277. Chapter 275: Psychological Warfare
"Hehe! These false names, don't mention them!" Du Long was a little unbearable by the praise of the two legion commanders, and hurriedly waved his hand to change the topic: "Let's get to the point! Tell me, what is the situation in Haoyue City now?!"
As soon as they started talking about business, Luo Hao and Qin Hanfan immediately put away their smiles, and Luo Hao took the lead in explaining: "Just before your million coalition troops wantonly pursued and killed the Blue Moon Empire army, we had already surrounded Haoyue City! Therefore, the king of Haoyue and the second prince could only flee to the south bank of the Hans River with more than 100,000 remnants of the defeated army, so there are still more than 400,000 men and horses of the Blue Moon Empire stationed in Haoyue City!"
"They are the two major armies of Zhiyuan and Pang Tong, which have been responsible for the defense of Haoyue City for a long time in the Blue Moon Empire, and these two legions each have 200,000 horses, all of which were recruited by the Blue Moon Empire from the Haoyue Federation Kingdom, and we are old acquaintances with the Yulin Guan Jinglin Legion!"
Nodding, Du Long muttered: "The main generals of these two major legions are the Zheng family, the Zheng family is a military family of the Blue Moon Empire, and all their families stay in the capital of the Blue Moon Empire, including the relatives of many of their middle and high-level soldiers, all of whom live in the territory of the Blue Moon Empire, so it is impossible for them to surrender, otherwise they will ......"
"The marshal's analysis is very correct, and it is precisely for this reason that the 400,000 troops in Haoyue City have not shown any signs of surrender and compromise so far!" Luo Hao nodded solemnly.
"Alas, the Zheng family, in the Blue Moon Empire, is a relatively loyal military family, it's a pity, it would be nice if it could be subdued!" Du Long shook his head and sighed.
"I think it's difficult!The Zheng family has always been extremely loyal to the Blue Moon Empire, even if we get their family out, they won't necessarily surrender to us!" Qin Hanfan interjected at the right time.
"It's really chicken ribs, it's tasteless to eat, it's a pity to abandon it!" Du Long sighed again, and then his face was solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "This Haoyue City is like a nail, nailed to our body, if it is not removed, I am afraid that it will cause great harm to our subordinate soldiers in the future, so it can only fulfill the name of loyalty and righteousness of the Zheng family!"
"Pass my general's order! After lunch, the whole army will press forward and prepare to attack the city!" Du Long gave the latest general order with a solemn face.
"Mercy is not in charge of the soldiers!" this is the simplest advice given to him by the beauty of the ring, "Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to one's own subordinates! Since you can't have both, you can only die to your friends, not to die poor!"
At first, Du Long was thinking about whether to trap the 400,000 army first and not attack, and then solve this problem when the time was ripe in the future, but thinking about leaving a deadly nail on himself, he immediately gave up this unreliable idea.
Outside Haoyue City, a million troops advanced on all fronts, the war drums beat low and slowly, this was a signal to prepare for an attack, and the roar of the war drums was like a heavy hammer, hitting the heart of the defenders of the Blue Moon Empire's city wall one after another.
At the north gate of Haoyue City, Zheng Kaiyuan and Zheng Kaitai, the main generals of the two major armies, stood on the commanding tower behind the north gate of Haoyue City with solemn faces, looking at the scene of the siege of millions of troops outside the city.
"Big brother, is this battle really unavoidable?!" Zheng Kaitai, the commander of the Pang Tong Legion, looked at his eldest brother gloomily, and said in a deep voice.
"How do you say to avoid it?!Don't you see that the million-strong coalition army of the Haotian Empire can't even be persuaded to surrender at all?! It will come to this point, we can't blame anyone, we can only fight with all our strength, in the name of fulfilling our Zheng family's loyalty!" Zheng Kaiyuan said unswervingly.
"I understand!" Zheng Kaitai nodded heavily.
Outside the city, a million coalition troops stood five miles away, and then, a group of high-level generals came out of the army, including Du Long, who rode a fiery red lion!
As soon as his signature fiery red mount, the Great Lion, appeared, Haotian Millions immediately let out a deafening cheer, obviously, this youngest and most magical commander of the three armies of the Empire on the Star Continent was loved and worshiped by all Haotian soldiers!
This time, in front of the million-strong army formation, Du Long was embarrassed to continue to ride with Huofeng and Qinglian, and the two girls were all dressed in military uniforms, riding a white and a fiery red war horse, quietly following him.
In front of the three armies, Du Long and his party came to a mile outside the city, and then cast their eyes on the opposite city wall, and finally fell on the group of generals in the command tower!
"On the opposite command tower, but Zheng Kaiyuan and Zheng Kaitai, the commanders of the Zhiyuan and Pang Tong Legions?!"
"I'm Zheng Kaiyuan, this brother Zheng Kaitai, I don't know if you are Du Long, the youngest commander of the Haotian Empire?!" Zheng Kaiyuan replied loudly on the command tower.
"It's Du Long of the Haotian Empire down there!" Du Long politely replied.
"I don't know what Marshal Du Long wants?! If he wants to come to persuade him to surrender, then I think he will be exempted, right? I believe that all the officers and men of Zhiyuan and Pang Tong in the army would rather die than surrender!" Zheng Kaiyuan directly took the initiative to close the door to surrender.
"Hahaha! I have heard for a long time that the Zheng family is a rare loyal and righteous military family in the decaying Blue Moon Empire, and when I see it today, it really deserves its reputation!" Du Long laughed at the sky.
"Thanks to Marshal Du Long's praise! Zheng is ashamed!" Zheng Kaiyuan replied without being arrogant or humble: "Presumably, Marshal Du Long came to the front of the two armies, definitely not just to praise my Zheng family, the trapped division, right?!"
"General Zheng is wise!"
"As far as Du Long knows, the two major legions of Zhiyuan and Pang Tong under the general, in addition to the middle and high-level soldiers, the rest are mostly locals of the Haoyue Kingdom, General Zheng and his subordinates, in order to not implicate their relatives in the Blue Moon Empire, swear to die and are unwilling to surrender, I can understand it very well!"
"However, the general has tied countless local soldiers of the Haoyue Kingdom to the destruction chariot of the Blue Moon Empire, and the general has to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers under him in the name of loyalty to fulfill the Zheng family, is this a bit too selfish?!"
Outside the city, Du Long sat on the back of the big lion, looking at Zheng Kaiyuan on the command tower with blazing eyes, and finally threw out the most important words of his trip.
I can feel that the soldiers on the city wall who were originally going to go to life and death with the generals of the Zheng family, their firm eyes became a little hesitant, and it was obvious that Du Long's words had successfully shaken the hearts of countless local soldiers of the Haoyue Kingdom!
"Hahaha! According to legend, the head of the three major young wizards in the Star Continent is full of wisdom and wisdom! When I saw it today, it really lived up to its name! General Ben really admired it!" On the city wall command tower, Zheng Kaiyuan looked up to the sky and laughed.
"However, I, Zheng Kaiyuan, have always shown sincerity to my subordinates, and regard all the soldiers below me as brothers in life and death! The officers and soldiers of the two major legions of Zhiyuan and Pang Tong under the Zheng family are definitely not something that you can disturb the morale of the army with just a few words!"
"We still have more than 400,000 garrisons in our hands, even if you claim to be a million coalition army?! If you want to gnaw us, you will definitely break a few of your big teeth!"
Outside the city, Du Long looked indifferently at the talkative Zheng Kaiyuan, and did not interrupt his speech, until his voice fell, then he continued to speak: "What General Zheng said is wrong! As far as Du Long knows, the Blue Moon Empire did everything to burn, kill, loot and plunder in order to conquer the Haoyue Kingdom! Even such a horrific thing as slaughtering the city has been done several times!
After successfully conquering the Haoyue Kingdom, in order to curb the development of the Haoyue Kingdom, the entire family of the former respected Haoyue King was beheaded, and a weak distant relative of the royal family branch was also raised to become the current Haoyue King and become the puppet of your Blue Moon Empire!
The Blue Moon Empire is not worried about the Haoyue Federation, and often uses the pretext of war against the Haotian Empire to constantly send the people of the Haoyue Kingdom to the front line, your so-called Zhiyuan and Pang Tong Legions, although they are called the main legions of the Blue Moon Empire, in fact, they are just cannon fodder on the battlefield, right?!
Take a look for yourself, since the establishment of the two major legions by your Zheng family, how many veterans have there been in the legions? It is estimated that all of them will be the new faces of the Haoyue Kingdom, right?! How many people of the Haoyue Kingdom have become cannon fodder for your deliberate sacrifice? ! You still have the face to say that you treat your subordinates like siblings?!"
Airplanes......
Du Long's words made countless soldiers of the Haoyue Kingdom on the city wall burst into buzzing discussions, many things, official statements, and the deeper meaning behind them are often far from the deep-seated meaning!
Most of the soldiers of the two major armies of Zhiyuan and Pang Tong are ordinary people from the lowest level of the Haoyue Kingdom, and they will not know this deep-seated information at all, and some of the information has been deliberately concealed by the official, and they have no way of understanding it at all.
"General Zheng, is what Du Long said true?!"
"General, is it true that the empire for which we have sacrificed our lives for so many years is so ugly?!"
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Soon, a large number of soldiers began to question the main general, the Zheng brothers, who blushed and hardly knew how to answer the questions of their subordinates.
After all, what Du Long said is the truth, as the commander of the army, others don't know the in-depth information, and it is impossible for these two commanders who constantly use their subordinates as cannon fodder not to know these things!
"All the soldiers of Zhiyuan and Pang Tong Legion! Don't listen to Du Long's nonsense there! He is our enemy, this is obviously sowing discord, everyone should not be confused by his words!" On the command tower, Zheng Kaiyuan cheekily defended loudly.
"Hahaha......" Outside the city, Du Long looked up to the sky and said with a long smile: "General Zheng Kaiyuan, I, Du Long, have always believed that your Zheng family is a loyal and righteous family that dares to act, and now it seems that it is nothing more than Erer!"
As the commander in chief of the First Army, you actually talk nonsense with your eyes open and don't blush?! What I Du Long just said, I can see it at any country's military training academy! How can I make it up nonsense? How can you shirk it with a single word?!
"You ......" On the command tower of the city wall, Zheng Kaiyuan suddenly couldn't tell the difference, his face was blue for a while, and white for a while, obviously because Du Long said that he was the key point.
"What's wrong with me?!I dare to guarantee with the reputation of my Du family, what Du Long said just now is true, can you General Zheng dare to guarantee with the reputation of the Zheng family, am I lying?!" Du Long took advantage of the victory to pursue.
On Haoyue City, countless soldiers were staring at the command tower, the two main generals they once loved and admired incomparably, at this moment, all the generals on the command tower bowed their heads slightly, and no one came out to refute Du Long's words and deeds!
Now it seems that the reason why these Blue Moon Empire soldiers who are extremely loyal in appearance are so good to their subordinates on weekdays is just using their stupid self to work for them!
It was only at this moment that many of the soldiers of the Haoyue Kingdom suddenly realized that for many years, why did they still have to let countless soldiers go over to die despite knowing that they could not capture Yulin Guanjian City? !
Outside the city, the generals who followed Du Long closely, including Huofeng and Qinglian, all looked at this eloquent young man with great admiration, so young that he actually shook the enemy's military heart by virtue of something that everyone in the world knew (of course, only the authorities were fans) in front of the two armies!