When the news of the defeat at the Battle of the Plains of Gonggo reached the city of Jekbada, it shook everyone like a thunderclap. No one expected www.biquge.info entire 250,000 Paz army to be defeated in this way, and it was so completely defeated that it even allowed the vanguard of Bataana's army to be killed near the city of Yekbada.

It would have been bad enough if it had only been the panic of the people of the city, and even worse if the soldiers who had returned from the defeat of the battle entered the city and began to talk nonsense, causing rumors to fly all over the city, and even to the point that Basbahn had killed the heads of General Gug and Count Shobanor with two swords in his own ranks, and the fear of Basbahn reached a staggering level.

In fact, the situation of the ministers was not much better than that of the people, and in their hearts this defeat was inconceivable, unless it was the reason why the gods had abandoned them. It was only after General Silmon's escape that they learned of the details of the battlefield. After Silmen's account, the three magnates roughly understood two points: the first was how the battle was lost, and how many casualties the Paz army caused; The second is the approximate cost to the Badana army. From this, they also understood two other points - almost none of the defeated troops of the Paz army had returned to the city of Jekbada, and Baibasbahn would not start attacking Jekbada for the time being, but it would only take two days for him to arrive in the city after he had reorganized his troops and horses, and he might be cutting off the other Paz armies from rushing to the aid of Jekbada.

At present, there were only 15,000 garrisons in Jekbada, and about 4,000 defeated troops who had fled, adding up to less than 20,000. The only advantage was that the city of Yekbada was strong and well-fed, and if the people were organized, they could still fight. No matter how strong Basbar is, as long as he can't hold on, he is helpless.

Unfortunately, this was just wishful thinking on the part of the magnates, and the city of Jekbada was thrown into chaos. The common people are not obliged to cooperate with their ideas, people from outside the city want to hide in the city, people from the city want to flee to the west, and a large number of people and vehicles gather at the city gate, blocking the road.

The Minister of State, Kebardo, was furious and immediately ordered the city of Jekbada to prohibit civilians from going out, and those who violated the order were beheaded! Under the strong suppression of the army, the crowd of people leaving the city after killing more than 30 people in a row was finally stopped, but the crowd of people entering the city was still surging. In order to prevent the spies of Basbahn from infiltrating the city, Kebaldo issued another order: anyone who entered the inner city was to be strictly checked, and the outer city was only open after sunrise until sunset.

The Minister of War, Bihab, scoffed at Kebaldo's order: the spies of Baibasbahn had already infiltrated the city, and it would be more effective to ban them from leaving the city altogether than to strictly check them, so as to at least prevent the leakage of information.

While patrolling the walls, Bihab spotted a suspicious figure - in the midst of the influx of people he found a man trying to squeeze out of the city, not dressed as a commoner, but in the form of a nobleman's attendant.

Bihab immediately ordered the man to be arrested, and the man cried out, claiming that he was Kebaldo's attendant and had gone out of the city to the territory on business. Bihab ignored this and ordered a body search. When the man's hat was found, the man's face changed drastically, and sure enough, a secret letter was found in the middle of the hat. When he opened the secret letter, he was shocked.

The letter is in the handwriting of Kebaldo and bears a reply to Baibasbahn. Claiming that as long as Basbahn could secure the title of himself and his henchmen, he promised to open the gates and let Bataana's army enter during his siege.

Bihab thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more terrible he felt: Babasbahn had raised the banner of Penoncar I, and the conquest of Yekbada was a necessary step; On the other hand, not all of his own side must resist to the end, it is conceivable that if after conquering Yekbabad, the first to be eliminated must be himself, because he is nominally in control of the military power, and Bai Basbahn supported Purnonkar I to come to power, so he will never show mercy to his subordinates, and it is difficult for the Chancellor of the Exchequer Songares to survive, because he has the money, and it is obviously in the interests of Basbahn to directly control the financial power after cooperating with him; But no matter how ruthless Basbar is, it is impossible to kill all the nobles of Paz, and then the court will be empty, so he is most likely to cooperate with the noble group that is willing to submit to him, and the Minister of State Kebaldo is the most respected one of the noble groups, so the possibility of him cooperating with Kebaldo is far higher than the others!

I'm afraid it is difficult to convince Kebardo with the evidence of this squire alone, rather than this, it is better to choose to join forces with the other party, that is, Songares, to deal with Kebaldo, at least now that the garrison of the royal capital is nominally under his own control, it is better to take this opportunity to replace the general who led the army.

Having made up his mind, Bihab decided to visit Songres' mansion immediately. As a result, Bihab was attacked by several unknown Assassins on the way, but fortunately, the guards reacted in time, and the Assassins failed to succeed, leaving behind two corpses and fleeing. However, this incident deeply damaged Bihab's confidence, and although he kept admonishing himself that this might be an Assassin sent by Basbarn, he couldn't help but connect the incident with Kebaldo's squire who had just been captured.

After meeting with Songares, Songares was also taken aback, and he immediately began to arrange for his subordinates to prepare for the response, but he did not agree to join forces with Bihab. After returning to his mansion, Bihab could not be calm for a long time, and he felt that Songares could not be trusted, if he did not choose to join forces with him, then he was likely to choose to join the camp of Baibasbahn in order to keep some of his wealth, but the army under his control could not be tolerated by Baibasbarn, even if he surrendered to Baibasbarn, he would not escape his poisonous hands. In this case, rather than waiting here and not knowing when he will be betrayed by his friends, it is better to strike first.

It is definitely not possible to start fighting openly, and since they have already captured Kebaldo's attendants, then they must have taken precautions. At the moment, Jekbada has no hope, no matter how high the city wall is, it can't stop the internal rebellion, in fact, this time the loss is to eat in Baibasbahn The advance is too fast, everyone is caught off guard and there is no time to prepare, so it is better to exchange space for time, take His Majesty the King into his own hands, and then flee back to his own territory. As long as His Majesty the King is there, he can use the name of the King to call on the Paz army to be called upon everywhere, and there should be nearly 200,000 troops scattered in the country, even if only half are willing to stand on his side, there are hundreds of thousands of troops, as long as these troops have time to gather around him, everything is still unpredictable, and in doing so, he can monopolize the power and no longer have to cooperate with these unreliable allies.

Thinking of this, Bihab immediately sent people to General Hilmen—and this is the greater advantage he currently has over the others, that is, the quantity and quality of military command talents, and the appeal of these generals to the army. (To be continued.) )