Yang Wen, whose name is Quanbin, was a native of Banzhou (now Zunyi, Guizhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, and a famous general in the anti-Mongolian war. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fifteenth ruler of the Banju Yang clan, the son of Yang Gao, the pacification envoy of Banshu, inherited his position after the death of his father. Yang Wen paid attention to cultural governance and education. His main merit lies in inheriting his father's legacy, actively engaged in the struggle against the southward advance of the Mongol army, and sent the Banzhou army to fight against the Mongol army in Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou six times. During the Shaoding period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army entered northern Sichuan, and Yang Wen stepped up military training. During the Jiaxi period, the Mongolian army approached the Yangtze River, and Peng Daya, the deputy envoy of Sichuan and the prefect of Yuzhou, asked Banzhou Tusi to send troops to resist. Adjutant General Yang Wenming led 10,000 troops to Shidong Gorge to repel the Mongol army, and was awarded the posts of Wu Delang and Valve Critic for meritorious service. Soon, he was edicted to anchor the state, promoted to martial arts doctor, and Xuanzan Sheren, and then sent a letter to Yu Jue, the envoy of Sichuan, stating the three strategies to prevent the Mongol army from moving south, and reminding Yu that the Mongol army might lure the indigenous tribes in the west to go south to Yunnan, and then take Guangxi in the east, forming a north-south attack. Yu Jue praised what he said, and the subsequent development of the war situation turned out as he said.

In the second year of Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty, the Mongol army crossed the Mahu Lake (now Pingshan) from Wumeng (now Zhaotong, Yunnan) to Xuanhua (now west of Yibin County, Sichuan), and Yang Wen sent his younger brother to ride 5,000 to the enemy, fought nine battles and won nine victories, and captured the enemy general Ali and others. In the fifth year of Baoyou, the Mongol army attacked Banzhou from Yunnan. Yang Wen asked for permission to Yu Chao, and Lu Wende, the deputy official of the Sichuan system, went to the Luo Ghost Country to persuade the chiefs to resist together. Because of his repeated military exploits, he was promoted to the posts of Zhongliang Doctor, Hezhou Defense Envoy, etc., with 700 households, and was allowed to add the word "Imperial Front" in front of the "Banzhou Majestic Army".

38-year-old Yang Wenzheng is in the prime of life, more than seven feet tall, with a round face and thin eyebrows, and a goatee more than three inches long. He wears a double-curled head, a robe, a blue wooden-bottomed scribe's shoes, and a narrow-bladed single knife hanging from the leather belt on the left. Judging from the appearance alone, if it weren't for the sword on his body, he would be a powerless scribe. Even with that knife hanging on, no one could tell that he was actually a general in command of an army of 50,000.

It was the ninth day of the 11th month of the 5th year of Baoyou, and it was still cloudy in the morning, but now it has turned cloudy. Yang Wen stood silently on the embankment, looking at the river rolling southwest under his feet, and several small boats in the distance walking on the river more than ten or twenty zhang wide.

The fishermen on the boat are throwing out their nets to catch more fish when the weather is cold and the river is dry, and the dried fish can be used as both vegetables and food.

"The food is still not enough." Yang Wen sighed in his heart: "After so many years of fighting, the people here are dying and fleeing, the original residents are not one out of ten, and there are too few young people." ”

The more than 100,000 acres of land west of Jiang'an should not be worried about by yourself, and after several years of reclaiming, most of the troops and households under his command have been able to grow grain, and nearly 200,000 stone have been harvested this year. The tens of thousands of acres of paddy fields in the south, which have only been reclaimed this year, will be able to harvest next year. It seems that in order to reclaim this large area of hundreds of thousands of acres of ownerless wasteland, the population is still too small, and people should be attracted to settle down here to settle down and reclaim land, so as to realize their strategy of "stationing troops to protect the people and cultivating fields to raise soldiers."

After Yang Wen finished handling some important official business today, he put down other trivial matters at hand and came here at the beginning of the year. Although he didn't say anything, the guards who followed him could also tell from his frowning face that there must be something that could not be solved to bother the young general. He had been there for nearly an hour, and he had no intention of going back.

He glanced at most of the yellow weeds on both sides of the river, and was very grateful to Lu Wende. This old general of his father's generation is his father's best friend, although he is only more than ten years older than himself, he has always taken care of himself. After arriving at the Jiang'an Prefecture Office, he knew that he was cultivating the fields with troops here, and he was worried about the lack of seeds, so he immediately raised money to buy hundreds of stone Zhancheng rice seeds and sent people to send them here. The "loyal army" that had cultivated their own land here was able to popularize the cultivation of Champa rice on a large scale, so that most of the fields under their jurisdiction could be harvested twice a year. As long as there is another year or two, in one's own jurisdiction, not to mention the current 30,000 "loyal army" and the 20,000 army of the headquarters, even if you add another 50,000 troops, you will not have to worry about running out of food and horses.

But it's hard! To create the current favorable situation, it took a lot of energy for himself and his subordinates, and used up all his family property.

The money allocated by the court was only enough for the food and salary of 20,000 troops, and there was really no way to maintain the current situation. Not to mention the need to recruit displaced people to reclaim the wasteland, just to settle the new homeless people's accommodation, seeds, and farm tools is a frightening expense.

A few days ago, Lu Wende asked someone to bring a letter, in addition to general greetings, the letter specifically mentioned the Li family father and son in Shaoxi Mansion, the Tanhua Lang Li Xiang, can also be said to be a strange person. He had already contacted this young man, who not only had an immortal literary talent, but could also make excellent artillery in large quantities, and he opened a factory and made Shaoxi Mansion very rich. Not only that, this strange man also led his soldiers to defeat the invading Mongolian cavalry, and now Shaoxi Mansion has become a place where Mongolian cavalry dare not easily provoke, but other state capitals are not good, and Mongolian cavalry attacks and harasses from time to time, including Jiang'an.

Yang Wen secretly thought in his heart, since this person is so powerful, and the artillery battalion of Shaoxi Mansion is so powerful, if he has the opportunity, he must meet this young man surnamed Li, and do everything possible to find a way to give him some artillery from this person. With more artillery in place, all the weapons of the 30,000 loyal army and 20,000 troops under his command can be replaced with this kind of superb weapon, and they will definitely be able to train a hundred battle heroes.

Behind Yang Wen, two personal guards were five or six feet away from him and patrolled the surroundings, and then outside twelve or three zhang, more than twenty personal soldiers led the horses and formed an arc-shaped cordon with their backs to Yang Wen.

In 1251, Genghis Khan died of illness, Meng Ge became the Khan, and then changed the strategy of attacking Shu based on killing and plundering, and instead sent troops to divide the important places, build cities, step by step, and encroach on the territory of the Song army step by step. In 1252, Meng Ge sent Kublai Khan's troops into Yunnan to destroy Dali in three ways, and then "recruited barbarians to be the way to go" and plotted to attack Shu in Yunnan.

Judging from the proud achievements of Yang Wen's few defensive and sports battles, the leaders of the Mongolian assassination all determined that the biggest obstacle to their invasion of Sichuan was Yang Wen, who led only 50,000 troops and was newly raised in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Since August of this year, there have been a steady stream of assassins assassinating Yang Wenxing. At first, there were only three or five, seven or eight assassins, and at most there were only a dozen or twenty assassins. However, on the seventh day of the last month, the Mongolian Assassins actually acted at the same time in the middle of the night on the same day. Nearly 200 assassins attacked from the front gate and the back yard of the mansion, and directly attacked Yang Wen's bedroom. If it weren't for Jiang Hai coming to Jiang'an that day to discuss the matter of reclamation, he would have stayed in the mansion at night, and Jiang Hai would have brought more than 100 guards and more than 100 guards in Yang Wen's mansion to protect them desperately, almost allowing the assassins to succeed. (To be continued.) )