Delong

In late September, accompanied by Xiong Bonan, Zhang Xing returned to Jiangling, and then issued a series of orders.

The first category is the investigation, spying, and infiltration of the surrounding forces, especially the forces in Hebei. It is clearly proposed to determine the deployment of soldiers and horses in the four adjacent counties of Wei County, Ji County, Hejian County, and Xindu County. , The layout of the city defense, the main executor is Xu Shiying, the leader, the assistant is Xie Minghe in charge of foreign affairs, and Lu Changheng, the leader in charge of patrolling cavalry in Hebei;

The second category is the inspection of the ordnance, military supplies, and military animals of each battalion, the confirmation of the list of officers and soldiers, and a more clear rotation mobilization system, and appropriate transfer of defense. Personnel in charge of Yan Qing and the commanders-in-chief of each station, generals and generals of each battalion;
The third category is to require all localities to transfer and collect the autumn grain taxes that have just been collected into storage in specific cities and strongholds as required. The scope of the military order covers the entire Julong Gang area, and it is mainly implemented by various platforms and local officials. Zhang Jinshu, in charge of internal affairs in Henan, is responsible for the monitoring and verification of the eastern border area, and reports to Chen Bin, the chief internal affairs officer;

The fourth category requires all localities to inspect, clean up and maintain existing official roads to ensure that the roads are unobstructed, and requires Henan patrol leader Zhang Liang and Hebei Xingtai Lang general Feng Duan to conduct inspections in Henan and Hebei respectively;
The fifth category requires local inspections of river embankments to prevent embankment breaks and waterlogging caused by autumn floods;
The sixth category is to issue clear mediation orders to various forces in Hebei, requiring Daijun Ergao and Hengshan Wang Chenkuo to reach peace with Youzhou and Hengshan County respectively.

In the end, the above military orders were uniformly supervised by Xiong Bonan, the military chief of the Dragon Gang, and were consolidated to the General Staff Department and the Confidential Document Department of Jiangling Xingtai.

The military order was issued, which immediately caused tension among the gang, and even covered up the separation of the new county and the addition of divisions. The news has spread.

Regarding this matter, most smart people believe that the pressure from the Witch Clan will be directly given to Dongdu, and Dongdu has always been the most direct source of pressure for the limited development of the Dragon Gang. Therefore, the opportunity for the Dragon Gang may be real. coming.As for the middle and lower classes, although they may not understand this logic, nearly 30 people have gone south, and they are still attacking the last "pure land" in the world today.

In fact, not only the Dethrone Dragon Gang, but as the news of the Witch Clan's invasion gradually spread, the whole world felt a little stunned. Many forces stopped their efforts and began to wait and see nervously.

And this kind of turmoil did not stop until the south of the Huaihe River, because the focus here is still Xiao Hui gathered Jiangnan elites to attack Jiujiang aggressively, and this action is impossible to stop, especially Liang Jun has already won more than half of it and is advancing rapidly. Tuwan Changlun has already had a tendency to collapse and flee.

However, this has nothing to do with the Dragon Gang for the time being. Immediately after the military order was issued, Zhang Xing issued a public document announcement, bluntly stating that the current situation has changed, and he was caught off guard. and preparations for maintaining the base.

Moreover, the chief also gave blows several times during the corridor dining, asking everyone to make the necessary psychological preparations, especially the possible transfer in the chaos.

Of course, there was nothing superfluous about this, and everyone thought it was a matter of the Wu clan—the impact of this matter was too great.

"Will the invasion of the Wu Clan lead to the same hatred in Guanzhong and even the world?" In fact, Zhang Xing was also seriously asking about the Wu Clan's related matters. He was still separated from some things. After staying for a while, it is a routine to eat in the corridor in Cangcheng. Just after eating, the chief opened his mouth.

"No." Chen Bin, who was dining next to Zhang Xing, replied straightforwardly.

"Even if the Wu Clan is all in Guanzhong, people in the world will accept it?" Zhang Xing was slightly surprised.

"Yes." Chen Bin was still straightforward.

"Actually, we only need to figure out one question about this matter." While everyone was looking sideways nervously, Xie Minghe suddenly spoke a little further away. "Are the Witch people human?"

Everyone was surprised, and then fell into a strange silence.

"The word Wu Clan is very interesting." After a while, Zhang Xing broke the silence with a laugh. "Didn't you come up and tell the answer?"

"That's what it means." Xie Minghe also laughed, and then he talked aloud to many people who were dining in the surrounding corridors. "The large-scale struggle among the three clans was a drama four to five thousand years ago. After the Baidi Lord, although there are still countries like Eastern Chu that participated in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains under the banner of Yaozu orthodox, in fact, Eastern Chu can maintain , it was precisely because of the drastic reforms of the Dragon and Phoenix, abandoning the old rules of the Yaozu, and actively moving the legal system, armaments, and military system closer to the Baidi Lord's set... So, even if there was someone behind Dongchu at that time The two inhuman supreme beings stand together, even if it is the banner of the three clans fighting, but in fact it is the process of the actual unification of the three clans, which is why everyone says that the Supreme Lord Baidi mainly depends on the three clans. For the sake of unity, when it comes to that, there is not much difference between the three clans."

"It's meaningless to talk so far away. I just want to talk about one thing. Is Da Zhou Yuan himself a mixed tribe of Wu Clan and Beidi?" Chen Bin was obviously impatient. "If it's not, why don't Hei Diye and Beidi not want to see each other? If it's true, did the Great Zhou once have a tendency to unify the world?"

At this point, Chen Bin looked at Zhang Xing: "Chief, this matter is like this. The three clans have been intermarried for a long time, and there is a gap, but until now, it is more about the customs and culture caused by the isolation of the poisonous desert and the sea of ​​bitterness. They are different, and the great prosperity of the human race is a thousand-year trend, although the Supreme Being cannot change it... Therefore, the Wu Clan is now the Wu Clan... They went south this time, not to mention that they are all based in Guanzhong, even if they dominate the world, it is not impossible, but The premise is that they have to learn from Da Zhou, go through several times of 'separation of the tribe', and then go through a formal 'change of surname and flag', maybe even kill a wave of wizards in the clan, and go through several tribal rebellions."

Zhang Xing was completely stunned: "I understand. At this point, the people of the Wu tribe have to become talents to be qualified to touch the handle of the world, and the matter of Wu becoming a human is divided into two levels. The first is reality. This looks difficult, but in fact it has been done long ago, and the other layer is the name, which looks simple, but it may not be a big trouble."

Chen Bin thought for a while, nodded, and added by the way: "In comparison, Dongyi and Beidi have similar troubles... some are famous, some are real, and both of them have internal problems. There is a mess between the seven demon guards and the seven cities and eight princes, and Dongyi is even more of a hodgepodge."

"What about Nanling?" Zhang Xing asked suddenly. "Why does Nanling keep moving?"

Chen Bin and Xie Minghe looked at each other, but it was the latter who talked eloquently as usual: "Nanling has three big problems... one is that there are too few basic disks. Although it is known as 24 states and counties, its universality is relatively small, and its strength is comparable to that of Beidi. The Dongyi witches cannot be compared; the second is that they are on the edge, but they cannot get the approval of the Red Emperor; the last is that the Feng family has too much estrangement from the local area, and only the prestige of the old lady and the marriage are bridged."

"Isn't the Feng family the queen of the old lady?" Just beside Zhang Xing's left, Xiong Bonan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly interjected. "It's all a family. How can the old Madonna be able to suppress it, but her son and grandson can't? Don't those people recognize it?"

"That's not what it means. Feng's leadership position should be fine. What's problematic is the gap between the culture of the Central Plains and the culture of the survivors of that place." Zhang Xing blurted out the answer, but then asked Xie Minghe casually. "Is there anything special about the Feng family that the old lady married? Why haven't you heard of the Feng family in Nanling?"

"Because it's Changle Feng's." Xie Minghe replied seriously. "It's not the Li family in Longxi and the Gao family in Bohai who are habitually attached to them. It's a real family... When Houyan was flattened by Emperor Taiwu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Feng Wuyi, the ancestor who proclaimed the emperor's establishment, had a younger brother From the waterway through Dongyi, he defected to the Southern Dynasty, and was appointed to be a magistrate in Nanling, and some of the descendants found a good wife...In those days, it was the ones who saw their backgrounds and gave them directly to the officials, both in the north and the south."

Zhang Xing was surprised for a moment, but just shook his head: "This is still a second-rate family..."

Chen Bin hesitated for a moment, then continued: "Actually, according to my opinion, what brother Xie said just now has some problems... The influence of the Chidi Empress is now only relying on the True Fire Sect to survive in the south of the Yangtze River. It is hard to say that the common people believe in Whether it is the True Fire Sect or the Scarlet Emperor Empress, and depending on the situation between Dongyi and Beidi, it will be easier to mess up with the help of the Supreme... I mean, the old lady in Nanling probably has no intention of attacking the city. "

Jia Yue, who arrived from outside the city after receiving the military order, suddenly raised his head, as if he wanted to refute something, but after looking at the situation here, he didn't say much in the end.

But upon hearing these words, Zhang Xing also felt a slight movement in his heart, but instead covered it up, he just asked earnestly: "How do you say it?"

"When the great-grandfather founded the country, he returned to the army from Nanling... once had a relationship with the old lady of the Holy Mother. The old lady was only 30 or 24 years old at the time, and she was only a master of condensing alchemy, but she already had the demeanor of a great master. , the masters of the same level are often not her close enemies, even the masters of Chengdan are often inferior... At that time, the great-grandfather invited her to join the army with her husband to go north, but she declined." Chen Bin said seriously. "Lateral generations say that the couple felt that their great-grandfather had no chance of winning, but according to Chen's own account, I am afraid that his family's ambitions are not here, including Nanling's later fifty years of peace, all thanks to this old lady who is as stable as a red mountain. I'm afraid it's also a verification...Of course, her old man's cultivation is here, and it's true that Feng's management of the [-] states in Nanling is like an iron bucket. Once he goes north, I can't think of anyone who can stop him from Jiangdong and Jiangxi."

Zhang Xing nodded, it was the same as what he thought, the grand master erected the pagoda, he must have thought about it, and in a certain way he "followed the way of heaven".

Protecting the environment and the people is probably the most simple and straightforward way.

After finishing the morning meal on the porch, Chief Zhang turned back to his small public house, but instead of calling Chen Bin and others in a hurry to discuss related matters, he called Jia Yue in instead, and unexpectedly, the matter discussed It's also a bit weird, and it's not the military affairs that the latter thinks at all.

"Jia Yue, what do you think Hei Di is doing for us to make these selections?" Zhang Xing asked seriously.

Jia Yue was a little confused, but quickly answered firmly: "Of course I hope we can win the battle and dominate the world."

"But it's a little strange." Zhang Xing, who was sitting there, was still serious. "Even if we are victorious, what use is it to the Supreme One? First, after the Supreme Being has attained the throne, he stands aloft and has not changed for thousands of years. What can the rise and fall of the world bring to them? It will make them stronger and weaker. Second, just now you heard them talking about ancient things. The formal victory and defeat in the world is actually not the same as what the Supremes pursue... For example, after the ancestors, the successors competed, and the four Supremes suppressed it together. Treasure, it is reasonable to say that it was the White Emperor who overwhelmed the Tang Emperor, but in fact, it was the heroes of the world who rebelled against the four princes interfering in the mortal world, and instead brought out Sanhui to squeeze the four princes out of the Central Plains..."

Jia Yue thought about it for a while, and made a new correction without hesitation: "The victory or defeat in the mortal world does not have any stake in Master Si Yu, but Master Si Yu comes from the mortal world, and they all have joys, sorrows and joys. Those who have their own pursuits, such as Heidi, who wholeheartedly want to make the human race clean and unify the world... This cannot be changed."

Zhang Xing nodded: "That's right... The key is that the way is the same, right?"

"Correct."

"Then what do you think we will face if we march into the Northland?" Zhang Xing continued to ask.

Jia Yue instinctively wanted to say something, but for some reason, he hesitated when the words came to his lips, and then answered honestly: "It is reasonable to say that the demon guards will take the initiative to welcome them, and then they will destroy the dead, defeat the seven cities and eight princes, and easily Unification... But in fact, it is definitely not that simple to welcome back. Not to mention Qicheng Bagong, many people have been changed, and even their surnames have been changed, but they have never failed. Internally, there have always been disagreements... Some defend the rich, some defend the poor, some advocate the retro, and some think that we should take the initiative to change. It is not that simple, especially when our army is overwhelming, and the Dragon Gang has its own system .”

"It's natural." Zhang Xing was still frank. "Let's just go to the lowest level..."

"Low?"

"Yes, everything has to be at the lowest level. For example, our Dragon Clan was defeated, and only a few dozen of us escaped... Do you think the Demon Guards can still welcome us? Who in the Demon Guards can welcome us?" Accept us?"

"No matter what, Demon Guards will welcome you on the face of it, because you...you and I are the Hei Emperor's choice, and that won't change." Jia Yue thought for a while, and answered seriously. "Secondly, no matter what, your uncle will definitely support you, because he is your uncle; because the White Wolf Guard is doing business with us and wants to open up traffic in Hebei, it should also support us, because we are defeated , is also influential in Hebei; there is also Da Si Ming, who is directly ordered by the Supreme, and should still support us."

Zhang Xing nodded again and again. This was similar to what he thought, and it was also the basic reason why he chose to go to the Northland when necessary. Compared with other directions, there is an alliance force that can be relied on here.

But it is only necessary. If you can not leave, you must not leave. Even if you leave, you will go back to the east and retreat to Dengzhou.

In fact, on the way back with Xiong Bonan that day, Zhang Xing had already figured it out, he is now the chief of the entire Chulong Gang, he must be responsible for this organization, and he is not allowed to put all his eggs in one basket.

So, it's not that we can't go to Liyang Warehouse, it's not that we can't bear the responsibility for the survival of the people in Hebei and even the Central Plains, but the key is to use the minimum price and make all-out preparations, and be responsible for the survival of the entire Dragon Clan.

To put it bluntly, this is both necessary and necessary.

Jia Yue left, and after a while, Chen Bin was called in, along with Xiong Bonan.

Zhang Xing narrated his worries to the other party, and told the record of attacking Li Yangcang.

"I object." Chen Bin expressed his position without hesitation. "The risk is too great. This is a loss-making business. What should we do if the grand master is provoked and we can't stop it? The most terrible thing is that the grand master on the front foot will come and destroy our combat power. Hebei can't stand, and it will suffer a lot."

"If you don't lose money, if you control the risk, will Manager Chen agree?" Zhang Xing asked.

Chen Bin fell silent.

"First of all, we have to fight fast, and then make preparations to transport food in advance, and withdraw after the fight." Seeing this, Zhang Xing immediately added. "Secondly, we have to prepare a reserve of combat power to deal with the great master who left the tower; finally, we should try our best to take the last shot, make sure that the emergence of refugees and famine can no longer be stopped, and then plan... It is best to let Cao Lin commit suicide The road comes first."

Chen Bin breathed a sigh of relief: "If it's like this, it's not impossible...but how can things be so simple?"

"It's up to people." Zhang Xing struck while the iron was hot and continued to persuade.

"I think Manager Chen's calculations are not right." Xiong Bonan finally spoke. "If we can capture the Liyang Warehouse and rescue the people in Hebei, Dongjing, and Jianghuai, what will we do if we win people's hearts? Even if we can't stand in Hebei for a while, or lose some territory, we can call back at any time, right?"

Chen Bin smiled wryly: "How much is a human heart worth? Favor is not as good as prestige. It is better to win a few battles than to win like this."

"Therefore, we have to make publicity preparations in advance and tell the people in the world that we were the ones who took down the Liyang Cang, regardless of the interests of the gang, and did this time-saving move for the people of the world." Zhang Xing further added. "It's just that kindness is not as good as prestige, but it's better than nothing, right? Something is worse than nothing."

Chen Bin nodded with difficulty, but shook his head again: "It's still the same sentence, if you calculate like this, it's not impossible, but how can things be so simple? Resisting the combat power reserve of the Grand Master, attacking and capturing Li Yangcang's military force, The transportation of food, including avoiding the edge when necessary, and publicity..."

"So, I want you to be the governor of this plan." Zhang Xing said earnestly. "If these conditions are not in place, if the situation is not suitable, as long as you do not agree, we will not fight... You are the only one with experience in planning a large army, and you are also a serious military and political expert, and you are more calm than us in this matter. , who else is better than you?"

Chen Bin glanced at the two people in front of him, and his heart was greatly moved.

"Tell me, who do you want and how many soldiers do you want?" Seeing this, Zhang Xing immediately came to urge him.

"This matter needs to be discussed from the beginning. First, Xu Shiying, Ma Wei, and Dou Lide should come to discuss with me." Chen Bin gritted his teeth and opened his mouth. "There are also twenty senior officers and ten confidential documents. They must be kept secret and obey orders unconditionally."

"Yes, I will issue a document to appoint you as the deputy commander-in-chief of Jiangling Xingtai." Zhang Xing seemed to have an idea. "Then I and Xiong Tianwang will accompany you to summon these three people."

Chen Bin was stunned for a moment, and then instinctively looked at Xiong Bonan, but the latter's expression did not change at all, and he couldn't help but feel determined.

Just when the three breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly Zhang Xing and Xiong Bo Nan Qiqi looked outside, Chen Bin looked at it in surprise, and after a while, a person came to the door and asked to see him.

It was none other than Cui Suchen, who was in charge of confidential documents.

"What's in charge of Cui?" Zhang Xing was slightly surprised.

"Just to ask the chief..." Cui Suchen didn't seem to care about the other two people in the room, and just asked earnestly inside the door. "Now that the witch tribe is invading, we have begun to tense up inside. Should this new law and other documents be promulgated as usual?"

"Of course." Zhang Xing blurted out. "One size fits one size, so do whatever you want...According to the original plan, at the end of this year, we still have to issue the details of our official policy program, from new laws to those military and political measures, as well as political discussions. Gains and losses will be issued together.”

Cui Suchen nodded, didn't say any more, just said goodbye and turned back.

Only then did Chief Zhang think of something: "Isn't it time for Cheng Zhili to come back from her marriage leave?"

No one answered for a while.