Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1664 Two Letters from Cutting Yuan ([-])

The battle against the Yuan Dynasty was ongoing, and Gao Yushi, the specific command of the frontline generals, never interfered deeply, so at this time he could take time to review the two letters sent from the southwest.

These two letters are both from Sichuan, one is from Governor Song Liangzuo, and the other is from Chief Soldier Liu Ting.

Let me talk about Song Liangzuo's letter first.Song Fujun expressed his sincere gratitude to Gao Yushi at the beginning of the letter. First of all, he thanked the Gao party led by Gao Yushi for supporting him as the governor of Sichuan, and persuaded the Chen party in the court—that is, Chen Yiqin left his son Chen Yubi Although the group of people in Beijing are not strong, Sichuan is the province of their father and son, and they still have a certain say in the court.

Chen Yubi took refuge in Gao Yushi during the Yunnan-Myanmar War, but he did not belong to the real core and still retained a certain degree of autonomy.It wasn't until the ups and downs of the world later that Chen Yubi became the Minister of the Ministry of Officials with the support of Gao Yushi that the two sides really got together.

The Ministry of Officials has been controlled by the Gao Party for 20 years. Under such circumstances, Chen Yubi must of course listen to Gao's pragmatic greetings, otherwise the throne of Tianguan will not be stable at all.Then, it would be no problem for Song Liangzuo to be the governor of Sichuan for the sake of being pragmatic - the governor of Sichuan could not be more valuable than a heavenly official.

What's more, under the current situation, if Gao Dang, who controls the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War, does not come forward, or does not work hard, what will happen to the Banzhou Rebellion?This Bozhou is just below the hinterland of Sichuan, and if you go north and cross the Yangtze River, you can cut off the connection between Chengdu and Chongqing. If it gets to that point, there will be too much trouble.

Then Song Liangzuo began to blame himself and apologize, and roughly explained the reason for the failure of this advance campaign.He was quite honest in the letter, admitting that he was eager for success and underestimated the strength of Bozhou, and said that now that he has reformed himself, he must fight steadily to completely settle the source of chaos in Bozhou, and then he will deal with the matter of reforming the land and returning it to the bloc Be beautiful.

Of course, in this statement, I cannot avoid thanking Gao Yushi again.After all, Song Fujun made such a big mistake and could continue to work. Although Gao Wushi himself did not stand up to speak for him, the emperor must hold his nose for Gao Situ's face and continue to give him opportunities Prove yourself.

Of course Song Fujun understood this truth, if he didn't thank him, he would be completely unqualified in political literacy.

Then Song Fujun began to elaborate on the next battle plan.In fact, there was nothing new in this explanation, it was almost a repetition of what Gao Yushi mentioned to him before, and the real meaning was probably just to show Gao Yushi that Song Fujun was very obedient and that Da Situ would do whatever he said.

However, Song Fujun also knew that this alone was not enough, so he focused on describing how he would do a good job in logistics as the governor of Sichuan, including coordinating to ensure sufficient food, grass and materials when the various armies marched and suppressed, and mobilizing the Sichuan government. In addition, Ku issued a sum of money for opening up to various ministries—especially Liu Ting’s ministry—and so on.

All in all, Song Fujun intends to be completely invisible in military command this time, and is honestly content with logistical support.

This letter was definitely not written casually. Before Song Liangzuo wrote this letter, he had thoroughly thought about it, especially carefully studying Gao Yushi's previous performance in previous wars.

He found that a highly pragmatic leader always focuses on the general direction of strategy and rarely interferes with specific commands; he will fully create good combat conditions for his generals, but he will never coerce or force them to obey his orders in every way—of course , he is not very specific.

Song Fujun determined that Gao Situ's policy was to set goals, ensure logistics, and fully delegate power, so that generals can command operations independently under advantageous conditions.

From this point of view, Gao Situ has already "appointed" the strategy for him, and "appointed" the commander-in-chief. Isn't the next thing he really needs to worry about is logistics?
Song Fujun thought about it, Gao Situ was invincible in the past, and the final credit was all on him, and no general could surpass him to receive the greatest honor, so it should be the same now.As long as I ensure the logistics well, no matter how much credit Liu Ting has at that time, in the end the greatest credit will go to him, the governor of Sichuan.That being the case, why not be happy to let Liu Ting go to work?

After reading the letter, Gao Wushi breathed a sigh of relief.To be honest, he was really intimidated by some civil servants who didn't understand military affairs but always thought they knew it well. It is obviously the best ending for Song Liangzuo to have such self-knowledge.In particular, Song Liangzuo also specifically stated in the letter that "all armies have been dispatched by Liu Zongrong during the war", which made Gao Yushi completely at ease.

Professional matters should be left to professional people. This has always been a highly pragmatic code of conduct, so he put down Song Liangzuo's letter and began to read Liu Ting's letter.

Liu Ting's letter was also a private letter, but he and Gao Wushi had a close friendship, and even though he was a military commander, his words were much more straightforward than Song Liangzuo's.

At the beginning, he didn't talk about business, but mentioned personal matters first.Liu Ting said that he hadn't seen his father for a long time, and hoped that after the battle, Gao Situ could help arrange it so that he could have the opportunity to fulfill his filial piety.Then he used this to bring up Liu Xin's topic, and used words such as "My sister has harassed Situ for a long time, and the general will feel deeply disturbed" to test Gao's pragmatic attitude.

To be honest, this question left Gao Pragmatism speechless.From his point of view, it is not a problem to accept Liu Xin. In terms of age, Liu Xin is just a mature fruit in the eyes of "modern people", and in his opinion, no matter her appearance, talent or her particularity, she is superior. Why did he refuse?

The problem is that Liu Xin can't convince herself that although she has already integrated into the society of Daming, she still maintains the idea of ​​an independent woman and is unwilling to "share" marriage.

Of course Gao Yushi also knew that the Liu family probably had two ideas: The best way was of course to marry the Gao family, even if it was a concubine, it didn't matter.After all, the Liu family has only made a fortune for two generations, and they are not considered "generational generals" in essence, and their family status is not high - at least not high in front of Xin Zheng Gao of the Real Learning Sect.

That being the case, what's wrong with Liu Xin being a highly pragmatic concubine?That's right.What's more, Liu Xin has been in the Gao Mansion for a long time. Although she is not considered public to some extent, she must have been public for a long time in front of Gao Yushi.

Under this premise, if you don't marry Gao Yushi, can someone else ignore this matter?Even if there is, it must be the kind of family that is far inferior to the Liu family, or simply a high-level servant.

This is the second thought of the Liu family: if it really doesn't work, then they have to find one of the generals under the Liu family to marry Liu Xin.This is of course a real "marrying down", and doing so is actually paying for Liu Xin's long-term stay in Gaofu.

In the past, it was not that Liu Ting had never mentioned this, but Gao Wushi seldom answered because if he did, the pressure would all go to Liu Xin.He didn't want to put this kind of pressure on Liu Xin, so he used his status to blame her.

Although Liu's father and son were dissatisfied with this, they could not offend Gao Yushi in any way, and Gao Yushi had always taken good care of their father and son, so this matter has dragged on for many years, until now.

Last year, Liu Xian's health began to deteriorate, and Liu Xin stayed for a while after visiting him.But after she returned to Beijing, she didn't say much to Gao Wushi. Gao Wushi herself had a lot of things to do, so she forgot when she was busy.Now being so clearly "hinted" by Liu Ting, I just remembered that there is still such a thing, and I can't help but feel a little headache.

After this matter was finished, Liu Ting mentioned the serious matter.Regarding the extermination of Yang Yinglong in Bozhou, Liu Ting's thinking coincided with the method proposed by Gao Yushi before.

According to Liu Ting's judgment, the role of the remaining armies was not to inflict much damage to the Bozhou Army on the battlefield, but to block the roads leading to all directions from Bozhou.

In essence, this is cutting off Banzhou from the outside world and completely blocking possible external assistance.As long as this goal is achieved, Bozhou is the shackles in the urn, failure is inevitable, and it is nothing more than the difference between sooner and later.

According to Liu Ting's analysis, Yang Yinglong or his military adviser Sun Shitai should be able to see this.However, this move was originally a conspiracy, and it was useless for Sun Shitai to see through it, because Bozhou's strength was there, and they could only feel the despair even more if they saw through it, and they couldn't change it at all.

Liu Ting has a reason for saying this. He said that although the Bozhou Army has won two consecutive "anti-encirclement and suppression" victories, there are reasons for that. I thought that the Banzhou Army could be defeated with 2 people.

Liu Ting believes that although the weapons and equipment of the Bozhou Army are relatively backward compared with the official army, the Bozhou Army is similar to the Guangxi Wolf Army. Although its equipment is cheap, it is suitable for local operations.

For example, the "main weapon" used by the wolf soldiers of the Cen and Huang families in Guangxi at that time was nothing more than bamboo spears, but the bamboo spears may be better than the Yanling sabers and muskets of the official army in forest warfare.

Even if they confront Annan Mo and Zheng head-on, these bamboo spear soldiers are even more frightening than Jinghua's volleyball formation. Cannons wash the ground more easily to defeat the enemy.

The nature of the Bozhou army is similar to that of the Guangxi wolf soldiers, and this is also the case. In addition, Yang Yinglong's flicker now makes the Bozhou soldiers have the idea of ​​​​defending their homeland, and the melee combat must be more threatening.

At the same time, among the remaining armies, the officers and soldiers do not account for the majority, and some of them are even dominated by other chieftain soldiers. Their soldiers must be reliable when guarding their own homes, and it is even possible to pull them out to exterminate Japanese pirates. , but if it is to fight other chieftains "next door", there is no guarantee that you will not have a cold heart, and I am afraid that you will not be very motivated.

Therefore, Liu Ting believes that the rest of the army should not go to fight the Bozhou army in the field, but only need to advance slowly, and build camps and prepare for defense at any time.In this way, even if the Bozhou Army takes the initiative to attack, they only need to rely on the camp to defend, which can greatly reduce casualties, and can continue to bleed the Bozhou Army.

If things go on like this... Uh, it doesn't even have to go on like this for a long time, just one or two times like this, the Bozhou Army will definitely not continue to fight like this.After all, the population of Banzhou is limited, but it cannot withstand such meaningless consumption.

Then, in addition to these armies, there must always be a main force to really defeat the Bozhou Army.Liu Ting did his part to think that his road was the main force—of course, he also knew that Gao Yushi had arranged it in this way.

Liu Ting said that the current strength of the Bozhou Army should not have reached its limit. With the imperial court's encirclement and suppression, the Bozhou Army will definitely continue to expand its army, and eventually there may be "tens of thousands of bandits."But he thinks this is not terrible, because although the natives are tough, some people who captured the army from the mountains are born good soldiers, but... the seedlings are just seedlings after all, and the real good soldiers still need training and actual combat to develop .

Liu Ting's idea is: not to give these newly recruited Bozhou Army training time and actual combat opportunities.

They were not given time to train, relying on the rapid assembly of the several armies of the government and army, and immediately formed a concentric siege, forcing Yang Yinglong to be surrounded by enemies. Send out more troops, or counterattack against the enemy, or defend against danger... In short, these troops have to be sent out to do things quickly, and there is no time to "delay" in training.

Not giving them the chance to actually fight, in fact, it means that the other armies don't fight them in the field.As a fierce general who captured the flag at the age of 13, Liu Ting has personal experience and detailed observation of a person's growth on the battlefield.He knew that once a recruit wins a field battle, even if he just wins a battle with the veteran, his psychological advantage and technical and tactical level will be greatly improved. When he goes to the battlefield for the second time, he will almost be a qualified "veteran".

Now the Banzhou Army has the geographical advantage of fighting on the inside, and the people and advantages of "defending the homeland", the chances of winning in the field battle have greatly increased.But if the rest of the armies don't give them a chance to fight in the field, and let the Bozhou army forcefully attack with crude weapons and equipment every time, it will be extremely difficult for the Bozhou army to win.

In this way, assuming that the recruits lose the first battle and then lose again, the psychological construction of "I am invincible" will obviously fail.From then on, they will fall into self-doubt, and then doubt the prospects of the entire war, and the so-called morale of the army will naturally fall to the bottom.

As for Liu Ting's own journey, he is very confident that there is no problem at all.Before the Yunnan-Burma War, Gao Wushi gradually changed his troops. After the Yunnan-Burma War, as he was responsible for deterring Burma, the strength of his troops continued to increase.

Today's Liu Jiajun not only has a larger number than a few years ago, but also has more artillery and muskets.At the same time, the hand-to-hand combat core "Jiangwo Yiding" in his hand was also replaced with a shotgun and a new knife and armor made of Jinghua stainless steel, which greatly improved both lethality and defense.

Of course, the pursuit ability has indeed declined, because the equipment and weapons have become a lot heavier, and it has become a veritable hoplite. The individual soldier in the battle can carry nearly [-] catties.

Seeing this data, Gao Wushi laughed, because his father who served as a soldier in the Northwest in his previous life told him that at that time, there was a saying among the soldiers of the Red Dynasty that "Soldiers are not soldiers, sixty catties" [Note : Maybe it’s just a statement of a certain period. ], now Liu Ting's elite subduing Japanese and barbarians are somewhat like this.

With such equipment, and Liu Ting has always attached great importance to the combat effectiveness of his generals, he is still very confident in defeating the main force of the Bozhou Army in field battles.

However, while expressing confidence, Liu Ting also raised some concerns.
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