"What?!"
"Ye Zhen had already smashed Ji Qi's thirty thousand rear troops and begun attacking Ji Qi from within and without!"
Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun's expression abruptly turned grim upon receiving the urgent military report. The bit of good cheer brought by the smooth offensive vanished without a trace.
"Send reinforcements?"
The final words in Ji Qi's urgent military report made Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun feel as though they were incomparably glaring.
He had led his army in a crushing assault on Blood River Fortress, yet the army he had sent out was now asking him for aid first.
Especially since that army contained elite guards directly under his command as Crown Prince.
It gave Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun an extraordinary sense of humiliation.
That was right. This was the exceedingly difficult decision Ji Qi had made.
Request reinforcements!
Even if this decision was utterly humiliating.
His one hundred and fifty thousand elites, facing an enemy force of around one hundred thousand, were actually asking Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun for reinforcements.
If word got out, his rivals would mock him for a long time.
But compared to returning after a crushing defeat, causing His Highness the Seventh Crown Prince to lose face, or even costing him points in the struggle for the Demon Emperor's throne, losing a little face was nothing.
Thus, he resolutely requested reinforcements!
"Ye Zhen..."
Looking at the two words "Ye Zhen" on the urgent military report, Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun found them especially glaring.
Very quickly, Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun made his decision.
Reinforce them!
Whether Blood River Fortress could be breached in the shortest possible time was not important.
What mattered was Ye Zhen, the marshal of Blood River