Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Good!" Some people took the lead in applauding, and a group of people followed suit.Yan Yingyuan sat in the hall a little proudly.Obviously, he is very addicted to this trial game.

Zhu Youjian searched for a long time, but he didn't see Wu Ganlai in the lobby, so he simply stopped looking for Yan Yingyuan and went to Wu Ganlai instead.

Wu Ganlai worked hard as usual, and was busy organizing the people in the city to prevent floods.It's summer, and it's close to the big river, so the flood season is no joke.

Although Xuzhou is now on the edge of a big river, it is different from Kaifeng.Kaifeng's terrain is already lower than the riverbed of the big river. When the flood season comes, as long as the water is fetched across the embankment, Kaifeng will be over.

Xuzhou City has been relocated, and the terrain is higher than the big river. Unless the upstream deliberately breaks the embankment, it will not be able to flood the current Xuzhou City.However, the surrounding fields still need to make some preparations for flood control.

"Wu Ganlai!" Zhu Youjian yelled from a distance, Wu Ganlai turned around and exclaimed in surprise: "Huang...Commander-in-Chief, why are you here?"

This time going north, Zhu Youjian basically traveled in disguise. He was on the front line, and he didn't want to expose his whereabouts with great fanfare.

Wu Ganlai originally wanted to call the emperor, but looking at the people around him, he called out to be the commander-in-chief. Anyway, the people of Ming Dynasty are very confused about the titles of military officers in the court, because there are as many as three military systems in Ming Dynasty, which is very confusing.

"How's it going, is it going well in Xuzhou?" Zhu Youjian still has high expectations for this person. Wu Ganlai is capable, willing to endure hardships, and is especially good at grassroots work.It's a bit stubborn, but it's called sticking to principles.

"It's good, but there are not many people here. Most of the local people in Xuzhou have gone south to avoid the war, but tens of thousands of people have come from Jiangyin."

Zhu Youjian didn't expect the people in Jiangyin to give face so much.It is very difficult for ordinary people to move away from their homeland.But this time, for some unknown reason, these people were willing to come over.

"The commander-in-chief must be wondering why Jiangyin people are willing to come here?" Wu Ganlai said with a smile, he seemed to have guessed Zhu Youjian's mind at once.

"I was also very strange before, but later I heard more than one person say it, so I believed it. People in Jiangyin used to give Commander Yan a nickname: Lord Yan."

"Why did you choose such a nickname." Zhu Youjian frowned and said, usually those who take this nickname are not very good.

"You're wrong. The people of Jiangyin think: Lord Yan is the fairest. Whoever did something bad will be clear after investigation. This is the first time I've heard such an explanation."

"Hahaha, no wonder he likes to settle cases." Zhu Youjian laughed when he heard this. This nickname is really strange.

"So, he took over all the cases in town?"

"There are no major cases in the city. They are all trivial matters of some folks in the village. Today a white chicken ran into the neighbor's house. No one knew how to recognize it, so we reported it to him."

Wu Ganlai was so excited that he told Zhu Youjian about the white chicken with great interest.

"I just saw it. Don't tell me, his method is really good. Let the chicken find its way home."

"The relationship between Commander Yan and the common people is very good, and I admire him." Zhu Youjian saw that Wu Gan was very serious when he said this, thinking that he really admired Yan Yingyuan.

You must know that Wu Ganlai is a Beijing official. Although his grade is not high, he is better than Yan Yingyuan, the lowest grade Dian Shi.Zhu Youjian was afraid that Wu Ganlai would have ideas for such an old man of ninth rank who was directly promoted to the commander of the third rank of the military region.

"It's good that you don't have any psychological burden. You should pay more attention to the strengths of others. You are still young, and I brought you out of the capital. There will be opportunities in the future."

Zhu Youjian really planned to mention Wu Ganlai, but he himself felt that he was short of manpower.But because Xuzhou's side is too important, I can only put Wu Ganlai here to rest assured.

By the time Zhu Youjian and Wu Ganlai returned to the yamen, they had already tried several disputes before going to Yan Yingyuan, and the people had dispersed anyway.

Yan Yingyuan in the lobby looked a bit bored, playing with the gavel alone.The servant standing on one side was yawning.

"Commander Yan, come and stay safe." Zhu Youjian yelled loudly after entering the gate, Yan Yingyuan didn't look at the gate, and was about to slap the gavel, suddenly felt the voice was familiar, and turned his head to look: Oh my god!

"I deserve death for my crimes!" Yan Yingyuan immediately went down to the hall, knelt down and kowtowed.All the yamen servants were stunned. What happened to the majestic Commander in the past?

"Let them all retreat." Zhu You checked the yamen servant and pouted.

Without outsiders, Zhu Youjian sat on a chair in the second hall and drank tea, while Yan Yingyuan and Wu Ganlai stood aside.

As for the closest person to Zhu Youjian, apart from the ones he brought out from the capital, they belonged to the original secretariat.The two of them in this room can't see outside, and the natural way of talking is much more casual.

"Tell me, if the golden soldiers come to attack, will Xuzhou be able to defend?" Zhu Youjian looked at Yan Yingyuan.

"I can't keep it." Yan Yingyuan opened his mouth and made Zhu Youjian's face darken.

Xuzhou is the key to the entire Huaisi defense line. Zhu Youjian sent the most outstanding defender in history here, and he heard a sentence: "I can't defend it."

Of course, it is impossible to defend the city alone. For this reason, Zhu Youjian did not hesitate to let the people of Jiangyin accompany him from thousands of miles away, and even sent Wu Ganlai, the most capable of his cronies, and gave him another [-] soldiers.

"Why can't you keep it?" Zhu Youjian was in a bad mood, feeling a little disappointed, but he still needed to know the reason.

"If the commander-in-chief wants me to guard Xuzhou for a year, of course I can't. You have to give me a time limit. No city can be completely defended." Yan Yingyuan tilted his head, and what he said almost made Zhu Youjian die of anger .

"Then how long can you keep it?" Now that the time was proposed, Zhu Youjian wanted to see Yan Yingyuan's determination.

"One month." Yan Yingyuan paused, thought for a while, and then stretched out a finger.

Chapter 2: Concrete Wall

Zhu Youjian came this time to make tactical preparations for Xuzhou's defense.

"What's the difficulty, what's the need?"

Since you want to let others work, of course you must ask the other party's needs and follow the other party's views.

"Xuzhou is close to the water and is easy to be flooded. Second: the city is not complete enough, and the armaments are insufficient. Third: the defense area is too wide, and it is too difficult to defend it all."

Zhu Youjian understood, and Yan Yingyuan must have thought about why Zhu Youjian wanted to come to him.Although he didn't know his fame in history, he was not stupid.

To be used by others, you have to figure out what is worth taking advantage of yourself.Being able to sell himself to the emperor together with Chen Zilong and Huang Daozhou, and Yan Yingyuan was reused in the high position of Xuzhou Army Commander, of course he had to think about what shining points he had.

Even if he doesn't want to, the people around him will think about it for him. This is a normal human reaction.

After thinking about it, Yan Yingyuan felt that apart from being a little older, there was really nothing shining about him.No education, not born as a Jinshi; no background, just the director of a detention center in a small county;

How can you become a commander all of a sudden?There are even a lot of gossip in his subordinates, and there are so many people who look down on him.Fortunately, Yan Yingyuan has a high emotional intelligence, is a good person and doesn't like to play tricks. He gets along well with the common people in Xuzhou City, and his position as an official is secure.

"Talk about your ideas." As for Xuzhou, Zhu Youjian didn't want to interfere too much, since it was handed over to Yan Yingyuan, he simply let him figure out a way.

Yan Yingyuan cupped his hands and made a gesture of invitation to Zhu Youjian: "Please move the commander-in-chief to the headquarters."

At the headquarters, a huge sand table was placed in the middle of the hall. Zhu Youjian saw that the mountains, rivers, villages and towns with a radius of fifty miles were displayed in detail. It seemed that Yan Yingyuan had put his mind to it.

"Is this made by the civilian staff of the headquarters, or did we start to explore after the commander-in-chief mentioned it?"

"Is this the Xuzhou defense plan?" Zhu Youjian was surprised to see that this sand table was a little different from the current Xuzhou, and many places were obviously fortifications.

"Yes, this is a plan, but there is no money to repair it, so we can only make a model."

"Tell me about it." Zhu Youjian said excitedly.

"This is Xuzhou, which has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei stationed troops in Xuzhou and sent Guan Yu to guard Xiapi as a countermeasure.

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Therefore, it is impossible to defend Xuzhou alone, and it will not work if all the troops are scattered around Xuzhou.Only by finding one or two key positions to echo each other with Xuzhou can we stick to it. "

"Huh!" Zhu Youjian let out a long breath.