What’s the next step? Zhu Hexing thought to himself: Are you taking the test on me again without any hesitation? I have to think about it carefully before answering! Otherwise, I will have to be trained again...
Prince Zhu then thought about it: The rogue bandits turned into sitting bandits when they arrived in Chongqing. They have not stopped building more castles in the past 20 years. Now they have formed a multi-layered defense fortress surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the core of the fortress, Chaotian Palace City, is also built on the Yangtze River. At the angle with the Jialing River, there is a triangle with two sides facing water. The city wall made of stone is located along the river bank, and there are many artillery mounted on it. It is impossible to launch an attack from the Yangtze River and Jialing River to seize Chaotian Palace City. The only offensive route is to start from the west of the Chongqing Fucheng defense system.
But Chongqing’s Fucheng and Chaotian Palace are both built on mountains. To the west of Fucheng are rolling hills. The Dashun court built more than a dozen mountain cities there, layer by layer, to protect Chongqing’s Fucheng, while Chaotian Palace The city is located east of Fucheng, Chongqing.
In other words, if you want to start from the west of Chongqing Fucheng, you must first break several of the dozen mountain cities and open the passages, then attack Chongqing Fucheng, and finally attack Chaotian Palace City.
If you want to fight step by step in order, maybe you will fight for two or three years and still not reach Chaotian Palace City!
Can Emperor Zhu live in Fengdu Ghost City for two or three years? Is he the Ming Emperor or the King of Yama? And how many people will die after two or three years of siege!
Therefore, it is impossible to storm Chongqing Fucheng and Chaotian Palace...
If a forceful attack fails, then it will be a siege! Zhu Hexing changed his mind again. Besieging the city and starving it seemed not feasible, because the defense system of Chongqing Fucheng-Chaotian Palace City occupied a large area, and a complete siege would require a lot of troops.
At the same time, there were not many defenders in Fucheng and Chaotian Palace in Chongqing, the number of civilians was even smaller, and most of the family members of the soldiers had also moved away. When there are fewer people, the consumption of food will also be less. The siege of the city will last until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?
A forceful attack would not work, nor would a siege... It seemed impossible to persuade them to surrender. The bandits still had territory in Yunnan and Myanmar to escape to, so how could Li Laiheng surrender? He is also the king of a country when he goes to Myanmar!
This question is not easy to answer!
Seeing Zhu Hexing lost in thought, Emperor Zhu nodded, thinking: This kid is finally a little more mature and knows how to use his brain!
"Yuying, answer first!" Zhu Cixiang decided to let his son think carefully first, so he asked Ding Yuying to answer first - Ding Yuying's expression seemed to be confident, and maybe she already had a solution.
"Father, my daughter-in-law is not very proficient in military affairs," Ding Yuying said thoughtfully, "but my daughter-in-law feels that the bandits cannot stay in Chongqing for a long time..."
"Oh?" Zhu Cixi asked with a smile, "Why is that?"
Ding Yuying said: "Because most of the rogue soldiers in more than 20 counties in eastern Sichuan evacuated before the arrival of the official army, and there is also news that the rogue soldiers in other places in Sichuan are also evacuating to Yunnan... The rogue bandits were based on the local government soldiers. Once the government soldiers retreated, they would no longer be able to command the local areas. Now in the eastern Sichuan area, only Chongqing, where the emperor was stationed by the rogue bandits, and Hezhou, Luzhou, and Nanchong were left. There are soldiers, and according to the investigation and investigation, all the rogue soldiers are in the city, and all the soldiers in the countryside outside the city have also withdrawn.
This shows that the rogue bandits are unlikely to take Sichuan anymore. Perhaps they feel that they cannot hold Sichuan and will move to Burma to survive. So we will definitely be able to take down Chongqing...it's just a matter of time! "
Zhu Cixiang nodded: "That's right...but I have sent hundreds of thousands of troops to Sichuan, and the daily military expenses are also extremely huge. Waiting for the bandits to go away is not an option, right?"
"This... my daughter-in-law doesn't know what to do." Ding Yuying said, "My daughter-in-law only knows that we are recovering one county by one state, laying down the foundation firmly, and recovering one county by one." Just control a county, regain a state, and secure a state. Sooner or later, we can squeeze the rogue bandits in Sichuan to only three or four cities."
Zhu Cixiang smiled and nodded, thinking: Ding Yuying answered well, this is the countryside surrounding the city! The true meaning of the countryside surrounding the city is to firmly control the city!
He looked at Zhu Hexing again.
After hearing Ding Yuying's analysis, Zhu Hexing had an idea.
"Father, I think Yuying's method of regaining and controlling a county is advisable." Zhu Hexing said, "But we can't really squeeze the bandits down to only three or four cities and then wait... ....When will this have to wait? Erchen is thinking about sending troops to attack Yunnan to give Li Laiheng the illusion that we are raiding his lair.
In addition, we can also spread some rumors, saying that we will recruit Li Dingguo, the pseudo-jin king who pacified the bandits, and make him the king of Yunnan... In this way, Li Laiheng might abandon Chongqing and retreat to Yunnan. "
Really made progress!
Zhu Cixiang nodded and said with a smile: "Okay! Good luck has indeed improved...but you still have to be a good county magistrate! You can't just suppress bandits outside the city. You have to handle government affairs with Yuying."
Finally praised!
Zhu Hexing smiled and cupped his hands, "I obey the decree, I will definitely serve as the county magistrate and govern Fengdu County in an orderly manner!"
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"Li Qing, Guoyong, can you tell me how we can persuade a rogue puppet king to surrender? For example, Li Dingguo, can you make him the king of Yunnan?"
In the Fengdu Palace, Zhu Cihong talked with Li Yan and Wu Guoyong about inducing surrender - in fact, Emperor Zhu had already thought of it without Zhu Hexing reminding him.
So far in the Battle of Sichuan, there is no suspense about the outcome, because the rogue bandits have adopted delaying tactics...the purpose is not to win, but to delay defeat so that they can arrange for the transfer of personnel.
Although Zhu Cixiang didn't care if hundreds of thousands, millions or even more bandits escaped to Burma, he couldn't let the war in Sichuan drag on for too long!
Otherwise, the military expenditure will be too high and it will not be conducive to post-war reconstruction.
So he had to "urge" Li Laiheng. If he wanted to leave, he should leave quickly. Don't linger in Chongqing Mansion!
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it won't be possible to confer the title of King of Yunnan." Wu Guoyong said, "In the past ten years or so, the rogue bandits have obviously been the two capitals of the north and the south, but in fact Kunming has been the capital of good deeds. Moreover, the princes of the rogue bandits are relatively restrained in Sichuan. , they did not enclose land on a large scale, but they occupied many farms in Yunnan and controlled many tribes. It is not the case that one political king has the power to suppress the various forces."
Dashun's military service system is a land-based feudal military service system. In the long run, land annexations and large feudal lords will inevitably occur... Although Li Guo and Li Laiheng tried their best to suppress annexations, Dashun's The princes, generals and ministers had such a great demand for land that the father and son could not ignore it, so they had no choice but to let them enclose land in Yunnan.
The terrain of Yunnan is characterized by mountains, valleys and basins, which is very conducive to feudal separatism, otherwise there would not be so many chieftains.
After the original chieftains were wiped out by the Dashun army, their land more or less fell into the hands of Dashun princes and generals... So in Dashun, all the land in Sichuan was returned to the army, and the land in Yunnan Most of the situation belongs to the princes.
And Yunnan, where there are many princes, is not a territory that any Dashun political king can settle.
"Where should it be sealed?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
Li Yan said: "You can grant me the title of Wu Zang!"
"Feng Wu Zang?" Emperor Zhu frowned, "Wuzang hasn't been captured by the bandits yet!"
"But Uszang is not in our hands either," Li Yan said. "The Heshuote tribe of Uszang is too close to the great lama, and it is also closely related to the Jungar Kingdom and the Heshuote Kingdom in the Western Regions... ...Allowing them to rule Uzang for a long time is always a disaster. It is better to let the bandits in.
Besides, now that the Western Expedition troops of the rogue bandits have captured Qamdo, no one can stop them from occupying Uzang! "
"Whose soldiers and horses occupied Qamdo?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
"It should be Ai Nengqi's soldiers," Wu Guoyong said. "Now Li Dingguo's troops in northern Sichuan are also moving westward, and are expected to enter Long'an Mansion and Songpan Wei soon... We can try to recruit Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi is the military envoy of Uzang and the deputy envoy of Uzang. At the same time, news was released that the two of them have been adopted."
"How do you get this news out?" Zhu Cixiang asked.
Wu Guoyong said: "Jin Yiwei has someone on hand who can be used just in time!"
