Intellectually speaking, Kong Ming didn't want to fight this battle with Harvey's Seventh Legion, because this time was not right. On the one hand, there are the elite of the Harvey Empire, who have received formal and systematic training, have the best training conditions, have the best guidance, and have high salaries, and have a group of war-tested officers, with excellent equipment, they have an incomparable advantage over the mercenary army. On the other hand, the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army is composed of some mercenaries, an army of 500,000, of which more than 400,000 are recruits who have just been recruited and have not been systematically trained, and the officers of the mercenary army are all trained by the mercenary army themselves, except for a small number of officers who have been added by various empires to participate in learning war, the others are self-trained in the mercenary army, these officers are only taught by Kong Ming and those officers who have been educated in military schools, almost most of the experience is learned on the battlefield, except for a small part of the equipment provided by various countries, some of them are taken from the hands of the Harvey Empire, and a larger part is brought by the mercenaries themselves。 In any way, the mercenary army is at a disadvantage, so Kong Ming thought of a few battles to improve the experience of the mercenaries, and then fight against the Seventh Legion, but the massacre of Wencheng made Kong Ming's idea come to naught. If Kong Ming doesn't fight this battle, then more than half of the 400,000 mercenaries in Wencheng will run away, and if they do, they will lose too much to the mercenary army, so this battle has nothing to do with military affairs, but more about politics. So more often than not, fighting is not a separate military issue, but more of a political issue. This kind of uncertain battle is really unwilling to fight, although it may not be lost, but if it wins, it will be a miserable victory.

"What's wrong?" Yi Yiyi, who had blamed herself for a day, saw Kong Ming standing in the snow looking at the gloomy sky, and her crying red eyes also looked at the sky, but found that there was nothing on it. Ku Ming did not answer. He was planning how to win this battle, thinking about it, where could he hear the people next to him, if there was an assassin at this time, Kong Ming might not even have time to react. Seeing Kong Ming like this, she thought that Kong Ming was also blaming herself for the civilian affairs of Wencheng. He stood in the snow with Kong Ming, looking at the gloomy sky.

"It's going to snow again. After a long time, Kong Ming came out with a sentence, and sure enough, patches of snow fell from the sky, and the cold wind blew the snow around.

"It's snowing again. Don't blame yourself, there's nothing we can do. Yiyiyi said sadly.

"Yes, there is nothing you can do, you have never been so powerless as you are now, hmm. No, it should be said that it has been a long time since someone else has been so powerless. Kong Ming was still looking at the sky.

"You can't be resurrected from the dead. We still have to live. Yi Yiyi said again.

"What are you talking about?" Kong Ming reacted suddenly.

"I mean, don't feel sorry for the civilians who died. We still have to live. Yi Yiyi looked at Kong Ming and said.

"You misunderstood, I'm very sad about the civilians, there's no doubt about it, but that's not what I just said. I'm not a kind woman. Kong Ming shook his head.

"Then what do you think?" comforted for a long time, only to find that what he said was worthless, no matter who he was, he would be angry. So there was also a resentment in her tone.

"I'm wondering how we can get rid of the Seventh Legion and get justice for the dead civilians. "Straight and clear, indeed. If it is said that it is blindly grieving there, not only will it not help the world, but it will also let those people die in vain and let the murderer get away with it.

"Have you thought of a way?" Yi Yiyi asked in surprise, you know, 500,000 vs. 600,000, no matter how you look at it, it's a self-defeating way.

"Yes, there is, but it's just a little bit, and we'll know tomorrow. ”

The next day, in the square in front of the city lord, except for 10,000 people on guard, the rest of the mercenaries came here and gathered together as a division. The whole square is really full of people, and around the square, there are some civilians watching the excitement. In front of the square is a platform about ten meters high, on both sides of the platform is the viewing platform, now the viewing platform is full of representatives invited by the mercenary army from all walks of life in the city, of course, this invitation, except for a few, most of the rest is forcibly brought by the mercenary army, and now these are trembling on it, I don't know what these people are going to do to them. On the platform, there are Kong Ming, Yi Yiyi, Che Qi and several division commanders. Behind them were several saint-level powerhouses, and this time the oath meeting was presided over by Che Qi.

"Today, we, the Third Army of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, are holding a swearing-in meeting here......"

The whole conference lasted for an hour, and finally came to Kong Ming to speak. I saw Kong Ming walking to the front desk to place the magic amplification.

"Brothers, you should know by now what happened, this is something we don't want to see, and although I don't want to say it, I can't help but repeat what happened once again. Yesterday, January 3, 1015, about 600,000 men of Harvey's 7th Army attacked Wencheng. After the enemy entered Wencheng, the civilians of Wencheng were cleansed, and according to reliable information, about 20,000 civilians were arrested and killed, and the purge is still ongoing. From today's Harvey Imperial newspaper, we have clearly seen the truth of the whole matter, after the news that the Seventh Army of the Harvey Empire captured the city, it declared, "More than 30,000 enemies were annihilated and more than 50,000 were captured." In other words, there are now 30,000 civilians in Wencheng who have been slaughtered by these bastards, and more than 50,000 people have been captured by them, which has become the battle exploits of Harvey's Seventh Legion.

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill them!"

Above the entire square, there was a shout, and all the pain in the hearts of all the mercenaries was vented in this shout, after all, most of them came out of Wencheng, and their relatives were in Wencheng.

Those who came to watch the ceremony immediately understood that the purpose of this pledge meeting was not only to show force to these people in the city, but more importantly, to go out to Wencheng and fight to the death with Harvey's Seventh Legion. They were merely invited to testify. In other words, they are almost equivalent to being tied to the chariot of the mercenary army in disguise, you must know that they are present at this oath meeting. At this time, they saw Kong Ming make a downward posture with his hand, and the mercenaries stopped.

"Yesterday, when I learned of this matter, I had already ordered all columns and armies of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, except for the one far north of Songjiang, to assemble in the northeast of Wencheng on January 10. We're going to have a decisive battle with Harvey's Seventh Army there. We have sent an invitation to the Seventh Army Corps, and they have also replied, at ten o'clock in the morning of January 11th, a decisive battle will be fought to the death outside the northeast of Wencheng!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

Another shout was heard over the square, and these mercenaries had thought that Kong Ming would avoid the battle because the strength of the Seventh Legion was too strong. Or use this as an opportunity for them to conquer more cities, which can be regarded as comforting their wounded hearts. But what he never expected was that Kong Ming was going to fight to the death with Harvey's Seventh Legion. To solve this problem by a method similar to suicide, success will result in a great loss of troops, and failure will result in the annihilation of the entire army. It's a big gamble, in other words, it's an all-or-nothing gamble.

"We want to let these animals know that they only do to women, children and the elderly. The Seventh Legion is nothing more than a bunch of villains who can only deceive the world, hooligans. We want to let the nobles of the Harvey Empire know that we not only have swords in our hands, but also defend our homeland with swords, and we want the whole continent to know about it. We are warriors fighting for freedom, and we need to defend our homeland. Polishing our long swords, let us point our swords at Wencheng! ”

"No piece of armor left!"

"No piece of armor left!"

"No piece of armor left!"

"No piece of armor left!"

"Forward!" Kong Ming finally ordered directly, and the mercenary army began to leave the city with command, which had only been occupied for a day.

"A sword with armor, a wand cloak,

We are mercenaries who walk deep in the mountains and mountains,

Fierce dragon fighting, poking and fighting monsters,

We are mercenaries on the edge of the sword,

Never thought about what these are for,

I've never seen the end of these aftermaths,

Maybe one day we will also die in this situation,

Maybe we will talk about the story in front of our children and grandchildren,

It was our wonderful mercenary career,

This is the style of our mercenaries,

This qiē, just because,

We are a free people,

This qiē, just because,

We are a group of brave mercenaries,

Forward, forward,

Wielding a sword and waving a wand,

Forward, forward,

For our freedom,

A qiē is all for the release of freedom,

A qiē is all about fighting for freedom,

We are mercenaries. ”

The mercenary song was sung from the mouth of one person, then three or five people, then one hundred and eighty people, and then the entire three armies sang the mercenary song, with a trace of sadness in the loud singing, and even more with a lot of firmness. The song of the mercenaries was sung from the square of the City Lord's Mansion all the way, and the entire city did not stop. The majesty and heroism of the song made many young mercenaries in the city excited, and many mercenaries joined the mercenary army that day.

Wencheng City Lord's Mansion, Zhao Wu couldn't help but feel refreshed after receiving Kong Ming's decisive battle book, you must know that the combat effectiveness of the two armies is too far apart, so the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army wants to avoid the Seventh Legion, but now it is only 30,000 civilians slaughtered in Wencheng, so let the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army take the initiative to come and fight, this is a good opportunity for him to make a name for himself, until now he is still grateful to the military advisor who taught him to do this, if he didn't say that he would arrest and kill these people, it would be so easy to lure the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army over. Thinking of Emperor Harvey's commendation, he wanted to laugh until now, knowing that he had been notified to prepare to go into the wilderness before, who would have thought that he would directly save the position of the commander of the army without a little effort.

The Fifth Legion Legion Headquarters, Alexander just wanted to leave, but received an order from the Imperial Military Department to continue to deal with the current mercenaries in the Fifth Legion, and the Seventh Legion continued to be led by Zhao Wu. This made the matter that the two had just discussed suddenly come to naught, and he didn't know why for a while. It wasn't until he got the report in his hand that he informed the results of the Seventh Legion that he understood what was going on, but he always couldn't understand why the intelligence only wrote the records of the Seventh Legion, but not the losses of the Seventh Legion. At this time, Zhang Yiming, who had a gloomy face, walked in from outside.

"What's wrong?" Alexander asked.

"I'm sighing, Zhao Wu is really a bastard. As a wise man, Zhang Yiming rarely has such words.

"Hehe, isn't it just that we didn't go, and it's not too late to go after a while. You must know that he is not an opponent of Kong Ming. Alexander said with a smile, he was also happy at the victory of the Seventh Legion, although his plan was a little frustrated, but it was not to the point of jealousy of Zhao Wu.

"That's not what I'm talking about, didn't you see something from the briefing?" Zhang Yiming's voice was still the same low.

"Casualties?" Alexander, the only one in the briefing, could not explain.

"That's right. 30,000 enemies were destroyed and 50,000 were captured. But there is no loss of its own. Is this normal?"

"It's not normal, but what does that mean?" Alexander humbly asked.

That means that these 80,000 people are civilians, and they didn't resist at all during the whole process! In other words, they were slaughtering civilians as a war merit. Zhang Yiming finally shed tears, and anyone who knew this situation would apologize to these civilians. Except for cold-blooded people like Zhao Wu.

Alexander couldn't help but gasp, in the past, there have been many cases of slaughtering civilians as combat merits. However, in general, the massacre of civilians of hostile countries is carried out. This is rarely the case for civilians in their own countries.

"Zhao Wu is finished, the Seventh Legion is finished!" Zhang Yiming sighed.

"Why do you say that?"

"There is a saying that mourning soldiers will win!" Zhang Yiming said.

On the way to Wencheng, the sad expression on Yiyiyi's face has not disappeared, Wencheng's affairs have hit her too hard, and for a while, she can't get out, but she can't figure it out, why Kong Ming wants to fight such a battle, you must know that Kong Ming has always been a very careful person, although he often takes risks, but it usually seems dangerous, but in fact it is not dangerous, and now, in order to avenge 30,000 people, but let the 500,000 army take such a big risk, isn't it worth it? With this question, Yi Yiyi asked Kong Ming.

"Although our mercenary army is far from Harvey's Seventh Legion, it is only because of the factors of training and treatment, the difference between the number and the combat effectiveness of a single soldier is not very far, but it takes more training and combat to smooth these out, which takes time. However, the Wencheng incident made this situation unexpected. As soon as this incident came out, most of our mercenaries were from Wencheng, if we restricted their actions, then our actions would inevitably be resisted by other places in the future, and this time was the time when these soldiers were the most sad, they needed to vent these feelings, this is not something we can solve with a few words, and it is not something we can suppress. The only way is for them to let this breath out, so that it can be smooth. The Art of War: The mourning soldiers will win. That's the case. In other words, with a similar number of troops, we have a better chance of winning. It's just that I don't know how many people we need to make these feelings work out of their power. ”

On the afternoon of January 10, 1015, ten kilometers outside Wencheng, nearly 500,000 mercenaries were gathered here. It is far away from Wencheng, but the current Wencheng wall has already been demolished by the mercenary army, and there is no difference between Wencheng and the mercenary army without the city wall.

In the tent of the headquarters of the mercenary army, all the army commanders, column commanders, and division commanders have now come here, and today they are going to arrange the process and procedures of the entire battle.

"Now that all of us have arrived, we have a meeting, I think everyone knows about the affairs of Wencheng, have you reported this situation to the whole army as I said?" Kong Ming asked.

"It's all informed!"

"It's all informed!"

"It's all informed!"

All the army commanders and column commanders replied.

"I know a lot of people are not optimistic about this fight, I know it's not going to be easy, but we have to fight. First, if we don't fight this battle, then the 400,000 Wencheng disciples under our command will lose confidence in us, and there will be more possibility of running away in the future; second, if we don't fight this battle, these sad feelings in our army will not be able to be effectively brought into play; and third, we will have an explanation for the dead. There is only victory in this battle, not defeat!" Kong Ming said resolutely.

Tomorrow morning, at six o'clock in the morning, all the troops will be assembled outside the barracks, and the troops will be arranged in the shape of the battle formation, with the first army on the left side of the entire mercenary army, the second army on the left side of the center, the third army on the right side of the second army, and the fourth army on the right side of the entire army; the first column on the left rear of the first army, interspersing the enemy at any time; the second column on the right rear of the fourth army, also interspersing the enemy at any time. All men must listen to orders, this is the first time we have really confronted the enemy, and this battle can only be won, not lost. If you have any questions, ask them quickly. ”

"Commander, what time will the battle start tomorrow?" Lu Hai asked. This is a concern for everyone.

"They say it's going to start at 10 o'clock, but it's better for us, as masters, to get to the battlefield first. Kong Ming explained.

"Commander, how many times do we have a chance of winning now?" Li Yao continued. Many division commanders are in meetings with Kong Ming for the first time, and they can't speak much, so it's usually these few people who have been fighting side by side with Kong Ming.

"It would be nice to say that before we left Wencheng, we had a one-tier chance of winning, and it would be good if we had a two-tier chance of winning before this thing happened, but after this one thing happened, we had a ten-tier chance of winning. ”

Kong Ming said, although this sentence is a bit big, but these people who have been fighting with Kong Ming know that if Kong Ming says that it is a ten-layer chance of winning, then it will be a ten-layer chance, although they have also deduced many times and are failures, but some things really can't be calculated, just like this battle, many of them have calculated countless times, but the result is only a defeat, no sign of victory, and now Kong Ming said that there is a ten-layer chance of winning, and their hearts suddenly lit up, this is out of a blind worship of Kong Ming's individual, but also a kind of trust in Kong Ming。 Therefore, once Kong Ming said the words of the ten layers of odds, they didn't ask anything more, they knew that Kong Ming would arrange a qiē.

"I know what everybody thinks, and I know intellectually that we shouldn't fight this battle because we're not as good as the trained, because we're not as good as the people, because we're not as good as the people, because we're not as good as the people, but on the other side we have to fight this battle, and we have to win this battle, because it's our home field, and as long as we win the first battle, then you will find that we will win the whole battle. Kong Ming said firmly.

"The mourning soldiers will win!" Kong Ming then added. (To be continued......)

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