Chapter 198: Diao
Fu Yunfei knew that Chen Ning's black army had already set out after lunch to conquer the rebels in Yinma Town.
He ordered Makino to lead the July Flowing Fire Legion and Wu Junsheng to lead the Shadow Legion to go to the other two zombie strongholds on the Nayuma River and pull them out.
Makino and Wu Junsheng received the order and immediately began to leave.
On weekdays, when the Black Legion attacked, Chen Ning always asked for a rapid march or even full speed, but this time, Chen Ning did not ask for a very high order, and Kan Jing also deliberately ordered the lieutenants below to slow down their advance.
But a few hours later, at sunset, more than 10,000 soldiers from the three units of the Black Legion arrived in the small city of Drinking Horses.
It's a very common small town, though it has clearly been battered by war a few times and is now in a dilapidated state.
Fu Yunfei's information said that there were 3,000 rebel soldiers here, but Chen Ning was looking at the town with closed gates at dusk at this time, and the guys with earthen guns on the wall were many old women, and even teenage children.
These people don't know how to survive surrounded by zombies?
What Chen Ning didn't know was that there were hundreds of thousands of rebels in this town, and there were also 100,000 rebel soldiers who could fight, many of whom were strong.
It's just that after a few zombie attacks, the people here have suffered heavy casualties, basically the elder brother died in battle, the young and strong sacrificed, the old man went into battle with women and even children, and everyone was not afraid of death into the defense battle.
These people, who did not flee to Suzaku City as exiles from the beginning, are extremely strong.
Of course, the result of this is that countless people are all a family, and all the families are sacrificed and extinct.
In the end, tens of thousands of people died from hundreds of thousands of people, and there were originally 3,000 elite warriors here, but the second leader of the rebel army, that is, the left protector, was ready to launch a head-on battle with the demon scorpion tyrant.
Therefore, the rebels in many places were contacted, and their troops were transferred to the command of Tears, and they concentrated their forces to fight to the death against the demon scorpion tyrant.
This war has been in preparation for half a year, and it is related to the life and death of the rebels. At this juncture, many strongholds of the rebels have actually secretly withdrawn the fighters, and the rest are the elderly, children and women.
Therefore, when Chen Ning and his legion arrived in the small city of Yinma, they found that the rebels here were simply weak and pitiful, and even sent a general above level eight to destroy all the defenders here by entering alone.
Just when the soldiers of the Black Legion were approaching the city, the army and the defenders of the small city were shaking and confronting, and when Chen Ning could only give an order to attack the city, suddenly the quartermaster Liu Ruyan came with a few people to ask for a meeting.
It turned out that it was the logistics unit of the Black Legion that sent several representatives to ask to see the commander Chen Ning.
Chen Ning glanced at the crumbling town of Yinmachuan in the distance, ordered the army to wait on the spot, and then met with the representatives of several logistics personnel brought by Liu Ruyan, Liu Ruyan said to several representatives: "Okay, I only promised to arrange for you to meet the commander, now you can tell him yourself." ”
Chen Ning squinted his eyes: "The two armies are fighting, at this very moment, what emergency do you have to ask to see me?"
Representatives of several logistics units knelt down in unison: "Commander Chen, we were all traitors before, and we joined the Black Legion thanks to your rescue and reincarnation. We are young and strong and have joined the Black Legion, but we still have many family members and relatives who are in the rebels, this small city of Yumachuan is only more than 200 kilometers away from Kapok Town, and we may have relatives living here, so we implore the Legion Commander to persuade him to surrender first, the enemy does not surrender and then start a war, and the war destroys the rebels who resist, and the rest of the rebels who surrender or are captured, please ask the Legion Commander to open the net!"
Chen Ning smiled bitterly: "You may have heard something about it, so you will come to see me." The news you heard is not fake, but true, General Fu asked me to capture the small city of Yinma, and asked me to slaughter the city without leaving any prisoners of war. ”
Several logistics representatives wailed when they heard this, and kowtowed again and again: "Commander, this is absolutely unacceptable!"
The Bull Demon King couldn't help but roar: "Do you think my eldest brother wants to slaughter the city, but if my eldest brother doesn't do this, then Fu Yunfei's bastard will have the handle to clean up my eldest brother, and my eldest brother spared the rebels in this city, so who will spare my eldest brother in the future?"
Several of the deputies did not speak, but simply knelt down.
At this moment, the small city of drinking horses in the twilight in the distance actually opened, and a thin man holding a white flag, shivering in the cold wind, walked out and walked towards the front of the black army.
The two armies are facing each other, and they don't kill each other.
This is the rule, this thin man came out with a white flag, and naturally he wanted to talk, so Chen Ning asked his subordinates not to act rashly and allowed the thin man to come over.
The thin man came to Chen Ning, and Chen Ning realized that this was just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old half-grown boy!
Chen Ning couldn't help but say: "Child, what are you doing here? Someone asked you to pass on the word, why don't you send an adult and a child to stand up, but hide in the city yourself, what's the matter?"
When this half-grown child saw the imperial soldiers around Chen Ning, all of them were majestic, full of knives and guns, his face was nervous and a little pale, but after hearing Chen Ning's words, he slowly calmed down, and even raised his thin face with some pride: " I'm not a child, I'm the number two person in the rebel army in Drinking Horse City, my name is Diao, I'm already the deputy company commander, and our company commander will personally command the defense, so I came out to talk to the commander of the Imperial Army, and I represent the rebel army in Drinking Horse City, and also on behalf of the 35,731 residents, to negotiate with you. ”
Chen Ning frowned when he heard this: "How old are you, you are the deputy company commander, fooling me?"
Diao: "It's not a fool, my father was originally the battalion commander, he died in battle, my brother took over my father's position, my brother also died in battle, and then it was my mother's turn, and now it's my turn, but I am not capable enough, so I can only be the deputy company commander." ”
The soldiers around Chen Ning were all slightly moved, this is a family that died in battle, and it is the turn of the child to play!
Chen Ning's tone subconsciously softened a little, and he became serious: "Okay, Deputy Company Commander A Diao from the Resistance Army, I am Chen Ning, the supreme commander of the Imperial Black Legion, what do you want to negotiate with me?"
"I know you, everyone here knows you, you are the only good man in the Imperial Army, and you are not only sympathetic to our rebels, but also the people who are trapped in the occupied areas. The story of your thousands of miles to aid Qingxiu City, the story of 13 people intercepting an army of more than 100,000 zombies and protecting the people of Qingxiu City, as well as your glorious record of joining forces with our rebels to defeat hundreds of thousands of zombies outside Qingxiu City, has long been praised and sung by troubadours in the southern occupied areas. ”
Chen Ning looked at each other with Kan Jing, the Bull Demon King and others, in fact, in that battle, Chen Ning didn't know how many super zombies he killed, and even killed a zombie lord, and finally defeated an army of more than 100,000 zombies with the rebels.
It's just that this incident has aroused the dissatisfaction of the imperial military department, especially Chen Ning actually joined forces with the rebels, which is intolerable to the higher-ups, after all, in the eyes of the upper nobles, the rebels are more damned than zombies, how can they fight side by side with the rebels?
Chen Ning's merits were basically erased by the military department, and the rewards given to Chen Ning were very few, and even this matter was handled in a low-key manner, without any publicity about Chen Ning's achievements, and this matter was secretly asked not to be discussed.
Therefore, there are not many people in the empire, especially civilians, who basically don't know about Chen Ning's brilliant achievements.
But what Chen Ning didn't expect was that his deeds, in the fallen area of the southern province, spread all over the country, the strongholds and cities of the rebels, and everyone knew him as the number one person.
Ah Diao looked at Chen Ning seriously at this time and said: "It is precisely out of respect for Your Excellency that I have come to negotiate, our requirements are very low, we will disarm and surrender the whole city, but you must treat prisoners of war preferentially, at least not indiscriminately." Otherwise, then we can only show the spirit of fighting zombies and be mentally prepared for the death of the whole city. ”
Ah Diao didn't seem to have much fear when he talked about dying in the city, not only because he wasn't afraid of death, but also because in the past six months, he had heard too many troubadours sing the story of Chen Ning fighting side by side with the rebels and defeating the zombie army.
This little guy purely believes that Chen Ning will accept surrender, because he firmly believes that Chen Ning is the only good officer in the empire!
He looked at Chen Ning with clear eyes at this moment: "Commander Chen, you will agree to our conditions, right?"
The condition of the rebels in Drinking Horse City is that they are willing to surrender without indiscriminately killing prisoners of war, which is a very low condition.
However, they shouldn't have imagined that Chen Ning was ordered to come here to slaughter the city.