To conquer the world, such a thing cannot be accomplished overnight.
Lin Haoming also began to relax, or slow down.
In addition to daily office work, Wei Yan spends time with his wife and concubines. In order to let her children get closer to Lin Haoming, Wei Yan actually moved to Lin Haoming's side, and she didn't even care about the rumors.
Lin Ning, Wei Yan's son and Lin Haoming's adopted son, naturally had to be raised by his side. Lin Haoming didn't expect this child to be very powerful, but at least he had to have certain abilities.
Time passed like this, and three years passed in a flash.
Three years is neither long nor short. I originally thought that a war would break out last year, but some unexpected things prevented the war from breaking out.
The unexpected thing happened not in Yue Kingdom, but in Daxia. The battle for the inheritance of Daxia reached a critical juncture. The prince died suddenly due to an accident. The battle for the inheritance of the third prince, the fifth prince and the sixth prince reached a fever pitch, but who would have thought
, a Ninth Prince actually appeared in the middle, replacing the Fifth Prince. To some extent, this Fifth Prince was Wei Tong's support in the Xia Kingdom. He was suddenly replaced, causing the smooth supply channel to be interrupted for more than three years.
Yue, fortunately, the Ninth Prince who quickly replaced him was willing to resume the things promised by the Fifth Prince, which allowed this side to overcome the difficulties, but because of this, it was considered a small opportunity missed.
Originally, this side controlled the counties in Jiangdong and could send troops last year. Last year, Zhang Xiao had to provide disaster relief and deal with the situation after the defeat. The situation was most unstable. Even if he asked Wei to borrow food, it was still very tight. Now he has one more year.
Over time, the food and grass problem was basically solved, and the refugees were resettled to a certain extent. Zhang Xiao even recruited refugees to join the army, and now there are actually two armies of refugees.
If there is another war now, his side will not have the advantage, but the same goes for Zhang Xiao's side. Although the most troublesome problem has been solved, the King of Yue is now terminally ill. Once he dies, and he succeeds to the throne, his side will still be succeeded.
position, the Yue Kingdom would be completely divided by then, so in order to avoid such a situation, Zhang Xiao had to take action on his own side first after stabilizing the situation.
The current situation is naturally more unfavorable for the attacker. After all, to conquer the river, you must fight across the river, so water battles are likely to become the focus, unless you plan to fight in winter, but many of Wei Tong's troops are from the north.
Min, fighting in winter is what he is best at. This is tantamount to using his weakness to defeat his strength, so water battles have become the most likely to happen.
The Pingjiang River in Huangling County is wide and connected to Anyang Lake. The navy in Anyang Lake is also the strongest. Before the army entered Huangling County, the ships here had been evacuated to the other side of the lake by Zhang Xiao the year before last. If Zhang Xiao wants to march now
, taking the water route, this is the only breakthrough.
In summer, as long as the westerly wind blows and the ship sails with the wind, it won't take long to reach the other side of the lake. And because the lake is wide, unlike the river, everything on the other side is seen. When doing things in Anyang Lake, there is no defense at all, so you can only
Ships were sent out to cruise on the lake.
In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening, Wei Tong also started to make arrangements here after solving his worries.
On the one hand, building and refitting warships is one thing, but on the other hand, all the upper levels are also considering whether to simply give up water warfare and let people in. After all, most of the existing army are northerners and are not good at water warfare.
In fact, according to Lin Haoming's idea, it is best to take the initiative if possible. Unfortunately, he is not Wei Tong or Wei Shun after all. Since he has chosen this path now, he can only have reservations. Moreover, in three years, he
The military power of Wei Tong is gradually decreasing, and more of it is placed on the White Dragon Guard side. According to Wei Tong's intention, he wants to make himself the second Zhao Wufeng.
It was already approaching summer, and as expected, information came soon. Zhang Xiao appointed Jiang Ziqi as marshal, landed at night from Anyang Lake under cover of darkness, and then attacked Huyang County at night.
After receiving the information, Wei Tong immediately ordered several nearby armies to encircle and suppress them. The result was surprising. Jiang Ziqi did not occupy Huyang County as a landing base. Instead, he burned it on fire. Then before the army encircled and suppressed him, Jiang Ziqi reboarded the ship and headed for
The lower reaches occupied Huguang County, and then attacked the army from behind.
The leading general Li Xun was killed and retreated thirty miles, and he had to lead the defeated army back to Huangshan County to wait for Gao Chunyou's troops to arrive.
In this way, it also gave Jiang Ziqi time to completely occupy a small area in Jiangdong as the rear and lay a bridgehead.
This result made Wei Tong furious, and he immediately dispatched Wang Jiangman south as the coach, and ordered Zhu Feiling's bandit-breaking army to strengthen their defenses along the Jiangdong line to prevent the opponent from finding a second point to cross the river.
Wang Jiangman led an army of 50,000 to the south for reinforcements. He had originally deployed an army of 150,000 here. Li Xun had lost some in the previous defeat, but now he still had close to 200,000 troops. In a short period of time, Jiang Ziqi mobilized more than 150,000 troops from the other side.
One hundred thousand troops, when Wang Jiangman's troops arrived, they immediately launched another attack on him.
There was no opportunism in this battle, it was all hand-to-hand combat. Wang Jiangman was also a battle-tested general, and Jiang Ziqi was not well-known at first, but his previous surprise attack had already shown his ability. Therefore, the two sides fought for a long time, and in the end Wang Jiangman suffered more casualties.
It was a heavy blow, but Jiang Ziqi lost the bridgehead he had finally conquered and had to retreat by boat.
In general, this battle lasted for nearly three months. Wang Jiangman suffered greater losses, but strategically, he won half a battle. However, Jiang Ziqi's retreat was not entirely a defeat, but before the retreat, the Yue King
Finally I couldn't hold on any longer and passed away.
Zhang Xiao was about to succeed now. Since there was no way to really expand the results and prevent accidents, he simply gave up.
When Zhang Xiao ascended the throne, this country would naturally not lag behind, and soon put the third prince's son on the throne. Suddenly, the country of Yue had two kings, and the people directly called them the East King and the West King.
The reputations of the East King and the West King are both not very good. Although the East King is Wei Tong's puppet, the West King also has the reputation of killing the king and killing his father. However, because of this incident, both parties gave up. This year, however,
It was calm again.
After the new king ascended the throne, it was natural for him to divide the ministers into enfeoffments. Although Wei Tong was granted the title of Duke of the State, other princes who were originally crown princes or had only the right to inherit were also officially canonized. Among them, Tao Feng, Marquis of Wu'an, directly became Duke of Wu'an, who was originally to inherit.
Zhang Xin of Pingjiang Marquis also became Pingjiang Gong. In addition, those who had made outstanding achievements in the past were also canonized differently, and Lin Haoming was also among them. Originally, he planned to canonize Lin Haoming as Kang Dingbo, but Lin Haoming felt that Zhongyongbo was good, so he
, the title of Uncle Zhongyong fell on his head.
As a family general, he inherited his lord's title, which made many princes feel that it was a bit excessive. However, Lin Haoming soon announced that his title would be inherited by his adopted son. This was equivalent to returning Uncle Zhongyong to the Ning family.
Many people felt that Lin Haoming had a sense of friendship, and for a time Lin Haoming gained a little more favor in the minds of the princes.