World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 841 - 400: Fu Yan’er is pregnant! The decisive battle erupts!_3

Chapter 841: 400: Fu Yan’er is pregnant! The decisive battle erupts!_3

"At this point," Suo Lun paused before asserting firmly, "I am 75 percent, even 80 percent confident of winning this time!"

Suo Lun’s words were filled with convincing power.

Instantly, all the unease in Gui Xingfu’s heart vanished cleanly.

Since he had already placed his bets on Suo Lun, he definitely did not want to follow Suo Lun and perish together!

...

In the following days, at Suo Lun’s command, all troops, all workshops, and all laborers were withdrawn from the Southeast Province back to Tianshui City.

Of course, the military force Suo Lun had originally stationed across forty-three counties in six districts of Southeast Province was not large— merely over 30,000 second-tier soldiers. However, many trading caravans had gone there, desperately purchasing iron materials, food, and so on from Southeast Province!

Thus, when the retreat order was issued, countless carriages and soldiers began withdrawing from the districts of Southeast Province every day!

In many people’s eyes, this was an outright escape!

Suo Lun had surprisingly retreated without a fight, relinquishing Southeast Province!

Suddenly, the counties of Southeast Province switched allegiances one after another, announcing their withdrawal from Suo Lun’s tyrannical rule and returning to the just camp of Zhi Li His Highness.

Initially, the mandarins of Southeast Province were cautious. However, seeing no reaction from Suo Lun, they grew bold, vying with each other to denounce Suo Lun and swear loyalty to Zhi Li His Highness.

In just five days!

All forty-three counties in six districts of Southeast Province betrayed Suo Lun and pledged allegiance to Zhi Li!

People everywhere had initially been skeptical of Suo Lun, and now the public sentiment was overwhelmingly against him, believing that this time he was undoubtedly doomed!

After confirming this, officials and nobles who had previously submitted to Suo Lun’s dominance came forward in droves to vehemently criticize him.

They held public speeches and posted Edicts Against Treason!

Zhi Li had only accused Suo Lun of thirteen major crimes, but in the mouths of the officials and nobles of Southeast Province, Suo Lun had been accused of hundreds, if not more.

In their words, Suo Lun had utterly become a heartless monster, a beast that annihilates humanity.

It was not just that his death was needed to appease the public anger, but that he had no right to exist in this world at all; his very existence had been a disgrace.

Even after acting so thoroughly, these officials and nobles still feared they might not receive Zhi Li’s forgiveness. Hence, they dug into their pockets, levied able-bodied men, and responded to Zhi Li’s call to join the grand Rebellion Quelling Army.

When Suo Lun had taken over Southeast Province, he had not demanded a single Gold Coin or soldier from these officials and nobles.

But now, to curry favor with Zhi Li, they were generously parting with their money.

In just half a month, the nobility of the entire Southeast Province had gathered tens of thousands of Gold Coins to offer to Zhi Li as military expenses.

They also levied over 70,000 able-bodied men and formed the Southeast Rebel Army.

Hundreds of officials, bearing tens of thousands of Gold Coins and the 70,000-strong Southeast Rebel Army, grandly headed towards Nujiang Province to kneel and welcome Zhi Li.

It truly was a case of everyone pushing the falling wall!

Suo Lun hadn’t even fallen yet, but countless people were already pushing and trampling over him, even spitting on him.

In a flash, in the eyes of the world, Suo Lun really seemed like nothing but a corpse in a tomb, struggling vainly to survive!

...

Outside Tianshui City, Suo Lun acted as if completely unaware of everything that was happening!

He was nearly brutally gathering all the resources from the Hai Family of Yingzhou and the Marine Guild.

Of course, he was buying them, not forcefully seizing them.

It would take Zhi Li’s 800,000-strong army at least two months to travel from the royal city to Tianshui City!

During this period, Suo Lun’s war machine was turning almost frantically.

He was no longer merely spending money, but was desperately scattering Gold Coins like a torrential downpour.

All the iron materials, provisions, weapons, armor, and so forth—he didn’t even look at the price, simply sweeping them all up.

Every day he personally signed off on hundreds of orders.

He was spending over ten thousand Gold Coins each day.

Under such frenzied purchasing, both the Flame Empire and the Kingdom of Dongli were madly making wartime profits.

They had no gunpowder, but there was a plethora of steel, arrows, armor, and weapons.

If there were no new supplies of armor or weapons, they would just strip them from the armies, as Suo Lun was paying double the price and neither the Flame Empire nor the Kingdom of Dongli had any battles to fight recently!

The Gunpowder Secret Island, naturally, was producing at a frenzied rate twenty hours a day.

The required shells were not only being produced in Suo Lun’s workshops, but all ironworks in the coastal areas of the Flame Empire and on Yingzhou Island were also madly manufacturing them.

Once production finished, they would ship the goods to Pirate Bay or directly to the docks of Tianshui City, where money and goods were exchanged hand to hand.

Despite Suo Lun’s strict requirements for shell production, the profit from producing a single iron ball was astonishingly higher than that from a knife. For all iron workshops, it was an absolute windfall!

And the most insane of all was Suo Lun’s cannon foundry, which worked relentlessly under the ceaseless supply of iron materials. With Suo Lun’s astronomical Gold Coin rewards, the craftsmen worked like madmen.

Because, the money they made fervently working for two months was enough to sustain them for ten years.

Just one to two months ago, by defeating the Yan Mo, Suo Lun had earned millions of Gold Coins!

And in just under two months, he had managed to spend half of those astronomical Gold Coins.

Although he was merely a duke, his lavish spending surpassed that of a king!

Under such almost insane expenditures, all merchants and pirates in the entire eastern seas got involved in the transportation business.

The Kingdom of Dongli and all coastal powers of the Flame Empire were doing business with Suo Lun!

In just over fifty days,

Suo Lun had armed his main force of two hundred thousand troops and his second-line force of fifty thousand troops to the teeth.

He spared no expense to increase the number of cannons from just over two hundred to more than four hundred.

And the quantities of arrows, solid cannonballs, and grapeshots were astronomical, piling up like mountains!

...

Fifty-five days later!

Gui Qinshao was nearly four months pregnant, and her belly had started to show!

And, Fu Yan’er was also a month and a half pregnant! Her skin was thicker than the heavens, for once when Suo Lun and Yan Nai’er were being intimate, she barged in stark naked, got right to it without a word, and what could Suo Lun do?

Then, she got pregnant right away!

Finally, Zhi Li’s massive army of nearly nine hundred thousand, in an impressive array, entered the Southeast Province!

Because, the remaining nearly one hundred thousand were self-organized by the Southeast Rebel Army of the Southeast Province, fighting under the banner of avenging Duke Zhi Wei.

At a single command!

The nine hundred thousand-strong army encircled Suo Lun’s Tianshui City completely, truly blotting out the sky!

...

Then, Zhi Li personally wrote a letter of persuasion to Suo Lun, asking him to go alone to Baiyun City to accept punishment!

The letter of persuasion stated that as long as Suo Lun confessed and accepted punishment, only he would be killed, and all his family members would be spared!

Suo Lun replied with just four words: "Fuck your mother!"

Enraged, Zhi Li ordered the nine hundred thousand-strong army to attack Tianshui City from the north, west, and south, intending to completely annihilate the Suo family!

From then on, the final battle that would decide the fate of the kingdom officially erupted!

And the moment of utter disgrace for Zhi Li and Turing Duo was fast approaching!

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