Chapter 1177: For the Highest Bidder
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The Ancient Dream Saintess pondered for a moment before coming to a sudden realization.
“It seems that you have already understood.”
Meng Chao observed her expression and knew that he had already moved her. He grinned and continued. “The most ideal way to exact revenge is, of course, to kill your enemy with your own hands and then crush his bones and scatter his ashes.
“But if you don’t have the ability to do it yourself, and others chase your enemy until he has no way out and is forced to surrender to you, what reason do you have to not accept it?
“If we don’t accept it, we will lose the opportunity for revenge forever, and we will never be able to save face.
“After accepting the surrender of our enemy, whether or not we wait for an opportunity to take revenge and kill our enemy is a matter for the future. At the very least, for now, it is impossible for the Blood Hoof clan to refuse to negotiate with the secret emissaries of the Great Horn Army
“However, what if the Blood Hoof clan throws out extremely excessive demands, such as demanding the great horn army to hand over the mastermind and the implementer of the ‘Black Horn City Explosion’and execute them all before they accept our surrender?”
“That’s right!”The ancient Dream Saintess frowned. “All the soldiers of the great horn army and thousands of rats would never agree to such a condition
“That’s why I said that it was not ‘surrender’but ‘negotiation of the conditions of surrender’. The so-called ‘negotiation’means asking for a sky-high price, returning the money, and negotiating slowly. Three to five months is not too little, but a year and a half is not too much!”
“I think that the secret emissaries you sent out can tell the Bloodhoof clan the current situation of the Great Horn Army,”Meng Chao said.
“Let the secret emissaries tell the Bloodhoof clan that the great horn army has fallen into the trap of the Gold clan and is running out of ammunition and food. The morale of the army is fluctuating, and it will fall apart at any moment. If the Bloodhoof clan is not willing to accept your surrender, you can only put down your weapons on the spot and surrender to the Gold clan in an organized way!
“After all, many of the core forces that made up the great horn army were rats from the territories of the Bloodhoof clan, the Thunder clan, the Dark Moon clan, and the Divine Wood clan. In other words, they were the cannon fodder and slaves of the Bloodhoof clan and the other three clans.
“If the elite cannon fodder and slaves who survived the harsh life-and-death training after hundreds of battles were taken by the Gold clan without any effort, do you think that it would be a good thing or a bad thing for the Bloodhoof clan and the other three clans?
“Also, in the series of explosions in black-corner city, the nobles who suffered the most damage were the great nobles who had ruled the bloody hoofs clan for thousands of years with black-corner city as their headquarters, such as the Bloody Hoofs clan of the Tauren, the iron-sheet clan of the wild boar, and so on.
“As for the middle-and-small nobles from the local areas, they did not suffer any losses in fact because their nests and temples were not in black-corner city.
“In fact, many small and medium-sized nobles took advantage of the situation and stole many true treasures and secret medicines from the temples in the chaotic black horn city. Their strength was greatly improved, and the gap between them and the big nobles was narrowed.
“It was inevitable that extremely dangerous ambitions would be born.
“As the forces in Black Horn City and the local areas grew and declined, the Blood Hoof clan was in turmoil, too.
“I think that in order to get out of the difficult situation as soon as possible and to deter the local forces that are restless within the clan and even regain the possibility of challenging the gold clan, the great nobles like the Blood Hoof clan and the iron sheet clan will definitely show enough ‘tolerance’and ‘sincerity’toward the surrender of the Great Horn Army.”
After Meng Chao’s meticulous analysis.
The seemingly absurd proposal actually had some plausible possibilities.
The ancient Dream Saintess could not help but ask, “As long as the Great Horn Army can cooperate with the Blood Hoof clan, there is hope to defeat the Golden Clan and get out of the current predicament?”
“Of course not.”
However, Meng Chao mercilessly crushed the hope that he had fabricated himself, “Putting aside the gap between the Bloodhoof clan and the golden clan, which has been accumulated for thousands of years, this gap is definitely not something that the great horn army, which has been fighting bloody battles and breaking through the encirclement, can easily make up for.
“Let’s just say that the three great clans — the Lightning, Dark Moon, and divine tree clans — can not watch the Bloodhoof clan swallow the great horn army whole.
“After all, a large part of the soldiers of the great horn army came from the territories of the Lightning, Dark Moon, and divine tree clans. From the perspective of the warriors of the clans, it was not a big deal to say that they were the private property of the three clans.
“Since the Bloody Hoof clan and the other three clans are nominal allies, it will be difficult for the bloody hoof clan to resist the pressure if the three clans join hands to pressure the Bloody Hoof clan and divide the Great Horn Army.
“Therefore, I reckon that even if the Blood Hoof clan is willing to accept the surrender of the great horn army, the matter will not be that simple. Under the intrigue and intrigue of the various parties, the rat people will still be unable to escape the fate of being reduced to Chess Pieces and being manipulated by others.”
The ancient Dream Saintess was completely dumbfounded by Meng Chao’s words.
After pondering for a long time, she still did not understand what he meant.
“If that’s the case, then why did you strongly suggest that we surrender to the Blood Hoof Clan?”She asked with her mouth agape.
“I’ve already said it many times. It’s to discuss the terms of surrender. We’re not really going to surrender!”
Meng Chao said, “Gu Meng Saintess, why don’t you understand? Discussing the terms of surrender is to show everyone the price of the Great Horn Army. However, calling out the price doesn’t mean that we have to buy it. We can completely introduce competition. The one with the highest price will get it!”
“…”
Gu Meng Saintess could only cover her confusion with silence.
“Yes, I did suggest that the great horn army should send a secret emissary to the territory of the Blood Hoof clan at once. However, when this secret emissary was rushing toward the territory of the Blood Hoof clan, I also strongly suggested that the Great Horn Army should send another, no, a team of well-trained and smart secret emissaries to break through the blockade of the Wolf Clan’s Rangers and go to Red Gold City to negotiate the terms of surrender with the lion and Tiger Clans!”Meng Chao revealed the answer calmly.
“What? !”
This time, Holy Maiden Gu Meng’s reaction was even more intense than before.
“There’s no need to be so surprised. Since you’ve made up your mind to give up personal honor and shame and surrender to the Blood Hoof clan for the future of all the rat people, then is there any problem with surrendering to the golden clan?”
Meng Chao shrugged and said, “At least, the Great Horn Army hasn’t taken down Hundred Blade City and Crimson Gold City. It hasn’t disgraced the lion and tiger clans, and it hasn’t formed an irreconcilable blood feud. Your negotiation with the golden clan should be smoother than the negotiation with the Bloody Hoofs clan.
“In any case, if the ancient Dream Saintess is willing to believe my words, please send a team of eloquent and fearless warriors to Crimson Gold City. Find the leaders of the lion and tiger clans and explain the plight of the great horn army to them.
“The most important thing is to tell them that the great horn army has no other choice but to surrender to the golden clan. There are only two options left.
“Either they break out of the encirclement and go south to surrender to the Blood Hoof clan, which will increase the overall strength of the Blood Hoof clan by several times and make them a formidable enemy of the golden clan again.
“Or, they will go crazy out of desperation and fight fiercely in the hinterland of the golden clan. They will fight until they die without a burial place, which will greatly damage the vitality of the golden clan.
“By the way, I suggest that your secret emissary team should split up and find the leaders of the Lion clan and the Tiger clan to discuss the terms of surrender with them alone. Also, I suggest that as long as the terms are generous enough, the great horn army is completely willing to surrender to the Lion clan and the Tiger clan alone and become the sharpest poisonous blades in their hands.
“Believe me, they will take the bait.
“Even if they don’t, they will have to doubt whether their competitors will take the bait or not.
“Your secret emissary team can even give up and tell the leaders of the lion and tiger clans that your food has been completely exhausted. If Crimson Gold City does not change its strategy of encircling the Great Horn Legion, you can only surrender to the Wolf clan on the spot.
“Hehe. I’m afraid that for the leaders of the Lion and tiger clans, this is the last thing they want to hear. No matter how they plan to deal with the Great Horn Army, they will first transfer the heavy troop group of the Wolf Clan and reconsider their overall strategy. After a few rounds, won’t the strategic space of the Great Horn Army be pulled out?”
Holy Maiden Gu Meng’s mouth grew wider and wider.
Her face was filled with expressions such as ‘there’s such a thing’and so on.
“Then, then who will the Great Horn Army surrender to in the end?”
She had already been fooled by Meng Chao to the point that the world was spinning and she could no longer differentiate between north, south, east, and west.
“Under the most ideal situation, no one will surrender!”
Meng Chao said, “As long as the great horn army can pull out a certain amount of strategic space, it’s completely possible for them to lead their army south and attack back. They can occupy the border between the gold clan and the Blood Hoof clan, and they can play a beautiful trick of going from the left to the right and borrowing the strength of the enemy!
“Of course, the Gold clan and the Blood Hoof clan do not lack strategists who are meticulous and smart. It is impossible for them to be played by the Great Horn Army for a long time. The so-called ‘on both sides of the battle’will become ‘on both sides of the battle’if they are not careful.
“However, I do not expect that the trick can be maintained for a long time.
“As I said just now, it is already the darkness before dawn. As long as the Great Horn Army can hold on for three to six months, there will be an unexpected turn of events!
“By then, even if millions of soldiers of the great horn army are gathered at the border of the Gold clan and the Blood Hoof clan, and the two clans have joined hands to cut off all your food supply, we will have a way to fill the stomachs of all the soldiers of the Great Horn Army!”
Meng Chao didn’t cheat the ancient Dream Saintess.
If the lives of tens of millions of people, and even the future of several civilizations, as a stake in the sky-high stakes, and only a small corner of tulanze.
Then his whimsical strategy just now is nothing but empty talk.
The golden clan and the Bloodhoof clan, there are many heroes and heroines, it is impossible to be like a marionette, at his mercy.
However, Meng Chao firmly believed that there was a wealthy man with superb card skills who carried all kinds of cheating tools as well as long spears and short cannons. His face was flushed red as he rushed toward the card table without stopping.
That was the Dragon City civilization, which had completely devoured the monster civilization and was ten times stronger than the “Alien catastrophe”in his previous life!