The banner of the Governor's Yamen is still very useful in the army, even if this is not the Governor of Huainan Province, and he actually has no right to control everyone.

But when the soldiers faced the banner of a governor, they still inevitably lacked confidence. So after the initial interrogation, the group of officers and soldiers was no longer stopped.

Under the guidance of the officers and men of the army, they soon came here.

The team led by the cavalry came to Lin Fan and the others, turned over and dismounted.

Lin Fan and An Ning were both wearing official uniforms, and the team was not going to admit their mistakes. He respectfully saluted everyone and asked, "I am a ranger of the Central Plains Dao official army, and he is the personal soldier of the governor, dare to ask who is in charge here?" ”

Lin Fan replied: "I am Lin Fan, the general judge of Shenzhou, and I am here today in accordance with the edict of His Majesty and the military order of the Governor of Huainan Province, Yamen, who led the army into Jingqinwang. You've come here to look for me, but what's the matter? ”

The team hurriedly replied: "I've seen Lord Lin!" ”

"Returning to my lordship, I am here to follow the military order of Lord Zhou, the governor of Central Plains Province, and I came to invite my lord into the camp!"

Lin Fan was curious: "What is Zhou Butang looking for me?" ”

"At the end of the humble position, he just acted on orders, as for why Zhou Butang wanted to invite the adults to meet, the humble position did not dare to ask, so I really don't know, please forgive me!" That's what the team is saying.

Lin Fan didn't know if what the team was saying was true or false, but even if someone didn't say it, Lin Fan could roughly guess the purpose of their trip.

Zhou Chang wanted to see him, it was nothing more than related to this war. For such a big thing as the destruction of Xingwangjun and the killing of Chen Xinglong, Zhou Chang, as the governor of the Central Plains Dao, could not ask questions, which would be unreasonable and unreasonable.

As for whether the governor of Central Plains Province is good or malicious this time, and whether the result is good or bad, we will have to wait until we meet.

As for whether or not to go to see him, the governor of the family has already personally sent someone to invite him, where will there be a chance for Lin Fan to refuse.

If Lin Fan really dared to say a word, I am afraid that he would not even be able to get out of the Central Plains Dao, and he would be taken down by these people on the spot.

has no respect and contempt for Shangguan, just this one crime is enough for Lin Fan to eat a pot.

And no one can say any gossip like this, even if Lin Ruxian comes, it's useless.

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Zhou Butang is a governor, and he is in the feudal territory. I'm just a small general judgment, and I'm a guest army, since I came to the jurisdiction of the minister, I should go to visit, how can I be a request from the minister! ”

"Please lead the way, I'll go!"

Lin Fan ordered the whole army to camp on the spot, and after arranging for An Ning to wait for the rest to take care of here, he took a horse and joined the rangers.

The team also got on the horse again and said to Lin Fan: "Lord Lin, please come with me!" ”

The group came and went quickly.

Following the direction in which they came, these people quickly disappeared out of the sight of An Ning and the others again, only this time there was one more Lin Fan among them.

Leaving his camp, Lin Fan followed them all the way north.

After a distance of about ten miles, a large camp of officers and soldiers came into Lin Fan's eyes.

Compared with Lin Fan's camp, this camp is much more majestic and magnificent.

In terms of scale, this large battalion alone can garrison tens of thousands of troops.

Moreover, Lin Fan deeply understands that the Central Plains Provincial Provincial Army will never have only this one big camp, and I believe that there will be other official and military camps within dozens of miles nearby.

These battalions formed horns with each other, and if one was in distress, the rest could be quickly supported. They can even cooperate with each other to eat the incoming enemy in one fell swoop.

According to Lin Fan's estimates, now under Zhou Chang's command, the total strength of several large battalions is probably no less than 100,000.

Lin Fan couldn't see the rest of the big camps, so he didn't care about him, he looked at the big camp in front of him attentively.

Lin Fan found that the walled wall here was as high as more than a zhang, and there were soldiers constantly patrolling back and forth on the wall, and there were a large number of lookout posts around, and any trace of wind and grass outside the camp could not hide the eyes of the people in the camp.

In addition, there were a large number of repulsive horses outside the battalion, which could be used to defend against the surprise attack of the enemy cavalry.

Perhaps because of the short period of camping, the camp was not yet completely completed, and there were still many soldiers and young men outside the camp who were digging trenches and building barriers.

Such a large battalion may not be able to attack, but as long as the battalion has enough food and grass, it is enough to resist the attack of enemy troops several times its size.

Now it's cold, and the ground is frozen and extremely hard.

But the progress of those people's construction was not greatly affected, and the progress was very fast, at least much faster than when Lin Fan and the others built the camp themselves.

Judging from the proficiency of these people, they have probably been like this for the past few years.

I am afraid that every camp they built was of this standard, and it would only be worse in the past when the fighting was fierce.

Lin Fan nodded secretly, no wonder Zhou Chang could push Chen Xinglong into a desperate situation little by little. Such a well-defended camp is difficult to build without a battle-hardened person.

There may be many people who think that Zhou Chang's style of play is conservative and too dull, but Lin Fan doesn't think so.

After all, the strength of the imperial court officials and troops is still too much beyond Chen Xinglong's Xingwang army, and under this kind of strength gap, Zhou Chang doesn't need to play any strange weapons at all.

What he has to do is to give full play to the advantages of the official army as much as possible, as long as the official army surrounds the Xingwang army, he can attack by defending.

As long as the camp is not breached, the officers and troops can be invincible.

And such a solid camp, as long as there are no internal problems, the Xingwang army wants to break through even any camp, and the price they have to pay is unbearable.

With the support of the imperial court, the officers and soldiers in the camp can be replenished with a steady stream of food, grass and troops at any time.

The besieged Xingwang army, after losing contact with the outside world, it is difficult for their various losses to be effectively replenished, and can only be gradually weakened.

In this case, Zhou Chang and the official army led by him did not even have to engage in a so-called decisive battle with the Xingwang army, they could slowly wear down the Xingwang army until they were dragged to death in Chenzhou City and solved this bandit that had endangered the imperial court for many years.

Of course, such an approach is certainly steady, but it is not without its drawbacks.

First of all, fighting a war in this way will not end overnight, and it will inevitably take a long time.

The reason why the war in the Central Plains Road has been able to drag on for so long is because of this reason.

And the longer it drags on, the more variables it contains. In today's situation, the longer a war drags on, the more unfavorable it will actually be for the officers and soldiers.

Because although Chen Xinglong was trapped and died in Chenzhou, the imperial court also needed to place a large number of troops here, and even needed to constantly draw troops from other places to this place, constantly consolidating his pockets.

Otherwise, once Chen Xinglong seized the opportunity to slip out, everything he had done before would be wasted, which was absolutely unacceptable to the imperial court.

The more the power of the imperial court is trapped here, the more the imperial court's control over other places will be correspondingly weakened.

For example, Li Zhongdao of Longxi Province and Zhang Yanyan of Shannan Province, the two rogue forces, took advantage of the opportunity that the imperial court did not have time to deal with them for the time being, and they developed a lot.

Zhang Yangyan even broke through Shuzhou and killed hundreds of people in the entire family of the King of Shu. He regarded Shuzhou as his own nest, and used the wealth of the king of Shu to recruit troops and horses to capture the cities of Shu, and now most of Shu has fallen into his hands.

In fact, in the later stage of the Battle of Chenzhou, the forces of Li Zhongdao and Zhang Yanyan had already surpassed Chen Xinglong, who was trapped in Chenzhou. It's just that the war in Chenzhou has not yet ended, and the imperial court really can't spare its hands to deal with them, so it can only let it go.

Secondly, it costs money to fight a war like this.

There are more than 100,000 troops in Zhongyuan Province, as well as many more young and strong people. With so many people, it is not a small amount of food and grass that people need to eat and chew every day.

There are also the salaries of the soldiers, the pensions of the wounded and wounded soldiers, and the money and food that need to be spent on any of them are not so easy to come up with.

Over the years, such an expenditure can definitely make people's jaws drop when they say it.

A pen of silver was spent like a stream, but Zhou Chang was unhurried and did not make much progress.

In this case, those people in the cabinet and the household department must be in a hurry to death.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, the treasury is empty like this, and the old men of the household department are eager to break a penny in half.

It is not enough to have the bottomless pit of the Liaodong Border Army, but also to add Zhou Chang.

So much money was allocated to Zhongyuan Road, but there was not even a sound, and I am afraid that the household department would have secretly jumped to scold my mother.

Lin Fan dared to say that Zhou Chang must have been impeached by the officials in the capital in the past few years.

It's just that he has the trust of His Majesty, and the help of those who understand in the court, so he didn't let those people succeed!

And whether it is His Majesty's trust or the courtiers' help, it must be built on the premise that Zhou Chang wins the battle.

If it had cost so much manpower and material resources and spent so much money, in the end, Chen Xinglong would have run out.

With His Majesty's temperament today, there will definitely be no good fruit to eat from Zhou Chang.

At that time, the crowd was angry, and hundreds of officials criticized and criticized, and Zhou Chang was dismissed from office and deprived of his post, so he must inevitably go to the edict prison.

However, although Lin Fan said so many bad things about Zhou Chang in his heart, this does not mean that what Zhou Chang did was wrong.

In fact, even if Lin Fan is put in this position, he may not be able to come up with a better way, let alone say that he will do better than Zhou Chang.

Although this method is not enterprising enough, it can minimize the loss of the officers and troops and preserve the strength of the officers and troops.

Because it is safe enough, this can also avoid the defeat of the official army as much as possible, and leave enough spare time for the official army to quell other rebellions in the future

For this alone, Zhou Chang's name is well deserved.