Zhang Wang says:

"Excluding those details, the fundamental problem is just two words, no money."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"No money?"

Zhang Wang says:

"Exactly."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"How is it possible, from the end of last year to the end of the war this year, the north has been transporting grain and grass to the border towns, and the front-line war salaries have never been in arrears, how can there be no money?"

Zhang Wang laughed after hearing this, and said:

"Wei Hou can know that in the past ten years, the annual tax of the imperial court has been divided into three parts, one for the war in the north, and one for the east to exterminate the pirates, and the annual expenditure of the imperial court is only one-third of the tax, and a large part of this third is used for the Ministry of Industry for weapon manufacturing, and carefully calculated that more than eighty percent of the annual imperial court tax is used for military expenses."

Lan Ziyi was surprised when he heard this, it turned out that the annual military expenditure was so huge.

Zhang Wang continued:

"I have always looked down on your grandfather, a reckless man, brave and resourceful, and in my opinion he is a wild man with muscles in his head. But your father is really a general, when the imperial court planned the Northern Expedition, your father presented a letter, writing clearly how many troops are needed, how many people, how much silver and how much grain and grass need to be stored. At the beginning of the year, the Northern Expedition was carried out according to your father's plan, and the relief grain and grass that is still being transported to the north were all planned before. ”

Lan Ziyi smiled and said:

"Captain Zhang, you scolded my grandfather in front of me, how can I be embarrassed?"

Zhang Wangleng snorted:

"Don't say it's scolding him in front of you, even if I'm standing on his grave, I'll scold him like that.

It's just that even if I scold your grandfather out of the grave, he won't be able to get a military salary.

Even if your father's plan is so good, the imperial court has saved up money for ten years to fight for three months, and if the war drags on any longer, there will be no money and food to help the northern border people. “

Lan Ziyi asked:

"But according to the captain's strategy, you only need to surround the rogues......"

Zhang Wang interrupted Lan Ziyi and said:

"Liukou Liukou, wandering around is called Liukou, dragging hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, there are fewer soldiers who can't be surrounded, how can the soldiers send more grain and grass? Rogues can burn and loot locally, but what about the officers and soldiers? An army of more than a hundred thousand eats more food a day than a city of a hundred thousand eats. There is also the salary of the army, the reward for winning the battle according to the head, and the cost of supplying the lost horses, vehicles, clothing, and equipment. Do the math, it's a lot more than the Northern Expedition, and the war is more protracted. “

Lan Ziyi heard it loudly, it turned out that it was so troublesome to fight a war, and his father had been thinking about these things every day in Beizhen all these years.

Zhang Wang said emotionally, stopped and took two deep breaths, and then took a sip of cloudy wine.

Lan Ziyi now only felt that it was pure luck that he won the horse thief on the grassland at that time, and it turned out that leading the troops to the expedition was so knowledgeable.

Seeing Lan Ziyi's brain oozing profuse, Zhang Wang smiled and said:

"Wei Hou is nervous?"

Lan Ziyi nodded and said:

"Ziyi only feels that he is not capable enough, and he knows too little."

Zhang Wang asked:

"So Wei Hou is worried about whether he can win?"

Lan Ziyi replied:

"Exactly."

Zhang Wanghaha smiled and said:

"That's right. People can never be prepared, there will always be things that you can't control, it's not scary not to know, it's scary to know if you don't know, it's scary to stop because you don't know. It's not about what training you've had, it's about the will, the willingness to take the initiative and win. “

Lan Ziyi listened and took a deep breath, and when he looked again, what he saw was no longer an old man in the capital, but a mountain.

Lan Ziyi looked at Zhang Wang, his eyes were full of admiration, and said:

"Of course, Ziyi has the will to break the battle and kill the enemy, and he is willing to do everything possible to win for this, but the coach is the king of Germany."

Zhang Wang snorted disdainfully and said:

"As for the virtue of King De, he still commands the army? If King De was like this last time, he wouldn't need the emperor to forcibly stand up for him this time. “

Lan Ziyi asked:

"Then in the opinion of the captain, who should lead the troops to the expedition this time?"

Zhang Wang smiled:

"Although there are many garrisons in Dazheng, if you want to say that you can lead the army to fight, there are only three and a half who can win a thousand miles. I am one, your father is one, Qi Zhun is one, and the Yu Chaoen of the Imperial Horse Supervisor is half of it. As for the generals of the younger generation, they have not yet crawled out of the pile of dead, who knows. However, after this battle, Wei Hou may have this possibility. ”

兰子义 says:

"The captain has won the award.

The three people that the captain said are easy to understand, but why is half of them? Father-in-law Yu has been supervising the army for many years, and the blade has licked blood not once or twice, why does Taiwei Zhang only count him as half? Is it because he despises him for being a eunuch? ”

Zhang Wang says:

"Only the ministers look down on others, how dare anyone look down on the ministers, Weihou don't talk nonsense.

I say he's half because of his background in the army.

As a superintendent, he had to consider the loyalty of the generals of the commanding army, the discipline and morale of the troops. The war itself was given to the generals. He has been severely punishing the border army of Enjian for decades, and he is indeed full of courage to charge into battle, but he can really plan and arrange troops? Therefore, only a general can lead the troops, and he will naturally get twice the result with half the effort as a supervising army, but letting him lead the army can only be said to be decent. “

Lan Ziyi sighed when he heard this:

"If that's the case, I'm afraid I won't even be able to do it properly this time."

Zhang Wang heard Lan Ziyi say this, but he just looked at Lan Ziyi, and did not answer the words.

Zhang Wang says:

"The old man is already old, I don't know why Wei Hou said such a thing, and I don't want to know. Wei Hou must have already known everything he should have asked when he came to me this time, right? ”

Zhang Wang's words sounded like a send-off, but in fact, he just wanted to divert from the topic just now, Lan Ziyi didn't want to avoid suspicion until Zhang Wang, otherwise he didn't have to say so much just now.

兰子义 says:

"Ziyi still feels that there are few conscripts this time, and he has no bottom in his heart."

Zhang Wang laughed when he heard this, and said:

"The ninth battalion of the capital went to the sixth battalion, and there are these soldiers in hand, it is not enough to say that it is not enough to surround the thieves, but it is more than enough to say that it is enough to win the war."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"What do you mean by that?"

Zhang Wang replied:

"Do you think that fighting a war is a fight between many people and ruffians on the streets? If you can't organize the formation reasonably, no matter how many people there are, they will just be huddled together, the people on the periphery will be hacked to death with knives, and the people in the inner circle will be squeezed to death.

Although there are many rogues, to put it bluntly, they are just a group of rabble, taking advantage of the situation to get together, without troops and without a formation, as long as they are forced out of the city and lined up to fight over. Wei Hou was born in the north, and as long as he brought two Jihu battalions to the back of the thieves from the left and right wings, he would have won more than half of them. The thieves have no bows and crossbows, and the second has no firearms, and the Jihu battalion is all equipped with heavy armor, even if they don't spare the flanks, they can win by charging directly from the front, so they don't have to worry about it at all."

Lan Ziyi smiled:

Taiwei said relaxedly, Ziyi is a scholar, where can you fight so casually? I think the captain himself wants to fight like this, right? ”

Zhang Wang says:

"If you think of yourself as a scholar, you will always be a scholar. Don't lock yourself up so much.

As for my words. If I really go on an expedition, it will be enough for me to bring a Bali battalion.

If your father came, he must have brought two Jihu camps, and that little bit of rogues was not enough for the Tartars in the north.

Qi Zhun's words should be a first camp and then a god machine battalion, he has been proficient in firearms in the past few years to sweep up the pirates. “

兰子义 says:

"Taiwei is so insightful, he actually sees my father and Qi Zhun so clearly. 、

It's just that the captain said that it was enough to bring him to the Bali Battalion, I'm afraid he would underestimate the thieves, right? There are only 10,000 people in the Bali battalion, all of them are infantry, how can they win a battle of more than 100,000 anti-thieves? The arrogant soldiers will be defeated, so don't say big things. “

Zhang Wang smiled:

"Lan family boy, you haven't seen my skills yet! Let me bring 10,000 infantry, one for ten. If you have the opportunity to fight, the old man will definitely teach you how to lead soldiers to fight. ”

Lan Ziyi also laughed after hearing this, and then said:

"If there is such a day, it will be a great thank you for the teachings of the Captain.

I almost forgot to ask. Does the lieutenant know how the combat power of the sergeants in the Beijing camp is? “

After hearing this, Zhang Wang said:

"Most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp were selected from the camps of the forbidden army, and they were physically strong and well-trained. It's just that the Beijing battalion is stationed in the capital, and it has no battle formation and is inexperienced. Moreover, there are many grassroots generals who buy officials and donate officials, and there are many people who fish in troubled waters, which is also a major hidden danger. However, this situation is common among the garrisons everywhere, and it is not a fatal injury. Overall, it's enough to fight the rogues. “

Lan Ziyi clenched his fists and said:

"Ziyi has been taught, and today is indeed worth the trip. Thank you, Captain! ”

Zhang Wang says:

"Wei Hou should remember that the soldiers are clumsy and fast, and they are not expensive and skillful.

The capital is more than a thousand miles away from Gangneung, and after the expedition, we must try our best to march quickly, and it is best to catch the thieves off guard, and at worst, not to let the thieves leave Gangneung and wander to other places. Once the thieves run around and there are no reinforcements to intercept them, the army will be led by the thieves by the nose and follow them around, and over time, the grain and grass will not keep up, and the morale will be low, and it may become elbows and armpits. “

Lan Ziyi nodded and asked:

"So in the opinion of the captain, which direction will the thief want to escape next?"

Zhang Wang replied:

"The rogues deal with them because it's hard to judge their whereabouts. I can just guess.

It is too difficult to walk west into Tianfu,

If you go down the river to the east, you can plunder the counties and collect grain and grass along the way, but the more you go to the capital, the more officers and soldiers there are, which is too dangerous.

They have already robbed the south once, and they will starve to death if they return.

If I were a rogue, then I would cross the river north. “

兰子义 says:

"But there are already forbidden troops from the old capital in the north, and there are still big rivers and natural dangers. If you are afraid of the official army when you go to the capital, how can you hit the stone to the north? “

Zhang Wang smiled:

"You don't think it's possible, and the forbidden army guarding Jiangbei won't think it's possible, so how do you think they will defend it? Moreover, as long as the Jiangbei Forbidden Army is defeated, there will be no other resistance in a short period of time, and the resistance to go in the direction of the capital will only increase, which is obvious. ”

After hearing this, Lan Ziyi thought thoughtfully for a while, the art of war was unexpected, and what Taiwei Zhang said was indeed reasonable.

That night, Lan Ziyi chatted with Mrs. Zhang for a long time until he fell asleep late at night.

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