"What should we do?"
Bo Yi had no talent for warfare and knew nothing about military matters. He could only look to Chao Lei, the sole person here with experience commanding troops.
Chao Lei frowned and began to think.
He recognized the woman. The Bird Yi had been the first Eastern Yi tribe to offer up wealth, and he had met her once when receiving it.
Now that the Bird Yi Chieftain was dead, didn't that mean the Eastern Yi had fallen into internal strife?
Chao Lei suddenly brightened with delight. All of this had begun with the Pingling rebellion.
The Imperial Preceptor had borrowed troops from the Bird Yi to suppress the rebellion, pledging the Dark Phoenix Jade Pendant as collateral and promising vast riches in return.
The Bird Yi had already been duped by the Navy into being the first to offer up their wealth, making them the tribe most ostracized by the other Yi tribes. This had opened cracks in the Eastern Yi, who had previously been bound together like strands of a single rope.
The Dark Phoenix Jade Pendant had widened those cracks.
The various Eastern Yi tribes believed the Bird Yi were secretly colluding with Great Shang. When they saw a host of Bird Yi soldiers returning with countless treasures, wicked thoughts stirred in their hearts.
The Eastern Yi chieftain had considered lending troops to Shen Gongbao because he had no money to reward his tribespeople and was facing pressure from outside.
But the other tribes faced enormous pressure as well.
A chieftain was a chieftain because he could bring benefits to those beneath him. But now that the chieftains didn't have a single coin in their hands, where would those benefits come from?
Seeing the Bird Yi obtain vast riches from Great Shang, and