Seeing that King Beixian was killed by Lu Chen's shot, Xiao Pengtian suddenly felt a chill in his back.

Sure enough, it was the same as he thought......

The strange weapon like a stick in the North King's hand was as terrifying as the thunderbolt.

Although the King of Beixian is relatively old, he is also a grandmaster!

A grandmaster, who didn't even see the face of the enemy, was killed by someone so far away.

Terrible!

It's horrible!!

At this time, Xiao Pengtian was a little lucky, fortunately he had already taken refuge in the North King, if he had a crooked mind last time when he left Beijun and returned to the Heavenly Wolf King Tribe, he directly claimed the king in the Heavenly Wolf King Tribe, and ran away with the Heavenly Wolf King Tribe, and did not come to the Northern County.

Then maybe he will meet the North King's army on the battlefield in the future, and then the North King will give him a shot like this.

As soon as he thought of the huge blood hole in the chest of the King of Beixian, Xiao Pengtian felt a tingling pain in his chest.

He didn't want to be bombarded by these horrific weapons in Northshire anymore.

At this time, Lu Chen turned his head to look at Xiao Pengtian and said, "General Xiao, I'll trouble you to clean up the mess next." ”

After hearing Lu Chen's voice, Xiao Pengtian recovered from the shock, and he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Obey the order!" ”

Since Xiao Pengtian joined Beijun, Lu Chen has recruited some barbarian soldiers from the Heavenly Wolf King tribe, there are not many people, but there are also seven or eight thousand.

Many of these seven or eight thousand people were scouts, mainly to help Lu Chen control every move of the entire Northland Grassland, but there were also five thousand light cavalry.

Xiao Pengtian has already taken refuge in himself, he can't leave Xiao Pengtian with no soldiers at all, let him be a bare-bones general, how can he be loyal to himself, so the five thousand barbarian light cavalry Lu Chen will be handed over to Xiao Pengtian to lead.

Lu Chen also saw that Xiao Pengtian and the five thousand barbarian soldiers had always wanted a chance, a chance to show their loyalty to themselves.

Originally, Lu Chen could directly let the black cavalry rush in to end the battle, but Lu Chen finally decided to give Xiao Pengtian a chance.

Only when they have the blood of the barbarians on their hands can they feel at ease, and they can also reassure the rest of the people in the North County, and then these barbarian light cavalry can more easily integrate into the army of the North County.

After receiving Lu Chen's order, Xiao Pengtian jumped up and jumped directly from the city wall, and then led his five thousand light cavalry to charge directly towards the army of the King of Beixian.

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall no longer threw thunder, and the infantry phalanx of the northern county began to surround them, while the black cavalry led by Wen Renlie and Xuanyuan Chen did not enter the battlefield.

The black cavalry led by them stood guard at the gate of the city, indifferently watching everything that was happening in front of them.

When the soldiers of the King of Beixian saw that their kings were already dead, and that the soldiers of the Northern County had surrounded them, they were all pale and at a loss for what to do.

At this time, they saw a light cavalry rushing out in the distance, and as soon as they saw this light cavalry, the barbarian soldiers of the King of Beixian knew that they could not escape.

Seeing that the five thousand barbarian light cavalry led by Xiao Pengtian was about to come into direct contact with the barbarian army of the King of Beixian, a barbarian general of the King of Beixian suddenly said loudly: "We surrender!! Don't kill me!!! ”

Hearing this, Xiao Pengtian's horse almost didn't stop, he was going to swing the knife directly, but the other party said that he had surrendered???

After hearing the barbarian general's words, the other barbarian soldiers instantly came back to their senses, and they hurriedly discarded the weapons in their hands, then got off their horses and knelt on the ground.

This!!!

Xiao Pengtian suddenly became angry.

It stands to reason that the surrender of the barbarians is a great thing for the North County, after all, they can reduce casualties and no more dead people.

After all, it is a war, no matter whether the advantage on the battlefield is big or not, as long as it is a close battle, people will inevitably die, and in the last battle of the Wanning River Valley, Beijun still died tens of thousands of people when he achieved such a big advantage.

If the army of the King of Beixian had not surrendered, not to mention tens of thousands, it would have been certain that thousands of people would have died anyway.

With such a large reduction in casualties all of a sudden, Lu Chen, as the ruler, was of course happy, but Xiao Pengtian and the five thousand light cavalry he led did not look good.

Grandma's, they were about to kill the barbarians to show their loyalty to the king of the north, but the group of guys surrendered.

If they surrendered, how could they still have the blood of the barbarians on their hands to show their loyalty to the king of the north?

Xiao Pengtian looked at the barbarian general in front of him with a dark face, although he was very unhappy, Xiao Pengtian still said: "You have made the right choice!" ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Pengtian snorted coldly, and then said to the soldiers behind him: "Clean up the battlefield!" ”

Seeing that the barbarian soldiers had all laid down their weapons, Mu Changtian and the others on the city tower couldn't help but sigh.

This is the change of war brought about by gunpowder.

If it was before, even if the barbarian army of the hundreds of thousands of Beixian Kings was surrounded, they would definitely struggle desperately and find a way to break out of the encirclement.

But now it's different, being bombed by a thunderbolt like this, they only have fear in their hearts, and what is the will to fight there.

Such a big war ended with zero casualties in North County.

If this kind of result is reported, the imperial court will definitely not believe it.

Not to mention that the imperial court wouldn't believe it, even the soldiers of Beijun stood on the city tower, and they felt like a dream now.

That's an army of hundreds of thousands of barbarians!

As a result, none of them died! This has never happened before in history.

At this time, Mu Changtian came to Lu Chen's face, and then asked, "Lord Wang, how to write this battle report?" ”

If the battle report of zero casualties reaches the imperial court, those officials in the imperial court will definitely not believe it, so there is no need to think about it.

They don't believe it, if they really let the imperial court know that they have zero casualties, they will definitely try to find out how Beijun managed to face an army of more than 100,000 barbarians and still have zero casualties, which is not a good thing for Beijun.

So this battle report is not so easy to write.

Hearing Mu Changtian's question, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said: "I took off the clothes of those barbarian soldiers to this king, and replaced them with the clothes worn by the soldiers of Beijun." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Chen turned his head to the Jinyi Wei Qianhu on the side and said, "Go to Yancheng and let Lin Xiuming bring the 20,000 cavalry of the imperial court to Tianguang City in half a month, just say that the war is very tragic and needs their help." ”

"Yes, lord."

The words fell, and the brocade-clothed guard Qianhu left the city tower.

Listening to Lu Chen's words, Mu Changtian and the others were a little confused, what did the prince want to do?

At this moment, Wen Renlie and Xuanyuan Chen jumped up directly from the horses outside the city and jumped onto the city tower.

At this time, Lu Chen said to Xuanyuan Chen and Wen Renlie: "General Xuanyuan, General Wenren, you directly take 40,000 heavy cavalry to escort these barbarian captives back to the Yancheng garrison. ”

Xuanyuan Chen and Wen Renlie immediately said: "Yes, Lord Wang! ”

Lu Chen continued: "The king of Beixian led an army of 200,000 to the south, and the king led 50,000 black cavalry to fight with the barbarian army, with more than 40,000 black cavalry killed and wounded, and countless ordinary soldiers killed and wounded. ”

Hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone instantly understood Lu Chen's intentions, Lu Chen was planning to conceal the military situation!

Look at me, and I'll look at you.

When others conceal military information, they are eager to report their military exploits to the sky, and they are eager to say that they have killed hundreds of thousands of barbarian soldiers.

But they concealed the military information, and instead faked that their soldiers had suffered a large number of casualties.

Lu Chen sighed at this time and said, "If there are no enemies in the north, this king will not have a good time in the future." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Chen glanced at the barbarian captives of the Beixian King in the distance.

The Heavenly Wolf King tribe in the North is gone, and now the army of the King of Beixian has also been defeated, and now there is no big enemy in the North County.

If there is no enemy in North County, then does North County still need 150,000 troops?

Once they reported that the King of Beixian had been destroyed by them, the next thing the imperial court had to do was definitely to find a way to reduce the number of soldiers in Beijun.

Therefore, this battle exploit will definitely not be able to be truthfully reported.

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Mu Changtian and the others also understood what Lu Chen meant.

Indeed, if Beijun does not have the enemy of the King of Beixian, and there is no threat from the barbarians, then the number of 150,000 soldiers in Beijun will become a thorn in the side of the imperial court, and the imperial court will try its best to reduce the number of troops in Beijun in the future.

Of course, they can also choose to hide the army and conceal the number of troops, but Lu Chen doesn't plan to be so troublesome, even if he hides it again, as long as Beijun has no enemies, the court's attention will be on him.

Other people's attention is on you, no matter how much you hide the number of troops, it is useless, the best way is to let those in the imperial court who are full of food and have nothing to do not keep an eye on the army of Beijun.

Now that it is reported that 40,000 heavy cavalry have died in Beijun, the imperial court will definitely no longer think that there are still tens of thousands of heavy cavalry in Beijun.

Even if their heavy armor is still there, it takes a lot of time to train heavy cavalry, not that you can exert the combat effectiveness of heavy cavalry if you put on heavy armor.

In addition, there are still barbarians in the Northland, so the imperial court will naturally no longer take the North County in its eyes, or it won't be long before people will shift their attention to other places.

Mu Changtian said at this time: "Lord Wang, Lin Xiuming may be able to see that those people wearing Great Xia clothes are barbarians. ”

Mu Changtian thought that Lu Chen had changed all the clothes of the barbarian soldiers' corpses, and then asked Lin Xiuming to clean up the battlefield with an army of 20,000 and clean up the corpses.

If this is the case, then Lu Chen's plan will not be exposed.

Although the barbarians and the Great Xia people look similar, they are also slightly different, people like them who have fought with the barbarians, they can tell at a glance whether this person is a barbarian soldier or not.

Although Lin Xiuming is young, he is also a person who has fought several battles with the barbarians in the Northland, even if he picks off the barbarians' clothes, he can recognize whether this person is a barbarian or not.

If this was seen by Lin Xiuming, when he wrote a battle report and sent it up, wouldn't Lu Chen's plan be in vain?

Hearing Mu Changtian's words, Lu Chen said with a smile: "General Mu, do you think that this king asked Lin Xiuming and the 20,000 troops of the imperial court to collect the corpses?" ”

Mu Changtian was stunned for a moment?

Isn't that so?

If Lin Xiuming, a general sent by the imperial court, was not allowed to take a look at the dead people in person, how could anyone believe their battle reports at that time?

Mu Changtian also thought that Lu Chen deliberately asked Lin Xiuming and the imperial army to clean up the battlefield, and then let them know that many of their soldiers had died.

Lu Chen said lightly: "Don't be so troublesome, just bury all these corpses." ”

"This king asked Lin Xiuming to come over, just to let the court know that the situation in Beijun is not optimistic."

"The snow is getting heavier and heavier, there is snow everywhere, Lin Xiuming is coming to Tianguang City with an army of 20,000 from the imperial court, it is impossible to come to Tianguang City without ten days and half a month, plus this king has asked Lin Xiuming to come to Tianguang City in half a month, how can it take a month for Lin Xiuming to arrive in Tianguang City."

"When they arrive in Tianguang City, the corpses of these barbarian soldiers have been frozen into ice mounds, how can they be allowed to clean up the battlefield, when the time comes, they want to verify whether the battle report of Beijun is true or false, let them dig the grave, this king does not believe that the corpses buried for a month can still be seen to be the corpses of barbarian soldiers."

Although the decay rate of corpses will become very slow when winter comes, the corpses buried in the soil will eventually have some changes.

At that time, if Lin Xiuming and the others really went to dig the grave, and the corpse was dug up, and the surface of the corpse had been destroyed, or contaminated with the soil, the difference between the barbarians and the Great Xia people would not be big, if they really dug up the grave and dug up the corpse of the barbarian, would Lin Xiuming dare to say that this was the corpse of the barbarian?

And people die a lot, not to mention that these soldiers are all nominally Beijun, and they died in the battle for Great Xia, how could Lin Xiuming dare to dig their graves.

At this time, Lu Chen turned his head and said to Wen Renlie and Xuanyuan Chen: "When the two generals escorted the barbarian captives back to Yancheng, they tried to march at night as much as possible, so as not to let the people of Yancheng notice your actions. ”

Xuanyuan Chen said: "Don't worry, the prince will disguise these barbarian captives as the barbarian captives that originally existed in Yancheng, so that they will look as if they were sent to mine." ”

Hearing Xuanyuan Chen say this, Lu Chen was relieved, and he continued: "By the way, remember to take off the heavy armor when you go back, so as not to be seen." ”

Xuanyuan Chen said, "Yes, Lord Wang." ”

Lu Chen then said: "Okay, that's it, each of them will do their own things." ”

When Lu Chen's words fell, Mu Changtian and his generals returned to the soldiers they led and commanded the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Half a month later.

A restaurant in Xuanyue Palace.

Lin Xiuming sat in the private room of the restaurant, drinking wine alone, looking at the heavy snow outside the window.

As a general who supported the northern county to resist the barbarian southward, he had no idea what the situation was in Tianguang City now, and he felt that he had come to travel at public expense to see the snow scene in the northern county.

Lin Xiuming sighed, if he was allowed to lead the army to fight against Dawu, he didn't know how many military merits he had made now.

It's really condescending to let him come to North County.

There is a heavy cavalry of the king of the north in the northern county, and he is still needed there.

Just as Lin Xiuming sighed, a mature woman's voice sounded behind Lin Xiuming.

"I've wronged you by letting you come to Beijun, and I come to the restaurant to drink every day."

Hearing this, Lin Xiuming turned his head and found that it was actually Lin Wanyun.

Lin Xiuming asked curiously, "Sister Yun, why are you still in Beijun, hasn't the palace master of Xuanyue Palace already gone back?" ”

(End of chapter)