Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye, Yun Chong and other old foxes felt the gazes of Duan Dingbang and others, and a subtle and inexplicable smile flashed quickly deep in their eyes.
In order to help His Majesty the Emperor, Mr. Liu, to smooth things over, these old foxes have resorted to all the tricks they used to do in the court!
Although Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu and the rest of the younger generation looked at each other very secretly, how could they hide the feeling of old foxes like Song Qing, Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye, Wan Yan and the others from them!
You know, Song Qing, Zhang Kuang, Nangong Ye and other old foxes are all veteran killers who have experienced hundreds of battles.
With their current status as old foxes, they naturally don't need to go to the battlefield in person, ride their horses and whips, and charge into battle.
However, when they were still young, they were also brave generals who rushed out step by step from the battlefield, from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
A character who can kill step by step on the battlefield, if his own reaction and perception are just a little bit different, he has died countless times.
Therefore, Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu, Zhuge Ziqing and others had no idea that the changes in their expressions just now had already been clearly seen by arrogant, Wanyan Chizha and other old foxes out of the corners of their eyes.
As for uncles like Song Qing, Cheng Kai, Feng Buer, Ning Chao, and Han Peng, they had no intention of reminding Duan Dingbang, the eldest nephews, and the juniors.
When there are some things that should be reminded, you can naturally be reminded, but there are some things that you cannot be reminded of.
For example, the emotional changes in the heart, such as one's own eyesight.
Especially when you are in front of His Majesty the Emperor, Mr. Liu, you must have a sharp mind and enough discernment.
These things must be pondered by oneself slowly and gradually understood by oneself.
On top of these things, if my uncles reminded them, not only would they not be helping them, but they would also be harmed.
Most people in the world think that only those civil servants who use their words and pens in the court are the ones with deep thoughts.
However, only the generals who are leading the troops in the army know that their thoughts as generals are no less than those of the civil servants above the court.
After all, compared to the civil servants above the temple, generals with military power are more likely to be feared by His Majesty the Emperor.
Therefore, a general with a poor mind and poor eyesight cannot survive for long in a court full of intrigues.
After the faces of young generals such as Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu, and Chu Yunhao gradually returned to normal, Mr. Liu chuckled and raised the wine glass to his lips and took a sip of the drink.
Immediately, he looked happily towards Duan Dingbang, who was sitting diagonally opposite.
"Dingbang."
When Duan Dingbang heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he stood up from the chair in a flash.
"I'm here."
"Dingbang, this girl Yue'er has already apologized to you in advance before she expressed her two slightly different opinions.
Therefore, if there is anything inappropriate in Yue'er's remarks just now, you kid are not allowed to have any dissatisfaction, let alone take it to your heart!"
As soon as Mr. Liu said these words, Duan Dingbang quickly raised his hands and fisted him respectfully.
Then, he turned slightly and hugged the little cutie.
"Returning to Your Majesty, what Her Royal Highness the Princess said earlier, I can be said to be sincerely convinced, and there is absolutely no trace of dissatisfaction."
Listening to Duan Dingbang's very solemn tone, Young Master Liu gently shook the jade fan in his hand and looked at Duan Dingbang with a smile and nodded gently.
"So good, so good.
Dingbang, there’s no need to stand, hurry up and take a seat.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Seeing Duan Dingbang sit down again, Mr. Liu chuckled and raised his head to look at the cutie standing next to him.
"Yue'er, don't stand all the time. Go back and sit down."
When the little cutie heard her father's confusion, she lowered her head and looked at Young Master Liu with a smile and shook her head a few times.
"Father, if you feel uncomfortable sitting all the time, why not stand and move your body."
"Hahahaha, okay, you can do whatever you want."
"Yeah, yeah, Yue'er knows."
The little cutie responded to Mr. Liu with a clear and melodious voice. He first put down the wine bottle and wine glass in his hand, and then grabbed a small handful of peach kernels from the plate on the table.
Young Master Liu smiled lightly and looked away at the little cutie, raised his head slightly and drank the wine in the glass in one breath.
Seeing this, the little cutie quickly stopped the action of pinching the peach kernels between her fingers. As soon as her father put the wine glass on the table, he immediately picked up the wine pot and filled it with a glass of wine.
Young Master Liu adjusted his sitting posture lazily, then reached out and picked up a small handful of melon seeds from the plate, while looking up at Duan Dingbang with a smile.
"Dingbang."
When Duan Dingbang heard the sound, he hurriedly put down the wine glass in his hand and looked up at Young Master Liu.
"I'm here."
Seeing Duan Dingbang looking towards him, Young Master Liu gently pinched open a melon seed and put the kernel into his mouth with a faint smile.
"Dingbang, you said before that underestimating the enemy's carelessness is a taboo for military strategists.
I want to ask you, this young master, when you led the troops to help Persia quell the rebellion, did you underestimate the enemy when you faced the rebels in Persia?"
As soon as the words from Mr. Liu's mouth fell, everyone present turned their heads and looked towards Duan Dingbang in unison.
Duan Dingbang straightened his body immediately, with a calm expression on his face, and raised his hands to Young Master Liu without avoiding his eyes.
"Your Majesty, this time I lead the army on an expedition. No matter how large or small the enemy's troops are, I will never underestimate the enemy."
Listening to Duan Dingbang's solemn answer, Young Master Liu frowned slightly.
"Dingbang, I have already gone through the battle report documents that you have prepared. I have already gone through them last night.
Judging from what you wrote in the battle report document, your losses in the cities of Sultani and Aijad in Persia during this expedition were considerable."
As Young Master Liu spoke, he peeled off a melon seed and put it in his mouth.
"By the way, Master, I just briefly looked through the contents of the document last night, and I don't know much about many details yet.
Tell me, young master, how many battles, big and small, did you fight in total during this expedition to help the Persians quell the rebellion?"
"Back to Your Majesty, I have fought a total of eighteen battles with the enemy during this expedition.
Among them, there were seven siege battles, six outdoor battlefield battles, and five small-scale unexpected encounters."
After listening to Duan Dingbang's answer, Master Liu nodded thoughtfully.
"You fought a total of 18 battles, large and small, killing more than 40,000 people in direct formation, and captured more than 110,000 enemy soldiers.
However, the Second Route West Expedition Army under your command only lost more than 7,000 troops.
In this expedition, you have achieved such great military exploits. It is really a great victory, a rare great victory!
You don't have to worry, after everything stabilizes, I will reward you for your merits."
Duan Dingbang, Ge Gonglu, Zhuge Ziqing and other generals heard this and immediately stood up and saluted Young Master Liu.
"Thank you very much, Your Majesty. Long live my emperor."
"No need to be polite, just sit down."
"I will thank you, Your Majesty."
After Liu Mingzhi picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the drink, he let out a sigh of relief with his brows slightly furrowed.
"Dingbang, let's continue the question I asked before.
This time you led your troops on an expedition and fought a total of eighteen battles with the enemy. In the end, you only lost more than 7,000 soldiers.
But!
According to what you wrote in the battle report document, you lost more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in just two battles in Sultani City and Aijade City.
Taken together, all the battles you fought during this expedition resulted in a total loss of just over 7,000 troops.
But in the cities of Sultani and Aijad, you lost more than 2,000 soldiers.
When these two battles were evenly divided, more than a thousand soldiers were lost in one battle.
Back then, before your Second Route Western Expedition Army set off, I equipped your infantry battalion with quite a number of various artillery pieces!
Moreover, those artillery pieces were all new artillery pieces that had just been developed by the military construction supervisor.
The power of the new artillery is much greater than that of the old artillery!
Even the various weapons and equipment on your body are all new weapons and equipment for the military construction supervisor.
Looking at the overall situation of your expedition, with all these advantages, even if your battles in Sudan and the two countries were siege battles, you shouldn't have suffered such heavy losses, right?"
As Young Master Liu frowned slightly as he spoke, he gently closed the Wanli Jiangshan engraved jade fan in his hand, and picked up the dry tobacco bag that had been placed on the corner of the table.
However, he had just picked up his dry tobacco bag, and before he had time to tear open the tobacco bag containing shredded tobacco, he thought of something and immediately put it back where it was.
After taking a few deep breaths, Mr. Liu first picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one breath, then reached out and grabbed a handful of nuts from the plate on the table.
After the little cutie swallowed the peach kernel between her lips and teeth, she immediately picked up the wine bottle and gave Young Master Liu a glass of wine.
After Liu Dashao ate two nuts, his eyes fell on Duan Dingbang again.
"Dingbang, I am very curious, young master, as to what reasons actually caused you to cause such great losses in the two cities of Sultani."
Duan Dingbang took a breath and pointed at the wine glass on the table.
"Your Majesty, would you like me to drink two glasses of wine first?"
Young Master Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, then nodded with a smile.
"If you keep talking, your throat will inevitably become dry. Just do whatever you want."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Duan Dingbanglang thanked him and immediately picked up the wine glass on the table.
Under the gaze of everyone, he drank three glasses of wine by himself before he stopped.
"call."
After Duan Dingbang took a breath of alcohol, he turned to look at Young Master Liu again.
"Your Majesty, the reason why I suffered such heavy losses in the two cities of Sultani is definitely not because I underestimated the enemy and was careless.
Regarding the war situation in these two cities, I have already described it in detail in the battle report documents.
Your Majesty, you just briefly looked through what I wrote on the battle report document last night. It is possible that you did not see the detailed content of what I reported on the document.
Your Majesty, the general situation is this.
While I was commanding my soldiers and horses to engage in a siege battle, a large number of soldiers and horses suddenly rushed out from behind.
This group of soldiers and horses suddenly rushed out from the rear, numbering about ten thousand people, and their equipment was very crude.
It can be said that among the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, there are not even ten or two people wearing armor, and even the weapons in their hands are of various types.
In fact, the weapons held by most of the soldiers were actually the knives used by the cooks in the kitchen for cooking.
However, despite the rudimentary equipment of this group of soldiers and horses, they did not even have any decent weapons.
However, when they rushed towards our soldiers, let alone how crazy they were."
As Duan Dingbang spoke, he seemed to be recalling something, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, when those people charged at our soldiers, it is not an exaggeration to say that they were brave and fearless of death.
When they faced the dense rain of arrows being defended by our soldiers, they had no intention of evading it.
Even after their companions were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, they had no intention of treating them.
The way they looked at that time was as if facing death was not something worth fearing at all.
Let me put it this way, the way those soldiers and horses looked when they were attacking and killing our soldiers, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were committing suicide.
Crazy, crazy, and fearless of death.
However, even so, none of them stopped their charge.
When I was on the high platform of the Central Army, I used a telescope to carefully observe the expressions on the faces of those people.
Let me put it this way, their expressions when facing our soldiers were as if they were seeing their father-killing enemy.
If I hadn't known them at all and had never seen them, I would have doubted whether our soldiers had committed an act of massacre."
When Duan Dingbang said this, he directly reached out to pick up the wine glass on the table and drank the wine in one breath.
"call!"
"More than 10,000 soldiers and horses, that's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.
Under the intensive counterattack of arrows from our soldiers, they had less than 3,000 troops when they rushed to our formation.
According to normal circumstances, let alone less than 3,000 people.
Even if there are still more than 5,000 people left, that is, 6,000 murlocs, those people should retreat.