Chapter 1148
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The continuous flames of war had pushed the Qi Kingdom into a desperate situation. Surrounded on all sides, the Rui Lin Army and the Qi Kingdom's army fought bravely, but were ultimately defeated by the combined forces of the four countries!
Mo Qian Yuan gave the order in the Imperial City, to order all the armies fighting outside to retreat immediately, to prepare for the final battle with the combined forces of the four countries.
On that day, the Rui Lin Army had left the Imperial City with more than a hundred thousand men, but this time, when they returned to the Imperial City, there were only a mere twenty thousand …..
The souls of eighty thousand soldiers were buried on the battlefield, together with the hundreds of thousands of Qi Kingdom's army!
When the army returned to the Imperial City, all the citizens stood on both sides of the street, looking at the returning army. The soldiers who had come back from the battlefield, their armour stained red with blood. A large number of the wounded were carried into the city, and not a single person in the entire army was clean.
Looking at the exhausted soldiers who had fought to protect their land, the citizens of the Imperial City could no longer suppress the sorrow in their hearts, and they cried out loud.
A hundred thousand Rui Lin Army soldiers had left the city, but only twenty thousand returned, and the Qi Kingdom's army was left with only a hundred thousand.
An army of six hundred thousand, lost nearly four fifths!
In this battle, the Qi Kingdom was completely out of food and ammunition!
The women who had been hoping for the return of their husbands could not find their lover's face, the children who had been hoping for the return of their fathers could not find their tall arms, the old men who had been hoping for the return of their sons could not find that familiar figure!
Four hundred and eighty thousand Qi Kingdom's soldiers had not been able to return alive!
However, this battle was not over, and an even more deadly battle was about to come!
After Jun Xian returned to the city, he immediately went to the Palace to see Mo Qian Yuan.
The man who had once conquered the Qi Kingdom and founded the Rui Lin Army single-handedly, the Lin King, was now a man with a head of white hair. The continuous days of bloody battles had caused his countenance to age ten years in just a short period of half a month.
"Your Majesty!" Jun Xian did not even have the time to take off his blood stained armour as he went into the Palace to see the Emperor. When he entered the hall, he immediately knelt before Mo Qian Yuan. "Your vassal has failed Your Majesty's trust, I beg for Your Majesty to punish me!"
Mo Qian Yuan quickly stepped down from the throne and helped Jun Xian up.
"Duke Lin ….. All of you have done well enough. You have shown the blood and guts of our Qi Kingdom." Sitting upright within the Imperial City, Mo Qian Yuan received battle reports from the frontlines daily. Every single report made him restless, and he wished he could lead the troops into battle with the armies of the four countries!
"Your subject is guilty." Jun Xian's face was solemn.
After truly experiencing the battles at the frontlines, one would be able to understand just what kind of terrifying and hopeless situation the Qi Kingdom was facing this time.
Under Jun Wu Xie and Mu Chen's guidance, the Rui Lin Army had grown stronger than before. But even so, against an army of one million, they were still unable to turn the tide!
Jun Xian had been in command of the army camp and he had seen countless soldiers of the Rui Lin Army who had fought alongside him in a bloody battle perish on the battlefield. The front line was slowly being pushed back by the enemy and they were not even able to collect the corpses!
"Duke Lin, this is the will of the Heavens. We have tried our best and if the Heavens want the Qi Kingdom to perish like this, we have done everything we can to resist. You do not have to blame yourself. If not for the suppression from the frontlines, not to mention half a month, the Qi Kingdom would not even be able to hold out for seven days before we are completely annihilated by the armies of the four countries!" Mo Qian Yuan was not consoling Jun Xian, but was speaking the truth. The four countries had allied together, and each country had a military strength of one million. The Qi Kingdom was small and their army of six hundred thousand, how could they possibly stand against such a ferocious army!
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