It was raining heavily and the sky was as dark as dusk. Xu Huai and others stood in the wind and rain pavilion not far from the ferry. They could vaguely hear the rolling waves, but their vision was blocked by the rain curtain and they could not clearly see the situation at the ferry not far away.
Several figures emerged from the rain curtain and walked into the wind and rain pavilion.
Wu Shehai took off his raincoat, and all the clothes and armor inside were soaked by the heavy rain. He stamped his feet and said:
"The rainstorm is so violent at this time of year. I am so shameless that even the raindrops feel a little painful! I have never seen such heavy rain in Shuozhou for decades! I have not seen such heavy rain in the two years since I came to Chushan.
I’ve never seen such heavy rain!”
“Since the beginning of history, the western foothills of Tongbai Mountain and the northeastern foothills of Funiu Mountain have been raining heavily after summer,” Yu Chengzhen said with emotion. “The Shuishui River flows out of Yiyang Yao Mountain, passes through Luyang and enters Ye County, which is the main source of Ru River.
, there are floods rolling down every year, and their flow is close to Luyang and Ye County. It is restricted by the terrain of mountains, cliffs and valleys, so it will not cause flooding. However, after flowing into Zhaoling, there are many plains on both sides of the river, and they converge.
The rapids in Dafu Mountain and other places are difficult to control with mud embankments, and embankment breaches are frequent!"
Yu Chengzhen has not been in Chushan for a long time, but he is good at construction and water conservancy. He also traveled to various places in his early years and knows the situation of Rushui, one of the four rivers in the world.
"In the past, people on both sides of the Ru River suffered a lot, but now they have all evacuated. The flooded Ru River has instead become a barrier to the north of Chu Mountain," Shi Zhen said with emotion, "At least until the end of the flood season, we don't need to
I can’t sleep or eat well!”
Although Yue Hailou and his troops still control the main cities between Ru and Ying, the main forces have withdrawn to Chenzhou and other cities on the left bank of the Ying River for rest and recuperation before the flood season.
Now the water in Ru River is surging, and the two sides have entered a complete truce period. After Xu Huai returned from Xiangyang north, he led Tang Pan and Yin Peng to take over the defense of Wuyang and Ye County.
Xiangcheng, located on the north bank of the upper reaches of Ru River, is still garrisoned by the Shenwu Army. The defense of Xiangcheng will not be handed over to Chushan until the Luoyang people, the Zheng family and the Shenwu Army generals and their families in Heluo have all evacuated to Nanyang.
After all, Zheng Huaizhong still didn't trust Chushan and was afraid that if Xiangcheng's defense was handed over in advance, Chushan would deliberately let in soldiers and attack the Shenwu Army's generals retreating south.
Although Chushan has successfully taken over the defenses of Wuyang and Ye County, the burden on everyone's shoulders will only become heavier rather than lighter.
Once the main force of the left and right Shenwu armies withdraws from the south of Heluo, only 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses will be left to deploy on the Yi River and defend the upper reaches of the Luo River. The enemy forces that can be contained in Heluo will be very limited.
Especially since the people of Heluo have moved out, the Chihu people have no need to manage Heluo. They only need to station a small number of troops and occupy several key fortresses such as Luoyang, Tongguan, Gongxian, Yanshi, Mengjin, etc., so that these fortresses cannot be easily destroyed.
After the change of hands, others besieged Pinglu, and Cao Shixiong, Xiao Qian and other main forces of the tribal auxiliary troops in Gong County and nearly 30,000 elite cavalry were able to escape.
It can be predicted now that even if the Chihu people recruit a force of troops and horses in Luoyang, the main combat mission of this army and horses is probably not to attack and suppress the Heluo soldiers and horses who have retreated to the Yihe River and the upper reaches of the Luoshui River, but to
Attack the flank of Huaishang at the gorge road between Funiu Mountain and Songshan Mountain (Ruzhou).
In other words, after the Shenwu Army and the main force of the Luoyang Prefecture Army abandoned Heluo and retreated to the south, Chushan's defenders on the Huaihe River were likely to face an attack by 100,000 or even 100,000 enemy troops.
Although no one in Chushan thought that they would be unable to maintain the accuracy, they would never think that this was an easy matter.
In addition to Tang Pan and Yin Peng, the two elite troops were transferred to the west wing to garrison Wuyang. In addition to the two cities in Ye County, Xu Huai also led his bodyguards to move the military camp and the general manager of the military and horse capital to Ye County.
In the past, Liu Yan's troops guarded Wuyang and Ye County, and focused their defense on Wuyang on the east side.
To the west of Ye County is Ruzhou where Heluo soldiers and horses are stationed. There are the rolling hills at the western foot of Funiu Mountain. Xiangcheng is directly north of Ye County and stands on the north bank of Ru River.
Liu Yan did not expect that the enemy troops would directly attack Ye County, Wuyang City, located on the north side of the western section of the Dengjiatai Mountains, and the enemy troops were crossing the Ru River directly from the north bank.
After the Zheng family retreated to the south, Xu Huai was unable to take over the entire territory of Ruzhou. Wuyang and Ye County were located outside the gap in Fang City. Ye County was about to attack the enemy troops marching eastward from Heluo. Therefore, Xu Huai needed to take over the enemy forces on the west flank.
The focus of defense is on Ye County.
In addition to soldiers, Xu Huai also mobilized more than 10,000 craftsmen from the labor camp to further improve the defense system of the west wing before autumn and winter.
At present, Chushan cannot control the plain area between the North Ridge of Tongbai Mountain (including Dafu Mountain, Jinding Mountain, Dengtaijia Mountain, and Wuyun Mountain) and Rushui. All supplies, people and horses must go through Tongbai Mountain Road.
Biyang, Fangcheng and other places turn to Wuyang, and from Chushan (Zhouqiao) to Ye County, there is almost 400 miles of post road.
The first step to do next is to go west from the Qingyi Ridge camp via Gunshichongzhai, first build a path through the rugged canyon between Dafu Mountain and Jinding Mountain, and then cross Wuyun Mountain from the east of Fangcheng County into Wuyang.
Passage out.
Doing this will not only shorten the land distance from Chushan to Yexian via Qingyi Ridge to 300 miles, not only can it bypass Nanyang where the Zheng family will be responsible for the subsequent garrison, but more importantly, this post road can also connect Jinding Mountain and Dengshan.
The canyon between the Lighthouse Mountains.
While Chushan is building this post road, it will also build a Wuzhai military fort in the canyon between Jinding Mountain and Dengjiatai Mountain.
Going out from the canyons of Jinding Mountain and Dengjiatai Mountain is Suiping County. To the north of Suiping County is Xiping; while Shangcai is northeast of Suiping; and from Xiping County is Zhaoling.
The entire middle reaches of the Ru River starts from the north of Zhaoling City, turns to the southeast, flows through Shangcai, and finally goes south through the northeast corner of Xincai City and joins the Huai River in the west of Huaichuan City.
In Suiping, Runan, Pingyu, Queshan and other counties, there are also rivers such as Xiang River and Qingyi River originating from Dengjiatai Mountain and Dafu Mountain and flowing into Ru River, which together form Caizhou's complex landscape system.
Chushan urgently needs a new post road connecting Ye County and Qingyi Lingying City, running through it from the southwest to grasp the source of Caizhou's landscape system. This new post road will also connect with the south side of Qingyi Lingying City.
The passage across Iron Curtain Mountain passes through the Huangyang Lake embankment and the east slope of Shimen Ridge, leading to Chushan City.
This post road is also the inner core of the expanded Chushan Defense Zone, and its strategic position is equivalent to the previous Tongbai Mountain Road.
Xiping, Suiping, Zhaoling, Shangcai, Runan and other cities as well as Jinding Mountain in the south and the eastern section of Dengjiatai were previously the defense area of Zuo Xiaosheng's army under Yang Lin, while Wuyang, Ye County, including Wuyang and beyond
Dengjiatai Mountain and Wuyun Mountain in the south are the defense areas of Liu Yan's Right Xiaosheng Army. Therefore, there was no way to cross Chushan before Chushan and build a road from Qingyi Ridge across Dafu Mountain, Jinding Mountain, Dengjiatai Mountain, and Wuyun Mountain.
The post road from Yunshan leads to Ye County and Suiping.
Now Yexian, Wuyang and Xiangcheng are all included in the Chushan Defense Zone. Yexian, Wuyang and Luoshan in the east, Huangchuan mountains and rivers are also under the jurisdiction of Chushan; while Jinding, Lampstand, Dafu
From the mountains to Rushui in the north, and from Rushui to Yingzhou, it is the buffer zone between Chushan and the rebel Yue Hailou.
Therefore, the top priority is to build this new post road between the mountains.
In addition to building the Wubao Castle in the canyon area between Jinding Mountain and Dengjiatai Mountain at the same time, the Wubao Castle must also be built to the northern foot of Jinding Mountain and Dengjiatai Mountain facing Ru River.
Just like in the early days of the Chu Mountains, they focused on cities such as Zhenyang and Queshan that stood in the plains and were easily besieged by superior enemy forces. Instead, they first built camps in the hilly and mountainous areas of Qingyi Ridge and Shimen Ridge.
Same as the fortress.
First, we must ensure that the Yuehai Tower and the Red Husbands behind the Yuehai Tower are unable to take down the fortifications and fortifications they have built to take advantage of the danger. Only then will the battle for the fortifications in the Pingchuan area be involved.
And all this needs to be completed before the Zheng family withdraws from Heluo and the prisoners gather superior troops to attack Huaishang.
Shi Zhen, Su Laochang, Cheng Yi, Yu Chengzhen, Zhuang Shouxin and others were mainly responsible for these tasks.
It is also thanks to the fact that Chushan's city wall construction, road paving and cofferdam water conservancy construction have been maintained at a very high scale in the past few years. Whether it is the level of craftsmen or the team of craftsmen specializing in construction, it is far beyond the capabilities of other camp defense areas.
and.
Therefore, Chushan has the confidence to say that it is not afraid of multiple enemy force attacks in autumn and winter.
Shi Zhen took Su Laochang, Yu Chengzhen and others to Ye County, and also presented this series of detailed plans to Xu Huai, and then started to implement them.
For this reason, the more than 500,000 guan of money and grain that Xiangyang directly delivered to Chushan for this defense change will also be directly used for the construction of the new post road.
After Shi Zhen explained the plan in detail, he saw that Xu Huai was somewhat absent-minded. Yu Chengzhen mentioned the water conditions of Ru River, which seemed to attract all Xu Huai's attention, and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with Ru River?"
"There are heavy rains in Yaoshan Mountain, which makes the Nishui River violent and pours through the Ru River, causing frequent flooding along the coasts of Zhaoling, Shangcai, and Xincai. Especially, the Ru River connects to the Xiang River in the east of Pingyu County, and the Xiang River meets the Dengjia Mountain.
The streams and rivers in Jinding Mountain flow through Suiping, and the terrain in Runan and other places is depressed, and there are hundreds of miles of water and swamps, and the people are in dire straits." Xu Huai came back to his senses and said, "I was wondering if it would be possible to call Zhao in Wuyang.
Between the mausoleums, cut off the Ru River, forcing the upstream Nian River to flow northward along the terrain and flow into the Ying River?"
"Cut the river?" Yu Chengzhen was slightly startled, wondering how Xu Huai had such an idea, and said, "Although the terrain of Wuyang, Zhaoling and other places is higher in the southwest and lower in the northwest, the Ru River has never known to burst its embankments in history.
How many times, the current river course was finally formed, which is naturally caused by the topography and topography. Now we have no way to survey the terrain one by one in Wuyang and north of Zhaoling, and randomly choose a place to cut off the river course. I am afraid we can only temporarily force the Ru River to flow.
The route will be changed, but it will most likely be a circle around the low-pressure area in the north, and it will eventually be merged into the main source of Ru River. It is difficult to guarantee that it will be diverted into Ying River..."
Yu Chengzhen was a great builder. He was originally a person who had studied ancient and modern times, and was also familiar with the art of war. Otherwise, he would not dare to boast that he was good at building fortresses.
In the past two or three years, Yu Chengzhen was responsible for assisting Shi Zhen in building the city in Chushan, and even integrated Xu Huai's thoughts on military defense into the city building. This promoted and promoted figures like Yu Chengzhen in an unimaginable way.
When Xu Huai talked about cutting off the river, Yu Chengzhen could certainly imagine how meaningful this strategy would be.
The Ru River is the main source of the Ru River. The flood season is violent, and the middle and lower reaches of the Ru River are deeply affected. If the north flow of the river can be intercepted, the flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ru River will be greatly reduced.
Cutting off the river and allowing the Kuan River to flow into the Ying River will inevitably increase the amount of water in the Ying River after it enters the flood season.
In particular, agricultural production in the Hehuai River was greatly damaged. People fled south in large numbers. No one repaired and guarded the dams. After the Yingshui River entered the flood season, the amount of water increased sharply. This will surely make Chenzhou and Yingzhou, which Yuehailou regards as its heartland,
Even the eastern part of Xuzhou became a land of water and swamps.
This will directly weaken Yue Hailou's rebel army and pose a threat to Huaishang.
The problem is that the left bank of the Ru River is now controlled by the enemy. There is no way to survey the terrain in detail in a short period of time. It cannot be said that just cutting the river will just divert the Nishui River into the Ying River, right?
Is it really that simple? In the past thousands of years, the Ru River has breached its banks countless times. The Nishui River has long been diverted into the Ying River due to a certain flood. Why is it their turn to intercept the river?
