Ju Shen glanced at Xu Ziqing, and said in a deep voice: "For our Gushi Army, the key is to consolidate the foundation and strengthen our own strength. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info my personal opinion, in fact, it is unlikely that Caizhou will attack us again in the short term, they need to face the big beam now, at this time there is little point in following up and covering up, the Caizhou army still has 2,000 cavalry as a cover, if it is eaten by it, it is not beautiful. ”

Ju Shen's opinion was unanimously endorsed by Chang Kun, Ding Man, and Huang Anjin.

If the Caizhou Army really withdraws, it means that the Gushi Army will be in a relatively stable period of development for a period of time in the future.

It can be said that from the beginning of the division of the Gushi Army, until the attack of the ant thieves, and now the attack of the Caizhou Army, the Gushi Army has been in an extremely unstable state in the past few months, and there is not much time for self-adjustment and consolidation.

Split, recruit the old army of Gwangju, reorganize, and then the ant thieves besieged the city, after fighting and dying, only more than a month was left for the Gushi army to recruit new soldiers, absorb the Shenzhou army and the old army of Daliang, and then reorganize, followed by this vicious battle with the Caizhou army.

In this case, when the Gushi Army had already achieved the ultimate in the defensive system, the Caizhou Army was only more than twice as large as the Gushi Army, but it caused great casualties and losses to the Gushi Army on the defending side.

The main reason for this is that although there are more than 4,000 people in the Gushi Army, its combat effectiveness has not really been integrated and improved, on the contrary, the mixed formation of new and old soldiers has not given much time to get used to it, and can only rely on this war to catalyze maturity.

This can certainly speed up the growth of an army, but the cost will be greater.

The losses in this battle have basically been counted, which can be called tragic.

The number of casualties of the Gushi Army, including the two battalions of the Shenzhou Army, has reached more than 2,400, of which more than 1,000 have been killed in battle, and it is expected that two to three hundred more will die in a few days.

It is expected that in the next month, some of the wounded soldiers will gradually recover from their injuries and regain their combat effectiveness, but some will also lose their combat effectiveness.

This is almost a reincarnation, more than a month ago, survived the battle of the siege of the ant thieves, and finally recruited, absorbed, and integrated, reaching more than 4,000 troops, but after a battle, it returned to its original form, which is indeed too cruel for the Gushi Army.

Xu Ziqing knew that he had lost his words as soon as he said it.

Jiang Feng invited himself to discuss, in fact, he also fulfilled his promise to the Xu family, but he was still confined to the role of the Xu family and could not extricate himself.

His own opinion obviously had a great taste of revenge in it, rather than starting from the overall interests of the Gu Shi Army, but he was seized by this Ju family to quietly give himself eye medicine.

"Bai Ling, what is your opinion?" Jiang Feng also noticed the-for-tat confrontation between Ju Shen and Xu Ziqing, but fortunately, the tone was quite peaceful, although some contradictions were unavoidable, but he didn't want to start to emerge at this time.

"Well, I agree with Shen. Cui Shang stroked his chin and said slowly: "Caizhou is our enemy, if they really withdraw their troops tonight, then they will not be able to take care of us in the short term, it is not much point for us to pursue now, or the gains outweigh the losses, let it go and fight to the death with Daliang." ”

Cui Shang's words were final.

"Then what do you think of our Gu Shi now, Bai Ling?" Jiang Feng felt that he was a little like Di Renjie in the Tang Dynasty, and he could come at any time to say Yuan Fang What do you think, but it was changed to Bai Ling, what do you think.

"Your Excellency, there are too many things to do in the next step, and now the threat of the Caizhou Army may have subsided temporarily, but it is not possible to sit back and relax. Cui Shang knew that this was a temporary military meeting today, but he also needed to remind everyone present to avoid these people from falling into a state of relaxation after the withdrawal of the Caizhou army, especially Jiang Feng himself.

"Bai Ling, we know that now the Caizhou army has not withdrawn, and we dare not relax, just the Gushi army is now beaten like this, you want us to sit back and relax, we can't sleep. Jiang Feng spread his hands and looked helpless, "I can't talk about the arrangements too far today, so let's talk about the most important things first." ”

"At present, the most important thing is to rectify the city defense, the three city walls are damaged, and the people in the city can't sleep well, whether it is the Caizhou army or the ant thief, they can easily move in, which is a top priority. ”

Cui Shang had already been prepared, he had already started to think about post-war matters when the Caizhou army retreated, and he also sorted out a piece of Chen, which was originally intended to be taken out when Jiang Feng reopened the formal military meeting the day after tomorrow, but now it is better to put forward a few things that need to be handled urgently.

"The city defense system still has to be repaired, such as the moat, I am afraid that it will be re-dredged immediately, the repair of the city wall will start tomorrow, and I am afraid that the follow-up compensation arrangements for the dead and wounded of our Gushi Army will also be properly arranged. I heard the county commander Chen say that the follow-up pension matters during the siege of the ant thieves in the early stage have not been done, which is very inappropriate, and this time it must be handled together, otherwise it will have a great impact on the morale of the army in the future. ”

Cui Shang is the most dissatisfied with this.

Chen Wei clearly told Cui Shang that the county could not afford to pay for the soldiers who were damaged in the first battle of the siege of the city by the ant thieves, so many of them could only be promised with a piece of paper.

Due to the ambiguity of the nature and positioning of the Gushi Army, the pension for the soldiers could not be compared with the Gwangju Tooth Army and the state army at that time.

You must know that the state army basically rarely participates in this kind of war, but is more responsible for defending the enemy, dealing with bandits and other conventional wars, such as the war against foreign vassals, the state army basically does not participate, so its pension conditions and the tooth army are not the same at all.

However, Jiang Feng was in charge of the Gushi Army for a very short time, and he had not had time to establish a military system belonging to the Gushi Army, and he could not deal with it, so these pacification measures were also delayed.

Of course, there are also the county gentry who are worried that the Caizhou army may come to attack Gushi, and they are not optimistic that the Gushi army can withstand this battle, otherwise if the gentry and businessmen are donated, at least some problems can be solved.

Cui Shang's words made Jiang Feng also a dignified, he was too careless about these aspects before, and many logistics and support matters were either handed over to He Decai or entrusted to Chen Wei to handle, now it seems that there is some dereliction of duty at this point, and Cui Shang has been keenly aware of this.

In the past, it could be explained that it was necessary to deal with the battle of the Caizhou Army immediately, but if it is like this in the future, I am afraid it will really have a great impact on the construction of the army.

"Bai Ling, I have been a little negligent on this point, tomorrow you will make this matter a top priority and solve it as soon as possible. Jiang Feng pondered for a moment, "If the Caizhou soldiers are really evacuated, we will take over as soon as possible on the Yincheng side, I believe that the Caizhou army will not be able to ask about the affairs of Gushi's side in the short term, and the fields and mountains and forests of Gushi and Yincheng will be re-registered, and if there are no owners, the forests and fields should be recovered as soon as possible to solve the follow-up matters of the dead, wounded and disabled soldiers." ”

Cui Shang was taken aback, while the other generals were slightly moved, Ding Man, Huang Anjin and others were full of joy, while Xu Ziqing and Ju Shen had complicated expressions.

When it comes to the ownership of land, mountains and forests, it has always been the most sensitive.

In addition to the fact that there is an owner, the definition of the ownerless land is also extremely complex and tricky.

In many places, the gentry and noble clans actually took possession of the land, mountains and forests that belonged to the state as their own, and the clever ones colluded with the local officials to forge the land deeds and change them into their own, and the bold ones simply directly occupied them.

It can be said that in the past hundred years, except for the Huangchao Rebellion, which completely swept away the power of the local gentry and wealthy clans, which caused great changes and influences, that is, the ant thief power that has slowly expanded in recent years has had a greater impact on the local gentry, but it is only limited to where the ant thief goes, and the local gentry still firmly control the local influence in other places.

The feudal lords either grew up as local wealthy gentry, or gradually transformed from military leaders to local wealthy families.

Even for a newly rising military leader like Jiang Feng, unless you use your army to wipe out the gentry in Gushi and Yincheng, you have to find a way to cooperate with them.

Of course, this is not to say that these gentry and noble families can't see the situation clearly, and they have to be unhappy with the military leaders who have the handle of the sword, and no one wants to fight with these military leaders who play with their heads, so they can often find a compromise that everyone can accept.

It's just that finding this compromise is not something that can be achieved in three or five days, which in itself is also a game, on the one hand, depending on your own strength, and on the other hand, it also depends on what benefits you can bring to these local gentry.

But for now, Jiang Feng has shown the potential to be expected, especially after repelling the Caizhou army, if he can continue to get the support of Daliang, Nanyang, and Ehuang, the willingness of the gentry to compromise with Jiang Feng will be greatly increased.

Of course, if Jiang Feng can still come up with something that makes them more interested, such as talking about Gushi becoming Huzhou, and for example, including the two counties of Shengtang and Huoshan, which have now been completely ransacked by ant thieves, into Huzhou, and letting the gentry of Gushi and Yincheng participate in the distribution of the interests of these two counties, then this will not be a problem at all, and they will only be extremely eager to contribute their loyalty to Jiang Feng. (To be continued.) )