I am a soldier in the border army

Chapter 542: This world is full of cannibalism

"My lords, it's not that Lord Yan didn't send troops, it's just that Lord Yan was powerless."

"Now the rebels are coming with great force, taking advantage of their numbers. For a while, Lord Yan is stretched to the limit and can hardly continue."

In the main hall of the governor's mansion, Yuan Feng looked emotional and gave words of comfort.

"In this time of crisis, we... should all be considerate of Lord Yan!"

Among the people from various noble families who came to ask for help, who among them was not a shrewd and scheming person?

Yuan Feng's attitude reversal was so obvious, how could they not know that this old man must have reached a certain degree of tacit understanding with the Duke of Yan.

In other words, now these noble families have become abandoned!

"Then... then what should I do next?"

Some nobles were angry, but still refused to give up.

"Governor! We have always followed his lead. Please send troops to save us!"

Faced with such pleading, Yuan Feng said a lot of nice things.

But in reality, there was not even a single hair, let alone reinforcements.

Seeing that this old dog Yuan Feng was so cold and indifferent, some noble families could no longer hold back and stood up in anger.

"Stop talking, Governor! Without any reinforcements, if we continue to defend this isolated city, our entire clan will surely die!"

"I will have my people evacuate Ningyang City right now!"

As soon as these words were spoken, people began to respond and echo them.

"That's right! We can't defend it anyway! I, the Gaoliu Chu clan, will also retreat!"

"That's right! I, the Xu clan of Juyin, will also withdraw!"

"I am the Changcheng Tao family!"

"I..."

When the rebels and their troops are approaching, no one is a fool.

Things cannot be done. Instead of sitting in the city and waiting to die, it is better to stay useful and plan for the future.

Just when the noble families were becoming disheartened and ready to quit, Yuan Feng slammed the table and stood up.

"Let me see who dares!"

Yuan Feng looked angry and spoke righteously.

"You have been blessed by God, so it is your duty to protect the land and the people!"

"Now that the bandits are strong, you will abandon the land and the people! You are disloyal to Your Majesty, untrustworthy to Dayong, unkind to the people, and unjust to the world!"

"You are so disloyal, untrustworthy, unkind and unjust. I am so disappointed!"

Loyalty, trustworthiness, benevolence and righteousness, these four words are what the noble families advocate.

If any one of these is denied, it will be difficult to gain a foothold among the world's noble families.

When Yuan Feng said this, all the noble families present were completely dumbfounded.

Looking up at the chief seat in disbelief, one of the nobles turned pale and spoke in a stammering voice.

"State...State Governor, are you trying to force us to die?"

Yuan Feng glanced at the person who spoke and snorted coldly.

"I have been nurturing scholars for more than 2,000 years in the Great Yong Dynasty. Now that our country is in trouble, you and I will die for justice. What do we have to fear?"

nonsense!

Youzhou City is still in the rear, and you, Yuan Feng, have not moved your elite troops, and you yourself are a Taiyi of the Ninth Realm.

As long as the rebels haven't arrived, you can certainly sit back and relax!
What do these people have?
How can I not be afraid?
It was a pity that their trembling legs and pale faces were met with Yuan Feng's coldness and ruthlessness in return.

"I am putting my words here! As long as I stay in Youzhou City, if any of you dare to abandon the city and live there, even if His Majesty can let you go, even if the people of the world can't do anything to you, I will not forgive you!"

As soon as he said this, Yuan Feng waved his sleeves and used the tremendous power of the Nine Realms Taiyi to sweep everyone out of the governor's mansion.

After his ears were completely quiet, Wei Wei walked out from the darkness and said hesitantly.

"Will your actions harm your reputation?"

Forcing these noble families to stretch out their necks for Huang Tiandao to chop off.

It was such an obvious case of killing someone with a borrowed knife and then wiping out the entire family afterwards. How would people in the world view Yuan Feng, and even the entire Yuan family?

This way of eating... is too difficult!
After Wei Wei finished saying this, Yuan Feng hadn't spoken yet, but the invisible man on the side took the lead and sighed and spoke for Yuan Feng.

"Duke Wei, you are wise! The governor of the state is helpless!"

"My lord, you have been keeping a low profile for too long, so that you can only count a handful of counties that you can fully control."

"In this case, how can we suppress the north?"

In the past, the Zhen Liao Army and Gongsun of Liaodong were restrained by the Wuhuan barbarians, and the two sides were able to maintain a certain balance.

But now the Wuhuan barbarians have broken their spine and chose to kneel down and surrender.

Without this external threat, these Liaodong tigers are no longer constrained.

This is also the reason why Yuan Feng, who had been deliberately reducing his presence, had to gradually reveal his presence.

Hearing Daocheng's words, Wei Wei opened his mouth and wanted to say, "Mingsong still has Wei's Zhuozhou, how can you not suppress the north?"

But then he thought that the entire Zhuozhou, except for a few counties in the west, had basically been lost to him.

The words that came to his lips immediately turned into an embarrassed smile.

At this time, Yuan Feng, who did not notice the change in Wei Wei's expression, sighed.

"Daocheng still understands me!"

It was not in vain that he made the remnants of the Qi-Seekers his confidants.

Feeling emotional in his heart, Yuan Feng said helplessly.

"It's also because that mad dog Shibi is so useless. Fortunately, I helped him secretly several times."

Especially the time two years ago, when the Divine Capital took action and he was plotting in secret, the situation was looking very good, but it was that villain Gongsun Du who turned the tables and even achieved the great reputation of a small pawn.

Thinking of the scene where he was pointed at and scolded as an old man, Yuan Feng couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

But everything can also be thought of in reverse.

If that guy hadn't appeared, who would help him resist the Qingzhou Huang Tian army's march northward?
"Forget it. The opportunity has been missed. Let's not talk about it anymore."

After comforting himself a little, Yuan Feng waved his hand.

"As Daocheng just said, I have been hiding behind the scenes for many years, so it is not convenient for me to use my power."

"To the point where the power we actually hold is insufficient. It's time to make some changes."

Even though these noble families have always been submissive to him, they can be considered to be obedient to him.

How can it be controlled indirectly compared to holding it directly in your hands?

It was a good opportunity to give each clan a little sweetness, so as to prevent them from being dissatisfied with his act of cutting meat to feed the "wolf", thus shaking his position in the clan.

As for...reputation?
Oh, how could Yuan Feng, who is also from a noble family, not see through the true faces of the noble families in the world?
As long as you are strong enough, they will be dogs wagging their tails and begging for mercy in front of you.

Otherwise, no matter how good your reputation is, they will only be ferocious wolves that will eat you up skin and bones!
If not for this, Yuan Feng would not have allowed himself to bear the huge reputation of "paper governor" for so many years.

Yuan Feng laughed sarcastically.

After laughing, he asked.

"By the way, where is the main force of his Liao army?"

As a Ninth Realm Taiyi, he should be able to know the movements of a vast army of hundreds of thousands at a glance.

However, Li Jing, who was leading the troops, had inherited some of the core military traditions of Fenglinhuoshan. The aura of hundreds of thousands of troops blended with the veins of mountains and rivers. Even he, a Taiyi of the Ninth Realm, would take some time to catch up, and would lose them if he was not careful.

Fortunately, Daocheng and Wei Wei were always paying attention, and they responded immediately to Yuan Feng's question.

"It's getting closer. In another day, we will be close to Youzhou City."

Although the movement of an army of hundreds of thousands was somewhat slow, it was understandable.

But compared with the previous marching records of the Zhenliao Army, this speed can be described as a snail's pace.

Yuan Feng looked dissatisfied and snorted coldly.

"Hmph! You're just dilly-dallying..."

To say that this march was not deliberate is to treat everyone as fools!
However, Yuan Feng's anger only lasted for a moment before he calmed down.

After all, this is a win-win situation.

"Provincial Governor, is that guy surnamed Han planning to drag the battle line to the vicinity of Youzhou City?"

Compared with other places in Younan, the terrain around Youzhou City is flatter and wider, suitable for large-scale cavalry charges.

As Youzhou City was Yuan Feng's heartland, the Huang Tian army was at the gates of the city.

Even if Yuan Feng liked to be a coward, he had to put in some effort.

This is harmony among people.

Wei Wei was very angry about this.

"Your Excellency, you paid such a high price to get him to send out troops, and you even calculated it so harshly. You are really not a human being!"

If Han Shao were here and heard Wei Wei say this, he would definitely spit in his face.

Fuck you!

The lives of the men under my command are not lives?

You are generous. You can throw away or give away more than a hundred thousand troops at will. Compared with me, who the hell is the inhumane one?

What surprised Daocheng a little was that Yuan Feng actually showed some understanding towards this.

"He wants to borrow my strength to guard against those three old immortals from Huang Tiandao!"

Although that kid's talent is indeed extraordinary, the Eighth Realm Heavenly Being can indeed rival Taiyi.

But Huang Tiandao's three old immortals didn't know how they got the chance to do so. Even though they had just asked Taiyi for the Tao, their strength was astonishingly terrifying.

In the previous battle in the nameless valley in Zhuozhou, Yuan Feng was forced to retreat just by revealing a trace of his aura.

Otherwise, Wei Wei would not have lost so badly in that battle.

"Forget it, don't rush them."

"In this battle, I don't care how they fight, as long as we can win in the end."

If it had happened before, Daocheng would have definitely been impressed by Yuan Feng's magnanimity.

But now he just curled his lips secretly.

"For a few bites of food, I really lost my dignity."

As for what this "food" is, is there any need to say more?
Naturally, they are the noble families who have become abandoned!

……

"My boys! Remember this!"

"This world is ultimately a cannibalistic world!"

"Now that our race is weak, we will be eaten by others. We cannot blame the heavens or the earth. We only regret that our race is not strong enough!"

The clan home of the Tao family in Changcheng.

The elder of the clan, who rarely appeared in public, looked sad and full of anger.

After saying this, he looked at the talented younger generations in front of him and waved his hand.

"Go ahead and don't look back."

"One day, when you have achieved something, you can revive the name of our Changcheng Tao family!"

After hearing this final farewell, the descendants of the Tao family all burst into tears.

Those who still had some courage in their hearts immediately expressed their willingness to share this hardship with their families.

Only after being rebuked and admonished by the elders of the clan did he give up the thought and kowtowed heavily in the ancestral temple.

"Ancestors, behold! We, your unworthy descendants, bid you farewell!"

"In the future, we will rebuild the Tao family! We will fight to the death with the Yuan family!"

"If you break this oath, heaven and earth will not tolerate it!"

Waves of farewells and cries of tears.

After sending off the future seeds of the clan, an elder sighed as he looked at the younger generations who were responsible for continuing the family bloodline and inheritance hope.

"You say these descendants...can they succeed?"

All the elders around him were silent.

No matter how passionately one speaks in front of the ancestors, in reality everyone knows that the hope is slim.

Throughout history, how many extinct and declining clans have been able to rise again?
Aren't they all submerged in the endless river of time?
In the final analysis, these seemingly gifted younger generations are all those who have enjoyed all the wealth and luxury in the world since birth.

Once people get used to eating this, it will become part of other people's menu.

If nothing unexpected happens, within a year, it will be a blessing from heaven if half of these younger generations can survive.

Ten or a hundred years later, if only a few people are still alive, it would be a stroke of luck.

but……

"Once the seeds are sown, there is always a glimmer of hope, isn't there?"

As for saying it is a fruitful harvest.

It was still a disappointing result.

It all depends on fate.

As for those old immortals, they will definitely not be able to see it.

"Oh no! Clan... Clan elder! Patriarch!"

"Gao Liu has been breached! The Yellow Sky bandits are heading for Chang County!"

All the Tao leaders present looked at each other.

Qi Qi cursed in his heart.

'Old dog Yuan Feng! That's his mother!'

If we force them to die today, their descendants will surely avenge us in the future if they achieve something!
"Let's go. Today we will sacrifice our lives to repay the Ji family for their kindness over the years. Secondly, it will also be a good deed for our descendants. This way, we will not lose out."

Although they were forced to do so, and although they were rich and powerful all their lives, they did not accomplish much.

But at this moment, he actually showed some courage and heroism.

It’s a pity that their rare courage and heroism are nothing but a mantis trying to stop a chariot in front of the vast ochre-yellow ocean.

In a moment, it was submerged and swallowed up.

Either your head will be hanged on the city wall, or even your body will not be preserved.

In just half a day, the Changcheng Tao family, which had been established for more than 800 years, was destroyed.

What happened to the Tao family in Changcheng was also happening one after another in other places and among other ethnic groups.

It’s not that they don’t want to run, they even raise the Huang Tian flag in the battlefield.

However, as members of a noble family, they knew too well the strength of the Yuan family, and they also knew too well the saying "people's words can be scary".

Even if they die, the family seeds that have been sown may still have a chance to survive by relying on the family's remaining influence.

But if the whole family runs away, the whole family will be destroyed.

They were even criticized by thousands of people and bore a bad reputation.

In a word, from the moment Yuan Feng opened his mouth to say that, they had to die.

So at the moment before they died, they did not hate the Duke of Yan for not saving them, nor did they hate the Huang Tian bandits who cut off their heads and destroyed their bodies with their own hands.

I just yelled at that old dog Yuan Feng in my heart.

"The old dog hurt me! Damn it!"

……

In the Heavenly Secret Realm, Han Shao, who was enjoying Gong Yan's service, could not help but shiver.

"The resentment is rising to the sky!"

"Fortunately, no one is scolding me, otherwise, wouldn't it be unfilial to have so many people greet my mother?"

Hearing Han Shao's complaint, the former imperial concubine who inherited the blood of the water god Gonggong couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

Such a beautiful and charming figure with a sweet smile came into his sight, and Han Shao couldn't help but stare at her in a daze.

"such a pity--"

If this woman was not just a spirit, he would definitely try to see if the so-called mother of his 'old friend' was really made of water.

Then tell him.

"Ji Jiu, your mother is really...very smooth——"

……

(End of this chapter)