Chapter 972: Betrayer
For betrayers, the old general has always hated it!
There is one thing that the old general's heart aches that he will never forget.
That was many years ago......
At that time, his son and daughter-in-law had just disappeared for a short time, and he tried hard to find their whereabouts.
And at this time, many small tribes at the border took advantage of his absence to want to sneak attack......
Originally, the adjutant generals he trusted the most presided over the war, and they were all brought out by the old general, and the old general trusted them very much.
In addition, according to the experience of previous years, the small tribes in the border pass would not make any big moves during that time.
But he didn't expect that the enemy's attack this time was like a bamboo, and probably because the old general was not there, the morale of the soldiers of the White Tiger Country was not high, and the news of defeat came from the border pass one after another.
The White Tiger Country, one of the four great powers, was defeated by a small tribe at the border, and even if it held on, it could not reverse the situation.
Such a situation can be said to have stunned everyone......
Even the old general himself was dumbfounded, not to mention how angry the emperor of the White Tiger Country was and how panicked the people of the White Tiger Country were.
You must know that since the old general became the general of the White Tiger Country, the White Tiger Country has never suffered such a setback.
Listening to the number of dead soldiers that came every day, the old general's heart ached......
Those people used to be brothers who fought side by side with him, but now they have died one after another, and they themselves are far away in the territory of the White Tiger Country.
There are rules on the battlefield that the corpses of those who die on the battlefield will not be brought back to their own country.
Because of a war, thousands of people died.
If all the remains are brought back, it will consume great manpower and material resources, and when the war is over, it is easy to produce corpse poison and other harmful things because the corpses are stored for too long.
Therefore, the bodies of those who die on the battlefield are very hastily cremated, and then their companions bring back to their homes the ashes that have been fused together.
In other words, the old general at that time wanted to see them for the last time, and he couldn't collect their bodies in person!
At that time, the old general thought that the defeat of the border pass again and again was due to his influence.
He also thought that it was because he had not shown up for too long to shake the morale of the army and found an opportunity for the enemy to take advantage of it, which made the enemy attack them so bravely, and that made their soldiers suffer.
The old general, who blamed himself, had no choice but to stop looking for his missing son and daughter-in-law in order to prevent more people from dying.
In order to prevent more people from suffering the same as him, he had to rush back to the border to deal with the fighting.
And it was on that occasion that he was on the battlefield because of the betrayal of one of his confidants, which caused them to almost be wiped out.
The man revealed their marching plan to the enemy, which caused the old general's army to lose extremely badly.
If it weren't for the old general returning to the battlefield and reversing the situation, I'm afraid that the current White Tiger Country would have completely become the defeated general of that small tribe.
However, that person's betrayal still "taught a lesson" to the old general.
And that's not all......
Before that, it was because of this person's betrayal that the army of the White Tiger Kingdom would be defeated again and again......
At first, the old general didn't know what was happening, but felt as if every move they made was mastered by the other party.
The other party seemed to know everything about them.
Later, it was because a soldier accidentally sneaked into the scene of his man's transaction with the enemy.
That person didn't dare to tell the whole truth he saw, for fear of retaliation.
That man was the most trusted person under the old general. And he was also the lieutenant general of that operation.
At that time, his status in the army was higher than that of the old general's biological son.
He was afraid that once he told the truth, and the old general did not believe him, then his fate would be very bleak.
But later, seeing the increasingly tragic situation on the battlefield, and watching his companions fall one by one and die one by one, he decided to tell the truth to the old general.
Among them, the veteran general really couldn't believe that his most trusted lieutenant would do such a thing.
And the lieutenant general also denied that he had sold the marching layout to the enemy.
In order to find out the truth and change the status quo of being caught off guard all the time, the old general made a decisive decision to temporarily change the way of marching and arranging the army that had been planned in advance.
Sure enough, the enemy army, which was originally overwhelming, suddenly disorganized.
In the end, the adjutant general found that he was really irrefutable, so he confessed to the old general......
It turned out that his parents were seriously ill and needed a large amount of money, and at that time, the leader of the enemy army suddenly approached him and promised him enough money to heal his father, but in exchange he had to find a way to help the enemy army win, but he had to get and hand over the army's layout map.
He said that he didn't say yes at first, but when he came home and saw his parents who were plagued by illness, he couldn't help but waver.
He knew very well that once the army layout map was handed over, then thousands of people would die in the end.
But if he doesn't agree, the dead will be the parents who gave birth to him and raised him!
Finally, looking at his parents on the hospital bed, he unexpectedly took the money sent by the enemy army and reached a "cooperation" with them......
Only then did the old general believe that the closest and most trusted person around him would really betray him for money, betrayed the White Tiger Country, and betrayed all the soldiers who fought to the death!
After saying this, the lieutenant picked up the dagger beside him and committed suicide......
In fact, at that time, with the distance between the old general and him, coupled with the old general's cultivation and extremely quick reaction ability, he could have prevented that person from committing suicide!
However, the old general did not do this......
Seeing the man who had fought side by side with him in the past fall in front of him like this, the old general was sad and helpless.
If that person was only the old general who had betrayed him, then maybe the old general wouldn't care much.
But how many innocent people have been killed because of his selfish actions!
Many soldiers were killed and many innocent people lost their lives as a result.
His parents are seriously ill and need to be healed, but aren't other people's lives lives?
They are also other people's parents, children!
They didn't have to die......
Their families, friends, and loved ones are still looking forward to their triumphant return.
Unfortunately, in the end, they only waited for the news that the man they had hoped for to come back earlier had died tragically on the battlefield......