The Qiongdu County Government demonstrated unparalleled administrative efficiency.

After all, everyone knows very well what kind of person Captain Xiao is. Those who want to reason with Captain Xiao no longer have the ability to speak, so everyone thinks that reason should be given to people who understand it. As for those who hold a knife in their hands and are unreasonable, it is better to take a step back and the sky will be wider... In short, there is nothing you can do about him and you can only listen to him.

There weren't many wealthy families in Qiongdu, after all, no one would live there if they had money, but they still managed to gather hundreds of taels of silver and thousands of kilograms of military rations for Captain Xiao. In the words of County Magistrate Jiang, Qiongdu was destined for this disaster, either by bandits or rebels from Qinghe, but no one had expected it to be government troops.

He gave one hundred taels of profit to his three hundred brothers, and prepared some cured meat and dried fish for the civilians to have a full meal. Thinking of Captain Xiao in Qinghe County, he could not wait any longer on the fourth day, and without waiting for the report from the scouts, he led his army out of Qiongdu.

Ten miles away from Qiongdu, scouts reported that there was no ambush from Qiongdu to Qinghe, and there were no traps on the flat official road. It must be that the group of rebel soldiers saw the strict military order of the government army and realized that it was difficult to deal with them, so they retreated to the mountains.

The next morning, Captain Xiao discovered the abandoned camp of the rebels and immediately ordered an attack. Dozens of armored infantry rushed into the empty camp. Although even a nail had been removed from the camp, Captain Xiao still sent a fast horse to Jinguan City to report the victory, saying that our unit had actively sought a fight and immediately sent troops after a short rest in Qiongdu City. The main force of the rebels was defeated the next day and the rebel camp was occupied. Countless rebel soldiers fled, most of them scattered into the mountains and forests, and a small number of them continued to resist stubbornly in the front.

Along with the victory report came a request for merit and a list of casualties among the government troops. In the document, Captain Xiao devoted considerable space to describing how, in the name of imperial justice, he had loudly rebuked the rebel leader before the opposing armies, causing the rebels to look ashamed and their morale to waver. He had seized the opportunity, charged single-handedly, slaughtered the enemy troops, and finally, seized the opportunity to advance...

Of course, it was also a fact that the leader of the rebel army did not follow the king's teachings and gathered a group of die-hard bandits to resist in the camp, causing heavy casualties to the government troops. Therefore, Captain Xiao did not hesitate to write down all the empty wages he had ate.

This created a very divisive illusion for the bureaucrats in Jinguan City... On one hand, the fighting power of the rebel soldiers was extremely weak and the morale of the army was unstable, but Captain Xiao drove his Wushuang into the army alone and killed people indiscriminately; on the other hand, when Captain Xiao was not there, the fighting power of the rebel soldiers was extremely strong, and the poorly equipped and poorly trained rebel soldiers actually caused great casualties to the high-spirited and fully armored imperial army. At least two hundred armored infantrymen died on the spot.

Finally, after a joint analysis by various departments in Jinguan City, they came to a very reliable conclusion, that is, the combat effectiveness of the rebel soldiers was actually very high, far higher than the regular army of the empire, but Captain Xiao's personal combat effectiveness was even higher, so high that one person could break through the rebel army's formation. This is why it was said that Captain Xiao was greater than the rebel soldiers and greater than the regular army.

Anyway, when Xiao Cheng himself didn't know it, the sayings such as "Captain Xiao is a match for a thousand men" and "Captain Xiao is unrivaled in Xichuan" had already spread.

Some people felt that this was not right and wanted to persuade the governor to do so. To this, the governor privately replied, "Don't I know what kind of character Xiao Cheng is? But Xichuan is now empty, and we need an unparalleled general to intimidate the enemies on all sides and give an explanation to the central government. If you think you can do a better job, you can go instead, and the protagonist of these stories will all be changed to you."

The next day, Captain Xiao once again encountered the camp left by the rebel soldiers.

Judging from the size of the camp, it was much smaller than the first day's, and it looked like at least half of the soldiers had been defeated. Thinking that the other side had already lost a lot of their troops because of his "reputation" before they had even met, Xiao Cheng felt that he might have missed something, such as missing out on the talent of a famous general. He had never realized how powerful he was. Fortunately, he discovered it not too late, because the battle was about to start again.

The next day's victory report was delivered to Jinguan City by Pegasus. Before anyone had finished reading the previous version, Captain Xiao had updated everyone with a new patch. This time, he described how he had galloped down the hillside into the enemy camp, trampling the enemy chieftain, who kowtowed repeatedly for his life...

Of course, the cunning enemy chieftain eventually escaped, and the government troops once again paid the price of the death of two hundred armored infantrymen...

Xiao Cheng was very satisfied with this pace. If he did it a few more times, basically all the bad debts of the past few years could be settled.

That evening, he received a private letter from Governor Gao, in which Governor Gao simply asked him, "If suppressing a few rebellious troops costs the empire hundreds of armored infantrymen, doesn't that make Captain Xiao's military management seem incompetent?"

After reading this, Xiao Cheng realized that settling accounts was indeed an art form, and it was not something a rough man like himself could do well. He immediately wrote back to express his gratitude, and said that the main force of the rebel army had been destroyed, and there would be no large-scale casualties among the government troops.

The third day was uneventful.

On the fourth day, Captain Xiao once again captured a rebel camp. Since this victory report couldn't be overly elaborate, Xiao Cheng simply stated that he had driven out a few rebels and captured a temporary camp.

On the fifth day, Captain Xiao was a bit angry. Were these rogue soldiers from real estate backgrounds? Instead of fighting, they just liked to build camps. This camp was only a two-day journey from Qinghe County. He had occupied it and wasn't planning on leaving. He was just going to hold it here and see what these rogue soldiers were up to.

On the sixth day, Lin Hai, who said "I trust him to do the job", finally arrived at the front line.

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