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Chapter 367 Chengdu is right in front of you!

Liu Sheng became nervous when he saw Wang Hui's excited look - he was afraid that the seventy-two-year-old man would be too excited and suffer a heart attack or cerebral infarction, which would make him extremely happy and sad.

Fortunately, Wang Hui was only trembling slightly with excitement and his face turned red, and he did not suffer from any sudden illness.

This shows that he is in better health than Liu Sheng imagined, and he is estimated to be able to work until he is eighty years old before retiring.

After a moment of regret for his thoughts, Liu Sheng said, "Now sir, you should know how well-intentioned I am in establishing the Academy of Sciences and inviting you to be a professor in the School of Physics, right?"

Now it was Wang Hui's turn to feel ashamed for his previous thoughts, and he cupped his hands and said: "The common people know - the common people are willing to take up the post of professor at the Academy of Sciences."

"That's very good." Liu Sheng smiled, "When I go to the School of Physics, sir, I can form a team that specializes in developing trains and railways, which can be called a project team, with me as the team leader.

As long as practical steam engines and trains are developed based on the drawings I gave you, I will promote your husband to an academician of the Academy of Sciences and grant him a knighthood.

The professors of the Academy of Sciences are only in the seventh rank, but the academicians are in the fifth rank. In other words, as long as Mr. completes this project, he can win three levels in a row and obtain the title of Viscount. "

Liu Sheng had really good intentions. In order to motivate Wang Hui, he told all the rewards in advance.

Although Wang Hui was seventy-two years old, he was still not in a state where he didn't care about honor and disgrace. After hearing Liu Sheng's promise, he indeed felt more motivated.

It also gave me a deeper understanding of the importance Liu Sheng attached to this matter.

He immediately bowed and said, "I will devote myself to the development of steam engines and trains until my death."

Hearing such words again, Liu Sheng couldn't help but be speechless.

Although he knew that this was probably just a slogan, he couldn't help but remind him: "Sir, don't say that. Research is important, but so is physical health. After all, great talents like this are rare. Only by taking good care of your body can you be a good cause for the world." Make more contributions to the field of science.”

After hearing this, Wang Hui felt warm and moved in his heart, and responded: "Your Majesty's teachings, I will take them to heart."

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After Wang Hui withdrew from Tianxin Hall, Liu Sheng reviewed the memorial for a while, and Bai Yu, the leader of the telecommunications team, came to report it with a happy face.

"Your Majesty, there is another good news from the West Route Army. The vanguard Mao Chengguo has conquered Ziyang and will attack Jianzhou!"

After speaking, he asked the guard to hand over the telegram.

Liu Sheng quickly read the telegram from Helianyue and found that Mao Chengguo's victory over Ziyang had happened the day before yesterday. According to the speed at which Mao Chengguo had conquered cities and territories in Sichuan, he might have conquered Jianzhou now.

Liu Sheng immediately pulled out a map of Sichuan and checked it.

Jianzhou was the last city before the Tuo River went upstream to attack Chengdu. Jianzhou City and Yang'an Pass were at the horns of each other. In the military deployment of the Ming army, it should be a fortress in the defense system of Chengdu's capital city.

However, the Yi army has army artillery, yellow explosives, real elite soldiers, and may even have internal agents in Jianzhou City. It should not be difficult to capture this military fortress of the Ming army.

After Jianzhou, Chengdu was no different from a chestnut with the last shell peeled off in front of the Wei army.

As for how tall Chengdu is and how many defenders there are, it is of no use.

If you don’t believe it, just look at how the Yi army captured Nanjing City.

If the officials, civilians, and soldiers have no fighting spirit, no matter how tall and majestic the city is, it can be easily conquered.

On the other hand, if the top and bottom work together, even a mere earthen city can unite as one and resist powerful enemies.

It can be said that He Lianyue's army marched very quickly after they invaded Sichuan. In comparison, Shen Wandeng's army moved much slower.

According to previous battle reports, after Shen Wandeng invaded Kuizhou Prefecture from the north, he first captured Taiping and Dongxiang and was preparing to attack Dazhou.

Because there is no telecommunications team in Shen Wandeng's army, the battle report has to be forwarded through Helianyue, and the speed of transmission back to Nanjing is slower.

Liu Sheng estimated that if nothing unexpected happened, Dazhou would probably have been captured, and Shen Wandeng's troops would have already invaded Shunqing Mansion along the Qujiang River.

After reading the battle report sent by Helianyue and studying the situation in Sichuan on the map for a while, Liu Sheng said to the people in the secretariat: "Let the Tongzheng Yuan prepare for the victory."

Although now that the Yi army has captured a city, even if it is a very important city, Liu Sheng's heart is not too shaken, but he still has to engage in "Lubu Chuanjie" every time.

Because this is an effective means to stabilize rule.

The Yi army conquered various places too quickly, and it was inevitable that some people with dissident intentions were hiding; some people had no dissatisfaction at all, but were dissatisfied with some of the policies of the Da'Ei court, and thus developed dissent; and some people were simply ignorant and fearless , commit crimes due to greed and laziness. No matter what it is, through Lubu Chuanjie, hearing that the Yi army captured a certain place today, conquered that city tomorrow, and won a hearty victory the day after, these people will always be afraid and dare not mess up. ···

After giving the order to convey victory, Liu Sheng couldn't help but think about the situation in the south.

According to information from Xunfengwei, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi and others who were responsible for persuading Shen Youlong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong to surrender in the Ming Dynasty, went to Guangdong in early August. Now a month has passed, but Shen Youlong still has not expressed any intention of returning to Da'ei.

This made Liu Sheng feel that Fujian and Guangdong and Guangxi might also be attacked by force.

Of course, the weather in the south was still a bit hot even in September, so Liu Sheng didn't mind waiting a little longer.

However, it might as well put some more pressure on Shen Youlong.

Thinking of this, Liu Sheng said to the secretariat clerk in the palace: "Draw up a military order to ask Li Dingguo to send troops to capture Qingyuan and put some pressure on Shen Youlong."

Li Dingguo did not have a military telecommunications team, so it would take several days for his military order to be transmitted. Waiting for Li Dingguo to send troops south from Shaozhou Prefecture, it should be mid-to-late September.

It was equivalent to giving Shen Youlong nearly two months, which was long enough.

If Shen Youlong is really unwilling to surrender, the Yi army will directly capture Guangzhou, cut off Guangdong in the middle, and completely cut off the connection between Fujian and Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.

In this way, even if Fujian resists the Yi army, it will not last long without friendly forces and foreign aid.

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The ninth day of September is the day of climbing the Double Ninth Festival.

Mao Chengguo led the Ninth Brigade to the outside of Chengdu.

Looking at the tall city of Chengdu, Mao Chengguo couldn't help but his eyes gleamed.

In his eyes, this is not a strong city, it is clearly a rich military exploit that can make him a marquis!

Although he only has one brigade and more than 10,000 elite troops, he is still sure of breaking through Chengdu.

But it was only a breakthrough. If you want to quickly control such a large city after the city is broken, it is impossible to do it with only more than 10,000 people.

Thinking about some of the things Liu Sheng had been emphasizing, Mao Chengguo finally suppressed the idea of ​​attacking Chengdu immediately.

If he breaks through Chengdu City but is unable to control it, causing a lot of chaos in the city, causing heavy losses to the city, and even killing many innocent people, I am afraid that on Liu Sheng's side, not only has he failed, but he has done something wrong.

Therefore, after observing the city of Chengdu with a telescope for a long time, Mao Chengguo ordered: "Set up camp and wait until the main force has taken it before attacking the city!"

"As ordered!"

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When the Ninth Brigade chose a suitable location to set up camp four or five miles away from the moat, at the top of Chengdu City, some Ming officials such as Liao Daheng, Chen Shiqi, Liu Zhibo, etc. were also looking at it, all with worried faces.

Because the Yi army was too far away and they did not have a telescope, they could only estimate the number of the Yi army through the banners of the Yi army.

Although Liao Daheng had served as a military supervisor before, he actually only had a superficial understanding of military affairs.

He squinted for a while and couldn't help but ask: "Didn't it say that 200,000 Wei troops invaded central Sichuan? Why don't there seem to be many Wei troops outside the city?"

Hearing this, Liu Zhenfan, the deputy commander-in-chief on the side, had to explain, "Futai, the ones coming are probably just the vanguard of the Yi army, estimated to be about 10,000 people."

"Only 10,000 people?" Liao Daheng was moved after hearing this. "The total number of Chengdu garrison units is more than 30,000, right? Why not go out of the city first to eat the vanguard of the Yi army?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhenfan was immediately embarrassed.

I was scolding my mother even more in my heart - this piece of shit doesn't understand military matters and still likes to give random orders. Does it mean that the city of Chengdu is not destroyed fast enough?

The total number of defenders in Chengdu now totals more than 30,000, which is good, but what are the majority of them composed of?

The more than 5,000 battalion soldiers under his command are considered the most elite, but they also owe two months of wages.

As for the remaining guardsmen, village soldiers, and village warriors, they were not as reliable as his battalion troops. How could they go out of the city to fight against the Yi army?

Liu Zhenfan was afraid of offending Liao Daheng, so he only dared to slander him, but Liu Zhibo, the patrolman next to him, didn't have so many scruples.

He said sarcastically: "Does Liao Futai think that more than 30,000 people are enough to defend the huge city of Chengdu, or does he think that more than 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers can defeat the 10,000 elite troops of the Yi army?

If Liao Futai really thinks it's feasible, he might as well lead his troops to fight against the Yi army himself! "

Hearing Liu Zhibo's words, Liao Daheng suddenly felt that he had lost face. His face turned red with anger. He turned around and glared, and asked loudly: "Liu Zhibo, when we are facing a powerful enemy, you don't think about how to defend yourself against the enemy. Instead, you inflate the enemy's ambition and destroy your own prestige. What on earth is that?" Do you have bad intentions? Could it be that you have the intention of subjugating yourself?!"

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