Chapter 57: The Good of the Good
Qin Tian and the old marshal Hu Yanlie came and went, and the battle was in full swing, and it was difficult to separate.
There was no victory or defeat in thirty rounds of battle, but Qin Tian had already firmly gained the upper hand.
One is because of his more exquisite marksmanship, and the other is because of his physical strength and long-range ordinary people.
Thirty rounds of all-out fighting in a row is a huge drain on physical strength, so although the old marshal Hu Yanlie is still attacking and defending in an orderly manner, in terms of physical strength, it is somewhat inferior to Qin Tian.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of rounds have passed, and the battle situation between the two has been clear at a glance, Qin Tian is still fierce and abnormal, and the old marshal Hu Yanlie is already a little overstretched to deal with.
The battle lasted until sixty rounds away, and finally Qin Tian's Yanlong spear stopped at an inch of the throat of the old marshal Huyanlie, although it was not touched, but the slightest chill emanating from the Yanlong spear had been raging in the old marshal's body like a snow-capped mountain collapse, and his whole body was like falling into an ice cave.
This may be the closest Marshal Huyanlie has come to death in decades. At this time, his big sword was still three feet away from Qin Tian, and it was obvious that he had completely lost to the young man in front of him.
The battle of gentlemen, so far, more than 60 rounds of fierce battles, has fully felt the strength of this young man side by side with the king, and the old marshal Hu Yanlie is convinced.
"I am willing to lose the gamble, and the old man will be convinced, I am already a prisoner under the rank of the king of war, let the king of war deal with it." The old marshal said with a light sigh.
"The seniors have conceded, and the juniors just want to invite the seniors to join my Dayan Army, clear up the war together, and return the people to live in peace as soon as possible, how can they be imprisoned?"
"The great ambition of the king of war, the old man admires it very much, such as as a soldier of the Great Yan, the old man should be willing to lead the horse for the king of war, before and after the saddle. However, I am a citizen of Tianchu, I have been favored by the emperor for a long time, and there are dozens of people from all over the world, all of whom are Chu people, and I really can't do that act of collaborating with the enemy and treason. In this covenant war, Lao Yu should fulfill his promise, no longer participate in the war, and no longer take charge of the Qinglong Army Commander Seal, if the war king does not give up, Lao Yu voluntarily serves as a prisoner of the war king, which can be regarded as an explanation to the king of Chu. The old marshal said sincerely.
After finishing speaking, the old marshal sighed in a low voice: "Hey, it's old, it's useless, it's time to rest." β
Hearing this, Qin Tian was overjoyed, although the old marshal did not explicitly surrender for the sake of face, but he was willing to be a prisoner, which was actually a disguised promise.
Join my Great Yan Army, treat each other well, for a long time, I don't believe you can't be used by my Great Yan.
As the saying goes, a thousand armies are easy to get and a general is hard to find, let alone this commander who commands hundreds of thousands of troops? Isn't it even more rare?
Qin Tian understood in his heart, and immediately called the soldiers of the Flame Army to take the old marshal back to the Dayan military camp to rest, Chang Zilong and other young men immediately came to personally invite the old marshal to the rear camp, pay attention to the invitation, not the charge.
The old marshal was also extremely cooperative, without the slightest pretentiousness, and just followed Zilong and the other teenagers towards the Dayan military camp.
And before leaving, he told the generals of the Qinglong Army that he was willing to gamble and lose, and had become a prisoner under the rank of the Great Yan Army, and asked the generals to keep their promises, either retreat or surrender, and not fight again.
In addition, it is clear that he is no longer the commander of the Tianchu Qinglong Legion, and the generals take care of themselves.
Looking at the distant back of the old marshal Huyanlie, there was a wail in the Qinglong army. The generals didn't know where to go for a while, the old marshal they respected was captured like this, and out of commitment and the old marshal's advice, coupled with the combat power shown by the Great Yan Army in these days, they could only just watch the back of the old marshal go away, and there was nothing they could do.
Seeing that the enemy's heart was in turmoil, the Flame Army officers took advantage of the situation and shouted:
The covenant between the two armies, the victory and defeat have been divided, the old marshal Huyanlie has been included in the Great Yan Army, and it is hoped that the officers and men of the Qinglong Army will keep their promises, join the Great Yan Benevolence and Righteousness Division, and fight together for the people of the world.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Great Yan Army, including the Flame Army, chanted in unison:
"The Great Flame will win, the Great Flame will winγγγ"
The momentum shook the sky, and many Tianchu soldiers were ready to lay down their arms and surrender.
For ordinary soldiers, many people don't really want to be soldiers, nor do they want to make meritorious contributions, but are just forced to join the army out of desperation.
In this form at the moment, in fact, surrender is not too humiliating for them, at least for the time being, they can still live. Especially those who were just forcibly arrested as soldiers this year, they already had a deep grudge against Tianchu, and surrendering at this moment was a good choice for them.
For a time, different factions appeared in the Qinglong Army, and some soldiers were extremely loyal to the Tianchu royal family, advocating that even if they fulfilled their promises, they would just not fight here and retreat temporarily, and they would kill the enemy for the country in the future.
Some soldiers felt that Tianchu's tyranny had lost its benevolence and morality, and the people's hearts had been lost, so it was not inappropriate to join the Great Yan Army at this moment.
There are also some soldiers who are centrists and have no obvious opinions, so let it be the crowd.
Originally, after the original war, the Qinglong Army only had more than 200,000, but after the king of Chu ordered the whole country to recruit troops and forcibly expand the army, the four divine beast legions have now expanded to 800,000, and the number of recruits far exceeds the number of veterans, and they all have no basic training, so they were directly pulled into the major military camps, ready to hone in actual combat.
For Tianchu, it is true that time is urgent, and there is no more time to train recruits, but such a large team of recruits, so extensively supplemented to the major military camps, is actually difficult to achieve the expected effect for the increase in combat power.
And after such a huge scale of military expansion, various expenditures are also increasing day by day. Coupled with the huge price paid when uniting the Eight-Nation Alliance before, the current Tianchu may only be a bluffing shell. Financial, material, manpower, and people's hearts have all been exhausted.
"Knock, knock, knockγγγ"
The war drums of the Great Flame suddenly sounded.
"Get rid of tyranny, restore peace to the people, the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, the Great Yan will winγγγ"
In the rumbling war drums, the soldiers of the Great Yan slowly advanced forward with the momentum of rushing the night, with neat steps, loud slogans, and extremely slow speed. But every step seemed to be stepping on the enemy's heartstrings, causing great pressure on the leaderless soldiers of the Blue Dragon Army.
"When the γγγ"
Finally, someone couldn't bear the suffocating pressure, threw away the weapon in his hand, raised his hands above his head, and threw himself in the direction of the Great Yan Army.
The ancients had a cloud: one life is two, two is three, and three is all things.
There are some similarities with the scene at this time. With the first to surrender, there will soon be a second, a third, γγγ countless others.
Just like when spring returns to the earth, you see the first grass breaking through the soil, and soon, you can also see countless small grasses around you also breaking through the soil.
The ancients said that the law of using soldiers, the whole army is the first, the army is second, the soldiers who surrender without a fight, and the good ones are also good.
Although the whole army failed to surrender in this battle, it can barely be regarded as a soldier who surrendered without a fight, and it can barely be called a good person.