Chapter 428: A Generation Older

Under Chu Li's operation, Zhou Ping soon completely controlled all the armies on the entire Terran battlefield, in terms of quantity, the Terran frontline troops are still as many as 1.5 million, and the beast clan's once million army has also suffered a lot of losses in the attrition battle with the Terran in these days, and the beast clan that is still on the Terran border is about 70 to 800,000.

But you must know that victory or defeat on the battlefield is never determined by the number of troops, in the previous battles led by Zhou Ping, even the most elite troops of the human race want to face the beasts on the frontal battlefield at least twice the strength of the opponent, let alone other generals, those guys almost never fought with the beasts on the frontal battlefield, they fought guerrilla warfare and city defense warfare.

In terms of the total number of troops, the Terrans are indeed almost twice as large as the Orc troops, but in terms of the quality of the troops, the Orcs are obviously much stronger than the Terrans.

The troops of the beast clan are mainly composed of the five major royal families, and as long as the other non-royal troops can enter the establishment of the beast army, they must have superb combat power or extraordinary natural instincts, in other words, almost all of these seven or eight hundred thousand beast troops can be called elite!

On the other hand, the Terrans, although the Terrans have hundreds of thousands of main battle corps that can fight head-on with the Beasts, the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops are even inferior to these main battle corps...... All kinds of troops are mixed together, and each of the generals has their own careful thoughts, and there are only a very few people like Zhou Ping who can really sacrifice their lives to serve the country.

Zhou Ping naturally knew the crux of the Terran troops, but he could hardly think of a solution, from the bodies of those deserters when the previous war zones were lost, Zhou Ping could see that these old soldiers who were vegetarian were the tumors of the Terran troops, if Zhou Ping was given a certain amount of time, he could slowly concoct these guys and eradicate them one by one, but not now, the beast army was coming to the city, Zhou Ping could only take fierce medicine and do what ordinary people could not do!

"Do you really want to do this?" Chu Li said with a frown after listening to Zhou Ping's plan, "You have to think about the consequences, if this matter is not grasped well, then the army of millions of Terrans that Your Majesty and I have worked so hard to build may collapse!"

Zhou Ping took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "In this case, I can only take strong medicine!"

Chu Li and Mu Ruqing beside him pondered for a long time, and finally both of them nodded and agreed to Zhou Ping's proposal, and immediately conveyed Zhou Ping's order.

Zhou Ping's order was very simple, find those deserter generals who had evacuated without permission when the Third War Zone was lost, and behead them all to show the public, in order to show the military might!

When the Eagle Clan attacked Zhou Ping's third war zone, the third war zone obviously had some vassal reinforcements with considerable combat effectiveness, if they helped defend the city, then maybe these vassal troops would face great losses, but as long as the news reached Zhou Ping, Zhou Ping had time to temporarily transfer troops from the Linchuan battlefield to help, and then hold Yunshui City and pull the third war zone back from the border line of death!

All the current crises on the Terran front come from the fall of the Third War Zone, and if those vassal reinforcements could have assisted the defenders of Yunshui City to defend the city together, then none of this would have happened!

Whenever Zhou Ping recalled the last message sent to him by the defenders of Yunshui City, his eyes couldn't help but moisten, in fact, deep down in Zhou Ping's own heart, he didn't take these city guards with weak combat strength very seriously, but these 5,000 defenders of Yunshui City proved all this with their actions! What's wrong with the main battle camp! What's wrong with the strong enemy! The same soldiers of the Tang Dynasty also sacrificed their lives to protect the territory of the human race, we! are no worse than you!

Chu Li didn't rush to deal with these deserters before, in fact, a large part of the reason was that he was worried about causing a mutiny in the reinforcements of the rear vassal countries, you know, the reinforcements supported by these vassal countries were not dealing with the troops of the Tang Dynasty, and after the defeat of Zhou Ping in the first battle, the morale was even lowered, if the punishment was really lowered, then these troops would inevitably have a violent rebound under high pressure, and it would not be conducive to Chu Li's management of the troops at that time.

In fact, Chu Li's idea is not wrong, but in fact, in Zhou Ping's eyes, Chu Li has lost his courage in these years of comfort, thinking that when he was in the south, when Mingzhou City was fighting, Chu Li resolutely gave up Mingzhou City, and disguised himself as an ordinary Vermilion Bird Battalion cavalry with the army, and successfully killed the Qi troops on the battlefield of encirclement and reinforcements......

In Zhou Ping's opinion, some things are done, and some people will be killed if they are killed, even if they want to regret it, then they will wait until the battle is over, at least in this way, Zhou Ping is worthy of the five thousand soldiers who died in Yunshui City!

Why prevent the troops from mutiny, Zhou Ping is very concerned about the scale of this punishment, these troops have a total of about fifty people to be punished, all of them are senior generals in the reinforcements of the subject countries, and it is they who reached a tacit understanding together, and chose to flee at the first time when they were besieged by the beasts in Yunshui City.

This time, Zhou Ping did a very good job, and directly asked Chu Li to send Xuanjing powerhouses to arrest people in various camps in person, and if there were those who did not follow, he directly broke his hands and feet and brought them back, and the means could be described as extremely ruthless!

A few days later, Chu Li officially started the trial of these deserter generals in the City of Ten Thousand Beasts, although Zhou Ping only occupied a seat to observe, but in fact, all the details of this military trial were explained to Chu Li by him.

Chu Li counted the many crimes of these deserter generals, and according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, he passively avoided the war and led the army to flee, which will not be forgiven!

Those deserter generals were dumbfounded when they knelt on the stage at this time, originally they thought that even if they retreated in accordance with the rules, Chu Li would definitely not dare to do anything to them, after all, what they represented behind them was an innumerable contingent of subordinate country reinforcements, if they really wanted to liquidate them, then there would definitely be problems within the reinforcement teams of the major subject countries, and Chu Li would face a greater dilemma at that time!

But they were wrong, they did guess Chu Li's thoughts, but at this time, it was not Chu Li who really wanted their lives, but the young man who had been sitting behind Chu Li, the man with eyes like torches and eyes like wolves!

They would not have thought that Zhou Ping deliberately found all the high-ranking generals of the troops of the subject countries for today's reckoning, in order to make an example of the chickens and monkeys, in fact, in Zhou Ping's plan, he not only planned to kill these fifty people today, but he also wanted to kill more! Among the generals of those subject countries, all those who dared to stand out at such a moment, and those who dared to openly contradict Chu Li and flout the laws of the Tang Dynasty, Zhou Ping would kill them all!

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the problem first, such a person will continue to stay in Zhou Ping's army is a greater threat, Zhou Ping has never been afraid of the enemy on the surface, what he is most afraid of is that he is leading the troops to fight to the death with the beast clan, and the comrades-in-arms behind him will take the lead in running away as soon as they see that the situation is not good! This time, he will not give these bastards another chance to fool himself!

Chu Li gave an impassioned speech, of course, the manuscript was prepared according to Zhou Ping's instructions, Chu Li clearly told all the senior generals about the final battle that was about to be ushered in, and hoped that these generals could unite at this critical moment to fight against the beast clan forces.

"After all, everyone is actually a warrior of the human race, although now the first of the beast clan is the Tang Dynasty, but when the beast clan conquers the territory of the Tang Dynasty, will they be satisfied? Of course they won't! Those vassal countries bordering the Tang Dynasty will become their next target, they are all man-eating beasts, if one day they really hit your hometown and devour your parents, wives and children, will you still sit here as easily as you are now?"

"What really makes you feel painful is not the powerlessness in the face of great power, but the fact that you once had the opportunity to defeat the enemy, and you once had a fortress to defend against the invasion of the orcs, and you did not cherish ......"

"Unite, let go of the country, forget selfish desires, truly fight for the human race once, and fight for yourself once, even if we will eventually become a billet of loess on this plain, at least our descendants will point to the land where we once fought and say: They shed blood for this land, they came, they fought......"

After Chu Li finished speaking, the eyes of the generals in the audience changed, although this chicken soup could not make all of them really change themselves from the bottom of their hearts, but as long as one of them could listen to these words, even if it was one person, then Zhou Ping Chuli's hard work of father and son was not in vain!

After the enthusiastic speech, Chu Li personally raised his knife to kill those deserter generals one by one, there were fifty people kneeling on the execution table, Chu Li killed them one by one, he raised the knife in his hand, and every time he killed one person, he roared, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Fifty heads rolled down, Chu Li slammed the war knife in his hand into the wooden plank under his feet, he walked down the execution platform step by step, although the blood turned his battle armor red, but it still couldn't hide Chu Li's shining eyes.

"I am the commander of the front line of the Terran Race of the Tang Dynasty, and now I am here with a sword, vowing to keep the Beast Clan out of the territory of my Terran Race!"

After saying that, Chu Li raised his right hand, slowly clenched his fist, and said word by word:

"May the heavens fall, get up lightly!"

Zhou Ping was the first to stand up, followed by Zhang Xiaoyue, Chu Ci, Zhang Hanzhong, and Huo Zhun...... All the generals stood up, whether they were from the main battle camp or the city guards, whether they were the troops of the Tang Dynasty or the reinforcements of other vassal countries, they all raised their right hands with Chu Li at this time, and there was a great way in their chests.

Zhou Ping smiled, he had only roughly told Chu Li about his views on this military trial and the formulation of the simple process, but he didn't expect Chu Li to accomplish much better than he imagined, just like Chu Li had not discussed the matter of killing these deserters before, this move was completely Chu Li's impromptu move, and the last sentence completely mobilized the morale of all the generals.

Maybe Chu Li is not as good as Zhou Ping in terms of troop strategy and battlefield layout, but he has one thing that Zhou Ping has seen that everyone is incomparable, that is, Chu Li's personality charm, anyone who has seen Chu Li, even his enemies, without exception, will be attracted by Chu Li's unique personality charm, in fact, Chu Li originally wanted Zhou Ping to preside over this trial, and then help Zhou Ping build momentum in the future, but Zhou Ping refused, because in Zhou Ping's opinion, only Chu Li can do this in this world, only this man who is as dazzling as the sun。

After experiencing this, the major forces of the human race have successfully integrated together at least on the surface and become a family, but Zhou Ping knows that if they want to really become brother troops who watch and help each other, it is not enough to rely on a shocking speech, what they need is the run-in of many years of fighting together on the battlefield, but this is not in a hurry, and Zhou Ping does not want to be in a hurry, and it is good that many troops can have the heart to get close to each other.

Zhou Ping personally sent some Tang generals to take over those deserter troops, Zhou Ping has always believed in a sentence, a soldier instigates one, will instigate a nest, what kind of quality a unit has often depends on the generals of the army, as long as these Tang generals are given some time, the former deserters can become a strong army, and maybe even stronger than the main battle camp.

Because they want to wash away the shame on themselves, and if they want to wash away the infamy of being a deserter, then they will have to work ten times or a hundred times harder than other soldiers!

In just half a month, Zhou Ping dealt with the biggest crux in the army, which Chu Li couldn't even think of, every time he watched Zhou Ping decisively give orders one by one, Chu Li's mind would always pop up with a thought, is he really old?

In fact, it's not just Chu Li who feels this way, even Zhou Ping feels that Chu Li has changed, this change does not exist outside, but Chu Li's state of mind has changed, no matter how difficult the battle was when he was in the south before, how difficult the bones were Chu Li could always come up with a countermeasure without hurry, and even fought a lot of famous battles like the Battle of Mingzhou City, which went down in history, but after arriving in the Tang Dynasty, Chu Li seemed to have changed, he began to become timid, and he began to lose the spirit on the battlefield back then.

Zhou Ping has been busy, busy with the war, busy with the layout, busy with the follow-up problems of the subordinate countries' reinforcements, he didn't notice that Chu Li's forehead had grown white hair, this man who used to shine in his eyes, now has fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.

Chu Li may not be old, but Zhou Ping must have grown up, he abolished all the previous Chu Li's measures that did not seek merit but sought no fault, and replaced them with new measures formulated by himself, these measures are efficient and energetic in Zhou Ping's view, and under the implementation of his own policies, the combat power of the Terran troops will definitely be on a higher level.

After seeing that Zhou Ping's policies initially showed their effectiveness, Chu Li finally truly recognized Zhou Ping's growth, and now Zhou Ping has completely surpassed him, enough to become a man in charge of his own affairs.

Thinking of this, he turned around and smiled at Mu Ruqing, who was sitting in the corner drinking tea, the latter raised his head and glanced at him, both of them saw the wrinkles in the corners of each other's eyes, and then looked at each other and smiled.

It's really a generation old......