Under the billowing wolf smoke, Neijiang City, the last border city of the Southern Tang Dynasty, also returned to the territory of the dynasty under the iron hooves of the Yunlu army.

Ji Tongxian, the nominal leader, took off his cloak and walked into the city lord's mansion, which was now empty, and a sense of pride and complacency arose in his heart.

patted his son's shoulder vigorously, Ji Tongxian felt that his beard was about to rise, "Four months, four months, the seventeen cities that the dynasty fell, all of them returned to the control of the dynasty, and they all said that the blue is better than the blue, your kid's ability to lead the troops, you really can't see the back of me, who is the old man."

Although the words in his mouth were jealous, his face was full of smiles, Ji Tongxian only thought that his son was smart, especially in managing government affairs, and his talent was extremely outstanding, but he never thought that the first time he led the troops to fight, Ji Shiyu showed such outstanding military ability

Ji Shiyu's calm face only showed a slight smile, "Those who use Taoism to support people, if they don't strengthen the world with soldiers, their affairs will be good." Strictly speaking, the local battle, although it is the Yunlu army in the siege of the city, in the final analysis, we are the real defender, and the elite power of the barbarians is not actually in the Southern Tang, although we won, the person was not defeated, his chessboard is the whole continent, my chessboard is only half of the Southern Tang, the pattern has already lost, the barbarian leader is the real genius, I am just taking advantage of the danger of people, picking up leaks。 ”

Ji Tongxian waved his hand, and said disapprerovantly, "Even so, you don't have to be arrogant, under the same situation, that one will walk much slower than you, if it weren't for the help of our Yun Army, they are only afraid that they are still wandering around in the middle of the dynasty at the moment, it is not easy for you to defeat the commander of the barbarian tribe on the local battlefield, after all, this is the first war you participated in."

Ji Shiyu didn't answer again, and said instead. The place where the division is, thorns are growing, after the army, there will be a fierce year, the people in these seventeen cities, the next son, is their most difficult time, if the aftermath is not handled well, or it will not be long before the southern part of the dynasty will become the situation of starvation more than 20 years ago, the order of the emperor is to let us go south, directly to the lair of the barbarians in the water, the work of resuming production in these dozen cities, it is necessary to ask my father to repair a book, and go to Que Jing to point officials who understand agriculture and water conservancy and construction, this war down, the hidden losses are not small compared to the casualties。 ”

Ji Tong frowned and nodded solemnly.

In the past, when these warriors were fighting, they only thought about fighting, and never cared about these so-called buildings, there were farmland, roads, and the loss of mountains and forests in the water, and when it was time to cross the river and demolish the bridge, they would cross the river and demolish the bridge, and when the food in the team was insufficient, they would go to the nearby farmland to requisition, push the houses that should be pushed, and set fire to the mountains to block the enemy troops, so they set fire to the mountains, and the flood drainage and impact the river below

When they do these things, they always think about how much damage they can do to the enemy, not whether the lives of the people in this area will be difficult in the future.

But in fact, no matter who occupies these cities, all they have to do is rule, except for a few crazy people who will choose to slaughter the city, the killing of the people will not be too much, most of the mortals, how to live, or how to live, on the contrary, these officials and soldiers in the name of recovering lost land, every time they are like locusts crossing the border, working people and losing money, everywhere they go, almost no grass grows.

If you think about it carefully, the reason why so many people died during the war years was that most of them were not killed by other people's swords and guns, but were starved to death.

Thinking of this, Ji Tongxian nodded heavily, and immediately walked into the depths of the City Lord's Mansion, heading straight in the direction of the study.

Looking at his father's departing back from a distance, Ji Shiyu shook his head and muttered softly, "If you are strong, you are old, because you are not good, and you are not good." Why do we, the old Chinese scholars, insist on breaking out of the borders?"

In the palace of Que Jingcheng, in his heart, Youlan looked at the latest battle report in his hand, and his heart was very good.

"In four months, all seventeen cities have been recovered, although there are not many soldiers and horses left by the barbarians, it seems that they can't retreat, but to be able to do this, this season Shiyu really still has two brushes. ”

Dongfang Bai next to him chuckled and said, "Jiang Ning, that kid, not only has a good talent and heart, but even this eye for people is also very good."

Youlan nodded and smiled.

Yunlu General Ji Tongxian was a famous general in the previous dynasty more than 20 years ago, and he naturally didn't have the ability to lead troops to fight, but if he wanted to rank the existing generals of the dynasty, he could only rank outside the ten, and this war in the south was very important, and he had a better candidate.

However, before Dabi ended, Jiang Ning secretly repaired a letter and sent it to the royal capital, and he didn't say anything superfluous, just said that if there was a war, Ji Shiyu would be of great use.

As the son of Ji Tongxian, the number one person of Ji Shiyu, you naturally knew early on that his intelligence and his reading of poetry and books His Majesty the God Emperor had naturally heard of it, but there were few large-scale wars in the Southern Tang Dynasty in the past 20 years, and the generals had not been replaced. Youlan's heart is even more bottomless.

Fortunately, firstly, the two of them have great trust in Jiang Ning, and secondly, Ji Shiyu has also shown some layout abilities beyond ordinary people in the country of the moon, plus those veterans who have been famous for a long time have not been able to attack the south of the dynasty for a long time, and Yulan has a heart, so he chose to believe in Jiang Ning and try it with Ji Shiyu first.

Looking at it now, this choice more than four months ago has brought him great gains.

Defending a city is easier than besieging it

The recovery of these seventeen cities not only means the integrity of the territory, but also means sufficient strategic depth, even if those barbarians now have the terrifying ability to leap in groups of millions of people, the situation is not optimistic for them when facing the siege of the embattled army.

Youlan smiled, "Speaking of which, it's better for our daughters to have a good eye."