"The battle of Yue Valley ended in the form of a farce, this is just a small wave of the empire's Eastern Crusade campaign, the surrender of Yue Valley allowed the empire to get the first strategic point of the Eastern Crusade, but its impact was that the upper echelons of the empire began to adjust the original strategy of conquering by absolute force, and the top of the empire began to realize that the enemy in this vast land in front of them, except for the Dongting forces still wandering hundreds of miles away, other forces are more loose organizations like Yue Valley, these organizations are completely different from the opponents with whom the empire used to fight brutally, these organizations are not military groups based on military expansion, they gather more in this land for survival, and there is no need to waste too much energy and time on such an opponent, the spear of the empire is pointed straight to the east, and the progress to the east begins to accelerate......" excerpt from the historian Billy Conde's "The First Crusade of the Empire - A Distant Gaze"

Seeing that Yue Valley fell into chaos under the roar of the Ten Thunder Gods, and then quickly raised the banner representing surrender, the fat man's face looked a little surprised, he mobilized 100,000 troops to surround Yue Valley, is this such a result?

"Finally surrendered!" Murphy Boone next to him muttered to himself, his expression was a long relief, and there was a trace of solemnity in his eyes, as if he was not surprised by such a result, "You knew in advance that this would be the case!" The fat man turned his head to look at him, with a hint of anger in his cold tone, raised his horsewhip and pointed at Yue Valley, and asked in a condensed voice, "What's going on?" At the meeting, you said that how dangerous the terrain of Yue Valley is, how easy it is to defend and how difficult it is to attack, it is simply a roadblock in front of the eastward army, and its purpose is to let me mobilize 100,000 troops to surround Yue Valley in one go!" The fat man's voice paused, and he said in a cold voice, "Now that your goal has been achieved, it's time to tell me what the hell is going on! You should know that I don't like to be calculated and used by others the most!"

"Your Majesty, don't get me wrong!" Murphy Oone's face showed a hint of paleness, and he said in a trembling voice, "The subordinates did have the intention of exaggerating Yue Gu at the meeting. But it's not selfish, letting His Majesty attack Yue Valley with a large army is entirely for the sake of the empire's eastward expansion!"

"Thinking about the battle for the east?" said the fat man with a cold face, "If you can't give me a proper explanation, I'll let you know how bloodthirsty the Empire's war knives really are!"

"Your Majesty?" Murphy Boone's body trembled slightly

The fat man waved his hand at him, his eyes were sharp as a knife and looked at Murphy Obon, he was indeed a little annoyed, but the most important thing was to know the true thoughts of Murphy Oboone, a former Gallic general, and said coldly, "Even if Yue Valley raises the banner of surrender, I don't mind letting the army warm up before advancing eastward." Slaughtering tens of thousands of people in the entire Yue Valley is not bad even if it is a pre-war memorial for the battle of the Eastward Advance!" "The subordinates' introduction to the Yue Valley is not wrong, but the Yue Valley is so vulnerable is also beyond the expectations of the subordinates" Murphy Oone, who is also a famous general in the former Gaul, has the feeling of falling into an ice cave all over his body at the moment, and a year of reclamation outside the long wall has made him a little more passionate about this wilderness, and he explained with trepidation. In fact, Yue Valley was just a loose organization formed to survive in this wilderness, not the kingdoms that His Majesty had faced. It is not an important town of the empire on any side, and the subordinates just want to take this opportunity to tell the emperor that the army is about to march eastward, according to the style of the previous imperial legions. Everywhere they passed, all the resistors would be destroyed like a withered and decayed corpse, and the subordinates just wanted His Majesty to see for himself that these non-military groups were simply not capable of fighting in the face of the empire's huge legions. If they can easily be subdued with the slightest threat, all they hope is to have a way to survive in front of the imperial army!"

"I gave them a way to live, didn't I let them choose to evacuate or surrender within three days?" the fat man's eyes flickered. The whip in his hand was gently slapped on the palm of his hand, and the power of the king emanated unnaturally from his body.

"Your Majesty, the Falcon Empire is too strange to these forces, even if it is an imperial order, it is just a letter with a seal on it to them!" Murphy Boone raised his head in a pressed manner, looked at Yue Valley in the distance with a hint of determination, and said in a condensed voice. The subordinates have been in this wilderness for a year, and they have a general understanding of the psychology of these wilderness forces, and the prestige of the empire within the long walls is too far away for them, but the tentacles of the Dongting cavalry have extended here, and the deterrent power of the Dongting people has completely overshadowed the empire, so even if this area nominally belongs to the territory of the empire, these forces do not think that the empire will be able to resist the invasion of the Dongting people! ”

"Are you saying that regardless of these small forces, they directly choose to start a war with the Dongting people to decide the right to belong?"

The fat man touched his nose with his hand, Murphy Oone's statement is somewhat correct, this is the wilderness, there is no unified political power here, so whoever has the big fist is the truth, if you follow the original strategy, the small forces in the place you pass are leveled one by one, but it is time-consuming and laborious, and you give the Dongting people time to react and deal in vain, and directly choose to fight with the Dongting, or you can obtain the right to control the region once and for all! The situation here reminds the fat man of the Silk Road in the previous world,

When the Han Dynasty was able to open up the Silk Road, it did not need to occupy all the small countries on the Silk Road, but only needed to defeat the Huns who controlled the Silk Road.

Adopt this method of military deterrence and control, or it may be more practical! The fat man's gaze swept over the gate at the mouth of the valley that had been completely opened, and he ordered the guards behind him, "Sue sù Hu Keqili, you can accept the surrender of Yue Valley, but everyone in the valley must come out first! Otherwise, you will still regard it as resistance, and you will start attacking in an hour" "Your Majesty has decided to accept surrender! But ask all the people in the valley to come out......" The herald ordered the cavalry to stop in front of Hu Keqili and convey the fat man's original words, "Yes? Okay, I understand!" Hu Keqili nodded with a grim face, although he had the urge to make a big deal at first, after all, it was the first stronghold faced by the empire in the east, and it was such an amazing terrain, if it was really fought, it would definitely be a battle that would leave a name in history. But his eyes swept over the white flag of surrender on the city wall, and the urge was suddenly gone, the enemy was too weak, and fighting an opponent who could not be called an opponent, even if it was a victory, it would not be glorious, Hu Keqili, who received the order, drafted a document and handed it to the adjutant behind him, "Order the infantry ballista to shoot this in!"

A few minutes later, as a heavy ballista fired, metal crossbow arrows the size of a child's arm whizzed deep into the stones of the battlements on the opposite side. The rubble flew sideways, frightening the defenders above to lie on the ground, and after half a sound, seeing that there was no movement, a bold soldier found that a letter was tied to the front end of the metal giant arrow that penetrated the battlement, and the letter was quickly delivered to Yue Shan, his eyes swept over the words on it, Yue Shan's face was a little overwhelmed, as the leader of a faction. He lacks decisiveness and determination, and has no ambitions, he just wants to live in this wilderness,

So the valley is based on natural topography. It's still just a loose organization. Yue Shan summoned the other leaders in the valley and showed the letter in his hand to everyone, "Everyone has left the valley? What if the other party gives a massacre order?" Some of the leaders of the various parties in the valley looked ugly and whispered after reading the letter

"Don't drive out. The other party can kill us all!" said someone disdainfully

"The one-hour time limit is now less than twenty minutes, if there is no result. We're going to die!" The chaotic scene made Yue Shan's brows frown, it was really chaotic, I knew that I wouldn't accept so many scattered people, and in the chaos, finally a person stood up,

"I have a way, not only to ensure that we will not fall into the slaughter of the other party, but also to convince the other party of the sincerity of our surrender, but I don't know if Lord Yue Shan is reluctant to give up!" The person who stood up looked plain, with black hair and black eyes, and was about thirty years old, but the end of the black long eyebrows was slightly upturned, showing a slender phoenix eye, and a pair of bright eyes revealed a kind of wisdom and tenacity unique to the soldiers of China and Belgium, this unique look made his ordinary face more dazzling, Yue Shan saw this person, and his face suddenly showed a trace of heat,

The person who stood up was called Song Hua, a son of the Song family, one of the four wealthy families of the Central Biya Empire.

It is said that he beat someone who should not be beaten in Kyoto, and was specially observed by the Imperial Military Affairs Department, and was assigned to serve on the northern border of Central Belgium.

From a certain Cheng dù, this person is already an abandoned son of the Song people,

The Song people's sphere of influence has always been in the south of Central Bia, and few people will be sent to the north to serve, and the invisible power game here is no less than a small war, and the result of the confrontation of forces is often a compromise and exchange of interests, Song Hua, who is not very good, was sent to the north, and he is also a forward battalion officer who will be trampled into minced meat by the iron cavalry of the Dongting Grassland at any time, and another promising important son of the Song clan entered the Imperial Military Affairs Department on the same day.

The northern army of Zhongbia was defeated and scattered by the Dongting cavalry, and it was this abandoned son of the Song family, who built to Yueshan in a daze, "After the Dongting Iron Cavalry penetrated the northern border, it will inevitably go south quickly, and the consequences of escaping to the middle of the empire are either caught by the pursuing Dongting people, or they are killed as scapegoats by the imperial ministers who are panicked and desperate to be blamed, rather than this, it is better to go west, at least the Dongting people have no idea of going west for the time being, with hundreds of elites under the command of adults, they can hold up a banner anywhere"

The news that came from the migrants was exactly as Song Hua said

In addition to his Yue Shan who escaped west with hundreds of subordinates and survived, the other generals of the Northern Army who fled to the middle of the empire, except for those with particularly deep backgrounds, were basically publicly beheaded by the Zhongbia Emperor who was angry because of the loss of the northern border on the charge of defeat. The corpse was also divided and smashed by the people of the city, and the scene was unbearable, and even a soldier like Yue Shan felt cold.

"Song Hua, do you have a way?"

Yue Shan said eagerly, in his heart, Song Hua not only has courage but also has a sense of arrogance that belongs to the children of a big family, and he will not do anything that will fall into the ground, at least he can be trusted more than others

"If you want to get the approval of both sides, the best way is to take hostages!" Song Hua hesitated on his face, everyone's eyes fell on him, making his phoenix eyes even more flickering, he looked at everyone, then at Yue Shan, took a deep breath, and said slowly, "We can propose to the other side and hand over a hostage to the other party, and the other party will send three thousand troops into the city at the same time to achieve control of the valley." We will gradually withdraw from the valley in three days."

"Well, that's a good idea!"

Immediately someone began to echo it, as long as they can live, everyone doesn't mind handing over a person as a hostage,

"But who to let go outside as a hostage? I heard that the Falcon Empire is very brutal! Someone said casually, and immediately there was a cold scene, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, they are not familiar with the Falcon Empire, but tens of thousands of unjust souls of the Heavenly Wolf Mansion that were burned to the ground by the fire are placed there,

To say that the Falcon Empire is a country that treats its enemies mildly is called self-deception!

"Song Hua, since you proposed it, let's talk about the candidate in your mind!" Yue Shan looked at Song Hua, since this idea was yours, only you will clean up this mess.

"I knew it would be like this!" Song Hua smiled slightly bitterly at the corner of his mouth, he knew Yue Shan's indecision too well, but fortunately he was prepared, and said slowly

"In terms of the choice of hostages," he paused, his gaze swept over everyone's faces, and then he said in an accentuated voice, "My subordinates think that Lord Yueshan's only daughter is the best! I heard that Murphy Oone is in the Falcon Empire camp outside, he knows Miss, and with him, the other party will know how sincere the Lord is!"

Yue Shan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, wondering if he had heard it wrong, Song Hua, who was extremely valued by himself, actually wanted to let his only daughter be a hostage, feeling that everyone's eyes were looking at him at once, his face quickly turned red, he waved his hand angrily, and said angrily, "Impossible, how can I let Xin'er go to the Falcon Empire outside as a hostage! Those steppe cavalry from the west are not necessarily kinder than the people of Dongting!"

"My lord, although I am very helpless, but this is the only way, the other party has the strength to destroy us, if we want to save tens of thousands of lives in the valley, the only way to make the other party believe in our sincerity!" Song Hua's cheeks twitched, and he suddenly arched his hands into fists and said, "If the adults are not at ease, the subordinates are willing to go with Miss Xin'er, "Yes, Lord Yueshan's Miss is the best candidate!" "Miss Xin'er is extraordinary, ordinary soldiers can't get close at all, even if there is any problem, you can escape back!" No, absolutely not!"

The guard at the door listened to the various voices coming from the council hall, but looked at a girl standing outside the council hall with an extremely embarrassed face.

The girl was wrapped in a cloak with a white fox fur, which was also half of the body soft armor, a shiny black hair tied with a men's leather crown, and two temples at the back of the neck, but there was still a girl's soft hair. Under the sun. I felt a little dizzy,

Listening to the quarrel in the council room, the girl's face was unexpectedly calm,

A herald hurriedly ran from the direction of the city wall, and went straight into the hall to report, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is news from outside the city, there are still ten minutes, if there is still no action, the other party will attack!" "Ah, ten minutes!" The quarrel in the hall stopped suddenly, is the time already so short?" "My lord, the young lady is out of the city!" The voice that came from outside at the same time made Yue Shan's body shake, and Song Hua arched his hand at him. My lord, my subordinates will chase Miss immediately, as long as Song Hua has his life, he will fight to protect Miss's safety!"

Thank you very much for your support of Baozi for several years, it is you who guide Baozi forward in the dark! Thank you very much! (To be continued......