But before leaving, Li Yi couldn't help but turn around and said, "Old general, don't worry, I will give you a generous burial after you die." ”

Li Yi's words all reveal his confidence in winning the big war at this time.

Because although Lieutenant General Luo Ning still has more than 400,000 heavy troops in his hands, these soldiers are already at the end of their crossbows. Not to mention that they were going to forcibly attack the Seine King City now, even the rapid march along the way before would have already cost half of these people's lives.

That's why Li Yi showed his rare arrogance to Lieutenant General Luo Ning when he was leaving. Li Yi's meaning is obvious, Lieutenant General Luo Ning wants to use the current army in his hands to attack the Seine King City, which is simply wishful thinking. Waiting for Lieutenant General Luo Ning is only defeat and death, and Li Yi, as the victorious side, will give this old general of the Tianlan Empire a generous burial after victory.

But the reason why Li Yi behaved so arrogantly at this time was not even like Li Yi in the past, and he also had his reasons for doing so.

Because in Li Yi's heart, he also admires Lieutenant General Luo Ning very much.

The reason why the expeditionary force of the Tianlan Empire failed this time was that part of the responsibility was on Lieutenant General Luo Ning, if he could control the troops of the Tianlan Empire from the beginning not to be too aggressive, and steadily eat the Yanlong Legion, maybe the Tianlan Empire would not fail.

However, this is certainly one reason, but as a commander with heavy responsibilities, it is understandable that when he sees the troops marching all the way, he has a little carelessness in his heart.

Besides, in fact, almost everyone knows by now that this time the Tianlan Empire's failure to conquer the Yanlong Legion actually can't blame anyone in the expeditionary force at all. Because of this failure, the main reason is simply on the Tianlan Empire itself.

If it weren't for the corruption in the country, the emperor's fresh rumors, and the suspicion of the commander who was leading the troops outside, how could such a good advantage of the Tianlan Empire suddenly be buried, and it was also reversed by the opponent.

Even now, the Yanlong Legion has exhausted the troops of Lieutenant General Luo Ning, who are constantly retreating, and at this time, there are only 200,000 troops in the main force of the Yanlong Legion.

And the troops of the Tianlan Empire have a full 400,000 soldiers, and if you add the 50,000 cavalry that were driven out of the Seine King City to support Lieutenant General Luo Ning, the defeated army of the Tianlan Empire has 450,000 troops.

But it is such a comparison of strength, but the side with fewer people catches up with the side with more people. The Tianlan Empire had so many troops, but it didn't dare to turn back at all and fight against the large forces of the Yanlong Legion behind him.

Because the defeat was like a mountain, since Lieutenant General Luo Ning led the troops to attack Xicheng to no avail, these soldiers of the Tianlan Empire have lost confidence in this expedition in their hearts. Later, on the way to withdraw their troops, they also learned that in order to give them a chance to stay in the Ram Fortress, the Commander Kane was also killed in the battle on the top of the city not long after they left the Ram Fortress.

The Yanlong Legion pursued the victory, but the troops of the Tianlan Empire were defeated and retreated. And the most important point is that although the troops of the Yanlong Legion are not as large as those of the Tianlan Empire, they have the best supply troops. In the process of pursuit, the 200,000-strong army never had to worry about the lack of food and grass.

But on the contrary, the soldiers of the Tianlan Empire tasted hungry and full. Because even before the loss of the Seine Royal City, the rear supply of the Tianlan Empire was already difficult to transport to Lieutenant General Luo Ning's troops.

First, there are Li Yi's troops in the vicinity of Ning'an Province and Jingchuan Province, and their first priority is to attack the transport troops of the Tianlan Empire as much as possible. In this way, seven out of ten of the transport troops of the Tianlan Empire will be destroyed by Li Yi's men and horses.

The second is that the Tianlan Empire is indeed a little unbearable. With nearly a million people eating and drinking, the burden of the Tianlan Empire is too heavy. And in order to transport grain and grass for a million-strong army, the number of troops supplied is also very staggering. And also to pay bounties to the combat soldiers and transports to reward these soldiers who are struggling on the line of death every day. The Tianlan Empire's treasury was originally empty, and now there is no protracted war, and it is almost dragging down the Tianlan Empire.

In fact, it was not until after receiving the news of Lieutenant General Luo Ning's defeat that in the imperial capital of the Tianlan Empire, Emperor Kevin, who had always been extremely suspicious of Lieutenant General Luo Ning, faced the opponent of the Yanlong Legion for the first time.

And after that, Emperor Kevin continued to receive the news of Lieutenant General Luo Ning's defeat, and learned in the message that the commander of the Kane Legion not only died on the Ram Fortress in order to cover the retreat of the large army, but also after Lieutenant General Luo Ning gathered more than 400,000 troops, not only did not choose to turn back and fight with the Yanlong Legion, but fled faster. Even for the sake of the so-called safety of the troops, Lieutenant General Ronin even asked for help from the defenders of the Seine royal city.

When he saw this news, Emperor Kevin was furious, and in his opinion, Lieutenant General Luo Ning didn't know what the hell he was doing. Because in his opinion, since the Tianlan Empire was able to gather an army of more than 400,000 after the defeat, this proved that in fact, the troops of the Tianlan Empire had not suffered a devastating blow. Since there are still so many troops, as the supreme commander of the Tianlan Empire Expeditionary Force, why didn't Lieutenant General Luo Ning hit him with a backhand, but continued to escape.

While scolding Lieutenant General Luo Ning for his disobedience, Emperor Kevin summoned some important ministers of the empire to the palace. And as if he had already decided to cure Lieutenant General Ronin's crimes, Emperor Kevin also summoned several high-ranking officers in the army. With these good fighters, perhaps Emperor Kevin can see more thoroughly that Lieutenant General Luo Ning is now only blindly escaping, and what he is thinking in his heart.

When the important ministers of the empire saw the anger of Emperor Kevin after talking about Luo Ning's continuous defeat, these important ministers looked at each other and were ready to fall into the ground. At this time, these traitors have forgotten their partisan rivalry, as long as they can take this opportunity to bring down Lieutenant General Luo Ning, then they can be regarded as missing a common opponent.

Because when Luo Ning was guarding in the Central Army and protecting the safety of the imperial capital, because of his position, Lieutenant General Luo Ning could occasionally participate in political affairs. But this old general is really too upright, he is very unaccustomed to the intrigue between these ministers of the Tianlan Empire, and as long as he sees something illegal, he will always stop it.

Even sometimes when it is bigger, Lieutenant General Luo Ning will even reluctantly accuse these ministers of their faults directly in front of Emperor Kevin, and will also expose some of their crimes.

At the beginning, Emperor Kevin would also inspect these ministers after hearing some reports from Lieutenant General Luo Ning, but these people who are about to become good officials are impossible to leave any handle for Emperor Kevin the Great, so that this emperor who has just ascended the throne will punish his own crimes.

In this way, although Lieutenant General Luo Ning was always outspoken, because of those who had been reported by him, Emperor Kevin did not find any of their crimes when he sent people out to investigate. Over time, Emperor Kevin's trust in Lieutenant General Ronin began to become lower and lower.

But Lieutenant General Luo Ning is a veteran figure after all, so although Emperor Kevin doesn't like Lieutenant General Luo Ning very much, but after all, his identity is there, and Lieutenant General Luo Ning is also very clean, and those who have been reported by him can't find any handle on him as the direction of attack. Therefore, Lieutenant General Luo Ning has always stood firm in the Tianlan Empire.

But now these princes and ministers who have been trying their best to kill Lieutenant General Luo Ning, and now that they have finally found an opportunity to fall into the well, there is no one to intercede for Lieutenant General Luo Ning.

The senior officials who still have a trace of conscience just don't say that Lieutenant General Luo Ning is good, but they don't defend Lieutenant General Luo Ning.

But there are a large number of people, they are simply falling into the well. In their remarks, this expedition of the Tianlan Empire to the southern border of Sayi was originally a must-win game. Even if a farmer who can't fight is sent out this time, he can win this battle by a big margin.

Because of the million-strong army, as long as these whole books are dispatched in the event of a war, then the Yanlong Legion will not have the slightest power to parry.

However, with such a large advantage in the number of troops, Lieutenant General Luo Ning was still able to lose this war, how could this not make people think that he had some ulterior secrets.

And at the beginning of the war, the Tianlan Empire could be described as smooth sailing, successive victories, not to mention that the Yanlong Legion caused any trouble to the Tianlan Empire, at that time, they did not have the courage to fight head-on with the troops of the Tianlan Empire.

Every time they saw the army of the Tianlan Empire from a distance, the men and horses of the Yanlong Legion had already begun to flee with their armor thrown away, giving up all the cities they were stationed in.

However, just when the victory was about to end, and the Tianlan Empire still occupied the absolute initiative, Lieutenant General Luo Ning suddenly asked for an end to the war, saying that the troops of the Tianlan Empire were tired and not suitable to continue to fight for a long time

What is the purpose of his request, isn't it just to be able to lead the troops to stay in the south of Saida. In order to win, the empire can only continue to transport grain and grass to the southern border of Said, and Lieutenant General Luo Ning enters the water first and gets the moon first, and after leading the troops to hold the south border of Saida for a longer time, the soldiers of the people there will only recognize the order of one person, that is, the order of Lieutenant General Luo Ning. At that time, the Tianlan Empire worked hard to provide people, money, grain and grass, but in the end, it cheapened Lieutenant General Luo Ning, making him the real king of the southern realm of Sayin.

All of these are the accusations woven by the princes and ministers of the Tianlan Empire to Lieutenant General Luo Ning. In their mouths, Lieutenant General Luo Ning seems to have become a thief who supports his troops and is ready to rebel.

Even in these mouths, Lieutenant General Luo Ning's defeat has a hidden secret.

Maybe Lieutenant General Luo Ning has reached some kind of agreement with the Yanlong Legion, and his defeat may be just a cover.

Lieutenant General Luo Ning had more and more crimes, so many that he was almost on the verge of catching up with a heinous traitor.

Seeing this situation, the high-ranking officers in the army who were summoned to the past finally couldn't stand it anymore.

They walked out of the crowd indignantly, and then denounced the ministers who were unscrupulously incriminating Lieutenant General Luo Ning in front of Emperor Kevin.

They worked very hard to defend Lieutenant General Luo Ning, and in the end, in desperation, they could only win and tell another reason for this defeat.

In front of Emperor Kevin, the high-ranking officials of these armies bluntly said that the officialdom was corrupt, and the people were not able to make a living, and the supply of grain and grass was somewhat insufficient for this expedition, but there were still some important ministers without conscience, and the black-hearted greed for the grain and grass and military salaries of the expeditionary force.

It is not so much that Lieutenant General Luo Ning was defeated in the hands of the Yanlong Legion, but that the expeditionary force of the Tianlan Empire was defeated in the hands of his own people.

"Your Majesty." A military attache clasped his fists and said excitedly to Emperor Kevin: "Your Majesty, it's not that Old General Luo Ning doesn't want to turn around and compete with the army of the Yanlong Legion behind him, but that he is really powerless." The food and grass for the expeditionary force were somewhat insufficient a few months ago. We now seem to have an army of more than 400,000 people, but these soldiers can't even eat enough to eat, and they still have some strength to fight. And not only are they not well fed and clothed, but even the military salaries that should have been received cannot reach their hands at all. ”

Hearing his companion's confession, another military attache also immediately spoke: "Yes, Your Majesty, the supply of food and grass for the expeditionary force is insufficient, and the military salary and bounty are almost non-existent. Those soldiers on the front line are fighting with their lives, all they want is to make their families living in the empire better because of their fighting. But how did they know that they thought that their desperate efforts had earned a lot of rewards for their families, but how could they have thought that they were fighting bloodily on the front line, and the bounty that originally belonged to them was put into their pockets by some corrupt officials who ate people and did not spit out bones. In fact, I can say that there are many people in the imperial capital who do not want the expeditionary force to return to the Tianlan Empire safely. Because once these soldiers returned to their hometowns, they found that they had gone on an expedition with all their might, and when they returned, they did not receive any remuneration. God knows, these soldiers who have walked past the ghost gate will do some impulsive things. ”

Quietly listening to the two military attaches who dared to tell the truth, Emperor Kevin finally fell silent. Although I don't know whether what these two people said is true or not, but by feeling, Emperor Kevin still believes these two military attachés.

Because although he doesn't understand military affairs, after so many years of experience, he can still see the truth of some things.

In the past, Lieutenant General Luo Ning always reported some officials in the imperial capital, and Emperor Kevin did not want to do it, but he did not have the ability to do it. Don't look at him as the king of a country, but the officials under him are all in a faction. Even if he is an emperor, it is difficult to find out the evidence of their crimes.

Therefore, every time Emperor Kevin heard Lieutenant General Luo Ning's advice, he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, or if he really couldn't do it, he just recruited a few people out of the palace to investigate and deal with the matter.

But this time, he could really feel that these two military attachés risked offending many important ministers to exonerate Lieutenant General Luo Ning, and they would never tell lies, because once the lies were exposed, then Lieutenant General Luo Ning would fall into a state of no return.

But when Kevin the Great really heard these facts, his face did not fluctuate in the slightest.

These are all taught to him by his father, and as an emperor, it is necessary to be happy and angry. Only if the officials under his command can't guess their inner thoughts, those who are officials will be in awe of themselves, otherwise, as an emperor, he can always let the civil and military generals see through it at a glance, so what kind of majesty can be talked about.