Zhao Yu was just a science student in his previous life, his profession was shipbuilding, and he was just a hobbyist in the military, and he did not have the quality to be a military strategist at all. But he has some advantages that others don't have, that is, he can learn from the experience of his predecessors, and he can become a pseudo-military strategist by plagiarism. Of course, this pseudo-military strategist is not easy to be, and he must also judge the situation and create conditions to realize the idea of 'stealing'.

The reason why Zhao Yu was extremely excited about Wen Tianxiang's recovery of Chongqing was because in this way the idea of 'three layers of barriers' could be realized and the safety of Jiangnan could be guaranteed to the greatest extent. But this idea is not his original, but from the famous general Meng Heng of this dynasty, he just adjusted his idea and worked hard to implement it.

In the spring of the first year of Chunyou, Meng Heng was reappointed as the ambassador of the Jinghu pacification system and the ambassador of the Kuizhou Road system, and later became the marquis of Handong County, and concurrently served as the envoy of the Jinghu pacification system, commanding the defense of the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and officially became the commander of the two theaters of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the more than 300 years of the Song Dynasty, no military general could reach his authority. Despite this, Meng Hui still contributed to the country with all his heart.

After the situation of the Song-Mongolian War was basically stabilized, Meng Hui began to build the Jinghu Theater, the base camp, and establish an overall defense system. He quoted the words of Lu Kang, a famous general of the Three Kingdoms: "Jingzhou, the feudal table of the country, if it is in danger, not only will it lose a county, but it should be fought for by the whole country." If it weren't for the increase of 80,000 troops and the strength to prepare for the defense, although Han and Bai were resurrected, there would be no skill. ”

Meng Heng pointed out that the Yangtze River has a long defense line from Zigui in the upper reaches to Northern Ezhou in the middle reaches, and there are both ferries and passes, so it is worrying to defend everywhere, so it is necessary to devote all the strength of the whole country to defend the Jingxiang area. Gangneung City, an important town in the middle reaches, was surrounded by fertile fields, and Meng Heng found out that such a plain was not blocked, and the enemy cavalry could quickly reach the city. Therefore, he personally drew engineering drawings and organized the army and civilians to build forts and passes near Jiangling on the three rivers of Fu, 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 Tuntian. Meng Heng believes that soldiers take defending the people as their duty, the people take raising soldiers as their obligation, soldiers and the people depend on each other, and "erecting fences" and "safe farming" complement each other. From Zigui to Hankou, Meng Hui greatly cultivated the tuntian, transferred his husband to build weirs, and recruited farmers to give seeds, with a total of 188,000 hectares. Tuntian fully guaranteed the logistics supply of the army, and the imperial court also issued an edict and reward.

Meng Hui's greatest contribution is the three-layer theory of barriers. He petitioned the imperial court to prepare to set up three layers of defense lines, the first layer was set up in Fuzhou and Wanzhou in eastern Sichuan, the second layer was set up in Dingzhou and Lizhou in northwest Hunan Province, and the third layer was set up in Chen and Jing in southwest Hunan and Guizhou in Guangxi, which was called the "three layers of fences." Richards agrees.

In order to support Meng Hui's work more effectively, Li Zong also specially abolished the Sichuan Xuanfu Department and changed Meng Hui's Sichuan Xuanfu envoy to Kuizhou Road Ambassador's and Tuntian envoy. According to the Song system, the Xuanfu envoy was higher than the envoy, but in this way, the Sichuan Preparation Division was only in charge of the three roads of Lizhou, Tongchuan Mansion, and Chengdu Prefecture, and Sichuan became Sanchuan, and the remaining Yichuan was included under the direct management of Meng Hui, which could make it more convenient for him to carry out his work.

Whether it was at that time, but also in later generations, the strategic concept of "three layers of barriers" was highly evaluated. I thought it was a visionary, especially the third line of defense, which was not taken seriously at the time. Meng Heng had already pointed out the possibility that the Mongol army would attack Hunan in a roundabout way from Yunnan and Guangxi. However, he opposed the imperial court's practice of sending troops to the border of Guangxi at will, believing that there were ethnic minority tribes everywhere, and it was only necessary to choose a few places, divide the country, divide the situation, and take appropriate measures, create a pass and garrison troops, and accumulate grain, even if the Mongols invaded.

Meng Heng's vision emphasizes the fear that if the war breaks out without the support of the local natives, it will inevitably find itself in a dilemma. Blindly increasing the number of troops will not only cost money on food and wages, but may even intensify the contradictions with the locals. And his worries were also fulfilled six years after his death, Kublai Khan, Wuliang Hetai and others passed through Tibet, destroyed Dali, and entered Hunan. However, his opposition to the stationing of heavy troops in Guangxi and the abandonment of Dali and the policy of ethnic minorities were also criticized, believing that his missteps led to the collapse of the Yangtze River defense line in the Southern Song Dynasty.

But Zhao Yun understands that the Chinese have lived in an environment of "judging heroes by success or failure" since ancient times, including Li Bai Shiyun: King Qin swept Liuhe, and looked at He Xiongzai; There is also a folk saying: The winner is the king, and the loser is Kou. Therefore, in the thousands of years of Chinese history, tens of millions of heroes have all accepted the comments and discussions of future generations in the "theory of success or failure".

However, Zhao Yu believes that only to fail to talk about heroes, history is likely to become a confused account, the successful must have its admiration worthy of the world's admiration, and the loser may not be blamed by future generations for everything, there are many factors that determine the success and failure of the results, personal subjective efforts are of course an important reason, but not to personal will for the transfer of time, place, people and other objective factors, in history often play a greater role.

This is just like what Zhan He said: righteousness and courage are true men, and heroes are not judged by success or failure. In fact, even a hero such as Qin Shi Huang is a man of flesh and blood, he has both excellence and mortal weakness, and the so-called success or failure is only the result of a moment and an event.

In terms of success, Qin Hui is also a kind of negative success; In terms of failure, Yue Fei is a complete political loser; In terms of strength and weakness, the Southern Song Dynasty will never be able to compare with Dajin, and the invading Japanese army will never be stronger than the Chinese people. After Zhao Yu became the emperor, he knew better that all successes and failures have their own human and non-controllable factors.

Because those who achieve great things need to have heroic talents, have the momentum to take advantage of, and the opportunities that can be grasped, the momentum, and the opportunity, if the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, heroes will inevitably fail. In this sense, those who have great ambitions are all heroes, and there are successes and failures in history, but in the past history books, there is no difference between their successes and failures. Therefore, of course, the square inch of land cannot accommodate the dragon of the East China Sea, and the ruler of success or failure naturally cannot evaluate those characters who have stirred up earth-shattering waves in history......

On July 13, the civil and military officials of the Jingxiang area gathered in Yicheng after receiving the decree and received the holy edict to meet at the governor's mansion. In just a few days, the commander of the Eighth Army was moved, the commander of the Sixth Army was severely punished, a division commander was removed from his post and investigated, and a regimental commander was executed.

In this situation, anyone can see that the little emperor is dissatisfied with Jingxiang's ministers, and there will definitely be a storm next, but who will be blown into the clouds by the wind, and who will be slapped into the abyss by the waves, it is not yet known. And when they entered the governor's palace, they felt that there was an aura of murder in it, and the guards inside and outside had been taken over by the imperial guard battalion, and they were fully armed, their swords and guns unsheathed, and their faces were solemn, so that those generals who fought a hundred battles were all shocked.

After the ministers arranged to enter the Shuai Hall to pay respects, they saw that the little emperor also had a calm face and did not have a trace of smile, while Ni Liang stood behind His Majesty with a black face, and even the prime minister was sitting upright, with a solemn face. The solemn atmosphere made everyone hold their breath, lest they startle the holy driver.

"When I came to Jingxiang, I was very dissatisfied with the situation here, and I was very unhappy with what some of them had done!" Zhao Yu glanced at everyone and said coldly.

"The ministers are incompetent, and you can't share your majesty's worries......" Everyone felt the coldness in the emperor's words, and hurriedly pleaded in unison.

"I don't want to listen to this!" Zhao Yu waved his hand to interrupt everyone's words and said, "The imperial court has spent countless money and grain, and the people have borne heavy taxes and supported you, in order to protect the territory and the people, and expand the territory. But what have you done? I saw that the military and government were not repaired, discipline was lax, and more than 100,000 troops were helpless against Xiangyang! ”

"I heard that some of the generals don't know how many soldiers they have, but they know how many green buildings and tiles there are in Yicheng, and which little 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 the wives and concubines in more than a dozen rooms in order; There are also generals who violate the ban and drink alcohol in the army, which is a delicacy every day, otherwise they will not be able to eat, but they can't see whether there is meat in the soldier's bowl, and they are full of food! ”

"I also heard that some generals heard that I had children, and yesterday I was busy for a while, raising money everywhere Wei Zhen to procure congratulatory gifts, and knocking on the door of someone's store in the middle of the night. There are even cases where in the name of preparing tribute, coercing rich families to pay money and extorting treasures. What a piece of faith! Zhao Yu took a few shots.

"......" Everyone was shocked when they heard this, some of them were pale, some of them had legs like chaff, and some of them were forced to be calm, which can be described as full of ugliness.

Zhao Hao looked at the faces of all beings, and his heart was also mixed. He knows the importance of the commander on the battlefield, in fact, war is a kind of high-level group fighting, an excellent general can bring out a group of elite soldiers, and a general with excellent command ability can change the situation to a large extent. As the saying goes, a soldier is a general's courage and a soldier's soul!

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

In order to let others see themselves, and also to let the enemy see themselves. Allies see victory in him, and the enemy sees death in him, and he is the inspiration, the banner of a team, and a qualified commander is this kind of existence. And the people in front of him can no longer be called the soul of the soldiers, and what Zhao Yu has to do is to find the soul of this army and re-establish the battle flag......