The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1129: Reluctant
Chapter 1129: Reluctant
An Qingshan was about to open his mouth to refute when he saw Bai Qingyan’s eyes on him: “Your analysis of the war situation is not wrong, but you don’t understand the purpose of the alliance between the two countries…”
“It’s true that the two countries are allied for the sake of profit! But the alliance… is also for mutual support!” Bai Qingyan’s eyes fell on the Yan soldiers who looked up at her, “Yan is now more in need of these armors that can be remade into weapons to defend against the enemy than our Great Zhou, and more in need of food than us, so… the soldiers of Yan will compete with our Great Zhou soldiers for these war elephants of Tianfeng after the war. Otherwise, they are all tough men, who would be willing to hurt the friendship between the allied soldiers… who fought together and sacrificed their lives for such a small thing? We are all soldiers, don’t we understand that the dignity and friendship of soldiers are priceless?”
The soldiers of Yan State listened to Bai Qingyan’s words and lowered their heads. Perhaps when they were fighting for the corpses of these giant elephants, they never thought about the dignity of a soldier, nor did they care about the friendship between allies who fought bloody battles…
But Bai Qingyan pointed out that some Yan soldiers thought of the battle they had fought at the south gate of Pingdu City yesterday. The Zhou soldiers fought hard to seize the north gate and shot the giant elephants with bows and arrows on the city wall, changing the direction of the elephants and saving many Yan soldiers. It could be said that they had a life-and-death friendship.
Then they thought that the Emperor of the Great Zhou was discussing with his own princes about giving most of the giant elephants to their Yan State, while they were arguing here, and even almost fighting with the soldiers of the Great Zhou, just to make a big fuss so that they could win half of the giant elephants for the Yan State.
The young general of the Yan army who led the riot already had a look of guilt in his eyes.
“We, the Great Zhou, will give way to the State of Yan in terms of spoils of war today. If we seize what we lack on the battlefield tomorrow, the State of Yan will naturally give way to the Great Zhou. This is the meaning of the alliance. This is the only way for the two countries to go further with mutual support!” Bai Qingyan looked at the Yan army and the Great Zhou soldiers who had gradually calmed down. “Since the two countries are allies, the soldiers of the two countries should regard each other as brothers! On the battlefield, you can trust your backs. Off the battlefield… you can make concessions to each other. If you are too selfish and only care about the interests of the motherland, what is the meaning of this alliance? Is it just to get together to attack a city, and then let yourself fight?”
Murong Yan stepped forward with the reins, looking at the Yan soldiers with a cold gaze: “Is it unfair to divide the spoils according to each battle zone? This is the fairest! Because we didn’t send out so many troops, even if it is as Emperor Zhou said… many seriously injured elephants fell in Hanwen Mountain, that is already out of our battle circle!”
“Emperor Zhou is persuading us Great Yan to accept most of the elephant army out of consideration for our mutual alliance, but you are… fighting for spoils here. We in Yan are short of food and iron, but not so short of food that we Great Yan should be thinking about things that don’t belong to us! Not so short of food that we are shameless enough to fight with our own allies! You are our Great Yan’s elite soldiers! You should be the backbone of our Great Yan! But what you did brought shame to Great Yan!” Murong Yan said in a low voice, “You should be ashamed.”
Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan both understood that such a trend must not be encouraged!
In the future, the two countries will be united into one country. Even if we cannot tell the soldiers explicitly now, we must let them get along like brothers in the future when they get along and fight together. In this way, when the two countries join forces in the future, or even when the Zhou army and the Yan army join forces, the resistance of the army will be minimal.
Indeed, the Emperor of Zhou was persuading their Ninth Prince to accept most of the war elephants, which was more than their request to split them in half, which really made the State of Yan ashamed.
“Seizing spoils of war can only distract the allies, and even lead to hostility. How can they fight the Elephant Army in the future?” Bai Qingyan’s clear voice was more gentle than Xiao Rongyan’s. She was speaking to the soldiers of the two countries, “The alliance has turned into mutual hatred. If the main force of the Elephant Army attacks Yan or any other country in the Great Zhou in the future, and the other country stands by and watches, will it wait for the Elephant Army to destroy one country before turning around and destroying another country?”
“Your Majesty! We were wrong!” An Qingshan clasped his fists towards Bai Qingyan, “We were too narrow-minded!”
“We were wrong!” The generals of the Yan army who led the riot also kowtowed to Murong Yan and Bai Qingyan, “We were mean-spirited. The Zhou Emperor is magnanimous. Today, he has taught us what an ally is!”
The general of the Yan army who led the riot turned to look at An Qingshan and the soldiers of the Great Zhou: “Here, I apologize to my brothers in the Great Zhou!”
With the young general of the Yan army taking the lead, the soldiers of the Yan army all clasped their fists and apologized to the soldiers of the Great Zhou.
An Qingshan also brought the Great Zhou soldiers and returned the greeting to the Yan army: “Our Majesty is right. Since we are in an alliance… it should be you helping me and I helping you! Just like brothers in a family, we should work together to live a good life instead of fighting for the spoils here! Sorry!”
After both sides apologized, they smiled embarrassedly, and the tense atmosphere just now dissipated in an instant.
Xie Xun secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. When he looked at Bai Qingyan, not only did he admire Bai Qingyan’s thorough understanding of the war, but he also admired Bai Qingyan’s foresight on the relationship between the two countries.
At this moment, let alone the soldiers below, even Xie Xun was very willing to fight bloody battles with a country like Da Zhou that did not care about its own gains and losses, was willing to help its allies, and considered the overall situation.
Bai Qingyan looked at the soldiers of the Great Zhou and Yan who were grinning face to face, and said with a smile: “Okay, An Qingshan will be responsible for counting the number of war elephants and delivering most of them to the Yan army!”
“Yes!” An Qingshan clasped his fists and accepted the order.
“What’s your name?” Xiao Rongyan asked the young general from Yan State.
“My Lord Ninth Prince, my name is Wang Dagou!” Wang Dagou said hurriedly.
Bai Jinzhi couldn’t help but chuckle when he heard the name.
Seeing Bai Jin’s childish smile, Wang Dagou scratched his head in embarrassment and said, “My mother said that a humble name would make it easier to raise a child! I was troubled by this name for a long time and wanted to change it. Later… Later, my mother and father starved to death after the Xiliang cavalry robbed food. They left me nothing but this name, and I couldn’t bear to change it!”
Wang Dagou seemed to have thought of his parents as well, his eyes turned red as he smiled foolishly.
Hearing this, the smile on Bai Jinzhi’s face froze and then disappeared. Looking at Wang Dagou’s silly smile, she actually didn’t think he was so annoying anymore.
“Receiving the giant elephants from the Zhou army… and transporting them back will be your responsibility!” After Murong Yan finished talking to Wang Dagou, he turned to Bai Qing and said, “Emperor Zhou, we need to discuss the next step of this battle as soon as possible!”
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