Chapter 4 The Fang Family Brothers

The man doesn't flick when he has tears, just to get to the sad place.

Especially for Fang Ying.

At the beginning, when Fang Zheng was surrounded by the Luchuan army, he was able to run out of the country with Fang Zheng's ability to keep people.

It's just that Fang Zheng feels that when the war reaches this point, he wants to be responsible.

Leave thousands of brothers here, and he will go back himself. He would never do it, but he left the chance of life to Fang Ying, saying that he wanted Fang Ying to ask for help.

But what the result would be, Fang Zheng probably had predicted a long time ago.

For the sake of her father, Fang Ying hurried all the way to Mu Sheng's army and begged bitterly, but Mu Sheng refused to send troops. As a result, a few days later, Lu Chuan returned Fang Zheng's body.

Fang Zheng died in battle, what else could the corpse that was trampled by an elephant look like.

Fang Ying and Fang Jin had the intention of killing the Mu family at that time.

But it can't.

The father is gone, and the hope of supporting the lintel of the Fang family falls on them.

At the beginning, the Mu family also pretended to comfort the Fang family and bury Fang Zheng.

But with Mu Sheng's suicide, many people in the Mu family blamed the Fang family for this incident, although Mu Ang was still reasonable, but he couldn't stop the rest of the Mu family from treating the other family differently.

While the Mu family put the Fang family and the Northwest Frontier Army that followed Fang Zheng into a separate book, they had to use it because of the combat effectiveness of these border troops.

On the one hand, the Fang brothers had to bear the white eyes of the Mu family, and under the command of Mu Ang, they charged into battle.

This feeling made the Fang family's heart ten times more hot than Mu Ang's nest.

But so what?

Behind Mu Ang is the entire Mu family, he dares to make a decision with Meng Ying, but what is behind the Fang family? Fang Zheng is no longer there. No matter how aggrieved you are, you have to endure it.

The two have already tried to find a way to transfer themselves out of Yunnan.

Although they hate Luchuan, they hate the Mu family even more.

Of course, I want to take revenge, but this situation is too embarrassing.

The Fang family brothers naturally knew that Meng Ying and Fang Zheng might not really have any friendship with each other. But thinking about it, it may not be, after all, when Jingnan was in trouble, Fang Zheng was already a thousand households in Jining, and the Jingnan army had hundreds of thousands of troops, but the officer of Qianhu was also a middle-level officer. Meng Ying was also a prominent figure in the army at that time. It is not necessarily that there is no friendship.

As for why Fang Zheng didn't mention it.

Naturally, before Fang Zheng died in battle, the Hou Meng family in Baoding had no intention of making a comeback. Needless to say, naturally.

As for whether this is true or false, the two brothers will never check it.

Anyway, Meng Ying asked them to call Uncle Shi, which means that they have backers.

Meng Ying comforted the two and asked the two of them to stop their tears.

Meng Ying said: "What is the strategy that the two of you have formulated for me

What do you see? ”

The Fang family brothers glanced at each other. Fang Ying said: "Since Uncle Shi asked, the little nephew didn't dare not say it, if Uncle Shi followed the method, the battle of Luchuan would definitely be protracted." ”

Meng Ying said: "Oh, let's talk about it carefully. ”

Fang Ying said: "Uncle Shi has been in the Central Plains for a long time, and I have never seen the mountains of Yunnan, especially near the left of the Lujiang River, the mountains are too steep, and it is simply dangerous. Blocked by a mountain, it is difficult to leap, from Yongchang to Luchuan, although it is recent, but the natural danger is heavy. Luchuan only needs to defend the terrain, and our army will lose troops in the mountains. ”

"If you want to repair, it won't take a few years, and the little nephew thinks that if you don't use more than 100,000 people, you may not be able to turn this place into a thoroughfare."

The Lujiang River is the Nu River of later generations. And the mountain range in this section of the Nu River has a famous name, that is, the Hengduan Mountains. If you have studied geography a little, you will know what kind of danger it is.

Even during the anti-Japanese period, the Japanese occupied Tengchong, but they could not cross the Nu River to attack Yunnan. And in this era, the banks of the Nu River are only more desolate and more difficult to navigate.

Even if the Luchuan people don't know how to defend anymore, relying on the terrain and defending layer by layer, they will not make the Ming army feel better.

Meng Ying said: "Then what do you think is the best policy?" ”

Fang Ying said: "From the south road, from the old road of King Qianning. ”

Fang Ying was very dissatisfied with the Mu family, but she had to accept Mu Ying, how did Mu Ying subdue Luchuan, that is, Jingdong waited for work, broke the army of more than 100,000 in Luchuan, and then chased after the plough court and swept the cave, so that Luchuan had to surrender.

And when the Hengduan Mountains reach the east of Luchuan, there is only one remaining vein left.

But further southeast, there is none, that is, the southeast direction of the Luchuan River, although the mountains are still rugged, but compared with the Hengduan Mountains, where the birds can cross, the terrain is much easier to walk.

Meng Ying nodded and smiled slightly, although she didn't speak, she could see that Meng Ying still recognized the ability of this newly recognized nephew.

Seeing this, Fang Jin seemed to be encouraged, and said: "Uncle Shi, the northerners are fighting in Yunnan, and there is another point to pay attention to, Yunnan is very hot in summer and autumn, and the northerners are unbearable, so it is best to choose to fight in winter and spring." ”

"It's the first month of the year. There are not many months left to really fight, and if it continues like this, it will have to wait until this winter. ”

Meng Ying said: "Do you think you can't fight in a few months?" ”

Fang Jin said: "May. Around May, the northerners will not fight. ”

This is very important, because the local soldiers in Yunnan are not enough, and the main force under Meng Ying is the northerners. Whether the northerners can adapt to the climate of Yunnan is directly related to the victory or defeat of this battle.

Meng Ying nodded and said, "Brother Fang has a successor." ”

Did the Fang brothers really not know what Meng Ying was talking about?

No, you must know that Meng Ying's original place of exile was Yunnan, he stayed in Yunnan for several years, and he also understood the climate of Yunnan.

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It's just a test for the two of them.

Although he is willing to be the backer of the two of them, the premise is that the two of them are capable people, otherwise after today, Meng Ying's attitude towards the two of them will be greatly reduced.

Meng Ying turned her head and said to Tao Zhan, "Master Tao, what do you think?" ”

Tao Zan didn't dare to say a word, and said: "The lower official doesn't dare, whatever the general says, the lower official just copys." ”

"Okay." Meng Ying said: "You have been in Yunnan for a long time, if the army builds roads, how many people can you recruit?" ”

Tao Zan hesitated slightly and said, "It depends on whether the Mu family supports it or not." ”

The corners of Meng Ying's mouth hooked slightly, and said, "Do you dare not support the Mu family?" ”

Tao Zan secretly said in his heart: "Kuye, you two big guys fight, why bother to let people get caught in?" But he didn't dare not say it, he calculated it and said: "Dali Mansion, Yongchang Mansion, and even Tusi in various places can probably recruit 50,000 people." ”

"Okay." Meng Ying said: "Fang Ying, you leave your headquarters to Fang Jin, I will draw two guards under your command, and you escort these 50,000 people Yongchang to the road to Lujiang, and you want to make a big noise, with the intention of tens of thousands of troops." ”

Fang Ying said: "Yes." ”

"Fang Jin." Meng Ying said: "You take your father's old department, quietly return to Kunming, and garrison the camp outside the city, to hide your identity and not let people know." ”

"Your brother is back, I will naturally send someone to guard it, you don't have to worry."

Under Meng Ying's dispatch, the most effective army in Yunnan, the old department of Fang Zheng, that is, the old foundation of the northwest border army, and Meng Ying directly governed the Beijing camp. There are also those who dare to fight selected from the Southern Guard, all of which add up to more than 30,000.

As for the rest of the army. The Yunnan army was guarded in various places, and most of the troops that could be used were about 10,000, less than 100,000, all of which were in Jingdong.

Part of it is on Fang Ying's back road. The rest are scattered in various important places to guard, you must know that Luchuan is in turmoil, and many toasts are not stable, which needs to be suppressed. If not, it will all be suppressed by force. The Mu family could only draw tens of thousands of horses to fight back against Luchuan before.

There are nearly 200,000 mobile troops that can be used, and if you count the soldiers and horses guarding the towns and horses in various places, the army is called 300,000, and there is not much water.

The Fang family brothers seemed to understand something, but they didn't seem to understand.

Meng Ying said: "The style of the predecessors is worth emulating by the younger generations. Until then, you need to be calm. ”

Who is this senior?

Naturally, it was Mu Ying.

In other words, Meng Ying's main direction of attack has always been the south road, not the north road.

But Meng Ying obviously handed over this group of people to Mu Ang. The Fang family brothers were confused for a while, feeling unfathomable, but Meng Ying was a young general who was active on the battlefield, and the two did not dare to question Meng Ying, and said, "My nephew understands. ”

As for whether it is true or false, God knows.