Chapter 52: Merit is a trap

"Ben Shuai came to them, well, for, um," Zhu Ling hummed twice, and finally decided what to say: "To commend them!" He said this, but he felt extremely painful in his heart.

Well, he had to give up this opportunity to let Bai Qi and Wei Changfeng carry the black cauldron, this is his own fault, who asked him to ask the military department for help? As a result, the military department not only gave reinforcements, but also gave him such a troublesome deputy.

However, it was also in this moment that Zhu Ling decided to give Fang Zhenhai this black cauldron to bear. Isn't it an order from your Fang Zhenhai overstep? It's great, it's wonderful, I'll just report to the Ministry of War, it's you who took it, it's wrong, you can bear it yourself.

Fang Zhenhai looked at Zhu Ling with some suspicion, and for a while he didn't understand what happened to Zhu Ling, how could there be such a big turn. The news he got before, but General Zhu was furious about it. He looked at it for a moment, guessed Zhu Ling's thoughts in his heart, smiled hehe, and said, "I see, the last general is suspicious." After that, he sat down on the side and waited to see how Zhu Ling performed.

Zhu Ling had no choice but to perform this play, he hummed again, and said to Zhao Zi'an: "General Zhao, this time, you command well, your subordinates are adaptable, sure enough, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and the commander will ask the military department for a reward, these two, according to your opinion, how should they be rewarded?" ”

Zhao Zi'an was shrinking on the side, but he didn't expect the sky to fall on Yu Sitouye, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "This is up to General Zhu's decision." Although he was happy in his heart, he didn't forget the last time Zhu Ling put on the responsibility of improving Wei Changfeng's "good" reputation, so he made up his mind to push 625 and ignore it at all.

Zhu Ling was secretly angry in his heart, but he didn't expect Zhao Zi'an to refuse to enter the trap, and he was silent for a while.

Bai Qi coughed and said, "The last general will not dare to receive the merit of this battle." The tricks of defeating the enemy are all made by the Wei Centurion, and the last general is just giving up his hands, and there is really no credit at all, the general may wish to investigate the soldiers, and it can be known that what the last general said is true. ”

The second half of his sentence made Wei Changfeng shut up. Wei Changfeng originally wanted to speak out against it, but as soon as the sentence "The general might as well investigate the soldiers" came out, Wei Changfeng had nothing to say, so he had to stand there silently.

Zhu Ling was even more embarrassed in his heart. Although he has no credit for himself, although he is a good character, this forced him to reward Wei Changfeng heavily, which is exactly what he wants to avoid. He was at a loss for a moment.

Fang Zhenhai looked at Zhu Ling silently on the side, and his heart was even more strange, he didn't understand such a simple matter, General Zhu seemed to be very embarrassed about something, and immediately interjected: "The last general thinks that the merit of Centurion Wei is the first, General Bai Shen is second, and General Zhao has a good leadership, so he should also be rewarded." ”

Zhao Zi'an's face immediately twisted. "Also as a reward"? This is not clear, but it is actually to give him face? However, he had to admit that General Fang was really telling the truth, this time, he Zhao Zi'an actually had nothing to boast about except for a false "good leader".

Zhu Ling keenly seized the opportunity, he immediately nodded and asked, "General Fang, how do you think the reward should be?" ”

Fang Zhenhai saw that Zhu Ling gave him this opportunity to be a good person, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, but he thought that there should be no big problem here, or it could be that General Zhu sold him a good one, so as to have a good relationship with himself, and said at the moment: "Captain Wei Centurion should be promoted, the last general suggested, promoted to the commander of the small capital, and General Bai Shen should be rewarded by the general order, as for General Zhao, we had better report to the Ministry of War, and ask the Ministry of War to award him, what does General Zhu think?" ”

Zhu Ling smiled happily. It's really fun. Well, the decision to promote Wei Changfeng was not ordered by him, it was Fang Zhenhai, and he finally untied this set from his neck. "It's up to General Fang's idea." He especially accentuated the word "General Fang", firmly put this "merit" around Fang Zhenhai's neck, and then remembered something and said: "In this battle, the first merit of the whole army is only afraid to go to General Fang, General Fang has a good way to govern the army, and his subordinates are extremely brave, so that our army can successfully break through the Donghu Army in the center." As he spoke, he looked directly at Fang Zhenhai.

"It's not about me." Fang Zhenhai replied, "This merit is completely done by General Ma Yongma. He also asked General Zhu to report the matter to the Ministry of War. ”

Zhu Ling nodded, but did not answer. Seeing that Zhu Ling was silent, Fang Zhenhai thought about it for a while, and immediately added: "If General Zhu's command is fixed, he will not be chaotic in the face of danger, if he talks about the skill of command, the last general will come, and he has not commanded at all, and General Zhu is only afraid that he will not be able to let this skill." ”

Zhu Ling smiled with satisfaction. What he is most worried about is who will carry the black cauldron of this battle, and the second worry is that he can open his mouth on the official document, but he can't hide it from Fang Zhenhai, who is also in the army, and now Fang Zhenhai endorses him, he can finally rest assured and boldly deceive the military department, and at the same time, he also set up a deeper bureau: since he Zhu Ling has meritorious command, then who will bear the responsibility for the chaos of this war, at least let go of the Donghu army? Well, he didn't say that General Fang would take the responsibility, he just reported to the Ministry of War according to the truth, and it was none of his business how the Ministry of War decided.

Solving several problems in one go, Zhu Ling was in a good mood and said with a smile: "Okay, the enemy army is far away, we can't be idle, all departments must be assembled as soon as possible, we must closely track the enemy army, and we must not give up lightly." General Fang, we have to study the enemy's situation. ”

Bai Qi and Wei Changfeng glanced at each other, knowing that there was nothing to do with them next, at most, General Zhao could stay and listen, and the two of them immediately said goodbye to Zhu Ling in unison.

Out of the Chinese military tent, Bai Qi and Wei Changfeng walked side by side for a while, and Wei Changfeng said softly: "General Bai Shen, in fact, you don't have to be like this at all. ”

"Nope." Bai Qi replied with two words.

The two looked at each other and smiled, stopped talking, and hurried back to the team. However, both of them knew the Tao in their hearts, and their tacit understanding was one step deeper, and it had reached the point where they had a clear heart, and others heard that there was no beginning or end, but they completely understood what the other party was saying.

Half an hour later, the army was mobilized, however, Zhao Zi'an's headquarters and another 10,000-strong team stayed. It turned out that Zhu Ling and Fang Zhenhai studied the results of the enemy's situation, Fang Zhenhai thought that looking at the direction of the enemy's escape, it should be towards Suizhong, they must want to go around the big bend to return to Xingcheng, the Han army had better pursue with the main force, while dividing the troops to take a shortcut and go straight to Xingcheng, so that either they can flank the enemy front and back, or, just capture Xingcheng. Zhu Ling praised this plan, and immediately asked Fang Zhenhai to be responsible for leading the 20,000 troops to intercept the attack, so that one threw this drudgery to Fang Zhenhai's men, and the other also let Fang Zhenhai stay away from him and save trouble.

Fang Zhenhai did not refuse, since he was a deputy, of course he had to assist Zhu Ling, this task should be carried out by him, but he put forward a request: 20,000 people, he will general, one wants his subordinates Ma Yong, and the other wants Zhao Zi'an.

Zhu Ling naturally agreed, but he secretly wondered in his heart, it was understandable to ask Ma Yong, after all, Ma Yong was Fang Zhenhai's subordinate, but what did he want Zhao Zi'an for? Could it be that Fang Zhenhai really thinks that Zhao Zi'an has a good way to govern the army?