Yang Zhen fully understood the fear they had towards the Manchu Tatar army, but the more they stayed in Songshan City and did not dare to attack, the more serious their fear of the enemy would become.

Why are people like Zu Keyong, Zhang Degui, and even Xu Changyong no longer afraid of the Tatars?

It is because they have won several small-scale battles in the advance camp and have cut off the heads of many real Tatars with their own hands by going north by sea and attacking them by surprise!

As long as situations like this continue to appear among Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi's subordinates in the future, then slowly their soldiers' fear of the Manchu Tatars will be reduced a lot.

In fact, Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi did not realize that after they followed Jin Guofeng to defend Songshan for two months and finally won the victory, some changes had quietly occurred in the morale and people's hearts under their command - the fear of the enemy among the soldiers had actually been eliminated.

Quite a few.

"You don't have to worry too much! In the short term, the time for our Songshan City garrison to launch a large-scale attack behind enemy lines is not yet ripe! Some of you also know Mr. Yang's fighting style. I will not let my brothers touch me with eggs.

Stone, go head-to-head with the Tatar elite!"

Yang Zhen saw that the atmosphere in the room was dull for a while. Except for Zu Keyong and Zhang Degui who spoke in support of him, everyone else was silent, so he added:

"Last time we came to Songshan from Ningyuan, how did we come?! - By sea! In the future, when we attack the Tatar enemy rear, how to get there? I think the best way is to take the sea route!"

As soon as Yang Zhen said this, Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi were shocked. They all looked at Yang Zhen with wide eyes, with unexpected expressions on their faces.

Including the generals of the advance camp, Zu Keyong, Zhang Degui, Xu Changyong, Zhang Chen, Yang Shen, Jin Shijun and others, they all suddenly raised their heads and looked at Yang Zhen, waiting quietly for what he would say next.

"Don't be surprised! After Yuan Jin's fleet has sent us food and wages, I will go and talk to him personally and ask him to help us branch out across the sea and transport our troops!

"At that time, our troops can go to the coasts of Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou, and Haizhou! Avoid their city roads and specifically choose places where the Tatars have few troops and weak defenses to land on the coast to destroy their villages.

, burn their crops, kill their women and children, and rob their money and food!”

"When the time comes, we will have a small group with multiple routes, and attack separately, specifically avoiding the real situation and attacking the weak, disrupting the rear, and if we miss a single hit, we will immediately board the ship. This way we will catch them by surprise and attack them unprepared. What can the Tatars do to me?!"

Yang Zhen said these words in one breath. Taking advantage of the opportunity to breathe, he looked at the expressions of other people and found that the faces of the generals present had improved a lot.

Even Xu Changyong, who has always been a bit "timid", smiled happily at this time.

Seeing Yang Zhen looking over, Xu Changyong hurriedly said: "Previously, I thought I was imitating Marshal Mao and attacking behind enemy lines, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a rogue method used by grassland horse thieves!

"If we fight like this, I, Old Xu, would definitely approve of it! I don't believe it. If we fight like this, can we still lose?!"

"It's just that the Mongolian soldiers under my command really suffered from seasickness the last time they took a boat! Next time, Brother Yang will arrange a closer and more convenient place for us!"

After Xu Changyong said this, Yang Zhen and Zhang Degui laughed together. It turned out that several other generals in the advance battalion also couldn't help but smile.

Xia Chengde, who was originally opposed, saw this scene, looked at each other and nodded, somewhat relieved.

It’s not like they really just want to stay in Songshan City and dare not go out, and then they are willing to be a coward that makes others look down on.

They were just worried that the new commander-in-chief would underestimate the enemy without understanding the situation, ruining the Songshan City they had managed to defend and ruining the current situation they had managed to maintain.

Seeing that Yang Zhen's thoughts turned out to be like this, the two of them gradually felt relieved.

After all, the legend that Mao Wenlong, as a guerrilla, led more than a hundred people to attack behind enemy lines and became famous in one fell swoop, and was directly promoted from guerrilla to chief military officer, inspired them for a long time.

Sometimes they dreamed about it in the middle of the night, and they also imagined that they could have such a day!

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What is positive and what is strange, Yang Zhen has finished explaining.

Yang Zhen's idea of ​​taking the enemy by surprise and attacking behind enemy lines finally gained the approval of the generals in Songshan City after several verbal disputes.

Next, Yang Zhen expressed another idea of ​​his, which was "training elite soldiers" that Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi were most concerned about.

"Everyone! It is said in the art of war that it is not important to have many soldiers, but it is important to have good soldiers. I don't need to explain it anymore. Our Songshan City is not big, and we will not be able to accommodate too many people in the future!

"Go back and select the troops carefully. Those who are strong, able to fight, and dare to fight will be specially compiled into a group to go out to fight. They can be given more food and their

The pay can be higher!

"The warriors who dare to attack behind enemy lines in the future will naturally be selected from among them! The spoils of the attack will naturally be distributed among them!

"Then, we will eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled people in those troops, and set up another department, assigning one person to take charge of it, who will be responsible for the handyman affairs in the camp from now on!

"Anything like digging trenches, clearing land for planting, repairing cities, including washing, cooking, and transporting supplies can all be left to them!"

When Yang Zhen said this, he paused briefly, looked at Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi, who had always had doubts about this, and then continued:

"This is what I mean by training elite soldiers! First, separate the soldiers who can fight and dare to fight from the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers into separate groups, and then let the soldiers who can fight and dare to fight select forwards to go behind enemy lines to achieve the purpose of training the troops.

!

"It only takes a few times to come down, and you will have elite soldiers available under your command! Their number may not be large, but when the army is in danger, they are the key to your true victory!"

Yang Zhen's words really came from the bottom of his heart.

He believed that as long as Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi truly put aside their wariness about themselves and their selfish thoughts, they would definitely realize that what they said was right.

If you have more than a thousand soldiers and horses under your command, and among them the elite and brave warriors are mixed with those who are timid or old, weak, sick and disabled, it will look like there are too many soldiers and horses, but when they arrive on the battlefield, one of them will run away first.

Others will follow and run away.

At that time, even those who dare to fight and are able to fight will have to flee. Many wars have been ruined just like this.

In this way, the number of people and horses seems to be large in normal times, but in wartime, it actually ruins the situation. More than a thousand people and horses are not worth the use of more than a thousand people. It is better to select five or six hundred elite warriors who dare to fight and play a greater role.

Woolen cloth!

This truth is actually not difficult to understand.

The difficulty lies in the fact that people have selfish thoughts and will not shed tears until they see their coffin.

They only look at the present and their own small profits. They always think that they have more people, more food and salary, and a higher status, but they don't care about what the future will bring.

Yang Zhen didn't know whether Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi were such people, but no matter what, he had to guard against them being such people, so he had to make it clear in advance.

"How many people there were in Lieutenant General Xia's camp will remain so in the future! After the front and rear sections are organized, they will still be the people in your camp! I, Yang Zhen, will never reach out to you!——

"The same is true for General Lu Shen in your camp! The number of men and horses in your camp will only gradually increase from the existing number in the future, and will never decrease from the existing number! Don't worry about this.

!”

After Yang Zhen finished speaking, he looked at Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi, waiting for them to express their stance.

Yang Zhen's words have been made very clear. If he even objects to this, it would be too disrespectful. It would be equivalent to losing all the kindness between superiors and subordinates. At the same time, it would also be equivalent to completely dissatisfying Yang Zhen, the new superior.

Broken face.

Yang Zhen believed that Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi, two generals who had been ups and downs in the Liaodong Army for so long, would not be so ignorant of promotion.

As for the generals in the advance camp, they all know Yang Zhen's personality and fighting style, so there is no need for him to worry at all.

Sure enough, generals Xia Chengde and Lu Pinqi could not withstand Yang Zhen's naked eyes staring at them for expressing their opinions. After a slight hesitation, Xia Chengde took the lead and said:

"General - obey your orders!"
Chapter completed!