Bastard’s Resurgence

Cao Weiming made a decision. In the next few days, his mood was relaxed. According to the agreement between him and the boy, he still maintained his original posture in the capital, neither actively befriending the power lords, nor keeping deliberately with Long Lingxiu. The closeness or estrangement, anyway, everything is business as usual, just being a boy has never been here before.

After swaying for half a month, Long Lingxiu finally summoned him again. The two met at the princess's mansion. Cao Weiming still respected Long Lingxiu. He was prostrate on the ground, showing extreme humility and humility.

Long Lingxiu squinted at him. For a long time, she chuckled and said, "General Cao, what are you busy with at home these days? I heard that you live in a simple way, and you don't see you go to contact other people. My palace wants to ask you. What a state of mind now!"

Cao Weiming said: "Your Majesty, since Cao has agreed to her Royal Highness, he is ready to go to death generously! Lu Zheng and I have feuds. This time I can lead the army to attack Hebei, so there is nothing to say. Yes, I have to open up Lu Zheng's foundation and make Lu Zheng pay the price!"

When Cao Weiming said these few words, he gritted his teeth and looked like he was going to swallow Lu Zheng alive. I have to say that Cao Weiming’s posture fits Long Lingxiu’s spleen and stomach, but this time Long Lingxiu arranged for Cao Weiming to go out. Of course she had hidden means in secret, immediately She said:

"General Cao, you are fighting alone this time. In order to make your army more effective, I have arranged two powerful deputies for you. These two deputies are brothers Zhang Zheng and Zhang Yi. Come here, please Brother Zhang comes up!"

According to Long Lingxiu's message, the two Zhang brothers came to the hall valiantly. Seeing that the two men were each only in their twenties, wearing armor, tall and proud, they looked like the leaders of the younger generation.

Cao Weiming sneered secretly in his heart, thinking that what Long Lingxiu did was in Lu Zheng's expectation. On the surface, Long Lingxiu let Cao Weiming lead the troops out. In fact, Cao Weiming is more of a guise. It is Zhang who really controls the army. What about the two brothers!

"Zhang Zheng, Zhang Yi paid a visit to General Cao. From now on, I will be General Cao's subordinates. We should follow General Cao's instructions!"

Cao Weiming laughed and said: "His Royal Highness, you use officials but don't trust them. Hey, this is probably a way to bring disaster! The use of troops in the Central Plains has never been a trivial matter. Why does the Princess make such arrangements? Does your Royal Highness think that Does Cao really have to take this errand?"

After Cao Weiming finished speaking, he once again bowed to his head and said: "His Royal Highness, Cao is not talented, I am afraid that I can't take on this important task. Please also ask your Highness to ask for another clever!"

Long Lingxiu "chuckled" and said, "Cao Weiming, don't get me wrong! This palace has no intention of letting the Zhang brothers oversee you. This palace has always used people without doubt. Since you are enabled, it is natural. An army is dominated by you. Where do you say the fight is, who dare not accept the Zhang brothers and the tens of thousands of soldiers?

But there is one thing I can’t help but guard against. After all, you led the army at first. This army turned out to be Tan Jiajun. What if there is mutiny in the army, what should I do? In this case, if you don't have a competent assistant, how can you do it?

The Zhang brothers are good players in the army. At the same time, they are loyal to the palace. One more thing, I can guarantee that they will absolutely obey your orders. Such an arrangement is reasonable. What does General Cao think? "

Cao Weiming was originally a false sentiment, and now Long Lingxiu explained to him so patiently, of course he went down the ass, and said: "Your Royal Highness, if you say that, what else did Cao say? If that's the case, then military affairs. I’m going to share more of the burden of the war with them! When I come back to Hebei, I am only responsible for commanding the war, and the military logistics should be handed over to the two of you. What do you think of them?"

The Zhang brothers looked at each other, and Cao Weiming's statement was exactly what they meant. They followed Cao Weiming in fact to be surveillance, because Long Lingxiu didn't fully believe in Cao Weiming at all! In this situation, Cao Weiming took the initiative to hand over all military affairs and logistics to them. In fact, he handed over the actual control of the army to them. How could they not be happy?

As for Cao Weiming’s immediate command, if Cao Weiming’s meaning is the same as theirs, they will follow it. If Cao Weiming’s meaning is different from theirs, they can use various tricks to excuse him. When they come back, they still follow Long Lingxiu’s orders. The army will definitely not fall into the hands of Cao Weiming and become a tool in the hands of Cao Weiming!

In this way, both the monarchs and the ministers reached a consensus, and Long Lingxiu's mood was extremely comfortable. He immediately counted more than 20,000 troops for Cao Weiming without hesitation. All of them were the Nanfu army subdued by Long Lingxiu and had been trained in Gyeonggi. After that, this group of Nanfu army had a little attitude. Of course, such an army was really fancy in front of the Liaodong cavalry capable of conquering battles. It would be strange if such fancy troops could be successful in Hebei!

The army set off, and Long Lingxiu personally saw off. Outside Gyeonggi, the flags were all over the sky. At the grand expedition ceremony, Cao Weiming wore the uniform of a first-class military attache. He was very powerful. He held the long scorpion in his hand and vowed to the heavenly alliance:

"I, Cao Weiming, will lead the army to the Central Plains this time, and I will never pay back the profit if I don't win. Your Majesty, please rest assured that your Royal Highness Princess, Cao Weiming will definitely live up to the burden in this battle and complete the important task!"

Long Lingxiu laughed and said bravely, "Okay! If General Cao can make a contribution during this trip, this palace will celebrate your feats. When the time comes, this palace and your majesty will personally welcome your triumph in Fengtian Hall, okay?"

Long Lingxiu gave an empty promise, and the army set off like this. Cao Weiming's army set off for Hebei. Without any hesitation, Long Lingxiu immediately let Tan Cheng lead all the other main forces in the capital to attack Henan directly.

In this battle, Long Lingxiu's goal is very clear. He is to occupy Henan, open up the channel between Henan and Jiangnan, and give the army from Jiangnan a chance to enter the Central Plains, thus causing a flanking attack on Lu Zheng from both the north and the south.

In fact, Long Lingxiu's plan has a huge loophole. This loophole is that once she sends troops, Gyeonggi will be completely empty. What if Lu Zheng wants to send troops to take the capital?

The emptiness of the capital is easy to lose. Once the capital is lost, where else can Long Lingxiu stay?

But Long Lingxiu also had her plan. Even if she was right, Lu Zheng would not give up Lianghe, because the geographical position of Lianghe is much more important than that of Gyeonggi. Lu Zheng sits on the land of the two rivers and occupies the granary of the Central Plains. With this Only basic Lu Zheng can raise 100,000 soldiers.

If not, Lu Zheng lost Lianghe and occupied Gyeonggi, then lost the watermelon and picked up the sesame. Lu Zheng would definitely not make such a decision! Long Lingxiu knew Lu Zheng by herself, but in fact, Lu Zheng's current troubles are indeed the same.

Lu Zheng had just been recuperating in the Central Plains. The biggest trouble Long Lingxiu's madness caused him was to damage the agriculture and environment in Lianghe, which he absolutely did not want to bear.

Because of this, he thought of adopting Sun Di's strategy, so in fact Lu Zheng deliberately sold a flaw! Now both sides need to fight wits and courage...

It is said that Cao Weiming led 20,000 horses into Henan. After arriving in Hebei, he ordered the army to camp, and then he was patient. And the Sun brothers were young and vigorous. They could not tolerate this for the first two days, but when they arrived later, they Where can I be patient?

Immediately Sun Yi said: "General, this time we have come to Hebei to cooperate with Her Royal Highness in sending troops. Why do I wait for the army to wait for the army to do so? How can we do it here?"

Cao Weiming sneered: "You don't know the mystery, you think, as long as our army does not move, we can contain the enemy. We are a major general and only a mere 20,000 people. If we run rampant like two stunners, Once the opponent rips his face with us and is straightforward, what should we do after we have finished 20,000 people?

Therefore, if we do not move, we are actually the best deterrent to the enemy. Do you not understand this? "

What Cao Weiming said, the two Zhang brothers were speechless, and Cao Weiming immediately passed on his ideas throughout the army when he saw this situation.

In fact, there are a lot of smart people in the army, and many people know that this time the army may face great danger with Cao Weiming's expedition. Who is not afraid of death these days? But the military order is falling like a mountain, even if you are afraid of death, there is no way, no one can violate the military order!

Under such circumstances, Cao Weiming’s arrangement is undoubtedly very popular. Everyone supported this matter. The Zhang brothers were isolated. They were young in the army, even though they were Long Lingxiu’s cronies. But in the face of life and death, where does everyone care about their origin?

And Cao Weiming did not rush to kill him. Some people below occasionally expressed dissatisfaction with the Zhang brothers. On the contrary, Cao Weiming came forward to comfort them and let them be magnanimous. The generals of Cao Weiming looked at Cao Weiming with admiration, and the Zhang brothers were further left out.

In Cao Weiming’s military tent, the boy sneaked in quietly. Cao Weiming looked at the first boy, hehe smiled and said, "Sir, what do you think of my methods? These two boys surnamed Zhang don’t know how to exaggerate. There are five people and six people in front of them. Now that I use a little bit of tricks, their status in the army has been greatly weakened!

It's not that I'm Cao Weiming brag, as long as I raise my arms for the current army, I will be able to respond like clouds..."

The boy looked calm, and said, "General Cao, Long Lingxiu is very cunning, and he must not venture into it easily! The Zhang brothers seem to be weakened in the army at the moment, but they must have other means. Now we can’t rush, you On the one hand, hold on, and on the other hand, wait for the Zhang brothers to make a move, so that we can remain invincible..."