Lords of War: Sinicized Dragonborn

Chapter 75, Shule, Xiongnu, and Liyue have different views on war

With the help of the war lord system, as long as the battle is won, you will definitely get rich benefits.

Even if the recruited soldiers suffered heavy casualties, as long as the war lord survived, as long as he could gain battle settlement experience and rewards, it would not be a loss to improve the war lord's own strength.

In this true and vivid epic romance, whether it is Geng Gong and the border guards representing the great man, or the Xiongnu cavalry army representing the invaders.

The starting point of everyone's actions is for profit, personal benefit, collective benefit...

And battles will inevitably lead to casualties, so both sides will try to avoid meaningless battles.

This led to the defense battle of Shule City, which only had the oppressive feeling of black clouds pressing down on the city and wanted to destroy it, but not the tension of the Huns' cavalry continuously attacking the city with ants.

The Wild Continent is different from the Trial Secret Realm. In other words, the situation on the Wild Continent is that all war lords belong to the players.

All those who are not from our forces, as well as all life on the wild continent, are all wild monsters, and the war lords who are players who eliminate wild monsters can gain battle experience to improve their strength.

As players, how many people will choose to give up the quick way to increase strength by fighting monsters and upgrading, and choose to live in harmony with wild monsters?
If it is said that the powerful war lord divides the area to delineate the spawn points of wild monsters, and forcibly drives out other war lords to upgrade the monsters, it is helpless and aggrieved.

That Emperor Li chose to educate the native barbarians was tantamount to protecting the native wild monsters on the wild continent.

It is a hostile act that makes war lords even more disgusted than occupying the refresh point of wild monsters.

Geng Gong took Emperor Li around Shule City basically, and all the supplies needed to defend the city were arranged in succession.

He was taken by Geng Gong to experience this simple but luxurious dinner in ancient times.

It is said that the dinner in Shule City is simple because it is really eating bran-swallowed vegetables, using unpeeled rice, also called coarse rice, bran rice...

The boiled rice porridge with little water in the clear soup is served with pickled pickles. After eating a bite of pickles, you need to use a small bowl of bran rice porridge to wash away the salty taste in your mouth.

The reason why this dinner is extravagant is that even if it is this kind of food, Emperor Li's Liyue collar can't make it at all.

Since stepping into the wild continent and becoming a war lord, this is the first time that Emperor Li has eaten food produced by humans through farming.

So even if they were eating bran-swallowed vegetables, Li Di and all Liyue's officers and soldiers were like eating delicacies from the sea.

For the native barbarians who changed jobs, this was the first time they ate, and the food they tasted was full of freshness, so they didn't find it difficult to eat.

For Li Di and the soldiers he recruited, this was the food they missed so much, so it was delicious and delicious.

Seeing Li Di and the others devouring bran porridge and pickles, they didn't move at all when they saw the roast lamb specially prepared for them.

Geng Gong and other big Han frontier guards also had a dumbfounding expression.

"Brother, why do you all have a special liking for this bran porridge and pickles, but put it aside, and don't even look at the dripping barbecue?"

Snoring, Li Di, who finished two bowls of bran porridge, put down his bowl and chopsticks, wiped his mouth casually, and poured out the army ration fried meatballs he had prepared before entering the trial secret realm from the woven barnacles he carried with him.

"Brother, you don't know how poor the supplies are on the barren continent of the foreign country. Since I established a territory in that foreign country, I have eaten grilled fish or barbecue every day. I have long been tired of these meaty foods. , now this bran porridge and pickles are the supreme delicacy in my eyes..."

After receiving the fried meatballs handed over by Li Di, Geng Gong took a bite and tasted the food that his younger brother Li Di ate daily in that exotic country...

"Uh, if you eat this kind of food every day in that exotic country, no wonder you love bran porridge and pickles so much."

It has to be said that even if it was Geng Gong of the ancient Han Dynasty, if he had to choose between Emperor Li's fried meatballs and bran porridge and pickles, he would also choose the latter.

Because, the taste of Li Di's fried meatballs is really indescribable. The only taste that Geng Gong can taste, apart from the meatball's strength, is the salty taste.

Thinking of Emperor Li living in that foreign country, eating hair and drinking blood like a savage every day, Geng Gong looked at Emperor Li with sympathy.

"Since this is the case, when the crisis of the Xiongnu's invasion is resolved, other material brothers may not be able to get it for you, but it is still within our ability to provide you with some crop seeds..."

Hearing the words of elder brother Geng Gong, Li Di's eyes instantly burst into endless longing. If he can really obtain crop seeds through elder brother Geng Gong, then this trip to the secret realm of trials will be of great benefit to Li Di and Li Yue. As far as the collar is concerned, it can really be called a fruitful harvest.

"That's a good relationship, big brother ~ brother is not polite to you, if you can really get some crop seeds from big brother, it will really help my younger brother..."

After a simple dinner, Li Di continued to follow his eldest brother Geng Gong to learn the dispatch arrangements for civilians in Shule City during wartime.

There are more than 1000 households in Shule City. If they recruit strong men, they can barely pull out another 200 people.

But these more than 200 civilians are cannon fodder on the battlefield who have never received any military training and don't even know how to kill the enemy.

In order to defend the city in the later stage, these civilians in Shule City can play a little role, and a lot of preparation work needs Geng Gong to make reasonable arrangements now.

And the fifty Liyue leaders brought by Emperor Li, among them the transferred leaders, were also arranged to receive junior militia training together with these young civilians from Shule City.

The professional soldiers recruited by Li Di were directly arranged to enter Shule City's rotation defense after Geng Gong inspected the military rules and regulations on the battlefield.

"Brother, it's still early, you go back to rest first, remember not to sleep too late, at night my brother will take you to learn how to identify the defense of the Huns camp..."

Knowing that there are still activities at night, Li Di, who was notified by his elder brother Geng Gong to rest, felt refreshed but how could he rest at ease.

Seemingly seeing Li Di's mental state, the eldest brother Geng Gong taught again:

"Brother, don't talk about important positions such as generals, but just talk about a competent soldier. The battlefield strategy that you should learn most is how to adjust your mental state and keep yourself energetic at all times!"

Regarding the things that elder brother Geng Gong said, in fact, it is not that Li Di does not understand, but if he understands it, whether he can implement it into his daily words and deeds is another matter.

"Okay, brother, I understand, I'm going back to rest and recharge my spirits..."

Li Yueling's subordinates all have their own work arrangements, but he, Li Di, needs to go back to Sanjin Xiaoyuan's garrison to rest alone at this time, and is ready to receive the middle-night military strategy instruction from his elder brother Geng Gong.

Ask Li Di how to use up his energy to fall asleep as soon as possible, he will choose to stand on horseback, anyway, after finishing the horseback, he will definitely be able to fall asleep as soon as possible after being exhausted.

But to keep Li Di in a light sleep state and to fully recover his physical strength, Li Di didn't know how to do it.

In the end, Li Di, who was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all and didn't dare to punch and stand to exhaust his physical strength, could only choose the legendary meditation.

Meditation is indeed a good technique that is very suitable for Emperor Li to maintain his energy and physical strength in this situation.

Entering the state of meditation with closed eyes and resting the mind, the complicated thoughts in the heart will emerge and pop out one after another.

Generally speaking, the mind in ancient practice refers to this state of chaotic thoughts.

And resting your mind is the only way to keep your thoughts and restrain your thoughts from rushing forward.

This is actually a profound state of mind, and it is impossible for ordinary people to do it easily without a certain degree of self-cultivation.

Only those children who are pure in heart, have the heart of a child, and have not experienced the trivial matters of the world, can quickly reach the state of meditation and cultivation of my mind.

And Li Di is definitely not a person with a pure heart, so his meditation practice this time is destined to have meager results.

But as a technique for cultivating the mind and mind, even if Li Di failed to enter the real state of meditation, it still allowed his body to get a good conditioning and cultivation.

When the eldest brother Geng Gong found him in the middle of the night, Li Di opened his eyes and got up from the state of closing his eyes to meditate, what caught the eyes of the eldest brother Geng Gong was the pair of radiant eyes.

"That's right, it seems that your mental and physical condition has been adjusted well! Let's go, my brother will take you to recognize the Huns army, and the layout after setting up camp..."

They followed their eldest brother Geng Gong out of Shule City through the secret road again, and they didn't bring many people with them. Counting Li Di and Geng Gong, they only brought Geng He, the captain of the sentry cavalry.

The three of them climbed down the loess high hill cautiously in the dark, and then touched the nearest high slope to the camp where the Huns were stationed.

They poked their heads out one after another, looking at the Huns camp that was brightly lit all night.

"Brother, look, even these Huns and barbarians cannot escape from my big man in terms of the layout of the camp."

"The center of the camp is the most conspicuous and the most tightly guarded place. It will always be the camp of the enemy leader!"

"The leader's tent is set up in the center of the camp. In addition to considering the safety of the enemy leader and making it convenient for his soldiers to guard, there is another purpose. Brother, do you know why?"

Facing the examination of his eldest brother Geng Gong, Li Di replied after a little thought:

"Increase the strategic depth of the leader's camp when an attack occurs, increase the distance that the enemy can penetrate alone, and set up a striking assembly mark for the soldiers under him..."

Hearing Li Di tell all the reasons he could think of, even the elder brother Geng Gong couldn't help being amazed.

Of these various factors, if one can think of one, even if it is very remarkable, it can be regarded as a general talent, worthy of his own experience and training.

And what about Li Di?

However, with a little bit of deliberate guidance from Geng Gong, he was able to answer so many considerations for setting up camp.

Now, Geng Gong was curious about what kind of education Li Di had experienced to acquire such a keen battlefield thinking.

However, although Geng Gong was somewhat curious about Li Di's experience, he still adhered to the idea of ​​not to explore, and did not raise his curiosity to Li Di, but suppressed it to the bottom of his heart.

This kind of thing, when the time is right, you don't need him to ask, Li Di will automatically say it when he is willing to talk, since Li Di doesn't say it, it means that there is an unspeakable secret, in this case, he, Geng Gong, as the big brother, is full of energy To get to the bottom of it, that's too ignorant.

At that time, the younger brother Li Di didn't want to talk about it. Instead, his elder brother kept asking non-stop, which would only make the faces of the sworn brothers look ugly. It would be bad if there was an emotional conflict...

"That's right, then guess where the logistics supplies of the Huns' army will be placed in the camp?"

Seeing that the problem failed to confuse Li Di, Geng Gong thought about it again and raised another problem for Li Di.

Uh……

Li Di originally thought that after his eldest brother Geng Gong led him here, he would point out the distribution of the Huns' camp one by one.

Unexpectedly, the elder brother Geng Gong was so fond of asking questions instead of teaching, Li Di turned his head and began to examine the layout of the Xiongnu army.

Thanks to the enhanced vision of Feng Shui Kanyu, Li Di could clearly observe the brightly lit Huns camp.

In addition to being surrounded by many Hun camps and heavily guarded by the leader's camp.

Li Di observed for a long time, but he could not successfully observe from the layout of the tents of the Xiongnu camp and the distribution of troops, which is the place where the Xiongnu army stored supplies.

"Why, can't you see it? Good brother, you have to remember that these Xiongnu rangers are all drawn from nomadic families, except for the nominal leader of their attack on the Han this time, King Zuoluli In addition, there is actually no dominion relationship between them!"

"Correspondingly, the logistics supplies of the Xiongnu army are not like the big men like me. There is an auxiliary army system that is responsible for logistics supplies. Family forces, and the military supplies of these family camps are also handled by their respective family camps, which you should be able to see from the military horses tied outside their respective camps!"

Seeing Emperor Li observing the Huns camp for a long time but failing to give an answer, Geng Gong smiled and told him the reason for the Huns' logistics supply.

Afterwards, Geng Gong stopped asking questions to Emperor Li. Instead, he started pointing at the Huns camp and explained to Emperor Li some insignificant issues that would be overlooked if he didn't pay attention.

The three carefully inspected the Xiongnu army, and after teaching Li Di on the spot, they sneaked back to Shule City from the secret road.

When he returned to the entrance of the water cellar secret passage in Shule City again, Li Di thought that since the main purpose of the Xiongnu army was to besiege the city.

After that, the Huns will definitely cut off the stream and the source of living water in Shule City as recorded in history. It is better to remind the elder brother Geng Gong as soon as possible so that he can prepare earlier.

"Brother, since the siege of the Xiongnu army will not be lifted for a while, I see that the main source of drinking water in the city is the stream flowing in the mountains, so it is better to reserve more water as soon as possible, in case the Huns do evil and cut off the water source in the city. ..."

Hearing Li Di's suggestion, Geng Gong stroked the water cellar with morning dew, nodded thoughtfully and said:
"This is indeed what the elder brother missed. Thank you for reminding me, I will make preparations as soon as possible..."

Seeing that his suggestion was valued by his elder brother Geng Gong, Li Di thought for a while and said:

"Brother, my younger brother knows a little bit about Feng Shui, and can measure the weather and the direction of good fortune and bad luck. If the elder brother trusts the younger brother, why not send people to these two directions to explore more, there may be unexpected gains, maybe ..."

Afterwards, Emperor Li truthfully told his elder brother Geng Gong the weather measured at midnight today, as well as the directions of good and bad fortune.

"Brother, you are underestimating my brother. My brother has known for a long time that my ability is hidden. I didn't expect my brother to know the art of geomantic omen that only counselors understand. Since it is your suggestion, I should be a big brother." Of course I choose to believe you!"

Geng Gongyu patted Li Di's shoulder earnestly and said.

Afterwards, the two parted ways, Geng Gong went to arrange to make up for the omissions in Shule City, and Li Di went to look for his Liyue soldiers.

Although it was surrounded by the Huns' army, Shule City lived a stable life for a few days with tight outside and loose inside.

The Xiongnu army outside Shule City has also repeatedly reduced the size of the rangers.

After Shule City's performance in the past few days, the Xiongnu army outside the city has been reduced from the initial tens of thousands of rangers to four or five thousand.

As for where the Huns who had left went, Emperor Li knew without asking. They must have gone deep into the Central Plains of Han Dynasty.

On this day, the sentry cavalry sent by the sentry cavalry captain Geng He early to report the news secretly returned to Shule City.

The big Han border guards who had brought back to the rear and stationed at the border could not move lightly, and there was no bad news that Shule City had no reinforcements.

The news brought back by the sentry cavalry made Geng Gong determined in his heart, and he turned to Li Di beside him and said:
"Little brother, didn't you always want to sneak attack on the camp of the Hun army in the middle of the night? You should make some preparations, we will attack the camp tonight!"

I thought that the half a year that I was in this trial secret realm would be like these ordinary days. Every day I either followed the militiamen in the city to control the weapon array, or learned the military strategy.

Li Di had no idea that the ones who took the initiative to provoke the war would be surrounded by the Xiongnu army, and the Han border guards such as Geng Gong in Shule City who were in a passive situation.

"Brother, don't worry, the guns and arrows in my hands are already hungry and thirsty, and I can't wait to drink the blood of the Huns..."

Patting the spear and strong bow on his back, Li Di said loudly.

It is different from the big Han border guards such as Geng Gong in Shule City, and it is also different from the Xiongnu cavalry army outside the city who is tending to profit.

With the Warlord system, Li Di, who will definitely gain experience and gains as long as the battle is triggered, is really looking forward to the early start of the war every day.

Anyway, there is immortality as a guarantee for this trial secret realm, and all the experience and spoils in the trial secret realm are what he, Li Di, can get.

Therefore, apart from Geng Gong who had to choose to attack the camp in the middle of the night, and the Xiongnu army who would not attack the city with cavalry unless necessary, Li Di could really say that killing one Hun would not pay, but killing two would make a sure profit.

(End of this chapter)