"Marshal, isn't it time for the brothers to go to Xinzhou City?"

Wang Wenqing flew away, and after Liu Xing looked up at the sky for a long time, Zhang Yang suddenly walked to Liu Xing's side and asked.

Hearing this, Liu Xing looked back at the excited Zhang Yang, but said a decision that no one expected: "If you don't fight Xinzhou, the whole army will retreat." ”

"Retreat?"

Everyone was shocked, all walks of life had completed the strategic deployment, and according to Liu Xing's assignment and coordination, they were ready for a decisive battle.

At such a critical moment, Liu Xing would actually issue such an order for the whole army to retreat, how could everyone not be shocked.

The shock of everyone was completely expected, and Liu Xing saw their surprised expressions, but he repeated his order again.

Hearing Liu Xing's second order to retreat, the puzzled Yanling and Sun Yujiang, who had only one arm left, stepped forward at the same time.

Sun Yujiang spoke first and said in a loud voice with some excitement: "Marshal, the brothers are ready to fight to the death with the Golden Dog, why did you give the order for the whole army to retreat at this time?" My brothers died so much, and I also lost an arm, so I won't be allowed to continue to kill the golden dog to take revenge? What do you want? ”

Listening to his words and looking at his expression, Liu Xing knew that the thoughts in his heart at this time actually represented most of the Red Turban Army officers and soldiers.

Yes, the big war is imminent, and the deployment is complete. More than 1,000 brothers were killed or wounded, and many were either killed or disabled after the previous battles. At such a time, he gave the order to retreat, which is difficult for anyone to understand.

But what he thinks in his heart, only Liu Xing himself knows very well. What I need to do now is not to continue to fight a decisive battle that may not be guaranteed to win, but to seek to take these people to live better together, and strive to have enough strength in the future to seek a real victory.

After making up his mind, Liu Xing looked at Sun Yujiang Zhengse and said, "You also know that if this battle continues, it is likely to be an extremely bloody battle." We've lost so many brothers, and you've lost an arm. At a time when our strength is weak, if we continue this campaign, we can make the whole world excited by the ambition of our army. But what about the result? Have you thought about the results? ”

Without waiting for Sun Yujiang to speak, Liu Xing turned around slightly and inspected the surrounding soldiers who came forward.

Then, Liu Xing said with a full expression, a high-pitched voice but with a hint of sadness: "Win more with less, and win miserably if you win." Our army does not have a solid rear and does not have a steady stream of soldiers to replenish. The more our brothers die, the more they die, and the one that dies less. ”

As he spoke, Liu Xing returned his gaze to Sun Yujiang's face, and continued: "But what about the golden dog? They are the opposite. Even if our army wins this battle, the result will only be more sacrifices for our brothers. After more brothers are sacrificed, it is very likely that our army will lose the ability to continue to strengthen the might of the people and destroy the fighting spirit of the golden dog. Why do you have to do something that doesn't outweigh the loss? ”

His gaze suddenly became a little sharp, Liu Xing once again inspected the surrounding soldiers, and his voice completely changed to an unwavering tone: "I said that I will take everyone to rise against the sky and expel the golden dog." But our rise should not be to let more good brothers pay their lives needlessly, but to seek self-growth for the camp steadily and step by step. When our army has enough strength, we will avenge today's revenge. ”

"Therefore, the whole army retreated, and no one said anything more." At the end of the words, Liu Xing issued the order to retreat for the third time.

After all the soldiers listened to Liu Xing's words, no one raised any objections and doubts, and they all took action.

Soon, several teams of flying horses went straight to all places, conveying to Yue Fei, Bi Jin and others the commander's order for Liu Xing's entire army to retreat......

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When the whole army gathered together again in the mountains of Wutai Mountain and walked in the direction of Wutai City, Liu Xingqi began to have new thoughts on his horse.

From the city of Taiyuan, to the outside of Wutai City, and then to the Hunter Valley. Along the way, Liu Xing knew very well that he was actually relying on his momentary courage most of the time, leading his brothers around him to create one war miracle after another.

However, the price paid and the results obtained by such a miracle are actually beyond their means, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Yes, every time I fought in a big battle, from Taiyuan City to Wutai and then to the Hunter Valley, I led my brothers to defeat more with less, and defeated more with the weak, and killed twenty or thirty thousand gold soldiers in a row. But what about the pay? However, of the two or three thousand people who followed him out of Taiyuan City, only seven hundred remained.

The soldiers of the golden dog can be endless, but the brothers around him are just as he thinks, and if he dies, there will be one less. Even if there is a reinforcement of soldiers, it will no longer be those good brothers who will really follow their lives to fight.

What's more, there are very few soldiers who can replenish themselves, and it is impossible to support themselves for a long time to continue to have enough strength to fight against the golden dog.

Wang Wenqing said, ten days later, he went through Taihang to save the two faint gentlemen. This is a theorem that Liu Xing had an epiphany that he had originally seen in the history books in his previous life and summed up by himself: if you want to achieve great things, you must first improve yourself. Only if you are strong enough can you rise against the sky.

If you want to be strong, the best way is to learn the many methods of warfare in later generations. Guerrilla warfare is only a means of striking at the enemy, and protracted warfare is the best choice to achieve final victory.

To fight a protracted war, Liu Xing determined a wholehearted strategic policy when he returned to Wutai City: first go and snatch back the two faint monarchs from the hands of the golden dog, and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes to make their own soldiers endless.

Use the two faint kings as big banners, and then go to find opportunities to engage in guerrilla warfare with Golden Dog after strengthening yourself. On the one hand, it undermined the morale of the Jin army, and on the other hand, it delayed the process of continuing to destroy the lives of the people......

For this policy, as soon as Liu Xing returned to the new county government in Wutai City, he immediately issued the first order: stop the construction of all residential buildings in Wutai City, rebuild them on the spot, and turn all walled buildings into fortresses in the city.

Without waiting for Wang Mingde, Su Quan and others to raise objections, Liu Xing issued a series of orders: all the Khitan soldiers and Xi soldiers were turned into garrison soldiers and joined the work of building five stations and hundreds of bases.

When the barracks are completed, all the fields will be cultivated on the spot, and the grasslands on the mid-mountain will be used for grazing. Strive for self-reliance and achieve self-sufficiency in food and grass.

Send scouts and hard spies to the east of Taihang Mountain to reconnoiter the movements of the Jin soldiers. In a team of ten, all the domesticated pigeons are distributed to the hard detectives and scouts.

The departments were reorganized, the elite was selected, and the battalions were reorganized. Regardless of the Han people, Khitans, and Xi people, those who can fight form a new six battalions.

Each battalion was reorganized into a mixed battalion of infantry, cavalry, crossbow, and gun. Each battalion has one team of horses, crossbowmen, and firecrackers, and one team of light armor soldiers and one team of heavy armor shield soldiers of the infantry army.

Cancel the original number and use the number of 1 to 6 for the battalion instead. Zhang Yang, Li Zhuang, Wang Gui, Kou Xing, Xu Qing, and Su Dong were respectively appointed as commanders of six battalions, and each battalion had two deputy commanders.

It is separated from the four wholehearted functions of construction, craftsmanship, transportation and patrol. With Wang Mingde still as the transport envoy, he commanded the eight battalions of transport. Su Dong was still reappointed as a patrol envoy, commanding the eighth patrol battalion and responsible for patrol and military training in various places.

Sun Yujiang served as the construction envoy in charge of construction affairs and commanded the 12th construction battalion. Jeruvarshen took over as the envoy of the craftsmen and commanded the twelve battalions of craftsmen.

In addition to the six battalions of the main battle, Liu Xing ordered the students in the teaching school to be reorganized into two teaching battalions, which were respectively handed over to Wan Yafei and Bi Jin as commanders, taking care of the teaching in the camp.

After the teaching battalion, Liu Xing immediately ordered the female soldiers and the personal guard battalion to be reorganized, and set up the personal guard battalion, responsible for escorting Liu Xing and Shuai Si with the army, and Lei Zhen served as the commander of the marshal's office. The women's barracks was reorganized into a guard battalion, which was responsible for the security affairs of the Marshal's Mansion and the Wutai County Ya......

After such a series of orders were issued, Liu Xing did not say more, and the whole army immediately knew the true meaning of this series of new commander's orders: from this moment on, the Red Turban Army returned to the state of the first army when the elite soldiers fought and the army was supported. In the future, those who really have the opportunity to follow Liu Xing to go out of Wutai will only be the main battle of the sixth battalion, the personal guards and guards, and the most elite teaching battalion.

What everyone knows is that the Red Turban Army, which looks like more than 25,000 people, actually has only 5,000 people left in the main battle, but what they don't know is that Liu Xing has already made up a brand new idea in his heart, that is, to take these elite soldiers and good generals to coerce the Son of Heaven and order the princes to develop their own strength to be strong enough to fight to the death with the Golden Dog......