Chapter 357: The End
The battle report of Zhou Ping in front to destroy the invading beast clan in the rear was quickly transmitted to Chang'an City through a message, although Zhou Ping failed to kill the leader of the Xuanjing bear beast, but this is the first great victory of the human race since the start of this war, and its significance is extremely significant.
Li Si was overjoyed after receiving the news, Zhou Ping led the student army to win a great victory did give him a shot in the arm, this news not only boosted morale, but also allowed Li Si to get more right to speak, the banquet of all nations is about to begin, Li Si is the time when he needs to show the strong wrist of the Tang Dynasty.
After receiving the message, Li Si immediately began to deploy his final plan, and with Zhou Ping, a fierce general, supporting him on the front line, his plan in the rear will definitely be better implemented.
Li Si was intensively preparing his plan, while Zhou Ping continued to march towards the front.
Time passed day by day, because Zhou Ping and the student army were delayed a lot of time halfway, so when everyone came to Chuli to leave the battlefield defense line, it was already a month and a half after they left Chang'an City.
At this time, many matters on the front line were handled by Chu Li, and it was Chen Bi'an and Mu Ruqing who assisted him, these two good brothers didn't want to go out with Chu Li, but then there were many emergencies at the front line, and they really couldn't let go of Chu Li's safety, so they went to the battlefield to assist him.
"The little cubs are here today, and we will prepare them later, so that they can be cleaned up. Mu Ruqing said with a smile.
Chu Li, who was planning in front of the map, frowned unconsciously when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "What's the wind, now that the border situation is so critical, how can you have the energy to take care of them, just prepare casually." ”
After that, he pondered for a moment and continued, "Chen Bi'an go and prepare, by the way, tell Zhou Ping about the current situation, don't let him go to the battlefield and not know anything." ”
Chen Bi'an smiled, although Chu Li, this guy has been hard-mouthed all his life, but in fact, he feels more sorry for these children than anyone else, but it is just difficult to speak because of his face.
"Cheng, then I'll go with Chen Bi'an to have a look. Mu Ruqing stretched his waist and yawned, "I haven't seen Zhou Ping for so long, but I miss him, the last time in Chang'an City, it hit him so hard, and I don't know if this kid came out, hey......"
Speaking of the accident in Chang'an City two years ago, the faces of the three of them were a little ugly, especially Chen Bi'an, the previous accident made Zhou Ping seem to be a different person, and later Zhou Ping chose to live in seclusion in Wuyin Mountain was also the first one he nodded and agreed, he has always been the one who knows Zhou Ping best, and he has always been like this.
As the sun set, the student army finally appeared outside the barracks, and Chu Ci, who was standing at the front of the team, said to Zhou Ping with a smile, "I haven't seen him for two years, and I don't know how he has been doing in the past two years......
"yes. Zhou Ping nodded, and said with some guilt, "It's been two years, my father-in-law and master must be very worried about me......
Just as the two were talking, Chen Bi'an's figure suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Ping's eyes, Zhou Ping raised his eyes and looked at the slightly thin middle-aged man in front of him, and his eyes couldn't help but feel a little sour.
"Master......" Zhou Ping said softly, "I'm here." ”
Chen Bi'an walked up to Zhou Ping with a smile, patted his head gently, and said with a smile, "It's good to come, it's good if you come......"
"Mr. Chen. Zhang Xiaoyue and Zhang Hanzhong bowed respectfully to Chen Bi'an at the same time, Chen Bi'an smiled and nodded at the two, these two little guys have been following Zhou Ping and Zhou Ping life and death, Chen Bi'an has long regarded them as his own children.
Chen Bi'an soon led everyone into the barracks, and after entering the barracks, the eyes of the recruits of the student army were straight, where is this barracks a camp, it is simply a fortress!
"Your stepfather spent half a year to establish this border giant city, specifically to defend against the beast clan, although the beast clan is numerous, but if you want to break through this giant city, unless the whole army is dispatched, it is absolutely impossible!"
Chen Bi'an smiled and introduced this border giant city to Zhou Ping and his party, these are not only the recruits of the student army, but even Zhou Ping was shocked, two years ago when Zhou Ping was on the border battlefield, this was still a plain, Chu Li was able to build a giant city of this scale in such a short time, this is simply not something that can be done by manpower!
"I know what you're thinking. Chen Bi'an pointed to the huge city wall dozens of meters high and introduced, "When this giant city was established back then, the huge stones on the city wall were all moved up by the Xuanjing immortal cultivators piece by piece, and in order to build this giant city, there were no less than fifty Xuanjing powerhouses alone. ”
"Fifty?" Zhou Ping frowned and asked, "Where did the Tang Dynasty get so many Xuan Realm immortal cultivators?"
Chen Bi'an smiled and said, "You underestimate the Tang Dynasty too much, it was only a small number of Xuanjing powerhouses who fought for power in the palace at the beginning, and the vast majority of Xuanjing powerhouses had a wait-and-see attitude in the face of this kind of royal battle. ”
"But the border war is different, if the border is lost, then their homeland is the first to be ravaged by the beasts, and they are naturally willing to contribute more to this......"
After listening to Chen Bi'an's introduction, Zhou Ping nodded with a sudden understanding, how can there be only a few Xuan Realm powerhouses in the Tang Dynasty, how can there be only a few Xuan Realm powerhouses, maybe some people are unwilling to join the battle in Chang'an City, but in the face of the great cause of resisting the beast clan, many of them are still willing to contribute.
Chen Bi'an leaned over Zhou Ping's side and said softly, "Actually, the newly enthroned Li Si has not been idle in the past two years, but he has openly and secretly subdued many Xuanjing powerhouses......"
Zhou Ping had already expected this, Li Si, as the emperor, must have hoped that his power would grow stronger and better, especially the number of strong people in the Xuan Realm, the more the better, but he had suffered a loss in the number of strong people in the battle in the palace, and he would never suffer such a loss a second time!
Briefly introduced the battle situation on the border at this time, at this time, the million-strong army of the Tang Dynasty is arranging on the border to confront the beast clan, this million army is not an exaggerated modifier, but a number of words, this time the Tang army that came to the border of the beast clan, there are really a million people!
Of course, this million-strong army has a lot of water, of which the real main battle camp is less than 500,000, and the rest are the garrison troops drawn from various cities and the miscellaneous armies collected from all sides, and the combat effectiveness of these troops is far from being comparable with the real main battle camp.
The beast clan is not much more than the human army in terms of quantity, and even surpasses it, and the combat power is even more crushing, if the beast clan is willing to attack the city with all its might, even if it will lose part of its troops, but this city is absolutely impossible to hold!
But no one knows why the orcs have not attacked the city on a large scale until now, and even a few skirmishes have been simply resolved, and everyone is quite guilty, so many orc troops have come to the border to confront the human race, they are not here to travel, right......
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now, I'll arrange a place for you to live first, and then you can have a good chat with Chu Li after dinner, he is looking forward to all the flowers you are looking forward to...... Chen Bi'an laughed and teased.
Zhou Ping smiled, Chu Ci, who had been following him, couldn't help but laugh a little, both of them had already made up that Chu Li wanted to see them but was embarrassed to come in person, so he could only look anxious with a straight face.
The student army is the treasure army of the Tang Dynasty, Chu Li and Chen Bi'an naturally will not treat them badly, originally Chen Bi'an also wanted to arrange Zhou Ping's residence near him, but this proposal was rejected by Zhou Ping, now he is the commander of the student army, and he should eat and live with the student army, Chen Bi'an didn't insist when he heard him say this, but just told Zhou Ping that if there was anything, he must tell him as soon as possible.
After everyone settled down, Zhou Ping took the students around with him, but he didn't expect that this turn really made him meet an acquaintance.
"I heard early in the morning that you were coming over with the student army, and today it's finally here!"
Zhou Ping raised his eyes when he heard this, and saw that Baili Chengfeng, the commander of the war drum battalion who had fought with him after all, was looking at him with two guards with a smile, Zhou Ping laughed, and gave him a punch in the past.
"You're here too!"
"Of course, now I am not only the commander of the War Drum Battalion, but also the Governor of the Third War Zone, and the officials are much more than you!" Baili Chengfeng laughed and said, "It's you, I haven't seen you for two years, the deputy commander has changed to the orthodox leader, and there is not much growth!"
"What General Baili said is not right, although we only have seven hundred people, these seven hundred people are the elite of the elite, if they are used properly, they are enough to be thousands of troops!"
It was none other than Chu Ci who had been following Zhou Ping, she was very gentle to Zhou Ping, but this gentleness was impossible for others to enjoy.
Baili Chengfeng glanced at Chu Ci up and down, combined with her and Zhou Ping's intimate state, Baili Chengfeng immediately guessed Chu Ci's identity.
"What's going on with the war zone you're talking about?" Zhou Ping asked.
"In order to facilitate the transfer of troops, Marshal Chu Li divided the frontier defense line into seven theaters, each of which was guarded by a large number of garrisons. I am the Governor-General in charge of the Third Theater of Operations, and I am in charge of all movements in the Third Theater. ”
Zhou Ping's eyes lit up, you must know that Baili Chengfeng is only thirty years old this year, and being able to hold such an important position at this age is enough to show his strong ability.
However, Zhou Ping quickly realized the problem, and he frowned and asked, "Then according to that, you should be in the third war zone now, why are you here?"
Baili Chengfeng smiled and said, "Actually, I just came from the Third War Zone, not only me, but also the Overseers of the other War Zones. ”
As soon as Zhou Ping heard this, he immediately asked keenly, "Is Marshal Chu Li going to make any big moves?"
"I don't know about this, but if all the seven overseers are transferred back, General Chu Li must have his plans, maybe there will really be some big moves. Baili Chengfeng said in a deep voice.
"In fact, just some time ago, we found out that there was a change in the orc troops, especially today, my subordinates sent me a message saying that the orcs have approached the woods fifty miles outside the camp, and the third war zone has entered a state of emergency preparation, and I will have to rush back non-stop after General Chuli issues the order tomorrow......"
Zhou Ping knew that the battle on the front line was tense, but he didn't expect that the beast clan was so imminent, if the beast clan really broke through one or two war zones, then the human race on the battlefield in the future would definitely be subject to greater resistance, so the mission shouldered by Baili Chengfeng can be described as extremely important.
The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Baili Chengfeng was called away, looking at his solemn face, he thought that there should be something important for him to deal with.
"It seems that this trip to the battlefield is more difficult than we imagined. Zhang Xiaoyue shook her head and said softly, "A million-level battle, if this was placed before, I wouldn't even dare to think about it......"
Zhang Hanzhong put his arm on his shoulder and asked with a smile, "What's the matter, Zhang Xiaoyue, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, is also afraid of one day?"
Surprisingly, this time Zhang Xiaoyue did not be reckless, but nodded slowly, Zhang Hanzhong was a little stunned when he saw this, Zhang Xiaoyue would never have this kind of emotion before, could it really be that this million army made him feel fear?
Seeming to see what Zhang Han was thinking, Zhang Xiaoyue explained with a wry smile, "A few days ago, I wanted to report peace to my daughter-in-law, and I originally wanted to use the messenger, but I thought that there were few people on their side who could use and understand this thing, so I simply wrote a letter and forgot it, and now I am on the battlefield, and I don't know if the reply will take the year of the monkey to receive it......"
"It's different when this person has concerns. Zhang Hanzhong sighed lightly, shook his head and said, "Zhou Ping has Chu Ci to accompany him to the battlefield, and you have Chu Qingping waiting for you to go back in the distance, so I am alone......"
Zhang Xiaoyue punched him with a smile, saying that he was destined to not be able to get a wife in this life, Zhang Hanzhong was not to be outdone and replied to Zhang Xiaoyue that if he really couldn't find a wife, he would live next door to Zhang Xiaoyue's house in the future, and then change his surname to Wang, staring at Zhang Xiaoyue's daughter-in-law every day.
The two were noisy and noisy at night, Zhou Ping planned to take Zhang Xiaoyue and them to meet Chu Li after dinner, not to mention anything else, Chu Ci hadn't seen his father for two years, so it was reasonable to go and see him.
Although he came to the front line, Zhou Ping still didn't let the student army relax, people are lazy, and Zhou Ping didn't want to see the soldiers of the student army fall down the habits they had just trained.
After Zhou Ping finished his thoughts with Song Wenyan, Song Wenyan immediately said that he could take on this important responsibility, and he swore to Zhou Ping, "You can rest assured to go to Marshal Chu Li, and the training of the student army will be handed over to me tonight." ”
Before, the soldiers of the student army had always regarded Song Wenyan as a useless scholar, but since he and Zhou Ping joined forces to resist the Xuanjing immortal cultivators of the beast clan, the soldiers of the student army have a great opinion of him, no matter where he is, strength is the premise of others respecting you, a person with strength and responsibility will be respected by people no matter where he is, so this time Song Wenyan came to arrange the training task, and many student soldiers also accepted it safely.
After dinner, Zhou Ping and the four of them came to Chu Li's camp tent, and after the guards reported it, Chu Li actually only allowed Zhou Ping to enter the camp alone, and even Chu Ci was excluded from the camp tent by him.
Several people glanced at each other, combined with the incident of riding the wind for hundreds of miles today, Zhou Ping immediately realized that something was wrong, I am afraid that something really happened on the front line.
"You wait outside for a while, and I'll go back. Zhou Ping glanced at a few people deeply, and then gently squeezed Chu Ci's little hand, as if to appease her, Chu Ci nodded to show understanding, she knew her father's temper, in business, even her daughter can't ask too much, the father and daughter haven't seen each other for two years, at this time Chu Li also excluded her, and it must be an extremely important matter to come to the camp at this time to discuss.