Wang Yan fanned the fan, lifted the tea on the table and took a sip of the tea, "It's Mayday, this ghost weather is cold and cold enough, and hot and hot." I, an idler, came to study behind closed doors in January, and my ears were quiet, but I didn't expect to see you so impatient and hot as soon as I came out? ”

Everyone looked at each other.

Wang Yan said again: "Call all the representatives of the people outside in." ”

"It's not good...... "The clerks of several county offices said vaguely.

Wang Yan fanned his fan and said, "Do you know why you guys are messing up?" Do you know why you don't have a backbone? ”

After looking around, Wang Yan knocked on the table and said, "Because you are still detached from the masses, you don't know what they think, you don't want to face problems, you don't want to solve the doubts in their hearts. ”

A priest hugged his fists and said: "My lord, the objective fact that the battle on the front line is unfavorable and the morale of the army is declining exists, lest it shake the hearts of the people in our county, so it is not that we don't care about the people, but it is not appropriate to scare them at this time, otherwise it is easy to cause chaos......"

But he couldn't finish speaking, and many representatives of the people had already come in, so it was inconvenient for him to go on.

Wang Yan didn't say anything about the priest, and after reading everyone along the way, he pointed to the squeezed military newspaper on the table, and said to the people's representatives: "For the time being, I can't say anything one, two, three, you wait for me to see the situation first." I, like all of you, was still reading the literature of the stall for a quarter of an hour, saying 'The Great Demon King didn't dare to move in Western Xia for a word, and the Xiangyou Military Division retreated thirty miles in a hurry'. Am I that good? ”

"Hehe......" The atmosphere was a little more relaxed, and everyone laughed unconsciously.

"It's really so powerful, what else do you want the country to do, isn't it enough to have me alone? However, no, I have always relied on you, every deployment I have made is carried out by you, every achievement I have made is made by you, and we are an interdependent collective, an organization. Wang Yan pointed at everyone.

All of them straightened their waists.

"I read these military newspapers in the vernacular while reading them, and you also listen to them when I am tutoring, even if you are tutoring." Wang Yan began to pick up the army to read.

"I'm afraid that's not right...... This is a military secret. Geng Tianqiu hurriedly frowned and stopped.

Wang Yan waved his hand and said: "It's not a secret for me to see, the more you deploy and command, the more you can't distribute the front-line soldiers, and you must learn to let go of those who should let go." The front-line soldiers are also considered to be exercises, I have repeatedly emphasized that we must be self-reliant, don't wait for orders from above for everything, don't count on me for everything, what if I am not here in the northwest one day, is it true that I said a word, and Xixia retreated thirty miles? If so, then what else does Funing County want you to do? ”

After a pause, Wang Yan knocked on the table and said: "Don't want to hide everything, don't be afraid that the people will know, the more mysterious you are, the more they will not be low, the more they will speculate, and the more they will listen to the propaganda of those few voices with ulterior motives." ”

"If you have a problem, you have to take it out. If the war is not good, we must face it squarely, find the cause and correct the mistakes. Speaking of this, Wang Yan slapped the table and said: "Don't think about reporting good news and not bad news, don't think about hiding from the people, and seek truth from facts." ”

At this point, he stood up and pointed to the representatives of the people, and said to Lu Huiqing: "Their son is bleeding on the battlefield and fighting for the country on behalf of His Majesty the Great Emperor. Who gave you the right to maintain stability and conceal the situation of their sons! ”

The people applauded and cheered.

Mu Guiying was shocked, there was no specific countermeasure, and he didn't achieve victory, but the big demon king is the big demon king, and he recovered half of the army's morale and morale as soon as he appeared on the stage.

Lu Huiqing was depressed for a while, looked at Da Yan and said with the eyes unique to politicians: After all, why do you want to step on me?

Wang Yan really understood what he meant, shrugged his shoulders and said with his eyes: The child only hits his own, don't blame me, the way to calm the anger of the public must be to kick his own bear child in front of outsiders, this is for your own good, for your sake.

"......" Lu Huiqing could also understand the eyes of the Great Demon King, lowered his head and never spoke again.

Next, first, for Wang Yan to understand for himself, and for the people to listen, he read out the backlog of military reports in public.

The whole Berlin Chen Ergou Department is trying and making mistakes, is getting familiar with the terrain, and is getting familiar with the tactics and characteristics of the horse thief army through more than a dozen engagements. Although there were no obvious losses, no results were achieved.

The two battalions of Ma Jinxi and Zhanzhao, who retreated to the west of the Yulin River, faced the pressure of the main force of more than 2,050 horse thieves, and the overall battle losses were not light, and they were close to three percent.

So except for Wang Yan, everyone's looks were very bad.

Silent Shaoqing Wang Yan said: "Objectively and realistically, the situation is not good. But it's far from the time to shout pills. Don't look at the wind and sigh, don't rejoice when you hear good things, and shrink back when you encounter a little difficulty. In the campaign to suppress bandits, our Great Song Dynasty invested three main battle battalions and three reserve battalions, totaling 1,500 soldiers. At present, no major results have been achieved, and the overall casualties have been calculated. The supply of the hinterland is difficult, and the Yulin estuary cannot be defended. ”

If you can't hold it, it means that you will face a siege for a short time, so everyone looks at each other.

Wang Yan changed his words and said: "But don't be afraid, because there are still everyone supporting me, because the main combat force of my Funing Army is still there." There are victories and defeats, and I don't want to lie to people now, and I don't want to make predictions about the final results. However, I still believe that there is absolutely no basis for confirming defeat now, given that we are famous and represent the interests of the broadest masses of the people in the entire border area. ”

"Don't bother with the rumors outside, don't bother with the floods outside, take your place and do your own thing. You believe me, as the son of the prime minister, I have a lot of money, I have a good life, so I am more afraid of death than any of you here, if there is really an unfavorable signal of dark clouds, I will not let everyone go to death in vain regardless of the facts, I swear in the honor of my ancestors, when it is time to retreat, the old, weak, sick and disabled in Funing County will go first, although I and the civil servants will also escape, but we will definitely evacuate after you. I don't promise to win the war, but it's a promise. ”

Thunderous applause!

At the last moment, Wang Yan got up and said: "The state of Funing County has risen to the top, except for the necessary industries in this state, all production will be stopped, and all units, including but not limited to factories, schools, and chambers of commerce, have organized self-help programs to train their own personnel to deal with the current situation, self-examination, and guard against the infiltration and all adverse effects of hostile forces during the war." Under the leadership and supervision of the people's representatives and messengers, one-third of the militia forces maintained law and order, and one-third of the forces drove out of Funing County, cooperating with the Di Yong Department operating in the west to strengthen propaganda on the grassland. One-third of the force is based on the principle of preserving its own survival, and tries to penetrate deep into the heart of the enemy's theater of operations as a civilian attitude, providing as much intelligence and supplies as possible for the two subordinate barracks you are maneuvering for. ”

"Send an army report to the whole Berlin and Chen Ergou Division, and from then on, they will attack freely, and the whole Berlin tactics will be the mainstay, except that there is no need to accept the command, and the timing of the battlefield and the personal judgment of the whole Berlin shall prevail. Under the principle of survival, they gradually intervened in the activities of destroying the logistics line of the main force of the horse thieves and gradually intervened in the protection of the herdsmen and civilians in the enemy-occupied areas. However, before the order for the general attack is issued, it is not allowed to take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the horse thieves in the formation. ”

"Send an army report to Zhanzhao and Ma Jinxi, and the tactics from then on are not for the purpose of 'holding the mouth of the Yulin River', not for the purpose of protecting Funing County, the battlefield situation is subject to Ma Jinxi's personal judgment, hard fighting is not allowed, retreat and maneuver are allowed, but it is not advisable to be too far away from the enemy's main force, and adopt the kite-flying strategy of the enemy advancing and retreating, and the enemy retreating and we advance. As long as they dare, let the main force of the horse thieves cross the Yulin River, and once again lengthen the supply line of the horse thieves army to cooperate with the harassment of the whole Berlin department. It is necessary to take advantage of the advantages of mobility and equipment range, break the thread, tightly bite the main force of the horse thief army, and no longer restrict tactics except for not allowing decisive battles and hard encounters. ”

The whole is upright.

Lu Huiqing leaned in and whispered, "Students think that your move is too decentralized, and it is easy to cause the horse thief army to attack my county?" ”

Wang Yan replied in a low voice: "I'm afraid that they won't come, and when they come, at that time, I have at least 2,000 flintlock guns in Funing County, and they can be eaten up in street battles." ”

Lu Huiqing wanted to say that there would be sacrifices and great economic impact, but after thinking about it again, how could there be no impact on fighting, the rule of the Great Demon King is that someone has everything, so he could only nod his head and confirm the Great Demon King's tactics......

By the end of April, the Funing Army, which was no longer responsible for the defense area, was under light pressure on its troops, and relied on the advantage of equipment to enter a state of mobility and autonomy, and since then there has been no report of defeat.

In fact, the soldiers of the Zhanzhao Department and the Ma Jinsi Department were very grateful to the Great Demon King's benevolence, and allowed the retreat without taking the Yulin River estuary as a point of gain and loss, which largely avoided the continuous casualties of the soldiers and regained the superior characteristics of the cavalry.

At the same time, the whole Berlin and Chen Ergou departments, which are gradually adapting to the situation in the hinterland, have also gained greater autonomy.

Due to the deepening of Di Yong's propaganda work, both the Song people and the border people in this area can now be said to have done their best to support the Funing army to suppress bandits, and in some areas where the terrain is complex and convenient to hide, hundreds or thousands of border people often send materials to the Funing army, looking for opportunities to besiege and kill lone horse thieves.

Relying on the routes and information provided by them, the two mobile battalions of the whole Berlin Division, which had adapted to the situation, began to gradually achieve results by the end of April, and blocked the logistics line of the horse thief army three times, resulting in an infinite increase in the logistical pressure of the main force of the horse thief army dragged by Ma Jinxi's troops.

After nearly two months of war until now, the three mountains and seven villages are also very confused, and they can't figure out what the Funing army wants to do, it is obviously the war they provoked, they are the attackers, but the Funing army neither attacks the city nor conducts large-scale battles, it is like flies around all day long.

Continuing until now, it is obviously not good for the horse thieves to drag it out. Because the materials in the three mountains and seven villages are limited after all, there are more and more border people who "rebel", and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger. Logistics is facing unprecedented pressure, but the Funing Army is gradually returning to disadvantage, and the Funing Army seems to be fighting more and more?

This is because the propaganda work will be sown at a certain time, and the general trend of anti-banditry has already taken shape in the border areas, and this is not only the "radar," but also the withdrawal of Di Yong's two mixed battalions from the propaganda positions and the formal use of afterburner posture to the front-line battlefield......

At the beginning of June of the second year of Jiayou, the 2,300 main forces of the horse thief army, which had a premonition that they could not afford to drag it off and were already extremely tired, planned to fight a quick battle, officially break away from the Yulin River area and go deeper, intending to go straight to Funing County.

If they could uproot the county seat of Funing, they felt that they would be able to win the final victory in this war.

On June 11, the main force of the thief army approached Funing County, but was sniped by 37 heavy artillery pieces that were improvised and the army was in turmoil and collapsed!

Di Yong's department, Zhanzhao department, and Ma Jinxi's department, a total of four battalions of troops, took the opportunity to beat the water dogs, and tightly bit the main force of the defeated thief army to chase and fight, and won seven battles and seven victories.

On 17 June, the thieves were wounded and wounded, and their morale almost collapsed, so they retreated to the mouth of the Yulin River in an attempt to cross the river and escape back to their lair.

The main force of the horse thief army was helplessly blocked at the mouth of the Yulin River and could not be crossed, and the four battalions such as Di Yong in the rear chased it, and attacked before and after, and the remnants of the defeated army were all wiped out at the mouth of the Yulin River......

"Newspaper—"

On June 18, the messenger sent to Funing County to report to Lu Huiqing, and the Funing army won a great victory at the mouth of the Yulin River, completely annihilating the main force of the horse thief army of 1,900 and capturing countless war horses.

Lu Huiqing was overjoyed and announced the county's celebration. In order to commemorate the basic victory of the anti-bandit war, Erya announced a promotion on the same day, such as the six veins of the divine palm, the sword of the six veins, the finger of the yang and other cheats sold as low as three folds......

At the end of June, it officially entered a state of major counteroffensive. Wang Yan shouted the slogan of "removing tyranny and liberating the border people", and promised to divide the land and ensure that all the seized materials would be used for the border people, and for a time he organized nearly 9,000 border people to form a militia, under the leadership and command of the six battalions of the Funing Army, to attack the city and pull out the villages, sweep away the leaves in the wind, and uproot the forces of the three mountains and seven villages that had been entrenched here for 40 years in one fell swoop......