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I have finally waited for this day!

Xiong Kuang looked at the map excitedly. Since occupying Huguang this year, the Southeast New Army has not encountered any difficulties in its expansion.

The Ming Dynasty New Army in Huguang has been destroyed, so there is no obstacle to the Southeast New Army's advance in Huguang. The only obstacle is Xu Xuemo who defends Jingzhou City, but he was quickly besieged and captured by the Southeast New Army.

It's already October and this year's autumn harvest has been completed.

Huguang's autumn grain collection has been completed. After confirming a bumper harvest this year, the Metropolitan Governor's Office finally started operations.

As the front line, the Metropolitan Governor's Office naturally sought combat advice from Lin Deyang's Third Brigade.

Xiong Kuang looked at the map. What faced the third brigade was actually a question of strategic direction.

Entering Shaanxi or Sichuan?

At this time, Huguang’s superior strategic position is reflected.

Xiong Kuang had already done research. He looked at the map and said:

"Brigadier, the road into Shaanxi is better. We can go north along the Han River and attack Hanzhong Prefecture from Xiangyang Prefecture. Once Hanzhong Prefecture is captured, we can threaten Xi'an Prefecture."

Lin Deyang nodded, but he added: "It is precisely because of this that the main force of the Ming army in Shaanxi is concentrated in Hanzhong."

"According to information received from the front, the Ming court recruited 50,000 troops in Guanzhong and stationed them in important towns around the Han River."

Xiong Kuang took a breath and said, "So many?"

Lin Deyang nodded and said: "Guanzhong suffered a disaster, and many people joined the army because they could not survive. After Huguang was quickly captured by our army, the Ming Dynasty clan in Guanzhong also panicked, and the King of Qin in Xi'an took out all his family wealth to finance Form a new army to guard Hanzhong."

Xiong Kuang suddenly realized that Shaanxi was one of the provinces with the most clans in the entire Ming Dynasty.

When Jiajing went hunting in the west, they chose to go to Shaanxi, and the Shaanxi clan also put a lot of effort into picking them up.

For the clan, the Southeast New Army is the biggest enemy.

Because the slogan of the Southeast New Army is anti-imperialism and opposition to the emperor, they will never make any concessions on the abolition of clan privileges.

Some days ago, King Jing, who rebelled in Huguang and later surrendered to Southeast China, was tried in Nanjing.

The Minister of Justice, He Xinyin, personally served as the judge and liquidated King Jing's crimes in the war.

This includes the past events of King Jing’s murder of the people during the war, and the past events of King Jing’s palace occupying the people’s land and killing the people.

After a series of trials and a series of harmful actions by King Jing, the court sentenced King Jing to twenty years of imprisonment and confiscated all his property.

King Jing, the clan who surrendered voluntarily, was sentenced to imprisonment by Southeast. When word spread about this result, the clan of Ming Ting naturally gave up all illusions and fought to the end to resist.

Lin Deyang said: "Currently, part of our Third Brigade is still in the mountainous area near Enshi to clear out the chieftains. If we want to attack Shaanxi, which is heavily guarded by troops, we will easily fall into a stalemate."

Enshi is located in the western mountainous area of ​​Huguang, bordering Sichuan and Guizhou. There are many toasts in the mountains, and the Ming court also had a headache because of it.

In the year of Hongwu, Enshi Guards were set up in Enshi to manage the nearby chieftains, but these chieftains still often rebelled.

Over the years, after Guizhou's Bozhou Xuanwei envoy Yang Yinglong came to power, although the Yang family was said to be Han, they had lived in Guizhou for generations since the Tang Dynasty and had close contacts with the southwestern Yi people in the border areas of Sichuan, Huguang and Guizhou provinces.

Yang Yinglong was quite ambitious. Based in Bozhou, he continued to develop his power and colluded with the chieftains of Enshi.

The Yang family inherited the position of Bozhou Xuanwei Envoy and had deep influence in Guizhou, Sichuan and other places. After the Third Brigade occupied the Huguang Plain, Yang Yinglong received an order from the Ming court, asking him to start a rebellion in the Huguang Mountains and contain the Southeast Xinjiang. The strength of the army.

The result is that Yang Yinglong did play a role. Nowadays, the local chieftains in Enshi continue to rebel. Half of the troops of the Third Brigade are tied up in the Enshi Mountains to rehabilitate these chieftains.

However, the mountains in the western part of Huguang are continuous, and mountain operations are very difficult. The third brigade has been fighting on the plains, and the operations have not gone smoothly.

This is also a headache for Lin Deyang. If he wants to attack Sichuan along the Yangtze River, he will face the nuisance of the southwestern barbarians in the west of Huguang. Moreover, the road to Shu is difficult to walk, making marching very difficult. This is also a challenge for the new southeastern army.

Xiong Kuang looked at the map and said:

"Brigadier, there have been two ways to enter Shu since ancient times."

"One is the road from the west of Jingzhou to Sichuan after Liu Bei captured Jingzhou during the Three Kingdoms period."

"One is to go south from Hanzhong to Shu."

"My subordinates believe that today's Sichuan is not the Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period, and it is not a natural danger."

Lin Deyang looked at Xiong Kuang. As the most outstanding general among the younger generation, Xiong Kuang's research on war surpassed that of his peers.

"Tell me why Ming Dynasty's Sichuan is not Shu Han."

"Because of Hanzhong."

Lin Deyang pointed to the map and said: "The reason why the Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms were able to use the southwest corner to fight against Cao Wei many times is because the Shu Han occupied not only Sichuan, but also the Hanzhong area."

"There is no danger to defend in the Sichuan Basin. The real danger is Hanzhong."

"Historically, during the Wei and Jin Dynasty's battle to destroy Shu, Zhong Hui led his troops to capture Hanzhong. In fact, Shu Han was already destroyed."

"Later, Deng Ai used a cunning plan to seize Jiange, so Zhong Huicai failed to take the lead in entering Chengdu to destroy Shu. Later generations always talked about Deng Ai's cunning plan, but they forgot that Hanzhong was the key to Shu."

Xiong Kuang said: "I still have to thank Zhu Yuanzhang."

Lin Deyang smiled and said: "Why should we thank Ming Taizu?"

Xiong Kuang said:

"In fact, from a military perspective, Shuzhong and Hanzhong are originally one body, and the Sichuan-Shu region with Hanzhong is the complete body, which was Liu Bei's foundation in Shuhan."

"Shu Han, Shu Han, only Shu and Han are complete."

"But Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to form a separatist regime in Sichuan, so he placed Hanzhong under Shaanxi."

"This approach is naturally for internal stability. Sichuan and Shaanxi check and balance each other. Even if local separatist forces emerge, Shu will not be able to form a whole and there will be no way to separate them."

"This is our opportunity."

"For Shaanxi, Hanzhong can be defended. If it really cannot be defended, it can start to retreat to Xi'an. After all, Qinzhong also has many places that can be defended."

"But for Sichuan, Hanzhong must be defended. If Hanzhong is lost, then Sichuan will only have Jiange to defend. We only need to go all the way south to invade Chengdu."

"Although Hanzhong Mansion is very important to Sichuan, because Hanzhong Mansion belongs to Shaanxi, the governor of Shaanxi will not let Sichuan troops enter Hanzhong to defend. And with the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi soldiers will never let Sichuan people defend Hanzhong. .”

"So, brigade commander, as long as you give me a man and horse, I can inflict heavy losses on the Shaanxi Ming Army in Hanzhong Mansion! Then the Shaanxi Ming Army will withdraw to Qinzhong and let Hanzhong Mansion out, and we can attack Sichuan immediately."

Lin Deyang looked at Xiong Kuang and could only lament that Southeast Asia was really full of talents.

He cleared his throat and said:

"Your strategy is consistent with the southwest strategy issued by the General Staff Office of the Governor's Mansion. The Governor also made the same judgment."

"First attack Hanzhong and then enter Sichuan. This is the strategy personally made by the governor."

"Of all the officers under my command, you are the only one whose judgment is consistent with that of the Grand Governor. The task of attacking Hanzhong Mansion this time will be left to you."

Xiong Kuang said excitedly: "Thank you very much, Brigadier!"

Lin Deyang said: "Don't be too busy thanking me now, the Governor still has orders for us."

Lin Deyang pointed to the Enshi area and said: "The mountainous areas at the junction of Huguang, Sichuan, and Guizhou, which are the areas where southwest barbarians are active, have always been a serious problem in the southwest."

"Especially the Yang family, the Bozhou Xuanwei envoy in Guizhou, because the Ming court has always adopted a conciliatory and suppressive attitude towards the southwestern barbarians, which has caused the southwestern barbarians to be very centrifugal. Although Yang is a Han, he has always relied on his reputation among the southwestern barbarians. There is a disloyal heart.”

"The southwestern barbarians in Bozhou are also related to the Yao rebellion in Yungui, Guangxi, and collude with the Luchuan rebels in Myanmar. These are serious dangers in the southwest."

"What the Governor means is that the Ming court's army in Sichuan is weak, and the governor of Sichuan Jiang Dongchen doesn't have much enterprising spirit. He only knows how to rely on natural dangers for defense."

"It is not difficult to capture Sichuan, but the most important thing is to deal with the problem of southwestern barbarians after capturing Sichuan."

Xiong Kuang also became serious.

As a former intelligence officer, Xiong Kuang is also very aware of the problems of southwestern barbarians.

Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, is now sixty years old.

He has experienced many moments when Yan Song came to power, Xu Jie came to power, Jiajing Xishou, Longqing ascended the throne, Gao Gong came to power, and Zhang Juzheng stepped down. He can be said to be a living fossil in the Ming Dynasty's political arena.

The main reason why Jiang Dongchen was able to avoid so many political disputes was that he had always served as an official in the southwest region, far away from the center of the Ming court's struggles.

To a certain extent, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the problem of barbarians in the southwest has continued to grow because Ming court officials regarded the southwest as a frontier. If it were not for the interests of the Tea Horse Road and the Duke of Guizhou in Yunnan, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty estimated that the southwest We have long given up on the Southwest.

Officials serving in the southwest did not have any influence in the central government of the Ming Dynasty, and being an official here was regarded as a job.

Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, was not very capable and did not have much enterprising spirit, so he was able to escape many political struggles.

Just as the governor said, it is not difficult to capture Sichuan, but the difficult problem is how to govern the southwestern barbarians.

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