My vicious dog, my horse, I can do whatever I want with it

Zong Yanli sat down in the main seat, and was somewhat amazed when he looked at the two people kneeling below. The flower pistil could be described as a beauty, but this Lianying was truly extremely beautiful.

Even as a woman, she couldn't help but admire that Huang Yimin had good taste.

"General, their parents were imprisoned and tortured to death by Huang Yimin." Bai Xiuyun whispered beside Zong Yanli. If Lianying had not known that her parents had been killed, she would not have been so cruel as to help the enemy attack the city.

"No women are allowed in the army." Zong Yanli was silent for a long time before saying, "This general can give you some money, and you can make a living on your own."

“General…” Lianying shuddered, her eyes instantly filled with tears. Seeing the beauty weeping made people feel unbearable, and her tone was even more charming: “I know I am lowly, but God has given me this appearance, and I have no power or influence.”

"If the general kicks me out of my room this time, I will be bullied and taken over in less than two days."

"General, I don't want to live such a hard life anymore."

"Please have mercy on me, General. I just want to live in peace."

These words came from the bottom of her heart, and she had no other choice.

You can only rely on the strong.

A beauty like her, who is born beautiful and delicate, has no way to support herself in this chaotic world.

Zong Yanli was silent for a long time, and he couldn't make up his mind for a moment. Lianying bravely knelt down and moved closer to Zong Yanli. She looked up at Zong Yanli with a completely humble attitude and said, "General, please have mercy on me. You saved my life."

"I am willing to stay by your side and serve you like a slave."

"..."

Zong Yanli remained unmoved. His dark eyes showed no emotion at all, and the black mask on his face made people feel timid.

Lianying's heart was beating like a drum. She knew that she had acted recklessly, but how could she survive if she didn't fight for herself at all?

She had seen with her own eyes this general in heavy armor killing enemies ferociously on the city wall. His fearless posture standing in front of thousands of troops was fascinating. She also saw with her own eyes the proud look on Zong Yanli's face when he swung his sword and cut down the Nankang army flag.

Lianying bit her lip lightly and looked at Zong Yanli with tears in her eyes. She seemed to know very clearly that as long as she could stay by Zong Yanli's side, she would be able to get his protection and would never have to be humiliated again.

If I could serve by the side of such a general...

"I can't keep you here." Zong Yanli's eyes were cold. He stood up and said coldly, "If you just want to survive, you can destroy this face yourself."

Lianying's body suddenly stiffened, and her little face turned pale in an instant.

Bai Xiujun beside him couldn't bear to watch it anymore. His own general was so cold-hearted that he was indifferent to the pleas of such a beauty!

Zong Yanli said with a sidelong glance: "I will keep you two in the detention room for now. If you move without permission, I will kill you without mercy."

"Think carefully about whether to stay or leave. If you can't make up your mind, wait for our commander-in-chief to arrive and we will make the decision." Zong Yanli said this and turned away.

"General, I see these two beauties are stunningly beautiful. Don't you want to take them into your room?" After coming out of the main tent, Bai Xiuyun couldn't help but ask.

"Beauty can easily confuse the hearts of soldiers. How dare we think about those things when we are facing a powerful enemy?" Zong Yanli said calmly. He glanced at Bai Xiuyun and said, "The country is not settled, the war is not over, and you are thinking about these things?"

"No!" Bai Xiujun quickly denied: "I dare not!"

Zong Yanli was too lazy to care about him, so he waved his hand and said, "Go check on Wen Nian."

Under Peng Deqing's command, no soldiers committed rape or looting. The people in the city did not dare to go out and hid in their homes. They were currently rebuilding the city gates, counting the dead and wounded, and collecting the bodies. This was no easy task. The blood on the city walls had been washed again and again, but it was impossible to wash it clean.

There were too many bodies to bury, so in the end they were just burned.

Only the bodies of our soldiers can be buried under a monument.

Wen Nian's injuries were serious, and now there was obviously not much time left for them to recover.

After Dongning City was captured, Zong Yanhongjing immediately gave an order, ordering the two of them to attack the pass guarded by Ma Hongwei from Dongning City.

Zong Yanli set out on the march again, while Wen Nian and a group of wounded soldiers stayed in Dongning City.

In the camp where Ma Hongwei was, the patrol soldiers were changing shifts as usual. He stood on the observation platform with a halberd in his hand and suddenly saw a spark in the forest. He blinked but didn't see it and thought he was seeing things.

This is the rear camp. There are mountain roads ahead. How could there be fire?

As soon as this thought came to mind, I saw clusters of fire appearing in the forest like a starry sky.

A rocket carrying the cold winter wind suddenly shot into the rear camp.

"Enemy attack--!" The rain of arrows seemed like scattered stars in the night sky, falling densely and all falling into the camp.

"General, this is bad! The rear camp was attacked! The enemy is coming in!" Ma Hongwei, who was sitting in the tent, almost jumped up when he heard this: "What did you say!? The rear camp!?"

Ma Hongwei was a little puzzled and said: "The rear camp is in the direction of Dongning City. How could the enemy attack the camp?"

Ma Hongwei was in a panic. He put on his armor and walked out of the camp with his sword in hand. He saw that the rear camp was already ablaze. Seeing that the enemy troops attacking the camp were approaching him at an extremely fast speed, he knew that these were definitely not troops that could bypass the enemy.

But it came completely from Dongning City!

So to say……

Dongning City was broken!

Ma Hongwei felt his hands and feet cold all of a sudden. He wiped his face fiercely and gritted his teeth and said, "Follow me to meet the enemy!"

Nankang and Wu State were at war in Shouxi County, and even most of the garrison troops on his side had been transferred away. Now there were only more than a thousand soldiers left. How could they withstand such an attack?

"Kill!" As the general of the defending army, he could not retreat, and there was no way to retreat!

"General! General! We can't hold on anymore!" Seeing the defenders around him being defeated one after another and completely unable to stop the enemy's offensive, Ma Hongwei's face was full of unwillingness. He turned his head and saw Zong Yanli walking out of the fire. He was wearing black military armor, holding a long sword in his hand and stepping over the corpses blocking his way.

Ma Hongwei recognized the black long sword at a glance. He felt the blood in his body freeze instantly. He stared at Zong Yanli with heavy breathing: "Is it you?"

Zong Yanli shook off the blood stains on his long sword and said in a relaxed tone: "It's me."

Ma Hongwei's eyes turned red and he shouted angrily: "Good! Good! You killed three of my generals in a row and now you are attacking our camp!"

"Zong Yanli!" Ma Hongwei called Zong Yanli's name almost gritting his teeth, holding a long sword and slashing at Zong Yanli angrily.

"I've said before, I'm here to take your head." Zong Yanli blocked with his sword, raised his foot and kicked Ma Hongwei in the stomach, then swung his sword sideways without any unnecessary movements, and cut off his head with a single clean move!

At this moment, Zong Yanli felt as if his past life and present life overlapped.

Zong Yanli lowered his eyes and looked at Ma Hongwei's head rolling beside him. The thousands of thoughts in his mind turned into a sigh. Looking back, he saw the soldiers fighting bravely in the firelight. Zong Yanli clenched his long sword, bent down, and lifted up Ma Hongwei's head and said loudly: "The defending general is dead! Those who surrender will not be killed--!"

Zong Yanli stood in the firelight, holding the enemy general's head high. His black armor was stained with blood, and his ferocious mask seemed to be stained with a bit of murderous aura under the illumination of the fire.

The Nankang defenders stood still with dull eyes, as if they knew the game was over, and they were either unwilling or desperate, or they just accepted their fate and dropped their swords.

When the soldiers defending Yongmen Pass received the news and came out of the pass, it was already bright. The soldiers who had been marching all night finally had a chance to rest. They simply tidied up the camp and fell asleep on the spot.

Zong Yanli found a tent next to the main camp and took off his heavy helmet, unloaded his long sword and put it aside. When Bai Xiuyun entered with a basin of water, he saw Zong Yanli's face and was stunned for a moment.

"General, the water is here." Bai Xiujun hadn't seen Zong Yanli take off his armor for a long time. He almost forgot that Zong Yanli looked so delicate, which was really inconsistent with his ferocious appearance when he was killing people outside!

"Why are you the one bringing the water?" Zong Yanli glanced at Bai Xiuyun and exhaled a breath of white air. It was not warm at all in the tent.

Bai Xiuyun couldn't help but laugh and said, "The general has a fierce reputation. How could ordinary soldiers dare to approach him easily? I have nothing else to do, so I brought you some hot water!"

Zong Yanli was silent for a moment. How come she didn’t know what a bad reputation she had?

Since Wen Nian was not here this time, Bai Xiuyun was actually happy to serve. He looked at Zong Yanli's arm and said, "General, do you want someone to take care of the wound on your arm?"

Zong Yanli shook her head and dipped her scarred hands into hot water. Her face was indeed soft and pretty, but as long as you looked at her hands, you could tell that such a pair of rough hands full of frostbite and cracks could not be a woman's hands.

Zong Yanli let out a long sigh, his brows slightly relaxed, and he wrung out the handkerchief to wipe his face and neck.

"I'll take a rest for a while. If General Peng sends any orders, come and call me." Zong Yanli put down his handkerchief, without any intention of undressing, and instructed Bai Xiuyun.

"Yes." Bai Xiuyun stepped forward to carry the basin and responded respectfully.

When he opened the tent and walked out, Bai Xiuyun couldn't help but look back at Zong Yanli, who was wearing heavy military armor and sitting against the bedpost to rest. His admiration and respect for him increased even more. Not taking off the military armor in front of the battle, this is what a qualified general should do.

It was already afternoon when Zong Yanli woke up from her sleep. When she put on her helmet and visor again and walked out, she saw Bai Xiuyun guarding outside her camp.

Zong Yanli paused, looked at his tired face and said with a warm heart: "Go down and have a rest."

"General." Bai Xiujun quickly woke up and said, "Just now General Peng sent someone to say that the general was resting, so General Peng did not let his subordinates wake the general up, and asked the general to go to the main camp to discuss matters after waking up."

"Got it." Zong Yanli nodded and waved his hand for Bai Xiuyun to go down and rest.

Bai Xiuyun then bowed and left, going to sleep and rest.

In the main camp, Peng Deqing was holding dry food in one hand and a map in the other, chewing on the dry food while looking at the map. When he saw Zong Yanli coming, he immediately waved and said, "You've come at the right time. The war in Shouxi County is intense, and our army doesn't have much time to rest."

"Tomorrow we will gather our troops and return to support Shouxi County. We will go around to the rear of the Nankang and Jin armies and encircle our main forces. This battle is crucial."

"This general has decided to take this route. Do you think it is feasible?" Peng Deqing put down the map and pointed to a location on the map.

"This route is relatively suitable for a quick march, so it's feasible." Zong Yanli took a quick look and nodded in response: "General Peng, what arrangements do you have for us, the Ghost Camp soldiers?"

"Yes." Peng Deqing looked at Zong Yanli and said with a smile, "Most of the Nankang defenders are in the rear, leave them to me. However, the Jin State has a very brave wing army, so I want you to launch a surprise attack from the side."

"Delay the powerful army of Jin State and buy more time for our main force."

Peng Deqing said in a deep voice: "Once Jin cannot be defended, Nankang will have no external aid. Nankang will surely be in our army's hands."

Zong Yanli narrowed his eyes and nodded, then asked in detail about the equipment and number of Jin's flank troops and made more detailed arrangements.

After the two discussed it, Zong Yanli decided to postpone the march. The soldiers in the Ghost Camp were already very tired after the battle, and she wanted to let them rest before marching. That night, Zong Yanli also looted some military rations from Peng Deqing to prepare a special meal for the soldiers under her command.

"You are really friendly to the soldiers." Peng Deqing watched Zong Yanli take away some bacon and sausages, and said with a helpless smile: "You should eat more too. Look at you, you have only grown taller but not fatter in the past two years!"

Zong Yanli: “…”

These generals all have the same problem, they all like those tall and strong generals who look brave.

Zong Yanli has grown taller in the past year, but she is still so thin. But in fact, Zong Yanli feels that she is not thin at all!

Look at this arm, there is a lot of tendon meat, but the muscles are not that scary.

When Zong Yanli came back with the bacon and sausages, everyone in the tent cheered. They really didn't expect that under such circumstances, their general could get some meat to eat!

"There's not much food, let's make some broth to warm up the brothers." After Zong Yanli put the food down, he ordered: "Eat a good meal and sleep well today, and regroup and fight again tomorrow!"

"Yes!!!" The soldiers in the ghost camp responded very loudly.

With a commander who cares for them like this, what battle can't be won?

I’m going to beat you!

In such a cold winter day, drinking a bowl of hot broth is really comfortable. It is called broth, but it is just a little bit of oil in water. It is not even greasy, but it makes the soldiers very satisfied.

"I don't eat as much meat as our general does at home." The soldier sitting around the campfire, his cheeks flushed by the fire, licked his lips and said with great emotion.

"Yes." In such a world, ordinary people can only see a little meat during the New Year. They usually eat biscuit crumbs and dig some wild vegetables to fill their stomachs. How can they eat meat every few days like them?

Speaking of which, the New Year is almost here again.

In another year, Zong Yanli will be seventeen years old.

He is only seventeen years old.

Zong Yanli came out of the camp, and the soldiers who were sitting there all stood up and called out, "General!"