Kaesong is located on the southern border, the southernmost part of the entire empire, from east to west, this vast land is an abandoned land, and the policy of bondage is implemented. This time, the Tang Empire and the Roland Empire fought in Nanguang Province, which was Cangwu Province to the west and Nanyue Province to the east.

Nanyue Province is close to the sea and does not border the demons, so it is very prosperous. The Nanyue Lai family is also one of the top families in the empire. Nanguang Province is much more remote and complex, with mostly mountainous and swampy wilderness.

Three hundred miles south of Kaesong is a wilderness swamp called the Dusk Desert. Originally, these three hundred miles were all subordinate to the Tang Empire, and although they were not suitable for living, they were rich in production. There are not only a variety of precious specialty medicinal materials, but also many minerals, the most famous of which is the Mithril Mine.

Mithril is the most important magic material, and it has a strong ability to restrain demons. Therefore, this has always been a place of war between the human race and the demon race.

In the 100 years of peace, the Tang Empire really vigorously exploited the Dusk Desert and established several towns, adding a new county to the empire, Nanhuang County.

After more than a month of fighting with the Roland Empire, the human army was defeated one after another, and the newly added eight cities of Nanhuang County were lost to the last Wushan City, which was only sixty miles away from the city.

In the early stage of the war, the Zhennan Army has been defeated by the demons, and more than half of the establishment has been destroyed, and now there is only one integrated division left to defend Wushan City. The others have retreated to the north of Kaesong, which has been taken over by the Imperial Dispatch Army.

The dispatch army was formed temporarily, and the military department only wrote a conscription order, and then issued a large number of blank appointment documents, and finally, He Jingqing was appointed as the commander-in-chief, Lei Peng of the Lei family served as the deputy commander, and three regular divisions were transferred to the dispatch army as the team. The Lei family is also one of the five lords, with military medals and standing as a lord, and overseeing the military in the south.

Lei Peng is an outstanding second-generation son of the Lei family, who previously served as the commander of the Black Cloud Legion in the south, not to mention his outstanding military achievements, but he is also recognized as a very talented person. His appointment was expected. The Lei family also took out the strength of a regular division and an elite regiment to support him.

Lei Peng and the regular division and elite regiment of the Lei family brought by him were stationed in Kaesong, and the original county government had been requisitioned by him as a front-line command post. The chamber has been converted into a military intelligence room, and a huge map hangs on the front, clearly marking the entire Dusk Desert and every village in Nam Quang Hang Province.

There were only three people sitting in the military intelligence room, a middle-aged man with a small head, a tiger's back, and a blood-colored cloak standing with his hands in his hands, his eyes constantly wandering the map, holding a pencil in his hand, and drawing on the map from time to time.

The other two are also middle-aged, one of them is named Lei Gaozhi, who is the commander of the 102nd Division of the Lei Family's Black Cloud Legion, and the other is Liu Can, who is Lei Peng's military intelligence officer. Both of them have always followed Lei Peng and are absolute confidants.

Just when the three of them were planning and thinking, a young man lifted the curtain and entered, not politely, holding a large porcelain jar, pouring a large jar of water, and looking up and drinking it.

Lei Peng turned around and looked at the young man with a soft gaze: "How is it ahead?"

The young man said: "Second uncle, the military department is just messing around, and what kind of dispatch army is made, it is all miscellaneous and has no combat effectiveness." Although most of the army is used by various families to earn meritorious services for those generations, they are fighting on their own, lacking excellent commanders, and they are still scattered. If the demons come over, I'm afraid we will be as vulnerable as the Zhennan army. ”

The Zhennan Army was originally a regular border army, but it was not a descendant of the Lei family, and it was also crowded out under the banner of the Zhengnan Xingying. As soon as the battle broke out, although the Lei family reacted quickly, they did not expect that the Tangtang Zhennan Army would be so vulnerable.

After learning that the Zhennan Army was defeated, the imperial court did not transfer the elite to participate in the war, but instead made an inexplicable dispatch army, calling on the family to contribute money and efforts, recruiting mercenary adventurers to participate in the war, and the treatment was favorable, and even some large mercenary groups could directly obtain the establishment of a regiment or even a division, which made many mercenary groups rush to it.

He Jingqing, commander-in-chief of the dispatch army, and the three regular divisions given by the military department are still on the march, and now everything here is temporarily handled by Lei Peng.

Lei Peng, as an excellent disciple of Lei Valve, naturally saw the meaning of the imperial court from it. Looking at it now, the imperial court doesn't seem to have the intention of fighting to the death with the demons, but it is unwilling to surrender without a fight. Similarly, the Thunder Valve is not willing to fight to the death, if it fights to the death with the demons, it is estimated that the entire southbound camp will be disabled.

As a representative of the Southern Family, Lei Peng communicates with many interests for this purpose, and Lei Peng knows many of the operations. And that young man is a third-generation disciple of the Lei family, although he is also very good, he has not yet been contaminated with the customs of the world, and he still sees things with enthusiasm.

At that time, Lei Zhu only hoped that the military headquarters could transfer some elites from the southwest, eastern, and Gyeonggi camps to support. Who knew that the imperial court took the opportunity to make trouble and create a deformed creature like a dispatch army, so as to weaken the power of various families.

Every family can see through it, but it can't stop the heavy profits promised by the imperial court, and the wealth is in danger. Some families who have established their families with military merits can still deal with it calmly, and those who have no military merits can't sit still, and they have sent their best disciples and the most elite forces to join the dispatch army.

In the conscription order issued by the army, many rewards were promised, and the most attractive thing was that the construction of first-class merit can be torn apart and sealed. First-class merit is divided into one to five-star, the lowest one-star first-class merit can also be named a township uncle, and the highest five-star first-class merit can be named a county uncle, and the land with a county is a fief.

In the entire Tang Empire, there are hundreds of families, and there are only about 20 that can split the soil and seal them, and only about 10 can have a county fief. All the families believe that this time may be a reshuffle of the family, whose children are excellent, whose strength is elite, this is undoubtedly the best test.

The Song family is a great family with military merits, owning a province, and is second only to the five lords. Among the children of the Song family, it was inconvenient for Song Qingyi to come with a regiment, and other children also came with the army. His most popular rival, Song Qingshan, also brought a reinforced regiment.

It is said that even the Xuanyuan Valve sent people. The Xuanyuan valve is the first family of the empire, with three provincial fiefs, and the military achievements are even more impressive, so to speak, the empire can have today, and the Xuanyuan valve has one-third of the credit.