Seeing that everyone in Xichuan had come over, Li Tingzhi realized that he was a little reckless, hurriedly walked a few steps, and said apologetically to Changsun Hong: "My lord's forgiveness, Li listened to my lord's talk about the wonderful use of the canal, and I was fascinated for a while, and I couldn't help but clap my hands and say yes, I offended my lord, please forgive me." ”

Where does Changsun Hong care about this, he looked at Li Tingzhi with a smile, and said in his heart that in the future, Jia Rudao's first adviser actually apologized to me, isn't this God helping me? Jia seems to be the way, Jia is like the road, I originally wanted to communicate with you, hoping to pull you up before sliding into the abyss, but you treat Lao Tzu's kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs, and you want to find me in trouble, then don't blame me.

He immediately took a step forward, getting closer to Li Tingzhi, and laughed loudly: "This official Rongzhou regimental training envoy Sun Hong, a minor official, deserves the title of an adult, but Lord Li is a senior staff member next to Lord Meng, and he can listen to my fallacies, but don't make fun of me." ”

"Where, where." Li Tingzhi is also young, he was praised by Changsun Hong and became happy, he was originally a person who loves talents, and he already had a good impression when he heard Changsun Hong's talk just now, and people who have the ability to cherish each other, so that the impression of Changsun Hong is better.

So he couldn't help but ask: "I heard that the eldest grandson is quite handsome, lives in the southwest, and has never been an official in Beijing, why is he so familiar with the canals in the south?" ”

"It is true that I have never been to the south, but a good man has ambitions in all directions, and since he is in the army to defend the country, of course he must be familiar with military books and know astronomy and geography. The canal is the foundation of our country, and it should be familiar. Changsun Hong smiled and said: "Although I am a Han Chinese, I was born in a barbarian realm, I was poor when I was young, I had no money to study, and I relied on working for a rich family to listen to the window and learn calligraphy, and in the long run, I also understand these truths." ”

"Oh?" Li Tingzhi's impression of Changsun Hong suddenly improved a little.

Although the printing technology of the Song Dynasty has been very developed, printing books is very popular, the current gold owner of Changsun Hong, Rui Fuxiang, is a big shop that made a fortune by making paper, but although there are many books, there are still few literate people.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the popularity of education, and the poor are not enough to eat and wear, so where is the surplus money to send their children to private fasting to study?

Li Tingzhi's family background is not good, he suffered a lot when he was a child, a child of a poor family, he worked hard a little better than ordinary people, and finally became a talent by relying on his perseverance.

"It turns out that the eldest grandson is a member of the Han family, and he should take care of the Han family's affairs, and he should know everything about the mountains and rivers of the Great Song Dynasty." Li Tingzhi asked again: "My lord has lived in Xichuan for a long time, I assisted Lord Meng to live in Jinghu for a long time, the two places are a strip of water, two years ago I went to the north and south, I also went to Gongzhou with Lord Meng, and I have an understanding of the terrain of Sichuan, but after all, I am not a local, some specific places, it is not very much, Yu Wang Kui's strategy of locking the mountain city and locking the river, I am puzzled, I don't know if the adults understand?" ”

Eldest Sun Hong almost laughed, thinking that you were asking the right person.

Talking about other things, maybe I, a halfway monk, can't talk about you, but when it comes to the mountain castle Suochuan, then I won't lose to anyone in this era. Because this strategy is what I taught Wang Kui.

"Of course I know, I know too much." The eldest grandson raised his chin, making a profound, and with a little deliberate humility, although the discerning person saw that the modesty was false, and the praise was true: "This strategy is exactly what I dedicate to Lord Wang." ”

"Huh? Really? Li Tingzhi was taken aback, took a step back, and looked up and down: "It was brought up by Lord Eldest Sun?" ”

Pretending to be forced is such an effect, otherwise how could a fierce man like Li Tingzhi admire himself? If you are impressed, if you show your hands again, it will become a convincing, and after convincing, it will be much simpler to accept it.

After Meng Heng went to Beijing, he would be suppressed by the imperial court, and a generation of famous generals resigned in grief and anger, and died of depression a few months later, and recommended Li Tingzhi to Jia Nidao before he died, and Li Tingzhi followed Jia Nidao and embarked on the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was not allowed by Changsun Hong.

There is no shortage of generals in the Southern Song Dynasty, what is lacking is a competent talent, there have been countless opportunities to turn the tables for more than 100 years, and the people at the helm have played a good hand of cards into a dead end for various reasons, but it is a pity that countless loyal ministers below are not clear about their deaths.

Li Tingzhi wants to receive it in his own hands, this is very clear.

The eldest grandson Hong looked up at the sky, his eyes were melancholy, and he said indifferently: "The mountain city locks the river, and it is a last resort. Only by building Sichuan into a fortress that cannot be broken or attacked will the Yangtze River and Jinghu be as stable as Mount Tai. Sichuan is in, then Jinghu is stable, once the two Huai have changed, at least there is a place to go in the west, not to be defeated. This strategy is a method that I have traveled all over Sichuan and spent many years to come up with, and it is difficult to describe how much effort and how much sadness there is. ”

"I see, my lord is really forward-looking." Li Tingzhi's eyes were full of color, looking at Changsun Hong and being surprised and admired, he asked himself if it was impossible for him to come up with such a strategy.

"But why do you want to lock up the river to protect yourself? When Lord Wu of Wu Jie, when he was guarding the north of Sichuan, he relied on the three passes of five states, and used Qinchuan in Longxi as a barrier, which could be attacked and defended, and he could get a place to raise horses, which was much better than locking the middle of the river. ”

"This is because we don't have the ability to get out of the Sword Pavilion." Eldest Sun Hong shook his head, his face darkened: "The Beiyu are different from the Jin people, they are more powerful, if you talk about cavalry, you can't find an opponent who can match them in three hundred years in this world." Most of us are foot soldiers, and we hedge against them on the 800-mile Qinchuan River, and we can only be defeated. ”

Li Tingzhi frowned: "But back then, Wu Jie's relied on foot soldiers......

"Yes, Wu Jie's back then, he also relied on foot soldiers, but he still had cavalry on hand, not all of them." Changsun Hong said categorically: "And Wu Jie is a master of defense in depth, he does not blindly defend one city and one place, but chooses the right battlefield to meet the enemy in accordance with local conditions." In the battle of Monk Yuan, he broke 100,000 gold soldiers with 30,000, which is the proof. ”

"Infantry cavalry, you must avoid the open plains, otherwise there is no place to die. Wu Jie guards the river, relying on the high mountains and deep streams on the first line of the Qinling Dasan Pass, otherwise he will fight hard with the Jin cavalry, and the ten Wu steps will be gone. If we take advantage of the Mongols' retreat to the north, go out of the Sword Pavilion to attack Heluo, and defend the vast plain between the Yellow River in the northwest, and then the northern captives will counterattack in the future, then we will fall into the embarrassing situation of not being able to hold and run away, and the Mongols can comfortably encircle the point to send reinforcements, and wear away our fighting spirit of resistance little by little. ”

Li Tingzhi listened carefully and pondered carefully, his mind was clear, and he knew that these words were all based on facts, and he could understand them all after thinking about it.

"That'...... If you want to get out of the river, do you mean that there is no hope anymore? He asked hesitantly, unwillingly, after all, going out of the Qinling Mountains is the only way out of being trapped in Sichuan, and locking Sichuan is a dead end, just to protect the rights and interests of Sichuan.

"There is hope, but wait." Changsun Hong looked at him meaningfully, full of confidence: "Sometimes the victory of war does not depend on swords and swords, war is a bloody way of politics, and if you think about it in another way, you can get different answers." ”

(End of chapter)