Lorraine is a small county on the edge of the Lorraine Mountains, long and narrow, like a centipede. In addition to the city of Lorraine, there are six smaller towns, one of which is deep in the Lorraine Mountains.

The newly formed first army marched from Kaesong to Lorraine City, it only took three days, although it was not a rapid march, it also marched more than 200 miles a day, and the army was still neat, which made Su Mu very satisfied, and it was not a group of rabble.

As soon as we entered the city of Lorraine, all the heads and minds sat together. Each regiment, and even each battalion, came from a different family and had its own interests. Although there is an establishment, these sons and brothers do not take this establishment seriously. As long as the interests are damaged, the regiment commander may cut the brigade commander with one sword. Therefore, what is it, spread out, everyone earns money, and this can gather people's hearts.

Song Qingshan had a reinforced regiment and two middle nobles to form a temporary brigade and was sent to guard Qingfeng City under Lorraine County.

Although Qingfeng City is only a very small city, the pure earth rammed city wall is no more than two heads high, and there are less than 10,000 households in the city, and there is only one street. It may be too closed here, and it seems that it has not been too affected by the war, and the common people still eat and drink as usual.

As soon as Song Qingshan arrived, he immediately announced military management, fully took over all the affairs of Qingfeng City, and temporarily organized 300 garrisons and more than 100 ordinary catchers into a battalion and incorporated them into its command. At the same time, 500 young men were also recruited into the army, and 2,000 young men were used as auxiliaries, and they were all complained about, but they were all under Song Qingshan's high pressure.

In just two days, the walls of Qingfeng City were completely renewed, and many fortifications were built, and his military talent was fully manifested at this time. And he is also full of ambition, he does not need to defend this small city, he only needs to fight a good battle, or save his strength, as long as he performs better than other friendly troops, he can be smoothly promoted from colonel to major general and brigade commander. In this way, he can win this family competition and become the future head of the dignified Song family.

Compared with Song Qingshan's ambition, Song Qingyi is more pitiful, he only has the strength of a regiment, and he has not yet pulled a right-hand man, so it is impossible to defend a city.

The new 1st Army has a total of 4 divisions and 16 brigades, Su Mu left the new 1st Division to stay in Lorraine City, and the new 4th Division took Black Cliff City, a small city in the Lorraine Mountains, as the center to build a second line of defense. The remaining two divisions and eight brigades were assigned to guard the remaining five cities, and it was not easy to divide the eight brigades into five cities. But Su Mu had a way to take out some important town passes.

Song Qingyi had the concept of preferring to be a chicken head rather than a phoenix tail, so he chose the place of Qingni Town as a place to guard. When more than 1,000 people came to Qingni Town, he regretted it.

From the map, the town of Qingni is located on the edge of a post road in the Lorraine Mountains, surrounded by a Qingni River, backed by the Lorraine Mountains, and in front of a gentle valley. Although Qingni Town is high and looks down, the town does not even have walls, only rows of houses built with stone, mud and thatch.

As soon as you arrive in town, call the mayor. The mayor of the town is a sixty-year-old man, with some knowledge and courage, but the key is stubbornness. He had to ask Song Qingyi to show the administrative order of the county guard, otherwise he would not be allowed to enter the town.

Song Qingyi directly called Zhong Wanzhong and asked him to deal with it, on the condition that he could not be killed or disabled.

Zhong Wanzhong grinned, hugged the old mayor to talk about life, and Zhong Wanzhong came back a quarter of an hour later, and everything was done. Song Qingyi didn't ask, his new 16th Regiment officially took over Qingni Town, and sent people to publicize, saying that there would be a big war soon, mobilizing the masses to participate, and at the same time, also let those old and weak who should hide in the mountains quickly hide.

The newly formed 1st Army is stepping up time to build fortifications and actively prepare for war in various places, and the victory or defeat of the war here is directly related to the interests of the family behind them. For these reasons, the whole army is still in high spirits, but this kind of fighting spirit can only fight with the wind, and once it loses the wind, I am afraid that the army will be defeated immediately.

And the temporary formation of the first army left behind in Kaesong, the remnants of the original Zhennan Army, four days after the new formation of the first army was launched, officially fought with the demons. The new pre-war commander-in-chief, Cove Bauer, with an army of 100,000 men, besieged Kaesong.

Ye Su led the remnants of the Zhennan Army of more than 30,000 people, taking Kaesong as a flesh-and-blood battlefield, fighting to the death and not retreating. The battle was extremely fierce, people died every minute, day and night, and the corpses under the city walls were all piled up two meters high.

Three days later, all the fortresses outside the city were destroyed, and none of the 3,000 soldiers who defended the city survived. Under the persuasion of many subordinates, Ye Su still fought to the death.

Kaesong held out for another four days, and the blood flowed like a river. The commander of the provisional first army was martyred, and after Ye Su was cut off an arm, he was knocked unconscious by his subordinates, and fled out of the city on his back, and the city was declared broken.

The provisional army held the city for seven days, destroying more than 40,000 enemies, and of its 30,000 troops, only 2,3000 were able to escape, and the rest either died or surrendered. A day later, he received the command of the demon army, Cove Bauer, slaughtered 3,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 people who remained in Kaesong.

This war was fought very tenaciously, far beyond the expectations of the demons, but the vast majority of the 30,000 people who died were servant orc troops, and only two or three thousand people died in the real demon elite.

The demon army released military discipline again, and these wild soldiers burned and looted everywhere, and the surrounding land became a human Shura land, and the people who did not flee were almost killed, and there was not one out of ten.

When Song Qingyi and Qingyu looked at this military report, they crushed their fists, and they poured three cups of wine in the direction of Kaicheng, one to sacrifice the bravery of the remnants of the Zhennan Army, the second to sacrifice the people who died in vain, and the third to sacrifice the heroic spirits who did not disperse.

Song Qingyi said: "The thousand-year-old empire, I thought that Emperor Haotian was the emperor of Zhongxing. The country is thriving, but a battle has broken this falsehood. We're still weak, and we're not up to the demons. From this, we can see how great Pope John I fought for a hundred years of peace for mankind. ”

Qing Yu let out a long sigh and looked up at the moon, he also remembered the old man, the old man who was exceptionally good to him.

It's a pity that the old man is gone.

"The war situation is so corrupt that my generation should rise up. Qing Yu patted Song Qingyi's shoulder and said.

Song Qingyi said: "This Qingni Town is either the place where I bury my bones, or the place where I am longxing. I will definitely defend Qingni Town and not let a single citizen fall into the clutches of the devil. ”

This is Song Qingyi's belief, and it is also the goal of the new 16th Regiment.