Chapter 143 Plan

Those who approached Baoning were actually only half of the Tiger Wing Battalion and a thousand auxiliary soldiers sent by Sun Jie. The main forces of the Sun Department are still in Dingyuan, hundreds of miles away, and there is a whole Shunqing Mansion between them and Zhang Hu.

It's not that Sun Jie is passive and avoids the war. When receiving the military order, the troops were resting at Fotu Pass next to Yucheng, preparing to continue to board the boat and march west along the river in two or three days, until they arrived at the destination of the trip, Luzhou - from Luzhou Shunna Creek to the south, after Luzhou Wei is the Yongning Xuanfu Division of Extravagant Chongming, and then not far south is the Shuixi Xuanfu Division of Anbangyan!

Pushi Institute, Mani Institute, Chishui Wei ...... A series of military points are on this almost straight line. Along the way, Sun Jie has been staring at all kinds of maps, although they are not very accurate, but they are enough for him to understand the general environment. Sun Jie is confident: even if the situation really deteriorates beyond control, as long as Zhenxiong Mansion and Wusa Mansion (now Weining Yihui Miao Autonomous County) in the west, and Zunyi Mansion and Pingyue Mansion in the east, can hold their respective borders, and the Mojiao bandits will rush in, and their own troops will be like a steel knife, piercing into the heart of the two families. If the logistics are properly supported, these two tumors can be completely dug up for the imperial court in a year or two at most.

Sun Jie knew that the east, west, and south directions were all lofty mountains, and a small group of remnants of bandits had more than enough to escape, but they would definitely not be able to make any more waves—it was impossible for the mountains to support a rebel army of more than a few hundred people, and they would starve to death for a few days after entering the primeval mountain forest. Therefore, if the two thieves really want to make trouble, they will inevitably go north to disturb the rich Sichuan Province. Therefore, Sun Jie had a bold idea: after arriving in Luzhou, he first deliberately showed weakness to the enemy, blindly insisted on never taking the initiative to attack, and then personally led his own soldiers Changjie Battalion to bypass Zhenxiongfu, and raided Chishui Wei along the Chishui River from Tianpengtong and defended it. At the appointed time, the deputy general Shen Chenggang led the main force to the south...... In this way, with Shen Chenggang as the hammer and himself as the anvil, the main force of the rebels will be annihilated in northern Qianbei in one drum! All that's left is the work that can be done by the local guard army, such as clearing out the remnants of the enemy.

Of course, this is just a beautiful vision - not long after Sun Jie was ordered to lead his troops north and engage Zhang Hu, Xuan Chongming An Bangyan was really forced to rebel. However, the result was very different from Vice Marshal Sun's plan: the rebellion of Lu'an, which could have been quelled in a year or two, was due to grain, grass, military salaries, materials, rip-offs, blind commands, bribery, and collusion...... and other reasons, in one breath for 17 years, the Ming Dynasty died two governors and two general soldiers, millions of people were killed and wounded, the war affected Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guizhou four provinces, the southwest half of the wall is dilapidated...... This is not to be said later.

After receiving the military order, Sun Jie immediately dispatched a scout. Fortunately, the slender boats were ready-made, and the next day the troops finished their rest and went north along the Fujiang River. A few days later, he arrived in Hezhou, Chongqing Prefecture (now Hechuan), and temporarily stationed at the foot of the Diaoyu Mountains. While waiting for the Third Division of Sichuan Province to allocate grain and grass, Sun Jie's scout cavalry also brought back preliminary military information from northern Sichuan.

Listening to the scout's report on the military situation, Sun Jie made a difficulty: continue to go north along the river from Hezhou, enter Shunqing Mansion after Dingyuan, and then go up along the waterway of the Jialing River, and the march along the road of Nanchong and Pengzhou will be very easy. However, the entire western part of Shunqing Province, except for Yuechi County, has not suffered much military disasters, and this road has almost become a de facto no-man's land for hundreds of miles, and it is completely impossible to expect to get any supplies on the spot! Even if some of the slender men are sent away to make their auxiliaries temporary, there are still 10,000 mouths open under his command!

For Vice Marshal Sun, and the conscientious and loyal Ming generals like Vice Marshal Sun, the suppression of bandits has never been a problem - what the brothers who go to suppress bandits eat will always be the biggest problem.

In fact, a large part of the mystery of the Sun family's victory in a hundred battles is the importance of logistics support. The Sun family's auxiliary battalion was not regarded as a one-time expendable like most other generals, but had a relatively strict command system like the combat troops—relatively speaking, of course. Many generals of the same era were often reluctant to pay for their own auxiliary soldiers, and when necessary, they would go everywhere to arrest people to make up the number, whether it was a homeless person or a good citizen, and the man was not strong enough for the woman general, which one was caught. It is impossible to expect any efficiency from this kind of improvised patchwork of the people's troops, and they have to send people to watch them so as not to run away while they are in chaos, and the result will of course greatly affect the mobility of the troops. The auxiliary soldiers of the Lao Sun family can also be regarded as a quasi-combat army with hereditary members and a relatively stable structure, and in terms of treatment, it is even better than the regular soldiers of most military towns, and the ratio to the soldiers is maintained at a luxurious ratio of four to one, or even five to one, all year round. The effect is obvious, but the price is not small - the commander of the ace army, who is most trusted by the Son of Heaven and has the greatest combat power in the Ming Dynasty, has accumulated nearly two hundred years of wealth compared to some commanders who have never led a single soldier.

Therefore, Sun Jie had no choice but to first send half of the Tiger Wing Battalion as the vanguard to the north to receive the enemy's early warning, and at the same time allocated him 1,000 auxiliary troops, bringing half of the army's military rations to ensure the supply of this small army, while the main force slowly moved northward, and finally stationed near Dingyuan, waiting for the grain and materials requisitioned by the three divisions of Sichuan Province one after another.

During the time that Sun Jie was stationed in Dingyuan, he was not idle, in addition to coming to the northern Sichuan topographic map from the county magistrate to carefully study, the scout net was also spread in all directions. Soon, Sun Jie had a preliminary understanding of the terrain of northern Sichuan: due north is Shunqing Mansion, which has almost become a no-man's land, and further forward is Baoning Mansion, most of the main forces of Zhang Thief are near Fucheng, and the east is not worried, all are mountains. If the thief flees to the east, he will bite all the way down, catch a flaw and bite hard, hundreds of miles down, the thief must be fleeing more and more people's hearts are scattered, and finally completely lose order, from the organized retreat to no one can control the wild run, destruction is the only result, the west of Boryeong Province borders two provinces and one state, from north to south are Long'an Province, Chengdu Province and Tongchuan Prefecture. Chengdu Mansion for the sake of the safety of the Shu King Chitose and the three divisions of Sichuan Province, will definitely be heavily guarded and guarded, Long'an Mansion has already had the experience of Baoning Mansion, and should have made sufficient preparations, as long as it can withstand a day or two, he bites tighter, and the thief still can't escape. Sun Jie, the defense minister of Tongchuan Prefecture, didn't think about it at all: just a stone's throw away from his own attack route, unless he defeated himself head-on, it was impossible for Zhang Thief to have a chance to jump there - as for defeating himself head-on, this kind of boring problem Vice Marshal Sun didn't think about it at all!

The only hidden worry is in the north, which is also the most recent, most familiar, and most likely escape route for Zhang Thief: Zhang Thief originally jumped south along the Jialing River, and of course it was smooth to run back along the road, and crossing the provincial border was Hanzhong Mansion in Shaanxi Province! He has the title of "Prime Minister of Sichuan and Guizhou Military Affairs", and can ask for the cooperation of civil and military officials in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in the name of military affairs, but ...... I can't care about Shaanxi! As long as the thief enters Shaanxi Province, there is a high probability that he will not be able to catch up - because the thieves will not have any scruples, what they need to rob directly, they can also set fire to the chasing army, creating logistical supply difficulties for the pursuing army, they are official soldiers, and they can't rob the people like thieves, right? Without the Holy Lord's decree, there is no possibility for the provincial officers to count on the support of the provincial government, and everyone will ask you to catch up with the thieves as soon as possible and cut them all down, as for what the soldiers eat and drink, that's your business! If you "prevaricate" and "fear the enemy like a tiger" for unreasonable reasons such as "you haven't eaten", hmph, just wait for those endless black little reports! Mo is a military general, so who would mistakenly think that Sun Jie doesn't understand this set of game conventions of the Ming officialdom, then it is too much to underestimate the Sun family's two-hundred-year-old knowledge and self-knowledge!

Therefore, Sun Jie asked his master Shang Wenchang to draft a recital, emphasizing the importance of Shaanxi Province's defense, and at the same time implicitly expressing the hope of asking the Holy Son of Heaven to authorize "controlling the military affairs of Shaanxi Province".

Sun Jie estimated that if everything went well, it would be enough to completely solve Zhang Hu for about half a year: half of the Tiger Wing Battalion would meet the enemy in Pengzhou, monitor Zhang Thief's movements and give early warning at any time, and send the Tiger Battalion to Nanchong to station and respond. In the first month and a half, about 5,000 people were requisitioned from the local government to set up a series of supply points along the Jialing River in Shunqing Prefecture to Nanchong, and each point hoarded enough grain and grass for the army to eat for one to three days, and at the same time arranged for a team of auxiliary soldiers to set up camp for cooking. In this way, the army went north, got off the ship in the evening to eat and sleep, and the next day after breakfast, they could go directly to the ship and set off. After the main force arrived in Nanchong, the Huben camp left Pengzhou in front of the camp, and then spent the same amount of time to continue to establish supply points along the way...... The forward base was set up in Pengzhou, where there were enough supplies to support the army's free movement for a month. When the whole army arrives at the front line of Pengzhou, how can you take down Baoning in a few months - Zhang Thief can trap the city in half a day, and he can't beat it for a month, so he just kills himself, don't embarrass the ancestors of the old Sun family!

After that, they could be defeated by grain: Officials in Sichuan Province hinted that both Boryeong and Jianzhou had large quantities of grain. Sun Jie thought with his toes and knew that most of what they said was true, but they turned into Fake and deducted the enemy, and it was not their own food, so there was no need to stab this layer of window paper to make everyone ugly, right.

However, Sun Jie's near-perfect plan still failed most of the time. He thought that he had the royal order of "Prime Minister's Military Affairs" in his body, and he was fighting for Sichuan Province, and the three divisions would cooperate unconditionally, but he missed one, and this one didn't take any royal order in his eyes at all.

Because he is Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu*.

In Sichuan Province, in a sense, Sun Jie is not only Zhang Hu's enemy, but also the enemy he "receives" should also include this one.

Requisitioning grain and grass or something, Zhu Zhishu didn't take it to heart, anyway, the king of Shu Chitose pulled a mouthful or two of white rice from the exquisite jade cup with a gold-inlaid tooth chop at most per meal, no one dared to fight the idea of the royal granary, but the urgent requisition of the people to prepare materials and so on will inevitably incur a lot of costs. Zhang Hu attacked, Chengdu Mansion had three police officers overnight, and of course the local officials had to recruit people to assist in defense. The soldiers have to pay the people, everyone has to eat and drink, and the garrison materials have to buy - all of these have to cost money! No one dared to spend the official treasury empty in one go, and they had to keep a little bit, so the magistrates came to the king of Shu to apply for subsidies...... Then Zhu Zhishu was in a hurry.

* The real name of the last King of Shu is Zhu Zhishu, and his behavior is as bastard as Zhu Zhishu here, and even surpasses.

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