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Chapter 611 The Crown Prince's Benevolence
"Your Highness! The vanguard battalion is gone!"

Chu Lushan saw Xu Fengnian riding towards him and quickly went up to report.

"What do you mean gone?"

Xu Fengnian was taken aback for a moment, then asked with a hint of confusion.

"The vanguard battalion has been completely wiped out. Except for the scout who came to deliver the message, everyone else is dead!"

Chu Lushan's expression was also somewhat unpleasant. You must know that the two thousand men in the vanguard battalion were all his subordinates. He originally thought that the main purpose of this mission was to be arrogant and domineering, as well as to build a relationship with the prince. Therefore, Chu Lushan brought out all his elite troops.

Now look what happened: all two thousand vanguard battalions were wiped out, leaving Chu Lushan heartbroken.

Although Beiliang had an army of 300,000, he only had 20,000 men under his command. Now, a tenth of them had died, and they were the most elite tenth of them. Chu Lushan felt like tearing Ultraman apart.

"Gone in such a short time? Where's the enemy?"

Xu Fengnian was completely stunned. He had just received the news and immediately crawled out of his boudoir to rush over. He was still fantasizing about how he would deal with that damned Ultraman if he caught him, but who would have thought that the Vanguard Battalion would be completely wiped out in such a short time?

"The enemy has escaped!"

Chu Lushan was speechless. This was the first time he had ever encountered such a shameless master. He was a disgrace to martial arts!
You have to understand that the masters in this world are all risking their lives to show off. Once a battle begins, one side must fall and admit defeat. People have never really seen someone like Li Qingyuan, who runs away after being the vanguard.

"They ran away? Those useless vanguard battalion didn't even leave anyone behind?"

Xu Fengnian felt a little reluctant when he heard that the vanguard battalion had been wiped out. After all, those were his assets. Even in a game, you would sigh when two thousand soldiers died, let alone in reality.

But when Xu Fengnian heard that those good-for-nothings hadn't even managed to leave anyone behind, he was immediately enraged.

Everyone knew that this prince of Beiliang had brought his army out to show off his power, but who would have thought that Ultraman, that beast, would actually dare to confront him head-on?

It's one thing to face the enemy head-on, but why the hell are you going to fight to the death?

They ran away halfway through the fight; this is a slap in the face to the Crown Prince of Beiliang!

The thought of becoming a laughingstock because of this failure made Xu Fengnian feel as if his face was being slapped repeatedly.

Admittedly, he used to be seen as a playboy by everyone, but that image was something he created himself. It's like if you're a top student but you deliberately control your exam scores to barely pass, would you care if someone mocks you for being a bad student?
You can only laugh at this guy in your heart, thinking how incredibly stupid he is, unable to even realize that I'm deliberately controlling his score. There's a thrill in toying with his intelligence.

When you're finally ready to make a big splash in the final exam and want to shine, but then you accidentally copy the wrong answer sheet and end up making a huge mess, your mood is absolutely terrible!
The deaths and injuries of a mere two thousand people would not move His Highness, after all, he was used to suffering every day.

But His Highness the Crown Prince's face was slapped, and that's a very serious problem!

"Yes, the vanguard battalion is utterly useless! So all compensation is waived?"

Chu Lushan asked cautiously.

"Full exemption is a bit too much, let's halve it!" Xu Fengnian felt he was kind-hearted; he couldn't just withhold pensions from these useless people, could he? Halving it would be fine!

As for whether doing this will make people feel that the crown prince is mean-spirited and ungrateful?
The morale of the people and the army in Beiliang was directly boosted to a constant maximum using a cheat engine. Even if they didn't receive a single cent, they would still be grateful for the Crown Prince's great kindness, let alone receiving half of it.

The fact that the prince did not make the soldiers' families compensate the Northern Liang army for their losses already shows that he was benevolent!
In the original series, when Xu Fengnian was traveling the world, his father Xu Xiao had already made all the preparations for him. He only needed to follow the steps to easily complete the missions, which was almost like breaking down the game steps into a walkthrough and handing it directly to him.

As a result, His Highness the Crown Prince said that he didn't need it, and that he was sure he could come up with a new way to play!
It may seem like Xu Fengnian won, but in reality, the price he paid for the new gameplay was much higher than the original strategy.

What did Xu Fengnian say at this point?
His men were all soldiers from Beiliang who died to complete their mission, so they had no regrets, because a soldier's destiny is to die on the battlefield!

However, if he were to abandon or sacrifice ordinary people in order to complete a mission, that would be a dereliction of duty. He would never persecute an innocent person in order to complete a mission.

Doesn't that sound incredibly sophisticated? Doesn't it seem like you're standing on some moral high ground? You can't seem to find a single fault with it, can you?
But when he hears someone talking badly about his family, the kind-hearted crown prince will kindly ask the other person to choose either a gossip-filled meal or a heartfelt feast, emphasizing his kind nature.

My Xu family has devoted ourselves to the cause of Beiliang and the world, even unto death. We are truly a model of morality and character. How dare you commoners gossip behind our backs? You are definitely spies from the enemy country, walking 500 taels of silver!

"Your Highness is benevolent and righteous!"

Chu Lushan immediately knelt down and shouted.

"Your Highness is benevolent and righteous!"

The soldiers immediately started shouting excitedly, as if Xu Fengnian had done something earth-shattering!
"Come on! Tell me, is everyone in Beiliang mentally ill?"

Li Qingyuan, who was watching all this from a distance, was speechless and asked Han Shengxuan beside him.

As the head of the palace eunuchs, Han Shengxuan naturally had his own unique skills.

Based on the cases that have occurred in recent days and the other party's style of doing things, Han Shengxuan felt that the other party must be a fearless and audacious guy.

Therefore, the Northern Liang Prince's Palace's grand-scale campaign to capture Ultraman across the land will definitely be met with a direct slap in the face from the other side.

Back when I led the team to Qingzhou to investigate the case of Princess Suizhu, the other side immediately followed and kidnapped Princess Jing'an!
The Xu family father and son were used to being arrogant and domineering, thinking that everyone in the world had to obey and fear them. Even the emperor had to do things according to the Xu family's rules. They never thought that there would be anyone in the world who would dare to disrespect the Xu family!

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They seem to have forgotten that when someone took Xu Zhihu away, they didn't give the Xu family any face!

On the contrary, Han Shengxuan, who had risen from a lowly eunuch to a high-ranking official, naturally knew that he should never be arrogant. So he deliberately had his men continue to lead troops around Jiangnan Road, pretending that he was still in Jiangnan, and then rode alone to Quanzhou.

Sure enough, he did manage to corner the person, but the opponent's strength seemed to exceed his expectations!

(End of this chapter)