"Can that be the same?" Ma Bot immediately retorted, "Although the enemy's logistical supply lines are long, they are all within their own sphere of influence along the way, and after entering the Guanzhong Plain, the enemy can still partially fight in battle, while our army can only huddle in a specific area!" My lord, now the entire Guanzhong Plain is no longer up to us! ”

"The Fourth Legion still has 300,000 troops, if you concentrate your forces, who will dare to move you?" Nyala said, "The enemy can feed the war with war, why can't you?" ”

"Can I really fight with war?" Ma Potter asked rhetorically, "The Guanzhong Plain is His Majesty's rear, and for the Fifth Legion, it is an enemy-occupied area, and any plundering in the enemy-occupied area can be regarded as an attack on the enemy, and at most it will be subject to some moral condemnation." And our Fourth War Zone, if we dare to do such a thing of anger in the Guanzhong Plain in our rear, without Your Majesty killing me, hundreds of mouths full of important people in the court can drown me with saliva, I'm afraid this will also include Lord Nyala himself! If Lord Nyala asks me to fight this battle in the Fourth War Zone without dividing troops to support logistics and fighting war, I can also ask His Majesty or the imperial court to send me an amnesty document, I will bear the infamy of the ages, and I will concentrate my troops to sweep the Guanzhong Plain according to the will of my lordship, how about it? ”

"You ......" Nyara's face was red-eared, speechless.

Although he has a home advantage, he can't do whatever he wants, and this is the situation of Mapote. The bottles and cans of the Guanzhong Plain, in the final analysis, belong to Arad and belong to the emperor, in order to drive away the Fifth Legion, all the bottles and cans of the Guanzhong Plain were smashed, and the court must have turned a blind eye at that time, but after the autumn, these yin people of the court specially calculated these tricks of others, and Ma Potter knew very well in his heart. Now he has been derelict in his defense area and has borne the main responsibility of the Fifth Army to enter the Guanzhong Plain, even if it is not his responsibility, the imperial court will say that it is his, if in order to drive the Fifth Army and then carry out a plundering war on the Guanzhong Plain, the post-war merits are not worth it, not to mention, the emperor and the imperial court will take themselves to blame for their own face, and the people will be angry. Ma Potter is not stupid, he can commit and be beheaded, but also let himself be drowned by the mouth of the world, and let the sword-like history pen cut himself with a thousand knives and leave a stench for thousands of years?

The advantage of the home field, to put it bluntly, is to fight in their own rear and have logistical support, but now the Guanzhong Plain is not under the control of its own Arad camp, many cities have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and some even rise up to openly support the Fifth Army. Because the Fifth Army was in an enemy-occupied area, it was entirely possible to impose taxes on the newly occupied cities, which was the practice of war, and the squires, celebrities, and big families of the cities and towns had to try their best to curry favor with invaders like the Fifth Army in order to protect their lives and interests. But the army of the Arad camp is different, the tax has already been paid, if you force the donation, you want to plunder, it may provoke a popular uprising, or cause the big family to defect to the Fifth Army, making the entire Guanzhong Plain panic. This responsibility is not daring to be borne by Marpote himself.

The battle of words with the Chin Cha eventually ended unhappily, however, the matter did not end there.

The next day, not long after the sun rose, he heard a noise outside, and after a while, Ma Potter saw the guards who came in to report, and said excitedly: "Lord Marshal, the villagers from the vicinity have come to work with the army, and have brought a hundred carts of military rations, ten carts of wine, and a hundred carts of various fruits and vegetables, and at the same time a thousand sheep, two hundred pigs, and a hundred cattle, just outside the barracks!" ”

"Lao Jun?" Ma Potter was surprised, now that the Guanzhong Plain is rumoring, where are the villagers who are not afraid of death, dare to come to the labor army, and bring so many supplies? I just arrived yesterday, where did these villagers get the news, even if there is news, where can they prepare so many supplies?

When Ma Potter came to the barracks, he really saw many villagers beating gongs and drums, there were thousands of people, rows of vehicles, and a large herd of livestock, surrounding the east gate of the entire barracks, and the east side of the whole camp was as lively as a morning market.

Seeing Ma Potter surrounded by guards and outside the barracks, several elderly squires immediately stepped forward and saluted: "My lord, we are all villagers from the city near the royal city, my lord led the soldiers of Guanzhong to fight for the country, and the hard work is high. ”

What else can Marpot do? Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling man, he obviously knew that there was something going on, but he could only step forward with a smile on his face and say something like thanking his fathers and fellow villagers, expressing his loyalty to the country and the people, and then assured the villagers that he would lead his soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy and serve the country's court. Then the ancestors were also given some souvenirs of the army, a few swords, a few old military flags, a few medals, a few horns and so on.

Finally, the military and the people had fun, and the representatives of the villagers sent a few people with heads and faces, together with Ma Pote and some high-ranking generals, in the cheerful coaxing of the whole audience, dried the wine bowl in their hands, and the lively labor army meeting was finally over, and thousands of people on the east side of the camp like a morning market left happily, like birds and beasts.

The soldiers did not have as many ideas as Mapote, and immediately arranged for people to kill pigs, slaughter sheep and cattle, and all morning, the whole army was filled with a jubilant atmosphere, and had long forgotten that they were now in a situation surrounded by enemies on three sides, and that there was a battlefield with no tomorrow today.

"Lord Marshal, where is this village labor army?" Nyala asked in a strange voice.

"I don't know, they said that they are all villagers from nearby cities, and I have no way to verify it!" Ma Potter smiled, "Isn't it an arrangement made by Lord Qincha in advance?" Or did the bigwigs in the royal city know about the arrival of my Fourth War Zone Qinwang army, and specially arranged such a scene to welcome them? ”

"Nearby villagers?" Nyala said with a smile, "The surrounding area of the city of Crodina has been fortified, the enemy army has arrived, the residents outside the city have moved to the city, and the surrounding villagers have long fled from the wind. ”

"Chincha-sama has something to say!" Mapote was unmoved, he knew that this must be the ghost of the Fifth Legion, and of course Nyala knew that he didn't need to explain anything, he was innocent, and Nyala had to doubt himself, and it was useless for him to explain.

Nyala said angrily: "Hmph, I just want to remind adults to pay attention to their own position, don't do something outside of eating!" After saying that, he threw up his sleeves and left......

Marpot held back his anger and didn't let it out. During this time, he was too much of a bag, and the Fifth Legion made one move after another, but he could only accept it completely passively, completely unaware of what the other party was going to do next, how to deal with it, and it seemed that his every move was under the control of the enemy. If he hadn't let himself sit on pins and needles in the army, he might as well take the order completely, but it was he who gave the gift to himself, but it was obviously for the chincha to see! It's not a conspiracy, it's a conspiracy, giving gifts to yourself with great fanfare, currying favor with yourself with great fanfare, once or twice can be tolerated, but a few times three times like this spoof, Ma Potter himself is about to go crazy!

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The city of Croatia has a population of nearly 3 million, and if you add the inhabitants of the city, this number will be doubled, and the area of the city is nearly 60 square kilometers. The original city of Crodina had two gates on each of the four walls of the southeast, northwest and northwest, and later due to the expansion of the city to the east, the city wall was extended, and a new gate was added in the northeast corner of the city, and there were a total of nine gates in the entire city of Crodinah. The Imperial Guards were responsible for guarding the gates, and there were about 20,000 Janissaries guarding the nine gates of the royal city in peacetime, and most of the Praetorian Guards were stationed in the barracks in the southeast city for training and to prevent them from entering the city and disturbing the people, so that the Praetorian Guards would gather in the city in wartime. The Royal Praetorian Guard does not belong to any war zone, but is an army of its own, and these Praetorian Guard soldiers are all good swordsmen from a hundred miles to a thousand miles, and their combat effectiveness is quite good. The leader of the Praetorian Guard is not called a marshal or a general, but a commander of the Nine Gates, whose status is equivalent to that of the marshals of various theaters, but he is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, with a knighthood, and the absolute governor of Arad, and his actual status is even more terrifying.

Now Ma Porte's fourth war zone of 100,000 horses is stationed in the north of the city, which is equivalent to his own military camp with three gates that can be connected to the city, but generally speaking, King Qin's army is not allowed to enter the royal city, unless the Admiral of the Nine Gates himself is willing to gather troops for deployment, such as the scattered local troops who came to King Qin around the city, generally thousands of people, tens of thousands, if these people are placed outside the city, they will immediately become the rations of the tiger and wolf army outside the city. These armies are small in number, and even if they enter the city, they can be completely controlled and will not cause much chaos, but the size of a 100,000-strong army like Ma Potter, if there is a dissenting intention, entering the royal city will be a catastrophe.

The army of 100,000 Qin Wang was stationed in the north of the city, and it was impossible for the imperial court not to make any deployments. In the afternoon, the middle gate of the north of the city opened, the salute sounded, and a line of more than 100 people, dressed in colorful costumes and queues*, came out of the city, and marched straight to the barracks of the fourth war zone.

Wang Cheng finally sent someone to meet him, and Ma Potter did not dare to slack off, and immediately asked the generals and staff officers around him to line up to greet him. However, what he didn't expect was that it was the crown prince Nicholas and his honor guard who went out of the city to make condolences and military deployments to the Fourth Legion.

Nicholas was over forty years old, and although he was the third son of Arad, he was the son-in-law, so he became the legal heir of Arad as a matter of course. After Arad gained power, Nicholas became the crown prince, and after Arad entered the throne, he naturally became the crown prince. When he was a teenager, he began to dabble in government affairs and the military, and he has always been decent, whether in the army or in the DPRK, his reputation is quite high, and it can be said that he is a figure above 10,000 people under one person, but he has been in a high position for a long time, and he always looks at people with his nose and is mean and unkind, so although everyone is respectful to him on the surface, but in fact he is respectful and far away, and no one wants to provoke this uncertain trouble.

The crown prince personally went to the army to offer condolences, which naturally showed the importance that the imperial court attached to King Qin who came to the fourth war zone of Ma Porte. Ma Potter and others knelt down to greet him hundreds of meters outside the barracks gate, after a lively greeting, Ma Porte and others welcomed Prince Nicholas and his party into the barracks, and when they arrived at the battle flag of the commander's tent, Nicholas read out the condolence edict of His Majesty Emperor Arad as usual, and the edict said of course some nonsense without nutrition, that is, to commend a little, to motivate, to encourage, to put forward some expectations, to make some promises and other words, although many people may not be able to understand the words and phrases used in the edict, Many of the soldiers present seemed excited, and Ma Pote and the others had to put on a grateful appearance and solemnly promise to die with all their might, share their worries for His Majesty the Emperor, serve the country on the battlefield, and so on!

Later, the crown prince of Nicholas presented Ma Potter with a delicate jade ruyi, ten horses of silk for the palace, some jade and a few boxes of gold coins to reward him, Ma Potter shouted long live, thank the lord Long, etc., and then ordered someone to accept it all.

"Marshal Marbot, my father was supposed to personally drive to the labor army, but he was worried about the current situation, his heart was sick, and it was inconvenient to travel, so he specially appointed the king to do it for him!" Nicholas said earnestly, "These stubborn traitors dare to defy the face of heaven, offend the power of heaven, invade our Guanzhong Plain, and come to the city, it is really arrogant! However, as long as we strictly implement Your Majesty's strategic intentions, and all ministries cooperate sincerely and unite as one, we will definitely be able to drive these rebels out of the customs and even eliminate them. However, if someone slacks off the battle, or does not obey the order, resulting in the delay of the fighter, sabotaging His Majesty's counteroffensive plan, or even repairing the plank road in the dark, then don't blame this king for cutting first and then playing! ”

Ma Potter sweated profusely and said tremblingly: "Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince, we will definitely fight to kill the enemy, enter the Guangfu Guanzhong Plain as soon as possible, and eliminate the rebellion as soon as possible!" ”

Prince Nicholas did not stay long in the barracks, but after a symbolic inspection of the armaments in the barracks, he spoke with Chinchanyara and returned to the city before the sun set.

In his opinion, Nicholas did not seem to have come to offer condolences at all, but to show off his might, thinking that as his crown prince, he would definitely ascend the throne in the future, and everyone would invest resources in him, but Mapot was very disdainful. This kind of superficial condolences with the army can't solve any practical problems at all, and the promises made are like farts, with great moisture, no one will take it seriously, it is better to directly go to some dry goods and help their army solve some equipment and material problems.

When Nicholas left, he didn't seem so happy, especially when he looked at Mapote's eyes a little strangely, probably because Nyala had said something to Nicholas. This made Ma Potter very worried, his mouth was on Nyala, he couldn't stop this messenger from saying something to Nicholas, but he believed that Nyala definitely didn't say anything good, and it was even very likely that he would stumble on himself, these tricks were commonly used by the court politicians and dignitaries, and even used this kind of yin people's whistleblowing method to please his boss, thinking that this was a great achievement, Ma Potter was extremely disdainful.

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