High Martial Arts: First day of dropping out of school, reward: Devouring the Emperor's Body

Morpheus was stunned when Zhao Zhenyuan said this.

Are you kidding me?

What do you mean by his 100,000-strong army ganging up on Li Mo?

You should know that Li Mo had wiped out 10,000 medical troops of the Black Soil Tribe beforehand, and then blew up the rainforest mining area to steal hundreds of thousands of kilograms of star crystals from them!

With such a huge loss, it's already a testament to Morpheus's good temper that he didn't grind Li Mo to dust!

Morpheus immediately said in a deep voice, "Zhao Zhenyuan! What are you talking about?"

At this moment, Zhao Zhenyuan's expression also turned serious: "Do I look like I'm joking?"

They could have captured or even killed Gemu; the weight of a group army commander goes without saying. But now that Morpheus wants to take him away, how could they do it without paying a price?

This can be considered the simplest form of war reparations.

The defeated nation is obligated to compensate the victorious nation for its losses.

Morpheus understood this as well. Today, he would either keep Gemu or pay compensation, or the two countries would go to war.

But it's clearly not worthwhile to have a decisive battle now.

Because the morale of the Great Xia army is high, while the morale of the Black Earth tribe's army is low due to their recent major defeat, the Black Earth tribe's army will undoubtedly lose in a decisive battle.

The White European Empire will also benefit from this.

This is something neither Morpheus nor Zhao Zhenyuan wanted to see.

Zhao Zhenyuan did not choose to engage in an immediate decisive battle because Morpheus was already prepared. Even if Great Xia could win, it would have to pay an extremely heavy price.

At present, Zhao Zhenyuan has no way to annihilate the Black Soil Tribe army without suffering significant losses, so he has chosen to remain inactive.

Morpheus's tone softened: "What conditions? Let's get this straight, it's impossible for me to withdraw my troops now, and I doubt you'd be happy with the conditions I offer to help you fight the White European Empire!"

Morpheus had already guessed the conditions Zhao Zhenyuan would propose, which were nothing more than two.

One option is to force the Black Earth Tribe to withdraw from the plundering of the Seven Yuan Mountains, but this is virtually impossible. The allure of the two high-concentration star crystal mines and the alien ruins is simply too great, enough to allow a nation to rise completely.

Now, the Black Earth Tribe is the most backward of the three nations, so Morpheus has to go all out.

The second condition was that the Great Xia Dynasty and the Black Earth Tribe should cooperate. However, the Black Earth Tribe wanted to completely swallow up the Seven Yuan Mountains. The Great Xia Dynasty would never sacrifice its own interests to help the Black Earth Tribe.

To be honest, Zhao Zhenyuan originally wanted to make those two demands, but he knew that Morpheus would not agree, so he compromised and asked Morpheus to cede territory.

"Fine! I know you won't agree to either of these conditions. In that case, give us the Mississippi Mountains in the north!"

The Missibi Mountains are considered an important resource area for the Black Soil Tribe.

It includes a star crystal mine, two meteorite iron mines, and some old energy reserves such as oil from the old era.

The Black Soil Tribe was already poor, and Li Mo had already robbed them of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of star crystals. Now, ceding the Missibi Mountain area is like adding insult to injury.

Morpheus gritted his teeth and said, "Zhao Zhenyuan, your appetite is too big. I'll only give you that piece of oil!"

In fact, energy from the old era is not very valuable in modern times. The most important thing in Missi is that star crystal mine, which is what Zhao Zhenyuan has his eye on.

"Then there's no room for negotiation, let's just fight! The soldiers of my Great Xia are just sharpening their swords!"

Zhao Zhenyuan displayed the composure expected of a marshal. As the victor, he spoke to Morpheus not in a tone of negotiation, but in a command!

Seeing this, the severely wounded Gemu said coldly, "General, just let me die! My life isn't worth it!"

Although Gemu said this, he clearly did not understand his importance to Morpheus and the entire Black Soil tribe.

He was the most favored by Morpheus among the many generals, practically the second-in-command of the Black Earth tribe's army, and Morpheus's chosen successor.

After thinking about it, Morpheus gritted his teeth and agreed to the offer from the Missi Mountain region.

"Okay! Sure! Come to my camp in person the next day to sign the documents!"

Morpheus agreed to Zhao Zhenyuan's conditions without much hesitation. He had no choice but to agree; he couldn't very well start a full-scale war with the Great Xia.

Having achieved his goal, Zhao Zhenyuan ordered the retreat.

Meanwhile, after a full night of rest, Li Mo and the others finally recovered their energy.

The pills Mo Yi gave were quite effective; otherwise, in this state of depleted energy and blood, it would have taken at least a day and a night to recover.

After being treated by the medical department, everyone's bodies were covered in bandages, which showed that each person's injuries were quite serious.

Fortunately, this battle made the vanguard battalion famous.

Originally, not many people in the army were optimistic about this hastily formed unit.

After learning of Li Mo and his team's achievements, passing soldiers kept casting admiring glances at them.

"Great job! The vanguard battalion brothers are really something! Five thousand men have held off an enemy army of one hundred thousand!"

"You actually did something I never even dared to dream of! And you killed ten thousand enemies!"

"I'm not very educated, so all I can say is, awesome!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

As I said before, the military is a place that values ​​military achievements. As long as you achieve military achievements, you will be respected.

Despite being covered in bandages, Li Mo and his team won applause for their achievements.

"Boss! We've really made it big this time! Hahaha! I'm going to drink my fill!"

Xu Feng grabbed a bottle of baijiu and began to drink it down, his joy mixed with the relief of surviving a disaster.

Li Mo remained relatively calm, knowing that there were still important things to do next.

"Alright! Drink less! Rest for a while until your injuries heal a bit, then you can all go and gather your remaining troops. We still have a tough battle ahead!"

Li Mo understood that as long as the ownership of the Seven Yuan Mountains was not determined, the three countries would continue to fight.

Following Li Mo's instructions, the group quickly gathered their troops together. Li Mo then took stock and discovered that the vanguard battalion now only had a little over 1,200 men left.

When he first set out, the vanguard battalion consisted of 2,155 men, which later expanded to 5,453 men in the rainforest mining area.

After a major battle in the forest area, only 1,200 people remained.

Li Mo felt a pang of heartache, for most of those who died in battle were prisoners he had rescued from the mining area.

If they had known they were going to die, I wonder if those prisoners would have regretted accompanying Li Mo out of the mining area.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Mo finally said slowly, "Brothers, you're all great!"

But the brothers in the vanguard battalion didn't blame Li Mo; instead, they shouted in unison, "Greetings, Battalion Commander!!"

In reality, the prisoners in the mining area were living a life that was neither human nor ghost. Li Mo gave them a chance to die on the battlefield, and they were so grateful that they would never blame Li Mo.

When they didn't choose to rebel for the sake of the Star Crystal, it proved that they were all pure warriors!