After Chen Xiao and others left, Pang Le immediately ordered the villagers to be released.
The women and old men standing on both sides of the official road suddenly swarmed up. Most of these arrested villagers were between fifteen and twenty years old, and they were the men of the family. Most of the people on both sides were their parents and relatives.
Originally, they were all desperate. If they were captured, they would basically not be able to go back.
Now Su Le came out halfway and rescued everyone, giving the villagers unlimited hope.
"Pang Le, thank you for coming back, otherwise the whole village would be dead!" Li An sighed. If Pang Le hadn't rushed back in time, the villagers would have narrowly escaped death once they were captured in the military camp.
Pang Le smiled and said: "I hope everyone is fine. Don't worry, uncles and uncles. As long as I, Pang Le, am here, I will definitely protect the safety of Shangshui Village! Everyone, go back!"
After all the villagers left, Pang Le called Li An aside and asked quietly: "Uncle Li, how is the excavation in Hulu Valley now?"
Li An said: "Two-thirds of the work in Hulu Valley has been dug. We were originally going to replenish food this time, but unexpectedly we encountered the army arresting young men. Some villagers originally suggested that everyone hide in Hulu Valley, but the old village chief strictly refused.
Yes, it must not be exposed before Hulu Valley is dug!"
Pang Le nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, but every military camp is in urgent need of new recruits during this period. I suggest that the strong men in the village leave the village temporarily to avoid raids from other military camps."
"Pang Le, don't worry. When I go back, I will tell the village chief immediately that we will not let those beasts catch us again! By the way, Pang Le, are you going back to the village? The old village chief has always missed you." Li Andao said
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Pang Le looked at the village, shook his head and said, "No, now the war is imminent. I have to lead my army back immediately. Uncle Li, you and the villagers must be careful and wait for us to return victoriously."
"Okay, Pang Le, you should also take care!"
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Pingshan camp, the camp leader's big tent, a freshly tanned tiger skin is spread in the middle, and a person is sitting in the center of the tiger skin, it is the camp leader of Pingshan camp, Geng Zong.
"Chen Xiao, I asked you to catch young men. Why did you come back empty-handed in two days?" Geng Zong asked angrily.
The current strength of the Pingshan Battalion is in urgent need of replenishment. There are only three school teams left in the entire battalion. This is basically like a bare commander. Geng Zong gave the death order. Whether you go to rob or arrest people, I will do it.
No matter, you just need to get the number of people I want at the specified time.
Under Geng Zong's heavy pressure, the number of soldiers in Pingshan Camp has been greatly expanded, but the number is still far from enough. After all, the population of a battalion is still quite large. According to a soldier group of twelve, one
There are one hundred and forty-four people in the flag, there are six flag teams in a school team, and there are eighteen school teams in a battalion, which is more than fifteen thousand people.
The Pingshan Camp's soldier shortage is as high as 10,000. Even if dozens of surrounding villages are dug out, there will not be so many soldiers.
So Pingshanying reached out to villages further away, and the Shangshui Village area was assigned to Chen Xiao.
Several other small schools have successfully completed their tasks. Even if other battalions came forward, they would only negotiate for a few words. After learning about the situation of Pingshan Camp, they did not embarrass these small schools too much and did not look at the monks.
Everyone is the leader of the camp, and they all give some face to Geng Zong. The Pingshan camp takes away some warriors who are greedy for life. Those warriors, unless there is a shortage of people in the camp, usually don't bother to ask for them.
When Chen Xiao came back and said that not a single able-bodied man was caught, Geng Zong became very angry. When Chen Xiao said that it was not that they had not captured a single able-bodied man, they had captured between five and six hundred warriors. No matter how many people they put together, they would be able to do anything.
Being on top of a school team was very important during the period when Pingshan Camp was experiencing a population shortage.
These people actually allowed Kaishan Camp to be robbed!
"The Kaishan camp lost half of its population in the last battle. It would be excusable if they were robbed," Geng Zong said, suppressing his anger.
Chen Xiao quickly shook his head and said: "Camp leader, it's not like that. Kaishan camp didn't take away the young men I worked so hard to capture at all. The camp leader named Su Le dismissed those people directly!"
When Chen Xiao left, the more he thought about it, the more unconvinced he became, so he sent someone to hang them up from a distance, only to find out that Su Le had really sent away the strong men he had worked so hard to capture.
"They don't want it themselves, and they won't let us want it. It's too much. The trusted camp leader of the Kaishan camp is called Su Le?" Geng Zong became angry again when he heard what Chen Xiao said. It is common for the military camp to help each other when there are difficulties.
, I didn’t expect Kaishan Camp to be so ignorant. Isn’t this just to cause trouble for others?
"Huang Hu, who opened the mountain camp, died in the last battle. The new camp leader this time is called Su Le? What is the background of Su Le?" Geng Zong asked.
"I don't know what Su Le's background is, but...he is a martial soldier." Chen Xiao said.
Geng Zong suddenly stood up from the tiger skin, stared and said loudly: "What? A soldier?"
The leader of a cannon fodder camp is not very valuable, but no matter how valuable he is, he is still the leader of a battalion! When did it become the military soldier’s turn to be the commander-in-chief of a battalion? Geng Zong couldn’t figure out who this guy’s surname was Su.
The disciples of the big family were sent out for training? Their surname was Su. There was no big family named Su in the Xia Kingdom.
This is also due to the inconvenience of Geng Zong's information channels. After the last battle, all his thoughts were focused on recruiting soldiers. In fact, Su Le's name has begun to spread to a considerable extent inside and outside Tongde Pass. Wu
It was the first time that a soldier could become the camp leader. Many people were very curious about Su Le.
In the beginning, Wu Yu had to be the leader of the Xia Kingdom's camp. There were indeed people of the first and second level of Wu Yu who served as camp leaders.
But now, even the leader of the cannon fodder camp must have at least the fifth or sixth level of martial arts. There are very few people at this level. Most of them are at the ninth or tenth level of martial arts. Just like Geng Zong, who is a martial artist.
The ninth level of Wu Yu is only one step away from reaching the Great Consummation. The difference between the tenth level and the ninth level of Wu Yu is not the slightest bit.
"Chen Xiao, if he directly robs your people, I really have nothing to say. After all, those martial disciples originally belonged to his mountain camp, but now that he is short of people in the mountain camp, he will give those strong men to
He ran away, just wait, I will file a complaint against him and see how he ends up."
Recruiting troops is now an important task for the camp leader. The reason Geng Zong has such a headache is that the tasks from above are suppressed. The superiors are only responsible for 30% of the troops, and the other troops have to be found by themselves.
Geng Zong didn't know the situation of Su Le, but even the camp leader of Kaishan Camp died on the battlefield, and the situation of the entire Kaishan Camp was probably not much better.
Eight days later, Su Le was counting the accounts with Li Zhu in the camp. During this period, the production of crystals was getting higher and higher. On average, each soldier could get more than four crystals per day, which was a pretty good number.
The commander will come to collect the crystals today.
It didn't take long for the commander to arrive, but there were a few more people behind him. One of them was Geng Zong from Pingshan Camp.
"Are you the leader of Camp Su Le?" Geng Zong asked unceremoniously as soon as he came in.
Listening to the tone, Su Le knew that the person coming was evil, "I am Su Le, who are you?"
Su Le had actually recognized that this was Geng Zong, the leader of the Pingshan camp. The two camps were not far apart. When he was still a martial arts disciple, Su Le had met Geng Zong several times.
Geng Zong chuckled and said, "I heard that Kaishan Camp lost more than half of its soldiers in the last battle. I wonder what the progress of Camp Chief Su Le's recruitment is?"
"We don't need to worry about Camp Leader Geng when we open the mountain camp."
Su Le naturally guessed that Geng Zong came because of what happened last time. He had known that Pingshan Camp would not give up so easily, but he didn't know what kind of opera Geng Zong and the conductor were singing together.
The commander said: "Captain Su Le, can you hand over all the crystals this time?"
Su Le delivered the account book containing crystal records to the commander. After the commander looked at it, a smile appeared on his face. The mining efficiency of Kaishan Camp was really good. However, after the commander smiled, his face became serious, "Su
Camp Leader Le, I told you last time that Tongde Pass will help you replenish half of your troops, and you will make up the rest by yourself. I wonder how your recruitment progress is going?"
"Master Commander, I went up to take people to recruit soldiers. We only recruited fifty or sixty people from more than a dozen nearby villages. It is difficult to recruit soldiers now. Please bear with me for a while," Su Le answered with his hand.
"Really? How did I hear that Pingshan Camp helped you recruit five to six hundred warriors, but you released all those warriors back? What's going on?" the commander asked back.
"It's like this, Commander, those warriors don't want to join the army at all, have no sense of combat, and basically have no combat effectiveness. If such people are reluctantly captured in the barracks, I'm afraid it will only cause chaos." Su Le's excuse.
, I have thought about it for a long time, so there is no loophole in this answer.
When soldiers go to the battlefield, they fight with ruthlessness. Those warriors are not like joining the army. They are forced to join the army and they will passively fight. In Su Le's opinion, it is better not to recruit such soldiers than to recruit them.
"Really?" The commander glanced at Su Le indifferently, "Captain Su Le, you can't do this. The Shang army is still hoarding in the west. Maybe one day they will drag your Kaishan camp to the battlefield again.
You have already prepared the other half of the soldiers in Tongde Pass. Camp Leader Geng Zong originally had good intentions to help you recruit soldiers, but you didn't appreciate it. In this case, you must find a way to gather the remaining soldiers within half a month.
Qi, in half a month, I hope to see a full Kaishan camp, instead of the current situation, you know?"
Su Le frowned slightly. This guy was obviously encouraged by Geng Zong to make things difficult for him.