Chapter 14 Military Intelligence

Following Wei's horse, Lei secretly counted his subordinates. No wonder Wei would arouse the jealousy of the noble knights if he promoted himself too quickly. He was just a small team leader, and his knight level was only bronze.

It's only the first level, but under his subordinates, there are five gold knights, twelve silver knights, fifty-nine bronze knights, and sixty-three black iron knights. These guys have no military exploits, so they can't be promoted.

Military rank. No wonder, no wonder, if you take the position of deputy division commander, you will definitely have more high-level knights under you. How can you, a little bronze knight, shake the scene?

Thinking about the private armies of various lords, there is no such problem. The high-ranking knights of the family are all their personal guards, and only a few regular knights are sent to serve as leading generals. However, the direct-administered legions of the imperial capital are in order to ensure that every battle

To increase the combat effectiveness of the group, certain high-level knights must be assigned to each team. The most difficult thing to do then is the team leaders, division leaders, etc.

No wonder Karl and the others are all fifth-level gold knights without exception. Otherwise, how would his men listen to his orders? Thinking of this, Lei's scalp started to tingle again. Will these high-level knights under him listen to him?

Seemingly seeing the strange look on Lei's face, a second-level gold knight came over with a smile and said respectfully: "Master Lei, your military exploits are very brilliant. Although we have a high knighthood,

But we don’t have any actual military exploits. The Vante Empire values ​​military exploits most, so it’s really appropriate for you to serve as the commander of this team.”

Lei was stunned. The second-level gold knight nodded and smiled at him respectfully and with a little graceful kindness. He rode his horse and rushed out, returning to the squadron he commanded. Lei shrugged his shoulders and whispered.

He muttered: "It seems that there are good people among the nobles. At least these guys are not too arrogant... Alas, Master Wei is a very good noble, but it is a pity that she is so cold and scary. She is a girl.

, is it difficult to smile more?”

Wei, who was galloping ten meters in front of him, suddenly turned around slightly, rolled her eyes and glared at him. Lei Da was shocked, the wind was blowing from the opposite direction, they were running against the wind, and Wei's hearing was too terrible

Isn't that right? But looking at the faces of the big bodyguard knights around her, they all have smiles on their faces. It seems that after practicing Dou Qi to a certain extent, these five senses are much better than others. It seems that they have to be very, very careful about what they say in the future.

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After all, Lei still doesn't know what the military merit rewards of the Vante Empire are all about. In one sentence, the more enemies you kill as you move up the ranks, the greater your military merit will be. Like Wei, you can kill enemies like mowing grass.

A soldier does not count as a credit at all. Only when she kills the opponent's knight who is at least the third level of gold or above, or the mage who is above the fourth level of dragon, can she calculate a credit. So these noble knights are very difficult.

To upgrade their official rank, unless they have a good relationship with the legion commander and are directly appointed, it is like Wei being directly appointed as deputy legion commander by Balu.

There are too many nobles in the empire, and the spirit of martial arts is too strong, so the children of the nobles have to some extent practice fighting spirit. Therefore, there are countless high-level knights, all of whom want to join the army and get their own knights, but this makes the officers.

There are so many positions that some unlucky Golden Knights can only serve as squadron leaders, not even as good as those Bronze Knights or Silver Knights who have made great contributions.

However, this also reflects that the Fante Empire still has very strict control over the army. There are not many things where your own relatives are senior generals and you will definitely become a general in the army. To a large extent,

Guaranteed the combat effectiveness of the army.

Lei was still thinking about these things when Wei suddenly shouted an order: "Team leader Lei, take five hundred people and kill them all." Then, the long sword in her hand pointed at about four hundred Shima people three hundred meters away.

Special soldiers. Looking at the tattered leather armor on those soldiers, it seems that they are all new recruits just recruited from the country. They are just a group of cannon fodder. They fled here after being defeated by the Mad Dragon Legion. Wei also has her own plan, let Lei...

The monster should practice his skills, so that he won't have to dance like the wind with a gun, but the lethality is not too great. Maybe in the future, Lei will become Carl and his three ordinary right-hand men.

Lei Yingnuo made a sound and felt that the scar on his face was not in danger of exploding. He immediately scolded and rushed out with five squadrons. Those gold and silver knights stayed in place according to Wei's order. That was a pile of

They are just miscellaneous soldiers. These knights rush forward and have no merit, so as not to waste their energy. Killing a few soldiers will only reward a few gold coins at most, but the families of these high-level knights are not short of these gold coins.

Two fourth-level bronze knights demonstrated next to Lei. They controlled the horse with their left hand, held the gun with their right hand, and controlled the tail of the gun with their right elbow to produce a slight vibration. Seeing their elbows shaking slightly, the gun head suddenly flashed out.

After shooting a dozen guns and confusing the eyes of several stunned Smart soldiers, he shot an unlucky man in the heart and sent him flying.

Lei cheered: "Haha, I understand." He also shook his wrist in the same way, and then, he saw his spear trembling fiercely. A stabbing spear made of hundreds of refined steel was actually hit by

A huge force shook it and twisted it into a crescent-like arc, and then it was ejected fiercely. Amidst the sound of the wind, the long spear turned into arc-shaped cold light and hit the heads of the soldiers.

, 'Papa papa', brains were flying everywhere, and more than a dozen soldiers were knocked to the ground by his shot. Then, the spear tip that turned into a ball with a big cold light slammed in and out of the chest of a soldier.

Hundreds of times, after the sound of "Puff, puff, puff", the soldier's entire chest became transparent and flew out upside down.

He picked up the spear fiercely and watched a stream of blood fly out diagonally from the tip of the spear. Lei raised the spear high and was about to hit the head of a soldier in front. The soldier screamed and suddenly threw the handle like this.

Throwing away the thin iron knife, he knelt down on the ground, kowtowing desperately and begging for mercy. These people had just been recruited into the army. They had never seen such a ferocious figure like Lei, and they were already frightened out of their courage by Lei.

Lei was stunned. Looking at the soldiers, they all knelt on the ground one by one, daring not to move. Looking at their faces, which were not much older than him, only about ten years old, Lei sighed slightly.

, he was about to put down the gun. But when he glanced at it, he happened to see that behind the first soldier to surrender, he was actually carrying a bloody sheep, and it was obviously a domestic sheep. Lei's anger was inexplicable.

Getting angry, he thought of the village massacred by the Dak cavalry.

The goose-thick gun barrel hit hard, and with a 'whoop' sound, the bones of the soldier's upper body were smashed to pieces. He fell to the ground before he could scream miserably. Lei roared: "Anyone who has people's property on him,

Kill them all...Kill them all for me, and leave no one alive." As soon as Lei said the first sentence, he immediately added the second order, because he saw all the soldiers jumping up and starting to run away.

They all had chickens, ducks, etc. snatched from nearby villages.

Lei Zong's horse caught up with a soldier, and the soldier howled miserably: "Oh my god, they recruited us into the army, but they don't give us enough food, so we still have to live... We can't survive without grabbing food."

Returning home.”

Lei pierced the back of his heart, picked him up and threw him to the ground. Lei looked at the face that was younger than himself, no more than sixteen years old, and muttered in a low voice: "Damn it, you guys want to live, don't you?"

Don’t we, the people of the Fante Empire, want to live? Damn it, just kill them all... You trash soldiers, we cannot let you invade our homeland no matter what."

Thinking of Kali Village, Lei's heart hardened a little more. He slapped his horse fiercely and made a large circle, catching up with the fleeing soldiers and shooting them away one by one.

Wei in the distance nodded lightly and whispered: "How about it? This guy's strength is really amazing. The Silver Wolf Legion's stabbing spear is the heaviest weapon in the entire empire. It was actually bent by his arm strength. It's really

A monster. If possible, I want him to grow into a useful general."

A handsome third-level gold knight looked at Lei indifferently: "But, Master Wei, he is just a civilian. Do you think that the military's standard fighting spirit can make him grow into a powerful general? Don't you think so?

You know, the fighting spirit of the empire is divided into three levels, and those civilian knights in the army are taught by the weakest level."

Wei frowned: "Of course I understand. That's enough. Don't be wordy and continue searching. These damn guys are just like swarms of locusts running around the Xili Province. The commander-in-chief of the Smart Empire is also really inexplicable.

, actually deployed a line of defense, and did not even arrange an army to accommodate the scattered soldiers. Does he want to fight a decisive battle in Karatu? If they attack from the front, even if they are a coalition of three countries, they will not be able to defeat us, Vante and

Where are the coalition forces in Bicester?"

Lei rushed back with five unscathed squadrons. After regrouping, the large group continued to search towards the south of Xili Province. On the way, several bronze knights enthusiastically taught Lei the skills commonly used by the Silver Wolf Heavy Cavalry.

Various thrusting techniques, and when resting, he and Lei would practice swordsmanship and archery.

As a result, after three days, relying on his strong body and seemingly innate understanding of martial arts, Lei had learned all the skills on horseback. The only thing left was to continue to become proficient. As for the swordsmanship

, with his strong wrist strength and arrogant offensive style, if he did not use fighting spirit, even a third-level silver knight would not be able to beat him. As for archery, ever since Lei hit Baidu with one arrow on his galloping horse,

Behind a hare a few feet away, no one, including several golden fourth-level knights, wanted to compare this with Lei.

However, the consequence of Lei releasing that arrow was that Wei reprimanded him severely and deducted a month of his military pay. Because Lei pulled a good bone bow into shape with just a little effort.

When the dejected Lei accepted Wei's scolding, he couldn't help but sigh: "The people in Kali Village are using big bows that are nearly as long as a man. They are so powerful. Why do they use them in the army?

What about such flimsy bows and arrows? If one day I can form my own archers, I will definitely select people to use those big bows. That is a good weapon that can kill a leopard with one arrow."

The Silver Wolf Legion, which was constantly working together, swept through Xili Province in ten days. They probably killed and captured nearly three divisions of Smart soldiers. As for the other soldiers, they had probably fled to Qingfeng.

On the plains, their goal should be to escape to their homeland without the supervision of their superior generals.

Standing at the junction of Xili Province and Qingfeng Plain, looking at the two thousand heavy cavalry behind her, Wei frowned and asked: "Hasn't the team escorting the prisoners from behind returned yet?"

A golden knight replied: "My lord, they want to send the prisoners to the defense line of the Guards, and then send them to slave camps in several northern provinces. It is estimated that it will take three days to complete the handover procedures.

It will come when the time comes.”

Lei whispered to several bronze knights in the distance: "If I had known better, we wouldn't have taken prisoners. We captured more than 7,000 people along the way. They are all ordinary people. What's the use of them?"

A first-level gold knight shook his head and said: "Lei, you didn't know this. After the war, both sides will exchange prisoners. If we capture more prisoners, then they will have to pay to redeem these people, otherwise

What to do with their domestic production? Especially now that they are imprisoned in slave camps, they can also dig mines for the big lords in the north and extract metal to supply weapons at the front. It is really killing two birds with one stone. If it is not necessary,

It is better not to kill those prisoners who are strong but have little fighting ability."

As soon as they finished speaking, they saw several horses and a group of soldiers flashing out from behind a hill. Judging from their uniforms, they were also soldiers of the Smart Empire. Wei waved her hand, and Lei knew that his trouble was coming again.

, he took a look at the size of the two hundred people there, so he rushed out with four squadrons. Along the way, as long as the opponent's number was less than a thousand, the person who sent out must be Lei, and the other two

The team leader was already used to this arrangement. Now when he saw Lei rushing out, a gold knight and a silver knight even started betting on how long it would take for Lei to kill that team.

As for those Silver Wolf heavy riders, they were secretly betting to see if Lei, who was known as the "weird power", would survive. They were curious about why Lei didn't leave alive the Smart people who had robbed the people.

But who knew that Lei himself was from Xili Province? How could he not get angry when he saw his fellow villagers being ravaged? Especially since he was worried about his own family.

Lei held up his spear and rushed out at the lead.

The other party suddenly rushed out a knight covered in silver armor and rushed over with a gun drawn. Then, he suddenly ran away and shouted: "Don't do anything, we have something to talk about."

As soon as the knight finished speaking, Lei had already rushed in front of him, and the tip of his spear almost hit his armor. Hearing the man's cry, Lei Meng withdrew his spear, and a stream of cold wind hit him from the tip of the spear.

The knight's armor made a "buzzing" sound. Such a momentum made the knight's face change. Lei looked coldly at this knight whose badge was the third level of gold, and shouted: "What are you talking about? Say it quickly.

Follow the order of our legion commander, lay down your weapons and surrender, and you will live. Anyone who resists will be killed... I added a rule myself, and our legion commander also approved it. Anyone who has harassed our people will be cut off by himself.

Brain, don’t waste our time.”

The golden knight was so angry that he was about to explode on the spot. He was a third-level golden knight. What do you mean by a first-level bronze knight? He was about to rush and stab, but two golden knights immediately emerged from behind Lei. No.

Looking at the badge on his left chest with good intentions, he muttered: "Look, there is a third-level gold knight. We are the first-level gold knight. If we kill him, we can at least record a cross-level kill in the military merit book."

Do you have the enemy's record? Hehe... Brother, why don't you give us an advantage?"

The Smart knight's expression changed, and he slowly put away his spear. The knights of the Smart Empire were basically equivalent to knights two or one level lower than the Knights of the Vant Empire, and their own strength was roughly equivalent to

The level between the first and second levels of Vant's gold is between level one and two. Fighting with two Vant's gold level one is a dead end.

He snorted, deliberately made a arrogant look, and drank: "I am Stern, the captain of the personal guard of Grand Duke Salu of the Smart Empire, and I have been ordered to protect the son of our Duke, Earl Crest.

Go back to your territory. We admit that we were captured by you, so we ask for money in exchange for our freedom. We can swear that we will never set foot in your territory again until the war is over."
To be continued...