To put it simply, they were allowed to fight each other, and those who survived would be taken over by the coalition forces. Those who died or were maimed and no longer needed medical treatment were ignored.
Early the next morning, Ma Xiaoquan gathered all the prisoners outside the inner city. He wanted the Bone Clan nobles in the inner city to see how these Bone Clan people were killing each other.
...
A coalition commander is responsible for preaching the rules. Although the Bone Tribe soldiers are repulsive at first, there are always those who want to survive. As long as someone opens the door, the people behind will naturally follow.
The Bone Clan nobles in the inner city saw the tribesmen outside the city killing each other and gnashed their teeth with hatred, but they had no choice. They were now like turtles in a urn, and they could not protect themselves.
At the end of the day, nearly half of the Bone Tribe soldiers were killed, and the remaining half greatly reduced the consumption rate of supplies in the city. However, in terms of numbers, there were still too many, and they needed to continue to be streamlined. This was just a way to streamline again.
But it can no longer be like today.
When he was worried, Gu Lai, whom he had never seen before, suddenly appeared in front of Ma Xiaoquan.
As a noble of the Bone Clan, Gu Lai actually had some opinions on what Ma Xiaoquan did during the day. However, he also understood the actual situation - if the number of people was not streamlined, the city's supplies would soon be exhausted. Therefore, during the day,
, Gu Lai just watched from a distance, and at the same time, he was thinking about what to do next.
"You're finally here~~" Ma Xiaoquan didn't seem surprised when he saw Gu. On the contrary, he calmly asked Gu to take a seat.
Gu Lai sat down, took a sip of water, and said slowly: "I am very sad about today's scene, but I also understand it very well!"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly and said: "As long as you understand, what do you think I should do next?"
Gu Lai thought about it for a while. He did not quickly tell Ma Xiaoquan the answer he had thought of today. Instead, he asked first: "What does the prince think should be done?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head.
Gu Lai hummed, and then said: "If the prince believes me, please leave the next matter to me~"
Ma Xiaoquan laughed: "I said, don't doubt the people you use, and don't trust the people you employ. Since you are sure, I leave it to you, but I need you to solve it as soon as possible. Well, there are still many people in the inner city who have not yet been solved!
"
Gu Lai nodded. He could sympathize with the soldiers in the outer city, but he was not so easy to talk to the nobles of the Bone Clan in the inner city.
After Gu Lai left, a commander came up and asked quietly: "Boss, what if Gu Lai betrays the enemy? Why don't you know his past experience?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly: "Knowing or not knowing doesn't mean much. I just saw a hint of murderous aura in his eyes. Well, I guess he himself may have an account to settle with the nobles of the Bone Clan.
"
"Oh, I understand, boss. Is this just a favor?"
"Probably...right~~"
...
Gu Lai came to the captive soldiers of the Bone Tribe. Looking at the exhausted tribesmen in front of him, a sense of sadness suddenly surged in his heart.
Even though he left the Bone Clan very early, he was actually no longer a member of the Bone Clan, but because of the clan's plot, Gu Lai couldn't help but feel a sore nose.
A Bone Clan soldier noticed Gu Lai, stood up with difficulty, walked in front of him, looked at him carefully, and asked: "You...are you a Bone Clan person?"
Gu Lai hummed softly, braided his sleeves, and exposed half of his forearm. On his forearm, there was a strange pattern.
"This is..." When the Bone Clan soldier saw this pattern, his eyes widened in shock. After a while, he said, "You... you are the Bone Clan soldier who left the Bone Clan twenty-four years ago.
Master?"
"Huh?" Gu Lai was stunned for a moment, thinking that very few people should know that he left the Bone Clan a long time ago. Why would the soldier in front of him know? And judging from his age, he was about thirty years old and
He looks about the same age as himself.
With a "pop" sound, the soldier knelt in front of Gu Lai, and tears instantly flowed out.
"Master Gulai~~"
Gu Lai frowned and thought carefully, but he really couldn't remember how the soldier in front of him recognized him.
The soldier raised his head and choked with sobs: "Master Gulai, I am Hasselblad. Don't you remember me?"
"Hasselblad?" Gu Lai narrowed his eyes slightly. Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide and grabbed the soldier's shoulders with some joy, "Are you Hasselblad?"
"Master Gulai~" Hasu curled his lips and tears flowed out unconsciously.
Gu Lai patted Hasselblad's shoulder and smiled slightly: "Okay, a man won't shed tears easily~"
Hasu nodded and asked, "Master Gulai, are you from the United Army?"
Gu Lai smiled slightly, nodded and shook his head: "Yes, yes, no, no. Hasu, tell me, how many Bone Clan soldiers are left now?"
Hasselblad thought for a while and said: "Less than six thousand~"
"Hmm~~" Gu Lai dragged his chin and thought for a moment, sighed and murmured, "Too much... too much~~"
Hasselblad didn't understand what Gu Lai was talking about, but judging from Gu Lai's expression, he seemed serious.
"Hasselblad, go and gather the people you know~"
"Master Gu Lai, what do you want to do?"
Gu Lai raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Hit the inner city!"
"Hit the inner city?" Hasselblad was shocked, but his expression was serious and it didn't seem like he was joking. Then he found a few close soldiers and started to gather people he knew.
After a while, nearly four hundred soldiers gathered in front of Gu Lai. Although some of them were injured, they still stood neatly in five rows.
"Everyone..." Gu Lai got straight to the point, "Hasselblad has gathered you all together. You must know what I am going to do, right? Some of you may not know who I am, but I am here to tell you now.
, I am Gu Lai, the legitimate son of the thirteenth generation leader of the Bone Clan."
With that said, Gu Lai showed the pattern on his forearm to all the Bone Clan soldiers present. When the soldiers saw it, they all half-knelt down.
...
On the inner city, several Bone Clan nobles squinted their eyes to see everything that happened below the city. They were obviously frightened by Gu Lai's sudden appearance.
"Gu Lai...Why is this little bastard still alive? Isn't he already dead?" A nobleman shook his hands and shook his head.
"Go and tell the clan leader about this!"
...
On the other side, Ma Xiaoquan agreed with Gu Lai's actions just now. Several commanders expressed worry, fearing that Gu Lai would suddenly betray him, but Ma Xiaoquan just said, "Don't be suspicious of those you employ, and don't use them if you don't."
In the end, Gu Lai gathered a thousand Bone Clan soldiers. The remaining soldiers were not unmoved, but they thought why a Bone Clan aristocrat like Gu Lai would join the coalition to attack their own people.
In fact, only Gu Lai knows all this, but he doesn't want to say more, he just wants to get back what belongs to him.
...
While Gu Lai was reorganizing the army, Princess Ting and Liang Qianyue, who were far away in the camp at the rear of the coalition army, were sitting together drinking tea and chatting.
"Elder Qianyue, you mean... that Gu Lai is a member of the Bone Clan and also a member of Qianji Hall?"
"Hmm~" Liang Qianyue hummed softly, "Gu Lai must have started leading his troops to attack the inner city by now~"
"Can Gu Lai capture the inner city?"
Liang Qianyue chuckled: "We can definitely win it, it's just a matter of how long it takes. The key thing is...how determined Gu Lai can be, and how many people will die~"
"Huh?" Princess Ting didn't quite understand what Liang Qianyue meant.
Liang Qianyue said: "There are too many people left in the Bone Clan, and the current supplies are not enough to support the consumption of so many people, so more people from the Bone Clan must die."
"Wouldn't it be too cruel to die again? A lot of people have died along the way..."
Liang Qianyue chuckled: "You have lived longer than me, don't you understand the cruelty of war? Why do I feel that since you married that boy Ma Xiaoquan, your temperament has changed and you have become a lot more tender."
Princess Ting's pretty face turned red and she lowered her head and said nothing.
...
Under the Bone Clan's inner city, thousands of people gathered by Bone Clan have begun to attack the inner city.
There are much fewer guards in the inner city than in the outer city, but the defense facilities in the inner city are much better than those in the outer city, especially the various hidden arrows and artillery, which are rumbling non-stop. More than a thousand people led by Gu Lai
, and it didn’t take long for half of them to be killed or injured.
The Bone Clan nobles in the inner city were not idle either. They ordered people to defend themselves while shouting that the Bone Clan could not have civil strife or kill each other.
Gu Lai gritted his teeth with hatred, but he had no choice but to fight for a long time in the inner city, but there was no damage at all, while more than half of his own side was dead or injured.
Gu Lai secretly lamented that he was not qualified to lead troops in war. At the same time, he ordered Hasu to go to Ma Xiaoquan for help.
Ma Xiaoquan had expected that Gu Lai would beg him when he ordered the attack on the inner city, so when Hasu knelt in front of Ma Xiaoquan and burst into tears, Ma Xiaoquan deliberately pretended to be compassionate, comforting and expressing his willingness to help, but...
.....Those who attack the inner city must be soldiers of the Bone Tribe.
Hasu was in a dilemma, because including himself, the number of people who attacked the inner city with Master Gu Lai was just over a thousand, and the remaining Bone Tribe prisoners did not seem to make any move to attack the inner city together, let alone
What's more, if you attack the inner city, you will die. As a human being, you are afraid of death.
"Sir, I can't decide on this, I still have to make the decision with Master Gu Lai~" Hasselblad said sincerely.
"No hurry, no hurry, go over and bring a message to Gu Lai, I'll wait for your news."
...
After Hasu left, Ma Xiaoquan immediately gathered several commanders to discuss the next war arrangements.
A commander laughed and said: "That Gu Lai is really funny. Does he think that fighting is just playing house? Boss, you didn't see it. His command on the spot is simply ridiculous." (To be continued)