"The general has just sent a messenger to send an order, continue to stay here for half a month, wait for the officials sent by the general's office to successfully complete the handover, and then we will continue to march forward, and the army of the imperial court will be outside Dongze City."

"And what the five of you have to do during this time, in addition to taking turns to send one person every day to lead the soldiers to complete the task of patrolling the city, the other four will continue to train in the deserted mansion not far from the county office."

The next day, Lu Xiu, who had just completed the army inspection, stood on the platform of the randomly assembled point generals and told the five hundred generals below, including Li Yinsu, the tasks for the next period of time.

Regarding the order issued by Lu Xiu, none of the five hundred people in the audience had any opinions, but about how to train and the specific recruitment matters in the future, one of the hundred generals sent out an inquiry.

"General Lu, our siege brothers have suffered a lot of losses this time, do you have to prepare to recruit troops in addition to training in the next half month?"

Lu Xiu looked at the hundred generals in the audience who were also the first to ask last time, nodded seriously and said:

"I told you to sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime."

"Of the 500 brothers in our army who died in this siege, a total of 63 people died, 52 people who were seriously injured and could not go to the battlefield, and even the 20 personal guards around me lost five this time, and now there are only 400 brothers left in the army, including my personal guards."

"It's not impossible for the remaining hundred or so brothers to rely on this county town to make up for it, after all, there is still a lack of training, so this time General Zhang can send us a hundred elite soldiers separated from his army from the rear again, and the rest of us will recruit some reliable and honest people from this county town to train for half a month, so as not to delay the combat strength of our army."

Hearing Lu Xiu's words, the hundred generals named Hu Ze couldn't help but nod heavily, for him who was brave in this siege battle, so he lost quite a lot of his subordinates, it was simply good to be able to directly assign a part of the elite soldiers who had already been trained, instead of the newly recruited recruits.

In this way, he is sure that he will continue to lead his soldiers to complete one defeat task after another in the next battle, so as to accumulate enough merits to promote the five hundred people, Hu Ze, who wants to make meritorious achievements, never cares about how many soldiers are killed or injured in battle, he only cares about how much credit he can get and whether he has enough soldiers to make up if the loss is too great.

Half a month later, after half a month of rest and pause, Lu Xiu, who had received a lot of materials and money from the county treasury and the homes of some wealthy families who had been raided, finally came to the day of the expedition again.

As early as twelve days ago, another 500 members of the red-robed rebel army advocated that Erliu had only been in the city for three days after a simple repair, and chose to go on the expedition again, this time because the resistance of breaking the dust was not him, so even if he had made a lot of attrition blows to He Gen, the defender of Wuqi County, in the early stage, but the benefits he obtained were much less than those of Lu Xiu.

Although Zhang Erliu, who had quite complicated emotions in his heart, recognized Lu Xiu's strength, he also had a problem with him in his heart after all, so it was just a short three-day repair time, which was worthy of Zhang Erliu, who had collected a group of ordinary soldiers from Wuqi County to supplement the battlefield of Dongze City.

Lu Xiu bid farewell to Chen Ji, the new county commander of Wuqi County sent by the general, and led his five hundred soldiers to step out of the city in unison.

Looking at the soldiers under Lu Xiu in the distance, whether they were veterans or recruits, they were all in a neat formation between the actions, without any scattered formation, and Chen Ji, the new county commander of Wuqi County looking at the city wall, couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Zhang, it seems that you are really not unjust at all when you lose this time, those veterans are just that, they are all new recruits who have just been recruited into the army, and the momentum of their actions is full of elite atmosphere."

"Not only are the movements neat, the formation is not dispersed, and the momentum that has vaguely taken shape has even begun to fight the army, even if the two of us have a good relationship, how can such a rare genius general in the army be able to offend the two of us at will."

"That's it, I'll fix a book later, I hope you can let go of this mustard, old friend, otherwise the friendship between the two of us will only fade."

As for the county magistrate Chen in the rear, who had been close to him for a while, Lu Xiu naturally didn't know what he was thinking.

Although he can be regarded as having a high IQ and EQ, in front of Chen Ji, an old fritter in the officialdom who was an old official in the imperial court before, Lu Xiu did not find out about his friendship with Zhang Erliu even though he had been dealing with him every day for this period of time, and he didn't expect that Zhang Erliu, who he thought was just a grudge, had actually asked the county magistrate to try to find some trouble for himself, in a vain attempt to slow down his time to go north.

A few days later, seeing that they were about to arrive at the battlefield of Dongze City, the soldiers lined up in a formation and stretched all the way to the north.

Dongze City, as a large-scale battlefield where the Red Robe Rebel Army's North Road Army and the Imperial Army fought for nearly two months, even if the Red Robe Rebel Army continuously had the upper hand, it was quite risky.

Although the imperial army is not as many as the red-robed rebels, there are only more than 7,000 people, but these more than 7,000 people are not only elite, but also Lu Dan, one of the famous generals of the imperial court, is in it, so that Zhang Yurong, the general of the red-robed rebel army, was injured by him some time ago and had to return to the rear to recuperate.

Although Fang Hongli, the general of the red-robed rebel army who had just taken over the army, also had the innate martial artist-level strength of the internal organ realm, he was slightly inferior to Zhang Yurong in terms of army command, so the imperial court camp that had a faint tendency to break through in Zhang Yurong's hands was still holding on to it after more than a month, and the battlefield was showing an anxious posture.

It is precisely because of this that at this time, it was difficult to decide whether to change the general again and change Zhang Yurong to the battlefield with injuries.

In such an embarrassing period, Lu Xiu, as a junior in the army who was favored by Zhang Yurong, could not deliberately delay the speed of advancing to the battlefield of Dongze City, but how to fight, whether to attack hard or passively defend all tested Lu Xiu's ability to adapt to changes.

In this regard, Lu Xiu did not think too much about it, and directly sent a letter to General Zhang Yurong, who was still recuperating in the rear, with a posture of completely standing against Zhang Yurong, asking him about his specific actions after going to the battlefield.

The letter that Lu Xiu is watching now is a reply from General Zhang Yurong in the rear, and it is precisely because of Zhang Yurong's attitude on this letter that Lu Xiu's brows are tightened and he is a little hesitant.

"Whatever you want?"

"What does this mean, could it be that the relationship between General Hongli and him above the battlefield ahead is not as antagonistic as everyone says, or is it that things will change beyond my imagination next."

Lu Xiu pressed his eyebrows with a little headache, and no longer thought about these messy things, since Zhang Yurong said it casually, then as he was obviously branded by the Zhang family, there was no need to think about it anymore, everything would be said on the battlefield.

"Everyone, speed up!"

Lu Xiu, who put down his thoughts, gently waved the horsewhip in his hand, and led the five hundred or so soldiers under him to start accelerating.