Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Vanishing Wall

An hour later, all the division commanders and deputy division commanders, plus the regiment commanders, gathered in the city lord's mansion and sat down. Kong Ming looked at everyone and said, "Have all those prisoners been arranged?"

"Well, it's all arranged, and now it's all relatively honest, and I haven't noticed the appearance of the thorn. Moreover, we began to recruit soldiers among the captives, as was customary, and by the time I came, more than 2,000 had joined our ranks. Che replied.

"This is good news, the battle just now did have some hanging, many of our soldiers were wounded, and now if we add some people, we will be more combative. Duns said cheerfully.

"On the battlefield, have all the living horses of the Harvey Army been gathered?" Kong Ming said again.

"It's all gathered together, and they have joined the fourth division, which can turn the fourth division into cavalry, more than 20,000 war horses, only more than 9,000 remain, the rest are either dead or injured and have no way to use, and the rest of the divisions have begun to recruit the nobles in the city, and may get some, after all, they always keep good things in their own hands. Che Yu then replied. The chariot is the commander of the special division, and the special division is not only the collection of the entire special personnel, but also responsible for the security of the entire mercenary army, so the capture of each division will be sent to the special division for redistribution as soon as possible.

"There are many more nobles who want to come here than those in Fangneng City, and they will get a lot more things. Kong Ming smiled, Kong Ming didn't know at this time, this secret city is not only stuck in a choke point between the chaotic land and the Harvey Empire, but also the largest border city here, most of the transactions between the two sides have always been carried out here, so there are also many noble industries here, of course, more merchants from all over the world come here to trade, after all, the goods here will be transported to the mainland will get ten times the profit. For the sake of these businessmen, they dare to do almost anything, and even confront the Harvey Army is common, of course, all in secret. And after Kong Ming's mercenary army came, the first time was to recruit the nobles and noble industries in the whole city, and the amount was still very large, which was a blow to the entire nobles It was conceivable, which made the nobles of the entire Harvey Empire know the name of Kong Ming, and also let Kong Ming's name spread throughout the continent, not because of military talent, but because of the blow to the nobles. Kong Ming also got the title of a noble killer because of this. However, there must be advantages and disadvantages, and there are disadvantages and advantages, and the two can be said to complement each other, when the nobles were very annoyed with Kongming. Those merchants began to secretly fund the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army of Kongming, because some discerning merchants saw a huge opportunity in it. This is the opportunity for businessmen to rise in this world. And one of the merchants of the Huayuan Empire was in the secret city. His name is Tao Shangting.

"These are all good things for us, but now we have to speed up some of the processes because we have to get out of this place before the sun goes down. Kong Ming said. Kong Ming's decision made everyone feel crazy, you must know that such a big city has finally been defeated, but Kong Ming has to withdraw immediately, so what is the use of them fighting down? All of a sudden, the hall was like a pot. Voices come and go. These are all directed at Kong Ming, and they were a little whispered at first, but later, they directly questioned them. And in the face of the denunciation of these people. Kong Ming just looked at it coldly, Kong Ming knew that there were many uncertain factors in the mercenaries, if these factors were not solved now, then there would be huge problems in the future, and these problems would inevitably destroy the entire mercenary army at some point, and the reason was that these people would be blind because of the pride caused by more and more victories in the battle, so now Kong Ming must solve these things at the beginning of the war, otherwise the consequences will be more severe, and this is first to establish personal authority。 Among these people, only Che Yu did not make noise forward, but watched this scene like Kong Ming, and some of the regiment leaders did not participate in this, most of these regiment leaders were people brought by Yi Yiyi, although these Kong Ming led them to several victories, but in their bones, these people are still led by Yi Yiyi. So at this time, the entire mercenary army was divided into three parts, one part was headed by Kong Ming, one part was headed by those division commanders, and the other part was headed by Yi Yiyi. And on the surface, Kong Ming is on the weak side of the showdown.

Half an hour later, Kong Ming still didn't stop those denunciations, but Kong Ming's cold face let everyone know that Kong Ming's qi was getting stronger and stronger, but it hadn't been issued yet. Seeing this, those who took the lead gradually lowered their voices, slowly, slowly, all stopped, looking at Kong Ming, in the end, this mercenary army has achieved such results under the command of Kong Ming, not in their hands, and because of this, Kong Ming has a huge reputation among the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, although it has not been long since these people gathered together. In other words, Kong Ming is the only one here who speaks and counts.

"It's all over, it's all over!!" Kong Ming roared out, as a demi-saint, Kong Ming's voice contains the will of some saints, and this will can affect the direction of people's thinking and actions in some way, not to mention that Kong Ming doesn't know now that his path to sanctification has long deviated from the category of elements such as space and fire, but has embarked on the road of military sanctification, if he becomes holy, then he must be a soldier saint, not a sword saint and a holy demon master or other saints like others. And the most important thing among the soldiers is the control of the army, without which one can become holy? You must know that no matter which road you are on, the future will never be peaceful, and if the road ahead is too calm, it will not only be boring, but also unsuccessful. And the same is true of the current mercenary army, since the sea fell out of the city, three battles and three victories, nearly 100,000 enemies have been annihilated, and they have increased from 20,000 to 50,000, and how many things they have obtained from the nobles have already made some people lose their eyes. At this time, Kong Ming specially proposed this action not only out of a diversion consideration, but also to those people of the Harvey Empire, that is, the mercenary army is not an army that occupies territory, but just a straggler. I hope that these can reduce the attention of Harvey Didu to this mercenary army, reduce the danger of this mercenary army, and the second is also to carry out a unity of thought from the inside, you must know that once the thoughts of an army cannot be concentrated on a commander, then it is impossible to fully exert the combat effectiveness of an army in the next action, and once there is another voice in an army, then in a certain battle, this situation will push this mercenary to the abyss of death. Especially with such a mercenary army, the mercenaries themselves are people who work for money and have no money to say goodbye. Thoughts are even more abyssally different, and if they can't be unified in time, they will be even more dangerous, and these people may also include Kongming itself. Kongming's voice shook everyone, and they immediately sat back on the table. You know, if Kong Ming doesn't speak. It proves that Kong Ming wants to listen to their opinions. And most of the mercenaries themselves are such straightforward personalities, but their straightforwardness does not mean that they have no brains. Kong Ming looked at the dozens of pairs of eyes around him, and said slowly:

"I know that our people are tired now, and we will continue to be tired for some time to come, after all, we don't have the capital to fight against the Harvey Army now. We can't afford to live here with a swagger. If we stay here tonight, we may see the corpses of countless mercenaries lying here tomorrow. Hehe, I don't want that to happen, some people might say. Now the soldiers of the three devils are still two hundred kilometers away, you know, as long as they send a few saints and a team of empty horsemen, we will not have a good night's sleep, and the most important thing is that our stop superscript should be more than here, but we must drag some of their people here. ”

Sometimes, people just have some blind obedience, regardless of whether this blind obedience is good or bad, but now the officers of the mercenary army have an initial blind obedience to Kong Ming, because Kong Ming has led them to win a few battles, not Kong Ming's past glory, and the reality is like this. Once a person appears to be better than others in one aspect, then someone will follow him, which is a kind of blind obedience. Kong Ming doesn't have many words, and he himself is not a man of many words, but he is very convincing. And now Kong Ming doesn't have the time and energy to carry out any kind of reorganization, only work will put people's messy ideas aside.

"So now we have to go, and we can't slow down. Kong Ming looked around again, those who were originally the most noisy now lost their temper after hearing Kong Ming say this, after all, Kong Ming started from the safety of the army, and they were also a member of the army. Speaking is also an art, if you talk to yourself, the effect is not very good, but if you look around from time to time while speaking, so that everyone feels that you are paying attention to them, then the effect will be much better. After watching it for a week, Sora knew that they were waiting for their next arrangement. At this time, these people also regained their clarity in the stern eyes of the empty eye.

"The first division is responsible for the urban area in the east, the second division is in charge of the urban area in the south, the third division is in charge of the urban area in the west, the fourth division is in charge of the urban area in the north, and the special division is in charge of the central urban area. The first thing is to collect the nobles in the city as quickly as possible, including soldiers, money, food, mounts, etc., and the second thing is to tear down the outer city walls of the city where they are located. The special division is responsible for destroying the magic circle in the city, so as not to affect the progress of their demolition of the wall. At eight o'clock in the evening, all divisions had to assemble outside the north gate. Departure at 8 o'clock on time. ”

"What are you doing by tearing down the city wall?" When everyone looked at Kongming, Yi Yiyida asked for everyone.

"If you are interested, I will explain this to you again when I have time, but for now, if there are no other problems, go and carry out the order immediately. Kong Ming said lightly. Everyone looked at this situation and knew that Kong Ming didn't want to explain at this time, so he had to go out to carry out the order. Mercenaries are a special group, sometimes, they may have a lot of resistance to the orders of their superiors, but once the order is down, whether it is reasonable or not, they will carry it out, of course, this qiē is for the sake of money, but they don't know that the roar just now makes them less money in the execution, and there is a lot more expectation in their hearts. And this kind of thing is a kind of subtle and imperceptible, Kong Ming not only demolished the walls of the secret city this time, but also demolished the walls in the hearts of the mercenaries, slowly changing towards a real whole.

"Why the hell are you tearing down the walls? Now they're gone. Can you tell me about it?" Yiyi asked anxiously.

"Excuse me, what is the secret city used for?" Kong Ming sold a pass.

"Of course, it's to prevent the attack of the Chaos Lands! You mean, if the city walls are demolished, then the people of the Chaos Lands will be able to travel easily in the future?"

"You're not too stupid, but this is only one aspect, the other is that after the secret city loses its protection, in order to prevent the ability of the secret city from disappearing, the three devils will inevitably leave a part of the troops to defend the secret city, and rebuild the city wall through guò to raise the defense of the secret city to a higher level. Otherwise, whoever comes to the secret city will be able to come and go conveniently, which is not the result that the Harvey Army wants. Therefore, the key is to divide Harvey's forces, which is the main purpose. Kong Ming said.

"You're treacherous. Yi Yiyi said.

"Are you complimenting me?" said Kong Mingzhong, crying and laughing.

"How could they have torn down the walls in such a short period of time? ”

"Don't. I believe that the power of the masses is infinite, only you can't think of it. There is nothing they cannot do. Kong Ming finished. Outside, a signal corpsman came in.

"Commander, Deputy Commander, there's a merchant out there named Tao Shangting who wants to come in and discuss something with the mercenary army for mutual benefit, oh, that's what he said. ”

"Tao Shangting, do you know him?" Kong Ming looked at Yi Yiyi.

"I don't know. Yiyi shook her head.

"Let him in. Kong Ming said, no matter how you see it, it's never a bad thing. Now that those division commanders have gone to arrange tasks, they also have some free time.

"I've seen the commander. A lean man in his thirties walked in with the signal corps and saluted the two of them.

"Are you?" asked Ku Ming, looking at him, the first image this man gave him was a very shrewd person.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Tao Shangting, I am from Xili Province of the Huayuan Empire, and I have been in business for generations. Here are some small gifts for the Commander to laugh at. Tao Shangting said, took out a long sword from the space ring, only to see that the appearance of this long sword is fire red, after Kong Ming took it, he pulled out the sword, only to see that the sword is also fire red, and the surface of the sword has undergone a kind of scaling treatment, and it is not reflective in the past, the sword edge is abnormally sharp, Kong Ming took a piece of iron used to decorate the city lord's mansion from the side, and gently swiped it towards the sword blade, and saw that the ornament became two, at this time Kong Ming did not see Tao Shangting's expression, just looked at the sword intently, but this qiē fell into Yi Yiyi's eyes, patted Kong Ming, Kong Ming raised his head, looked at Tao Shangting and saw that his expression had not disappeared, smiled, and asked, "Brother Tao is distressed by this sword or by this ornament?"

"Hehe, let the commander smile, soothe that ornament, if I'm not mistaken, this ornament should be three hundred years old, and if it is placed outside, it can be sold for more than 100,000 gold coins. ”

"Oh, so expensive? Looks like I've broken something amazing. Kong Ming said embarrassedly. This is actually not to blame Kong Ming, people who grew up in a small village, when they were in the imperial capital, they had no contact with the things that these nobles used to enjoy, and it was normal not to know.

"I'm here to solve these problems for the commander. Tao Shangting said.

"These things?"

"That's right, in addition, I will also support the cost of 300,000 gold coins for the mercenary army, and 3,000 unicorns for the magic horse. Tao Shangting said.

"You just need these things from the City Lord's Mansion?" Kong Ming asked again.

"Just these things. Tao Shangting replied resolutely.

Kong Ming thought for a moment and said, "Say what you mean, don't think that I believe you only need these things, you know, these things are valuable in your eyes, but they are not worth much in my eyes, and you want these things in exchange for 300,000 gold coins and 3,000 unicorns." You definitely don't just see these things in your heart, what I need is the real intention, don't fool me, I don't understand business, but I know the severity. ”

"Hehe, my intention is actually very simple, I will buy all the trophies of your army and give a reasonable price, but I want to take people to follow your army to act, and I can help you dispose of what your army has killed every time. And in return, I can also provide as much as I can for your army's military supplies. Tao Shangting said.

"Is this what you call a combination of rules and two benefits?" Yi Yiyi asked as she spoke. Tao Shangting knew that the person next to him was the deputy commander, and he could inquire carefully before coming in.

"What the deputy commander said was, that's all. Tao Shangting replied.

"Hehe, this is the first time, you can discuss the specific things with the commander of the car, but the three thousand unicorns, I hope they will appear outside this north gate before the sun goes down, and if you find out that you have any bad behavior, don't blame us!" Kong Ming said. Kong Ming didn't know that Tao Shangting at this time also had an attitude of giving it a try, and it was purely to make more money for this move, but often the original intention and the result were different. With the expansion of the Kongming mercenary army, his business is also getting bigger and bigger. The three of them talked for a while, and Kong Ming and Yi Yiyi walked out of the city lord's mansion to take a look at the situation of each division. When the two of them were heading towards the north gate, dozens of huge clouds of smoke and dust suddenly rushed up from the direction of the north gate, and then a loud bang came from there. This was just the beginning, and then there was a constant bang that shook the whole city. Kong Ming and Yi Yiyi hurriedly went to the north gate. After arriving, Kong Ming saw a picture of the infinite power of the masses. At this time, Kong Ming saw that Li Yao was sitting on a broken chair that he didn't know where to carry it from, and there were more than 2,000 mercenary troops standing around him, and in front of him were about 3,000 captives of the Harvey army in three rows, of which the people in the first row were holding long swords, and those prisoners were using their swords, sending out their own fighting spirit to slash at the city wall, and one after another high-level or low-level fighting qi slashed continuously against the city wall, and the stones on the city wall instantly turned into gravel, and once those captives sent out ten ways, they would retreat and hand the sword to the prisoner who came up behind them, and then began to slash at the city wall with fighting energy。 As far as the eye can see, the walls are falling with a clatter. In the military, if something is popularized the fastest, it must be some kind of good practice, and these are not necessarily done by someone sincerely, but no matter who sees that this practice is beneficial, then it will definitely be popularized very quickly. This time was no exception, after the fourth division's practice was known to the other divisions, the prisoners who were resting on the side quickly got to do what they were going to do. It was under this circumstance that the walls on all sides fell, becoming a small dirt slope. Kong Ming stood on the dirt slope, looked at the city along the sunset, and saw that the current houses were all exposed on the top of the small slope, and the city wall below the small slope had already turned into small stones, even dirt, shook his head, Kong Ming said with emotion: "From now on, the northeast of the Harvey Empire is even more unpeaceful. ”

"It's all a good thing you've done, what's there to feel about?" Yiyi scoffed.

Kong Ming's prediction soon became a reality, and when the news of the secret city spread, both the Chaos Land and the Harvey Empire were shaken. After Harvey's army left the secret city, and the city wall was not repaired, many Harvey people went to the place of chaos through Guò, and the mercenaries also went to Harvey's deeper place through Guò, and the merchants also came here because there was no one to take care of it for the time being, and the two places needed more goods exchange. All of a sudden, this place has become a center of trade between the two places, and the dragons and snakes are mixed, and the Harvey Empire has no way to stop it for a while. Of course, the northeast of the Harvey Empire was even more chaotic, and this qiē started with the demolition of the wall in Kongming. (To be continued......)

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