Chapter 385: A Face Like Zhang Fei After a Three-Day Bender With No Hangover Cure
My eldest brother looked at Commander Geumho and Commander Eunyong.
“Commander Ho, Commander Yong.”
Their formal names were probably Geumho and Eunyong, but the way my brother addressed them sounded like an old Left Assistant calling his former subordinates.
Even as the two men trembled, they answered him.
“Speak, sir.”
“If you lost to the Hao Clan Master, then the Geumho Division and Eunyong Division have lost. Take your forces and retreat.”
The two Commanders looked at each other. It was a proposal hard to accept.
My brother continued.
“If you go into all-out war, you’ll all die to the Hao Clan Master. I know you don’t want to retreat when you’ve been ordered otherwise. But once the Left Assistant arrives, the Geumho and Eunyong Divisions will become pointless meat shields. There’s no honor in this fight. If you refuse, I’ll have no choice but to behead you both. Of everyone here, you two know better than anyone that I keep my word even more strictly than the Hao Clan Master does.”
I looked at my brother.
Regardless of whether the wounded ones were old subordinates or not, my brother is someone who always puts his own words first.
In any case, the fact that he was trying to drive off both divisions with a single duel felt admirable, so I chimed in too.