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Guangnan West Road, Yongzhou.

Yongzhou, as the first state capital of Guangnan West Road, is also the first line of the Dali Mongolian garrison, the north of Yongzhou is Kuizhou, which guards the Three Gorges in the upper reaches of the river, and the east is the heart of Qinzhou, Liuzhou, Jingjiang Mansion and other Guangnan West Road.

And because the main force of the army was pressed on the front line of Xiangyang, so the Southern Song Dynasty only had troops stationed in Yongzhou, and other state capitals were maintained by the Xiang army, which also made the importance of Yongzhou self-evident.

But fortunately, sitting in Yongzhou is the famous general Ma Ma Ma Lao General, not to mention the famous general's family, but also for many years to guard Guangnan, for the terrain and layout of the area of the moves, this is why Mongolia has tens of thousands of troops in Dali, but has not dared to shoot.

The difficulty of grain and grass transportation and the poor ability of Yunnan horses to rush and kill on the ground are certainly one thing, but the prevention and vigilance of horses are also another aspect that cannot be ignored.

Of course, as a veteran who has been famous for a long time, it is naturally impossible to pin his hopes on the thin defense line of Yongzhou and the Xiang army of the various state capitals behind, so he simply does not do two things, selects the elite from the Xiang army and township soldiers from all over the country, concentrates on Jingjiang Mansion, and then personally leads the main force of the garrison and the aborigines of the barbarians who are attached to him in Yongzhou, and also fortifies in Liuzhou and Qinzhou, so that the defense line of Guangnan West Road is layered and horned by each other, even if the number of Mongolian soldiers in Dali is even more than that of Ma Yan, But he didn't dare to start, and preferred to take a detour to attack Champa and the Tran Dynasty (Vietnamese Tran).

With the fact that this can suppress Dali Mongolia, Ye Yingwu can see Ma Yan's ability, not to mention that after the fall of Lin'an, Ma Yan is one of the first local guards to be loyal to Ye Yingwu, of course, Ye Yingwu also knows that the purpose of the old general is not to hurry up and stand in line, but to be able to stabilize the military heart of his own sons, and at the same time let the Mongolian Tartars dare not act rashly, but at least this shows that in Ma Yan's heart, he still recognizes Ye Yingwu and this new Ming.

It is also because of this that Ye Yingwu did not remove Ma Yan, but let Ma Yan pacify the various departments under the command of the commander with Guangnan West Road, and fight side by side with the newly formed Xuanwu Army, so that the newcomer Li Fu and Ma Yan are restrained by each other, in addition, Ye Yingwu also took into account the character of the two, General Ma Lao is a calm and cautious person, and Li Fu was born in a literati, and he is not the kind of person who is flying and domineering, the two will naturally not quarrel much, and even be able to learn from each other and make up for the shortcomings.

"His Royal Highness King Ming is really not an idle person." Ma Yan stood on Yongzhou City, standing with his hands in his hands, and muttered, obviously trying to find out where Ye Yingwu's mind was.

"Old general, the forward of the Xuanwu Army is about to arrive." Lou Yong, the most trusted soldier and horse of Guangnan West Road, stepped forward quickly with a smile on his face.

Ma Yan stretched out his hand and patted the battlements: "Is it finally here?" ”

"yes, it's finally here." Lou Yong's eyes were blazing, "Our troops have been stretched thin for so many years, and the Mongolian Tartars are just pressing on the top of their heads, how aggrieved and aggrieved the brothers are, and now they are finally waiting for reinforcements, plus the tens of thousands of Xuanwu troops who are known as invincible in a hundred battles, even if they can't defeat the Mongol Tatars, they don't have to worry all day long." ”

"20,000 people, that's enough." Ma Yan said in a deep voice, "But the old man is really curious, this Xuanwu Army is the reorganization of the rear compartment of the Zhen Navy, and the Zhen Navy is the expansion of the right wing of the Tianwu Army started by King Ming. ”

Lou Yong said with a smile: "No matter what, King Ming is still very kind, Li Menglong's appeasement envoy who doesn't do anything and always stumbles on us was directly dismissed, and a general came up, which clearly means that he wants to reuse the general, and even the elite of the Xuanwu Army who pacified Lin'an in World War I has been sent south to help the general, so that we can finally enter Dali." ”

Ma Yan nodded: "The old man was the first to stand up and serve His Royal Highness King Ming, if His Royal Highness King Ming didn't say anything, wouldn't it be to chill the hearts of the military officials in the world." However, I have to say that the old man did not expect His Royal Highness to put the strategy of Dali and Annan before the Northern Expedition. ”

"Since the fall of Dali, the meat eaters in the DPRK and China have despised it, and how can they see through the importance of Dali and the threat of Annan to our flank." Lou Yong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Only at that time, Ye Yuanjun, today His Royal Highness King Ming has such vision and mind." ”

"This is the first battle after His Royal Highness King Ming ascended the throne, His Royal Highness King Ming gave the old man face like this, and the old man couldn't live up to him if he said anything." Ma Yan waved his sleeves and walked straight to the city, "Let's go, let's go and meet this Xuanwu army and that Uncle Li and General Li for a while." ”

Looking at the old general who always looked west at Dali and frowned, Lou Yong looked forward to it more and more, and at the moment, he arched his hand and said with a hearty smile: "Dare not obey your fate!" ”

Between heaven and earth, you can already see a long queue, silver armor, neighing war horses, and more importantly, the red flags that leap out of the horizon, dancing proudly in the wind, as if they want to complement the flags on this Yongzhou city.

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"Your Highness, this is the planned Jiankang Mansion city and the new palace pavilion." Guo Shoujing stepped forward and handed the thick drawings to Ye Yingwu, and standing behind him, Chen Yuanliang finally couldn't help but yawn and shook slightly.

Ye Yingwu looked at the two of them in some surprise, and found that these two first-class craftsmen in the world were the same with dark circles under their eyes and looked exhausted, but when Guo Shoujing handed the drawings to Ye Yingwu, he could not hide his fighting spirit, and he was obviously ready to answer any questions Ye Yingwu had.

Stretching out his hand to point on the title of the picture, Guo Shoujing said meticulously: "Jiankang Mansion since the Han Dynasty, after Moling, Jinling, Jianye, Jiankang several name changes, but in fact have not reflected the majesty of the capital of a dynasty, the Han and Tang dynasties called their capital by the Beijing Division, and since the former Song Dynasty, it is divided into four capitals in the southeast and northwest, guarding the four directions. ”

Chen Yuanliang took a step forward, and the tired look just now could no longer be found: "And now His Royal Highness takes Jiankang Mansion as the capital, and the name of Jiankang Mansion cannot be used to show that it is different from others, and His Majesty has consulted with Guo Xianggong, and has already inquired about Wen Xianggong and Lu Xianggong, Jiankang Mansion is located in the south of the Central Plains, and it should be called Nanjing, or directly referred to as Jingshi, which can not only express my ambition to take this as the capital and conquer the world, but also show the ambition of this as the heart of the world." ”

"Nanjing?" Ye Yingwu subconsciously shivered, not knowing whether he should be glad that history finally didn't joke with him and let Jiankang Mansion change its name to Yingtianfu, or should he be shocked and frightened by the sudden appearance of the name of this city that should have belonged to the era in which he had lived for twenty years hundreds of years?

Seeing that Guo Shoujing and Chen Yuanliang both nodded solemnly, Ye Yingwu suddenly showed a bitter smile, and knocked on the table helplessly: "Then Nanjing." ”

"Yes." Guo Shoujing obviously didn't think that Ye Yingwu would oppose this, so he didn't look at His Royal Highness King Ming's changed face, and stretched out his hand to point to the city on the map to explain, "The drawings of the entire Nanjing City are here, here is the rough appearance, the whole city is east, west, south and north, south and north, south is Jubao Gate, Tongji Gate, Shicheng Gate and Qingliang Gate in the south, Dinghuai Gate, Yifeng Gate, Jinchuan Gate in the east, Shence Gate and Taiping Gate in the north, Chaoyang Gate, Xuanwu Gate, Chongwen Gate and Danyang Gate in the east. ”

Ye Yingwu stretched out his hand and held down the drawings, compared with the Ming Imperial City in his impression of Nanjing's heyday, Guo Shoujing's painting of this palace is more square, although it still does not include Xuanwu Lake, but it looks quite a "round place" taste, and compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's Yingtianfu at that time, this city is longer in the north and south, including Qin Huai, not to mention, it is also connected to Yuecheng, making it a natural urn city, and the city is usually included in the palaces of the Six Dynasties, the Southern Tang Dynasty and the former Song Dynasty, As a result, these relatively low and tight palaces can be directly transformed into official residences and mansions, and also have the implication of making the original Six Dynasties and the former Song Dynasty forever submit to the Ming Dynasty.

What surprised Ye Yingwu even more was that the imperial city of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Shoujing did not fill in the Yanque Lake to build a palace like Zhu Yuanzhang in history, so as to avoid the acute and inevitable problem of unstable foundation and palace sinking, and Guo Shoujing did not choose to demolish all the palaces in the city, after all, first, to make room for the city, and secondly, Guo Shoujing also understood that it was not easy to make such a big move, so he simply extended the imperial city along Yuecheng to Yuhuatai and Gaozao Temple, including the entire Yuhuatai and Jubaoshan. Thus forming a spirit similar to that of the Lin'an Imperial City including Phoenix Mountain.

Guo Shoujing nodded: "If the imperial city is extended from Nanjing, the northwest is the big river, and the east is blocked by Yanque Lake, and the north is blocked by Xuanwu Lake and Zhongshan, so it can only be extended to the south, and Yuhuatai is an excellent place to overlook a city, including the palace city, which is reasonable and reasonable." ”

Ye Yingwu didn't say anything more about this, after all, even if Guo Shoujing was unprofessional, he was better than himself, a blind liberal arts student, and looked at him helplessly: "In this way, the drawings will be left first, and in general, it will not be a big problem, you can already start planning the entire Nanjing City, but now the Northern Expedition to recover the state capital is the time of green and yellow, and the people everywhere are enthusiastic, and the two of them are also looking at it, so if you don't let go of the household department, then wait." ”

Guo Shoujing and Chen Yuanliang both solemnly bowed their hands to Ye Yingwu: "Your Highness is righteous." ”

Thousands of clothes are worn, but they don't wear sycophants, not to mention that they are usually scientific freaks like Guo Shoujing and Chen Yuanliang, who can make them pat Ye Yingwu's ass, which shows that at least in their hearts, they approve of Ye Yingwu's practice of slowing down the construction of the palace city and the capital.

"I'm tired, do you have anything else to do?" Ye Yingwu sat down and said in a deep voice.

The two glanced at each other, Chen Yuanliang gritted his teeth and took a step forward: "Your Highness Qiqi, the last time His Highness asked me to wait for the two of you to develop the firecracker, it already has eyebrows. During the Northern Expedition of Xianggong Wen, the only firearm once belonged to the Tianwu Army, but it was not satisfactory, and the subordinates were later transformed, and now there is a faint power that His Highness wants, I don't know when His Highness will go to proofread? ”

"What?!" Ye Yingwu slapped the table suddenly, and the whole person stood up, "You mean that the fire gun has been developed?" ”

I didn't expect Ye Yingwu to react so much, but when it was connected with the power of the fire gun experiment, the two of them didn't feel strange, and nodded together at the moment.

Ye Yingwu looked at the dim sky outside, and patted his forehead in annoyance, now that it is getting late, as His Royal Highness and the king of a country, he naturally does not have the courage to leave the palace at every turn, otherwise Chen Yizhong, who has just taken office, will not have to roll up his sleeves and bring people up to spit next time.

"If you don't go to court tomorrow, just tomorrow morning." Ye Yingwu paced back and forth with some excitement, constantly smashing his palms lightly.

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"Guangnan West Road pacification envoy, know Yongzhou Ma Yan, dare to ask in person, is it General Li Shuzhang Li?" Ma Yan stood at the ten-mile pavilion with a smile, looking at the long queue that came from a long distance, and shouted loudly.

Hearing his voice, Li Fu slowly rode out of the horse, turned over and dismounted and stepped forward quickly: "The four compartments of the Xuanwu Army are all commanded by Li Fu, and I have seen the old general Ma." ”

However, Ma Yan's eyes were soon attracted by the long queue walking behind Li Fu, the silver armor, the red flag fluttering in the wind, and more importantly, the Xuanwu soldiers who were young but had high morale and a solemn murderous spirit.

As a veteran of the battlefield for many years, at the first glance of seeing these soldiers, Ma Yan knew that these were definitely the elites tempered by blood and fire on the battlefield, perhaps the time they marched and fought could not catch up with one-tenth of the soldiers under the command of the old general, but the tragedy of the war they participated in was far greater than that of the soldiers of Guangnan West Road, after all, this side was only a little fight with the Mongolian army in Dali, and it was not a real battle at all.

These original soldiers on the right wing of the town navy moved to Huainan and Huaibei, and later broke through Lin'an with lightning speed, making Zhang Hongfan's strategy of entrenching in Lin'an and dividing the Southern Song Dynasty into nothing, and he also put his own net worth and life into it.

Thinking about the fact that after such a fierce war, it is not impossible to be able to sharpen such an elite in a short period of time.

Seeing that his old general was distracted at this time, Lou Yong gently tugged at his sleeve with some helplessness, and he gave his hand first: "The soldiers and horses of Guangnan West Road are all under Lou Yong's jurisdiction, and they have long admired General Li's name. ”

Ma Yan came back to his senses and smiled to hide his embarrassment: "General Li, this is not the place to talk, let's go into the city first, I don't know what General Li thinks." ”

Li Fu nodded: "The old general is the master, a certain Li Fu is a guest, since he came to the old general's acre and three points of land, he naturally has to obey the old general's arrangement." After all, whether it is westward or southward in the future, our two armies need to cooperate with each other and act as horns for each other. ”

Nodding, Ma Yan made a please clean up, and walked in front with Lou Yong, while Li Fu pursed his lips and smiled, got on the horse, and just followed unhurriedly after the two.

Slightly sideways to see that Li Fu was still some distance away from him, Lou Yong couldn't help but lower his voice and said: "Old general, this Xuanwu Army is really worthy of its name, but the battle of this march, his subordinates also have some palpitations when they see it, in the end, it is a strong army." ”

After Ma Yan was silent for a moment, he replied in a deep voice: "This is not a bad thing, at least from the words and deeds of this General Li, it can be seen that he came this time not to deal with you and me and the defenders of the Guangnan West Road, but really wants to attack Dali in the west, and it is very likely to be in front of you, and you see those cavalry escorted carriages, which are covered with tarpaulins, I think it is the legendary flying thunder cannon, and it is clearly prepared." ”

Lou Yong nodded: "Since this Xuanwu Army is not coming for us, can we wait to follow the Xuanwu Army all the way to Dali?" ”

Gently clenching the reins of the horse, Ma Yan said softly: "Not behind the Xuanwu Army, but side by side with the strongest army in the world, maybe our firearms are not as good as them, or maybe our elite is not as good as them, but fortunately, we are born and raised here, for this Guangnan West Road and Dali, is there anyone more familiar than you and me?" ”

Seeing that Lou Yong fell into deep thought, Ma Yan looked up at the sky: "Don't forget that we are now the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, and we are not the ministers of the founding of the country, so if we want to stand in this global trend smoothly and steadily in the future, it is naturally indispensable to be able to get the merits, and you can see the character of His Royal Highness the King of Ming, not the kind of jealous and jealous characters, as long as you and I can make contributions, rewards will be indispensable at that time, not to mention ······"

"What's more, pacifying Dali is the long-cherished wish of the good men of the entire Yongzhou Army and the Jingjiang Army." Lou Yong gritted his teeth and said, "The subordinates are taught, and at this time, no one can retreat." ”

Ma Yan snorted and looked at Yongzhou, who was getting closer and closer: "At this time, no one can retreat!" (To be continued.) )