Chapter XXIII

"How innocent are my people? Why is the common people innocent? Cao Zongyu couldn't accept it for a while.

Henan has been in turmoil for more than ten years, and cannibalism has occurred several times, Cao Zongyu thought that after the Liukou was pacified, the world would be peaceful, but he didn't want Zhang Xuan to say so.

However, this is indeed not Zhang Xuan deceiving him again.

In the impression of many people, after the Qing court entered the customs, it was like a bamboo. But after the momentum was overwhelming, there were large-scale rebellions not only in the south, but also in the north, or after the fall of Li Zicheng.

The situation during the entire Shunzhi period can be described as not Shunzhi.

"I wanted to live overseas, just to escape the chaos." Zhang Xuan said: "But looking back at midnight, I am unwilling every day, my husband was born in the world, lest I be born at the wrong time, and I will not meet my talents, and now the situation is where the husband comes in, what I have learned in my life, is it just to grow old overseas?" Therefore, I want to make a difference and restore peace to the world, and the world should not be like this. ”

Zhang Xuan immediately thought of more than three hundred years later.

It is true that there were too many dissatisfaction and regrets in that era, but compared to this era, I don't know how many times better. At least the world is peaceful. He was deeply nostalgic for that era, and he didn't think about it all the time.

Cao Zongyu looked at Zhang Xuan's eyes, and his heart moved for a while, now it will be the situation at the end of Qin, the end of the Han Dynasty, and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, but who is Henkel, Wei Wu, and Taizu??? Cao Zongyu's eyes changed when he looked at Zhang Xuan.

First of all, he looked down on Li Zicheng.

Because Li Zicheng was blind in one eye, the literati at that time believed that the Holy Son of Heaven would never have such a thing, and all the Taizu who could create a dynasty had no physical disability, so Cao Zongyu felt that Li Zicheng could succeed better than Cao Cao, but he didn't think that Li Zicheng could create a dynasty.

And Cao Cao has no ambitions. But there is this person in front of him, and he knows the general trend of the world, and this kind of talent is in short supply no matter what era it is. Cao Zongyu's first thought was Emperor Taizu and Empress Ma. If Emperor Taizu hadn't accepted Guo Zixing's forces, he would not have pacified Jiangnan so quickly.

"Brother Zhang has such a great ambition, and I should help him." Cao Zongyu's heart was hot, and he didn't seem to feel what was wrong in the Liukou army. said: "However, the soldiers are in danger and the battle is urgent, and the way of the battle is difficult to complete, Brother Zhang should leave this useful heart to do great things, and leave the matter of the battle formation to me." ”

Zhang Xuan's face turned red, and he secretly said in his heart: "Is he saying that my fighting skills are too trendy?" ”

He had to admit that tactical command was not his strong point. When it comes to the general strategic trend, Zhang Xuan can talk about it for several hours, but commanding thousands of soldiers, how to meet the enemy, how to fight, when to attack, when to retreat, these experiences are not experienced, experienced, and cannot be understood. And Zhang Xuan is likely to have died in battle before he has even experienced it.

Anyway, Zhang Xuan finally appeased Cao Zongyu's heart. Otherwise, Cao Zongyu left him, and when he fought again, Zhang Xuan would not know what to do.

Zhang Xuan had just returned to the camp. Yang Shan came to Zhang Xuan and said that Luo Ru wanted to see him. Zhang Xuan didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went to Luo Rucai's big tent.

As soon as he entered the big tent, he saw that before Luo Rucai's table, he lit four or five oil lamps, and Luo Rucai read a book by the light. It should be one of the volumes of the "Historical Records".

"Father-in-law, you have something to find your son-in-law." Zhang Xuan said respectfully.

Luo Rucai woke up in shock, put down the book in his hand, and said: "Sit, when you are old, your eyes are not good, when you were a child, you could read by moonlight, where is it like now, if you don't light four or five lights, you can't see clearly at all." ”

Zhang Xuan sat next to Luo Rucai and said, "Father-in-law said that you are laughing, you should be old and strong." We juniors still have to rely on you. ”

"Huh." Luo Rucai smiled lightly and said, "I came to you to talk about the craftsman's camp, what did you get, it's called a bearing, right?" It's very useful, this time even if we go on the mountain trail, we will bring a lot of things, I mean, you will be in charge of the craftsman camp in the future. Of course, there aren't many of your people left, so let's all belong to the craftsman's camp. ”

"Is it Yujiao who is here to make a small report?" Zhang Xuan's first thought. But soon he called it out. Probably not. He felt that although Luo Rucai favored Luo Yujiao, he would never listen to the words of women in major matters. Luo Rucai wanted to keep Zhang Xuan away from the battlefield, and he had it at a very early age, after Zhang Xuan analyzed the form of the world for him.

Luo Rucai wanted to keep Zhang Xuan by his side, but he had been in contact with Songshan several times.

Luo Rucai slowly understood that Zhang Xuan was not the kind of talent who set the country and the country, although he had outstanding strategic vision, but in other things, he inevitably lacked a keen sense, such as the open and secret battle between Luo Rucai and Li Zicheng.

Since the joint camp with Cao Ying, Luo Rucai and Li Zicheng have maintained a close face, and they play small tricks with each other in private, but both of them know that the most important thing now is not anything else, but to fight with the official army, so the fight between each other is also a superficial feeling. But the dark tide never subsided.

But Zhang Xuan didn't notice it at all.

Luo Rucai felt that it was useless to transfer Zhang Xuan to his side now, and during this period of time, Ji Jue had been in charge of the secret battle with the camp. During this period of cooperation with each other, it is enough to have Ji Jue also personally responsible. Zhang Xuan wanted to experience another experience in the army, and Luo Rucai didn't feel bad.

Today, Zhang Xuan almost died in the battle of Qishan. Luo Rucai felt that it was a waste to let someone like Zhang Xuan lead the troops to fight, so he immediately transferred Zhang Xuan from the front line. It just so happened that Zhang Xuan made some achievements in the craftsman camp. Luo Rucai took advantage of the situation to place Zhang Xuan's craftsman in the camp.

Originally, the craftsman camp was only divided between Zhang Xuan and Luo Dain, but as soon as Luo Rucai said this, the craftsman camp would be set up immediately. Zhang Xuan's status will not be much different from Luo Dain's in the future, of course, there is no standardized official title or anything like that in Cao Ying. The things he is responsible for are almost the same, but compared to the intangible things like qualifications, Zhang Xuan is still pressed by Luo Dane.

"I'm not willing to be a logistics officer." The insecurity in Zhang Xuan's heart suddenly exploded. If there are no soldiers at hand, what if someone wants to kill him? Okay, with Luo Rucai's protection, what should someone do if someone wants to kill Luo Rucai? Or what if Luo Rucai wants to die by himself?

After Zhang Xuan had fought several rolls in the blade, he had already made up his mind not to hand over his life to others.

Although Luo Rucai still let Zhang Xuan's old department take Zhang Xuan with him, this was far from enough for Zhang Xuan. Zhang Xuan's heart was racing for a while, and he suddenly thought of something, and said: "Father-in-law, in fact, this matter, eldest brother, and Yujiao have told me, and I have also thought about it carefully." It's true that I'm not the material for war, but I'm a little unwilling if you put me in charge of the craftsman alone. Why don't you change this craftsman battalion to an engineer battalion? ”

"Sappers?" Luo Rucai thought about it, he really hadn't heard of this word. said: "What do sappers do? ”

"Father-in-law." Zhang Xuan said: "Now Cao Ying is also the head of a battalion of 10,000 or 20,000 elite soldiers, and it will be expanded in the future, so it will become a problem when marching, whether it is camping, building bridges and paving roads, or attacking the city in the future, a large number of craftsmen are needed, and these craftsmen sometimes have to go into battle." For example, when I was besieging a city, I just built a trebuchet artillery, and no one else would use it. I want to be in charge of that. ”

At the mention of the siege, Luo Rucai's face was slightly solemn.

Cao Ying's siege skills are indeed shortcomings, or to be precise, Cao Ying doesn't know how to attack the city at all. It is far less than breaking into the camp, and the people of the time commented that the Cao battalion is long in battle, and the battalion is long in attack, and they are like left and right hands with each other. But Luo Ru had the idea of parting ways with Li Zicheng, so he naturally didn't want to be controlled by others.

Moreover, Luo Rucai has been fighting horses all his life and has rich combat experience. But it also gave rise to the mentality of heavy hand-to-hand combat and light craftsmen, feeling that this engineer battalion is just an auxiliary soldier, and it is not a big deal at all.

"Okay." Luo Rucai said: "Since you said so, you are the commander of the Cao Ying Engineer Battalion, do it well, the first thing is to build bridges and pave roads, and bring the baggage over as much as possible." ”

"Yes." Zhang Xuan was secretly happy in his heart.