Chapter 21: The Struggle for Authority
Kong Ming rode a horse, from a broken end in the middle of the mountainside to look at the horse city in the distance, here to the horse city is basically a horse flat river, the current horse city in the eyes of the horse city is just a city wall and a large area of dense small houses composed of a city, only to see the sky above the horse city is a piece of smoke and dust, the sound of killing, magic and the sound of fighting people continue to come, especially the broken wall facing the sky Ming is no longer wordless to the empty Ming to say something. If Xiang Zuoding had listened to the words of the division commander and retracted the team, there would not have been so much damage in the first wave of the enemy's attack, if he was willing to listen to Kong Ming's words, then he would not have let the enemy's sneak attack succeed, then even if the enemy attacked, at least he could give the enemy heavy damage, not like now, as soon as the forward is finished, the rest of the team is like a group of sheep that people chase, let the enemy chase and kill, if he is a competent commander, he will not disappear at the moment of the enemy's attack, so that the defense of the entire city has no command, and they are fighting separately, let such a strong city fall like this, mediocre officials mislead the country!
Thinking of this, Kong Ming couldn't help sighing, and at this moment, a battalion commander Chen Fayan came up from behind, just heard Kong Ming's sigh, and couldn't help but say: "What is the regiment commander thinking?" Kong Ming pointed to Ma Cheng and said to a team with the flag of the Harvey Nation that had just run out of there: "Look, the enemy has chased out." ”
Chen Fayan looked at Kong Ming's hand, and saw that in the distance where the wall of Macheng was broken, there was a team with the banner of the Harvey Empire coming out of there, as if it was a team of cavalry, but the leader was not a horse but a dragon, only to see that the team ran to a crossroads and stopped, where Kong Ming and other regiments were separated, and after a while, the man ran towards Kong Ming with his team, this situation made Kong Ming and the two of them nervous, but what made the two strange was that the team only ran for more than a minute, suddenly stopped, and then changed direction and ran towards their eastSeeing this situation, both of them couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"They're heading east!" Mr. Chen said.
"This is the best ending, now we should think about how to return to the territory of Chu State, this place is really not safe. Kong Ming smiled bitterly.
"So what are we going to do?" a muffled accent came from behind. Kong Ming didn't look back, he knew that this voice belonged to Xiao Tiancheng, the commander of the second battalion, and besides, there were also the footsteps of several people who accompanied his voice, and they didn't hide it themselves. Kong Ming didn't answer, but looked at the Harvey army heading east, and kept thinking in his heart, how can we go back better and suffer less losses? This is indeed a question!
"Commander, what should we do!". Seeing that Kong Ming did not answer, Xiao Tiancheng aggravated his tone a little, and the dissatisfaction in his tone overflowed, for them, Kong Ming's age is too young, they have been soldiers for more than 20 years and are just mixed with a battalion commander, and Kong Ming, an unqualified and incapable person, became a regiment commander at the age of less than twenty years old, the blow to them is indeed too big, but Kong Ming's strength also makes them very scruples, plus they used to be in Ma Cheng, there are people watching above, so they don't dare to do anything, but now it's different, Ma Cheng is broken, and Kong Ming's reliance is gone, They didn't want a young person to be in charge of their life and death, so they took advantage of the rest time to talk a little and directly unify their thoughts, and let the first battalion commander Chen Fayan probe Kongming's tone first, and drag on some time by the way, so that others have enough time to discuss the distribution of power and where to go after Kongming. But none of them reached an agreement on who would take over Kongming's position, but fortunately they remembered that it was not the time to quarrel, so they could only simply reach an intention and come up to force the palace. If Kong Ming really grew up as a nobleman, then he must be in a state of confusion in this situation, but for Kong Ming, these soldiers are just some new recruits who are a little bit of a soldier commander, because they have never fought a battle except for pressing the civilians, like today's battle of Macheng, they let Kong Ming bring out without seeing the enemy, that is, if there is no Kong Ming's decisiveness, they will definitely be trapped inside, dead or alive. But now, just after breaking away from the enemy, he began to force the palace for the position of a leader, such a person really made Kong Ming angry, but Kong Ming didn't pay attention to him, and still didn't take it as a thing in his heart, while thinking about the way out in the future, while thinking about how to deal with this matter properly? If this matter is not dealt with well, then he may become a light pole, or be subdued by force, but this will also make the people below disobey the yang and yin, which is not conducive to future battles. Seeing that Kong Ming didn't answer, several of them looked at Kong Ming even more in their hearts, and kept talking about it, and it was getting more and more outrageous.
"Commander, what should I do, you give a word to your brothers!"
"Commander, yes, what should I do next, can you tell me!"
"If you don't talk about it, how about we propose a few plans to take a look?"
"What other plans are you proposing, don't you see what our head is thinking about now?"
"What do you think, do you want to be a woman or do you want to be a parent!"
"Haha!!!"
"Haha!!!"
"Haha!!!"
"I don't have to think about it, why don't we let a few gang leaders think about it, it's better, what do you think?"
"That's a good idea!"
"Think about it, everybody!"
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Several of them constantly stimulated Kong Ming in various languages, trying to find an excuse to let Kong Ming give up the position of regiment commander, but they thought too highly of themselves and underestimated Kong Ming, their military age was worthless for Kong Ming, and Kong Ming didn't bother to pay attention to these people who cared about lewdness, and now was not the time to deal with this matter, but when Kong Ming woke up from his contemplation, Kong Ming looked at the soldiers who were resting in their turnover, Kong Ming couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, he himself was a person who gradually grew up from a low-level soldier, , who led to the death of a large number of soldiers due to blind command, is still still jealous, and he almost died at the hands of the Huayuan Empire in the Battle of Cold Valley. Now, if these officers from small aristocratic backgrounds are still allowed to force the palace like this, then the results of the Battle of Macheng and the Battle of Fenglin will still have to be repeated, and this kind of thing is better to deal with it later than early. Kong Ming smiled, he knew too well these little tricks, nothing more than to provoke Kong Ming, so that Kong Ming could react normally to some young people, at this time, they began to have some people pretending to be red-faced, and some people pretending to be black-faced, the intention was nothing more than to let Kong Ming step down, so that they could take over the entire regiment in an all-round way, hehe, at this time, this kind of thing really made Kong Ming speechless, in this difficult time, these nobles don't know if their heads are really in the water, even Xiang Zuoding's military power that still fell in a hurry, they still have to pick it up, it's really a benefit to cover people's eyes。 Kong Ming quietly looked in the direction of Ma Cheng, and did not pay attention to their situation, because Kong Ming knew that showing weakness at such a time could make them more at ease, making them think that this Kong Ming's incompetence would achieve their position, at this time, there would be a crack if there was no agreement between them, after all, the leader must have self-righteous thoughts, and the other people who were brought up did not have much idea at first, but once they found that things were far from their imagination, and when they could get more things, their internal division would begin to split, and at this time, it was the time for them to coax up inside, that is, when Kong Ming counterattacked, so Kong Ming has been ignoring it like this, and the direction of their attack is just like what Kong Ming thinks, when they see Kong Ming's appearance, they began to keep talking about their so-called merits, this soldier is long, what kind of military academy graduation is that, this ability is high, that is good at planning, this is the heart of the soldiers, that treats the soldiers like children, and then slowly changes, one of these relatives is the royal family, and that is directly the king's brother of the same generation.......
The time is getting longer and longer, the sound is getting louder and louder, and their respective hole cards are becoming more and more obvious, but what they don't know is that not far away, the eyes of those resting soldiers looking at them are full of disdain, and they also began to have a careful discussion. Kong Ming turned his head and looked coldly at the six battalion commanders and regimental deputies, a total of seven people. Leng Yan said: "Noisy, then noisy! Do you think you are not dying fast enough, clamoring for the Harveys to come to you faster, ah!?" Kong Ming's last voice was said loudly in a questioning tone. When they heard this, these people were shocked, and the soldiers below began to stop talking, and unconsciously focused their attention on this side, at this time, how could Kong Ming let them come back to their senses, "Hehe! Lao Tzu brought you out of Macheng, that rotten place, so that you are alive now, what, take a break and have the strength, you can fight, do you want us to kill back and avenge those brothers who died at the hands of the enemy, ah!? Family background, ability!?Fuck, those things have a shit to do with you?If you have the ability, you can take your people to kill a few Harvey people and give Lao Tzu a try, go!!"
They were completely stunned when they heard Kong Ming's words, among their nobles, even if they wanted to kill and avenge each other, they also paid attention to the so-called etiquette, where was there such rudeness as Kong Ming, but it was those soldiers who were resting underneath that they had a trace of cordiality when they heard Kong Ming's words.
"Than qualifications, fuck, Lao Tzu is fourteen years old to let people like you birdmen be captured as soldiers, crawling in life, rolling in death, I don't know how many people died in my hands, I don't know how many injuries I have on my body, I don't know how many fucking people come back to life, what qualifications do you guys have to say Lao Tzu? Compared to your family background, Lao Tzu is not as good as you, but that has a chicken feather relationship with fighting!!" Hearing this, those battalion commanders felt a lot more relaxed in their hearts, but Kong Ming's next words made them go crazy directly. "I fucking asked Xiang Tiancheng to come back from Huayuan. Oh, by the way, Xiang Tiancheng is your king of Chu. Compared with ability, I am a great swordsman, I brought a swordsman brigade back from the maple forest, what about you-?" Kong Ming's words made these people a little sober, and also made these people have some understanding of Kong Ming. Kong Ming looked at these people in a daze, he was really annoyed in his heart, I don't know if it was because he had once again experienced a battle that fled without a fight, or because Xiang Zuoding did not listen to Jian Yì and lost Macheng, coupled with the current forced palace of these noble officers, so that the anger directly filled his entire chest, and an unknown heat current rushed from his heart along the spine to his head, just when the anger in Kong Ming's heart was about to overwhelm his reason, Kong Ming did something that surprised everyone present, Kong Ming put the hot current that was about to rush to his head to his mouth, and rushed out with a loud roar"Say-!". Under the impact of the voice, these last two words were like a dragon's groan, rushing towards a few people, the highest cultivation of their battalion commanders and deputy regiment commanders was only a high-level swordsman, at such a close distance, the seven people were already loosening in their hearts under Kong Ming's words, plus Kong Mingyuan's voice came so suddenly, how could they resist Kong Ming's voice? The seven people directly made Kong Ming faint. Seeing a few people fainting, Kong Ming's heart was somewhat comfortable, in this case, if Kong Ming didn't know how to take advantage of the situation, then he would not be a qualified soldier. Kong Ming quickly gathered all the officers above the company commander together, and after waking up the seven of them, he rearranged their duties, and when arranging, he directly broke up the original command system, took their original deputy positions to the main positions, and staggered their original company and battalion, and let them go back to familiarize themselves with the new battalion and company situation, and those seven people, under Kong Ming's strong leadership, directly dismissed them from their duties to the company as soldiers on the grounds of disobedience to orders in violation of military discipline and confrontation with superiors, that is to say, the seven of them are ordinary soldiers, and no longer a commanding officer。 In this way, a crisis was resolved by Kong Ming, and Kong Ming's Third Cavalry Regiment became one of the few troops in the entire 100,000 army that later returned to the Chu State.