In September of the 14th year of Yuanyou, after the division of the military department, a total of 110 generals from all the roads south of the Yangtze River and the state capital entered Beijing to report on their work. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And the small square outside the imperial study room is completely occupied by these one hundred and ten generals above the fifth rank at this moment

"The emperor has arrived, and the hundred officials kneel to welcome the holy car-" Mu Fengchun, the palace ******** who was taking the little eunuchs here to solve all kinds of miscellaneous problems for the generals here, saw his emperor and his lord coming here with a group of accompanying eunuchs and palace maids, so he immediately sang and said to all the generals present

"Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live." All the generals present heard Mu Fengchun's singing and harmony, and all knelt down on one knee and clasped their fists with their hands, and saluted Zhao Xu, the emperor, with a very formal military salute

Zhao Xu walked to the top of the steps, and looked at the large number of generals at all levels of the General Military Division who were kneeling below, wearing various colors of Mingguang armor, big leaf armor, and bird mountain armor, and slowly sat on the Nine Dragons Dragon chair that was moved to the top of the steps, "Zhongqing, calm down." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." As all the generals present got up, all the armor leaves made a "whoosh" and "whoosh" sound because of the friction

"I ordered the military department, and you all know about summoning you back to Beijing to report on your work." Zhao Xu said casually

"The ministers know it."

"Zhu Huaqing, Hu Daicheng, where is Feng Xiang." Zhao Xu said

"Wait here."

"The three of you are all leading generals of the Lu Zhi Unified Military Division, and you are in a high-ranking position, and your understanding of military applications, whether it is the theory in the books or the improvisation on the battlefield, you are already veterans, which is definitely much stronger than me." Zhao Xu said this sentence to the truth, how could he, a military strategist who had become a monk halfway, compare with these generals in front of him who had played a lifetime of war

"The ministers don't dare, the ministers are afraid." When these three people heard that Zhao Xu's self-surrender status was too high, they instantly frightened these three people into a cold sweat, not to mention Zhao Xu's habit of being kind to hundreds of officials and being kind to the people, just say that an emperor surrendered himself to praise a minister, which is not a good sign, because once the emperor does this, it will definitely have to find trouble for them

Sure enough, Zhao Xu said to them: "In the past few years, with the birth of all kinds of artillery and repeater crossbows in our country, and then applied to war, to the end of the basic popularization of the whole army, and then, our army has appeared a lot of more novel ways and methods of war, different from the past, before the start of the war, the new concept of war led by artillery began to form a great subjective consciousness in the minds of all the generals of all walks of life in our country. It borders on the three countries of Cochin, and the road to the station has many riots and rebellions of the people under the rule of the southwest princes, and the suppression of force, it is inevitable that the three of you are stationed in the road rule, the terrain is mostly mountainous and hilly, and most of the land is densely covered with jungles, or terraced fields, mountains, hills and jungle battles, presumably the three generals are unusually familiar, suppose, in the mountains, in the dense forest, there is a small branch of the southwest lord led the people to rebel, the number is not much, a thousand people, How can we solve this jungle and mountain war in the shortest time when our army's military expenses are minimal and the number of casualties among soldiers is minimal. ”

Zhao Xu looked at Zhu Huaqing, Hu Daicheng, and Feng Xiang, and the three of them bowed their heads and frowned, and the three of them kept exchanging their opinions. Then Zhao Xu said to all the generals present: "This question is not only for the three of them, you should also think about it together." ”

"The ministers obey."

It didn't take long for Zhu Huaqing and the others to take the lead in taking a step forward and said to Zhao Xu: "Your Majesty, the three ministers have already come up with an answer. ”

"Say, I'll listen to what the three of you have to say."

"I am really ashamed to be ashamed, but I ask Your Majesty to correct it. The enemy is located in a high mountain and dense forest, and occupies a geographical advantage, and it is really unwise for our army to rashly force its way into the mountain, so the ministers and others believe that it only takes one day to deploy a large number of heavy field artillery to cover the entire mountain under the foot of the mountain and outside the jungle, and the bandits can be quelled. Zhu Huaqing, as the representative of the three, stood up and talked to Zhao Xu

"Well, yes, Aiqing, what you said is indeed a method, but what about the huge military expenditure? What about the difficult transportation of heavy artillery? You've blown up this mountain, what if the same riot on another mountain is chaotic? You're going to give another hill a carpet full-coverage artillery bombardment? If you are asked to fight in this way, I am afraid that except for the heavy field artillery in my Great Song Army, all other artillery will not be usable, but between the three of you and last year, a total of 1,200 field heavy artillery, 3,000 mountain artillery, 9,000 mortars, and countless ammunition have been asked to me. Or I have too much money and burn in a panic! ”

"The ministers are guilty, and the ministers are afraid!" Zhu Huaqing, Hu Daicheng, and Feng Xiang looked at it, and it turned out that the pit of their emperor was dug here, and this pit was really dug that they couldn't do without jumping, because these are all facts

"Alright, all three of you should go back first." Looking at Zhu Huaqing, Hu Daicheng, and Feng Xiang, the three of them all drooped their heads and slowly retreated, and Zhao Xu then called the four people: "Chu Mu, Zhang Ding, Zhu Pengcheng, Gao Zhenyu." ”

"Wait here." Although the voices of the four of them answered loudly, the beads of sweat on the door of their heads had completely betrayed the tension in their hearts, and for no other reason, the mistakes made by these four guys were almost exactly the same as those just now

"You said that the rivers and roads in your four places are crisscrossed, large and small lakes and wetlands are dotted, needless to say that there are waterways between cities, even between towns and villages, and heavy artillery is almost impossible to move an inch in your place, and most of the armies in your hands are inland naval forces, and the main weapons you are equipped with should be boats, flat-bottomed sand boats, centipede ships, sea falcon ships, and loach ships, all of which are equipped in the Luzhi garrison under your command, I don't understand, you say that you don't ask me for naval guns, artillery guns, and mountain artillery, you even asked me for a lot of field heavy artillery, and even cavalry artillery. (To be continued.) )