Lanzhou.

"Zhang Wenbi, are you fucking tired of life!"

Ge Cheng slammed the paperwork on the table with a "snap", walked outside the door, and scolded the west.

After a while, Ge Cheng stopped scolding, turned around and walked into the official office, glanced at the officials who were bowing their heads and pretending to be working, and snorted: "Come on, go and call Wang Zhonghui over!" ”

"Yes!"

After a short time, a short, thin middle-aged officer walked in and bowed to Ge Cheng in front of everyone's attention: "Master Ge, you look for me!" ”

"Well, you come in!"

Ge Cheng nodded, and then walked into his office, and Wang Zhonghui also walked in and closed the door with his hand.

"Look at it!"

Wang Zhonghui took the military newspaper thrown by Ge Cheng, looked down at it, and immediately changed his expression, looked up at Ge Cheng's expression, but found that he had his hands behind his back and looked out the window, looking thoughtfully, Wang Zhonghui did not dare to disturb, and tried to suppress the horror in his heart and read the military newspaper.

"Done?"

"Hmm!"

"What do you think?"

General Ge Cheng took the newspaper, put it on the bookcase, and then sat on the table, staring at Wang Zhonghui with blazing eyes.

"This, please think about it!"

Wang Zhonghui pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, "My lord, are you worried about the success or failure of General Zhang's battle?" ”

"That's nature!"

"The last general thinks that General Zhang's idea is still good, after the Mongolian army through the Liao War, they traveled thousands of miles and rushed to Warat, it must be that people are sleepy and lacking horses, and Warat is even more disheartened, and it is difficult to organize a strong resistance, so as long as it is taken by surprise, our army's chances of victory are still relatively large!"

"Oh,"

Hearing Wang Zhonghui say this, Ge Cheng's face softened a lot, but he still had some doubts: "What you said also has some truth, but this official still has two worries, first, what if my army's raid is discovered by Di Baonu?" Will it be wiped out? Second, now that it's winter, what should we do if there is a blizzard? ”

"My lord, according to the last general," Wang Zhonghui hesitated for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "The possibility of the entire army being annihilated is very small, after all, General Zhang's troops are all cavalry, most of them are guards, the guards are well-equipped and well-trained, even if they fight head-on with twice the Mongolian army, they can remain undefeated, and even win in battle, so as long as General Zhang is cautious, there should not be a big problem." ”

"The problem of the blizzard is indeed more troublesome, if there is a once-in-a-century snowstorm, this sortie can only be fruitless, and even the loss will be relatively large; But if the blizzard does not reach that level, it may still have a protective effect on the surprise attack of our army, because the Mongol army would never have imagined that our army would launch a surprise attack at this time. ”

"Oh, according to what you say," Ge Cheng stood up, clasped his hands, stared at Wang Zhonghui and said, "Zhang Wenbi is likely to win a big victory on this trip?" ”

"This," Wang Zhonghui was silent for a while, smiled wryly, spread his hands, and said, "My lord, it's just a possibility, General Zhang's trip is indeed too risky!" ”

"yes!"

Ge Cheng sighed and returned to his seat: "Zhang Fu has already set off, it's useless for us to say anything, we can only hurry up and arrange and wipe his ass!" As he spoke, Ge Cheng picked up another military order from the table and threw it to Wang Zhonghui.

"Look, this is his order to you, he asked you to quickly dispatch five thousand cavalry, and rush to Hami within ten days, keep its retreat, and prevent Hami from becoming chaotic, you go and get busy!"

"Hmm,"

Wang Zhonghui took the military order, looked at it for a moment, and then raised his head and said: "General Zhang has transferred most of the Hamiwei army, it is really worrying, I will set off immediately." By the way, my lord, after I leave, who will be handed over to the affairs of Gansu? ”

"Give it to Guo Liang!"

"Okay, my lord, then I'll get busy!"

"Well, there you go!"

After Wang Zhonghui left, Ge Cheng ordered someone to call Guo Liang and gave him some careful advice, and Guo Liang took the order and left.

After Guo Liang left, Ge Cheng opened another military report, pondered for a while, signed his name on it, and then sent someone to send it to Song Xuan, the capital of Shaanxi, for six hundred miles, asking for reinforcements.

......

Neither Fang Bin nor Ge Cheng was powerless to stop Zhang Fu from sending troops, all they could do was write to the court, or impeach, or second, that's all.

The reason is very simple, although Fang Bin was a Qincha and rushed to Gansu to preside over the military aid to the Warat and Eastern Chagatai Khanate, he still had to obey Zhang Fu's moderation.

And in July, in view of the growing tensions in Mongolia, the northeast, and Annam, the imperial court issued a decree ordering Zhang Fu to move to the city of Hami, pay close attention to the movements of Warat, and give him the right to act arbitrarily at the right of opportunity, allowing him to "take the necessary means to ensure stability in the northwest." ”。

In Zhang Fu's view, Dibaonu's westward control of Warat broke the military balance in the northwest, which would inevitably lead to a sharp increase in the military pressure of the Ming Dynasty in the northwest, and then endanger the stability of the northwest, and it was time for him to "take necessary measures".

......

On September 27, the ninth year of Jianwen, Sheng Yong, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, and Yang Rong, the superintendent, returned to Beijing from the Japanese state.

The next day, Zhu Yunwen held a pre-imperial meeting in the Qianqing Palace to summarize and reflect on the previous stage of the campaign against the Japanese, and at the same time discuss the strategy for the next stage of the war against the Japanese.

Participants included the Military Aircraft Department, Wenyuan Pavilion and the Secretariat.

Sheng Yong first made a summary of the conquest of the Japanese, from the first month of the ninth year of Jianwen, the conquest of the Japanese army successively conquered the Japanese Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and the area west of Lake Biwa, annihilated more than 123,000 enemies, of which about 51,000 were captured, and about 46,000 people were subdued by the Japanese army, and the Ming army itself suffered about 18,000 casualties, of which the Guards and the inland guards suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the Korean army had poor combat effectiveness and the largest casualties, totaling about 10,000 people. The casualties were more than 5,000 people, while the Mongol and Jurchen guards were mostly cavalry, and the casualties were not much, and the total number of casualties was less than 2,000.

This was followed by Yang Rong's summary, which mainly involved the land, the people, and the amount of property seized.

According to his estimates, about 20 million mu of new cultivated land was added, about 700,000 new dingkou were added, and about 13 million taels of silver and more than 2.5 million taels of gold were seized.

The generals of the Military Aircraft Department paid more attention to Sheng Yong's debriefing, and they were all more satisfied; The ministers of the Wenyuan Pavilion were very interested in Yang Rong's debriefing, but they questioned his estimated figures.

They questioned not only the quantity of silver and gold, but also the number of dingkou in the Wa Kingdom.

In their opinion, the Wa Kingdom is nothing more than a small country, how can it be that there is such a large population?

At present, the Japanese army only occupies half of the land of the Japanese state, and the military discipline of the Japanese army is not good on the whole, burning, killing and looting from time to time, so the number of Japanese people will inevitably decrease, plus those Japanese people who fled to the east, the people occupied by the Ming army should only be about a quarter of the total population of the Japanese state before the war.

But according to Yang Rong's estimate, Dingkou is equivalent to a couple, assuming that a couple has two children, then the people of the Wa Kingdom currently occupying the land are close to 3 million, so wouldn't the total population of the Wa State before the war exceed 10 million?

Everyone shook their heads, thinking that Yang Rong's estimate was too wet.

For their doubts, Yang Rong could only smile bitterly, these people stayed in Jingshi, sitting and talking, it was too much to take it for granted.

However, Zhu Yunwen agrees with Yang Rong's estimation, in later generations, the population of the Japanese Kingdom is as high as 100 trillion, and it is not impossible to reach 10 million in this era.

Because the emperor agreed, Yang Rong's debriefing was also passed, but the household department asked the navy to transport the captured gold and silver back as soon as possible, because there was already a "money shortage" in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yunwen naturally agreed with a smile.

After Sheng Yong and Yang Rong finished their debriefings, they quickly moved on to the next topic, that is, how to conquer the other half of Wajima-Kanto region? This half of Wajima, how is the Kansai region governed?

The crowd immediately fell into a heated argument again......