Chapter 32: The Art of Domination
On the same day, I had to lead Zhang Shilei and others back to Fuzhou, along the way I was always a little absent-minded and depressed, Shi Cundao's words made me always unsteady, but I couldn't say anything to anyone, I could only hold it in my heart.
In the next two days, Haggis also did not move, it goes without saying that the addition of Su Jing has made a subtle change in Haggis's mentality, and he consciously automatically changed from the attacker to the defender, they are waiting for us to make a move, but this silence does not mean fear and cringe, on the contrary, it is another challenge.
This evening, Su Jing finally came back, she first went to Xinzhou to see Shi Cundao, with a piece of military order to Fuzhou to see Pu Qixiong, there is no problem with the military order, Shi Cundao's signature, handsome seal, fire paint are all available, and the wording on it is also extremely gentle and elderly, to the effect that Pu Qixiong will try his best to cooperate with the actions of the Feifeng Army the day after tomorrow - as Shi Cundao expected, the next plan of the Feifeng Army is to raid the Wu Sizhong camp surrounded in Fuzhou, and tear a hole from the southwest, that is, the rear of the Heggis Army, Finally, he joined forces with Hong Liejun in Fuzhou.
Su Jing waited for Pu Qixiong to verify the military order issued by Shi Cundao, and said: "At that time, I will also ask General Pu Lao to send your army out of the city to respond." β
Puqi Xiong said with a difficult face: "This ...... I'm afraid it's not appropriate. β
Su Jing said: "What? β
Pu Qixiong said: "The old man said bluntly, Marshal Shi has already had a military order first, if the Feifeng army defects to Fuzhou, we are only responsible for opening the door to welcome guests, and will never go out to attack the enemy, so ...... When General Zhao arrived, the old man could personally open the door to welcome him in and send someone to answer the problem. β
Su Jingluo frowned and said: "Our army only has 200,000 people, and we will be pursued by the enemy at that time, and if there is no response from your army, I am afraid it will be difficult to enter the city safely." β
Pu Qixiong shrugged his shoulders and said: "The military order is difficult to disobey, if Su Jianshen has any objections, you can negotiate with the marshal, so don't embarrass the old man." β
Pu Qixiong can tell him frankly, what he said is also the truth, I made a look at her and reminded her that she couldn't agree, but Su Jing thought about it and said: "Since this is the case, we don't force it, Marshal Shi must have his own concerns, but when the Feifeng Army entered the city, please ask the old general to bother more." β
"It's nature. β
I stomped my foot in annoyance, and Su Jing glanced at me and said, "Then the junior will leave." Pu Qixiong got up and said a few polite words, and I hurriedly said: "I will send Su Jianshen on behalf of the old general." Puchon said, "That's very good." β
Su Jing and I came out and walked to a path, and when we saw that there was no one around, I jumped in front of her with an arrow step, and said hurriedly: "Why don't you look at me?" β
Su Jing said indifferently: "I know what you mean, but the general has long thought that Shi Cundao is unwilling to send troops to help the war, and it is in vain for us to beg him." β
I said, "So what is my mother's plan?" β
Su Jing didn't answer, but asked me instead: "Xiaolong, let me ask you, how many soldiers and horses can you mobilize now?" β
I held my chin and thought about it, "About 60 of them......
"Why is it so little, aren't you the former general of the left?"
I smiled bitterly and said, "If you are Shi Cundao, can you rest assured that you will really hand over the military power to me?" β
Su Jing said thoughtfully: "It seems that although you have high prestige in the Hong Lie Army, you have no real power - then at least nominally you are still the number two person in the Left Army, right?" β
I wondered, "Why do you keep asking this?" β
Su Jing said: "Because the general's next plan is to use the 150,000 Hong Lie troops in Fuzhou City, and none of them can be missing!" β
I was surprised: "Shi Cundao and the two dates are reluctant, let alone 150,000 horses." β
Su Jing said: "So it's up to you to find a way, whether it's inducing or hard to win, in short, you have to find a way to get Pu Qixiong!" β
I subconsciously looked around and said cautiously, "What the hell is Mom going to do?" β
Su Jing approached me and said, "The time of the general's attack is not the day after tomorrow at all. β
"When was that?"
"In the early hours of tomorrow morning, that is to say, in five or six hours at most, the Feifeng Army will launch an attack on the central part of Wu Si."
I gasped: "Then why did you tell Shi Cundao ......?"
Su Jing interrupted me and said, "The key to this operation is here, the general knows that Shi Cundao will not cooperate with all his might, so he didn't tell Hong Liejun the real purpose." β
"Why in the wee hours of the morning?"
"Because the Haggis are good at night fighting, we specially chose the time in the early hours of the morning."
I nodded and said, "Mom, this is deceiving Hong Liejun from top to bottom." "So what did she plan?" β
Su Jing said: "This general didn't talk to me in detail, she just needs me to convey it to you: as soon as you hear the signal of the Feifeng Army's attack, you will take the Fuzhou soldiers out of the city to respond, as for what to do later, she will tell you in person when the time comes." Su Jing saw my hesitant look and said, "You don't even believe in the general, do you?" β
"Of course notβ" I said worriedly, "it's not easy to take power, it's impossible to convince Puqixiong, so I can't kill him, right?" β
Su Jing said: "Usually you don't have a lot of ideas? β
I wondered: "The biggest problem is not Pu Qixiong, you must know that people obey me because I am a sword god, but leading troops to fight is like a three-year-old child, will those generals listen to my command?" β
Su Jing said: "There are no elders and youngers in the army, let alone a place where seniority is ranked, if your military rank is higher than theirs, they should listen to you." β
I shook my head vigorously and said, "Your words are nothing short of to those who lead the troops. "At first glance, Su Jing has no experience in living in the army, through my experience of more than a month, I deeply understand that it is not easy to survive in the army, military rank is by no means the most important thing, as long as there is a group anywhere, there will be gangs, and the army is even more so, the reason why Hong Liejun is still stable is all because of Shi Cundao's influence, the army is either a child of the Shi family or a protΓ©gΓ© of Shi Cundao, everyone serves a boss, and the interests are the same, so that they will not be in the same room. Zhu Xiaofeng's unswerving appointment of Shi Cundao has to say that he has his scruples, and my appearance is purely accidental, I don't belong to any group, I have a high military rank, and the only role is that I can get closer to the handsome case every time I have a meeting, but when it comes to power, I have never been in this circle, I used to be able to get along with others because I didn't care about this, and now I want to insert such a bar, the result is difficult to predict, if you want a car to run, the engine and the four wheels must at least work together, right? No matter how high my military rank is, it is equivalent to a car mark, and it has not touched the core part at all, what can you do if the middle-level generals below do not listen to you? I believe that in terms of influence, Stilyan Stilwell is above me, although their military rank is not high, but the actual number of troops is definitely more than that of an ordinary general.
But it was useless to say these words to Su Jing, and I knew that this would be a very critical action, so I just said to her: "You go and do your business, and I will deal with it here." β
Su Jing said: "Remember, in the early hours of tomorrow morning, success or failure is here, you have to prepare early!" β
I waved my hand and said, "Go ahead." β
Su Jing rose into the air, looking at her distant back, I muttered: "There is such a flying master, the information is not equal, can Hegis not lose?" β
The next thing to bear the brunt of is to deal with Pu Qixiong like this, it is basically impossible for the old man to go against Shi Cundao's military order and send troops without authorization, only to think of other ways, I rolled my eyes, stretched out my hand to call Zhang Shilei over and ordered: "Go, invite the old general Pu to my tent to narrate." Then he added, "Ask someone to bring me a few dishes and a few jars of wine." β
Pu Qixiong came soon, because it was a private meeting, the old man was not wearing a military uniform, and walked in casually and said, "Is there something wrong with Di Zai looking for the old man?" β
"Nothing." I pointed to the wine and food on the table and said, "I have been taken care of by the old general for so long, and I have no chance to express my gratitude to the old general today." β
Pu Qixiong smiled and said: "This is not an outside, I have been born and died with your grandfather like brothers for so many years, and if I am not afraid that you will see you, I have always treated you as my own grandson." β
I hurriedly smiled and said, "That's the best." "The heart said that I came to the Honglie Empire this time to be a grandson, it seems that the task has been completed well, and it is almost "all the people are grandchildren".
Pu Qixiong sat down at the top, picked up the wine bottle and glanced at it and smiled: "This thing is taboo in the army. β
I understand that the old man just said, how can a soldier not love wine? Now that it's the stage of defending the city, there is no war, and besides, as the commander of a group army, what is the big deal to drink a little wine?
I picked up the flask and filled him with a glass and said, "Anyway, I don't have anything to do until the earliest and the day after tomorrow, so let's have a good drink today." β
Pu Qixiong picked up the wine glass and sniffed, and said with a smile: "How can you kid and my old coffin cook have so much to say, I'm afraid this wine is ill-intentioned, right?" β
My heart tightened, and I said, "You can wronged me, am I such a conscienceless person?" β
Pu Qixiong put down his wine glass and said, "You still tell the old man the truth, do you have something to ask the old man for help?" β
My mind flashed, hesitated, and finally decided that I couldn't tell the truth, but if he couldn't be fooled, the old man is not stupid, I usually stay away from him, and today I am interested in pleasing him, of course he will not think that I am really filial piety...... Therefore, I said in a difficult way: "This ...... I don't know if I should say it or not. β
Puccion glanced at me and said, "I'll just say something's wrong." He took a chopstick dish to his mouth, and said calmly, "Actually, if you don't say it, I know, you can find the old man about this matter to show that your kid still doesn't treat me as an outsider." β
I asked, "You already know? β
Pu Qixiong looked at me with a smile and said, "You have been in the army for a month and haven't led a soldier, and your hands are itchy, aren't you?" β
As soon as I heard that he thought I was asking for power from him, although the donkey's head was not in the horse's mouth, but it was also crooked, so he drooped his face and said dejectedly: "I can't hide anything from you." As he spoke, he raised his wine glass and raised it high in front of the old man: "Then you can give me some advice." β
Pu Qixiong took it and drank it all, and then said with a straight face: "If you want to say that you are the emperor's former general of the left front, and your position in this Honglie army is second only to the marshal and the old man and a few other people, it is said that this soldier should have been brought to you a long time ago, but you must also understand that you, the former general of the left, are also different." β
I said: "I understand, the emperor originally meant to let me hang a false title, and my main role is not to lead troops." As I spoke, I filled the old man with another glass and handed it respectfully.
Pu Qixiong drank it dry again and said: "This is also true or wrong, you are the sword god of our Honglie Empire, it goes without saying that it is necessary to boost morale and boost the morale of the army, if you can lead the troops, of course it is the icing on the cake, why don't the emperor and the marshal want to?" It's just that your age and experience are there, and if you really want to put tens of thousands of horses into your hands, the first person who is not at ease will be the marshal. β
I poured my wine and said, "Yes, my grandfather doesn't seem to want me to command the army. β
Pu Qixiong said: "You have wronged the marshal, he is actually more anxious than anyone else, think about it, what did the emperor say at the oath meeting before leaving?" The meaning is very clear, the position of generalissimo in the future will definitely be yours, if you can use the power of the sword god to subdue the three armies, and you can win a decisive victory thousands of miles away with your wit, how happy should the marshal be? β
I said, "I don't dare to think about a decisive victory thousands of miles away, the problem is that I don't even have the power to mobilize a person now." β
Pu Qixiong smiled: "You are complaining about the old man." β
"No, no, I know it's all my grandfather's meaning, in fact, you still take good care of me."
Pu Qixiong said: "It's good that you understand, the marshal doesn't dare to let you command the army easily, or that reason: your qualifications are too shallow, others can defeat the battle, but you can't!" β
I laughed and said, "What's the point?" β
"You are our sword god, this is your first reason why you can't be defeated; Besides, when others lose a battle, 'victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers', and if you lose, someone in the court will immediately settle a small account, saying that the marshal is nepotistic, and actually let a novice who has never been on the battlefield lead the troops, and then he will be passive. β
I smacked my lips and said, "But isn't this qualification also accumulated slowly?" If you don't let me do it, how can I have the qualifications? β
Pu Qixiong said: "The marshal has already discussed this matter with me, judging from the previous example of you leading people to rescue Stilwell, you still have a certain understanding, and the marshal has also decided to slowly give you some opportunities to exercise, and the burden on you will become heavier and heavier in the future." β
I hurriedly poured another full bottle of wine for Pucci and pretended to be surprised: "Really? β
Pu Qixiong smiled: "Don't think that this is a good errand, once you embark on this path, there will be a lot of trouble that you can't even think of." β
I said, "For example? β
Pu Qixiong said: "For example, how to get those boys under your command to obey you?" These guys are all unruly thorns, and if they don't obey you, you won't be able to move an inch. β
I feigned distress and said, "I don't have any experience with this." β
Pu Qixiong smiled: "So I said that you asked me this is the right person, the old man has been in the army for more than 50 years, I dare not say that he is on par with the marshal, at least there are few people in the Hong Lie Army who are older than me, when it comes to training this group of little rabbit cubs, the old man still has experience." Speaking of this, Pu Qixiong couldn't help but drink a large glass of wine, and his conceit was overflowing.
I hurriedly filled him up: "Then you can teach me." β
Pu Qixiong wiped his mouth and said: "It's easy to say, this leading the soldiers is like driving a car, the people below are horses, some horses are proud but fast, some are calm, but too conservative, who puts them in the head and who controls the direction is learning." β
I smiled and said, "That's far away, I haven't even held the reins yet, you can teach me how to make them all afraid of me?" β
"I'm afraid that on the one hand, the most important thing is a service word, it is always more difficult to convince people with virtue than to suppress people with coercion, such as you now, Wei is enough, this German word has not yet been erected."
"How?"
Pu Qixiong smiled: "This is not something that can be explained in three words. β
I flattered, "Anyway, it's okay today, you can tell me in detail." β
Pu Qixiong pondered for a moment and said: "Then I will tell you two things, I remember that your grandfather sent me to take 3,000 sergeants to intercept a squad of the enemy, and the other party was less than 100 people, but because of my negligence, one person slipped through the net, and afterwards your grandfather beat me with 30 military sticks and fined me for half a year." Another time, he also sent a veteran to escort grain and grass, commanding an army of 30,000, but the man was ambushed halfway, and he set fire to all the grain carts without the enemy, and only broke through with a dozen horsemen and returned, your grandfather not only did not punish him, but also comforted him with kind words, what do you see from here? β
I said, "It means that grandpa treats you as a brother, so he has high requirements for you?" β
Pu Qixiong shook his head and said: "The veteran, me and your grandfather are all very good brothers in private, but I took 3,000 people to intercept 100 people, and I shouldn't have missed. And the veteran was ambushed, the enemy was several times his own, he burned the grain and grass so that the other party could not get any benefits, it is really difficult to make a decision on the spot, so your grandfather punished me, not only did I not resent him, but felt that he deserved it. β
I scratched my head and said, "What does the old general mean by telling me this?" β
Pu Qixiong said: "This is the way to lead the soldiers, no matter how your subordinates have a personal relationship with you, your subordinates are your subordinates, and the rewards and punishments must be clear, and the most clever thing about your grandfather is that none of the people he has punished complain about him, and they are all ashamed of themselves and feel that they have no face to see him." β
I suddenly said, "Is it a clear distinction between public and private?" β
Pu Qixiong said: "It's not so simple, military law is nothing more than human feelings, and the proportion in this has to be accurate." β
I shook my hands and said, "It's too hard." β
Pu Qixiong smiled: "In the future, if you follow me and your grandfather to study hard, who in the Hong Lie Army will dare not sell your face?" β
As soon as I heard this, I knew that the old man was already a little drunk, so I hurriedly took advantage of the victory to chase and toast again and again, Pu Qixiong has been a long time, and the glorious achievements worth talking about are too numerous to mention, plus I held a sum on the side, the old Putou wine to the cup, chatting about Dafa, speaking of which later he taught me a lot of tricks, these are all heart-wrenching things, to be honest, I really like this old man, if there is a special task today, I really want to have a good chat with him. In this way, the two of us had one intention and one unintentional, and I quickly poured the old man into words, and after the little half of the jar of wine was down, Pu Qixiong lay on the table and snored. I called out to him a few times, but there was no answer, and then I ordered the old man to be carried back to his tent to rest.
It was already late at night outside the tent, Zhang Shilei and others followed me sleepily and asked, "Young master, are you going to sleep too?" β
I did two chest expansion exercises, took a deep breath and said, "Sleep? Young master, I'm going to do something earth-shattering! Beat the drum of the generals and let the generals of the whole army come to the big tent for a meeting! β
I bought a new keyboard, with complete letters, sensitive keys, and coded words...... It's still that slow. At the beginning, under the guise of learning typing, my dad tricked my dad into buying me a small overlord learning machine, and I really shouldn't have gone to play Contra and Top Mushroom, at that time, my brother's girlfriend was teaching people to learn computers, and she told me that typing should have the correct pointing, I scoffed, and said that I would not rely on this to eat in the future - that I would go to the technical house, and I thought that inventing a great game like Contra in the future was the king, and the result was a cup.
Later, when I thought about it, it really has nothing to do with positioning, and of course, it has nothing to do with positioning.
My sister-in-law doesn't read my books????
(To be continued)