"Jiangnan has sent a letter."

Zhao Lin, the leader of his own medical team and the secretary to the commander of the New Army, found Xu Shiyang and gently placed a few letters on the latter's desk.

"Who's coming?"

Xu Shiyang didn't raise his head, still carefully studying the map.

This is an old-style map that is seriously distorted, without scale and contour lines, but now the conditions are limited, and it is already quite good to have such a map, and a higher standard military map will have to wait for Xu Shiyang and his new staff officer corps to work hard in the future.

"Shiliu has one, Wen Xianggong has one, and Li Feihu also has one."

"Hehe, it's all together." Xu Shiyang smiled inexplicably and ordered, "You read it directly." ”

Several New Army officers who had gathered with Xu Shiyang immediately turned around and prepared to leave, but they were stopped by him again:

"It's not a private matter, let's hear it together. If there is a personal matter, Linlin will skip over. ”

Half of the people in this room now are newly promoted young talents, including Xu Shiyang's original children's pro-soldiers; The other half are old officers who have grown up with the New Army, and the common feature is that in Xu Shiyang's heart, these people are the core members of the officer corps of the future New Army.

Therefore, as soon as Xu Shiyang finds an opportunity, he will instill his own thoughts in them, and try every means to broaden their horizons and improve their overall situation and ability.

Xu Shiliu's letters are not easy to say, but the affirmations of Wen Xianggong and Li Feihu mainly involve military and political issues, so it is better to take them out and let everyone discuss them together.

Hearing Xu Shiyang's order, Zhao Lin didn't say anything more, she directly opened Xu Shiliu's letter, pulled out the paper inside, and read it selectively:

The greetings at the beginning were directly skipped, and the personal questions were also directly skipped, involving the political and military aspects, Xu Shiliu first explained the current war situation in Jiangnan.

The fifth young master of the Xu family thought that although the Fang La army was large in number, they were all a rabble, and they would definitely not be able to resist the Great Zhou official army, and it was expected that the war should end within a year.

Subsequently, he turned his pen and said that the main battle faction in Jiangnan had made up his mind that after eliminating Fang La, he must force Emperor Jianxing to abdicate as Emperor Taishang and help the prince to ascend the throne.

For this reason, the main battle faction has made a lot of preparations: the people's army formed to deal with Fang La, most of it is now under the control of the main battle faction.

Among the officers and soldiers, Tong Guan's attitude is not clear, but many of his subordinates have made it clear that they will support the main battle faction.

The biggest trouble in the military is Gao Yu, this old boy has 60,000 soldiers in his hands, and he is considered a die-hard master and faction (Emperor Jianxing promoted him from the market, Emperor Jianxing abdicated, and his position will definitely not be able to continue, this is a conflict of interests, and Gao Yu has no room to retreat).

Wen Xianggong hoped that if it was a last resort, Xu Shiliu would be able to lead the people's army supporting the main battle faction to eliminate the Gao Yu army under the condition that Tong Guan was neutral.

This is the main reason why Xu Shiliu wrote this letter: he is confident in his military capabilities, but in any case, among the 100,000 people's army, only less than 10,000 are mainly Jiangbei refugees.

Moreover, because there are also many Jiangbei refugees in Fangla's army, many scholars and doctors in Jiangnan always look at Xu Shiliu's Shunyi army not very well, and it is difficult for him to replenish his ordnance and troops, and it is not easy to expand his strength.

Using 10,000 people to deal with 60,000 people, Xu Shiliu was still a little uneasy, and he hoped that Xu Shiyang, the brother who defeated the strong with the weak and defeated the Tartars repeatedly, would find a way to help him when the time came.

After Zhao Lin finished reading it, Xu Shiyang asked the officers gathered around the table:

"What do you think of Se-ryu's request?"

The officers looked at each other, and they were a little unsure of Xu Shiyang's attitude, so no one dared to speak for a long time.

"Is it so difficult for each to say what he thinks?"

Xu Shiyang asked:

"Need me to take a stand first?"

That seems to be a must, after all, on the one hand, it is everyone's career, and on the other hand, Xu Shiyang's younger brother, the biological son of the Jiedu Envoy.

"If I have to say it first, then I will only say one sentence: take the interests of Qingzhou as the criterion."

"Besides, you can say whatever you want, I will not punish anyone."

"My request is that you can express your position casually in advance, but once the goal is determined, everyone must move forward towards the goal meaninglessly, and no other ideas are allowed during the period!"

With Xu Shiyang's statement, many questions are easy to say.

The first was Gongsun Sheng, who said in deep thought: "Let's go to Jiangbei to support Jiangnan, this sounds like a joke, I don't think we should get involved in the war in Jiangnan." ”

Gongsun Sheng's statement represents the thinking of many core officers of the New Army.

In their opinion, Jiangbei's assistance to Jiangnan is like a beggar going to help the Dragon King, which is indeed quite strange.

"However, if we completely ignore the affairs over there, it doesn't seem good, right?"

Feng Sanhu hesitated and said:

"After all, Jiangnan is also our big financier, and it's not good to help us at all when something happens, maybe they will stop giving us assistance."

"That's what I think, too."

Xie Bao echoed:

"Besides, what we lack is money and food, Jiangnan ......, hehe, to put it mildly, in terms of soldiers' combat strength, we are the rich side, what is Gao Yu's 60,000 army?"

"I think that when the time comes, as long as you send two battalions over, plus the Fifth Young Master's civilian army, it will be enough to deal with Gao Yu!"

These words were also recognized by a number of officers, especially those who had followed Xu Shiyang to Jiangnan, and these people seemed to have a heartfelt contempt for the officials and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

And the performance of the 5,000 forbidden troops of the Heqin fleet seems to justify this contempt.

Xu Shiyang thought about it and felt that what Gongsun Sheng and Feng Sanhu said made some sense, and he didn't make a decision directly, but instructed Zhao Lin:

"Let's take Wen Xianggong's beliefs first and see what his old man wants."

Zhao Lin nodded, opened Wen Xianggong's letter again, and read it aloud.

Wen Xianggong's letter was simpler than Xu Shiliu's, he was just urging Xu Shiyang to send Princess Renfu back to Jiangnan as soon as possible.

It seems that the main battle faction thinks that Princess Renfu can become a very important hole card for the main battle faction - maybe it is used to win over other clans?

There is also the main battle faction to return to the princess, which can also be regarded as a political achievement, and if it is used for publicity, it should be able to get a good reputation among the people.

Especially compared to the roots that the Lord and the faction did before.

Wen Xianggong did not specifically mention the Qingzhou army going to Jiangnan to support, but he clearly pointed out that it should be Xu Shisong who sent the princess home - Xu Shiliu could not take care of the imperial examination and the army, and Wen Xianggong did not seem to trust the generals in Jiangnan.

Wen Xianggong hoped to find a capable general from Qingzhou to replace Xu Shiliu to command the people's army.