Breathing in the fresh air with the scent of plants, and looking at the endless verdant Guqi Mountains, Zi Chuanxiu and the three flags both sighed, but they didn't know how to talk about it. I could only whisper in my heart: "Back to the Far East again." ”

Coming all the way east of the Valen Fortress, you can see everywhere the silkworm ants that the war has inflicted on this beautiful land in the Far East. The battle lines have moved forward, and in the heat of battle, quiet villages have been ablaze, bustling cities have been reduced to ruins, verdant mountains and forests have been turned into lifeless scorched earth, fertile fields have become deserts, and bones are everywhere.

Huge groups of refugees and beggars were everywhere on the road, staggering westward. In the middle there were human beings and other races in the Far East, mostly women, children and the elderly. They were scrawny and glazed-eyed, and they could only pull their eyelids when they saw a large group of human troops passing by, and then swarmed around the officers and soldiers of the "Xiuzi Battalion" to beg for food, and in some cases, they could only get through by driving the army with a horse whip. It was none of their business for them, whether it was the Ethnic Coalition Army's chanting of "Far Eastern dúlì, build our own homeland!" or the Zichuan family's words: "Quell the rebellion and restore peace!", all they asked for was a hundred grams of bread to live today. If not, then die.

As Stirling's troops passed, Stirling wept over the plight of the refugees and worked to resettle them to the west of the Wallen fortress, where they were still struggling to survive despite the ravages of war. But Stirling's military affairs are not very handsome, and he does not have a lot of time to deal with this matter. In the end, a large number of refugees remain homeless and displaced.

It was Rayhon's ambition that brought such a catastrophe to the Far East.

Roger, Shirakawa and other officers from the Far East had already learned from the refugees that their homeland of Minsk and other regions had been razed to the ground, and their families were not killed. Shirakawa couldn't stop crying when he saw the tragic situation of the refugees. In the end, Shikawa Xiu decided to take out part of the military rations and give relief to the refugees. This is a very stupid thing to do, and it does not solve the problem at all, but no one objected, but seeing the refugees holding the food and rejoicing, everyone felt a little better.

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Just three weeks ago, Stirling's troops had engaged in a fierce battle with the Rejon rebels in Gudisa Province, with the result that the Rejon troops had left more than 30,000 corpses and retreated, and a large part of the defeated troops were scattered, hiding in the deep mountains and forests and refusing to come out. Most of them became thieves who occupied the mountains and villages, and when they saw the army of the Zichuan family, they did not dare to provoke, but when they encountered the convoy and postman team transporting supplies, they stepped forward to rob it. Most of these bandits hid in the depths of the treacherous dense forests, and ran away without a trace when they saw the arrival of the army. Fang Jin, who was sitting in the fortress of Colum, was very troubled by this, and at this time there was no extra regular royal army, and finally thought that Zichuan Xiu was born in the Far East and was more familiar with the terrain, so he sent the "Xiuzi Battalion" over.

On the day of entering the province, a messenger came to report that a group of orcs had just attacked the convoy transporting supplies, and asked the "Xiuzi Battalion" to reinforce immediately. Zi Chuanxiu immediately led his troops to rush, only to see the back of the orc disappear, and the wreckage of the wrecked convoy was everywhere. Under the close pursuit of the cavalry, the orcs hid in the dense forest, and the Xiuzi battalion immediately surrounded the entire woods.

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"Brothers of the Coalition Army, you have no way out!Hurry up and surrender, the royal army of the family will treat the prisoners preferentially, don't hide anymore!" Roger stood alone in front of the dense forest, shouting in a loud voice.

"That's it, shout louder!"

"Tell them that if they come out, we will give them food! If they don't come out, they will be killed!"

"Also, remember to shout in the language of the orcs! Far behind him, Shikawa Xiu hid behind the shield, cheering on Roger while getting his nails done.

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Shirakawa and Nagakawa are having a very serious conversation:

"I've heard that the orc's earthen throwing spear is very sharp, and a single shot can pierce a person. ”

"Yes, they have so much strength -- and they heard that the throwing gun is smeared with venom, and they roar when they see the blood!"

"So- let's start praying for Roger's soul!"

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Behind the three of them, the officers and soldiers of the thousands of Xiuzi battalions held their breath and looked at Roger's brave posture from a distance, and they were also discussing: "Look at you, Captain Roger's face is getting whiter and whiter-as white as dead pork!"

"On such a cool autumn day, the sweat behind his back soaked his clothes - and he shivered with cold. ”

"He shouted in such a small voice as if he were afraid that anyone would hear it—his voice was like crying!"

"Chief Xiuchuan, don't you send two more brothers to stand with me, it will be more powerful... In this way, I feel a little weak......" Roger's voice trembled a little.

Zi Chuanxiu looked back at the soldiers: "Do any of you want to go up and shout with Roger Qiben?"

Thousands of soldiers shook their heads resolutely.

Zichuan Xiu encouraged Roger: "Don't be afraid, although we stand far away, we stand with you on the jīng god!"

Roger: "Sir, I want to stand back a little bit, you don't have to talk so hard......"

Zichuan Xiu didn't even think about it: "No need, my ears are very good." He turned to Shirakawa and Nagagawa: "Can you hear me, do you want to stand up and order?"

The two immediately said that they could hear it clearly.

Roger: "Sir Xiuchuan, if you still don't respond after shouting for so long, the enemy must have fled!" ”

"You approach the woods and shout louder. ”

Changchuan secretly said to Bai Chuan: "At dinner that night, Roger somehow annoyed the adult, and the next day the adult ran to help him buy twenty life insurance, and the beneficiaries were all filled in their names. ”

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Nearly twenty minutes after Roger shouted, the sound of Sissy was heard in the woods, and a group of orcs armed with javelin sticks appeared, quickly rushing towards them, shouting: "Wow Gouri Wow Gouri!"

Roger ran back to Zichuan Xiu's side with a roll: "My lord, they're here!"

Zichuan Xiu shouted: "Rush!-Roger, you play forward!" kicked Roger to the front.

The two sides soon approached, and Zi Chuanxiu shouted: "Surrender and don't kill! If you don't surrender, we have a few thousand!"

There was a loud clamor and shouts from behind: "Run!" and "It's dead!" -- it was loud and earth-shattering -- and then it grew smaller and farther away. The 8,000 soldiers of the Xiuzi battalion ran away without a trace, only a faint line of back and a large piece of dust remained on the horizon, the wind blew, and there was a faint voice: "Run! Run!"

Only Zichuan Xiu and three subordinates were left at the scene, and dozens of murderous orcs surrounded them.

Both sides were stunned by the scene, and it was a long time before someone from among the orcs spoke, and in human language: "You want us to surrender?"

"No, no, no," Zi Chuanxiu hurriedly put down the saber: "I'm asking, do you accept surrender?"

"But didn't you say anything about 'kill or not' when you shouted just now?"

"It was he who shouted!" Zichuan Xiu, Shirakawa, and Changchuan pointed at Roger together: "It's none of our business!"

"Hehehe, Guangxiu, I haven't seen you for so long, you're still so bad. A burly orc stepped out of the crowd, a smile on his swarthy face.

Zi Chuanxiu shouted in surprise: "Old Delun!" Before he finished speaking, he was already held in his arms by this half-orc.

When Shikawa Shu was a small flag samurai, he was stationed in the village of Bulu in Wag Province. He taught the villagers about medicine and farming, taught the children to learn human language and knowledge, and formed a deep friendship with the orcs in the village, and was called "Wagdanim" (the one who brought light) by the villagers. Delun was the village chief, and he was seriously ill at the time, and it was Zichuan Xiu who helped him find a military doctor to save a life. The two have a good relationship.

The two of them are affectionate, you punch me, I punch you: "You old fellow, you can't be a scholar, people come to rebel and fight!" "Ahem! You don't know! After you left, you changed the leader of the garrison." He and the lord didn't let people live, obviously we suffered a disaster, they still made us pay such a high tax, and if we couldn't pay it, we would fight, and they had already disabled several young men, and we couldn't help it. ”

Zi Chuanxiu frowned when he heard this: "Are the people in the village okay?"

"Not so good. There are only the elderly, women, and children left in the house. No one is doing the farm work anymore. The men all came out, and a lot of them died outside. Like the two children of the Moody family died under the city of Valen, and the men of the Sam family also died, and the Drews, four children came out, three of them were dead, and one of them was lost and still don't know where, dead or alive - by the way, you see, a lot of people in the village are here. ”

Zichuan Xiu carefully discerned, and sure enough, he found a lot of familiar faces. He greeted everyone with a wry smile, and his heart was bitter: when he was ordered to transfer out of Bulu Village, where he was stationed, the villagers were so sad that they cried and kept sending him dozens of miles. I didn't think that now I would see you on the battlefield.

The orcs responded to Zichuan Xiu very kindly, most of them had received the favor of Zichuan Xiu back then, and there were a few young people who had never seen Zichuan Xiu, but they had also heard his story, and timidly called out in an unskilled human language: "Uncle Guangxiu." ”

Everyone hasn't seen each other for a long time, and there are a lot of emotions, so the scene of the reunion was originally very moving, but it was interrupted by Roger-"My lord, can you put me down from the tree after you catch up?" Roger was hung from the tree by the orc soldiers, smoked a dozen sticks, and asked with a dying breath.

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When Zichuan Xiu and Delun and their entourage returned to the barracks, the group of obscene ruffians in the "Xiuzi Battalion" were writing condolences: "It is with great sorrow that we mourn the memory of our most beloved and beloved good boss, loyal family guard, brave warrior, and deputy commander Zichuan Xiu! In the fierce battle with the rebels on 8 October, Master Zichuan Xiu took the lead and bravely killed the enemy, and finally died in a heroic battle! His last words were: "Brothers, divide all my family property!" We are full of nostalgia for your lords, and we will take up the banner of your lords and continue to fight firmly! The jīng god of Hide-sama Shikawa will always encourage us to move forward! He will always live in our hearts......"

The condolences are broken here. Because Zichuan Xiu immediately made the guy who wrote the article "extremely sad" and "deeply sad", and then handed him over to Roger, who was on fire with a sore skin and flesh, and said, "Whatever you want!" Roger immediately carried the soldier away.

Delenn shook his head and said, "Such a guy, you still let him live? According to the rules of our Zoe people, those who escape from the battle will be hanged." "Orcs call themselves Zoe.

Zi Chuanxiu smiled bitterly: "The human head is not a Filipino vegetable, and it won't grow back if it's cut." Besides - I can't order half of the troops to hang the other half, can I?"

Delenn laughed, and his wide mouth cracked: "It's the first time I've seen a Zichuan army like this! It would be nice if the Zichuan army was like you! Like you, if he ran into Sterling, he could defeat thousands of you with one squadron!"

Zichuan Xiu asked with interest, "How did you fight with Stirling's troops?"

The orcs shook their heads in unison: "It's terrible!" A palpitating expression appeared on their faces: "They are not humans, they are the reincarnation of the god of war!"

The young orcs scrambled to tell the rumors about Stirling: Stirling was as tall as two pine trees, his eyes were as bright as lighthouses, and he breathed fire every night! He had the doppelganger method, he could appear in different places thousands of kilometers at the same time, he was invulnerable, and his roar could smash a division to death! And he also knows dark magic, every night he takes out a flute and blows it, so the corpses of the soldiers of the Zichuan family who died in battle during the day will get up on their own, return to the team, and fight even harder!

They talked about Stirling's story for more than ten minutes, and one orc even sang a tune about Stirling on the spot - but strangely, from these bizarre legends, Zichuan Xiu felt that the various races in the Far East actually had a strange "love" for their destroyer, Stirling.

"You say," Delenn finally summed up, "how can we win against 'him' in a fight with such a god!?" meaning: We Zoe people are not unbrave, but if the opponent is a "god", then we can't be blamed for the defeat!

"yes, how can we win?" repeated the group of orcs pitifully.

Shirakawa couldn't help but laugh: "In that case, why don't you just follow Lord Stirling and rebel?"

"Hey, if I can really keep up with you Sterling, that's a beautiful thing!"

"Hehe, thank you. The old man said that even if we Zoe people dared to look at Lord Stirling, we would be killed. ”

"I've heard that Lord Stirling is a good sir, and that he doesn't spoil our Zoe village. ”

Ignoring the group of young people arguing, Zichuan Xiu asked Delen, "Then what are you going to do next? Will you continue to rebel and fight? The family will send more and more troops to the Far East." ”

Delenn thought for a moment and said, "We don't want to fight. Can't beat Sterling. He said: "We just want to go home now, and after coming out for so long, I don't know what happened to my wife and children, and the village is still not there." ”

They told Zichuan Xiu: This group of half-orcs from Bulu Village in Wag Province had long wanted to go home, but the roads along the way were blocked by the Zichuan family's army, and near the big passage in Deya Province, Lakas Province and Yun Province, there were large groups of Zichuan Wang Army, numbering no less than hundreds of thousands, and the passage from east to west or north to south was cut off for them. And every day new reinforcements are coming in. A small army of dozens of people like them would be wiped out if they were found out of the forest they were hiding in less than 10 kilometers.

Zi Chuanxiu clapped his hands and said, "This is easy to do! I'll take you back!"

The half-orcs were jubilant, Delun hugged Zichuan Xiu and hugged him vigorously, Shirakawa turned his face away, and couldn't bear to see Zichuan Xiu being hugged and his face flushed.

After the joy passed, Zichuan Xiucai suddenly remembered something: "But I'm not free now, I still have to be responsible for sweeping this area......"

Delen patted his chest: "Guangmingxiu, you are a really good friend of our Zoe people! I didn't say it, I'll help you! The Zoe people in the world are all a family! Most of the people in this area know each other, and the terrain is also familiar!"

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The next day, the Xiuzi camp resumed its work of eliminating thieves. Delenn wasn't lying, the orcs in the neighborhood were all familiar with each other, and they were a little related to each other.

Delenn first went to his cousin Dekun, who was the head of a village near the village of Bulu. Seeing that several thousand troops were coming, and that his cousin had promised to surrender and that he would go home, he readily agreed to surrender with his men; Dekun went to his cousin Deb, and he agreed to surrender, and then they went to their common cousin Delin—Shirakawa was dizzy by the large number of De* and their kinship—and on the first day he recruited nearly a thousand rebels who surrendered.

Zichuan Xiu treated the rebel soldiers who surrendered very gently, and when he came, he didn't ask anything, and let him eat a bowl of rice first. Since the defeat of the battle, these rebel soldiers have been hiding in the mountains and forests in fear, eating leaves and grass roots to satisfy their hunger, and now they are holding a bowl of fragrant rice, and they are almost moved to tears.

The rebels were really hungry, and in some places, some die-hard rebels insisted on not surrendering, and Zichuan Xiu only ordered to cook a large pot of broth, and as soon as the wind spread the fragrance, the rebel soldiers immediately crawled out of hiding and shouted: "Wow Xili!" (I surrender!) There were even a large number of rebel soldiers who rushed from other provinces to surrender to the "Guangming Xiu" after hearing the wind, and after a week, Zichuan Xiu's "achievements" even surprised him: a total of more than 70,000 rebels were accepted, nearly ten times his own strength.

Shirakawa was deeply worried about this situation: such a large number of rebel prisoners, if they resisted, they could destroy the Xiuzi battalion in an hour!

She was determined to do her duty to admonish the "little idiot".

Shirakawa: "My lord, shall I tell you a joke?"

Zi Chuanxiu was surprised: "Oh, it's rare that you will say this in Shirakawa, and the content of the joke should be more exciting!"

Shirakawa ignored him and began to say:

"During one battle, a soldier of the Far Eastern Army shouted, 'Captain, I have captured a demon captive!'

The captain said, 'Well done!' ’

The soldier said, 'No, he's going to take me away!'"

Shikawa Xiu laughed: "This joke is funny!"

Shirakawa inspired him: "My lord, do you have any thoughts after listening to this joke? Don't you think this is very similar to our current situation?"

Zi Chuanxiu touched his head and thought seriously for a while before replying, "I don't think so, I don't feel it." "Gone.

Shirakawa was left scolding: "Idiot, big idiot, super idiot, super super idiot!"

But Nagakawa, who was in charge of logistics, was worried about another problem, and he reported to Zichuan Xiu: Because there are too many people to eat, the food can only last for another week!

Zichuan Xiu gave the order: "Immediately convene the officers above the captain level and start the first military meeting of the "Xiuzi Battalion". ”

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