Chapter 1325 Sprouting

Under the conditions of this era, it is not difficult to build a camp. It can be built in just a few days. As for this night, because of the urgency of time, only a simple car camp can be built.

Among the 100,000 troops, only 70,000 can actually fight, and the other 30,000 are logistics personnel, setting up camps, transporting food and grass, washing clothes and cooking... So many people have to have enough logistics.

As for the car camp, the carts transporting baggage and food are surrounded in a circle, and trenches and pits are dug outside the carts, and some watchtowers are built near the military camp.

Time is urgent, and this is all that can be done for a while.

As for the subsequent burying of fences, and expanding the range of the watchtowers to the outside, setting up scout teams in shaded places, these are all things that need to be done later.

Cao Zheng's ability is not only in his wisdom, but also in his ability to coordinate, which is also first-class in this era.

The team of 100,000 people is mighty, but he can arrange it in an orderly manner.

By the time it got dark, the entire camp was in good shape.

His camp was not a camp of 100,000 people gathered together, but a camp of about 5,000 people, separated by a distance, to prevent the enemy from sneaking into the camp and causing chaos in the entire army.

At the same time, as long as there is a problem in one camp, the remaining camps can be reinforced very quickly and surrounded from three sides.

With such a pattern, even if there is a mess, it will generally only mess up one camp and will not affect the overall situation.

Of course, such an arrangement is also because the camp has just been set up, and when it is needed later, a large camp will be established as the center, and many small camps will be distributed around it.

Such a pattern is easier to gather strength, and there are small camps for early warning. At the same time, with a large camp, the army also has a strong center, and various layout instructions can be better executed.

Although the large camp has many advantages, it takes a lot of time to build it.

Here, how to build it depends on whether it is a surprise attack or a protracted war.

If the war is short, it is the former, and if it is long, it is the latter.

But Cao Zheng knew that this battle would be a protracted war. It was very necessary for him to station troops here and build a central hub. Not only would the power be more concentrated, but more importantly, it would be safer for him.

As for his previous intention to surrender, it was just a foreshadowing. The specific situation would depend on the subsequent war.

If Zhao Cheng's momentum was unstoppable, he would surrender directly. But if he was severely suppressed by the imperial army, the so-called collaborating with the enemy would be nothing more than a slander by the thieves. He, Cao, was upright and upright. How could he be afraid of the dirty water thrown by the enemy? !

His greatest advantage was that he knew the current situation.

At night, after having wine and food, Cao Zheng did not fall asleep directly, but came to the highest watchtower in the middle camp.

From here, if it was daytime, the entire camp could be seen.

As for now, he could only see the vague outline and the bonfires. The burning flames looked like stars falling on the earth.

He had seen many such scenes. He had been marching and fighting since he was a teenager. Of course, he did not start as a soldier.

No matter which era, there were only a few who grew up from soldiers to generals. There were indeed such people, but in terms of number, they were far less than those generals who were born prominently.

The Cao family was naturally prominent, so when he started, he had a flag of troops, which was more than 200 people.

It was not that he could not be given more soldiers. This position was just a training for him, so that he knew how the bottom of the army operated.

The general officers had only one goal, that is, to make meritorious deeds, but for Cao Zheng, whether he made meritorious deeds or not was not important.

And the fact was indeed so.

Dangerous things were always done by officers and generals without backgrounds, and things with great merits and less dangers would always fall on his head.

After a few years, he climbed to the level of a soldier, a height that he might not be able to stand at even if he had ten lives.

This is the rule of the world. Even if you are stabbed many times on the battlefield and have made great achievements, it is impossible for you to rise to the top. On the contrary, if your achievements are too great, many people will tacitly suppress you...

Cao Zheng has adapted to this rule and is like a fish in water, so he always stands on the side of the vested interests and the stronger side.

Therefore, he has a good relationship with the Qingzhou aristocratic families. There are many in-laws between them. The aristocratic families also reciprocate and are optimistic about his future. They send him money, food, soldiers, generals, and counselors.

Therefore, he had a good relationship with the scholars in Qingzhou. He was treated with all kinds of courtesy. During festivals, he would visit the great scholars one by one. The scholars also reciprocated by spreading his good name or recommending their talented students to work under him...

Even though Yuan Chu publicly ridiculed him and wanted all kinds of garbage, his reputation in the world was not damaged much. Instead, he gained the favor of some poor scholars.

Some people even thought that if Cao Zheng treated people of poor birth with such courtesy, wouldn't he treat people of good birth with even more courtesy? !

So he had a reputation for being eager to seek talents.

But if he didn't get close to the literati and the great scholars, it would be another situation. People in the world would laugh at him, Cao Zheng, saying that he was hungry and didn't choose what to eat, and wild boars couldn't eat fine bran...

After all, for those who have the right to speak, it can be said that both sides are reasonable. As long as they are willing, black can become white, white can become black, heroes can become demons, and demons can become heroes...

All along, Cao Zheng has been getting bigger and bigger by relying on his understanding of the rules of the world, and he has reaped all the benefits.

But now, in just a few years, he has suddenly discovered that the wind direction of the world is changing, and it is beginning to change in a direction that he doesn't quite understand, or it is difficult to understand.

Not only is the South Wilderness changing, but the eleven states outside the South Wilderness are also changing.

Firearms have suddenly risen, and the merchants who were originally the lowest class are now showing a trend of emerging. This emergence does not mean having more wealth, but a higher status.

Originally, merchants had money but no power, but now, thanks to the court's large-scale sale of firearms to enrich the treasury, as long as they have money, they can buy firearms certified by the court. If anyone dares to stop them, it is treason.

In this case, the originally lowest merchants have legal power, and no matter what era it is, power is status.

This is also because Cao Zheng is not a modern person, not a time traveler, otherwise he would know that this is the embryo of the so-called big capital group...