Peng Daya and Wang Kui and other civil and military officials who had first contacted Zheng Yunming were very calm, Zheng Du unified into Sichuan, and all kinds of strategies and plans were deployed around Chongqing, he had the heart to recover the whole of Shu, why should he focus on Chongqing? It would be good to deploy directly in Lizhou and Xingyuan. With Chongqing as the core, operating Wenzhou, Minzhou, Jiading and other places, it is clear that we are ready to use eastern Sichuan as a base and fight for a long time.

He Yanwei has also guessed the inside story, if Zheng Yunming was ready to advance the center of gravity of defense to the original Shukou from the beginning, why did he need to withdraw his troops to the south? It was also a lot of effort to move the people, and it was clear that they were not ready to use Shukou as a long-term anti-Japanese war base, but used a long-term anti-Japanese war strategy.

As for the others, they were very stunned, and the first thing to do was Yang Hui, the envoy of Sichuan, before rushing to Sichuan to take office, he had personally written a letter to Wu Yong, the governor of the political affairs, to ensure that after gathering the native soldiers in eastern Sichuan, he would recover the entire Sichuan Gorge in one go, and drive the Mongols out of Shukou, so as soon as he arrived in Chongqing, he issued an order to intercept the Sichuan tribute to the imperial court, and wrote to convene the barbarian troops in the southwest, and actively sorted out the defeated troops, in order to recover Chengdu as soon as possible and restore the defense of Shukou. Show your abilities in front of the imperial court.

He stood up and said loudly, "What nonsense? Just now, Du Tong was still talking about controlling the geographical advantages and sticking to the dangers, but now he is going to play the trick of luring the enemy into the depths? Xishu took the plain of western Sichuan as the essence, abandoned Chengdu Mansion, and said what else to control the whole Sichuan? The terrain of Shukou is much steeper than the mountains and rivers in the east of Sichuan, how can there be a person who does not guard the danger in front and runs to the rear to guard the mountain? ”

Zheng Yunming turned his back and bowed to Yang Hui, who was in the upper position, according to the newly promoted position, Yang Zhizhi was his top boss, and he, the military counselor, had to explain well.

"The mood of wanting to recover all of Shu is no different from Zheng Yunming, but even if Shukou can be recaptured, it can't be defended."

Yang Hui shouted: "What does it mean to be unable to hold on? Sichuan was known as the Heavenly Trench in ancient times, and Hugh said that there were 100,000 soldiers, even if there were a million male divisions, as long as they held the danger, it was not so easy to attack. ”

Zheng Yunming shook his head and sighed: "I haven't had time to inspect the front line yet, but I just came back from the front. No one knows the situation ahead better than me, the Mongols' means of slaughtering the city are unprecedented, and it can be said that the most prosperous quintessential area in Shu has been completely burned. Thousands of miles in the past. Now all the land was abandoned, the grass was everywhere, and the people were all slaughtered by the Mongol army, and the rest fled into the mountains. The fields were empty, no one cultivated, but the people were scattered and turned to the ravines, and the conditions that had been used to support the defense of Shukou were all gone. If you have to defend in Shukou, you have to cross hundreds of miles of wilderness and organize people from Jiading to transport grain to the front, once there is a setback in the front, the reinforcements must also travel a long distance to the rescue, not only can not get supplies on the way, but also may be attacked by Mongolian rangers. According to my estimates, the army that can fight in the front can only deploy 5,000 at most, please imagine, if Kuoduan comes again, can these 5,000 people stop him in Shukou? ”

Zheng Yunming wanted to get this matter, and Yang Hui also wanted to get it, but Zheng Yunming didn't have time to think about the problem at the political level, even if the land fell, the enemy army would not be recovered after retreating, this is a matter of political attitude, if Lin'an is not held accountable, it can be perfunctory for a while, and now a group of officials who have just been punished for losing the war, who dares to shout out the words of abandoning the western Sichuan Plain to consolidate eastern Sichuan, there is only Zheng Yanei, who has been smooth sailing since taking office.

Sure enough, seeing that Li straightened his face, the wrinkles on his face were piled up, and he said slowly: "How can the country's land be ceded to the enemy by an inch?" Everything else can be done according to the meaning of the capital, but it is difficult to implement this retreat defense line and abandon the western part of Sichuan. ”

Zheng Yunming was anxious, and said to Li Zhizuo: "I heard that now the generalissimo of the expedition has led the army back to Longnan and occupied Chuzhou, if we push the defense line to Shukou, it will be equivalent to rebuilding the fortress in front of the enemy, which is difficult, and Sichuan is really difficult to do now." ”

・ He paused, and then said: "Now the shape of Sichuan, just like when Duanping entered Luo, tens of thousands of troops ignored the dangers of the road, the supply was cut off, and they traveled thousands of miles to the barren place to garrison, even if they could reach the destination, there was no food supply, even if there was food supply, there was no friendly support, and there was a willingness to deploy 30,000 or 40,000 troops, it was really difficult to supply food and grass, if there were only thousands of soldiers and horses, how could they stop so many Mongolian cavalry?" ”

Li Zhi said with a grim face: "If you can't recover Chuzhou, then you can't recover Lizhou, you can't recover Yangping Pass, and it's good to recover Jiange and then defend it, this matter doesn't need to be discussed, Dutong will immediately deploy the army, and move forward to recover Chengdu, Hanzhou, Langzhong, Wenzhou, Lizhou and other places, and enter Shukou." You can do the rest on your own, and I and the envoy will not interfere much. ”

His look made Zheng Yunming seem to think of his father, and Zheng Qingzhi had also spoken in such an arbitrary tone, which was a hard thing to say when he was in a situation where he could never retreat. Li Xuanfu's remarks show that this matter is absolutely non-negotiable.

If Zheng Yunming asks for the royal belt at this time, of course, he can reluctantly subdue the current white boss, but this is by no means Zheng Yunming's way of being an official, he only thinks that his position is correct and blindly acts brutally, which is something that only people who are extremely responsible and lack the sense of officialdom can do, if Zheng Yunming does this, not only will the relationship with the entire Sichuan officialdom deteriorate all of a sudden, but also there will be no real help to the overall situation of Sichuan.

He could only order the army to deploy the forward plan. Qin Zhongxiao led a group of soldiers and horses into Chengdu, ordered Wang Kui to lead the soldiers and horses into Hanzhou, and at the same time, ordered Liu Fang, the commander stationed in Wenzhou, to lead more than 1,000 remnants of the Chengdu Road to march forward and enter Jiameng Pass to garrison. He also ordered Meng Ying to lead his headquarters to advance to Suining Mansion to cover the flank of the Song army. However, at present, the army is short of food, the various departments are still in chaos, it will take time to pacify and rebuild, and Sichuan can only be on the defensive for the time being and is unable to attack.

And the other two things are things that Zheng Yunming can start doing immediately. In particular, the attraction of talents is a top priority.

Coincidentally, just when Zheng Yunming was suffering from the lack of suitable local talents, the talents were sent to the door by themselves.

That day, a down-and-out scholar in shabby clothes outside the Jixian Pavilion, holding a stack of books in his hand, swaggered inside. The gatekeeper did not know the truth and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

The scholar shouted: "I have a clever plan to save the world, ask Zheng Yunming to come to see me!" ”

The gatekeepers are all old officials of the Chongqing government, and they have seen a lot of arrogant scholars on weekdays, but like this, as soon as they enter the door, they openly ask to see the madmen who are under the control of the capital, and they must have something in their chests, even if they really have no ink, they have all the rules to clean him up, what do they do? So he hurriedly let him in the door, so he was entertained, and hurriedly came to inform Zheng Yunming.

When the scholar saw a young senior military general hurrying with the servants, he immediately stood up, bowed to Zheng Yunming, and said, "Congratulations to Dutong!" ”

Zheng Yunming laughed and asked, "Where does my joy come from?" ”

The scholar also smiled and said: "Expelling the Tartars and recovering the whole of Shu is a miracle, isn't it worth congratulating?" ”

Zheng Yun stiffened his face and said: "What the scholar said is a big deal, do you know that the second prince is below the broad end, Prince Mu Zhi, Marshal Ta Hai, Marshal Gongchang Wang Shixian, Generalissimo Zhu Er, Wanhu Liu Heng'an, Wang Jun, Zhang Zha Gudai, which is not a famous general?" The Mongolian army is strong, Sichuan suffers from it, and now the capital is unified without soldiers, two without money, three without food, what to use to expel the Tartars and reorganize the rivers and mountains? ”

The scholar also looked stern, bowed to Zheng Yunming respectfully, and said: "Student Yangfang, there are twelve good policies, and the superiors are all unified, using my strategy, even if the Mongolian army has a million soldiers and a thousand good generals, it will be difficult to endure half of the Sichuan. ”

"In that case," Zheng Yunming did not sit on the main seat, but stood and said to Yang Fang, "You will tell me in detail." ”

Yang Fang cleared his throat and said, "The most important problem in Shu is to control the danger. In the past, Sichuan was safe, it was relying on the three checkpoints of Wuxiu Pass, Qifang Pass and Xianren Pass, now the three passes have been lost, the south of the Sword Pavilion, a horse Pingchuan, the official army is mainly foot soldiers, it is extremely difficult to compete with the elite Hu people iron cavalry, the art of war is cloudy, with their own victory, the enemy is invincible, and they must always be invincible first, before they can talk about enterprising. Now south of Shukou, can be called a barrier place only Chongqing, here is not only the terrain is dangerous, but also is the place where the three rivers converge, once there is something ahead, from the Jialing River, Qujiang River and Fujiang River water transport to support and supply, extremely convenient. The capital must sit in Chongqing and plan for the overall situation. Then don't choose a few wise and brave generals, one is stationed in Hezhou, one is stationed in Luzhou, and one is stationed in Liangshan, as long as these three dangerous places are in the hands of the capital, Chongqing will have a situation of Wan'an, and the ideal of rejuvenating the whole Shu will have a stable cornerstone. ”

Yang Fang saw that Zheng Yunming did not answer, and continued to say: "After these generals take office, they must urge the local people to cultivate the land with their hearts, and they must reclaim more wasteland. Persist in this way for several years, wait for a little more financial resources, and then slowly move forward, and take the method of step-by-step to recover the lost territory south of Sanguan. As for the barbarians of Banzhou and Sizhou, they can show off their might between the various fortresses, thinking that they are in solidarity, and the enemy will never dare to go deep after seeing it. In this way, the Tartars will not be able to seek war, and they will not be able to plunder money and grain when they retreat, and within a few years, there will inevitably be a big internal strife, and our army will take advantage of the situation and seize the three passes. ”

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