Chapter 13 Is this a conspiracy?
March [-]th, Jieting River Valley.

Nine days have passed since the human-beast war.

As soon as the battle was over, Zhang He led his army out of Jieting and set up camp sixty miles away.

In a short period of time, neither side has the idea of ​​fighting another battle.

The current situation in Jieting is very peaceful, and both sides are very restrained.

Pianjiang Huang Xi and Li Shengxi smiled and commanded the soldiers in an orderly manner, searching for various corpses scattered around, and concentrating them in one place to burn and dispose of them.

The hearty conversation between the two came far away and echoed on the river beach.

"General Ma is really a god."

"Who said it wasn't? It was too easy to win this battle. We only watched the theater on the mountain, and the Wei soldiers were defeated again and again, and suffered heavy losses."

"Hey, you said... the war is more powerful, the Prime Minister is better, or General Ma is better?"

"This...isn't a good comparison. I think General Ma is stronger. After all, we have defeated the strong with the weak, and there are no casualties..."

"Shh... I'm telling you quietly, I think so too."

"..."

Not far from the two of them, beside the stream, Zhang Xiu was holding a clean silver chain mail and gesticulating on his chest.

Hearing the conversation between the two, he interjected: "That's not true! Our General Ma is very powerful, and we can play Wei Bing in the palm of our hands, but without the prime minister's wise leadership, General Ma has no place to display his talents! So, the prime minister's discerning eyes are better."

As soon as this remark came out, the three immediately started arguing over "Who is stronger, the Prime Minister or General Ma".

The soldiers were interesting to watch and listen to, laughing heartily while doing their work.

A little further away, Ma Di dug a big pool in the middle of the river beach, and jumped down to take a spring bath in front of all the soldiers.

Then, he tidied up the messy temples, tied a bone on his head with a scarf, and carefully trimmed his short beard with a short dagger.

With his meticulous movements, two white chicken-shaped arms were half exposed from the cuffs of the Shu brocade suit.

A piece of white dazzling swaying.

After tidying up his appearance, Ma Su looked radiant, fair-skinned and handsome, and the image of a young Confucian general stood out on the river beach.

This caused the soldiers in charge of security to widen their eyes and glance back from time to time.

It was just such an ordinary Confucian general who was leading the army for the first time, leading them to win two battles in a row and disabled the vanguard of the Wei army.

How could this not make them proud!

Seeing that the soldiers were looking at him with awe in their eyes, Ma Di said carelessly, "If you want to see this general, you should look at him boldly. This general is just like you. He is an ordinary person. One head, one mouth, two arms and two legs, nothing more than you!"

Hearing this, all the soldiers burst out laughing.

The captain of the personal guard, Xu Shen, was courageous and said with a smile: "The last general saw it just now. The general has nothing more than us, but the general seems to be longer and bigger than us..."

"But I don't know why the general is so talented?"

After Xu Shen finished speaking, he looked around, all the soldiers understood and burst out laughing again.

The atmosphere on the river beach suddenly became lively.

Ma Di waved his hand and said with a smile: "So, do you want to be as good as this general?"

Xu Shen hurriedly moved closer, rubbing his hands, scowling, "Thinking about it, I've been thinking about it for a long time!"

All the soldiers pricked up their ears.

Ma Di smiled slightly: "When the Wei soldiers are defeated, this general will tell you the secret!"

"That's the secret of my Ma family..."

Seeing that what Ma Di said seemed to be true, Xu Shen kept silent, but secretly made up his mind that from now on, he must be the first to fight, and he will fight when he sees the enemy!
He worked so hard for nothing but to be as good as General Ma.

Ma Su looked at Xu Shen, who was strong and strong, and said curiously: "Xu Shen, I will listen to your accent, not like a native of Sichuan?"

"Yes, General, I am from Guanzhong." Xu Shen clasped his hands and replied, "When I was five or six years old, Cao Cao and Ma Chao fought fiercely in Guanzhong. When I recruit soldiers, I join the army, and this battle of Jieting is the first time I have been on the battlefield."

It was the first time on the battlefield Ma Di was moved, looked around at the people around him, and asked, "Is this also the first time for you to go to the battlefield?"

"Yes!"

"Yes…"

"Not the first time, this is the second time."

There was a chaotic noise, and the sound waves exploded on the river beach in an instant.

Quack quack quack quack quack—

Ma Di hurriedly waved his hand to stop the crowd's commotion, and said in a deep voice, "All soldiers obey the order, and those who are on the battlefield for the first time raise their hands!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a "shua", and almost all of the more than a thousand soldiers nearby raised their hands.

As the order spread, soldiers on the river beach farther away raised their hands one after another.

Ma Su quickly climbed to the top of Nanshan Mountain, looking around, he could only see densely packed arms at the foot of the mountain.

There were very few soldiers who did not raise their hands, probably less than [-]%.

Ma Di waved his hand, ordering all the soldiers to continue to work, suddenly he realized something.

At the same time, I am very grateful for my decision to go up the mountain.

This turned out to be a group of recruits who had never been on the battlefield!
Such an important task of guarding the street pavilion is actually assigned to a group of recruits?
Is this the annihilation of human nature, or the struggle of power?

Or is someone trying to kill me?

With serious thoughts, Ma Di walked down the hill slowly and waved to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu quickly rolled up his chain mail, put it under his armpits, trotted over, and saluted Ma Di: "General, the last general is here."

Ma Su stared straight at Zhang Xiu, and asked with a serious expression, "I ask you, who is responsible for the deployment of soldiers and horses in the army?"

"It's the prime minister." Zhang Xiu was confused by the question, froze for a moment, and told the truth.

No, it can't be that Prime Minister Ma Di shook his head, and asked in a different way: "Then if the prime minister is not available, who will dispatch troops in the army?"

"This..." Zhang Xiu frowned and thought for a while, then he said uncertainly: "The general doesn't know, you have to ask Yang Canjun about this matter, all matters in the army are handled by Yang Canjun to assist the prime minister."

Yang Canjun and Ma Di suddenly understood something.

At this time, the sun slanted to the west, the cool wind suddenly picked up, and the river wind howled like a ghost crying in the bare mountains.

The spring breeze is bleak everywhere, and the scars are full of scars.

Soldiers from all over the place turned back one after another, threw all the collected bones into the deep pit, and ignited a big fire.

The thick smoke and the pungent smell of burnt meat permeated the air in an instant, rising into the sky and spreading in all directions.

So far, the battle damage of the Wei army has also been accurate to single digits.In the two battles before and after, a total of 21897 people were killed.

These people are all elites.

Battle damage can be described as tragic.

It took nine days for the soldiers of Shu to clean up the corpses of humans and beasts scattered in the mountains.

During this period, Zhang He followed military conventions and never sent troops to disturb him.Instead, while integrating the follow-up soldiers and horses, dozens of soldiers were dispatched to clean up the remaining wild beasts in the mountains with extremely bloody and violent means.

As a veteran of many battles, Zhang Xi knew that violent means could not solve the beast exorcising masters in the Shu army, but violent means could eliminate the beasts and eliminate hidden dangers invisible.

So he did.

When the fire broke out in the Jieting River Valley again, billowing thick smoke, on a mountain beam ten miles away, Zhang He and the soldiers he led silently stopped their actions of slaughtering wild animals and looked towards the direction of Jieting.

"Soldiers, I am the one who harmed you!" Zhang He murmured in a low voice, "It was the general who underestimated Ma Di, and I regretted it."

As he spoke, his eye sockets became moist.

The surrounding soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, looking at the lonely figure on the independent high place, not knowing what to say for a while, to comfort this general who was like a god of war in his mind.

(End of this chapter)

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