The other generals were still thinking in their hearts, whether Xu Rong would accept Yan Xing's sudden words this time. And Xu Rong, one of the parties involved, has already begun to speak out and ask:

"What do you mean by that?"

Xu Rong's tone sounded a little cold, which was normal, although he admired a capable general, but he didn't like a general who was not under his control and had ability, especially when his own generals were faintly threatening his might.

And Yan Xing's recent actions made him particularly dissatisfied.

Yan Xing could feel the fierceness in Xu Rong's eyes, but he still respectfully came out of the line and saluted, and then began to say seriously:

"At the end of the strong crossbow, you can't enter Lu Min; The wind is declining, and the feathers cannot be bleached. His subordinates thought that although Sun Jian was menacing, he went all the way north and was tired. The soldiers and horses of Yuzhou were newly defeated by us, and their momentum has declined. Although Sun Jian claimed to have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it was difficult to predict that it was true, and most of his troops were inevitably a rabble of Jingzhou and Nanyang. ”

"Besides, Xiangguo Tun soldiers in Luoyang, strategizing, the army gathered, my Xiliang soldiers and horses are good at fighting, Yuzhou is a horse Pingchuan, which is conducive to my army running vertically and horizontally, Sun Jian's department, with labor to fight, with the weak to attack the strong, with less to hit more, how can there be a chance of victory."

Yan Xing had obviously been secretly preparing how to refute Xu Rong's opinions and opinions when Xu Rong was explaining the current offensive and defensive situation, so when he was out of the ranks, he would be able to be confident, talk eloquently, and refute Xu Rong's opinions one by one.

Yan Xing had just refuted Xu Rong's statement that Sun Jian was fierce and that the soldiers and horses of Yuzhou were a great threat to Luoyang, and after hearing Yan Xing's words, Xu Rong's face suddenly became a little ugly, he didn't expect Yan Xing to suddenly give him such a move.

This reminded him of what Wang Fang said when he knelt in front of his couch before, Yan Xing had been planning to murder him for a long time, and Xu Rong listened to it in his ears at that time, and laughed over, thinking that it was the king's angry remarks against Yan Xing, who had been grudging for a long time.

But judging from Yan Xing's performance now, his remarks just now are obviously deliberately based on his own opinions, whether he wants to damage his prestige, or wants to take the opportunity to make a name for himself, or the young man is eager to make meritorious contributions and wants to unite some Kansai generals to attack the ······

Xu Rong's face was ugly on the surface, and he didn't say a word, but in his heart, he was already turning a thousand times, and he was secretly thinking about the true purpose of Yan Xing's words and deeds.

Yan Xing, who was out of the ranks, didn't seem to see Xu Rong's ugly face, and he didn't care about the dissatisfaction revealed in Xu Rong's cold words, and then continued with what he had just said:

"And Sun Jian's department cut off the back road of our army, although it is justified, but it is not unbreakable, the army of Luoyang is gathered, only need to send a strange army to threaten Yuzhou, Sun Jian came from afar, he will not dare to rashly attack my back road. And if it dares to rescue the Yanzhou rebels, our army has a large number of cavalry, and it can also set up an ambush in the place where it is marching, come to a siege to help, and pacify the rebels in these two states in one fell swoop. ”

Hearing Yan Xing's offensive proposal, some Kansai generals who also belonged to Sanfu and Liangdi suddenly had some intentions, and now that they were victorious, their fighting spirit was flourishing, so they would lead the march.

Although Xu Rong is the main general, but these generals under their command, there are some objections to the military action that turns from offensive to defensive at this time, and it is because Xu Rong is justified that they have extinguished their desire to attack, but now there is a commander Yan Xing who argues with reason, and advocates marching to attract firepower for them in front, and some of the generals of the main battle are of course happy to sit back and watch it.

Xu Rong swept the expressions of everyone in the hall, and after seeing that Yan Xing's words really moved some Guanxi generals, the anger in his heart was even stronger, but at this time, he became calm on the surface, and sneered at Yan Xing and said:

"Besieging the city to send reinforcements, pacifying the rebels in Erzhou in one fell swoop, Captain Yan is so angry, it seems that under the city of Chencang back then, all the tragic situations have been forgotten by Captain Duwei!"

Hearing Xu Rong's joking words, the muscles on Yan Xing's face moved slightly, about that he was originally captured and surrendered from the Liangzhou rebels, some veteran generals in the army knew, but some newly transferred generals didn't know, Xu Rong said such things in public, that is, he was openly ridiculing Yan Xing as a defeated general under him, and he dared to question his military strategy.

But Yan Xing did not change color because of Xu Rong's ridicule, he still said with a serious face:

"The art of war cloud, the impermanence of the army, the impermanence of the water, avoid the real and attack the virtual, the way of the soldier to win is also, the momentum of Chen Cang can not be the same as the current trend, the Yanzhou rebels are newly defeated, morale is declining, our army should take advantage of the victory to march, defeat the enemy in despair, just because the Yuzhou rebels have the intention of sending troops, we will not attack the Yanzhou rebels, is it not to keep the Yanzhou rebels, and when we attack the Yuzhou rebels, they will not send troops to help?"

"The army should be rewarded and punished clearly, and the soldiers should be used to avoid the real and attack the false, and the tiger will be a tiger for a while, and the trouble of several generations will be brave and courageous, and I hope that the general will be careful and cautious."

When Yan Xing said the end, he was already full of eagerness for justice and righteousness, but how could Xu Rong listen to his superficial words, Yan Xing's words fell into his ears, and it seemed to have turned into a sarcasm with many deep meanings.

There should be clear rewards and punishments for administering the army.

Is this mocking himself for deliberately favoring Wang Fang's subordinates when he was fighting with Wang Fang, and let his subordinates be punished?

Xu Rong recalled that he favored Wang Fang, and suddenly felt that Yan Xing's words were very harsh, and he thought of Yan Xing's actions just now, and also felt that Yan Xing was deliberate, wanting to unite other Kansai generals to put pressure on him, so as to take the opportunity to avenge the previous one-arrow revenge.

Thinking of this, Xu Rong sneered more and more, and he said:

"The offensive and defensive strategy would have been decided, but if the general would not allow the words of the captain."

"The decision to attack and defend in the army is naturally decided by the general, but this matter is very important, and his subordinates have to dare to admonish. If the general really has no intention of marching, please also send troops to recover the Zhongmu cities in the land of Henan, which were previously in the hands of the rebels, when the general deploys the defenses, so as to glorify the royal court and the king of Tianwei! ”

After Yan Xing's words were finished, everyone thought that he could no longer withstand the pressure of Xu Rong from above, and after hearing Xu Rong's obvious refusal, he instead wanted to take a step back in the offensive and defensive objections, find a step for himself, and end this controversy rashly provoked by him.

But the more Xu Rong thought about it, the more he didn't believe that Yan Xing's intentions would be so simple. Now Dong Zhuo's camp and the Dong alliance have temporarily formed a confrontation, and between Sujube and Xingyang, the soldiers and horses of the two sides are just like when Chu and Han were fighting, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu drew a chasm as the boundary.

If Xu Rong decides to take Henan first and then Yan, then at this time to subdue Zhongmu and other places, it is like getting a few more enclaves, and he has to send troops to defend, once he turns around to attack Sun Jian in Yuzhou, the remaining troops will be easily eaten by the rebels of Sujuo, and at that time, the retreating troops will lose their military prestige, then they will have to go all the way to the black, with Zhongmu and other cities as the forward position, to attack the Yanzhou rebels of Suojube.

Yan Xing's strategy of retreating into advance was really insidious, but after deep thought, Xu Rong consciously saw it through quickly, he raised his eyes and looked at Yan Xing with a solemn face, his heart was even more jealous, and he also had a whim in his heart, so he simply took advantage of Yan Xing's momentum of taking a step back, and planned to put him on this fire to roast.

"Okay, Du Wei's fist is the heart of the public, it is really admirable, it is so, that general is also bold, so he ordered to use the soldiers and horses of Du Wei's army as the front to refuse, and march to recover the lost land of Zhongmu and others!"

As soon as Xu Rong finished speaking, he did not allow Yan Xing to make any more subdivisions, so he exercised his authority as the chief general and directly ordered to start distributing the deployment tasks of the generals in the army, and Yan Xing received the task of marching to recover the lost territory of Zhongmu and others.

The other generals now also understand the current situation, knowing that Yan Xing's words this time are no longer as lucky as they were when he entered the words at Yuyuan Pass before, Xu Rong kicked him aside mercilessly this time to the person who had a paradox with him, and there was no more emotion to talk about, everyone had Yan Xing's lesson of fighting with reason, and they learned to be obedient, and no longer wanted to lead the march and influence Xu Rong's decision-making, but bowed their heads and listened honestly to the deployment task assigned to them.

So after this military discussion ended, Yan Xing seemed to be the stunned young man who rushed out and was beaten hard, and in the hearts of Wang Fang and Li Meng, he was secretly cursing that those soldiers and horses under Yan Xing's department had better lose all the lost land when they recovered Zhongmu, so that he would become a bare-bones captain, so as not to appear in the army again to fight against himself and others.

But in addition to those who gloat, there are also those who are worried.

Xu Kun is one of them.

After all the generals left, Xu Kun, who stayed at the end, stopped and did not leave, but accompanied his uncle and stayed in the military tent.

"Yan Yan's department, have there been any changes recently?"

The uncle and nephew looked at each other silently for a long time, and finally Xu Rong sighed and began to ask.

Xu Kun thought about it for a moment when he heard this, and shook his head, he really didn't notice any changes in Yan Xing's department recently, everything was exactly the same as before, the only thing that changed was probably Yan Xing's attitude, which sometimes became a little aggressive.

Xu Rong saw Xu Kun shaking his head, but he didn't believe it, and then said:

"No, there must be some reason, since this person was ordered to return from the envoy to Chang'an, his actions are completely different from the previous cautious words and deeds, which is quite enterprising, but the inner meaning is definitely more than that."

Speaking of this, Xu Rong actually had two vague guesses in his heart.

One is that this Yan Yan originally had different intentions, and now that he has accumulated merit to the position of false captain, he wants to forge ahead, make new contributions, and speed up getting rid of his control.

The other is that Yan Yan's behavior was instructed by Li Ru, Li Ru saw that there was a big chaos today, and he also thought about it, wanting to let his henchmen in the army independently control the army as soon as possible, so as to echo him inside and outside the prime minister's mansion, and he was angry.

The former one is easy to deal with, and this time let Yan Xing lead his troops to subdue Zhongmu and the other lost ground, which is to roast him on the fire, beat him, a fierce tiger that is about to move, and extinguish the little flame of ambition in his heart.

But if it's the latter, things get tricky. If today's general trend is turbulent, and the city head changes the king's banner, everyone will inevitably have some thoughts of seeking a way out, and Li Ru is understandable to do this, even Xu Rong himself, didn't he promise some intercession with his grandson in the same county.

I still can't figure out the purpose of Yan Xing's recent sudden change in style, and there are some things that I can't talk too much about with Xu Kun, so Xu Rong glanced at Xu Kun and continued:

"This person's mind is unpredictable, and he has the posture of a hero, this time he was sent to regain the lost territory, just to see what kind of thoughts he has saved, you are friendly with him, you might as well take the opportunity to test it and see what he wants?"

Xu Kun originally had something to say, but his uncle had said it here, and he couldn't say what he thought in his heart anymore, so he had to bow his head and promise, and then salute and retire, leaving the military tent.

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After Yan Xing returned to the military tent, he immediately sent people to summon Xu Huang, Yan Xing, Ma Lin, and Zhou Liang to his tent.

The guards who received the order went separately to summon, and Yan Xing stood in his tent, pacing back and forth, looking a little excited, obviously, the turmoil in his heart that he had been hiding just now had quietly caused an uproar in secret.

Yan Xing was pacing, and after thinking for a while, he hurriedly returned to his desk, carefully took out a silk painting from a wooden box in front of him, and spread it out in front of his desk.

This is a map of the critical borders of Yuzhou, Sili and Yanzhou, and many important mountains and rivers, passes, cities, roads and bridges have been specially marked by Yan Xing.

Looking at the dots and circles on the map, the corners of Yan Xing's mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.

That's right, the battle between Ma Lin and Wang Fang's generals was provoked by him.

Today, in Xu Rong's big tent, the so-called argument on the surface is also deliberate.

These were all preludes to Yan Xing's separation from Xu Rong and his own army.

He just wants to create the image of Xu Rong forming a party in the army, favoring his henchmen, and suppressing dissidents, and he wants to create a form in which he and Xu Rong disagree on military strategy and are suppressed and excluded by Xu Rong.

Among them, there are some truths and some falses.

But the false is true and true, and for a while, it can make people incomprehensible.

As for Xu Rong's order for Yan Xing to subdue Zhongmu's lost territory, although it was somewhat unexpected, it was exactly what Yan Xing intended.

Yan Xing and Xu Rong are at odds, and they want to break away from Xu Rong's command, although they can use Li Ru's power in Dong Ying, but the most reliable thing is their own strength.

Only when his own strength is strong enough can his own department have the capital to break away from Xu Rong's command.

How to reflect one's own strength, the key point is in military merits.

Only with enough prominent and dazzling military exploits can Dong Zhuo and Li Ru in Luoyang know their importance, and they can boldly tear their faces with Xu Rong and truly get the opportunity to lead an army alone and any other party.

Therefore, this time, Xu Rong sent himself to march alone, wanting to roast himself on the fire, but as everyone knows, this is also an opportunity for him to make outstanding military achievements.

As for how to stand, Yan Xing smiled faintly, he would not follow Xu Rong's routine to subdue those chicken-ribbed lost land, what he wanted was dazzling military merits, and the capital of leading an army alone and any outsider.

Thinking of this, Yan Xing set his eyes on the map, the city that he had specially marked with dansha.