Chapter 345: Allies Meet
Leo refused to bark any more, and in the days that followed, no matter how much Qi Lang teased, he only wagked his tail with good intentions, but never opened his big mouth to make a loud wow.
However, it still returned to the barracks, and I don't know if it was Igru's persuasion that worked, or whether it was pestered by little Jira, in short, it went back, and stood at the door of the study every day, lazily basking in the sun, and only when little Jira clapped his palms and jumped out of the room, did he reluctantly stand up and run around with the little one.
Leo must be smiling, and Qi Lang could see that it was probably no longer a warrior, as Ou Wu had said before he died, and that he should find an opportunity to send it back, back to the Psychedelic Pool. With it should be the Sword of Victory, they have lost their destined master, and perhaps it is time to return to the place where they came from, and wait quietly for their next master to reappear.
But now is not a good time to complete that task, Gila has already analyzed the current situation, hoping that the legion has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders - old Henry is waiting for the group of young men he sent out early to grow as soon as possible, not to grow into a strong team, but a strong ally with the ability to turn the tide of battle.
The top priority is to oust the great Jiang Ping brother from power as soon as possible, and strive to stabilize the Zong Hao Kingdom before the real test comes. It should be said that the current situation has been very favorable to Qi Lang, and the so-called republic is already crumbling, and if this situation continues to develop normally, it will take half a year or at most a year. The entire land, made up of hundreds of towns, will all be returned to the formidable King of Zonghao. However, considering that the Otto Empire is highly likely to retaliate in three months. In order to avoid falling into the situation of being attacked on his back, Qi Lang needed to speed up the course of the war a little. And that meant he needed to communicate well with those powerful allies.
At present, it is the Legion of the Holy Son who has descended from the sky to launch a fierce attack on the northeastern front. At the beginning, after Qi Lang fought such a shocking bloody battle on the banks of the Daxin River, the Holy Son Legion was the first to take the initiative to stand up and initiate a response.
For that force, which consisted of only fifteen or six hundred men, Gila had already conducted a thorough investigation and had come to the conclusion that the Legion of the Holy Son was trustworthy and loyal. Because those young men are all the only children who were taken in by the original Virgin Mother, they are the real part of the story of the "Three Thousand Holy Sons" that Dong Hong once told.
It's just that their combat effectiveness is not as strong as the legend says, because none of them are born with three heads and six arms, no one is taller than a hill, and no one is copper-skinned and iron-skinned...... They are just a group of ordinary warriors, and the highest level of combat is no more than a mid-level swordsman, but they are brave and good at fighting, and they will die without blood. That earned them the reputation of the "invincible Iron Army".
The young warriors were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and the oldest was even nearly forty years old, probably not a few years younger than the Virgin herself, but they all called themselves the Holy Son. The original names and surnames have been abandoned, and they are replaced by Qi Da and Qi Er...... All the way up to Qi 3,239 - they were almost the biological brothers that Qi Lang had never met.
Nearly half of the warriors of the Legion of the Holy Son lost their lives in the invasion of the Otto Empire. The survivors have been lurking in the lofty mountains in the northern part of Zhongyang Mountain, under the persuasion of Mr. Zhu Lai. has been suppressing his anger, just waiting for the opportunity to finally fight back. Only then did he reappear in the world with incomparably brave momentum. Because they were too willing to die in the battle, and did not pay attention to tactics and strategies, so that there would be a large number of casualties in each battle, Qi Lang had to arrange some soldiers in the Hope Legion who had received real tactical training to help, and first-class fighters such as Dong Hong and Lansai were also sent over to fight with them, which reduced the casualty rate slightly.
In addition to the iron-blooded warriors of the Holy Son Legion, the Tiger Shark Wargroup composed of more than a thousand fishermen is currently frequently stirring up the enemy on the east coast. Those fishermen who originally lived in the Great Eastern Ocean archipelago were affected by natural disasters for many years, and their living conditions were greatly improved thanks to the fact that the previous king of the Zong Hao Kingdom, Qi Fu, exempted them from taxes and formulated a series of assistance policies. After the invasion of the Otto Empire, the fishermen survived with the advantage of geographical advantages, and have always refused to surrender, in more than ten years, there have been more than 100-for-tat battles with the invaders, and the battle has been tested for a long time, and the tactical mobility is flexible, it is a rare and powerful team.
If the two teams of the Holy Son Legion and the Tiger Shark Wargroup are the main forces that charge into battle, then the attitudes of the two major organizations of the Xiangshui Regiment and the Shanhai Society, which Mr. Zhu Lai admires the most, are a little ambiguous. These two major regiments had a large number of soldiers, both of whom numbered more than 10,000 people, and with their steady and steady fighting style, they did achieve amazing results in the central battlefield, recovering more than ten towns and towns, and quickly stabilizing the local political power. It's just that in the process of communicating with Jila, his attitude has not been clear enough, and his words are always intentionally or unintentionally trying to find out Qi Lang's policy arrangements when he returns to the throne in the future.
In fact, most of the leaders of the Xiangshui Group and the Shanhai Club are Mr. Zhu Lai's brothers, that is, the students of Qi Lang's grandfather, Mr. Luo Wu, it should be said that emotionally, they are undoubtedly on Qi Lang's side. But they still seem to be worried, as if the elderly teacher is about to entrust a precious and powerful treasure to the child, always hesitating, repeatedly weighing whether his decision will be harmful to the child's future development.
That kind of worry is normal in Qi Lang's opinion. After all, in the nearly a year and a half since he returned to the kingdom of Zonghao, he had never had the opportunity to have an in-depth interview with those strong allies, and he only did two things - snatched his mother's crystal coffin to announce the return of the prince, and sent the world's number one public enemy, Billy Whalemouth, to hell. These two events can be called earth-shattering, but they also give people some misunderstandings, thinking that the suffering prince is only coming back for revenge, and that all he wants to do is simply kill. This can be seen from the "formidable" title imposed on him by the outside world.
According to the history of the reign of the Jonghao Kingdom in the past, it was a kingdom that advocated peace, and the policies formulated by each of the previous kings were extremely close to the people and extremely gentle. The people of the Zonghao Kingdom never wanted their king to be an iron-blooded symbol, nor did they want their country to participate in the imperial hegemony of the entire continent, all they needed was to live quietly and live in peace.
In order to resolve these possible doubts and speed up the process of recovering the country, Qi Lang decided to meet with the leaders of several rebel armies, and the meeting place was arranged in Taoxing Town, in the lower reaches of the Daxin River. It was currently occupied by the Holy Son Legion, only twenty kilometers away from Ningwan Town, which they were attacking with all their might, and only seventy or eighty kilometers away from Dongyang City.
In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Qi Lang only brought two good brothers, Gila and Gulf, to the scene, while the Holy Son Legion rushed back in a hurry except for the leader Qi Fifteen, and the Holy Sons who were ranked in the top 100 in order all returned. After seeing Qi Langmian, they all seemed very excited, and often without saying a word, they would shed a burst of tears, that kind of affection, even the always rational Jira was moved several times.
The Tiger Shark Warband had to travel a little farther, and they had to cross enemy-occupied areas, so they couldn't take large-scale action, so the leader Tang Jiamao still brought over seven admirers who were eager to meet Qi Lang. After arriving in Taoxing Town, they had to bow down with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister, forcing Qi Lang to threaten to bow back as well, so they were willing to skip the complicated etiquette and only bow to express their respect.
In contrast, the Xiangshui Regiment and the Shanhai Society were much calmer, each sending a leader and a personal guard. The Xiangshui group came to Wen Lun, the head of the group in his fifties, and the forty-five-year-old president Man Yushu who attended the Shanhai Society. These two people are old acquaintances, and the time of arrival is also behind the feet, it is estimated that it is very likely that they came all the way together, and they entered Taoxing Town separately just to avoid suspicion.
Regarding the attitudes of these two sides, the warriors of the Holy Son Legion and the Tiger Shark Warband all have a lot of complaints, and they always bring some sarcastic tones in their contact, intentionally or unintentionally. However, Qi Lang was very unimpressed with this, after all, Chief Wen and President Man can be called their fathers according to their seniority, and treating them politely is the filial piety that the younger generation should fulfill.
After two or three days, after the other three or five leaders of the rebel army team arrived, and under the auspices of Qi Fifteen, the leader of the Holy Son Legion, the formal meeting was held under the big willow tree in Taoxing Town.
Qi Fifteen, now Chinese New Year's Eve, is the oldest of the more than 1,600 existing members of the Holy Son Legion, with a straightforward personality and a fiery temper, and was blinded in the right eye by a stray arrow in the battle with the Otto Empire in the early years, so that he could not take care of the left and right when fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and always took the enemy on the left side of the body, plus the original surname Zuo, so he fell into the nickname of "Zuo Lu Qing".
"Actually, whether this will open or not, I think everyone here has a certain number in their hearts. He said straight to the point, "In the fifteenth year's view, it is nothing more than asking everyone to put their hearts on a table, and then how to follow my king to do a great job." On the side of the Holy Son Legion, there is no need for me to say a word more, everyone has already opened their hearts, and they just want to fight this strength to cut Jiang Ping's yin thief into pieces and eat it with my king. But now that this meeting has been opened, everyone might as well make a statement, lest there be a fight between the two ends of the rat, which will make people unhappy to watch!"
When Qi fifteen said these words, he kept looking at Wen Lun and Man Yushu with his one-eyed eyes, and the disdain from the corners of his mouth was extremely obvious. (To be continued......)