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Chapter 427 Regret is a useless emotion
Tiele decided to take a gamble.

In the past two years, he has finally figured out exactly what Li Dachui wanted to do.

After splitting the Great Yuan Dynasty, they slowly dragged it into the abyss, like boiling a frog in lukewarm water.

Every battle between the three factions of the Great Yuan depleted the Great Yuan's resources and destroyed its economy. Meanwhile, the Northern Protectorate fueled the flames, immediately intervening to support the weaker side whenever one faction weakened.

There was only one objective: to prevent the Yuan dynasty from regaining its unified rule.

This also illustrates a point.

That is, they were still quite wary of a unified Yuan Dynasty.

What the enemy fears is what we ourselves should strive to do.

"Father was killed by the third brother!" Tiele took a sip of wine, his anger growing stronger. "After the old woman returned from Changchun Valley, she confirmed this. The third brother colluded with Li Dachui and mixed in a poison that was exactly the same as the pill that Father drank."

If Tiele had told Jebe about this in the past, Jebe might not have believed it.

They would only consider it a slanderous attack by Tiele against Akdun.

But now, he has no choice but to believe it.

Because things had come to this point, Tiele no longer had any reason to deceive him.

I've already decided to work with him.

Looking back on the whole incident, the third brother's plan was actually extremely meticulous. The ultimate reason for the failure was that he couldn't surround and kill the second brother inside the palace, allowing the second brother to escape.

If the second son dies in the palace, and the third son becomes the only powerful family, then in Qingtongxia, there is really no other way but to submit.

The second brother was able to escape entirely thanks to Li Dachui's help.

Thinking about these things, Jebe felt a chill run down his spine.

That person entered the Yuan Dynasty with the intention of plotting how to dismantle it.

Recalling how the man in white robes eloquently discussed the merits and demerits of the three princes in the main hall, and how he struck him with a palm strike upon leaving the hall, instantly poisoning him and then immediately curing him, every step he took was paving the way for the third prince's eventual regicide.

Such cunning and shrewdness were beyond Zhebie's comprehension; even if he had a few more brains, he couldn't have come up with it.

The third one won't do either.

His Three Kings Council has already thrown the most prosperous region of the Yuan Dynasty, centered on Yandu, into complete chaos.

Even after the Yuan Dynasty split, the third son was still the strongest.

After all, during the reign of Yingzhuo, the Yuan Dynasty implemented a policy of strengthening the central government and weakening local powers. Powerful tribes, armies, and merchants were relocated to the area around Yandu to protect the capital.

But the Council of Three Kings destroyed all of that.

The ruler is no longer the ruler, and the minister is no longer the minister.

It is also known that only the second son can reunite the loyalists of the Yuan Dynasty after taking power.

"How do we do it?" Jebe asked, taking a big gulp of wine. "The first step, of course, is to eliminate those spies within our borders!" Tiele said. "In the past two years, the Beiting Protectorate has used merchant caravans to infiltrate our territory like a sieve. We can't do anything without getting rid of these people!"

“With such a big move by you, Beiting will naturally guess that you have something big planned!” Zhebie warned.

"They know we're making a big move, but they never expected me to go there!" Tiele said. "They must think I'm going to attack the third brother again!"

"Aren't you going to attack the third brother?"

"I'm not attacking the third brother, it's you, eldest brother!" Tiele said. "I will raise a large army and launch a fierce attack on the Qingtongxia line. Although it has been captured by the Beiting Protectorate, I have been operating there for many years and still have some connections. As for Xiao Chenggong, who is currently stationed in Qingtongxia, he is just an unknown nobody and not worth mentioning!"

“If the Northern Protectorate makes the wrong judgment, you have a very good chance of breaking through Qingtongxia!” Zhebie said, “And then what?”

"Next, the main force of the Beiting Protectorate will naturally come from all directions to block me. Once Qingtongxia is breached, I can advance straight ahead. I can attack Chen Liang in Zhenwu City on the left and Yuan'an City on the right. If I get really aggressive and advance with light cavalry regardless of everything, I can even fight all the way to Baoping City!" Tiele laughed.

"Of course you won't go!"

"Taking Qingtongxia only requires infantry. My main cavalry force will join my elder brother in attacking Yandu!" Tiele said. "Without the support of the Beiting Protectorate, Akedun is nothing more than a pig that can be easily slaughtered!"

“Rendo Zhong’s southern camp and Xi Feng’s western camp are still capable of fighting!” Zhebie shook his head and said, “We must not underestimate them. If we fail in one strike and end up in a stalemate, the Beiting Protectorate will intervene, and things will go back to the way they were before, resulting in a pointless loss of strength.”

“Li Zhun is dead, Miao De has come to my place, and Yelü Chongguang and Shi Xian are still in Yandu.” Tiele said, “The Grand Preceptor Bashiba is also heartbroken to see the current state of the Great Yuan.”

"Have they all decided to support you?" Jebe was both surprised and delighted.

"If it weren't for these people joining us, how could I have had the confidence to conquer Yandu in one fell swoop?" Tiele said. "Even Wutu changed his stance after Phagpa personally spoke with him!"

"This bastard, he surrendered and then betrayed again, he surrendered again, he has no morals whatsoever, how dare you believe him?"

“What the Great Yuan needs least now is morality!” Tiele took a breath: “Wutu still has nearly 10,000 troops under his command in Bafang City. After the war breaks out, Akedun will definitely call him back to Yandu to provide support. He is a Xuan Yuan Ninth Rank expert, and he is quite good at training troops and leading troops in battle. As long as he is willing to help me complete the reunification of the Great Yuan, everything in the past can be wiped clean.”

“You are indeed more magnanimous than I am! You can tolerate what others cannot!” Jebe looked at Tiele with admiration: “I shouldn’t have killed Lengge!”

“If you hadn’t killed Lengge back then, Lengge would never have let you escape!” Tiele said. “It’s nothing. Lengge died for me, but I repaid his family.”

"Father chose you in the end, not me and Aktun, and today I finally accept it!" Jebe sighed. "But I realized it too late. If I had understood this from the beginning, the Great Yuan would never have fallen to this state. If you and I had joined forces, we could have forced the Third Prince to abdicate back then!"

“What’s the point of saying all this now?” Tiele smiled bitterly. “That devil Li Dachui has accurately grasped the greed in each of us, found our weaknesses, and then deliberately stabbed us in those weaknesses. Brother, people like us are also incredibly confident, always believing that we can win, always thinking that we can defeat all enemies. Being too confident is foolish.”

The two brothers drank their wine in silence.

"Am I to command the battle against Yandu?"

"In commanding on the battlefield, you are better than me, elder brother!" Tiele said, "Moreover, the main force in this battle is your army."

"You're the one mediating?"

"No, I'm going to Qingtongxia. If I don't go, how can I fool those people from the Beiting Protectorate? Only if I show up there will they believe that I'm going to take this gamble!" Tiele laughed.

"Then you have to be careful, you need to control the heat well, and withdraw when the time is right!"

"I know!"

(End of this chapter)