Chapter 1157

After Qingming, Deng Zhao led thirty thousand new recruits, joining forces with Chen Luozi and Chen Wuyin's two divisions, totaling seventy thousand troops, and set out for Eyun Prefecture.

They departed nearly a month and a half later than Chen Wuji's original plan.

This was Chen Luozi's suggestion.

He believed that for a new army about to go to the battlefield, training should be a race against time, and time should not be wasted on marching or building drill fields and other trivial matters.

Hezhou had mature conditions for training new recruits, and there were also contemporary new armies available for sparring, far more stable than establishing another drill field in Eyun Prefecture for training.

Chen Wuji accepted Chen Luozi's suggestion, appointing Wang Ce as Inspector of Eyun Prefecture, leading the Assault Camp ahead to pacify Eyun Prefecture, while the main army remained behind until now.

Now, as they set out, it is truly a deployment.

Just as he casually tossed the scattered forces of Shendu and Lingnan to Chen Bushi and Yang Yu, Chen Wuji again came up with a double win, tossing Fu Jiuyou and Shi Shi to Chen Luozi and his two companions.

No matter how they fight, he doesn't care about the tactics.

He only looks at the results.

In the two days before Chen Luozi and his companions set out, they were still unaware of this matter.

During the evening banquet, Chen Wuji suddenly mentioned this matter, appointing Chen Luozi's main commander, Chen Wuyin and Deng Zhao as deputies, and set them a small target—pacify the Southeast.

This matter caused Chen Luozi no end of cursing and grumbling.

On the march, he nearly muttered nonstop, to the point that Chen Wuyin and Deng Zhao's ears were almost calloused from listening.

……

Eyun Prefecture Inspector's Residence.

As soon as Chen Luozi had settled the troops, he immediately gathered everyone for a meeting.

Besides Chen Wuyin and Deng Zhao as his two deputies, there was also Wang Ce, the newly appointed Inspector of Eyun.

"Gentlemen, we have arrived at the locality—how should we fight this battle? Give us a plan!"

Chen Luozi, seated in the place of honor with his Great Horse Golden Blade, held a chicken leg and gnawed at it violently.

The chicken was one Wang Ce raised after arriving in Eyun, and he is quite skilled at such things.

Unexpectedly, after Chen Luozi strolled through the backyard, he set his sights on it.

The chicken, just barely grown to adulthood, became this plate on the table.

"Jiu Shu, can we use the intelligence from the Spy Camp?" Chen Wuyin asked.

"How could we not? We were originally appointed in an emergency……Isn't this something we can't use?" Chen Luozi asked uncertainly.

All three people in the seat nodded in unison.

Chen Wuyin said: "We can only be considered as having been suddenly appointed by the lord in an emergency—we have no danger, only a heavy responsibility entrusted to us."

Because they had been too familiar with Chen Wuji in the village, they had taken a long time to get used to the title of 'lord,' but now they are finally no longer awkward about it.

"Well, being suddenly entrusted with a heavy responsibility in a rush, we originally set out in a hurry. If we cannot even use the Spy Camp's intelligence, then I might suspect the lord thinks we are redundant and wants to eliminate us." Chen Luozi let out a light hum and said.

Deng Zhao weakly said: "Actually, it might not be so hasty—after the two of you changed defenses in Hezhou, it seems you were only a little earlier than me. Changing defenses……does that just mean you two are supposed to go to the front lines?"

This battle hasn't even started yet, and Deng Zhao is already weary.

The commander leading the troops is the Nanwang's San Shu, still a person who can't tell clearly, only knowing how to complain. This battle hasn't even started, and it's already become like this—what will happen when the real fighting begins?

I never expected that the mighty Nanwang would also have times when he is swept along by his clan.

Deng Zhao sighed in his heart, secretly pondering how to cover for the clueless Chen Luozi, striving to fight this battle splendidly and give Chen Wuji a perfect explanation.

Wang Ce suddenly said: "General, do you want mountains?"

"What would I want mountains for?" Chen Luozi asked strangely.

Wang Ce said slowly: "After arriving in Eyun Prefecture, I also took the opportunity to learn about Bai Sha Prefecture's situation. As far as I know, although Fu Jiuyou holds Bai Sha Prefecture, his old stronghold seems to still be in the mountains, and the so-called Prefects and County Magistrates in various cities are all his subordinates.

"If the General doesn't mind burning a few mountains, our army can directly strike at the Yellow Dragon, and with one fire, reduce Fu Jiuyou and his old stronghold to ashes. As long as Fu Jiuyou dies, the remaining forces will not amount to much."

"Good, just do it like that!" Chen Luozi pointed at Wang Ce and praised him, then pointed at Chen Wuyin and Deng Zhao, shaking his head and scolding: "You two little wastes, listen to what people say, then look at yourselves—you've been holding it in all day, humming and hawing, not even letting out a fart."

Deng Zhao: ……

He was just very gloomy.

If he hadn't remembered wrong, this Wang Inspector, I think he was originally a strategist?

I heard he almost made it into the cabinet, but only missed by one move during the discussion of the Huihe War, so he didn't become one of the cabinet members.

If I had his abilities, I would have gone to be a strategist—what general am I supposed to be!

Chen Wuyin quietly patted Deng Zhao's arm: "My San Shu recently had a breakup, his speech is not pleasant, you don't need to mind him. People who have just broken up can be understood, especially someone like my San Shu, at this age still going through a breakup—more reason to understand, just ignore him."

Deng Zhao blinked: "What is a breakup?"

"A breakup is……being dumped by the woman you like, or you can understand it as the woman you like not liking you, having some contact with you, then deceiving you of your person and property, and running away."

Deng Zhao was startled, and his gaze toward Chen Luozi instantly gained a few more points of understanding.

If that's the case, he can very well understand.

He has also experienced it himself.

That feeling, indeed, is very hard to bear.

When Deng Zhao had not yet become a County Clerk, he had a childhood sweetheart he liked.

That woman……no, that little slut, on one hand stringing him along, on the other exchanging glances with a rich merchant's son in the county.

One day, out of nowhere, his childhood sweetheart, who had always been putting forward various conditions and absolutely refusing to marry him, suddenly wanted to discuss marriage with him.

That day, Deng Zhao nearly became overjoyed to the point of breaking.

But who would have known, the reason that woman discussed marriage with him was fundamentally because she was already pregnant with the rich merchant's son's child.

The merchant's family looked down on her for being unmarried and having a child, not observing womanly virtues, so they rejected her, and the woman then turned to him.

The day he learned the truth, Deng Zhao suffered a breakup.

He was in a daze for a good half year.

At this moment, Deng Zhao's understanding of Chen Luozi went beyond mere comprehension—it was outright empathy, feeling it in his very heart.

"I see now, I misjudged General Chen." Deng Zhao sighed and said, "At our age, marrying a wife has indeed become a major difficulty; we don't care much for formalities either, but what we like mostly won't like us back."

"Because of our status, we are never short of women around us, but to find a wife who is sincere and mutually affectionate is truly too difficult, too difficult..."

Chen Wuyin's pupils trembled, his face full of shock as he stared at Deng Zhao.

In the words of the lord, this matter must have a big "what the fuck."

Unbelievable, too unbelievable.

This hero who took Eyun Jun as his base and seized such a vast territory is actually still a pure-hearted... how did the lord put it again?

Oh, pure-hearted man!