There is no doubt that Chinese people like to use schemes.

The history of 5,000 years of China is actually a history of strategy, from Sun Tzu's 36 strategies to a variety of art of war and even the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and countless other classic books, it can be seen that the Chinese people are so fond of conspiracy, such as Sun Bin who the Chinese people worship, Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, and later Liu Bowen, etc., these people are all masters of strategy. Various battles, such as the burning of Bowang, Kong Ming's borrowing of arrows, the empty city plan, the flooding of the Seventh Army, and other battles, are still recited in people's mouths even after thousands of years. People have even invented words such as "clever plan", "plan your mind" and so on.

People are so revered in strategy that many people imagine the battlefield as very beautiful and romantic, thinking that as soon as the plan is out, the enemy will be beheaded. This kind of plot even affects people's normal judgment of things.

But later generations of Americans have such a proverb: If a stratagem can defeat an elephant, what do you need a shotgun for?

In Yang Feng's view, although this sentence of the Americans is a bit too absolute, it is very reasonable. Any strategy is based on the corresponding strength, if there is no corresponding strength, any strategy is a castle in the air, a water moon in the mirror. The same is true of today's Ming Dynasty, with the decline of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the attitude of the Later Jin Dynasty towards the Ming Dynasty has become more and more aggressive, from the previous awe to peep to contempt and even disdain, these emotions and attitudes are accompanied by the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national strength.

Why the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Manchurians, there have been countless historians and military scientists in later generations to study it all over, although their views are different, but there is no objection to one point, that is, one of the most important reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty is that with the decline of national strength, there are rogues raging inside and strong enemies outside, in other words, the court has no money, there is no way to raise the army without money, there is no way to purchase sophisticated armor and weapons, there is no way to purchase enough materials for the soldiers, There was no way to raise enough troops, so it perished.

This is a very simple truth, Xiong Tingbi, as one of the elites of this era, of course he understands, but as a literati who advocates strategy, he is unwilling to admit this fact, so he was silent after Yang Feng finished speaking.

The surrounding officers saw Xiong Tingbi's calm face and remained silent, and they all looked at Yang Feng with some worry, and many of them even gave him a look, signaling him to bow his head to Xiong Tingbi and say a few soft words, but Yang Feng did not do this, but continued: "Therefore, the last general thinks that after the last general arrives in Liaodong, he will ask Inspector Sun for orders to take the initiative to ask for battle, we will not do anything else, we will fight with the Tartars to consume, fight and even fight hard, it depends on whether the Tartars can't hold on first or we can't hold on first, as long as we can hold it until the end, it will be victory!" ”

"Ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Xiong Tingbi was so angry that his face turned a little red, but he didn't know how to refute Yang Feng, and his face turned red with anger for a while, and finally he snorted angrily and said, "Fallacy!" He then strode out of the tent......

Xiong Tingbi snorted out of the tent, and the atmosphere in the tent couldn't help but be a little awkward for a while. After a while, Qiu Disheng of the Thousand Households of Jiangpu Thousand Households persuaded him: "Lord Commander, Lord Xiong is Liaodong after all, and we are not familiar with Liaodong here, so it is not wise to offend him." ”

"Qiu Qianhu's words are different." Yang Feng Zhengse said: "You have to remember, we can't rely on anyone to go to Liaodong, we can only rely on ourselves." ”

After seeing everyone's puzzled eyes, Yang Feng asked, "This official asks you, who will pay our military salary when we go to Liaodong?" ”

Qiu Disheng said without thinking: "Of course it is...... Huh......"

When the words came to his lips, Qiu Di was dumb, and it was only then that he suddenly remembered that Jiang Ningwei's sergeant was first-class in today's Daming in terms of salary and treatment. Each sergeant not only has one tael of silver per month, but also six liters of grain, and this grain is not those coarse grains or unmolted rice, but white rice, a military household can feed a family of four to six with only food, this kind of treatment except for Jiang Ningwei, the entire Ming Dynasty can not find a second family at all.

In this way, the problem comes, such a high salary, Liaodong naturally cannot afford it. Or even if they can afford it, they won't give it, the reason is very simple, things in the world are not outnumbered but uneven, Jiang Ningwei and these guest troops from afar, you give such a high treatment, what about the original army in Liaodong, do you give it? If you don't give it, it will definitely cause a riot, if you give it, will there be so much silver taels and grain, so Yang Feng asked this sentence.

Looking at the speechless Qiu Disheng, Yang Feng smiled faintly. In fact, this is also a means for him to control the army. From later generations, he will never pin his control of the army on the loyalty of everyone, he prides himself on not the kind of tiger body shocked the four sides of the little brothers to worship, one by one loyalty directly reached a hundred people, he knows that human nature is the most complicated.

And the human heart!

Definitely the most difficult to measure. Yang Feng doesn't mind speculating on others with the worst thoughts. The most effective way to keep an army from betraying itself is to tie them to their own interests.

The prerequisite for Yang Feng's training of sergeants is to have parents, wives and children or family members in Jiangningwei, Yang Feng works for these people, builds houses for them, and gives these sergeants high salaries, for what? This is not that Yang Feng wants to do charity, but to use these interests to tie up the interests of everyone in Jiang Ningwei. If any officer wanted to betray Yang Feng, then the first thing he had to face was the low-ranking officers and many sergeants under him, and those sergeants who had already enjoyed the great benefits that Yang Feng had brought to them once they knew that their boss was going to betray Yang Feng, the first thing they had to do was to tie up the betrayed officer to Yang Feng.

It is precisely because of this confidence that Yang Feng dared to take six thousand soldiers to fight in Liaodong, without worrying that these soldiers would betray him, because their interests had long been connected, and if Yang Feng was gone, then everything they enjoyed now would be in vain.

Seeing the speechless Qiu Disheng and the thoughtful look on his chubby face, Yang Feng believed that he must have figured it out, he patted him on the shoulder and turned to everyone: "Everyone, you have to remember that although we are fighting for the country, we can't pin all our hopes on others, do you understand?" ”

Everyone responded in an uproar: "Understood! ”

"Alright, let's all disperse!"

After unifying his thoughts, Yang Feng disbanded everyone, and one sat on a stool and looked at a map of Liaodong in front of him.

There was a sound of footsteps, Yang Feng turned his head and looked at it and said with a smile: "It's Qi Zhenfu, is there something wrong?" ”

The person who came was Qi Yan, who was promoted to the governor of Jiang Ningwei, this magistrate who always had a cold face rarely brought a solemn look, and he asked with some concern: "Lord Commander, I don't know whether to say or not to say something about my humble position?" ”

Yang Feng scolded with a smile: "If you have something to say, when will our Jiang Ningwei's cold-faced god also learn these polite words?" ”

Qi Yan's old face turned red and he was a little embarrassed and said, "My lord, I really have something I want to ask you." This time to Liaodong soldiers are in danger, our five or six thousand soldiers and horses seem to be a lot, but it is really nothing to put in Liaodong. Moreover, these sergeants are all trained by you with great difficulty, if the loss is too great, I am afraid that those people in Nanjing will take the opportunity to attack you. ”

"You can see this layer and it proves that you have an idea." Yang Feng looked at Qi Yan approvingly, "But you don't have to worry, before leaving, the official did not bring all the sergeants, but left a thousand elites for Geng Bingyi." He was instructed to begin training the second group of sergeants as soon as the officer had left, and the number of this group reached five thousand. As long as they are given two to three months, a group of qualified sergeants will be trained, and these sergeants can not only make up for our losses, but also effectively deter those with bad intentions. ”

"I see!" Qi Yan suddenly realized: "A few days ago, the lord named Geng Deputy Qianhu to stay, and specially selected a group of small flags, general flags, hundreds of households and elite to stay. ”

"I don't want to do this, but I have to do it."

At this time, Yang Feng's heart was also full of helplessness, and a sentence suddenly came to his heart: There are always Diao people who want to harm me!

Just as the two were talking, Song Ye, the captain of the family who was originally on guard outside, suddenly broke in: "My lord, it's not good, Lord Xiong Tingbi is furious outside, claiming that he wants to punish you for your crime." ”

Time back to more than ten minutes ago, Xiong Tingbi and his servants were also led by a sergeant to a tent that belonged to them, just as Xiong Tingbi just wanted to enter the tent, several figures in green military uniforms but not wearing armor walked not far away.

Xiong Tingbi didn't care about it at first, but when the voice came into his ears, he suddenly stopped and said to the sergeant who brought him: "If this officer heard correctly, the two in front seem to be women, right?" ”

The sergeant nodded a little disapprovingly: "Serious business!" ”

"Bold!" Xiong Tingbi suddenly let out a loud shout, startling the two women who were walking past him and the sergeant next to him.

"You are so bold that you dare to openly march with a woman in violation of military discipline, can you be convicted?" Xiong Tingbi shouted at the sergeant, startling the young sergeant.

"My Ming Dynasty military discipline 38 stipulates that you are not allowed to carry female dependents during the march, have Mo Feier and the others left the military discipline behind?"

Xiong Tingbi was indeed angry, through the contact just now, he thought that although Yang Feng was a little arrogant, and his concept of governing the army was very different from his own, but along the way, he found that Jiang Ningwei's army was very high in terms of military appearance, military discipline and morale, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as a lifetime, but he didn't expect Yang Feng to openly march with military prostitutes, which was simply a sign of destruction.

"You immediately bring Yang Feng to the official, if you don't give the official an explanation, the official will immediately impeach you! And all of you, stop for the official, come here! ”

Xiong Tingbi, who is the right attendant of the military department and the strategy of Liaodong, is indeed quite terrifying, the two women in military uniforms were frightened, looked at each other, did not dare to disobey Xiong Tingbi's words, and slowly walked over to Xiong Tingbi and raised his right hand to Qi Mei and gave a military salute, "Jiang Mengjuan, the nurse of the Jiangning Wei Medical Battalion, and Bai Ling have seen adults. ”

Xiong Tingbi carefully looked at the two women, and found that the two of them were good-looking, and a slightly wide military uniform could not hide their slender figures, his face became even more ugly, and he asked sharply without thinking: "Wait for the two, this official asks you, how many women like you are still in the army?" ”

Jiang Mengjuan and Bai Ling glanced at each other, and Jiang Mengjuan, who was taller, hesitated for a moment and replied, "Lord Qiyu, there are more than 200 sisters in our medical camp!" ”

"What...... What the...... More than 200 people? ”

Xiong Tingbi only felt that a stream of blood was about to rush to the top of his head, he pointed to the two and stammered: "You ...... You guys...... Good you Yang Feng, you dare to openly carry a military ...... The army I prostitute marches, and the courage is really boundless! Did you know that this is going to be cut off in the head? ”

As soon as she heard the word military prostitute, the eyes of the second daughter suddenly turned red, and she wanted to speak but didn't dare, and the two lowered their heads and tears began to fall slowly.

At this moment, Yang Feng arrived, he strode over and saw the two women who were hanging their heads and crying, their brows furrowed, and said unhappily: "Lord Xiong, what can you say to the last general, why bother the two women." ”

"What...... Do I embarrass them? Xiong Tingbi was almost angry, and said coldly to Yang Feng: "General Yang, do you know that it is a big crime to hide a military prostitute in the army, and this is to be beheaded?" ”

"Military prostitute?" Yang Feng's face slowly turned cold, "Lord Xiong, I don't know where you can see that they are military prostitutes, can you pinch them or not?" ”

Seeing that Yang Feng still wanted to deny it, Xiong Tingbi's impression of him instantly dropped to the freezing point, and he pointed to the two women and asked: "It's not a military prostitute, could it be that they are still soldiers, and they want to go to the battlefield to fight the Tartars?" ”

Yang Feng shook his head and said with a straight face: "Although they are not soldiers, their role in the army is no less than that of the most elite soldiers in a battalion!" ”

"Hehe......" Xiong Tingbi was angry, "Okay, you Yang Zhongqing, you still dare to quibble, the official asked clearly, there are still more than 200 women in your army, could it be that you still have to quibble?" ”

"My lord, it is true that hundreds of women have been recruited among the last generals, and they are indeed from dusty backgrounds, but the last generals have not recruited them into the army for those trivial things, if you want to know the reason, then please come with the last general!" After Yang Feng finished speaking coldly, he strode towards the south......