Chapter 5: Double the result with half the effort

"Mr., I..." Chen Luoyan glanced at Wu Hao and suddenly stuttered. She looked like she wanted to speak but stopped.

"You want to plead for Xu Shiji. I said: We couple can say anything directly. If you want to plead for him, just say it. Would I still be jealous of him?"

"I have nothing to do with him. Moreover, although he is ambitious, he is not very brave and has always been cautious. He is a good warrior, but he does not have the courage to command. He is a good general, but not a good leader. He himself understands this. After Li Mi came to Wagang, he would willingly give up the position of the second leader, which is also a big reason. Moreover, he has always been soft but not hard. As long as he persuades him with kind words, I think he will definitely be a capable general under your command in the future." Chen Luoyan said slowly with his head down.

"You know him quite well. You deserve to have an engagement!" Wu Hao said with a stern face: "I originally planned to let him go, but I'm a little hesitant now after hearing this."

"I really have nothing to do with him. But after all, I met you, and he is indeed a talented man. Mr...." Chen Luoyan was a little anxious, and her eyes were a little wet.

"Okay, okay, I'm still a heroine, what about Zhuge, a girl? Just kidding you, you're serious." Wu Hao hugged Chen Luoyan and said, "Don't worry, I want to use Xu Shiji. However, he is a little proud of becoming famous at a young age. Once he knows that you marry me, he will inevitably have some complaints in his heart. So it's not useful now. I plan to keep him in a while, sharpen his character, and then make it use of great use. He has strategies, but I think he is ordinary in leading troops. So to be fair, he is neither a handsome man nor a general, but a first-class staff officer."

"You mean not to let him lead troops. Well, that's fine. This will save a lot of trouble!" Chen Luoyan felt relieved.

"From ancient times to the present, there have been almost no institutions dedicated to training military talents, and they basically rely on self-taught. As a result, most people are either Zhao Kuo, who talks about military affairs on paper, or generals from the army, and fight with experience. This is obviously not possible. So I want to set up a military academy and let him teach." Wu Hao paused for a moment and said, "Of course, he may not have no chance to lead troops in the future. But at least it is not possible now. In the war between the Central Land War, I will definitely not let him lead troops. Maybe I will send him to war in the future. At that time, my entire military system was established, and the army could no longer become a private army of the general. In this way, even if he had any ideas, he could only rot in his stomach. Now the general's talent is of course important, but more important is loyalty. Now, Machang, Li Jing, Yang Gongqing, Guanzhong, Pei Renji, Hao Xiaode, Yangzhou, and Meng Rang, who guarded Liyang, can not only stand alone, but also be someone I can absolutely rest assured. It is basically enough to have them stand alone in these four directions."

Chen Luoyan kept nodding: "  This is a good idea!"

"Don't just say ok. Please help me think about how I should deal with the remaining forces now. It's okay to say anything else. This important place is Song Que, Du Fuwei's coalition and Dou Jiande from Hebei. Although Fan Qinghui led me to reach an agreement verbally with the Song and Du coalition, the situation is constantly changing. The Wagang army collapsed so quickly, and it is impossible not to stimulate Du Fuwei. Yu Wenji in Yangzhou is already surviving and is about to fall. Now there is no restraint of the Wagang army on our army. Hundreds of thousands of troops are right at his doorstep, and he cannot not worry. Anyone wants to find that these troops are unlikely to enter Guanzhong, because there are up to 100,000 troops to go to Guanzhong and can solve the current Li family with an overwhelming advantage. So once our army captures Yangzhou, then Pei Renji's more than 200,000 troops will have only two strike directions."

"It's just a little rest. Then launch an attack on Du Fuwei on the spot. The benefits of doing this are obvious. Du Fuwei's Gaoyou, Liyang and other places are all near Yangzhou. And by that time, Luo Shixin, who had dealt with the Wagang Army, and Yangzhen, Lu Chong and other troops stationed in Jingxiang, could launch an attack together. With superior forces, the relationship between Du Fuwei and Xiao Xian and Lin Shihong has always been very tense. Recently, after Du Fuwei and Song Que joined forces, the signs of preparing to launch an attack on Xiao and Lin are already very obvious. So Xiao Xian and Lin Shihong, who were fighting hard, were not fighting each other.

But the war has already been truceed, and it is quite meaningful to join forces to fight the enemy. So if our army attacks Du Fuwei. Xiao Xian and Lin Shihong will not add insults, at least they will not send troops to help him. Song Que has only one way to help Du Fuwei. He transports troops from the sea. Whether it is time or the number of reinforcements, it is a problem. Although the Song family's army is mostly elite, it is not large. Moreover, there are fewer reinforcements and will not work. With more, he cannot not worry that our army will attack him in Bashu, and it is also very likely that Xiao Xian and Lin Shihong will take advantage of the situation to rob the land."

"The second is that Pei Renji's army went north to meet with Meng Rang's army and then launched an attack on Dou Jiande, Hebei. The total number of the two armies combined was at least 300,000. Even if Gao Kaidao's army was included, Dou Jiande's army had only 2300,000. Besides, Hebei was not as many lakes as Jianghuai, and it required a large number of naval troops to cooperate in combat. The land of Hebei was a flat horse, and there was no particularly steep pass. As the war broke out, it was hard to say whether Gao Kaidao would be in the same mind as Dou Jiande. Most of his subordinates were recruited by various rebels from Hebei. When the disaster came, they would fly their own way, and there were probably not too many people who would go down the road with him to the black side."

"I think this is what Du Fuwei and Dou Jiande think now. So if I were Du Fuwei, I would definitely choose to fight to the death. Send people to sneak into Yangzhou City and Yu Culture and Union, and then gather troops to attack Pei Renji in and out, and at least severely injured. If I were Dou Jiande..." Wu Hao closed his eyes and thought for a while: "I will never sit and wait for death. You can choose to send people to join Song Que and Dou Jiande, the second is to join Li family, and the third is to send envoys to the Eastern Turks. What I worry most is the third... Although Dou Jiande has always hated the Turks, there are no eternal enemies and friends in politics."

Shen Luoyan kept listening to Wu Hao's long speech quietly, and then she smiled softly: "You are very thoughtful to Du Fuwei and Dou Jiande. What are you thinking about? Or what is the plan of the Young Marshal's Army after conquering Yangzhou?"

"If there is a plan, will I still have to worry?" Wu Hao sighed. Since the founding of the Young Marshal's Army, almost all the big ideas have been Wu Hao's one-man show. With Wu Hao's understanding of history and understanding of the enemy, plus a little good luck, the Young Marshal's Army has almost never encountered any major setbacks, like a snowball. After only about a year, it has become a giant. This also caused a point, that is, the Young Marshal's Army has fewer and fewer people in the Young Marshal's army with the opposite opinions of Wu Hao. Moreover, all the strategists and generals, including Xu Xingzhi, did not consider the big strategic plan very much. Maybe they considered it, but they were all hidden in their hearts. Because it has always been Wu Hao's ideas, and Wu Hao has never missed it in this regard, or to be precise, never lost. They would rather do those specific things.

But now the world has been changed beyond recognition, and Wu Hao has no advantage of predicting the future. So he is very confused now. The Young Marshal Army has taken this step and has already taken six or seventy steps. The dawn is already ahead. Wu Hao understands the truth that twice the result with half the effort. At this time, either the Young Marshal Army will be unified. Or it will be ugly to die. Because now, no matter which direction the Young Marshal Army cannot afford to lose, and once it loses, it will definitely lead to a loss.

Come to a chain reaction. Not only will other people attack them in groups, but even those who stand up in the inner ranks of the Young Marshal's Army or even strike back will not be a minority. As the saying goes, the prosperity will be strong, and the destruction will inevitably occur. The Young Marshal's Army is now prosperous, so the upper and lower levels are consistent. Everyone seems to be devoted to their efforts and work hard to manage. However, once a crisis occurs, the collective that gathers in a short period of time will inevitably fall apart, and there are internal and external troubles everywhere.

What Wu Hao is most worried about now is that due to his inappropriate policies, all the troops united to oppose the Young Marshal's Army. When the battle was in full swing, the Eastern Turks inserted one foot into it, and that was really over.

"Mr. Lang, you are actually thinking too much." Shen Luoyan said.

"Are you thinking too much?" Wu Hao was stunned.

"Yes. Although Sun Tzu said in the art of war, 'If the man who has not fought but the temple has won, it will be more important; if the man who has not fought but the temple has not won, it will be less important. If the more is more important, it will be less important, and not to mention nothing!' It is of course not harmful to consider things comprehensively. But sometimes thinking too much will bring you a lot of trouble."

"What's the meaning?"

"Mr. always thinks from the other party's standpoint when encountering things. It is indeed worth learning from me. No wonder the Young Marshal never makes any major mistakes. In this way, in the end, it is naturally a matter of ease to deal with things, because you have considered all the changes and the countermeasures the enemy needs to take in advance. It makes sense for the other party to be unbeaten. But this pre-thinking is indeed too painful, and many times there will be situations where you kill chickens and use a ox knife!"
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