Outside Xiyun City.

Chen Ze rubbed his brows while driving his horse forward. Behind him were 30,000 elite soldiers from Xiyun City.

Not easy!

The military rank is so low that people speak softly. All aspects must be explained to Zheng Yuanlong in detail and clearly, so that the other party can finally believe in him.

Very tiring, but worth it.

As for Chen Ze trying so hard to persuade Zheng Yuanlong, of course, Chen Ze was not thinking entirely for the Qingyang Empire, but more for himself.

War exploits!

If he wants to gain more in the General Star System, he needs the support of huge military exploits.

And where does military merit come from?

Of course it was a war.

Wherever a war is fought, there will be military exploits. This is why Chen Ze has always tried his best to consider Bo'an City.

Fortunately, this effort was not in vain, and with Mr. Jing's support, Zheng Yuanlong finally adopted Chen Ze's suggestion.

Xiyun City's troops who were supposed to be reinforcements stayed behind to wait for other reinforcements. While waiting, according to Chen Ze's wishes, Zheng Yuanlong agreed to temporarily hand over most of Xiyun City's troops to his command.

Is there anything else that must be done before reinforcements from Biping City arrive?

Of course it’s the Forest of Poison Mist!

Although Chen Ze defeated the poisonous fog army last time, the enemy still retained a considerable portion of its troops, estimated to be five thousand in total.

Although they no longer have the generals of the Zhu Yan Empire under their command, these people were frightened to death in the Battle of Xiyun, and they probably won't dare to come out in a short time.

But the only thing to be afraid of is the eventuality.

What if the Zhu Yan Empire did not abandon the Poison Mist Forest and sent another general to sneak in?

What if the fugitives, knowing full well that there will be no good things to eat afterwards, become violent and strike back before they know their death is imminent?

If you want to stop the Zhu Yan Empire's surprise troops from sneaking into Anluo Province, you need to send a large number of troops to guard the six supply lines.

This requires a lot of troops.

Coupled with the fact that they knew nothing about the enemy's intelligence, a large number of troops had to be allocated to each supply line.

In this way, it seems that nearly 100,000 troops are a lot, but evenly divided, it is still insufficient. Therefore, Chen Ze will try his best to capture as many troops as possible from Xiyun City. It is estimated that the number of soldiers left to defend the city will be greater than that left by Zheng Yuanlong before.

less.

Chen Ze is naturally not afraid of Xiyun City falling, but he is afraid that a fire in the backyard will affect the front line in front of him. If there is an emergency, the poisonous fog army comes back. Without Cheng Yu's military skills, Xiyun City can no longer be like

As with the previous time, we used powerful trebuchets to suppress the city, and we can expect the city to be broken.

If this happens, it is not impossible for the two armies to attack one of the supply lines and eventually defeat them one by one. At that time, it will not be a question of whether to defend the supply line, but whether they can save their lives.

Therefore, we cannot stay in the Poisonous Mist Forest!

Furthermore, after the war, the Poison Mist Forest will definitely be the target of cleanup. When Anluo Province decided to leave a Poison Mist Forest for the repeat offenders, it did not want these people to jump over the wall and act more violently when they have no way out.

behavior, so it is better to leave a place for them to go, which can be regarded as a large prison in disguise.

However, after what happened, the prison has become a breeding ground for tigers, and of course it will no longer be allowed to exist.

They will all be cleared up anyway, so it is better to take advantage of this opportunity to seize this credit first. If everything is settled, who will think highly of him as a little counselor... No, he is a counselor now.

Zheng Yuanlong is back, and the city defense mission is over. The Military Aircraft Department will naturally give Chen Ze corresponding rewards for his military exploits. Although this military exploit is not the other's military exploit, Chen Ze doesn't value it very much, but at least the higher the military rank, the more troops he can secondment.

It is impossible to be lucky every time and encounter Mr. Jing who forcibly hands over military power to his chief officer without asking the reason.

Fifty-three thousand points!

This is the total number of military exploits Chen Ze received from military aircraft after the last war.

Three thousand of them were guaranteed battle merit for helping to defend the city. He was just a counselor at the time, and what he could get was the lowest level guaranteed reward.

But in addition to the guaranteed battle merit, there is also a reward for the person who made the greatest contribution in the battle to defend the city. This is the big one, a total of 50,000 points!

When it comes to who made the greatest contribution in this battle to defend the city, there is no doubt that it was Chen Ze!

After receiving this military exploit, Chen Ze's military rank certainly improved by leaps and bounds.

He was originally a third-class counselor, but he was still 39,000 points short of the ninth-class counselor, the highest counselor level. This time, he made up for it all at once, allowing him to rise to the top of the counselor level.

Next is the advanced counselor.

From a civilian to a counselor, this requires an assessment by the Military Aircraft Department, but future military rank promotions are all based on military merit. To be promoted from a ninth-class counselor to a first-class counselor, the required military merit is 10,000 points.

After deducting 39,000 points, Chen Ze still had 14,000 points left, so he naturally chose promotion without hesitation.

As a result, he was now a first-class counselor, and even if he went through the normal process of borrowing troops, he was qualified to borrow five hundred soldiers.

It is worth mentioning that the number of battle merits required for promotion to counselor level is actually three times that of counselor level. Taking counselor level as an example, promotion from first-class counselor to second-class counselor requires 2,000 battle merits, but promotion from first-class counselor to counselor

A second-class strategist needs six thousand battle merits!

The requirements for subsequent promotions will all be tripled to the level of counselor.

In other words, if you want to be promoted to the ninth-level counselor, the required combat merit is 132,000 points!

This is no wonder why Cao Lang jumped out to fight for control with Chen Ze when he saw that the one with the greatest merit could receive 50,000 battle merits.

The fang general and the counselor are of the same level, and they are both levels that cannot ignore fifty thousand battle merits.

After completing his military rank promotion, Chen Ze did not pay too much attention to the counselor's salary that the Military Aircraft Department had replenished for him. Instead, he immediately accepted the new bandit suppression mission issued by the Military Aircraft Department and left the city with the 30,000 soldiers promised by Zheng Yuanlong.

Compared with the military exploits in the military aircraft department, he is naturally more concerned about supplementing the military exploits for the general star system.

The Bandit Suppression Military Aircraft Department also issued corresponding tasks this time, but due to the huge difference in strength between the two sides, the combat merit rewards provided were not too many, only 10,000 points.

Of course, the Jiangxing System also gave out a mission briefing at the same time, but it was less than the one at the military aircraft department, with only 5,000 combat merit rewards. It seemed that the amount of merit rewards was directly proportional to the difficulty of the mission.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, not to mention that the reward for this mission is just the icing on the cake. What Chen Ze values ​​​​more is naturally the five thousand people in the Poisonous Mist Forest.

Each person killed is worth ten points of military merit. Not counting leaders and other highly meritorious figures, if the enemy can be completely wiped out, this will be a full fifty thousand points of military merit!

There are many battle achievements, and Xiyun City provides troops, so he can easily obtain them with no effort at all. How could Chen Ze miss such a good thing?

His earnest persuasion to Zheng Yuanlong was not in vain, and the reward in exchange was not small.
Chapter completed!