"Your Highness, we are facing a formidable enemy. How could you be so derelict in your duties?"
"Da Shang's army is extremely powerful. Even Marshal Tehamu's 600,000-strong army was wiped out by them. We cannot afford to slack off at all."
"Is it possible that Your Highness has taken a fancy to a young girl from a nearby village and went out to have fun secretly?"
...
The continuous ridicule made Modu extremely angry. He, a prince, was nothing among the Turks. Even if he was the Khan, he would not be able to take his turn.
The reason why he commanded the army directly under the Turkic royal family this time was because his two brothers were greedy for pleasure and were unwilling to go to the battlefield.
He didn't say much, just found a seat and sat down.
At night, the camps on both sides were in full array, and all the soldiers did not dare to relax at all.
But the Turkic camp seemed a little tight on the outside and loose on the inside.
"Have you heard that the Dashang army is paid and has enough food? You can eat as much as you want."
"As long as we surrender, we will immediately receive one month's military pay, and we will also be allocated land and property. If we don't want to join the army, we will also be given travel expenses back home."
"Is it really that good?"
"Each of the soldiers who surrendered in the Grand Duchy of Fe'anding received military pay. The family of a fellow countryman of mine was also assigned cattle, sheep and pasture."
"Then what are we waiting for? We don't have enough to eat, don't wear warm clothes in this damn place, and we might die on the battlefield! It's better to surrender to the great merchants, maybe there's still a way to survive!"
"No wait, I am going to surrender tonight. Do you want to go with me?"
...
In the middle of the night, a large number of Turkic soldiers left the camp under the pretext of patrolling and headed straight for the Dashang camp.
Even if other soldiers discovered it, they turned a blind eye and even followed them.
Zhao Rui was sitting in the empty camp on a high platform at the moment. The lights were bright, and he seemed to have guessed that these soldiers would come.
He has already spread Dashang's decrees and various news. After Modu returns today, he will definitely tell the soldiers below about Dashang's conditions.
In this case, there will definitely be Turkic soldiers who can't restrain themselves and come to take refuge under the cover of night.
However, the number exceeded Zhao Rui's imagination.
When the sun rose, a total of 400,000 Turkic soldiers came running over.
Zhao Rui was very surprised, are all the Turkic generals just living on dry food? His subordinates ran away so much, but they didn't even notice at all.
It didn't take long for Mo Du to lead the 200,000 royal relatives under his command, as well as hundreds of thousands of people on his side, and arrived outside the Dashang camp in a mighty manner.
Zhao Rui didn't say much, he just distributed military pay and rations to them as promised.
In the Turkic camp, Tuotuo Buhua woke up and found that none of his soldiers were left. There were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the camp who could not run away.
"What's going on? Where have everyone gone?"
With a cry of peace, the principal generals from the nearby tents ran out one after another.
They were shocked to find that none of their soldiers were left.
Tuotaobuhua's eyes were full of horror. He quickly gathered all the remaining soldiers, but there were only a few hundred thousand.
Most of these people are responsible for logistics, and the others are all old and weak who cannot go to the battlefield.