"Huh." Facing Ma Dali's sincere answer, Yang Chendong smiled. Diplomatic work is usually divided into three types: enemies, friends, and countries, regions, or forces in the middle. However, looking at the Yang family's side, there are few direct expressions of hostile forces, in the final analysis, because of their military and financial strength.

It is said that a weak country has no diplomacy!

If you want Yang Chendong to make up the next sentence, that is, it is diplomacy to strengthen the country.

Yes, whether it is a military power or an economic power, diplomatic work is relatively much easier. Whether it is because of the thirst for interests or because of military fear, no one in a powerful country or force is willing to take the initiative to provoke.

As a result, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is much more relaxed than the heavy work of other departments. Finally, a Siamese country that did not know whether to live or die and still had some strength appeared, and the diplomatic department finally had a chance to show its style, and Ma Dali, as the minister, simply took the initiative to ask for help and appeared here.

Since the former minister Yang Shan stepped down because of his son Yang Tiezhu, Ma Dali has not made any dazzling achievements since he took over as minister. If there is no achievement, how can he convince the public, that is, when Yu Qian, as the city lord of Chichicheng City, is equivalent to the Yang Prime Minister, the ministers are in the list, and Ma Dali rarely speaks. He's been looking for an opportunity to show, and now that the opportunity has come, how could he let it go?

After knowing Ma Dali's thoughts, Yang Chendong did not make any comments. A subordinate who wants to make achievements, this kind of enthusiasm must not be discouraged, on the contrary, it must be encouraged. "Minister Ma, you are here this time, whether you can defeat Siam, or even win this battle completely, this time it depends on your diplomatic means, as long as you can hold each other, the longer the time, the greater the chance of victory, how about it? Is there confidence? ”

Yang Chendong was confessing, and Ma Dali took this opportunity to ask cautiously, "Sixth Young Master, have you made a decision, do you really want to beat Siam down at one time?" ”

Ma Dali will be the poisonous needle inserted in the enemy's heart, Yang Chendong naturally didn't mean to hide it from him, "Yes, I have already made a decision." ”

"But..."Ma Dali hesitated for a moment, and after seeing Yang Chendong's encouraging eyes, he continued: "But according to our investigation, Siam has just entered the Ayutthaya period, and it is not weak in terms of military morale and people's support, politics and economy, and it is probably a little difficult to eat them all at once." ”

"Difficult? It's like a spring, if you're strong, he'll be weak. Regardless of whether the other party knows what a spring is or whether he can understand this statement, Yang Chendong still said decisively: "If a person wants to grow, he always has to experience some setbacks and difficulties. In the same way, if the Yang Department wants to expand, it also has to do something that it knows is difficult, and as long as it overcomes this difficulty, it will become more powerful. ”

"Understood." Yang Chendong had already made up his mind, and Ma Dali knew that there was no room for bargaining, and immediately said: "Sixth Young Master, just say it, what do you need me to do next?" What to do? ”

"Hehe, it's not complicated, you just have to do this and this..."

No one knows what Yang Chendong and Ma Dali said, but all everyone knows is that early the next morning, Ma Dali laid out the carriage and horses, and went straight to the direction of Bangkok City with a delegation of hundreds of people representing the interests of the Yang family.

The fact that the people who were sent to the peace talks set out inevitably made some military cadres puzzled. Especially Xiao Yining, the commander of the Fifth Army Division, in the battle of Barren Mountain, half of the number of people killed in their division was killed, this revenge must be avenged, and now what is the matter with suddenly entering the state of peace talks?

Lu Zhuo, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division of the New First Army, was also puzzled, he came all the way, during which he was by boat, and he was on the road day and night. So what's the point of him appearing here with a cavalry division?

In the main account, whether it was Xiao Yining or Lu Zhuo, when Yang Chendong bluntly said that he could say anything and ask, the two of them took the lead in making a speech, expressing the incomprehension in the hearts of themselves and his soldiers.

Regarding the questions of the two, Yang Chendong just replied, "Who said there will be no war?" ”

Just this sentence confused the two division commanders, but Xiao Yining reacted a little faster, "But, haven't we already sent someone to negotiate peace with Siam?" ”

"yes." Lu Zhuo on the side hurriedly mended the knife.

"Whoever said that if you talk about it, you can't continue to fight. It doesn't matter, they talk about theirs, and we beat ours. Yang Chendong waved his hand very casually again, a picture of you all misunderstanding wrong.

Regarding Yang Chendong's answer, not only these two, but also the officers in the other main accounts were all confused, and even Tian Hu, the commander of the First Division of the Cavalry in the World, was puzzled, and he couldn't figure out what the sixth young master was going to do?

"What? Is it hard to understand? What Young Master Ben means is that the peace talks can be carried out at the same time, but we should not rush to the front with the main force like before, but can send the reserve troops up, just to take the opportunity to see if there are suitable seedlings. Yang Chendong saw everyone's incomprehension, so he simply made his words clear.

As soon as he said this, a few people were the first to understand. Especially Commander Tian Hu, where did his first cavalry division in the world come from, isn't it just a constant fight on the battlefield and a collection of elites? This is to continue the old way at the beginning, he is naturally the most right to speak, and immediately said: "What does the sixth young master mean is to train soldiers in battle? ”

That's what it means. Of course, as veterans of a hundred battles, you must do a good job as an instructor this time, not only that, once you find a good seedling, you can apply for recruitment, and this young master will give you a certain amount of talent support. Of course, you also have to do a good job as instructors and assessors, and you have to score every soldier who goes into battle, which is an extremely important thing, understand? ”

When he said these words, Yang Chendong especially glanced at Xiao Yining, the commander of the Fifth Division of the Army, a few more times, and the meaning he wanted to express was already very clear, isn't your Fifth Division of the Army short of soldiers? If this battle is done, your Fifth Army Division will be able to resume its formation.

Although Yang Chendong had already expressed his meaning very clearly, and Xiao Yining was indeed moved, there was still a question that had not been clarified, otherwise, he would really not be happy. "Sixth Young Master, if you are outstanding, can you raise your membership?" "Of course you can, otherwise how can you join your Fifth Division?" Yang Chendong said with a natural look.

"Good. I see. At this moment, Xiao Yining's face finally showed a smile, and at this moment he even became a little excited. He also thought that with the current proportion of young and middle-aged men of the Han people in Chiji City, it would be a little difficult to recruit more than 4,000 people at once, and if one of them was not done well, it would also affect the combat strength of the Fifth Division. Now, if we train on the battlefield and give priority to recruiting good seedlings, the Fifth Army Division will definitely be able to return to the army as soon as possible.

The general plan was decided, and next, Yang Chendong promulgated some details. For example, as long as you kill ten people in a battle on the battlefield, you may be allowed to raise your membership, in addition, those who perform well can enter the second-class army, which is the previous sequence of the Red Embedding City auxiliaries, and the third class will enter the third-class army, which is the provincial military district team. As for those who perform badly, they will be persuaded to retire with silver. In a word, just fight for elite soldiers.

If there is really no suitable candidate, it is better not to build an army in order to make up the numbers, otherwise it will trap them and yourself. On the battlefield, the enemy will not be afraid of the number of your soldiers, and the battlefield will not win because of who has more soldiers.

Raising soldiers with war was carried out in an orderly manner under Yang Chendong's decision. According to his request, all the people under the Yang faction between the ages of 16 and 35 could sign up, and then the list would be reported to the provincial capitals by each city, and finally the provincial governments would transport the personnel to the battlefield. In order to encourage everyone's interest in signing up, Yang Chendong also proposed that the final number of soldiers that each province can select will have a close relationship with the year-end assessment of the governors of each province and officers at all levels.

Originally, the temptation to raise the status was already great, and now it is directly related to the evaluation of official positions, who doesn't want to do their best? At present, under the encouragement and publicity of local governments, there are many applicants in various provinces, and batches of young and strong men who meet the conditions are sent to the headquarters of Luo Posuo, the commander of the New Second Army of the North Route Army, and the department of Yang Chendong of the East Route Army.

The Eastern Route Army, the first army to be approved for combat training was the 50,000 Cambodian Army that followed behind Yang Chendong.

Of course, this is not all the appropriate age soldiers in Cambodian province, and with a population of four million, it is not a problem for them to select hundreds of thousands of suitable people. It's just that these 50,000 people were the first soldiers to be put on the battlefield.

The power of the training work was completely delegated to the three division commanders, Tian Hu, Xiao Yining, and Lu Zhuo. After the study of the three of them, they decided to send only 2,000 recruits into the battlefield at a time, in order to ensure that they were not surrounded by the Siamese army, the 1st Cavalry Division of the 1st Cavalry Division of the New Army, and the 5th Army Division would all send veterans to accompany them, and only when they encountered a suitable opponent would they be allowed to dispatch, so as to ensure that the requirements of completing the training could be completed under the condition of equal strength and equal strength.

The Five-Star Army had already sent envoys at the King's request, and the procession was heading towards the royal capital, Bangkok. For this reason, I heard that the five-star army and naval division in the south had ceased fire and stopped attacking Pattaya City. After receiving this news, the Siamese army, which was still very nervous, immediately relaxed.