Dai Cai led several personal guards through the battlefield full of ruins and corpses.
A small section of the inner city wall of Fan City has completely collapsed. The Thunderbolt Car has exerted its due power. In addition, both sides have repeatedly sawed along this small gap. Even the solid city wall of rammed earth can still be destroyed after such destruction.
Can't stand it.
This is where the Bashu army rushed in just now. Obviously when there is such a gap in the city wall, no one can stop the charge of the Bashu army, especially the morale of the defenders in Fan City has dropped to a certain level.
Of course, not to mention the attack, the first moment the enemy's line started to loosen, Chun Yucen and Luo Yi respectively brought their personal guards to attack. One of them represented the Northern Zhou forces who had taken refuge in Li Xingchen's group, and the other represented the Nanchen forces.
The aristocratic family naturally did not want the other party to get ahead of them. When they attacked the city just now, Luo Yi and Chun Yucen were at the front. It seemed that they were part of this huge attacking group and were no longer generals.
The Battle of Fancheng was only a part of the entire Battle of Xiangyang, and it was also the beginning. The Northern Zhou side and the Southern Chen side were originally two opposing groups. Although they were now united under Li Xingchen, they were destined to remain enemies. And this
In fact, this is what Li Xinchen hopes to see. After all, Li Xinchen's group has become stronger and stronger, so it needs more balance.
The original Bashu family and the group from Nanchen naturally formed a balance, and then the new Northern Zhou forces entered the entire group, which would only make this balance more chaotic. Therefore, the new Nanchen forces represented by the Chunyu family entered
When you join a group, everything will naturally be in balance again.
Each different small group has its own hostile goals and friendly objects. For example, the later Nanchen group headed by Wu Mingche and Chun Yuliang and the young Nanchen generals headed by Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie were naturally easy to get close to each other.
Correspondingly, it was obviously easier for the Guanlong family headed by Yang Su and later Li Xun and others to get together.
But in the final analysis, there are also contradictions and conflicts between these small groups. The Guanlong family, which had taken refuge with Li Xinchen before, was the main culprit in stirring up the civil strife in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It can be said that Li Xun, Han Qinhu and others were able to end up like this.
, is inseparable from the actions of these Guanlong families behind the scenes, so they definitely don’t have much favorable impressions of the Hongnong Yang family and other Guanlong group families.
Even if they want to cooperate, it is based on the original Nanchen forces who share a common hostility, but it does not mean that they can trust each other without reservation and form a whole. This kind of balance is also what Li Xingchen wants.
Only in this way can no one of Li Xinchen's current groups become a dominant family. Of course, for the Bashu family and others, they do not want to be able to become a single family under Li Xinchen.
After all, the Bashu family does not want to be dominant. They know very well that they do not have such strength now and will only seek trouble for themselves. Therefore, they are not opposed to such a balance and will even fully support it.
Correspondingly, the other groups also hold the same mentality. Therefore, when competing with other groups for credit, they can also be said to spare no effort.
When Dai Cai entered Fancheng, Chun Yucen and Luo Yi had already swept along the main streets towards the center of the city. The enemy still had some defeated troops and retreated to the government office, but it can be imagined that it would not take long to capture these places.
After the Bashu army poured into Fancheng, Li Xinchen returned to Xiangyang. If Fancheng was captured, Xiangyang could no longer be postponed and the attack must be launched as soon as possible. The cleanup work here naturally fell on Dai Cai's shoulders.
superior.
Dai Cai knew that Li Xinchen came to Fancheng firstly to supervise the offensive, and secondly to inspect Dai Cai's work. Now among Li Xinchen's group, most of the generals who had followed Li Xinchen when they first entered Shu have been able to take charge of their own affairs.
Needless to say, Chen Zhishen was already the only general under Li Xinchen who could lead a partial army before he entered Shu. Cao Zhong now cooperates with Xu Deyan to guard Baidi City and coordinate the troops of Sichuan and Shu, so he can be regarded as a general. As for Cheng Feng, Li Xinchen
The usage of him was obviously different from others. Cheng Feng only had 800 troops under his command, which was later increased to a thousand. He was the smallest number among these generals, but these 1,000 troops were the real ones that everyone envied.
The elite of this army will be recruited from each army in the future.
According to Li Xingchen, this is an army that performs special tasks. Although it is not clear what role they can play, the generals can see from Li Xingchen's serious expression that Li Xingchen attaches great importance to them, and naturally they do not dare to neglect them.
, otherwise it will definitely be them who will be punished out of thin air.
It can be said that all these generals are promising, and now the only one left is Dai Cai. However, Dai Cai also knows that this is not to blame for Li Xingchen not giving himself enough opportunities. In the final analysis, it is because of his always cautious character that he often grabs the credit.
But Chen Zhishen and others.
The reason why Chen Zhishen was able to rise step by step was mainly because this guy was willing to kill without hesitation, and he was unambiguous in executing orders. Li Xingchen already had enough ability to control the overall situation. What he needed was to dare to fight and rush, and to use Li Xingchen's sometimes unconstrained strategic thinking.
Finally implement it into practice.
Dai Cai does not force himself to become a person like Chen Zhishen. After all, no matter how his character is already like this, even if he changes it forcibly, he will definitely not be as good as Chen Zhishen. As the scope of control under Li Xinchen gradually expands, even if Li Xinchen has more
It is impossible to master every battlefield anytime and anywhere, so naturally there will be a place for Dai Cai to use it.
This time the Battle of Fancheng was actually a test given by Li Xingchen to Dai Cai. By taking Fancheng, Dai Cai proved his ability, and he would inevitably be on his own after that.
And Dai Cai's performance in this battle was indeed good.
Therefore, when Pei Zilie saw Li Xingchen for the first time, he already knew what would happen next: "Dai Zidong is also included in the list?"
"Following a certain person from Baidi City to Xiangyang City, I can no longer be a partial general." Li Xingchen said decisively, "It's time to be promoted."
Pei Zilie hesitated and said: "But the court..."
"It doesn't matter whether the imperial court wants someone," Li Xingchen interrupted Pei Zilie directly, "Whether it's Chen Zhishen or Dai Cai, he can command thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers, but he is just a partial general, which is a bit unfair. Moreover, they have established
You also see the credit in your eyes, the imperial court cannot count on them, and the rewards they should be given cannot be short of them at all." (To be continued)