Zheng Yunming couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he reached such a conclusion in front of the generals, but he quickly calmed down and bowed and said, "Tang Taizong said, 'If you use people as a mirror, you can know gains and losses.' Today, Wang Jingsong is my best mirror, and Zheng Yunming has been taught here."

After saying that, he bowed deeply.

Upon straightening, Zheng Yunming turned around and said to the five surprised generals: "I exposed the shortcomings of this battle today. I hope that each of you will remember that you will not make the same mistakes as me when defending the city in the future."

Everyone agreed.

"After you return to the camp, you must also organize your troops and soldiers to conduct a review of whether there were any omissions and wrong behaviors in today's battle, or what useful experience have you gained in the battle against the city."

"Each team has to submit a summary for me. Although there is no writing to the army for the time being, I can only ask the scholars and generals to write it themselves, but in the future, each team of soldiers will be equipped with a clerk to record the little things of soldiers' activities and summarize the success or failure of the battle."

Ge Huai widened his eyes and stuck out his tongue: "Scholars are just trying to do trouble. After winning the war, they should make some fine wine and food to celebrate well. Instead, they should make a summary of the battle. They are so frustrated that they should be ordered to prepare a celebration banquet and earnest contributions to the fire-headed army!

"Ge is a little restless." Zheng Yunming smiled and said, "Now there are a hundred jars of fine wines in square jars outside the tent, all of which are treasured by local wineries in Shatou City. I will surely let you drink them happily later."

Amid Ge Huai's laughter, a Beiwei soldier broke in: "Jiangling Mansion Bingzhijie sent someone to invite the general to come over to discuss matters."

"The news of this old man was received so quickly." Zheng Yunming discussed with Wang Deng: "After I leave, you urge the soldiers to speed up the cleaning of the battlefield and repair the city walls. Although Natasi claimed that he would not attack again, we must also be careful."

He lowered his voice and said, "We must focus on searching for the bodies of General Li and his subordinates, and all of them are buried with coffins. The generals and soldiers in Jiangling Mansion are all watching here. The Tulong Army must set an example of treating friendly forces well."

"This matter is a serious matter," Ge Huai said loudly: "The corpses of the Jiangling brothers must be restrained properly. Don't let people poke our backbone and scold us for harming our good deeds."

He scratched his head and asked in confusion: "But don't be so anxious to find the general manager. Is there anything big of a deal?"

The deputy envoy of Jinghu Division was in his forties, with a slightly obese body, but his face seemed quite smart. He is a local person in Hubei. Since he passed the Jinshi in the early Jiading year, he has been promoted to the two lakes and has been at the position of Jinghu Division as the deputy envoy of Jinghu Division.

Unlike the Zhao Fan brothers who grew up in the army with his father and had been in the army for a long time, Bi Zhijie was promoted from the position of local officials and was capable and decisive in handling local affairs, but he didn't know much about the affairs of the army.

When Zheng Yunming told him, he was leaning over to look at a topographic map of Jingxiang, and hesitating in his heart.

Seeing Zheng Yunming bowing to worship, the second chief of Jinghu District quickly stepped forward to support him.

"Forget it, it's really a hero." Bian Zhijie said kindly: "I will never succeed. In the future, Jingxiang will definitely be where you younger generations have great achievements."

Zheng Yunming hurriedly thanked him and asked again: "The deputy envoy urgently summoned Yunming to come. I don't know if there is anything to order?"

"Come here." Fei Zhijie pointed to the topographic map of Jingxiang on the desk: "I received an emergency report yesterday: Fan Yongji, the governor of Junzhou, has surrendered, and the Mongolian army is crossing the Wudang Mountains. The next goal should be Fangzhou."

Fangzhou is a small state city south of Wudang Mountain and has almost no defensive power. Once the Mongols cross Wudang Mountain, they will definitely be able to easily conquer it.

"There is no hope in Fangzhou." Bie Zhijie frowned and said, "The next target of the Mongolian army that I am worried about."

He circled a range on the map with his hands, which was a large section from Xiazhou at the exit of the Three Gorges to Jiangling Prefecture.

"After attacking Fangzhou, the enemy has two routes to choose from. The first is to capture Guizhou and Xiazhou to the south, and then turn around and attack Jiangling."

"The second solution is to point to the southwest, follow the mountain road and go straight to the Jingmen Army, and then follow the Zhang River to take Jiangling south."

"That's right," said Zheng Yunming: "Generally speaking, this road is much more difficult to block mountains than to go down the Han River. However, the defensive power deployed by the Guanjun on this road is too weak, with only a few hundred soldiers, and even in some places only militias defending. Once the enemy comes to invade, the prefectures and counties along the road have no resistance."

Bie Zhijie looked up at Zheng Yunming and asked, "Mr. Zheng thought, which route should the enemy come from?"

This question was answered from the spot when Zheng Yunming was traveling to Jingxiang.

"If I were a Mongol, I would definitely choose the road between Guizhou and Xiazhou." Zheng Yunming said: "Although this road is remote, there are roads that can be directly connected to it."

"From Fangzhou to Jingmen, the army almost had to follow the Jingshan Mountains in parallel, and the road was full of undulating mountains. There were also several rivers. According to common sense, no army would choose such a route."

Bie Zhijie has no practical experience in leading the army, so he can only nod and say yes to Zheng Yunming's opinions.

"Guizhou is a city on the banks of the river." Zheng Yunming pondered: "It is difficult to defend. Xiazhou is a mountain city. During the Three Kingdoms period, Lu Boyan burned down Liu Xuande's 700,000 troops with a fire, which shows that it has been a place for military use since ancient times."

"For the sake of the present, it is better to use a group of troops to go to Xiazhou to seize the advantage of geographical advantages and strive to stop the Mongols who went south in Xiazhou. The deputy envoy and the navy support along the river should be able to ensure the safety of Jiangling Prefecture."

"This is a good idea." "Bie Zhijie said: "I will send people to Xiazhou immediately."

Of course, Zheng Yunming knew what the deputy envoy meant, so he stood up and said, "There is no need to work for other generals."

"I took 3,000 people from the headquarters to Xiazhou by myself. However, after our army was launched, the adults must use the navy to support him."

Jiangling Prefecture is stationed with a naval army of thousands of people, with hundreds of warships. Although they are not big ships, the sailors are all fishermen recruited from Taihu Lake and can fight fiercely. If you want to defend against important passes on the Yangtze River, you will not be able to do without the cooperation of the navy.

"There is no problem with this matter," said Bie Zhijie, but Zheng Yunming still felt uneasy.

The greed and fear of death among the Song army, and waiting for friendly forces to fall into death without rescue, has become a habit. Just a few years ago, when the dying Jin and Song were fighting, they often used more than 10,000 troops to make a lot of strategies in the territory of the Song army, relying on the bad nature of the Song army's generals Yingcheng, who protect themselves and do not want to rescue each other.

The one who has the most insight into this should be Zheng Yunming's immediate superior Zhao Fan. When the Song Dynasty's Shandong general Li Quan led the crowd to rebel and attacked Huaidong in a large number of attacks, Zhao Fan was the commander who ruled the rescue of various armies. Li Quan was a famous general in the world, and was bravely known on both sides of the north and south. None of the more than 100,000 troops that rescued Huaidong were willing to advance to the front line.

It was not until Zhao Kui moved out of the emperor's order and got angry and wanted to kill people on the spot with his sword that the generals of various military routes reluctantly advanced to Yangzhou. After a long battle to defend the city here, Li Quan was finally killed under the city.

In view of the above examples, Zheng Yunming was not absolutely sure about the reliability of so-called friendly rescue. But what he understood was that instead of waiting for the enemy to enter the city of Jiangling, he would rather take the initiative to attack and block the enemy under the city of Xiazhou, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Of course, he would not insist on "The king is worried, is this minister who refuses to refuse?", so he is brave enough to take the lead. What he is worried about is nothing but the generals of Jinghu and their troops.

Instead of entrusting the war and your life to them, it is better to do it yourself and feel at ease.

Zheng Yunming thought he was not a hardworking person. The reason why he was so diligent in state affairs and worked hard to train soldiers was actually because he was really afraid of death.

Of course, Wang Deng and Ge Huai were completely invisible to see this thought. When Zheng Yunming issued the order to move Xiazhou in front of the entire army, they were just worried that this little scholar would be too enthusiastic.

"The soldiers fought bloody battles in Shatou City and retreated to the enemy, and they were already very tired." Ge Huai couldn't help complaining: "The people who eat hard food in Jiangling Mansion have been raising their energy for a long time. If they don't need them, they will mobilize our tired army..."

Wang Deng also hesitated and said, "Although we were lucky enough to win the first battle, we were inexperienced after all, and the soldiers could not adapt to the garrison war against the weak and strong under continuous marches. Even if the general manager wanted to go, he should ask the deputy envoy to send more troops to help."

Zheng Yunming said loudly: "The deputy envoy said that he would send a navy army to help us."

Wang Deng snorted coldly from the depths of his nose. Obviously, in his mind, the reliability of the Song army in rescuing friendly troops was even less reliable.

Zhu Sheng asked, "If we go to rescue, what should we do in Shatou City?"

"After a while, Jiangling Mansion sent out five thousand soldiers to replace us." Zheng Yunming said: "How can the provoy forward repay us? That guy Tasi has indeed retreated?"

Zhu Sheng replied: "The spy followed them to the north end of the Han River and saw that they met with the navy, and were moving north with the captive people and cattle and horses. It seemed that the mobilization had been completed and returning north."

"So, the Mongolian soldiers who were preparing to move south from Wudang Mountain have become an isolated army." Zheng Yunming said confidently: "If they can be blocked in Xiazhou, then the Mongols' strategy for Jinghu should be over here."

“That would win us a whole year of rest.”
Chapter completed!