Just when the Apocalypse was changing the system in Beijing to implement the new concept, the Minister of Military Aircraft and the five southwestern provinces marched to Guizhou on the 15th day of the first lunar month, preparing to join Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao, who had gone there last year. In the first year of the Apocalypse and the second year of the Apocalypse, Yongning Xuanfu Si Xuan Chongming and Shuixi Tusi An Bangyan raised troops respectively, and they took advantage of the Ming army's bitter battle against the Jurchens when they had no time to take care of it, led their troops to kill officials and rebelled and announced the establishment of the Great Liang State, captured Luzhou, Chongqing and other places and besieged Chengdu and Guiyang successively. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here.

After several years of defense of Chengdu, Chongqing reconquest, and Guiyang, the Ming army has now passed the most difficult moment, slowly compressing from the three directions of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. Yunnan general soldier Mu Tianbo stuck to the area of Qujing and Wuding, and Sichuan general soldier Qin Liangyu restored Luzhou and Xuzhou to deploy defenses along the river, and joined Zhu Xieyuan stationed in Guiyang in Zunyi, compressing luxury Chongming and An Bangyan in the area west of the Yachi River and east of the Jinsha River≥.

Gao Di first went to Huguang Province and learned that there were already more than 5,000 people who had been ordered to follow Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao to Zunyi a year ago, and he did not go south to Guangxi without Wang, and requisitioned more than 5,000 people in Guangxi to go west to Guizhou and come to Guiyang. In Guiyang Gaodi, he met Zhu Xieyuan and Cai Fuyi, as well as Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao, and he immediately announced the decree without saying a word, appointing Cai Fuyi, the governor of Yunnan, and Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Guizhou, as his deputies, and assisting him in Guiyang, the five provinces, to deploy manpower to quell the rebellion v Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao were stationed in Guiyang and Zunyi, and took turns to train soldiers and horses in the five provinces.

Zhu Xieyuan, who had missed a good opportunity to eliminate the rebellion because of the loophole caused by the duplication of duties with Cai Fuyi, was now the governor of Guizhou and the governor of Huguang, and it was interesting to see that the imperial court sent Gao Di to take charge. Zhu Xieyuan has been doing things in the local area, and he looks down on a civilian official like Gao Di who is in charge of military affairs in his heart, he looks down on the old and rough soldiers who can only dance guns and sticks on the weak scholars, and the soldiers look down on the scholars because they think that the scholars can only move their mouths and not their hands, and Zhu Xieyuan's contempt for Gao Di is that he thinks that Gao Di will not do anything but do it, and it is only a matter of time before he loses his ugliness.

After Gao Di finished arranging, he asked, "Is there anything you don't know?" This time, we have to put down the rebellion according to the arrangements of the Military Affairs Yuan, and we cannot make our own decisions as we please. If there is something you don't understand, say it first, and if you can solve the coordination, you will try to solve the coordination, and if you can't solve the coordination, the official will ask for help according to the facts. ”

Zhu Xieyuan saw that Gao Di was not responsible, and he smiled secretly in his heart, but asked with a straight face: "The extravagant and An rebels are already the turtles in the cage, and they only need elite soldiers to go and arrest ♀ them, General Zhang and General Zhao have brought a total of 70,000 people, when are Gao Daren going to send troops to quell the rebellion?" Xiaguan and others absolutely do not make their own opinions, and must obey orders. ”

Gao Di looked at Zhu Xieyuan and saw that his face was calm and sincere, so he replied very sincerely: "Among these 70,000 people, there are 5,000 guards in Huguang and 5,000 guards in Guangxi. ”

Zhu Xieyuan nodded and said: "The combat effectiveness of the Weisuo Army is indeed not optimistic, but there are still 60,000 elite soldiers transferred from the Liaodong front, there should be no problem to deal with Hao Chongming and An Bangyan, although the rebels claim to be more than 100,000, but the real combat effectiveness does not exceed 50,000, these 60,000 people should have no problem dealing with 50,000 rebels." ”

Gao Di shook his head and said: "These 60,000 can't be pulled out to fight, of which 30,000 have never fought since training, and 30,000 are specialized in repairing houses, building houses, building bridges and repairing roads, and to eliminate the rebels, you have to rely on the local army." You have been fighting the rebels for several years, and the soldiers in your hands should be veterans of a hundred battles, and it is only a matter of time before the rebels are defeated. ”

Zhu Xieyuan didn't feel anything, maybe he was a little older and more mature, so he only hid his opinions in his heart, and he just smiled when he heard Gao Di say that the 70,000 people he brought would not go to the battlefield for the time being, but Cai Fuyi next to him couldn't help it. Cai Fu was the governor of Yunnan and the governor of Sichuan in his fifties, and the young man was promoted and promoted one after another, and he was most unaccustomed to people who occupied the pit and did not, so he asked unhappily on the spot: "I don't know what the imperial court sent these 70,000 people here for?" Guizhou Yunnan is mountainous and the production is not abundant, and it is not easy for 70,000 idlers to solve their food and clothing! ”

Gao Di is a civil official himself, and after staying in Ningyuan for a year, he has long developed a character of pampering and not being shocked, and he can turn a deaf ear to Cai Fuyi's ridicule, Gao Di's style Cai Fuyi and both of them are mentally prepared, but what they didn't expect was the abnormal calm of Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao. Generally speaking, as long as someone doubts the ability of his subordinates, the chief officer will be very angry and feel that he is doubting himself, but the calmness of Zhang and Zhao seems that something is wrong. Zhu Xieyuan said to Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao: "Lord Cai has no ill will towards the two generals, he just told everyone about the current situation here, please don't mind the two generals." ”

Zhang Jingan said lightly: "We are all soldiers, and the emperor requires soldiers to only be loyal and obedient, so I don't mind or don't mind." ”

Cai Fuyi is a real person, originally he thought that as long as he concentrated his forces to fight a few decisive battles with the rebels, there would be no problem in restoring the original appearance of Guizhou, of course, it is better to have reinforcements than no reinforcements. At the end of the year, the reinforcements came but they had to wait for Gao Di, who knew that Gao Di would not fight when he came, he wanted to use words to arouse Zhang Jing'an's fighting spirit, who knew that Zhang Jing'an was not excited at all, and Zhao Shujiao didn't even answer the conversation, which made Cai Fuyi very dissatisfied. Cai Fuyi didn't have the habit of giving up halfway, he thought for a while and continued to ask: "Since Mr. Zhang said that there is only loyalty and obedience, I don't know what actions you are going to use to show your loyalty and obedience when you come here?" ”

Zhang Jing'an glanced at Zhao Shujiao and said: "The purpose of the last general is to hold on, and the purpose of General Zhao is to repair houses and roads, but this is our secondary purpose, our main purpose is to train the army, so that they can learn to repair houses and roads, and finally put down the rebellion." ”

Cai Fuyi was so angry when he heard Zhang Jing'an's words that he almost laughed out loud, you have tens of thousands of people coming in but you don't do it, you don't do it, you don't say anything, you want to let the army here learn from you, do you want to teach all the troops to be as idle as you?

Zhu Xieyuan couldn't help it at this time, and asked Gao Di: "Lord Gao, I don't know how the two general soldiers will train the army?" Guizhou has many mountains, many roads, and many loopholes, and the original army here is closely defended everywhere, and it is afraid that something will happen if people are drawn. ”

Gao Di frowned and asked, "I heard that the total number of troops from Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou provinces to quell the rebellion is 200,000, can't you draw 510,000 people every time?" ”

Zhu Xieyuan said: "The terrain of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces is difficult to travel, and Sichuan has a Shu road that is difficult to go to the blue sky, and it is said that it is difficult to defend more than 100,000 rebels in such a complicated place, and 200,000 people have already done their best, please consider carefully." ”

Seeing Gao Di bowing his head in contemplation, at this time, Zhao Shujiao, who had not spoken for a long time, spoke, and said: "If you keep more, there will be more loopholes, and if you don't keep it, you can give up and find a good place to guard." ”

Cai Fu saw that Zhao Shujiao didn't talk much at first, thinking that he was old and more serious, who knew that Zhao Shujiao actually said that the place that was not good to guard could be returned to find a good place to guard, Cai Fuyi said loudly in anger: "Mr. Zhao really sits and talks without pain in his waist, do you know how many people we had to die in order to grab a key level?" As you say, you may save some troops, but do you know that leaving a checkpoint is likely to have to exit for dozens of miles, so that the encirclement will become larger, and in the end, the gains will outweigh the losses! ”

Zhao Shujiao wondered in his heart, I'm not excited as a person who leads troops to fight, why are you a civil official who is a skinny man? Because he was dissatisfied with Cai Fuyi's tone, Zhao Shujiao said: "Don't get excited, Lord Cai, we will definitely not give up the key position easily, but there is no need to divide the troops too far apart at the intersection where the number is too dense." The last general said that giving up the place that is not easy to defend does not mean that we must retreat, we can completely combine forward and backward, how convenient and how to come. The only thing that needs to be complied with is what Master Gao said to draw some people out for training, which is the decision of the Military Affairs Yuan and the emperor's will. ”

Seeing Zhao Shujiao move out of the Military Affairs Institute and the emperor, Cai Fuyi didn't continue to speak, just sat on the side and panted for breath. Zhu Xieyuan thought for a while and asked: "General Zhao said that you can retreat or advance, the problem is that if you advance, you may be attacked by the enemy, if you don't fight, then who will you find to help you destroy the enemy now?" ”

Zhang Jing'an saw that Zhu Xieyuan and Cai Fuyi were dissatisfied as soon as they met, and they were always picking on thorns inside and outside the words, which made people very uncomfortable - when he saw that Gao No. 1 had nothing to do with himself, he said softly to Gao Di: "It's better for Master Gao to have an idea as a strategy for the five provinces, when will such a dispute be over?" It's probably not a good sign that your own people are fighting endlessly before they start fighting. ”

Gao Di shook his head and said, "Why did this official come here to serve as the governor of the five provinces?" Isn't it because the official doesn't like to manage too much? In this war, it is still necessary for each to perform its own duties, and it is a big problem for laymen to interfere with insiders≤ and the Military Affairs Yuan has already decided, and you have the final say on how to fight the war, and the duty of this officer is to convey the instructions from above, coordinate the personnel and horses in various places, reflect your difficulties upwards, and discuss specific matters. ”

Zhang Jing'an thought for a while and said: "Lord Cai, Lord Zhu, we just came here and don't know the specific situation, and we can't understand it. ”

Zhu Xieyuan thought about it for a while, and it was really not interesting to talk in the vernacular, so he discussed with Cai Fuyi in a low voice and asked someone to take out the map and spread it on the table, Gao Di looked at them with a smile and still didn't speak, just picked up tea and drank a few sips from time to time.

Zhang Jing'an and Zhao Shujiao also discussed in a low voice for a while, and then said: "Our plan is that I and General Zhao will divide our troops and train some people to come out first, and tens of thousands of people will not be able to spread out in one direction, and after training some people, we can go from Zunyi, Xuzhou to Zhenxiong Pass, and surround the enemy in Zhenxiong, Qujing, Guiyang, Zunyi and other places." [Serialized, stay tuned...] This book is provided by (apread.genuine, please support genuine)

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