Section 417 Summation
The power of the dragon clan is not a secret. From the current Eagle King to the tribe leader of each branch, they all pay close attention to the war between the dragon clan and the tiger clan. Especially in the earlier war against the deer clan, the dragon clan took out shocking muskets and cannons... This means that the dragon clan found sulfur and could mass-produce gunpowder.
As the king of the Eagle clan, Eagle Chongshan knows very well what this means.
The war between the Dragon Clan and the Deer Clan was very short, and with the buck city being captured, the Deer Clan became history.
Ying Chongshan was frightened by the cruel reality, and the sense of crisis deep in his heart became stronger and stronger. For the future and safety of the clan, reason told him that he must send people to form an alliance with the dragon clan as soon as possible. Even if he paid some price, he had to sign an alliance between the two clans.
Of course, this is just an idea.
The pride of being a king is circling in my mind at the same time. The Eagle clan is definitely not a weak tribe. When he took over the throne from his father, Ying Chongshan obtained millions of civilians and powerful troops. The benefits of bows and arrows made the Eagle clan proudly over other tribes. In the premise of ignoring defense, long-range attacks determine the end of the war, and the side holding the bow and arrow will always win.
Ying Chongshan has been hesitating about how to form an alliance with the dragon clan?
He was thinking in his mind what kind of benefits he should get from the covenant?
Lao Ercheng Jing is a person like him. No wonder the covenant between the clan is not as simple as making friends with two people. This involves all kinds of interests and gains and losses, not to mention that Ying Chongshan instinctively developed a sense of distrust of Tianhao. Because he was too young, the way to control power was not traditional inheritance, but from the lowest level of efforts and climbing... In the words of the nobles, it is "no pure and noble blood relationship."
What Regent?
In Ying Chongshan's eyes, Tianhao is an absolute traitor, a fake king who is unrecognized.
Disputes on identity are meaningless, only strong strength is the fundamental one.
In this way, while worrying about gains and losses, he racked his brains to calculate various benefits. Ying Chongshan hesitated for several months. He saw the demise of the deer clan, the defeat of the tiger clan, and the civil strife caused by economic problems... The bystanders were indeed experienced, and Ying Chongshan also repeatedly modified the plan for alliance with the dragon clan. At that time, he was full of excitement and thought that he could get more benefits from the dragon clan. For example, both sides sent troops together, cutting a large piece of fat from the lion clan or the tiger clan, and eating it all over his mouth.
After all the calculations, Ying Chongshan forgot the crucial time and did not stand on his side.
The Dragon Clan’s people fought undeclaredly and captured Heiyu Pass in just one day.
Their attack was dazzlingly fast. A huge fleet appeared on the eastern coast, which had always been underestimated, and the eastern mountains exploded. Dragon soldiers rushed into the mountain pass like a tide and captured Jinling City.
Ying Chongshan was so angry that he was half-dead, but he had no choice but to do anything about it.
He really hated Tianhao to the extreme!
Damn usurper, I will never admit your throne.
The cruel reality is in front of you, and no matter how you eat your beard, it is useless. The dragon army with a complete set of rifles and a large number of artillery rushes around the territory of the Eagle, dividing the Eagle into two parts, north and south, especially the troops heading south, which are directly aimed at Feiying City.
Until now, Ying Chongshan sent Ying Guanghai to the Dragon Clan to send the information to the north and south, and the information could not be transmitted. He didn't even know that Blood Eagle City had fallen and that the northern territory was full of all the news about the Dragon Clan.
Tianhao looked at Ying Guanghai standing in front of him and asked lightly: "What do you want to talk to me about? Armistice?"
The difference between the loser and the winner is so obvious. Ying Guanghai feels that he can't even straighten his waist in front of Tianhao. Humiliation, pain, anger, fear...more is hope.
Only when sacrifices are made to the Eagle God on major festivals every year can Ying Guanghai have a similar feeling. He is a devout man. Although he has never seen God, he has heard many legends about gods and miracles from many witches. The guardian of the Dragon Lock Pass is one of them. If it were not for the protection of that great god, the white people in the south would have long broken through the pass and the northern continent was in war.
There is no need to consider the threat from the outside for the time being. No one expected that the war would come so rapidly. The cow tribe, who had changed its name, showed its fangs and bit the eagle in the south fiercely.
It is impossible to beat.
The location of the Black Feather Pass is crucial. There are special passages left between Feiying City and other main cities and passes. There are as many as 300 horses. These horses are inspected every year to ensure that they are strongest and healthy. For this reason, the Eagle tribe spends a lot of money to buy horses from the Tiger tribe at a high price, in order to ensure that they can send red flags to the distant royal city at the critical moment.
It's impossible to beat...
Now, Ying Guanghai has a new understanding of this sentence. The rapid post station is set up to convey information and to allow the rear army to reinforce the front line as soon as possible. However, everything should be done. Feiying City sent the first batch of reinforcements two hours after receiving the news, and the second batch was sent at twelve hours, and the primary mobilization was completed in two days... After no more than three days, there were as many as 110,000 reinforcements to the direction of Heiyu Pass.
At that time, no one thought that this battle would be lost, whether it was Eagle King Chongshan or the commander below. Yes, we had the advantage of terrain, and we also had the "best archer in the world". What if the Cow tribe had the most exquisite forging skills in the continent? The position of the two tribes was destined to be able to attack from bottom to top. As long as we stood safely at the top of the pass and shot down, the other party would die as much as they came. It was simply free to serve as a living target for our young soldiers.
Ying Guanghai went to Lock Dragon Pass and knew the power of the cannons. However, standing in a distance and watching and actually operating experience are all different things. He could not imagine the spectacular scene of as many as hundreds of cannons firing at Heiyu Pass, and he had no way to understand the pain of the soldiers screaming and slaughtering in the artillery fire. His most intuitive feeling about this war was that the attack speed of the Dragon Clan tribe was too fast. In just one day, Heiyu Pass was broken and fell into the control of the Dragon Clan tribe.
The reinforcements received the news halfway and sent someone to pass the news back to Feiying City. This process took a lot of time... When the father learned about it, he fell into furious on the spot and smashed the entire bedroom, but to no avail.
The Dragons did not get idle because of this. They were like a group of omnipresent flies, landing from the rarely visited eastern coast, and even blew up the mountain pass in horrifying ways and captured Jinling City.
The father has issued a general mobilization order for the whole clan. Excluding the troops sent to the front line, Feiying City is now gathering 140,000 people. As a large number of civilians pouring into the main urban area, this number will increase.
Ying Guanghai does not expect the so-called "decisive battle". If you still fight the same thing, you can't beat it.
He has been to Heikko City and has a clear understanding of the overall combat effectiveness of the Dragon Army.
"Your Highness, please show your mercy and make a standstill!"
Ying Guanghai had no nobleness and reserve that a prince should have. He knelt in front of Tianhao again, constantly hitting the ground with his forehead, making a dull sound.
Tian Hao sat on the throne without saying a word, just staring at Ying Guanghai coldly, waiting until the other party was tired of kowtowing, his head was bleeding, and the muscles around the cracked wound on his forehead swollen. Ying Guanghai himself stood up in heavy breathing, trying to see if such sincere actions could win tolerance, and then slowly opened his lips.
"Don't do this, it's useless." His words were as cold as ice: "The war has reached this point, and there is no way to stop fighting."
The continuous impact of the head caused Ying Guanghai to have not had a smooth mind. He did not hear Tianhao's words and begged completely out of instinct: "No matter what your request you make, I will try my best to meet it. I have only one condition: a truce!"
He is not the Eagle King Chongshan, nor the arrogant and unsightly nobles in Feiying City. It is no exaggeration to say that Ying Guanghai is the only senior executive in the entire Eagle clan who has a clear understanding of the strength of the Dragon Clan.
When he came, Eagle King Chongshan gave a long list of specific ceasefire clauses for negotiations with the Dragon Clan: compensation for the death population, redefine the territories of both parties, and agree not to station troops in the border areas based on a certain city and a certain place... In general, this is a ceasefire agreement that is beneficial to the Dragon Clan, and the Eagle Clan pays part of the price in exchange for a peaceful clan.
Ying Guanghai had no intention of taking out this piece of paper in front of Tianhao. It was a joke, the ignorant word of the frog who was overestimating his ability to watch the sky. Of course, this was one of the reasons why Ying Guanghai refused to accompany other nobles to serve on missions and was fully responsible for those guys who would only make bad things when they came. They didn't understand the terror of the Dragon Clan and the appetite of the young Regent.
If there is anything in this world that I really regret, it is that I was unable to lower my posture further in Black Point City, win Tianshuang's favor, and turn her into his wife.
If that were the case, Ying Guanghai would be very sure that Tianhao would withdraw his troops, and it would be possible that even this war would not break out.
Looking at the Eagle Prince who was crying and covered in blood on his face, Tianhao sighed in his heart, but still had a cold and tough look on his face: "You should stand up! Don't be too persistent. Listen to my opinion and my request."
"You said!" Ying Guanghai controlled his emotions and nodded quickly.
"I can sign a ceasefire agreement, I have only one condition." Tianhao raised a finger, his attitude was extremely firm: "The Eagle Clan must surrender and be incorporated into the Dragon Clan."
"This is impossible." Ying Guanghai subconsciously refused. He was completely stunned, and then his body began to tremble uncontrollably: "Your Highness, you cannot do this. You can make any demands on interests. Ceding the land, migrating the people, and compensating for food and money...all these conditions can be negotiated."
Tianhao smiled gracefully: "What you said has no meaning to me. Heiyu is locked in my hands, so is Jinling City. I have gathered a hundred thousand troops and more than two thousand heavy artillery in Mojiu City, with the purpose of conquering Feiying City in the shortest time. In view of past friendship, as long as the Eagle tribe is willing to surrender, I can retain all the property of your royal family and give you a city of about 200,000 people."
People will lie when they grow up.
The troops gathered in Mojiu City currently have only 50,000. If you add the reinforcements that are coming from the Northern Theater Command day and night, it can indeed reach about 100,000.
There are definitely not that many artillery guns, including small caliber light artillery, about 600.
As for the preferential conditions for the Eagle Clan royal family, Tianhao is even more nonsense. If Eagle King Chongshan chooses to surrender, it is of course a good thing. However, Tianhao will never let the royal members led by him live. If you create some accidents and make up an excuse, you can naturally kill all these trouble-injured guys.
Ying Guanghai's heart was dark. He had never felt as powerless as he was now, and his endless eloquence was useless in this situation. The gap between them was too big. The party with absolute control was no longer willing to negotiate and had no interest in the conditions he offered.
"Your Highness, we are willing to ced the northern territory." Ying Guanghai made up his heart and risked his anger and punished him by his father when he returned to Feiying City, saying without hesitation: "This is the biggest concession I can make."
His fierce and tenacious expression surprised Tianhao, and at the same time he had an extremely subtle, even funny thought. After thinking for a while, Tianhao asked uncertainly: "Tell me clearly. What does the northern territory you mentioned just now... mean?"
Ying Guanghai quickly replied: "I mean Jinling City... No, starting from Mojiu City, it is connected to the Heiyu Pass on the west. To the north of this straight line, all the Eagle tribe territories are all assigned to the Dragon tribe."
These words were temporary thoughts. Ying Guanghai knew very well how large the area drawn north of this line was. It was equivalent to ceding most of the Eagle tribe, including the scattered cities and populations.
Ying Chongshan will not agree to this condition.
The royal family and nobles will not stand on their side.
It can be imagined that after the negotiations are over, and returning to Feiying City, what will await you will be countless angry faces and overwhelming spitting.
Selling tribe thief!
Ying Guanghai felt his scalp numb when he thought about it, but he had no better choice, so he could only grit his teeth and make up his mind to cede large areas of land.
Only sufficiently rich gains can touch people's hearts, and the war between the two tribes is the same. The Dragon tribe is too powerful, not to mention the smooth road between Mojiu City and Feiying City, without natural obstacles like Heiyu Pass. Not to mention a hundred thousand army, even if there is only half of this number, plus the amazingly powerful artillery, the situation in Feiying City is still in danger.
Chapter completed!