Chapter 445: Heaven Dou’s Great Victory
The battle in Shuangyue City lasted from morning to afternoon. In the evening, there were still sporadic battles in the city that were not completely over.
"Marshal Gelong, how is the battle situation now?"
At the temporary camp outside the city, Ye Chen found Ge Long and asked about the battle situation.
"Your Majesty, our Tiandou Empire can be said to have won a great victory in this battle!
Not long after they invaded Shuangyue City, Xingluo's second and third legions surrendered. With these 200,000 troops surrendering, Xingluo's remaining army basically lost all fighting spirit.
Half an hour ago, we just compiled a battle report. We had more than 30,000 casualties and annihilated 50,000 enemies. Counting the 2nd and 3rd Army Corps that had surrendered before, the total number of prisoners was more than 400,000. "
Ge Long said to Ye Chen excitedly.
Although the Star Luo Empire's Second and Third Legions surrendered as soon as the fighting began, after the surrender, these 200,000 soldiers did not directly take up weapons and point them at their former companions.
After all, these 200,000 troops were led by the two regiment commanders Zhu Yuanlong and Luo Gan to surrender, but that does not mean that every soldier in the regiment is ready to surrender.
It was just because of the decadent situation in front of them that the boss took the lead again and the soldiers followed the crowd and surrendered to Tiandou.
Want to take up arms against your former companions? It's just that I'm overthinking it. The two legion commanders are not so charming!
After fighting for most of a day, Tiandou's army suffered 30,000 casualties. This does not mean that 30,000 Tiandou soldiers were killed. The casualties and casualties included both the injured and those killed in battle.
As for the standard of this injury, as long as it affects normal combat, it includes but is not limited to missing arms and broken legs.
On the other hand, annihilating 50,000 enemies means actually losing 50,000 lives.
However, there were 500,000 Xingluo troops originally stationed in Shuangyue City. The annihilation of 50,000 enemies and the capture of more than 400,000 prisoners did not mean that there were still 50,000 Xingluo soldiers resisting in Shuangyue City at this time.
In large-scale wars, in a considerable part, no bodies can be found.
For example, Ye Chen's Soul Bone Skill: Towering Green Trees destroyed the city wall. Many corpses buried under the ruins of the city wall could not be dug out for a while, so this part was not included in the statistics.
And the bodies were beaten to pieces, let alone that.
In addition, although Shuangyue City is a military center of the Star Luo Empire, there are still ordinary residents in the city.
Of course, these residents are also military households. Someone in their family is a soldier, otherwise they would not be able to live in an important military town.
Now that Xingluo's defeat is so obvious, naturally there won't be too many deserters.
However, Ge Long didn't care about the deserters, as long as these deserters did not rejoin the Star Luo Empire's army and continued to resist Tiandou.
In fact, even those 400,000 prisoners will be released in the future.
After all, when the Star Luo Empire is officially destroyed and the Tian Dou Empire annexes the Star Luo Empire, these former Star Luo soldiers will become citizens of the Tian Dou Empire.
On the contrary, killing these prisoners will make it more difficult for the Tiandou Empire to integrate the Star Luo territory in the future.
Just like the Warring States period in Ye Chen's previous life, why after Qin unified the world, except for the people of Qin, most people did not recognize the new great empire?
There is no other reason than that when the Qin army unified the world, they killed too many of their relatives and friends. If they want to eliminate mutual hatred, they can only rely on time and good policies.
In fact, ordinary civilians don't care who is the ruler.
But one thing is for sure: when the ruler is one's own enemy, it is definitely difficult to win over the people.
"Marshal Ge Long, in the upcoming war against the Star Luo Empire, the military department has sufficient strength, so I will not participate. I will return to Tiandou City tonight."
Ye Chen was not interested in massacring ordinary soldiers of the Star Luo Empire, and the battlefield was also a good place for generals at all levels of the Tiandou army to perform meritorious service, so Ye Chen would not hinder the future of others.
Otherwise, most of the credit for every battle would go to him, while the other generals would only get a small share, and there would be no doubt that people would complain.
"Well, your Majesty, are you leaving tonight?"
Gelong hesitated.
Perhaps for other senior generals, the presence of Ye Chen on the battlefield was indeed suspected of hindering their meritorious service, but Ge Long had no such idea at all.
After all, he is the supreme commander of Tiandou's campaign against Star Luo. As long as the Tiandou Empire can win the final victory, his achievements will not be lost.
Moreover, he is already the supreme commander of the military and has been promoted for a long time. All he pursues is the highest honor as a soldier. Vanity fair is meaningless to him.
With Ye Chen in the army, Ge Long is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, without fear of any surprises.
But without Ye Chen, what should we do if a powerful titled Douluo suddenly pops up in the Star Luo Empire?
If you can't defeat a million-strong army, why can't you defeat a Contra-level commander like him?
Even if the Star Luo Empire loses such masters, what about the Spirit Hall that sits on the mountain and watches the tigers fight?
Will Wuhundian watch helplessly as the Tiandou Empire annexes the Star Luo Empire and expands its own strength?
Thinking about it from another person's perspective, Ge Long felt that the difficulty in Tiandou's plan to annex the Star Luo territory was not the resistance forces in the Star Luo territory, but the Spirit Hall, which stood on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.
After thinking for a moment, Ge Long expressed his worries to Ye Chen.
"Marshal Ge Long, don't worry, Wuhun Palace will not interfere in this battle!"
Ye Chen immediately signaled to Ge Long to reassure him.
Just kidding, if Tian Dou annexes Xing Luo, even if Poseidon Island, which is far away from the mainland, jumps out, Wuhun Palace will not jump out to stop it.
You know, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tiandou Empire is also the Young Master of the Wuhun Palace!
My young master wants to unify the continent, but the Ma Zai under his command dares to jump out and act like a monster?
Even if Bibi Dong wants to cause destruction, Qian Daoliu will stop him.
If Wuhun Palace doesn't step in to stop it, which force on the mainland would dare to stop the Tiandou Empire from annexing the Star Luo Empire?
Now that the Haotian Sect has been destroyed, and the Qibao Glazed Sect is an ally of Tiandou, excluding these families, the largest remaining force on the continent is the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
But the Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus Clan only has the patriarch Yu Yuanzhen and a titled Douluo. They have no strength and dare not jump out to stop Tiandou, otherwise the Blue Electric Tyrannosaurus Clan will not need to continue to exist.
Ge Long was very surprised when he saw Ye Chen's affirmative tone, almost beating his chest to assure him.
‘Is it possible that this majesty’s strength can already overwhelm the entire Wuhun Palace? ’
In Ge Long's view, Ye Chen's strength should be higher than Qian Daoliu, the great worshiper of Wuhun Palace. Otherwise, how can he be sure that Wuhun Palace will not intervene?
Immediately, Ge Long looked at Ye Chen with more respect.
After all, Douluo Continent respects the strong. In the absence of direct conflicts of interest, the strong will naturally be respected by the weak.
In other words, Ge Long is not young anymore. If he were a few decades younger, he would probably go up and hug his thigh right away!