The military flags of the big battalion under the mountain looked at each other, and the witch soldiers and mercenaries who thought they were sure of victory waited for enough dry wood to set fire to the mountain, and the staff of the two armies with the battalion were fighting in the big tent every day to divide the spoils of the ancient village, and the military academies who had nothing to do drank and gambled to find their own fun, and there was a way up the mountain, and the people under the mountain could not attack, and it was not easy for the people on the mountain to counterattack as a whole team. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the ancient village, the three corps commanders have lifted the military order that no alcohol is allowed, three meals a day are all good wine and food, there is only less than half an hour of military training every day, hehe, it is said to be training, in fact, it is to reorganize the standard team with insufficient troops, many officers with the rank of patrol commander, deigned to be a squad leader or even a sentry commander, no way, build the city for three months and defend the city for two months, there are too many soldiers who have made military achievements. After the reorganization was completed, Ling Huqing looked at the roster and laughed out loud, the two legions did not have a big soldier, and the last one in the battle merit book was a man, but he also had war merits, and when he went to the city wall to defend, he cut a witch soldier, and it happened that he was still a patrol-level officer, and as a result, according to the Qinghui military merit evaluation method, the military affairs team had to give someone a sentry commander, so the most bullish team appeared in a legion, and the captain actually hung the standard commander title, and there were twenty-four soldiers under his command, eighteen of whom had the rank of inspector, and the most unfortunate was also the sentry commander.

"How do you make a group? How can there be such a joke!"

Mei Ying was so angry that Ling Huqing didn't explain, handed her the report she had prepared earlier, and tears hung on the corners of her eyes after reading a few pages - some officers who were unable to fully recover for a while and three moments were unwilling to stay in the ancient village to recuperate, and they didn't want to become a burden to their partners after going into battle.

"The war exploits have been repeatedly verified at all levels, and I dare not say that they are completely correct, but there will never be a phenomenon of taking off the merits, and many difficult to verify the exploits of the war, the military affairs group has not counted them, but it is only noted that the matter is difficult to find out, how many people the heavy infantry killed with trebuchets, and what kind of identity the deceased is, there is no way to obtain evidence at all, and the same is true for crossbowmen, who still has the leisure to carefully observe the number of enemies killed when the battle is fierce. ”

Seeing that Mei Ying didn't speak for a long time, Ling Huqing changed his words: "The enemy's casualties are there, how many teams of men and horses were killed under each city wall, those who observe the battle situation will not be mistaken, and then compare it with the enemy's summary after the battle, and then I am afraid that most people's military merits will have to be adjusted upward, and we can't summarize and say that more than 60,000 enemies were killed, and as a result, the enemy himself admitted that more than 80,000 people died in the battle, and those 20,000 people committed suicide inexplicably, and they must be implemented in each battalion and each standard." ”

"There is no need to adjust! The extra military exploits are all hung up in the name of the wounded soldiers, and they will receive more rewards from the empire, so that their lives after disability will be more secure. Mei Ying put down the report, and said uneasily: "Remember, after the war, all standard teams must send out reliable officers, and go to the Remnants Academy one by one to verify to see if the rewards are fully allocated, if someone is found to be corrupt and pervert the law, report it directly to the county lord's mansion at the same time, you lead the troops to deal with it, and kill one or two people if you are greedy, and there is no shortage of candidate officials in the Qinghui Empire!"

Ling Huqing sighed in his heart, greedy for one or two to kill one person, how many heads did the empire have to land, and he had the intention to persuade two sentences that were inconsistent with the law, and he was afraid that Mei Ying would give an order immediately, so he had to persuade him when he was idle in the future.

"I've read the report on the combat exploits of the inspector team, don't you think it's strange? Gao Yuan and Li Changgong didn't even make an inch, and I said the credit for directly killing the enemy, not including the record of commanding the battle. Mei Ying took out the battle report of the inspector team from the table, and muttered angrily: "There have been more than 40 battles of all sizes, Gao Yuan has not killed a single person, Li Changbow has not released a single arrow, but none of the battles have failed, and they have turned into gods?

"I will strictly investigate the reward for meritorious service, but people are unwilling to report the merit and ask for a reward, and give the imperial county lord the money, I have no right to pursue it, I want to investigate you personally." Before Ling Huqing finished speaking, everyone slipped to the door of the house, and he didn't hear it.

Mei Ying didn't know that Gao Yuan and Li Changgong were hiding their skills to avoid trouble, especially after Li Changgong was arrested by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, both of them didn't want to be in the limelight anymore, but they always felt angry in their hearts, and reported it truthfully, I am the commander of the three armies, and I will make trade-offs as appropriate.

People have nothing to do, there is no fierce battle, Mei Yingfang has time to think back on Gao Yuan's performance in the past few months, the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that he owes a lesson, he has never seen a figure since he went to Meiling, and he didn't even have a greeting after coming back, obviously on the south bank of the Qing River, with his skills, he slipped across the river to meet and say a few words, what is the difficulty, the excuse can be found casually, the captain of the inspector met the county lord, and who dared to ask him for a reason.

Dozens of miles away from the ancient village, Gao Yuan was lying comfortably on the embankment and bragging with Li Changgong, he felt cold in his heart for no reason, and looked in the direction of the ancient village, if he wanted to say who would curse him, except for Yan Ning is Mei Ying, Hua Yue has always started first and then moved.

"Be a thief, hehe, let you slip over and report to the office, the dead hero doesn't agree, now it's okay, there is someone after the war - hehehe, I didn't say anything. Half of the words were stopped at the right time, and Gao Yuan was so angry that he clenched his fists loudly: "Have you ever persuaded me to cross the river? Why don't I remember, but I say a lot of things every day to avoid trouble." ”

"Someone!" Li Longbow said that the long arrow was already on the bowstring, these days he was secretly fighting with the elite of the witch soldiers, and the quick reflexes he had trained for a long time saved him and his brothers more than once, and many times he was more sensitive to danger than Gao Yuan, and he couldn't find a better reason than to explain it with talent.

"Li Longbow, you kid dare to release arrows again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will throw you into the water!" Qiu Xingchen arrived before he arrived, obviously he had suffered a loss under Li Longbow's secret arrows before, Gao Yuan jumped up and reported seriously: "Li Longbow is deliberately making trouble, I didn't move, he still wanted to release the arrows." ”

"Stop!" Qiu Xingchen drank Gao Yuan's words, he didn't want to be a thug, and after sitting down, he lowered his voice and said: "Lao Tzu doesn't have time to listen to your nonsense! I received an order, release the water tonight, you two take people to ambush first, remember, don't worry about small fish and small shrimp, Lao Tzu wants big fish, at least I have to catch a few generals, whether I live or die." ”

"Instructor, isn't it too early for us to go to the ambush, you release the water so as not to drown the enemy, and take our lives first. ”

"You won't even be able to get a fart if you're late, don't say that Lao Tzu didn't remind you, Hua Yue led people to lurk on the north bank of the Qing River for a long time, and then it was a lot worse than others, hehe, the punishment of the remnants of the academy is more severe than military law. ”

Before Qiu Xingchen finished speaking, Gao Yuan ran so much that he couldn't see the shadow, Li Longbow blew the whistle of the assembly in the distance, and after the inspector team and his archers quickly assembled, they lazily raised their longbow and ordered: "Brothers, do your work, old rules, go!"

In the middle of the night, at the foot of the Guzhai Mountain, the generals who were sleeping soundly let the guards cry and shout and pull up, and as soon as their feet stepped on the ground, their faces instantly turned pale, and they all rushed out of the tent together, and then led the guards to flee without their lives. There was no rain in the early winter, but there was a flash flood in the forest, without warning rolled to the Guzhai Mountain, the witch soldiers and mercenaries cried and shouted to flee for their lives, many people held weapons and shouted to spare their lives and squeezed to the mountain road that fled to the ancient village, the water trend is down, fleeing to the mountain will save their lives, and who will think more about life and death when they are not taken prisoner.

The crossbow arrows shot condescendingly and mercilessly, and they couldn't stop the crowd fleeing on the mountain road, Baji gave an order, and the rolling wood and stones rolled down the slope like rain, and the shouts on the mountain road finally fell silent, and the students who woke up in the ancient village were listening to the inspectors loudly report the battle situation.

"Brothers, now I can tell you, hahaha, do you know where the elite cavalry battalion of the first legion went? Hahaha, cut off dozens of small rivers, and stored water to wait for the enemy to flood today, and want to set fire to us, dream about it. ”

The words of the inspectors seem to have known that there is such a deployment for a long time, but in fact, they only knew half an hour earlier than the soldiers, so they secretly enjoyed half an hour, and the words that conveyed the military situation were even piggyback on the pre-war mobilization, flooding the enemy, and the back was naturally pursued by the army, cutting off people's heads for war exploits.

The battle has been fought so far, there are no variables, a man-made flash flood, so that the mercenaries and witch soldiers know that the grassland war is over, the rest of the thing is whether they can escape the catastrophe and survive in the ruthless water, even if it is to let the students be captured as prisoners, it is better than drowning in the flood, in the face of irresistible disasters, the elite soldiers have no fighting spirit.

The rest of the people who escaped from the flood are up to one of the tenths, and the vast majority of them have become unjust souls in the water, and the rest of the people see the students who have caught up, and they feel more cordial than their own relatives, but the soldiers received the military order to not take prisoners, just to vent the anger that has accumulated in the bottom of their hearts, and they have been fighting for a few months, who has no partner by their side to fight and die, and no one feels guilty about killing more people, in fact, Mei Ying has no choice but to kill Mei Ying, Mei Lian dispelled her compassion in a few words.

"Plague, if you don't want the main force of the cadets to be infected with the plague, catch up and kill all the enemies trapped in the water, and then burn this mountain forest to ashes. Afraid that Mei Ying didn't fully understand, she accentuated her tone again: "Including the ancient village, let's burn it on fire, so as not to cause endless harm." ”

Kantar sent troops to guard the pontoon bridge, leaving a way for Duan Na and the mercenaries who escaped by luck, Hua Yue led people to attack several times and wanted to burn the pontoon bridge, but after she left the desert, there were only about 200 people left under her command, and she rushed several times and saw that it was difficult to succeed, so she had no choice but to order to stop the attack, and when Kantal had not reacted, she occupied the north and south towers of the city first, Duan Na escaped alive and had no intention of attacking, leading the remnants of the defeated generals to ignore Kantal's persuasion, and ran back to the desert with a smoke, until she met the regular army on the border before she took a breath, touched her neck and was glad to have survived.

The encounter of the witch soldiers was relatively better, after all, the escape between the forests was an expert, and there were more people who survived, and they set up camp on the west bank of the Qinghe River to collect the remnants of the soldiers, and finally relieved themselves after a few days, and always beware of the students coming to attack the camp, and they were skeptical of what Sima Jian said: the war is over, and the following is the time to negotiate and divide the interests, if the camp is withdrawn to Cuihua, there will be nothing to say at the negotiation table.

The soldiers returned to Tucheng, and did not take advantage of the absolute superiority of troops and fighting spirit to attack the mercenaries and witch soldiers, the three commanders seem to have reached an agreement a long time ago, the battle of the soldiers has ended, and then it depends on whose brain is flexible and powerful, and the things at the negotiation table are still handed over to the civilian officials to pull the skin, but everyone understands that the Qinghui Empire has an advantage on the surface, but after letting Yan Ning intervene, the contest between the three kingdoms has become a four-party negotiation, and the interests of the king of Xiangyun County have to be considered, and no one seems to have obvious benefits, and only in this way can the war not expand, negotiations can become possible, and in the final analysis, military action can only be subordinated to political needs。

"Ling Huqing is the chief envoy of the negotiation, and Yan Ning and Zhuo Zhuo are the deputy envoys. Mei Ying finalized the envoys for the negotiation, and looked at Gao Yuan: "You have been hiding for the past few months, and you look a little fatter, hehehe, I heard that there is going to be a negotiation, and the envoys from all parties who came from Jicuiguan are connected with cars and horses, who do you say to send to meet them, so that you won't encounter horse bandits on the road?" In addition to Hua Zifei and Hu Li, the rest of the tent are little sisters, Gao Yuan stood up with a bitter face: "It seems that only my official is the youngest here, who else can I send." ”

"There are too few people in your inspection team, go to Baji and ask him for a standard team, the steppe cavalry takes off their military uniforms, and they are no different from horse bandits without disguise, and by the way, help me find out, which tribes have sent troops to rob caravans in the past few months. ”

Hu Li really couldn't stand it, my best officer in the Lingbo standard battalion, let you send him to be a horse bandit, and you have to spy on the reality of the tribe, and it is not good inside and out, just about to say two good words to Gao Yuan, Hua Yue stopped with a smile: "The interests of the palace must be considered in the negotiation, so I am in a hurry to drive him away and go to the palace as a lobbyist and hostage." ”

"Gao Yuan, you ask for more blessings, hehe, arson as bandits, intercept envoys, befriend the king of the county, according to military law, any one must be cut off from the head. ”

Hu Li's reminder made Hua Zifei frown, the old man didn't want his grandson to do these things, which was equivalent to tying Gao Yuan's safety to Mei Ying in disguise, but he couldn't find a reason to object, so he looked at Hua Yue with dissatisfaction and closed his eyes.

"Master, he is going to pick up benefits, too many families want to benefit from the grassland war, deal with it, and when he enters Kyoto, he suddenly becomes a guest of the wealthy family, and there are Xiangyun King and Yan Ning behind him, whoever wants to calculate him has to weigh his strength carefully, and he can't let Mei Ying accompany him every day. ”

Gao Yuan just wanted to be an honest officer, and protested in a low voice: "If I can't handle it well? In the future—" Hua Yue immediately lowered his face: "Can't handle it well? Say it again! In the past few months, your combat exploits have almost been at the bottom among the patrol commanders, and I haven't taken care of settling accounts. It doesn't matter in the grassland, everyone lets you, back to Kyoto, the etiquette among the nobles is cumbersome, the ranks in the army are strict, you have to salute when you see someone, and the seven-foot man salutes vigorously in front of everyone, I feel embarrassed if you are not ashamed!"

Gao Yuan's face couldn't hold back, and he retorted for the first time: "I'm a little patrol, why don't I go to Kyoto and defend the border for the empire." I regretted it when I said it, I didn't dare to look at Mei Ying, I looked at Yan Ning, hoping that she would come out to play a round, but who knew that she was still falling into the well: "Although the grassland is big, it really can't accommodate you to come to the border, you have to go to Kyoto!"