Chapter 15 The plot begins

The cannon fodder battalion follows a commander they have grown to trust. War is inevitable, but under Shen Qingzhou's command, they feel safer than before.

Shen Qingzhou always strives to be the first in every battle. He always charges with me instead of at me. The soldiers have a strong recognition of him.

Moreover, on the battlefield, Shen Qingzhou's pair of Bagua silver hammers could kill anyone who was hit, or injure anyone who was touched. The killing power was too terrifying.

Sheer brute force makes him irresistible, and he is the first to attack. Casualties on the battlefield are inevitable, but with the main general there, the loss rate is reduced.

"The southern barbarians are coming." Shen Qingzhou led his army to charge out, shocking the entire tribe.

The tribe was not so easy to be discovered. The main reason was that no one expected that someone would dare to enter the grassland in winter. Moreover, the tribe was mobile and might move to another place after a while. Shen Qingzhou came too quickly.

Shen Qingzhou looked at the elderly, weak, women and children in the tent without any mercy. Ever since he was ambushed last time and saw the miserable conditions of some villages outside the city when he went on patrol, he no longer had any sympathy.

"Kill." Shen Qingzhou took the lead, and his horse turned very lightly. His riding skills were definitely not inferior to anyone else. The long sword in his hand had already killed several young men who came up to block him.

Then he landed from his horse, with two hammers in his hands. He looked at the dozen people who surrounded him with a disdainful sneer, and then swung his hammers in a circle, just like in a movie, and knocked a dozen people away.

"Barbarian, give me your life." Suddenly, he felt a gust of evil wind. Looking up, he saw an old man coming towards him with a mace in his hand. He raised his left hammer and blocked it.

He did not underestimate the other party. In such a large tribe, there might be some experts.

"What a great strength." The mace that Hu Zi was looking at was almost knocked away. He gathered his true energy and quickly struck again.

After Shen Qingzhou blocked another attack, he suddenly felt a strong wind behind him. He turned around and saw a middle-aged man in his forties with a pigtail holding a scimitar, attacking him.

He didn't curse them. This was a battlefield, and these two people were the high-end combat forces of the tribe. Although he was heartbroken by the massacre of the soldiers, there was no way to solve it. Only by killing Shen Qingzhou, who was killing so many people, would there be a turning point.

"Well done." Shen Qingzhou also felt it. Both of them were of the fifth grade, one high and one low.

Maybe for other people, numbers are an advantage, but for him with his physical fitness, haha.

Shen Qingzhou swung the silver hammer, covering his entire body, and he deliberately aimed his hammer at the opponent's weapon, trying to take advantage of the situation.

After a few rounds, the bearded old man felt the sudden increase in strength and finally couldn't hold his weapon anymore. The mace in his hand flew away. The middle-aged man knew something was wrong and wanted to rescue him, but it was too late. Shen Qingzhou hit the bearded old man's chest hard with a hammer in his hand. He was definitely not going to survive.

The middle-aged man was alone and powerless, and after a few rounds, he was killed by a hammer. No one was besieging Shen Qingzhou anymore, and everyone ran away or died. The strongest warriors and clan leaders of the tribe were all dead, trying to conserve their strength.

However, how could he outrun these soldiers who were well prepared?

"Captain Shen, this is the list." After a while, someone presented it after counting the spoils.

"The old rules, everyone deal with the tails, and then bring them all back to me. As for cattle and sheep, take them back if you can, otherwise just kill them. It will take one hour. The most important thing is to bring the brothers back." Shen Qingzhou said.

This is another reason why he convinced everyone: he was not greedy for merit or money, and was willing to give benefits to the soldiers.

It's okay to divide the money, many generals do this, but Shen Qingzhou respects his brothers and does not treat them as inferior human beings. This is a rare quality in this era and is very attractive.

"General Feng, you have fulfilled your mission and wiped out the bandits. On the way, you encountered the Qingmu tribe and were forced to fight. Fortunately, you won." Shen Qingzhou returned to the military camp and first went to the commander to report his achievements. Although the tribe was specifically looking for him, he couldn't say that. He didn't have the power to make his own decisions. "Haha, good, Captain Shen has accomplished his mission, and the court will definitely reward him. Xiao Shen, you are not injured, right?" The latter was obviously close.

General Feng and Shen Qingzhou were originally in the same camp. It was obvious that the Qin family was training Shen Qingzhou because he had someone above him and because he was very capable, so it was normal for them to have a relationship with him.

He trained his troops day after day and occasionally went out of the city to fight. With the help of connections from above, Shen Qingzhou was promoted to the rank of Zhaowu Cavalry Captain half a year later.

Even though he is still a lieutenant, this is already the ceiling for mid-level generals. The next rank is general. How old is he?

……

Kyoto.

"Empress, this is the latest news." The queen waved her hand, and the maid left and opened the envelope in her hand.

"Everything is fine recently, don't worry, aunt."

Reading Shen Qingzhou's letter, the queen felt gratified. This last member of her maternal family had been so ordinary when she was little, but after arriving at the military camp, she actually found a place to grow up.

Nowadays, he is already the famous Double Hammer General on the border. This is the common name given to Shen Qingzhou by the border guards and the Hu people, and it is also a compliment to him.

I didn't say anything like the God of War, he doesn't deserve that title, but Shen Qingzhou, who destroyed several tribes, can still get a nickname. There are many people who use hammers, but no one has a hammer as big as his, that's pretty awesome.

……

At the border, time slowly entered spring, and Shen Qingzhou had no chance to gain military merit. The Hu people retreated, and they could not invade the grassland without the order of the court.

He couldn't get promoted in the short term. In fact, he had the rank of general, but he was too young and had been in the army for too short a time, so there was nothing he could do about it.

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, two years had passed. This year officially entered the first year of the Qingli period.

In the past two years, except for the first year when he followed the border troops into the grassland and harassed the left and right tents of the Western Hu, although he fought bravely, there were no particularly great results.

The remaining wars, which took place during the fall and winter, were fought several times, but they were not enough to earn him a promotion.

Moreover, because of his outstanding performance, some martial arts masters from Xihuzhen wanted to kill him on the battlefield, and they killed a sixth-grade master, which made his reputation as the Double Hammer Demon even greater in the grassland.

But apart from those who paid attention to him, no one cared. On the battlefield, a sixth-rank warrior was nothing.

And his fight seemed very hard in the eyes of outsiders, and maybe he was a little lucky, but he knew that he relied on his physical strength to drag the opponent to death and did not suffer any injuries.

In terms of martial arts, Shen Qingzhou poured all of his twenty skill points into body-building exercises.

It was also on this day that he led the vanguard battalion and left the border where he had stayed for two or three years to change guard duties and defend Northern Qi.

It was during this action that he met a character in the plot, and he knew that the plot was about to begin.

(End of this chapter)