After the marshal's house, Xu Ping said to Zhao Zi: "The inspection has been hard from afar, and drink a glass of wine." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhao Zi got up, took the wine glass and drank it all, and said with his crossed hands: "Xie Jieshuai gives wine!" ”

Xu Ping smiled and waved his hand: "Sit, sit, sit down and talk." Today, a few of us are just catching up on the past, and there is no need to be restrained. Although you and I have different official positions and different ministries, after all, we had several faces, and we are not outsiders, so we don't need to perform in private. ”

Zhao Zi sat down, and the tall man on the side said: "When we said goodbye, we haven't seen each other for many years." Back in the capital, I also went to the forbidden army camp in Wansheng Town to look for you, but I only heard that you have changed your military position, and I don't know where to transfer. ”

"Alas, don't say it, I've been wasted all these years! Back then, you were still working on the festival handsome Zhuangzi, Sang Xiu had just fallen to the top, more than ten years have passed, you have been rampant, Sang Xiucai has even arrived in Yao County, but I am still a little envoy! Zhao Zi shook his head and sighed as he spoke. If I also went to Yongzhou with Jieshuai back then, and made some contributions to the battle with Jiaozhi, how could this be the case today? Not to mention that compared with you and Sang Xiucai, the ambassador will always be unable to escape! ”

Xu Ping and Sang Yi couldn't help laughing together, after so many things, Zhao Zi also knew that he was humble. If he really went to Yongzhou back then, he should have a position similar to Sang Yi, how could he only be an ambassador? Even Lu Fang in the sugar cane business back then became an ambassador, and Zhang Rong, the inspector, was promoted to Yao County this year.

The fastest promotion of civil ministers is the pavilion minister, and the fastest promotion of military ministers is military merit. As long as you have military merits, not to mention that there are many more opportunities for promotion, it is normal grinding, and if others are promoted by one order, you will be promoted by two levels, and the distance will be quickly widened. In the past few years of war with the party, the war has not been fought beautifully, and a group of generals have also been promoted. Just like Di Qing and others, they were promoted from the lowest level of the junior military attache to the assassin history in less than ten years, and Yang Wenguang, who was in contrast, was promoted to the palace because of his father's shadow when he was a teenager, and he was promoted to the palace because of the rebellion against Zhang Hai in middle age.

The three of them drank a glass of wine together, and Sang Yi said to Zhao Zi: "The matter of Yongzhou has passed, and it is useless to mention it. Now that the war in the northwest is about to start, there will inevitably be no less battles, as long as you work well under the commander of the festival, there will be more opportunities for promotion in the future. ”

"I hope so! This time I came to the west, I must make some contributions to my body, otherwise I really won't have the face to return to the capital! ”

Zhao Zi has always been arrogant. Not to mention Xu Ping, that is a Zhengbang Jinshi, who has made contributions to destroying the country, even Gao Daquan, who was still farming in Xujiazhuang back then, has an official position one or twenty steps higher than himself, and he can't catch up in his life without military merits, and he is holding a breath in his heart. Of course, no one can blame this, the opportunity is a thing, if you seize it, you will seize it, and it is useless to regret it if you slip away. I can only hope that Xu Ping will still be as brave as when he was in Yongzhou, and make several great achievements to make up for the lost time.

After gossiping for a while, Zhao Zi took the initiative to ask Xu Ping about his ministry. After a little bit of Fanqiang, the battlefield was of course in Qinzhou, but he was sent to the south of Qinfeng Road, and he was inevitably a little worried in his heart, afraid that if he couldn't get the battle, the northwest would come in vain.

Xu Ping said: "In previous years, there were not many forbidden troops stationed in Qinzhou, Guangrui, Shenhu, Baojie and Qingbian crossbowmen, all of which added up to only six or seven thousand people. The land around Qinzhou is fertile, and there are the benefits of Weishui, Wating River and Qingshui River, and there is no shortage of money and food, which is enough to support the military horses of Benzhou. Now that the Xuanwei Army and the Guiming Shenwu Army have been moved, in addition to the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, the imperial court has allowed to double the number of people on the Shaanxi Road and the Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road, and the Qinzhou garrison will have more than 10,000 people than before. With so many more people, it is impossible to rely on the state's money and food support. Guanzhong wanted to support the other three roads in Shaanxi, but could not provide money and grain, so he had to transport grain from the Sichuan Gorge. Qishan Road from Xingzhou against the Western Han River, after Qiuchi Mountain is mostly a place of fall, can not be cautious. You go to the three southern states, and together with Cao Duhu on the fourth road of the Sichuan Gorge, take advantage of the fact that it is not autumn and winter, and clean up the Qishan Road. Along the way, they must be accepted and attached, otherwise they will be attacked. Later, along the Qishan Road, the walled forts should be set up, and more native soldiers were used to ensure the safety of this route into Qinzhou. The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, this matter should not be underestimated, well done, I will play to protect you! ”

Zhao Zi hurriedly got up, crossed his hands and said: "The festival commander is raised, and the last general dares to disobey the order!" We're going to get things done! ”

Xu Ping asked Zhao Zi to sit down and said to him: "Okay, if you have this heart, this matter will become more than half!" The original soldiers and horses of the three southern states, Fengzhou Baojie two commands, Chengzhou three commanders, Jiezhou one command, Chengdu because there is another road into Qinzhou, the soldiers and horses can't move, there are no extra soldiers and horses for you to use. This time, I will transfer the second commander of the Qingbian crossbowmen in Qinzhou and the second commander of Baojie, and then put the first commander of the only cavalry Guangrui Army stationed in the forbidden army under your command. You have these soldiers and horses, and the fall of the area is invincible, don't talk about victory or defeat, just look at whether the victory is beautiful! ”

Zhao Zi promised to ensure the completion of the mission.

The three prefectures of Feng, Cheng and Dai are mostly mountainous, especially the three states of Cheng and Dai are sparsely populated, and there are no big tribes in Fanqiang. The adjacent two prefectures of Stack and Tang are the land of Tibet, which is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but there is also no great power of Tibet. The hardest thing to sweep there is not the battle, but the march and control of the situation. There is Yinping Road into Sichuan, the road of Deng Aihua Shu during the Three Kingdoms, there have always been merchants to pass, and there is the benefit of salt, which is richer than the Qiang in other places. Therefore, Zhao Zi is going, the most important thing is to let the Fan Luo in that area be attached to ensure peace. The land of the county has been transformed into summer, and it is not yet there.

Before Zhao Zi came, Xu Ping had already asked Li Zhang to collect information about that area, and he understood it quite carefully, and there was no particular difficulty. Moreover, according to the new organizational structure, Zhao Zi cannot be responsible for this matter, and the marshal's government will send people to work with him to ensure the implementation of strategy and tactics. Dictatorship refers to commanding operations, not messing around and dictating all powers.

The mission of the master general is to complete the tasks assigned by the marshal's office, and the others are secondary. To ensure that the commander completes the task, it depends on the organization and system, and what military order is useless in Xu Ping's eyes. The main general needs to make a military order, which means that this army is temporarily out of the control of the marshal's mansion, how could Xu Ping allow this kind of thing to happen in such a battle that clears the field along the road.

When Zhao Zi first came, he was not familiar with Qin Fenglu's current organizational system, and there was no need to talk more about it now, let him stay in Qinzhou for a while, and naturally he would know everything.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Xu Ping said to Zhao Zi: "Inspection, Qinfeng Road here is different from other places, and it is also different from the forbidden army, and there are many changes in the military system. As I said earlier, this time you go to the three southern states, the Shuai Mansion will give you a detailed battle plan, and the corresponding measures will also be in place. Of course, a plan is just a plan, and it is inevitable that there will be changes when you do it, which is normal. However, every time you take an action that is different from the battle plan given to you, you must explain why you are doing it, and if you have time, you must first report to the commander's office for approval before acting, and if you are too late, you must be allowed to act cheaply. Different from the plan, it is necessary to explain clearly why, after returning to the division, the Shuaifu will make discretion, which is reasonable and unreasonable. Correspondingly, the merit will be different. ”

Zhao Zi said: "Before coming to the northwest, I had already heard that the rule of the marshal was different from his path, and I followed it. ”

Xu Ping nodded, and said: "The master's work, the first thing to see is whether the assigned tasks have been completed, and then to see the others." The task is not completed, and everything else is useless. To sum up this sentence, the army here, the first is to obey, and the second is to make yourself capable of obeying! If you obey the order and complete the task, you are a qualified general! ”

Every general under Xu Ping's command, Xu Ping had to explain this sentence to them. As an army, its main mission is to complete the political tasks assigned to it, and it is forbidden to do anything that conflicts with the tasks. The first requirement of a soldier is obedience, and the second is to strive to make himself capable of obedience, and other superfluous things Xu Ping does not need here.