After entering April, the climate in the western Sichuan Plain becomes warmer and more vibrant. In the farmland as far as the eye can see, the wheat has begun to bloom and the broad beans have begun to bear fruit. Let me add that this is only the situation within the Perak Army. Although Xichuan under the control of the Mongolian army was always green, it looked like crops from a distance, but when you got closer you found that they were just bushes of wormwood, with occasional wheat and other crops. In fact, since Liu Heima took charge of Chengdu's government affairs, he also vigorously promoted reclamation and recruited refugees to farm, but the effect was really poor. On the one hand, the Mongolian army did not regard the peasants as human beings at all, but regarded them as two-legged sheep that ate grass seeds. They killed and robbed them at will. As for robbery and rape, they were commonplace. The people under their rule fled one after another, especially to Perak. Most under military rule. On the other hand, the Mongolian cavalry often used their horses to forage crops and beat or kill those who blocked them, even in the fields of newly attached troops. As a result, no one dared to farm within a few miles of the cavalry station, and no one farmed in places far away from the city and settlement points because of rampant bandits.
Liu Heima was certainly worried about this situation, but other Mongolian generals did not take it seriously, or did not take his words seriously at all. There are many factions within the Mongolian army. In order to check and balance power and share interests, the areas occupied by the Mongolian army often have several armies, and the generals of these armies do not belong to each other. For example, in the Sichuan Mongolian Army, although Liu Heima was in charge of government affairs, the generals in charge of military affairs included Mi Zhehuoli, Hudu, and Erlin. Although when Pu Zezhi attacked Chengdu, the Mongolian generals promoted Lin as their leader to jointly defend against the enemy, but after Pu Zezhi's defeat and retreat to Chongqing, the armies returned to a state of non-supervision. The Mongolian generals such as Mi Zhehuoli and Erlin looked down upon farming. In their view, logistics and food supply were a matter for Han generals such as Liu Heima, Yelu Maizhu, and Jiagu Longgudai. If there is really no food, wouldn't they go to rob the Song people?
Liu Heima was not in the mood to think about food issues at the moment. He was worried about his own head at the moment. After the death of Mongolian Khan in Diaoyu City, Ali Buge and Kublai Khan respectively held the Khuritai Conference with the support of some clan kings to declare themselves khans, so that two Khans appeared side by side in the Mongol Khanate. Ali Buge, who proclaimed Khan in Mobei, won the support of most Mongolian generals, while Kublai Khan, who proclaimed Khan in Kaiping, won the support of some Mongolian generals and most of the Han army princes. The two sides were now at war with each other, and the war was imminent. Nervous emotions also spread to western Sichuan. Liu Heima, Yelv Maizhu, Jiagu Longgu and others supported Kublai Khan who could tolerate Han culture. The secret man Huoli clearly supported Ali Buge and claimed that he would kill those who opposed him with thunder. However, as for Erlin, Hudu and others, their attitudes are ambiguous.
Generals from different factions were wary of each other, which caused a rare pause in the Xichuan Mongolian army's foreign campaigns. At the beginning, Huang Dagen and other staff members thought that the river water had surged recently, and the navy brigade was able to completely block the river, so that even a small group of Mongolian reconnaissance cavalry could not cross the river. However, the intelligence brought back by the scouts showed that the frequency of Mongolian reconnaissance cavalry appearing on the east bank of the Jinma River has also been greatly reduced. The intelligence sent back by "Firefox" also showed that the Mongolian army activities in the Jiading direction have also stopped a lot. "When things go wrong, there must be monsters." Just when Huang Dagen was worried about what conspiracy the Mongolian army was brewing and racking his brains to prepare a response plan, Ouyang Xuan said to him with a relaxed and cheerful expression: "Don't panic, the Mongolian army is internally It’s going to start dog eat dog”. These words made Huang Dagen relax his tense nerves. After all, Brother Xuan has the ability to predict the future. I believe he is always right.
The Mongolian army had no idea of attacking, and the weak Song army also wanted to maintain the status quo, or it could be said that it did not have the ability to take the initiative to attack at all. The more important reason is that Jia Sidao has now entered the court as prime minister and controlled the affairs of Lin'an. Soon after taking power, he promoted a large number of generals who were close to him, such as putting Lu Wende in charge of the more important and richer Jinghu battlefield, and promoting Yu Xing to Sichuan's envoy and Chongqing government. For generals who have great military achievements but are unwilling to rely on themselves, it is to kill the donkey and Yumo. As soon as the Mongolian army here retreated, he made an overt promotion to Wang Jian and transferred him to the idle position of Lin'an Imperial Capital Command Division, while deputy general Zhang Jue took over as the magistrate of Hezhou. On the one hand, this was because he was jealous of Wang Jian's military exploits in defeating Meng Ge Khan himself, and on the other hand, Wang Jian was unwilling to give him any money as a gift.
The rest of the generals in central Sichuan have made many adjustments, including Zhu Xisun being transferred to Guangnan West Road, Liu Zheng taking over as the pacifier of Tongchuan Road and knowing Luzhou Prefecture, and Zan Wanshou taking over the position of Yu Xing as the prefect of Jiading. The above appointments in the court newspaper are generally consistent with Ouyang Xuan's memory. At least for now, the situation in central Sichuan is still developing generally according to the existing historical lines. As for whether Yu Xing and Lu Wende were jealous of Liu Zheng's military exploits in the future and wanted to kill him, and finally forced Liu Zheng to rebel, it is unknown. Ouyang Xuan knows very well that the strange thing about historical events is that sometimes trying to prevent it will not change the outcome, but small and accidental events will change the direction of history.
Among the above generals, Ouyang Xuan pays special attention to Zan Wanshou. This young general is the opposite of the greedy Yu Xing and his son. He is brave and resourceful, extremely fair and righteous, and considerate of the soldiers and the people under his rule. Under his administration, Jiading Prefecture's economic and population continued to grow, and it even provided a steady stream of tax revenue to Chongqing Prefecture. His rigorous military management greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Jiading Army. He repeatedly defeated large-scale attacks by the Mongolian army, counterattacked Chengdu and Yunding City many times, and even left Qingju City in eastern Sichuan. He persisted until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty. Do not surrender to the Mongols. At present, Zan Wanshou has not yet arrived in Jiading to take office. Judging from the intelligence sent back by "Fire Fox", some military generals in Jiading seem to be quite hostile to his arrival. In response, Ouyang Xuan has ordered the staff to strengthen intelligence collection in the direction of Jiading.
Ouyang Xuan also received a new appointment, from the Yongkang magistrate to the Chongqing magistrate, and still served as the deputy envoy to appease Chengdu Road. These two positions have the same level, and they are both in the control area of the Thunderbolt Army. There is no real difference. What Ouyang Xuan wanted more was the official position of Zhenfu Envoy, which meant that Lin'an recognized the semi-independent status of the Pili Army. It is said that Jia Sidao has a big appetite. He accepted a large amount of property from Li Kaipeng, but he was not even willing to do favors. On the other hand, although the Perak Army was an independently developed anti-Mongolian force and retaken several states and counties from the Mongolian army on its own, the senior officials in the court obviously would not tolerate this uncontrolled force and always wanted to wait for opportunities to take advantage of it. Its total control.
Cao Zhizhou, who had sent people to operate in Lin'an for a long time and basically exhausted his family wealth in order to get promoted, almost got nothing. The reason why it was said that it was almost because the big guys in the DPRK and China gave him a consolation prize after collecting his money - the deputy envoy on Chengdu Road to appease him. It's just that although he, the deputy envoy of pacification, is the same as Ouyang Xuan, he does not have the power to deal with the Yifan affairs on the Sichuan border. It is a false title and does not have any actual power. At present, more than half of Luzhou County in Chengdu is in the hands of the Mongolian army, and the only ones left are Jiading Army, Pili Army and Yali Prefecture. Compared with the first two, Yali and Li are the weakest. In this troubled world where force is the key, the false title Cao Zhizhou received is completely useless.
