After coming out of Gaoying, Zhao Dangshi was quite confused. With the increase of experience, he has been able to control his temper well, and gradually developed the habit of being moody. However, for some things that touched his bottom line, he really couldn't stand it because of his strong nature.

He agreed to Gao Yingen's request, but Xue Feixian insulted his wife and killed his daughter, destroying his faith. If it weren't for Han Gon and Meng Aocao to hug him first, and Xue Feixian to take away the other, it would be inevitable to have a fire. It was only when he gradually calmed down that he realized the seriousness of the matter.

It is true that Xue Feixian is his subordinate, but compared to Hou Dagui and others, he is very independent, so that he can take his subordinates out of the Zhao camp. For such subordinates, countering violence with violence will only be counterproductive. Han Gon is right, Zhao Ying's new expansion of personnel and stability is the top, if he wants to make his own people deviate from morality for the sake of a defeated general, it is really not a wise move.

Starting from this, Zhao Dangshi thought a lot, the most important of which was how to maintain his absolute authority over the army while expanding. If the order cannot be issued and the whole army obeys, then blindly expanding is actually a very dangerous thing for Zhao Ying.

Especially in recent times, although the successive additions of Qin Jinxiao, Han Gon and other departments have effectively increased the combat effectiveness of Zhao Ying, Zhao Dangshi has become more and more unfamiliar and distant from Zhao Ying. If this continues, sooner or later, Zhao Ying will follow the old path that most battalion leaders will take, that is, the weak cohesion, the imbalance in combat effectiveness, and even the corruption of military discipline caused by the mixing of fish and dragons. He thought to himself that he would have to take some action to keep these new armies firmly in his hands.

Gao Yingen could only send his wife back and give him a pension. For this person, Zhao Dangshi is not ready to kill. After all, he is Gao Yingxiang's younger brother, and he has a poor impact on killing him, and he can't get any actual benefits.

After the defeat of the Gao and Tuo Second Battalions, the speed of collapse was unimaginable. The elders in the camp who had sworn to support the two were scattered, and they each led their troops to leave, and there was no sense of righteousness and friendship at all. Zhao Dangshi saw it in his eyes, and thought that if his subordinates were all assisted by such a group of people, it was simply chilling. At the same time, I also thought that with such a royal ability, I led a group of detached rabble to compete for fame and fortune, no wonder Gao Yingen and Tuopan Gao would soon be annihilated in the dust of history, and their origins would be nameless.

On the contrary, on the other hand, Xue Feixian's incident this time may not be all bad. Being able to sound the alarm bell and make yourself soberly aware of the potential danger of Zhao Ying under the victory is really the biggest result you have reaped. Only by doing this can we avoid disasters in time and develop steadily.

Before these ideas are supported by relatively mature solutions, Zhao Dangshi will not talk to anyone. Back to reality, after all, it was the remnants of the camp that had a deep precipitation in the big victory, and the spoils of war that were calculated quickly diluted the haze in Zhao Dangshi's heart.

First of all, the prisoners of the second battalion. After most of the soldiers escaped and fled, there were still two or three thousand people in the second battalion who were taken into custody. Zhao Dangshi was not ready to absorb them all, but only selected some strong supplementary battalions that were lacking in personnel and left craftsmen and doctors with craftsmanship and skills in the back camp. The rest were all sent to Zhang Miaoshou, which could be regarded as a reward for his help.

Although the elite horse army that broke into the camp collapsed in the battle of Ma Chaosuo, in the final analysis, there was still an accumulation of breaking into the camp, and there were indeed a lot of armor materials in the two battalions of Gao Yingen and Tuupan Gao, and the seizure of gunpowder alone made Xu Hui smile from ear to ear.

It's a pity that there is not much grain, which is also expected by Zhao Dangshi. Tens of thousands of troops have gathered in a corner for more than half a month, and they have been dug three feet into the ground within a radius of more than 100 miles, so what surplus grain is there to save. Through the inventory and overall planning of the rear camp, it is still possible to use the remaining grain and grass to support the buffer period of Zhaoying's rectification in recent days. can persist to this point, Zhao Dangshi is already satisfied.

During the period of army rectification, Zhao Dangshi held a military meeting and attended all the above generals. The goal is to determine the next steps. After summarizing the information reported by the scouts, Zhao Dangshi and the others probably knew the basic situation of the two sides of the official army and the rogue in Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces.

In general, there are three focal points of the current struggle between officials and thieves: northern Shaanxi, western Henan, and the border between Chu and Henan.

Needless to say, in northern Shaanxi, Li Zicheng, Hui Dengxiang, and Zhou Qing, the star of Chaotianxing, were in a stalemate with Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou's entire family is now besieging them, and the two sides are coming and going, rebelling at a glance, and the situation is confusing. The two have been tugging for a long time, but in fact, not only Li Zicheng and others are embarrassed, but Hong Chengchou, Fan Yixuan, Zuo Guangxian, Cao Bianjiao, He Renlong and other officers and soldiers are also anxious.

Western Henan is the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying, mixed 100,000 Ma Jinzhong, sweeping king Zhang Yichuan, Xingshi Wang Guoning co-authored Zhang Sitianwang, neat king, Wabei king and so on more than ten thieves and Yu Fu Chen Biqian, Yu according to Yang Shenwu and Yu general Zuo Liangyu, Chen Yongfu, Shen Ruyu and so on, difficult to solve.

At the junction of Chu and Henan, Zhang Xianzhong, the eight kings of Xiying, and Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, led a group of younger brothers such as Li Wanqing, Zuojin Wang, He Jin, and Lin Yangyang, the king of troubled times, to attack everywhere. Li Zicheng is good at ambushing soldiers, and Zhang Xianzhong is good at running and flowing, which is reflected at this time. Lu Xiangsheng was recently transferred to the governor of Xuanda, and he congratulated him with his rogue bullets. Without his unified deployment, Yang Shien, Xu Chengming and other officers and troops in northern Chu dealt with Zhang Xianzhong, who was erratic, and it could almost be described as exhausting.

In addition to these three places, there are several other places that are eye-catching: Shangluo Mountain in Shaanxi has Geli Yanhe Yilong, and I heard that his subordinates have plans to go to Henan to meet Lao Hui and other camps; In Yunyang and Xiangyang, Liu Guoneng and Zhang Fatzi are still wandering around, playing hide and seek with Qin Yiming and Deng Zuyu; The scorpion block Tuoyangkun rebelled in Xi'an not long ago, was defeated by Sun Chuanting, and retreated to the east; The little red wolf and other units in Hanzhong sheltered the remnants of soldiers from all over the country, and their power was growing day by day.

All of the above are the recent large-scale distribution of forces, and the number of large and small thieves scattered throughout the provinces is as vast as a sea of stars, and there are countless of them.

In fact, Zhao Dangshi's original wish was to find a place as a base to operate and save with peace of mind. Not only him, no one wants to flow around all day long, panicking all day long, but the situation is stronger than people, under the pressure of officials and soldiers from all walks of life, no one has enough strength and conditions to squat down and farm. Taking advantage of the trend is a life-saving talisman when he is weak, and according to Zhao Ying's current strength, it is far from being able to change his life against the sky. It is also because of this clear view, combined with his keen insight into the current situation, that Zhao Ying was able to successfully avoid several major blows and disasters under the leadership of Zhao Dangshi, and continue to grow and develop to this day.

Now than ever, there are many places to go, and the participating troops will express their opinions, and in the end there are basically three main opinions.

The first is to advocate going east, first hiding in the mountainous Shangluo area, and then choosing an opportunity to go out of the mountains and enter Henan, where it will join the Lao Hui and other troops who are fighting hotly with the official army. The main reason for this recommendation is to consider security. Joint operation is a common self-protection strategy among rogues. Now Henan Zhukou is headed by 100,000 Ma Jinzhong, and Ma Shouying is the mastermind, with 80,000 or 90,000 people, and the officials and soldiers have come and gone, and even not long ago Ma Shouying also raided Kaifeng, burned the west gate of the city, and killed the spirit of the officials and soldiers. It is more fitting to be with them.

However, Zhao Dangshi rejected this proposal after thinking about it, and Hou Dagui and Wang Laixing also objected. Among them, Wang Laixing's attitude was very intense, and Zhao Dangshi knew that he must have thought of the humiliation he had suffered under Zhang Xiongfei in the return camp. Moreover, although he was born and returned to the camp, he is not a descendant, so he does not have a sense of belonging.

The more important consideration is to go east to Henan, because there are heavy soldiers in the front line of Tongguan, so they can only go to Shangluo. Shangluo is currently entrenched in Geli Yanhe Yilong, and the scorpion block Tuoyangkun has rebelled and escaped to the east, and nine times out of ten he will also hide in the Shangluo Mountains. Zhao Dangshi and they have no friendship, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, he can yin Gao Yingen and Tuo Pangao, and he is not allowed to be greedy for He and Tuo, and they join hands to deal with themselves. In the mountain melee, Zhao Dangshi was not sure to defeat He Yilong, who was born as a mountain bandit.

The second view is to go west, cross the Weishui River in a hurry, and enter the Helong area. The core of this view is not actually Hexi, but using Hexi as a buffer and waiting for an opportunity to join forces with Li Zicheng and others in northern Shaanxi. The representative of this opinion is Xu Hui, who believes that Zhao Ying does not yet have the ability to fight independently in Shaanxi, where the situation is dangerous. Compared with the strong gangsters in various places, only Li Zicheng is more reliable, and if you sit back and watch Hong Chengchou in northern Shaanxi continue to attack and really destroy Li Zicheng and others, the impact will actually be very great. The fire at the city gate affected the pond fish, and Zhao Yingzi would not have any good fruit to eat.

Zhao Dangshi was willing to join forces with Li Zicheng, but he didn't think that Zhao Ying had enough ability to gain a foothold in Hexi to spare his spare strength to support Li Zicheng. The Hexi Corridor has been plagued by military disasters for many years, with endless natural disasters and is very barren. In the summer of last year, there was a great famine in Lanzhou, Di and He, and countless people died of starvation, and in February of this year, nearby Ningxia even mutinied due to hunger, killing the local governor Du Yushi, and then relying on Hong Chengchou's full strength to kill, it was stabilized. In addition, the Hexi area is adjacent to Xiqiang, and there are many toasts. Zhao Dangshi had taught the power of the Southwest Tusi in Shizhou Wei, and he did not dare to despise Ningxia and Hexi, which had a Bibai rebellion decades ago. No matter how you think about it, this kind of place is definitely not an ideal resting place.

The first two options were abandoned, and the focus of the military debate naturally shifted to the discussion of the last proposition, which held that there was no need to go south to Hanzhong.

The proposer of it was unexpected, not a senior general at the general level and a general, but Yang Zhaofeng, who had just been converted to a civilian post and served as a counselor under Hao Shaoqi. In order to improve the status of the military's Chinese personnel, Zhao Dangshi made it clear that the counselors of each battalion must also be present. However, it seems that Yan Licheng and Shuiqiu talk about such serious Confucian scholars, no one in the military council takes them seriously, they also have a sense of proportion, and they have the right to be dumb, just stand up and listen. It's just that Yang Zhaofeng is a little special, has a good relationship with the generals, and has done military exploits before, so he dares to speak out.

Guo Hutou agreed with Yang Zhaofeng's idea. Yang Zhaofeng argued in his heart, and Guo Hutou analyzed the benefits of going to Hanzhong for him. Hanzhong was only broken into a month ago, and the scorpion army was raging, not to mention those areas that had been breached, even Hanzhong City had not eased up at this time, and when it was really counted, there were only two divisions of four or five thousand officers and troops of Sun Xianzu and Liu Shaozong. And these two people, one is old and inactive, the other is timid and conservative, and the infant city is self-consolidated, and he never has the courage to go out of the city to fight. Looking at Sun Chuanting in Xi'an, there are scorpion blocks and Geli eyes are still nearby, and he doesn't dare to leave the land without permission and cross the Qinling Mountains to help. Therefore, the biggest advantage of bearing the brunt is that the power of the official army in the Hanzhong Basin is relatively weak.

Secondly, there is no very strong force in Hanzhong. According to the previous scout's report, the rogues in Hanzhong here include the little red wolf, a dragon, a little yellow warbler, a heavenly dragon, a tiger, and so on. The little red wolf is the one that Zhao Ying beat before entering Sichuan last year, and now he has become the overlord of southern Shaanxi, and the combat power of other miscellaneous armies can be imagined. Rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow, one of the reasons why Zhao Dangshi blacked Gao Yingen and Tuo Pangao at that time was that he was unwilling to be controlled by others, so he went to southern Shaanxi, which was very much in line with his heart.

With these two reasons, it is already convincing enough. However, there is still an important reason that drove Zhao Dangshi to finally make up his mind to choose this path. It was he who wanted to go to Hanzhong and enter Sichuan again.

The first time he entered Sichuan, because of his own strength limitations, Zhao Ying finally had to withdraw. But time has passed, Zhao Ying's strength is not comparable to the past, and with the first experience and foundation, not to mention being able to take root in Sichuan, at least at the beginning, the intention of integrating the Zhukou in Sichuan should be hopeful. Through various clues, Zhao Dangshi judged that at present, in Sichuan, Yuan Tao, who was greatly injured, failed to make a comeback, and Hu Jiusi, Chang Guoan and others took advantage of the situation and were competing with Yuan Tao for the position of the head of Sichuan. In times of turmoil, it can be described as a good time to fish in troubled waters.

Out of prudence, Zhao Dangshi did not directly say his long-term plan, but only expressed his support for Yang Zhaofeng. After the generals discussed it again, they finally decided to go south to Hanzhong on a certain day. When Zhang Miaoshou heard the news that Zhao Ying was about to be pulled out soon, he also sent someone over to express his hope for joint action with Zhao Ying.

Zhao Dangshi did not resist the model of joint operation, and before the headquarters of Zhao Battalion did not have stable soldiers and logistical support, the army that took the elite route could not withstand attrition. A force like Zhang Miaoshou that he trusts can be attached to it, so that the pressure of the battle can be shared, and the momentum can also be strengthened.

Zhao Dangshi agreed to the other party's request, and when he looked back, he was the one who was under the fence and ran around to take refuge, and one day he actually became the object of others' dependence. The world is impermanent and ever-changing, Zhao Dangshi realized a little at this time, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile.

The army was about to be transferred just after it was ready, and the whole army was busy these days, and there was no time to spare. But for Zhao Dangshi, the top-level policy has been determined, and with a phased goal, his task is over, so his mood is naturally relaxed and happy.

The day before the whole army was agreed, he walked around the camp, wanting to see the situation below, turned a watchtower, bowed his head and was thinking about something, but he was full of collisions with people.