399. Qingzhou is Coming Back

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

When Long Xiaoyuan got up the next day, he was quite refreshed from his sleep. However, he did not forget how crucial the previous night had been.

So, after he woke up, he summoned a Shadow Guardian.

No one came to wake him up last night, which meant his plan was successful.

He was relieved after the Shadow Guardian updated him on the progress.

It went well.

It was much better than expected!

The Eastern Darkness suffered heavy losses this time. It was estimated their casualties went up to over a hundred thousand soldiers this time!

More than a hundred thousand people! What a huge loss!

Besides, it was said that only more than 3,000 people managed to survive out of the 30,000 led by Zhou Suye. What a huge defeat!

Long Xiaoyuan was surprised and satisfied with the tragedy caused by his side.

Things had progressed much better than he expected!

Furthermore, it was said that if it weren’t for Fang Shuoyang’s guarding, and if he hadn’t stopped the enemy chasing after Zhou Suye, the loss of the Eastern Darkness would have been even greater!

From this point of view, Fang Shuoyang was not responsible for their huge defeat.

Because he had done his job well!

Long Xiaoyuan was satisfied with the updates.

In the end, he waved his hand. “Alright, you can leave.”

After the Shadow Guardian left, Long Xiaoyuan washed up leisurely. He tidied up before he went out.

Liu Suifeng was still in his room.

So Long Xiaoyuan went to find him directly.

When Long Xiaoyuan arrived, he knocked on the door, and Liu Suifeng immediately opened it. He raised his eyebrows. “Why are you here?”

Long Xiaoyuan smiled at him. “To see our hero.”

Liu Suifeng rolled his eyes at him. “Really?”

“Of course!” Long Xiaoyuan said with a smile, “You’re definitely a hero now. If Huhe Huangcheng had been rescued, our plan wouldn’t have been so perfect.”

Liu Suifeng rolled his eyes. “He’s inside. Do you want to see him?”

Long Xiaoyuan shook his head. “No, I just need to know that he is still alive. It doesn’t matter if I see him or not.”

Liu Suifeng didn’t say anything else when he heard this.

Long Xiaoyuan said, “Let’s go have breakfast. By the way, where is Ouyang Chuan?”

“He’s not back yet. I guess he will come back soon.”

Long Xiaoyuan nodded, “He has completed his mission at the border, and he should be back…”

Liu Suifeng closed the door. “Let’s go.”

Long Xiaoyuan followed him. “Last night, Northern Barbarians suffered a huge loss of its martial arts experts here.”

Liu Suifeng rolled his eyes. “Can you stop taking pleasure in other people’s misfortune?”

“Why?” Long Xiaoyuan blinked innocently,” I am happy about their loss. Isn’t this natural?

His mouth twitching, Liu Suifeng was lost for words.

Long Xiaoyuan smiled, “Let’s go. Do you pity our enemy? You can’t do that. You have to sympathize with the right people. You can sympathize with me. I think I need sympathy very much.”

Liu Suifeng admired his shamelessness. “Why can’t I tell that you need sympathy?”

Long Xiaoyuan sighed sadly. “It is because you don’t care about me, and instead you care about the enemy!”

The corner of Liu Suifeng’s mouth twitched again. He didn’t want to talk to him anymore!

Bickering, the two of them went for breakfast. When they were through, Ouyang Chuan came back.

Liu Suifeng immediately went up to greet him, “Ouyang, you’re back.”

“Yes.” Ouyang Chuan nodded and looked at him carefully. “You weren’t hurt last night, right?”

“Don’t worry. I’m fine.”

“Good.” Ouyang Chuan nodded. “I’m done with the work in my hand.” Ouyang Chuan looked at Long Xiaoyuan. “The people I brought yesterday are all locked up, right?”

“Yes, they are held in captivity, just waiting for Liu Suifeng’s interrogation.”

Ouyang Chuan nodded. “Good.”

“By the way, you went back to the camp later. What about the follow-up?”

“General Qin is handling it,” Ouyang Chuan said, “he will come over later.”

“In this case…” Long Xiaoyuan touched his chin. “Alright, we’re not in a hurry now. Suifeng, you just need to make the remaining spies talk about everything they know. We might have surprises from Northern Barbarians.”

Liu Suifeng pouted. “Okay, I got it.”

Long Xiaoyuan smiled. “I’ll leave it to you then. I’m going go out for a walk.”

Ouyang Chuan frowned and stopped him. “Where are you going?”

“To pick up Qingzhou.”

Ouyang Chuan immediately said, “It was chaotic yesterday, and he couldn’t possibly come back. Even if he sets off this morning, he can’t arrive so soon.”

“You don’t understand.” Long Xiaoyuan said mysteriously and walked outside.

Ouyang Chuan was angry.

Liu Suifeng held his hand with a smile. “Ouyang, why do you argue with him? Anyway, he always knows what he is doing. He has his own reason to go out. Don’t worry about him.”

Ouyang Chuan glared at Liu Suifeng. “Well, you know him quite well. Are you so close?”

Liu Suifeng was quite innocent. “Ouyang, isn’t my relations.h.i.+p with him the same as that of you and him?”

“Who knows?” Ouyang Chuan continued angrily, and then turned to leave.

Liu Suifeng felt that every time he met Long Xiaoyuan, he had bad luck!

However, Ouyang was the most important person to him.

Liu Suifeng quickly chased after him.

“Wait for me, Ouyang.”

Long Xiaoyuan didn’t know that he had caused another argument between the couple. He leisurely went to the street after he walked out of the mansion.

The entire border was elated at the victory of yesterday.

The Eastern Darkness attacked their Tianlong Dynasty, but their army had won an outright victory!

How could they not be excited?

What did this mean? It meant that their Tianlong Dynasty was powerful!

“In my opinion, the b.a.s.t.a.r.ds of the Eastern Darkness are intimidated by us this time.”

“Absolutely! Our Emperor is a good emperor.”

“Yeah. I heard that the soldiers are provided with good food in the army.”

“That’s right. I also heard from my nephew that their treatment was not good in the past, but after the Emperor gave several orders which favor the soldiers, things have been picking up.”

“Yeah, my nephew also says that he can eat meat in three days.”

“Really? Isn’t that better than at home?”

“Yeah. And my nephew is now a centurion.”

“Wow, congratulations.”

“Thank you.”

“I guess after this battle, the Eastern Darkness won’t come and provoke us for a few years, right?”

“Of course, unless they want to be defeated again.”

“Aren’t they foolish asking to be beaten?”

“Definitely…”

Everybody was talking about the war on the street, which pleased Long Xiaoyuan.

He randomly chose a restaurant and sat down, waiting.

He believed that Qingzhou would arrive today.

s.h.i.+ Qingzhou was not the only one who did not sleep all night.

Fang Shuoyang had fought last night.

In the middle of the night, a small troop from Tianlong Dynasty almost broke in!

Fortunately, Fang Shuoyang did a good job. Not only did he close the gate in time, but he also drove the troop away!

Most importantly, he offer a.s.sistance to his troops on the run and let them in.

Among the defeated troops were Zhou Suye and a thousand soldiers who escaped with him.

As for the general who spoke for Zhou Suye, he miraculously survived, but he only brought a few hundred people back.

There had been more than thirty thousand people, and only a few survived. It was a huge loss!

In addition to Zhou Suye, several other generals suffered heavy casualties, but they were experienced and did not go deep into the territory of Tianlong Dynasty, so their losses were not ghastly.

General Song led the most soldiers.

Although he was also defeated, he brought back more people and killed more soldiers in Tianlong Dynasty. Overall, it was not a loss.

However, there was another general who went deeper into the Tianlong Dynasty. He took more than 10,000 people with him and the whole troop was wiped out!

This general had better not come back, for if he did so, he would die miserably!

He was not Zhou Suye, the prince, who would not die after he was defeated.

If this general died in the battle, people would say he died for the country. If he came back, he would be doomed.

However, s.h.i.+ Qingzhou did not intend to pay attention to these things after knowing the whole situation.

The result was much better than he had imagined.

Although Fang Shuoyang was on the side of the Eastern Darkness, he did not go in the battle. On the contrary, he did a good job staying behind.

Even if Emperor Zhou liked to find fault with him, he wouldn’t have the chance, would he?

Besides, the people were not blind.

As for Zhou Suye, so many people died under his leaders.h.i.+p in the land of Tianlong Dynasty. Even though Emperor Zhou adored him, he would feel distressful.

After all, the country relied on the soldiers!

s.h.i.+ Qingzhou believed that after the war, the Eastern Darkness would not cause trouble in short time.

Moreover, Huhe Huangcheng was now in the hands of Tianlong Dynasty, and he was captured from the Eastern Darkness.

The Eastern Darkness suffered heavy casualties of soldiers because they trusted the poison provided by Northern Barbarians.

Would the Eastern Darkness swallow the anger?

For Northern Barbarians, their crown prince was caught and the poison was sent, but it didn’t work.

And all their spies in Tianlong Dynasty had been eliminated. Wouldn’t they hold grudges?

In short, Northern Barbarians and the Eastern were not likely to form an alliance at this time.

Furthermore, it was useless if they allied!

The fact spoke the truth. Tianlong Dynasty didn’t suffer any loss in the war!

Therefore, s.h.i.+ Qingzhou concluded that the Eastern Darkness would be stable for a good while.

And Emperor Zhou would be disappointed in Zhou Suye no matter how much he doted on him.

Fang Shuoyang had won the favor of the people. Emperor Zhou would not go against the public opinion for the sake of his country, if not for his own sake!

If Fang Shuoyang died, the most capable prince of the Eastern Darkness died, who would suffer the loss?

No one would think the loss would be Tianlong Dynasty’s.

Therefore, there was no need for s.h.i.+ Qingzhou to stay.

Most importantly, Huhe Huangcheng would be moved to Tianlong Dynasty.

The envoys of Northern Barbarians would come. This time, they could not settle the disputes by paying tributes or signing a truce agreement!

Therefore, he had to go back!

s.h.i.+ Qingzhou went to Fang Shuoyang and told him that he was going back.

It did not mean he would leave Fang Shuoyang alone. He would ask Ying Feng to stay with Fang Shuoyang. Besides, he prepared Fang Shuoyang for what might happen next.

Fang Shuoyang nodded, telling him that he knew what to do and wished him a safe journey.

s.h.i.+ Qingzhou left in secret in the morning. He couldn’t wait to go back…