On August 2, 779 in the imperial calendar, the city of Dìdū woke up early: today it was Stirling, the commander of the zhōngyāng army, who led an army of 150,000 to reinforce the fortress of Valen. The chief of Zichuan Shenxing traveled for the army and gave wine. Since the soldiers of the zhōngyāng army were mainly the sons of dìdū, millions of residents watched the majesty of the army and tried to find their relatives in the procession - the old mother held her son's hand and wept, and the newlywed wife hugged her husband tightly and wept. There was a cry of boos.

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Commander Sterling was the focus of everyone's attention today, and the chief and all the members of the command office were sent to the outskirts of the city for more than ten kilometers, and finally under Sterling's repeated kneeling invitations, the chief reluctantly took him by the hand and said: "Sterling, send you here." You know, the family is looking forward to the news of your victory!"

Stirling was moved to tears, knelt down and said: "Please rest assured, the lower officials will definitely sweep down the rebellion and restore peace as soon as possible! If he does not succeed, Sterling would rather die on the battlefield than have no shame to return to see his lordship!"

Zichuan Shenxing "shh You know, I don't have a son, and I've always treated you as my own son......" said with tears in his eyes.

"Li Qing is also here, do you want to go and talk to her?"

Sterling saw that Li Qing's figure was also in the farewell procession, but he just nodded to her: "My lord, the lower official shoulders the heavy responsibility of the country, and it is not appropriate for the children to be affectionate at this time. ”

"Alas, although it is said that the husband is a big man and forgets his home, but Sterling, you are too... It's not close to people, it's too strong!"

Li Qing's face was pale, and Zichuan Shenxing sighed - none of them noticed that Commander Stirling had been a little absent-minded today, and his eyes were cast on the crowd of farewells from time to time, and then he withdrew his gaze in disappointment...

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"I said, Sister Cardin, since you have come so far, why don't you go up and say a few words to Brother Stirling?" Zi Chuan Ning asked Cardin puzzled.

Wearing a hazy veil, Cardin kept staring at the figure of Sterling who was surrounded by everyone, and shook his head slightly: "With my identity, going up at this time will make Si Jun embarrassed..."

A drop of hot liquid dripped onto Zi Chuanning's hand, and she opened her eyes wide to look at Cardin's beautiful face through the veil: "You cried..."

Zichuan Xiu, who was beside them, sighed silently and sighed: "Since ancient times, behind the country's conquest is often the tears of women, even men and women like Sterling and Cardin cannot escape the exception..."

While thinking deeply and sighing, Zichuan Xiu was...

"Big brother, your hand... How to put it in front of the girl... That's the place!"

"Oh, I think she's so sad and want to comfort her......"

"Smack!" A resounding slap, and a woman standing in front of Zichuan Xiu turned around angrily: "Hooligans! want to take advantage of me - my husband followed Lord Stirling on the Far East, and was born and died for the country - he actually bullied my lone woman here - is there any justice in the world!"

The woman's words aroused the anger of the crowd, and the crowd surrounded them with fists and palms...

"Ha, ha, ha, everyone listen to me - it's obvious that this is a misunderstanding!"

"I have always loved the noble messenger of the family... Ha ha... How could such a thing be done?"

"Listen to me, this is completely accidental - due to the action of time, space, atmospheric circulation, the earth's magnetic field, gravitational and other factors, just now my hand inadvertently coincided with the protrusion of the lower half of this lady's back - it was the arrangement of fate, no wonder anyone, haha..."

"Oh, don't do it—Anin, Cardin, where are you two going?

"Oh, we're just passing through, we don't know this rascal - what do you want!"

"Ungrateful fellow!--Oh, don't kick that place, it hurts... Help!"

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On August 6, the battle for the fortress of Valen reached its most critical moment, and the rebels finally opened a gap in the fortified walls of Valen after more than ten days of continuous attacks, and hundreds of thousands of rebels shouted "wah" and poured in from the gap. At this time, the city of Valen was already fully mobilized, and there was no reserve to resist the gap. Luo Bo and Lin Bing, deputy commanders of the Far East Army, smiled bitterly as they looked at the overwhelming rebels outside the city. -- At this point, they are indeed at the end of their rope, and they are ready to commit suicide and martyrdom...

Lin Bing raised his sword and said with emotion: "The only resentment is that we didn't see the murderer of the adult, Lei Hong, die in front of us... It's unfair!"

Luo Bo grabbed her hand: "Wait a minute!"

"At this point, what are you waiting for—is it because you want to confess?"

"Dead woman, when did you say such things - the movements of the rebels are very strange!"

Indeed, the rapid sound of gongs sounded from the rebels' ranks, and the joy of not wanting to win was imminent, flags were waved everywhere, the heralds ran back and forth, and the officers shouted loudly, and their voices showed panic. The queue was hastily adjusted, and the soldiers hesitantly stopped, at a loss for what to do—very flustered...... There was a rumbling sound in the northwest direction!

The two deputy commanders, who thought they were going to die, looked at each other and said at the same time, "Could it be that the reinforcements have arrived!?so soon?"

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"An army appears in the northwest!"

"It's a human army! Your Excellency, reinforcements have arrived! Reinforcements have arrived!"

"All cavalry!

"My lord, see the banner clearly! It's the zhōngyāng army!The zhōngyāng army, it's here!"

"Raheem Sterling... It's Lord Stirling's troops!"

"Long live! Long live the chief! Long live the Zhōngyāng Army! Lord Stirling-long live!"

As if to prove their words. The cavalry let out a deafening roar: "Yarime!" - there is no doubt that this is the battle cry of the zhōngyāng army charge!"

Luo Bo and Lin Bing are surprised: Why did it come so quickly!?

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When the army was out of the army, Stirling gathered the powerful cavalry of the army and formed ten cavalry divisions and twenty infantry divisions. Then, believing that rescuing the army was like fighting a fire, despite the opposition of his subordinates, he ordered the infantry to continue to advance under the command of Qin Lu, the deputy commander of the corps, while he himself rushed to Valen with the cavalry without stopping, and the result was a new record for forced march: from Dìdū to Valen in the Far East in only four days.

Arriving at the battlefield, Stirling saw that the rebels were in a chaotic formation due to the hasty U-turn, and immediately ordered: "The whole army will charge me!"

The staff officer objected: "My lord, there is a huge disparity in the number of enemies and us, and our army is tired from afar-why don't you wait for the arrival of the army after the advanced Valen rests?"

Stirling: "Our army is new to the army, and its morale is booming! The rebels have been attacking Valen for more than ten days, and they have lost their sharpness, and they are frightened and confused because they don't know the truth of our army -- this is a golden opportunity!"

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The rebel camp hurriedly turned around, and in a panic, only had time to transfer six infantry phalanxes with half-orcs to resist - as long as they could stop Stirling's troops for a while, the army could calmly assemble and lay out a superior force to besiege it!

Thousands of powerful orcs waved their giant hands and let out wild screams.

The zhōngyāng army roared: "Yarime!" The horses' hooves thundered, and the neat procession rushed towards the orcs like a black wall!

The orcs in the front row fell to the ground and struggled, screaming miserably.

The rebels and the Far Eastern army watching the battle at the head of the city were amazed: "Why is it that Stirling's troops are all archers, and they are approaching the attack and shè arrows - how can the archery troops attack?"

The shock force was less than a hundred meters away from the rebels, and Stirling's clear voice spread to every corner of the battlefield: "Forward send for spears!"

With a "brush", the cavalry of the zhōngyāng army, which was galloping rapidly, unloaded their bows and arrows at the same time and put their spears on the spears - their crisp and uniform movements showed that the zhōngyāng army was worthy of the first sharp unit of the family, and was able to make such a perfect movement in the rapid running, which made the rebels tremble—the speed of the horses did not decrease at all, and the cavalry began to lower their bodies, and their spears were neatly more than a meter and a half above the horse's body.

The cavalry of the Zhōngyāng army in the second half was still firing arrows, adding to the casualties and confusion of the rebels.

The two armies are getting closer and closer, fifty meters, thirty meters, ten meters ...

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A thunderous roar: "Yarime!"

The other side is yelling at the same time: "Wow, wow!"

The bloody battle has begun!

With the great force of the impact, the cavalry pierced the hard bodies of the orcs with their spears without difficulty--some even pierced two or three together--the second-row orcs began to fight back with wooden clubs and iron rods, knocking the cavalry off their horses--the cavalry behind them changed to sabers suitable for close combat and split the half-orcs in two...... In an instant, hundreds of human soldiers rolled to the ground - their loved ones who had been longing for them in the distance would never be seen again - and thousands of orcs were stabbed and hacked to death......

The follow-up troops were not afraid of any confusion, and the onslaught continued - all of them had rushed in in an instant, and the melee began!

Stirling's troops also had an absolute superiority in numbers, and their weaponry was far superior to that of the rebels' wooden sticks and shovels. To deal with the great power of the half-orcs, the human soldiers often fight in formation, and deal with a half-orc in groups of three, so as to kill the unorganized in an organized manner and cooperate seamlessly. The rebels were hastily formed, after all, and in the face of such a melee that tested coordination and courage, it was even more difficult to resist the well-trained and well-coordinated regular army, and they had to fight on their own - in less than five minutes, six half-orc divisions were scattered and fled in all directions.

Stirling let out a clear whistle, and the scattered troop formation was dreamily regrouped into a majestic phalanx

"Ignore the scattered troops and charge the enemy's base camp!"

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The soldiers, motivated by the victory in the first battle, let out another shout: "Yarime!", and pounced like hungry wolves on the main force of the enemy, who had just withdrawn from the siege and had not had time to form a group. After all, they are a rabble, they look menacing when they win, and they panic at the slightest unfavorable situation in the battle, and they just want to escape.

The rest of the men were a little hesitant: whether to follow the orders of the officers and line up to block the onslaught, or to run away as they did...--before they could think clearly, the cavalry had already rushed into their midst, and screams rang out again and again--so they no longer hesitated!

Snake Clan: "Ancient rice!" (Run!)

Orcs: "Wow, wow, wow!" (You cowards, I'll run too!)

Dwarf: "Ryhit! Mirihat!" (Surrender! We surrender!)

The dragons strode away without saying a word.

The only regular force in the rebels was Rejon's division, but they had gone in the first three days to deal with the only two provinces in the Far East that had not rebelled, the provinces of Dea and Iribat, and he could not have imagined that hundreds of thousands of rebels could be beaten by less than 50,000 cavalry......

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On the eleventh day of August, a messenger who almost broke the horse's neck brought the whole city cheers:

"Valen has a good time!

71,000 enemies were killed, 116,000 were captured, and the rebels were routed for 100 kilometers.

The Valen Fortress is safe and sound!"

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The commander-in-chief, Zichuan Sanxing, ordered the whole city to pray for five minutes of silence for the soldiers in battle.

The Command Office issued an order: Sterling was officially appointed as the commander of the Zhōngyāng Army (the word "acting" was removed)

The silence was followed by a night of millions of people – and every time Sterling's name was mentioned, thousands of people cheered: "Hurray!"

In the tavern, to congratulate the victory and "May Lord Sterling live forever!", clink glasses three million times!

The huge increase in sales of beer, flowers, firecrackers, amulets, and colored balls has greatly boosted effective demand, resulting in a sharp rise in the economic index, which has been sluggish since last year.

Jīng Ming's bookseller came to catch up with the edition that night: "The Biography of the Famous General Stirling", "Me and Stirling, the Story I Have to Tell - Li Qingqi Ben Absolute**", "Stirling Who Walked Down the Altar"

In order to show the advantage of the newspaper over the book, the reporter hurriedly interviewed and wrote "The Famous General Sterling in the Eyes of Friends",

"The Great Man Around Me - Interview with Sterling's Neighbors",

"My Experience with Sterling at Dinner!",

"I knew he was a famous general at that time - the teacher at Stirling Nursery School said that a great man could be foreseen from Sterling's peeing position",

"He also handed me a note back then!--Miss Liu Meili, a female classmate at the same table at Master Sterling's middle school, declared: I didn't fall in love with him!"

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Another message published on the night of August 11, 779 in the Imperial Calendar, was silent and did not attract anyone's attention - only in a one-sentence news item under the Revelation column of the "Dìdū Evening News":

"In view of the tense war in the Far East, the Command Office plans to appoint His Excellency Hideshi Shikawa, Deputy Commander of the Reserve, to go to the three provinces of Mosov, Kixin, and Anxing to convene reserve soldiers to form a contingency army, and the new army will be named "Xiuzi Battalion". ”

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