"So, little devils." The veteran narrowed his eyes and looked at the young soldiers: "Do you know what to do?"

While speaking, a cold wind blew across the field.

The centurion was still riding his tall dragon lizard, watching all this silently. The adult soldiers followed behind without saying a word, looking at this side without looking at it.

Kaiyin: "..."

He suddenly shuddered and immediately reacted: "Yes, sir! We will definitely capture the village occupied by the leader!"

"No, little kid, you're very sensible." The veteran looked at Kaiyin with satisfaction, as if he was appreciating his cleverness.

So the chief, who usually doesn't want to look at the young soldier, showed a affectionate smile to Kaiyin for the first time: "I will follow the centurion honestly, and you will naturally benefit you from it."

"If you perform well, you don't have to wait until you become an adult. It's not impossible to get you into a legion in advance."

"This..." The teenagers widened their eyes eagerly.

Becoming a formal legion is the dream of every scout.

Although this dream is not difficult to realize in theory. In theory, as long as they can live to adulthood at the age of 16, they can become formal corps soldiers with salary, allowances, pensions and eligible to participate in the spoils.

But in fact... Living to the age of 16 is a huge threshold for eliminating 90% of young soldiers.

"Sir, we will definitely not disappoint the centurion!" The young soldiers' eyes were burning with flames of fanaticism and excitement.

Only Kaiyin is still awake.

If he had met the leader, he might have been encouraged by such a blank check. He would have thought that as long as he gritted his teeth and could make a name for himself in the army, he would have become a hero of Noxus.

Become a military officer.

But now, he has become immune to this big cake drawn out of thin air.

So, while following everyone to show their loyalty to the veterans, Kaiyin looked at all this silently in a heavy mood.

It was not until the veteran gave everyone a detailed instructions on the village slaughtering task that he finally couldn't help but ask the veteran tentatively: "Sir, I want to ask some questions."

"Hmm?" The veteran glanced at him immediately.

Noting that it was the first Kaiyin who actively stood up to show his loyalty, his face slightly calmed down: "You said."

"I..." Kaiyin swallowed: "I heard that many squads have recently encountered guerrillas of the leader in the countryside. Are these 'leaders of the leader's guerrillas' also..."

They are all villagers who have been innocently charged with military merits?!

Kaiyin had never cared about the life and death of these strangers before. But now, he instinctively wanted to understand.

"Well...he." The veteran smiled meaningfully: "Little kid, what do you think?"

Killing Liang and Mao Gong were originally the traditional art of the old army. In this case, in the Noxus Empire, there was no problem with whether there was or not from the beginning, but only the problem of more or less.

When the national strength is booming and the military discipline is strict, this situation is less common.

This situation is often the case when the country is in decline and the army is corrupt and degenerate.

In recent years, Noxus' national conditions have obviously been closer to the latter.

Of course, there are also supervisors in the army who are specifically responsible for identifying the so-called "fight results" reported by grassroots officers. If they are fighting in other places, supervisors basically have ways to distinguish the moisture in these battle reports.

For example:

Demacia takes the elite route, and all the soldiers are wearing armor. If you say you have won 100 heads, you have to hand over a hundred sets of Debang's standard armor with the head.

The indigenous warriors of Shurima and the barbarian soldiers of Freljod were all sharpened from harsh environments like the desert ice field, with big bra and round waist.

If you want to use the corpses of civilians who don’t have a few muscles on your body, the inspector will be very polite to send you to the slave army for a lifetime tour.

However, these moves will not work well when it comes to Ionia.

Ionia has no regular army at all, and the civilian resistance forces cannot be separated from the civilians in terms of equipment to physical characteristics.

Not to mention Riven and other leaders.

The tens of thousands of people they rescued from Yipu River Port half a month ago are now the main force of the Ionian leader, which is originally a civilian.

So, the top ordered all his strength to search for the leader—

The grassroots soldiers rushed into the village like hungry wolves, and became angry with the "leader guerrillas".

There have been no big battles in the past half month, countless small battles, and countless achievements have been made.

Suddenly, the entire Yipu River Basin seemed to have become the base camp of the leader.

"So you don't have to worry at all." The veteran smiled playfully: "After all, it's not just our team that did this."

"I can't say anything about the specifics. I can only tell you that the book "Gana Thought" has been sold out in the military camp recently."

Kaiyin: "..."

His fists became tighter and tighter, but his palms were colder.

He didn't dare to think deeply, and asked again: "But, sir... why did I hear that there have been many casualties and even a lot of materials in the battle group due to the leader guerrillas.

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If those leaders were just civilians, how could there be such a huge casualties in their battle group?

"Salary? Bah!" The veteran sneered and spat: "I see, that's all the news that General Lai Ste!"

"Those senior officers who are acquainted with dogs earn much more money than us! I have to work hard to go out and behead them. They can make a fortune by sitting in the tent to modify a few books."

"So of course they hope we have 'injuries'. There are no casualties, and they can also record a large amount of casualties in the account."

"What, what?" Kaiyin looked confused. After all, he had little knowledge.

At this time, the veteran explained: "Idiot, think about it, if you were General Lai Ste."

"The commander-in-chief allocates you a military expenditure of 30,000 people in a battle group, but you actually only recruit 20,000 soldiers in your battle group. Is the 10,000 military pay saved to your own pocket?

"

"This..." Kaiyin couldn't believe it: "Sir, you, you mean..."

General Lester is taking a vacant salary?!

How is this possible ?!

Kaiyin's position in the army was too low. Even after experiencing the self-awakening these days, his understanding of the imperial army was still very limited.

In his opinion, and in the eyes of most people in Runeland, Noxus is like an efficient killing machine.

People would curse it for its cruelty, but no one would believe that this horrible machine had rotted and rusted from the inside.

But this is the fact.

"How is it impossible?" The veteran snorted disdainfully: "General Laest is also a big-headed soldier like us. If he doesn't make money like this, where can his family get so much money?"

The Noxus battle group can basically be divided into two types.

One is an independent group that was transformed from various small countries, city-states, and tribes that were annexed and recruited in the past, and still has a considerable scale of autonomous territory and has extremely high autonomy in personnel, finance, etc.

This kind of war group is actually an independent warlord. If you get a job empty, you will only be able to eat it.

Their battle group leaders were also all vassal aristocrats, so there was no need to make money in this way.

But General Lester is different.

He is a new generation of generals from grassroots backgrounds. The battle groups under his jurisdiction were formed by the Central Empire and were not independent battle groups. The personnel appointments and financial lifelines of the battle groups were also firmly grasped in the hands of the imperial senior leaders of the Immortal Fortress.

When Svein was in power, a newcomer like him could still follow the fair and selfless teacher Svein to be promoted and made a fortune with his military merits.

But in recent years, Svein has been repeatedly suppressed in the empire, and last year he was stabbed to become a commoner by a 14-year-old girl.

The new generation of generals who unfortunately followed the wrong person and stood in the wrong team naturally suffered from targeting the empire with Svein's loss of power.

If it weren't for Laister's timely stuffing enough money and showing enough loyalty to the old nobles of the Immortal Fortress, then he would probably not be able to keep his position as the leader of this battle group now.

After some operation, he barely stabilized his career.

But the problem is...

Where should this money come from?

For a newcomer like Laister who has no family background, he will definitely not be able to get this huge sum of money by relying on military merits alone.

There was nothing he could do. He could only eat empty salary and drink soldiers' blood.

So in the past two years, the Noxus army, which had already been in decline, quickly corroded at an astonishing speed that made Svein's hypertension attack occur after seeing it.

This grassroots veteran who could only see in front of Kaiyin, of course, could not see the conflicts between these high-level officials of the empire.

But what he knew was: "General Lester not only paid empty salary, but also smuggled military supplies."

"So our group is so 'injury' every time we fight - think about it, every time we fight, we report more casualties and some material loss, can we settle the account?"

The "air soldiers" and "air supplies" in the account become real "real people and real things" as soon as they are consumed in war.

Not only can the accounts be settled, but you can also receive an additional pension for the "dead people" from the top.

"Look, the officers are no different from us." The veteran laughed and said, "We use the heads of the Ionians to count, and they use our heads to make money, and they use our heads to make money, and it is the same."

"This..." Kaiyin was shocked.

It turns out that there are so many ways to fight a war, and you can still make a fortune.

Unconsciously, he held the "Brief Description of Gana's Thoughts" in his hand tightly.

Levi said in the book that Noxus was about to explode, and Kaiyin refused to believe it. He really couldn't imagine that such a powerful giant would fall down.

But now, he only had one thought in his mind:
Chapter completed!