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Ye Yingwu stood in front of Yutu and was silent for a long time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The people who delivered the news through the six doors rushed into the lobby in a hurry, and then turned to leave, Liang Yanwu and the staff were already busy. Since the war between the two sides, this side hall has become the center of the summary of news, including the household department, the military department, and even the officials department and the engineering department, all of which have sent important personnel to station here, and at the same time, Ye Yingwu has sent more than a dozen scholars from the Hanlin Academy to help deal with these messy documents sent from all directions.

And the forbidden army outside is also to strictly defend this inconspicuous side hall, after all, this is now the core and center of the entire Ming Dynasty, once there is an accident here, the Ming Dynasty will be crippled.

"Your Highness, the latest battle report!" A staff member came briskly.

Ye Yingwu hurriedly took it, and the staff and officials who were busy next to him all looked at it nervously, everyone subconsciously held their breath, and the movements in their hands slowed down, after all, this was the first battle report since the start of the war, and of course they were very concerned.

After opening it and taking a look, Ye Yingwu exhaled lightly, met a pair of urgent eyes, and nodded solemnly. Immediately, cheers echoed in the hall. Ye Yingwu also muttered with emotion: "The pickaxe fought a good battle, although the loss was a little bigger, but it finally contained the war on the border of Chenzhou, and did not let the entire Huaibei become a pot of porridge." ”

Jiang Hao led the Tianwu army to the north urgently, and the Mongolian cavalry to the south met on a narrow road, and finally both sides were killed and wounded about two or three thousand, the Mongolian cavalry saw that there was nothing to do, and finally retreated, and although Jiang Hao was reckless, but also understood that it was now full of wolf smoke, and the entire thousand-mile border was in chaos, so he did not rush to catch up, but just slowly advanced to Chenzhou. At the same time, the two Huai armies also went north one after another, and the Tianwu army formed a corner with each other.

Ye Yingwu glanced at the map and said in a deep voice: "Come here, with my will, verbally commend the Tianwu Army, all of which will be meritorious, and then count after the war." In addition, he told Su Renzhong that Huaibei is an important national land, and he cannot be lost, and I sent him north to sit in the town this time in order to hold Huaibei, as for whether to attack Xuzhou and Chenzhou, let him decide for himself. ”

Liang Yanwu glanced at Ye Yingwu in some surprise: "Didn't Your Highness give an instruction to the ministries?" ”

Turning around and slowly walking to the table, Ye Yingwu said lightly: "Outside, the king's order is not affected, on the battlefield, the battle situation is changing rapidly, even if you are in it, it is sometimes difficult to judge, not to mention that I am hundreds of miles away from Nanjing, and the Mongolian Tatar cavalry is already known for its speed, and when my order is issued, I am afraid it will be too late." ”

Liang Yanwu nodded, what Ye Yingwu said was right, after all, now that the news is being conveyed back and forth, when Ye Yingwu's holy decree reaches Huaibei, I am afraid that the daylily will be cold. At the beginning of the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, several major wars in the north were because the emperor drew a "general map" when he set out to fight, and the generals only relied on the generals to fight, without any flexibility, even if the army deployment changes in the northern Jin State and Western Xia, these generals did not dare to change the order, and finally led to the Northern Expedition was a large number of generals, but in the end it always returned with a feather, and finally led to the entire Great Song Dynasty for the Northern Expedition has no expectations.

But having said that, it is not uncommon for generals to support their own troops outside the country throughout the ages, and even the collapse of the Han and Tang dynasties has a lot to do with the self-respect of the troops in the feudal towns, so it is impossible for these generals who lead the elite outside to have no means of vigilance.

What Ye Yingwu took was to appoint senior officials of the imperial court, and then put the status and strength of local generals to a high level. This was the case in the last southern expedition, Ye Yingwu let Li Fu, Ma Yan and Yang Bao control the strength of the same, none of these three people have the ability to dominate, and then sent Zhang Shijie on top of this, Zhang Shijie's loyalty to Ye Yingwu is self-evident, and his personal ability and prestige in the army are also real, so these three commanders with different ways and different personalities are obedient to Zhang Shijie.

This time Ye Yingwu also used the same method, Zhang Shijie, who returned from Nanyang, sat in Beijing, and then Su Liuyi, the right minister in charge of the military, sat in Huainan to coordinate the war between the two Huai, at the same time, as the top priority of Ye Yingwu's demarcation - Sichuan Shu, Ye Yingwu did not hesitate to send Wen Tianxiang, the left arm and right arm, I am afraid that if I want to suppress the various departments of Sichuan and Shu like dogs' teeth, I can only let Wen Tianxiang go out, at least with Wen Tianxiang, plus Wang Shichang who is loyal to Ye Yingwu in Sichuan and Shu, Ye Yingwu is still confident that he can control the trend of various departments in Sichuan and Shu.

Of course, it is not without harm to send high-ranking officials abroad in this way, and the left and right ministers have left the imperial court one after another, which means that Lu Xiufu, who is the governor of the political affairs, must preside over the overall situation, and at the same time, the six ministries must also share part of the work belonging to the prime minister, which makes the already complicated government affairs of the Ming Dynasty more difficult to handle.

Ye Yingwu did not force this, after all, wartime is not as usual, and all kinds of affairs will naturally be very heavy, which is impossible to change in all dynasties, but Ye Yingwu has also taken certain measures, such as transferring certain young officials from the Hanlin Academy and the Academy, and even the Yushitai to be responsible for the affairs of various departments, so as to relieve the pressure on the six departments. At the same time, with this, Ye Yingwu was also able to cultivate and train young officials, so that the new generation of the Ming Dynasty could mature as soon as possible, and with the increase of the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the future, these officials could take office as soon as possible, effectively avoiding the dilemma that there were few officials available during the last Wen Tianxiang Northern Expedition.

Of course, there are also a few officials who can be transferred, after all, the Hanlin Academy and the Yushitai are also very busy now, and the task given to the Hanlin Academy by Ye Yingwu is to do everything possible to cooperate with the six doors to carry out nationwide propaganda, to tell the people how much benefit a war with the Mongol Tatars can bring to the Ming Dynasty and their lives, and at the same time morally denounce Mongolia for not keeping its word and taking the lead in tearing up the treaty.

As for the Yushitai, Wang Yao personally sat in charge, Chen Yizhong took a group of capable officials to check the daily accounts with stars and moons, during the war, every bit of soldiers and money and food cannot be lost, and it is not tolerated that people with ill intentions can make profits in it, so the Yushitai must be responsible for checking the accounts at least twice a day to prevent any unnecessary losses.

And every day, the Sixth Ministry, the Imperial Historical Observatory and the Hanlin Academy have to describe in detail what they have done today, and at the same time report the statistics to the data, which will be processed by Liang Yanwu and his staff, and then integrated to Ye Yingwu, so that what is presented on Ye Yingwu's desk is a neat and even a row of documents suggested by the staff, and Ye Yingwu only needs to ******** according to these documents.

Daming's unique separation of powers as the core, set up a general staff similar to the later generations of the General Staff for overall consideration, although at the beginning caused dissent from Jiang Wanli, Wang Yao and other old ministers, but Ye Yingwu insisted on his own opinion, and these old ministers did not continue to argue, after all, this world is still Ye Yingwu's world in the final analysis, and what he insisted on is in it after all, it is better to let him run it first to try it and see how it works.

And it turns out that this method is very efficient compared to the way in the former Song Dynasty court where all kinds of trivial matters quarrel every day and nothing can be done, the emperor no longer has to be bored to watch the ministers spit at each other and waste time, and even all the officials are busy going around, there is no possibility of arguing face-to-face in the court, they only need to write down their opinions and handling methods in this aspect of their responsibility and submit them to Ye Yingwu.

With the outbreak of war, the entire Ming Dynasty is like a machine running at high speed, and every gear in it has no possibility of stopping, even if you don't want to move, you have to be pushed by the rest of the gears to keep running.

In the face of the rolling wind from the north, Da Ming was no longer drowsy, but showed his fangs without hesitation.

This is not the former Song Dynasty, but a new dynasty that precedes the war.

Liang Yanwu subconsciously pursued Ye Yingwu's figure, he was able to step by step from a down-and-out official in Lin'an City to his current position, and Ye Yingwu's appreciation and appointment has an irreplaceable role, and it is this former Ye Envoy, the current His Royal Highness the King of Ming, with his own strength, with a group of people who were depressed in the former Song Dynasty and even suppressed by the imperial court everywhere, to this point.

In the face of the strong enemy in the north, the Ming Dynasty, which still occupies half of the mountains and rivers, is no longer like the retreat of the former Song Dynasty, but does not hesitate to show the desire for blood.

The Ming loved peace, but was not afraid of war.

Walking to the door of the main hall, Ye Yingwu stretched his waist, the winter sun shone on his body, and behind him was the shouts and hurried footsteps of the staff.

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Before Wen Tianxiang arrived, the war in Sichuan and Shu had actually broken out.

It was roughly the same as Ye Yingwu expected, the main direction of attack chosen by Kublai Khan was Sichuan Shu, and there was such a big movement in Lianghuai, and even in the most important Heluo, he did not concentrate his forces to resist the Shence army, and blindly took the defensive, just to be able to concentrate the most troops to open up the situation in Sichuan and Shu.

As we all know, there are only three roads from the north to the south, such as Sichuan Shu, Xiangfan and Lianghuai, because the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge died under the Diaoyu City, so Mongolia gave up this road and turned to Xiangyang, and during the reign of Kublai Khan, he also unswervingly attacked Xiangyang, but he did not expect that Ye Yingwu, who was killed in the air, completely crushed the possibility of Mongolia going south from Xiangyang, and then defeated the Southern Expeditionary Army and the Cowardly Xue Army who tried to take the road of Lianghuai, and even the unrealistic attack on the hinterland of Daming from Dali, The possibility of containing Daming Guangnan from Zhenla was ruthlessly eliminated by Ye Yingwu.

So now in front of Kublai Khan is a good choice, after all, every path has failed, and there is nothing to fear and worry about. And for Kublai Khan, in fact, he still has the road of Sichuan and Shu that he did not try, after all, it was Meng Ge who was defeated at that time, not him Kublai Khan, and the current Ming guards are Zhang Jue and Gundam, not Wang Jian, who was really like an iron wall, for Kublai Khan, Meng Ge will fail, it does not mean that he will also fail.

What's more, in fact, Sichuan and Shu are also the weakest place in the control of the Ming Dynasty, the combat power of the Sichuan and Shu army is not outstanding among the departments, and the new firearms of the Ming Dynasty are not large-scale in the Sichuan and Shu army.

Ye Yingwu saw this very clearly, and Kublai Khan naturally knew it too.

So Kublai Khan did not hesitate to choose to start from Sichuan and Shu.

On the twenty-first day of December in the third year of Xianchun in the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia broke through two camps outside Mianzhu Pass, and the troops approached Mianzhu Pass. Since ancient times, Mianzhu Pass has been regarded as the northern barrier of Chengdu Prefecture, once it breaks through Mianzhu Pass, it is the Chengdu Plain of Pingchuan in front of you, and even if it is the high pond of Chengdu Mansion at that time, it is difficult to hold on for a long time.

"Bang!" A loud bang echoed over the castle, and huge stone bullets whizzed and slammed into the city walls.

"Where did the Mongolian Tartars get such powerful trebuchets?!" Daming Chengdu Fulu pacification envoy, Sichuan Shu army four compartments Yu Hou Zhan Wanshou while bowing his body, while running on a messy city wall, there are constantly stone bullets falling inside and outside the city wall, every time the stone bullet lands, in addition to kicking up billowing smoke and dust, it will also cause irreparable damage to the city wall.

Mianzhu Pass fell into the hands of the Ming army in fact only a few months, although I understand the importance of this Mianzhu Pass, but Zan Wanshou did not have so much effort to repair the wall, plus in the previous Mongolian Tatars in the process of going south, this Xiongguan had been damaged by the war, and it has been in disrepair for a long time, has been abandoned, and now the city wall can not find the barren grass, it is already thankful.

Zan Wanshou has been in the army for many years, and he can be regarded as a veteran, so he naturally understands that such a city wall cannot withstand the attack for too long, and it is even very likely that he will not be able to hold it for a day or two.

Although this stone bullet does not hurt much to the soldiers, as long as you see the direction of the stone bullet in the sky, you can still dodge flexibly, but it destroys a large number of bed crossbows and flying thunder cannons on the city wall, and it is also easy to cause the collapse of the city wall.

What's more, looking at the black Mongolian army outside the city, Zan Wanshou didn't know in his heart whether there were more soldiers under his command or more Mongolian Tatars besieging the city.

"It won't last more than two days if you fight like this." Finally ran to the bottom of an enemy platform, Zan Wanshou leaned against the wall and gasped for breath, the enemy platform is the place to be focused on, and the side of the steps leading to the enemy platform is the most easily ignored dead end.

Looking at the corpses scattered all over the steps, as well as the bed crossbow on the enemy platform that had been reduced to parts, Zan Wanshou's face couldn't help but turn white.

"Commander." Several soldiers saluted respectfully, Zan Wanshou also saw Zhang Jue striding from the Shangcheng Trail, and nodded at Zhang Jue, although the two of them have not been partners for a long time, but after all, they are both working hard in Sichuan and Shu, so they are still relatively familiar.

"No wonder the several camps outside the city didn't support it for even two hours," Zhang Jue glanced at the ruined city wall, his brows furrowed, "The range of this new type of Mongolian Tartaret trebuchet is far from it, and its power is huge, not to be underestimated. ”

Zan Wanshou nodded: "It's not that there is no way to deal with it, but there are a lot of trebuchets made by Mongolian Tatars, and the accuracy is not bad. Now there are fewer and fewer bed crossbows and flying thunder cannons in this city. You have to come up with a way, otherwise let alone Mianzhu Pass, even Chengdu Mansion can't keep it. ”

After a moment of silence, Zhang Jue said in a deep voice: "Tianqing (Zhan Wanshou), do you have the courage to take risks?" ”

Zan Wanshou was a little surprised, and glanced at the Mongolian army that was already preparing to attack: "You say." ”

Stretching out his hand and pointing to the Mianzhu Pass under his feet, Zhang Jue looked at Zan Wanshou, but didn't speak. vaguely understood something, Zan Wanshou met Zhang Jue's gaze: "Is this really okay?" ”

"How do you know if you don't try, let alone ······ Now, is there another way to choose? Zhang Jue exhaled lightly, "So I asked you, do you have the courage to take risks, this is definitely not a trivial matter, once it fails, it will not only be Mianzhuguan and Chengdu Mansion that will be lost, but the blood we spilled in the last Northern Expedition will probably be wasted." ”

Gritting his teeth, Zan Wanshou lowered his voice, but with unshakable firmness: "Then it's decided, I want to see if this Mongolian Tatar's luck is really so good." But even if this is the case, it is just a delay in time, the Mongol Tartars have suffered a loss, and they will inevitably repeat their old tricks, attack according to today's method, and ······ when the time comes."

"One day is a day, it's better than just losing Mianzhuguan." Zhang Jue's eyes were filled with murderous aura, "Since the last Northern Expedition went to this place with great difficulty, I have not allowed myself to retreat half a step further. The rest of the Ming Dynasty is advancing in Jinghu and Lianghuai, and our Sichuan and Shu armies can't do nothing, no matter how powerful the Mongolian Tartar trebuchet is, it is just a trebuchet after all, how can it really be compared to firearms? ”

stomped his feet, but there was more freedom in Zan Wanshou's voice, a kind of open-mindedness to entrust everything to his comrades: "Then so-and-so will believe you once, let's kill happily!" (To be continued.) )