Zhao Lie and Guo Dajiang's research was not interrupted until dusk by a herald colonel with a bronze medal.

"Minister Wen and Minister Zhang have an order, and all the generals and above are under the command of the army, and they will immediately go to the festival hall to discuss matters."

Zhao Lie didn't dare to wait for the order after receiving the order, and immediately set off to return to Yacheng and go straight to the festival hall.

The festival hall of Yacheng is the military conference hall of the original Jiyang Military City. The dynasty has a stable foothold, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, everything is simple, and the military chamber is temporarily discussed.

Zhao Lie left the guards and handed over the waist card to the guards before he was able to enter the festival hall.

At this time, most of the generals and some relevant officials in the hall had gathered, and Wen Tianxiang, the right minister of the Great Song Dynasty, sat proudly at the top. It is not surprising that the prime minister sits in the festival hall, because Wen Tianxiang is not only the right minister at this time, but also serves as the privy envoy, not only the first minister, but also the generals, and the head of the hundred officials.

In the Song Dynasty, the privy envoy was appointed as a civil official, while the privy deputy envoy was served by a general. The meaning of using literature to control military force and military auxiliary text is very clear.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the Song Taizu's "Chenqiao Mutiny", the yellow robe was added, and he personally felt the arrogance and fierce generals during the Five Dynasties period, which caused military disasters and turmoil for many years. So he made a painful determination to end the situation of the military people arbitrarily ruling and disrupting the country. Then there was the move of "releasing military power with wine", and set the national policy of advocating literature and suppressing military force.

It is undeniable that Zhao Kuangyin's measures were of positive significance at the beginning of the dynasty. However, the way of governing the country pays attention to the balance between civil and military, and the so-called way of civil and military affairs is one by one. If Wu Shengwen is weak, it is easy for military personnel to interfere in politics, causing national turmoil. Excessive worship of literature and suppression of military force will lead to a low status of military personnel and a weak national defense force. Obviously, the descendants of the Zhao family did not grasp this degree, not only failed to change the situation of Wenchang's weak military, but intensified it with the help of the civil official group. Suspicion of military generals (such as Di Qing), the use of civil power to control the military, the use of civilian officials to lead the army or supervise the army, and finally evolved to the extreme, which are the two extremes - on the one hand, "the roll call outside the Donghua Gate is a good child"; On one side, the soldier must tattoo his face to prevent evasion.

By the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the status of the military had improved, and the army used a large number of utility, envoys (voluntarily joined the army, no need to tattoo), and generals were also particularly relied on. As a military general, Zhang Shijie sits in the center, while Wen Tianxiang, the head of the civil officials and the envoy of the Privy Council, leads the army outside, and repeatedly asks to enter the court but cannot do so, which is the most prominent example. However, it was too late.

What's even worse is that the national policy of the Song Dynasty seriously divided the civil and military poles, making the civilian-official group and the Jiangmen group incompatible, either the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, or the west wind overpowered the east wind, and the two groups were incompatible. The military general group represented by Zhang Shijie tried their best to suppress the Wenchen group as soon as it gained power, and the first to bear the brunt were Wen Tianxiang and Chen Yizhong, the two prime ministers. There are many contradictions between each other, even if they flee all the way south, they still fight non-stop. If it weren't for the fiasco of the mountain, the dynasty would have reached the point of life and death, and Zhang Shijie might not agree to recall Wen Tianxiang to the court to block himself.

At present, the rare harmonious situation of civil and military harmony between the lower dynasty and the dynasty all depends on the oppression of strong external forces - there is a desperate attempt to capture the Jiyang military city in the front, and the Yuan army is about to besiege the city with heavy troops.

Yes, the Yuan Army's big report is coming.

"It is reported that the Yuan Army's Ma Fuji Department had already marched to Jiyang, and when they heard that Yacheng had fallen into the hands of our Heavenly Dynasty, they did not dare to thin the city, so they retreated. Although the horse thief retreated, the thief's heart did not die, and the department did not return to Qiongguan, but stopped the army in Wan'an, and the wolf's intention was self-evident. Qiongguan also reported that the Yuan army was recruiting ships everywhere, and the intention of attacking the cliff was extremely obvious. It was also reported that some maritime merchants came to the north today, saying that the port of Leizhou had made thousands of sails, and a large army had gathered, and all commercial and civilian ships inside and outside the port were not allowed to enter. At this moment, the Yuan thief raised his sails, and the point of the soldiers was obvious. ”

Wen Tianxiang stopped the propaganda officer, read out the information in person, and at the end, his eyes looked around at the generals, word by word, "Gentlemen, Yuan thief, it's coming!" ”

There are no less than twenty or thirty military generals in the festival hall, but they are so quiet at the moment that they can hear the needle.

Although they were all mentally prepared, when they heard the news, everyone's mood was extremely heavy and depressed.

Previously, the generals were optimistic about Ma Fuji's reinforcements, and they were not afraid that he would come, but they were afraid that he would not come. As long as there is this fortified city, with the defense of the city that the Song army is good at, the 2,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Fuji are not afraid, and the 1,000 Beiting army of Qiongguan Wanhu Mansion is not afraid, but if Ali Hague personally raises tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of troops to cross the sea to attack the city, the Xing Dynasty that has just seen a glimmer of life will face a catastrophe.

Anyone can be silent, but Zhang Shijie, who is the actual commander-in-chief, can't help but speak out.

As soon as Zhang Shijie opened his mouth, he was always excited: "For today's plan, we must not shrink back and be beaten, but only take the initiative to attack!" ”

These words lifted their spirits, and all the generals and ministers in the hall were shocked when they heard this.

Zhang Shijie ordered his attendants to fetch a large map shaped like a tablecloth and hang it on the back card.

It was the first time Zhao Lie had seen the ancient map, and he recognized it as the topographic map of Qiongzhou just by looking at the outline, and this map was obviously an enlarged version of the newly drawn by Dan Qing Miaoshou according to the palace collection atlas. It is said that it is an enlarged version, and it is hidden by the palace, and it is not necessary to ask for any contour lines and scales, at least the mountains and rivers, roads and beaches, reefs and islands are clearly marked. However, when Zhao Lie looked at this map, he was stunned to see nothing more than a piece of mountains and clouds that quite won the artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting, a few lines representing the trend of mountains and rivers, and the locations of various military prefectures and counties.

Is this also called a map? Or a military map?

Zhao Lie was speechless.

Zhang Shijie took the jade staff from the hand of the attendant and drew a circle on the edge of the east, west, north and south directions of the island: "This is Qiongguan City, the base camp of the Yuan Army in Qiongzhou, with the Changhua Army in the north and the Wan'an Army in the south. Here, the most marginal corner of the southwest is Yacheng. Do you see anything? ”

See what you don't see? It's not too obvious.

Zhang Ba Huoran came out of the ranks, saluted respectfully, and said in a rough voice: "Whether it is from Leizhou or Qiongguan to attack my Yacheng, you must pass through the Changhua Army in the north and Wan'an Army in the south." It was only necessary to put a strong force in each of these two places, and the Yuan ships would not dare to continue southward until these two armies were attacked. ”

Even if there is no common sense of the art of war, it can be seen that the two armies of Changhua and Wan'an are indeed two bridgeheads, blocking the road of the Yuan army to the south. If the Yuan army bypassed any place and continued to attack Yacheng in the south, there was a danger of being attacked by the back road. Unless the Yuan army is sure to go down to the cliff city in a battle and fight quickly, it will never dare to commit such a taboo. However, in the face of a fortified city like Yacheng, who dares to say that he will go down in a battle?

Then, there is only one problem now: the Changhua Army and the Wan'an Army are still in the hands of the Yuan Army at the moment, and instead of being able to become a checkpoint to restrain the Yuan Army's southward movement, they are a springboard for the Yuan Army's attack. In order to ensure the safety of Yacheng, it is necessary to cut off these two claws of the Yuan army and let it regrow into the Great Song Iron Fist that hit the Yuan army hard.

Fortunately, the Changhua army is only a weak brigade of less than 100 new annexed troops, and only one battalion of elite soldiers needs to be dispatched, and then a general will be sent directly to the city (or under the soil enclosure), and it will be decided. The really difficult thing to bite is the Wan'an Army, where there is a heavy Yuan army of 2,000 people, and the leader is Ma Fuji, a fierce general of the Yuan army who has just lost his father and brother and will never surrender.

Who goes?