readx;?“ No! We must not retreat to Caizhou at this time! Gao Huaiyuan stood in front of the lobby door and was silent for a long time, then turned around and said loudly to the generals in the lobby. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info "Handsome! Retreating to Caizhou is our wisest choice, Caizhou City is currently hoarding enough grain and materials, and we can gather seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses in Caizhou, only in Caizhou and the Mongolian army decisive battle we have a chance of winning, if trapped in Xuzhou, we are likely to be surrounded by the Mongolian army here, once the grain road is broken, our soldiers and horses will be very dangerous!

The lowly officials think that now that the Mongol army has not yet been pressed over, it is the best time for us to retreat, not to mention that this area has been emptied by our army, even if the Mongol army seizes these places, it will not be able to obtain grain and grass on the spot, and by the time they attack Caizhou, they have become tired soldiers! It's the perfect time for us to face them off! As soon as a general heard Gao Huaiyuan's decision, he immediately raised an objection, Gao Huaiyuan organized this group of generals, after being instilled by Gao Huaiyuan for a long time, they are all people who dare to speak, what opinions, they are not afraid of Gao Huaiyuan's anger, dare to speak out, so the generals dare to immediately raise objections...

Gao Huaiyuan turned around and walked to the front of the map, picked up a baton, pointed to the map and said to the generals: "You only thought of it but didn't think of the second!"

You see, although it is true that our army is temporarily at a disadvantage, it does not mean that Xuzhou is dead! Have you thought about it? Once we retreat to Caizhou, the hinterland of the Central Plains will be ceded to the Mongol army!

Even though we have now moved most of the people around Xuzhou south to the Caizhou area, what about after giving up this place? Although the Mongol army could not grab food in this area to finance the army, they had obtained a large mobile area in the hinterland of the Central Plains, so why did they have to go to Caizhou to fight us in a decisive battle?

They can completely not move in this area, but can attack westward and occupy a large area around Henan Province, or they can attack eastward from here, Weishi, Taikang, Yanling, Huaiyang...... These places are all grain-producing places in the Central Plains, and they don't have to pursue us to Caizhou at all, they can directly attack Bianliang!

In this way, as soon as we retreat, Huang Yan's department and Zhao Futang's department will be attacked by the Mongol army, and the situation in the Central Plains, which we have just controlled until now, is likely to fall short because of our retreat!

If we withdraw, it will be tantamount to betraying Huang Yan's department and Zhao Futang's department, and the Central Plains will be completely owned by the Mongols! If we want to regain the Central Plains, I'm afraid we will have to wait for an unknown number of years! It may even lead to the destruction of the country! This is by no means alarmist!

Therefore, we can not withdraw, once we withdraw, we will become the sinners of the Great Song Dynasty through the ages, we can only resist the Mongolian army here, buy time for the other armies, and drag the Mongolian army in a small area of Zhengzhou north of Xuzhou, so that it cannot be moved lightly, in order to finally complete the plan to recover the Central Plains! ”

Gao Huaiyuan pointed to the locations on the map and said to the generals, and the more he said that the ideas in his mind became clearer, and the more he said that his mind became firmer, and finally he waved the baton vigorously and threw it to the corner of the wall to end his words. The generals also followed Gao Huaiyuan's train of thought in their minds, and when they listened to Gao Huaiyuan's explanation, everyone felt a little embarrassed...

At the beginning, they only considered how to defeat the Mongolian army as soon as possible and how to fight a decisive battle with the Mongolian army, but they did not consider the entire battle situation from the height of Gao Huaiyuan. Gao Huaiyuan's decision is actually a procrastination, dragging the Mongolian army in Xuzhou, although the Mongolian army has a lot of troops at the moment, and it is also very strong, but after all, the area they occupy in Henan is very small, relying on such a small area, the Mongolian army wants to fight to support the war, it is obviously impossible, if they can't beat Xuzhou, they will always be threatened by the Song army in the Xuzhou area, and they will have no time to separate themselves and attack other places, the time is short, it's good to say, but what about the long time?

The Mongolian army originally had a relatively low demand for logistics, but once Gao Huaiyuan dragged the Mongolian army in Xuzhou, then they had to rely on a large amount of material supplies to ensure the combat effectiveness of their army, where did the materials come from? The Mongolian army is in such a small area, and there are a number of robberies, but it still has to be transferred from Hebei, Shanxi and other places, so how long does it take?

Everyone began to understand what Gao Huaiyuan was thinking! Gao Huaiyuan is going to take their 30,000 or 40,000 people, as a bait, hang the Mongolian army here, slowly consume their strength, and finally wait until the other armies have won the victory, then concentrate all the forces, and drive the Mongols back to Hebei with a decisive blow, if the other armies they do well enough, even if they can directly drive the Mongolian Tartars back to the north of Yanshan this time, it is not impossible...

"The last general was originally a handsome man! As long as the commander is determined, we are willing to give up this life, and we are willing to follow the commander and defend this place! After all the generals in the hall figured it out, they all bowed down and shouted loudly to Gao Huaiyuan!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded slightly with relief, and said with his right hand: "I, Gao, am also proud to have you and others like this!" Get up! There's still a lot to do! ”

The generals immediately became excited, and simply threw the retreat plan they had drawn up at the beginning into the trash can, and immediately began to work hard to reformulate a new battle plan. "Handsome! At present, we still have too little food, once this war begins, I am afraid it will not end in a short time, we must be prepared to hold off the Mongol army here for a long time, then we must increase the grain reserves! After a general counted for a while, he said to Gao Huaiyuan...

"Inform Caizhou to send additional people to transfer grain and straw, so as to transport another 30,000 stone of grain to Xuzhou in a short time! In addition, let Meng Heng and Li Xiaotian hold on to the north for a few days, and take this opportunity to go out of the city again to sweep and collect the food hidden by the people in this vicinity to the city! In short, you can't leave a single grain for the Mongolian Tatars! Junzhou and Xuzhou implement military management, and grain is centralized and distributed in a unified manner! Gao Huaiyuan watched the generals busy with his hands behind his back, and when he heard someone raise a problem, he immediately arranged to solve it.

"Handsome! Gunpowder is not enough, 20,000 catties of gunpowder is only enough for the existing artillery to use a few bases, and it must also be increased! ”

"We quickly transported it from Caizhou, and in addition, we also collected sulfur and nitrate charcoal nearby, and started making it on the spot! At the same time, we should also pay attention to the problem of drugs, and all pharmacies in Yuncheng, Linying, Xuzhou, and Junzhou will be sealed! All medicines are centralized in the hands of the medical officers of each medical battalion for unified dispensing! Ordered the medical battalion to prepare more disinfectant cotton wool and bandages, there will be great casualties in this battle! Can't be sloppy! Gao Huaiyuan did not hesitate at all, and immediately arranged a solution...

"There is also the problem of arrows, and the number of them should also increase!"

"This is easy to do, collect all kinds of iron and bronze tools on the spot, hand them over to the military craftsmen as camps, set up workshops in Junzhou and Xuzhou cities, and make arrow clusters on the spot! I also sent people out to cut down all the mature trees outside the city and transport them into the city, even if they were useless, they could not be left outside the city, even if they were cut down and set on fire, they would not be left for the Mongols to attack the city. ...... "Gao Huaiyuan will not consider environmental protection and soil erosion at this time!"

"Handsome! There is also the problem of manpower! We have limited manpower right now! What to do? ”

"Hmm...... Is this ......! I want to see it! How many Jin troops did Junzhou and Xuzhou have surrendered to Linying? Where are these people right now? And how many young people in the city can call? Gao Huaiyuan used his brain...

"The Jurchen people in the Jin army and the generals above the Mouke level in the army have now been escorted to Ezhou for detention and waiting for post-war disposal. Let's check it out...... Oh! There are still more than 9,000 Jin troops in Junzhou who are being detained outside the city, and there are not many in Xuzhou, there are less than 3,000 people! There are still more than 10,000 people in the barracks outside the city to guard over there! Among the cities, there are young and strong...... There should be about 20,000 more! A general hurriedly rummaged through the information and replied as he looked it up.

"Don't let them sit idle and eat rice! Mobilize and tell them how the Mongols will slaughter the city! Zhengzhou has been slaughtered by the Mongols, and once it is also occupied by the Mongols, the Tartars will not keep them for idle food! If you want to live, work for Lao Tzu! Work according to the requirements of our army! If you don't want to contribute, you can't give them food! Lao Tzu doesn't have so many rations for them to eat and drink for nothing! Gao Huaiyuan suddenly became a lot more rude when he spoke, and with a wave of his hand, he sent work to this group of soldiers...

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After the military orders were issued in Xuzhou City, it boiled again, and a team of Song troops in the city went in and out, driving the young and strong people in the city out of the city, and began to cut down the big trees when they saw them within dozens of miles outside the city, and then dragged them back to the city by mules and horses.

Not only Xuzhou was doing these things, but Junzhou was also doing the same thing, although some of the people who were driven to work were a little reluctant, but in order to eat, they also had to do what Song Jun told them.

Outside the city of Xuzhou, Wanyan Heda led the army to arrange a lot of defense facilities some time ago, but because the Song army marched too fast, many tasks have not been completed, Wanyan Heda was forced to lead the army to Linying County and the Song army had a decisive battle, as a result, many defensive measures originally arranged outside Xuzhou City failed to come in handy, and now it is just used by the Song army, and an expansion has been carried out on the original basis.

This time, Gao Huaiyuan made up his mind to defend Xuzhou and drag the legs of the Mongolian army, and the city wall of Xuzhou City was not strong, and there were still some dilapidation in many places, so he simply made great efforts, using the timber cut from outside the city, and the earthwork dug out of the deep trench outside the city, and built an earthen barrier with a civil structure one and a half zhang high around the periphery of Xuzhou City, so that Xuzhou City soon formed two inner and outer city walls, which greatly expanded the defense capability of Xuzhou City.

Outside the outer earthen ramparts, a deer and a horse ditch were constructed, and a lot of sharpened wooden piles were buried in the ditch, and on the large plains outside these facilities, the ready-made Luoyang shovel and the newly built Luoyang shovel brought by the army were used to dig countless small horse traps with a depth of more than one foot on the ground in a short period of time, and soon the large plain outside Xuzhou City became potholes and depressions, and it was not the same.

Not to mention, those Jin soldiers can't fight, but when the carrots and sticks drove them to do civil engineering, they were unequivocal, and they did the work in a decent way, and even the Song army who supervised them rolled their eyes and had nothing to find fault with.

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