Although he didn't know what Li Xinchen was thinking, Xiao Shilian was still very smart and kept silent. For this vision and thoughts, they are quite unique and advanced, not like a mountain villager, so Xiao Shilian has a lot of friendships.

Now the situation that Xiao Maha is facing, as the eldest son, Xiao Shilian is also very clear. At this time, Wu Mingche, who was the mainstay of the military in Nanchen, was very old, and Xiao Maha had performed prominently in all previous campaigns, and now he was a general who held the festival and led Wu Yi, and he was definitely the second person in the army.

And Wu Mingche also appreciates this young and strong - compared to Wu Mingche, who is sixty-six years old and is no longer in good physical condition, the forty-six-year-old Xiao Maha is definitely young and strong - and also appreciates it, and it is obvious that Xiao Maha is being cultivated as his successor.

After all, whether it is Xiao Maha's ability to command the army, or the bravery he showed before with 12 cavalry to break through the enemy's army of more than 100,000, it is enough to be worthy of "the first person in the army".

But every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, for Wu Mingche, he is too old to do it, and for Xiao Maha, it is too fast.

Xiao Maha's real career was actually five years ago, when he followed Wu Mingche to defeat the Northern Qi general Wei Pohu and become a marquis in the first battle. After that, Xiao Maha's ascent can be described as a smooth step, and in just five years, his great military exploits have sent him all the way to the position of General Wu Yi and the first person in the army from Wu Mingche down.

And everyone knows that the old general Wu Mingche is already old, and I am afraid that he will not have a few years to fight on the battlefield, and this battle of Luliang is likely to be the last battle before the old general disarmed and returned to the field, so Xiao Maha, the real second person in the army, will actually become the first person in the army soon.

But correspondingly, Xiao Maha has been on the road smoothly, but he does not have enough time to form his own staff system and faction, it can be said that Xiao Maha used the relationship network and staff system of the old general Wu Mingche to come up step by step, but once the old general leaves, Xiao Maha is likely to become helpless.

After all, the generals in the army would be a little more tolerant of Xiao Maha because of Wu Mingche's relationship, but after Wu Mingche left, no one dared to guarantee that how many of these generals who now looked kind would not be able to suppress their jealousy.

Even if Xiao Maha's merits are really here, but after all, people's hearts are difficult to figure out, especially when it comes to positions in the army and power. At that time, the environment that Xiao Maha will face will definitely be completely different from what it is now, and it will inevitably be even worse.

And Li Xinchen clearly knows that in history, Xiao Maha is facing the same dilemma, the army of the Sui Dynasty is sweeping from north to south, only Xiao Maha is struggling to support on the front line, and the rest of the generals basically have no fighting spirit to resist, and even the queen of Chen does not agree with his resistance strategy, until the entire Great Chen falls apart.

Therefore, what Xiao Maha needs most now is to form his own staff team before Wu Mingche dismisses his armor and returns to the field, and Xiao Shilian, as Xiao Maha's eldest son, of course, also understands this truth. The honor and disgrace of his father has a lot to do with him, so it is obvious that he is also looking for a suitable candidate for Xiao Maha.

For Xiao Maha, if he wants to build his own staff team and cronies system, there are actually not many options. Xiao Maha's background is not a family, whether he is just Juncheng's father Xiao Liang or his uncle Cai Luyang, there is no way to give him a noble identity, Xiao Maha can have the appreciation of the two Southern Chen generals, mainly Hou Andu and Wu Mingche, who have passed away today, especially the same surname as the Nanliang and Nanqi royal families, which is easier to give people reverie, so it is impossible to build his own team through the family system.

The Xiao family, which is only rising now, is not enough to meet Xiao Maha's requirements.

Therefore, Xiao Maha's best choice is to look for it from the people and the army, the phrase "masters in the people" has always been very reasonable, and there are not a few heroes and heroes born in the recklessness, and Li Xinchen, who emerged from the flatland, met Xiao Maha's needs.

This is also a major reason why Xiao Shilian, who has always been serious and upright and unsmiling, suddenly became talkative.

If Li Xinchen's description of yesterday's battle in the mountains is all true, then his courage and ability are enough to be worthy of heavy responsibilities, and the most important thing is that Li Xinchen is still very young, has enough space for growth and exercise, and it is precisely because of his youth that there are many fewer constraints and worries.

If it weren't for the rush to deal with this gang of bandits now, I'm afraid Xiao Shilian would not hesitate to pull Li Xinchen to see his father.

And having said that, if he can help Li Xinchen solve this trouble, it will kill two birds with one stone for Xiao Shilian. First, it is actually to solve his own troubles and achieve the tasks given by his father, and secondly, he can also give Li Xinchen a great favor, and then he can use this as a breakthrough to invite Li Xinchen down the mountain.

Such a thing of killing two birds with one stone, Xiao Shilian was a little excited when he thought about it.

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"It's been a long time since Xin Chen went down the mountain, and I don't know what happened." Old Man Song gently tapped the ground with the cane in his hand, and looked at Li Cheng, who had been silent on the side, "All the people in the village have been sent to the back mountain." ”

Li Cheng nodded, looked around, the once lively village was no longer a sound at this time, only Zheng Qing and a few young people were still standing guard on the road at the entrance of the village in the distance, and looked here from time to time, obviously as long as there were any special circumstances, they would not hesitate to rush over and take these old men away.

Old Man Song said with a wry smile: "In the past fifty years, what you and I have done is just to stay away from this endless, flesh-and-blood mill-like war between the north and the south. ”

"It's a blessing or a curse, since you're here, you can't hide it." Li Cheng frowned, "Since we are already in the game, all we can do is do our best to break the game." ”

After a pause, Li Cheng said in a deep voice: "Don't forget, when we followed the general to the north, we also involuntarily entered the game, but in the end, the general still led us out of the game." Sometimes it's that simple. ”

"But at that time, although we only had 7,000 brothers, we were all robes of life and death, but now we are outnumbered by the same enemy······ Old Man Song still couldn't hide his worry and looked at Li Cheng, obviously compared to back then, their situation is not good at all now, and a wrong step may be a disaster.

After being silent for a long time, Li Chengfang chuckled and said: "We are not the same as we were then, but how can these bandits now be compared with the hundreds of thousands of Northern Army back then?" What's more, don't we have a way out at this moment? ”