Chapter 404 Turning the tide (14)
As Chen Anzhi said, on weekdays, the internal strife of the family is its own business, whether it is the Central Plains or the change of dynasty, it is all their own people's fighting.
The big families are not all innocent families, and when they fight with each other, they have no affection, and all kinds of means can be used.
But in the face of foreign invasion, the great families have a common position.
Treason to the enemy, they basically can't do it.
As long as the foreign race is willing to open the imperial examination, is willing to give them official status, and is willing to treat them well, the scholars of the poor family will also follow it for the sake of glory and wealth and ambition.
But not the Maison.
On the one hand, the families that have been inherited for hundreds of years and thousands of years have a complete and strict education, ethics and personality, and they have been noble and despised since ancient times, so that they can put down their dignity to serve the Hu people of different races.
On the other hand, it is also a matter of interest.
The family is powerful and has too much wealth, and if the alien race comes, if you don't destroy them, you won't be able to let others eat more wealth.
Moreover, the family with a reputation and prestige has too much influence among the people, and it is really necessary to respond to everything, which is the biggest destabilizing factor for foreign rulers.
The Central Plains Dynasty had its own people fighting the world and conquering a place, and it was first necessary to appease the local clans and gain their support, and then they could rule this place stably.
When the alien race came, the first thing to do was to destroy the family in the Central Plains. They will absorb the power of the local clans and Shu landlords to form a green battalion army, but they will never let the family exist.
In a word, the family will hinder the overall situation of the national war because of infighting, but it will never go to a foreign race.
Now that they heard Chen Anzhi's words, Han Li and Jiang Feiyan couldn't ignore it, and they had to treat the Chen cultivators first.
If they really insist on being unfavorable to the Chen clan, what will the officers and men in the battalion think of them, and what will the people say about them?
Han Li was still hesitating, Jiang Feiyan had already made up his mind: "Okay, since your Chen clan is willing to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, naturally no one can stop you." Moreover, allowing you to fight is also the military order of the queen mother. ”
With that, Jiang Feiyan waved his hand, causing the Jiang cultivators who were a few steps closer to the Chen clan to retreat to their original positions.
Seeing that Jiang Feiyan had already stopped, Han Li couldn't force Chen Anzhi too much, and after dropping the sentence "See how many enemies you can kill next", he also returned to his original position.
Chen Anzhi straightened up and looked at the point.
Over there, there is no figure of Hu Honglian.
"Childe, these people are really ......" The Chen clan was very angry about what happened just now, and leaned up to say something, but was stopped by Chen Anzhi waving his hand.
"As long as we can kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, Chen's road ahead will only get wider and wider, this grievance is nothing, don't be dissatisfied in your heart, and hinder the war!" Chen Anzhi admonished.
"Yes. ”
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In the big tent, the defense envoy Zhang Jing sat behind the handsome case and looked at the generals divided into two squads:
"According to the scout's report, the vanguard of the Tianyuan army has arrived in the area of Heliu Village, and it will need an elite to take the lead in the attack, who is willing to take the lead in the battle?"
As soon as the words fell, a bearded general on his right hand was about to stand up on the spot, but after seeing his stopping eyes, he dispelled the idea of asking for war in time.
Zhang Jing was only a regimental training envoy before, and among the 100,000 soldiers, there are not many soldiers who are divided on weekdays, that is, the so-called lineage, if you add the generals he deliberately befriended, there are more than 20,000 soldiers who can control a total of more than 20,000 soldiers.
Of course, this is the power on the surface, before he entered the army on Zhao Ning's order, there were many cultivators, and these people also entered the army.
Coupled with the cultivators of the First Rank Building that Zhao Ning had installed, Zhang Jing could actually control more than 40,000 troops.
But even the more than 40,000 soldiers accounted for less than half of the 100,000 troops, and the rest were under the control of the former defense envoys.
Although the former defense envoy and the deputy defense envoy were all killed by Zhao Qiyue, these people still habitually gathered around the former defense envoy's henchmen and generals.
At this time, Zhang Jing's eyes fell on those generals, wanting to see what these people were thinking, whether they had the will to fight, and whether their morale was available.
"General Zhang was ordered by the queen mother to lead the army and fight against the Northern Hu barbarians, and the last general naturally obeyed the general's orders......" is a general with a national character face and a strong temperament.
He continued without squinting and expressionlessly: "It's just that the governor said that the Northern Hu barbarians have extraordinary combat power, and the army must be led by elite warriors.
"The last general also wants to share the general's worries and contribute to the dynasty, but the generals under his command are not as good as the general's original troops, and the combat strength is much worse. ”
Hearing this, Zhang Jing secretly sneered.
This person's name is Liu Da, he is quite talented in cultivation, has a good prestige in the army, and is the right-hand man of the former defense envoy, and now he has gathered the generals left by the other party around.
Liu Da mentioned the purpose of Kong Yanhua, the governor of the political affairs, firstly, to make his own position, and secondly, to make a big banner by pulling the tiger's skin, and making it clear that he wanted to fight against Zhang Jing, who did not obey Kong Yanhua's order.
This is not to say that the defense armies of Bianliang are all under Kong Yanhua's personal orders, but because Kong Yanhua is the leader of the Hanmen officials, the Hanmen officials and generals are all the only ones who look to him.
Before the national war, the imperial court had a special yamen, the Privy Council, to lead the new army formed by recruiting displaced people from the defense envoys of the world, and the Privy Council was the top official of these cold generals.
After the outbreak of the national war, in order to let the family fight together, but also to show goodwill to the family, but also to unify the order to facilitate the war, Song Zhi withdrew the Privy Council, and still controlled the world's soldiers and horses with the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.
The Dadu Governor's Mansion is the head of the family, and the deputy Dadu Governor is all from the family, and in a short period of time, these cold officials and generals who have stood in line will certainly not be willing to serve Zhao Xuanji and Han Zhao as respect.
Therefore, they still rallied around Kong Yanhua to show their difference from the family's army.
After Liu Da's words were finished, many generals around him also echoed one after another, claiming that their combat strength was not strong enough and they did not dare to bear the burden of the vanguard, so as not to miss the battle situation.
Zhang Jing's reaction was not surprising, he turned his face with Kong Yanhua, and the other party would definitely restrain him.
When his military orders are not smooth and prove that he cannot command the army, Kong Yanhua will be able to naturally nominate someone else as a defense envoy, and Zhao Qiyue will be helpless at that time.
At a cursory glance, the generals in the account who echoed Liu Da or expressed the same position as Liu Da accounted for about forty percent of all the generals.
Zhang Jing remained silent: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Battle of Bianliang is related to the situation in the Central Plains, and it is also related to the survival of the family and country.
"If the army can triumph, the queen will definitely reward her.
"At that time, it will not only be gold and silver wealth, but also high-ranking officials and high-ranking officials, and people who can make outstanding achievements can also become famous all over the world, inspire the hearts of the whole country and the people, and become the heroes of our Great Qi Dynasty!
"Ben will ask again, who wants to be the vanguard?"
Before the generals responded, Liu Da sneered: "The general said it well, then you have to win, who doesn't want glory and wealth, but you have to have a life to enjoy!
"The general only asked me if I would like to go to war at this time, why didn't I want to go into battle in person?"
After he finished speaking, the generals who followed him all responded one after another, accusing Zhang Jing of not wanting to fight by himself and throwing the danger to his subordinates, and there were obviously more people.
There were many people who spoke, and there were also those who were silent.
Zhang Jing seemed to be inadvertent, but in fact, he included all the situations in the account.
In addition to the more than forty percent of the parts he controlled openly and secretly, there were still more than ten percent of the generals left in the account, neither took the initiative to ask for war and were willing to serve as pioneers, nor did they clearly express their unwillingness to be pioneers and sing against him like Liu Da and others.
The generals in the army, since they can serve as generals, must have nothing to do with Kong Yanhua and the Privy Council, after all, if they are not valued by the Privy Council, they will not be able to become generals with military power.
Zhang Jing belongs to the people who started a new stove internally and divided a mountain, and if they are not the generals under his command, they must belong to Liu Da and the Privy Council.
And if these many generals did not echo Liu Da, there was only one possibility.
They don't want to be two minds with the coach at this time, they are willing to focus on the overall situation, the war, and obey Zhang Jing's dispatch - at least temporarily.
It's just that Zhang Jing didn't send his own generals to fight, and they didn't know Zhang Jing's specific thoughts, so they didn't want to take the initiative to ask for help, and took their own and his subordinates' lives seriously, so as not to be wronged.
Observing this, Zhang Jing already knew it in his heart.
Through the reactions of the generals under this inquiry, coupled with his understanding of the personality of the generals on weekdays, he already knows what the positions and thoughts of the generals in the account are.
He had a spectrum of how to transfer troops and generals, assign military affairs, and even how to treat these generals.
Zhang Jing's face was solemn, and he suddenly shouted: "Niu Jin!"
"The last general!" The bearded general, who wanted to ask for battle before, stepped forward at this time and stood by with his fists clenched.
Zhang Jing took out a token from the handsome case: "This general will order you to command the soldiers of the headquarters, as the vanguard of the army, and immediately go to Heliu Village to block the Beihu front team!"
"The last general commands!"
"Remember, this battle is only to be won and not lost. If he wins, he will personally ask for credit for you in front of the queen, and if he loses, he will personally behead you!"
"The last general is willing to make a military order!"
"Xu Wei!"
"The last general!"
"You lead the headquarters, help General Niu fight, and obey General Niu's dispatch!"
"The last general commands!"
The two generals, Niu Jin and Xu Wei, received the military order, turned around and walked out of the tent, striding meteor aura.
Zhang Jing's arrangement was so decisive and swift, and the people who were dispatched were all his own descendants, and the generals in the tent were all shocked.
Liu Da and the others looked at each other with a look of surprise, and the generals who had the overall situation in mind couldn't help but look solemn, looking at Zhang Jing's gaze, with a little more recognition and admiration.
Being able to let his descendants take the lead, in this bad situation, facing the almost invincible Beihu army is enough to prove that Zhang Jing has no partiality, and it also shows that the other party is quite confident in winning the battle.
Zhang Jing stood up and glanced at the generals: "The general has already said before that this battle is very important, if you win, you will have extraordinary military merits, and you can be added to the rank and knighthood and become a hero of the three armies."
"Since you don't want to ask for battle, then when the two generals Niu Jin and Xu Wei return victoriously, you will not be jealous! Now, they all go and assemble their troops, and later the army will come out together and go with the general to recapture Yangliu City!"
After that, Zhang Jing didn't give the generals a chance to talk, turned around and brushed his sleeves away.
The generals were stunned and speechless.
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When Zhang Jing was far away, everyone withdrew from the big tent on their own, and Liu Da still had a gloomy face.
"General Liu, Niu and Xu Er will really win this battle?" asked a general hesitantly.
Liu Da also has this worry, he doesn't want the other party to really win, if the other party wins, the prestige of Zhang Jing, the new defense envoy, will be established, and his position will be stable, and it will not be easy for him to fight for the position of defense envoy.
But this could not be said explicitly, Liu Dasui snorted coldly and made a contemptuous expression: "Beihu is so competitive?
Although Zhang Jing ordered the army to be fully prepared for battle, if the vanguard lost, they might not go out of the camp again, or defend the city of Bianliang, or simply abandon Bianliang and go south to find the emperor.
Either way, it was much easier than fighting the Beihu army in the field, or attacking the fortified city of Yangliucheng.