"I believe you, although I know you may lie to us, but we people have no other way. Just like you said, we really have no choice now. I hope you won't do anything to us.

I surrender to those things you mentioned..." A soldier threw out a dagger in his hand and said, speaking of which, he only had this thing, which he brought from his home, the Western Empire

All the equipment they had along the way had already been thrown away. As far as they were concerned, they had thought about such a thing before, but they never expected that they would actually do it. They all knew clearly what the consequences would be.

At this moment, their lives belonged to others, definitely not his. Some of the people next to him seemed to follow him in normal times, but now that they saw him surrendering, they all put their own

He threw away the weapon in his hand and followed this guy out. A group of people began to tentatively move towards the Cao Family Trading Company's army. None of these people knew where they would be tomorrow. Although they were behind

There were many officers shouting at them, but the guy who just spoke didn't even look at his former boss, because he knew that there was no turning back at this point, it was like a point of no return.

No matter what happened to him, he was no longer a human being inside and out. Li Yi glanced at this guy appreciatively. This time the matter was successful, and the people of the Western Empire would definitely be hit hard. For Li Yi, the Western Empire

The empire is nothing. Conquering such a huge empire is just like that, because he knows that there may be better things in the future. He doesn't care about these things now, what he cares about is Li Cong's opinion.

Li Li came here because he wanted his grandfather to affirm him. Getting his grandfather's affirmation was much more important than the so-called conquest of an empire. In his eyes, everything his grandfather did needed to be learned by himself.

, he admires his own grandfather, and now his work is basically half successful. A large number of people have begun to go in directly towards the two channels opened by the Cao Family Trading Company. They all need to be inspected on the way.

, these people were all soldiers of the Western Empire just now. No one is sure that they really put down their weapons and became prisoners of the Cao Family Trading Company. Many of them may have hidden some weapons. If it is true,

If there had been any bloodshed in the past, these people would have been the first to be killed, but fortunately such a thing did not happen. When the gate of the Western Empire's camp was closed, it was probably the most central ones among them.

People will also be shaken. These are people who have been abandoned by the Western Empire. They will never think about what the people in the Western Empire will give them. Now they just want to see what the people from the Cao Family Trading Company will give them.

. Their future lives will all be linked to the people of the Cao Family Trading Company. They all know that their family members are still in the Western Empire, but since this war is a small-scale war, the Western Empire will not

It may expand this kind of war, and then everyone in your family can still be safe. Besides, if the family members of the surrendered soldiers are shot, many people in the army will come out to make trouble.

Could it be that we bleed on the battlefield and our families don’t even have a single safety guarantee in the end? What’s the point of following such an empire? This is the greatest alienation.

The person who spoke just now is called Brother Nan by everyone around him. He is also the little leader of these dozens of brothers. Normally, he usually hangs out with them. Although he is not an officer, some officers will not come over.

Who cares about this guy's affairs? Sometimes his words are much more powerful than some officers. Just like now, this guy chose to surrender, and those under him followed him without hesitation. They all had

My own thoughts, Brother Nan will not treat them badly. It was always like this in the past, and it is the same now. They followed Brother Nan through the cavalry division of the Cao Family Trading Company. Along the way, they saw those cavalrymen.

They are all arranged neatly. These people who were their enemies a moment ago have become their comrades in arms at this moment. None of them can believe this. For them, these people have

It was really powerful back then. Just like now, hundreds of thousands of my people have surrendered, but not a single one of them stood up and cheered. They didn't even make any other movements, and they still maintained their previous attitude.

Like this, he picked up his hand crossbow and pointed it at them. After passing the first cavalry division, they arrived at a relatively large open space at the back. Here, thirty of them were divided into a group. No matter how you

To do it, all it takes is a small team of Thirty Brother, and then each person receives a number plate. They all knew this before. Everyone in the Cao Family Trading Company seems to have such a number plate.

This seems to be something called an ID card. Everyone is unique. This kind of thing is your lifeblood. If you lose it, you will be in big trouble.

"Everyone, I am the commander of the Cao Family Trading Company in charge of this operation. From now on, you people will be the newly formed 2nd mixed guard army. You people will stay here to do some logistics work for the time being, waiting for our Cao Family

After the trading company's ship arrives, you can leave here. Where to go? The people above will naturally have their own arrangements. Of course, if there are people who don't want to be in our army, that's fine, as long as they are

You will not return to the army of the Western Empire. We can pay you travel expenses and then go home. However, we still hope that you can stay, because you will not have a good life after you go back.

Yes, people in the Western Empire will definitely regard you as traitors. Even if you all return to your hometown, your life will not be easy. Your family members will feel that you are all traitors, and even your descendants will feel that you are traitors.

I won't think much of you, so it's better for you to stay. When your salary is paid, get some more money for your family to go back. This matter will be solved. Now everyone sits down in Brother Zhao's place.

"We're ready for dinner." A guy stood on a high place and said with a big loudspeaker. This is how the Cao Family Trading Company arranged for them. They can only be temporarily responsible for some logistics matters. If they are allowed to go directly to the battlefield

, that is still not possible. Who knows what will happen after they get the serial crossbow. Many times it is better to be careful. Many soldiers thought of going home when they heard that they could let themselves go home. To be honest,

They don't want to be here, no matter who they serve as soldiers. After all, they are all on the battlefield. Why do they do such a thing? Isn't it good to go home and live a good life?

Soon they arrived at a place to eat. Oh my god, how could this thing be so fragrant? It was meat porridge. I don’t know what these people’s food used to be. Anyway, they saw these things more than their own mothers.

It’s no wonder that the economy of the entire Western Empire is not as good as that of the Southern Empire, let alone the Eastern Empire. Therefore, it is impossible to compare these supplies and other things with those of these two empires.

Yes, they all understand this very well, but if it is just like this, according to the money given by the empire, there is no problem for them to eat one meal of meat a week, but these generals do not think so.

It seems to them that many people can't eat meat once for several months. Can't they still live a good life, and everyone is still living a very good life. What's wrong now? It's already very good for you to be able to eat this.

Now you are still here to pick and choose. These generals have made their own decisions and deducted half of the food expenses of these people. Not to mention eating meat once a week, they will not even eat meat for half a year.

The generals have no choice but to do otherwise. During peacetime, they don’t have much money at all, so they can only eat the empty quota and drink the blood of the soldiers. These soldiers have not eaten meat for a long time, and now they smell

Such a smell made everyone rush over desperately. There were steamed buns and fine grains there. What they usually eat are all coarse grains, and there is no fine grains at all. The imperial court purchased all of them.

Fine grain, but when it reaches their mouths, it turns into coarse grain. There is a price difference of five cents per kilogram of grain. If this is too much, it is still a lot of money.

Just like this group of people, there are at least three generals in charge of these people. If these people eat a pound of grain in two days, they can get five cents from a soldier in two days, which is 75 cents a month.

Money, 200,000 soldiers can earn more than 10,000 taels of silver a month. This is just for food. These 200,000 soldiers can earn more than 100,000 taels of silver in a month from all aspects. This is also

This is the reason why their lives are usually so smooth. Otherwise, with their monthly salary of more than 10,000 taels, it is estimated that they cannot survive even a week. The soldiers all know these things, but

What can be done? If the people from the Overwatch Council come down, these generals will also have a way. They can just carry the money over there. Those people will naturally not say anything more after collecting the money one by one.

He would say that the soldiers below could not keep up with nutrition and needed more money. His Majesty the Emperor also felt in his heart that the soldiers on the front line were really suffering. At this time, the special money came down. It is for this reason.

Each of these people will have more money to take. After they take it, naturally they can't keep it all. These people in the Overwatch Council also have to share a sum, which is why the money coming down from them every year

The number of soldiers was increasing, but the soldiers' lives were still the same for ten years without any improvement at all. When the meal started, Li Li said that according to the standard of two soldiers in the Cao family business, one person would be given to these people.

When cooking, he knew that these people would eat a lot. It was just as he expected. On average, everyone ate at least four steamed buns, and they also ate more than half a catty of meat.

The establishment of the Second Mixed Army can be said to be temporary. It may also be the largest establishment in the entire Cao Family Trading Company, with a total of 800,000 people, plus some officers stationed by the Cao Family Trading Company.

, the number of people must be at least more than 900,000. The commander of this army is Li Yi. This army was created by Li Yi himself, so Li Cong just let him be in charge. He was transferred from the 17th Marine Division.

He recruited about 30,000 people, and transferred 20,000 people from the 18th Division to join this mixed army as low-level officers. Li Cong just wanted to see how capable Li Li was. What he had seen before was just the words of his grandson.

.This guy is definitely not a simple person who can think of persuading people to surrender. Li Cong also believes in this. He feels that he has his own blood. If this guy is a mediocre person, he will not take the initiative to come here. No matter what,

He said that there are too many differences here compared with the earth. With Li Yi's status and blood relationship with Li Cong, he could enjoy his life on earth. How could he do it in the end?

If someone has the title of a county prince, as long as he has a little bit of brains, he may become the title of a prince. He may also become the emperor of the empire. After all, he has the legal right to inherit. But this guy chose to come here, which makes

Li Cong felt very relieved. At least none of his descendants were the kind of people who only enjoyed themselves. At least the boy in front of him was competent. However, Li Cong did not give this boy time to breathe, and immediately gave another order.

So he came down and asked him to serve as the commander of this mixed army. Let's see how long it takes for this army to become combat effective, and also see what kind of control Li Li has over this army.

Li Li knew very clearly that his grandfather should be very satisfied with the answer sheet he just handed in, because if Li was never satisfied with the result, it is estimated that Li Li would not be qualified to continue to complete the task. The Second Mixed Army

There are about 900,000 people. This is also the largest establishment of the Cao Family Trading Company's army after the restructuring. Although there are many people, Li Li believes that as long as a division of the army is selected from the Marine Corps, it can be easily accomplished.

They quickly defeated these people. If Li Yi wanted to take over this army, the first thing he needed was not to let them participate in any combat training, but to let them enter their own state and let them find their own confidence. So Li Yi and Li Cong proposed

The first requirement is to issue military uniforms to these people immediately. Only when unified military uniforms are issued, and all of them are new military uniforms, can these people feel whose army they are under. They are also very concerned about such things.

It is clear that there are many such things in Li Cong's inner world. After hearing Li Li's request, he immediately distributed this thing. Of course, this is a battlefield and they will never be allowed to do so.

Reorganization has begun here. Reinforcements from the four divisions of the Cao Family Trading Company will arrive exactly one week later. At that time, these people can take those ships and return to the base of the Cao Family Trading Company, which they occupied in the Western Empire before.

More than a dozen counties and cities are now the headquarters of the Cao family business in the Western Empire. The Western Empire has organized tens of millions of troops to attack those dozen counties and cities, but the final result is that they

The losses were heavy and it did not cause any harm to the people of the Cao Family Trading Company, so they began to pay no attention to that side and focused all their attention on Li Cong's side.

These soldiers had seen this military uniform from the Cao Family Trading Company before. This thing was made by Li Cong in a garment factory on Earth. Although there are people in this world who can make it, leather shoes and the like

Not only those things, but also those belts and other things, were all obtained from the earth. This made some garment factories on the earth a lot of money. Li Cong immediately asked people to send these things away.

After going, Li Li saw that the soldiers who were still wearing clothes were somewhat different from when they surrendered. He immediately started his second step, asking these people to start registering. He didn't know this yet.

What about the person's name? Of course, it was said in advance that this month they can enjoy the treatment of soldiers of the Cao Family Trading Company. The most important thing is that they can send fifty kilograms of food to their families every month.

Well, if the address you registered is wrong or untrue, I'm sorry. You may never have such an opportunity in your life, so it is still very important now. Many soldiers didn't think about it at the beginning.

Those who registered their names felt that the people from the Cao Family Trading Company might fail. If they really failed, their fate would be over, so they all wanted to wait and see and see the people from the Cao Family Trading Company.

What will happen, but after this order is issued, they will not do that. They all know what life is like in their family. If the Cao family business wins, they will never have such an opportunity in their lives.

This is the biggest tragedy for their families, so these people have started to register with their real names, and they all hope that their families can receive the first month's food to improve their families.

This army is undergoing rapid changes. When people from the Cao family business see all this, they will say that this boy Li Li is really very capable. Li Cong was very happy when he heard others praising his grandson.

, but the recent situation also makes Li Cong unhappy. The old emperor in the Southern Empire has already blocked some forces of the Cao Family Trading Company. This guy just doesn't stand up and doesn't want to conquer the Southern Empire and the Western Empire.

In his opinion, the territories of the empire are now an opportunity. While the outside world knows that the Southern Empire is still in chaos, he will not foolishly stand out. In his opinion, if he goes out now, he will be a fool.

What he needs to do most is to stay there honestly. He must not let himself go out to confront the Western Empire, because at this time, whether he is facing the Cao Family Trading Company or the Western Empire, he will feel

At this time, it is better to be an ostrich honestly. Wait for the end of the war between the Western Empire and the Cao Family Trading Company. At the end, if the people of the Western Empire can't hold on anymore, then you can quickly send troops to defeat them.

If the territory that has been lost is brought back, then we can share the huge cake of the Western Empire with the people of the Cao Family Trading Company. If the people of the Cao Family Trading Company fail, then we will not let the Western Empire occupy our own land. You guys

Just keep it, there aren't many anyway, and I can still take care of it. The other thing is that the people in the Cao Family Trading Company had already failed at that time, and of course he wouldn't want to swallow up the Cao Family Trading Company.

, but the rights that the Cao Family Trading Company acquired in the Western Empire some time ago can be directly taken back. The Cao Family Trading Company is newly defeated and will not reject their own ideas unless they are crazy.

Li Congzhen felt a little helpless when he had such an opponent. This guy's mind was really spinning very fast. If he had known that he had such a plan, he probably wouldn't have done so much.

In fact, Li Cong may have felt it now. From the beginning, some things may have been planned by this old guy, and he even became a pawn of his. Although the people from the Cao Family Trading Company were involved in this matter

A lot of money was made from it, and the economic strength of the Southern Empire was reduced a lot. However, in fact, it achieved a tactical victory, but suffered a strategic failure. I did not see that the people of the Western Empire still had such a

This is also the most depressing thing about him, but now everything has begun, and he can't end it so easily, so it is very simple to solve some of his problems now, that is to get a victory here

Victory, let the Western Empire conclude something similar to the Southern Empire with itself, and then let the old guy in the Southern Empire be more honest. The main thing is to let the old guy understand that he can defeat the two empires. This kind of ability is absolutely

It's not something you can calculate. At that time, you will go to the Southern Empire again with your victorious army. It seems that the contract you signed before does not seem to have much effect on you. It doesn't matter, we will work with you.

Sign a better contract. At that time, it seems that the Southern Empire did not have much ability to fight with our Cao Family Trading Company. That was when the Cao Family Trading Company fully controlled the Southern Empire. I think the old emperor must have felt

It will also be very uncomfortable. It's best to leave it like this. But there are good aspects and bad aspects.
To be continued...