Outside the city of Adaner, Zhang Chao, the First Emperor of Heaven, had already received news that the Rus Kingdom had sent the second prince Ivan to negotiate peace and discuss the settlement of the war in the south.

This news was also known to Alexander in the city, and an armistice was immediately set in.

Alexander was a little skeptical in his heart, and it was naturally a good thing to negotiate peace with the Celestial Empire. To be honest, in the past few months, he has become more and more afraid of the Celestial Empire army.

Don't talk about it, just from the point of view of combat power. In the earliest days, the soldiers of the Rus' Kingdom relied on their tall and strong bloodline to fight against the Celestial Empire, and they generally took advantage of them, especially some of the elites of the Second Legion, who all crawled out of the pile of dead and fought very bravely, which can be said to completely crush the other party.

But as the war continued, the elite also began to die, and the number of troops began to decrease sharply, and many soldiers often fought today, and had to join the battle after resting tomorrow, until the end, they were participating in the war every day until they died.

In comparison, the Celestial Empire's army far outnumbered them, and the number of captured soldiers of the original two countries was more than twice as large as theirs.

With such a strength advantage, their soldiers can be better recuperated and rotated. Under the energetic situation, the combat power has also been far improved, and under the rise and fall, the soldiers of the Celestial Empire defeated the elite forces of the Rus' country, and after the Xian Li of the war, they also became the elite division.

Although the number of soldiers of the Celestial Empire is smaller, the combat power has indeed been greatly improved, which is a fact that Alexander also has to admit.

With an elite division of nearly one million, even the Second Army could not be compared in its heyday, let alone lose their main force now. Although the Rus Kingdom also has some policies and has transferred some second-level city defense troops from nearby cities to help, it is a pity that this is like a tactic of adding fuel to the fire, and they can only use it for the training of the Celestial Empire army when they come here.

This was the case, and Alexander was surprised to find that if the situation continued to develop, the Rus would never be victorious, and now that there was a new order from above to prepare for peace talks, he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, which was a good thing for him personally and for the Rus' country.

The Rus Kingdom has a truce, and Zhang Chao will naturally not be aggressive. The purpose of the war is not to destroy them, and in fact, he does not have the strength to do so now. It is not an exaggeration to say that even if he can enter the country of Rus now, such a large territory is not something he can manage, and first of all, the troops are not enough.

Even if you can't eat them now, you can save your breath. How do you say that, the pigs are fattened and eaten. Well, Zhang Chao is thinking exactly like that now.

Although Zhang Chao is now in the upper hand in the battle of Rus, he is not carried away by the victory, he knows very well that what he needs to do now is to unify the Central Plains first, and only by stabilizing the interior first can he rest assured to fight in all directions, otherwise, once the backyard is on fire, it will be a big deal.

The battle of Rus was an accident, fortunately, this accident was handled very well, after this incident, at least for a certain period of time, there is no need to worry about the north side, which makes Zhang Chaolong's heart happy, and now he only needs to deal with the matter of peace talks, and he can leave here and return to Bingzhou.

Zhang Chao was also preparing to withdraw his troops for peace talks, and the regiment commanders below naturally had to prepare early, and for a while, the soldiers and horses returned to the camp, and the army began to prepare to retreat at any time.

For a while, the originally chaotic military camp was quiet, and it was all due to the two military advisors.

The battle of Adan City was clearly a tough battle, which made the frustration and Fa Zheng become idle. But seeing that the generals went into battle every day to kill the enemy and made countless meritorious contributions, the two also wanted to do something, so they asked Zhang Chao, which had to be ordered to rectify military discipline.

Zhang Chao knows that only under the iron military discipline can an iron army be created. On the other hand, if the morale of the army is not gathered and the soldiers ignore the military regulations in their hearts, then such an army can hurt others and themselves, and even if they make a bad one, they will hurt themselves completely.

The army is a barracks composed of a group of big men, everyone is flesh and blood, if there is no military discipline to restrain them, who knows what will happen?

Feeling the importance of military discipline, Zhang Chao handed over this burden to the two wise military advisors to deal with.

Fu Zhu and Fa Zheng also felt the heavy responsibility on their shoulders, and immediately began to investigate after receiving the holy decree. This investigation found that although the warriors in the barracks were not afraid when they went into battle to kill the enemy, they were indeed in trouble and chaotic after returning to the barracks.

For example, gambling is prevalent in the barracks, and a group of people get together and have nothing else to do. I even heard that if you are in a bustling town, in addition to money, it is even more common to visit the green 0 floor.

After investigation, it was found that every year in the barracks because of such a thing, there are fatal accidents, and the proportion is not low, which is tantamount to artificially reducing injuries and attrition.

When the two military advisors reported the results of these investigations to the emperor and asked for punishment, Zhang Chao was shocked and naturally greatly supported.

To say that although he has more than 2 million soldiers, in fact, Zhang Chao doesn't know much about the military camp.

At the beginning, Zhang Chao had shared weal and woe with the soldiers, but at that time, there were fewer soldiers under him, and most of them were orphans left by Chen, these people had followed him since childhood, and they were not polluted by some other bad habits, so they naturally would not participate in any gambling in the army. But now, some of his soldiers have been recruited, and more of them are composed of descended troops, so these bad habits have also been brought with them.

Zhang Chao, who knew the harm of gambling, after reading the results, gave Fa Zheng absolute power, let them be responsible for rectifying military affairs, and other army commanders must also fully cooperate. In short, it is a requirement, no matter what method is used, even if it is radical, but what he needs is a disciplined iron army.

With Zhang Chao's support, the two military advisors began to act drastically after they combined. First, iron rules were formulated, and then a few typical examples were grasped for public processing.

Originally, when the soldiers saw that gambling was going to be banned, they thought it was just thunder and rain, and they thought about it, what else could they do to relieve boredom in the barracks besides playing this? If you have to deprive yourself of this, life will be too boring.

Just when everyone didn't care, the typical ones who were arrested were suddenly dealt with, and a total of 20 of them were arrested, except for three who pleaded guilty and promised not to play in the future, the other 17 self-righteous soldiers who didn't think it was serious were all beheaded in public.

Among these seventeen people, there is even a deputy battalion commander and two company commanders, all of whom are soldiers who have gone through a hundred battles and have made great contributions. I never thought that when I was frustrated and Fa Zheng killed them, they didn't even blink their eyes. Although the commander of the army pleaded for mercy in private, he was also resisted, and he only needed one sentence to ask the emperor to talk about it.

Seventeen people were killed in this way, and the incident had a very serious effect on the whole barracks, and for a time the gambling game in the barracks disappeared, and all the soldiers were worried about whether the next knife would fall on their heads. If it is said that he died because he went to the battlefield to kill the enemy, then how can he be mixed with a martyr, at least the family can be compensated. But if he was killed for violating military discipline, this is really too wrong.

Military discipline has improved under the iron and blood of the two military advisors. After Zhang Chao heard this, he took the opportunity to write a series of military regulations, such as what orders are forbidden, and listen to commands; do not take a stitch from the people; All seizures should be returned to the public, etc., as if the three disciplines and eight points of attention were used in the army of the Celestial Empire.

With the promulgation of specific laws and regulations, and the enforcement of two military advisers who could not rub sand in their eyes, military discipline was improved in a very short time. This is why there is such an orderly side in the current barracks.

In the face of the tall soldiers, strong bodies, and extremely strong individual combat ability, the Celestial Empire army defeated them and strictly enforced military discipline, and these five legions of nearly a million lions can only be said to be a real iron army until today.

At the same time that Zhang Chao was rectifying the military discipline, Ivan, the second prince of the Rus' Kingdom, also arrived outside the city of Adan with 3,000 cavalry, and entered the city overnight, and met General Alexander, the commander of the second army.

As soon as he entered the city, Ivan had a surprised expression on his face, because of his identity and mission, this time Alexander attached great importance to him, and even took all his 60,000 soldiers out of the city to greet him.

This also made Ivan see the whole picture of the Second Army up close, and when he saw that all the soldiers were tired, especially the wounded, and the morale was so low, he couldn't help but panic and said: "Chief, General, is this our Second Army?" ”

"Yes." Alexander also looked tired, and he agreed.

"But, how can they be so embarrassed, and look at most of them are older." When Ivan said this, he had already saved Alexander's face, and now he was not only looking at the older sergeants, but most of them were the old, weak, sick and disabled people who were short in stature.

"Hey, this is the power of the Celestial Empire army." Alexander said helplessly, he was indeed very sad and painful at the moment. I think what the scenery of his second army was at the beginning, but now that the main elite has been wiped out, and all that is left behind are some logistics soldiers, and such soldiers have no victory at all.

Ivan looked at all this in front of him, and finally knew why his father wanted to consider the matter of peace talks, how could such an army talk about winning a war?