Chapter 140: Killing someone with a knife

"Forward? The rear of the palace? The left and right wings?"

Meng Yan exclaimed in surprise, as if he understood it, but after thinking about it carefully, he still didn't understand it very well. He asked again, "What does this mean by sir?"

Shi Miyuan smiled faintly and said, "General Meng Hu has repeatedly defeated the many with few and defeated the strong with weak. He has completely grown into a new generation of famous generals in the empire. Wouldn't such generals be wasted if they are not valued? The meaning of humble position is that General Meng Hu can lead the Western Legion as the forefront of the Western Expedition Army."

When Pu Sanzhi heard this, he said anxiously: "Brother Miyuan, I'm afraid this is not possible, right?"

Shi Miyuan asked calmly: "Brother San, why can't you do it?"

Park Sanzhi said urgently: "Most of the soldiers of the Western Legion are new recruits. Even those so-called veterans have been in the army for less than half a year. Is it a bit of a joke to let such an army serve as the front line? If something goes wrong with the vanguard army, it will seriously affect the aura of the Western Expedition Army."

"You can't say that."

Shi Miyuan retorted calmly, "It is true that the soldiers of the Western Legion are all new recruits, but most of them participated in the defense of Xiling. They have fought with the elite troops of the Mingyue Empire and won! This alone compares many so-called veterans."

Park Sanzhi said urgently: "But no matter what, they have never received formal military training..."

"Okay." Meng Yan suddenly waved his hand impatiently and ordered Pu Sanzhi to say, "Sir, you should go to the camp. The army is about to fight the west, so there is no mistake at this critical moment."

Pu Sanzhi's expression immediately became a little sad. He bowed to Meng Yan and took the order.

After Pu Sanzhi's footsteps were gone, Meng Yan asked Shi Miyuan anxiously and said, "Mr. Miyuan, tell me what you think!"

Shi Miyuan stroked the willow beard on his chin and smiled and said, "If Meng Hu is not dead, Miss Qinghan will never change his mind. Even if His Highness can get her, he will not get her heart. This Western Expedition will have many troubles. So whether it is for Miss Qinghan or to monopolize the command of the Western Expedition army, His Highness must get rid of Meng Hu."

Meng Yan called out, "Those who know me are sir!"

Meng Yuan’s heroic life said that he understood Meng Yan, but in fact he misreaded this son!

Meng Yuan knew how capable Meng Yan had, but Meng Yuan didn't know much about how ambitious and courage his son had. The main reason was that Meng Yan usually acted relatively low-key in the imperial capital and did not show his sharpness like Meng Xing and Meng Kong, so Meng Yuan's judgment was severely deviated.

Meng Yuan believed that with his own edict, Meng Yan would definitely act according to his plan.

But Meng Yuan was wrong. In the eyes of Meng Yan's son, Meng Yuan was already a useless man. Now the one who really decided to belong to the throne was Meng Ke, so Meng Yan didn't take Meng Yuan's edict seriously at all. Meng Yan did not intend to do what his father said in the edict. He must monopolize the command power of the Western Expedition Army. He must get the woman Zhao Qinghan, so Meng Hu must get it!

Shi Miyuan stepped forward and opened the curtain on the north wall, revealing the huge map below, and then pointed to the map and said, "Your Highness, please look at the map. There is a clear cloud barrier between the Guanghui Empire and the Mingyue Empire. Qingyun Mountain extends thousands of miles north and south, almost completely separating the two countries. Only two roads, Hexi Canyon and Tianlang Mountain Road, can be accessed..."

Meng Yan nodded impatiently and signaled Shi Miyuan to say the key points.

Shi Miyuan smiled bitterly and continued: "The army of the Western Expedition has a force of more than 500,000. It is obviously unrealistic to walk on the Tianlang Mountain Road, so he can only go to the Hexi Canyon. The important military city of Heyuan City, on the eastern front of Qingzhou, is just stuck at the western exit of the Hexi Canyon, so the Mingyue Empire will definitely set up heavy troops here!"

Meng Yan nodded impatiently again and couldn't help but say, "Sir, just tell me how to get rid of Meng Hu."

Shi Miyuan uttered a huff and said a little embarrassedly: "Meng Hu is now a well-known imperial hero. If you want to get rid of him, your highness must not do it yourself, so you must use the enemy's hand. Since the Mingyue Empire Army will defend Kawahara City to the death, why don't Your Highness let Meng Hu lead the Western Legion to attack Kawahara?"

Meng Yan frowned and said, "But sir, don't forget that the country bumpkin is now also the commander of the Western Expedition Army. If he and the old man from Chongshan are in trouble, Xiao Wang will have no choice but to do anything to him!"

Although Chongshan and Meng Hu were not the supreme commanders of the Western Expedition Army and had no decision-making power, they had the power to inspect. Once the two thought Meng Yan's decision was unreasonable, they had the power to stop it. Therefore, Meng Yan would have this concern. If Meng Hu and Chongshan oppose the Western Legion's front, this plan would not be implemented.

Shi Miyuan suddenly showed a smirk on his face and whispered: "If Your Highness directly ordered the transfer of the Western Legion as a striker, of course, it would be opposed by Meng Hu and Chongshan. But if this proposal was proposed by the people of the Western Legion themselves, it would be a different matter. After all, morale can only be boosted and not vented, hehehe."

"Wonderful!" Meng Yan quickly reacted and said, "It's so wonderful. I'll trouble you to do it in detail."

Shi Miyuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, your highness, you will arrange things well and will never leave any flaws."

"Okay!" Meng Yan said again, "If Meng Hu's Western Legion really becomes a vanguard army, he will definitely be hit by Mingyue's defenders when attacking Kawahara City. If he is defeated, it will seriously damage the morale of the Western Expedition Army. I can use this excuse to behead him."

Shi Miyuan continued: "Even if Meng Hu lucky enough to capture Kawahara City, the western legion should have been exhausted. Can a general who has lost his army still be a general? If Meng Hu loses his army, even if he is the third commander of the Western Expedition Army, it will be easy to deal with him."

"Hahaha." Meng Yan smiled at the sky three times, stroked Shi Miyuan's shoulders and said, "Sir, I am really worthy of being Xiao Wang's think tank."

Shi Miyuan smiled and said repeatedly that he didn't dare. However, when Meng Yan turned around, the smile on Shi Miyuan's face suddenly became a little gloomy, and an inexplicable cold light disappeared in his eyes.

It was light and it was the coldest time.

South of Xiling City, the Fifth Regiment of the Fourth Division of the Western Legion.

The leopard with a cold expression stood proudly like a tall lonely pine on the parade platform north of the school ground. Amid the chaotic footsteps, a group of leaders came to the parade platform with dozens of large baskets. The baskets were filled with steaming white-floured buns. Suddenly, a rapid and sharp whistle sounded from the silent village.

The whistle sounded, and the originally deadly military camp began to churn in an instant.

The situation was like a spoonful of water suddenly sprinkled into a boiling oil pan, or a weasel suddenly rushed into the chicken coop, and the entire military camp suddenly became boiling. In less than a moment, teams of neatly dressed new recruits rushed out of the barracks like wind and clouds, and then rushed to the university ground one after another.

The school ground, which was originally extremely empty, was suddenly filled with people. In less than a cup of tea, tens of thousands of white-floured steamed buns in large baskets were already snatched away by these new recruits. Then a whistle sounded from the school ground, like the sound of thousands of pigs eating together.

The more than 600 elite veterans survived the Tigers' corps have now been disbanded and added to the reorganized Western Legion. Most of the veterans have been promoted to squadron captains, squadron captains and even brigade captains. The best performers and leopards and Dunzi were directly promoted to gang captains!

At the Hexi Fortress, Meng Hu used the method used by him to train recruits, but has now been brought to various units of the Western Legion by veterans of the Tigers.

Seeing that the time was almost the same, the leopard nodded coldly to the horn hand behind him.

A row of ten horns immediately raised the horns in their hands. In an instant, the long and long horn sounds surged into the sky. The recruits who had just finished eating the white flour buns were still squeezing their lips on the ground one by one, then spread their legs and rushed to the center of the school ground to start line up!

In less than a cup of tea, five thousand new recruits had already formed.

The leopard on the parade nodded slightly. The intensive training for more than half a month is still very effective. Although the queue of these new recruits is not very neat, the speed of the queue is still satisfactory. At the Hexi Fortress, the general cared the most and seemed to be speed. Whether the queue is neat enough is not very important.

Taking a deep breath, the leopard stepped forward and stood at the forefront of the parade platform.

The eyes of more than 5,000 new recruits gathered on the leopard in a row. Most of these new recruits were mountaineers and hunters in Qingyun Mountain. Although they had never participated in the defense of Xiling and had never seen blood, the cruel natural environment in Qingyun Mountain still created their strong bodies and excellent archery skills.

The leopard raised his dantian with anger and suddenly started to scream: "Archer... Get ready!"

The new recruits who were originally lined up in dense formations immediately began to change the formation when they heard this. The main reason was that the distance between the front and back rows was doubled, but the soldiers in the same row were still close together. This was mainly to avoid hindering the shooting angle and vision of the archers behind them when pulling the bow.

"Put the bow and arrow..."

The leopard called out another long howl. The new recruits took off the infantry long bows that were slung on their bodies and raised them in front of them. Then they took out an arrow from the quiver and buckled them on the strings. Then they pulled the long bow with a diagonal point to the sky ahead.

With the leopard's "shooting arrows", more than 5,000 recruits archers let go at the same time. Amid the trembling buzzing sound of the bowstrings, more than 5,000 arrows suddenly flew into the air, intertwined into a dense rain of arrows, and then fell heavily on the wilderness.

"Hey...roar!"

"Hey...roar!"

"Hey...roar!"

While the leopard's bow and arrow wing was training, a neat and loud trumpet suddenly sounded in the wilderness ahead.
Chapter completed!