Chapter 2030: Lead the Worst Troops with the Best General

A quarter of an hour later, Wan Qi Liang rushed over to see him:

"Your Majesty, you summoned me?"

He Lingchuan casually handed him this intelligence report to look at: "What do you think?"

Wan Qi Liang finished reading it in two or three glances, and also knew this matter was unprecedentedly thorny. Ya Guo's elite troops and strong generals were not comparable to these third-rate riffraff on the Shan Jin plains.

The situation in Shan Jin was favorable now; the Dragon God army was surely rushing to aid Bai Tan, with no time to look east. This was He Lingchuan's most important battle in unifying the Shan Jin plains, and the opening was crucial—so-called "one drum of energy, then decline"—but Ya Guo's invasion could not be ignored, otherwise it would be like a cavity, the hollow growing larger and larger.

"These shameless bandits!" Wan Qi Liang fumed, "Your Majesty only needs to give the order; this subordinate will die a thousand deaths without hesitation!"

Normally, He Lingchuan would have found this amusing. Indeed, war truly hones a person; even this brat had grown a cautious mind, firmly refusing to say he himself didn't know how to handle it, instead asking the leader to give orders, and he would obey completely.

He only said: "Good, then you go."

"Yes, sir!" Wan Qi Liang was not surprised at all.

Having been summoned, he had already prepared himself mentally to accept the mission and fight a tough battle—during this period of the Dragon God war, the Shan Jin plains had plenty of tough battles to fight.

But how could he possibly defeat Ya Guo's troops? He needed to think it over carefully.

Wan Qi Liang was, after all, a Bai Long person. He and Ya Guo still had a score to settle.

The time for revenge had come.

Then he heard He Lingchuan's continuation:

"But leave all your troops behind."

Huh? Wan Qi Liang looked up, his face full of question marks.

Having generals but no soldiers? How could he fight alone?

He Lingchuan's expression was stern, not joking with him: "You are not alone. You are to command troops together with Qiu Hu, to resist Ya Guo's invasion, using the new recruits he just trained."

Wan Qi Liang ultimately lacked Wan Qi Feng's cunning, and unable to hold back, he blurted: "Then... no need for the Black Armor Army?"

He Lingchuan slowly shook his head: "Not only do we not need the Black Armor Army or the Luo Dian troops, but I will also have to withdraw half of Qiu Hu's elite forces."

He would still leave half. It wouldn't do to have only new recruits; we need the old to lead the new, the old to set the standard for the new.

If we say the army is a fist, the new recruits are the flesh and blood, the old soldiers are the tendons and bones.

Wan Qi Liang was dazed. How then would we fight this battle? The enemy is Ya Guo's army!

"Besides our elite forces, all troop sources from the western and central parts of the Shan Jin plains are at your disposal." He Lingchuan said word by word, "I have only one requirement for you—"

He pointed to the sand table:

"Contest every inch of land, yield not a single step!"

Everyone knows that the border between Ya Guo and the former Peng Guo is desert and wasteland, sparsely populated. These past years, with frequent imperial ooze eruptions, grass and trees have begun to grow there, but residents have not yet developed the land, so the land's intrinsic value is not high.

Even so, He Lingchuan still issued the iron order of "contest every inch of land"!

Wan Qi Liang's forehead was beaded with sweat. The Dragon God's elite forces had all been withdrawn; what means remained to stop Ya Guo's army's advance?

Could it be—

His previous sentence had just said, troop sources can be freely allocated!

He unconsciously clenched his fist.

He Lingchuan, seeing this, knew he had already figured it out.

This was the only way, and also the cruelest way.

"Can you do it?"

Wan Qi Liang gritted his teeth and squeezed out a word from between them: "Can!"

"What if you can't hold them?"

Wan Qi Liang declared firmly: "Then they must first wade through my and Qiu Lao Da's corpses!"

"You've been put through the wringer." He Lingchuan placed his hand on his shoulder, "But this time, I can only use the best generals to command the worst troops!"

Wan Qi Liang's face turned red, his qi and blood surging, making it blush.

The Emperor himself personally certified that he is the best general!

He straightened his waist like a ramrod: "This subordinate will surely accomplish the mission!"

"Besides, I happen to have someone here who is quite suitable for this mission; you should take him along as well." He Lingchuan said, then walked to the door and gave an order.

Not long after, someone strode in, bowing deeply to He Lingchuan: "Your Majesty!"

Wan Qi Liang saw this person and was startled, blurting out: "Ah, Song, Song Bo?"

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The person who entered was none other than Wan Qi Song!

Back then he led his nephew Wan Qi Feng and the Bai Long people to raid the Yang Shan Islands, the plot was exposed and he was caught, so He Lingchuan punished him to mine for two years. Later, when the Dragon God needed strong warriors, Wan Qi Song also joined the Black Armor Army, starting as a lowly soldier, and rose through the ranks on military merit. But he operated in other regions and had never met Wan Qi Liang face to face.

"He is already a Mobile Corps Commander, this time responsible for escorting a batch of supplies here." He Lingchuan laughed, "Wan Qi Song, the western front of the territory is about to go to war with Ya Guo."

The reason he promoted Wan Qi Song was still his love for talent. This man is brave and fierce, a natural-born general. The Dragon God's campaigns in all directions now need such strongmen under his command.

"Ya Guo?" Wan Qi Song narrowed his eyes, eyes flashing with ferocity: "Heaven-sent opportunity! I beg the lord to give me this chance!"

Long ago, the Bai Long people were persecuted by the Ya Guo state ruler, forced to flee and wander everywhere; if not for the Yang Shan Islands taking them in, who knows what they would have withered into.

Now, new and old grudges can be settled together!

He Lingchuan pointed at Wan Qi Liang and said to Wan Qi Song: "Qiu Hu is the commander, he is the deputy; you will also be a Mobile Corps Commander when you go."

Wan Qi Song roared: "Lord, rest assured, in the army I am a Mobile Corps Commander, I only obey superior orders, and have no kinship or ties with this brat. If I make a mistake, he punishes me; if I commit a capital crime, he comes to behead me!"

"Hand over the military duties, and you will set out tomorrow morning." He Lingchuan didn't waste more time on pleasantries, turning to Wan Qi Liang: "Time is urgent, I will also send orders to Qiu Hu to have him prepare his troops and rush to the western front."

"Yes." Wan Qi Liang and Wan Qi Song took their leave.

The night was dark and vast, their silhouettes revealing an unstoppable courage and ferocity.

The mirror blurted out: "Wow, no way, you're..."

Even it, this iron-hearted stone-intestined magical artifact, felt afraid: "How many must die for this?"

He Lingchuan, however, said: "What the people of Ya State believe in is not the gods of Lingxu. This deployment may be related to Bekka, but more importantly, Ya State itself has seen an opportunity. Yet it is not resolute; unless it has tasted success in Shanjin, it will not launch a full-scale invasion."

"This invasion of thirty thousand is merely Ya State's first attempt. If fighting and plundering here proves as easy as tearing a steamed bun, the next invasion could be fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand!"

Jingzi understood, so the master's military order to Wanqi Liang and Qiu Hu was: "Contest every inch of land!"

"You're not wrong—this will cost many lives." He Lingchuan gazed at the western flank of Shanjin on the sand table, "Qiu Hu and Wanqi Liang's battle won't be easy; this is likely like trying to crack a stone with an egg."

The Soul-Capturing Mirror suddenly worried: "Master, you, you still have a backup plan, don't you?"

"Relying solely on ourselves, it's indeed difficult to manage both fronts." He Lingchuan picked up a flag and gently inserted it into the sand table, "At this moment, we need some assistance."