Chapter 723

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Look down on the heroes

The bright light of bright butter candles reflected on the huge copper screen in the hall, adding a pale heaviness to the hall.

When Wang Xuanying pushed open the hall door and led the generals of the Jianghuai Army into the hall, he couldn't help but stretched out his hands and eyes by the bright candlelight.

After taking his hands away and gradually adapting to the brightness of the hall, he realized that the quiet hall was already full of Hebei generals, lieutenants, and staff members. They were the last ones to arrive. However, in the center of the hall, there were a few exceptions that were not seated.

He saw at a glance that the Hebei general Guo Xiaoke and the second general Lu Shishen were now standing with their upper body, kneeling in the hall like a stone statue, with his head lowered and silent.

In addition to the two generals Lu Guo who were kneeling with their chests, behind them, there were also a long row of Hebei officers dressed in costumes of more than ten lieutenants. Looking at the stiff posture of everyone, Wang Xuanying immediately guessed that these people had been kneeling for a long time.

Wang Xuanying brought his subordinates into the seat arranged for them on the left. As soon as he sat down, Chen Pojun, who was wearing a purple-gold crown on his head, wearing a bright silver-light kirin armor, and a crimson-woven flower-woven cloak, stepped in with a long cloak of deer-skin boots.

When he entered the hall, he didn't even look at the officers kneeling on the ground, and went straight to the top seat. After drinking a bowl of broth casually, he put down the bowl and glanced at the generals on both sides, but still didn't look at Lu, Guo and other generals.

Li Jing, who was in the lower right corner, stood up. Li Jing, whose hair was gray, but his body was still majestic, could not tell that he was over fifty years old and nearly sixty years old. At this time, Li Jing was strong and expressed a kind of confidence in his every move. Standing there, like a mountain standing in the middle of the mountain, his shape was majestic. His face was rosy and his eyes were radiant.

"Your Highness, our army fought hard today and attacked Li Mi again. Although Li Mi fought back to death, he still left thousands of bodies and retreated back to the mountain village. At present, our army once again advanced 500 steps towards Luokou, and forced the Wei army camp gate. In addition, according to Your Highness's instructions, our army had already robbed Jiushan east of Luokou while the Wei army was fighting with the Jianghuai army during the day. At present, the engineering battalion is building fortifications, installing crossbow arrows, catapults and other long-range equipment."

"How are our army's casualties?"

"Our army has suffered few casualties today, with about hundreds of casualties. The dead have collected their bodies and the injured have been sent to medical camps for treatment. Please remember that all the medical camps have been transferred to Luokoucang City, and medical camps have been built in the north of the city. All the minor and serious wounded have been transferred to the medical camps in the city. At present, most of the wounded have been treated, but our medicines have been used up and are still being collected in various ways, but they are still insufficient to use."

"Send a letter to General Luo Yi of Hulao, asking him to collect and buy various medicinal materials from the rear immediately, and the soldiers were bleeding and desperately on the front line. Since they survived, we cannot let them die due to the lack of medicine. Then send a letter to the Prime Minister of Fang Xuanling of the Beijing City, asking him to order the governments in various places to purchase various medicinal materials urgently needed, and we must try our best to save all the wounded soldiers."

After a big battle, there are not many soldiers who actually died directly on the battlefield. The ones with the most casualties were all kinds of wounded soldiers. The injured soldiers on the battlefield were basically helpless. Slightly injured soldiers were easily affected by infection and other reasons, and eventually they became more severely affected and lost.

The Hebei Army is not a peasant army. The Hebei Army emphasizes elite soldiers and strategies. Every soldier is strictly trained and well-equipped armor and weapons. He is a professional soldier. Such soldiers are all training grounds, and they are eliminated on the battlefield. Each of them is extremely precious. For Li Mi, he can bear 10,000 or even 100,000 soldiers and horses. If the Hebei Army suffers more than 10,000 casualties, it will be huge casualties for the Hebei Army and it will be unbearable.

Chen Kefu asked the guards to pour another glass of wine. This is a high-quality golden wine specialty from the Liaodong Peninsula, with a fruity mellow brew. Chen Kefu doesn't like drinking strong white wine, but likes to drink this wine introduced to Liaodong by the Western Regions. The more he drinks, the more delicious it becomes. His face turned slightly red, and there was a bright and fanatical look in his eyes looking down at the hall. It was a pair of eyes burning with wildfires, and many people who looked at him thought.

All the soldiers of the coalition army already knew Chen Kefu's two wives and had just given birth to two sons for him. Today, Chen Kefu ordered to reward the three armies. During the day, teams of happy soldiers were excited to use a large cart to pull carts of wine and meat out of the city from Luokoucang City.

The wine, meat, and the three armies were full of food and drinks, which cheered for victory on the battlefield and were also happy for King Chen to win two sons.

In the hall, teams of servants served plates of roasted golden beef and mutton, and served pots of fine wine.

On both sides of the hall, there were many musicians who were found from the city playing, and the singers were dancing. The melodious sound of the pipa flowed slowly, and the long sleeves of the singers trembled like clouds.

After the barbecue, it is a delicious broth. This hot broth is one of the favorite foods of these brave generals in the army. Whether in normal times or on the battlefield, stewed broth is always the favorite of the soldiers.

However, in this celebratory atmosphere, some people also looked heavy. Among them, Lu, who had been kneeling in the hall for a long time and had not been tolerated, was like this. After half of the dinner, Chen Kefu did not even look at them.

"Get up!" After singing and dancing, Chen Kefu finally turned his gaze to the kneeling generals in the hall.

A lieutenant knelt for too long, his legs were already numb. When he got up, he couldn't stand firmly and fell to the ground again.

Chen Kefu asked someone to help the captain up, stood up and said to Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke, "I didn't ask you to get up, I told them to get up. I disobeyed the battlefield and changed the military orders without any changes. You are so brave. I don't blame them. They are just your subordinates. They obeyed the military duties and obeyed the military orders of superiors. But you, as generals trusted by the king, marched with the military orders granted by the king, but they changed the military orders without any changes. You are so brave. Do you still have military laws in your eyes?"

Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke had just stood up and knelt down after hearing this, without saying a word.

"Soldiers are obeying orders as their duty!" Chen Kefu looked over the two generals with a heavy expression, and was rarely stern, "Although you are the commander of the first army, I have already given a military order when you are about to go out of the battle. This time you are just a division of troops, not a single battle. Commanding in front of the battle, the expedient change of power is not suitable for your situation. Li Jing, according to military laws and regulations, what crimes did the two generals Guo Xiaoke and Lu Shishen commit!"

"The two generals did not abide by the military orders, and they arbitrarily changed the military orders. They beheaded the three armies in front of the battlefield, and passed them to the army to show their warning!" Li Jing replied.

"Okay, no orders in the army cannot be implemented. I will pass on the orders of the king and the two of them to behead them, and pass on the heads of the three armies to be respectfully influenced you!"

"Your Highness, no!" Li Jing said. "Your Highness, if you have merits, you will be punished if you have mistakes. The two generals Lu and Guo committed military orders and naturally they must be severely punished. But they also have great achievements and should be rewarded. Although the second generals Lu and Guo violated the military orders this time, they occupied Luokoucang City and achieved the previous plan to cut off Li Mi's logistics and food. Moreover, the second generals guarded Luokoucang City and blocked Li Mi's retreat for more than half a month, allowing our army to kill and injure the Wei army in large quantities. Moreover, the second generals had to be forced to burn and kept the grain and food that the second generals had to be kept. The 20 million stones of food and food were preserved, which made great contributions to our coalition forces from the transportation of logistics and food and food."

With Li Jing taking the lead, the other generals naturally came forward to plead with mercy. Guo Xiaoke and Lu Shishen were Chen Kefu's confidants, so everyone naturally understood that Chen Kefu was just going through a formality and could not really kill the two. At this time, they would not plead with the second general in the future. As for Wang Xuanying and others, it was someone else's business, and they were also happy to watch the show and said a few good words to everyone.

"Li Jing said it well. If there are merits, they will be rewarded. If there are mistakes, they will be punished. However, the merits and demerits cannot be offset. For this matter, the king ruled that Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke each beat 40 military sticks, and all officers above the team were beaten ten sticks. In addition, the two generals Lu Guo were demoted to two levels and were fined for one year, and the rest of the soldiers were not allowed. In addition, if Lu Guo's troops were meritorious in preserving food and grass, all ordinary soldiers in the army were rewarded with ten stalemates. All officers were rewarded with one hundred stalemates! Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke each gave 1,000 gold coins! Remember, this was the first offense, so they were given a lighter punishment. If there were any reoffense, they would be punished twice as much!"

"Thank you, Wang Chen, for your kindness!"

"Your Highness, the Chen Dynasty in Henan has sent troops to help. It is reported that he has fought in full swing. 300,000 troops and even Shouchun will reach Luoyang soon. But when he heard that Wei Daoer from Hebei would raise his troops to respond to Li Mi, Wei Daoer threatened to send 200,000 troops to cross the Yellow River and south to Luoyang. Your Highness, there are 200,000 troops in Wei Daoer in the north and 300,000 troops in the south. I wonder what Your Highness is going to deal with it?" Wang Xuanying, wearing a wide robe, was a gentleman, holding a wine glass in his hand and asked Chen Kefu with a smile.

"The soldiers come and the generals come and the water comes and the earth floods! In my eyes, Chen and Beiyan are just bandits, known as 500,000 soldiers and horses, but just mobs of local chickens and dogs, so why not be afraid of it? Li Mi also known as the overlord of the Central Plains, with 600,000 troops. Under our coalition, it was just destroyed in less than half a month!" Chen Kefu's eyes raised and a loud voice came out, with an indescribable aura of looking down on the world in his tone.

Wang Xuanying echoed and said, "Great hero, this is the case. Your Highness, Xiao Wang is not talented and is willing to work for your Highness. Please allow Xiao Wang to lead his Jianghuai troops to go south immediately along the Ying River, and seize the important towns along the Ying River coast first, such as Wanqiu, Xiangcheng, Yingyang, and Ruyin along the Ying River, and block the southern and northern Chens!”

"No!" Chen Kefu waved his hand and stood up and said, "No need to do so. Let's let them come over. In addition, immediately, I will pass on the orders of my king's army. Each army will only siege and not attack Li Mi's army. Without my king's order, no one will be allowed to fight without authorization. Those who dare to violate the order will be executed!"
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