Liao Dong was named by the emperor and immediately had white-haired sweat, and he was completely drunk. He knew that this seemed like a chat, but it might be an exam. Once he made a mistake in the answer, he would leave a bad impression on His Majesty's heart, and his future prospects were useful. Zhu Yu and others were still drinking to listen to Shangguan's "high opinions", which made him feel like he was being roasted on the fire.

However, Liao Dong was born in the Royal Guard Corps, which was known as the cradle of the emperor's personal army and generals. As early as the time of the Mansion Army, the young emperor advocated the idea of ​​eliminating the illiteracy in the army, and also set up a teaching position in the Mansion Army. He used training and war to teach soldiers to learn to read and read.

Therefore, although the soldiers of the government army had a bad cultural foundation, after continuous learning, they had basically no barriers to reading and writing. After continuous learning, officers could independently write various military documents, formulate training and combat plans. Later, the government army was changed to an imperial guard and expanded several times, but the position of teaching at the grassroots level was retained, and the system of teaching soldiers to read and read was also adhered to.

Under the strong atmosphere of reading and literacy in the army, ordinary soldiers also had more ways out. If they learned well, they would be given priority to join the teaching team to study and become grassroots commanders. Those who were more excellent entered martial arts, and after a few years of in-depth study, they could enter the official career and become officers at all levels. The worst thing was that after seven years of immersion, they could also learn to write and write, and after retirement, they would also have the opportunity to be a minor official in the yamen.

As the emperor's personal army's personal army, the later personal guard regiment and personal guard brigade naturally developed the best under the care of the emperor. He would give lectures to everyone in person when he had free time. This was how Liao Dong grew up. He was selected to study in Qiongzhou Military Academy for two years after graduation. After graduation, he became a grassroots officer, and later promoted to commander for his combat contributions.

Later, he left the guard system due to injury and transferred to the state military system. However, before he was promoted, he also needed to go through a year of training in martial arts and passed the exam before he could enter the sequence of senior commanders. Therefore, although Liao Dong was nervous, he was not a fool. The officer who had studied systematically was not unfamiliar with the war that brought painful lessons to the Song Dynasty.

Liao Dong first drank a sip of wine to suppress the shock, and then organized the language before he began to express his opinion. But he was also very smart and did not mention the decision-making level and the failure of Duanping and Lu Luo. Instead, he only talked about the funeral from a military perspective. Because he clearly said that decision-making must be a ruling sect, which is not only a taboo, but a head-losing matter, let alone the emperor sitting next to him.

First of all, the Song army's own lack of quality was especially reflected in field battles. Wu Qian, who was the general manager of Huaixi at the time, paid a sharp expense of "more than 3,000 miles from Tongguan to Qinghe, he had to use 150,000 troops, and he had to fight tenaciously like the Jin people, so that he could last for a long time." Although the Song army had more than enough defense, the field battle was urgent. To put it bluntly, the military strength of the Southern Song Dynasty could defend the existing Jianghuai Bashu defense line with its terrain, but it was difficult to defend the Guanhe River.

Secondly, the generals of the Song army were unable to support the important task of occupying the Guan Shouhe River. Although many brave and good generals emerged in the Song army during the anti-Mongolian process, most of them achieved results in the defensive operations between Sichuan and Sichuan or the Huai River. If you want to occupy the Guan Shouhe River and face the main force of the Mongolian army in the Central Plains, the Song army needs a truly independent general.

Just like Qiao Xingjian's words, "There is a vast area now, and the journey is not just a single road. How many people are you the general of Your Majesty? How many people are brave and fighting? How many people are wise and good at planning?" "Your Majesty's soldiers are tens of thousands of who can fight? How many people are you able to fight? How many people are divided into different ways and are interested in Beijing, how many people are Luo? How many people stay in the garrison to guard Huai, how many people are thousands of people?" Meng Gong is indeed powerful, but Meng Gong alone is not enough!

Finally, it was a logistical problem. The Central Plains was destroyed and could no longer be self-sufficiency, and the economic situation in Jiangnan was also in a mess. In order to defend the long line of defense, heavy troops had to be deployed. The military expenditure was huge and the financial resources were insufficient to support a long-term war, which led to the normal situation of arrears of food and wages, which made the army's morale low.

Liao Dong's analysis made several people nodded repeatedly. These views were closer to the reality of the time than the conclusions they came to privately discuss the soldiers. They also had a great refutation of the country like Meng Gong. But think about the fact that Quan Zicai and Zhao Kui sent by the Song Ting were both people who were defeated in one battle. They had no confidence in defending a few words, so they could only listen to their talk silently.

Then Liao Dong talked about the strategic and tactical strategies of the Mongolian invasion of the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the fronts of both sides started from Jianghuai in the east and ended at Qinling in the west and Longxi in the west. According to the administrative divisions of the Song Dynasty, three relatively independent battlefields were formed: the Jianghuai battlefield on the east road, between the Yangtze River and the Huai River; the Jingxiang battlefield on the middle road, its focus was the Xiangyang line; the Sichuan battlefield on the west road, also known as the Bashu battlefield.

On the eastern front, the commander of the Mongol Yuan general A Shulu, with Zhang Rong as the vanguard, went out of Heluo, and focused on attacking Xu and Pi. On the central front, Wogede's third son Kuochu and Zhudutu, led by Gu Wenbuhua and Muhuali's grandson Tasi, went out of Tang and Deng, focusing on attacking Xiangyang and Fancheng. On the western front, Wogede's second son Kuoduo led his army to focus on attacking Qin Gong and Bashu.

In the following years, the Mongolian army had obvious advantages. On the Western Front, Kuoduan forced arriving in the Jin Dynasty, Wang Shixian, who occupied Gongchang, strengthened his strength. The following year, Mongolia broke through Yangping Pass and opened a passage to enter Shu. In a few years, the Mongolian army on the Western Front seemed to have entered an uninhabited land, and the Song army was defeated one after another.

The central line, since Yue Fei, the Xiangyang area, which was operated by the Southern Song army for nearly a hundred years, was once captured by the Mongolian army. Only the situation on the Eastern Front was slightly better, and the Southern Song army and the Mongolian army were equal in size and had a victory or defeat.

The reason why the Song court was able to support it at a disadvantage was mainly because the Mongolians had their own serious shortcomings, that is, there was no stable power transfer system. Since the death of Ogedei Khan, Mongolia's highest power has changed several times, and even an embarrassing scene of the Khan stern hanging for three years was once.

The Song Dynasty had a chance to breathe and made corresponding adjustments on various battlefields. On the Western Front, Yu Jie, a famous general who replaced Meng Gong, adjusted his army while building a defense system for the eastern Sichuan Mountain City represented by Diaoyu City, effectively curbing the Mongols' cavalry advantage. As a key place near the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Eastern Front concentrated a large number of elite troops. Therefore, the Mongolian and Song Dynasty war was once in a stalemate.

In the middle of the road, Meng Gong's actions to train the new army were obvious. The total strength of the Song army in Jingxiang area was close to 130,000, and its combat effectiveness was strong. More importantly, the Jingxiang battlefield achieved joint defense with the Bashu battlefield. Taking advantage of this period, Meng Gong also excavated and trained a group of military and political talents, including Li Tingzhi, Wang Deng and others. The defense status in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River was significantly improved.

However, with the support of the sect king Badu and the general Uryantai, Tolei's eldest son Mengge was elected as the fourth great khan of Mongolia. In order to show his majesty, Mengge continued to adhere to the will of previous generations of great khans and continued to expand on a large scale. After determining this strategy, the Mongolian top leaders began to take action.

In order to break through the defense line of the Song army, the Mongolians set their sights on another seemingly unrelated local regime - Dali. In the traditional military, it was an almost crazy behavior. When the army was far away from the rear and did not know the road conditions, it would fall into an unfavorable situation of garrisoning troops and unsuccessful attacks. This was a taboo among military strategists throughout the ages, but Mongolia was lucky and won.

The Mongolian Yuan seized Dali and completed a strategic detour, making the Sichuan-Shu defense line of the Song Dynasty useless and causing loopholes to appear on the entire defense line. God took care of the Song Dynasty again, and Mengge died in Diaoyu City, causing Mongolia to fall into civil strife again. However, after Kublai Khan seized the throne of Khan, everyone was experienced in the subsequent events, so there was no need to say much.

Liao Dong's conclusion was that even if the Song army had a good geographical advantage, it could not block the Mongolian Yuan, let alone the broken Guanhe defense line. Therefore, if we want to completely stabilize the country, only by seizing the Central Plains and recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun could we strategically form a defensive advantage over the Mongolian Yuan and even the nomadic peoples in the north, and completely eliminate the threat from the north to the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the conclusion is that the emperor has already seen the initiative with his wise and divine martial arts. He will never stop after the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The current suspension of attack is just a tactical adjustment, and he is accumulating food and supplies, preparing to launch a decisive battle against the Mongolian Yuan, conquering Dadu in one fell swoop, and expelling the Mongolian Yuan regime from the Central Plains...

"Listen to your words is better than reading for ten years. It seems that we are so shallow!" Zhu Yu sighed and raised his glass to greet Liao Dong with a glass of wine.

"I dare not, I am just a supreme person. Zhu Cang Envoy is too good!" Despite the huge difference in grades, Liao Dong dared not to be arrogant, so he quickly drank it.

"Hey, we have already seen the talent of Commander Liao. The Neiqiu City is well-organized, and the prefectures and counties that we have to go by are prosperous and stable. And what the general just said, they are more insightful than those of the superiors, and they can be called Confucian generals!" Xie Bin poured wine for Liao Dong and said, not only his attitude was respectful, but his words were also sincere, not like a false statement.

"I dare not be called the name of Confucian general. The army is full of talents. Compared with them, I am just an extremely ordinary soldier!" Liao Dong heard this and was sweating profusely. He was a small commander who dared to be called Confucian general. Wouldn't he be seeking death?

"President Liao, don't be humble. This review not only includes the summary of previous generations, but also personal opinions. It is very good. It will have a bright future in the future!" Zhao Bing picked up the wine pot and poured it a smile.

"This..." The emperor poured wine for himself. Liao Dong was at a loss for a moment. After being recognized by the emperor, he was even more excited and murmured without knowing what to say.

"Oh, it's a pity that we are also a seven-foot man, but we can't be as good as Han. Senior Fan took a sword and rode his horse to kill the thief and recovered my great mountains and rivers!" Xie Bin sighed alone with a glass of wine.
Chapter completed!