Chapter 134: Consecration
In two days, 38,000 elite soldiers of the Nanyue Empire were annihilated, the vanguard generals, Baili Yue and Baili Su, the first staff officer Qiu Chengwen and more than 30 deputy generals were killed, and Langxing City and Liuye City, a strategic military location, were recaptured. Hundreds of carts of food and supplies and countless weapons were seized.
On the other hand, the Huaxia Empire lost only over 530 elite soldiers and injured over 200 elite soldiers. No general was killed and no deputy general was injured.
Such an astonishing record of battle caused a complete uproar in the Chinese capital, and the entire Chinese Empire was boiling.
That afternoon, the emperor of the Huaxia Empire sent an envoy to Liuye City to announce the rewards and titles on the spot.
Chen Luo was appointed as the Grand Marshal of Pingnan and given a reward of ten thousand taels of gold and one hundred pieces of brocade.
Shen Lang was appointed General Pingnan and given a reward of 1,000 taels of gold and 50 pieces of brocade.
Huo Wuxin was appointed as the vanguard of pacifying the south, with a reward of five hundred taels of gold and thirty pieces of brocade.
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All generals and soldiers of the Huaxia Empire will be rewarded, and the 10,000 elite troops supplied by the Huaxia Empire will arrive in Liuye City within five days for Chen Luo to command.
Chen Luo, Shen Lang and the others thanked him profusely. Then the envoy handed the reward and the imperial edict of enthronement to Chen Luo, and began to distribute the rewards and badges.
Looking at the waist badge made of pure gold, Shen Lang hung it around his waist, put his hands on his hips, and smiled triumphantly for a long time.
Grandma's legs!
I've become a general too!
In the future, I will see who dares to challenge me. I will take out my badge and scare him to death!
He really wanted to get his three wives here and show off in front of them!
Look at the husband you chose, how awesome!
Not only is he handsome and powerful, but he is also a general!
You are the general's wife!
I wonder who dares to tease you without opening their eyes!
Damn it, chop them up!
No one dared to show their teeth!
As night fell, Chen Luo, Shen Lang and the envoys began a grand banquet for the generals and soldiers of the Huaxia Empire. They reveled all night long, allowing everyone to drink and chat happily and relax.
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"In two days, 38,000 elite soldiers died, Langxing City was lost, and the strategic Liuye City was lost!"
A woman in armor stood in the central army camp and was furious. More than twenty generals and staff officers of different ages stood inside. They were all silent and just lowered their heads. No one dared to speak.
What a shame!
It took them one day to capture Langxing City, but it took them a full ten days to capture Liuye City. Thirty thousand elite soldiers died before they managed to capture it. It was a huge price paid in blood!
Now, they took it back in just two days!
Not many people died yet!
When they heard the news, they all wondered if they had heard it wrong!
Isn't this bullshit?
God!
As a result, after the scouts reported back, they actually came up with an extremely unrealistic idea!
Damn, is he really a god?
A hidden weapon with great power that can kill 35,000 elite soldiers...
It was like a god descending, a man who could fly into the sky and kill the soldiers...
A strange weapon that could kill more than a dozen generals in a single move...
A long tube, only the size of a palm, can easily blow open a rock-solid door...
It was all made by one person!
This is totally beyond their understanding!
Isn't this something only gods can do?
Is there anyone else in the world who can do this?
"Bai Liyue and Bai Lisu are two good-for-nothings, and Qiu Chengwen is a sour scholar!" The woman was anxious and slammed the table and shouted, "They are all good-for-nothings!"
"Good-for-nothing!" The woman was so angry that her face turned blue and she was gasping for breath!
This was the biggest blow she had suffered since she set out on the expedition!
There is no bigger blow than this!
In her opinion, those so-called powerful hidden weapons, capable people who can fly, weapons that can kill generals with a wave of the hand, and long tubes that can break open city gates are nothing but exaggerated rhetoric and excuses!
There is no such thing! It is just something deliberately exaggerated by the Huaxia Empire to shake their military morale and make them lose their composure so that they can attack in the chaos!
“Bang!”
The woman slammed the table and took a few deep breaths before suppressing her anger. She looked at everyone and said, "Water in the car, wind in the car, fire in the car, thunder in the car, listen to my orders!"
"I obey your orders!"
"I order you to gather 40,000 elite soldiers and gather them in Piaohua City. You must recapture Liuye City within five days!" The woman's eyes widened and she spoke in a cold voice, "If you fail, you will be beheaded!"
The four brothers looked at each other, smiled bitterly without leaving a trace, and then spoke loudly.
"I obey your orders!"
Then, the four brothers stood up from the ground , took the military tokens and left the central military camp.
"Ke Wenqing, Hou Zhenyu, listen to my orders!" the woman continued.
"I obey your orders!"
"I order you two to gather 20,000 elite soldiers, land in Liuye City via the waterway, bypass the land, and capture Langxing City within five days!" The woman continued, handing the military token to the two of them: "If you fail, bring your heads to me!"
"I obey your orders!"
A man in a white robe and a man in red armor stood up from the ground, took the military token, and left the central military camp.
"The remaining generals, garrison the city, build fortifications, and recruit 40,000 elite soldiers within five days. There must be no mistakes. Anyone who disobeys orders will be executed!" The woman handed over the remaining military tokens.
"I obey your orders!"
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Afterwards, a group of generals took the military orders and left the central military camp one by one, leaving only the woman in armor sitting in the camp.
On the table, there was a portrait of Shen Lang. The woman had looked at it dozens of times!
She just couldn't believe that such a handsome, weak scholar could have done such a shocking and heart-wrenching thing in just two days.
"You little bastard, I'm going to catch you and chop off your head!" The woman glared at Shen Lang in the portrait, then suddenly waved her hand and slapped the portrait to vent her anger.
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Shen Lang, who was holding a wine flask and talking nonsense, suddenly shuddered for no reason, sniffed, and muttered: "That bastard is cursing me behind my back!"
"Hey, hey, hey, Chen Luo, what are you doing? What are you doing? You are raising fish here. Drink it quickly, drink it!" Shen Lang roared and urged Chen Luo to drink the wine in the glass quickly.
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Late at night, after the banquet was over, Shen Lang, with a flushed face and a dizzy head, walked to Willow Leaf City, found a sheltered place, sat down against the city wall, looked up at the moon in the sky, and spoke with emotion.
"The wine is sweet in the luminescent cup, the pipa music is urging me to drink, don't laugh at me sleeping drunk on the battlefield, how many men have ever returned from the battles in history!"
"I didn't expect that Brother Lang has such literary talent and could come up with such a timeless quatrain!" Chen Luo walked over drunkenly with a wine pot in his hand, sat down next to Shen Lang, and spoke.
When Shen Lang heard this, he curled his lips, turned his head to look at Chen Luo next to him, and pointed at himself.
"You think I'm a martial artist, but I'm actually a literary genius!"
