The news that the Prince of Funan had defied the imperial edict and refused to return had already reached the ears of the civil and military officials in the capital. Yun Que had previously assumed the Prince of Funan was playing a double game—on one hand, unwilling to abandon Hongyan City; on the other, indifferent to the combat strength of the twenty thousand Flame Wolf Army, believing that Tianqi City could easily handle the situation.
Now Yun Que understood.
It was not that the Prince of Funan was unwilling to abandon Hongyan City; rather, he had long foreseen that the fortune of the Dajin was coming to an end, and he simply refused to waste a single soldier or horse to help the emperor!
Chapter 143