In the first half of November, the weather in the north of the Great Zhou was already extra cold, and scattered snow was already floating in the air, which was extra uncomfortable on people's faces. Liu Ce stood on the city wall and watched the newly recruited soldiers stiffly change their formations and paces under the command of Yang Fan, Chen Qing and others, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Chen Qing and Han Feng have returned to Meihe Town two days ago, as Wu Liwen said, most of the thieves in Gaoyang have already left for Wuliang Town, and now although there are still more than 100,000 thieves guarding inside and outside Gaoyang City, there are not many sharp soldiers, and many are even local people who have just been pulled into the camp of thieves and homeless people who have nowhere to go. Zhang Hui, who is now guarding Gaoyang, is very cautious, even if he knows the news of the fall of Meihe Town, he may not easily send troops to attack, so it seems that Meihe Town is safe now, and he can finally take a breath and rest in the past few months.

But Liu Ce knows that all this is only temporary, even if he can survive these months, how to deal with it in a few months? No matter what the outcome of the battle of Wuliang Town is, hundreds of thousands of thieves will definitely rush towards Meihe Town, turning the entire town into a hell on earth, and all he can do now is to raise the combat power of the Jingwei Battalion to a higher level before all this happens, and he is confident that he will do this......

Outside Meihe Town, the displaced people who migrated from Wanjiazhuang under the leadership of Yang Youhuai were gradually approaching, and Liu Ce calculated the time and advanced it by a whole day.

"This kid ......" Liu Ce looked at Yang Youhuai, who was riding on a horse outside the town, and was directing the homeless people to move to the town, he couldn't help but smile, slapped the snow accumulated on his body, walked down the city wall, and greeted Yang Youhuai.

Yang Youhuai saw Liu Ce walking towards him, immediately turned over and dismounted, strode forward and hugged his fists and said: "General, the last general will live up to high expectations, a total of 5,324 displaced people in the village have all arrived, 34 mules and horses, 2,220 stones of grain, 30 stones consumed on the way, the remaining 2,190 stones, and ...... refined iron."

Liu Ce stopped Yang Youhuai from speaking, and punched him in the left shoulder, causing the nail leaf on his shoulder to shake for a while, and said with a smile: "It's good that people are here, there's nothing wrong on the road, right?" ”

Yang Youhuai said: "The last general traveled all the way, but there were two small groups of bandits who wanted to harass, and they were defeated by my Jingwei battalion with one blow......"

"Well done!" Liu Ce laughed: "Hurry up and go into the town to rest, Wu Liwen has already arranged a residence, and the stove has been prepared, see that you are freezing, go in quickly, leave it to me here." ”

"No, General! I can do it......" Yang Youhuai hurriedly excused himself.

Liu Ce's face deliberately pulled: "This is an order!" Hurry up and get to rest! After eating at noon, I will hold a reward meeting and pay tribute to the soldiers who died in battle! ”

"Yes!" Yang left helplessly, but his heart was warm.

Seeing Yang Youhuai and a few people entering the town with the people, Liu Ce turned around and looked at the slowly moving crowd, with mixed feelings in his heart. He was very afraid to tell the family members the news of the death of the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion, and he was afraid to see the grief-stricken scenes of those women, children, and children. But Liu Ce knew that no matter how nervous and scared he was, he couldn't escape, he had to face them, and this was the only way to be a barracks commander......

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After lunch, all the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion were gathered on the open field, including the newly recruited 2,000 recruits, all standing upright in the cold wind. In front of the temporary high platform in front, the banner symbolizing the totem of the Jingwei Camp is waving in the wind, making a whirring sound of cloth. The people of Meihe Town and the homeless people of Wanjiazhuang either gathered around, or stood at the window on the second floor and looked down, densely packed with people.

Liu Ce was wearing an iron armor, a plain white cloak, and a circle of white cloth tied around his head, and took a deep breath and slowly walked up to the high platform with Qin Mo Yebin, who was hanging in white robes around him, and the generals of various banners.

"General Wansheng! General Wan Sheng! Seeing Liu Ce coming to power, some veterans of the Jingwei Battalion below shouted frantically in unison, and their eyes were full of awe, which made those new soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion very puzzled, but they also echoed it, but the momentum and veterans could not be compared.

Liu Ce raised his hands and pressed them down, signaling everyone to be quiet, and the voice in the square gradually lowered.

"Soldiers!" Liu Ce took the iron megaphone in his hand and said loudly: "I, Liu Ce, He De, how can I let you sacrifice your life and follow me up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire!" Now it has captured the town of Meihe, which is guarded by tens of thousands of thieves, and eliminated the most elite Jin Heng Department in the thief army! I, Liu Ce, don't dare to take credit! All this was bought with your blood! I, Liu Ce, would like to thank you all! ”

After Liu Ce finished speaking, he bowed deeply, not only the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion in front of him, but even Qin Mo Yebin behind him was also shocked, and the field was suddenly silent.

After a long time, Liu Ce got up with red eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "I, Liu Ce, am incompetent, I am incompetent!" Hundreds of soldiers were killed and wounded in this battle, all of them were young, some of them broke their hands and feet, and some of them lost their lives! What kind of face do I have to meet the families of these soldiers! ”

"General! It's not your fault! Several soldiers in the front row of the audience choked and shouted, and one of the soldiers said redly: "Before I Zhang Erniu met the general, he was a reckless man who couldn't read big words, and he watched his mother-in-law and son starve in the manor but couldn't do anything, but since he followed the general, he learned the ability to kill the enemy, and he also knew a basket of words, and he could eat enough every day. How can there be no immortal in war, don't blame yourself general! ”

"Don't blame yourself, general!" After Zhang Erniu finished speaking, the veterans of the Jingwei Battalion let out a deafening shout.

Liu Ce stopped again, his eyes filled with tears, and said, "Thank you! Thank you so much for your trust in me Liu Ce! I also thank you to the wives and children of all the soldiers, and give me your men and children, but I, Liu Ce, am guilty! You've lost your loved ones! I, Liu Ce, hereby ask you for my guilt! ”

After speaking, Liu Ce threw away the megaphone, knelt heavily on the ground, and slammed his head on the hard floor, only to hear a crisp sound of "arm", when Liu Ce raised his head again, there was already a blood mark on his head, and before everyone reacted, he knocked down again......

"General!" Seeing Liu Ce kowtow six or seven times in a row, Yang Kaishan really couldn't stand it, and knelt on the ground with a red face, and also kowtowed, Sun Cheng, Yang Fan, Yang Youhuai, Feng Chounian, Chen Qing, Xu Hui, Han Feng, including Qin Mo Yebin and others also knelt down and buried their heads deep on the ground, and all the soldiers on the field also knelt on one knee in unison......

"Mr. Ye, report the list of fallen soldiers, I want everyone to know that my Jingwei Battalion soldiers are the best soldiers in the world, even if they die, they must die with dignity!" Liu Ce got up with Qin Mo's support, his eyes full of tears.

Ye Bin agreed, slowly took out a booklet from his sleeve, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said slowly: "The list of fallen soldiers, Wu Jian, under Xu Qi, died in the quarry on the night of October 31; Li Shun, under Yang Qi, was killed in battle during the siege of the city on the first day of November......"

As Ye Bin reported the list of the dead one by one, the soldiers in the field were solemn and silent, letting Xuezi blow his face under the howling cold wind. Hearing that the family members of their husbands and sons were killed in the war outside the venue, they immediately cried loudly, constantly stimulating Liu Ce's nerves......

"Forty-eight people were killed in total, and another twelve were permanently disabled." After Ye Bin finished reporting this, he sighed and slowly closed the booklet, he and Qin Mo were also used to seeing life and death parting before, thinking that he had already looked down on all this, but when these famous and surnamed sacrificed soldiers were reported by themselves, he realized how heavy his mood was, and he deeply realized Liu Ce's mood at this moment, not for show.

"Incense!" Liu Ce shouted, and suddenly three giant incense plants with a height of one meter and a diameter of two centimeters were handed to Liu Ce, and Liu Ce slowly inserted them into the incense burner on the desk behind him, "All the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion!" I, Liu Ce, thank you for following me regardless of life and death! The current conditions are too poor to give you a decent sacrifice! But I Liu Ce swears, as long as I am alive! One day, an ancestral hall will be built for you, and you will receive incense forever! I will take care of your wives and children! Don't let them suffer the slightest grievance! May your spirits in heaven bless my Jingwei camp! Liu Ce and the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion are here! Thanks! ”

"Boom!" With a loud bang, all the soldiers on the field knelt on one knee again, and everyone's faces were full of tragic expressions, it was worth it! In the troubled world, human life is like a mustard, not to mention that he is an insignificant boy at the bottom, and if he dies, he will die, but he never thought that the general values us so much, even if he dies, he will die so beautifully! What else is there to say? I really don't regret joining Jingwei Camp at all!

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The tragic and concise soul sacrifice ceremony came to an end under the attention of everyone, and then it was time for the reward ceremony.

Qin Mo and Liu Ce glanced at each other, came to the middle of the high platform, looked at the soldiers with tragic faces under the stage and the surrounding onlookers with different expressions, cleared their throats, opened a booklet, looked at it casually, and closed it:

"Since the Jingwei Battalion became an army, the military discipline has been strict and the rules are strict! Or there are deficiencies, and they will be revised in the next day! But if there is a mistake, it will be punished, and if there is merit, it will be rewarded, which is the foundation of the Jingwei battalion! This rule will never change! The soldiers performed well in this expedition, although there were shortcomings, there was no big mistake! Now, according to the regulations of the army, the materials obtained by our Jingwei battalion in the battle will be distributed to the soldiers in proportion to three! Because the materials are converted into 400,000 stones, so 120,000 stones of grain and rice will be divided into the soldiers and soldiers, and there will be additional awards for outstanding performance, due to the excessive amount of grain and rice, it is inconvenient to carry it and stack it in front of the field, first each soldier will distribute five catties of salt and a bamboo row, and go to the warehouse to receive grain and rice after the afternoon drill with the bamboo row! As for the silver two questions, I will note down and send you a bamboo row first, you can get it at any time! ”

As soon as these words fell, there was an instant commotion at the bottom, and everyone couldn't believe it, the general really took out thirty percent of rice grain to reward everyone.

"Yo! I thought the general was just talking casually, and I didn't want to be really! If nothing else, these five catties of salt are precious ......."

"Whoever calculates for me, how much 120,000 stone rice will be distributed in my hands! Oh, I'm afraid there are ten stones, right? ”

"Mom, this is too much, how can you eat so much rice? Dog, you're farming, aren't you? Have you ever seen so much rice? ”

"No matter how much he has, I'll just say, follow the general to join the Jingwei Battalion, and promise not to treat us badly."

The veterans of the Jingwei Battalion here were already whispering and calculating how much rice and grain they had received this time, while the new soldiers over there were dumbfounded! Some of the soldiers who were good at arithmetic put their hands together and closed their mouths in surprise.

"Really? Really give so much? ”

"Oh my God! Eighty or ninety stone of rice grain, how long will it take to finish eating? ”

"No wonder the Jingwei battalion can beat the thieves down, the treatment is much better than those officers and soldiers......"

"We have also joined the Jingwei Battalion, and we will definitely go out with the army next time to strive for a reward!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Let's practice well, and next time we compare those veterans to see them proudly ......"

All of a sudden, both the veterans and recruits of the Jingwei Battalion began to shine in their eyes, and they all vowed to do a good (better) drill and make meritorious contributions on the battlefield as soon as possible.

Qin Mo saw everyone in the audience talking to each other, and coughed fiercely three times: "Silence!" But it didn't seem to have any effect, so he turned around and glanced at Feng Chounian, who nodded and shouted: "An! Quiet! ”

A loud lion's roar sounded in the square, and the soldiers in the field were sore from the shocked eardrums, and immediately fell silent.

Qin Mo continued: "Fang Jing, he performed well when he first entered the Jingwei Battalion, he killed the first thief in the stone field, and killed nine thieves in the siege battle, and hereby rewarded an additional twenty catties of salt and one hundred stones of grain and rice!" Recommended by Yang Youhuai, the general manager of the flag, he is hereby named what is the chief! Now Fang Jing is on stage and honored! ”

When the audience heard this, they shuddered, they never expected that they could receive such a heavy reward and become a low-level officer in the Jingwei Battalion. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but tears flowed, and under the push of the soldiers behind me, I slowly walked out of the column and walked to the stage, and the audience was full of envy.

When Fang Jing knelt down on one knee to receive the reward bamboo plaque in Liu Ce's hand and the wooden waist plaque symbolizing his identity, his whole body trembled with excitement!

"I'm not a bastard anymore! I finally got the general's approval for my ability! I can support my wife and children! Fang Jing couldn't stop shouting in his heart, he really wanted to find a place to vent the joy in his chest!

When Fang Jing accepted Wu Chang's waist card, Sun Biao at the bottom was full of envy and jealousy: "Damn, one day Lao Tzu will climb up, climb higher than him, and trample Feng Chou Nian and Sun Cheng on the soles of their feet, so that they can know my Sun Biao's ability, now even if the direct army of the Thunder Army Wei Yi looks for me, this Jingwei Battalion Lao Tzu will stay!" ”

After reporting a series of lists of meritorious soldiers, Liu Ce personally gave them one by one After the sealing, Qin Mo said again: "Because the time is too long, I am afraid that the bodies of the brothers who died in the Jingwei Battalion will be harmful, and the bodies of the forty-eight soldiers have been cremated. In addition, in addition to the reward that the 48 soldiers deserved in this battle, please ask your family members to receive 300 stone of rice and flour, 1,000 taels of silver, and the elderly in the family will be supported by the Jingwei camp, and the young children will be raised as adults, and each household can receive three buckets of rice and two taels of salt per month, until the end of the year, and the disabled family members will receive an additional 100 stone of rice grain, and the treatment of the old and young in the family is equivalent to that of the fallen soldiers......"

"General!" The crying family members before knelt on the ground, in this era of war, human life is like mustard, life is not as good as a dog in a big family, and no one will bury it when it dies, but I don't want to get such a heavy pension, the man in my own family died with Liu Ce, it is really worth it!

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After the solemn memorial ceremony and reward ceremony, the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion began to train more passionately, especially those soldiers who received the salt and bamboo faction, and waved their spears with their lives!

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