Chen Yingliang convened two captains, four brigade commanders, and 16 captains and deputy captains of the veterans to discuss the matter, of course, for the grassroots generals of the two newly formed regiments, and the new two temporary captains, Chen Yingliang decided to select from the four brigade commanders, and the method of selection was also very simple, let the four brigade commanders report the number of enemies killed by themselves in the last war, and the two brigade commanders with the largest number were promoted to captains.

Although the method is a bit absurd, but the four brigade commanders have been accustomed to Chen Yingliang's style of doing things, and they are not the slightest bit surprised by this, and soon each reported the number of kills, and the result is quite surprising that the brigade commander who looked the most quiet, and also took the initiative to give the reward to the families of the fallen soldiers, reported the largest number of kills, two more than Zhao Yu, who killed the second most enemies, and the number of enemies killed by himself reached an astonishing eleven people.

Hearing this, Chen Yingliang was inevitably a little suspicious, and some suspected that Chen Ci was lying, but it was difficult to say anything without evidence. Guo Feng, the captain with a straightforward personality, quit and said, "Chen Ci, you killed eleven enemies with your own hands, is it really fake?" In the last war, I remember that I only killed ten enemies with my own hands, can you have one more than me? ”

"I never lie! I happen to have proof! Chen Ci blushed, and said loudly: "My fourth brother is a monk in the Pure Land Temple twenty miles south of Luoyang City, this time the thief changed him with the host and returned to the city to avoid the war, a few days ago he came to visit me, begging me to remember the number of enemies killed on the battlefield, saying that I killed how many enemies, he recited the scriptures in front of the Buddha how many times to surpass the soul, for me to eliminate the sins, so I have been remembering this on the battlefield, the day before yesterday my fourth brother came to see me again, I told him how many enemies I killed, and he immediately returned to the city Buddha Hall to chant, If you don't believe me, you can call my fourth brother right away and ask him face to face. ”

"I can testify to that." A team member of the Chen Ancestral Brigade stood up and said, "When Lvshuai Chen's fourth brother came to visit him, I happened to be there, but I didn't hear what they were talking about. ”

Guo Feng shut up, Chen Yingliang also smiled, and said: "The monks don't speak, Chen Ci has a compassionate monk and fourth brother, I believe he won't lie, so be it, Chen Ci, you serve as the captain of the Third Regiment of the National Army, Zhao Yu, you are the captain of the Fourth Regiment, work hard, and strive to be like Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong, from the temporary brigade commander to the official captain as soon as possible." ”

Chen Ci and Zhao Yucheng saluted and thanked him, and loudly promised that he would do a good job in the position of captain, and then Chen Yingliang concocted the same method, and used this method to select six new brigade commanders from the sixteen captains and deputy captains, and then let everyone recommend the soldiers under their command, from which twenty-two captains and deputy captains were selected, and soon finalized all the grassroots generals after the expansion of the national army, as for the captain, Chen Yingliang did not worry about it, and handed it over to the four captains to take charge of the matter, and at the same time Chen Yingliang ordered the new recruits and veterans to be mixed. Strive to form combat effectiveness with the old and the new.

"Sue the recruits, respect the experienced veterans, and also tell the veterans, don't bully the recruits with more experience and military exploits, be united and fraternal, and find that the recruits are disrespectful to the veterans, and the veterans bully the recruits, all of them will be severely punished and must not be tolerated!"

Finally, after explaining this sentence, Chen Yingliang, who was sick, was already exhausted, sweating on his forehead, Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong and others were also very sensible, and hurriedly said goodbye and left to let Chen Yingliang rest, and said that he would continue to train the organizational discipline of recruits according to Chen Yingliang's methods, so that Chen Yingliang did not have to worry, Chen Yingliang, who was really a little unbearable, agreed with a smile and said goodbye to everyone.

The captains and brigade commanders all went out, and the subordinates sent by Pei Hongce hurriedly handed the medicine bowl to Chen Yingliang, when Chen Yingliang was drinking the medicine, the newly promoted captain Chen Ci probed into the room again, and said to Chen Yingliang: "Chen Ji room, forget to tell you a sentence, my fourth brother Chen Yuan also recited the scriptures of blessing and disaster elimination to you, ask the Buddha to bless you, let your illness get better as soon as possible, don't look at my fourth brother Chen Yuan is only thirteen years old, but the presiding master of the Pure Land Temple said that he has wisdom roots, and he will definitely become a monk in the future, so he recited the scriptures, It will definitely be useful. ”

"Thank you, if you have the opportunity to meet your fourth brother, I will definitely thank him in person." Chen Yingliang nodded with a smile, and wondered in his heart: "Chen Yuan? How do you seem to have heard this name there? …… I can't think of it, and I don't know if it's a historical celebrity of our old Chen family. ”

Maybe it's because there is an eventful monk chanting scriptures and praying for blessings, after resting for another night, Chen Yingliang's condition has improved greatly, at least his feet are not soft when he walks, Chen Yingliang originally wanted to personally lead the team to train on the school field, but he was set up out of the school by Guo Feng and Chen Cihe and several other school captains, saying that he would not let Chen Yingliang continue to spoil his body, Chen Yingliang had no choice but to accept the kindness of a few accomplice lackeys, I found a bench and sat in the shade next to the school field to watch the training of the reorganized national army.

It is good to have veterans with training, although it has only been three or four days to join the newspaper, more than 400 recruits have been driven by veterans, and the organizational discipline has been qualitatively improved, which is reflected in the queue and the marching army, the neat queue has not seen the traces of those lazy soldiers of the right guard, and there are few deviations when the army is on foot, and occasionally someone can correct it with the help of his companions, and there is no misleading and affecting his companions.

The most delightful thing for Chen Yingliang is the spiritual outlook of the newspaper, after the victory over the rebels in the rainstorm, the self-confidence of the newspaper **** has obviously been established, and the undiscounted reward also allows the soldiers of the newspaper army to see the rich rewards of their efforts, so in the training, not only the veterans are working harder, but also driving the recruits to rise up and train hard.

When he nodded with satisfaction, Chen Yingliang's corner of his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of Pei Hongce leading a few personal soldiers from outside the camp, Chen Yingliang didn't dare to slack off, and quickly trotted in front of Pei Hongce to salute, Pei Hongce also quickly hugged Chen Yingliang, and said with a smile: "There is no enemy situation in Shangchunmen today, I took the time to come and see you, how is your illness?" ”

"Thank you uncle for your concern, my little nephew is already well." Chen Yingliang replied: "If my uncle needs it, my little nephew can lead the army out of the city at any time, and then fight to the death with the Yang rebel army!" ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, wait until you're completely cured." Pei Hongce waved his hand, pulled Chen Yingliang to a cool place and sat down, and lovingly advised: "The imperial doctor said that although your illness was poured by heavy rain, the root is still because your body is too weak, you should rest more and eat more nourishing things, your uncle sent someone to send you ginseng, you have to eat it every day, just open your mouth after eating, and your uncle will send someone to bring it to you." ”

In the past two years, the Great Sui has completely turned its face with Goguryeo, and the land roads with Silla and other countries are blocked, and the price of folk ginseng has risen sharply, which Chen Yingliang knows, and is grateful to Pei Hongce for this cheap uncle, Chen Yingliang hurriedly thanked Pei Hongce sincerely. Pei Hongce smiled and waved his hand, indicating that there was no need to say thank you, and then Pei Hongce said: "Virtuous nephew, uncle took the time to come here today, in addition to taking a look at your situation, there is another thing to tell you, so that you can be prepared." ”

"Uncle, please." Chen Yingliang replied respectfully.

Pei Hongce's face was a little stern, he first looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and said: "Don't leak it to the outside world, so as not to affect the morale of the army, I just received the news, our Daxing reinforcements have failed miserably, and the losses are heavy, Yang Xuangan has won a great victory, maybe he will lead the main force back to Luoyang in a few days, and you will definitely be under great pressure at that time, you must be ready to meet the bitter battle." ”

"The Daxing reinforcements were defeated?" Chen Yingliang was a little surprised, and hurriedly lowered his voice and asked, "Uncle, is it because of the false alarm that Fan stayed behind?" Later, the ten warning messengers sent by Fan Liushou didn't send the news of the division of the rebel thieves to Lord Wei Xuanwei? ”

"Of the ten messengers, three sent the news of the alarm to Wei Xuan, and the other seven were missing." Pei Hongce's expression was solemn, and he introduced in a low voice: "Wei Xuan knew that Yang Xuan was likely to set up an ambush on the steep Kuihan Road, and then arranged an ambush and sent a lure army to the east, wanting to lure out the traitor ambush and introduce the main force of the traitor into the ambush circle to annihilate it, but I didn't know that there was a fork there, Yang Rebel Thief Army actually knew in advance where Wei Xuan's ambush was, and suddenly stopped advancing when he was about to enter the ambush circle, and also took out a lot of fire oil and firewood to set fire to the mountains on both sides of the road, and the ambush arranged by Wei Xuan was in chaos and was forced to escape from the woods. Yang's rebel army took the opportunity to attack in a big way, and our reinforcements were defeated. ”

"Nine out of nine are moles!" Chen Yingliang, who had been eating by analyzing the case for a long time, was categorical, and said quickly: "If the scouts of the rebels found our reinforcements ambushing the soldiers, the Yang rebel army would definitely not have time to prepare firewood and oil, since the Yang rebel army was able to quickly take out the firewood and firewood, it can be concluded from this alone that there are traitors in Wei Xuan's team, and they secretly told Yang Xuangan about the ambush of our reinforcements!" ”

Pei Hongce's eyes rolled a few times, and he quickly nodded and said: "Reasonable, that old guy Yang Su has been in charge of the military for a long time, and there are countless henchmen in the Guanzhong army, Yang Xuan feels that the traitor wants to find a few traitors, it is too easy." ”

"Uncle, how is the military situation now?" Chen Yingliang hurriedly asked: "After the defeat of our reinforcements, what countermeasures were taken?" What action did the Yang rebel thief army take? ”

"Wei Xuan, like Fan Zigai, is an old stubborn who refuses to admit defeat." Pei Hongce lowered his voice and said: "He sent a messenger to tell us that after he reorganized the army, he had re-opened to Luoyang, but the road to the Cuihan Road was too steep, and Wei Xuan, who had suffered a loss, did not dare to go too fast, so he asked us to wait patiently for a few more days, as for Yang Wei's main force, the waste scouts of the Right Wuwei have not yet detected their latest movements." ”

Knowing himself but not knowing the other, Chen Yingliang is resourceful, and he can't think of any way to deal with the enemy for a while, after carefully thinking for a while, Chen Yingliang whispered to Pei Hongce: "Uncle, can you make a decision before Fan Liu's face to deal with the current situation?" ”

"That's what I came to you for, Fan Zigai, that old stubborn asked me how to deal with this situation, I just couldn't think of it before I came to you." Pei Hongce muttered quietly in his heart, and said very beautifully, "Although the virtuous nephew has something to say, it is all for the sake of the Great Sui Imperial Court, as long as the virtuous nephew is right, the uncle will definitely speak on your behalf." ”

"Uncle Xie." Chen Yingliang thanked him and said in a low voice: "Please ask my uncle to make a message to Fan Liu, and send a letter to contact Lord Wei Xuanwei, so that Lord Wei's team can garrison the west of Hangu Pass in the Han Dynasty, with a deep ditch and a high base, only defend without fighting, and block the westward march of Yang Rebellion and traitors, so that within a month, Yang Rebellion and traitors will inevitably be wiped out under Luoyang City!" ”

"Let Wei Xuan's reinforcements be stationed west of Hangu Pass in the Han Dynasty? Defend without fighting? Why? Pei Hongce was stunned.

"Because Lord Wei's army is also unreliable." Chen Yingliang replied in a low voice: "The little nephew is from Daxing, he has seen the situation of the Daxing army with his own eyes, and knows that the virtue of the left Wuwei army in Daxing is similar to that of the right Wuwei army, and it is very likely that there are traitors in the army. ”

"The garrison is different west of Hangu Pass in the Han Dynasty." Chen Yingliang explained: "The little nephew walked this road, knowing that the road west of Hangu Pass in the Han Dynasty was still narrow and difficult to walk, which was not conducive to the development of the army. the second is to contain the main force of the Yang rebel army that has been divided for us, and share the pressure of our Luoyang defenders; The third is to block the westward path of the Yang rebel thief army, so that he cannot threaten Guanzhong, and when our other reinforcements arrive, the inside and outside will blossom, and the attack will be carried out on three sides, and then it will be easy to annihilate the Yang rebel thief army. ”

Pei Hongce was indeed a little sorry in terms of military affairs, and after thinking about it for a long time, Pei Hongce barely came to his senses and asked in a low voice: "Virtuous nephew, you mean that you didn't expect Wei Xuan's reinforcements to be able to defeat Yang Rebellion's thief army, but only hoped that he could contain Yang Rebellion's main force and buy time for our other reinforcements to come back?" ”

"Exactly." Chen Yingliang nodded and said in a low voice: "Uncle, don't have illusions about Zuo Wuwei, they are the same as Right Wuwei, they are all young master soldiers who have not fought for more than ten or twenty years, and the last elite has already been brought to Liaodong by the emperor, and in the decisive battle with Yang Rebellion's main force in the field, they basically have no chance of winning, and only by hiding in the Cuihan Road, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, can they play the greatest role." ”

"Also, there is another advantage of hiding in the Cuihan Road, that is, you can attack and retreat and defend, the counterinsurgency battlefield has an opportunity, and you can attack at any time, if you lose the battle in the Cuihan Road, they can at least run west, there are Mianchi, Hongnong and Tongguan can retreat, and it is unlikely that they will be completely annihilated. But if they get out of the Cuihan Road and go to the open area to fight with the main force of the traitors, it will be troublesome, as long as the traitors send hundreds of troops to block the Cuihan Road, the 40,000 army will be unable to fly, although whether Lord Wei Xuanwei is now defeated or not has nothing to do with us, but after all, this is 40,000 lives, so please think twice. ”

After listening to Chen Yingliang's persuasion, Pei Hongce thought about it for a few more minutes, and quickly nodded and said: "The virtuous nephew is reasonable, this is indeed a foolproof strategy, for the sake of the 40,000 imperial court army, I will go to see Fan Liushou and advise now, virtuous nephew, take care of yourself, uncle will go first." ”

After that, Pei Hongce got up and left in a hurry, Chen Yingliang sent Pei Hongce out of the camp gate, and saw Pei Hongce hurry to the imperial city to give advice to Fan Zigai, and at the same time Chen Yingliang secretly said: "Uncle, for your ginseng sake, I really gave you a good idea this time, I remember that in history, Wei Xuan was almost captured alive by Yang Xuangan, and it was a shit luck that shot Yang Xuangan's own brother Yang Xuanting, so it was lucky that the whole army was not wiped out, and now history has gradually changed, will Wei Xuan have such shit luck, I can't vouch for it. ”

After muttering, Chen Yingliang was just about to turn around and go back to the camp, but saw a thin little monk standing next to him, clapping his palms to himself, his attitude was very respectful, Chen Yingliang guessed that he must be Chen Yuan's younger brother Chen Yuan, so he saluted him with his palms, and said with a smile: "You are Chen Yuan, right?" I heard that you chanted scriptures and prayed for me, thank you, this little monk, you are here to visit your brother Chen Ancestral Hall, right? He's leading a team training on the school field, and I'll help you call him. ”

The little monk was still a little shy, and gave a salute to Chen Yingliang, just wanted to say something to Chen Yingliang, Chen Yingliang, who was not even qualified to be equipped with a personal soldier, had already strode into the school to find Chen Ancestral Hall, the little monk was helpless, so he had to salute Chen Yingliang's back, and whispered: "Little monk......, thank you for your help to spread the word, my Buddha is merciful, please bless this Chen Shi's martial arts and prosperity, no disasters and no difficulties, and a long life." ”

"I really don't want to bless this hypocrite who buys a mobile phone with public funds, even if you open your mouth!" A roar rang out from 108,000 miles away.