Chapter 1352 Targeting
Early in the morning, when the gate of Shen's mansion opened and Shen Hao walked out in a black flag camp robe, he looked up and saw many people waiting on the street in front of his house.
The first few people were all familiar faces, but they hadn't seen each other for more than two years, and their appearance had changed slightly.
Wang Jian, Wang Yiming, Tang Qingyuan, Lin Chen, Chen Sheng.
These people were actually waiting outside Shen's mansion before dawn, and they didn't knock on the door, they tacitly agreed with each other and waited for Mr. Shen to meet him as soon as he went to work in the morning.
"Subordinates refer to Commander!"
The voices were uniform and loud, so that half the street could be heard clearly. The stall owner who originally made friends with the stall not far away was already pale with fright at this time, and pushed the stall to move away, vowing in his heart that no matter what, he would never appear here again in the future.
Looking at the subordinates kneeling on one knee at the door, Shen Hao waved his hands with a smile, signaling everyone to get up, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the yamen and talk about it."
Afterwards, Shen Hao spent the whole morning in the meeting hall of the Heiqiying commander's yamen. The deputy commanders of the Black Flag Battalions in various places have a lot of things to report to Shen Hao. During the period, there will be some secrets that Wang Jian will stand up and explain further.
"Subordinates and others are not doing well, please punish them severely!"
It is actually reasonable for these people to plead guilty. After all, to them, what was the Black Flag Camp like when Shen Hao left? Now when Shen Hao came back, what was the Black Flag Camp like? The contrast in this is simply not too great. What's more, the Black Flag Camp has never had the habit of making excuses to shirk responsibility. No matter what, if you don't do well, you don't do well. You must consciously put on an attitude of pleading guilty.
Shen Hao, who was seated first, frowned deeply when he saw the people kneeling on the ground in the hall below. The current situation in the Black Flag Camp was far worse than he had guessed before. It can even be said that the current situation of Xuan Qingwei as a whole is much worse than he expected.
Earlier, Tan Bin said that Xuan Qingwei's establishment had been reduced by 20%. In fact, it is about three and a half percent. And because the casualties were too high, 90% of the recruits were ordinary soldiers, and they were still recruits, and they were not recruited from the army as in the past. As for the supplementary monks, they barely accounted for the remaining 10%. They were all at the initial stage of the Qi Refining Realm, and most of them were casual cultivators.
Combat power? It has dropped by at least half compared to two years ago.
Compared with Xuanqingwei, Heiqiying couldn't bear to look directly at him. Except for Blackwater, an intelligence organization that itself does not participate in front-line operations, the Black Flag Battalions in various places have almost lost half of their staff. Some were sacrificed, some were forcibly transferred to the Qianhu Office of Xuanqing Guard, and the rest, except for the new rookies, were wounded soldiers.
Really want to punish? Look at Tang Qingyuan who is missing one ear, Lin Chen who is missing one eye, and Wang Yiming and Chen Sheng who are quite messy and obviously have internal injuries. Shen Hao can't say the words of scolding. What's more, he hasn't been here for the past two years. To put it bluntly, Heiqiying is a child without a father.
"Get up. The crime of being unfavorable in doing things will be reserved first, and then if there are any omissions, they will be punished." He waved his hand and asked everyone who was kneeling on the ground to get up and sit down again.
After a pause, Shen Hao asked again: "What is the attitude of Pang Da people now? There is such a big gap in Xuanqing Guard personnel, and the evil monks are so rampant, there should be countermeasures?"
After Shen Hao's voice fell for a moment, Wang Yiming stood up. As the person who was promoted to "Deputy Deputy Commander" by Pang Ban during this period and was in charge of coordinating the Black Flag Battalion, it was up to him to answer this question.
"My lord, the Pang Da people have thought of many ways. For example, increasing pensions, offering better salary treatment, increasing the number of talisman and magic weapon equipment. However, no matter whether it is an army or a casual cultivator, they are all interested in participating in the recruitment of Xuan Qingwei. He behaved very indifferently. There were even clear actions in the army that contradicted Xuan Qingwei's recruitment.
As for casual cultivators, their attention was taken away by the sect. In the past year or so, the bottom and middle sects suddenly opened up their gates, recruited many casual cultivators, and set up an "outer sect system" to place the casual cultivators who had already exceeded the number they recruited at the foot of the mountain, nominally belonging to the sect Disciples, but in fact they only enjoy some basic teachings of spells, but there are still many people who go there.
Under such circumstances, Pang Daren could only settle for the next best thing. After obtaining the right to recruit a certain number of soldiers, he would deploy some old men to take charge of training to fill in the front-line casualties. At the same time, we have to shrink the front that Xuan Qingwei participated in little by little, and have basically given up all the villages and towns that are far away from the big city."
boom! The armrest of Shen Hao's seat was smashed into pieces subconsciously by him. It also interrupted Wang Yiming's narration, and the entire hall was silent.
"What are the army and the sect doing?"
No one below can answer Shen Hao's question, they are not qualified to get in touch with this level of things. Of course, Shen Hao was also upset, and subconsciously yelled out.
I can't figure it out. The army is to obey the orders of the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War is to follow the emperor's will. Why did they do things that obviously delayed Xuan Qingwei's retreat and delayed the war? Does the emperor care? Coupled with the reduction of Xuanqing Guard's personnel before, Shen Hao was completely confused about the emperor's position on this matter.
The same goes for the other sects, they actually jumped out to join in the fun. Don't you always look down on casual cultivators? Now, in order to coerce Xuan Qingwei to recruit people, they made an exception and relaxed the entry restrictions, and even created an "outer sect system" to provoke Xuan Qingwei like this, who gave them the courage?
Although one of these two incidents is caused by the army and the other is caused by the sect, it seems irrelevant, but Shen Hao dares to vouch for his own head, there is definitely a connection between them, the purpose is to drag Xuan Qingwei back . It was even holding back the entire Jingjiu Dynasty's actions against evil cultivators.
"From now on, I will regain the command of the Black Flag Battalion. After you wait, start to shrink the soldiers in your hands, and give up all the areas outside the big city. If you want to shrink it, it should be thorough. Just watch the big city, and it will be a repair. Follow-up Let me make other arrangements. Let's all go down."
Everyone below also had a look of surprise on their faces after hearing Shen Hao's order, but no one raised any objections. Now that Mr. Shen is back, they also have a backbone after a long absence, and they should not worry about things that they shouldn't worry about. Moreover, the soldiers on the front line below were exhausted long ago, just as Mr. Shen said, they should be withdrawn to recuperate.
After everyone left, Shen Hao didn't go back to the office to ask Wang Jian about the situation of Heishui alone. Because of what happened this morning, Shen Hao found that the problems of Heiqiying himself, or the problems of Xuan Qingwei as a whole, were not the point. The real focus is on the level above Xuan Qingwei and Pang Ban.
He went straight to the outside of the yamen, and ordered while walking: "Prepare the car and go to the imperial city."