Chapter 618: Persuasion
"Come back, give me back!" The old patriarch's son roared, trying to keep the formation tight, but the bears kept running out of the queue in a mess.
"Well, the children are hungry too! let them eat, since the humans have brought out the food, it means that they don't want to fight us to the death. The old patriarch sighed, it had already recognized the Spartan legion. Since the meteorite fell from the sky that day, almost all orc tribes have regarded this human legion as their most dangerous opponent. For this legion that can cripple the Tyranny Samurai, the hungry Bearman Legion may not be able to win anyway, so it is better to accept it while the other party is showing goodwill.
If Leo had ordered the Spartan warriors to attack forcibly, under the pressure of hunger and survival, perhaps those bears would burst out with stronger combat power, and the battle of the trapped beasts would also be very dangerous. But just a few dozen bags of food were thrown out, and the will to fight was completely disintegrated by those bears, and among the two options of filling their stomachs and fighting to the death with the enemy, the bears chose to fill their stomachs, even if they died, they had to be a full ghost.
"The bears in front, who is your leader, can you come out and answer!" Leo came to the front of the battle, accompanied by Achilles, and shouted to the bears.
The old patriarch of the bear clan blinked its only intact eye, sighed softly, raised his hand and patted his son's shoulder and said, "Catan, I'll go and see what kind of conspiracy those humans are going to play, you wait here, if I can't come back, then take the children and continue westward, remember not to look back and don't hesitate." ”
The bear clan's Catan stood up, stopped in front of the old patriarch, and said, "Wait, father, the bear clan can't live without you, I'll go talk to those humans, or you wait here!"
After saying that, Catan turned around and left without hesitation, so that the old patriarch didn't have time to stop it at all. Catan walked past the bear-man warriors who had carefully stuffed the cake into his mouth, oblivious to their guilty eyes.
"Human, I am the son of the Bear Chief, Catan. Say whatever you want!" said Catan aloud to Leo.
Leo frowned slightly, as if he didn't expect that it was such a young bear man who was in charge of the bear clan, but seeing that those bear warriors did not behave abnormally, Leo had to believe it.
"Now that the Orc Empire's southern expedition has failed, and the millions of troops have lost their rations, you must be hungry, so it is almost impossible to return to the territory through the vast wasteland. If you don't want to starve to death, I want your allegiance, I can provide you with plenty of food, and I can provide you with a territory to live in!" Leo said to Catan.
Catan looked at Leo in surprise, I don't know what the human in front of him thinks, there is a feud between humans and orcs, and the two races have already forged a blood feud in countless battles for thousands of years, and Catan is the first time he has seen a human being so whimsical that he wants to recruit orcs.
For a moment, Catan forgot to respond, and just stared blankly at Leo. Seeing the sluggish appearance of the young bear man in front of him, Leo felt slightly discouraged, it seemed that his thoughts were still naïve, and it was difficult for these orcs to accept it.
"You...... You...... Can you keep us safe......? Can you provide us with food?" asked Katan, slowly coming back to his senses and stammering in disbelief.
"Of course, I am the Grand Duke of Pritz of the human race, and I will soon establish my own kingdom, and my territory has a huge mountain range, enough for you to live in!"
However, Catan hesitated for a moment and said, "Then you wait a minute, I'll go back and discuss!"
With that, without waiting for Leo to react, Catan strode back into the bear clan. After hearing what his son relayed, even the old patriarch couldn't guess what Leo wanted to do after a long life of experience, because if he accepted the allegiance of the bear clan, he would inevitably be rejected by other clans, and it was really unreasonable to do so.
"Katan, do you think we should agree?" the old patriarch asked his son, unable to decide for a moment.
"Uh~, I can't say for sure, but if we fight to the death, what are the chances of winning? If the odds are high, I think we don't have to pay attention to this madman's words at all, just kill them, and then we don't have to worry about military rations or anything. Catan asked his father rhetorically.
The old patriarch listened to Catan's words and shook his head slowly: "I'm afraid we don't have any chance of winning, it's a legion that even the mad Storm Ape Warriors can kill, if it was the heyday of the Bear Clan, maybe we don't need to fear them, but now ......"
Katan followed his father's gaze and looked at the bear-man warriors in the outer circle who were fighting for food, and sighed in his heart, he understood that it was really difficult to say how much combat these hungry bear-men could exert now.
"You call all those centurions here, and you should ask everyone's opinions on this kind of important matter!" The old patriarch did not make a hasty decision, but ordered Katan to gather the officers to discuss the matter.
Outside the bear clan's formation, Leo looked at the opposite side for a long time without any movement, and couldn't help but ask Achilles beside him, "What do you think the success rate of this matter will be?"
"I guess this can be done, if they didn't want to surrender, I'm afraid they would have ordered an attack a long time ago, and they wouldn't have made us wait so long. Achilles said, glancing at Leo.
"But I didn't expect you to do that, it's ...... Too...... It's crazy! I guess they'll be scared when they return to Dawning Fortress. ”
"Hahaha! I think so, maybe they'll call me crazy! But I don't think it's the best way to fight to the death, and it's a tactic to break up the enemy from within. If these bears surrender, after setting this precedent, the orcs will know that they can surrender in a battle with humans, which will reduce their chances of desperate efforts in a desperate situation, and there will be fewer human soldiers!"
Achilles couldn't help but look deeply at Leo again, he couldn't figure out how the Grand Duke of Pritz could say such a thing. After obtaining the Arena of the Gods, it means having an endless army, and the number of soldiers is nothing more than a number to him. But Leo still has mercy in his heart, and he is still thinking about reducing the casualties of the soldiers, which is simply an anomaly.