Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Old Guy
Zhang Wang says:
"Wei Hou doesn't think that the old man is my coarse tea and light rice, and he is about to lead the troops to the battle, and you have to eat this meal every day."
Lan Ziyi looked at Zhang Wang, and his heart was shocked, how did he know that he was coming?
Zhang Wang stretched out his hand to invite Lan Ziyi to take a seat,
After seeing Lan Ziyi sit down after saluting, Zhang Wang asked:
"Why is Wei Hou's brows furrowed so tightly? Are you afraid that the old man will give you a banquet? β
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"Ziyi just can't figure it out, how did the captain know that I was coming?"
When Zhang Wang heard Lan Ziyi's question, he first looked up to the sky and smiled, Lan Ziyi felt that this time Zhang Wang was completely different from the last time he saw the former Taiwei Zhang, and his body did not have the decadence of the last time, but exuded a kind of heroic feeling, as if he was going to go on an expedition.
Lan Ziyi sat in a daze and listened to Zhang Wang laughing, and then heard him say:
"I have seen Qi Rongxun, more than simple, not enough dexterous, he is a general, but not handsome. He followed his father to fight in the east for a few years, and got the true biography of his father Qi Zhun, but the kid's heart was too real, and his head was frozen, to put it bluntly, he felt that the war was like that, so he didn't come back to me at all. β
Lan Ziyi asked:
"Then why did the Captain conclude that I came back to you?"
Zhang Wang smiled:
"The descendants of the Lan family, I know the deeds of you breaking the horse thieves with 500 soldiers outside the Saiwai, and I also know that you wanted to be a scholar since you were a child, and you never went out with your father to cut people, and you could have that kind of courage and strategy at that time, one is accumulation, and the other is spirituality. Accumulation of that thing still has something to do with what you have heard and seen in the General's Mansion, and your spirituality is like a businessman, calculating and choosing the right means to attack. This is the most basic skill of a general, but it is also a skill that cannot be obtained by training, some people are familiar with the art of war, and the formation can be discharged with their eyes closed, but they just can't count, they just don't have that spirituality. β
Of course, Zhang Wang's words were very useful, and Lan Ziyi pretended to smile modestly:
"But Captain, I've only fought once."
Zhang Wang says:
"Don't be complacent, boy, of course you can't see anything in a victory, but I've seen you, and I can't be wrong."
Lan Ziyi was exposed by this scolding, and his face immediately turned red. Lan Ziyi thought that this Taiwei Zhang was really old and spicy, and he firmly grasped the momentum in his hands in a few words.
Zhang Wang snorted, picked up the dry food on the table and dipped it in soybean sauce, and chewed it on the dried bacon.
Lan Ziyi also chewed along with the same thing, it was really a scratching of his throat.
Looking at Lan Ziyi's swallowed expression, he looked at it and smiled:
"Boy, only officers can eat this thing in the army, and the soldiers eat worse than this, don't be too squeamish."
Lan Ziyi thought to himself that he had also come back from outside the fortress with the army, how could he eat so badly? It's just that Zhang Wang didn't give him a chance to complain, and asked as soon as he switched words:
"What does Wei Hou think is lacking in the expedition now?"
Lan Ziyi replied:
"Lack of soldiers."
Zhang Wang nodded, and then asked:
"What's missing?"
Lan Ziyi replied:
"The thieves claim to have more than 100,000 people, claimed to be 400,000, and there is no certainty of victory for the soldiers in the Beijing camp.
Zhang Wang smiled, his tone slightly mocking, and asked:
"This is the reason for Wei Hou's increase in troops?"
Lan Ziyi heard that Zhang Wang was laughing at himself, and he was unhappy, and asked:
"What does Captain Zhang think?"
Zhang Wang asked without answering:
"What would you do if you were given more troops?"
Lan Ziyi was a little hesitant when asked by this, and after thinking about it, he said:
"The soldiers are divided into three roads, two roads along both sides of the river, all the way up the Shuojiang River by waterway, and three roads go hand in hand to exterminate the thieves."
Zhang Wang smiled:
"And then?"
Lan Ziyi had some inexplicable feelings and said:
"Then besiege Gangneung City, and if the thieves go into battle, they will break it with a dignified array, and if the thieves retreat into the city, they will trap them inside."
Zhang Wang snorted and sneered after hearing this,
Lan Ziyi was already a little angry and asked:
"What are you laughing at?"
Zhang Wang suppressed his laughter, his face turned cold, and he stared at Lan Ziyi with sharp eyes and asked:
"What kind of enemy does Wei Hou think he is facing?"
Lan Ziyi didn't understand, and replied casually:
"It's a reincarnated thief."
Zhang Wang asked:
"What kind of thief is a reincarnated thief?"
Lan Ziyi was completely stunned and said:
"It's a rebel who plots to rebel? What else could it be? β
Zhang Wang smiled:
"Wei Hou will make up for the lessons, so that you will suffer a loss in leading troops in the future."
Then Zhang Wang stuffed himself with meat again, swallowed it and said:
"What Wei Hou wants to fight is not a thief, but a rogue."
Lan Ziyi asked:
"Isn't a rogue, a thief?"
Zhang Wang smiled and said:
"Haha, that's not what I said. Those who conspire to usurp the throne are the thieves.
To eliminate the rebels, you only need to concentrate your forces, kill the leader of the uprising in one go, and eliminate his excuse to usurp the throne and win. The anti-thieves are very easy to deal with, because their purpose is clear, nothing more than usurpation or usurpation as an excuse to do secession, so that the actions of the anti-thieves are easy to understand, as long as the scout scatters enough, willing to spend money to buy the inside line, the other party's every move can be seen clearly, and it is easy to know oneself and the other. β
Lan Ziyi nodded and asked again:
"So the rogues are the mobs who don't rise up for usurpation?"
Zhang Wang says:
"It's not all, some of them are just bandits, not rogues."
Lan Ziyi asked:
"What's the difference?"
Zhang Wang replied:
"Absolutely.
Those who fall into the grass are mostly because the officials force the people to rebel, or simply want to loot property, and after the incident, they must stand on their own hills, and go out from time to time to rob the surrounding counties. After all, the purpose of the bandits is also very clear, so that you can find a way to deal with it, and if you can find a way to deal with it, you don't have to be afraid. β
Lan Ziyi was greatly touched when he heard this, and then asked:
"In that case, what is a rogue?"
Zhang Wang looked up over Lan Ziyi and looked at the sky in the distance, sighed and said:
"What is a rogue? I don't know what a rogue is, there may be a reason for the rogue to start an incident, but it has no purpose, it starts for the sake of the incident, and after the incident there is a chance to bring chaos to all directions, the rogue will wander around trying to survive, as if the rogue has formed a soul as a whole, and it wants to live.
In order to survive, where there is food to eat and money to spend, the rogues will fight wherever they are, and where there are few officials and soldiers who can survive, the rogues will flee there.
You can think that life is the purpose of the rogue, but you can't infer the behavior of the rogue's behavior through this purpose, because each of us wants to live, it's not the end at all, it's instinct.
You know the principles of these rogues, but you just can't be prepared for it, because there are so many things to be guarded against.
Everywhere they pass, these rogues absorb the local ruffians and unemployed people like a snowball.
Those who are honest farmers may have no land to plant because of the war, and they will either starve to death or eventually have to join the rebels. β
Lan Ziyi suddenly realized, and was scared again, and hurriedly asked:
"Then how should we exterminate the rogues according to the opinion of the captain?"
Zhang Wang says:
"There are three strategies: upper, middle and lower. The best policy, increase the army to besiege; The middle strategy, marching into the encirclement and suppression; Make a decision, hold the river, and keep the Jiangdong. If you are trapped in the capital, it is helpless to let the thieves run around, and the world will die! β
Lan Ziyi asked:
"What's the best policy?"
Zhang Wang replied:
"Since the rogue's life is to live, then I'll let him live.
Those who are willing to settle down to farm and survive will give him the field to plant, so the more people who come out, the fewer people who rebel, and weaken the rogues little by little;
Those who are bent on rebellion surround him and make him unable to move,
It's a group of rabble, it's just stealing life, if the arson attacks will make the other party a mess, unanimously to the outside world, but if you are trapped and don't fight these gangsters will fall apart and kill each other,
When those who fled for their lives escaped, the recalcitrant attrition was almost the same, and the officers and soldiers only needed to go in and clean up the battlefield, which was the so-called best policy. β
Lan Ziyi asked:
"What's the middle way?"
Zhang Wang says:
"Now the rogues are twisted into a unit, and the troops are in one place,
At this time, it is not difficult to defeat them with a dignified array.
Winning a battle is enjoyable, but what can you do later?
Can a single battle kill all the rogues?
It's impossible, the crusade seems to have won a big victory, but it is just to break up the rogues, turning one stream of rogue into countless rogue bandits,
When the time comes, it will be even more expensive to exterminate it. β
Lan Ziyi couldn't help but be fascinated when he heard this, and asked again:
"So what's the next step?"
Zhang Wangleng snorted:
"Jiangdong Castle is located, and the people are wealthy, and the annual imperial court taxes in Jiangdong account for a quarter.
As long as Jiangdong does not mess with the imperial court, it can still be maintained, but in this way, the rogue will inevitably become bigger, and even if it is finally exterminated, it will definitely end up in the interior erosion, and it is difficult to say what will happen later.
And if you want to use the city wall to keep the thieves out of the capital, and you don't even care about Jiangdong, it will really be a dead country.
However, the Military Aircraft Department and the ministers of the DPRK and China are not fools, and they will not be able to use their strategies, let alone this helplessness. β
Lan Ziyi thought that with the strength of King De, he would be trapped in the capital if he didn't do well, but fortunately, it was not King De who was in power now.
Lan Ziyi asked:
"Since the Taiwei analyzed it so clearly, why didn't he write to the court and ask for more troops to encircle and suppress it?"
Zhang Wangleng snorted and said:
"You think I didn't write? When I first got the news of the Lingling Uprising, I felt wrong, and I wrote to the emperor overnight, but what was the use? In the end, it was not necessary to transfer the Beijing battalion to the expedition. β
Lan Ziyi asked:
"Why don't the lords of the court and Gonggong Long agree to increase the number of troops to encircle and suppress? Can't they see the pros and cons of things? β
Zhang Wang sneered:
"Do you think that the Taisho River is cast from the granite of Taicheng?
No, the Taizheng country is made of window paper, where it is broken and repaired, it will go down if it can be improvised.
People can live for seventy, who thinks about thousands of generations all day long, and the country will be forever?
Increasing troops to encircle and suppress is to build a hard village, fight a stupid battle, and have nothing to do. The emperor and Gonggong Long want to support King De, how can they put gold on King De's face like this?
This is still a minutiae, in fact, the most important question is just two words,
No money! β