Although the Chushan Army's consecutive great victories greatly boosted the morale of the Vietnamese army and people, the cumulative casualties over the years have exceeded 30,000, which is an unspeakably huge loss in Huaishang with a population of just over 500,000.
The Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion, which resulted in the loss of 40,000 to 50,000 young people and countless casualties in Huaishang, has only happened for seven or eight years, and the pain caused has not yet completely passed.
It can be said that every household in Huaishang cried out in mourning.
After the camp year, the troops stationed in the six outer counties (cities) such as Zhaoling and Xiangcheng were repeatedly ordered to restrain the urge to send troops to harass the enemy in the outer areas. In addition to daily training, the generals should also take time as much as possible to participate in the garrison and nearby areas.
The construction of city walls, excavation of rivers, repairs of dams and reclamation of wasteland, etc.; and the six counties in the depths put all their energy on restoring production.
The city walls of Zhaoling New City were completed in mid-July, and Xu Huai came to Zhaoling again to inspect the situation of the Shuili River interception.
At this time, the Hehuai land has fully entered the flood season.
Although the current understanding of meteorology is very limited, the eastern and northern foothills of Funiu Mountain, including the Dengtaijia Mountains, the remaining tributaries of Funiu Mountain, the northern ridge of Tongbai Mountain and the remaining tributaries of Dafu Mountain, Jinding Mountain and other places, during the flood season
Downpours are far more intensive than in other areas, and this has been a consensus for thousands of years.
This has also caused the people in this area to suffer from floods for thousands of years.
This year's flood season is still the same.
The floods surged wildly in valleys and streams.
On the one hand, due to the limitations of the terrain, and on the other hand, the population living in the mountains is limited. The harm caused by floods in the mountainous areas is very limited. However, it is the floods that rush out from the rugged mountains and enter the plains along the narrow rivers, where they wreak havoc in all directions.
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The Hong River runs from the Dengtaijia Mountains in Wutao Township, passes through Wuyang, and merges into Rushui in Zhaoling. Both sides of the river have suffered from floods for thousands of years, but people on both sides of the river suddenly found that this year was different from the past.
Although there have been heavy rains for days and the floods in the Dengtaijia Mountains are more turbulent and fierce than in previous years, the rivers flow down extremely smoothly and do not form a major flood that has ravaged Wuyang County.
This is mainly due to the interception of water such as Shuili River and its discharge to the north.
From this year onwards, Ru River will only receive water from the upper reaches of the Hong River in Zhaoling. The capacity of the Ru River to discharge the heavy water caused by heavy rains in the upper reaches of the Hong River has increased several times than before, and there is no time to deal with the remaining embankments on both sides.
After forming a test, it will drain away smoothly, and of course there will be no floods.
This is generally the case for the tributary streams originating from Dafu Mountain, Jinding Mountain and the northern ridge of Tongbai Mountain and flowing into Ru River; as well as along the lower reaches of Ru River, although the river embankments have not been cared for for several years, there are no
causing floods.
However, as the water from Huili River rolled northward, Xu Huai stood on the newly built Zhaoling City Watchtower and could see that the water first submerged the depression in the north, forming a half-moon-shaped flooded lake with a radius of ten miles.
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The tips of countless trees were only slightly exposed in the turbid floods, like isolated islands.
Of course, the flood will not stop here, but will continue to flow north through the narrow shallow valley on the west side of Liutiao Slope, spreading to the left and right near Miaowang Valley, and forming a flooded lake stretching from east to west for nearly a hundred miles.
Huaishang and the four prefectures in western Beijing are generally affected by the Funiu Mountains and Songshan Mountains in the west. The terrain is higher in the west and lower in the east. At the same time, because the Funiu Mountains extend to the east, and the 300-mile Tongbai Mountains lie across the upper reaches of the Huai River, in the south
The formation of obvious terrain uplift, the terrain is higher in the south and lower in the north, making the upper reaches of the Ru River higher than the Ying River coast.
The special terrain means that once the Huili River is successfully intercepted and discharged to the north, the heavy rains that fall in the flood season in the eastern and northern foothills of Funiu Mountain will all be dumped along the Yingshui coast.
At the beginning, the flood was blocked by the remaining embankment on the south bank of Yingshui River, and spread mainly between Linying and Shangshui. However, as the upstream flood waters continued to release, the water level continued to rise, and soon it overflowed the remaining embankment on the south bank of Yingshui River and entered Yingshui.
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During this flood season, the lower reaches of the Yingshui River suddenly withstood an increase in water volume several times that of previous years. There was no time to discharge it into the Huaihe River. The water level rose rapidly, breaking down the river embankments on both sides, and discharged into the eastern part of Chenzhou and Yingzhou.
A large area of water is formed in the lower reaches of Yingshui River.
Floodplains are no longer something humans can avoid.
What's more, the Yingzhou enemy army also planted chun trees densely at the mouth of the Yingshui River to prevent the Chushan navy from attacking Yingshui again, which further restricted the downward flow of the flood.
Of course, after the Yuehailou Year, tens of thousands of young and strong civilians were urgently recruited to repair the embankment on the left bank of Yingshui River. However, the remaining embankment on the right bank had been in disrepair for many years, and the floods first poured out between Ruying and Yingshui, reducing the great pressure.
, overall, the disaster on the left bank of Yingshui River was much lighter.
The interception of the rivers caused the water in the Huai River to drain northward, forming a floodplain between Ruying and Ruying as a buffer, and the strategic goal of blocking the enemy forces in the west of Beijing became a reality at this moment.
Previously, the Ru River started from the time when the Huishui River and the Lishui River exited the Funiu Mountains and entered the low hilly area of Ye County, until it merged into the Huai River to the west of the Huai River. The main river channel was more than 500 miles long.
With such an open depth, the Red Husband Cavalry, who are good at penetrating operations, can bypass the warning of Chu Mountain at any time, cross the Ru River from any point, and approach the northern foot of Dafu Mountain, Jinding Mountain, and Dengtaijia Mountain.
In this case, there were only five or six thousand cavalry, and the individual combat capabilities of the Chushan Army were far inferior to the elite Red Husbands. There was no way to expel the Red Hussian cavalry; at this time, if they wanted to attack the Pingkuo area north of the mountains,
The only outcome of building forts and cultivating grain fields is to be eaten one by one by superior enemy forces crossing the Ru River, let alone controlling the fertile and open land along the Ru River.
When the enemy completely controlled the coast of Ru River, Chushan was forced to build a defensive line on the Golden Summit, Dafu, and lampstands among the mountains, and built strongholds to defend it. The entire square line was more than 400 miles long.
In fact, it will become extremely thin, making it difficult to take care of both the beginning and the end.
It is not difficult to hold the line of defense in a short period of time, but if the confrontation continues for a long time, the generals will be exhausted and trapped, and it is inevitable that they will lose sight of one thing.
However, the mountains of Jinding, Dafu, and Dengtai Mountains are far less majestic and stretched than Qinling Mountains and Funiu Mountains. They are easily penetrated by enemy scouts and destroyed, and the production in the hinterland of Tongbai Mountain will be greatly affected.
At this time, a floodplain with a radius of hundreds of miles was formed in the middle and lower reaches of Ruying River. On the one hand, it made it more difficult for the enemy to gain a foothold along the Ying River, forcing the enemy to invest a large amount of manpower and material resources into the long embankment on the left bank of the Ying River.
On the other hand, it is built and maintained to fundamentally block the possibility of enemy troops penetrating southward from the middle and lower reaches of Ruying and attacking.
Although from the west of Zhaoling to Xiangcheng, there are still 70 to 80 miles deep and shallow hills and mountains with higher terrain for the prisoners to march, but in such a narrow area, Chushan's input of a small number of manpower is enough to establish a complete warning.
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If a small group of cavalry wants to cross the Yingshui River from the direction of Xuchang and enter the area east of Xiangcheng and west of Zhaoling, Chushan can send superior cavalry to intercept it.
If thousands of captives cross the Ying River from Xuchang and go south, Chushan will have enough time to order the soldiers and civilians south of the Ru River to withdraw to the nearby walled city and hold on.
If thousands of captives dare to go to Suiping after crossing the Ru River, Chu Mountain can pass through Jinding, Dengtaijia Mountain, Wufeng Mountain, and the newly built post road before the North Ridge of Baitong Mountain to the east.
The line armor soldiers were transferred to the western front to block the northward retreat route of the captive cavalry, and carried out encirclement and annihilation with superior force.
However, with the obstruction of Ru River and Ying River, the enemy army did not capture Xiangcheng, Zhaoling and other cities, so they did not dare to cross the Ru River and invade south.
Although there is a short ice period every winter from the southern part of the Hehuai River to the Huai River. At that time, the red cavalry can more conveniently go south from any point along the Ruying coast. However, the autumn harvest has already been completed in various places by then, and not only ordinary people do not need to
Exposed to work outside the walled city, a large number of young men were organized from the fields into camps for training under the supervision of the Military and Horse Supervisory Department.
At that time, the soldiers dispersed and penetrated to attack, and there was no way they could find any advantage.
At the same time, the ice-free period in the southern part of the Hehuai River is very short, not enough to allow the enemy forces west of Beijing to enter the south of Ru River to launch large-scale military operations.
The formation of the floodplain area in the middle and lower reaches of Ruying actually concentrated the focus of the confrontation between the enemy and ourselves in the west of Beijing on the two cities of Xiangcheng and Zhaoling.
Chushan defends these two cities, and can intercept the upper reaches of the Shuili River and discharge it to the north every year, ensuring that the floodplain areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Ruying River will not dry up, and blocking the enemy forces in the west of Beijing to the north of the Ying River.
If the enemy forces in the west of Beijing capture Xiangcheng and Zhaoling, they will not only open up the route from the east foot of Funiu Mountain to the south.
Tao, it is also possible to redirect the Shuili River into the Ru River.
The Heluo Army guarded Xiangcheng for two years. Xiangcheng was the southeastern gateway of Heluo at that time, and the Zheng family also spent some money to strengthen the city's defenses. In addition, Xiangcheng was located in the shallow mountains at the southeastern foot of Songshan Mountain, and the terrain was dangerous, making it difficult to defend.
attack.
After Chushan took over the defense of Xiangcheng, it mainly built several small fortresses near the north bank of the water and in the mountainous area southeast of Mount Song. In addition to strengthening the defense system on the north bank of the upper reaches of the Shuishui River, it also facilitated the organization of soldiers and civilians for larger-scale settlements and reduced external threats.
Grain transportation pressure.
After the Battle of Ruying, Chushan focused on the construction of Zhaoling New City.
In addition to thousands of young and strong civilians, 15,000 prisoners of war devoted themselves to the construction of the city and the long embankment on the south bank of Sushui River.
In order to prevent enemy attacks, Chen Zixiao, Wang Xian, two elite troops, as well as Fan Zongqi and Wu Chihai each led a team of selected forward troops to garrison Zhaoling to ensure the smooth construction of the new city of Zhaoling.
Zhaoling New City is divided into two parts, the east and west. The west city is located to the west of Shiqu, built on the long slope of the north bank of the Nian River. It is six miles long from east to west and only four miles deep from north to south.
Taking into account that the Japanese soldiers had used trebuchets on a large scale to attack the city, the city walls that stood along the slopes of the main city were abandoned and covered with bricks, and a large amount of lime, grass clippings, and rammed earth were added. The city walls were only three feet high and six feet from the bottom.
It gradually narrows to the top, which is more than four feet wide, and is very thick; the flashy towers and towers are abandoned on the city wall, and all are formed into a solid war tent with a double-layer solid wood roof, and the foundation is integrated with the city wall.
Waihao is connected to the large flooded lake on the northeast side.
The East City is located in the southeast of Shiqu, built on the north slope of Xiaoquegang, across the old Shuishui River. The west city wall is built directly on the interception dam, and a channel is opened from the upper reaches of the Shuishui River, and the old road is introduced through the water gate to ensure that the Shuishui River and the Ru River are connected
There are still water channels connected, and they have not been completely cut off.
In this way, Dongcheng will become the center for controlling the Ru River, and the materials and troops of Suiping, Queshan and Qingyi Ridge Yingcheng will be able to pass through the Honghe River, Qingyi River and other tributaries of the Ru River and the main river channel of the Ru River
, passed through the east city of Zhaoling, entered the Shuishui River, and was transported to Xiangcheng.
The east and west cities of Zhaoling are connected by a suspension bridge.
The Ruishui River was intercepted and discharged to the north to form a floodplain that blocked the middle and lower reaches of the Ruying River Basin. Zhaoling New City was completed, and the defense line along the Chushan River along the Ru River was officially completed.
Although countless manpower and material resources were invested in the excavation of the stone canal and the construction of Zhaoling New City, which almost drained Chushan dry, considering that the Ru River defense line stretches from the upper reaches of Ye County and Xiangcheng to Ru River Entrance for more than 500 miles.
, eventually formed a very favorable situation for defense, and invested more than two million yuan in money and grain, which can be said to be extremely economical.
Han Gui boasted that he was good at canals and Jinliang affairs, but during this time by Xu Huai's side, he had an in-depth understanding of the entire project implemented by Chushan after taking over the defense of Huaishang, and the Ruying victory that shocked the world was only the beginning of this project.
The accessories are not only breathtaking but also breathtaking.
Xu Huai stood on the top of the East City and looked at the old Ru River Road. There happened to be more than a dozen boats entering from the East Water Gate.
Because Xu Huai was in the city, the boat went into the city to check very carefully. The team responsible for the inspection also ran to the city to report: "The boat is carrying materials transferred from Jingbei via Huangyang Lake..."
The taxes collected from local areas on Jianghuai, Jinghu and other roads were mainly in kind; therefore, the imperial court promised to give Chushan three million yuan of military supplies every year. In fact, it was mainly in kind that was converted into money and grain.
Lead a team to escort to the designated area in Huaishang for handover.
The dozens of ships carried mainly materials escorted by Anzhou to Huangyangzhai for unloading, totaling more than 160,000 yuan of money and grain. The team leader responsible for the inspection also took the list and submitted it to Xu Huai for review by Chen Zixiao.
Xu Huai took it and glanced at it. The list mainly included various crops, as well as cloth that was in short supply in Chushan. He was about to return the list to the team leader when he accidentally scanned the list and saw that two hundred and fifty kilograms were recorded at the end of the list.
"Silk iron", he was stunned for a moment: "What is silk iron? The discount price is more expensive than copper?"
"Is there anything in this world that I don't recognize?" Chen Zixiao laughed and said, "Silk iron, soft iron is drawn into silk, about the thickness of a fine hemp rope..."
Chen Zixiao led the team down the city wall and went to the boat escorting the supplies to get some physical objects of wire and iron to show Xu Huai...
