It's no secret that dragons are powerful. From the current Eagle King to the clan chiefs, they all paid close attention to the war between the Dragons and the Tigers. Especially in the earlier war against the Deer Clan, the Dragons came up with a shocking musket artillery...... This meant that the dragons had found sulfur and were able to make gunpowder in bulk.

As the king of the Eagle Clan, Eagle Chongshan knew exactly what that meant.

The war between the dragons and the deer was short-lived, and with the defeat of Stag City, the deer were completely history.

Ying Chongshan was frightened by the cruel reality, and the sense of crisis in his heart became stronger and stronger. For the sake of the future and safety of the race, reason told him that he must send someone to form an alliance with the dragons as soon as possible, even if it costs some money, he must conclude a covenant between the two races.

Of course, this is just an idea.

At the same time, the pride of being a king swirls in my mind. The Eagle Clan is by no means a weak tribe. When he took over the throne from his father, Ying Chongshan received millions of civilians and a powerful army. The advantage of the bow and arrow makes the Eagle Clan proudly above the other races. Ignoring defenses, ranged attacks determine the outcome of the war, and the one with the bow and arrow always wins.

Ying Chongshan has been hesitating, in what way should he ally with the Dragon Clan?

He had been thinking in his heart, what kind of benefit should he get from the covenant?

Lao Chengjing is talking about people like him. It's no wonder that the covenant between the clans is not as simple as two people making friends. This involves all kinds of gains and losses, not to mention that Ying Chongshan instinctively has a sense of distrust of Tianhao. Because he is too young, the method of controlling power is not traditional inheritance, but from the lowest level of hard work and climbing...... In the words of the aristocracy, it means that "there is no pure and noble blood relationship".

What regent?

In the eyes of Ying Chongshan, Tianhao is an out-and-out transgressor, a pseudo-king who cannot be recognized.

The argument over identity is meaningless, only strength is fundamental.

In this way, between the psychology of gaining and losing, racking his brains to calculate various benefits, Ying Chongshan hesitated for several months. He saw the demise of the Deer Clan, the defeat of the Tiger Clan, and the civil strife caused by the Lion Clan's economic problems...... The bystanders are indeed experienced, and Eagle Chongshan has repeatedly revised his plan for the alliance with the dragons. At that time, he was full of excitement in his heart, thinking that he could get more benefits from the dragons. For example, the two sides jointly sent troops to cut off a large piece of fat from the lion or tiger clan, and ate it with a mouth full of oil.

After thousands of calculations, Ying Chongshan forgot the crucial point ———— time was not on his side.

The dragons fought without declaring a war, and captured the Black Feather Pass in just one day.

The speed of their attack was dizzyingly fast, and a huge fleet appeared on the eastern coast, which had not been taken seriously, and exploded through the eastern mountain range, and dragon soldiers poured into the mountain pass like a tidal wave, capturing the Golden Feather City.

Ying Chongshan was half angry to death, but there was nothing to be done.

He really hated Tianhao to the extreme!

Damned usurper, I will never recognize your throne.

The cruel reality is in front of you, and no matter how much you eat your beard and stare at your eyes, it's useless. Fully equipped with rifles, the dragon army with a large number of artillery rampaged in the Eagle Clan's territory, dividing the Eagle Clan into two parts, the north and the south, especially the southbound soldiers, which were directed at the Flying Eagle City.

Until now, Ying Chongshan sent Ying Guanghai to envoy the Dragon Clan, because the north and south were isolated, the information could not be transmitted, and he didn't even know that Blood Eagle City had fallen, and the northern territory belonged to all the news of the Dragon Clan.

Tianhao looked at Ying Guanghai who was standing in front of him, and asked lightly, "What do you want to talk to me about?" Armistice? ”

The difference between the defeated and the victors is so obvious. Ying Guanghai felt that he couldn't even straighten his waist in front of Tianhao. Humiliation, pain, anger, fear...... It's more about anticipation.

It is only when the eagle god is sacrificed on major festivals every year that Eagle Guanghai will have similar feelings. He was a devout man, and although he had never seen a god, he had heard many legends about gods and miracles from many shamans. The patron saint of the Locked Dragon Pass is one of them. If it weren't for the protection of that great god, the white people in the south would have broken through the pass long ago, and the northern continent would have fallen into war.

There was no need to consider the threat from the outside for the time being, no one thought that the war would come so quickly, and the cattle tribe that had changed its name bared its fangs and fiercely bit the eagles in the south.

You can't beat it.

The location of the Black Feather Pass is very important, and there is a special passage between the Flying Eagle City and the other main cities and the pass. There are more than 300 horses, which are inspected annually to make sure they are in the strongest health. For this reason, the Eagle Clan did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy horses from the Tiger Clan at a high price, just to ensure that one person and two horses could be used at a critical time, and the danger signal could be transmitted to the distant royal city as quickly as possible.

Beat...... It can't be beaten.

Now, Ying Guanghai has a new understanding and cognition of this sentence. The fast post station was set up to transmit information, so that the rear army could reinforce the front line as soon as possible. However, everything that needed to be done was done, and Flying Eagle City sent the first batch of reinforcements two hours after receiving the news, the second batch within twelve hours, and the primary mobilization was completed two days later...... In no more than three days, as many as 110,000 reinforcements were sent to the direction of Black Feather Pass.

At that time, no one thought that this battle would be lost, whether it was the Eagle King Chongshan or the commanders below. Yes, we have the terrain advantage, and we have "the best archers in the world". Even if the Niu clan has the most exquisite forging skills in the whole continent, what can they do? As long as we stand safely at the top of the pass and shoot downward, the other side will die as much as they come, and it is simply free to use our young soldiers as a live target for bows and arrows.

Ying Guanghai went to Suolong Pass and knew the power of artillery. However, standing from a distance and watching from a distance is fundamentally different from actually experiencing it. He couldn't imagine the spectacle of hundreds of artillery guns firing at the Black Feather Pass, let alone the pain of the soldiers screaming and dying in the artillery fire accompanied by the rubble and dust. His most intuitive feeling about this war was that time ———— the attack speed of the dragon people was too fast, and in just one day, the Black Feather Pass was broken and fell into the control of the dragon people.

The reinforcements received the news halfway through and sent someone to send the news back to Eagle City, which took a lot of time...... When my father learned about it, he fell into a rage on the spot and smashed the entire dormitory, but to no avail.

The dragons did not rest on this ground, they were like a swarm of all-pervasive flies, they actually landed on the inaccessible eastern coast, and even blew open the mountain pass in a terrifying way, and captured the Golden Feather City.

My father has issued an order for the general mobilization of the whole clan. Not counting the troops already sent to the front, Flying Eagle City now gathers 140,000 people. This number will increase as a large number of civilians from the surrounding walled cities pour into the main city.

Ying Guanghai did not give up hope for the so-called "decisive battle". Again, the same sentence ———— beat, you can't beat it.

He had been to Blackhorn and had a clear understanding of the overall combat effectiveness of the dragon army.

"Your Highness, please show mercy and stop fighting!"

Ying Guanghai did not have the nobility and reserve that a prince should have, and he knelt down in front of Tianhao again, constantly hitting the ground with his forehead, making a dull sound.

Tianhao sat on the throne without saying a word, just looked at Ying Guanghai with cold eyes, and waited until the other party was tired from kowtowing, his head was bleeding, and the muscles around the wound on his forehead were swollen, and Ying Guanghai himself straightened up in a heavy gasp, wanting to see if such a sincere act could win tolerance, and then slowly opened his lips.

"Don't do this, it's useless." His words were as cold as ice: "The battle has reached this point, and there can be no stop, and there can be no truce." ”

The continuous impact of the head caused Ying Guanghai's thinking to not be very smooth, he didn't hear Tianhao's words clearly, and pleaded out of instinct: "No matter what your Highness asks, I will try my best to meet it." I have only one condition: a truce! ”

He is not the Eagle King, nor is he the arrogant and uninformed nobles of the Flying Eagle City. It is no exaggeration to say that Ying Guanghai is the only high-level person in the entire Eagle Clan who has a clear understanding of the strength of the Dragon Clan.

When he arrived, the Eagle King Chongshan drew up a long list of specific terms of the armistice negotiated with the dragons: compensation for the dead, re-demarcation of the territories of both sides, and an agreement not to station troops in the border area with a certain city and a certain place as the boundary...... Overall, it was a truce that was favorable to the dragons, with the eagles paying part of the price in exchange for peace.

Ying Guanghai didn't plan to take out this piece of paper in front of Tianhao at all. That's a joke, the ignorant words of a frog who sits in a well and watches the sky without his own strength. Of course, this is also one of the reasons why Ying Guanghai refused to allow other nobles to accompany the envoy and take full responsibility for himself———— it would only be bad for those guys to come, they didn't understand the horror of the dragon clan and the appetite of the young regent.

If there's anything in this world that I really regret, it's that I couldn't lower my profile even further when I was in Black Horn, win Tianshuang's favor, and turn her into my wife.

If that's the case, Ying Guanghai has a great deal of confidence that he will move Tianhao to withdraw his troops, and it is even possible that this war will not break out.

Looking at the Eagle Clan prince with tears streaming down his face and blood all over his face, Tianhao sighed secretly in his heart, but his appearance was still indifferent and tough: "You better stand up!" You don't want to be too insistent either. Listen to the advice of this king, the request of this king. ”

"You say!" Ying Guanghai controlled his emotions and nodded hurriedly.

"This king can sign an armistice, I have only one condition." Tianhao raised a finger, and his attitude was extremely resolute: "The Eagle Clan must surrender and merge into the Dragon Clan." ”

"It can't be." Ying Guanghai subconsciously refused, he was completely stunned, and then his body began to tremble uncontrollably: "Your Highness, you can't do this. You can make any request regarding your interests. Cedion of land, relocation of people, compensation of food and money...... All of these conditions are negotiable. ”

Tianhao smiled elegantly: "What you said doesn't mean anything to this king. The black feather is in my hands, and so is the Golden Feather City. I have gathered 100,000 troops and more than 2,000 heavy artillery pieces in Inkbeak City, with the aim of capturing Flying Eagle City in the shortest possible time. For the sake of the past, as long as the Eagle Clan is willing to surrender, this king can keep all the property of your royal family, and he can also give you a city of about 200,000 people. ”

People grow up to lie.

The army assembled in Inkbeak City is currently only 50,000, and if you add the reinforcements that are coming from the northern theater of operations day and night, it can indeed reach about 100,000.

The number of artillery pieces was definitely not so large, and together with small-caliber light artillery, there were about six hundred.

As for the preferential treatment of the Eagle royal family, it is even more Tianhao's casual nonsense. If the Eagle King Chongshan chooses to surrender, it will of course be a good thing. However, Tianhao will never let the royal family members led by him live. Create a little accident, make up an excuse, and you can get rid of all these guys who are in the way.

Ying Guanghai's heart was gloomy. He had never felt so powerless as he did now, and his gushing eloquence was simply useless in such a situation. The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and the side with absolute control has disdained negotiations and has no interest in the terms it offers.

"Your Highness, we are willing to cede the Northern Territories." Ying Guanghai turned his heart sideways, risking returning to Flying Eagle City to be punished by his father's anger, and said without hesitation: "This is the biggest concession I can make. ”

His fierce and tenacious expression surprised Tianhao, and at the same time gave birth to an extremely subtle, even funny, thought. After thinking for a moment, Tianhao asked uncertainly: "Make the words clear." The Northern Territories to which you have just mentioned...... What does that mean exactly? ”

Ying Guanghai hurriedly replied: "I mean Jin Ling City...... No, starting from Inkbeak City, it is connected to the Black Feather Pass in the west, and north of this straight line, all the territory of the Eagle Clan is assigned to the Dragon Clan. ”

These words were improvised thoughts, and Ying Guanghai knew very well how large the area drawn north of this line was. That was equivalent to ceding most of the Eagle Clan, including the scattered cities and population.

Eagle Chongshan will not agree to this condition.

The royal family and the nobility will not be on their side.

It is conceivable that when the negotiations are over and he returns to Eagle City, he will be greeted by countless angry faces and an overwhelming amount of scolding.

Traitors!

Ying Guanghai felt his scalp tingle when he thought about it, but he had no better choice but to grit his teeth and cede a large piece of land.

Only a sufficiently large profit can move people's hearts, and the same is true of wars between two races. The dragon clan is too powerful, not to mention that there is a smooth road between Inkbeak City and Flying Eagle City, and there is no natural obstacle like Black Feather Pass. Not to mention a hundred thousand troops, even with half the number of troops, plus the incredibly powerful artillery, the situation in Flying Eagle City is still precarious.

According to the information obtained so far, the situation in the north has been eroded. Hundreds of thousands of reinforcements did not have the desired effect.