Chapter 522 A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles (5)

In early May, Zhang Xing continued to rush to Yecheng.

Xiong Bonan, Xu Shiying, Dou Lide, Bai Yousi, Hong Changya, Feng Wuyi and other key figures in the gang were all accompanying him. According to the requirements, military orders had been issued in Xingming County before, requiring all places except Beidi

The actual military and political leaders such as Shan Tonghai, Wu Jingfeng, Niu Da, Cheng Zhili, Zhou Xingfan, Wang Zhuo, etc. all wanted to seize the border area and bring as many subordinates as possible to Yecheng to meet each other.

The military generals will also be gathered together.

In order to ensure that enough people could be gathered, Zhang Xing still slightly slowed down his schedule even though there was still war in the North.

In this way, in mid-May, when we arrived in front of Yecheng, even Dantonghai, which was farther away from northern Shanxi, caught up with them. The descendants from Youzhou and Hejian also followed this procession, and arrived at Yecheng.

At that time, they even encountered tens of thousands of people coming out of the city to greet them.

To be honest, the scene was quite shocking. The people who had just surrendered in Hebei Province almost knelt down. However, their political literacy was there and they knew that they were surrendering. They didn't wait for others to kneel down first.

"It's too ostentatious." Zhang Xing was not angry, but he was not too happy either. "Let's not do this next time... Set a rule. Ordinary people cannot be used to greet people, and garrison troops and low-level officials cannot be used. It is best to focus on two groups of soldiers.

, be a guard of honor to welcome you."

Typical Chief Zhang's style of doing things, but for some reason, when faced with Chief Zhang as always, the people who came to greet him had obviously strange reactions... Many people felt relieved, some seemed a little disappointed, and some were inexplicably nervous.

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The leader, Chen Bin, was obviously a little disappointed. He nodded first, and then cheered up again and complimented: "As soon as the chief sent out troops, he swept across Hebei, killed Xue Luo, surrendered the north, defeated the demon guards and changed their banners, and traveled thousands of miles in a blink of an eye.

Clarify... This achievement cannot be overly praised."

"That's not the case, these are all things that have already been settled. The Eastern Capital is the key, destroying the elite is the great cause, and the main task now is to sweep the Northland." Zhang Xing answered simply. "Let everyone disperse, just

Let the leaders go in together to discuss the matter."

"Are we going to have a formal meeting now?" Chen Bin came to ask solemnly. "Commander Niu and Deputy Commander Zhou will not arrive until tonight."

"No, dusty people, let's discuss it today and vote tomorrow." Zhang Xing waved his hands repeatedly. "We have to let everyone know what we are going to say. I just raised my hand in confusion...and Youzhou and Hejian.

Newcomers should slow down first and see what our meeting is about."

Chen Bin nodded, while the rest of the group were shocked and immediately followed suit.

To be fair, Chief Zhang's power is getting stronger and stronger. He felt it when he went to Beidi from Hebei, and then he felt even more like this after returning from Beidi... Just say something and the people around you can do it.

It has been done; and except for a very few people, most people now (whether inside or outside the gang) will not have the atmosphere of protest and discussion before when facing him, and they have never seen him sing the opposite, even if it is

There is obviously resistance, but I can suppress it and digest it myself.

Zhang Sanlang is a well-informed person, so of course he knows that this is not good.

Next, we came to the main hall of the palace. Everyone sat down as usual for meetings. The leaders sat inside, while the people from Youzhou and Hejian were outside along with the soldiers and clerks.

As for Chief Zhang, although he wanted to quickly reach a consensus in order to pass some strategies tomorrow, he still slowed down his pace and lowered his attitude towards the dozens of leaders gathered together: "Actually, the matter in the Northland is not over yet.

As a result, when I come back this time, firstly, I want to give a report to the gang; secondly, I want to be prepared to continue the sweep and take over the North; thirdly, there are indeed some things that I need to discuss with everyone."

Everyone was silent and didn't know what they were thinking... This was not like coming back from a big victory to share the peaches. It was just like a man trying to fight a wolf. He didn't know what was going on.

The people in the periphery were in a hurry, and they didn't know what happened in "Xingming County", and they were even more confused.

Zhang Xing had no choice but to surrender Youzhou. He roughly explained the results of the negotiations in Beidi, but did not say anything about his replacement for the time being. Then he introduced Hong Changya, who was here for the first time, and asked Xu Shiying,

Dou Lide and Xie Minghe introduced the newly surrendered people... It can be seen at this time that Hong Changya, who brought the three counties of northern Shanxi to surrender, was fully respected, while facing Youzhou and Hejian when surrendering.

, even the routine applause became sparse, that is, the Youzhou general and grandmaster Wei Wenda, who once fought against the three grandmasters, gained a little respect.

After a lot of fussing, Zhang Xing finally emphasized: "Most of these measures are plans discussed by everyone during the six months of free time. I took them in accordance with the rights and responsibilities given to me by the gang."

After saying this, the atmosphere finally got better.

Chen Bin nodded first: "The chief handled it very well."

"That's right." Cheng Zhili also started to praise, and he stood up and spoke loudly to the people behind him. "This year, the population in Dengzhou returned, and everything was flourishing. However, the Dongyi people came to harass me again.

I feel more and more difficult to do things... As for these big strategies made by the chief, not to mention the plans discussed with the gang, it is not, and there is no room for criticism, because if this kind of thing can be accomplished, it will be thousands of times.

It’s extremely difficult, not to mention that the chief did it so neatly?”

Although these words were flattering and a show of merit, they also revealed some principles of doing things, which immediately attracted many people to agree, even Shan Tonghai nodded slightly.

"The most critical thing now is the matter of the Northland..." Zhang Xing continued. "We must continue to send troops and must solve the Northland before winter. There is no reason to win the approval of the Demon Guards and not take the opportunity to sweep away the fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

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Everyone nodded, this time there was more participation, after all, it was a matter of course.

Some leaders who had been idle before took the opportunity to say that they were willing to lead troops. Some leaders here in Daxingtai seriously asked how much strength the rebels still had. Others asked about the situation of the Demon Guards and whether they could join the battle in time.

Zhang Xing answered the questions one by one, taking the opportunity to tell what Hei Yan said on the way ahead, and finally made suggestions personally: "There in Beidi, firstly, we need to continue to send troops to sweep them clean; secondly, everyone needs to pass what was said at the formal meeting.

Give the front line some different powers of emergency decision-making... Allow the front line to have its own way in terms of strategies for dealing with prisoners, as well as the means and timing of using troops, and military discipline and law will also be slightly changed."

Everyone started talking again for a while, and it turned out that they were back to how they were in previous meetings.

Chief Zhang also quickly added: "Not only that, it will be like this in the future for Dongyi, Wu Clan, or Nanling... To put it bluntly, the customs and habits of those places are completely different from those of the Central Plains, and they are far apart. We must let the people on the front line

Let go."

Everyone discussed for a while, and then Shan Tonghai frowned and asked: "We only let go of our hands and feet in the corners, but we still have to strictly enforce military rules here in the Central Plains?"

"Yes." Xu Shiying responded.

"Then I dare to ask, Chief, does this loosening of control include things related to military discipline... plundering and massacres?" Dou Lide thought of the responsibilities he had been assigned during the previous conversation. Naturally, he was thinking about these things in his heart, but he still kept thinking about them.

After Shan Tonghai opened his mouth and Xu Shiying expressed his stance, he officially joined the discussion.

"I don't agree with this." Zhang Xing said sternly. "What I mean is two-fold... The first is the flexibility of tactics and the autonomy of the commander from afar; the second is that the troops are isolated and their life or death is uncertain.

We cannot be constrained by rules... For example, we are opposed to plundering, but when the life and death of the troops are at stake during the expedition, is it allowed to collect food? Is it allowed to recruit craftsmen to accompany the army? We are opposed to killing and surrendering, but watching the prisoners want to rebel,

Should we kill generals and officers to prevent riots?"

Everyone became awe-inspiring... You must know that even though the battle to sweep Hebei was extremely smooth, there was still a riot among the prisoners in the rear due to the rapid march. For this reason, Xu Dalang and King Xiongtian really killed a river of blood in Xingming County.

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At this time, Xie Minghe suddenly intervened and expressed his position: "If this is the case, there is no reason not to allow it, but I still think that this discussion should not be made public, and it should only be limited to making a resolution at the meeting... As long as the leaders understand."

"This is what it should be." Shan Tonghai also nodded and expressed limited agreement. "But to give an explanation, everyone is a big leader. There are many leaders, even leading ones. Logically, they can only lead one battalion. No one can arrive.

Even the North can be so wanton..."

"Using the name of Wei Dynasty, General Manager of March?"

"Isn't our stage commander the marching general manager? The military and political affairs are in charge..."

"How about giving it to a marshal and the temporary status of war marshal?"

"The name doesn't matter." Shan Tonghai's tone was slightly higher. "The key is the restriction... everyone cannot be a war commander when they arrive in the North."

"One for each place," Dou Lide said. "There can be at most one in the Northland, one in the Wudi, and one in the Dongyi. If there is a war, set up when chaos breaks out. When the place stabilizes, withdraw. The chief himself will be counted separately. As long as the chief goes to the army

All of them are given the same authority as a war commander."

"In that case, I agree." Shan Tonghai nodded in agreement. "The key is to abide by the rules and not abuse power."

"It's not just that." Cui Suchen interjected. "This rule should not allow the military to do whatever it takes when necessary, but give these war commanders the right to pardon within a certain range. Robbery is still a violation of military regulations, it is just pardoned.

, and every time the Warmaster withdraws, he should have the Ministry of Military Affairs or the Ministry of Assistance review his pardon... Otherwise, if the people below realize that there is a gap to exploit, they will act unscrupulously, and in the end they will be unable to control it."

"General Manager Cui hit the point." Zhang Xing was greatly impressed.

"I have thought before that things on the battlefield cannot be generalized, especially since it will be more difficult to attack Dongdu in the future, so I am going to propose an amnesty this time." Wei Xuanding also took the opportunity to say. "Now we have bumped into each other.

...It saves things."

"A pardon must have a number of staff, and it must be reviewed afterwards." Zhang Xing quickly added.

Several people around him nodded sporadically. Even if this matter has been fully discussed in advance, basically there will be no resistance tomorrow. The thing that Zhang Xing is most worried about has been successfully planned... This strategy is directly

It was to confront Li Ding's expedition to the North, but more importantly, it was to prepare for his secret strategy of crossing the sea to attack the Witchland.

In fact, when he returned to Yecheng from the North, this matter was the most important, and the rest was just what to do when the situation came to pass.

However, faced with the situation of what to do, the palace hall became obviously silent.

It was really quiet. No one spoke for a long time, which made a few people in the circle cough when they opened their mouths... I don't know what they are afraid of or what they are hiding from. In fact, despite the lively discussion before, people who are interested have already started talking.

I noticed something strange. For example, the incident just now involved military discipline, which was the duty of King Xiong. The King himself has always been enthusiastic and serious about gang affairs. As a result, until now, the man who may be second only to Chief Zhang in terms of prestige in the gang has not

He just sat there motionless, as if he had something on his mind.

In the cold scene, Zhang Xing had no choice but to quickly click on one of the people in the audience, as if he had nothing to say: "Mr. Zhang, I have something to ask you. Do you think that starting from the North, we can cross the sea and suppress the wizard?"

Clan?"

Zhang Shizhao, who was in the back row, didn't know what he was thinking. He paused for a while and then moved around as if he had recovered his senses. Then he chuckled softly: "I think it's okay."

"Do you have any explanation?" Zhang Xing asked.

"As for what the Witch Clan and the Witch Land said, I think the Wei Dynasty said it best and did it well." Zhang Shizhao continued to sit there and smiled. "I still remember the late Emperor...not Cao Che...

That edict against witches. At that time, the Wei Dynasty had just been established, the Eastern Qi Dynasty had not yet finished, and the Southern Chen Dynasty had not yet conquered. The internal situation was unstable, and the border defenses were empty. It was rare for the Wu clan to be unified. They were about to go south, and everyone was afraid. At this time

The late emperor issued an edict, pointing out several of the biggest weaknesses of the Wu clan, and calling on everyone not to be afraid. It was written very sincerely and pointed to the point. Later, when Cao Che was still around, he verified this with the surrender of the three tribes of the Wu clan.

Seal edict."

"How do you describe the weaknesses in detail?" Zhang Xing asked curiously.

The others also cheered up again.

"I won't read the original text, just give the general meaning." Zhang Shizhao spoke calmly and eloquently. "The first point is that the Sin Dragon divided the Witchland. At that time, it seemed convenient to hold on to it, but after thousands of years, it has become difficult to maintain it now.

The world is one, exchanges are frequent, materials are developed in the Central Plains, and culture is prosperous. The Wu tribe is called Wu, but they are actually human beings. Instead, they need to urgently communicate with the outside world. This makes the poisonous desert and the bitter sea in turn become the shackles of the Wu tribe, preventing the Wu tribe's culture from prospering.

The economy cannot prosper, politics cannot progress, and even military strength often lags behind the integrated Central Plains;

"The second point is that after the Wu tribe was trapped in the poisonous desert and the bitter sea, they should be united as one, but in fact, because of the backward civilization, it has always been a tribal system, and the population is restricted by the local area, and they often need to compete for pasture and cultivated land frequently.

, water source, so that there are many tribes and deep hatred. Even if there is a khan in name, but inside it is still father and son killing each other, brothers fighting, tribes killing each other, and chaos... Especially after unifying the so-called one

It seems like a large tribe can be called a country, but the larger the tribe, the more small tribes are squeezed within it, which makes it more unstable.
To be continued...