Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

Ba Xin said to the eunuch in front of the emperor:

"Pass on my order and have the Ministry of War go to Beishang Yancheng to manufacture 300,000 sets of composite military crossbows."

"As long as our Beishang Kingdom has a powerful composite military crossbow, destroying the Dafeng Kingdom will be as easy as taking candy from a sack."

The eunuch who served Baxin responded respectfully:

"Your Majesty! I will pass on the order right away!"

The Northern Shang Kingdom began to manufacture composite military crossbows.

Hongxuan came to Beijing City from the Zhenbei Palace in the heart of Beiyan with his personal guards, traveling day and night.

In the military camp of Beijing City, Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen learned that King Zhenbei had arrived.

Hurry out of the military camp.

After seeing King Zhenbei, the two of them knelt on the ground.

Yu Deshen said with excitement and indignation:

"Your Majesty! Fan Jingtao's poor command cost the lives of 90,000 soldiers of the First Command. If I had not disobeyed his orders, the Fourth Army would have been completely annihilated."

"I think Fan Jingtao should be punished by military law."

Deng Yongmen also said:

"Your Majesty! Fan Jingtao's crime should be punished by beheading! If he hadn't given orders recklessly, how could he have ended up in such a situation?"

Fan Jingtao was speechless, he knew he was indeed guilty of his mistake in command.

The soldiers of the First, Second and Third Armies were buried on the battlefield of Wupengli

After listening to Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen's conversation, Fan Jingtao knelt on the ground:

"Your Majesty! I am guilty of a thousand crimes and I am willing to accept the punishment. I should not live in this world anymore."

He didn't want to make excuses for having made such a big mistake in command.

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan looked at Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen who were complaining to him and snorted coldly:

"Humph! Call all the brigade commanders and battalion commanders of your Fourth Army to the military tent for a meeting."

"If anyone dares not to come, he will be killed!"

Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen suddenly felt a chill down their spines. King Zhenbei did not hold Fan Jingtao accountable, but asked them to gather the brigade commanders and battalion commanders of the Fourth Army.

A little less than half an hour later.

All the brigade commanders and battalion commanders of the Fourth Army were gathered in the military account.

Zhenbei King Hongxuan sat in the main seat and looked at these commanders, his eyes falling on the commander and deputy commander of the Fourth Army.

"This king asks you two, Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen!"

"Are you two afraid of death on the battlefield?"

Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen said without hesitation:

"I am not afraid of death on the battlefield!"

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan looked at the brigade commanders and battalion commanders and said:

"Are the brigade commanders and battalion commanders of your Fourth Army afraid of death on the battlefield?"

All I heard were these commanders saying:

"I am not afraid of death!"

Hong Xuan said to Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen:

"Humph! Very good! You two are not afraid of death!"

"Now, I will kill both of you, Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen. What do you have to say?"

After Zhenbei King Hongxuan said this, Deng Yongmen and Yu Deshen both knelt on the ground.

"Zhen! Although I am not afraid of death, I want to know why the King of Zhenbei wants to kill both of us."

"Okay! I will let you two die knowingly!" Zhenbei King Hongxuan said coldly.

"Before I left, I handed over the highest military power to the commander-in-chief of the First Command, Fan Jingtao. Commander-in-chief Fan Jingtao has the highest level of military power in the First Command."

"As the commander-in-chief, he issued an order, and you, the army commanders, must execute it without hesitation."

"In the army I lead, it is the duty of the soldiers to obey orders! Even if the order is wrong, you subordinates must execute it without hesitation!"

After Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan said this.

Army commander Yu Deshen and deputy army commander Deng Yongmen felt as if their brains were struck by thunder.

"It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders!"

"Even if the order given by the superior is wrong, it must be carried out unconditionally!"

Deng Yongmen raised his head and looked at Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan and said:

"King of Zhenbei! The order is wrong, why do you have to carry it out unconditionally? Isn't this sending your soldiers to die?"

"If that's the case, then all the soldiers of my Fourth Army will be wiped out!"

Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen never expected that King Zhenbei came to Beijing City. Not only did he not praise them for being able to save the Fourth Army, but he held them accountable.

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan said something that shocked all the commanders in the military tent:

"What I want are soldiers who obey orders! If the First Commander Fan Jingtao tells you to advance, you must advance. If he tells you to retreat, you can retreat!"

"The army is made of iron! Military orders are as strong as mountains! Yu Deshen, Deng Yongmen, you two, as the commander and deputy commander of the Fourth Army, took the lead in disobeying military orders, causing Commander-in-Chief Fan Jingtao to lose all prestige, and causing me to lose all prestige."

The army led by Zhenbei King Hongxuan must not disobey orders even if the orders issued by the commander are wrong.

The battlefield is a place of life and death.

The supreme commander gave an order, but his subordinates dared to disobey it. This was the biggest taboo for the army.

If not handled properly, the entire military system will collapse.

"Yu Deshen, Deng Yongmen, you two disobeyed the military orders of Commander-in-Chief Fan Jingtao. I will now remove your positions as army commander and deputy army commander, and demote you two to brigade commanders!"

Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen both looked extremely ugly, but they did not dare to disobey the military order of Zhenbei King Hongxuan.

King Hongxuan of Zhenbei is not Fan Jingtao. King Hongxuan of Zhenbei is a decisive and ruthless person. If they dare to disobey military orders again, the two will be beheaded.

The King of Zhenbei, Hongxuan, did not kill the two of them because they had indeed saved the strength of the Fourth Army.

But we must never let them be army commanders again.

"The general will obey the order!"

"Peng Guofu, You Jinliang, from today on, the two of you will be the commander and deputy commander of the Fourth Army."

Peng Guofu and You Jinliang knelt on one knee and responded respectfully:

"The general will obey the order!"

King Zhenbei said

"Peng Guofu, You Jinliang, if anyone in the Fourth Army dares to disobey your orders, they will be punished by military law!"

The two responded respectfully:

"I will obey the orders of this king!"

"Except for Commander-in-Chief Fan Jingtao, the commander and deputy commander of the Fourth Army, Peng Guofu, and You Jinliang, all others left the tent and returned to the soldiers."

All the commanders in the military tent responded respectfully:

"Follow the order!"

Yu Deshen and Deng Yongmen also left the military tent, leaving only Fan Jingtao, Peng Guofu and You Jinliang in the tent.

There was also Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan, who was sitting in the high seat. He looked at Peng Guofu and You Jinliang and said:

"Peng Guofu, has the Northern Shang cavalry ever attacked the Northern Border City?"

Peng Guofu responded respectfully:

"Reporting to King Zhenbei, the cavalry of Beishang Kingdom did not attack Beijing City. They did not even send troops here."

Hongxuan narrowed his eyes slightly, then nodded:

"It seems that there are still tens of thousands of group army soldiers in Baidi City."

"The Beishang Imperial Master Yun Yi has surrounded Baidi City with a large number of troops, waiting for me to take the bait."

Hongxuan touched his chin.

"How can I rescue the tens of thousands of soldiers of my army?"

Fan Jingtao said while carrying Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan on his back:

"The Beishang Kingdom of Zhenbei King has 300,000 cavalrymen, and they have obtained more than 30,000 composite military crossbows on the battlefield."

"With the combination of composite crossbows, cavalry and chariot shields, the infantry of Dafeng is definitely no match for the cavalry of Beishang."

Under such circumstances, it was impossible to rescue the Dafeng soldiers trapped in Baidi City.

Yun Yi was eager for King Hongxuan of Zhenbei to send troops to rescue the soldiers in Baidi City.

Hongxuan touched his chin and said:

"Then I will take a gamble with Yun Yi!"

"Qilin Guards! Take out the paper, ink, brush and inkstone. I want to write a letter to Yun Yi, the military advisor of the Northern Shang Kingdom."