Candles had already been lit in the big tent, and the candles were reflected in Cao Wenzhao's eyes.

Cao Wenzhao's eyes were as bright as lamps, as if they could penetrate people's hearts.

Chen Wang's heart was slightly cold, he had already prepared a set of reasonable arguments.

This set of arguments has been conceived since he received Cao Wenzhao's letter, and it is a very reasonable explanation.

However, after seeing Cao Wenzhao's eyes, Chen Wang changed his mind, maybe he should tell some real truth.

Whether it is Cao Wenzhao or Zuo Liangyu, or Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, they all have their own thoughts and wills.

They are not cold names in the history books, but living, real people.

Chen Wang had a feeling in his heart that if he said the set of rhetoric he had originally prepared, he was afraid that Cao Wenzhao would definitely start to alienate him and no longer regard him as a cronie.

Chen Wang's expression was solemn, his eyes were condensed, and he said in a deep voice.

"I was born in Liaodong, I have a blood feud with Jiannu, and I want to train my soldiers well, kill back to Liaodong, and take revenge!"

The last sentence was what Cao Wenzhao said to him outside the city of Pizhou, and now he returned it to Cao Wenzhao.

"It is not easy to train troops, and all military affairs are even more difficult, and the general knows better than me."

"Liaodong is in the war, our army has always lost more and won less, Liaodong is like a bottomless hole, how many generals have made up for it, how many soldiers can't fill it up, and they can't fill it up, and they can't fill in the ......."

Cao Wenzhao's expression was slightly moved, and he didn't know where the truth Chen Wang said.

Today's Liaodong is a mess, a bottomless pit, and millions of Liaodong salaries affect not only the generals of Liaodong, but also the adults in the court.

Which of the high-ranking officials of the three provinces and six ministries is really clean under their hands, and hundreds or even thousands of people up and down have to share the money from Liaodong every year.

The current situation in Liaodong can be said to be caused by the imperial court.

It's not that you can't be flat, but you don't want to be flat.

In the past, Qi Jiguang wrote a letter asking for 300,000 taels of silver to supervise the construction of warships, but the results were folded, but the approval was 3 million taels.

Of course, this batch is three million taels, and it is another thing to really implement it......

Corruption has become a common thing in the Ming court at this time, and if there are honest and strict officials, it is abnormal.

Even if they are in a high position, those who cherish feathers are not willing to go along with it, but they don't dare and won't tell the inside story.

Everyone knows what the ills are, everyone understands how to change them, but everyone is pretending to be deaf and dumb, pretending that nothing exists.

"The court can't control it internally, but I know that if the situation in Liaodong is not intervened in the court, if you want to alleviate it, there must be an elite army that can take charge of the overall situation."

"I went to Hanzhong to train my troops."

Chen Wang raised his head and looked at Cao Wenzhao, this time he did not avoid Cao Wenzhao's gaze, because everything he said was the truth, and there was not a single lie.

There is an art of speaking in this world, that is, even if it is a truth, it is actually a lie, because there are many words in it, and Chen Wang has not finished it.

Military training is only one of the purposes, and Chen Wang's real purpose is to complete the substantive division of Hanzhong.

"I don't want to ...... ended up with the same fate as General Ai, Deputy General Liu, and General Yu......"

Chen Wang clenched his fists and considered his words as carefully as he could.

"Running back and forth, constantly going back and forth, the soldiers are tired, no one is judged for their victory, and all the blame for defeat is on their bodies."

"The lowly position is in Chunhua, and when I see General Liu, it is almost difficult to recognize."

"He has been under the general's account since the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and has experienced hundreds of large and small wars in the past eight years."

Chen Wang's expression was solemn and he talked about the past of the housekeeper.

Cao Wenzhao's expression was slightly softened, and Chen Wang talked about the old things of the family, and also brought some of the relationship with Cao Wenzhao a little unfamiliar.

"The most vivid thing to remember is the old thing in Chongzhen's seven years, in July, Jiannu entered the pass in a big way and plundered, and when he returned, he first attacked the victory fort, and General Li committed suicide and martyrdom."

"Then Jiannu entangled the army to attack Huairen County, Jingpingbao, Yingzhou and other places, and we were stationed in Huairen with the general and Governor Zhang."

"In August, Huairen relieved the siege, and we moved our troops with the general to garrison the town, and then confronted the Jiannu army outside the town."

"The soldiers of the battalion were afraid, only the general led us out of the city to fight, and we fought alone and finally lost."

"In November, the imperial court decreed that the fearful battalion generals were all right, but the general and the governor were convicted and sentenced to be confiscated to the guards in the border areas......"

Chen Wang stepped back a little distance, bent down, and said in a low voice.

Cao Wenzhao's eyes flickered, his eyebrows were low, and his expression was gloomy.

At the beginning, Ai Wannian sent a letter to him that the soldiers of each battalion were tired and timid, and more than half of the soldiers under his command had suffered casualties for many years, and their morale was difficult to boost.

Ai Wannian, Liu Chenggong and others merged together to make up a total of 3,000 people, and were ordered by Hong Chengchou to go north to suppress them.

Ai Wannian also had a distinction at the beginning and thought that he should not attack at this time, but his opinion was rejected.

As a result, the army was defeated and died in battle.

And his defeat in Datong made him see the officialdom and the battlefield thoroughly.

Do more wrong, do less wrong, don't do good.

As long as the money is large, even defeat can be written as victory, even if the turtle shrinks the city, it can also be written as a meritorious service to resist the enemy, and there is a performance in defending the city.

"When Li Guo was pursued, he was not killed in time for the purpose of training."

"I am afraid that once I defeat Li Guo, I will be immediately transferred to Xi'an Mansion, and I will be sent to Yan'an and other places to suppress it."

"The recruits recruited at the time of Chunhua are now just lining up and changing formations, and it is a blessing that there is no chaos when they are in battle, and they can't withstand the impact of the rogues' elite cavalry, and forcibly pulling them onto the battlefield will only become a flaw and weakness."

"Sanyuan Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong are said to have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and I don't want to be used as cannon fodder......"

Cao Wenzhao sat down slowly, and couldn't help sighing in his heart.

Everything Chen Wang said and the choices he made were undoubtedly correct and reasonable.

Chen Wang's ability to train soldiers Cao Wenzhao is very clear, but Cao Wenzhao also knows that no matter how powerful the training method is, there is no way to train a group of hungry soldiers whose morale is extremely low into an elite and daring soldier within a month.

The reason why Chen Wang's recruits under the city of Pizhou were able to shine was actually stained with the light of other troops and firearms.

In that battle, only the cavalry under the command of Zuo Liangyu and Cao Bianjiao were really facing the enemy, and all the infantry at that time were just firing guns and cannons from afar.

It was not until the enemy army collapsed that they pursued it with swords and guns, but at that time it was the enemy who pursued them with their backs.

Chen Wang's idea of relying on actual combat training is indeed correct.

And if Chen Wang eliminated Li Guo early, I am afraid that nine times out of ten he will be transferred to Xi'an Mansion by Hong Chengchou's several urgent orders, and then these thousands of men and horses under Chen Wang's command will definitely be the vanguard of the future war.

After the Battle of Sanyuan, nearly half of the 2,000 men under Gao Jie's command remained, and the rest had already died because of the Battle of Sanyuan.

Even Gao Jie himself was seriously injured, his body was wounded by knives and guns in three places, five arrows, and his clothes and armor were stained with blood.

If Chen Wangru is in Sanyuan, he is afraid that like Gao Jie, his subordinates will suffer heavy losses, and he may also be injured.

"Go on."

Cao Wenzhao spoke slowly, his voice was a little hoarse for some reason.

"I didn't have the idea of going to Hanzhong Mansion before."

Chen Wang clenched his hands into fists, and he didn't completely tell the truth in this place.

"I just want to force it to Gongchang Mansion, where there are no thieves, and then exterminate it in one fell swoop, temporarily leave troops in Gongchang Mansion, and then go east to Fengxiang Mansion."

"Use the thieves of Fengxiang Mansion as a material for promotion and training."

"But I didn't expect that there were two streams of rogue in Fengxiang Mansion that happened to enter Gongchang Mansion."

"By the time he reacted, it was too late, and he still couldn't keep Li Guo under the city of Qinzhou, and in the end, Li Guo joined forces with Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan, which was completely unexpected."

Chen Wang didn't lie here, the appearance of Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan was completely accidental, and almost disrupted all his plans.

Fortunately, Li Zicheng not only sent him a large amount of armaments, armor, gold and silver, but also sent four vital artillery pieces, so that he was able to win the Battle of Sanshan so easily.

"It was at that time that I had the idea of chasing them to Hanzhong Mansion together."

"The situation in Yan'an Mansion and Xi'an Mansion is complicated, maybe the Liukou will run to Shanxi again, once it passes, it will inevitably be exhausting from running back and forth, so it is better to go to Hanzhong Mansion."

In history, Li Zicheng did run to Shanxi, and then to Henan.

"Hanzhong Prefecture is located in the middle, relatively isolated from other prefectures, and the situation in the prefecture has begun to collapse since a few years ago, and the problem of bandits in the prefecture has not been resolved for a long time."

"After entering Hanzhong Mansion, most of them can stay in Hanzhong Mansion for a long time, and there is no need to travel back and forth to several provinces and mansions, so they can concentrate on military training."

"I want to train an elite army, and rush to Liaodong in the future to expel ......"

What Chen Wang said earlier was true, and he didn't say anything in the last paragraph.

His last sentence was complete nonsense, but it was still said like this.

Unless he has tens of thousands of elite troops under his command and can be independent, he definitely doesn't want to go to Liaodong.

Liaodong is now a dead end, and whoever goes has to die.

When I went to Liaodong, the biggest enemy was not Houjin, but the biggest enemy was actually the Liaoyu interest group with Liaodong Jiangmen as the main body.

Cao Wenzhao's expression softened a lot, and he also remembered a lot of things.

Chen Wang has been paying attention to Cao Wenzhao's expression, all his previous remarks are just foreshadowing, seeing Cao Wenzhao's face slow down, his eyes are much colder, he knows that now is the opportunity.

Then it's time to really see the dagger.

As time went on, as the war progressed, Cao Wenzhao's thinking had already begun to change.

Nothing can be achieved overnight, and there is a process for Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's transformation.

And the current Cao Wenzhao is no longer just the original hot-blooded general, his water chestnut has been almost smoothed out by the officialdom, and his heart is not as sharp as in the past.

Ai Wannian's death, Liu Chenggong's experience, and Yu Chongxiao's deeds are all changing Cao Wenzhao.

"When General Soldier Zuo was in Chunhua, he taught me a truth."

"Military salary, money and food, military rank and status, for us and other martial artists, everything is vain."

"Only the soldiers and horses under your command and the swords in your hands are the real strength."

"As long as the soldiers and horses are not lost and the strength is not damaged, the court will not easily punish and reprimand......"

……

Chen Wang left the tent after an hour of nightfall.

After leaving the Chinese military tent, Chen Wang did not stop, but directly whipped his horse and led a group of guards to leave Baoji.

He came to Baoji to meet Cao Wenzhao in person, all of this was done in secret, and he traveled lightly all the way, not a formal summons.

Therefore, Chen Wang must immediately rush back to Gongchang Mansion, the soldiers under his command are still pursuing Li Yangchun and the others, Chen Wang is a little worried that there will be chaos in Gongchang Mansion.

After Chen Wang finished saying the last sentence, Cao Wenzhao was silent for a long time, and finally let him walk out of the tent.

Chen Wang didn't know how much impact his words could have on Cao Wenzhao.

But Chen Wang knew that the relationship between him and Cao Wenzhao would not change much.

Cao Wenzhao would still regard him as a close confidant after this summons, and their slightly distant relationship has now been re-incarnated.

There are some things that Zuo Liangyu can see clearly, He Renlong can also see clearly, and Cao Wenzhao is naturally clearer than the two of them.

In troubled times, there are soldiers who are the king of grass.

It's just that Cao Wenzhao still has a persistence in his heart, and he is still loyal to the Ming Empire.

Even after experiencing injustice, suffering and suppression, the blood in Cao Wenzhao's heart has not been completely extinguished.

However, blood and loyalty will eventually be gradually exhausted under the constant blows, and the reality is cruel and desperate.

When Chen Wang hurried all the way to Qishan, only three days had passed.

Li Yangchun, Lin Shengquan, and Li Guo have already crossed Lixian, and even crossed Xihe and Chengxian, and now they are in Weizhou, and it won't be long before they can be in Yuguan.

The three divisions gathered again, and although there had been warnings before, there were still people who could not escape and were dragged in.

The strength of the three Liukou troops has swelled to nearly 30,000 again, and it will not be long before they attack Yuguan.

And just as he reached the camp on his front foot, a messenger came with news from the east.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng and other troops in Zhuyang Pass, East Turkistan, will be loyal to Lingbao, join forces, and fight with Zuo Liangyu and Zu Kuan in Ruxiang.

Zuo Liangyu and Zu Kuan could not resist, and the soldiers were defeated and fled, and Shaanzhou fell.

Gao Yingxiang officially played the banner, divided into thirteen families, raised 72 battalions, numbered a million troops, and marched into Luo, moving eastward.

The investigation reports: Tuo Xianling and Zhang Xianzhong have about 200,000 people, Gao Yingdeng has 170,000, Gao Yingxiang has 120,000, and the three major departments have a total of 490,000.

Today, there are more than 700,000 people in eight provinces......

Lu Xiangsheng: "Lu Zhongsu Gongji" Volume 11, "Eight Songs of Wu Kui'an Book with Shaosi":

In the past two months, I have been running between you, Wan, the river and the ru, and I have been very busy. There are many thieves and they are horizontal, and although there are thousands of captives before and after, it is not yet a win. It must be exterminated within the first two and three months of the ninth year, and the remaining thieves can be annihilated in the first place. There are about 70,000 thieves who break into the king, 120,000 women, 120,000 Ding Zhuang, and 30,000 or 40,000 fine horsemen. This thief does not let An, history, or the temple know it well. Since the middle of Qin, Hong Heng Lao (referring to Hong Hengjiu, that is, Hong Chengchou) fought with him three times. Approaching Yudi, a certain fought with it twice. There are 20,000 birds killed and wounded and scattered, and there are still 50,000 today, and they are still fierce enemies. He also had five or six thieves, and when he saw that the soldiers were gradually gathered, they all merged with the thieves, and they were more powerful. Today, he runs to the southeast, Chu, Huang, Feng, Si, Huai, Yang, all of which are very worrying. Somewhere the stars galloped south

(End of chapter)