Nobody likes war.

It is the businessmen who feel the war the most.

No matter what kind of item is rising rapidly, even the most basic firewood, rice, oil and salt have become hoarded items, although the effect of Zhu Yucao is very powerful, enough to make people go without eating for a month, but Liu Ye can't refuse the delicious meat and fish soup that he never gets tired of drinking.

Liu Ye went out with Qingjiu in the morning, and when he came back, he carried a fat crucian carp, but the gold bracelet that he had worn on his wrist for a long time was missing.

Looking at the crucian carp still fluttering in the basin, Liu Ye suddenly remembered that by the lake in the dungeon, during the picnic, the old mother took out the soup spoon and let herself sing the saltiness of the first bite of fish soup.

"I'm going to make a fish soup so I can quench my thirst even if I'm not hungry." She rushed into the kitchen excitedly, Qingjiu had a little smile on her face, there are not many girls who can cook now.

The courtyard is mostly a courtyard house, and the kitchen is in the west direction.

Qingjiu leaned against the kitchen door, watching her hurriedly pick up firewood to make a fire, and couldn't help scratching her head, feeling that her estimate was wrong, but she didn't drink it for herself anyway, and she didn't think it was ridiculous for girls to cook clumsily.

It didn't take long for the fish soup to be cooked.

Jiang Qiu finished his daily morning homework, and ended his morning exercise with the children who were willing to practice martial arts with him, and saw Liu Ye carefully staring at the mouth of the bowl like a thief, for fear of spilling a drop of fish soup.

This is the first bowl of delicious fish soup to come out of the pot.

Liu Ye handed it to Jiang Qiu, raised his arm, wiped the firewood ash from his beautiful little face with his sleeve, and stared at Jiang Qiu's mouth with his good-looking eyes open, full of expectation and nervousness, "Master, how about you taste it?" ”

Having survived in the wild for a long time, it is naturally excellent to be able to drink the warm fish soup made by the girls themselves, Jiang Qiu took a few sips, and praised with a smile: "It's a pity that it's not spicy enough, of course, this is only my personal little habit, I prefer spicy food, even if it's fish soup, I have to put some chili sauce to taste." ”

It's a very casual sentence, and most of the meanings are still praise, but this little princess of Tianyang City is cooking food independently for the first time in her life, and she is vaguely aware of some other meanings in the words, so she is not very happy.

Liu Ye took a few sips of a bowl of fish soup, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she said in a low voice: "Master, it's worse than what you usually eat?" ”

"Everyone in the city is in danger, I went out just now, and I saw the old man exercising on the side of the road carrying a knife, and it would be good to have a bite to eat."

Jiang Qiu drank all the soup in the bowl, came to Min's side, shared a piece of fish with him, and said vaguely: "My girlfriend's cooking level is not very good, and it is the same taste when she eats it, but I know that I like spicy food, every time I eat noodles or crayfish, or fried shredded potatoes, it is half a plate of chili." ”

Liu Ye keenly noticed that he mentioned his girlfriend, and cooked for him more than once, thinking about Jiang Qiu's gaffe after getting drunk last night, it turned out that the master wanted to cry like himself, raised his head and said seriously: "I will do better and better." ”

After drinking the fish soup, Liu Ye went to find Little Huya and Long Legs, shared with them what he saw and heard, as well as the landscape paintings Jiang Qiu painted along the way, and took out the portrait stone he carved for her very stinky.

The two little girls glanced at each other, and both sensed that something seemed to be wrong in each other's eyes.

Jiang Qiu chatted with Wang Sun for a few words, came to the buffalo, circled around him a few times, and said a few strange words.

For example, if you look at this thigh, it seems that there is a little more meat.

This trotter must be delicious, and the cowhide is good, so it can be sold for a good price.

Min was noncommittal about this, and kept chewing the fish, squinting at Wang Sun who was looking at the sky in a daze.

At the end of the chat, Jiang Qiu took out a pencil, and didn't mind the humble conditions, according to the route of starting from Broken Slope City, all the way north, arriving at Zhaoyao Peak and then returning to the city, he drew everything he saw and heard in the form of paintings.

Qingjiu is also a wonderful person, and according to the mountains and rivers drawn by Jiang Qiu, he began to sketch a map.

One vertical and one horizontal, the latest orientation map and mountain distribution map of the Thousand Islands Plain are depicted more clearly.

The glow of the warm autumn sun on the sky dome was occasionally blocked by tall buildings, and when I was tired of painting, I raised my head to see the colored clouds reflected in the glass, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

Qingjiu smiled and asked, "Have you ever learned to draw?" ”

"I haven't learned." Jiang Qiu rubbed his sour wrist, "It's just self-study, I was just curious at first, but then I found that it was easy to get started, and it was difficult to draw well, so I felt that I shouldn't be at this level, and I persisted for a long time in anger, and the level became higher and higher." ”

Qingjiu said: "Then you must be a person who does not admit defeat in your bones." ”

Jiang Qiu said: "It's okay to say whether you accept defeat or not, I'm just thinking about which side will take the initiative to attack, and how to attack?" ”

Jiang Qiu came to Qingjiu's side, thought about it, and called all the children who were interested, and Min also came over curiously, which became their common habit in the future.

Jiang Qiu pointed to the map, the north side of Broken Slope City, "The terrain here is flat, surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is the best place for offensive and defensive battles, the western and eastern terrain of Broken Slope City is relatively broken, and some rivers are very deep, thinking that the white bones cannot cross the river on horseback." ”

This was a simple operational meeting, and of course, they were not the main force of the operation, but only speculated on local actions.

Qingjiu was born in the military, obviously looking higher and farther than Jiang Qiu, who was knowledgeable and inexperienced, and silently nodded at the location of Huangdao in the north, and his voice was very strong and dull, "There is a large forest here. ”

"In ancient times, there was a kind of siege vehicle, there was also a kind of catapult, which had a great destructive power on the city wall, if we made some more unbelievable weapons, the three-meter-high city wall could not stop the enemy's attack at all, we could only pull out the battle line and turn it into an offensive battle."

Jiang Qiu smiled and asked, "Unbelievable? Compared to human firearms and ammunition, catapults are unbelievable and have a limit. ”

Qingjiu didn't agree with this sentence, "But the defenders in the city are only 60,000, and the second ancestor of the city lord Lin Mofei stopped Liu Yangming's army expansion plan." ”

Qingjiu held up a finger, "We don't have an advantage in numbers, and even fewer of us can go out of the city to fight, we can only send 10,000, and as long as the troops leave the island where Broken Slope City is located, the speed of trucks moving between islands is completely inferior to that of horses." ”

Qingjiu raised another finger, "Second, the situation of weapons and ammunition is not optimistic, according to past experience, two or three hundred bullets can kill an enemy, which is already very good, and now the city has begun to collect iron tools to remelt into weapons." ”

"The most important point." Qingjiu's expression was solemn, "The enemy is not without wisdom, this is the most terrifying, war is not an online game where you fight me and I fight you, and you can't analyze strength through data comparison." ”

Jiang Qiu asked, "What about the tank?" And what about armored vehicles? What about heavy machine guns? These weapons almost ended the era of cavalry. ”

Qingjiu thought for a moment, "If I'm an enemy commander, what ...... first step?"

"Poisoning."

"The biggest dilemma in Broken Slope City is that there are more than 1.5 million people, and it is a huge expense to eat and drink Lazar every day, and there will always be people who surrender in order to live with enough food to live, and become an internal response."

"It's really a troublesome and difficult point to deal with." Jiang Qiu agreed.

Qingjiu continued: "The second step, surround but not kill, fight psychological warfare, and then go to deal with the kind of orcs that can fly, and strive to pull the orcs over, so that the orcs who can fly will attack the Broken Slope City indiscriminately every day, as long as the people panic, the Broken Slope City will not be attacked." ”

"The third step is to persuade them to surrender, taking advantage of the weakness of the senior officers of Broken Slope City who are afraid of fear and timidity, and who are in high positions and dare not die easily, to coerce and lure their families and force them to fall to the white bone soldiers at a critical moment."

"Step 4 is the most interesting."

The more Qingjiu spoke, the more excited he became, and the more the observers listened, the more silent they became.

"Humans can't leave the water, but they can't have too much water, so they can build a dam in the upper reaches of Broken Slope City, and it doesn't need to be too strong, only ice superpowers or magicians, orcs who can use earth and ice abilities to intercept the water, according to the amount of water poured by the sea, it only needs to be accumulated for half a month, and then the dam will collapse in one fell swoop, and the slope city can be flooded."

"The overall topography of the Thousand Islands Plain is subsiding and below sea level, so after four steps, there will be another general attack, and the city will not be able to resist it."

Jiang Qiu was silent for a long time and scratched his face, "From this point of view, you seem to be quite scary. ”

Qingjiu smiled shyly, "That's why I don't like to study my abilities so much, and I like the art of war even more." ”

As for the ability to lead troops into battle, Jiang Qiu has seen that Qingjiu led people who had never undergone any training to resist the white bone cavalry, although it was a rout, but he still had the strength to launch a counterattack, and combined with today's words, he looked like a handsome man with courage and strategy.

Jiang Qiu continued the topic, "So if I am the commander of the human race, if I want to solve the dilemma, we can't afford to lose a large-scale battle, as long as we lose once, the city of Broken Slope will be broken, then we need to establish an elite team, go straight to the local command camp, first knock out the opponent's headquarters, and delay its offensive rhythm." ”

"As long as it is dragged to Tianyang City to help, there is almost a month to a month and a half, and the battle robots in Tianyang City can carry out a massacre, and there will be no suspense in the battle."

"Secondly, it is to win over the orcs, at least not to make them biased towards the white bone soldiers."

Speaking of this, Jiang Qiu suddenly remembered why Chu Shen Youchu would set off in the direction of the palace, why he said that he was going to challenge the strong, and he also understood that on the way back, he would see an elite squad unscathed and eliminate the white bone soldiers of the hundred-man team.

Both sides are trying to drain as much of the enemy's living force as possible for the final battle.

Jiang Qiu said with a smile: "It's a pity that we are not commanders, even if we participate in the war, we are just nobodies and cannon fodder." ”

Qingjiu shook his head, "Maybe we can do something meaningful." ”

Jiang Qiu raised his eyebrows slightly, "For example?" ”

"Let's go woo the orcs, for example."

The Salvation Picture seems to be playing out again at this moment, in a courtyard house, among the few adults who are still active among a large group of children, who are just nobodies in the war where hundreds of thousands of people gather.

But they have the skills and the strength, so they wonder if they can do something about it.

Qingjiu's impression of Jiang Qiu at this moment was exactly the same as when the two first met, at that time, Qingjiu returned to Broken Slope City with the team, and would sneak out every night to harass the white bone cavalry, and never make a noise, and finish things in obscurity, this time Qingjiu still had the same idea, since this is a means to break the game, I don't need praise from others, and I don't need you to pay anything, just because I need to do this, I should do it.

Jiang Qiu asked the question that many people would ask, "Why?" ”

Suddenly, there were quarrels, beatings, and shrill screams outside the courtyard, as if a bloody incident had been staged.

The cause may be very simple, maybe it is just for a steamed bun, or the simplest way to receive daily necessities but because of the queue quarrel, which eventually turned into a fight, but no matter what the reason, the people in the courtyard have no intention of going out to watch the play.

The children and a buffalo gathered solemnly around the table, and the rest of the dozens of people half-lay and half-sat in the courtyard, as if they thought this small-scale discussion was very interesting, and examined these people with the mind of watching the play, especially the two people who talked exaggerated and even had a kind of paper talk.

Qingjiu seemed surprised that Jiang Qiu would ask such a question, "No, why, because I want to live, everyone wants to live, and since I want to live, I have to pay something for it." ”

"People who go to work pay their energy and time in exchange for money, pigs, cattle and sheep need to face the attack of wild animals in order to eat fat aquatic plants, and small grasses need to pay the risk of being eaten by herbivores in order to grow."

Qingjiu said honestly: "The first time I became a magician, someone told me that in fact, a magician must have a balance of collection and release, to achieve a balance, just like the two poles of yin and yang, both are indispensable, in order to make the body of the small world complete, not to get lost in the process of finding oneself, and to have enough strength when paving the road." ”

Jiang Qiu's heart moved.

It seems to be a kind of backward study of the cultivation realm, and it sounds very reasonable.

Jiang Qiu asked, "Who told you?" ”

Qingjiu smiled: "My squad leader." ”

"Where are the people now? I'll definitely pay him a visit when I have the chance. ”

"Dead."

"Uh...... I'm sorry. ”

Qingjiu smiled and shook his head, "In a war, the old squad leader who taught me how to survive on the battlefield, how not to be hit by bullets on the way to charge, and how not to be hit by stray bullets when I escaped, was hit in the back by the enemy during a retreat. ”

"I don't have much reason or emotion to be sad, I just think that he is too fragile, his death is too inexplicable, and it feels unreal."

Qingjiu continued, "I want to start a guild, since you also have this idea, why don't you take this opportunity to expand our influence?" ”

Jiang Qiu shrugged his shoulders, "There is only one broken table in this small courtyard, isn't the place where it was established a little shabby?" ”

Qingjiu shook his head, looked at the children around him, and said with a smile: "At least we have witnesses. ”

Jiang Qiu continued: "So we haven't thought of the name of our guild yet, so we have a collective action?" There will also be a collective dispatch of the two largest officials in the guild. ”

Qingjiu laughed heroically, "It's just this trip that allows us to get more familiar with each other." ”

Two strangers who don't really know each other very well, and they feel like good friends with each other, which is a wonderful feeling, and it makes no sense to talk about it.

Tang Mo, the little boy who first asked Jiang Qiu to help his parents build a well-dressed mound, asked, "Can I join?" ”

Jiang Qiu looked around, the thirteen little boys who were the most determined and had not fallen behind for a day of cultivation had never left, looking at Jiang Qiu and Qingjiu expectantly.

Jiang Qiu pondered for a while and agreed to the matter, "Then you can be used as a reserve team member, waiting for you to be eighteen...... At the age of sixteen, you can officially join the union, and after that, whether it is revenge or a happy life, it's all up to you. ”

Jiang Qiu looked up at the sky, no longer the drunken gaffe of last night, because of the anger of being humiliated and the desire to become stronger and take revenge, he didn't need to sink, he didn't need to be comforted, he just wanted to cry after getting drunk, and the next day he could straighten his waist and say to God: "I will defeat you." ”

Are there gods in the world?

Jiang Qiu didn't know.

Is there such a thing as God in the world?

Jiang Qiu didn't know.

But after his family disappeared, Jiang Qiu thought he existed, and felt that God was very unfair.

For this reason, Jiang Qiu said softly in the small courtyard where he should have been ambitious: "Then we will set off tonight, whether we succeed or not, whether we do it or not, whether we do it or not, is our business." ”

When the words fell, Jiang Qiu clearly felt that there was some kind of change in his body, as if there was a meridian that kept widening, and the qi between heaven and earth poured into his body, and then followed this path that continued to deepen and lengthen to the part of his heart.

Jiang Qiu had a kind of enlightenment.

Broaden and multiply the path in the body, find the way in which your heart and spirit belong, and let the heart and spirit become one.

Is that so?

Immediately, Jiang Qiu's face was strange, and he said to himself: "But I'm not even a fourth-level magician, why did I feel the scenery of a third-level magician early?" ”

Qingjiu didn't notice Jiang Qiu's strange change, but asked, "Since you chose to win over the orcs, do you have a general range or goal?" ”

Qingjiu said: "I have a few goals, they are all beasts I have encountered, they are not strong, and their attitude towards humans can only be said to be in a balanced state, not friendly or repulsive, you can fight for it." ”

Jiang Qiu's mind flashed the appearance of the corpse dog for the first time, and his eyebrows raised slightly, "I have a goal that is not suitable but very useful, I just hope you don't have some moral cleanliness." ”

Outside the courtyard, the quarrel seemed to escalate and began to devolve into a large-scale conflict.

There is only one way to resolve conflicts, and that is absolute authority.

Wang Sun, who was in a daze, didn't seem to like a noisy environment, he looked up at the sky, and vaguely remembered a grassland, a girl, but he couldn't remember the name of the grassland, the girl's appearance, and he was very unhappy when his memories were interrupted.

Wang Sun doesn't like to kill people, but when he is unhappy, he likes to do things that are very ordinary and think they are reasonable.

Wang Sun sat in the courtyard and slapped lightly outside the courtyard.

The people who were still arguing outside the courtyard were silent.

It's like encountering an annoying mosquito while sleeping and slapping it to death, smelling the smell of blood, a color appeared in Wang Sun's eyes, which was completely different from killing people and being indifferent, but a look of compassion and pain, and he blamed himself: "Why did you kill people again." ”

But after only a second, he reverted to his indifferent demeanor, "It's just a mosquito." ”

Qingjiu and Jiang Qiu glanced at each other, and they both saw some kind of worry in each other's eyes.

Jiang Qiu raised his head, looked at the head that had been hung up by Wang Sun under the eaves and had been air-dried, and sighed softly.

It's better not to look forward to the unknown.