Section 113 Defeat
I have to say that Xu Ziqing has changed a lot after experiencing so many things. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past, the child of the Xu clan only knew that the scholar who buried his head in Chongwen Academy to break through the martial arts had long disappeared without a trace.
From the initial reluctance to serve as a false commander of the Second Army, to adapting to familiarity step by step, and integrating step by step, even Xu Ziqing himself felt like a different person.
He didn't know if this environment had changed him, or if the collapse of the previous family had stimulated him too much, so that he had changed from the depths of his heart, all in all, he felt that he had changed from his personality to his thoughts, which may be the drastic change in the three views that Jiang Feng said.
Now the Xu family has been firmly tied to Jiang Feng and Huaiyou, and his two cousins have become or will become Jiang Feng's equal wives and concubines, which means that the Xu family and Jiang Feng have been connected, without this factor, maybe Jiang Feng will not easily hand over the post of commander of the second army to himself, which does not depend on his own martial arts level, but on common interests.
Now Xu Ziqing thinks about the problem more from his own identity, he is now the commander of the Second Army, and he is also the so-called big three among the local generals, he Xu Ziqing, Zhang Yue, Qin Zaidao, and two other candidates Ju Shen and Huang Anjin, these five people carry the banner of the local generals.
Compared with the group of generals of the Liang family, the generals of the local faction are much inferior in terms of quantity and quality, and compared with the generals of the Shouzhou family, although it seems that the number is superior, Xu Ziqing and Zhang Yue all know that it is because of the contradiction between the surnames of Umeda Zheng San and Jiang Feng's intentional control, in fact, the number of martial artists above the Heaven Realm in the Umeda Zheng San family is much greater than that of the local faction.
In addition to these five people, the local faction has very few reserve forces, whether it is Zhang Wanshan, Su Tie, or Chu Qi and Chen Shi, they are far from having this strength.
Although Zhang Wanshan is quite talented in intelligence affairs, he has not entered the territory much in martial arts.
Cycad is a talent worth cultivating, but if you want to really polish it, you can't always let it be in the Wuwen Hall, but put it in the army to exercise, and you also need to work martial arts.
Chu Qi has some talent in martial arts, but his foundation is slightly poor, and he still needs to make up for it with diligent cultivation, and he also needs to be delegated to the army to polish it.
As for Chen Shi, he is eloquent and quick to accept new things, but his personality is too out-of-the-box, and he is obviously not a piece of military general's material, but more suitable for development in intelligence or diplomacy.
Jiang Feng originally hoped to cultivate well among these young people, but even if the Five Bird Skills were specifically selected and awarded to the four according to their qualifications, except for Su Tie and Chu Qi who showed some talent in martial arts, Zhang Wanshan and Chen Shi could only be said to be the quality of the middle, and it was difficult to hold out too much hope.
Su Tie is the most outstanding one among the local juniors, although his entry into the martial arts seems to be slightly inferior to Chu Qi, but the main reason is that he is now more focused on the affairs of Wuwentang, once he calms down, and has some opportunities to sharpen, there will be great progress, he is the most anticipated by Jiang Feng among the local juniors.
And Chu Qi has a solid personality, is sensitive to words and deeds, and is a good seedling for cultivating martial arts, but if he wants to cultivate as a military general, in Xu Ziqing's opinion, he is still lacking, and he is more suitable to serve as a personal general like Jiang Feng's personal guard battalion.
The factions in the camp of the Huaiyou Army have become huge and complex with the continuous expansion of the Huaiyou sphere of influence, and there were only the local faction and the Liang faction, after Shouzhou was merged into the Huaiyou, the Shouzhou faction joined in, and Wang Miao's contribution drove the Heshuo army southward, and the Heshuo faction also faintly revealed the outline, which could not help but make Xu Ziqing a little vigilant.
In particular, Wang Miao's aggressive momentum made them feel pressure, in this case, if the local generals could not show their abilities, it would not be a lie to be gradually marginalized in the future.
Because of this, Xu Ziqing and Zhang Yue both strongly demanded that the Second Army and the Third Army be given more opportunities to exercise, on the one hand, they wanted to let the Second Army and the Third Army grow up through polishing, and on the other hand, they also hoped to prove themselves through several battles.
The Battle of Yingzhou is the best stage.
Therefore, Xu Ziqing hopes to understand and grasp as much intelligence information as possible, especially some things that cannot be detected by scouts to help him in future battles.
Compared with several other generals, Xu Ziqing pays more attention to Na Lu Tong.
In his opinion, Lu Tong disobeyed Ryazan's intentions and annexed the Seventh Army of the Reform Army, surpassing Gu Hua in one fell swoop to become the strongest military general under Ryazan's command, which is absolutely intolerable to Ryazan, although because the war is imminent at this time, Ryazan may maintain a tolerant and restrained posture, but once the war is over, it is bound to take action against Lu Tong.
With Ryazan's prestige and influence in Yingbo Prefecture, even Xuzhou is unlikely to intervene in this matter, unless Ryazan is completely defeated in this battle when Caizhou comes to attack, but Xuzhou sent Shang Yunliu to lead a large army to help, obviously it will not lose big because of a small loss, and must support Ryazan to hold Yingbo Prefecture and defend the territorial integrity of Huaibei.
It stands to reason that there is only one way out for Lu Tong, and that is to take refuge in Huaiyou.
Lu Tong did show this posture before, took the initiative to contact Huaiyou, and expressed his intention to take refuge, but Xu Ziqing felt that although Lu Tong's attitude seemed enthusiastic, he always lacked enough sincerity, when Huaiyou understood the situation of the Ninth Army and the Seventh Army of the Reform Army he mastered and the specific details of how to cooperate in the next battle, this guy was a little prevaricated, and he was a little prevaricated and sold at a price, which made Huaiyou very dissatisfied.
You must know that you can handle it at this time, but if you leave a bad impression, don't you think about your future survival in the Huaiyou camp?
With Lu Tong's wisdom, he shouldn't be able to consider this, the only reason is that this guy is a little pampered and arrogant, intending to show his strength in this battle, in order to seek a greater voice in the Huaiyou camp in the future, so this guy is really a little short-sighted or arrogant.
Lu Tong didn't realize that he was being watched by someone, and he was discussing the next battle with his two former colleagues with great interest.
And Gu Hua, another colleague who should be closer to the theory, just stood aside coldly and responded with a disdainful attitude.
Lin Feng and Gao Yang were also aware of the problem between the two, but they couldn't do anything about it.
No one can say anything about the growth and decline of influence brought about by this increase or decrease in strength.
Who made Ryazan agree to let Lu Tong solve the problem of the Seventh Army, but did not arrange the response strategy carefully, and Lu Tong took the opportunity to pick up a leak?
Like Lu Tong, although he is under the command of Ryazan, he is directly controlled by the Jiedu Embassy in terms of establishment, and Ryazan Gui is the training envoy of the Yingbo Regiment and the assassin of Yingzhou, and he can only have the right to dispatch, but not the right to adjust his establishment.
This power will always belong to the Jiedu Embassy, and Lu Tong secretly obtained the right to dispose of the Seventh Army from the Jiedu Embassy, and suddenly jumped to the strength of the Yingbo region second only to Ryazan, in a sense, the actual strength in Ryazan's hands is not even as much as Lu Tong, he only grasped Gu Hua's army and a tooth army under the direct jurisdiction of his Yingbo regimental training envoy, and this tooth army is also the nominal tooth army, just reorganized from the regimental training army, there are only three battalions, and the combat effectiveness is far inferior to the regular army.
Originally, Ryazan planned to break up the Seventh Army, and some of the elites were included in his own Tooth Army, and the rest were supplemented to form a new Seventh Army, but he didn't expect to be preempted by Lu Tong, and he also obtained a warrant from the Jiedu Embassy.
However, as long as Lu Tong is still under Ryazan, then Ryazan has the opportunity to pick up Lu Tong, and logistics supply is the biggest problem.
But judging from Lu Tong's performance in front of him, Lu Tong seems to be a little fearless, and even Lin Feng and Gao Yang secretly guess that Lu Tong has the support of someone to dare to be so presumptuous.
You must know that Ryazan is not an ordinary person, etc., in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, in addition to the Jiedu Envoy, there are only two or three people who can argue with him, the Shang brothers are one, and there are two marching Sima Yao Chengtai and Jiedu Judge Yu Mingzhen, and even the military judge Lu Qifang, although he is nominally higher than Ryazan, but in terms of strength, he is inferior to Ryazan.
It is obviously impossible for the Jiedu to make the adult, and the Shang brothers will not be like this, so there is only one of the two who can do it, Sima Yao Chengtai and Yu Mingzhen, the judge of the Jiedu, but Yu Mingzhen, the judge of the Jiedu, is far away in Xiapi to form a new army, and the marching Sima Yao Chengtai is stationed in Xiao County, which seems to be difficult to get involved here, which makes people a little confused, but thinking about it, since this kind of thing has happened, it must be especially the case, so Lin Feng and Gao Yang do not dare to get involved casually.
"The battle on the bank of the Jiepai River is so strange, can it be said that the magic weapons of the Huaiyou Navy have the merit of seizing the heavens and the earth? Although the Caizhou cavalry is not famous, we all know that it is not inferior to our Huaibei cavalry, why the cavalry of the two armies was defeated in such a short period of time, this is simply unimaginable!" Lin Feng shook his head again and again, obviously still feeling incredulous for Lu Tong's introduction to the battle on the Jiepai riverbank.
"Since Huaiyou has promised to put such a powerful weapon on the head of Ruyin City, why don't we be allowed to take a look at Huaibei?