Knock knock!

The drums of war rang out.

Woo woo, melodious horns sounded in the vast field.

The war horses neighed, and fifty veterans rode old horses, brandished war knives, and galloped along the official road.

The martyrs were in their twilight years, and it seemed that they had returned to the time when they killed demons.

After a pillar of incense, Xue Peng met the soldiers who had retreated, and after regrouping, Xue Peng led them back to kill them.

At this time, on the official road, the rogues had already disappeared without a trace, leaving a mess behind.

More than a dozen truckloads of grain and grass were burned clean, and more than a dozen corpses were lying on both sides of the official road, and blood stained the yellow earth.

Xue Peng jumped off the beast's back, began to check the corpse on the ground, touched his wrist, there was no longer a trace of pulse, and his body had begun to feel cold.

Xue Peng brushed away the hair on the corpse's face, it was all the old man and the child, the old man's eyes were calm, and the child's wide eyes were full of fear.

Xue Peng slowly smoothed the children's eyes, and recited a requiem mantra in his mouth, so that they could die peacefully and be reincarnated as soon as possible.

After reciting the requiem mantra, Xue Peng clenched his fists tightly and stared into the distance, he seemed to see that not long ago, he heard the shouts of those rogues and the unbridled laughter.

Xue Peng's eyes gradually became cold, this stream of exile is not extinguished, he is sorry for these dead soldiers.

Xue Peng immediately said, "Bring all the corpses back and bury them!"

The veterans were accustomed to this kind of scene, and there were no cries of grief, no loud screams, and one by one, calmly as if nothing had happened, silently placing the corpses on horseback and carrying them back to the camp.

Looking at the corpse that was carried away, although Xue Peng knew that sooner or later he would face this day, he didn't expect that this day would come so quickly, without giving him half a moment to breathe, the anger and grief in his heart surged up, he pressed it, and said slowly, "They are just old people and children, Brother Wei, they are just old people and children." ”

Wei Ying could understand Xue Peng's mood at the moment, and said slowly, "There are no old people and children on the battlefield. ”

Xue Peng clenched his fists, "Their blood will not be shed in vain." ”

Wei Ying was silent for a while, now is not the time to dwell on these, "If you don't want their blood to be shed in vain, as the main general, you must always stay calm, and you can't be carried away by hatred at any time." ”

"I just checked the wounds of these people, or they were pierced in the abdomen with a shot, or they were shot through the chest with an arrow, or they were smashed in the head by a shield, and they were all fatal blows, and ordinary rogues could not do it, only ....... ”

Speaking of this, Wei Ying paused, and Xue Peng asked, "Only what?"

Wei Ying pondered for a moment and finally said, "Only the elite in the army, as far as Wei Ying knows, in the Wang Ting army, the Ji family has an elite cavalry, a small team of five people, two shield soldiers, two pikemen, and an archer. ”

"The elite of the army?" Xue Peng's expression was cold, "It seems that this is coming for me!"

Wei Ying said, "My lord, according to the military law of the royal court, if you lose grain and grass, the lord will be dismissed from your post and be relegated to eighty military sticks, my lord, your current situation is not optimistic!"

Xue Peng's eyes flashed coldly, now that the rogue has long disappeared, and the grain and grass are gone, does he really want to become the shortest-reigning general in history, and he will be driven down less than a day after taking office, I am afraid that this joke will be passed down through the ages.

Xue Peng was thinking about countermeasures in his heart, and at the same time, a battle report had been quickly transmitted to Wang Ji, and it was reported to the military department all the time.

An hour later, in the court, King Wen sat on the throne, looked down at the ministers and said, "What is your Aiqing doing today?"

Honglu Temple said, "The king has a book. ”

Say. ”

"Back to the king, Yu Mingguo sent envoys to my big house. ”

Hearing this, he snorted coldly, "That birdman has always had a bad relationship with us, what are you doing here for me this time?"

Honglu Temple Qing said, "Back to the king, Yu Mingguo came to my Dacao this time, one is to express goodwill, rebuild the alliance between the two countries and then become a brother state, and the other is to talk to me about trade, and is willing to reduce the tax on my Dacao by 20%. ”

"Oh?" Wang Wen was interested when he heard this, "Those birdmen with small bellies and chicken intestines, why are they so generous this time?"

Honglu Siqing said with a smile on his face, "Back to the king, the eldest prince has won victories against demons one after another, captured many barbarian demons, and obtained many inner dans, Yu Mingguo hopes that my Da Cao can sell them a batch." ”

Hearing this, the ministers nodded and said, "Reducing the tax by 20% can save at least tens of millions of spirit stones a year, and this time the eldest prince has made a great contribution!"

"Yes, it is worthy of being the pillar stone of my royal court, with the eldest prince here, the prosperity of my royal court is just around the corner!"

Honglu Siqing smiled and said to King Wen, "Your Majesty, the Yuming Kingdom mission is about to arrive in the royal city, so the intention of Weichen is just to take this opportunity to show my great army to deter Yumingguo." ”

King Wen nodded after hearing this and said, "That's it, it's okay, then Xue Peng, the chief general of the Ming Wangji Left and Right Guards, must be in good order, and let those birdmen take a good look at my Da Cao's military might." ”

As soon as King Wen's voice fell, Shangshu of the Ministry of War took a step to the right and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that Xue Peng, the chief lieutenant of the Left Guard, is difficult to take on this post. ”

King Wen's face sank slightly when he heard this, "Zuo Shuwei laughed at my lord's general Xue Peng was canonized by this king himself, how can he not be appointed to this position?"

The military department Shangshu said loudly, "Back to the king, this morning Weichen got a report, Xue Peng, the chief general of the Zuo Shu Guard, just took office today, and he was robbed of military rations by the Liukou, and more than ten sergeants died. ”

"What did you say? Xue Xiaowei's Zuo Shuwei was defeated by a group of rogues?" King Wen couldn't believe his ears, Zuo Shuwei was the elite of the royal court.

The military department Shangshu said, "Back to the king, Weichen has repeatedly confirmed that Captain Xue's left guard was indeed defeated by Liukou, and more than ten soldiers were killed in battle, and not a single body of Liukou was left. ”

King Wen was so embarrassed when he heard this, this Xue Peng, who was the captain he assigned, led the left guard of Wang Ji, was actually invaded into Wang Ji by the rogue, and burned the grain and grass, and killed more than ten soldiers, but he couldn't even take down a rogue Kou.

King Wen was angry and angry, "Xue Peng, Xue Peng, this king trusts you so much, but you gave this king a hard slap in front of all the ministers, you disappointed this king too much." ”

When the king said angrily, "The decree is that Xue Peng, as the chief general of the Wangji Zuo Guard, not only let the liukou sneak into Wangji, but also discarded the grain and grass, killed and injured the sergeants, and lost the face of the royal court, and removed him from the rank of captain and general, with a heavy staff of eighty. ”

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