Chapter 2038: Exceptional Promotion

"Ding-dang-dang..." The battle became more and more intense, and blood flowed like a river. Suddenly, a sound of gongs was heard from Bashui County, and the Gao army quickly evacuated the battlefield and quickly retreated back to the city.

"Kill--!!" The Qi army saw it, and although they didn't know what was going on, they immediately chased after them.

However, the enemy left a rear guard and blocked the Qi army.

"Ding-dang-dang..." At this time, the sound of gongs was heard from the rear, so the army stopped chasing and turned back ten miles.

"Why retreat? Didn't we defeat the enemy and flee?" Some people found it difficult to understand.

"Our losses in this battle were greater. The enemy should not have fled, but achieved their goal." Cen Pei explained, "It seems that General Zhechong's strategy did not work. The two main forces of the enemy's support troops have successfully withdrawn to the city."

"But we survived!" Diao Jun felt that his heart was still beating wildly. He had experienced life and death countless times in the previous battles, and his spirit was very tense.

"Return to the camp to rest! I'm afraid we won't be able to rest for long, and the war will start again soon!" Cen Pei sighed.

The team quickly withdrew, away from Bashui County.

The entire army was stationed in a plain ten miles away to rest and recuperate.

Back to the camp, the team was still gathered together, because the fierce battle had completely broken up the original formation, and their respective teams had been eliminated long ago.

Although the new team was unfamiliar with each other, everyone saw how tough Cen Pei was, and they had a greater chance of survival by following him.

Most of them were cannon fodder who were forcibly conscripted and assigned to other teams, and no one cared about their lives. Only in this team could they feel a little hope.

Just arrived at the camp, before they had time to catch their breath, they suddenly saw a deputy general leading troops and heading straight to where they were.

Everyone was immediately nervous and hurriedly surrounded Cen Pei in the middle.

The deputy general came in front of them, glanced casually, and pointed at Cen Pei and Diao Jun: "You! And you! Follow me!"

"General, is there anything I can do for you?" Cen Pei asked.

"General Yu summoned me, don't talk nonsense! Follow me to the main tent!" The deputy general turned around and led his men away.

"General Zhechong summoned me?" The people around him were surprised, "Brother Pei, Brother Jun, I'm afraid your military exploits have attracted the general's attention!"

"Then Brother Pei and Brother Jun will be promoted?"

"Brother Pei, Brother Jun! Don't forget us when you are promoted!"

"Yes! We are friends who have risked our lives on the battlefield!"

"If you are promoted, don't leave us behind!"

......

Comrades gathered around.

"Don't worry, everyone," Cen Pei said, although he didn't know why he was called over, "No matter what General Yu assigns, Cen will definitely take everyone with him! I promised everyone that I must go back alive!"

"Brother Pei, remember this sentence!!"

Cen Pei and Diao Jun followed to the main tent and found that some other soldiers who they didn't know, but were covered in blood and looked very strong, came in one after another.

In the main tent, General Zhechong Yu Cheng and his deputy generals sat solemnly, looking at everyone.

"Greetings, General Yu!" After almost everyone arrived, the summoned soldiers saluted one after another.

"Hmm~" Jia Zhengjin's transformed Yu Cheng glanced over and said calmly, "This general has set up a military supervisor to observe on the battlefield. Everyone present is either Danyang's elite or a conscripted soldier. Today's battle is impressive! It turns out that there are so many fierce generals in my Danyang army! This general loves talents and wants to promote them for their military merits..."

Hearing this, most of the soldiers on the scene showed excited expressions. Although I guessed that this was the case before coming, it feels different to hear it with my own ears.

The soldiers summoned here are all brave people on the battlefield.

It's called a military supervisor's record, but in fact, where does the military supervisor have that opportunity on the battlefield? It's all Jia Zhengjin who uses satellite monitoring through Nuwa to obtain data and record the best people on the battlefield.

It's impossible to capture Bashui County with only the twelve deputy generals around him.

Just like Deputy General Zou Yan, who attacked Yuanzhou reinforcements with fire, was forced to break through by local general Zhuo Yan despite such a good opportunity.

On the other side, Morico, with the help of reinforcements in the city, repelled his deputy general and successfully withdrew to Bashui County.

If the troops were led by these fierce generals, they would have captured the enemy commander and seized the opportunity to capture Bashui County!

There is nothing wrong with my strategy, but the executor is not capable enough!

The reason why Jia Zhengjin promoted these best performers and the most judgmental people on the battlefield is to change the situation and prevent such a thing from happening again.

He doesn't care about the military system, as long as they are talented, they will be placed in the right position.

Those who have made contributions or performed bravely on the battlefield are basically low-level soldiers.

Jia Zhengjin said that all of them were promoted to lieutenants, and each of them commanded 500 soldiers.

Except for those like Diao Jun who had no intention and just wanted to leave, everyone else was excited, including Cen Pei.

Each meritorious person was presented with a lieutenant uniform and corresponding weapons, as well as a magical wound medicine.

They returned to the camp to change out their bloodstained armor, apply medicine on their wounds, put on lieutenant uniforms, and gathered again in the main tent.

After the popularity, Jia Zhengjin spoke: "You all performed bravely, and you are rare strong generals in our army! In the future, you will make our Danyang Army famous all over the world!"

"Yes!!" The lieutenants shouted in unison.

"In today's battle, we lost 4,500 people and the enemy lost more than 1,600 people. This is nothing, but it's a pity that the strategy failed. Not only did it fail to cause heavy casualties to the enemy defenders, but even the two reinforcements successfully escaped into the city. It's really a pity!"

"I did a bad job and ruined the general's strategy. Please punish me!" Zou Yan and the other twelve deputy generals knelt down in unison and bowed their heads to apologize.

Jia Zhengjin looked at them indifferently, and turned his eyes to Cen Pei in the crowd: "Captain Cen!"

"I am here!" Cen Pei immediately came out of the crowd and bowed.

"Today you performed the best, and even killed the enemy general Gu Teng, causing chaos in his army! Otherwise, if their three armies were united, we would be defeated." Jia Zhengjin said, "I want to promote you to deputy general, what do you think?"

"Ah?" Cen Pei was completely confused.

He was promoted directly from a soldier to a lieutenant, and he didn't know how many levels he had been promoted. Now he was going to be promoted to deputy general? Moreover, he is the deputy general beside General Zhechong, which is simply a step to heaven!

"Captain Cen?"

"General, General... I..." Cen Pei felt very unreal.

"You don't want to?"

"General, of course I am willing!" Cen Pei quickly knelt on one knee.

"Very good!" Jia Zhengjin nodded, "From now on, you will be the thirteenth deputy general beside me. Diao Jun!"

"I am here!" Although he was not very happy, Diao Jun still stood up. After all, the General Zhechong in front of him was a big shot, and he dared not disobey the order.

"You actually have a magic weapon with you, which is really rare! Are you willing to be my deputy general?"

Cen Pei hurriedly turned around and winked at Diao Jun.

Although Diao Jun was unwilling, he knew that he could not refuse, so he stepped forward and knelt beside Cen Pei: "Thank you, General!"