World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 983 - 453: Fang Qingyi coughs up blood! Sudden turnaround!_2

Chapter 983: 453: Fang Qingyi coughs up blood! Sudden turnaround!_2

It can be said that the entire command layer of the City Defense Army has rotted away completely.

After Suo Lun took over the Royal City, he immediately began purging the City Defense Army, placing the chief and deputy admirals and eight commanders under house arrest!

Moreover, he immediately selected eight deputy commanders from the Forbidden Army to serve as temporary commanders of the City Defense Army!

However, this was far from enough; the entire City Defense Army had been thoroughly corrupted, pulling out any centurion at random proved they were unclean.

But after Suo Lun took over the Royal City, there really wasn’t enough time, and there were far more pressing and important matters at hand.

Moreover, a major overhaul of the City Defense Army isn’t something that can be completed overnight. Suo Lun didn’t have a large number of mid-to-low level officers at his disposal, and couldn’t afford to provoke the City Defense Army too harshly, lest a real mutiny be incited.

Therefore, before Queen Yan Chuo and her Rock Thieves Corps entered the Royal City, Suo Lun would adopt a gradual approach with the City Defense Army, like slowly boiling a frog, to avoid alarming them.

However, the officers of the City Defense Army knew their end was near.

Originally, they were powerless to resist. But now, with the Royal City on the verge of complete chaos and civil war, they sensed a chance to survive.

These officers of the City Defense Army decided they could not sit idly by. They must seize this rare opportunity and join forces with all the privileged powers of the Royal City, including the Zhi Du Sanctuary, to kill the Royal Family and Suo Lun completely.

Only by overthrowing Suo Lun and Zhi Yan could these corrupt officers of the City Defense Army have a chance to turn things around and stay alive.

"One must be willing to sacrifice, daring to pull the emperor off his horse!" a dismissed centurion of the City Defense Army shouted angrily: "What is Suo Lun anyway? Just a fallen man who dallies with prostitutes every day, presuming to act the Regent? He doesn’t fear becoming the laughingstock of the world."

"Exactly." A deputy commander beside him said: "This prodigal wastrel once vied with me for a woman at Yuhua Pavilion and ended up being beaten half to death. Apart from his bravado, he’s worthless."

This group of corrupt military heads, even when holding a meeting about starting a rebellion and execution, inevitably diverts the topic to lewd matters within a few sentences.

"Cough..." Suddenly, someone coughed.

Immediately, the room fell into silence!

The man who coughed was a powerful and domineering middle-aged man named Yuwen Gai, the former chief admiral of the City Defense Army!

He appeared to be only middle-aged, but in reality, he was over sixty and had served as the chief admiral of the City Defense Army for more than thirteen years.

Yuwen Gai came from a common background and was highly skilled in martial arts.

More than twenty years ago, when Yuwen Gai was in his thirties and already a samurai, he was only a centurion, which showed how severely he was suppressed.

After Count Suo Long became commander of the Dragon Guard Legion, he immediately purged and reorganized the entire legion, weeding out most incompetent generals and allowing the able ones to rise to prominence.

Yuwen Gai, who had been buried for nearly ten years, was discovered during that time.

After a conversation with Count Suo Long, who thought very highly of him, Yuwen Gai was directly promoted to chiliarch.

Soon, the Rouran War broke out, and Count Suo Long led the Dragon Guard Legion to support the Rouran City Lord Ashimo against the Ye Lan Duchy’s Great Army.

In that great battle of Rouran, Yuwen Gai indeed distinguished himself and achieved illustrious military exploits. He was promoted rapidly on the battlefield, jumping from chiliarch to centurion.

After the war, Count Suo Long even requested King Quo Bian to promote Yuwen Gai to be the Great Commander of the infantry of the Dragon Guard Legion!

For Yuwen Gai, it was like ascending to the heavens!

Count Suo Long’s esteem for him was incomparable, especially considering Yuwen Gai came from a common background, unlike the nobility like Count Suo Long.

And King Quo Bian was also actively promoting civilian elites, given this trend, Count Suo Long even seemed to be grooming Yuwen Gai as his successor in the Dragon Guard Legion, despite being only a few years older than Yuwen Gai.

After the Rouran War, Duke Turing Tuo was promoted, while Count Suo Long returned all military power and went back to Tianshui City.

Yuwen Gai rose too quickly and being a civilian, he faced enormous ostracism within the Dragon Guard Legion. Without the protection of Count Suo Long, he found it impossible to stay.

Moreover, he was severely wounded in the battle at Rou Ran City and needed two to three years to recover.

Therefore, Count Suo Long petitioned King Quo Bian to temporarily transfer Yuwen Gai from the Dragon Guard Legion, promoting him to the chief admiral of the City Defense Army. It was considered a decorative promotion to build his qualifications.

At that time, Yuwen Gai was only one step away from entering the Commander-in-chief’s Office!

If his career continued on this trajectory, Yuwen Gai would replace Count Suo Long as commander of the Dragon Guard Legion, becoming the first civilian elite to enter the Commander-in-chief’s Office.

However...

What followed was the sudden paralysis of Count Suo Long, and with King Quo Bian disappearing without heirs, the entire Rage Wave Kingdom underwent drastic changes.

With the loss of Count Suo Long, the military pillar, and the betrayal of Duke Turing Tuo, Yuwen Gai, as the chief admiral of the City Defense Army, became King Quo Bian’s greatest military reliance.

However, under immense pressure and temptation, Yuwen Gai chose to betray.

He betrayed Count Suo Long, who had been exceedingly gracious to him. At first, he chose neutrality, but five years ago, he switched sides completely and joined Zhi Li’s camp.

At that time, King Quo Bian was utterly disheartened. Yuwen Gai was the representative of the civilian elites he had vigorously promoted, but in the end, he betrayed him without any hesitation.

Yuwen Gai’s betrayal indicated that aside from the Forbidden Army, King Quo Bian’s influence in the military was completely annihilated, signifying that the King was utterly isolated by all nobility.

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