"Raise the account!" Li Ping roared loudly, his face was red and his neck was thick, and the entire camp seemed to tremble slightly in his voice.

Li Xinchen strode from behind the screen. And Xiao Shilian had already stood on Li Xinchen's side first, turning sideways slightly, indicating that he was his deputy. His identity is relatively special, although according to Xiao Maha and Li Xinchen's original meaning, Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian should lead the troops together, and the two do not distinguish between priority and priority.

But Xiao Shilian himself knows it clearly, what he prefers is not to strategize but to lead the army to kill, so the position of the main general is never to sit, it is better to let Li Xinchen do this brain-consuming thing, he is only responsible for rushing and killing in front.

So he is standing like this at this time, which can be regarded as expressing his attitude.

Behind Xiao Shilian, the partial generals Lu Zhiwu, Chen Zhishen and Captain Cao Zhong were lined up. In fact, there are only these generals under Li Xinchen's command. However, Rao is like this, two miscellaneous generals, two partial generals who are only one level lower than miscellaneous generals, plus a school captain, it is more than enough to lead 7,000 men, and there is even some fuss.

However, everyone knows what the role of these 7,000 men is, so let alone two miscellaneous generals, there is no problem even letting a "Four Expeditions" general come to command.

After all, who commands an army should not only look at how many people there are, but also what the goals of the army are.

The army in front of Li Xinchen now is the army with the most ambitious goals and the greatest ambitions in Nanchen now.

"See General Dangkou!" As Li Xinchen stood in front of the center of the Chinese army's tent, all the generals bowed at the same time.

And Li Xinchen bowed slightly, although there were only these four people in front of him—only these four people were the only ones who were really qualified to know the specific arrangements for this expedition—but in an instant, Li Xinchen felt that he saw thousands of troops galloping under the banner.

It's all the fruits of months of hard work, and now it's time to take them into the next even more dangerous battle.

"Where we're going, you must all know," Li Xinchen's voice was not high, but it was enough for everyone present to hear clearly, "Follow so-and-so, you don't have time to enjoy happiness, just wait to suffer!" ”

As soon as Li Xinchen said this, Xiao Shilian and the others couldn't help but smile.

It is true that he has been taking risks with Li Xinchen, but the victory and glory in this are also incomparable to the rest of the army. And they believe that even if they go through hardships and obstacles, Li Xinchen will lead them to victory.

It was the first time for Lu Zhiwu, who had officially participated in the deliberations of this army, also breathed a sigh of relief, obviously this General Li was more confident than he imagined.

Seeing that the atmosphere was relaxed, Li Xinchen turned around and slapped it heavily on the map: "Cao Zhong listens to the order!" ”

Cao Zhong struck a spirit, he didn't expect Li Xinchen to be the first to call himself, he immediately took a step forward and said excitedly: "The end will be!" ”

And Cao Zhong's excitement and self-efficacy were seen by Xiao Shilian and Chen Zhishen and others, Chen Zhishen was a little depressed that it was not himself who took the lead in the expedition, but Xiao Shilian just smiled and looked at all this, obviously Li Xinchen's psychological grasp of Cao Zhong is very accurate, and it is even more accurate to say that the mentality of Cao Zhong and Chen Zhishen is very accurate!

Li Xinchen said in a deep voice: "A certain cavalry is entrusted to you, and a sentinel will be arranged along the line from Xinzhou to Xiling, and you must be careful not to expose your whereabouts!" ”

"No!" Cao Zhong replied loudly, turned around and retreated.

And Li Xinchen then looked at Chen Zhishen, this guy probably couldn't wait: "Chen Zhishen!" ”

Chen Zhishen raised his head and took a step forward: "The end will be!" ”

Li Xinchen stretched out his hand and pointed at an almost invisible point on the map: "You led your soldiers and horses to Xinzhou first, did you see this place on the map, this place is called Qiting, it is the throat road from Xinzhou to the west, and this place must be guarded for Lao Tzu!" ”

"Qiting?" Chen Zhishen raised his eyebrows, he has not studied the map from Shinzhou to Padang in the past few days, but this place only has some impressions in his mind, and he has not paid attention to it at all.

And Li Xinchen nodded: "Qiting can take Badong here, and retreat can keep Xinzhou, whether it is our attack or the defense after the failure of the attack, we need to hold here." ”

In history, Yang Su led the sailor Lou ship all the way eastward, because he controlled Qiting, so that the entrance to Xiling Gorge fell into the hands of the Northern Zhou, and then forced Nan Chen's defenders in the Jingzhou area to go all out to garrison the line from Yidu to Xinzhou, blocking the road where Yang Su went directly down the river, and the entire Jingzhou battle situation fell into Nan Chen's complete passivity almost in an instant.

And the chain reaction caused by this was that the army stationed in Jingzhou by Nan Chen had no way to support Jiangnan, which led to a serious shortage of troops under Xiao Maha and others in Jiangnan, and even Dajiang could not be defended.

Although this Qiting is only a small beachhead in the north of the river outside Xiling Gorge, sometimes such a small beachhead is enough to determine the direction of the general trend of the world.

Therefore, even if Li Xinchen risked exposing his strategic intentions, he must first control Qiting.

Chen Zhishen is not a fool, of course, he also understands what Li Xinchen meant, but he still hesitates: "General, let's take Qiting so first, it's more conducive to defense, isn't it ······?"

After all, in the view of Chen Zhishen and others, this is to attack rather than defend, so hard to seize the key points of defense first, is it not to sacrifice the basics?

After a moment of silence, Li Xinchen said lightly: "I always want to leave a way back for these thousands of brothers and sailors. ”

Chen Zhishen, Lu Zhiwu and the others looked at Li Xinchen and were a little surprised. In their minds, Li Xinchen's direction should be victory, but they all ignore one thing, that is, Li Xinchen still has to leave a way back for himself every time.

In the last battle of Zhangshan, Li Xinchen did not wait for reinforcements all the time, but took the initiative to send cavalry for help, in fact, in order to find a way to retreat. And this time it was clearly the same.

This shows that Li Xinchen's victory was not simply exchanged for luck in the hearts of many people, he was ready for victory, and he was also ready for defeat. But whether it is Chen Zhishen or Lu Zhiwu and others, they all believe at this moment that even if Li Xinchen fails, it cannot be a complete defeat.

Because he has calculated everything in it.

As for Xiao Shilian, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. Obviously, he is growing, and Li Xinchen has not stopped moving forward. As for whether Li Xinchen will win, Xiao Shilian still remembered what Xiao Maha said at that time.

"I am convinced of this."

"Yes!" Chen Zhishen responded loudly at this time, and then Li Xinchen's order.