World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 584 - 295: Rouran is saved! You win, I accept the loss!_3

Chapter 584: 295: Rouran is saved! You win, I accept the loss!_3

And behind her, the exhausted officers, too, rallied their last bit of spirit, drawing their broken greatswords for the final battle.

In these five days and nights of combat, the stunningly beautiful City Lord Li Ren, despite not commanding a single battle, had utterly conquered the hearts of all.

A City Lord who leads by example and shares life and death with the soldiers is enough—what more when it’s such a peerless beauty?

"If the people stand, the city stands; if the people fall, the city falls!"

It was unclear who shouted first, but then almost all the defending soldiers roared with all their might.

Utterly tragic, utterly brutal.

Everyone knew that Helan Pass couldn’t hold any longer, and Rou Ran Province was about to fall.

But the only thing to be done was to live and die with the city, with the lord!

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

In the piercing sound of war drums!

The ground trembled, quaking!

Fifty thousand Fo Tu Army soldiers, like ferocious tidal waves, crashed against the city walls within just a few minutes.

Then, like ants, they swarmed onto the city in great numbers.

At this moment, Helan Pass’s defenders had run out of arrows, exhausted their boiling oil, and used up all their boulders and rolling logs.

All that remained were the broken greatswords in their hands.

As they waited for the fierce Ye Lan Fo Tu Army to charge up the walls, they were prepared to fight with their damaged swords, or even go hand-to-hand and bite with their teeth.

To live and die with the city, to show the ultimate loyalty to the exceptional lord with their deaths!

Ashi Liren instinctively looked east, muttering to himself.

"Suo Lun, whether you succeed or fail, it’s already too late. No need to collect my corpse, but please take good care of Yuanba and Anan!"

Tonight, Helan Pass was destined to fall.

I, Ashi Liren, am destined to perish!

...

However, just at this moment...

A cavalry unit burst into Crown Prince Lan Tu’s camp, barely a dozen men, all heavily wounded, covered in blood.

Leading them, a Dragon Samurai tumbled off his saddle, kneeling in front of Crown Prince Lan Tu, he gasped, "My lord, the Grand Duke has passed, the ministers have already proclaimed Snow Marquis Lan Ye as the new ruler, please, Your Highness, immediately lead your forces back to Landu!"

This man was Night Zhijian, Crown Prince Lan Tu’s devoted retainer, a Marquis heir, the future commander of Ye Lan Duchy’s troops! Crown Prince Lan Tu left him in Landu to keep an eye on his brother Lan Ye.

Hearing his words, Crown Prince Lan Tu was hugely shocked, hardly believing his own ears.

"Although my father’s health was declining, he would have lived another ten years without issue—how could he have suddenly passed?" Lan Tu trembled.

Night Zhijian said, "Yesterday at noon, the Grand Duke went to the Dragon Altar to offer sacrifices to heaven. Suddenly, there was an explosion, and the Grand Duke was torn to pieces, and the lady met with a swift and untimely death. Afterwards, Lady Ji Hui and Snow Marquis Lan Ye locked down Landu. The High Priest Yun Luo of the Dragon Temple openly announced that because you initiated a military campaign during the Dragon Emperor’s three-thousand-year celebration and the sacred birth month of the dragon, you enraged the dragon deity, and thus heaven sent a warning, striking down the monarch with divine thunder, claiming the monarch died for you."

Crown Prince Lan Tu’s face changed dramatically.

Not only had his father, Grand Duke Lan Shi, died, but his mother, Princess Mo Ping, had died as well.

Moreover, the Dragon Temple, Princess Ji Hui, and his brother Lan Ye had completely allied against him.

Once they cemented the accusation of him enraging the dragon deity, his position as Crown Prince would be revoked in no time.

Night Zhijian said, "My father has fallen in battle, and thousands of our messengers were all ambushed and killed en route. After a bloody battle, only the few of us managed to reach Your Highness. My prince, please retreat at once; by the time they solidify your crime and the Dragon Temple crowns Snow Marquis as the ruler, it will be utterly too late."

Crown Prince Lan Tu’s gaze shifted towards Helan Pass.

At that moment, countless Fo Tu soldiers were climbing the walls like ants.

In at most two hours, they could capture Helan Pass.

"Crown Prince, having lost Landu, having lost the position of monarch, what use is there in retaking Rou Ran City?" Ye Zhijian yelled out loud.

Indeed, given the current situation, what use would there be in taking Helan Pass?

Crown Prince Lan Tu experienced waves of dizziness before him, then a surge of fresh blood came forth, which he forcefully swallowed down.

"Traitor, traitor..." With fierce rage, he punched the desk in front of him, shattering it into pieces.

His eyes turned bloodshot, as if about to devour someone.

Then, he ordered loudly, "Sound the retreat, return to Landu!"

He couldn’t stand it, he truly couldn’t stand it!

He was so close to breaking through Helan Pass, so close to subduing Rou Ran Province, ready to wash away decades of national shame with blood.

In the end, internal political strife led to the abandonment of all his previous achievements.

While he was fighting on the front lines, his brother Lan Ye stirred up trouble from behind, completely disregarding the nation’s interest, for his own gain, not only putting him in mortal danger but also risking the division of the nation.

"Retreat, retreat, execute the traitors!"

...

Ashi Liren looked at the city walls, where countless members of the Fo Tu Army fiercely scaled the walls, getting closer and closer, about to completely overwhelm Helan Pass.

Collapse was imminent!

Destruction was imminent!

However, at that moment, the sound of retreat suddenly came from Crown Prince Lan Tu’s camp.

Utter silence fell over the scene.

The Fo Tu Army, desperately trying to climb the city walls, stopped in shock, fearing they had misheard.

Then, the sound of retreat continued to ring out.

Many expert samurai shouted loudly, "Retreat, retreat, return to Landu, execute the traitors!"

It was then that everyone realized something must have happened within the nation that forced them to retreat!

Thus, the fifty thousand soldiers of the Fo Tu Army retreated with infinite reluctance.

Like a receding tide, in just half an hour, the fifty thousand soldiers of the Fo Tu Army had completely withdrawn from the siege.

Two hours later!

Crown Prince Lan Tu’s great army of more than two hundred thousand began to assemble and retreat!

The two thousand remaining soldiers on Helan Pass watched all this in disbelief.

Ashi Liren watched all this in disbelief.

The Ye Lan Duchy’s Great Army was actually retreating? Just as Helan Pass was about to fall, they were retreating?

Suo Lun... he actually managed to do it.

He actually saved Rou Ran City within six days?

It was utterly beyond belief.

Then, Ashi Liren remembered the wager with Suo Lun and couldn’t help but twist her head to glance at her perfectly round and perky buttocks, still snow-white and flawless, fragrant and pleasing.

She really had to wash up completely, and then present herself before Suo Lun, letting him spank her at will?

Ashi Liren gritted her teeth, accepting the wager!

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The character of Crown Prince Lan Tu is quite significant, so I used this Chapter to write about him.