After hearing Shi Zhen talk about the arrangements for spring plowing, Xu Huai invited Shi Zhen to go to the villa with him.
This is a manor located in Wufengling in the western section of Dengtaijia Mountain. The original owner had already fled to Xiangyang with his family, leaving more than a dozen servants to guard it.
Liu Yan led the Youxiaosheng Army to garrison Wuyang and Ye County, but he still wanted to maintain a good image of being unconventional to the local Qiu. Chushan took over the defense of the western front, and Xu Huai directly ordered the manors and fortresses with better conditions in Wuyang and other places.
Requisition, station troops and horses, or resettle people.
After thousands of horsemen gave up their raids and withdrew from the banks of the Nishui River, Xu Huai handed over the military and political affairs to Xu Wuqi, Xu Wujiang, Shi Zhen, Su Laochang and others. He and Liu Qiong'er moved in
Wufengling recharges its energy.
They have been living in the mountains for more than half a month now, and it is rare for them to enjoy the leisure time after the war without being too nervous.
The manor is located on the hillside of the east mountain of Wufengling. When you walk into the manor from the stream in the forest at the back, and walk to a huge rock sticking out in the front yard, you can have a panoramic view of the wide valley that is more than ten miles east of the manor.
There are mainly low shallow mountains and low ridges on both sides of the valley, as if the Dengtaijia Mountains had been sunk into a large piece by an invisible giant hand in the northern section of the central part.
A wide river slowly flows out from the mountains in the south, passing through the valley to the north. It is the most important tributary of Ru River in Wuyang County.
As the eastern remnant of the Funiu Mountains, Dengtaijia Mountain extends for about a hundred miles from northwest to southeast, involving Wuyang and Suiping counties, where many people form villages and live there; the valley where the Hong River flows has a larger population.
In order to be more densely populated, except for the sloping mountains and fields, there are tallow trees all over the mountains and plains, so it is called tallow township.
After the Lisui River was intercepted and discharged to the north, the Hong River that originated from Dengtaijia Mountain became the main source of the Ru River.
After the victory of Ruying, in order to ensure that the upper reaches of Suili were firmly controlled by Chushan, the Huaishang Western Front Defense Zone was expanded from Wuyang and Ye County to the north to Jiaxian, Xiangcheng, and Zhaoling.
No matter from any angle, Wuyang will replace Yexian and become the center of the Huaishang Western Front Defense Zone.
The headquarters of the Chushan camp and the Yamen of Caizhou eventually moved to Wuyang.
However, Wuyang City is located in a flat area, about thirty miles away from Dengtaijia Mountain. The terrain is prone to encirclement by superior enemy forces. Chushan then decided to build a city wall at the mouth of the valley where Dengtaijia Mountain emerges from the Hong River to surround Wuyang Township.
, as the strategic support for Wuyang’s dorsal and abdominal areas.
Although the counties in Huaishang were all under the jurisdiction of Caizhou, in order to facilitate defense, Xu Huaiyue divided the Chushan camp into the eastern defense area, and the western defense area was deployed for defense.
The Eastern Front Defense Area includes the counties of Queshan, Chushan, Xinyang, Luoshan, Huangchuan and Huaiyuan, with Zuo Changshi Yuan as the camp commander and Zuo Sima Yuan overseeing the military and political affairs of the Eastern Front.
In addition to Wuyang, Yexian, Jiaxian, Xiangcheng, Zhaoling, and Sapium, the Western Front Defense Area also has Suiping, which has recently restored county governance. Military and political affairs are all under the direct jurisdiction of Xingyuan.
In addition to the state soldiers, which are the most basic left-behind troops in counties (cities), and can be supplemented by recruiting Ding Yong from villages and townships according to actual needs, the Tianxiong Army, which has only 30,000 regular soldiers, serves as the elite of the Chushan camp.
The combat strength is also officially divided into four parts: the front army, the left and right armies and the navy army.
The Selected Front Army is the bodyguard's personal barracks. Other camps also have banners similar to the Selected Front Army. They are all military units.
Among the selected elites, Chushan selected the vanguard army to organize three thousand armored cavalry, with Wang Ju as the commander, and the camp was set up in Wuyang.
The Zuo Army is under the jurisdiction of Xu Xin'an, Han Qi, Yin Peng, and Tang Qing. It has four elites, with 12,000 armored soldiers. They are stationed in Chushan and divided into garrison towns on the east line. They are under the jurisdiction of Zuo Sima Yuan and Xu Wuqi.
The Zuo Sima also led the Zuo Army and was in charge.
The navy made Xu Ling the capital of Yuhou, and organized three thousand navy generals. Under the control of Zuo Sima Yuan, the navy was stationed at Zhouqiao to assist in the defense of the cities in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River.
The Right Army is under the jurisdiction of Chen Zixiao, Xu Wujiang, Tang Pan, and Wang Xian. The four elites are composed of 12,000 armored soldiers and are responsible for the defense of the western front defense area. Xu Huai is also in charge of the Right Army. The camp is located in Wuyang.
Divide and garrison the cities on the western front.
The scale of Chushan's standing troops is much smaller. The enemy's four-state general administration in the west of Beijing has 20,000 elite red cavalry. At the same time, a group of elites from the Tibetan tribes have been trained to fight, at least for a long time.
For a period of time, Huaishang was still at a disadvantage facing the enemy forces west of Beijing.
Xu Huai looked at the vast wilderness to the north, frowning slightly, not knowing when the opportunity to counterattack would really come.
"Ta-ta..." Dozens of riders galloped toward the valley along the left bank of the Hong River. They passed by the Wutong City construction site without stopping, and walked along the mountain road to the villa. They soon arrived in front of the huge stone in the front yard of the villa.
"Jie Shuai is so elegant. Let's enjoy the scenery here!" Zhou Jing, Zhang Xiongshan, Wang Jun and others dismounted and saluted.
"You have worked hard on this trip, what good news can you bring back?" Xu Huai looked at Zhang Xiongshan, Wang Jun and others behind Zhou Jing and asked.
After the Battle of Ruying, the most important task, in addition to deploying and improving the defenses along the Nishui River, was to contact the rebels who had withdrawn into the Songshan Mountains.
This contact is not as simple as sending someone to deliver a few letters.
The more critical thing is to do everything possible to help the rebels and local resistance forces gain a foothold in the Songshan Mountains, better attack from the flanks, contain the enemy forces in Xu Zheng and other places, and reduce the military pressure on the front of Huaishang.
Therefore, Zhang Xiongshan led a team and went to Songshan Mountain with Wang Jun, Liu Yueting and others, and it took two months before returning to Huaishang.
"Overall, the harvest is quite fruitful!" Zhang Xiongshan said.
"So, are you still encountering some difficulties?" Xu Huai said, signaling Zhou Jing, Zhang Xiongshan and others to climb directly onto the boulder to talk.
Zhang Xiongshan talked in detail about various aspects of his trip to Songshan.
Xu Huai led his troops to sneak into Bianliang and contacted Caihe River. More than 10,000 resisting rebels along the Woshui River advanced and retreated together.
During the sneak attack on Bianliang, Xu Huai held a high position and awe-inspiring power. At the same time, Xu Huai took the lead and personally led his elite bodyguards to victory in consecutive battles. This greatly inspired the rebel leaders and the soldiers fought bravely without revealing any major dangers before and after.
However, when Zhang Xiongshan led his team to Songshan this time, he found that there were many problems and contradictions within the rebel army.
After all, the composition of the Resistance Army is too complex.
After the Battle of Zhuxianyi, about 4,000 rebel generals retreated westward into Songshan Mountain directly under the leadership of Han Changfu and other rebel leaders. However, most of the generals initially chose to withdraw westward into Songshan Mountain, mainly because they wanted to go south.
The chance of winning is even smaller.
When the news of Ruying's victory reached Songshan, many of them hoped to go south instead of staying in Songshan, which was besieged by enemies and persisted in fighting.
Of course, there were also some resistance forces who did not participate in the sneak attack on Bianliang.
I was just worried that I would be implicated later and suffer crazy retaliation from the captive soldiers, so I was forced to retreat to Songshan Mountain nearby.
At the same time, in addition to some local village forces in the Songshan Mountains, there are also Hulu invaders from the south. In the past few years, a considerable number of defeated soldiers from Zhengxu and other places have fled to the Songshan Mountains to set up camps.
Although Emperor Jianji decreed that the rebel armies (mountain forces) of Songshan tribes should be controlled by Chushan, in fact Chushan wanted the rebels of Songshan tribes to truly and effectively obey the command, contain them from the flanks, and harass the enemy forces in Zhengxu and other places.
Not only do we need to continuously import soldiers, food, and money to Songshan, we also need to dispatch and appoint a group of military generals to effectively reorganize the resistance army.
However, even if Chushan grits its teeth, increases a large additional supply budget, and deploys a large number of generals from various ministries, it will not hesitate to extend the Huaishang defense line from Xiangcheng and Jiaxian to Songshan, but most of the Songshan
The rebel army has a serious mountain-top tendency and may not be willing to accept Chushan's adaptation.
Among the various rebel armies, those with the highest sense of identification with Chushan were actually the black-shirted troops led by Han Changfu, Zhou Xuyi and others.
Xu Huai led his troops to sneak into Bianliang. He initially contacted the Black Shirt Army and lurked in the Black Shirt Army's base for more than a month, having close contact with Han Changfu, Zhou Xuyi and other Black Shirt Army generals.
After the Battle of Ruying, not only a large number of black-shirted generals withdrew into Chushan, but also a group of black-shirted generals such as Zhou Luo were directly incorporated into Chushan as generals.
Therefore, the Black Shirt Army can be said to be a tentacle of Chu Mountain extending into Song Mountain.
The problem is that the black shirt army led by Han Changfu, Zhou Xuyi and others entered Songshan and established themselves in Dahongzhai in the southern section of Songshan. There were only six to seven hundred people. They did not account for a high proportion among the rebels in Songshan. Their influence and prestige were also limited.
are extremely restricted.
In response to this situation, many people in Chushan advocated simply formally incorporating the Blackshirt Army and Dahongzhai as a Huaishang stronghold in the southern mountain range of Songshan Mountain.
"Mr. Han, do you have a more appropriate way to make the Songshan rebels better share the worries of the imperial court?" Xu Huai asked Han Gui, who was standing behind Zhang Xiongshan, who was thin and somewhat arrogant.
Han Gui was a water official in the capital of Zhuxianyi. In his early years, he was mainly responsible for the shipping of Caihe New Canal Doumen in Zhuxianyi. He spent half his life in the court and failed to obtain an official position. After the fall of Bianliang, his family and his family were all in Bianliang, and Han Gui was also forced to surrender to the enemy.
, continue to serve in Zhuxianyi.
However, Shi Zhen knew that Han Gui was full of poems and books, but he had poor luck in the imperial examination. He joined the Water Department of the capital as an official, and he was knowledgeable about rivers, canals, shipping, weirs and dams, etc. He was a rare official in the government and the public.
Chushan had long wanted to persuade Han Gui to flee to Chushan with his family. However, Han Gui's mother was ill in bed and unable to walk. Han Gui was worried that his mother would not be able to withstand the bumpy escape, so he finally agreed to stay in Zhuxianyi and Bian.
Liang first served as Chushan's internal response.
Han Gui was not only acquainted with Zhou Xuyi, but he and Han Changfu were brothers of the Han family from Yanling. Therefore, after the battle at Zhuxianyi, he first took his family with him and followed Han Changfu and Zhou Xuyi to retreat to Songshan Mountain.
However, Shi Zhen had always been thinking that Han Gui was good at canals, Jinliang and other matters and was extremely talented. Zhang Xiongshan, Wang Jun, Liu Yueting and others went to Songshan this time to contact him and specially brought Han Gui to Huaishang.
Xu Huai came into contact with Han Gui when he was in Bianliang, but he was busy with the war and had no chance to say a few words. Of course, he had to test Han Gui's real ability at this time...
