CHAPTER 710: CHAPTER 437, BLOODBATH AT PHOENIX PALACE! _3

"Once we help the Eldest Prince secure the position of King, the situation for the Qin Family will become even more difficult..."

"They can choose to wait and see, they can choose to keep themselves safe, but the best way would be to pick sides once the situation stabilizes..."

"With their family’s strength and influence in the military... no one will want to conflict with them at this time..."

"Why would they stand up to support the Lu Clan?"

This was something everyone present found difficult to understand.

Compared to the benefits they could reap, choosing to take sides at this time was foolish and dangerous.

When the Shen Family had achieved complete success, how would the Qin Family fare?

Would they face the same eradication as the Lu Clan?

"That’s not for us to consider," Shen Wuxiang said loudly with a wave of his hand: "Anyone who stands with us is our friend. Anyone who opposes us is our enemy."

"Friends are greeted with fine wine, enemies with an axe."

"For enemies, we have only one solution... Fight until death."

"What does the Military Minister mean?" Sun Shehu asked out loud.

"Pass my order, send the Third Division of the Undying Army, Brigade 314, the Fierce Tiger Mobility Team to support the Lu Ban Mountain battlefield..."

"Order the first Ace Legion to start moving toward Phoenix City... to create an overwhelming force..."

Pausing a moment, Shen Wuxiang looked at Shen Xinglan and said, "They took the initiative to attack, disrupting the balance we desired..."

"Since they are unwilling to negotiate, let’s not talk anymore."

"You lead the Fire God Army to take down Phoenix Palace... I don’t care how you do it, I only look at the results."

Shen Wuxiang, for the sake of a dignified capture of Phoenix Palace, gained the Empire’s power without bloodshed, simply by surrounding Phoenix Palace without actually launching an attack.

Of course, there was another meaning in doing so.

They were hoping that by the time they entered Phoenix Palace, Tang Fei would have already killed Zhong Daolong...

With Zhong Daolong dead, Tang Fei and Zhong Tianyi would become regicides.

In that case, the throne had nothing to do with them anymore.

Unexpectedly, Tang Fei and the Qin Family Head launched an attack on them.

Since it was so, they simply tipped over the table...

And massacred everyone in Phoenix Palace.

"Yes," Shen Xinglan stood up to salute.

Though he wasn’t a soldier, being in the military at that moment, he still acted according to military etiquette.

"They attacked my brothers and sisters, we raid their lair..."

"Mission will be completed."

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Phoenix Palace.

Tang Fei and the old man stood in front of a holographic image, watching the battle situation at Lu Ban Mountain in real-time.

"We’re temporarily taking the initiative," the old man said as he watched Qin Jianyi slice a group of men in half with his sword, his expression calm and unruffled, "However, they will definitely send reinforcements."

"Lu Ban Mountain is a very important chip, important to us and equally important to them... so they will definitely do their utmost to keep this trump card in their hands."

Tang Fei’s gaze, however, was on the army of Mechanical Rats; having made his way through Lu Ban Mountain with Lu Siyu, when he faced those Mechanical Beasts, he truly felt a spine-chilling sense of powerlessness.

He would rather face ten Grandmasters than those steel monsters.

Truly incapable of making a move.

"Lu Ban Mountain is right on the outskirts of Phoenix City, there are not many troops stationed around Phoenix City, they had already mobilized a hundred thousand men... If they want to recover from this disadvantage, they’ve got to mobilize troops from the other seven major military regions..."

"This isn’t something that can be finished in a short period... so, we still have a chance."

"If we can resolve the battle before the support troops arrive, then, even if they come, they won’t be able to change the overall situation..."

"Let’s hope so," the old man nodded, feeling that what Tang Fei said made a lot of sense.

If the Lu Clan and the Qin Family could resolve the battle and meet with victory before the support troops arrived.

Then, no matter how many they dispatch, they will also be annihilated.

The seemingly unimpressive but sprawling Lu Ban Mountain, spanning hundreds of kilometers, is a gigantic meat grinder—anyone who enters is doomed.

This is the pride of the millennium-old Lu Clan.

"However, there’s one thing we still need to be cautious of."

"The counterattack from the Shen Family," the old man said.

"Where do you think they will attack?" Tang Fei asked.

"Phoenix Palace," the old man replied without hesitation: "If I were Shen Wuxiang, I’d flatten Phoenix Palace with artillery."

"..."

Tang Fei thought, lucky you’re not Shen Wuxiang...

Otherwise, what would we even be doing?

This is Phoenix Palace, the symbol of the Empire’s power.

You would bombard it just like that?

Don’t you know that’s an act against humanity?

"It’s the same as I thought, their counterattack target must be Phoenix Palace," Tang Fei told the old man, "However, Shen Wuxiang still thinks everything is under control, and to reduce trouble later..."

"So, he won’t choose to directly level the Phoenix Palace; instead, he will send people to forcefully attack the Phoenix Palace, to capture everyone inside alive."

"Hesitant people will lose," the old man said with a mocking look: "Your father was like this, Shen Wuxiang is too."

"..."

At that moment, Yan Jinnian, dressed in a black riding suit, walked in briskly.

"The outskirts of Phoenix Palace have begun to gather troops... It looks like they’re gearing up to forcefully attack the Phoenix Palace," Yan Jinnian said in a cold voice.

The internal security of the Phoenix Palace was now the responsibility of Beehive and Ghost, while the external security was entrusted to the Imperial Guard and the Inspection Bureau Black Riders who had just hurried over.

"Who’s in charge?" Tang Fei asked.

"The lead is Shen Lianglan..."

"Shen Xinglan?" Tang Fei paused slightly before responding: "Bring Zhong Daolong... push him to the front wherever Shen Xinglan attacks from..."

"..."

Tang Fei then glanced at the old man and said, "It’s his idea."

"..." Old man.