In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 201 Anyone who drives the people to attack the city can be killed
When Meng Gong first arrived, Cui Yu was quite shocked when he served as the commander of the capital in his 20s.

However, after knowing that he is the son of Meng Zongzheng, and then contacting Meng Gong, he found that he is indeed quite capable and recognized.

Hearing this, Meng Gong knew that Cui Yuzhi wanted to test himself, so he thought about it and said slowly.

We have already taken Fengxiang in our court, so we should give priority to defending Fengxiang, focus on operating Tianshui Army and Xihezhou and other five prefectures and three passes, and then strengthen Dashan Pass and Fengzhou—all places form a stepped defense—layers Layer consumption ---.

His thinking is similar to that of the Wu Jie brothers back then, but he also added the emperor's thinking, giving priority to people.

Because he knows that no matter what the fortified city is, it is completely useless if there is no suitable person to defend it.

'Defend Sichuan, employ people first, good generals and ministers, worth [-] soldiers. '

From the map, after passing Fengxiang, it is Dasan Pass in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the distance between the two places is about 100 miles.

When Mongolia entered the Song Dynasty, it also took Fengxiang first, and then broke through Dasan Pass.

In fact, as long as the Dashan Pass is guarded, it will be difficult for Mongolia to enter. In history, the towed thunder soldiers were divided into two groups, all the way to Tianshui, and there is no record of how to break through the Dashan Pass. After passing the customs, it is likely that the defenders surrendered.

Because the cities and passes that resisted at that time were basically recorded and slaughtered, and Du Ruyuan, the envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty two years before Tuo Lei's march, took office, and did not actively manage the gates of the five states outside the pass. Deserted, no guards at all.

Now Meng Gong plans to defend Fengxiang well first, garrison about 2 people, put [-] households in the city, plant grain in the fields, and store grain for more than one year.

People who are young and strong are also used to train city defense.

If an enemy army arrives, Gucheng will defend to the death.

The Southern Song Dynasty is now joining forces with the Kingdom of Jin to relocate all the people in Guanzhong, including all the people west of Fengxiang and between Xixia.

The consequence of this is that, except for the Dasan Pass south of Fengxiang, there are no people in the hundreds of miles around.

If the Mongolian soldiers want to go to Fengxiang again, let alone a year, if they don't break Fengxiang for ten and a half months, they must consider the food supply.

Because there is no food for hundreds of miles around, and you have no civilians to use, you are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops, as long as you can't break through, you can only retreat.

Cui Yuzhi heard that, is [-] troops enough?
Meng Gong said, enough, Jin Guo only has 2 garrisons, and as long as you train soldiers and horses like His Majesty, with strict discipline and strict orders, the general will have confidence. Even soldiers and horses can't break Fengxiang.

Not to mention that we now have the support of His Majesty's firearms.

Cui Yuzhi nodded with a smile, also agreeing.

Under Meng Gong's strategy, Fengxiang has [-] soldiers and [-] households, Tianshui has [-] soldiers and [-] households, Xihe Prefecture has [-] soldiers and [-] households, and Chengzhou, Jiezhou, and Fengzhou are all like this.

This is to give priority to Fengxiang, and then focus on the three passes of the five states (the three passes are Qifang Pass, Xianren Pass, and Wuxiu Pass).

What Meng Gong said was basically the strategy left by the Wu Jie brothers.

"If you want to guard the three gates, you must guard the five states. If the five states are not guarded, the three gates will not be solid."

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the five states were abandoned by Zheng Sun, and three passes were easily broken by Mongolia.

But Meng Gong used the emperor's method, focusing on data and employment.

That is to say, each state has a budget for how many people are in each gate, how much food is stored, and how long it can resist.

Meng Gong even followed the emperor's statement that there must be standards for how high the city walls of each state should be reinforced and how wide the moat should be.

Like the current eight-meter city wall of Dasanguan, it must be reinforced, at least to more than ten meters.

Now the Great Song Dynasty is relocating all the people. In the Southern Song Dynasty, many cities did not have moats, and Meng Gong had to start digging moats.

After the digging, the Mongols came to attack, and there was no one to help dig the soil and fill the ditch within a hundred miles. Either you brought the peasants into the Song Dynasty yourself, or you went into battle with elite soldiers, and the difficulty of attacking the city would be greatly increased.

In addition, the newly arrived artillery is given priority to Wuzhou and Sanguan, as well as Fengxiang and Dashanguan, and the rest of the cities in Sichuan can be used.

If these places cannot be breached, the Mongolian soldiers will not be able to enter, and if these places are breached, it will be difficult to defend other places.

Meng Gong finally said: "Your Majesty said that there is no invincible pass city in the world. The most important thing on the battlefield is to see the performance of the generals of both sides. Therefore, every pass and state must choose talents, be loyal to the Song Dynasty, and fight to the death without retreating."

"The enemy must pay the price of blood every time they attack a city."

"That's a good point." Cui Yuzhi clapped his hands and celebrated, nodding non-stop.

Cui Yuzhi thinks the same as the emperor, no matter where he is, it mainly depends on the person, so in history he recommended a large number of talents to the court.

For example, Guo Zhengsun, the magistrate of Nanzheng County at this time, and Zhang Xuan, the guard of Dasan Gate, were all recommended by him.

Guo Zhengsun has gone to Fengxiang to serve as the magistrate. Guo Zhengsun is very capable, even though he is a civil servant, he can also fight.

"The civil and military guards of the pass must be carefully selected. In a few days, I will personally travel through the three passes and five states to determine the candidates for the generals." Cui Yuzhi said in a deep voice at this time.

Meng Gong's face showed respect. Cui Yuzhi was really trying his best to travel around at this age.

Cui Yuzhi, a civil servant from all over the country, has basically been selected. Many of them are from his old ministry in Sichuan, but the generals have changed a lot.

The candidates for local chief officials have been determined. Fengxiang is stationed by the prefect Guo Zhengsun, Meng Gong's eldest brother Meng Jing, Tianshui Army is led by Tian Sui, the chief of the Loyalty Army, and Zhang Shuyin, a professor of Fengzhou.

In history, Tian Sui led more than [-] soldiers and civilians to stop the Mongolian army in Malingbao. The whole army was wiped out in three days of bloody battle. He was also quite brave. Zhang Shuyin defended Fengzhou to the death and was killed after the city fell.

The magistrate of Xihe Prefecture was succeeded by Zhang Du, the general judge of Yangzhou, the magistrate of Jiezhou was succeeded by Li Shi, the magistrate of Fengzhou, and the magistrate of Chengzhou was succeeded by Gao Jia, the magistrate of Mian County. Cui was familiar with these civil and military officials and recommended them , All the emperors broke the rules and were promoted, jumping several levels in succession.

In history, these people all left their names and surnames, defended in various places, and died in battle under the Mongolian iron cavalry. They are all heroes of our Song Dynasty.

Then there is the arrangement of generals from various places and the guards of the three gates, and Cui Yuzhi will also focus on the assessment.

After all the candidates are in place, when the Mongols come in, every time they attack a city, they will have to pay a bloody price. It is impossible to reproduce the scene of hearing the wind and surrendering.

After Cui Yuzhi and Meng Gong visited Dashan Pass that day, they decided to strengthen Dashan Pass, leave ten artillery pieces, and increase the garrison to five thousand.

So far, on the Sichuan-Shanxi-Shukou line, Cui Yuzhi and Meng Gong have deployed nearly 4 troops at the three passes of the five prefectures and Fengxiang Dasan Pass. At the same time, another 30 troops will be trained in Mianzhou and Baocheng. Bian can support various places at any time, and according to Cui Yuzhi's previous arrangement, [-] shi of grain will be stored in Mianzhou.

When Cui Yuzhi was there before, there were 30 shi of grain stored here. After he left, when he came back this time, the local area did not even have [-] shi.

The emperor asked Meng Gong to train [-] troops here, and Meng Gong and Cui Yuzhi put [-] on the front line of Shukou.

As long as soldiers and horses are practiced, they are basically impenetrable.

But Meng Gong remembered the emperor's words, if he could train 20 troops, he had to train 20 troops.

On the Chengdu Plain, all parts of Sichuan are also recruiting recruits and training reserve troops. A steady stream of recruits are flocking to Chengdu from all directions.

In mid-June of the first year of Baoqing, Meng Gong came to Fengxiang City.

His brother Meng Zhang and Guo Zhengsun, the prefect of Fengxiang, came one after another. After meeting, they went to the top of the city.

Standing on Fengxiang City, Meng Gong's heart was also agitated.

I saw people from outside the city dragging their families to the city one after another, people coming and going around Fengxiang City, all of them were working.

Fengxiang City was built by Li Maozhen in the Tang Dynasty. The shape of the city is a flying phoenix with its head facing north and its tail facing east.There is a gate in the north and south of the city, and the gates all open to the east, in the shape of a phoenix spreading its wings.

But Fengxiang City was not an important town at that time, so the city wall was not high and the moat was narrow. When Li Congke rebelled against Tang Dynasty, Wang Guotong led troops to fight, and within a short while, almost broke Fengxiang City.

In the hands of the Song Dynasty, this place was not considered an important town, and the Song court did not have much repairs.

After the Kingdom of Jin got Fengxiang, it became the base camp for going south to attack the Southern Song Dynasty. The Jin people looked down on the Song people, knowing that the Song people would not dare to attack them, so they didn't build anything. So far, the defense of Fengxiang City has become worse and worse.

After Meng Zhang and Guo Zhengsun took over Fengxiang, they immediately mobilized civilians to start construction. The first thing was to expand the moat and heighten the city wall.

The water resources in the city are actually very rich. There are two branches of water surrounding the whole city outside the city, one flows southward around the north "Ningyuan Gate" and the east "Ying'en Gate" in the east; To the south, "Jingming Gate" flows into the Tasi River from the east stream of Fengwei Bridge and the south stream of the moat. Trash and flotsam everywhere.

Guo Zhengsun first cleaned up the floating debris in the river, drained the water in the broken ditch, and ordered people to dig it. According to the emperor's standard, the ditch was three meters deep and about five meters wide.

In the rebuilt Fengxiang City, there will be [-] artillery pieces and [-] defenders in the early stage, and more artillery pieces will be added in the future.

The circumference of Fengxiang City is twelve miles, with more than 4000 battlements and more than two hundred battlements. Each battlement can be divided into five people, plus the young and strong in the city, it is enough to withstand the attack of 10 people.

According to Meng Gong's on-site observation and Zhao Yurui's requirements, in the end, all cities in the Song Dynasty should have a cannon every 20 meters.

With the perimeter of Fengxiang City, there will eventually be 240 cannons.

Considering that the Mongols didn't have any cannons at this time, and they didn't even come out with return cannons, as long as the guards have some ability and the army and people in the city are united, it is basically impossible to be breached.

Even if the Mongols bring back cannons in the future, they are far from being the opponents of Zhao Yurui's artillery.

Of course, if we want to reach more than 200 guns, it is estimated that it will be at least a year later.

Before the artillery could reach the target, Zhao Yurui made another trick.

That is to say, all the population west of Fengxiang was relocated, and Jin Guo was encouraged to relocate all the population east of Fengxiang.

Under this kind of strong walls and clear fields, without civilian husbands and food, it would be even more difficult for Mongolian cavalry to attack the city.

After you Mongols bring the peasants in, you have to bring a lot of food. If you don’t bring the peasants in, you can’t attack the city.

It will be a headache to drag mines at that time.

"How many people have not moved?" Meng Gong asked Guo Zhengsun at this time.

Guo Zhengsun immediately said that he had moved to Lanzhou, but a few local people refused to leave.

Meng Gong asked about how many households there were?
Guo Zhengsun estimates that in the entire west of Fengxiang, there are at least a thousand households that refuse to leave.

Meng Gong could only say, but forget it if he refused.

When the Mongol soldiers arrived, they would inevitably plunder their food and then recruit them as civilian husbands.

"Your Majesty has an order." Meng Gong's face straightened at this moment, and Guo Zhengsun and Meng Jing quickly knelt down.

Meng Gong said in a deep voice: "Every city in our Great Song Dynasty sees enemy troops driving the people to attack. You don't have to show mercy. They all kill them to protect the soldiers and people in our cities."

Hiss, as a civil servant, Guo Zhengsun's face changed slightly, and he took a deep breath.

(End of this chapter)