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Old foxes like Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye, Yun Chong felt the gazes of Duan Dingbang and others, and a barely perceptible smile flashed quickly in the depths of their eyes.

In order to help Young Master Liu, the Emperor, to smooth things over, these old foxes used all the tricks they had used in the court before!

  Although the gazes of Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu and other young people were very obscure, how could they hide it from the old foxes like Song Qing, Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye and Wanyan Chizha!

You know, old foxes like Song Qing, Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye, etc. are all experienced killers who have been on the battlefield for a long time and have fought hundreds of battles.

With the current status and position of these old foxes, there is naturally no need for them to personally ride horses and whip the whip to charge into battle on the battlefield.

However, when they were young, they were also brave generals who fought their way out of the battlefield, from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood!

A person who can fight his way out step by step on the battlefield, if his reaction and perception were just a little bit worse, he would have died countless times already.

Therefore, Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu, Zhuge Ziqing and others had no idea that the changes in their expressions just now had already been seen clearly by old foxes like Zhang Kuang and Wanyan Chizha out of the corner of their eyes.

And uncles like Song Qing, Cheng Kai, Feng Buer, Ning Chao, and Han Peng had no intention of reminding their nephews Duan Dingbang and the other younger generations.

Some things can naturally be reminded when they need to be reminded, but some things cannot be reminded.

For example, the changes in emotions in your heart, or your eyesight.

Especially when in front of the Emperor, Young Master Liu, one must have a tactful mind and sufficient vision.

These things must be pondered slowly and gradually understood by yourself.

If their uncles and aunts reminded them of these things, it would not only not be helping them, but would also harm them.

Most people would think that only the civil servants who speak and write in the court are deep-minded people.

However, only the generals who lead the troops in the army know that their minds are no less thoughtful than those of the civil servants in the court.

After all, compared with the civil servants in the temple, the generals who hold military power are more likely to be feared by His Majesty the Emperor.

Therefore, a general who has a poor mind and poor eyesight will not be able to survive for long in the court full of intrigue.

After the complexions of young generals such as Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu, and Chu Yunhao gradually returned to normal, Young Master Liu chuckled, raised the wine glass to his lips and took a sip of the wine.

Then, he looked happily at Duan Dingbang who was sitting diagonally opposite him.

"Dingbang."

When Duan Dingbang heard the voice, his expression changed slightly and he stood up from the chair.

"The minister is here."

"Dingbang, Yue'er has already apologized to you in advance before she expressed the two different opinions in her mind.

Therefore, if there is anything inappropriate in Yue'er's remarks just now, you are not allowed to have any dissatisfaction, and you are not allowed to take it to heart!"

As soon as Young Master Liu said this, Duan Dingbang quickly raised his hands and clasped them respectfully.

Then, he turned slightly and gave the little cutie a fist bump as well.

"Your Majesty, I am sincerely convinced by what Your Highness Princess said before, and I do not have the slightest dissatisfaction."

Hearing Duan Dingbang's very serious tone, Young Master Liu gently waved the carved jade fan in his hand, looked at Duan Dingbang with a smile and nodded slightly.

"That's good, that's good.

Dingbang, there is no need to stand, please take a seat quickly."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Seeing Duan Dingbang sitting down again, Young Master Liu chuckled and looked up at the little cutie standing next to him.

"Yue'er, don't stand all the time, go back and sit down."

When the little cutie heard his father's confusion, he looked down at Young Master Liu, smiled faintly and shook his head slightly.

"Father, it's uncomfortable to sit all the time. It's better to stand up and move your body."

"Hahahaha, okay, just do whatever you want."

"Yeah, yeah, Yue'er knows."

The little cutie responded to Young Master Liu in a clear and pleasant voice. He first put down the wine jug and glass in his hands, and then grabbed a handful of peach kernels from the plate on the table.

Young Master Liu smiled faintly, withdrew his gaze from the little cutie, raised his head slightly, and drank the wine in the glass in one breath.

Upon seeing this, the little cutie quickly stopped the action of pinching the peach kernel between his fingers, and as soon as his father put the wine glass on the table, he immediately picked up the wine jug and filled the glass with wine.

Young Master Liu adjusted his sitting position lazily, then reached out to pick up a handful of melon seeds from the plate and looked at Duan Dingbang with a smile.

"Dingbang."

Upon hearing the voice, Duan Dingbang hurriedly put down the wine glass in his hand and looked up at Young Master Liu.

"The minister is here."

Seeing Duan Dingbang looking at him, Young Master Liu gently crushed a melon seed, then put the kernel into his mouth with a faint smile.

"Dingbang, you said before that underestimating the enemy is a taboo in military strategy.

I want to ask you, when you led your troops to help Persia quell the rebellion, did you underestimate the enemy when facing the rebels in Persia? "

As Young Master Liu finished speaking, everyone present turned their heads and looked towards Duan Dingbang.

Duan Dingbang immediately straightened up, his face calm and composed, and he bowed to Young Master Liu without avoiding any glances.

"Your Majesty, when I led the army to fight this time, no matter how many troops the enemy had, I would never underestimate the enemy."

Hearing Duan Dingbang's serious answer, Young Master Liu frowned slightly.

"Dingbang, I have already roughly reviewed the war reports you prepared last night.

Judging from what you wrote in the war report, the losses in the cities of Soltani and Aijad in Persia during your expedition were not small."

As Young Master Liu was talking, he peeled a melon seed with his fingers and put it into his mouth.

"By the way, I only glanced over the contents of the document last night, and I don't have a full understanding of many of the details yet.

Tell me, young master, how many battles did you fight in total, big and small, during your expedition to help Persia quell the rebellion?"

“Your Majesty, we fought a total of eighteen battles with the enemy during this expedition.

There were seven siege battles, six field battles, and five small-scale unexpected encounters.

After listening to Duan Dingbang's answer, Young Master Liu nodded thoughtfully.

"You fought a total of 18 battles, both large and small, killing more than 40,000 enemy soldiers and capturing more than 110,000 enemy soldiers.

  However, the second army under your command that marched westwards only lost more than 7,000 soldiers. You have made such a great achievement in this expedition, it is really a great victory, a rare great victory!

You don't have to worry, once everything is settled, I will reward you according to your merits."

Upon hearing this, Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu, Zhuge Ziqing and other generals immediately stood up and bowed deeply to Young Master Liu.

"We thank your Majesty very much. Long live the emperor."

"No need to be polite, just sit down."

"I will thank you, Your Majesty."

Liu Mingzhi picked up the wine glass, took a sip of the wine, then sighed lightly with a frown on his face.

"Dingbang, let's continue with the question I raised earlier.

This time you led the army into battle, and fought a total of eighteen battles with the enemy, but in the end you only lost more than 7,000 soldiers.

  But what!

According to what you wrote in the battle report, you lost more than 2,000 soldiers in just the two battles in Sultani and Aijad.

Adding together all the battles you fought in this expedition, you only lost a total of more than 7,000 troops.

But in the two cities of Soltani and Aijad, you lost more than 2,000 soldiers.

If we take these two battles into account, more than a thousand soldiers were killed in each battle.

  Back then, before your second army set out on the Western Expedition, I equipped your infantry battalion with a large number of various types of artillery!

Moreover, those cannons were all new types of cannons that had just been developed by the Ordnance Administration.

  The power of the new artillery is much greater than that of the old artillery!

Even the various weapons you carry are new weapons from the Military Construction Supervisory Bureau.

Looking at the overall situation of your expedition, with all these advantages, even if your battles in the two countries of Sudan and Ni were siege battles, you shouldn't have suffered such heavy losses, right?"

As Young Master Liu spoke with a frown on his face, he gently closed the jade fan with a picture of a vast landscape in his hand, and picked up the pipe that had been placed on the corner of the table.

However, he had just picked up his pipe and had not had time to tear open the pipe filled with tobacco when he suddenly thought of something and immediately put it back in its place.

After taking a few deep breaths, Young Master Liu first picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one breath, then reached out and grabbed a handful of nuts from the plate on the table.

After the little cutie swallowed the peach kernel between his lips and teeth, he immediately picked up the wine jug and poured another glass of wine for Master Liu.

After eating two nuts, Young Master Liu turned his attention back to Duan Dingbang.

"Dingbang, I am very curious about what caused you to suffer such a huge loss in the two cities of Sultanni."

Duan Dingbang took a deep breath and pointed at the wine glass on the table.

"Your Majesty, would you like to have two glasses of wine first?"

Young Master Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, then nodded with a smile.

"Your throat is bound to get dry if you keep talking, just be casual."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After Duan Dingbanglang thanked him, he immediately picked up the wine glass on the table.

Under the gaze of everyone, he poured himself three glasses of wine in a row before stopping.

"call."

After Captain Duan Dingbang exhaled a breath of alcohol, he turned his head and looked at Young Master Liu again.

“Your Majesty, the reason why we suffered such heavy losses in the two cities of Sultanni is definitely not because we underestimated the enemy.

As for the war situation in these two cities, I have already described it in detail in the war report.

Your Majesty, you only took a quick look at what I wrote on the war report last night, and it is possible that you did not see the details of what I reported on the document.

Your Majesty, this is roughly the situation.

When I was commanding my troops to launch a siege, a large number of soldiers suddenly rushed out from the rear.

This group of soldiers who suddenly rushed out from the rear numbered about 10,000 people and were poorly equipped.

It can be said that among the 10,000 or so soldiers, less than one-tenth or one-twelve of them were wearing armor, and even the weapons in their hands were of various kinds.

In fact, the weapons in the hands of most soldiers were actually the kitchen knives used by cooks in the kitchen.

However, although the military equipment of this group of troops was very simple and they did not even have decent weapons.

But when they rushed towards our soldiers, they were so crazy. "

As Duan Dingbang was talking, he seemed to recall something, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, when those people charged towards our soldiers, it is no exaggeration to say that they were fearless and daring.

When they faced the dense rain of arrows launched by our soldiers to defend themselves, they had no intention of dodging at all.

Even after their companions were shot and fell to the ground, they had no intention of trying to provide medical treatment.

They looked as if facing death was not something to be afraid of at all.

Let me put it this way, the way those soldiers attacked our soldiers was no exaggeration to say they were committing suicide.

Crazy, mad, and fearless of death.

However, even so, none of them stopped charging.

When I was on the high platform of the central army, I used a telescope to carefully observe the expressions on those people's faces.

Let me put it this way, when they faced our soldiers, their expressions were as if they saw the enemy who murdered their father.

If I had not known them and had never seen them, I would have suspected that our soldiers had committed a massacre."

When Duan Dingbang said this, he reached out and picked up the wine glass on the table and drank the wine in one breath.

"call!"

“More than 10,000 soldiers and horses, that’s more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Under the dense rain of arrows launched by our soldiers, when they rushed to the front of our army, their strength was less than 3,000 people.

Under normal circumstances, there would be less than 3,000 people.

Even if there are more than 5,000 people left, or 6,000 fishmen, they should retreat.

But...but..." (End of this chapter)