Chapter 353: The issue of military salaries

Since Shen Mengting entered the barracks, she has been thinking about a question. When my father was here, how did he think about dealing with the enemy?

After all, this military camp has been built for some years, and my father has been here to resist the Sauron Empire.

Shen Mengting felt that if she could do what her father did, she would definitely be able to repel the enemy.

"Yes, father!" Shen Mengting's eyes were a little empty, "Please guide me, how should this war be fought, what should I do?"

Unconsciously, her vision was a little blurred, and some reflective crystals appeared in her orbit. However, she soon realized that she had lost her temper, and after shaking her anger a few times, she still forcibly suppressed her pessimism.

As the commander of the three armies, he must not show such cowardly emotions, which is why Shen Mengting shook her head violently.

It's just that she still asks herself the question, "Father, what the hell am I going to do?"

This time the situation is clearly more difficult than the aggression of decades ago. Moreover, now Saran's valiant generals have withered, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit.

In this state, how can we talk about facing a powerful enemy?

Shen Mengting's current mood has moved closer to the direction of depression, and she also sighed rather frustratedly. The breath seemed to be swimming around the room, echoing the candlelight inside, which made her even more irritable.

But at this moment, there seemed to be something unusual outside, and it seemed to be a man-made shout. After Shen Mengting heard this, she first stood at the door, and after confirming that it was not her own auditory hallucination, she opened the door and rushed out.

The noise was not far from her residence, and it seemed that there were more than a few people. Judging only by the ears, it should be a contradiction between the two groups.

Shen Mengting ran briskly towards the source of the sound, until she saw two groups of people who were constantly pushing and shoving.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Shen Mengting pointed angrily ahead as she ran.

The sudden arrival of her, the marshal, was absolutely effective. The two groups of soldiers began to retreat, and there was no more physical collision. However, their eyes were still staring at each other, as if they were going to eat each other alive.

"What are you doing?" Shen Mengting came to the middle of the two groups of people. She suddenly found that the leaders of the conflict seemed to be not low in their profession, and they were generally at the rank of lieutenant or above, "What the hell is going on? What are you doing at night?"

Responding to Shen Mengting's question, a certain officer and soldier on the left suddenly stood up, "Tell the Generalissimo! These people in the Yokoga military camp are too much! They don't even give us the food for the night, and they don't even give us soldiers who came all the way from Qingse City!"

"Oh, what?" Shen Mengting quickly looked at the group of officers and soldiers on the right, even if she didn't say anything, but her eyes were asking for an explanation at the moment. After all, she herself is a newcomer from Kiyose Castle.

Not long after, an officer and soldier on the right also stood up, "Why don't we give you military rations? Everything is distributed by the grain officer, and we have never deducted food!"

"Then you can tell me, why is it that there is only one steamed bun in our hands for dinner today!

"You can't say that! The military expenses of the Yokoga military camp are not much, and the number of soldiers that can carry them is only a few thousand, how can you tell us to raise tens of thousands of horses from your new heart!"

"That's it! That's it! A steamed bun is already good, what else do you want to eat? Do you want to eat the delicacies of the mountains and the sea?" and the soldiers on the right were coaxing, and their attitude was also extremely provocative.

"What are you talking about? If every soldier in the camp only eats steamed buns, we'll forget it. But I saw with my own eyes that the original soldiers of the Yokoga barracks were able to eat pickles and fresh jerky. How do you explain this?" the soldier on the left was never to be outdone.

"We are different from you newcomers, we have suffered a lot from being stationed at the border all the year round, shouldn't we eat better? Now that it's time for a crisis, you're thinking about coming to take our food?"

"What do you mean by that? Are we not soldiers fighting for our country, are we not the ones who defend the kingdom of Salam?"

"You're new here, you should have eaten a lot!"

"What did you say?"

"How's that?

The two groups of people are getting more and more noisy, and it seems that they are about to come to the point of physical conflict again, and they are getting closer to each other with the movement of their fingers.

"That's enough! stop me!" Shen Mengting's sudden roar, as well as her action of pulling out her sword and swinging it out of thin air in front of her, completely shocked the two groups of soldiers.

They are not near, on the contrary, they are more far away.

"What are you doing? Fighting here late at night for food!" Shen Mengting put on a vicious look.

"Generalissimo, it's not that we have to worry about anything, but you see, they divide us with a steamed bun for a meal, and this is what we call ...... Call us ......" The officer and soldier on the left who shouted the most was naturally one of the representatives. He is also responsible for communicating with his superiors.

And the soldier on the left spoke, and the soldier on the right naturally did not fall silent, "A steamed bun is already good, what more delicious do you want!" I have already emphasized that the current military rations in the Yokoga military camp are not enough to support tens of thousands of troops to eat well!"

"You ......"

"Okay! I should have already said it, don't talk anymore!Is that a group of big men arguing here over a meal?" Shen Mengting glared at each other again, and the hilt of the sword that was held in her hand was tightened even closer.

"But! the marshal ......"

"That's enough! Don't make any more noise, let me go back to my house to rest! As for the food problem, I will talk to the grain officer tomorrow! So you don't have to quarrel anymore now, and you can all go back to your rest area!

The marshal's shouts didn't work for the first time, at least the soldiers who were only late for a steamed bun tonight didn't want to leave. But at the generalissimo's second and third shouts, they obediently turned and decided to go back.

Now that the soldiers on one side decided to leave, the soldiers on the other side could no longer stand, and they all began to leave in a huff.

The soldiers are scattering, and the surrounding atmosphere has moved closer to the quiet direction, but for Shen Mengting, her mood must be calm at the moment.

It seemed that there were still a lot of troubles waiting in this camp, and even she felt that the soldiers here would be disintegrated due to civil strife without the threat of the Sauron Empire.

Shen Mengting touched the bridge of her nose and walked to her residence tiredly.

'Father, what the hell should I do, have we lost this war with the Sauron Empire?' she pondered in her mind.

After a long sleepless night, the first thing she did when she got up was naturally to solve the problem of military pay in the camp. For this reason, she also deliberately found Marshal Wang Bin and went to communicate with the grain officer together.

However, the response was cruel, judging by the food in the barracks, it was indeed only enough for more than 10,000 horses. If this amount is exceeded, it is estimated that there will be a shortage of food shortly thereafter.

Now the Yokoga military camp has long exceeded 10,000 people, which is the reason for the outbreak of contradictions. Of course, it is understandable that the soldiers in the local barracks will be angry, because according to the trajectory of the army, how many soldiers the country has sent, there will be some food accordingly.

However, the 8,000 new men and horses on their side did not even bring a single piece of food, and there was no follow-up official allocation, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers in the original barracks, which also paved the way for the new soldiers to only eat one steamed bun for a meal.

"Alas, the country's [river crab] economy is not good, this is probably the reason why there is no grain to be delivered, right?" General Wang Bin nodded, and there was no longer any appearance of wanting to solve the incident.

After closing her eyes and thinking for a long time, Shen Mengting decided to let the grain officer distribute all the grain equally, so that she could treat everyone equally. However, if you do this, it will cause food shortages in the future. But Shen Mengting insisted on this, and the grain officer had no other way.

Shen Mengting thought so, the food problem could be solved later, but if there was a rift in the relationship between the soldiers, it would not be possible to achieve the point of killing the enemy with the same hatred. Moreover, the problem of food will not appear until half a month later, and she must first ensure the morale of the barracks during this time.

After temporarily solving the problem of military salary, Shen Mengting threw herself into other aspects of the military camp. She really felt that the barracks was really full of problems, so she went to seek a solution! Such a delay seriously delayed even the plan to visit the enemy camp three days later.

It was about six days later that Shen Mengting had a gap to go outside to do errands.

She was a little exhausted that day, but she still didn't give up the decision to go to the enemy camp. With Qian Hao and Chen Tianhao with her, Shen Mengting was ready to go.

The preparation doesn't have to be too complicated, because they're just going out for a short while. But there is one thing that Shen Mengting cares about very much, that is, she must not clash with the Saurons at this time. Because once a conflict starts, their tracks will be exposed.

"You all have to be careful!" When it came time to leave the barracks, even Shen Jun, who had always been very arrogant, actually sent out a greeting from his mother-in-law.

Shen Mengting naturally asked her to rest assured, and then she didn't say anything more.

For Shen Mengting, she was already a little nervous in her heart. Although she had always hated Sauron soldiers before, she had to face it well today.

Whether it works or not, she's going to be there today. After all, there has been a delay of six days. In the course of these days, there may have been movement on Sauron's side.

Moreover, if you meet the dream demon in your heart earlier, you can really fight against it and reduce your fear. Shen Mengting looked at the bright sky and let out such a sentence.

According to Wang Bin, the 30,000 troops stationed in Sauron were ten kilometers inside his border. Coupled with the seven-kilometer location between the Yokoga military camp and the border, they would have to catch up to a seventeen-kilometer location in total.

It's not a long distance, but it's not something that can be reached in the blink of an eye. So, Shen Mengting and the others still prepared some necessary water resources.

After making a final goodbye, Shen Mengting and the other two also left the barracks.

"Hey, are you upset right now?"

At the moment of driving the horses to run, Qian Hao did not forget to make an inappropriate joke next to him.

Shen Mengting couldn't help glaring at him, this man always had to slide down before he would give up, "Qian Hao, can you say less!

So, the three of them ran to the border.

The seven-kilometer distance between Yokoga's camp and the border wasn't too difficult to navigate, and they still had mounts. After only half an hour or so, they were almost at the border.

Looking at the border, Shen Mengting saw only sadness. She didn't know if the creek, which was drying up, would still exist in a few years. But at least for now, she has to do her best to protect it.

"Wow! This is our border with the Sauron Empire!" Qian Hao, who was riding a horse, let out some oily speeches from time to time.

"Of course, what??Qian Hao?Are you surprised?" Shen Mengting replied angrily.

"Ahh But......" Qian Hao blinked his eyes a few times quickly, and he bit his lower lip vigorously, and his breathing became unsmooth.

"Qian Hao, what's wrong with you?"

"Hmm...... I didn't think that our border with the Sauron Empire was as simple as a small stream! I thought there would be some kind of wall blocking it!"

"It's good to have a small stream! Some countries don't even have a minimum border, and the border belongs to yours and mine!" Chen Tianhao pulled the reins of his horse, and the horse he was riding moved a few steps unconsciously.

In this natural world, the sound of horses' hooves is quite obvious.

"Chen Tianhao is right, many countries don't even have borders, and we have a stream here is already good! Besides, ......" Shen Mengting's eyes gradually looked ahead, "These two countries were originally one before!"

Once the Sauron Empire and the Saran Kingdom were indeed one country, called the Shenzhou Empire. Perhaps it is for this reason that Sauron is so obsessed with the land of Saran!

"Alright! No more ado......! This is going to the borders of the Sauron Empire!" With a soft roar, Shen Mengting directly drove the reins in her hand and instigated the horses to run forward.

Qian Hao and Chen Tianhao also followed. However, after this, the always alert Assassin Chen Tianhao still took a detailed look at the surroundings, he did not want to be discovered by enemy scouts when he stepped into the border of another country.

Fortunately, the border area here is relatively clean, and Chen Tianhao didn't see anyone. Moreover, he hadn't even felt the breath of the other humans except for the three of them.

"Chen Tianhao, do you have something on your mind?"

When the three of them rode horses and hurried some way, Shen Mengting saw Chen Tianhao's thoughts. She turned her head back and asked. However, at the moment, because she was riding a horse quickly, she couldn't keep her eyes looking behind.

She needs to keep an eye on the road ahead and the exact direction of the road.

Chen Tianhao didn't react much, he just had a conversation with Shen Mengting formally, "It's not a matter of mind! I just think it's strange! In such a tense situation, the border between the two countries is so quiet?"

"Huh?" Shen Mengting seemed to hear something interesting, she twisted her head all over, and her neck looked like a twisted sleeve, "What did you say?"

"Hey, I said it doesn't matter if you do this! Now you're riding a horse at a rapid pace! You don't look ahead at all, watch out for wrestling!" Qian Hao kindly added.

Because Shen Mengting was distracted, her riding speed also decreased a lot. So gradually, she has fallen behind Qian Hao.

Seeing this, Qian Hao could only slow down helplessly, but in this kind of deserted place, as long as he stayed for a little time, he would feel extremely tight. He really wanted to get to his destination quickly, so there was a statement to be careful.

"It doesn't matter! you can take care of yourself!" Shen Mengting shook her arm impatiently. Then, she continued to ask Chen Tianhao about this, "Do you think the border should be more lively now than it is now."

Chen Tianhao quickly glanced at Shen Mengting in front of him, "It's not so lively, but I just think it's strange! Saran doesn't talk about it, they don't look like soldiers, and they all hate to have to live a hard life in the barracks." So it's understandable that there are no scouts on this side of the border. But on Sauron's side, I wondered. They're going to invade here! If it's an invasion, why are they so quiet on this side of the border?"

For a while, Shen Mengting was also shocked by this question.

"I don't know why. But now, the answer can only be obtained from the enemy's barracks!" Her head gradually turned forward again.

The group of three continued to run, and their destination was the newly garrisoned military camp on the border of the Sauron Empire.