When work is a pleasure, life is a pleasure! When work is an obligation, life is a kind of hard labor.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

Seeing the nearly 3,000 dead soldiers of the Date Army being slaughtered in front of his eyes, Andong Jiazhong, who was moved by his love for talent, sighed in a rather regretful tone: "Compared with those who abandoned their weapons and surrendered, these people who fought to the end are the real warriors!"

"It's ridiculous that only one-tenth of the seemingly powerful Date family, the prestigious Date army, chose to fight to the death!" Yubu Yushin, who was full of disdain, looked down on the Date army that had almost surrendered in less than two days.

"Yubu-kun, the strength of the Date family is already history, and the current Date family is just a second-rate family in the name of the overlord family, and the army temporarily formed by the Date family is just young farmers who have just put down their farming tools. ”

"Hehe, in my opinion, it's Date Masamune's self-righteous kid who is too smart. Yubu Weixin's tone was extremely unkind: "I want not to consume my family's strength, but I also want to form an alliance with the Uesugi family, and I also want to seize the territory of our Yanhuang family;

"Yubu-kun, it's Date Masamune who is looking for death, not those warriors who obey orders. Helpless by Yubu Yushin's prejudice, Anton explained with a wry smile: "I just think that it is a waste for these soldiers who really put life and death aside to die here in such a senseless way, and if they are used to form a new army, they are much better than those who need to be trained slowly." ”

"Anton-kun, you are too merciful. You Bu Weixin shook his head and retorted: "It is true that it is slower to train new soldiers to form a new army than to directly use surrendered veterans to form a new army, but how can the former's loyalty to the lord be compared with the latter?"

"By Bujun, loyalty comes slowly, not at the beginning. Anton Ietada insisted on his opinion: "I believe that as long as the Shimono Kingdom of the Date family becomes the territory of our Yanhuang family, these warriors of the Date family will be loyal to the lord!"

"Perhaps. Yubu Weixin, who didn't want to have more meaningless disputes with Anton Jiazhong, said in front of him: "It's a pity that all the soldiers you value have died on the battlefield, and those who remain are all brave surrenderers. ”

"Alas......" looked at the battlefield strewn with corpses, in addition to letting out a helpless sigh, what else could Anton Jiazhong say?

Nearly 3,000 dead soldiers led by Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro were surrounded and killed by 60,000 barbarian warriors, and they only lasted an almost ridiculous half an hour before they were all annihilated on the outskirts of the mountains and forests; in fact, among the 60,000 soldiers of the two barbarian legions, only 10,000 soldiers from the two wings really entered the battle, and although there was a gap in the strength of the two warring sides, it was not too great.

"General Qiyu, our army has completely annihilated the remnants of the Date Army that tried to break through, and no one of the enemy has escaped!"

"Commander Valk, what are the casualties of your two legions, and are the two enemy generals killed in battle?"

"General Qiyu, forty-nine soldiers of our 3rd Lucy Regiment have been killed, and another 125 soldiers have been wounded, and 37 soldiers of the 2nd Essini Regiment of the Assam Regiment have been killed, and ninety-three soldiers have been wounded, and the situation of the enemy is being counted. ”

As soon as Valk's words fell, Assam, who was in charge of counting the enemy's troops, rode over and reported: "General Qiqi, there are 2,842 soldiers in the enemy's attempt to break through, and all the other soldiers have been killed by our army, except for their two main generals who were seriously wounded and captured. ”

"Oh?" Hearing Valker's report, Yubu asked curiously: "This Goto Nobuyasu is known as the most brave and skilled general of the Date family, and Katakura Kojuro is a diehard and the number one general of Date Masamune, how did they get captured?"

"General Keiyu, because Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro wore high-class armor that represented their status, our warriors did not kill them in battle, and our warriors did not succeed in capturing them until they lost too much blood and lost their combat effectiveness. ”

"Commander of the Assam Legion and Commander of the Valk Legion, this time the invading army of the Date family was completely annihilated, and the two legion commanders of you have made great contributions;

"Swear allegiance to the Lord! Swear allegiance to the family!" Assam and Valk had gone further and further on the path of learning from each other.

Anton Jiazhong didn't want to disturb the elated Assam and Valk, but he still couldn't hold back after all, and asked the two: "Two army commanders, judging from your actual combat experience with the Date Army, how is the combat strength of the Date Army compared to our Yanhuang Army?"

"This ......" Assam and Valk, who looked at each other, really didn't know how to answer Anton Jiazhong's question, they were born in the barbarians, and they were not very good at things that required brains, let alone such special brain-intensive problems.

"It doesn't matter. Knowing that the two were in a bit of a dilemma, Anton Jiazhong encouraged them: "You can just talk about your opinions." ”

"This ...... General, it seems to me that the soldiers of the Date family are not vulnerable at all, and even if they are equal in number of one-on-one battles, our Legion's Acenian warriors can easily defeat them. ”

"General, if I open up in the field and fight a hard-fought battle, I am confident that I will defeat an enemy army five times as large as ours. ”

"Well, the soldiers under the command of the two corps commanders are really strong!" After getting the answer he wanted, Anton Jiazhong first praised the two of them, and then ordered: "The two corps commanders also worked hard just now, so go back to rest and rest." ”

"No!" Assam and Valk, who didn't know what to do, looked at each other and went back.

After the two left, Anton Ietada asked Yubu Weixin again, "Yufu-kun, what do you think of the combat strength of the Date Army?"

"Although the soldiers of the Date Army who finally came out of the mountains and forests were already hungry soldiers who had been hungry for several days, their combat effectiveness was also the best among the Date Army; on the whole, the overall combat effectiveness of the Date Army should be comparable to that of the expanded Yanhuang Standing Army. ”

"Yubu-kun, it seems that you and I still have similar opinions, so I will report to the lord about the combat strength of the Date army. Anton Jiazhong nodded, and mentioned another matter: "The prisoners of the Date Army in the barracks will send someone to escort them back to Sanhe Castle early tomorrow morning at the latest, which legion do you think is more suitable for us to send?"

"Our next task is to encircle and annihilate the Uesugi family's army in the field, and once we fight, the Essini Legion and the Lucy Legion will definitely play a greater role than our Banner Legion, or we will transfer 3,000 soldiers from each of your legions to escort the prisoners, right?"

"Since you have sent troops from the two banner legions to escort the prisoners, then transfer six thousand spears from my legion to escort them, after all, the spear warriors under your command are more powerful in combat and can play a greater role on the battlefield. ”

"Okay, that's it. ”