"We originally had 24 regiments with a total of 60,000 soldiers, but so far more than 20,000 have been killed in battle, 21,000 have been seriously wounded, and the rest of the soldiers have all been wounded. Even the old Carlos had a trembling voice when he read the war report: "Fifty-eight thousand tribal soldiers recruited this morning were killed, and more than 30,000 slave soldiers were killed in the battle......

Carlos couldn't read anymore. Although he had been prepared, when he heard the casualty figures, Cohen's heart still hurt as if he had been dug out in half, and a wave of sadness pressed against his throat, and his mouth opened open, but he couldn't speak.

The officers around him all had red-eyed eyes and choked throats, and the more than 20,000 soldiers who had died had been with them day and night for a year, and it could be said that they were the closest people.

Cohen froze, clenched his fists violently, and asked in a hoarse voice, "The situation of the enemy army." ”

"A total of 180,000 people in the 26th, 27th, and 28th legions of the Demon Alliance were completely annihilated by me. The first part of the Seventh Slave Legion surrendered, the Third Slave Legion surrendered to Cheng, and along with the remnants of several slave legions, a total of 126,000 people. Carlos looked at the list in his hand and read it down: "The enemy commanders from the lieutenant general down, to the second lieutenant and above, all died in battle! The list of enemy troops we found included one lieutenant general, three major generals, eight brigadier generals, and more than 700 officers with various aristocratic or samurai titles......

"In addition, a large amount of supplies for the enemy army was captured, which was enough for us to consume for fifteen days, and nearly 100,000 horses were left in the enemy camp, in addition to a large number of armor and weapons......"

"Find a place, the officers above the battalion commander level will immediately hold a meeting, and the slave soldiers who have surrendered to Cheng will be immediately incorporated into the formation. Cohen interrupted Carros's debriefing: "They...... You can move around freely. ”

"Yes!"

The battle was won. But the situation has not changed much. Cohen still has a lot to tell. Wait for these officers to drag their tired bodies out of the meeting place. The confession activities of the slaves in the back are reaching a climax, and the cries are thunderous and the tears are raining, which makes people have to surprise the tears secreted by these people.

Cohen's clever move of letting the slaves roam freely not only dispels the slaves' vigilance, but when the slaves go to confess, their clansmen, relatives, and fellow villagers will tell them what happened to them about their stay in the Phantom Legion. This is a hundred times better than Cohen himself said, and it has the stern admonition of the leaders of the tribes. The slaves were very obedient at the second assembly.

The formation of the Ninth Legion of the Divine Alliance was completely abandoned, and all the remaining officers and soldiers were transferred to the army of the Dark Province of the Sbia Empire, and all the ordinary soldiers of the original Ninth Legion were promoted to non-commissioned officers. The original non-commissioned officers were promoted to lieutenants, and all officers were promoted.

In addition to retaining and supplementing the original structure of the three regiments, all the newly promoted non-commissioned officers and officers were transferred to command the slave soldiers who had surrendered. Although this is quite dangerous, it is completely impossible to do it - among the original soldiers, there are now less than 20,000 people with good arms and legs who can walk and run, and who can Cohen rely on without relying on slaves?

Cohen's command and the various formations directly under the headquarters are basically unchanged, except that the law enforcement regiment, reconnaissance regiment, logistics regiment, and magician brigade are strictly lacking.

But. There was no shortage of ordinary soldiers, and the total number of original soldiers and slave soldiers was 140,000. Cohen returned some of the slaves who were too young or too old, and now he had an army of 120,000 men.

The armoured weapons taken from the enemy or left behind in the camp by the Demon Coalition armed the slaves, and for the first time in their lives, the soldiers who wore armor met with their commanders.

The soldiers cowered, and the officers were covered in wounds, but the atmosphere was relatively harmonious.

After a brief introduction to each other, the commanders seized the time to force their men with what was in their heads, which was indeed not very good, but they had no other choice.

Seeing his subordinates busy, Cohen sat aside and didn't get involved.

Now he is facing a very big problem -- where are his troops going? This side of the canyon has been blocked for more than ten days, and he doesn't need to think about it at all. It is also impossible to go to sea. If you go back and fight hard with the demon alliance...... That's a joke!

The front is blocked, and the demon coalition forces behind should receive the news soon, and the canyon is flanked by swampy dense forests that can't be footed...... Cohen's head began to throb with sharp pain.

"Sir!" Wen's voice suddenly sounded over Cohen's head, and then the winged man couldn't regain his momentum, and fell at Cohen's feet with a "pop!"

"Wen, what's wrong with you?" Cohen hugged Wen in his arms, "You have to cheer up!"

"Boss...... Boss!" Seeing that Wen was fine, but he was too tired, he grabbed Cohen's hand: "Passage! in the dense forest...... There are very wide passages!"

"Sober up, Wen!" Cohen patted Wen's face, "Look at me, what did you just say?"

"There's a wide passage in the jungle, boss!

"Really?" Cohen turned his head and calmly said to one of the guards beside him, "Go and call a magician who still has magical powers, Wen is sick." ”

"Believe me, boss, although I don't know what's going on," Wen argued with a flushed face, "But it's a fact that the passage suddenly appeared!

"You mean...... There's a big passage? right under our noses? that we haven't found in several batches of reconnaissance in a day, and it's going in the same direction as the Grand Canyon?"

Cohen kept asking, and Wen kept nodding.

"Alright!" Cohen picked Wen up, "Let's go see the passage you said." ”

A quarter of an hour later......

"Fuck it, fuck you!" After the soldiers cut down a small wood, Cohen thundered and shouted into the sky: "There really is a passage!"

It was a straight, flat, grassy avenue, almost twice as wide as the Grand Canyon! Such a passage should not be ignored by any scout at any time and under any circumstances!

However, this path has not been discovered before.

Cohen's first reaction, then, was...... He's been tricked by something. Energetic, I cursed at the entrance of this passage for a quarter of an hour.

One by one, the officers who received the news arrived. All standing far behind me. With their eyes, they looked at the passage and then looked like an idiot...... I think. The officer's expression was partly due to the sudden passage and the other half was due to the fact that I kept pointing to the sky and swearing non-stop.

From the dark moon to the darkness, no matter who the other party is, I rarely get angry. But when I was really angry, no one dared to persuade me except Fischette and my ladies, not even my brothers.

In fact, Moya is stupid and can't persuade, Helt knows that it is a waste of effort and is too lazy to persuade, and Marfa's persuasion can be understood as fanning the flames from other aspects. And Jack ...... Usually he would catch a clear glimpse of himself first, and then happily watch the excitement on the sidelines.

It wasn't until I was tired of scolding that Carlos gave Helt a look, and the two of them walked to the middle of the passage to check.

"Sir. After a while, Carlos came up to me and said, "This passage is quite strange, and the road in the middle of the passage is full of small grass of two knuckle lengths, which is as neat as the grass in the royal garden, and gives off a faint fragrance. ”

"What the hell is going on!" I cursed in my heart.

"Boss. Helt walked back with a few wild fruits in his hand: "There are fruit trees on both sides of the passage, and these fruits are edible and taste good. ”

"This fat woman who no one loves! What the hell is going on? I cursed again.

"Boss. I just flew down the aisle for a while. Wen who was standing behind me said: "Every fifty miles in the passage, there will be a fairly large circular open space, which can accommodate many people to rest!"

"You fat woman who will never be loved! What the hell is going on!" My face turned pale, and the anger in my heart could not be quelled.

"Damn marshmallow, where did you run away when we went to war? Do you know...... How much did it cost us to survive?" I looked at the sky above me again, and felt an indescribable grievance in my heart: "You only know now that you have made a passage out, so is there any point in the battle between me and my troops before this? Is there still any meaning in the soldiers who died in front of our eyes? Do you know how many sacrifices have been wiped out in this way?"

After a long time, my irritable mood eased a little, and my face gradually calmed down after exhaling a sullen breath.

"Arrange it, the troops are ready to evacuate from here. Finally, I let my head start functioning normally, after all, we are not in a good situation now: "Wen, your winged scouts go first, Helt you lead a regiment to the front, and Carlos you go and contact the clan leader about the retreat...... I took two regiments as a rearguard. That's it, let's do it!"

"Yes!" several people responded in unison.

The preparations went quite smoothly, and after a minute of Helt had entered with a regiment of light cavalry, the chiefs of the tribes had divided the refugees into groups of a thousand men according to their numbers, and it was not until I watched them begin to enter the passage in an orderly manner that I was convinced that the passage was real.

Although the passage was quite wide, the refugees did not move very fast, and less than 200,000 people entered until midnight. I was worried about the tens of thousands of wounded in my troops when the newly elected chief of the dozens of tribes arrived.

"Good evening, sir. The chief chief, who was not yet thirty years old, knelt down on my knees and bowed: "The new chief of the thirty-six tribes has come to meet Lord Cohen. ”

"Well, it's chosen. I was sitting on a stone beside the passage, and I only looked up at him, and then continued to look through the information in my hand: "Stand up and speak, what's your name?"

"Yes, sir. He stood up: "My name is Gardnan. ”

"What?" I was a little surprised, how could he be called that?" "You said your name was Gardnam?"

"Yes. ”

My eyes were fixed on him, "Why are you called that? Aren't you the one who led the drum after Gardnam's death? Are you Gardnam's son?"

"Back to my lord, I have no blood relationship with the previous patriarch. The new chief bowed his head, put his hands at his sides, and replied cautiously, "Gardnam is the special name of my patriarch, and every patriarch must give up his personal name, including his own name, when he takes over as patriarch. ”

"That's right, Nagardinan...... No. What was the name of your previous patriarch?"

"Back to the master. We don't know. Or rather, we forgot about it. We must forget jì. ”

What a strange tradition, and such a tradition makes me a little unhappy, in my heart, Gardnan can only have one, and forever.

"I'm too lazy to tell you so much. Because his name made me very uncomfortable, my tone of voice became tougher, and there was a natural overbearing expression in my words: "You can't use this name if you already have a Gardnam!"

"But my lord......" he did not dare to object: "then what should I be called?"

"That's good. "It's their tradition to think about it, after all. Thinking of Gardnan's stubborn face again, I couldn't help but soften in my heart, waved my hand and said, "You just call Little Gardnan, this is an order." ”

"Yes, sir, then I will be called Little Gardnan from now on. ”

"Oh? I was not at all surprised by his submissive reaction: "You have something to trouble me, say." ”

"Ah...... Yes!" Little Jiadenan didn't expect his mind to be seen through by me, and he was a little caught off guard, and hurriedly said, "It's such a master...... Outside the battlefield, there are more than 700,000 refugees. They, they want to ...... too"

"Fuck it. What do those people have to do with me?" I feel angry at the mention of these refugees.

They are also refugees belonging to these thirty-six tribes, and we have nothing to lose, and it is difficult to give up!"

"It's hard enough for me to take care of you, and I'm not interested in them, have they done anything for me?"

"Master Cohen, please be gracious!" Little Gardnan knelt on the ground with a "plop" and pleaded with me: "They fled with us, and they separated in order to find another way after the canyon was blocked, and this is also the decision made by the previous patriarch!"

Oh...... You also know to impress me with Gardnam.

"You tell me honestly, this is the idea of those thirty or so old fellows, right?" I said to him in a flat tone, "For the sake of the lives of more than 700,000 refugees, they made you the chief leader." Is it their idea to let you use Gardnam to impress me? It seems that you still have a lot of fancy intestines!"

"Yes...... "Little Gardnan's head was already lowered to the ground: "If the master blames it, let me bear it alone!"

"Little Gardnan, don't say I didn't warn you, I owe Gardnan a lot, but I'm by no means a blind returner, I know what's important and what's not. I put down the information in my hand and said to him very seriously: "You go and tell the tribal leaders, if you want to discuss something with me, you had better be straightforward, and don't play tricks with me by pretending to be clever." ”

"Don't you dare...... Don't dare...... Please forgive me. But what about those refugees? If you don't care about them, they'll all be killed by the Demon Alliance!"

"Their lives are actually in your hands. ”

"Sir...... I don't understand your words. ”

"Little Gardnan, I've already said it, you can't impress me with Gardnan. I reminded him: "Why don't you ask me directly in your own name? You are the chief of the people, and it is reasonable to fight for the lives of your people." ”

"Sir, you...... I understand. ”

It can be seen that this little Gardnan is not very stupid, he understood my hint, and solemnly saluted me again and said, "The chief of the thirty-six tribes, little Gardnan to Cohen. Master Kaida begs, please don't abandon these 700,000 refugees! The 36 tribes will always be grateful for the kindness of the lord and will always be loyal to the lord!"

The head is not very stupid yet, this guy deserves to be promoted.

"You are the new chief chief, if I don't even agree to your first request...... What prestige do you have in front of these clan leaders in the future?" I thought about it, and made a decision in my heart: "In this way, you go and arrange for these hundreds of thousands of refugees to be formed at once, let them assemble at the side of the passage and stand by and explain to them my rules." ”

"Thank you, sir!" My decision made little Jiadnan overjoyed: "I'll arrange it right away, and they will remember what my lord did today, and they will always remember it." ”

"You have to remember that as a general leader, you must have the majesty of a general leader, and you must not let those small clan leaders lead you by the nose. When you go back, reprimand the clan leader who gave you the idea, so that they can see how powerful you are. What I need is a real leader, not an echo worm. I reminded him, "Also, Gardnan is a man of backbone, and I respect him. As his heir, you can also give me some backbone, don't kneel to people casually!"

"Yes, sir!" little Gardnan stood up, "I will try to do it." ”

Watching little Gardnan leave, Jack, who was standing on the side, walked over.

"Boss, why do you have to take those 700,000 refugees with you?" Jack asked me in a whisper, "Our marching ranks are already bloated. ”

"You think I want to bring it?" I patted Jack's head, "These refugees deliver news quite quickly, and if we don't bring them, our whereabouts will definitely be leaked within a day or two." ”

"Then boss, why don't you happily agree to him?"

"Jack, you have to remember that we have to make him respect and fear us when dealing with such men, because they have a lot of bad things in their bones. I can never be fierce in the face of this little brother: "Never let them know what you really think, even if you can agree, find some excuse for them to plead again and again." This will show your courage and autonomy, and they will be grateful. Just like just now, if I had agreed to his request immediately, little Gardnan would have thought that I was a good talker, and the frivolity in their bones would have revived immediately, and things would have been difficult to handle in the future. ”

"Hehe......" Jack laughed dryly, "Boss, you're so smart." ”

"Keep in mind that over-concern is counterproductive, and a lot of things have to be done slowly. I patted Jack on the head: "In this case, it's good for them and good for us." ”

"Got it, boss......" Jack was about to say something, but was interrupted by a sound of footsteps, and it was Moya who came.

"Boss, the dead on the tribe's side have been buried, and the bodies of our fallen soldiers have been loaded into the wagon. Moya said to me, "All the wounded in the army have also got into the carriage...... But what about the Demon Coalition soldiers? Many of their wounded who didn't die are still moaning. ”

"What to do? Move their wounded to one place, cut off their limbs, and leave them to fend for themselves. We need to set an example for the rest of the Demon Alliance. I replied in a flat tone, "Don't worry about the corpses of the Demon Alliance, but that lieutenant general is still a good soldier...... Give him his head back, put on his armor again, and find a place to set it up. ”

"Yes!" Having the experience of dealing with the wounded of the enemy last time, Moya did not dispute this order of mine.

"Be quick, the Demon Alliance may already be on their way here. ”

"Yes!" (to be continued......)