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On the ninth day of the fourth month, Zhizhou City...

Liu Ce suffered a great defeat at the city of Qinzhou, and the 100,000 troops were dispersed everywhere. However, more than 11,000 main troops of Liu Ce's headquarters retreated to Zhizhou City on the seventh day of the April 1st, which avoided the biggest loss.

On the ninth day of the fourth month, more than 30,000 Yongzhou defeated troops returned to the city of Zhizhou to meet with Liu Ce's headquarters, which made up for the embarrassment of the annihilation of the entire army...

This is definitely the most miserable defeat that Liu Ce has encountered since his rise. No matter what the passive factors are, he is to blame for this responsibility.

However, at present, Liu Ce did not have so much effort to imitate the "Self-Sinning Edict" written by the emperors in his previous life. The key is to regain the morale of these defeated troops.

Looking at the Yongzhou defeated army, which was in a depressed and sluggish morale, Liu Ce was just thinking about ways to reorganize the morale of the army. If the will of this defeated army were allowed to remain so depressed, the next war would have to stop for a while. This is a scene that Liu Ce was extremely reluctant to see.

News came from Yuzhou that the court had ordered Li Suwen to be the general of the Northern Expedition, and the 300,000 troops recruited were being trained day and night. I am afraid that within two or three years, another battle would be ushered in along the Wei River.

Therefore, I really didn't have much energy to continue to consume with Li Ji in Yongzhou. I had to resolve the war in Yongzhou within a month, and approach Liangzhou. After the rear was stable, I could only devote my energy to the south of the Wei River.

At this moment, Bai Qi came to Liu Ce and said anxiously: "Mr. Military Governor, go and see Wei Duwei, he is a little confused~"

Upon hearing this, Liu Ce immediately followed Bai Qi to the ancestral hall where Wei Ding was staying.

As soon as I entered the ancestral hall, I saw Wei Dian, a man like an iron tower, slumped on the ground, covering his face with a thug, as if he was sobbing constantly. Several guard soldiers and Jiao Luo were comforting him with kind words.

Liu Ce corrected his expression, strode to the edge of Wei Ding, and asked lightly: "What's wrong? What's there to cry?"

When Jiao Luo and others saw Liu Ce coming, they immediately stood up to salute, but Liu Ce placed his hand to stop him.

Wei Dian put down his big hand, put it on his knees, and said with red eyes: "Two hundred brothers, only thirty-two are left behind after me. How can I be right to them..."

Upon hearing this, Liu Ce simply sat opposite Wei Ding, looked up and said to Xu Wei, "General Xu, how are you prepared for the thousands of pigs you have asked you to prepare?"

Xu Wei said: "Report to the Governor, you have ordered your subordinates to purchase all the 2,330 pigs you need from farmers in various parts of Zhizhou. The price of each pig..."

Liu Ce waved his hand and said, "Okay, the price of buying pigs is the military governor owes you Xu's family first, and will definitely pay it back twice as much in the future. Now you immediately go and summon the civilians in the city to kill pigs and cook meat, so that the soldiers returning to the city will have a meal first, twenty people and one pig..."

Xu Wei was stunned when he heard this, his nose couldn't help but feel sore, and he almost burst into tears.

Seeing Xu Wei not moving for a long time, Liu Zai said dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you go quickly? Do you want everyone to be hungry?"

"As for...responsibility..."

Xu Wei took the order and left. When he turned around, tears flowed down his cheeks in a daze.

After his army was defeated in such a battle, the military governor was willing to reward everyone with meat that he had eaten less than a few times a year. This really touched him very much.

With this move alone, Xu Wei did not regret his surrender, and he believed that Liu Ce was a wise master...

After Xu Wei left, Liu Ce looked at Wei Dian who was crying, stretched out his legs and kicked him the sole of the foot, saying, "Hey, stop crying, I will give you a task later. I have to eat a pig. Is it done?"

"Don't bury me..." Wei Dian leaned the back of his head against the wall, tried to suppress the tears that were rolling in his eyes, wiped his face and said, "You have lost so much to me for the two hundred people at once, what kind of face do I have to eat meat?"

"Where are no ones who will die in war?" Liu Ce asked back, "Yes, they are dead, but they all die on the battlefield. That's what they say is dead. Their family will go to the aftermath. Are you a big guy crying and still like a general?"

"Who can be ruthless than plants? I have been with them for a long time and now they are all gone. Can't I be sad?" Wei Dian said, tears falling again.

"I thought you were just a stubborn bull with no feelings at all, but I didn't expect you to have such a temperament..." Liu Ce smiled, "But you have to know that you are also a general, and you can't cry at any time. You must set an example for the people below."

"My people are almost dead, and I'm still setting a role model! Why don't I cry a few times to relieve my depression?" Wei Dian patted his head and said with a sob.

"All people die, I can give you another one. I can give you another one thousand, two thousand, and three thousand. As long as you dare to charge and dare not fear death, I will give you any number of people you want!

I just want you to stop showing me this crying look and disgusting person. Your appearance can scare ghosts and paralyze them now. So don’t use it to harm us ordinary people anymore?”

"Puff~"

Liu Ce's words made the soldiers around him laugh. When Wei Ding heard this, he immediately wiped away the tears from his face and looked at Liu Ce with a dull look on his face.

Liu Ce knew that Wei Dian had recovered from his grief, and stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, please calm down. It's time to follow this military governor to appease the others. By the way, you can't find your iron spear, right?

Just so happened that I had already ordered someone to create a new set of preparations. I kept it with me and didn’t have time to hand it over to you. I quickly went back and fetched it. It was much better than your pair of broken copper and iron!"

"Um!"

Wei Dian responded heavily, then followed Liu Ce and walked out of the ancestral hall.

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As night fell, bonfires were lit in the camp outside the city. The defeated Yongzhou army was exhausted and ran for several days and nights, causing their physical strength to gradually overdraw. They each found a bonfire and depended on each other back to back to avoid it.

"Bang bang bang bang bang~"

Suddenly, a rapid sound of gongs broke the lifeless atmosphere of the camp. The awakened soldiers hurriedly stood up from the ground and glanced around with great vigilance.

"It's time to eat~~"

With a shout, accompanied by the tempting smell of meat, a group of civilians and soldiers carried baskets filled with pork and entered the military camp.

When the curtain wrapped in the basket was lifted, the braised pork and baked sesame cakes inside were particularly charming under the flames, which immediately made their stomachs churned for several days.

"Is this really our meal?"

Seeing the food in front of these defeated soldiers, none of them went up to snatch them, but stood there suspiciously.

In their impression, only the army that won the battle can receive some meat as a reward. If it is defeated, let alone meat, it will be common to not get a grain of rice in the next one or two days.

But at present, not only did he lose, he could still get such a generous meal, which made them suspicious about it...

"Is this our last meal?"

Some soldier said something whimsical, and immediately made the soldier who was already in a low momentum even more nervous. No one dared to come forward to eat meat.

Seeing this, the chef hurriedly said, "What's wrong with everyone? Why don't you eat? Are you not hungry? This is what the military governor ordered, eat quickly..."

However, no one dared to go forward to pick up the cakes and meat from the basket. A few young soldiers couldn't help but jumped over and were immediately stopped by veterans who were well versed in the "tracks".

"The military governor is here~"

With a loud shout, Liu Ce brought Jiao Luo, Wei Ding, Xu Wei and others to the military camp, and more than a hundred cars of Far East-making spirits were accompanied by.

When Liu Ce saw that everyone was not eating, he immediately asked the chef: "What's going on? Why don't they eat? Is the food not suitable for your appetite?"

The chef hurriedly bowed his hand to Liu Ce and said, "No, Mr. Military Supervisor, these soldiers have never eaten such food on weekdays. They are afraid... they are afraid of fraud..."

"Are there any fraud?"

Liu Ce rolled his eyes, swept around, then took a jar of wine from the car and came to one of the bonfires, and said loudly: "Sit down! People are iron rice and steel, and they don't eat for a meal and are hungry. Don't worry, the meat is not poisoned, and you can't kill you!"

As he said that, he picked up a piece of meat from the basket and chewed it in front of everyone, and said while chewing: "No, it's quite chewy, it's full..."

A chief of armor mustered up his courage and bowed to Liu Ce in a trembling voice and said, "Mr. Military Governor, we don't think the meat is poisonous, but we are really puzzled. Even though we have lost the battle, why do we still have to prepare such a sumptuous meal for us?"

Liu Ce smiled and said, "Just for this? Who told you that you can't eat meat and drink alcohol after losing a battle?"

Seeing that Jia Chang and the soldiers around him were puzzled, Liu Ce simply poked the paper seal of the wine jar, poured a small mouthful alone, and forcibly handed the wine jar to Jia Chang's hand.

"Want to know why you prepared wine and meat?" Liu Ce wiped the wine stains on the corner of his mouth, "That's because you did not abandon this military governor,

After losing the battle, I still wanted to come and meet with my military governor. I had the opportunity to escape to the Li family, but I didn't do that. With this, shouldn't I treat everyone with good wine and meat?"

Liu Ce's words made the soldiers around him feel warm and felt very guilty. They fled to Zhizhou because they were completely instinctive, not because they had a lot of recognition of Liu Ce.

To be honest, when they returned to Zhizhou, they would also be worried that Liu Ce would be furious and attack him. After all, Bai Qi, a man, was the bad behavior of slaughtering him, and this kind of thing happened was not just a joke.

But Liu Ce did not blame himself for the failure of the battle, but instead rewarded and comforted everyone with wine and meat. Such trust in himself instantly made these soldiers at the bottom feel warm in their hearts. At this moment, their sense of identity with Liu Ce began to gradually increase.

Thinking of this, Chief A picked up the jar of wine and said solemnly to Liu Ce: "Mr. Military Governor, I, Lao Liu, are a rough man. I have nothing to say. I will sell this life to you in the future!" After saying that, he raised his neck and poured wine on his mouth...

"Ahem cough cough..."

Little do you know that the fermented spirits in the Far East are extremely spicy. Although these wines are mixed with water, they are at least about 30°. After the wine enters the throat, they can't help coughing.

"Hahaha..." Liu Ce laughed a few times, then raised his big hand, "Brothers, you can eat and drink well tonight, have a good rest after you finish your meal, and wait until you have enough energy, this military supervisor will take you to find the place again. As long as you follow me, Liu Ce, I, Liu Ce, promise that you can have meat every day in the future!"

"Mr. Military Governor, mighty~~"

"Mr. Military Governor, mighty~~"

"Mr. Military Governor, mighty~~"

The camp of nearly 30,000 people burst into cheers with Liu Ce's encouragement. From this moment on, they gradually accepted Liu Ce's rule.

A meal of meat and a jar of wine bought the morale of tens of thousands of soldiers...

In fact, sometimes people’s hearts are not as complicated as they think. As long as you are willing to give, you will definitely get huge returns.
Chapter completed!