Last time, when I asked you what was the first priority in the fight against Japan, you said that appointing a governor to unify the command was the first priority. At that time, I also said that you were young and daring, but I never thought that Zi Hou had hit the nail on the head when the Emperor appointed me as the Governor of the seven provinces.”Zhang Jing said with some emotion, and then looked at Zhu Pingan with burning eyes, “Zi Hou one spot peeps on the leopard, see the slightest thing, grasp the pulse of the current affairs, cut the momentum of the overall situation, can be said to anticipate things like God also.”
At this moment, in Zhang Jing’s mind, Zhu Pingan’s weight has been incomparable, few people can be compared to it.
Just as Zhu Pingan had anticipated, Zhang Jing marvelled at Zhu Pingan’s outlook on the big picture, and labelled him as “knowing the big picture from the smallest detail”, “having a big picture in mind”, and “planning in a tent”,”anticipating things like a god” and other labels.
“It’s just a coincidence, Your Excellency is flattering, Ping An deserves no credit.”
Zhu Pingan modestly shook his head and said in a self-effacing manner, getting up to fill up Zhang Jing’s wine glass as he spoke.
“Nonetheless, once may be described as a coincidence, but Zi Hou’s performance of seeing the smallest of things is not once or twice. Zi Hou’s study of the war reports from all over the world, signalling that the Japanese pirates in Shangyu will be attacking Yingtian, is typical evidence of this. Unfortunately, I failed to pay enough attention to it, or the situation would have been very different.”
Zhang Jing shook his head slightly, appreciating Zhu Pingan while regretting that he did not pay enough attention to Zhu Pingan’s warning.
“Now that the governor has been set up, what does Zi Hou think is the number one priority in eradicating the Japanese at this time?”Zhang Jing asked at the dinner table.
“Back to Your Excellency, my humble servant thinks that the first priority today is to mobilise troops.”Zhu Pingan returned without hesitation.
Zhang Jing nodded, and his evaluation of Zhu Pingan was a few points higher.
Pragmatic!
In fact, when he asked Zhu Pingan last time, the idea in his mind was to mobilise troops and generals, and Hu Zongxian’s reply was also to mobilise troops and generals. At that time, he felt that Zhu Pingan was not pragmatic enough and was too much of a matter of course, thus his evaluation of Zhu Pingan was not as high as his evaluation of Hu Zongxian.
Now it seems that not only is Zhu Pingan’s view of the big picture better than Hu Zongxian’s, he is likewise not lacking in pragmatism.
“Why does Zi Hou believe that the first priority is to deploy troops?”Zhang Jing asked further, wanting to hear Zhu Pingan’s answer.
“Back to the lord, first, nowadays more and more Japanese invaders, I carefully collected the recent situation of Japanese invaders, the first big Japanese Wang Zhi occupies Zhoushan Islands, the main force according to the Jintang Island, gathered in the Lekang, tens of thousands of thieves; in addition to Wang Zhi, there are Xu Hai, Chen Dong and other Japanese invaders gathered in the South Zhili Songjiang, the thieves are as many as more than 30,000, mainly entrenched in the TuoLin and ChuanShaWa; to my Zhejiang, the existing strength of the South Zhili, seriously insufficient, the existing strength of the Zhejiang and South Zhili is not enough.The existing troops of Zhejiang and Southern Zhili are seriously insufficient, and it is difficult to undertake the important task of eliminating the Japanese. Secondly, the Japanese invaders from Shangyu travelled thousands of miles across Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Southern Zhili, defeating official troops all along the way, and the soldiers of the guards were too cowardly to fight, and many of them collapsed at the slightest touch, and the fighting power of local soldiers was worrying, making it difficult for them to take up the important task of eradicating the Japanese invaders. Thirdly, all over Zhejiang Province had experienced the Japanese disaster, and had been attacked by Japanese invaders one after another, with repeated defeats and low morale, making it difficult for them to take up the important task of suppressing the Japanese. Therefore, it is really necessary to enlist government troops from outside the country that still have fighting ability to come and assist in the suppression of the Japanese invaders.”
Zhu Pingan slowly replied, and used the dinner plates on the table as props to briefly lay out the distribution of the Japanese invaders.
Zhang Jing nodded his head while listening, Zhu Pingan’s analysis was almost exactly the same as what he had in mind, and he could not help but appreciate it.
“Does Zi Hou know about the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers?”Zhang Jing asked carelessly.
“My humble servant has heard a little about it.”Zhu Pingan gently nodded, “Pingan heard that ‘Wolf Soldiers are tough and the world calls them the best’, I don’t know if it is true to its name, but with such a great reputation, I think it won’t be bad.”
In fact, Zhu Pingan knew too much about the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers, perhaps not as much as Zhang Jing, who had been the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, in specific details, but in general, he definitely knew more than Zhang Jing.
The history of “wolf soldiers of prey, the world said the most” can be absolutely not a vain name, Guangxi soldiers are known to be able to fight, has withstood the test of history.
Qin Shi Huang annexed the six countries, put 300,000 troops in the north to deal with the Xiongnu, but in the south put enough 500,000 troops to deal with the West Vietnam, that is, the ancestors of the Zhuang people, 500,000 Qin troops in the West Vietnam fought for three years, there is no progress, until the Qin Shi Huang dumped his country to open up the Spirit Drainage Canal, only to conquer the West Vietnam.
During the Ming Dynasty, to fight against Japanese invaders, Zhang Jing later mobilised the Wolf Soldiers to exterminate the Japanese, who trembled at the name of the Wolf Soldiers, and later, although the Wolf Soldiers weren’t as mythical as their name, they did make great achievements in the war. Afterwards, Yuan Chonghuan led the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers to fight against Nurhachu’s 300,000 eight banners army in Ningyuan, which defeated the eight banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and annihilated more than 17,000 enemies.
Qing Dynasty, the veteran general Feng Zicai with Guangxi soldiers in Zhennan Pass defeated the French army, so that the French Cabinet stepped down; Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, initially rely on Guangxi soldiers, all the way to Nanjing; Republic of China, as well as the anti-Japanese war period, Guangxi soldiers are also played out of a hefty reputation, made great achievements ……
So, on the whole, Zhu Pingan knew too much too much than Zhang Jing.
“Not bad, I knew the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers very well during the period when I was the military governor of Liangguang. The Wolf Soldiers are soldiers under the rule of the local Tusi, life and death depend on the Tusi alone, all of them are resilient, valiant, brave and fearless, and I once ate a lot of their bitter head. Guangxi wolf soldiers, especially Tianzhou, Donglan, Nadi, Danzhou wolf soldiers for the most, can be less against the crowd, ten out of nine wins. Among them, Tianzhou’s Cen’s Wolf Soldiers are the most powerful, and have been known to have the reputation of ‘their soldiers can die but cannot be defeated’.”Zhang Jing nodded slightly and recounted to Zhu Pingan.
“Does your lordship wish to transfer the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers?”
Zhu Pingan asked knowingly, he had long known that Zhang Jing wanted to deploy the Wolf Troops to combat the Japanese, and historically, Zhang Jing had done the same.
Zhang Jing did not hide it and nodded lightly, “I do have this intention, what does Zi Hou think?”
“My humble servant naturally supports Your Excellency. More soldiers that can fight, more is better.”Zhu Pingan nodded without hesitation, expressing his approval of Zhang Jing’s idea, as the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers were currently one of the most battle-ready troops in the Daming.
Currently, Qi Jiguang hadn’t even started practising yet, and the famous Qi Family Army hadn’t even been introduced yet.
“Your Excellency used to be the Governor of the military affairs of the two GuangZhou regions, so you know the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers well, and you must know their strengths and weaknesses, so that you can know how to make the best use of them.”
Zhu Pingan further said, reminding Zhang Jing that the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers had advantages and definitely disadvantages. When using the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers, it was important to do what was best to avoid the shortcomings, to give play to the strengths of the Wolf Soldiers, and to avoid the shortcomings of the Wolf Soldiers.
“Well, not bad. Guangxi Wolf Soldiers do have strengths and weaknesses, or else they wouldn’t have been flattened by me. Guangxi Wolf Soldiers are brave, but brave and easy to collapse, have the courage and no strategy, must be regulated by the rules, in order to unify the army generals will be.”Zhang Jing stroked his beard and nodded.
Zhu Pingan secretly nodded, it seems that Zhang Jing currently has no blind myths about the wolf soldiers, but is still very sober, then he is relieved.
