Several subordinates looked at each other when they heard this, and Yu Shenhe coughed: "What my lord means is that Lord Hou has long foreseen that there may be a crisis like the one we encounter today, so there is such a design, including the military rank system, as well as this three-three system." ”

"yes, when you think about it, it makes me shudder. Hou Ye is a genius in the world, but it is a pity that these reforms cannot be accommodated in the imperial court. Xu Ping sighed, he had decided to carry out further military reforms, and unify every three battalions under the command of a general, Xu Ping believed that such three battalions could definitely cooperate better and react faster: "Remember the last time I told you, Hou Ye changed the guerrilla to a brigadier general, the staff general to a major general, the deputy general to a lieutenant general, and the general to a general?" ”

"Remember, sir." The subordinates nodded their heads.

Zhou Dongtian asked, "Does this have anything to do with today's events?" ”

"I used to think that Master Hou just wanted to change his name, but now that I think about it, maybe it's more than that. The general soldiers, deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrillas are only different in terms of high and low, but the general soldiers may not be able to manage every guerrilla, let alone the staff generals and deputy generals. I guess Hou Ye may want to break down the barriers in the army, so that the generals are like captains, but the orders of those with higher rank than him are obeyed, so that they can better deal with emergencies, such as the emergency we encounter today. "Today, Xu Ping was certainly able to command the soldiers of the Xirui Battalion, but it was because his prestige was high enough and the situation was very critical, rather than because he had a natural command. If Yu Shenhe was present at that time instead of Xu Ping, then he would definitely not be able to command any team of men and horses in the Xirui battalion. Xu Ping couldn't help but sigh softly when he thought of this, this idea Xu Ping admitted that it was very good, but he felt that the Hou of Zhendong was probably too idealistic: "Lord Hou thinks very well, but the imperial court is of course a big and small system, even if we break into the camp, I don't want to ask about the military affairs of the West Camp, this idea, I'm afraid it's just a thought." ”

"How could Huang Hou think of this?" Others, even if they were born in the new army, now they no longer call Zhendong Hou Hou Ye, when Xu Ping issued such a title, other people gradually began to feel unaccustomed, if they heard Xu Ping say this in front of other camp generals, they would still have an uncomfortable expression on their faces, but Xu Ping always pretended not to notice.

"This is probably the way Hou Ye is thinking about the general, today's problem, in the final analysis, is that I can't command an army of 30,000 that stretches for tens or tens of miles, but I never realized that my ability was not up to it before. But Hou Ye obviously thought about this issue very carefully, it may be difficult to judge how many soldiers a person can general, and the best way to ensure that a general will not be overwhelmed is to divide the troops in advance, so that the senior commander will be a general, not a general, Hou Ye is really far-sighted. After sending this emotion, Xu Ping said again: "Fortunately, before I was defeated because I was unable to do it, I realized that I didn't have the ability of a soldier like Han Xin. Luckily, the Ming court won't allow Hou Ye to make drastic changes to military regulations, and we can. ”

"It's really our luck."

Shen Yunchong and others also expressed similar feelings, the last time everyone got together to celebrate the good luck was because they heard that Yang Zhiyuan led the army, and when they thought of this, Xu Ping was afraid for a while: "I, and you, are too underestimated by General Yang, which almost buried us." ”

Everyone nodded silently, looking back, Xu Ping's plan was too arrogant, and after being recognized by Yang Zhiyuan, it caused the great passivity of the Chuang army, if it were not for the advantage of the Chuang Army in combat experience, as well as the bloody battle of the armored battalion, today should have been a big defeat for the Chuang Army.

"If you think about it carefully, General Yang is by no means the second choice in Hou Ye's mind, and I now think that Hou Ye's trust in General Yang may still be above General He." Zhou Dongtian said suddenly.

These words made Xu Pingqi fall into deep thought, and the others were stunned at first, and then Yu Shenhe shouted first: "Yes, I remember that when Hou Ye was still a guerrilla, General Yang was in charge of the old camp, baggage, and supplies for Hou Ye. Hou Ye uses soldiers, the most important logistics, if it is not a person that Hou Ye absolutely trusts, how dare he give him such a task. ”

After Yu Shenhe finished speaking, Shen Yuncong also said: "If I remember correctly, then General Yang will be in charge of military law for Hou Ye and responsible for formulating regulations for Hou Ye, God." ”

"You're not mistaken, and so do I remember." Xu Ping said coldly.

Shen Yunchong paused for a moment and said again: "It seems that General Yang is still the first to lead the army alone under Hou Ye." ”

"That's right, General Yang said that he went to sea for Hou Ye to deal with some unruly Japanese and water bandits, it's not a big deal, and we all believed it at the time, it's really not a big deal. But if you think about it, we are not very clear about the geography and intelligence of Shandong, not to mention going to sea to a foreign land, Hou Ye was only a deputy chief soldier at that time, and I have never heard of a time when he personally led the troops. But he was relieved to let General Yang lead the troops alone, and never worried about others, including General He, I remember that when the teaching team talked about the battles in Nanguan, Master Hou gave General He a clear explanation of the tasks, and never let him play by himself like General Yang. ”

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Yu Shenhe reminded softly: "When the rebellion of Lu'an was quelled, General He also led the army independently. ”

"But Hou Ye asked General He to defend a city, and General Jia is similar, as for outflanking, attacking, and compressing the enemy army, Hou Ye is all in a big package, and he has done it himself." Xu Ping was afraid for a while, and shook his head again and again: "In Hou Ye's heart, the only thing that can make him completely relieved is General Yang, this time Hou Ye let General Yang stay, not because he thinks that we are easy to deal with, let alone that he feels that sweating is stronger than us, so he must transfer General He back." ”

Zhou Dongtian said: "But today General Yang still made a mistake, at the most critical time, he let the Panshi Battalion run back and forth without doing anything." ”

"Because General Yang is a human being, but human beings make mistakes." Xu Ping paused for a moment and added, "Master Hou is the same. ”

Before the sun went down, the Xishou Battalion and the Xifeng Battalion returned safely to the camp of the Chuang Army, Xu Ping, who was sitting in the tent reading a book, heard the fierce quarrel from far and near, and before he went out to greet him, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang rushed into his camp tent together, and the two guys with red faces and thick necks quarreled all the way, and after entering Xu Ping's camp tent, they shouted and asked Xu Ping to give them a review.

"I ambushed in Daliuzhuang for several hours, and the children were bitten by mosquitoes and didn't dare to move, and the leeches in the swamp crawled to their faces and couldn't reach out to grab them, but you were good, and all of a sudden I ruined my hard work, and I hid it so well."

"You've hid so well that you can't even find my horse."

"If your scouts can find it, won't the officers and soldiers find it too?"

"But you didn't even inform me, how can I be at ease with such a big gap on the flank."

"I informed the general that it was in place, why don't you stay honestly and run blindly? Do you think I look like someone who can get lost? ”

"It's not like you haven't been lost before."

"That was ten years ago!"

"Dogs can't change their!"

"Alright, alright." Xu Ping stood up and played a round game: "There is a way: unintentionally do evil, although evil is not punished." ”

"How's that going to work? Military is not child's play. Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang shouted in unison.

"Because I don't want to punish myself." Xu Ping stepped forward and separated the two people who were holding each other, and asked them to sit down separately: "Today's battle, the fault is mine, not the two generals." ”

"General, don't take everything on yourself." Li Dingguo said dissatisfied.

"General Li, General Sun and you are like brothers, today he thought that after you got lost, he would rather not tell me the military situation than cover it up for you." Xu Ping looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Do you really want me to punish General Sun for this?" ”

Although Xu Ping was very dissatisfied with such private behaviors in Xiying, he couldn't complain in front of these two people, and he had already made up his mind to unify Sanxiying, so he had to coordinate the relationship between Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang. If any of them were dissatisfied, the three battalions would not be able to coordinate effectively.

Li Dingguo was speechless for a moment, in the end, Sun Kewang is still closer to him, in case there is a conflict between Li Dingguo and Xu Ping, Sun Kewang will still stand on Li Dingguo's side, and what happened today is proof of this. Li Dingguo looked at Sun Kewang, stood up and arched his hand: "Third brother, is it the younger brother?" ”

Sun Kewang scolded: "It's yours in the first place, this kind of military situation, you will definitely inform me next time." ”

"There won't be a next time." Xu Ping intercepted and said: "Although General Li did not camp in the way as I said, this is not a big deal, but General Sun left his post without permission and concealed military information from me, this matter can't be just settled, I want to ask General Sun to hand over the Xifeng Battalion to General Li."

Sun Kewang jumped three feet high: "You want to take away my military power? ”

"Yes." Xu Ping did not evade and looked at Sun Kewang.

"Don't think!"

It was Li Dingguo's turn to play the round: "General, for the sake of the last general's face, forget it this time." ”

"The combination of forces is strong, and the division is weak. I just said that the biggest fault in today's battle lies with me, not with the two generals, and this is not a lie. Xu Ping changed the lesson he had learned from Yu Shenhe and them in the afternoon, and said to Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang again: "If General Li or one of General Sun commands the three battalions of the left wing today, there will definitely be no such thing!" If you know your mistakes, you will correct them, so I decided to let General Li take command of the 3rd Western Battalion. ”

"Why him?" Sun Kewang was furious: "Why not me, I'm still his third brother!" ”

"Because since General Sun led the troops, the output of gunpowder in Henan has dropped by three percent, and the price of grain has more than doubled," Xu Ping, who had been prepared, picked up a stack of reports from the table and handed them to Sun Kewang: "General Sun has only left Guide City for half a month, and the military supplies produced by Guide have dropped by more than two percent, and the cloth is even less than forty percent, so I can't let General Sun lead the army on the front line no matter what." ”

"This ......" Sun Kewang had nothing to say for a while.

"I plan to hand over all the military supplies and production of Henan to General Sun, and I have written to King Chuang about this matter, asking him not to interfere in any matters in this regard." Xu Ping first still produced a date, and then patted Sun Kewang on the back: "Unless General Sun has someone who can recommend it to me, so that military production can rise steadily, General Sun will have to go back to manage government affairs, and I can't watch the army starve and freeze." ”

In fact, Sun Kewang is also quite interested in managing internal affairs, but he is reluctant to lead troops to fight, Xu Ping saw his intentions, and hurriedly said: "If Kaifeng is broken, I will never dare to forget the glory of General Sun riding into the city." ”

"It's a small thing." Sun Kewang just felt that Xu Ping looked down on his military talent, so he was very angry, seeing that this was not the case, that anger naturally disappeared, Xu Ping relied on his administrative talent so much that Sun Kewang felt quite proud: "Okay, since it is the general's order, then I might as well obey the order of respect." ”

Xu Ping completed this important event, and when he saw that it was already dark, he ordered a meal to be held, so that all the senior officers could come to dinner to celebrate today's victory, and after everyone came, Xu Ping found that Li Guo had not returned to the camp, which made him worry for a while: "General Li said that everything is safe, why hasn't he returned to the camp for a long time?" ”

Waiting left and right, Xu Ping sent several groups of scouts to look for him, until everyone was hungry and couldn't wait until he started eating. Xu Ping was worried, the food was tasteless, and Li Laiheng and Li Guo had a deep father-son relationship, and they couldn't swallow it.

After eating, Sun Kewang and the others began to shout and draw fists and wine, and it was only then that Li Guo came back in a hurry, and when he saw Xu Ping, he laughed and said, "I earned a cannon today." ”

Li Guo had been worried about the ten cannons that had been sunk into the river by the Taishan camp, so he refused to return to the camp after the war stopped, ignored Xu Ping's urging, and spent time with Ji Xinghui by the river. At first, Ji Xinghui was still angry and didn't leave, but seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, Yang Zhiyuan urged him to return to the camp one after another, and he was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he had to reach a condition with Li Guo, ten cannons and five guns. Li Guo immediately sent water ghosts down the river to salvage, happily pulled the five cannons into the carriage, and smiled all the way back to the camp.

……

Today's First World War broke into the camp and suffered extremely heavy losses, and after a rough count by Xu Ping, the rear of each battalion, it is estimated that the casualties are as high as more than 4,000.

On the side of the Ming army, the rough estimate of the loss results was not much different from that of the Chuang army, most of them were officers and soldiers of the Xuanfeng battalion, except for this formed and annihilated unit, the losses of the other battalions were not large, that is, the Changqing battalion that fought hard all morning, and the casualties were within the acceptable range.

"Uncle Yang doesn't have to blame himself too much." Huang Xiwen saw Yang Zhiyuan's brows tightened, and persuaded vigorously: "The losses of the thieves are not smaller than ours, and the three battalions are almost finished. ”

"Such a good opportunity is missed, Xu Ping will definitely not attack again, if he can't relieve Kaifeng, the Shanlan camp will be annihilated." Yang Zhiyuan sighed again and again, and felt another pain in his abdomen: "The only hope at the moment is that Zuo Shuai can defeat King Chuang, and he will relieve Kaifeng from the south road, so ......"

In this way, Xu Ping may rush to stop Zuo Liangyu, and Yang Zhiyuan can find an opportunity to fight Xu Ping again, but even if Zuo Liangyu can win, Yang Zhiyuan knows that Xu Ping has another choice, that is, to retreat to Kaifeng City and give up southern Henan to officers and soldiers, so that the Ming army still has to go deep into Xu Ping's base if he wants to relieve Kaifeng. Fighting him near Xu Ping's lair that he had been running for a long time, Yang Zhiyuan thought that it was very risky, but even this kind of high-risk operation......

Hearing Yang Zhiyuan say that the only chance was for Zuo Liangyu to defeat Li Zicheng, Huang Xiwen blurted out: "This may not be impossible." ”

"Not one in ten thousand." Yang Zhiyuan smiled bitterly, at the moment, he may not even be able to obtain this kind of risky opportunity to fight deeply, at least he feels that there is little hope, if Zuo Liangyu is defeated, then Henan is already in danger for the new army: Yang Zhiyuan must retreat before Yu Dong is also defeated, otherwise the road may be cut off by Li Zicheng, and the grain road may also be harassed by him. Whether Xu Ping planned to hold on without a fight, or planned to find an opportunity to withdraw to Kaifeng, the new army was helpless against him, and could only watch Kaifeng fall and the Shanlan camp was annihilated.

The most important thing is that Yang Zhiyuan is worried that he will not have enough time, and if the rebellion in the Central Plains cannot be resolved, then Zhendonghou will not be able to start an uprising. "I still have two months to go," Yang Zhiyuan said silently in his heart: "We must solve the Central Plains problem as soon as possible." ”

But even though Yang Zhiyuan thought hard, he still had no clue.

Seeing that Yang Zhiyuan fell into deep thought again, Huang Xiwen tiptoed to the door, asked a few words to the guards waiting there, and then walked back lightly and whispered, "Uncle Yang, everyone is waiting for you to eat." ”

Yang Zhiyuan wanted to say that he was not hungry, in fact, he did not have any appetite, since he was sick, his food has become smaller and smaller, and he has been tired from running around for the past few days, and he can't eat a bite, but thinking of everyone's emotions, Yang Zhiyuan nodded: "Okay, I'll go over now." ”

After speaking, Yang Zhiyuan remembered something again: "How is Ziyu's mood?" ”

Huang Xiwen snorted: "It's all him, who messed everything up." After speaking, there was a look of indignation on his face.

Yang Zhiyuan felt that the pain in his abdomen was getting more and more fierce, and he still tried his best to calm his tone: "I made a big mistake today, how can I blame Ziyu?" ”

"If he takes the pheasant hill in one go...... Hehe," Huang Xiwen sneered twice: "Don't listen to the good words of colleagues, and insist on going your own way......"

At noon today, the Chizhuo battalion came to sue Wu Zhong, saying that the Changqing battalion was always dragging its feet when pursuing the camp, and Wu Zhong's explanation was that the troops suffered heavy casualties so they were unable to do anything, and the Chizhuo battalion said: If Wu Zhong did not squander his troops in the morning, he would not have fallen to the point where there were no soldiers available now.

Yang Zhiyuan defended the Evergreen Battalion: "It's always good to have an offensive spirit. ”

After Zhang Biao came back just now, he cried bitterly outside the camp gate, and scolded the Changqing Camp for a bloody squirt, and after hearing Yang Zhiyuan's words, Huang Xiwen rushed excitedly and said: "Uncle Yang, it's not that the little nephew is disrespectful to you......

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