Death Row Ability: Blood Battle Level Up

When he came to the wellhead, Li Dao was about to carry a bucket to fetch water, but suddenly he stretched out a hand and snatched the bucket.

Before he could speak, Zhang Meng chuckled and said, "Brother Li, let me help you."

Li Dao was stunned for a moment, glanced at the other person's thick face, and then touched the face that he could still see. Is he that old?

Although he didn't know why, he was naturally happy to see someone helping him.

"Thanks."

Li Dao took the bucket handed over by Zhang Meng and replied.

Zhang Meng scratched his head, "Brother Li, what are you talking about? We are all brothers from the same camp, so being polite is nothing."

Li Dao looked at Ke Ke fiercely, then looked at the group of people behind him, and suddenly put down the bucket in his hand.

This scene startled Zhang Meng and others, and they subconsciously stepped back.

It turned out that Li Dao just put down the bucket and tried to pick up the water ladle inside.

A group of people suddenly felt embarrassed for their behavior just now.

Li Dao glanced at the group of people and said while washing, "Okay, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly, no need to beat around the bush."

Hearing this, Zhang Meng took a deep breath and said, "Brother Li, we brothers want to join you and recognize you as the boss."

"With me?"

Li Dao paused and asked, "What do you mean?"

"It's just that we want to mess with you."

"Want to hang out with me?"

After Li Dao rinsed his cheeks and body a little, he turned back to look at the people in front of him, "You want to be my soldier?"

"Yes."

"Then you are overthinking. I am just an ordinary soldier like you now."

"Having said that, with your strength, Brother Li, you will definitely be promoted in minutes. Then let us do what you want."

After Li Dao wiped off the water stains on his body, he formally looked at the people in front of him for the first time.

Since arriving in Huangsha Town yesterday, he has also come into contact with these thorns.

Indeed, compared to the soldiers he had seen in Wei Yun's hands, these thorns in Huangsha Town were much stronger.

With the goal of improving his strength and gaining power, he would naturally have the idea to win over these people.

He originally thought that this kind of thing needed to be dealt with slowly. After all, the thorns themselves were difficult to tame, and that would not be possible for a while.

But I never thought that just one night later, people like Zhang Meng would come to the door on their own.

Although there were only nineteen people, it was a start, and conquering these thorns was a little easier than he thought.

With the speed of his thinking, he quickly figured out the reason in his mind.

Thorn Tou is different from ordinary soldiers. He is not easily conquered by anyone. Ordinary soldiers will obey your orders as long as you have the identity of a superior.

But the thorn in the side is that even if you have an identity, you must make him surrender in a certain sense.

But last night's lesson was unexpectedly successful in convincing these thorns.

Of course, compared to ordinary soldiers, stabbing the head still has advantages.

First of all, their qualities are better than ordinary soldiers in all aspects, and once they surrender, their loyalty will be much higher than that of ordinary soldiers.

Looking at the expectant looks of Zhang Meng and others, Li Dao suddenly had a chuckle on his face, "If you want to get involved with me, wait until I get my official position mixed up first."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Meng's eyes lit up. This should be regarded as agreement, and he felt relieved.

Xue Bing immediately changed his words and said, "Boss, you don't have to worry about this. Our Daqian Dynasty has a military title system. The military exploits you made yesterday are enough for you to be promoted and get a military title."

"I think Boss Zhao will be able to confirm it today. After all, with a strong man like you in hand, no one will leave you alone as a soldier."

What a coincidence, just as Xue Bing finished saying these words, a neatly dressed soldier came over.

"Li Dao, right?"

The soldier walked up and saw Li Dao's unfamiliar face and asked directly.

The next second, Xue Bing and his group surrounded the soldiers.

Zhang Meng even grabbed the soldier's collar and asked in a rude tone, "Boy, what do you want from our boss?"

The soldier was confused, who am I and where am I?

When did a new recruit have such a high status on his second day?

"Okay, let him down."

Hearing the voice of his boss, Zhang Meng put the soldier down and patted his shoulder, "Our boss is looking for you, please be nicer to me."

The reason for this attitude is that since they recognize Li Dao as the leader, the higher they raise his status, the higher their status will naturally be.

So the first thing they did was to separate Li Dao from the ordinary soldiers, otherwise they would not be able to hold their heads high in front of the other ordinary soldiers.

Looking at the nervous soldiers, Li Dao said bluntly, "What do you want from me?"

The soldier glanced at the fierce men around him, fearing that he would be beaten up if he said something wrong, so he said cautiously, "Yes... Commander Zhao asked me to call you."

Li Dao heard the words and said, "Okay, I understand. I'll get dressed and go."

The soldier nodded and walked away under the gaze of a group of people.

Seeing no one else, Xue Bing couldn't help but say, "Boss, Boss Zhao will most likely ask you to go over and account for your military exploits."

"You'll know once you go there."

...

Soon after, Li Dao, who was dressed in military uniform, came to the camp where Zhao Tong was.

"Commander Zhao."

Hearing the voice, Zhao Tong raised his head and saw that the person coming was Li Dao. He smiled happily and said, "You came just in time. I am counting your military achievements here to see what rewards you deserve."

Holding the book in his hand, he said, "Based on Daqian's military exploits, an ordinary foreign enemy soldier is worth one military exploit."

"The Northern Barbarian Cavalry is a special soldier, and one can be counted as two combat merits."

"At the same time, there are also different combat merit bonuses based on different cultivation levels."

Thinking of this, Zhao Tong raised his head and said, "I want to tell you something here."

"Because except for the leader of the Northern Barbarian Cavalry who knows the specific cultivation level, the other Northern Barbarian Cavalry members do not know, so these people can only be calculated based on ordinary military merit. Only the Northern Barbarian Cavalry leader can calculate your military merit for you based on your cultivation alone. You I understand."

Hearing this, Li Dao nodded, "I understand."

"That's good."

Zhao Tong continued to count, "You killed a total of 153 Northern Barbarian cavalry this time, and gained 306 combat merits."

"The leader of the Northern Barbarian Cavalry has a special position. Each person can count fifty points of military merit. And because of his acquired first-grade cultivation, he will be given an additional hundred points of military merit."

"So, you received a total of 456 combat merits yesterday."

Zhao Tong looked at Li Dao, clicked his tongue and said, "Your military exploits can be regarded as breaking the record for the first battle of recruits in our Huangsha Town camp."

"At present, in the entire Huangsha Town camp, apart from me and a few centurions, there is no one with higher military exploits than you."

"By the way, you should know about our military nobility system."

Hearing this, Li Dao nodded.

Choosing to join the army, he naturally knew something about this situation.

In the history of the previous life, the Qin Dynasty's military merit system was divided into twenty levels.

The military honors of the Daqian Dynasty were different, being divided into thirty levels.

It is divided into several levels, and different levels have different privileges.

The most junior military title may only give a person a slightly higher status than a civilian.

But if it is the highest-level military title, its status is even comparable to that of a prince.

However, since the Daqian Dynasty established the military merit system, no one has yet been able to raise the military merit title to the highest level.

The reason is that the highest levels of military merit have some special requirements in addition to the number of military merit.

Throughout the history of Daqian, except for a few founding generals, almost no one could meet these special requirements.

Taking the highest-level 30th-level military meritorious title as an example, the requirements require the person concerned to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Great Qian Dynasty and successfully complete a battle to destroy the country before he can apply for promotion.

In the early days of the founding of Daqian, it would have been difficult in that era when hundreds of countries were parallel, but it was also possible.

But now, hundreds of countries around the Daqian Dynasty have been unified into single-digit dynasties, and each dynasty has great national strength.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to launch a war to destroy the country.

Because if you have to launch a war to destroy the country, then even if you can really destroy the country, the day you destroy other people's country will also be the day when your own country is destroyed.

After all, the other dynasties are not the masses just sitting around.

Therefore, the top few military meritorious officials have almost become decorations.

However, even so, there are still countless people serving as soldiers.

Because even if the highest military merit titles are removed, the remaining military merit titles are enough for ordinary people to fight for their entire lives, or even die in battle.

Finally, Li Dao also knew a characteristic of military meritorious officials.

That is, military merit cannot be hereditary.

Most of the people who can hold military honors are those who hold real power.

Therefore, the person who established the military merit title specifically set the condition that the military merit title cannot be hereditary to prevent the possibility of the inheritance of military power becoming larger.

Of course, the road was not completely blocked from above.

If you want a hereditary title, you can exchange military merit for a noble title, that is, a legitimate title such as marquis or duke.

However, military power also needs to be handed over when changing titles.

In short, compared with the military merit titles of the previous Qin Dynasty, the Daqian Dynasty was more rigorous in this aspect.

While delegating power wantonly to boost military power, it also used other methods to protect imperial power.

Zhao Tong continued, "Since you understand, it's easy."

"Among the 30th level military merits, each of the first five levels requires one hundred military merits, which means you can apply to be reported as a fourth-level military merit."

The reason why so much battle merit is consumed is because battle merit can be obtained in other ways besides killing enemies.

For example, if you gain seniority, ordinary soldiers can automatically receive a battle merit after joining the army for one week.

There are also various military camp tasks and so on.

It's just that compared to these, the promotion of military merit in the early stage is faster by killing enemies in battle.

In the later stage, it will be necessary to lead the army to complete a large number of military meritorious tasks or make meritorious deeds to be promoted to military meritorious rank.

The reason why it was like this in the later period was because if one really followed the rules of the Daqian Dynasty, a person would really only gain military merit by killing enemies.

So just to be promoted to the tenth level of military merit, the number of people needed to be killed is an astronomical number for ordinary people.

From now on, he will really pave his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

It is also true that one general can achieve great success and wither away thousands of bones, and this is an ordinary general.

If a high-ranking general wants to achieve promotion through killing, he must refer to the saying, "You can only become a hero among heroes by slaughtering nine million."

"Okay, I'll trouble you, Commander-in-Chief."

Li Dao nodded and said.

"No need to worry, you deserve it."

After saying that, Zhao Tong suddenly spoke and continued, "There is still a process to apply for military merit, and it won't happen for a while."

"But I have an extra reward for you."

Li Dao's eyes flickered, "What is the reward?"

Zhao Tongyi looked over and said bluntly, "Want to lead the army?"

It is indeed such a reward!

Li Dao had already made a guess when Zhao Tong spoke.

Faced with such a question, Li Dao nodded without thinking, "Of course I did."

Zhao Tongyi smiled, "I knew it."

Then he continued, "With your strength, it would not be a problem to become a centurion, but you have just joined the army. Although your military exploits are sufficient, your qualifications are lacking."

"But you don't have to worry."

"There is an exceptional promotion in the army. As long as you can continue to improve your military exploits, I can promote you to centurion without exception."

"Now, you can become a commander and learn how to command troops."

"I remember that you live in the sixth camp, so how about I leave all the people in the sixth camp to you?"

I have to say that Zhao Tong's operation was exactly in line with Li Dao's wishes.

Li Dao nodded, "That's it."

...

Soon after, Li Dao left the camp.

"I don't know if that fool put such a good soldier in..."

Looking at Li Dao's disappearing back, Zhao Tong subconsciously said something but couldn't continue mid-sentence. He always felt as if he had insulted himself by saying this sentence.

Then he suddenly changed his words and said to himself, "This kind of good soldier is born with a good camp, and it is a perfect match for our Huangsha Town camp."

After saying this, he couldn't help but grin.