In mid-November of the first winter of Longwu, Xiao Ruxun convened the cabinet, the general staff and the military generals, and officially announced that the war in the southwest had been decided.

From this moment on, in fact, the war has begun.

In this operation, nearly 200,000 troops and an equal number of auxiliary soldiers and civilians will be mobilized to fight the war and pacify the Yang clan in Banzhou in one fell swoop.

The specific situation Xiao Ruxun had already discussed with the General Staff and sent the marching order to Wuchang Mansion and Chengdu Mansion.

In this operation, the main force of the Xuanwu battalion in the direction of Wuchang Prefecture and 30,000 Sichuan soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Sichuan Chengxuan Political Envoy Department attacked Banzhou from both sides, with the Xuanwu battalion of Wuchang Mansion as the main force and the Sichuan soldiers as the auxiliary.

At the same time, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the White Tiger Battalion had already secretly dispatched to Wuchang Mansion to join the Xuanwu Battalion army, and they would divide their troops after entering Guizhou, and the troops would attack Banzhou in all directions, and Yang Yinglong would be uprooted no matter what.

Before the war, a major breakthrough was also made in several months of intelligence search.

The branch of the Heishui Army in Sichuan devoted most of its forces to intelligence spying in the Banzhou area, accurately grasped the geographical situation of Banzhou and many other factors, and even Yang Yinglong's war potential was fully evaluated.

Blackwater took infiltration and bribery to the extreme, Yang Yinglong was unpopular, not only tyrannical governance, but also killed his wife because of the favor of the concubine Tian, which caused public anger, so that the bribery operation of the Blackwater troops was very successful and obtained a lot of military intelligence.

By mid-October, all of Yang Yinglong's hole cards were basically figured out, and Xiao Ruxun's request for the army was to compress Yang Yinglong's strength to the sea dragon hoard within fifteen days of the war, and mobilize more than 200 Hongyi cannons to bombard the sea dragon hoard defense line in turn, gradually conquer it, and end the Banzhou war within a month.

The reason why the fifteen-day advance to the fifteen-day siege was because Xiao Ruxun had a full understanding of the sea dragon hoard, this military fortress that was once used to resist the Meng Yuan, needless to say, was strong, causing huge trouble to the Mongols.

And in the era of Yang Yinglong, Yang Yinglong mobilized 80,000 craftsmen, spent four years, expanded the castle and palace on the basis of the original site, built 12 passes before and after, built a strong wall on the mountain within five square kilometers, the buildings were built with 1,000 catties of boulders, the city gate was inlaid with the name of the pass, and the city gate was built with an arrow tower, a warehouse, a barracks, and a water prison in the city.

Under such a favorable location, the building is so majestic, and there is a posture that thousands of troops and horses have no choice but to retreat.

The Ming army attacked with more than 200,000 troops for several months, and then captured the sea dragon hoard, Xiao Ruxun did not plan to delay for so long, with his current firepower configuration, as well as the elite level of the army, half a month was enough time to take the sea dragon hoard.

At that time, the French army thought that the Maginot Line was unbreakable!

The national anthem of the USSR is still called the unbreakable Union!

History proves that whether it is a strong castle, a city wall, a national military alliance, etc., once it is called "unbreakable", it is a death flag for itself.

Yang Yinglong said that his sea dragon hoard was a place that the world's soldiers and horses could not attack.

But Xiao Ruxun never believed in anything unbreakable, because the conversation between Yang Yinglong and his henchmen could be known to him.

According to some intelligence, Sun Shitai, Yang Yinglong's chief military adviser, once suggested that if Yang Yinglong wanted to rebel, he should drive directly to Chengdu, attack Sichuan, and then negotiate with the central government by taking advantage of the geographical advantage, and even win the benefits of separating Sichuan.

However, Yang Yinglong ignored him, to be precise, Yang Yinglong was not psychologically prepared to divide one side, he had always wanted to use his military strength to deal with the central government and ask for benefits, but he underestimated the determination of the New Dynasty Great Qin to pacify the southwest Tusi.

But after Xiao Ruxun heard about it, he became wary of this Sun Shitai.

This person is said to be a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and it is really interesting that a character who grew up in the hometown of literati would become a military advisor to Tusi like Yang Yinglong and accompany him in his rebellion.

But Xiao Ruxun has to say that this person's eyes are ruthless, very vicious, and he has quite a military mind, and he sees through his weaknesses at a glance.

At present, Sichuan is still a weak area under the rule of the Great Qin, with no more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the Tusi are entrenched in various places, and the areas that Wang Xiangqian can effectively control are the areas around the Chengdu Plain and several large urban agglomerations, where Han people are the majority, and many other places are not within the actual control range.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun wants to use the name of this battle to set off a wave of bloody rain here and completely control this place.

If Yang Yinglong didn't want to keep the ancestral industry of Banzhou from the beginning, but attacked Sichuan, his hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed out, and the Sichuan soldiers really couldn't resist it.

Not to mention how capable Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu are, how invincible the white pole soldiers are, this number is large, and they are working hard in one place, and their combat effectiveness is really ridiculous.

Otherwise, Xiao Ruxun would not have made a big move to mobilize the elite of the White Tiger Battalion and the main force of the Xuanwu Battalion to launch a Mount Tai overwhelming attack on Yang Yinglong.

It is not easy for Yang Yinglong to rebel, and there are capable people around him.

This Sun Shitai is indeed not simple, if he leads this war, I am afraid that many things will not be easy to promote, so Xiao Ruxun thought about it and thought of a way.

Sometimes, I know that some people can't doubt, but doubt is that I can't control it, but I just want to doubt.

And it doesn't matter if the master doesn't suspect it, this subordinate colleague is suspicious of you, and it's not easy to do things.

Because there are always many stupid people, and there are always few smart people.

Xiao Ruxun asked Wang Xiangqian to write a letter to Sun Shitai and recruit him to enter the Sichuan government as an official, and the position he was given was the county magistrate of Chengdu County, Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan, and the position of Zhengqipin.

This recruitment letter is public, not hidden, and sent directly to the Banzhou official mansion, Yang Yinglong saw it first, then smiled, and handed the letter to Sun Shitai, Sun Shitai also smiled and twisted his beard after reading it.

"They underestimate Mr.'s ability too much, and if they want me to say, Mr. is at least the position of the political envoy of Sichuan."

Yang Yinglong took this letter as a joke, and the rest of the people laughed at it, and Sun Shitai himself didn't care.

Wang Xiangqian waited for ten days and did not get a response, so he sent a second letter, this time to Sun Shitai's official position was raised, and he was the position of the governor of Chengdu Prefecture, and he was the fourth product.

Yang Yinglong still laughed, Sun Shitai shook his head and smiled bitterly, and everyone laughed.

After more than ten days, there was still no response, Wang Xiangqian began to magnify his moves, this time in one step, promising to give Sun Shitai the position of political envoy in Sichuan, from the second grade!

The full name of Sichuan is the Sichuan Chengxuan Political Envoy Department, which is equivalent to the Sichuan Provincial Government, and the Sichuan Chengxuan Political Envoy is a high-ranking official in Sichuan, and Wang Xiangqian is the governor of Sichuan, with a higher position than the political envoy, representing the central control of the political envoy.

However, before Sichuan, it was not completely included in the central management, and there was no need to set up a political envoy, Wang Xiangqian was in charge alone, and Xiao Ruxun did not have a suitable candidate in his hands, so this position was vacant, and now it is just being used.

Now the situation is different, Yang Yinglong smiled at first, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was not a taste, and when his subordinates heard the news that Wang Xiangqian recruited Sun Shitai to be the political envoy of Sichuan, they also changed their faces, this is not a small official, for them, this is a big official, a big official.

Sun Shitai's face also changed greatly, he never expected Wang Xiangqian to use this position to recruit him.