If you don't enter the southwest, you don't know the complexity of the southwest topography.

Even now, although it is only the area of Tongren Mansion City, Zhu Youzhen can feel that the terrain here is undulating.

The place where you raise your feet is the jungle, and the place where you retreat is also the hills, separated by mountains and mountains, and the sound is disturbed by the song of birds and apes.

It is no wonder that the Ming Dynasty has invested in Gao Jie's army and the extermination army and the southwest landlord army, and now he has joined the seventh army of the Ming Guards, but he still has not recovered the southwest.

It is necessary to admit that in such a zone, it is difficult for even modern armies to take advantage.

Not to mention the Guards, which did not have mass blasting equipment.

"Since the beginning of winter last year, Liukou Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo's troops have occupied Xuzhou, Wumeng, Zhenxiong, Zunyi and other prefectures, and then successively occupied Wusa, Pu'an, Anshun and other prefectures, our army has had to retreat to Guiyang, Qujing, fortunately, because of the siege of Chongqing by the army of extermination, forced Li Dingguo to return to aid eastern Sichuan, plus the reinforcements led by Weichen Gao Jie arrived, and finally recaptured Zhenxiong and Zunyi."

"But because of the slight enemy for a while, the Gao Jie Department was ambushed and defeated by Li Dingguo, who suddenly drove back in Naxi, and lost Zhenxiong and Zunyi, and now even Guiyang has been lost, and Weichen also had to retreat to Tongren with Gao Jie, so that Yang Zhan retreated to Qujing, Yunnan."

"Fortunately, Liu Zhaoji's Seventh Army of the Guards arrived in time, and we held Tongren, otherwise Weichen would not know if we could hold Tongren."

Ma Shiying, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, looked at Zhu Youzhen with some shame, he didn't expect that he would make the war in the southwest so bad that he almost lived up to the instructions of His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and the idea of letting him establish military prestige in the southwest battlefield.

Zhu Youzhen really wanted to scold this Ma Shiying for being a useless thing, he now has Li Yan, Yang Zhan, Gao Jie and others, and now he has joined the Seventh Army of the Guards, but he still ended up in a situation of defeat and retreat to Tongren, which cannot but be said to be useless.

But in the end, Zhu Youzhen didn't scold, he only glanced at him meaningfully, after all, no matter what Ma Shiying said, he could be regarded as a Wenchen who listened to himself, and he really couldn't do without such a Wenchen now, so naturally there was no need to depose Ma Shiying by taking advantage of the Southwest War.

What's more, Ma Shiying is not completely useless, he is dispatching the money and grain in the entire southwest, at least when it comes to the account of money and grain dispatch, it is still very clear.

"Li Yan, you are the governor of Yungui, what do you think of the current war in the southwest?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Li Yan, but Ma Shiying supervised the southwest but retreated to Tongren because of his eagerness for quick success and quick profit, and he didn't believe that Li Yan, who was able to resist Azig in Huguang back then, did not gain anything, especially against Li Dingguo.

"Back to Your Majesty, the southwest terrain is complicated, the whereabouts of the thieves are strange, it is easy to repel but it is very difficult to annihilate them all, especially in this area, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is necessary to gather hundreds of thousands of troops to suppress for several months, plus this thief will Li Dingguo make good use of strange soldiers, and we can't let the armies of all walks of life be too scattered, so now we can only hold the two important places of Qujing in Yunnan and Tongren in Guizhou, and now after the Seventh Army of the Guards comes, we also have the opportunity to recover Guiyang, but this Li Dingguo is also quite cunning, knowing that our army appeared, He also took the initiative to give up Guiyang Kaili. In order to prevent the army from being ambushed again, we did not dare to attack the enemy again, so we only advanced step by step with Tongren Guiyang Kaili as the main point. ”

After Li Yan, the governor of Yunnan, said this, Zhu Youzhen also nodded, he had to admit that Li Yan's current approach was a relatively safe way, and at this time, Ma Shiying also added a sentence next to him:

"Weichen also felt that what Li Zhengtai said was true, so he did not return to Guiyang immediately, so as to avoid Li Dingguo suddenly besieging Weichen's division and the Chinese army, and coming to besiege the city to help, so now only the second corps of the Seventh Army of the Guards Yan Yingyuan is stationed in Guiyang, the first corps Weng Zhengchun is stationed in Kaili, and Weichen and Gao Jie are temporarily staying in Tongren."

"We now think that he Li Dingguo is resourceful and a difficult thief general, we will first hold our troops and guard the important land that is still in our hands for the time being, but he Li Dingguo is only one person, even if he is Wei Chi Jingde, he can't save his father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong can't occupy the world in Sichuan for a long time!"

"Now, let's plan the overall situation first, starting from the general trend of the world, my Ming has completely annihilated the Qing army of 800,000 troops, the Qing army is no longer able to prevent the army from going south on a large scale, the whole world is already the strongest force of my Ming Dynasty, if he Li Dingguo and other Zhang Xianzhong's elite are still fighting with my Ming Dynasty in Yunnan and Guizhou, I do not guarantee that the Qing army will not concentrate some elite troops to raid Sichuan, so as to make a profit. Even if the Qing army does not have this idea, we must cause the Qing army to have this idea or urge the Qing army to have this idea, so that even if we don't fight, Zhang Xianzhong will have to recall Li Dingguo and strengthen the defense of northern Sichuan. ”

Zhu Youzhen put forward his own ideas, and now he can be regarded as having experienced several major wars, and he also has enough confidence in military strategic command, plus he is a person who is used to considering the overall situation, and now he can also draw his own analysis of the war in the southwest.

Ma Shiying didn't think about these now, he only paid attention to his own Majesty actually comparing Wei Chi Jingde to Li Dingguo, and couldn't help but think secretly: "If Li Dingguo is Wei Chi Jingde, his own Majesty is naturally Tang Taizong, does His Majesty have the intention of appeasing Li Dingguo?" ”

Li Yan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, did not have the habit of figuring out the holy will like Ma Shiying, and he was only analyzing the general situation of the world as Zhu Youzhen said: "If, as Your Majesty said, Jianyu really wants to raid Sichuan, it is true that we can win the southwest without a fight, but the question is whether Jianyu will really raid Sichuan." ”

"It's man-made, I can tell you a confidential thing, the current governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi is our own people, and it is naturally impossible for us to influence the Manchu court to raise troops in Sichuan, but this governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi has this ability."

Zhu Youzhen said and said: "I have decided to start the Northern Expedition in October this year, when the first army of the Guards will naturally go out of Shandong, the second army will advance from Liaodong by sea, the third army will go out from Henan, and the fourth army will go out from Huguang. ”

"I now hope that your army in the southwest can hurt Zhang Xianzhong's troops and let him know that it is impossible for him to escape from Sichuan to Yungui, but he can't pour his main force to fight with Zhang Xianzhong, if you can lead the Qing army into Sichuan, when the thief Zhang Xianzhong's department and the Qing army are fighting, it is naturally better for us to suddenly go north, so as to divide the Qing army's defensive forces on other battlefields of the Northern Expedition, and also avoid greater casualties when we enter Sichuan."

"Your Majesty is wise, in this case, we need the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi to cooperate with us, but the road from Hanzhong to Guizhou is long, and the contact is only inconvenient."

Li Yan voiced his concerns.

(End of chapter)