"Promote the tent!" Li Ping roared loudly, his face reddened and his neck thick with pain, and the whole tent seemed to tremble slightly at his voice.
Li Xingchen strode around from behind the screen. Xiao Shilian had already stood on Li Xingchen's side, turning slightly to show that he was his deputy. His identity was quite special, although according to Xiao Mohe and Li Xingchen's original intention, it should be Li Xingchen.
Leading the troops together with Xiao Shilian, the two of them did not prioritize.
But Xiao Shilian himself also knew clearly that what he preferred was not to strategize but to lead the army to kill. Therefore, the position of the general was definitely not occupied. It was better to let Li Xingchen do this troublesome thing. He was only responsible for being in front.
Just rush and kill.
So standing like this at this time can be regarded as expressing his attitude.
Behind Xiao Shilian, the partial generals Lu Zhiwu, Chen Zhishen and Zhechong captain Cao Zhong were lined up. In fact, there were only these few generals under Li Xingchen's command. However, even so, there were two miscellaneous generals and two miscellaneous generals.
A partial general, who is only one level below the general, plus a captain, can command 7,000 troops, which is more than enough, and it may even be a bit fussy.
However, everyone knows the role of these seven thousand troops, so let alone two generals, there is no problem in having a "Four Expeditions" general to lead them.
After all, who leads an army should not only look at how many people there are in the army, but what the goal of the army is.
The army in front of Li Xingchen now is the army with the most ambitious goals and ambitions in Nanchen.
"See General Dang Kou!" As Li Xingchen stood directly in front of the center of the Chinese army's tent, all the generals saluted at the same time.
And Li Xinchen nodded slightly. Although there were only these four people in front of him - only these four people were truly qualified to know the specific arrangements for this expedition - but in an instant Li Xinchen felt that he saw thousands of troops galloping under the flag.
horse.
This is all the result of my hard work over the past few months, and now I have to lead them into the next more dangerous battle.
"I believe you all know where we are going," Li Xingchen's voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for everyone present to hear clearly, "Follow someone, you will not have time to enjoy yourself, just wait to suffer!"
As soon as Li Xingchen said this, Xiao Shilian and others couldn't help but smile.
It is true that they have been taking risks by following Li Xingchen, but the victory and glory involved are unmatched by other armies. And they believe that even if they go through hardships and obstacles, Li Xingchen will lead them to victory.
Lu Zhiwu, who was officially participating in the discussion of this army for the first time, also breathed a sigh of relief. Apparently, General Li was more confident than he thought.
Seeing that the atmosphere was relaxing, Li Xingchen turned around and slapped the map hard: "Cao Zhong obeys the order!"
Cao Zhong was startled. He didn't expect that Li Xingchen would call him first. He immediately took a step forward and said excitedly: "The general is here!"
Cao Zhong's excitement and self-efficacy were seen by Xiao Shilian, Chen Zhishen and others. Chen Zhishen was a little depressed that he was not the first to go on the expedition, but Xiao Shilian just smiled and watched all this. It was obvious that Li Xingchen had a good grasp of Cao Zhong's psychology.
It's very accurate, or in other words, I am very accurate about the mentality of Cao Zhong and Chen Zhishen!
Li Xingchen said in a deep voice: "A certain cavalry team has been entrusted to you to arrange sentinels along the line from Xinzhou to Xiling. Be careful not to expose your whereabouts!"
"No!" Cao Zhong responded loudly, turned around and retreated.
Li Xingchen then looked at Chen Zhishen. This guy probably couldn't wait any longer: "Chen Zhishen!"
Chen Zhishen raised his chest and raised his head and took a step forward: "The end will be here!"
Li Xingchen stretched out his hand and pointed at an almost invisible point on the map: "You led your troops to Xinzhou first. Did you see this place on the map? It's called Qiting, which is the throat of Xinzhou going westward from the Yangtze River.
You must defend this place for me!"
"Qiting?" Chen Zhishen raised his eyebrows. He had been studying the map from Xinzhou to Badong these days, but this place only had some impressions in his mind and he didn't pay attention at all.
And Li Xingchen nodded: "If we advance here in Qiting, we can take Badong, and if we retreat, we can defend Xinzhou. Whether we attack or return to defense after the attack fails, we need to defend here."
In history, Yang Su led the naval fleet all the way eastward. Because he controlled Qiting, the entrance to Xiling Gorge fell into the hands of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which forced Nanchen's garrison in Jingzhou to go all out to garrison Yidu.
The Xinzhou front line blocked Yang Su's direct route down the river, and the entire Jingzhou war situation fell into Nanchen's complete passivity almost instantly.
The chain reaction caused by this was that Nan Chen's army stationed in Jingzhou was unable to support Jiangnan. As a result, Xiao Mohe and others in Jiangnan were severely undermanned and could not even defend the river.
Although Qiting is just a small beach in the north of the Yangtze River outside Xiling Gorge, sometimes such a small beach is enough to determine the direction of the world.
Therefore, even if Li Xingchen risks exposing his strategic intentions, he must first control Qiting.
Chen Zhishen was not a fool. Of course he understood what Li Xingchen meant, but he still hesitated: "General, if we take Qiting first, it will be more conducive to defense, right..."
After all, in the eyes of Chen Zhishen and others, this is to attack rather than to defend. Is working so hard to seize the defensive key points first, is it a waste of time?
After a moment of silence, Li Xingchen said calmly: "I always want to leave a way out for these thousands of brothers and the navy."
Chen Zhishen, Lu Zhiwu and others suddenly looked at Li Xinchen, and they were all a little surprised. In their minds, wherever Li Xinchen went, he should win, but they all ignored one thing, that is, Li Xinchen still had to leave something for himself every time.
The back road.
In the last battle of Zhangshan, Li Xingchen did not wait for reinforcements, but took the initiative to send cavalry to ask for reinforcements. In fact, it was to find a way to retreat. And this time it was obviously the same.
This shows that Li Xingchen's victory was not simply a matter of luck as many people thought. He was prepared to win as well as to fail. But whether it was Chen Zhishen or Lu Zhiwu, at this moment
I believe that even if Li Xingchen fails, it will not be a complete defeat.
Because he has already taken everything into account.
As for Xiao Shilian, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. It was obvious that he was growing, and Li Xingchen was not standing still. As for whether Li Xingchen would win, Xiao Shilian still remembered what Xiao Maha said at that time.
"I am convinced of this."
"Yes!" Chen Zhishen responded loudly at this time, followed by Li Xingchen's order.