A gloomy atmosphere rippled in the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, even though news of victory could not stop coming.
Xie Ning frowned and walked around the sand table with a sullen expression. Lin Qi remained silent, but Su Su had a look of astonishment and disbelief on her face. The senior officers in the audience were even more shocked and angry.
"So, the current situation is that the barbarians had at least nearly a million troops, and they were elites, and they suddenly disappeared? What we are facing are only their remaining remnants of more than a million? And the Allied forces are obviously passively attacking?
"
He suddenly turned around and asked a staff officer, he asked gloomily.
"Yes, sir. According to our reconnaissance intelligence feedback report, the Allied forces clearly did not attack with all their strength. The forces they faced were even extremely weak. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for them to remain in a stalemate and achieve a breakthrough. We seem to be overwhelmed by the Allied forces.
The feedback was intentional or unintentional - they kept saying they were in a tight situation!"
"Moreover, what we are facing is only Long Er's hundreds of thousands of troops. We are an elite army of nearly one million, and are commanded by the chief of staff. He can withstand us for a few days, and it is already very difficult for him to be surrounded by us until now.
, it is impossible to have the mind to take care of other lines of defense - we even made a mistake. If we had known that the barbarian troops were so weak, we would not have needed to be so cautious at all, and the problem could be solved in one or two days!"
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"We initially thought that Long Er was trying to drag us with a weak force while trying to make breakthroughs on all Allied fronts with a superior force. We have also been wary of this and did not dare to attack with all our strength. But we didn't know that Long Er
No matter what they think, they are almost undefended against all the Allied forces. They are concentrating their forces against us, and it seems... they are planning to delay us day by day."
"Although I don't know why Long Er used this "suicidal" method to fight against us, the conclusion is already obvious: the barbarians have at least about a million troops who are missing. And the damn Xilu people, they must have some tacit understanding with the barbarians.
!Thinking about our retreat and the fact that you, sir, were suddenly called to attend some celebration by them - we must have been hiding something!"[
"Our misjudgments and missed opportunities were due to their good feedback!"
The staff officer replied in a low voice. His expression was full of anger.
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"But why did they do this? With such a great opportunity, what kind of agreement did they reach with the barbarians? Are they all stupid?"
Xie Ning angrily threw the baton on the sand table.
"Sir... it is very possible that the barbarians threatened them by some means. Otherwise, the people of the Western and Southern Continent who have the same blood feud with the barbarians would not be able to let them go."
Lin Qi said calmly.
"But how can the barbarians still threaten them, and where do they have the excuse to let the barbarians threaten them?"
Xie Ning said angrily.
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"I think we seem to have missed a little bit..."
Lin Qi looked at Xie Ning: "Sir, you are from the empire, and your understanding of the barbarians is limited to history, but we have always had a deep understanding of them because we were in White Star... They are a people with no humanity at all.
Race, and then think of the large areas of land that the Alliance and the Horde fell to. There are still many people on it... The answer is obvious..."
She murmured thoughtfully, and with the girl's soft words, hissing breath, affirmation of "10% chance" and surprised question of "Then what should we do?", she was immediately commanding.
The sound came one after another, and the crowd suddenly became a little panicked.
Su Su, who had been watching them silently, was suddenly shocked: "You mean..."
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Her expression also became slightly turbulent again.
"Are you saying that the barbarians might use those people as a handle to blackmail the Allies? This is very possible... We made a mistake... We should have guessed it... No wonder Xie Ning always feels uneasy... Then we
What to do now...it's been at least several days..."
She kept mumbling.
"Don't panic, now is not the time to discuss whether we made mistakes or not, but to discuss where the disappeared troops of the barbarians went - the Chinese people have never expected others to avenge us. Without them, our Eighth Route Army
Revenge as usual!"
Xie Ning patted his wife's shoulder gently and comfortingly. He looked around at the officers in the hall and said.
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"Yes, although the barbarians escaped with millions of elites, they foolishly divided their forces into two halves, giving us the opportunity to defeat them individually without the cooperation of the allied forces that had suffered heavy losses before."
"This half of Longer has recovered its strength. As for the other half, the commander is here, I am here, Sister Su is here, the Demon General Group and the Eighth Route Army are here - we must also deal with them! The top priority now is,
How should we chase the fleeing other half!"
"They can only flee to the Western Continent or simply flee directly back to White Star, but the war potential of the Western Continent has been fully tapped by them. We will chase them wherever they escape! And White Star..."
"Don't forget, the New Fourth Army Corps is still blocked at the east end of the mainland bridge. They can't escape!"
Lin Qi also said extremely calmly. The girl held her head up proudly, with a stubborn look on her face.
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The entire command center suddenly fell silent, and the panicked crowd gradually became a little more excited.
An officer suddenly ran into the headquarters with a happy face.
"Sirs, news came from the 137th Heavy Armored Division. They cooperated with the Demon General Group to defeat the barbarian base camp. Longer was captured by us and is being escorted back to the headquarters. The barbarians have gathered their dragon heads. Victory is today!"
he exclaimed cheerfully.
Xie Ning and Lin Qi looked at each other and led the way out.
The Chinese officers looked at each other and followed the two figures out of the hall.
"With the commander and chief of staff here, we won't be afraid if the sky falls!"
They all whispered.
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"You... who is Xie Ning and who is Lin Qi..."
Long Er, who was covered in blood and tied up, looked at the people in front of him strangely, and asked in a low voice.
"Although you are the defeated general, although you are a human being, you do not have any human nature. You help the evil and destroy the human nature. Your sin is redeemable and you deserve to die! But... at least your wisdom is worth it.
We respect that."
"When death is imminent, you are qualified to know who is the person who killed you and the barbarians - this is our commander-in-chief, His Highness Xie Ning. This is our chief of staff, General Lin Qi, and this is the goddess of our empire, Su
Your Highness."
A staff officer emerged from the crowd, looked at Long Er and said softly.
"It turns out...it's you..."
Long Er swept his eyes over the three of them one after another.
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"You are all so young..."
he murmured.
"I know Lin Qi. I thought she was an unparalleled genius... but I never thought... King Yong of the Empire and the Goddess of the Empire... are both so young..."
"I didn't lose unfairly. I didn't lose unfairly..."
He suddenly laughed miserably.
"You shouldn't fight this battle like this."
Lin Qi said calmly.
"With your wisdom, you shouldn't fight like this. You know I'm on the other side, but you still dare to be so arrogant? You're going to die."
She looked at Long Er with a touch of pride and pity in her eyes.
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"Yes... we shouldn't have beaten him like this..."
Longer murmured.
"But what can I do... what can I do..."
He smiled sadly.
"Your appearance has reduced my trust among the barbarians to a freezing point... They just abandoned me, abandoned me!"
He suddenly burst out laughing.
Human beings looked at each other in surprise.
"So that's it...then all the unreasonableness can be explained..."
Xie Ning suddenly murmured thoughtfully.
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"Then where did your fleeing troops go? Do you want to go back to the Western Continent or to White Star?"
After a pause, a staff officer asked eagerly.
Long Er shook his head slightly: "I won't say anything, it's limited to the Soul Vein Oath... Your allies are also limited to the Soul Vein Oath, didn't they say anything?"
He suddenly smiled strangely and suddenly glanced in the direction of the extreme north.
Xie Ning's expression changed, and he was horrified.
"I understand...do you have any last words?"
he asked softly.
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"Just kill me……"
Long Er said lowly.
"I suddenly missed my mother... Although she passed away very early... But now I know that she is the only one who really loves me... But I understand it too late... The barbarians...
…Why should I consider myself a barbarian?”
Suddenly there was a look of nostalgia in his eyes, and he murmured.
"Why should I think that I am a barbarian... In their eyes, who am I? Who am I? But my enemies defeated my enemies and hated my enemies, but they gave me the respect of wisdom.
...What on earth am I trying to figure out..."
He burst into tears suddenly.
"Just kill me……"
He murmured again.
"Kill him and bury him."
Xie Ning stared at Long Er for a long time without saying a word, and he suddenly said softly.
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Long Er was suddenly moved. He looked at the young man in front of him strangely, but he was already crying.
"Now, I know why you... defeated me..."
He said in a low voice, with a lot of respect in his eyes.
"The reason why humans are nobler than other intelligent races does not lie in the so-called justice and evil, nor in the power of magic. It lies in the vast wisdom in our souls, our perseverance, and our unyielding spirit of protecting the love in our hearts...
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"Master Xie Zhi's famous words..."
"Love, compassion, wisdom, unyielding..."
"Are these humans? Compared with them, what are the barbarians? Are they really that powerful?"
"I was wrong... I was wrong... I thought I was smart, but in fact, I was the stupidest..."
"Thank you for allowing me to... be buried in my homeland..."
He kept mumbling and closed his eyes peacefully.
Xie Ning nodded and said no more. He waved to the sergeants escorting Long Er, but turned and left with the crowd.