Bingzhou.
The base of the Yu Zhu Army-the largest rebel force currently in the Black Tortoise Kingdom.
This was the major province closest to the Demon Kingdom Rebellion.
Bingzhou had suffered few attacks during the Demon Kingdom Rebellion, and the occasional scattered assaults had been repelled.
Its losses had been extremely slight, but for that very reason, it had also taken in the greatest number of refugees from the Demon Kingdom Rebellion.
Even though the authorities had done everything they could to provide relief and suppress disturbances, under deliberate provocation and incitement...
A so-called uprising had become inevitable.
The uprising had proceeded extremely smoothly, meeting almost no resistance.
Or rather, before the uprising began, Yu Zhu had already made sure that anyone who would resist was unable to.
Yu Zhu was the leader of this rebel army.
Rumors abounded that Yu Zhu stood eight feet tall, with broad shoulders and a thick waist, could swing a hundred-pound saber, and could eat half a pig in one sitting.
Inside Bingzhou City, at the Demon-Suppression Bureau.
A slightly pale, slender middle-aged scholar who looked too frail to withstand a gust of wind sat in the seat of honor, staring gravely at the sand table before him.
Several burly men in armor sat to his left, while scholars dressed much like him sat to his right.
This frail scholar was Yu Zhu, the man outsiders claimed could eat half a pig.
"Cough, cough..."
Yu Zhu could not help coughing several times. He raised his sleeve to cover his mouth, and a slightly hoarse voice emerged:
"The Jinshui City garrison still refuses to come out?"
The burly general to Yu Zhu's left answered in a low voice:
"No matter how we curse them or feign retreat, they won't send out a single soldier. We've