Chapter 74: The Scholar Threatens He Riji (2)
Peng Daya said disdainfully: "Chongqing, for at least 20 years in the future, will be the base to support Sichuan, used to cover the upper reaches of the south of the Yangtze River, related to the safety of the community, for such a project, we must hold the purpose of not making money money, treating people as people as people, do everything to do our best, do everything foolproof, and do it perfectly, I believe that Dutong also understands this."
Zheng Yunming also understands that now is not the time to care about the cost and cherish the people's power, the gains and losses of Chongqing are related to the gains and losses of Sichuan, and the survival of Sichuan is related to the safety of the entire Song Kingdom. This is the moment of full dedication, every penny spent today, every drop of sweat shed, will be rewarded a hundredfold in the future.
What he feared was that the officials and generals of central Sichuan gathered in Chongqing at the moment would not understand this.
In fact, the remnants of the former capital He Jing, the remnants of a small number of Cao Youwen of Shunqing Mansion, and the remnants of Chen Longzhi, the murdered Chengdu prefect, Zheng Yunming After receiving Wang Kui's report, Zheng Yunming sent people to convene with wax pill books, and at this time they all sent generals to wait for orders. Plus the Heyanwei troops who retreated from the north, as well as the Yang army that came from Banzhou, and the Tian army who came from Sizhou.
Some people disagreed with Zheng Yunming's order to gather men and horses, and thought that it would be better to organize these troops scattered in the areas invaded by the enemy on the spot and use them as guerrilla forces behind enemy lines when the Mongol army moved south again. But Zheng Yunming is far clearer than everyone else, without strong organizational ability, this kind of guerrilla army organized on the spot is not effective, the Song army used to have hundreds of thousands of defeated soldiers in the Jinren-ruled area, and the role played was far less than the four major armies on the front line, not to mention that now there are only a few remnants of defeated troops left in Sichuan, Zheng Yunming has to be careful to use.
As for the troops of Banzhou and Sizhou, no one would have thought that they would come so quickly, obviously, this was because after the imperial court received the defeat of Sichuan, it immediately ordered the hereditary chieftains of Banzhou and Sizhou to send troops to support. This again involves the relationship between the imperial court and Sichuan, since the southern crossing, Sichuan mutinies and rebellions have been intermittent, making the imperial court have a very bad impression of Sichuan. When Wu Xi rebelled in the third year of Kaixi, some people in the imperial court talked about giving up Sichuan. In the twelfth year of Jiading, the last Song and Jin troops were exchanged, and the Jin soldiers broke into Hanzhong, and there was a voice in the middle of the court that the country could be established without Sichuan. As soon as there was a stir in Sichuan, Jingxiang's civil and military officials were busy deploying defenses at the mouth of the Three Gorges gorges, such as Xiazhou and Guizhou. This time Sichuan was defeated, the Mongols invaded on a large scale, and the imperial court did not think of how to adjust the deployment in time to replenish the grain and grass soldiers for Sichuan, but was busy with the core combat force Zheng Yunming from Jinghu, and at the same time organized the barbarian armies of Banzhou and Sizhou into a regular army and drove into Sichuan, which shows that the imperial court would rather believe in the fierce and cunning Fan than the combat power and loyalty of the Sichuan army.
To be honest, Zheng Yunming doesn't look down on these Miao barbarians who are dressed in rough linen cloth and have strange scarves wrapped around their heads, although they are brave, they are rarely disciplined, and Zheng Yunming's concept of governing the army is simply the opposite of it, but Zheng Yunming also knows that this army is the most effective force in addition to his own troops, and the mountain infantry and mountain cavalry of the Miao wings are proficient in mountain warfare. Although these barbarians seem to be used to being scattered, they really climb over the mountains and mountains as if they were walking on flat ground, and they walk hundreds of miles of mountain roads and then fight, as ordinary as eating and drinking, and they must be able to make use of them, so as to be able to teach the Mongol soldiers a hard lesson in the mountains.
At this time, the Chongqing Mansion concentrated tens of thousands of military horses from all over the country. And almost all the generals in Sichuan gathered in the main hall of the prefect's office in the small archway to listen to the lectures of any of the new Sichuan officials.
Li Zhi, the new Sichuan Xuanfu envoy, since he was appointed by the imperial court, has called a chariot and ship of the Jingchu Navy from Ezhou, carried three times the number of troops, and took turns to pedal straight to Sichuan, but his speech was just an ordinary warning to the generals not to be arrogant and domineering, to oppress the people, to be loyal to the imperial court, to serve the country hard, etc., the ordinary tone of ordinary officials, nothing new.
Before taking office, Yang Hui had already written to the ministers of the political hall to draw a strategy, and he wanted to recruit and transfer the native soldiers of Luzhou, Xuzhou, Rongzhou, and Changning counties to form a volunteer army to recover Shukou. Yang Hui vowed to recover Shukou within one year, and within three years, the Mongols would not dare to face Sichuan.
However, the general just listened to the discussion of these two adults. To put it mildly, these two people plus the subordinate official attaché, one hundred and ten people entered Sichuan, although they are the commander-in-chief of one party, but the county officials are not as good as the current management, whether they buy it or not, it depends on whether the generals in Shuzhong are willing to cooperate.
But the new Zheng Dutong is completely different. Not only did they come, but they also brought with them an army of 10,000 thousands. And the military and horses are strictly disciplined, the military appearance is clean, and as soon as he came up, he fought with Wang Shixian, the commander in chief of Gongchang, who was quite afraid of Shuzhong, you must know that Wang Shixian's prestige has long been known throughout Sichuan, and the former Xuanfu system envoy Zhao Yanna really spent a lot of effort in order to win over Wang Shixian, and people asked him why he valued Wang Shixian so much. He once replied that Wang Shixian is the tiger general of the world, and his bravery is enough to compete with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
This incident may not be credible because of the grapevine, but it also reflects the consistent evaluation of Wang Shixian by the Sichuan people at that time, and only Cao Youwen of Shukou was loyal to the righteous army, the elite was incomparable, and he dared to compete with Wang Shixian.
But Zheng Yunming not only dared to fight Wang Shixian as soon as he came up, but also killed Wang Shixian and fled. This battle won the hearts of several Shu generals in one battle. Although Zheng Yunming himself didn't think it, the generals in Shu had already regarded Zheng Yunming as the real representative of the imperial court in Sichuan. Only the strategy of this little Zheng Dutong represents the core strategy of Sichuan to fight against Mongolia in the future.
Zheng Yunming stood up from his seat and glanced at the people below. There are new generals from Jingxiang, generals from Shudi, and Miao Manling from the southwest, mixed with fish and dragons, and their combat effectiveness is also very different.
"If you want to plan the strategy of Shuzhong in the next ten years, you must first review the lessons of the past ten years." Zheng Yunming said: "I don't know what we have done wrong in the past ten years, and we will not be able to lay a bright future. ”
"In the past ten years, the rulers of Sichuan have not carefully repaired the pass cities, not carefully organized and trained the army, and blindly focused on recruiting foreign invaders. It is not wrong to recruit strong foreign aid, but only by building on its own strong foundation can it recruit strong Tibetan people to come to help. Zheng Yunming glanced at the two generals of the Yang family and the Tian family under the seat, and his complexion did not seem to change, so he continued: "The soldiers are in shabby clothes, eating brown rice mixed with sand and gravel, and even digging grass roots to satisfy their hunger, but they use vehicles and camels to present countless grains, cloths, gold and silver to Wang Shixian and the outsiders of the eighteen departments of Xifan, in order to make an alliance. This is not to win over allies, this is to use the blood and sweat of the people in Sichuan to support the enemy. The city defense of Sanguan was broken by the Jin State, and if it was not repaired, the morale of the soldiers was weakened and not rectified. The ordnance was damaged and worn, and it was not replaced in time, but every day he said that he wanted to enter Guanzhong and join Wanluo, and as a result, Wang Shixian and the 18th Department of the West led the Mongolian army to come and break through Shukou, and Langzhong, Hanzhou, Jiangyou, and Chengdu were all victimized. This is due to the ignorance of the rulers. ”
This defeat, who the board hit, for the political situation in Sichuan is a matter of great significance, everyone in Sichuan is panicked, are deeply afraid that the imperial court because of this fiasco and hold accountable, they know that the imperial court has never been soft on the defeated, the defeat of the battle of Luo, all the participating generals were almost demoted to three levels, Xiangyang rebellion, all responsible persons were also demoted three levels in a row, and the direct culprit Wang Min was directly deposed as a concubine. If Zheng Yunming threatens everyone with this, everyone can only endure it.
Zheng Yunming has his own calculations, his new entry into Shuzhong, the important thing is to unite the people's hearts, although Yu Yu disagrees with this, and advocates the discipline of steel to rectify the scattered troops in Sichuan, but Zheng Yunming knows how to govern the army, first of all, to govern the hearts of the people, as a guest general from afar, come up to give three hundred kills, it may work in peacetime, but it is by no means the best choice in wartime.
He played a trick and slapped all the boards on Zhao Yanna, the former propaganda envoy who had already left his post, and it would be unfair to say that the entire Sichuan policy was all counted as Zhao Yanna's fault. The problem of the whole Sichuan is not only the problem of Zhao Yanna alone, when he stretched out his hand, everyone was competing for the lead, and everyone was slacking off when the army was reorganized, not only the Hu from below, but also the blind command from above. Knowing that attacking Guanzhong from Shuzhong is a cause that a thousand-year-old wizard like Zhuge Kongming can't complete, he has to hand it over to Zhao Yanna to complete, and it can't be said that Zheng Qingzhi, the right prime minister at the time, has no private abacus. But Zhao Yanna is a dead tiger after all, even if he recovers in the future, he will no longer have the prestige of the past. Hitting him with a board is equivalent to exonerating the civil and military ministers in Sichuan, which is exactly what he said, and he must unite the majority at all times.
Zheng Yunming continued: "Sichuan's strength lies in its geographical convenience. Before the outer three passes (with the Dasan Pass as the core of the three northern passes) in the hands of the state, the Sichuan army focused on the defense of the inner three passes (with the Wuxiu Pass as the core of the three passes in the outer three passes), and so the outer three passes were lost, but the core of the defense was transferred to Xingyuan and Chuzhou, and the inner three passes were abandoned, and after the enemy broke through into Xingyuan and Chuzhou, and then went to defend the Da'an army, it seems to be resisting step by step, in fact, it is better to say that the army is not elite enough, the soldiers are not strong enough, and there is no determination to resist the enemy outside the country. Recently, I heard that officials in Sichuan have another strategy of abandoning Jiading and Chongqing to lure the enemy into going deeper. This is the view of scholars who do not understand the art of war, and the key to the art of war is that if we can make use of the geographical advantage, we must make full use of the geographical advantage, and only when the enemy's advantage is great enough to overcome the geographical advantage, will we adopt the means of luring the enemy to go deep and waiting for an opportunity to invite an attack. ”
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