In the quiet Youyi Mountain, there was silence, only the sound of the whip colliding with the flesh, over and over again, not crisp, as if a person had stepped on the mud and made a popping sound.

It's a hard feeling, at least that's what Chock thinks, and every time he drops the whip, his heart twitches unconsciously.

Only Niu Chao casually observed the fall of the whip, thinking about what means to add next time, so that people would not pass out so quickly, and could the whipping punishment after fainting still be called a punishment.

Finally, the grueling flogging ended. Lexi looked at her sister who was lying on the ground, twitching a few times from time to time, and her face was as pale as a piece of paper.

Two servant women carried Le Yu down and handed her over to the army doctor for treatment.

Soon, the two paralyzed officers were pressed to the ground, and each of them was given a hundred lashes. The screams stopped abruptly after a few times, and when the two were finally carried away, there was no intact place on their bodies.

The long execution was finally over, and many people breathed a sigh of relief, the process was so painful that people felt as if the sun was asleep today, and it would always hang in the sky and refuse to set.

Wu Gen glanced at the crowd, and everywhere his eyes went, everyone lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at them.

Wu Yan didn't want to say anything, he said that he hadn't beaten once a hundred times, which was impressive. Just as he was about to leave with Baoxiang and the others, Le Xi strode in front of Wu Gan, "My lord, today's execution is not over yet."

Wu Yan was slightly stunned and sighed, "It's okay for the main culprit to be punished."

"No, my lord, the real culprit is me, it is my lax discipline on weekdays, conniving at my subordinates, and not being able to pull my subordinates down, which caused today's situation, and I am the one who should be punished." Lexi knelt down on one knee and said loudly with a bloody whip in both hands.

"No need, that's enough." Wu Yan said in a low voice, not looking at the man at his feet.

"My lord, please allow the villain to punish himself." Lexi still stubbornly raised the whip in his hand.

After a moment of silence, Wu Yan turned around, "Thirty." Seeing what Le Xi wanted to say, "After the fight, lead the troops well the next day, and you are not allowed to lie on the bed and pretend to be dead."

Le Xi nodded solemnly, exposed his upper body, and raised the whip in his hand to hit his body. The whip sounded again, but the atmosphere was even more somber than just now, and Tudan and the officers were silent as they looked at Lexi, who was bleeding from his body and gritting his teeth and trying his best to support him.

There was a crackling sound, and everyone's bodies were chilled, and they kept silently reciting military discipline in their hearts. Because they know that the next time they or their subordinates make a mistake, they may be the one who kneels there.

Thirty lashes were over, and Lexi put his hands on the ground panting, "Thank you for your leniency."

Wu Gen didn't say a word, turned around and brushed his sleeves away.

When he returned to the house, Wu Jian immediately asked Baoxiang to be fully responsible for military discipline. For such a rapidly growing army, military discipline is the pillar wall, and if it is loosened slightly, the whole team will collapse.

After experiencing this turmoil, the atmosphere of the dreadnought army has improved a lot, and it finally has some taste of righteousness.

Winter goes to spring, the warm spring breeze blows on the earth, everything gradually recovers, bees and butterflies fly on the earth, stirring thousands of purples and thousands of reds.

From Yishan, after a winter of military training, everything is thriving. Although the dreadnought army is still a thousand people, it has a faint atmosphere of a strong army. But in this tranquility, Wu Gen could always feel some uneasiness.

The Lu family frequently adjusted their soldiers and horses, and Lu Qing also cared a lot about the formation of the Dreadnought Army, and he came more often.

On this day, Wu Gen was playing a game of pitching pots with a group of soldiers in the camp. Different from the literati play, each person has a wooden stick more than a foot long in his hand, which must be accurately thrown into a stone urn of 200 paces. Next to the stone urn, the wooden sticks were scattered all over the place, and only one or two wooden sticks fell into the urn accurately.

From time to time, the roar and sighs of the soldiers rang out in the mountains, lamenting the pitchers' achievements and teasing the robes who had sneaked over a few steps to get a good result.

Unlike Xue Xin, in addition to training, Zhang Wuyang usually organizes soldiers to play some confrontational games to encourage the morale of the soldiers and harmonize the relationship between soldiers and soldiers.

Wu Gen lay on the chair without any image, rushing to one

A soldier who threw a stick into a stone urn threw out a wine bag. Everyone has long been accustomed to the habits of this thousand-household adult, and likes to let people call him the owner of the village, as long as it is not training or fighting, you can joke with you.

Zhuo Ke hurriedly came from a distance, looking at Wu Gan, who was looking up and laughing, and stopped talking.

Wu Yan threw out all the wine bags beside him, got up and walked to Zhuo Ke's side, and his smile gradually faded, "But what's the matter?"

Zhuo Ke took out a note from his sleeve and walked side by side with Wu Gan, "Ye Senjun has sent news from Maojing City that the Lu family may have to take action against some affiliated families, and the most likely one at the moment is the Meng family. He asked us to see if we could take the opportunity to eat this home."

Wu Yan looked at the note carefully, frowned and pondered for a moment, "Let's go, go to the house to discuss matters, and call Captain Shangbao and them."

Soon, Baoxiang, Zhang Wuyang, Tudan, Le Xi and others all gathered in Wu Gan's house, which also doubled as a meeting hall for the Yishan Fearless Army.

After circulating the note, Wu Yan looked at a few people in the hall with a smile, "What do you think, do we want to participate in this one."

Bao Xiang pinched the small tea cup with his thick fingers, pretending to be reserved, completely without the recklessness of the past, "I think we can play a dozen, the Meng family is just a thousand households, although we have worked hard to collect people these days, and we have only saved a thousand people.

But if we defeat this Meng family and hold the soldiers in their clans in our hands, then wouldn't we save a lot of effort in training. There is only one at the moment, there is such a big temptation here, will the other families rush to it, and will the Lu family let us eat this mouthful of meat."

Wu Yan nodded at Baoxiang again and again, with a look of encouragement. It is said that since he arrived in Youyi Mountain, Wu Gan, who is lazy by nature, has put most of the burden on Baoxiang without exception. Thanks to the heavy responsibility, his people have grown rapidly, and he has become much calmer in talking and doing things in front of others.

Zhang Wuyang arched his hand at Wu Gan, "Village master, I agree with Captain Bao's opinion, you can fight." However, I have a little puzzlement, this matter has not yet been launched, when it is the Lu family's secret, how did Ye join the army know.

Can you try to inquire through the way he got the information, if we can get the cooperation of the Lu family, we can fight more easily. Otherwise, if we bite the next family, even if we take it in the end, I'm afraid that our dreadnoughts will suffer a lot of casualties."

"yes. The owner of the village." Tudan also spoke, but like Zhang Wuyang, he changed his name to Wu Gen as the head of the village, "Each family can be based in Kuntianzhou, and it has its own uniqueness. Like this Meng family, the most famous is the wolf soldier."

"Wolf soldiers?" Wu Yan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered Niu Ye's giant mastiff, "They are also good at driving wild beasts to fight."

"Exactly." As soon as Tudan spoke, he realized that Wu Gan had misunderstood his words, "It's not that we drive wolves to fight, but that people ride on wolves to kill, just like we ride horses."

"Ride a wolf." Wu Yan scratched his head, not knowing how the Meng family tamed these fierce beasts.

Tudan then explained, "These wolves have been domesticated by the secret techniques of the Meng family, and they are quite tall and tall, no different from our war horses. And it is very ferocious, ordinary horses encounter wolf soldiers, not to mention charging, it is possible to run without turning around. Therefore, many families are reluctant to meet the Meng family because there are too many losses.

Speaking of which, I will continue the topic of Captain Bao. In fact, if we beat the Meng family, not many people will rob us, because what we want is different. Our fearless army fights the Meng family, seeking people and wealth. The other families coveted the city and the land, and there was not much conflict with each other. Look at the book

Moreover, if they hit the Meng family head-on, if they encounter wolf soldiers, the casualties will be too great, and these families will wait for someone to die for them, and they will follow behind safely and steadily to pick up the loot. It's just that it depends on whether the Lu family is willing to share some of the profits."

Listening to Tudan's words, Wu Gan nodded again and again, and the others were also thoughtful. According to what Tudan said, it is really like that, and it is also in the interests of each family to let the dreadnought army fight the Meng family, and there will be fewer unnecessary casualties.

"Haha, that's exactly what Tudan said. Since the various families have no objection, I will ask someone to send a letter to Ye Ziming later, and go more to the Lu family's door to take down this matter." Wu Yan smiled and sat up straighter. After this Tudan was cleaned up, it was as if he had opened his mind, and he repeatedly put forward pertinent suggestions, and they were all on the point.

Tu Dan smiled slightly, and arched his hand at Wu Gan, "Village master, in fact, the Lu family here is not too much of an obstacle, they definitely want our dreadnought army to take over this matter."

"Hey, why do you say that?" Wu Yan raised his eyebrows, and leaned in the direction of Tudan.

"Owner of the village, now the Iron Hand Province is in a uproar because of the restructuring. In fact, it was not the Ji family that really took the lead in restructuring, but the Lu family. It has been a while since the adults arrived at Panshi Road, and it can be seen that the Lu family controls a lot of cities, separating the various small families.

These cities were originally owned by some small families, after the Lu family exterminated them, they sent some of their own heirs to be the city lord, directly under the command of Maojing City, only a small number of garrison soldiers are allowed to be kept in the city, if there is a war, it is necessary to send people and horses by Maojing City, which is the case with Liu'an City next to us.

The city chiefs in these places are all the heads of the Lu family, what is the difference between this and the county system of the human race, but it is not explicitly stated, so there is a strange situation that the county is directly subordinate to and other family affiliations are mixed.

The owner of the village, think about it, if you are the head of the Lu family, do you want to involve other small families in such a thing as the Meng family, why don't you use the people of the headquarters, it is difficult to divide what you have obtained with other families. In this way, not only do we have to use the people of the headquarters, but we are not too distressed to be killed, only we are the dreadnought army, who let us be sent under the fence, not the Lu family's cronies."

"Ahem." Wu Gan, who was pretending to drink tea, was choked and coughed repeatedly. Tudan's words can be described as waking up the dreamer. No wonder Lu Qing has been much more diligent these days, and he originally had such a mind.

Putting down the teacup, Wu Jian sighed in his heart that after he tortured Tudan, he also had the intention of driving him away. Fortunately, he hesitated for a moment, and only then did he realize that this Tudan did have something in his stomach.

Therefore, as the old saying goes, it takes time to see people's hearts, and you must not just announce the death penalty from the heart of a person based on the first impression.

Unable to hold back the joy in his heart, Wu Yan simply stood up, walked in front of Tudan, and patted him on the shoulder, "It's really good, listen to your words, the mouth is suddenly opened."

Tudan hurriedly stood up and said humbly: "The owner of the village doesn't have to be like this, I just rely on the details of the rock road to be familiar with it, and I just talk about it.

Wu Yan pursed his lips and nodded, "Anyway, you have made the first contribution, and after defeating the Meng family, we will reward you."

Walking back to his seat, Wu Yan raised his eyes and looked at everyone, "The matter of beating the Meng family is so decided, and the next thing is to talk about how to fight."

Baoxiang slapped the table, a little helpless, "This wolf soldier is fierce, just to restrain our cavalry, if only our horses were not afraid of wolves." What's more, you have to find out the details of the Meng family as soon as possible, in case there is some old monster hidden, it will be inappropriate."

Wu Yan lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "That's good, let's do a three-pronged approach. I'll figure out how to deal with the wolf soldiers. Lexi should carefully select some outstanding marksmen, preferably beyond the range of ordinary cavalry. In addition, Li Qi sent a message to Ye Ziming, asking him to move more, so that the Lu family can support our Meng family's soldiers, and at the same time give a certain amount of cooperation and support."

Li Qi, who was sitting in the solution, still didn't say a word, just nodded slightly.