That night, the lights of the city lord's palace in Qingda City stayed on all night, and the city lord personally led people to patrol the night, arresting those who violated the curfew and maintaining order in the city.
A strange thing happened in the morning after the curfew was lifted. A monster with a horse head and a tiger body attacked several vendors selling breakfast, but it didn't hurt anyone but only spoiled the food. Later, a clerk from the city lord's palace came to apologize and compensate the vendors.
Frightened but made a small fortune.
"That's it. The best plan depends on the troops going out." Ding Kui ended the military discussion that lasted all night.
There are not many people participating in the meeting currently. Apart from Fei Ze and the staff of the 213th Division, there are only the city lord's staff and representatives of the Knights Guild.
After all the participants left, Fei Ze turned around and said, "The group of staff officers escorted by General Shi should be arriving soon. In fact, you can wait."
"I know." Ding Kui rubbed his eyes, "Organize the existing troops in the city first. Time is too precious. No minute or moment can be wasted."
There wasn't much time left for him. It was only three days, and it wasn't even enough time to get to know the soldiers under his command one by one.
There are also commanders who understand the situation of their units through division commanders, so they do not consider too much details when arranging tactics.
After breakfast, he went to the stable first, washed Zhui Ri himself, and muttered a few words such as "I want to save some money."
He does have a lot of gold coins on him, but he has more money waiting for him.
When I arrived at the martial arts field, I played with the spear a few times, and then the guards rushed to report. The leading troops of the 218th Division arrived, and the leader was Xu Bin.
Without waiting for a change of clothes, he rode a horse and ran to the south gate.
He led troops to clean up the south side of Qingda City, which was relatively safe. Reinforcements and logistics supplies entered the city through the south gate.
On the way, we met a group of people. The leader was very familiar with them.
"Hahaha, Senior Brother Xu, it's really you." Ding Kui jumped off the horse, opened his arms and stepped forward.
Xu Bin rolled his saddle and dismounted, straightened his clothes, and saluted respectfully: "Xu Bin, of humble rank, meets the general!"
Ding Kui stepped forward, stretched out his hand to support Xu Bin, and said, "No need to be polite!"
"With military duties, etiquette cannot be discarded." Xu Bin raised his elbows, lowered his waist and squatted down, kneeling on one knee.
This reminded Ding Kui that this was not a private meeting.
"Okay! I'll give you a military order. From now on, I'll keep everything simple." After saying that, he pulled Xu Bin hard by the hand.
There are many rules in the military, but military orders are the most important. As long as they do not violate national or military laws, all subordinates must obey them.
"Yes!" Xu Bin stood up and hugged Ding Kui fiercely.
"By the way, division, general, this is the first team of the 218th Division."
Xu Bin turned around, waved his hand and ordered: "Everyone is here, pay homage to the general!"
With a crash, all the soldiers dismounted and knelt down on one knee, "Greetings to the general!"
Thousands of people formed a uniform team, and their loud shouts silenced the onlookers, who dared not breathe.
"Yes." Ding Kui raised his hand, "Let's go to the military camp in the city to rest first. Captain Xu will stay here."
"As you command!"
After the first group got up, they were led by officers to the military camp.
"Hey! Isn't this a horse with tiger stripes and thunder? The general is different. This is the first time I have seen such a good war horse." Xu Bin's face was full of envy.
"You have some discernment, this is my own horse." Ding Kui heard the change in his senior brother's address, and his tone became friendly.
"Oh, my senior brother is so ashamed that he is too embarrassed to mention to others that he is your classmate. Can you lend me a ride?" Xu Bin's eyes kept wandering around Zhui Ri.
"It's not that junior brother is stingy, this horse has a strong temper and no one else can ride it."
Whoosh! Zhui Ri jumped forward, his butt pointed at Xu Bin who wanted to get closer to him, and his ponytail was swaying hard.
"Uh." Xu Bin took two steps back in embarrassment, "You really have a temper."
"If you have a horse like this, would you let me ride it?" Ding Kui leaned forward and put his arm around his shoulders.
"Well, no!" Xu Bin basically didn't think about it.
"Hahaha, let's go and chat at my place."
"..."
The two brothers regained the feeling of the past, talking and laughing all the way. When they returned to the city lord's palace, Ding Kui paid for a banquet for Xu Bin privately.
During the dinner, Ding Kui found an opportunity and asked: "Tell the truth, can the 218th Division fight?"
Xu Bin looked around, and Ding Kui waved his attendants away.
"Let me tell you a secret. I have actually arranged training for the 218th Division in the past six months, thanks to Mr. Ni's trust." Xu Bin broke the news.
The person responsible for the training of a division is first the division commander, followed by the staff officer, and is rarely arranged by the group leader.
At that time, Ding Kui had such high prestige in the 201st Division, so he did not replace Zhang Jie and arrange the training of the division.
"General Ni Chong knows the goods!"
Ding Kui is not praising his senior brother. Under Lu Ji's disciple, although Xu Bin's fighting spirit talent is not the best, he studies very hard in other aspects and is the most comprehensive disciple after Feng Liang.
Xu Bin may be slightly inferior to Feng Liang in terms of leading troops in combat, but he may not lose in training soldiers.
Unlike Ding Kui who had family experience in training special forces, Xu Bin completely mastered Lu Ji's military training methods and was more than enough to train a division of regular troops.
"My lord and my old mentor have an old relationship." Xu Bin pointed out the key factor.
"Oh!" Ding Kui understood, "You are very lucky. Even people who are familiar with the Xu family cannot trust you so much. It makes sense for you to be your mentor and old friend."
Lu Ji's reputation was earned, and acquaintances knew his abilities. As for his ability to train his disciples, he also had exemplary abilities. Not to mention Ding Kui, who was a special case, Feng Liang was a real division leader, and Zheng Yun was also considered a general.
It is a living sign.
"Then do you think our division can fight?" Xu Bin returned the question to Ding Kui.
"You are designated to fight!" Ding Kui picked up the wine glass, "Junior brother, I have been challenged. There will be a field battle in a few days, and I leave it to you!"
Xu Bin also picked up the cup, clinked it, drank it all, and said: "It's agreed, you can't go back on it!"
"What's there to regret, huh? What do you mean?" Ding Kui felt something was wrong.
"That's what you said, leave that field battle to me." Xu Bin suddenly stood up, kicked off his chair, knelt down with his fists clasped, "I humbly accept my order!"
The word "hand over" has different meanings verbally and in military orders, and the difference is not small.
Ding Kui smiled bitterly and said: "This set is not easy to use, there is no useful seal, and you can't command the army without the token."
"General, please rest assured. I am humble enough to issue a military order. I will win this battle and never return without victory!" Xu Bin was also a stubborn man and would not change his mind easily.
"It's not a question that I don't worry about. If you are confident, you can bring it up at the battle meeting. If you can convince everyone, at least half of them must be convinced before I can officially give the order." Ding Kui did not expect that his senior brother would actually command the battle of Lixiang Valley.
"Okay, you can't drag me down in the combat meeting." Xu Bin knew that he couldn't force this kind of thing, so it was good to get the opportunity to participate in the combat meeting.