"Tiancheng, Chai Jia is back, the front-line troops of Liu Shizheng in the first battle of Hengzhou have collapsed, and the number of killed and captured people has approached 100,000." Early in the morning, Wang Houchun walked in with the battle report from Hengzhou and said with a smile.

Yang Tiancheng said with a smile: "It's been so long, this Western Route Army has finally fought a field battle, I thought that the people brought out by this kid Xue Yang never fought positional warfare." Now that Chai Jia is back, let's start mobilizing manpower as well. ”

"It's okay, Chai Jia is back, and the troops directly under our command already have almost 50,000 people, so there is no need for Chen Yu to be distracted, let Xue Wanli give the order to attack Quanzhou." Inform the troops to leave for Fuzhou immediately, and we will also give Lu Guangchou a conspicuous signal. Yang Tiancheng said with a smile: "I don't know if the news of Xiao Si's walk has reached Lu Guangchou." ”

Before he finished his words, Hu Xiaosi's voice came from outside the tent, "Tiancheng, when will you learn to speak ill of people behind their backs?" When did my Xuan Yingwei become unreliable? Let me tell you, Lu Guangchou has already set off for Tingzhou, and he should go to Lu Yanchang and Wang Chao to discuss the military situation. I've arranged for Xuan Ying Wei to follow me all the way. After finishing speaking, he paused, and his face became a little serious: "Tiancheng has something that you and Hou Chun have to know in their hearts, this time maybe it's not these Lingnan families, maybe there are Liu Yin in Guangzhou, Pang Juzhao Ye Guangluo and Jing Navy in the Jiaozhi generation, and even the Qiqi in the east of Nanzhao and west of Qianzhou may be hooked up." Your Jiangnan Command may face most of the feudal forces in the entire Lingnan and Southwest this time. ”

Hu Xiaosi's words made Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun stunned, but the two immediately looked at each other and said with a smile: "If they can really collude, maybe the war on the southern front will be completely over before the year." ”

Yang Tiancheng's words made Hu Xiaosi not react, and asked in a daze: "Is your appetite too big?" Although the strength in the hands of these people is not worth mentioning, but when they are gathered, there are at least five or six hundred thousand horses, are you sure they can beat it? ”

On the way, with Wang Houchun detailing the strategic deployment he formulated, Hu Xiaosi also suddenly understood why the two of them were single-mindedly placed in Fujian, and this is on the one hand to force the other party to further unite, on the other hand, to pressure the opponent and fight with themselves to add fuel tactics, and when the opponent's main force is consumed, it will inevitably be able to fight Fujian in a battle, and then recover the entire Lingnan.

"The territory of Lingnan is huge, and the various forces are intertwined, and the roads are not good, if the attack on one city and one place is delayed for a long time, it is not suitable for the order of the General Staff. Therefore, after Xue Yang decided to attack Qianzhou from behind, I decided to set up a battlefield in Fujian to attract the opponent's main force for a decisive battle, so that Xue Yang could stir up the situation within the other party and recover Qianzhou in advance. Wang Houchun said with a smile: "Once Qianzhou is taken, it means that the strategic commanding heights of the entire southwest are in our hands, and the strategic situation of the entire southwest will also change." In this way, we have the initiative of the whole strategy. ”

Wang Houchun's words made Hu Xiaosi nod and said with a smile: "I found out, this kind of tactics of internal and external cooperation should not be made by Tiancheng, right?" It should be you, only you can guess what Xue Yang's stinky boy is thinking. ”

Hu Xiaosi's words made Yang Tiancheng laugh and said: "It is estimated that the whole world can cooperate with Xue Yang, the former old boss." However, if I had to choose, I think a general like Xue Yang would be suitable for the increasingly unpredictable battlefield. He knows how to make the most of the resources at his disposal to defeat the enemy. In this way, after our generation will unify the world in the future, there will be a steady stream of successors behind us. ”

Originally, Yang Tiancheng sighed, but when his words reached Hu Xiaosi's ears, he looked uncomfortable, and immediately squinted and smiled: "It's like a person who is dozens of years old, how old are you this year?" How much older are you than Xue Yang? As long as our generation does not make mistakes, there will be at least a few decades to follow the emperor in the future. Maybe it will be to Anthy long ago. ”

"Haha, that's what I said." Several people looked at each other and smiled, led the troops to speed up, after entering Fuzhou, the herald also sent the battle in Quanzhou, Xue Wanli's concentrated siege troops finally waited for Wang Chao and other support troops after three days of siege, and the two sides fought a big battle under the city of Quanzhou.

"Chai Jia, you immediately take someone to Quanzhou, support Xue Wanli, and tell him to continue to make tactical feints, don't break the city so quickly, try to pretend to be a little bit, and continue to attract opponents to help." Wang Houchun said with a smile after sending Chai Jia away: "Wang Chao is here, it is estimated that there is a good show in Quanzhou." Little four, are you sure you don't want to join in the fun? ”

"What do you mean? Do I naturally like to be afraid that the world will not be chaotic? Do you still need me to provoke Wang Chao and Fan Hui? Hu Xiaosi glanced at him, frowned, and said, "I'm afraid that as long as Xue Wanli relaxes his rhythm a little, they will kill each other in the city." ”

"Little Si, you arrange for someone to notify Tianyi and ask him to ambush on the main road west of Tingzhou, preparing to ambush Lu Guangchang and Lu Guangchou's reinforcements." Yang Tiancheng nodded and said: "In this way, we can force Fan Hui to ask for help from Liu Changlu and Liu Shizheng, and attract the other party's brigade to enter Fujian." Yang Tiancheng clapped his hands and said: "Let Qian Ning attack Fuzhou and other places after Lu Guangchou's men and horses set off to enter Fujian, and drag him to death in advance." ”

Hu Xiaosi stared at the map and nodded, waved his hand to summon Xuan Yingwei's manpower and began to arrange, the timeliness and accuracy of information transmission in this middle are particularly important, so he can't help but take it seriously, so Hu Xiaosi directly asked the person in charge of the Lingnan region to be responsible for this matter personally, and he also began to transfer manpower from the rear to reinforce Lingnan.

After a few people arranged this, they began to plan the next plan of action, Chen Yu's main army is still hovering south of Jianzhou, and it needs to enter the battlefield in time, but its timing is very important, not too early or too late. This is too harsh on the degree of grasp of the fighters by the front-line commanders, so it is necessary to make accurate calculations and feints in advance to cover the large army hidden near the battlefield.

When the specific battle was being carried out on the southern front, the General Staff also received a briefing from Xuan Yingwei, reporting on the strategic deployment of the Jiangnan Command. After Xu Tianxiang and Wan Yi discussed, they didn't have much opinion on the deployment of Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun, so they directly approved it and sent it back.

However, at this time, Li Xuanqing's eyes shifted from the southern line to other places, and he sent someone to find Xu Tianxiang and Wan Yi.

"What does the emperor mean from now on to prepare a plan to recover Anxi?" Wan Yi was a little shocked when he heard Li Xuanqing's words.

Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "You can plan one step in advance, and there are many forces between Anxi and Hexi, and we also need to understand in advance in the process of marching into Anxi, after all, we have cut off contact with Anxi and for more than a hundred years, we don't know anything about the situation over there, and many things need to be arranged in advance." ”

Li Xuanqing's words made the two of them nod for a while, since ancient times, the war in the Western Regions has been more difficult than the difficulty of the war, if you don't prepare in advance, then recovering Anxi can only be a nonsense.

"The war on the Northern Front has been over for a long time. Both the Heavy Cavalry Battalion and the Modao Battalion have returned to Guanzhong and Fengzhou. Senior brother, you can arrange for them to garrison troops in Hexi and other places. When necessary, part of the cavalry battalion was transferred into the vicinity of Lingzhou. The General Staff should cooperate well with Xuan Yingwei and do a good job in the intelligence work of investigating Anxi. Li Xuanqing continued: "The Yelu family's business in Hexi has been doing well over the years, and I have also told Murong about this before, so their family should have a lot of information available at that time. ”

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the Western Front will be handed over to me. I will make a concrete plan and gather the corresponding information before the end of the war on the Southern Front. Wan Yi nodded and said with a smile: "Since the last war in Hexi, the surrounding area has been basically stable, and it is time to fight another war to deter the surrounding small tribes, otherwise it is inevitable that they will think that our main force will be transferred east to pacify the Central Plains and thus covet Hexi." ”

"It's good for Senior Brother to do this. Do the General Staff have any opinion on the operational plan for the Southern Front? "Since the battle report on the southern front was sent by Xuan Yingwei before, it was sent in duplicate as usual, one was sent to the General Staff and the other was sent directly to Li Xuanqing.

"It feels like the decisive moment on the southern front is approaching." Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "According to Houchun's plan, it is not clear that the princes of the entire Lingnan will basically participate in the war, as long as the decisive battle is won, then the main forces of these feudal towns will be annihilated by the First World War, thus laying the momentum of the unification of Lingnan." Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "But I feel that Tiancheng and Houchun's appetite is a bit big, their forces may not be enough, but Tiancheng has always been steady, he can agree to such a plan must have his own reasons, after all, we received a briefing from Xuan Yingwei, and many deployments have not been detailed." ”

Xu Tianxiang's words also attracted Wan Yi's approval, they are far away in Tianjin, and they don't have enough intelligence sources, so they can't accurately understand the specific deployment of the front line, so it's normal to have such worries.

"Then take the opportunity to mobilize some people and horses into the Jiangnan area, so that if the situation on the front line changes, it will also be conducive to Tiancheng and they can transfer troops and horses nearby." In fact, Li Xuanqing had already guessed Wang Houchun's intention behind the deployment, but also just in case, he decided to send the seven battalions of infantry and cavalry mixed men and horses originally stationed in the Central Plains to garrison near Jinling, and at the same time let Su Xiaohu lead the Flying Eagle Brigade to the southern line and obey the dispatch of the Jiangnan Command.

After doing this, a few people had nothing to do, and simply began to assist the cabinet in transferring people to the south to receive the matter, with the gradual expansion of the territory that was laid, after the cabinet transferred officials to the northeast to receive, there was a huge vacancy in the reserve of talents, and this time even some of the personnel who had retired from the army were pulled to the School of Administration to study for a period of time and then sent to various places to take up posts.

Compared with the northeast, because of its remote location, these people are still competent, and the candidates for the major states and counties in the south are a bit of a headache, even if some personnel are coordinated from the major old areas, but the gap is still very large.

"Your Majesty, are you here to tell me that Lingnan has been taken and let me send someone to receive it?" Li Xuanqing took a few people to Cen Tianshi's office and laughed when he was said by the other party.

"Sir, there is actually a way to get through this for a while." Li Xuanqing was a little embarrassed by Cen Tianshi's attitude, shook his head and said, "Screen the original civil officials in the south, and transfer some officials who are suitable to stay in office to study in the School of Administration for a month, and then assign them to the northern provinces to serve as deputy positions in various prefectures and counties, and then transfer the civil officials from the northern provinces to serve in the south, so that the laying of administrative areas can be completed in a short time." ”

"Then these people may not be suitable for our system?" Wan Yi was a little unfamiliar with government affairs, and asked, "These people can't adapt in a short period of time. ”

"The emperor's idea is good, as for whether it is suitable for our system, it is actually very simple. Give them half a year to take an assessment, and if you don't pass, you can replace it. With this six-month grace period, it is enough for us to have more manpower in the Coordination Office, and the annual enrollment of the School of Administration is about the same. Cen Tianshi agreed with Li Xuanqing's idea, so he nodded and smiled: "It's still the emperor's method, I'll arrange someone to do it immediately, and when the time comes, coordinate Xuan Yingwei and call their information, it must be faster." But when it came to this, Cen Tianshi was stunned, and then asked, "Your Majesty, is there something wrong with you bringing the two of them over?" Is it possible that this idea is coming up with in Lingnan, which is about to end? Wouldn't it, so fast? ”

"Haha, sir, I feel a loss if you don't go to Tiance Mansion, it's so sensitive." Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "We came to say that if it goes well, it should be able to end before the year." That's why the emperor will give you this idea, otherwise I'm afraid that the cabinet will collapse next year. ”

"In that case, we can't afford to slow down. Fortunately, the culture in the southeast has been relatively developed since ancient times, and there are many of these former officials and people of insight, so I immediately issued an order to Li Jipeng, asking him to screen out more than 100 usable people for me and send them to Chang'an. By the way, isn't Yang Qiu in Jinling? Eighty percent of what he's already doing. Fortunately, he was transferred to the Southeast Military District, otherwise I, the prime minister, would have resigned. Cen Tianshi hurriedly summoned his attendants to issue an order to Jinling, and said with a smile.

Xu Tianxiang and Wan Yi glanced at each other at this time, and they both understood the meaning in each other's eyes, once the civil affairs side made up, it would immediately release the vitality of the local economy, and the result would be to be able to quickly integrate the internal forces of the empire externally.

However, Li Xuanqing didn't care, nodded at Cen Tianshi's actions and said with a smile: "Sir, if I were you, I wouldn't do anything, just stared at the Ministry of Finance to see if they had put all the gold and silver treasures seized from the north and south into the warehouse." After this battle, the Ministry of Finance has gained weight several times, and all the reserve funds of the money bank have been replenished. ”

As soon as these words were finished, the people present burst into laughter, and this war is sometimes a time to get rich. Several people joked with each other and asked the prime minister to invite him to dinner, which made the busy atmosphere dissipate a lot for a while.