Chapter Eighty-Eight: To the North

Wang Jincai sneered and said, "Do you think you can live if you surrender? Wang Jincai turned his eyes and looked at the faces of several henchmen.

They all looked at themselves, and there was a sense of excitement in their eyes. Wang Jincai said: "Don't forget who the people outside are? It's Zuo Liangyu. If I surrender in Zhang Xuan's position now, I may be able to survive, but we are little pawns, I am afraid that those brutes under Zuo Liangyu prefer to ask for our heads. ”

suppressed these henchmen for a while.

Wang Jincai secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The point is, if you want to rebel, you can create Zhang Xuan's rebellion, not to mention those who came over with the sand, just say that the soldiers under your command will listen to you?" Did you keep them fed and clothed in the first place? ”

No one dares to deny this at this moment, Zhang Xuan is quite good to the soldiers, although he is not wearing much thickness, but at least he has a padded jacket. It's not pure cotton in it, but it's too far from the treatment in the official army. In the officers and soldiers, the treatment of ordinary soldiers is almost the same as that of livestock. Military salaries can be dragged to adulthood, rations are sometimes deducted, and even private work for the commander. As for other oppressions, they are countless.

But under Zhang Xuan. None of that.

At least not on the surface. Zhang Xuan absolutely does not allow it. Although the training is hard, at least Zhang Xuan treats them as human beings, among ordinary soldiers, Zhang Xuan's reputation is not bad, but among these officers. The evaluation of Zhang Xuan is far worse.

These officers ate empty salaries, withheld food salaries, and lived quite nourishingly in the army. But when he came to Zhang Xuan's camp, none of these were gone, only there was a reward for winning the battle. Eat and dress warmly, these are just a fart for officers. But people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads, so they are the most hopeful.

However, Wang Jincai didn't think so, and when Wang Jincai came, he was almost timid with caution. Don't dare to do things that you are not sure of. If Wang Jincai didn't have such a character, he wouldn't have survived the turmoil again and again. Second, Wang Jincai's vision was a little better than that of these officers under his command, and he saw that Zhang Xuan's training method was right. Zhang Xuan is a person who can get things done.

Otherwise, Zhang Xuan was able to defeat Zuo Qing and Chang Guoan in a row, not only because of Cao Zongyu's excellent command. No matter how good the command is, it is impossible to save the mud. Zhang Xuan himself didn't think that in fact, his subordinates were already slightly higher in this era.

If compared with the famous ones, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, Liaozhen Soldiers and Horses, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Huang Degong, and other famous generals, it is still quite a gap, but compared with the general officials and soldiers, it is a lot of victories. It's just that Zhang Xuan looks at the soldiers under his command by the standard of the People's Liberation Army, and he still feels very bad.

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As soon as Jin Cai said this, these officers scolded one after another: "These mud legs are becoming more and more difficult to manage now, and they can't talk about military law at every turn, and they can't beat or scold them." ”

For a while, they had a lot of discussions, and the topic turned to the grievance meeting.

It's not that Zhang Xuan has limited their power, but that Zhang Xuan has to bring them into line with military law. Zhang Xuan's military law is not cumbersome, and there are not many cuts, mainly because of the problems that Zhang Xuan encountered in the march and war in the past six months, and discussed it with Cao Zongyu and others.

On the battlefield, the scope of military law is very large, and it is also very severe, and if one sentence is wrong, it is beheading, which is also the inheritance of traditional military law, but the military law on weekdays does not behead, and all punishments are grouped into one, that is, military sticks. And you can't kill people, the punishment is too much, and you have to fight separately. And now there is no special military judge in the army, or Zhang Xuan's personal guards are all military judges, if the non-commissioned officer is dissatisfied with the punishment, he can report to Zhang Xuan, and Zhang Xuan will definitely send his personal guards to investigate clearly. This is also the cultivation of the guards around you. Zhang Xuan often urged his guards to read and write, explain the art of war, and then let them deal with these military affairs, and when they were almost trained, they could go down to lead the troops.

It can be regarded as Zhang Xuan's means of cultivating his descendants.

As a result, the power of the officers was quite restricted.

Moreover, Zhang Xuan's strictest grasp of training is to memorize military law. Although not all of the soldiers memorized it, at least one of the ten people memorized it, which gave these officers a headache.

Seeing that the topic of these people had shifted, Wang Jincai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly said in his heart: "General Zhang, General Zhang, my old king can be worthy of you, if the situation is not right, don't blame my old king for finding a way to make a living." ”

No matter how much he thinks Zhang Xuan has a future, in Wang Jincai's eyes, his own life is the most precious, so he will not fight to the death for Zhang Xuan, it is absolutely impossible. Is there any psychological burden on those who have surrendered once, and surrender again?

Early in the morning of the second day, there was a large group of people coming from the south, Zhang Xuan looked at it from a distance, it was the time when the snow melted at this moment, the ground had begun to muddy, and naturally there was no smoke and dust, but Zhang Xuan could also see from the movement that it was all foot soldiers.

At noon, there were about more than 10,000 foot soldiers who came over and camped on three sides of Wulipu, and the camp was densely packed, and it seemed that Zhang Xuan was going to be surrounded by water.

Zhang Xuan watched them start digging the ground, his brows tightened, and he secretly said in his heart: "I can't stay any longer." At this moment, he already regretted a little, regretting that he didn't make a quick decision yesterday and rushed over. But it's too late to regret it now.

In fact, Zhang Xuan had the idea of breaking through yesterday, but Zhang Xuan's department didn't rest well at all the night before, from midnight

Baying ambushed Chang Guoan once, and then ran for thirty miles, his physical strength was overdrawn, and such a state may not be able to survive five miles under the siege of more than 10,000 cavalry. And now it has been nearly twenty hours of repair, and although there were people on duty last night, everyone's physical strength has now recovered. You can fight.

And Zhang Xuan also has a reason that he doesn't dare to say, that is, food.

There is not much food in the army.

Zhang Xuan only brought ten days of food, set off on the tenth day of the first month, and now it is the seventeenth day of the first month, although many people have been killed in the battle, a lot of horse meat has been obtained, and each other is canceled out, and there are only five days of food left, that is to say, nothing else has to be done, as long as the enemy besieges him for five days, he must kill horses and mules for food, and horses and mules may not be able to last for ten days.

Five days and ten days, in the midst of war, are actually a snap of a finger.

As for the reinforcements, Zhang Xuan didn't have much hope. At least I don't dare to hope much. He estimated that it would arrive in ten days, that was already to Kuanli, if the army got the news and immediately started, the ten days could be there anyway, if after getting the news, abandon the foot soldiers, with an elite assault, with Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong at the speed of 300 miles a night, it was only a day or two of effort.

But now there is no movement.

There was no movement at all, and it can only be said that after the army got the news, it did not evacuate the city of Kaifeng.

He did not evacuate at that time, which meant that he had abandoned these prefectures and counties in the south, and naturally included Linying.

Every time he thought of this, Zhang Xuan felt a trace of secret regret in his heart, regretting that he had misjudged the form, if he was in Linying City, with these thousands of soldiers, not to mention sticking to the moon for more than a month, he would definitely be able to do it. But now it's a dilemma.

It was useless to think about it more at the moment, Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "Pull out the camp to the north." ”

The soldiers, who had already recuperated and recuperated, under the cover of the chariot, advanced in the northeast direction, because he was due north, and it was none other than Jin Shenghuan's camp.

"Bypassing this camp, there is a road of ten miles at most, you can get to Linying City, as long as you get to Linying City, fight according to the city, Zhang Xuan is not afraid of them, it's a big deal to give up all the vehicles and enter the city.

But this few miles away, it's the hardest.

Jin Shenghuan sneered and said, "You underestimate me too much." If you are forced to break through, how will I Jin Shenghuan meet people in the future? ”

However, Jin Shenghuan also knew that the new foot soldiers had already been on the road for most of the day, and their physical strength was huge, so if they were immediately put into battle. was a little embarrassed, so Jin Shenghuan gave an order, and the cavalry rushed up. Thousands of cavalry divided into two teams and rushed over.

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