Chapter 42: The Old General's Entrustment

"General Hu is good. Huo Yan greeted with a grin.

"Better than you!" When did General Huo learn to stab in the back? ”

"General Hu is angry, you and I are hostile, either you die or I live, is there any difference between stabbing in front of you and stabbing in the back?" Huo Yan had a scowling expression, "The Qingrui royal family is unkind, tyrannical at home, and conquest abroad, sooner or later it will be defeated, General Hu is really a pearl and a secret investment! It's better to vote for me Xinlan, and the general and your Hu family will be treated better." ”

"You don't fart, we'll talk about it later. "Hu Qinshuo has a fiery temper.

The two main generals fought, and the side generals next to them naturally couldn't watch the excitement, and they also fought against each other one by one, Chu Lingyu was standing not far from Huo Yan, observing the entire battle situation.

Xinlan's soldiers rushed forward quickly, chasing Qingrui's soldiers, their medicinal properties of cleansing the intestines were not dispersed, and they couldn't go fast, and they caught up after a while, and it was a completely one-sided battle. Because of the general's orders, they tried to arrest people as much as possible without killing people, they tied up Qingrui's soldiers, and guarded them one by one, and the battle was a complete victory.

General Hu saw that the soldiers were captured, and attacked like crazy, forcing Huo Yan to retreat again and again, in terms of advanced combat power, Qingrui had an advantage, and the number and cultivation were a little higher, but with the first-level mortal soldiers provided by Chu Lingyu, this gap was leveled, and Xinlan had the upper hand for a while.

"General Hu, if you can't win today, it's better to stop early!" Huo Yan laughed, and finally raised his eyebrows today.

"Dream, even if I am defeated, I will kill you! Mount Tai is overwhelming!" Hu Qinshuo issued his own stunt.

"General Huo dodge!" Chu Lingyu shouted, Huo Yan subconsciously dodged quickly, at this time Chu Lingyu rushed up, raised his hand lightly, and a blast Yuan Dan flew towards Hu Qinshuo, and in an instant, there was a bang, and the dust was flying.

Hu Qinshuo couldn't dodge and was seriously injured for a while. As soon as Qingrui's generals saw that the main general was seriously injured, they no longer loved to fight, and dragged the seriously injured Hu Qinshuo to flee for his life.

"Poor Kou Mo chase," General Huo instructed, "light the torches and clean up the battlefield." A series of orders were then issued: The first and second battalions of the Guards Battalion led 10,000 soldiers and generals to count the prisoners and collect the equipment; the third and fourth battalions with 20,000 soldiers spread a net line and advanced 50 miles to camp and set up camp carefully; the fifth battalion led 20,000 soldiers to follow General Chu and wait for his dispatch! The other tens of thousands of horses and horses, under the leadership of their own generals, immediately rested. After daybreak, the soldiers of the 1st to 4th battalions will rest.

"Order!" The morale of the soldiers is high, and they have been in close contact with Qingrui for more than two months, and the sullenness in their hearts has finally come out this time, and they will be able to go home soon.

"Assemble the captains!" Chu Lingyu ordered.

"You people are divided into five teams, each with 4,000 soldiers, following behind the third and fourth battalions, occupying the highland hills, valley mouths and waterways on the fifty-mile defense line, taking materials from the nearest ones, building fortifications as quickly as possible, giving you half a month, after the fortifications are repaired, the captains will return to the team, and the fortifications will be handed over to the defenders to be responsible, do you understand?"

"Understood!" Sixty or seventy members of the team immediately divided into teams, pointed out the soldiers and horses that followed them, and went their separate ways.

"General Chu, how about we go back to the account?"

"General Huo, please!"

"General Chu has made a lot of contributions to this victory! If it weren't for your weapons, we would have suffered heavy losses in the competition with Qingrui's high-level combat power. ”

"Where, where, if General Huo's command is determined, all the soldiers will use their lives, this is the key to victory. ”

"Qingrui suffered a big loss this time, and more than 30,000 people were captured, and they probably won't give up

, Soon a counterattack will be organized, and they will have precautions, and the method of poisoning will not necessarily be useful at that time. How should we deal with it when the time comes? General Chu has a high opinion. ”

"It would have been easier to do it in winter, but now it's summer, so it's not easy to do that. Chu Lingyu also fell into deep thought.

The defense line of the wasteland still needs to be repaired, this is the last line of defense, and the best way is to intercept Qingrui within the hilly defense line.

"General Huo, there are too many prisoners, and once the effect of the medicine expires in a few days, I am worried that they will be in trouble. It is better to send some people and escort the prisoners to the rear. ”

"I'm also worried about this, these soldiers, who have been fighting with Hu Qinshuo all the year round, have deep feelings. Let's let it go, turn around and deal with us, but if you kill it, you will hurt the heavens, and you have to pay for the rice and grain if you stay, what do you say?"

"Hehehe, I said, let Your Majesty take care of it, and ask him to sow more grain and grass for us. ”

"But what to do now, there are more than 30,000 people, and our food is only enough to eat for half a month. ”

"We stole some Qingrui's grain, and used it to feed the prisoners, anyway, we used Qinggusan, they won't have the strength for more than ten days, and they don't eat much, enough to disperse them and transport them to several nearby cities to supervise, give them preferential treatment, I will let the guards of the captain's battalion reason with them." General Huo rest assured that with the shrewdness of His Majesty the King, he would not compensate them for raising them for a month or two. ”

In the past two days, Chu Lingyu inspected all kinds of fortifications of the defense line at any time, rolling wood and stones, trenches and earth forts, and built them one by one, and all the soldiers participated in the construction of the fortifications. The soldiers of the lieutenant battalion and the soldiers of the defense also merged a lot, and these young people followed the veterans to laugh and curse loudly, fight and make trouble, and became more and more presumptuous.

"I look at these guys, and they're going to be riffraff very quickly. Chu Lingyu said with a smile.

"I think these little guys are very good, they don't forget to cultivate even after the task is so heavy every day, but they really work hard, how good it would be if my children and grandchildren were so sensible!" General Huo is nearly seventy years old, and he is a senior military marshal. The Huo family used to be a retainer of the Lan family, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China for a hundred years, it has been a new nobleman supported by the royal family, and a hereditary loyal and brave marquis. Since his father's generation, there are no outstanding descendants in these generations in the family, only General Huo Lao can fight well and be valued by the royal family, and his two sons are barely a deputy general on the Yuli border, if there is no outstanding general, he will be demoted to a viscount after a hundred years.

The development of a family must have its own unique spirit and strengths, and strong force as a guarantee, if the Huo family says that the spirit of inheritance, it is loyalty, loyalty to the Lan family. General Huo must have delayed his cultivation in the past ten years of fighting in the south and the north, otherwise he would have broken through the Martial Sect a long time ago.

Wu Zong is a high-level combat force, and generally does not appear on the battlefield, the Huo family is now in a green and yellow situation, if Huo Yan breaks through, the army led by the Huo family will be handed over to others to manage, I don't know if others can treat these soldiers well and trust them, will they make senseless sacrifices.

Lan Zhenting made it clear that he did not want to take back the Huo family's military power, so as not to make the world think that the royal family crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and still hoped that the Huo family would have their own suitable descendants to lead the Huo family's army.

"General, you are young and promising, I have a reluctant request, and I ask you to agree. ”

"General Huo, please speak. ”

"I have a grandson, named Huo Mingxin, who has a firm heart and is well-read, and now he is in his twenties, but his cultivation is very slow, and he is only cultivating in the middle of the martial arts now, I want him to train with your lieutenant battalion, hoping to make some progress. ”

"This ......" Chu Lingyu hesitated a little.

"General Chu rest assured, he will not let him occupy the cultivation of the captain's camp

Resources, what do we Huo family need, double it!" Looking at the old general's eyes full of expectations, Chu Lingyu really couldn't bear to refuse.

"Since General Huo is relieved, I will accept him, after the war here, we will strive to take the whole team out for training, it is very hard, and there will be dangers......"

"It's okay to do this, Xin'er can bear the hardships. ”

"Then when I go back, let him go to the captain's camp to find me, and I want to find a gentleman to teach this group of savages!"

"What? To be a gentleman in the lieutenant's battalion?

"Since Young Master Mingxin is very knowledgeable, it is just the right person to make the best use of his talents, so that those wild boys under my command can have a long experience. As for how to arrange his Dou Qi cultivation, I still need to see him himself before I can do it. As for the cultivation resources, let's just get rid of them. Old General Huo calls me Ling Yu in private, my grandfather is about the same age as you. ”

"Then I won't be polite to you, Ling Yu, thank you. ”

The captives were escorted to several nearby cities and put in their guard, and the military academies of the lieutenant's battalion began to launch a propaganda offensive: every day they talked about the new blue country to recuperate and love the people like children, and criticized Qingrui for being reckless and unjust, and starting a war was an unjust act. Talking every day, talking every day, these people slowly go from rejection to acceptance. Yes, ordinary people in Qingrui live in hardship, and ordinary soldiers are often oppressed by their superiors and their salaries are deducted. Fortunately, the Hu family army where he is located will not be like this, and he can still have some money left to supplement his family.

If the Qingrui royal family also uses its strength to govern its own country, and does not go east and west, will it be a family reunion? Just like this time, it has to attack the new blue country, these years of Qingrui wars, which family has not died on the battlefield of young people, thinking about it, many people began to be dissatisfied with the Qingrui royal family.

They are homesick, they want no more wars, they want to live a peaceful life. Even if you eat one less meal a day, you are willing to stay by your family.

"You don't have to worry, our country will not mistreat the prisoners, and after the war is over, presumably your king will negotiate with us, and as long as the negotiations are good, he will let you go home. ”

In Qingrui, General Hu Qinshuo was thinking behind closed doors, and his younger brother Hu Qincheng led 100,000 soldiers and horses again, and rushed back with great momentum. Compared with his brother, Hu Qincheng is more than brave and Tao is not enough, and it is definitely not appropriate to have a hard encounter with him, General Huo commanded the army, taking advantage of the defense that had been built in a dangerous place, and the new blue soldiers waited for work, threw stones at the Qingrui army, put rolling wood, poured oil and ignited fire, and Hu Qincheng suffered a lot of losses as soon as he saw his face, and he was angry like thunder. After charging down several times, he didn't take advantage of it, but lost his troops and lost his generals, so the war was stalemate again, but this time it was Qingrui who was depressed.

At this time, Chu Lingyu used the primary intelligence system that had just been established in Qingrui, mainly using rumors in the market, people's livelihood affairs, etc., to spread the news that the Qingrui royal family suppressed the heroes of the family, a certain prince killed the people's daughters, and was inconsiderate to the people due to heavy taxes.

In this way, it fought for more than a month, with the continuous supply of rear resources and the support of the people, Xinlan's defense became stronger and stronger, Qingrui saw that there was no hope of victory, and there were many dissatisfied voices in the country, so he sent envoys to ask for peace talks with Xinlan.

This is the first time to win on the frontal battlefield, Lan Zhenting is in a very happy mood, in the past, they have exhausted their financial resources, and both sides can't stand it until they can't stand it, Qingrui always has to get some benefits before he strikes, and the envoy sent this time is the eldest prince Qingsheng, still with conditions, because they know that Xinlan doesn't want to fight the most.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about it, how should we reply to the Qingrui envoy?"

(End of chapter)