When the meeting was held again the next day, both Liu Bei and Mi Yang looked as usual, as if they had never talked last night.

In the eyes of outsiders, General Mi Yang proposed an excellent strategy for the Northern Expedition at last night's meeting.

But Liu Bei slightly modified this Northern Expedition strategy, that's all.

The reason why the parliament is convened again today is not that the Northern Expedition strategy proposed by Mi Yang will change, but that Liu Bei wants to formally finalize the list of generals accompanying the two Northern Expedition armies at today's parliament.

According to the Northern Expedition strategy decided last night, the 50,000 Han troops will be mainly divided into two groups. One group will be led by Mi Yang himself, and he will lead 10,000 troops into Baoxie Road to act as suspicious troops.

The other route will be personally led by the Emperor Liu Bei, who will lead an army of 40,000 from Yangping Pass, passing through Qishan Mountain directly into the Longyou area of ​​the Northern Expedition.

But apart from the strength of the two Han armies and their respective chief generals, the respective accompanying generals of the two Han armies must also be discussed carefully.

Even though the East Route Army was personally led by General Mi Yang, everyone who could attend the parliament knew that the East Route Army led by Mi Yang was a suspect army.

The main purpose was to attract the Wei army's attention and create good offensive conditions for the West Route Army.

Under this kind of purpose, it means that in this army, there are not many opportunities to make contributions.

Therefore, when discussing the participating generals of the East Route Army, even though Mi Yang had outstanding military exploits, there were still many Han officials who were reluctant to join Mi Yang's East Route Army - except for Mi Yang's headquarters generals.

This is normal, and Mi Yang doesn't care about it.

In the past few years, he has achieved several great achievements and does not care that he has no chance to perform this time.

At least he is much better than Zhuge Liang.

Before Liu Bei came to Hanzhong, he urgently summoned Zhuge Liang back to Chengdu to take charge of Chengdu and handle government affairs on his behalf.

Compared with Zhuge Liang, I can go around Chang'an anyway.

When discussing the list of generals who would follow Liu Bei, the atmosphere in the lobby could not be described as simply lively.

All the Han ministers, no matter what their positions were, and whether they had military experience or not, they all eagerly hoped to defeat the enemy together with Liu Bei.

Among all the Han officials, if anyone was in the most enthusiastic mood, it was undoubtedly Liu Feng.

Liu Feng was released by Liu Bei and has been responsible for guarding Jiange.

While guarding Jiange, Liu Fengxue fought hard and fought a surprise attack with good results.

Therefore, when Liu Bei arrived at Jiange not long ago, he was so happy that he formally expressed his merits to Liu Feng and promoted him to the general of Dang Kou and the general of the Northern Expedition.

Wu Yi was also promoted to General of Zhengbei and General of Zhenxi.

Different from Cao Wei, General Zhengbei can only be regarded as a general in the Han Dynasty, not a general with a heavy title.

But although the Han Dynasty's General Zhengbei could not compare with Cao Wei's in terms of power and status, the status of General Zhengbei was not low.

Except for those precious general positions with heavy titles, Liu Feng's status as General Zhengbei was only lower than General Zhenbei.

It can be said that Liu Feng has already stepped into the ranks of important generals.

More importantly, Liu Bei often gave people the title of general, which often had special meanings.

The word "Zhengbei" reflects Liu Bei's expectations for Liu Feng.

In this Northern Expedition, Liu Bei will definitely reuse Liu Feng and give him enough opportunities to perform.

This alone is what many Han generals dream of?

Perhaps Liu Feng also understood Liu Bei's deep intentions, so he always seemed very active after following Liu Bei northward.

For example, before last night's parliament convened, Liu Feng actually had a strategy for the Northern Expedition in mind, hoping to use it to make a big splash.

Then he received a blow from Mi Yang.

No matter how arrogant Liu Feng was, he knew that compared with Mi Yang's strategy, the strategy he came up with was really not worth mentioning.

Liu Feng likes to be arrogant, but he doesn't like to abuse himself.

However, despite the setback last night, Liu Feng became more active in today's parliament.

Because Mi Yang has been assigned to the East Route Army, who else in the West Route Army can compete with him for the spotlight?

At the parliament, Liu Feng made an impassioned statement that he was willing to be Liu Bei's vanguard and capture all the counties in Longyou for him in one fell swoop.

Liu Feng's impassioned attitude made Liu Bei feel a smile on his face.

It can be seen from Liu Bei's performance that Liu Bei is very satisfied with Liu Feng's performance.

Mi Yang also noticed Liu Feng's performance, but he couldn't say he disliked Liu Feng's performance.

Everyone has their own character.

Judging from Liu Feng's past deeds, his character is already arrogant and impatient. Moreover, he has been imprisoned by Liu Bei for so long. Under such circumstances, it is normal for Liu Feng to be eager to express himself.

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No one is perfect.

But Liu Feng's next request made Mi Yang a little unhappy.

It turned out that Liu Feng saw that Liu Bei was in a good mood, so he wanted to make further demands.

His request is very simple, that is, to become Liu Bei's deputy general.

The structure of a large army is very complex, but there are only two main military positions.

One is the chief general and the other is the deputy general.

This importance is not only reflected in power, but also in the distribution of subsequent credit.

In the Western Route Army, Liu Bei is of course the unquestioned leader, but the candidate for deputy general has been undecided.

This is also the focus of today's parliamentary discussion.

Because when the Western Route Han Army successfully recaptures Liangzhou, the greatest credit will likely fall on the West Route Army's deputy general.

Liu Bei is an emperor, and he does not need to compete with his subordinates for credit to commend himself.

This is Liu Feng's real purpose today.

His invitation to be the pioneer just now was more of a temptation.

The reason why Liu Feng wanted the position of deputy general of the West Route Army so much was for his own future.

Mi Yang may not look down on his contribution to the recapture of Liangzhou, but Liu Feng can be said to covet him.

Because this contribution will benefit him immensely in the future.

Liu Feng is not Liu Chan. He has great ambitions in his heart.

Of course, Liu Feng would propose to become Liu Bei's deputy general, but he was not overestimating his abilities.

Even if his status as a prince is not mentioned, before he was placed under house arrest, his title as a general was deputy general - which meant that he had often served as Liu Bei's deputy general before.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After this experience, Liu Feng's request today is not overestimating his capabilities.

But what Liu Feng didn't expect was that his request would arouse Mi Yang's displeasure.

While Liu Bei was still pondering, thinking about whether to agree to Liu Feng's request, Mi Yang stood up and bowed to Liu Bei:

"I think there is a better candidate for your Majesty's lieutenant general."

Mi Yang's sudden remarks made Liu Feng lose his temper instantly.

He really didn't expect that Mi Yang would suddenly cause trouble at this juncture.

During the discussion just now about the selection of generals to accompany the army, Mi Yang basically remained silent throughout the whole process.

Liu Feng didn't know why Mi Yang came out to destroy his good deeds, but Liu Feng knew that no matter how much he was unwilling to do so, he had no choice in the face of Mi Yang's unforeseen problems.

Compared to Liu Feng's eclipse, Liu Bei was quite interested in the candidate Mi Yang mentioned.

Candidates recommended by Mi Yang must be outstanding.

Liu Bei asked Mi Yang warmly, "Who do you recommend?"

When asked by Liu Bei, Mi Yang replied loudly: "General Hussar, Marquis of Ma."

Mi Yang's answer was sonorous and powerful enough for everyone in the hall to hear his answer.

But when his answer became known to everyone, everyone's expressions changed like Liu Feng's.

Even Liu Bei's brows slowly wrinkled.

Ma Chao?

After Liu Feng heard that Mi Yang actually recommended Ma Chao to compete with him, Liu Feng felt angry in his heart.

Is he worthy of a villain who has no king and no father?

After Liu Bei arrived in Liangzhou, all the officials he brought with him also knew about Ma Chao's heroic performance in the battle to defend the city of Yinping.

But among the Liangzhou officials, Wei Yan, Ding Feng, Zhang Yi, and even Fa Miao and other Liangzhou officials who could not go to the battlefield, all the Han officials praised him.

But for Ma Chao, everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding, and they did not express full admiration for Ma Chao's performance.

Just like the hussar general Ma Chao never left Mianyang during the Liangzhou War.

However, Liu Bei was quite generous. He went to visit Ma Chao's injury and even left his own physician behind to ask him to take good care of Ma Chao.

But that's all.
To be continued...