Chapter 0606: Southern Expedition to Shuzhong
When the complete local military and political system was announced, the generals gladly approved of the military system, and most of the state assassins who spontaneously came to observe the military system in Guanzhong were opposed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoBecause the rank of the official has been cut down from the upper and lower ranks, there is only a distinction between positive and subordinate, and the rank of the military general is set too high.
But in fact, it is not high, this is inevitable, military attachés from the lowest level of the commander to the highest level of military governors have eight ranks, while civilian officials from the township to the province only have five grades, the economic strategy makes the grade of three grades, the subordinate four divisions are only four grades, but the military governor of the defense zone is the first grade, which does not seem to match at all.
However, the units at the military level are not permanent in the first place, and the Governor's Office, like the Economic and Strategic Envoy Department, is a temporary organization, and the garrison areas under the jurisdiction of the local garrison military government are not according to the "road" jurisdiction, especially on the border, and it is impossible to be so rigid, and many of them need to set up defense areas across the road, and the premise is that after this series of reorganizations is completed, the local garrison military government can be improved again.
The existing subordinate units of the Governor's Office are only the chaotic township soldiers distributed in various prefectures, and they have not yet been separated from the hands of the local state regimental training envoys, and there is not a single retired city guard. The governors are the former marshals, all of them are super grades, and if they are demoted to third-grade officials, how can it work.
In the future, the militaristic system from the bottom up will be fully regularized, that is, the capable will be promoted and the mediocre will be demoted, and a large number of veteran commanders will be eliminated.
The civil service system is much more complicated, and once it is decided, it is impossible to revise it repeatedly. The Dao-level institutions are the fourth grade, the six departments and Jiuqing of the central center are the third and fourth grades, and the decision-making level of the temple is the first and second grades, how can it not match, this is what Zhang Yue and Feng Qianhou have repeatedly scrutinized.
But civil officials are so cheap, after cutting the upper and lower ranks, changing to nine grades and eighteen ranks, the time for them to boil their qualifications will be much shorter, but they don't buy it, and cut down the words "the five grades are up, and the five grades are down; From the top of the five products, from the bottom of the five products", they are not adaptable.
It's normal for this kind of thing to start to be implemented, and if you think about it, you can figure it out, Zhang Yue didn't bird them, and issued an order on the same day: with the Jinshi background of the Zheng'er Eight Classics, the former Huizhou, and Liangzhou, from the Sanpin Shangzhou Assassin Shi Wen Yuankai as the Guannei Daojing Envoy, Li Liangbi as the deputy envoy; Wang Yanchao is the governor of the Guannei Provincial Governor's Mansion and the deputy head of the Northwest Lecture Wutang; Feng Jixun is the deputy governor and the head of the Northwest Wutang Mountain.
The chief of the main mountain in charge of the lecture hall, of course, was concurrently served by Zhang Yue himself, until after the opening ceremony of the lecture hall, Zhang Yue thought that he could be idle, but the Lizhou military newspaper continued, and Songpan Zhai also sent the West Road military report from En.
On September 12, Zhang Jianxiong led 10,000 troops from Songzhou Minjiang to the south, captured Wenshan in Maozhou, and entered Mianzhou at the end of September at the end of September. Mianzhou belongs to the Wudejie town in Shuzhong, with jurisdiction over five states, and is the northeast barrier of Chengdu, and the administrative office is located in Zizhou. The marshal Li Tingqi received the news early and led his troops to deploy defenses along the Qingjiang River west of Mianyang and Zhangming, making it difficult for Zhang Jianxiong to cross the river.
On September 15, He Jiyun, Bing Shaohui, Shi Chenghong, and Liu Wenbai of the East Road led 35,000 soldiers, 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 45,000 troops to Jinniu Town, southwest of Xingyuan Prefecture.
The Zhaowu Jiedu station in Shuzhong is in Miangu, Lizhou, receiving the news that the Zhou army is going south, the old marshal pet Fucheng garrisoned 5,000 troops in Sanquan County, 80 miles north of the state, and set up two lines of defense in Chaotian Town and Mantianling south of Sanquan, garrisoning 5,000 troops;
In addition, relying on the state to govern the Miangu, on the bank of the confluence of the Jialing River and Baishui in the south, between the three counties of Jinggu, Yichang and Yiqing, a defense line spanning more than 100 miles in the east and west is set up, and the garrison reaches more than 20,000 people, completely covering the dangerous places such as Jiameng Pass, Jianmen Pass, Yinping Trail and Shimen Pass.
He Jiyun conquered Sanquan and Mantianling all the way, and the troops were under the city of Miangu in Lizhou, but although the Shu army was not good in the field, the old commander and Fucheng did not fight a tough battle with him, and he was very good at defense.
Shi Chenghong and Liu Wenbai of the three divisions led the troops to follow the battle, and it took half a month to go south for 150 miles. And Zhang Jianxiong's Western Route Army can't have too much expectations, the Northern Route Army is the main force, if it can't defeat the Jianmen Pass, this battle will basically be yellow, which will cause a series of serious consequences, Zhang Yue can't afford to be injured, and decided to go south in person.
On the fifth day of October, Zhang Yue transferred Zong's Jingcheng Second Division to the Yongxing Military Mansion City, as well as the official offices, warehouses and other important places in the city, and arranged for the deputy commander of the Guards Brigade Quan Daojin and deputy staff officer Yang Xuanli to lead three regiments to carry a large amount of grain and grass and heavy siege equipment, including trebuchets, rushing cars, ladders, heavy crossbows, 40 boxes of 2,000 catties of gunpowder, and 50 barrels of fire oil.
The strength of the southern expedition is enough, and any more will increase the logistical burden, and 5,000 soldiers in one brigade are just right. Considering that after conquering the prefectures and counties on the way to the south, it was necessary to reorganize the Shu army, which required a group of new officers, but the Eighth Division of Guanzhong had already transferred a lot, and only 1,000 outstanding veterans could be transferred from the first and second divisions.
In addition, there are Shi Yanchao, Li Wanquan, Yang Chongxun, Pan Mei, Li Jingqing and other generals, Sun Guangxian and Li Jingwei, two Jingnan civil and military officers are on standby.
Early in the morning of the 10th day of the first lunar month, Zhang Yue went to the government as usual, and met with officials at all levels to arrange the funeral, and after the transfer of this piece of Guannei Dao to Wang Yanchao, the Yongxing Military Mansion has actually become Zhang Yue's shogunate agency, which is presided over by Feng Qianhou, Du Deyun and others.
Out of the back side door of the palace, Liu Guangye and Le Yanwen have led five hundred guards to drive the carriage and horses on standby, Fu Jinqiong and Bian Yu took the concubines and children to wait in the gate of the courtyard to see each other off.
Zhang Yue waved goodbye to his wife and children, led his guards to the western suburbs outside the city, more than 3,000 guards were waiting in line, all the way to Xiaoxing overnight, to Xingyuan Mansion for one night, did not stay too much, under the fast horse, nine days later finally arrived at the camp twenty miles north of Lizhou City.
Lizhou is located between Motianling and Northeast Micang Mountain, along the Jialing River bank Jinniu Road south, this mountain road is in the "Micang Corridor" between the two mountains narrow mountain front groove, and the suburbs of Lizhou is a small basin, just choke the exit of this corridor, and forty miles south of the city, there is Jibaijin Town on the east bank of the intersection of Baishui and Jialing River, and the west bank of the south of the town is beneficial to Chang County, and the Jianmen Road is guarded.
However, there are Shimen Pass and Yinping Trail to the west of Jianmen Pass, and Jiameng Pass is on the east bank of the Jialing River. But no matter which way you go, you have to break through Lizhou City first.
Asked about the general situation of the frontline, Zhang Yue went to the east of the city and the north of the city to inspect the two directions, the city is on the east bank of the Jialing River, the wall is less than two zhang high, but from the northeast direction of the rice cang mountain originates a rice cang river through the city into the Jialing River, which makes the city have a moat and a suspension bridge, fortunately there is no urn gate.
With the moat, it is not realistic to bomb the city, although He Jiyun and other sieges have blocked the fork to drain the river water, but it is located by the river, and the possibility of the wet ground is very high, and it will be very troublesome to dig a hole at the foot of the city wall. The only remaining siege methods were trebuchets throwing fire oil bombs, supplemented by ladders and rushing carts, which still caused heavy casualties.
Faced with a hard bone, Zhang Yue also had a headache, and with a glimmer of hope, he planned to send someone into the city to persuade him to surrender, Sun Guangxian took the initiative to ask Ying, and took an entourage to the city to shout, and then the city put down the hanging basket and hung them up, but there was no movement for a long time.