Family Management Game In Immortal Continent Chapter 854: This Is Rebellion

"My Lord, those thousand soldiers by the execution ground have risen up in mutiny!"

"It's the Far East Army doing it. Twenty thousand soldiers are in full rebellion.

Two generals in the Divinity Transformation realm have taken over the War Artifacts and pointed them straight at the execution ground."

"In every unit, General Yue's loyal old hands are breaking away and rushing over to the execution ground.

The Quartermaster's already been nabbed.

General Tianmen, who's watching the city gates, has three thousand soldiers under him and stands poised to throw those gates wide open any second.

They've fired up the defensive formations all on their own, flipping them around to shield against attacks from the city.

All the while, they're firing off messages to Duskwild Prefecture—they're teetering right on the edge of switching sides!"

"A huge chunk of the rebelling soldiers are swarming toward the execution ground.

We're talking about two hundred thousand strong, and that count keeps climbing!

General Yue's admirers aren't jumping into the revolt, but the troops they dragged along with them are sitting this one out, refusing to step in."

"The pair of Marshals who rolled in from the Imperial Capital are mustering forces to lock down the city walls.

Marshal Zishu commanded me to pass this along to you: The Li family's role as protectors of the Southern Capital carries the heaviest weight.

You've got to hold onto General Yue, come hell or high water!"

With reports pouring in from soldiers as he marched to the execution grounds, Dongfang Liancheng felt like he was the one walking to his doom.

"How could it end up like this? How could it end up like this?!!"

Dongfang Liancheng, top Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Border, looked like he'd aged a decade in a heartbeat.

In recent years, Li Tianyue had slowly handed off her command powers.

Plus, since she'd chosen to hole up in some out-of-the-way spot, he'd let Tang Miao from Cloudreach Mountain run wild without restraint.

He'd never dreamed it would snowball into this disaster today!

Battlefields shift faster than a wink, and the same goes for the heart of a single army.

The whole Eastern Expedition Army had slowly lost sight of Li Tianyue's fearsome reputation and her sharp skills at leading men.

But the troops she'd commanded before, and the soldiers and officers who'd bled and battled beside her, hadn't let it fade from memory.

All she had to do was lift her hand and shout the word, and boom—two hundred thousand from the Eastern Expedition Army flipped to mutiny in a flash!

"After all this chaos today, the troops' spirit is in ruins, win or lose."

A storm of ideas whirled in Dongfang Liancheng's head. His face hardened.

"Send the command: Call up forces from every key camp to encircle the execution grounds!"

"Yes, sir!"

...

"General Yue, have mercy on me!"

"Release me! You're starting a revolt! This is straight-up rebellion, you get that?!!"

"I messed up, General Yue! Your old crew didn't turn traitor!

It was Brother Tang who made me set them up and badmouth them!

This isn't on me, General Yue!"

The execution ground, stuffed full of gawkers only a short while back, now stood empty of those rubberneckers, who'd fled in all directions like startled animals.

The plotters who'd tailed Tang Miao in pressuring Li Tianyue got pinned down fast.

No longer were Li Tianyue's battle-hardened followers the ones tied up tight; it was those schemers now.

Plenty of nearby generals called in their own troops, but they stared in dread as Li Tianyue's faithful old guard streamed in from all sides around the execution grounds.

Li Tianyue's three centuries pounding the Eastern Expedition weren't something to brush off; even after she'd given up her command and taken a do-nothing job, one shout from her could plunge the whole camp into uproar.

A bunch of generals huddled up, eyeing the execution grounds from afar and muttering low.

"That kind of pull with the troops... I doubt anyone in the Eastern Expedition Army can top it.

Years later, and her men still drop everything to answer her summons."

"Hmph, flat-out rebellion. She's made a real blunder here.

What a waste for a stunner like her, and a tragedy for the soldiers she's dragging down with her."

"How did things turn so sour? How did things turn so sour?

I'm an old hand too, a general who's stuck with this Eastern Expedition Army for three hundred years.

Across those three centuries, the old-timers either fell in battle or faded away quietly in the city.

General Yue's people are all hardened veterans. The Eastern Border would've crumbled ages ago without them. Sigh."

Deep in the execution grounds.

Li Tianyue's trusted officers showed up one by one.

They naturally set up a ring around the execution grounds.

Their eyes burned with resolve, red silk bands on their arms whipping in the breeze—a mark they were set to battle free from the Eastern Expedition Army.

Li Tianyue looked over her men.

It was that old familiar lineup, the same tough-as-nails fighters.

Handing over her command back then had probably been a grave error.

She'd figured these seasoned pros, scattered under new leaders in the churning Eastern Expedition Army, could at least carve out decent paths ahead, letting her leave without worries.

But no, most had suffered the same raw deal she'd gotten.

All at once, Tang Miao's voice boomed down from the skies, ringing out from all around.

"General Yue, you're turning against the Eastern Expedition Army.

This counts as outright defiance.

I figured the turncoats were just your underlings at first; didn't think you'd join in too.

As someone who's worked beside you for years, here's my tip: back off now while there's time, General Yue.

With your record of service, if I speak up for you to Old General Dongfang, you might just get off with a slap on the wrist."

As a Void Refining realm expert, Tang Miao lurked in the Void Space.

Li Tianyue's explosive outburst earlier had rattled him hard for a good stretch.

With the soldiers forming ranks and piling up in droves, even he had to pull back to dodge their full might.

But now, sizing it up closer, a grin crept across his features.

He mused inwardly, Right from the start, I never crossed the Azure Cloud Li Clan for real.

I just handled the killings; never said a harsh word out loud.

In the end, this Li Tianyue's too green and short on savvy.

Rebelling over a thousand soldiers is like weaving her own noose.

Only downside is, claiming this beauty's gonna be a tougher grab now.