Chapter 5489 Putting aside the past grudges
"Lu, Lu Shang? Aren't we enemies? Why did you save me?"
General Zhao looked at Lu Shang, who was holding a spear beside him, in astonishment and asked with a complicated expression.
"Heh, I never considered you as enemies from the beginning."
"We are all imperial citizens, and we are all being used as pawns by the royal family."
"Neither I, Lu Shang, nor anyone else in the Lu Family Army has ever thought of killing you."
"With General Zhao's keen eyesight, can't you see that I have been showing mercy?"
Lu Shang chuckled and looked at General Zhao in front of him calmly.
After hearing this, General Zhao gradually calmed down.
He was so immersed in the battle before that his mind didn't come to its senses.
Lu Shang’s strength is enough to smash those soldiers with lower cultivation into meat paste with just one shot, no matter whether they are generals or ordinary soldiers.
In the end, they were just swept away by Lu Shang, and the worst injuries they sustained were fainting or loss of ability to move.
"Although you saved me, I am still a soldier of the Empire. I will not surrender to you!"
General Zhao gritted his teeth and shouted with a firm look.
"Hahaha, General Zhao is underestimating me, Lu Shang."
"I'm not trying to save you by asking you to surrender to me. Now just focus on dealing with the incoming light cannons."
Lu Shang laughed loudly, then waved to General Zhao, turned around and returned to his personal guards to assist in the deployment of defense.
General Zhao stared blankly at Lu Shang's departing back, feeling a surge of admiration in his heart.
But soon his admiration was gone.
The threat from above never went away.
"Damn you! How dare you collude with the traitors of the Empire!"
"Sure enough, this prince's order is correct!"
"These guys may have been secretly colluding with Lu Ji and other rebels. Fire at them with all your might!"
Anger flashed in the eldest prince's eyes, and he pointed in the direction of General Zhao and shouted.
He saw Lu Shang saving people, and it didn't matter what the two were talking about.
But on the battlefield, General Zhao was so ignorant of the current situation and unwilling to contribute his life to the honor of the great empire that he was doomed to death!
"fire!"
The eldest prince roared hysterically, and immediately the soldiers on the giant ship under his feet and even on other warships around him had to grit their teeth and fire their naval guns again.
Dense laser cannons fell like raindrops, bombarding the entire battlefield indiscriminately.
At this time, the people of the Snow Clan, led by Wan Renxue, have reunited with Lu Shang to jointly support the shield.
On the other hand, the imperial army's formation was in great disarray due to the lack of a general's command.
The shields gathered in groups of three or two were powerless against the bombardment of the Empire's warships.
Screams and wails were heard everywhere.
The eldest prince on the giant ship watched helplessly as the soldiers he brought suffered heavy casualties, but there was no trace of regret on his face.
Instead, he laughed wildly with excitement, opened his hands with interest and said, "That's right, the more people die, the better!"
There was a gleam of light in the eldest prince's eyes, which showed that he was not as crazy as he looked.
He naturally had his own intentions in doing this, and it was not simply a mad attack on everyone.
If this war was concluded uneventfully, and the Snow Country, Lu Ji and others were captured without many casualties, it would not be considered a major victory at all.
If more soldiers could be sacrificed, the eldest prince's achievements would be even greater afterwards.
After all, this also indirectly proves the cruelty of this war.
As for the truth, the eldest prince was not worried at all that anyone would know.
As long as the number of casualties among soldiers is controlled, and after returning to the empire, under the suppression of the eldest prince's power, there is no need to worry about anyone telling the truth.
This is not the first time they have used this method.
In the past, the wars that the empire launched against other countries could have been easily won, but they would eventually deliberately cause large numbers of casualties.
The purpose is to exaggerate one's own achievements several times.
The eldest prince learned these methods from his father.
"what happened?"
The noise caused by the fleet's laser cannon firing was too loud, and it soon attracted the attention of Gwen who was in the midst of a fierce battle.
He suddenly raised his hand to signal Lu Ji, who was about to kill him with a gun, to stop, and then frowned and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
Lu Ji also gave face to the Iron General who had the same name as himself, and even though he was eager to fight, he quickly stopped.
Ge Wen looked up and saw countless light cannons bombarding the people of the Empire and the Snow Country indiscriminately.
"Prince, what are you doing?"
"Didn't we agree that I would fight with Lu Ji to decide the winner?"
Ge Wen became angry and shouted at the eldest prince.
"Ge Wen, who gave you the courage to talk to me like this?"
"That was just a bet between you and the traitor Lu Ji. This prince never agreed to this."
The eldest prince glanced at Ge Wen and Lu Ji with disdain and said contemptuously.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, you!"
Ge Wen was so angry that he didn't even know what to say for a moment.
"Heh, General Ge Wen, you have seen a little bit of the shameless side of the royal family."
Lu Ji sneered and looked at the eldest prince on the giant ship with a playful look.
"My Lord, you don't understand human nature. You will inevitably fail because of this."
"Of course, it's not just you. Even the Emperor will fall heavily from the high position that your royal family has held for generations!"
Lu Ji held his head high and chest puffed out, his stern gaze piercing into the eldest prince's eyes like a sword.
"How arrogant! How dare a traitor speak so arrogantly!"
The eldest prince took two steps back to quickly calm himself down, then shouted at Lu Ji fiercely.
"Everyone, come on, hack this traitor to death!"
"If you disobey me, I will kill all nine generations of your clan when I return to the empire!"
The eldest prince turned around and shouted at the imperial generals who jumped down with Ge Wen.
When these people heard this, their expressions suddenly changed. Looking at the eldest prince with a crazy face, they understood that this was not a joke.
"The eldest prince!"
Ge Wen's bottom line was challenged by the eldest prince one after another. He could no longer suppress the anger in his heart and raised his head and roared.
The aura on his body exploded, directly forcing back several generals who had come over after hearing the eldest prince's order.
"Why, General Ge Wen, are you trying to challenge this prince's patience?"
"Don't think that just because you are a general guarding a region of the empire, this prince won't dare to touch you."
"This time, I am the commander-in-chief. You are at most my deputy. You have no right to speak here!"
The eldest prince glanced at Ge Wen coldly, and the next moment a golden medal appeared in his palm.
It was the military command given to the eldest prince by the emperor. Holding this order, he could command the three armies.
The emperor had long thought that Ge Wen might disobey the orders of the eldest prince, so he specially gave this token to him.
