When Liu Guangzu heard this, he realized that this iron lump was called a grenade, and it was a kind of thing that could explode, not smash people. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he couldn't help but be embarrassed by his original stupid idea.

After speaking, Lu Qing asked with a smile: "Director Liu, what kind of scene would it be if you said that thousands of these things were thrown into the enemy formation during the war?"

"That'...... It must be corpses all over the field, and people are turning on their backs. Liu Guangzu said excitedly.

After the excitement, Liu Guangzu blinked his eyes and asked, "General, are the team members training to throw this grenade into that big pit just to practice accuracy and distance?" ”

"Yes. You're right. With the accuracy and distance, these players are a small cannon. With so many small cannons, who can block our attack? Zhao Guohua said confidently.

Hearing this, looking at the team members who were practicing throwing, and then looking at the flying dust and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves on the other side of the cavalry training ground, Liu Guangzu felt that he was on the right path.

"Yongliu" - He Zhizhang (Tang)

The jasper is made into a tree high, and ten thousand green silk ribbons hang down. I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors.

In the middle of March of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Jingshi, which is located in the north, sent away the white cold winter and ushered in the green spring.

The bare trunk of the tree sprouted tender green buds, no longer like the previous dry and decayed. The wicker by the river stretches its graceful waist branches, fluttering and fluttering in the air, and the grass on the roadside changes into green clothes under the blowing of the spring breeze. The spring full of vitality, full of vitality and hope is slowly coming!

But this sunny spring did not make Chongzhen's gloomy mood better, and he frowned while watching the music.

"It's all like that!" Chongzhen flipped through the bad news sent from all over the place and said angrily.

Recently, more than a dozen county towns have been breached by thieves, the county treasury has been looted, good citizens have been coerced into thieves, and officials have been cut off and hung at the entrance of the official office. In recent years, this has been happening non-stop.

"What should I do?" He pondered, his brows locked together deeply, unable to stretch for a long time.

When he was in a bad mood, his confidant eunuch Wang Chengen came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Lord Yang Sichang Yang is here." ”

Chongzhen's brows relaxed, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Hurry up." ”

After a while, Yang Sichang came in, and after the monarch and ministers finished the ceremony, Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang carefully, and saw that his face was clear, his expression was calm, although his face was dusty, his eyes were full of confidence, so he secretly liked it in his heart.

"Mr. is finally here, I have been looking forward to Mr. for a long time." Chongzhen said happily

Yang Sichang was very excited when he heard this, he bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the minister knows the difficulty of Your Majesty's handling of state affairs, and also wants to come out to serve the imperial court, and the etiquette of the imperial court cannot be observed, so I also ask Your Majesty to forgive the crime of resisting the decree." ”

"Aiqing, don't worry, Lian knows that you are a dutiful son, and you have asked to resign three times to replace your father, and how many people can do this. Those who are filial to their parents will be loyal to the court. What a crime," Chongzhen said with a smile.

After the gentleman and the minister were polite, the atmosphere became warm, so the monarch and the minister chatted.

Chongzhen said casually, "Aiqing, you have been at home for more than a year, and you don't know what you are busy with at home every day......."

"Your Majesty, in addition to writing, the minister is reading at home." Yang Sichang sat on his side and replied respectfully,

Nodding slightly, Chongzhen said, "What books is Aiqing reading, can you talk to me?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister reads the "Historical Records", "Zizhi Tongjian", "The Analects", "The Art of War", "Wei Xuanzi" and the Four Books and Five Classics, especially the "Analects", which is a book that the minister has to read every day." Yang Sichang replied

Hearing that he had been reading these books, Chongzhen secretly said in his heart: "It seems that he is ready to show his strength after coming out." Thinking of this, he smiled again and said, "Why does Aiqing read the Analects every day? ”

Bowing his hand, Yang Sichang said: "Your Majesty, Zhao Pu, the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty, is known as half of the "Analects" to rule the world, and the minister should learn from Zhao Pu and assist His Majesty to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty." ”

Chongzhen's heart was hot when he said this, he stood up, walked to the window, controlled his emotions for a while, and then turned back and sat down and said in a more gentle tone: "Aiqing, can you tell me what you think after reading these books."

"Your Majesty wants to listen, and the minister will be ugly." As he spoke, Yang Sichang began to tell.

Yang Sichang has lived in the countryside for more than a year, and has extensive knowledge of all kinds of books, he has been a teacher, a manager of state finances, a local official, and a soldier in the military department, so he has rich experience. He works in writing and writing, and has eloquence. It happened that the emperor talked to him this time, and he responded to them one by one, talked eloquently, and showed everything he had learned in his own chest.

After hearing this, Chongzhen sighed in his heart, and secretly thought: "This person is a capable minister, if he had been used earlier, maybe the situation in Daming would not be as bad as it is now." Thinking of this, he said: "Aiqing, now the post of secretary of the imperial court military department is vacant, the military department is related to military aircraft affairs, and it cannot be vacant for a long time, I want to entrust Aiqing to this position, please don't shirk it."

"The ministers are sparse and shallow, and I am afraid that it will delay the major ......events of His Majesty's military aircraft," Yang Sichang pretended to resign. In fact, he also wanted to show his skills in the military, otherwise he would not have read military books.

Chongzhen smiled and said: "Aiqing's ability is fully known, there is no problem in being the secretary of the military department, so don't shirk." ”

"Your Honor. Thank you, Lord Long. Yang Sichang said, kneeling down and kowtowing to thank him.

After Yang Sichang became the secretary of the military department, he immediately began to plan how to deal with the rogues and the Tartars.

On the second day of the first month of April, he appeared on "Respecting Chen Annei's First Priority". Shu said: "The thieves, dogs, horses, and crossbows are blunt, and the grass and trees are worried, and everything is out of order. Meng's grace is unusual, stacked with the Ming Decree Star Trend, and the first is to be Anbian Kou Mianchen cuisine. It seems that Anbian is the first, and Dangkou is second. Weichen is saying that he must be safe inside before he can go outside. Why? Stealing the body of the general trend of the world, the head of the Beijing Division, the shoulders and arms of the Xuan and Ji sides, the heart of the Central Plains south of the Yellow River and the north of the Great River are also a person, and the head of state is the most important. Outside the shoulders and arms, the side is very urgent; In the heart of the rogue and the trouble, it is very deep. Those who are in a hurry cannot be slowed down, and those who are deep cannot be ignored. …… Therefore, the ministers said that they must be safe inside before they can fight outside, they must have enough food and then enough soldiers, and they must protect the people to be able to sweep the people. If you don't dare to speak slowly, you have to settle your inner ear first............"

The meaning of the above words can be summed up in one sentence: "If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" Destroy the thieves first, and then resist the Manchus. It was advocated that the military focus should be placed on the suppression of peasant uprisings. This proposition that "the outside world must first be secured at home" was actually a major change from the Ming court's previous military strategy of "emphasizing the outside over the inside."

His opinion happened to be consistent with Chongzhen's thoughts, Chongzhen was overjoyed, and let the ministers pass on this twist and turn in the early dynasty

After reading it, everyone nodded yes. Seeing the approval of the ministers, Chongzhen was overjoyed, and glanced at Yang Sichang again, seeing that he was standing calmly, there was no smug look on his face, and he felt that he had used the right person.

"Yang Aiqing, how should you implement this performance?" Chongzhen asked with a smile on his face.

Yang Sichang said: "The minister has planned a strategy, as long as he follows it, at most three months, the thief will be broken!" ”

I heard that it only takes three months to eliminate the rogue who has been making trouble for nine years, and the corners of the minister's mouth can't help but have a trace of mocking sneer, everyone doesn't believe that there is any way to eliminate the rogue who has been making trouble for nine years in three months. Now Yang Sichang said that he would kill Kou in three months, he was just fooling the emperor.

Chongzhen didn't think about this, but asked with a look of longing: "I don't know what the strategy is?" I also asked Aiqing to elaborate on the United Nations and the Aiqing. ”

"Four positive and six corners, also called the ten-sided net strategy." Yang Sichang said.

Chongzhen didn't understand, so he said suspiciously: "Aiqing, what does this four-positive and six-corner mean?" ”

Yang Sichang said: "Your Majesty, please also bring the map of the Ming Dynasty, and the minister will explain it to you in detail." ”

"Big friend, hurry up and get the Ming map." Chongzhen hurriedly instructed Wang Chengen.

Bring the map and hang it, everyone walked to the map, Yang Sichang pointed to the map with his finger, and said: "Your Majesty, in the past, the suppression of bandits was not effective, because the imperial court did not have a unified strategy for encirclement and suppression, and each province fought separately, fighting in the east, the thieves ran to the west, the south to fight, and the Liukou ran to the north. Therefore, only by unifying the dispatch and command of the officers and troops who encircled and suppressed the rogue can we effectively deal with the thieves. ”

Looking at the map, thinking about Yang Sichang's words, the more he thought about it, the more it made sense, Chongzhen secretly said in his heart: "Yang Sichang is still capable, and his courage is much stronger than that straw bag Zhang Fengyi." ”

"So how do you unify scheduling?" Chongzhen asked with a pleasant face.

Pointing to the map, Yang Sichang said: "The minister takes Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Fengyang, which are the four areas where the rogue is active, as the "four positives", and instructs the governors of these four places to be responsible for defense and interception, blocking the flow of the rogues, and dividing and suppressing them and defending, which is for the four positives; The six provinces of Yansui, Shanxi, Shandong, Yingtian, Jiangxi, and Sichuan are divided into defense and coordinated suppression, which is the sixth corner; Together, the two form a ten-sided net of heaven and earth. When necessary, these six provinces also participate in the crackdown. In addition, the governor of Shaanxi Province commanded the troops in the northwest and the mobile forces directly under the military prime ministers of the five provinces in the Central Plains region were the main force. In this way, the thieves are chased and beaten, but they can't escape, so naturally they have only one way to be eliminated. ”

The purpose of this military strategy was to limit the scope of activities of the peasant army, and the division of labor and cooperation were both offensive and defensive, which was very strict and effective, and fully demonstrated Yang Sichang's military ability. In fact, this is also the development and expansion of the military thinking of "division responsibility and key offensive" put forward by Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng. It was not just talk on paper, as people often say, and after it was put into practice, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and others failed one after another, and the peasant uprising turned into a low ebb, which is the best proof of this.