"Greetings, General!"
On the drill ground of the second camp, under the general platform, more than 1,500 surviving veterans gathered together and saluted Li Xin on the platform.
"No!"
Li Xin shouted. The soldiers straightened their bodies and waited for orders.
"Before we gather our brothers today, I have a few questions to ask. Have you all received your military merits and silver?”Li Xin shouted.
"I got it!" Down below, more than a thousand soldiers returned with smiles on their faces.
"Very good." "Then those who should be promoted, can they get a new military card?"”
"I got it!"
"Alright, let's get down to business."
Hearing Li Xin's words, the army stopped smiling and waited quietly.
"There are two things in total."
Using the Eye of Truth, he looked at the subordinates below and saw that their loyalty points were at least above 70, more than half of them, and they had even broken through the threshold of 80. Li Xin secretly nodded and continued,
"The first matter is that I have received an imperial edict to go to North Wind City to guard it.”
"Everyone knows what kind of place North Wind City is. Not only is the environment there tough, but there are also frequent battles with the barbarian wolves.”
"And as the first city of the Barbarian Wolves, every time the Barbarian Wolves attack, they will attack first.”
"This time, I'm here to pick soldiers, but I'm not willing to use military orders to pressure my brothers. Those who are willing to follow me to North Wind City, step forward.”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Below, the thousand soldiers all stepped forward. No one retreated.
“…….”Li Xin paused and said," There is no need to be so anxious. You can consider it. I will give you the time for one incense stick to burn." I and my brothers will not look down on those who don't go.”
"Those who don't go within the time limit, withdraw from the army and wait on the left side. The timer starts now!"
Liu Hu took out an incense stick and lit it up before walking to the platform.
As time passed, the incense slowly burned out, but no one in the army below moved, including the two lieutenants who survived.
“……. Time's up!"
Seeing the choice of deployment, Li Xin was happy. He nodded and continued,"The second thing is that His Majesty has bestowed me with the title of a first-class viscount.”
"Three hundred personal guards."
"After that, I will make a selection.”
" Boom!" When the subordinates below heard this, they all became excited.
They respected Li Xin, the general who had saved their lives and made contributions. Naturally, many people were willing to follow him and become his personal guards.
"Alright, we're done here.”
"Here!"
Down below, the lieutenant and the hundred generals gave the order and led the troops back to their tents.
Li Xin also brought people and started to select soldiers from the various guards to fill in the gaps.
As Qi Lun had reminded them, the generals of the guards first greeted Li Xin with a smile and said all sorts of nice things. However, when they saw the soldiers that Li Xin had selected, their faces turned sour.
Li Xin didn't pick any generals above a hundred.
However, with the Eye of Loyalty, as long as the loyalty value exceeded 50 and the potential value was high enough, Li Xin would be able to choose them.
And many of these soldiers were at least low-level officers like gang leaders and station leaders.
Of course, most of them were still young ordinary soldiers who had yet to show any signs of success.
What made these Guard Generals 'expressions ugly was naturally because of the low-level officers that Li Xin had picked. As for the ordinary soldiers, they didn't care.
With the imperial edict there, even if these generals were unhappy, they wouldn't dare to stop him.
On the other hand, after Li Xin picked the soldiers, he also explained where they were going and told them that they could choose to go or not.
Compared to the Serenity Plains, the conditions in the North Wind City were much harsher and more dangerous. Naturally, some people chose to withdraw when they were sure that they could decide whether to go or not.
Li Xin didn't regret those who voluntarily withdrew.
What he needed was a courageous subordinate.
If they followed him, they wouldn't be able to get promoted and obtain rich spoils of war. But whether he died in battle or survived, he, Li Xin, would not let down his subordinates.
In three days, they had visited the East and West camps, as well as the Black Forest Guards stationed in Border Town.
10,000 soldiers and 300 personal guards had all been selected.
As for Liu Hu and the other ten, they also had military merits this time, and their military merits were quite large.
After asking them, Xiong Pi became the commandant and the seven of them became lieutenants. They were arranged by Li Xin to take control of the army.
After Luo Tong and Wang He were transferred over, they were also promoted to lieutenant positions due to their contributions.
In addition, the two lieutenants under him were promoted to commandants.
The rest of the soldiers were rewarded.
They would be mixed into the army and become low-level officers.
Yang Feng and Hua Ling led the remaining Ye Bushou from the third and second teams, as well as the elites that had been added in, to form an independent battalion.
However, this battalion didn't complain. There were only about 300 people.
The newly opened camp, the central tent, was surrounded by hundreds of armored soldiers.
Liu Hu and Liu Bao were the commanders and vice-commanders of the personal guards. They were both rank 6 lieutenants and were only in charge of the personal guards.
"Lord Jue, the lieutenant is waiting outside the tent!”
"Pass!"
"Here!" Liu Bao crossed his hands and left the tent.
After a while, Ling Fang walked in.
"Greetings, General!"
Below, Ling Fang saluted with his hands crossed, while Li Xin didn't say anything, but just watched.
For this former superior, who was now a subordinate, Li Xin left him the position of a lieutenant. However, he didn't dare to say that he was at ease when using it.
Following Li Xin's silence, Ling Fang slowly became uncomfortable, and sweat began to appear on his forehead.
After dozens of breaths, Li Xin opened his Eye of Truth and looked over. He saw that Ling Fang's loyalty value had just exceeded 60.
It was probably because he admired Li Xin's battle achievements.
Such a situation was very common in the Youzhou army.
Such loyalty could be used to execute military orders, but it couldn't be said to be loyal to Li Xin. If Shangguan ordered them to do so, they would definitely put Shangguan's military orders first.
Of course, under normal circumstances, they would still carry out Li Xin's military orders. However, with such loyalty points, it was still fine for ordinary soldiers, but for the 1st Battalion Lieutenant, it made Li Xin somewhat worried.
Finally, Li Xin opened his mouth,"General Lu transferred you into my army and said it was your idea?"”
"Yes, it is."
"Why?" Li Xin asked.
Ling Fang paused and continued,""I want to follow General and make contributions.”
"Haha." " Hehe." Li Xin sneered and said," North Wind City is at the forefront of the Northern Territory. It is full of danger. I can't put an unstable factor by my side."”
Following Li Xin's words, the tent's door was pulled open. Liu Hu and Liu Bao walked in with more than ten personal guards. Their hands were on the hilts of their swords as they looked at Ling Fang with killing intent.
As long as Li Xin gave the order, he would attack and kill him on the spot.
Seeing the bodyguard enter, Li Xin continued,"I'm not General Lu. As the young master of Marquis Seaside's estate, I've seen many such things.”
"Tell me, who are you?"
"General!" Ling Fang seemed to be a bit anxious, his eyes looking at Li Xin were filled with disbelief.
"Tell me, you can avoid death and also join my army to go to North Wind City. " Let's not talk about it…Lieutenant Ling Fang colluded with the Barbarian Wolves, betrayed the country, and plotted to assassinate the general. He was killed by my personal guards. What do you think of this reason?"
“…….”Looking at Li Xin, who was holding his saber, surrounded by his soldiers who were about to draw their sabers at any time, Fang Fang felt numb.
After a while, he bowed and said,""I am the commander, under the command of the Xiuyi Royal Guards North Town Fu Division.”
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