdoms battlefield meaningless now.
Compared to the battlefield involving tens of thousands of troops led by the village chief, the current petty skirmishes in the Three Kingdoms battlefield seemed like child’s play, utterly uninteresting.
At this moment, outside Yingtian City, the very breath of the gathered hundreds of thousands seemed to heat up the air a few degrees.
Jiang Dali rode a warhorse clad in heavy armor, standing among thousands of elite Black Wind Village players. With a long blood bar above his head, he truly appeared like a dragon among men, exuding the imposing presence of a Big Boss fit to guard the pass alone.
Xie Wei, after skillfully maneuvering the troops on horseback, quickly rode over, dismounted near Jiang Dali.
He hurried forward and quietly reported that everything was in place, then expressed some of his doubts.
"... Logically speaking, under these circumstances, Iron Gall Divine Hou Zhu Wushi should also realize that it is impossible to crush our hundred thousand troops with his two hundred thousand troops and march into Yingtian City.
The wise approach would be to temporarily avoid the confrontation, hold fast at Yang Province and Zhenjiang, then gradually plot against Changzhou. Once the opportunity arose, he could then directly seize the Yellow Dragon."
"But looking at it now, Zhu Wushi seems extremely urgent, which is a major taboo in military strategy.
This may be an opportunity for us, but in the end, I’m perplexed as to why Zhu Wushi would act in such an unwise manner; it doesn’t match his usual style."
"You’re right."
Jiang Dali’s gaze flickered.
Suddenly, the previously perplexing thought seemed to flash with inspiration, birthing an incredible yet highly plausible idea.
He swiftly turned his head towards the well-guarded Yingtianfu City behind him.
He raised the horse whip in his hand, pointing towards the towering city walls, and said, "Xie Wei, do you think anyone could sneak into the current Yingtian City unnoticed, penetrating into the Imperial Palace?"
Xie Wei was startled, instinctively responding, "That’s impossible. The Imperial City now has ten thousand imperial guards. Even speaking of the palace and the Inner City, no one could possibly infiltrate.
Unless someone, like you, village chief, possesses Exotic Birds capable of flight, but even so, it wouldn’t be done silently."
"Indeed."
Jiang Dali slightly nodded, his brow furrowed, wondering if he had overthought it.
Now, with ten thousand imperial guards tightly safeguarding every corner of Yingtian City,
forget humans, even a fly trying to enter and then infiltrate the palace would be immediately discovered.
Though he could rely on the Demon Hawk to fly into the city, he would undoubtedly be detected and attacked at once; there was no doing it unnoticed.
"Unless... unless Iron Gall Divine Hou had already infiltrated the city days before, waiting for today’s battle to erupt, imitating the battle at the Forbidden Peak to draw everyone’s attention with this massive battle of over three hundred thousand troops, divert my focus, himself then quietly situated within the palace to assassinate the Emperor and secure the throne in one move."
Realizing this, Jiang Dali’s pupils contracted.
If things truly were as he suspected,
then there must already be some among the Ming Country Court’s civil and military officials who belong to Zhu Wushi.
Once Zhu Wushi kills the Emperor, and then initiates the assassination plan immediately, eliminates Yan King Di and the other bloodlines of the Zhu Royal Family, completely cutting off the Zhu Royal Family’s lineage, leaving him as the sole heir, he could then legitimately secure the throne.
By then, even if defeat befell the army outside the city, it wouldn’t matter.
Once the situation was irreversible, the ten thousand imperial guards wouldn’t dare commit the grave offense of killing Zhu Wushi, the last of the Zhu family’s bloodline, and with some civil and military officials who had already secretly pledged allegiance standing out in support, Zhu Wushi’s position would be solidified.
But this too is a dangerous gamble.
The ten thousand imperial guards dare not kill Zhu Wushi, the last of the Zhu family’s royal blood, because if Zhu Wushi perished, the Great Ming would fall.
Without the Zhu family’s Dragon Energy and bloodline, the approval of the Holy Dynasty couldn’t be obtained. It would be like the Shang Country long submerged in the river of history, utterly fallen, with tens of millions of people displaced, becoming a nation of slaves.
But Zhu Wushi, to seize the throne and madly kill all his kin’s bloodline, even if he does achieve the throne, will undoubtedly face impeachment from the civil and military officials to the Holy Dynasty, and the punishment would be extremely severe.
Realizing this, Jiang Dali suddenly sighed in understanding internally, "Since ancient times, those who tread this path of conquest have no return. From the moment Zhu Wushi started crowning himself as King, it was destined to be a matter of life and death.
If he can truly ascend to the throne, enduring unknown punishment would be better than being defeated and eliminated.
So, what is the punishment from the Holy Dynasty compared to that?
To achieve great things one cannot be constrained by little considerations. Better to let all under heaven betray me than to let heaven itself betray me."
"Village Chief!"
Xie Wei suddenly thought of something, furrowing his brows, "I just realized, if one wants to sneak into the Imperial Palace unnoticed now, there’s only one way, which is through underground tunnels, that way no one would notice....
But," he then broke into laughter, shaking his head, "given the abundance of stone underneath Yingtian City, trying to secretly tunnel all the way to the palace from outside the city is exceedingly difficult; it’s simply not something that can be accomplished in a short time, so it might not succeed."
