Chapter 1: Veterans Don't Die

Tang Fenghao and La Lantern finally spared no hand, burying the terrain of the central battlefield, causing the ice field to shatter.

The collapse of the ice sheet has made the already hostile environment even worse. And pulling the lamp to hold the inverted void funnel, rescuing the aliens, and changing direction accelerated the retreat of the coalition forces.

Cleaning up the remnants of the battle, sorting out the irascible Void Source Force little by little, as well as the injuries left by Gu Dongping, and the defeat in the three battles made a stepping stone for Tang Fenghao. No one knows how the lantern felt during the more than an hour of resisting the Void backlash.

It's just that after he returned to the camp and sat quietly for a few hours, after dissipating the peak qi and returning to a normal state, his first decision was to announce the withdrawal of his troops.

The central battlefield, the great retreat of the empire and the alien race, also announced that the Eastern Continent War had completely come to an end, and then the various theaters of war also entered the convergence of the wings and slowly retreated mode.

Gu Dongping flashed and disappeared after watching the lantern combing the battlefield, and Tang Fenghao obviously didn't want to fight with the lantern again, so he left with him.

Two days later, Tang Fenghao turned around Longyun Valley and began to prepare for battlefield statistics, and the Battle of the Eastern Continent was unsurprisingly the last battle in which he commanded the army.

According to the imperial convention, Tang Fenghao will either replace Marshal Lu Yang, who died in the turmoil of his rise a few months ago, and take charge of the military department and become one of the giants, or he will bear the title of king with a different surname and enjoy the top treatment within the empire, and then the family will also rise because of it, and jump several steps in the shortest time.

Of course, the former is very unlikely, the extreme realm is a lucky guard in the empire, even the emperor of the empire will give them the greatest respect, and it is not impossible to support the extreme realm with the power of the empire, but since the establishment of the empire, few people in the extreme realm have personally taken care of state affairs, and they will not hold military power.

Referring to the few words after the battle with the lantern, Tang Fenghao obviously did not have the idea of wading into the troubled waters of the empire. Standing at the end of the martial arts, they are in addition to the luck of the human race and the progress of the martial arts.

A little Cebu, few of which can distract them.

Tang Fenghao went to Longyun Valley first, but Gu Dongping caught up with the retreating army and met Zhong Jian and Gu Hailin successively. With Gu Dongping secretly taking care of him, there were few casualties during the retreat of the gathering place where Gu Hailin was located.

He was busy with retreat affairs that day, and there were factors such as the first recognition of the master of the artifact and the uncertain name, but he did not make any extraneous branches. Neither met with Zhong Jian nor contacted Gu Hailin.

He is not Tang Fenghao, just sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, there are dozens of people, including the marshal of the empire and the head of the high-grade family, who have been degraded or died because of Tang Fenghao.

Extreme realm cultivation can't be taken away, but the artifact can, Gu Dongping believes that his control of the Huangquan artifact is incomparable, and it is much closer than everyone thinks.

But he could not be tempted by men. In the final analysis, if Gu Dongping can't exert the full power of the artifact, it will be like a child holding gold to go through the city, and what is even more fatal is that he does not have a backer who is enough to deter most people. Therefore, he cleared the three Arnolds, showed their combat strength, and cut off the connection of the heavenly machines of all races in the void, crossed the void consciousness and descended to Qin Tianjian, and finally injured the lantern. In particular, the blow of injuring the lantern is the most convincing fact.

Actions speak louder than words. When Gu Dongping transformed the artifact into strength, the cost of taking it away would be beyond many people's estimates, and this was the beginning of the consolidation of his position.

After talking with the two, Gu Dongping returned to the sixth camp of the Dongluan War Zone.

The camp in the sixth district is now the most prosperous camp in the Dongluan Theater and the camp with the highest flow of people, which is the result of Gu Dongping's opening of armed exchanges, and also because of his growing fame in the central battlefield.

With the wolf child and Qing Baichuan coming back one step forward, the sixth district of Jialiu was ready to retreat.

Returning to the room that had been reserved for him, Xie Feipeng briefed Gu Dongping on the changes in the camp for more than a year.

After focusing on the number of military exploits, materials, and troop reserves in the camp, Xie Feipeng saw that Gu Dongping was not very interested in these things, changed the topic, and briefly introduced the situation in Donglu.

In the past two years, the internal affairs of Donglu have been managed by Hua Chi and Zhang Ming, and Wan Fei has also been constantly involved in the management.

Due to the war, the major forces in the Eastern Continent could not spare their hands, and the Daxing Chamber of Commerce was still able to barely maintain it, and outside the Eastern Continent, because the Daxing Chamber of Commerce had attracted too many rights and wrongs, and Daxing, which was once one of the four major chambers of commerce in the empire, had reached the point of collapse.

The only reason why the Daxing Chamber of Commerce has not yet been defeated is that everyone is waiting for the lucky person who has obtained the Martial Ancestor Inheritance to come forward.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, the Martial Ancestor Inheritance is only a part, and it is rumored that there are also artifacts that can overthrow the power of the Great Bank of Commerce, and what they want is naturally not just money, they value things that money can't buy.

After introducing these things, the two chatted for a while, and the little rustiness that they hadn't seen for a year also dissipated. Ever since Gu Dongping entered the First Gathering Place, he has been in a state of battle all the time, and his connection with the camp has relied on the most primitive letters.

Most of the people in the camp in District 6 of Jialiu only knew Gu Dongping in the concept of a top genius, that is, the people close to him had some guesses, but they were not clear.

Gu Dongping was not in a hurry to deal with the affairs of the Daxing Chamber of Commerce, he asked Xie Feipeng to call the wolf child and others to distribute some of the items obtained from the Jinyuan boundary.

According to the accumulated military merits of the year, as well as the distribution of contributions, Gu Dongping established the majesty of the lord. At this point, Xie Feipeng cooperated with him very well.

Another two days passed, and Tang Fenghao issued an order to retreat on all fronts. It should have reached some kind of deal with the alien race, and the other side did not chase after it, but withdrew one after another, and soon the battle line that stretched for thousands of miles was empty.

Even with the fastest retreat, the warrior still didn't make it to the New Year, but it was much better than spending time on the battlefield fighting aliens.

Longyun Valley Conference Room. On the second day of the year 1012 of the Great Xia calendar, the statistics of the battles of the Eastern Continent War were completed.

In this meeting, there were some changes in the seats. Wang Yushu died, and the agent of the Xianghe Wang clan became Wang Ba. The dead Tianqing Tiger is sitting in the position of Gu Dongping, and it is not surprising that the tiger teeth will fall out of the six major in the next rating.

Beginning in May 1010, the war lasted for a year and a half.

On the Terran side, more than 1.08 million people were killed, with the central battlefield contributing one-third of the number and the other theaters contributing the remaining two-thirds. The Gu family lost nearly 30,000 casualties, including 10,000 Gu family soldiers, thousands of absent soldiers, and small forces following the Gu family.

The alien aspect is only limited to the Terran killing, and combined with the secret statistics of the alien race, the number is probably hundreds of thousands more than the Terran. However, compared to the number of dead in the major holy races, the human race is obviously weak.

In this war for the sake of war, for the sake of draining the living force of the Terrans, the Terrans are always the losers.

According to the caustic remarks of a certain historian of the Eastern Continent: The Great War in the Eastern Continent is like cutting weeds, and only the Terrans do not have the power to expand externally to ensure that only the human race does not have the power to expand externally, as for how many lives are paid for it, it is insignificant in the face of strategic goals.

Of course, Gu Dongping obtained the artifact, which caused some accidents in this Eastern Continent War. In the eyes of many races, this is a strategic advantage that requires tens of millions of Terran casualties to eliminate, and sometimes more than that.

Because of his outstanding performance in the Eastern Continent War, Gu Dongping won the Imperial Special Merit and the Xuanyue Badge, which is an honor that only appears in the National Fortune War.

The award was presided over by Tang Fenghao, but Gu Dongping was a little different from other sergeants, he did not kneel down on one knee and bent slightly to show respect.

At the end of the awarding ceremony, Tang Fenghao got up, the audience stood up, and went to the exclusive cemetery behind Longyun Valley, where tens of millions of soldiers were buried.

Tang Fenghao personally delivered a speech in front of the cemetery, and the topic of his speech was "Veterans do not die, and the fortune of the country lasts forever!". The speech of compassion and passion drew a successful end to the Great War of the Eastern Continent.