Frankly speaking, he has read many military books and knows a lot of ancient and modern war cases, but this does not mean that he can become a qualified general.

First of all, his career direction is mainly special operations, and the era of cold weapons is group white-knuckle warfare, and the difference between the two is very big, but then again, even in this world, he can't become a senior general, he is now a second lieutenant, but after joining the first-class combat team, the previous rank will be automatically erased.

During the mission, even if he performs very well, the promotion direction is a senior non-commissioned officer, and it is basically impossible to become an officer, let alone a general.

Secondly, arranging troops is the basic skill of an ancient general, but what he is good at is kicking the door and assault, and the use of various thermal weapons and tools. He can't say that he doesn't know anything about how to arrange troops head-on, but he has only learned about it from books, and it can probably only be regarded as a piece of paper.

In the end, this city is a mess, the armor and weapons are not ready, to put it bluntly, the gap in hard conditions is too big, this is not something that can be solved by changing generals, or by changing immortals, it is estimated that so many things will not be changed.

In other words, the reason why Kami and the others blindly trusted him was mainly the prophecy scroll of the Black Cloaked Man.

This time the general is not an ordinary general, but similar to the general of Zhuguo, and the process and ceremony are very cumbersome and serious.

Not long ago, the Northern Xuan Kingdom was besieged, and the few cities and populations were located in the southeast and southwest borders, and now he was appointed as the general of the unified army, which was equivalent to handing over one-third of a country to him.

In some ways, Jing Jian directly promoted him as a general, but he actually took a big risk.

If the army is unfavorable, Jing Jian will not only be scolded by the people, but the monarch's father will not let him go, but then again, even if the division goes well, the monarch does not seem to give him good fruit to eat, without the consent of the king of a country, appointing a general on the edge of the town without authorization, which is an arrogant move.

......

There are two main ceremonies in the ceremonies, the upper is to inform the heavens and the earth, the ghosts and gods, and the lower to inform the generals at all levels to lead the army, the former has a special sacrificial personnel in charge, and the latter is his turn.

Until today, he found out that he had misunderstood the sorcerer, the sorcerer is only responsible for cultivating spells, exorcising demons, and does not care about the affairs of ghosts and gods, and the person in charge of sacrificing ghosts and gods is called 'Zhu', this kind of person is a real clergyman, that is, the person with white camouflage painted on his face.

When praying to the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods, he watched coldly from the sidelines, including the turtle master and Er, they would not kneel anyway.

When it was his turn to take the stage, it was nothing more than to make a few speeches, Guan Chengzi had taught him in advance, and the main content of the speech was to show his determination to dare to fight, as well as a serious and responsible attitude towards the soldiers.

In fact, according to the rules, he also wanted to show loyalty to the royal family, but this was selectively ignored by him, for the simple reason that he would not swear allegiance to anyone again.

The only thing that could make him responsible was the lives of the people in the city and the soldiers under his command, in fact, he said the same.

After these two events, the worship of ghosts and gods officially began, and a large number of offerings were carried on the incense case, chickens, sheep, pigs, cows, etc.

"What kind of god is sacrificed, and so many offerings are needed?" Meng Yun stood in front of the stage and frowned at this scene, on his left and right were Jingjian and Ji Wizards, and Gui Ye and Ji were standing behind him.

Just before, he had seen many scrawny people in the city, how could there be something to worship to the gods if they couldn't eat enough?

"Ghosts," said the turtle master.

"What do you mean? Are there many kinds of gods, is there any difference?" Meng Yun asked again.

"The ghost god lord kills, the god lord blesses, the former eats offerings, and the latter offers incense," the turtle master said again.

"Mr. Kame's really insightful," Keimi said with a smile.

"Good gods, put an end to extravagance and waste," he said as he stopped the sacrificial ceremony, and Zhu Si and the others looked at him in confusion.

"There is a shortage of food in the city, so take things down and distribute them to the hungry," he said directly ignoring the eyes of several people, and beckoned to the few sergeants behind him.

"The sacrifice is to ask the gods for protection, and it is not in accordance with the rules to remove," Zhu Si said, stopping a few sergeants.

"People can't eat enough, so don't care what gods move away," At the moment when he finished speaking, several sergeants rushed away from Zhu Si to block them, and came to the stage to move the offerings directly.

"It's you," Zhu Siqi's scepter rattled on the ground.

Jing Jian and the others frowned and didn't speak, they hadn't seen him like this, if they didn't even respect the ghosts and gods, they didn't know whether it was right or wrong to entrust the power to him.

"What are you? I have the final say, or do you have the final say?" He didn't have a good impression of the gods, but he didn't have any grudges against the other party, he did this not only for the sake of starving the people, but also aimed at weakening the influence of the divine power on the army, and this kind of action will only be more and not less in the future, otherwise before the war, he has to ask the gods for instructions at every turn, and the war will not be able to be fought.

The connection between Blackwater City and the national capital is interrupted, but the process that should be taken still has to be taken, and the general's seal is taught by Jing Jian, and the rest is messy, and the irrelevant ones can be saved.

This time the worship of the general was relatively smooth, his feat of fighting Xiong Pi on the city wall, many people are obvious to all, maybe the people in the city don't know him, but the soldiers look at him with fanatical eyes.

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It's dusk.

The county guard has a good environment, but he doesn't want to live here, so whoever has to live there.

The office location is located on the West City Gate Tower, and the food and accommodation are also here.

The most taboo thing about fighting a war is that the general does not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals, at least living here can make the soldiers under his command feel his existence.

The castle tower collapsed during the war, but this is not a difficult thing, Ji is a wood wizard, and he can give birth to any wood thing, and a wooden tower can still be conjured.

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On the tower of the city gate, he and the turtle master looked out of the city in the distance, there was silence in the dark night, the barbarian army had just been repulsed, and it was naturally impossible for them to make a comeback so quickly.

"Jingjian seems to trust me very much, what is going on?" Meng Yun said.

"It's all you who Wizard Ji is trying to protect," Master Turtle sat on the top of the city wall and gnawed live fish.

"Hmm, why did he try to protect me?" Meng Yun continued.

"It's not nonsense, on the one hand, you do have the ability, on the other hand, if you keep you, you will keep him, where can you find such a deal?"

"Dare to be affectionate," Meng Yun frowned when he heard this, how could he forget this stubble.

"Not exactly, if you don't behave like that, he won't look down on you," said the turtle master again.

"How much role have you played in this?" Meng Yun retracted his gaze and smiled at the turtle master.

"Hehe, not much," Master Turtle threw away the fishbone and jumped off the city wall.

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On the city wall, there are soldiers on watch at each battlement, next to these soldiers is a brazier, and the damaged city wall has a special person responsible for repairing, and the largest gap has been repaired by the earth lord.

In the city gate tower, county officials are reporting on the situation, population, food reserves and consumption, etc.

Now is the time of war, everything must be controlled in wartime, resources and materials must be reasonably distributed, whether or not you can win the enemy is not considered first, before that, you must first ensure that the people in the city can survive.

If everyone is dead, there is not much point in guarding the city.

The premise of all this is that he has to ensure that he has the greatest authority, otherwise everything he does will be constrained and his work efficiency will not be improved.

There are three seats on the upper position, Meng Yun is in the center, Jingjian is on the left, and the big fat man is on the right.

More than a dozen officials reported different contents, and the most troubling issue was the food problem.

Blackwater City originally had a population of only a few tens of thousands, but after the barbarian invasion of the south, more than 100,000 refugees poured into the county one after another, and the population of the city has now reached as much as 170,000.

With 170,000 people in the city, the food reserves were not enough to last for seven days.

A few days ago, food has been given priority to the defenders, and most of the people have been without food for two days.

The second is the problem of clothing and shelter, refugees have no shelter in the city, flee in a hurry, and it is impossible to bring too many clothes, most of them have to sleep on the streets, and people freeze to death almost every night.

Two hours later, the report on people's livelihood issues was completed, and it was the turn of military city defense.

Blackwater City is only a small county town, and the usual garrison is only more than 3,000.

Blackwater City's biggest role before was to guard the passage to the royal tomb, which did not have much strategic value in itself.

It was only after the outbreak of war that the importance of this small county town became apparent.

Blackwater City is built on the mountain, the city sits in the east and faces the west, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and guards the only way for the barbarian army to go south.

After more than 100,000 refugees entered the city, in order to fight against the barbarian army, the city defense army was expanded to more than 20,000 people.

Under the leadership of the two great witches, Wizard Qi and Wizard Jue, they have been able to deal with the barbarian army so far, but the two great witches have died in battle one after another.

Unexpectedly, in today's battle, more than 7,000 soldiers were killed and countless were wounded.

The defenders of Heishui County mainly have the following problems,

First, there is a lack of weapons and armor, with the existing weapons, more than 9,000 armed people are stretched, not to mention the armor, more than 4,000 pairs of armor, and there are still many tattered.

Second, after the expansion of the army, the recruits lacked training, and they couldn't see anything to defend the city, but once there was a frontal conflict, they would definitely be slaughtered.

Third, there is a shortage of food, which is a difficult problem faced by the entire county.

The fourth is the problem of medicinal materials, if these wounded soldiers are not treated, the wounded soldiers will die soon, but it is a difficult problem to find medicinal materials in the ice and snow, in other words, they can't afford to be injured and can't be saved.

There are many other problems, such as troop sources, establishments, personnel appointments, etc., but none of them are major problems and can be slowly solved in the future.

Wizard power is just as important, but that can't be changed.

If there is not enough food to buy, if there is not enough weapons to build, if the wizard can't buy it, it can't be made, and it is unrealistic to expect the assistance of the wizards of the national capital.

The only hope is to be angry, needless to say, if it weren't for the lack of combat experience and accidentally trapped by the black fog, I'm afraid that a single photo can kill a few barbarian witches.

Judging from the current situation, if the capital is not breached, the barbarians will not dare to divide more forces to fight Blackwater City, and if there are few people coming, it will be a moth to the fire and kill themselves.

After this battle, it is impossible for the other party not to understand this.

The barbarian wizard force suffered heavy losses, but the army was basically unscathed, without the protection of the wizard force, the barbarian army would not dare to attack the city, but at the same time, the defenders of the county town did not have the power to fight back.

It is almost foreseeable that the two sides will face each other in a distant situation.

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The next day, except for the wood wizards, the wizards in the county town were all sent into the mountains to hunt, and the wood wizards stayed behind to treat the wounded.

After the battle, there was still one great witch left on the county side, nineteen upper witches, and thirty-five ordinary wizards.

When the county town had the most wizards, it had two great wizards, thirty-two wizards, and nearly more than a hundred ordinary wizards.

This is also the result of Er's timely participation in the war, if he really listens to the turtle master's words, delays until the defenders can't hold it, and then lets Er intervene in the battle, I'm afraid there won't be a few people left.

I know that hunting is not good, I have to set a target and deadline for them, and the reward plan must also be carried out, otherwise there will be no enthusiasm.

Within three days, each witch must bring back 2,000 catties of prey, almost a dozen wild boars or deer, ordinary wizards are 800 catties of prey, and other hunting teams must not be less than 200 catties.

As for the reward scheme, the wizard will leave it to Ji to plan, and ordinary hunters will record military merits, provided that the target is completed.

For the next three days, he was busy formulating wartime control decrees, such as food rationing, soldier drills, and the acceptance of displaced people in households.

Hunting is not a long-term solution, even if all hunters can meet the standard, an average of 170,000 people, the per capita is only more than four taels, but it can be dragged on for a day.

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Two days ago, Guan Chengzi had already led people to set off from the trail.

Go to Yehuling and Xia to buy food and weapons and armor, but the country can't count on it, so it can only rely on itself.

Before leaving, Master Turtle drew a map of the location of the Golden Retriever Cave Mansion and a letter to the monsters of Wild Fox Ridge.

The gold in the Rat Demon Cave Mansion must be useful, he has not seen how much there is, but the turtle master said that it is piled up, and there should be hundreds of kilograms.

As for how much, Guan Chengzi can only know when he comes back.