"But if that's the case, when we really reach the northwest region and encounter the enemy, these 200,000 soldiers will definitely be defeated in one strike!”
He had experienced a few wars and had seen many deaths. He was especially dissatisfied with the people in the army who schemed against each other and disturbed unity.
"You can't avoid this situation. What we have to do is to try our best to ensure our own safety.”
"Everyone-"
"General Yang has ordered all officers to go to the military tent for a meeting. Please go immediately.”
At this moment, a messenger suddenly rushed over in a hurry. He didn't even bother to get off his horse as he cupped his fists and gave orders to the thirteen people.
"I'll go immediately."
Li Xiu Ning immediately stood up and didn't even look at Ye Fan. She looked down on this so-called General Zhenyuan.
Then, the commandants of the other prefectures, under Li Xiu Ning's lead, left the Zuo Yiwei's encampment.
Yang Yichen's military tent was set up in the General Department of the Right Yi Guard. All the officers above the rank of commandant in the twelve constabularies were gathered here.
"Come in."
After the thirty-six commandants and Ye Fan arrived, Yang Yichen's voice came from the military tent.
"Which one is Ye Fan?"
Yang Yichen stood in front of the map, turned around, and scanned the crowd.
"I am General Ye Fan. Greetings, General Yang.”
Yang Yichen was a respectable general, at least in Ye Fan's opinion.
"Ye Fan is the commander-in-chief of the alliance army personally appointed by the emperor. From now on, the alliance army of the twelve prefectures must listen to him.”
Yang Yichen announced calmly as if he was not announcing a very serious matter at all, but a trivial matter.
After hearing Yang Yichen's words, the thirty-six commandants, except for Li Xiu Ning and the others who had seen Ye Fan before, could not help but whisper.
That's true. Ye Fan was a person with no qualifications and no reputation. Who would be convinced that he was given such a high official position for no reason?
It was extremely difficult for others to be promoted. For example, Qin Qiong had experienced several battles with his son and was still a Rank-6 Guo Yi commandant.
However, Ye Fan did not do anything and directly became the Faraway General. He was above the thirty-six commandants. How could he not be angry?
Yang Yichen also seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Ye Fan. The process of the announcement was cold.
Ye Fan did not care at all.
He had expected this situation before he came.
After announcing Ye Fan's responsibilities, Yang Yichen arranged the battle plan of the twelve prefecture soldiers.
According to the arrangements, Ye Fan would lead an alliance of eighteen thousand soldiers from the twelve prefectures into the Eastern Turks 'territory under the cover of the expeditionary army.
Using the advantage of the steppe, the eighteen thousand soldiers marched through the Eastern Turks and reached Yiwu County within fifteen days.
An army of eighteen thousand men was like an ant on the vast steppe, barely noticeable. As long as they moved fast enough, they wouldn't disturb the local citizens and soldiers.
According to Yang Yichen's experience, it would take about ten days to travel from Wuyuan County to Yiwu County if they were to march rapidly. Considering the difficulty of the journey, Yang Yichen gave them fifteen days.
Starting from the abandoned city of Wuyuan County, they had to reach Yiwu County within fifteen days.
As for the expeditionary army, they would engage the Western Turkic army in Jiaohe Prefecture and Xiping Prefecture.
In the end, the 12 prefecture soldiers joined forces to replenish their rations from Shanshan County. After resting for two days, they marched northwest and headed straight for Sanmi Mountain.
Before reaching Shanshan County, the biggest difficulty was the natural barriers along the way. Man-made threats were not big, but after Shanshan County, many people's altitude sickness would increase.
Yang Yichen spoke for more than an hour. Although he spoke a lot, he was not long-winded at all. He accurately explained the key points and essence of this battle.
After hearing Yang Yichen's arrangements, Ye Fan could not help but be slightly shocked.
Could it be that Old Yang's power was so great that he could make the important officials of the court speak to the emperor and tell him their opinions, so that the emperor could adopt them?
"I will not fail my mission."
Ye Fan said confidently.
For some reason, Yang Yichen looked at him with disdain.
It was as if Ye Fan's confidence was just arrogance in his eyes.
In fact, in Yang Yichen's eyes, he indeed looked down on Ye Fan, a 'person with connections.'
Although he didn't know why Tian Zi valued a mere restaurant owner so much, Yang Yichen couldn't see anything outstanding about Ye Fan.
Therefore, in Yang Yichen's opinion, Ye Fan's confidence was just arrogance.
Yang Yichen's words once again caused an uproar among the commandants in the tent.
"General, I don't understand why the Emperor appointed a mere restaurant owner as the commander of the alliance army. Does he think that there's no one else in our army?”
A black-armored commandant immediately stood out from the crowd and said unhappily.
"That's right. Which one of you here isn't more experienced than him? Which one of them wasn't stronger than him? Why should he be the commander of the alliance army?"
"Looking at how weak he is, will he really lead troops to war?”
With one person taking the lead, the others could not help but echo.
"General Ye."
Suddenly, Li Xiu Ning, who had been silent all this while, stepped forward and cupped her fists.""We all want to see your ability. Why don't you move to the drill ground of the Right Yi Guard and show us your skills so that the soldiers can submit? Otherwise, such an arrangement will be difficult to convince the masses!”
Now that Li Xiuning had brought it up, Yang Yichen would naturally follow her words.
Although this was making things difficult for Ye Fan, Yang Yichen didn't think so. In his opinion, if Ye Fan didn't subdue these commandants today, even if he forced them to listen to Ye Fan in the future, there would be a lot of opinions and differences.
It was not that Ye Fan had not thought of such a situation before.
Therefore, he was very calm.
Previously, he said that the soldiers of the twelve prefectures were elites, but now that he saw the faces of these people, Ye Fan felt very disdainful.
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