Zhao Bing was just a science student in his previous life, his career was a shipbuilder, and he was just a enthusiast in the military. He did not have the qualities to become a military strategist at all. But he had an advantage that others did not have, that is, he could learn from the experience of his predecessors and become a pseudo-military strategist by plagiarism. Of course, this pseudo-military strategist is not easy to be. He also had to judge the situation and create conditions to realize the idea of ​​"stolen".

The reason why Zhao Bing was extremely excited about Wen Tianxiang's recovery of Chongqing was that this way could realize the idea of ​​"three layers of barriers" and ensure the safety of Jiangnan to the greatest extent. However, this idea was not his original work, but Meng Gong, a famous general of this dynasty. He just adjusted his concept and worked hard to implement it.

In the spring of the first year of Chunyou, Meng Gong was appointed as the ambassador of Jinghu Pacification and the ambassador of Kuizhou Road. Later, he was appointed as the Marquis of the East County of Han, and also served as the ambassador of Jinghu Pacification and Controller, leading the defense of the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and officially became the commander of the two war zones of the Southern Song Dynasty. Even for more than 300 years, no military general could achieve his power. Despite this, Meng Gong still devoted himself to the country.

After the situation of the Song-Meng war basically stabilized, Meng Gong began to build the Jinghu War Zone and establish an overall defense system. He quoted the famous general of the Three Kingdoms Lu Kang: "Jingzhou is the vassal of a country. If it is a plea, it will not only lose a county, but it will fight for it. If it were not for the increase of 80,000 troops and the efforts to prepare for the imperial guards, even Han and Bai Fusheng would have no cleverness."

Meng Gong pointed out that the Yangtze River had a long defense line from Zigui in the upper reaches to Bei Ezhou in the middle reaches, with both ferries and passes. It was worrying to defend everywhere, so the whole country had to devote its efforts to defend the Jingxiang area. Jiangling City, a major city in the middle reaches, was surrounded by fertile fields. After Meng Gong discovered this situation, he believed that such a plain was not blocked and the enemy cavalry could reach the city quickly. Therefore, he personally drew engineering drawings and organized military and civilians to build fortresses and passes near Jiangling based on the three rivers of Ju, Zhang and Han. Later, the fall of Xiangfan directly led to the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, proving the importance of Jinghu to the southern regime.

The second is military farming. Meng Gong believed that military farming was the duty to protect the people, and the people were responsible for raising the soldiers. The soldiers depended on each other. "Setting up forts" and "Safe farming" complemented each other. From Zigui to Hankou, Meng Gong developed military farming, transferred men and built dams, and recruited farmers to plant seeds, a total of 188,000 hectares. Military farming fully guaranteed the logistics supply of the army, and the court also issued an edict to reward them.

Meng Gong made the greatest contribution to the theory of three-layer barriers. He asked the court to prepare to set up three-layer defense lines. The first floor is located in Fuzhou and Wanzhou in eastern Sichuan, the second floor is located in Dingzhou and Lizhou in northwest Hunan, and the third floor is located in Chen, Jing in southwest Hunan and Guizhou in Guangxi, which is called the "three-layer barriers". Lizong also deeply agreed with this.

In order to support Meng Gong's work more effectively, Lizong also specially abolished the Sichuan Xuanfu Department and changed Meng Gong's Sichuan Xuanfu Envoy to the Kuizhou Road Ambassador and Military Land Envoy. According to the Song system, the Xuanfu Envoy was higher than the system, but in this way, the Sichuan General Office only took charge of Lizhou, Tongchuan Prefecture, Chengdu Prefecture, and Sichuan became Sanchuan, and the remaining Sichuan was included in Meng Gong's direct management, which made his work more convenient.

Whether at that time or later generations, the strategic concept of "three layers of barriers" was highly praised. I thought it was a visionary, especially the third line of defense that was not valued at the time. Meng Gong had pointed out the possibility of the Mongolian army's detour from Yunnan and Guangxi to attack Hunan. However, he opposed the court's random sending troops to the Guangxi border, believing that ethnic minority tribes were everywhere, and only a few places were needed to divide the barbarians, and the situation was dangerous, so it was appropriate to deal with it, create guards and station troops, and accumulate grain and gather food, even if the Mongols invaded.

Meng Gong's idea emphasized that he was worried that if he did not receive support from local indigenous people when the war broke out, he would inevitably fall into a dilemma. Simply increasing troops would not only waste food and pay, but also intensify the conflict with the locals. His concern was also fulfilled six years after his death, Kublai Khan, Uliang Hetai and others passed by Tubo, destroyed Dali, and entered Hunan, which was fulfilled. However, his opposition to garrisoning heavy troops in Guangxi and abandoning Dali and ethnic minority policies also criticized him, believing that his mistakes led to the collapse of the Yangtze River defense line in the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, Zhao Bing understood that the Chinese have lived in an environment of "judging heroes by success or failure" since ancient times. There is Li Bai's poem saying: The King of Qin swept the six worlds, and the tiger looks at the heroes; there is also a folk saying that the winner is the king and the loser is the enemy. Therefore, in the thousands of years of history of China, tens of millions of heroes have accepted comments and discussions from later generations in the "prosperity and failure".

However, Zhao Bing believes that if you just judge a hero by failure, history may become a confusing account. Successful people must have something worthy of admiration, and those who fail may not be criticized by future generations in everything. There are many factors that determine success and failure. Although individual subjective efforts are important reasons, objective factors such as time, place, and people that are not transferred by personal will often play a greater role in history.

This is as Zhan He said: Don’t judge heroes by success or failure by success or failure. In fact, even a hero like Qin Shihuang is a person of flesh and blood. He has excellence and weaknesses of ordinary people. The so-called success or failure is just a temporary result.

In terms of success, Qin Hui was also a negative successor; in terms of failure, Yue Fei was a complete political loser; in terms of strength, the Southern Song Dynasty could never be as good as the Jin Dynasty, and invading the Japanese army would never be as strong as the Chinese people. After Zhao Bing became the emperor, he knew more about all successes and failures, including both artificial and non-human controllable factors.

Because those who achieve great things need to have heroic talents, opportunities that can be taken advantage of, opportunities that can be seized, opportunities that cannot meet people's wishes, and heroes will inevitably fail. In this sense, those who have great ambitions are heroes, and history has success or failure, but in past historical books, their success or failure is no different. Therefore, a small area of ​​land cannot tolerate the dragons in the East China Sea, and the success or failure rule cannot be evaluated by those who have caused shocking waves in history...

On July 13, civil and military officials from Jingxiang area received the order and gathered in Yicheng to receive the order to meet at the General Administration Office. When the ministers received the order, they had their own thoughts. They all learned from various channels what His Majesty had done recently. In just a few days, the head general of the Eighth Army was moved, and the head general of the Sixth Army was severely ruling. One division commander was dismissed and investigated, and the leader of the regiment was executed.

Anyone can see how dissatisfied with the ministers of Jingxiang. There will be a storm next, but it is still unknown who will be blown by the wind and who will be shot into the abyss by the waves. When they entered the General Administration, they felt a solemn atmosphere shrouded in it. The guards inside and outside had been taken over by the Imperial Guards. They were fully armed, with swords and guns unsheathed, and their faces were shocked, which made all the generals who fought were shocked.

After the ministers lined up to enter the Shuaitang to worship, they saw that the little emperor was calm and had no smile. Ni Liang stood behind His Majesty with a dark face, and even the King Xiang sat upright with a solemn expression on his face. The solemn atmosphere made everyone hold their breath, fearing that the Holy Lord would be shocked.

"I came to Jingxiang and was very dissatisfied with the situation here and was very unhappy with what some of them did!" Zhao Bing glanced at everyone and said coldly.

"I am incompetent, and you cannot share your worries..." Everyone felt the coldness in the emperor's words and quickly apologized in unison.

"I don't want to listen to such nonsense!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and interrupted everyone, "The court has spent countless money and grain, and the people are responsible for heavy taxes and support you, in order to protect the country and safeguard the people and expand the territory. But what have you done? The military and political affairs I have seen are not repaired and discipline is abolished, and more than 100,000 troops are helpless in Xiangyang!"

"I heard that some generals don't know how many soldiers they have, but they know how many brothels in Yicheng are, and which young lady is the most popular; some people don't know how to arrange troops, but they know how to avoid the supervision of the golden house and keep more than a dozen wives and concubines in an orderly manner; some generals violate the ban and drink in the army, which is delicious every day, otherwise they will not be able to eat, but they cannot see whether there is meat in the bowl of the military soldiers, and they will not be full of food!"

"I also heard that some military generals heard that I had children. Yesterday, they were busy raising money everywhere and Wei Zhen picked up gifts, knocking on other people's shops in the middle of the night. Some even coerced the wealthy households to pay for money and force the treasures to be sought. They were so loyal!" Zhao Bing slapped the table.

"..." Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Some people looked pale, some were ashamed, and some were ashamed of their legs, and some were forced to calm down, which was full of ugly appearances.

Zhao Bing looked at the appearance of all living beings and felt mixed feelings. He knew the importance of commander on the battlefield. In fact, war was a high-level group fight. An excellent general could lead a group of elite soldiers, and a general with excellent command ability could change the situation to a large extent. As the saying goes, soldiers are the courage of generals, and generals are the souls of soldiers!

This also shows that the commander is not an ordinary soldier, but an inspiring existence in large-scale fighting, an existence that inspires soldiers to fight for the upward trend, and the soul of a team. Xue Rengui, a legendary general in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was dressed as a leader in the general on weekdays, but when he went to the battlefield, he must be wearing white clothes and white armor, waving two shiny long halberds in his hand, and his whole body shining - why?
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