The head envoy looked at Xu Long, “Although I am the Chief Commander, you are the son of the Old Palace Master, and in the end, you and the Old Palace Master are the same clan and lineage.”
“Therefore, at this most critical juncture, it’s better for you to take charge.”
For the head envoy to speak such humble words at this critical time, in a sense, it was a bit of a suspicion of shirking the blame.
However, in a sense, it was another time for the other party to release their goodwill.
Giving the right to choose to Xu Long, naturally, if anything went wrong, in the end it would inevitably all be his Xu Long’s pot.As the commander-in-chief not making a choice, but giving it to Xu Long, this certainly had the suspicion of dumping the pot.
However, at a critical time, allowing Xu Long, the sub-palace master, the old palace master’s own son to make the fateful choice, was in fact, from a humane point of view, again very much desirable and respectful of Xu Long.
Therefore, this matter had both its good and its bad, the key was in how Xu Long looked at it.
Xu Long was not a reckless person, hearing that the head envoy had delegated his power to himself to make a choice, for a moment, he also had some feelings, after all, whoever wanted to act in such a way, in fact, it also required a certain degree of metrics.
To ask someone to let go of the highest power, in itself is not an easy thing.
Xu Long thought about it briefly, after which he let out a long sigh and said, “If you all want to listen to my opinion, my opinion is to try my best to top resist Han Sanqian first.”
“I don’t know how long he can hold out, but we should also do our best to fight until he tires.”
“His going away is our last decent.”
Even though this kind of leaving might be Han Sanqian fighting enough and leaving on his own, and it wouldn’t count as their credit, but no matter what, this would at least be considered a decent departure.
It would also allow them to appease their subordinates, though this appeasement would necessarily involve finding ways to cajole their men, such as saying that they had fought off Han Sanqian or something like that.
In that case, morale would be low, but it wouldn’t be to the point of being that hopeless.
After that, they would then reorganise their men and exit the battlefield in order to complete a godless admission of defeat and surrender.
This was somewhat humiliating, but at least one advantage was that they had preserved some of their living forces.
The Fourth Elder had followed Xu Long for many years and was smart enough in his own right to understand Xu Long’s meaning in an instant: “What the Hall Master means, is that we still need to withdraw, only, we can’t do it in an embarrassing manner.”
Xu Long nodded heavily, “Not bad, this is exactly what I mean, I wonder, what do you guys think?”
The few Fourth Elders looked at each other, and basically agreed with this approach, there was no other way, there was no other choice.
However, their opinions were not important, what was important was the three envoys.
They were here on behalf of the General Hall, and most of the General Hall’s troops were also at their disposal, thus, if they hadn’t agreed with Xu Long, this matter might not have come to fruition.
The three envoys looked at each other glancing at each other, although none of them wanted to make this decision, there really wasn’t much that could be done about this at the moment.
“When we go back, it isn’t good to tell the Palace Master that we brought the General Palace’s elites together with the sub-palaces to surround Han Sanqian, and we ended up in such a miserable situation.We don’t have much to say, we just hope that when the time comes, Hall Master Xu can help us expound more on today’s scene in front of the old Hall Master, or else ……”
they would inevitably be beheaded.
Xu Long nodded: “The three envoys, feel free to rest assured, you and I, are both grasshoppers on the same boat, and all that matters in itself is that we share the same honour and disgrace.”
“Therefore, based on this, some of the problems we committed in, it is only right that we bear them together.”
“At that time, if the old hall master wants to kill you, Mister Xu will definitely accept it together with you.”
With this perversion of Xu Long, the three envoys did not make any arguments, this was what they wanted.
“Alright, since everyone has accepted this minimum requirement, I think that everyone has put down a heavy burden.”Xu Long’s words fell, “Delaying Han Sanqian and letting him go is the worst possible outcome, for now, if we can try to beat him down, let’s try to do it together.”
“Yes.”
A few people led the order, and they did have the worst intentions, so they also unloaded their biggest burdens, and one by one, their will to fight lifted.
“Let us, let us bloom this last splendour.”
As the words fell, Xu Long led the crowd towards Han Sanqian once again.