Chapter 295: The Lu Brothers

Thinking of this, I breathed a long sigh of relief, pointed to the map and said: "Junshi, sir, you see, this is Xiangyang, Fancheng, this is the field outside the city, since the Mongols intend to form an encirclement of Xiangfan with the field, then let them surround it, outside the field, I will set up a large encirclement, let the defenders of Xiangfan in the center desperately hold the city, and then use the army to implement a counter-encirclement from the periphery, so that both sides will invest a lot of troops here, as long as our court is fully prepared in advance, In one fell swoop, the living force of the Mongol army could be wiped out. ”

Lu Xiufu suddenly had an impulse in his heart, and said, "Xiangfan Armageddon." ”

"Hehe, Junshi, of course you can call it that."

"Your Majesty, is it just that Lu Wende can hold Xiangyang City?"

I smiled, "I don't think there's any problem, even if it's five or six years." ”

Yuan Jian nodded and agreed: "Lord Lu, the old man has been to Xiangyang, Xiangyang City is much stronger than Yangzhou City, since Marshal Yue Fei recovered Xiangyang, it has been continuously strengthened for a hundred years, and a few years ago, Marshal Meng Heng carried out a second renovation, which can be called the strongest city in our dynasty." ”

Lu Xiufu said: "Your Majesty, what if the Mongols don't attack from Xiangfan. ”

If the Mongols had not chosen Xiangfan as a breakthrough, and we had invested a lot of manpower and material resources, we would have to not try.

Will history change,

"According to Junshi, do the Mongols have a better choice?"

In the past few days when the foreign minister came back to report on his work, the weather in Lin'an was very good, although it was still cold, but every day was a clear sky, the sun was shining, and the sky was not polluted by industry, and it was blue and blue.

Out of the north gate of the imperial city, and then go north is the location of the Military Affairs Yuan, this is the second time I have come to the Military Affairs Yuan,

Accompanied by Jia Rudao, Fan Wenhuan, Lu Xiufu and others, I walked into the large conference room of the Military Affairs Academy, and I knew all the major theaters who participated in the debriefing meeting, and they also came to Lin'an this time with their deputies and main generals, the representative of the Yangzhou Theater was Li Tingzhi, the chief commander Zhang Jun, and the commander of the Broken Army Jiang Cai, the Luzhou Theater was headed by Xia Gui, and Wang Sheng and Miao Zai became the representatives, and the representatives of the Central Sichuan Theater were the commander of the Gundam, the deputy commander Zhang Jue, and the pacification envoy Zan Wanshou, and the Xiangfan Theater had the largest number of people. In addition to the system envoy Lu Wende, there is also his younger brother deputy system envoy Lu Wenhuan, Fancheng garrison control Niu Fu, and all Fan Tianshun,

"See the Emperor."

"No courtesy, flat body, sit down."

"Your Majesty."

I got straight to the point and said: "The meeting begins, from east to west, Yangzhou Li Aiqing, you come first." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Tingzhi got up and said, "Your Majesty, your Excellency, colleagues, this year, under the wise leadership of Your Majesty, the Yangzhou Theater has completed all the military deployments, and the restructuring of the 20,000 armed tax army has been completed, and the morale of all the generals is high, and the large-scale training is in full swing. One team has replied that things are going well. ”

Last night, I had carefully read the written work reports of the four major theaters, so when they reported in person, I asked them to only mention the outline points to save time.

"Very good, in the first year of Xianchun, the progress of all the war zones is in my eyes, although there is no major incident in the Yangzhou war zone, but its defense has been perfected, and its strict surname can be called our dynasty

This battle not only recovered the south bank of the Huai River, but also broke the quirk of our army that can only defend, in recognition of Xia Aiqing's merits, in addition to the reward drawn up by the original Privy Council, I added Xia Aiqing as the founding county duke, and gave a national public medal. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xia Gui was overjoyed, knelt down from his seat and bowed,

According to the division of titles in the Song Dynasty, the first class is the king, the heir king, and the county king, most of whom are the Zhao clansmen, and the second class is the duke, which is the prince of the country, the prince of the county, the founding duke, the founding county duke, the founding county duke, the third class is the marquis, followed by the earl, viscount, baron,

Although the Duke of Kaiguo County is the most second-level duke, with only 2,000 households, it is included in the highest title category of officials with different surnames.

"Xia Aiqing, excuse me." I continued, "The Sichuan Theater has always been at the forefront of the anti-Mongolian war, and has experienced the most wars, but it has always been in the hands of our DPRK, especially since the beginning of this year, Gao Aiqing, Zhang Aiqing and Zan Aiqing have worked together to stabilize the situation on the front line. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, from next year, the major theaters of our dynasty will be unified into military regions, although it is only a word difference, but the meaning of its representation is very different, the significance of changing to a military region lies in the separation of military and government, from January 1 to the new year, the highest official of each military region is called the system envoy, and the highest local official is called the pacification envoy, because of the special surnames of the frontier places, so the military and political power in some areas will be unified for the time being, and I will announce several personnel appointments, Li Tingzhi and Xia Gui."

"The minister is here."

"I have appointed the two of you as envoys to the Yangzhou Military Region and the Luzhou Military Region, and at the same time to serve as the pacification envoys of Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road.

"Yes, your ministers obey."

"Gundam, Zhang Jue, Zhan Wanshou."

"The minister is here."

"I appointed Gao Aiqing as the envoy of the Chengdu Military Region, and Zhang Aiqing as the deputy envoy of the Chengdu Military Region, because the area under the jurisdiction of the Chengdu Military Region is vast, so there are three military subdivisions of Chengdu, Yucheng and Luzhou, which are respectively concurrently served by Gao Aiqing, Zhang Aiqing and Zan Aiqing.

"Yes, your ministers obey."

The more Lu Wenhuan in the seat listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and His Majesty the Emperor did not mention anything about the Xiangfan War Zone, which seemed to be completely different from what his brother Lu Wende said after returning to Xiangyang from Lin'an, and the emperor's approach was clearly discriminating against the Xiangyang War Zone.

The Lu brothers followed the old general Zhao Kui in their early years, relatively speaking, Lu Wenhuan was more resourceful, liked the literati form, acted cautiously but was extremely conceited, and opposed science, so he was not liked by Song Lizong, the historical Lu Wende died in 1269, but it was Lu Wenhuan who commanded the late defense of Xiangyang, which was also the most difficult four years, until the surrender of the Yuan Dynasty in 1273,

Lu Wenhuan's evaluation in history is very low, and like Hong Chengchou at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he bears the notoriety of traitors and Han annihilation.

The loyal ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, represented by Wen Tianxiang, denounced Lu Wenhuan's traitorous behavior, believing that he had lost his national integrity and acted as a tiger, but there were also many people who believed that Lu Wenhuan was forced to surrender because of his isolation, and he had done his best to defend the country and resist the Mongol invasion, and his surrender was also helpless.

The dialectics of later generations said well, everything must be divided into two, whether Lu Wenhuan is good or bad, in fact, the fundamental reason lies in the inaction of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor and the [***] of the imperial court.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Lu Xiufu of the Military Affairs Yuan will give you a detailed explanation of the affairs related to the military region and your main tasks next year." Speaking of this, I looked at the Lu brothers and said solemnly, "Lu Wende, Lu Wenhuan, you two follow me to the small conference room." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Seeing that my face was not good, the two of them hurriedly replied,

Yuan Jian and Xiao Qi accompanied me into the small conference room next to me, Xiao Qi saw the Lu brothers enter, so he closed the door and guarded the door, I sat down and said, "Lu Wende, are you guilty?" ”

"Ah, Your Majesty, what a crime the minister has." Lu Wende didn't know the reason for my anger, and after kneeling down with Lu Wenhuan, he asked,

I snorted, looked at the two of them coldly, and said, "Lu Wende, I came to ask you what is going on in the field outside Xiangyang City. ”

"This, this ,,,,,。" Lu Wende broke out in a cold sweat, knowing what happened in the east window, he was shocked, and his mind was suddenly empty.

Lu Wenhuan on the side whispered: "Your Majesty, the ministers and others have not considered this matter properly, and they are willing to accept His Majesty's punishment." ”

I pretended to be annoyed: "What is the difference between this and betraying the country, Lu Wende, you are also a famous general at that time, don't you know the intentions of the Mongols, the surrounding area of Xiangyang is surrounded by the Yanchang, and the Mongolians take the opportunity to build a castle in the Yanchang to form a siege, and this battle has not yet been fought, and you have no chance of winning." ”

Lu Wende said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the minister was blinded for a while, and did such a big rebellious thing, the minister was guilty, the minister wanted to tell His Majesty about this last time, but he was afraid that His Majesty would punish him, so he never dared to speak, after the minister went back, he planned to renegotiate with the Mongols, but the Mongols did not give the minister a chance at all, only the agreement prevailed, Your Majesty, this is the content of the second phase of the agreement between the two sides, but the minister will not implement it this time, this year-end report, the minister and the minister's brother have discussed, even if His Majesty wants to condemn the death to the minister, etc., The minister will also report the matter to His Majesty. ”

I transferred the agreement from Yuan Thorn's hand, but I didn't open it, and said directly: "Say, what is the content of this second issue." ”

"Your Majesty, the agreement signed between the minister and Mongolia is divided into three phases, the first phase is to build a field at the foot of Lumen Mountain in the southeast of Xiangyang City, and the second phase is also about the field of the field, the content is to establish a new field in Baihe City, northeast of Xiangyang City, and the third phase is ,,,,,。"

"There's a third installment." I sneered and interrupted Lu Wende,