It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"He has only been in Yuxi City for two years... Who among you doesn't have more than ten years of experience in the army? Today, we were caught off guard and suffered a small loss, but tomorrow, I don't want to see any defeat. I want to see the head of that rebellious son hanging on the gate of Xiaxin City. Those who dared to charge at us today, one by one, will be chopped off! Otherwise, come to see me with your heads on your shoulders."

23. Strict Miss Fang Thirteen

The generals of Yunyang were sitting in the military tent and discussing things, and the top military officials of Yuxi City were also in a meeting.

Fang Shisan, who had always been gentle, rarely showed an angry expression. He called Selaginella to his side and criticized her harshly. Many low-level officers in Wangdong Camp were also reprimanded. This operation once puzzled the soldiers of Wangdong Camp. They shouted loudly in the barracks, saying that their superiors were right and asked Fang Shisan not to embarrass them.

So Fang Shisan sat in a wheelchair and talked about the key issues of the battle in front of everyone.

The goal of Wangdong Camp and Xuanjia Camp is to show the momentum of Yuxi City. On the one hand, everyone is training blindly on weekdays, and now they need a tough battle to see blood and help them accumulate more experience; on the other hand, it is to prove to the people of Xiaxin City that the army of Yuxi City is capable of confronting Yunyang's elite head-on and strengthen their belief in defending the city.

Wangdong Camp fought well today, but that's where the problem lies. This war went through three stages. The first stage was Wangdong Camp preparing for battle, the second stage was Wangdong Camp facing the challenge head-on, and the third stage was Wangdong Camp fighting to the death. The difference between the second and third stages was that in the third stage, Lord Yunyang began to dispatch a large army to besiege Wangdong Camp, and the danger level was further increased.

At this time, Selaginella could have ordered a retreat, and the squad leaders could have restrained their men from continuing to charge. After all, the momentum had been built up, and there was no need to risk the annihilation of the entire army. But at that time, no one spoke, and everyone continued to attack fearlessly.

The soldiers' performance was excellent, but the officers' performance was substandard.

Especially the battalion commander, Selaginella. He was at the forefront, with at least three or four serious injuries on his body. The knife wound on his shoulder made his left arm unusable for the next few days.

"It is your responsibility to defend our country. Having the courage to charge forward and overcome all obstacles along the way is your most valuable quality. So you have done a great job in this small-scale battle just now. You will be rewarded according to your merits. I can guarantee with my life that this money will be given to you without missing a single copper coin."

Fang Shisan closed his eyes, pointed at the officer standing nearby, and said to the soldiers:

"But keeping you alive as long as possible is something they have to consider. They didn't do well enough this time, so they should be punished accordingly. Life for life is necessary in many cases, but it can't go on like this forever. Because our army is made up of people who are better than our enemies, they deserve to live in this world more than them. You train hard every day, eat and live with your companions, strengthen your body, and practice formations in order to survive better, not just to die - Selaginella, do you understand this?"

Selaginella nodded, looking ashamed.

This time he was really excited, and he didn't retreat when he could, because he felt deep down that people should die for something worthwhile, and he finally saw such a precious thing again after a long period of wandering. The feeling of fighting on the battlefield with the brothers behind him, the tragic atmosphere, and the pleasure of mutual trust, all made him think that it would be okay to shed his blood here.

Fang Shisan shook his head, with some pain in his voice:

"Just remember it first. The battle to defend the city is a chance to make amends."

Selaginella saluted, then bowed his head heavily to the soldiers of Wangdong Camp, apologized solemnly, and was helped away to recover from his injuries. The soldiers of Wangdong Camp looked at each other with mixed feelings, but they had no objection to Fang Shisan's decision. Soon the reward came to them, and everyone got a few silver coins at least. Those who killed more enemies received a high income. As Fang Shisan said, there was no deduction, so the last worries and complaints in their hearts were gone.

Although Fang Shisan had just pointed out the officers' shortcomings, they still loved their own officers. After all, this time everyone was at the forefront together, and their officers rushed ahead of them. Both sides felt a little sorry for each other and were thinking about their own problems.

After returning to the room, Fang Shisan let out a long sigh and pressed his forehead tiredly.

Lid massaged her shoulders and said with a smile:

"You're still punishing others after winning a battle. When did Miss Thirteen become a villain?"

Lid's tone was obviously joking, but Fang Shisan said seriously:

"It can't be helped... They have brave blood, but throughout history, no strong army has fought a war purely out of passion. The Wangdong Camp is strong now because they suffered unfair treatment in Yunyang, so when they fight Yunyang, they will do their best and bet everything they have on the war. But I need to consider longer-term things... For example, after the war with Yunyang is over, where should they go."

Li De massaged Fang Shisan's shoulders, still with just the right amount of strength.

He actually knew what Fang Shisan was doing, but he felt that if Fang Shisan said it himself, the girl would be happier. It was like telling a joke to a friend, hoping that he hadn't heard it. If he said "I knew it earlier", the person telling the joke would be embarrassed.

Fang Shisan smiled and said:

"Think about it. After the battle with Yunyang, if we can win, the revenge of Wangdong Camp will be completed. If they have not retired at that time, will they still have the idea of ​​​​forging ahead when fighting with other armies? Of course, they can also retire after defeating Yunyang. But the problem is that when they are retired and return to the countryside, once a conflict breaks out with others, they will most likely habitually choose violent conflict to solve the problem because this is what they have always done and what we taught them."

Lid added cooperatively:

"I understand. If I don't have a sword in my hand, I can't protect you. If I keep holding the sword, I can't hold you tight."

No matter how sharp a sword is, it needs to be equipped with a scabbard to be used. Otherwise, it will either be too rigid and easy to break, or it will eventually hurt its own people.

There are many factors that drive soldiers to fight desperately, and it cannot be just hatred and passion.

Fang Shisan tapped his leg and said:

"Time is limited. Every war is an opportunity for our army to improve itself and we cannot miss it. In addition, if I am not mistaken, Lord Yunyang should start attacking the city in the next two days. Although I can't guess his thoughts, if the current situation continues to drag on, his morale will definitely drop faster, so he will definitely attack us. A strong attack is his only way out, and defending the city happens to be my area of ​​expertise... The direction of the war should have a result soon."

24. Beauty beyond measure (physics)

Wangdong Camp and Xuanjia Camp were discussing today's battle while recuperating.

In order to completely eliminate their physical and mental fatigue, the Yuxi City Special Medical Team came to help. Of course, although it was a special medical team in name, the actual member was only the elf princess Delis. After all, this healing ability was too rare. Unless he could find a way to cooperate with the elves in the future, or poach a saint from other territories, Lid would not be able to expand the special medical team.

Fortunately, Delis could still handle this injury.

After treating the last wounded person, Delis yawned, stretched and said to Lid:

"I say, haven't you hired a lot of doctors? I won't need my help soon. I think your medical system is quite mature. A few days ago, someone told me that some diseases are caused by tiny organisms that cannot be seen by the naked eye. I didn't believe it, but later they wrote down the reasons why the wounds fester. I was shocked. Let them do this kind of dirty work in the future, and don't disturb my rest every few days."

Delis's healing ability is top-notch in Yuxi City. Many patients with difficult and complicated diseases often knock on Delis's door after seeking medical treatment everywhere and seeing no effect. Delis always helps them treat while complaining. Once the number of patients increases in a certain period of time, Delis often becomes neurasthenic and irritable. She often calls Lid to clean the house, wash clothes, or let Lid carry her on his back to go shopping in the city as a way to vent.

Lid listened to Delis's complaints while sending her to rest, with a bitter smile on his face:

"It's different. The reserve doctors in Yuxi City have the ability to cure diseases and save lives, but they don't have the ability to heal people's wounds quickly. They can take over the responsibility of popularizing medical care from you, but you are the only one who can provide treatment and care for the army. After all, they are pure-blooded elves, and our technology can't catch up in a short time. The problem that you can solve with a flick of your finger will cause us a headache for a long time."

Delis folded her arms, snorted coldly, and said:

"That's good to know. But my time is very tight, and I can't always waste it on these trivial matters."

Lid nodded, but he was thinking that he didn't see why Delis's time was tight. When there were no patients, Delis went to bed on time at 10 o'clock every night, got up at 8 o'clock the next day, took a medicinal bath, did aromatherapy, and then learned some human knowledge. In the afternoon, she practiced the piano most of the time, occasionally sat in the yard to drink tea, pointed out where the architectural style of the City Lord's Mansion in Yuxi City was different, where there was a problem with the aesthetics, and ordered the craftsmen to come and repair it. Recently, she has added a new hobby, which is to chat with the giantess Taisis. After all, from the current point of view, the relationship between both sides and the dragon clan is not good, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Delis's level of slacking off every day is comparable to Reed's, and it even gives people the feeling that she is about to overtake Reed.

Lid sighed in his heart and told himself that he must work hard after the war and strive for the first place.

Delis will be staying in the barracks during this period, and she will be needed to buff the soldiers in tomorrow's battle to defend the city. Judging from the situation tonight, large-scale comprehensive healing is still a huge test for Delis's physical strength. Although she is trying to look arrogant, she can't hide the fatigue in the corners of her eyes.

After Lid accompanied her to rest, he heard the conversation between the cavalry battalion commander Chen Yu and Fang Shisan outside the military tent:

"Cavalry is different from infantry. It takes longer to train. It usually takes several years to be formed. In my case, the earliest it will take is the end of this year. Before that, my suggestion is not to count it into the combat power of Yuxi City. After all, it is very unstable. If something goes wrong, the loss will be too great."

"The end of the year... is already much sooner than I thought. Don't worry, this war does not involve the cavalry battalion, so just focus on training the troops."

"I know. But someone urged me to tell you. Horses are not as easy to train as humans, and they also have very high requirements for the soldiers riding on them. These four thousand war horses are all good horses and will be very capable in the future, but now I need you to help me buy time."

Chenyu was a talent left behind by the senior rebel general Bicas when she came to Yuxi City last time. She has deep attainments in the field of cavalry. Lide had met her several times. Contrary to her gentle and pleasant name, she was a female with eight-pack abs, much bigger than the average girl, and good at using a huge machete. She was at least 1.8 meters tall, a little taller than Lide. She usually had no expression and rarely talked to other generals in Yuxi City. She was very capable and treated her soldiers as strictly as she treated herself.

Once, Bai Huang asked her how the name Chenyu came from. Chenyu said that when she was five years old, she went out to sea with her parents and encountered a fish monster that intercepted the boat. When everyone felt that the end was coming, Chenyu picked up the oar and hit the fish monster on the head. The oar broke into two pieces, and the fish monster sank to the bottom of the sea. Therefore, she got the name Chenyu.

After joining the rebels, Chen Yu himself replaced Chen with Chen.

Perhaps this is the meaning of a fish struggling in the world.

When Bai Huang told this story to Li De, he sighed and said that he thought there was another beautiful girl who was so beautiful that she could captivate all the fish and geese, but he didn't expect that she was a strong tomboy. She didn't react at all when he teased her, and he suddenly felt bored.

Hearing the words "someone urged", Lid narrowed his eyes slightly. Before the war started, someone urged He Yue to quickly deploy the invincible giant army. After He Yue refused, they obviously set their sights on the cavalry battalion that was still in training. Lid didn't like this trend very much. He planned to write a letter to He Yue soon and ask him to investigate the problem behind it.

The front line is fighting, and the rear is commanding blindly. This is the main reason why many armies seem to be extremely powerful but actually fall apart at the slightest touch. Lide can understand that many vested interests have begun to make plans in order to protect their own interests as much as possible, but he cannot accept them directly interfering in the important decisions of Yuxi City.

Fang Shisan probably understood why Chen Yu came here. He groped and gently patted her arm, smiling and said:

"Don't worry, no matter what others say, the cavalry battalion will not be affected. You have only been in Yuxi City for a few months, and you haven't been training cavalry for a long time. If I rush you to take them to the battlefield, it will only overdraw Yuxi City's future strength. I know this. After you train the soldiers, I will have other important tasks for you."

Chen Yu looked a little struggling. Perhaps guessing that she was still a little confused, Fang Shisan added:

"If someone tells you that if you don't fight now, you won't have the chance to fight even after Yuxi City is destroyed, don't believe it. War has never been about one person turning the tide. The Cavalry Battalion is Yuxi City's precious fighting force, but Yuxi City will not bet the outcome of the war entirely on you."

25. Siege

With Delis's protection, the soldiers of Yuxi City did not feel overly tired when they woke up from their sleep in the early morning.

Just like a child who has had enough sleep, the body and mind become very clear, and the whole body is full of inexhaustible energy. The refreshing feeling is like unloading a heavy burden, the breath is refreshing, and it seems that the world can be held in the palm of the hand.

Lid raised his hand, and a handsome eagle landed on his wrist. Lid took a letter tube from it, opened the cover and poured out a letter that was folded and rolled up repeatedly. He squinted his eyes, read it carefully, and then tore the letter into pieces. He let go and let the scraps fly away with the wind.

He stretched out his hand and waved gently, and the eagle spread its wings and soared into the sky.

"Yuxi City has never rejected any kindness, but few people are willing to show kindness to us."

Lid smiled faintly, sitting alone on the city wall, looking at the dark siege army below, drinking the remaining wine in his hand, throwing the wine glass off the city wall, and breaking it in the yellow sand.

He seemed to be talking to himself:

"Then let's go get it ourselves."

His figure disappeared on the city wall, and the place where he was sitting was immediately covered with arrows. The rumbling catapults began to operate, and huge stones were thrown onto the top of the city wall one after another. Huge stones with a diameter of two or three meters hit the city wall, and even with the protection of the city defense formation, visible dents appeared on the city wall. Dust rose into the sky, and a choking smell filled the air.

"Everyone - attack -!"

The rain of arrows suppressed the defenders on the city wall, and countless attackers rushed towards Xiaxin City, waving swords and guns.

For every soldier from Yuxi City killed, a reward of ten gold coins will be given.

The first person to reach the top of the city wall will be rewarded with 100 gold coins.

Capturing or killing a high-ranking general in Yuxi City will be rewarded with 500 gold coins.

The reward for killing Fang Shisan is 3,000 gold coins, and the reward for capturing Fang Shisan alive is 10,000 gold coins.

Anyone who can bring back Lid's head will be rewarded with 100,000 gold coins.

There are also various titles of nobility, the worst of which can allow one to enter the nobility.

Before the expedition, Lord Yunyang had clearly stated the bounty for this war. For these soldiers who had been training in Lingyun City for a long time, they had seen what real prosperity was, and naturally knew what this money could do. The best girls in brothels, the best wines in restaurants, mansions, sedan chairs, overwhelming power, generations of glory...

All the most beautiful and extravagant things they could imagine could be satisfied with this money.

The hereditary noble title allowed them to ascend to heaven in one step and become the new military hero of Yunyang Territory. As long as Yunyang did not fall, their glory and wealth would not disappear, and their descendants would live with the halo from birth, born without having to worry about money, and born in a higher place than their peers.

All these wonderful things can be achieved now if we just charge forward with our lives at the risk of our lives.

So why would you back off? This is such a good opportunity, and you may never get it again in your lifetime!

Yes, the soldiers of Yuxi City are very powerful, which they had seen yesterday. They are very good at fighting and fearless, but there are nearly 20,000 people on their side, plus a large number of catapults. No matter how strong the soldiers of Yuxi City are, can they kill all of them? There will always be lucky survivors who climb the city wall, attack the city, burn, kill, loot, and take away a large amount of bounty.

Everyone feels that they have a chance of becoming that lucky person, so everyone will risk their lives to move forward.

Talking about money is tacky but effective. The reward is so big that it is worth risking their lives.

The army surged like a tide, and the formation specially prepared for the siege played its best role. In addition, due to the high morale, even though the walls of Xiaxin City had been strengthened several times, it still seemed precarious under such an attack. After switching from offense to defense, the Xuanjia Camp and Wangdong Camp, which had won prestige yesterday, still maintained a very high combat effectiveness, but their strength was still limited to a certain extent.

Although they have the advantage of terrain, the battle to defend the city is more passive. The range of action is limited, and the enemy has a large number of stones and arrows to guard against. This is not bad for the Xuanjia Camp, but it has a great impact on the Wangdong Camp. Although they have undergone professional training, this feeling of being unable to use their strength still makes people feel very irritated.

Fortunately, at this time, the Shao Yu Camp, which had been silent for a long time, finally officially joined the battlefield.

There are actually not so many tricks to defending a city. It just depends on five points: first, whether the city defense formation is solid; second, whether there is a big gap between the attackers and the defenders; third, whether the people in the city want to defend it; fourth, whether the city has sufficient material reserves; and fifth, whether the army and people defending the city can operate effectively according to reasonable dispatch.

Many cities were able to be defended tenaciously by a group of people who had never been to the battlefield, all because of proper coordination. Someone ordered them to demolish houses in advance and prepare a large number of rolling stones and falling wood. There were special people responsible for transporting these city defense props from the city to the top of the city. During the process of defending the city, the front-line people would be replaced every once in a while to rest... Fang Shisan used to do all these by herself, and now someone can finally help her.

As a "professionally trained" army, the Shaoyu Battalion did not have much experience on the battlefield. Compared with the Xuanjia Battalion, which had fought several battles alone, or the Wangdong Battalion, which was able to risk its life and fight forward, this young army that advocated theory had always been outside the mainstream. Many people under the rule of Yuxi City were also skeptical about the existence of the military academy. They always felt that a capable army was honed on the battlefield. It was absurd to let a bunch of half-grown boys study in the city.

But in fact, Shao Yuying has more than just youth. This team has a characteristic that no other army has: independence.

Orders do not necessarily come from the top; everyone at the bottom is qualified enough to participate in decision-making.

Therefore, even if they are separated or broken up, they will not panic, but will look for the most appropriate way to break the current situation.

This characteristic was fully demonstrated in the battle to defend the city. Shao Yuying would deploy defenses in advance wherever the enemy might attack; a large number of Shao Yuying soldiers were scattered in every corner of the city, commanding the people who were willing to resist to do various things in an orderly manner. From transporting food and cooking to demolishing some old houses in an orderly manner, all of these were inseparable from the participation of the soldiers of Shao Yuying.

They will not make much of a splash on the front battlefield, and they do not have the glorious deeds of bloody battles like the Wangdong Camp.

But with them around, the war will become easier to fight than usual.

Because they are soldiers trained according to the training methods of Lid's original world. It is certainly not advisable to talk about military affairs on paper, but if they can combine the paper on military talks with the swords and guns in their hands, and use a more scientific perspective to analyze and deal with problems arising on the battlefield, then what will be demonstrated will be a completely different new force.

This kind of power is enough to add a heavy weight to the scales of war.

The ladder is like a towering forest.

The iron arrows were like dark clouds covering the sky.

The boulders were like heavy rain.

Countless people rushed here, and countless people died here.

Only the victorious party is qualified to leave their name here.

Luger chopped down the enemy in front of him with one blow, and his Selaginella spear was stained with blood.

Ming Qian wiped the sweat from his face, his voice soon became hoarse, and there was a burning pain deep in his throat.

Fang Shisan, sitting in a wheelchair, gripped the armrests tightly, silently directing the flow of power within the army formation, blocking the attacks of the troops outside time and time again, his face looking a little haggard.

Reed raised his head and glanced at the sky above his head.

The air was filled with the dryness before midsummer, so sticky that it seemed as if water was about to drip out, stuffy and humid.

——It’s going to rain.

26. The first card to be revealed