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If one were to ask which army was ranked first in terms of combat power, it would be difficult to say.

Red Camp looked down upon Border Army with his two legs. After all, fighting one on one could not win a war, and at a critical moment, he still required the appearance of these elites who knew how to lay down their battle formations and strategy. Moreover, Wulian Border Army looked down upon the group of young masters who only dared to wrap themselves in "tortoise shells" and Phoenix City Border Army who only dared to nest themselves within the Phoenix City Pass to guard the city walls. Phoenix City Border Army, on the other hand, felt that Fire Phoenix Army could only play the part of cool and play the part of playing the hero, while Wulian Border Army was no different from a wild beast when it came to fighting, they had no military discipline at all.

Therefore, if one really wanted to be the first in combat strength, it would be a very difficult task. However, if one were to ask which army had the lowest combat power, everyone would unhesitatingly point out that it was one of the "people's militia's three divisions."

The entire people's militia was known as the "Fire Phoenix Empire Regional Garrison", or simply as the "Local Army". Some people called it the "Garrison", but most people called it "people's militia" directly. people's militia were divided into three parts. One was the standing army, which was made up of two types of people. The first was the compulsory military service of the Empire. Those who had reached the age of eighteen to twenty-five without a rank, education, or title had to obediently come over to serve in the army.

The second type consisted of able-bodied men between twenty-five and thirty-five years of age. They worked as farmers, and during their leisure time, they would put on military uniforms for duty and training. While on duty, there was a daily allowance, and most people worked at the same job. Since he was paid, it was his duty to go to the battlefield. Thus, it was considered a semi-compulsory military service.

These two types of people formed part of the people's militia, and were also the main force of the people's militia. Generally speaking, people's militia referred to this group of people from people's militia.

The second division of people's militia, the preparatory army, was composed of a group of people who were sixteen to eighteen years old, and who were thirty-five to fifty years old, and did not have any military obligations. They were paid half a salary, and the corresponding work was much easier. They only needed to help out with their duties. If they were pulled into the battlefield during the war, they would have full control of the city's defenses and become the main force guarding the city.

The Empire stipulated that those who had reached the age of sixteen could take the national examination, and that those who had achieved results or achieved honorary titles could be exempted from military service. Thus, at sixteen years of age, many people's fates have been divided into watershed. After passing the national examination, one would be able to enter advanced schools such as Imperial Military Academy, Imperial Science and Technology, as well as other advanced institutions such as the Empire's Combined Humanities and become an official or scholar after graduation. If one was lucky, one would also be able to obtain one or two low-level titles. However, it was not easy to pass the Imperial examinations, one could not say that it was one-hundred. At the very most, it would be two, three, four, five years old, so most of the children still chose to enter the people's militia's second division to earn some money in advance to subsidize their families.

If people's militia One and people's militia Two could be considered to have some relationship, then the three people's militia s would become very interesting. The establishment of the people's militia three divisions only took about a hundred years, which was the shortest amount of time to be established. There were all sorts of 'heroic' people who had drunk too much wine or had run away to do military service, written on exams, or stole something from the side. In any case, as long as this person repeatedly had improper conduct that could not be punished by the laws of the Empire, the local officials would basically be thrown into the three parts of the people's militia, beautifully known as' strengthening and reeducation '.

What Huo Yanrann passed to Kong Sheng and the Xiu'er was precisely this kind of battalion Three Great Sects. Although it was called battalion, it was actually not as many as the Company Leader under Zhao Handong's command. It was actually more or less the same as the number of people in one battalion of Fire Phoenix Army. But compared to Fire Phoenix Army, the difference in quality was as different as the sky and the earth. Following this speed, by the time they reached the Phoenix City Pass, Zhao Handong would probably be able to pass his seventieth birthday.

Kong Sheng did not hurry them at the beginning and allowed them to walk freely for an entire day. On the morning of the second day, when the first light of day had just appeared, inhumane wailing sounds could be heard coming from inside the relay station. While Kong Sheng whipped the horse whip around, he recited the words "Imperial Military Discipline" loudly. He had been riding a horsewhip since he had entered the Imperial Military Academy at the age of sixteen. He was pretty good at playing with whips, and with a whip, he couldn't even stand the sight of a large mule or horse, much less a human.

Not long after, the people's militia were all rolling on the ground, clutching their thighs, wailing like ghosts and wolves. Some of them wanted to do something to Kong Sheng, but before they could even raise their fists, they were thrown to the ground by him with one hand. Then, Kong Sheng stood on top of the big sized man and shouted towards the rest of the people in the house, "I will go to the entrance of the inn and wait for you guys for an incense stick of time. Incidentally, you are currently being ordered by the Imperial Army Headquarter to go to the Fringe to reinforce us. If anyone dares to run out of this station, I will cut him down! If you don't believe me, you can give it a try! "

After saying that, Kong Sheng walked down from the burly man's body and walked out of the room without even looking back.

At most, it only took half an incense's time for three hundred slanted people's militia soldiers to stand in front of Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng did not care about their clothes, and casually nodded, allowing each of them to carry a 20 jin bag of rations. Just as he finished speaking, the group of thugs started to cry out, but before they could finish, Xiu'er, who had more than 100 kilograms of food on her shoulders, silently walked behind Kong Sheng. Kong Sheng disdainfully rolled his eyes at the group of people, spitted fiercely, and followed Xiu'er out of the relay station. When they were almost to the gate of the relay station, his voice suddenly came from afar: "According to the Imperial Military Discipline, during the war, if there's no reason to leave our officer's side, it's a place to talk about deserters, behead!"

In the following days, this group of soldiers who looked like they were having a headache became even more obedient than little sheep. Kong Sheng said that he was carrying fifteen kilograms, so no one dared to carry fourteen kilograms. Kong Sheng said that if one walked five kilometers, no one would dare to walk nine and a half kilometers. There was no other reason but that this man and woman were afraid of being bullied.

On the way, the bridge broke. Someone wanted to take the opportunity to laze around for a few days. The Xiu'er silently carried the two big trees over. Under the stares of the crowd, she used her bare hands to easily tear the two trees into four pieces, and then placed them on the river, nodding at Kong Sheng. "You can pass now."

A man who was said to have once been the head of a gang was over two hundred kilograms tall. He wanted to sneak attack Kong Sheng when she was asleep, but Xiu'er pinched his neck and threw him up a large tree that was more than thirty meters tall. The head robber didn't know how she managed to get up, but he suddenly felt as if she was hanging on a branch. The clothes on the back of his neck were hanging on a branch that was as thick as her arm. When he cried and begged for mercy, Xiu'er immediately broke the trunk of the tree with her foot. After the big tree fell, Xiu'er slowly walked in front of the head rogue and asked softly, "Are you obedient now?"

The head thug nodded, "Be good."

"Still making trouble?"

"It's over." The head of the hooligan shake his head like a rattle

"Scream."

The leader obediently raised both of his hands to his chest and shouted, "Woof!"

The Xiu'er nodded her head in satisfaction, then smiled at Kong Sheng: "Lord Kong, continue."

From this incident onwards, no one in the team dared to cause trouble or complain anymore. Lord Kong said that they would sleep on a field today. Even if this field was an inn, no one would dare to take a peek at it. However, what they were most afraid of was still that harmless looking little girl who obediently and coyly smiled. She had already reached the point where she could acknowledge others as her godmother, but she was afraid that they would despise her for lowering their seniority.

These people were either stupid, confused, unreasonable, or evil, but they weren't stupid. Master Yu, this Lord Kong had orders, and it was wartime, to send a letter asking for a deserter's head, that was as simple as playing. In private, a one on one fight was not enough to beat Kong Sheng, and what he asked for was actually a one-day march, which was only twice as fast as normal. It would not be able to meet the standard of an emergency march at all, and could still be carried on with gritted teeth. Were they really going to shamelessly gang up on him? That little girl stood up, she could beat them all with one hand!

Therefore, he had to admit it when he said it. If they were strong, if they were powerful, but if they were strong, then they had to submit and submit.

Actually, this group of people did not know that Kong Sheng's heart was already on fire. If not for Lady Xiu’er showing his skills, he would have pulled out his blade and killed people to establish his dominance. Speaking from this point of view, the Xiu'er had actually saved this group of ruffians and ruffians. And the fire spark in Kong Sheng's heart was the daily Phoenix City Pass War Report.

According to the rules of war, as long as they were not heavily stationed, Phoenix City Pass would report the battle to the imperial capital every day. They naturally didn't need the Phoenix City Pass to do this. They only needed to deliver the report of the battle to the Pang Lai County station, and the station would naturally arrange for people to deliver the report according to the level of the battle report.

As a precaution, in addition to the classified information that was specifically indicated, there would be a scribe at each relay station who would copy out two separate copies of the war reports. One copy would be kept for the passing army to look up, while the other copy and the original copy would be separately sent to the two couriers to be sent to the imperial capital through two separate routes. Although doing this was slightly cumbersome, the Empire was still afraid of the spy from back then. If any of the lords had the brains to turn this lone copy of the war report into pieces of paper, it would be very lively.

And now, Kong Sheng had received benefits from this system, the copy that the scribes had copied down for a backup copy had become his source of information for this period of time. Every time he arrived at a relay station, he would expose his Token for Transfer of Troops and request to look up the communication battle report for the past three days. Kong Sheng found a very strange piece of news: The Moqiu State soldiers were different this time.

Among them, there were some things that could possibly cause a panic and would not be said out loud. They were all expressed in secret terms or on behalf of the person, and only said out loud in secret information that was specially sent by someone. Kong Sheng couldn't get the top secret military information, but he had read about tiger soldiers, leopard soldiers, bear soldiers, mutant soldiers and other things that could not be seen in the past. Military intelligence writing didn't require any grammar, but one requirement was that it had to be accurate. Even if he was hinting at some top secret event, there was still a special code word for it. There definitely wouldn't be such a metaphorical method of writing. In other words, since it said tiger and leopard soldiers, then these two must have appeared. But what did these two military units mean?

When people were in a hurry, they knew something was wrong, but they didn't know what it was. The more they didn't know, the more anxious they became.

Kong Sheng was in such a state, he could not sleep after eating for the past few days, and every day he would stare with bloodshot eyes at everyone as he hastened their journey. It was just that, as a professional soldier, he was the last bit of rationality, so he really did not have these ruffians running away.

Twenty days. The people from the battalion had walked on the road for twenty whole days, and they had finally arrived at Pang Lai County. Everything that was happening before Kong Sheng's eyes caused him to be a little shocked. The residents of the County City had almost all left. With the County City as the center, there were four huge dragons made up of servants and supplies.

The citizens of the county formed the first huge dragon with their families. They left their homes, which had been living for decades, with faces full of grief and grief. Then, teams of reinforcements from the various provinces formed the second dragon, turning this small county into a huge military camp and warehouse. The third and fourth dragon were next to each other. They were connected to Pang Lai County on one side and led to Phoenix City Pass on the other. One squad carried the wounded soldiers and corpses down from Phoenix City Pass while the other team watched the wounded soldiers and reinforcements walking towards Phoenix City Pass with miserable expressions on their faces.

Kong Sheng had stayed in the Phoenix City Pass for a few years, so even he had not seen such a situation while pressing his limits. Taking a deep breath, he signaled his subordinate people's militia to not enter the Pang Lai County, and went straight to Phoenix City Pass after circling around the county town. No one cared about the troops in this direction. All they had to say was that they were going to throw their lives away. No one tried to dissuade them from rushing to their deaths.

As he walked towards the Phoenix City Pass, he was shocked by what he saw along the way. The wounded soldier that was carried down had either lost his leg or his arm, and had completely lost all combat strength. Kong Sheng had once observed a break, and there were roughly two types. One type of broken bone had a smooth surface, while the other type had extremely rough cuts, some of the bones were sharp, as though they were being broken alive. However, regardless of which situation it was, it required an extremely great amount of strength to be able to do so.

The mental states of these wounded soldiers were also very unstable. The doctors could only keep giving them the Soul-Calming Elixir, so that they could fall into a deep sleep. When the effects of the medicine passed, they would start shouting as soon as they woke up, as if they were in a nightmare. It would take at least three to five people to barely hold him down. Only after that would the doctor come over and forcefully drink a bowl of Soul-Calming Elixir. Only then would he be able to calm down for the time being.

The more Kong Sheng saw, the more shocked he was, and his footsteps became faster and faster. Unknowingly, he had flung all of his people's militia behind him, and the flame in his heart grew stronger and stronger, to the point where it almost engulfed his entire person. It burned him until he had lost all reason, and lost all patience.

At that moment, a cold chill came from his palm, piercing through his anxiety and awakening his rationality. Kong Sheng was shocked, he stopped and looked back, only to see Xiu'er holding his hand. The girl didn't say anything. She just slightly pressed her palm to stop him from walking away. At the same time, she tilted her head slightly to the side so that he could look back.

Kong Sheng followed her line of sight and saw that he had thrown down all of his battalion s by several tens of meters. The people's militia s looked at the injured soldiers beside them and revealed various expressions of fear and helplessness. Cold sweat immediately flowed down Kong Sheng's back. The leader was in a great mess, the soldiers under him would be in an even greater mess, and might even cause an explosion, this was a taboo for the army!

Kong Sheng squeezed back with a little bit of force to express his thanks, then walked back to the group and greeted everyone. The people's militia s that set off once again became a little less flustered, and a little more calm. Kong Sheng did his best to suppress the anxiety in his heart, and deliberately talked loudly about how he had withstood the Moqiu Army when they were in the middle of battle. The ruffians believed their boss, and seeing Kong Sheng's might and bravery, they naturally became more confident, and more or less recovered their morale.

However, the emotions that Kong Sheng tried his best to suppress still exploded after entering his Phoenix City Pass. The scene in front of him caused him to cry out in alarm. Just what had happened here? This was no longer the Phoenix City Pass that he left a few months ago, but more like an Asura Hell!