All the soldiers originally thought that killing Fan Cheng would surely make General Fan feel heartbroken.
Everyone was happy, but little did they know that he was just a scapegoat.
Long Yuanzi glanced indifferently at the corpse on the ground: "He was nothing but a coward who was afraid of death."
Since General Fan witnessed the effects of bombs, he is probably now extremely cautious. How could he possibly let his precious son take on such a risky task?
Just then, an enemy soldier rushed up to them, crying and pleading, "Sir, please release me!"
Just a few days ago, my father and I were hunting in the mountains when we unexpectedly encountered conscripts, and I was captured by them.
The father who was protecting the baby was pushed off the cliff and his fate is still unknown. Please have mercy and let the baby go back.
At this moment, the other prisoners immediately spoke up: "Sir, we were also conscripted by them and have only been here for a few days."
We have never killed anyone. Please have mercy and let us go back.”
"Yes, sir, we promise we'll just go back and we absolutely won't join the army. We're really just civilians who were captured. Please, please let us go!"
I have elderly parents to care for and young children to raise; the entire family depends on me to support them.
Looking at the soldiers crying and wailing, Long Yuan knew he couldn't possibly release them at this moment.
Even if what these soldiers said was all true.
“Since you were conscripted, if you go back now…”
If the authorities find out, you'll be arrested, and your fate will only be worse—not only yourselves, but your entire families will be implicated.
After Long Yuan finished speaking, all the soldiers lowered their heads.
Yes, who doesn't have family? If they go back and are treated as traitors or spies, it won't just be one person who dies.
Suddenly, a younger child began to sob: "Back then, my mother hid me in the mountains, but they still found me."
"I'm only 16, only 16. I don't know anything, I don't even know how to hold a knife. What use am I if I'm brought to the battlefield? I'll just be used as a shield..."
The boy was crying and talking incoherently.
Long Yuan looked at the group of people, cleared his throat and said, "How about this, you can stay here for now and don't even think about running away. We'll provide you with food."
Moreover, you all know what will happen to you when you go back after you run away.
You just need to wait quietly until this war is completely over before you go back.”
After hearing the boy's words, everyone made up their minds. Rather than going back and being arrested again, or even implicating their families, they decided to stay here with them.
Just then, people began to kowtow to Long Yuan one after another.
"Thank you, sir. Thank you for sparing my life."
Looking at the people kneeling on the ground, kowtowing to him repeatedly, Long Yuan began to have some thoughts in his mind.
"My name is Long Yuan, and I am the Crown Prince of the Great Dynasty. I hereby promise that this war will not last long."
You will have food and drink here and will not be harmed in any way. We will definitely be able to get you all home in about six months at most.”
Everyone then realized that this was the legendary young man.
"So it's Your Highness the Crown Prince. Thank you for sparing us innocent people."
No sooner had the man finished speaking than his adjutant sneered, "Our Crown Prince is merciful. You are not innocent civilians. Since you are already on the battlefield, you are the enemy."
In the future, while in the military camp, you should know not to go to places you shouldn't go, and not to ask questions you shouldn't ask.
Although the common people were forced into labor and sent to the battlefield, to us you are prisoners of war.
Everyone nodded repeatedly, promising, "We know that as long as you spare our lives, we will definitely not run away. You can rest assured and lock us up."
"Treat them well."
"Yes, Your Highness."
Seeing that there was nothing more to do here, Long Yuan turned and left to check on the garrison camp.
The garrison camp was located behind the mountain opposite, and the two armies' camps were about two or three miles apart.
The main issue is that they are defending the city, while those people just want to find a better location to temporarily station their troops so they can attack the city.
Long Yuan, accompanied by a dozen or so trusted men carrying crossbows and a dozen or so dark-skinned men, stealthily entered the territory of another country.
Then Long Yuan suddenly stopped and said, "Take some people and block the roads between these two countries so that they can no longer cooperate."
Long Yuan's plan was simple: just blow up a few of the big trees along the road, and he could easily block anyone from calling for help.
As long as General Fan cannot get help from others, he can easily destroy their encampment with just these dozen or so men and the explosives.
Then he ordered his deputy to go back and send more men to lie in ambush here, so that they could launch a coordinated attack from the inside and outside.
Before leaving, the deputy general instructed the soldiers: "Each of you carry this with you. Be careful not to throw it away. If you do, don't waste it."
The dozen or so soldiers nodded repeatedly, and only then did the deputy general leave with peace of mind.
Soon, flames soared into the sky on the enemy's side.
When reinforcements arrived the next day with their troops after clearing the obstacles, they found the place in complete disarray.
Just then, a person ran out of the forest crying out, "General Fan, you've finally arrived! Waaaaah..."
The general listened to the person in front of him crying incessantly, scratching his head and looking completely bewildered, wishing he could just chop the person up.
"What is it? Tell me quickly."
The soldier quickly wiped away his tears: "General, you don't know this, but just yesterday our camp was suddenly attacked by the enemy."
Those people still used those black eggs to blow up our military camp and killed many of our brothers. There was nothing the deputy general could do but leave with Major General Fan.
But unexpectedly, those people pressed their advantage and the young general's leg was also injured by the explosion..."
"What did you say? Our camp has been attacked."
"What were you all doing? Weren't you supposed to be attacking? Why didn't you take it?"
After the original soldier finished reporting the entire battle situation, he sighed softly.
General Fan then realized that during his short trip to another country to seek military assistance yesterday, he had not only suffered a defeat.
Moreover, they were ambushed, and even their son had his legs blown off.
After the soldier finished speaking, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that he was done and turned to leave, but General Fan swung his sword and beheaded him.
The head rolled twice on the ground and came to rest next to a tree, with the head still blinking.
"Useless thing, can't even protect a person."
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