"Yes, first break the morale of the army, and then force the thief to fight me against Annan as necessary." Seeing the stunned look in the planter, Liu Xing smiled indifferently and said first.

Immediately, his face sank, and Liu Xing continued: "I don't believe that the soldiers under his command are really all people who only want to list the territory and seal the territory, and don't miss their hometown at all. If they are really like that, it can only mean that those people have long forgotten who their ancestors are and have abandoned the traditions of the Chinese nation. ”

His face became extremely cold, and his words stopped again, and Liu Xing continued to say in a chilling voice: "Those who have turned their backs on their ancestors and forgotten their roots, I don't need to keep them, just let them rush out to open up a new territory for my Great Song Dynasty and be the cannon fodder of my Great Song Dynasty." ”

first disintegrate, and then force Zhong Xiang to lead his troops to leave Guangxi and go to Annan, which is completely different from the previous strategy formulated by Liu Xing.

In the previous strategy, Liu Xing's plan was to let Zhong Xiang lead his troops to Annan and then start an internal conflict with the royal descendants of the Li Dynasty, so that the two of them would fight to the death on Annan's territory.

According to that strategy, no matter who Zhong Xiang or the descendants of the Li Dynasty royal family finally won the victory, the soldiers and horses under their command would inevitably suffer heavy losses and could only rely on the Northern Dynasty for a long time after that, and they were not able to pose any real threat to the Northern Dynasty at all.

But now that Liu Xing suddenly decided to change his strategy, Zong Ze only secretly speculated in his heart and understood the meaning of this change, and he understood that Liu Xing was trying his best to let the group of Huxiang disciples who were still firmly following Zhong Xiang stay.

If you can't stay, as Liu Xing said, those people are a group of careerists who forget their roots, abandon their ancestors, and are full of profit.

In any country, in any era, careerists can have. In many cases, there are a few careerists, which still have a great impetus for the development of the times and the progress of society.

But if there are more people with great ambition and selfish desires who are desperate, then the world will inevitably be in chaos. Just like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, just like the Northern and Southern Dynasties, that situation will inevitably reappear.

From this point of view, Liu Xing's change of strategy is actually taking precautions to reduce the damage caused by careerists in the future for the Central Plains......

Zong Ze could see through Liu Xing's foresight. There is no such long-term vision among the planters.

When he finished Liu Xing's words, he immediately opened his mouth and questioned: "It's a good thing to break the heart of Zhong Xiangjun's army, but aren't you afraid that those ambitious people under his command will not go to Annan and settle down on the border of Guangxi to confront the imperial court?" ”

Although he did not have the same long-term vision as Liu Xing and Zong Ze, the kind of situation mentioned in the question he raised was also entirely possible.

Liu Xing wanted to break Zhong Xiang's military spirit and force him to speed up the pace of his southward movement. But people's hearts will not be exactly the same, especially among those in the Southern Army of Zhong Xiangzhen, who are themselves a group of fishermen and peasants who started a rebellion. It is also a lot of people's hearts and minds.

If there are some people who have no loyalty to Liu Xing at all, and who are only inclined to the flames in Zhong Xiang's place, and want to use Zhong Xiang's momentum to achieve their personal ambitions and dreams, see the morale of the army and the soldiers disperse, I wonder if they will really pull up their teams to become the king of the mountain.

If one or two, or a few small groups of Zhennan Army, those soldiers go to the grass, it will not pose much of a threat to Yang Qi and the Xiongshan people.

However, if more than half of the remaining soldiers under Zhong Xiang who were "loyal" to him and had already colluded with the local soldiers in Guangxi would do so, Guangxi would probably take a few more years, and I don't know how many manpower, material and financial resources would have to be consumed before it could be completely calmed down.

Dig a pit for others to jump, and you can't jump in yourself, this is Liu Xing's consistent practice. This kind of question raised by the seed master has naturally been thought of by Liu Xing for a long time.

So after he raised his question, Liu Xing immediately smiled and said, "Then I have to bother Uncle Shi, you will go and issue a military order right later." Let Yang Mi and Xiong Shanren lead their troops to approach Xipingzhou first. Follow the example of Yang Yizhong in Saibei, and first besiege Zhong Xiang's Zhennan County to death for me, and don't give those young people any opportunity to take advantage of. ”

The Iron Bucket Array, the land of Saibei, and Yang Yizhong now vividly gave such a name to the set of tactics that Liu Xing asked him to encircle and not destroy.

What the seed master didn't expect was that Liu Xing was not just going to engage in an iron bucket formation in Saibei. He couldn't help but raise new questions about the Zhennan Army, which could actually have allowed the Yang and Xiong armies to attack and wipe them to the ground.

"Okay, the enemy who is noble and can be destroyed quickly is noble, why do you always like to play this kind of tactics to work the people and lose money!" The question is raised in half a sentence. The seed master hesitated for a moment, but continued to say the following words: "Your 'iron bucket array' is so that the enemy can only be completely destroyed, but how much manpower, material resources, and financial resources are consumed. You and I know it all too well! ”

Encircling but not annihilating is aimed at defeating the enemy's heart first, and the loss of financial, material and manpower is indeed very large.

However, today's Northern Dynasty is completely different from the Great Song Dynasty two months ago, because of the rapid and successful circulation of dragon coins, the treasury of the Northern Dynasty has now been full, and the trend of overstretched expenses is gone.

When the financial resources were insufficient, Liu Xing was able to let Yang Yizhong fight a long battle of Jinzhou, engage in a round war, and play with Wu Qi. Now that he has abundant financial resources, Zong Ze knows that the words of the seed master will not make Liu Xing change his strategy at all, because he knows very well that Liu Xing wants to use the continuous war to ignite the fighting spirit of the Central Plains people. And let that fighting spirit last for a long time.

Realizing Liu Xing's true intentions, the old marshal didn't wait for Liu Xing to speak, and preemptively said to the seed master: "My dynasty has come out of the embarrassment of support, and I don't care about the loss of money and food. Kind of Heavenly Official, do you want to see my Great Song Dynasty King Shi recreate the scene of swords and guns in storage and horses in Nanshan now? If you don't want to. I don't have to say more. ”

The meaning of the existence of the military is to have war, once the war stops, with the habits of the dynasties of the Central Plains, it will inevitably lead to the scene of swords and guns in the world and horses in the South Mountain.

Zong Ze has ruled the army for many years, and he is a person who joined the army at a young age. Zong Ze broke Liu Xing's true intentions a little, and the seed master naturally immediately understood the inner meaning.

He sighed lightly, shook his head, and said, "Okay! I hope that the 'iron bucket array' in the wing room of the Zhennan Army can force Zhong Xiang to send troops south as soon as possible, and I also hope that those boys who follow him can wake up in time and turn back. Only when they turn back to the shore can Guangxi really calm down at an early date. Only when they turn back to the shore and plot against Annan can they return peace to the world as soon as possible. ”

Hearing his words, Liu Xing looked at Zong Ze, and the two smiled heartily, Liu Xing secretly said in his heart: As long as I am in power for one day, I will make the four seas surrender. Lovely uncle, don't you want to make this world peaceful! I want a prosperous world, not peace, hehe...... (To be continued.) )