In fact, when Chen Yucheng began to lead the army to retreat, Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun were fully capable of catching up and fighting again.

Because after all, these are two elite regiments, in addition to the number of people, whether it is the level of training, organizational ability or weapons and equipment, they are much stronger than Chen Yucheng's soldiers and horses. As long as they hug each other, they can have a new battle with each other.

There is no doubt that if the battle resumes head-on, Chen Yucheng's less than 50,000 people will definitely be defeated head-on, and even if it can't be defeated in the Battle of Suzhou that year, it will be easy to defeat it.

However, Zhang Fengtuan and Zhang Yuntuan stopped advancing, watching the other party slip away in front of them, only daring to stabilize the line and concentrate on defense, without the slightest intention of continuing to pursue.

The reason why this is the case is that they are afraid, because the casualties of the Jingwu Army in this encounter are too heavy, and the rough statistics are more than two hundred, which can be said to be the heaviest casualty incident since the Jingwu Army became an army.

Therefore, in this case, the first thing they thought of was to stabilize their defense line first, preserve their strength, and avoid further losses, but they didn't dare to think about anything like finding the field and expanding the results.

This can't be blamed on Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun, after all, they are too young, not very experienced, and have little experience, and they can become the regiment commander all because of Zhang Wei's care and early participation in the army.

Of course, it cannot be said that they are straw bales, because they joined the army earlier, they are old people who live in a large battalion, and they have personally received Li Yongji's teachings, so they have received more modern combat concepts, and they can skillfully use infantry drills to train troops, and they can also skillfully use infantry drills to lead troops.

However, that's all they had to do, letting these two lead the charge under the leadership of a wise commander, and only be responsible for fighting in small groups. They are good middle- and low-ranking officers, but if they are allowed to lead their troops to act arbitrarily and fight independently, then their experience and experience will be a hard wound.

Not everyone is born a military genius, and they are famous generals as soon as they make a move, and it is good that most generals can maintain a qualified level.

Most of these qualified generals climb up step by step, and even have to sum up lessons in failure before they slowly qualify, and Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun obviously do not have the qualifications of famous generals at present. Compared with Chen Yucheng, who has experienced a hundred battles, it is still a little too tender.

In fact, there are no real famous generals in Li Yongji's army, and no one can have a keen sense of the battlefield or big strategic thinking, most of them are from small farmers or small citizens, and they have been hardened by modern weapons and rigid modern infantry drills.

The reason why the elite army won all battles was because the difference in technology generation was too great, ignoring the low-level strategic factors. Hot weapons against cold weapons are naturally invincible, but if you light the enemy because of this, you will be ambushed by others. Cold weapons are not necessarily incapable of fighting hot weapons.

Chen Yucheng did a good job this time, if it wasn't for an accident, his ambush troops would be attacked behind his back, and all his designs and traps in front of him would come to naught. If Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun were really allowed to fall into the trap originally prepared for Jiang Yun, then the situation would be really difficult to say.

However, Chen Yu became the ambush. It can be said that it is painstaking, it is to hit the other party by surprise, and to beat the other party to attack a light enemy, but the strength of the elite army is too strong after all, once you are cautious, if you want to do it again, it will be extremely difficult.

It's like a child sneaking up on an adult, when the adult is defenseless, you suddenly suddenly, it is really possible to kill the other party with a stick, but if you don't kill at once, let the adult react and start to treat you seriously, then the child basically has no chance of winning.

It was precisely because he saw that the difference in strength was too great, Chen Yucheng quickly retreated, and even because he was afraid that the large army would be entangled by them, he even thought of a strong man breaking his wrist, and specially prepared a death squad, who knew that Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun were inexperienced, and watching him slip away made Chen Yucheng breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun have poor experience, but it does not mean that Zhang Wei is also informed, and the A troops of the Jingwu Army have radio communication at the battalion level, Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun are said to be able to report the situation to Zhang Wei in time, and then let Zhang Wei call the shots.

If they could ask Zhang Wei when they suffered losses, it would be impossible to let Chen Yucheng go away like this, it would be impossible to just be undefeated and undefeated, but it is a pity that Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun were too young and reacted too poorly when they encountered things.

At the beginning of the war, they were strong enough to panic without encountering setbacks, but after finding that they had been ambushed, they all showed enough courage to face the difficulties.

However, after they finished fighting with Chen Yucheng's troops, they were just busy reorganizing the defense of the troops, and then counting the losses, and they couldn't think of reporting the situation to Zhang Wei at all.

After hesitating and hesitating, he decided to report the situation to Zhang Wei, and after talking bluntly, Chen Yucheng's people had already disappeared.

Obviously, when he heard what had happened, Zhang Wei immediately became furious, first angry at their light enemy for adventuring, then angry at their huge losses, and finally angry at their fearful of the enemy.

"Why don't you keep him?" Zhang Wei scolded directly into the phone, "The loss is so big, why don't you leave the surnamed Chen for me, I can't keep him, and half of his troops will be left for me, so I can talk, but what do you want me to say if you are like this?" What will others think of you? Well? ”

"So, let's chase it now?" Zhang Feng said cautiously, "Big brother, is it okay for us to organize people to chase you now?" ”

"it!" Zhang Wei said angrily, "You're only going now, it's too late!" Even if you can catch up and win again, but it's another battle, but your table this time has already been recorded, you are all dead when you are the staff of your regiment? Moreover, Chen Yucheng is not a fuel-efficient lamp, after such a long time, what if you lose again? Are you still convinced? ”

"So, what then?" Zhang Feng hurriedly said, "Big brother, then why are we waiting now?" ”

"Come back first." Zhang Wei sighed and said, "This matter can't be hidden, and I am also responsible, you guys hurry back and talk about it!" ”

Wait to hang up the phone. Zhang Wei gritted his teeth, picked up the phone again, and called Li Yongji, wanting to explain the matter as soon as possible.

Zhang Wei's mind is very simple, that is, he should take the initiative to explain the problem before the staff officers report the matter, so as to strive for leniency.

Now Zhang Wei doesn't expect to give Zhang Feng and Zhang Yun any credit, and he can reduce the punishment a little, so that they can continue to stay in the army and make meritorious contributions. That's for the best.

People like Zhang Wei and Wang Sanwu all have Li Yongji's direct number, and they can directly call Li Yongji himself at the fastest speed, instead of having to report at all levels like staff officers at all levels, and then the highest chief of staff will gather together to notify Li Yongji, so the advantage in transmission speed is quite obvious.

When Zhang Wei called the phone, it was already night. Li Yongji happened to sit with Su Su for dinner, and after he patiently listened to Zhang Wei's self-reproachful report, he didn't get angry because of it, but just let him watch it himself. Then he hung up the phone.

Obviously, Li Yongji's attitude towards Zhang Wei is the same as that towards Wang Sanwu at the beginning, and he is not the first to express his position. Give the other person a time to react and see how they handle these things.

Li Yongji thinks this method is very good and effective. After all, he can't take care of everything, and if the people below don't even have the ability to deal with problems on their own, and Li Yongji has to make decisions about everything, then what kind of senior director do they need, no, senior generals?

When Wang Sanwu made a mistake, Li Yongji just took it lightly as if he didn't seem to care, neither criticizing the other party, nor comforting the other party, letting them go to the trick themselves, and in terms of effect, it looks pretty good, at least Wang Sanwu did okay, and he has been much more honest since then.

Originally, Li Yongji thought that Zhang Wei had a more stable personality and was not very good at making big mistakes, but he didn't expect to make the mistake of grabbing merit so quickly.

Since Li Yongji was able to forgive Wang Sanwu at the beginning, he will naturally forgive Zhang Wei this time, how can it be said that Zhang Wei's fault is smaller than Wang Sanwu's mistake at the beginning, isn't it?

In fact, this is not to say how powerful Zhang Wei is, Li Yongji is not easy to do, there is no suitable replacement and other problems, on the contrary, in terms of the organizational form of the Jingwu Army and Li Yongji's personal prestige, even if there is no Zhang Wei at present, even if Li Yongji directly orders the removal of him, there will be no major problems.

You must know that Zhang Wei is different from Wang Sanwu, he is not related to Li Yongji, but his status is on the same level as Wang Sanwu, second only to Li Yongji in the Jingwu Army. Therefore, there are not many people who hope that Wang Sanwu will fall, but those who hope that Zhang Wei will fall and replace him are like carp crossing the river, and there is no need to even talk about others, Yu Hongrui will definitely hope that Zhang Wei will be unlucky.

However, the more this is the case, the more Li Yongji must try to protect these people, after all, Zhang Wei and these people were the first to follow Li Yongji, if he is killed because of this matter, then he is estimated that there will not be many loyal guys in the future.

Having lived in this era for so long, Li Yongji has long understood that at least until the new generation rises up and brings out new values, no matter what Li Yongji does, he cannot forcibly change the universal values of this generation, and you can't look at them as modern people.

Like Zhang Wei, these people still have the thoughts of the old society in their bones, pay attention to the rule of man, talk about the death of a soldier as a confidant, pay attention to the old idea of loyalty to the king, and recognize the world, stand in the team, and then become famous and seal the wife and son.

Such them will inevitably have their own selfish thoughts, and you can't set them according to the moral concepts of modern people.

So, for these people, you have to tolerate their mistakes, at the very least, they have been with you for so long, you can't even give yourself a chance to repent, right? If you really want to do that, they will think that you are ruthless and unreasonable, and they will even think that you are unloading the mill and killing the donkey.

In short, that's it, people in this era think very strangely, for military rules and precepts, they all think that they only restrict ordinary people, and once they reach a high position, they don't think that those military rules and precepts can be restricted.

In the eyes of most Chinese at this time, they think that those high-ranking officials who are taken down by the rules must not be because you have really violated the law or rules, but because you are not favored by the supreme ruler, and as a result, you are just looking for a reason to deal with you.

In other words, everyone doesn't think there's anything wrong with breaking the law or even embezzlement, they just think that you have offended people, you are in the wrong position, and you can't be a person!

Therefore, in this case, once Li Yongji now punishes Zhang Wei, although there are many people who will be happy. But it will definitely make many people sad. After all, Zhang Wei had actually established his own side of the force a long time ago.

Once Zhang Wei falls, these Zhang Wei's factions will not dare to oppose Li Yongji, nor will they complain about Li Yongji, but they will find a so-called traitor as a target, such as a new leader, and then engage in a set of conspiracy theories themselves, and then carry out various kinds of resistance, and after a long time, the problem may be even greater.

In order to fundamentally put an end to this kind of small faction and small hill within the army, it is necessary to grasp ideological education from the root. Engaging in the so-called rectification of the construction of the wind and style, but doing this kind of thing will inevitably hurt the muscles and bones, and in this period when it is still in the world of fighting, it is still not appropriate to implement it too early.

Li Yongji now understands why the founding emperors of all dynasties, once they have laid down the country, and after the country is a little more stable, they will start to kill heroes or something, this may not be for future generations to easily take power. It is for the stability of the entire system and the long-term peace and stability of the country.

You must know that during the period of fighting the country, each general must have established his own small faction. When there is a war, because there is a greater external goal oppression, everyone can use their strength in one place, which can eliminate these small contradictions, but when the external contradictions disappear. These hills will inevitably turn to internal power struggles.

This kind of factional struggle has never been severed throughout the ages, even in modern society. It has not been eradicated, at most, because the wisdom of the people has been opened, and there are more ways to restrain it.

For example, the struggle between the two parties and the multi-party ruling party are actually the clear separation of factions, so that the disputes between these factions will turn from covert battles to open disputes, and the criterion for evaluation is public opinion.

But in the current China, you can't expect the common people to measure these political systems and factions, they will only blindly obey, so it depends on how the leaders balance the factions below, and let the emperor limit the different factions, and over time, this has become the so-called imperial trick.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there is a struggle, take Zhang Wei, there will inevitably be another Zhang Wei, relying on this method alone, there is no solution at all, but it is better to give these people some trust and tolerance, let them be grateful to Dade themselves, and put on the die-hard template themselves, the effect will be better.

Not to mention why in ancient times we had to pay attention to what kind of scholar died as a confidant, and what kind of monarch wanted his ministers to die, and what kind of ministers had to die, which was fundamentally so that the emperor could better balance his factions, so that factional struggles could become healthy competition, rather than malicious internal friction.

Just take a look at ancient history, a good emperor must be able to better restrain his subordinates, so that his subordinates can compete with each other at the same time, but also better display their talents, which has nothing to do with his personal morality; And a faint king, no matter how good his personal character is, as long as he can't balance his subordinates and can't win the loyal love of his subordinates, he will die sooner or later and the country will be destroyed.

So, then again, how did Li Yongji know about this qiē, and how did he realize it?

The answer is the advanced radio communication system, as well as the reports of various secret agencies arranged by Li Yongji in advance!

Li Yongji attached great importance to the building of intelligence and discipline, and set up an intelligence department and a gendarmerie very early. In the beginning, the Intelligence Service only collected military intelligence externally, while the Gendarmerie was mainly responsible for the internal discipline of the troops, but as time went on, as the respective departments became larger, the scope of their respective functions also increased, and even overlapped in many places.

Let's talk about the intelligence department first, although the intelligence department has so far mainly collected intelligence from the outside world, but in fact, they also have a large number of secret agents in the Jingwu military-controlled areas, such as the Jiangnan area, and the main task of the internal secret agents is to monitor local officials, collect local people's opinions, and so on, which is a kind of internal surveillance.

In other words, the current intelligence department is no longer just a kind of military intelligence agency, but has developed into a kind of special agency with a wider scope of surveillance, and these things are not what Li Yongji deliberately asked them to do, but the result of the development of this organization itself with the expansion of the territory of the elite army.

Speaking of the gendarmerie, in fact, the gendarmerie was later changed to the Judge Advocate General's Office, which was later established with a larger size of the Judge Advocate General's Office, and the public officials of the Judge Advocate General's Office continued to be called the Gendarmerie.

In the beginning, the military police of the Judge Advocate Advocate General's Department did only picket the discipline of the elite military units, but as time passed, because the Judge Advocate Advocate General's Department also had the power to adjudicate, the power of this department became greater and greater, and it was no longer just picketing discipline, but even monitoring the thoughts of the officers and men of the troops.

In particular, those officers, especially those who are under the watchful eye of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office, are afraid that they will have any misdeeds and disloyalty to Li Yongji.

With the expansion of the size of the elite army, with the legal system of the junta also being assigned to the military justice department, with the emergence of the second-level garrison force, the third-level militia force. The power of this military justice department has also been expanded, not only to monitor the elite military units of the first class, but also to other units, which is equivalent to changing from a simple discipline supervision organ to a special agency that can monitor, adjudicate, and arrest people on its own.

Why is this happening? The reason is simple, because they all have a lot of support from Li Yongji!

At the beginning, Li Yongji didn't realize the benefits of the secret service, and he was even a little bored, but as his sphere of influence grew, he felt more and more powerless to control many aspects. At this time, the Intelligence Department and the Judge Advocate General's Office gave him strong support, allowing him to control the military and local government more effectively.

To put it simply, Li Yongji suddenly discovered that if you remove things like freedom-freedom-democracy-mastery, the spy government is actually a system with high implementation efficiency, which can make better use of his own resources and better maintain and protect his family!

The director of the intelligence department was Sun Wang, who was the first to follow Li Yongji. Originally, he was just an unambitious young tooth man, but since he defected to Li Yongji, he has soared and become Li Yongji's personal intelligence leader. The many victories of the Jingwu Army since then are inseparable from Sun Wang's shrewdness and ability.

Compared with the director of the intelligence department, who has always been in the hands of Sun Wang, then the director of the military justice department is different.

The earliest head of the Judge Advocate General's Office was Zhou Da. The Judge Advocate General's rapid expansion policy was also initiated by Zhou Da, but later with the increasing power of the Judge Advocate General's Office. There are more and more things to manage, especially when many tasks overlap with the intelligence department, Li Zhengxiang, who is Li Yongji's cheap father, suddenly began to strongly oppose continuing to let Zhou Da be responsible for such an important position.

According to Li Yongji's cheap father Li Zhengxiang, if only the intelligence department that collects intelligence, or only has the right to investigate, is counted as Jinyiwei, then the military justice department, which has the power to investigate, judge and arrest at the same time, is actually the Dongchang with greater power!

If an intelligence department like Jinyiwei can still allow outsiders to interfere, then a military justice department like Dongchang must be in the hands of insiders in his own family. As for the reason, it is natural that this department is too sensitive, and if it is lightly controlled by outsiders, it will be harmful to others and oneself!

Li Zhengxiang not only told Li Yongji this, but he also personally found Zhou Da and talked to Zhou Da about it, and the result was that Zhou Da quickly found Li Yongji and said that he would resign from the position of director of the Judge Advocate General's Office.

Because of this, Li Yongji had to let Zhou Da resign, but in order to minimize the impact of his resignation and not let people gossip, Li Yongji asked Zhou Da to lead the troops again and temporarily command the first division of his descendant for himself, and this time Li Yongji led the troops to the Northern Expedition, and Zhou Da was followed by him, which in itself represents a kind of trust of Li Yongji.

Sure enough, after doing this, Zhou Da's faction was also quite stable, and nothing happened thinking that Zhou Da had lost his position and took the opportunity to fall into the ground, maintaining harmony and stability within the Jingwu Army.

After Zhou Da left the Judge Advocate General's Office, the position he left behind became a hot potato, and Li Yongji finally decided to take this position to his personal maid.

Li Yongji has four personal maids, namely Susu, Xiuxiu, Jiajia, and Lili, all four of whom are Li Yongji's personal servants, although they did not have an actual position in the past, but because they are closer to Li Yongji, the outside world is also in awe of them.

But in fact, because of Li Yongji's care, these four personal maids do not appear in front of the public alone, and they all have their own characteristics.

Su Su has a gentle personality, is obedient, has the best cultural foundation, and now is mainly used as Li Yongji's personal secretary, and is also the woman with the closest relationship with Li Yongji.

Xiuxiu is Susu's own sister, with a relatively lively personality, but she has a strong desire for knowledge, and after seeing modern knowledge, she now devotes almost all her energy to learning and education. Until now, Xiuxiu is still replacing Li Yongji to teach the young domestic servants who were bought at the beginning, that is, the young guards.

Lili, although at the beginning, in order to survive, she had a strong desire to express, but as time went by, with the stability and affluence of life, she began to become more and more lazy, if you want to talk about interest, it can only be said that she is more interested in housekeeping, food and dressing, more like an ordinary girl, and now Li Yongji's housekeeping services are almost all Lili is in charge.

Finally, Jiajia, Jiajia's desire for expression and curiosity are also very strong, but compared to these two points, her desire for power is not small, and she is not at all restless.

In this way, in the end, after Li Yongji took out the position of the Military Judge Advocate General, only Jiajia recommended herself, and then thanks to her good appearance, the position of the head of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office was finally handed over to Jiajia.

After Jiajia became the director of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office, she was all Xiao Gui Cao at the beginning, copying Zhou Da's policies, and at the same time carefully studying the management methods of those intelligence agencies that Li Yongji gave her.

As time went by, the military justice department presided over by Jiajia became more and more strange and larger, not so much like a gendarmerie unit as it was more appropriate to be like the KGB.

Nowadays, the Judge Advocate General's Office not only has its own independent communication channels, but also develops intelligence officers everywhere, not only the troops at all levels of the Jingwu Army are full of intelligence officers of different levels, but even among the civilians within the scope of the Jingwu Military Control, there are also many intelligence officers and low-level informants of the Military Judge Advocate General's Office.

The large number of informants and intelligence officers, coupled with independent communication channels, made the power of the Judge Advocate General's Office loom over the entire Jingwu Army and the Jiangnan government, and became a strong support to help Li Yongji maintain his rule.

The intelligence department is generally outside the scope of the Jingwu military control, especially the Taiping Army, which has a stronger intelligence gathering ability, and is more like a pure military intelligence bureau.

As for the Judge Advocate General's Office, although it is more powerful, it generally targets internally, more like the Security Service.

Of course, in addition to these two intelligence departments, there is actually an independent intelligence supervision agency within the army, that is, the General Staff Headquarters!

As mentioned earlier, due to the limitations of the times, the current General Staff Headquarters is more like the formal supervision of the troops, in charge of the logistics and baggage of the troops, and at the same time, it also has the function of regulating the thinking of officers and men and guiding the ideology of officers and men of the troops, similar to military political commissars.

The chief of the general staff of the General Staff Headquarters was Li Yongji himself at the beginning, and the deputy chief of the general staff was Yu Hongrui, the principal of the Qingpu Military Academy.

However, Yu Hongrui is just a name, and the real power is in the hands of Li Yongji, but later, because Li Yongji has too many things to deal with, especially the people's livelihood issues, the military side gradually began to delegate power, and slowly handed over to his personal secretary Su Su to be responsible.

At the beginning, Su Su was only responsible for a small part, but when she had a physical relationship with Li Yongji, Li Yongji completely handed over the affairs of the General Staff to Su Su, so that he could free up more time to do other things.

In other words, the four personal maids beside Li Yongji, except for Xiuxiu and Lili, the other two have become Li Yongji's close subordinates and working partners, one has mastered the most powerful secret agency, the Military Justice Department, and the other has mastered the staff headquarters of the command organ of the Jingwu Army.

Because of this, the regime under Li Yongji's rule seems to be very loose and very enlightened in management, and even the appointment of local government officials seems to be a bit of a child's play, but in fact it is an out-and-out centralized regime, which implements complete special service and unified rule!

In this mode of rule, it is not surprising that tolerating the mistakes of his generals and giving the other side a chance to correct themselves is a major premise of maintaining stability within the army. (To be continued......)