Li Tianhao and his entourage returned to the city of Epsommiton, and some people had been waiting for a long time. Horondis, the captain of Palci, tendered his resignation.

Li Tianhao silently looked at the resolute face of the old general, and said, "Lord Helongdis, have you made up your mind?" ”

Horondith nodded, "Yes." It has been decided after careful consideration. Although I don't think there's anything wrong with the lord's approach, it's too radical. Your actions will undoubtedly break the hearts of many noble children in the army, and as a nobleman, he will have to face a dilemma. If you take a military general as an example, you are very willing to fight under your command, you are the only outstanding talent you have seen in your military career, and being able to fight for you is the greatest wish of a military general. However, as a nobleman, he had to choose to leave, and in the nepotism of the nobles, he had to consider not only himself, but also the whole family, please understand.

In addition, for whatever purpose, a significant portion of the Palchi army will choose to leave you, and those who remain are not without complaints. As Master Hector said, the Palci army will fall apart, and their combat effectiveness will drop dramatically. Rather than this, let me resign and return to Palci first, so that those who waver will be determined to leave you, and those who remain are the warriors who support you, and let Lord Hector lead a loyal army to fight for you, and I, a veteran, can only do my best for you. ”

Li Tianhao nodded sincerely. The old general of Palchi was still thinking about himself until the end, and at the same time saved the reputation of the Palchi army, such a noble sentiment made Li Tianhao speechless. I could only bow deeply and said, "Thank you for your long service, thank you for your hard work." ”

"Where. It's under your care. Horondis returned the salute and turned to walk outside. Halfway through, he suddenly turned around and said, "After the next return, I will select worthy talents from the clan to serve you, and you will have to worry a lot about it then." ”

Li Tianhao bowed his head lightly and watched the old general stride out. Although he was not dissatisfied with the departure of the old general, Li Tianhao couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart, and there was always a feeling of being abandoned when such an excellent general left him.

Two days later, Li Tianhao personally sent Horondis out of the city of Epsommiton and back to Palchi, with about 700 other men. Seven hundred men was a small number for the 25,000 Palchi Army, but most of these noble-born people were mid-to-high-ranking officers in the army, and their departure was actually quite a blow to the Palchi army's chain of command. Li Tianhao salutes everyone. Thanks to their performance in the war and their long-term loyalty, it is obvious that some of these people were touched by Li Tianhao's words, but these people whose will may be shaken at any time can only be countless time bombs left in Li Tianhao's team, Li Tianhao can't help but be grateful to Horondis from the bottom of his heart, and thus he is even more disappointed by his departure.

After returning to the mansion, Li Tianhao sat at his desk without saying a word and read the official documents—since he had a complete falling out with the priest Ancadili, the movements of the missionary group and the cathar army had become delicate: Li had no intention of preventing them from continuing their missionary work, and their normal missionary activities had not stopped because of this; However, the presence of the cathars became unnecessary, and if any problems were encountered during the mission, they could seek help from the local administration. If there is a garrison that can intervene in the event of a recalcitrant populace violating their personal freedom, the so-called great duty of the apologetics has been fully encompassed, and the presence of the cathars has become dispensable, and the only thing left for them to do is to work as labor to build the temple. This is obviously very different from the original intention of this group to make a windfall through the power of religion. In addition, Li Tianhao's strict torture method made them daunting, so there were people in the cathar army who continued to try to break away from this group and go back to Palchi, and even some noble children gave up their faces and prepared to return home. It was boiling at the beginning. Now there is a massive resurgence of the virus, which is bound to cause great trouble. And once these people return to Palchi, they will inevitably join Khambagir's men to oppose Li Tianhao. Li Tianhao knew this very well in his heart, so he was unwilling to let these people go back from his subjective will.

The problem is that it is impossible for Li to forcibly leave these people in Epsommiton, it is not easy to feed 20,000 people, because the previous Yaji army has looted the Epsmilton area too seriously, there is not much grain left here, so Li Tianhao has to send hundreds of thousands of troops to various places and the Napatis area to eat, only retaining the minimum number of garrison troops, waiting for the harvest of a new crop of grain. Now that the grain has been collected, Li Tianhao originally intended to mobilize the troops scattered in other areas to the north, but now there are suddenly 20,000 more mouths, and he has also caused trouble in various places, causing instability among the people, and the progress of the troop transfer has also been delayed. And they are not as hard-working as the soldiers, these people named the army are all as difficult to serve as the master, the food, clothing, housing and transportation here have never satisfied them, and these idle people may also cause riots because of dissatisfaction, just like a big cancer, it is not suitable anywhere, and they are not at ease, how to deal with these people has become Li Tianhao's new headache.

In addition, a piece of information provided by Yamo is also puzzling, there has been a large-scale food gathering and movement in Yaki Country recently, and there are obvious signs of sending troops, but the strange thing is that the movement of Yaki's army has never been detected, and in addition, the spies planted in Yaki Country in Yamo's territory suddenly fell silent, which is also very illogical, unless Yaki has found that these people have actually been all monitored and stopped their operations, but Yaki's intelligence cannot be so accurate, Therefore, the most plausible explanation is that the entire spy network is silent.

"This is an urgent message from Lord Dara from the eastern region, please reply as soon as possible." Tia placed a document on Li Tianhao's desk.

"Ah, hard work." Li Tianhao immediately picked up the document and watched it.

"Need an immediate reply?" Tia had no intention of leaving, and if Li Tianhao replied immediately, she wouldn't have to run again.

Li Tianhao looked at the contents of the document and did not answer. Dara was ordered to defend the northern part of the Epsommilton area, which had not experienced war for a long time, so all the city defenses were old and could not withstand the attack of the Yaqui army without renovations and additions. As a result, Dara and Lorencis had been fortifying the area since the end of the last war, but something recently happened that showed some unusual signs.

It happened purely by chance, an old man was drunk and babbling nonsense, saying that it would not be long before these invaders would be punished by the gods, which was originally just the drunken nonsense of a complaining civilian, and no one would care, but this sentence was heard by Dara. In fact, Dara himself didn't care too much, but the strange thing was that the old man died inexplicably the next day, which attracted Darla's attention. After conducting an unannounced visit with Lorencis, they were shocked to find that there had been a number of new people who had fled into the territory in the recent period, and a considerable number of these people must be local intelligence agents.

After comparing with the information held by Yamo, Li Tianhao couldn't help but be even more puzzled: Yaji gave up the original intelligence network and began to build a new intelligence network, this explanation is too far-fetched, it is more likely that a new force has invaded the area controlled by the Dilc army, but which side is this force? Why did Yaki's original intelligence network become silent? After all considerations, Li Tianhao felt that the biggest possibility was the power of Yaji's priest army, so that things could be explained, the reason why Yaji's army had no signs of mobilization was because this military transfer was prepared for the priest army, the priest army did not belong to the regular army, and it would not be uniformly dressed in peacetime, and if it was trained properly, it was very suitable for stealth. It is likely that the vanguard of the priestly army has already infiltrated the border area in disguise, ready to launch a surprise attack at any moment.

Thinking of this, Li Tianhao suddenly sat up straight, picked up the pen and hurriedly wrote a few lines, then rolled it up and handed it to Tia and said, "Quickly send the reply to General Dala!" (To be continued......)