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—twenty thousand troops have turned against us.

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

"General Yue's loyal veterans from every division are abandoning their posts and rushing over to the execution ground.

The Quartermaster is already in custody.

General Tianmen, stationed at the city gates, is marching with three thousand soldiers, poised to throw the gates wide open any second.

They've ignited the defensive formations without orders, redirecting them inward to shield against attacks from the city.

Meanwhile, they're dispatching messages to Duskwild Prefecture—they're teetering on the edge of full defection!"

"Most of the rebellious soldiers are flooding toward the execution ground.

There's roughly two hundred thousand of them now, and the count keeps climbing!

General Yue's admirers aren't joining the uprising, but the troops they command are standing aside, unwilling to step into this fray."

"The two Marshals who came from the Imperial Capital are directing forces to lock down the city walls.

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

You have to hold onto General Yue no matter what!"

As Dongfang Liancheng made his way to the execution grounds, one urgent report after another arrived from the soldiers, leaving him with the sinking feeling that he was walking to his doom.

"How could things have spiraled like this? How could it have come to this?!!"

Dongfang Liancheng, the supreme commander of the Eastern Border, appeared to wither and grow older in a mere heartbeat.

In recent years, Li Tianyue had steadily handed over her command powers.

Added to her choice to retreat to a secluded dwelling, he had let Tang Miao from Cloudreach Mountain run wild without restraint.

He never dreamed it would explode into this disaster today!

Battlefields shift unpredictably in an instant, and the same chaos can erupt right inside a single army.

The whole Eastern Expedition Army had slowly lost sight of Li Tianyue's commanding aura and her skill in leading battles.

Yet the troops she once commanded, along with the soldiers and officers who shared battles and brushes with death beside her, remembered it all vividly.

All she had to do was lift her hand and issue the call, and two hundred thousand soldiers from the Eastern Expedition Army rebelled on the spot!

"After today's chaos, the army's spirit lies in ruins, win or lose."

A storm of ideas surged in Dongfang Liancheng's head. His face hardened into ice.

"Send the command: Call in 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 outright rebellion, you get it?!!"

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

Brother Tang forced me to set them up and accuse them falsely!

This isn't on me at all, General Yue!"

The execution ground, crammed full of spectators only moments before, now stood empty as the crowd fled in panic like startled animals.

The plotters who had tailed Tang Miao in pressuring Li Tianyue were quickly rounded up and subdued.

No longer were Li Tianyue's old loyalists the ones tied up and helpless—it was these schemers now.

Many nearby generals rallied their own men, but they stared in dread as Li Tianyue's battle-hardened veterans streamed in from all sides around the execution grounds.

Li Tianyue's three centuries leading the Eastern Expedition weren't something to dismiss lightly; despite yielding her command and taking a ceremonial role, one summons from her was enough to plunge the entire camp into turmoil.

A cluster of generals huddled close, eyeing the execution grounds from afar and murmuring in low voices.

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

Years later, her men still rush to her side at the first word."

"Hmph, it's rebellion plain and simple. She's made a fatal blunder.

What a waste for such a stunning woman, and a tragedy for the soldiers she's dragging down with her."

"How did it reach this point? How did it happen?

I've been a seasoned general in this Eastern Expedition Army for three hundred years too.

Across those three centuries, the old hands either fell in combat or faded away in the city from age.

General Yue's followers are all battle-tested veterans. The Eastern Border would've crumbled ages ago without them. Alas."

Within the execution grounds.

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

They naturally set up a barrier around the execution grounds.

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

Li Tianyue looked over her gathered men.

It mirrored the old war lineup, made of the same tough, bloodied warriors.

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

She'd figured these seasoned fighters, placed under various leaders in the fluid structure of the Eastern Expedition Army, could at least carve out promising paths, letting her leave without worries.

But in truth, nearly all of them had suffered the same raw deal she had.

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

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

This amounts to blatant defiance.

I figured the turncoats were just your underlings at first; I didn't see you joining in too.

As a fellow officer for so long, I'll give you a tip: back out now while there's time, General Yue.

Given your history of service, if I speak up for mercy to Old General Dongfang, you might well get off with a milder sentence."

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

Li Tianyue's abrupt burst of fury earlier had rattled him badly for a while.

With the soldiers forming arrays and swelling in ranks, he'd pulled back to dodge their momentum.

But upon deeper reflection, delight crept across his features.

He mused inwardly, I never crossed the Azure Cloud Li Clan from start to finish.

I just handled the executions; not a single insulting remark escaped my lips.

This Li Tianyue is ultimately too inexperienced and green.

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

The real shame is that claiming this beauty will be a tougher prize now.