Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty-Second: The System Department
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The lamps and candles were burning in the office hall of Zhiji on Jinghu North Road. Zhizhi made Kong Changyu deploy all the troops and horses in Gaojuntang and mentioned some criminal and prison matters. All the main generals in northern Jingzhou were summoned to discuss the upcoming full-scale attack on the Dongjing thieves.
The army launched an offensive and suppression operation.
A dozen people gathered together and looked at each other in confusion as they looked at the two letters sent by the Privy Council and Xu Huaiqian's messenger. Most of them were silent and looked at Kong Changyu with subtle expressions, as if everything was decided by Kong Changyu.
His Majesty is in mourning. The Chief of Staff has just ordered Jiangxia City and the prefectures and counties under the Chief to carry out funeral arrangements in accordance with the regulations. An altar has also been set up in the Yamen of the Chief. Kong Changyu, Gao Juntang and other senior generals took the lead in changing into mourning clothes.
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No one expected that two days later, the Privy Council's edict ordering the expedition against the Dongjing bandits and the official letter written by Xu Huai in the name of Chushan camp and Nancai expedition control department would be delivered to Kong Changyu's desk, and Xu Huai
Huai only arrived at Nancai today, and even the seal of Nancai's conquest and control department was not carved out.
Xu Huai had no intention of discussing with the Jinghu North Road Construction and Construction Department, but directly informed the Jinghu North Road Construction and Construction Department in writing that he would order the Han River and other rivers to be blocked at any time after arriving in Nancai.
When will the Jinghu North Road Control Department mobilize and assemble troops and horses? Xu Huai will not interfere. There is no urge in the writing, but it is stated that Nancai's expedition to the Control Department will be blocked and the deployment orders will be issued.
Implement military control over the Han River, Hualing, Changlin and other rivers involved in Ying, Fu, E, Jing and other prefectures and counties, and civilian ships are prohibited from entering without permission.
In addition, Xu Huai requested the Ezhou Navy in the article not to enter the Han River without clear or even urgent operational needs, and agreed that the waters temporarily under the jurisdiction of the two divisions should be bounded by the mouth of the Han River;
The prefectures and counties provided unconditional cooperation to the expedition, including stationing in the city and collecting grain and fodder, etc.
The Nancai Expedition and Control Department would not waste time seeking the consent of the Jinghu North Road Control Department for specific matters. Instead, they would directly issue military orders to the prefectures and counties involved based on the needs of the war.
The conquest edict issued by the Privy Council did not give Xu Huai the power to control the troops and horses in northern Jing. The focus was on coordinated operations. In theory, Xu Huai needed to come forward to negotiate with the Jinghu North Road and Jinghu South Road Construction Department to come up with a specific combat plan, and then split up.
Implementation.
Xu Huai's message to the Jinghu North Road Construction Envoy was actually no different from a request for temporary control of the states and counties in western Jingxi. He did not even send a slightly influential figure to Jiangxia to explain to the Jinghu North Road Construction Envoy.
Kong Changyu was the zhizhi envoy, and his status was not lower than that of Xu Huai. What's more, Jinghu North Road was his territory. To launch an offensive and suppression campaign against the Dongjing coalition forces north of Jingjiang River, unless the imperial decree made it clear, he should also be zhizhi.
Secretary is the main one.
Because of Gao Juntang's relationship with the remnants of the Khitan, he was full of opinions about Chushan. Two months after taking office, he successively issued orders to restrict the scope of activities of the Nancai fishing fleet in the Jingjiang River and the Han River, and recommended Wang Fan as the military capital during the deployment.
, almost all the appointed military officers were rotated.
If it were him, Kong Changyu, Gao Juntang and others would definitely be furious after receiving this letter from Xu Huai. They would order all the states and counties to ignore Chushan's military orders - Chushan had no right to cross without a clear order from the court.
The control of the Production and Construction Department was brought to the hands of the prefectures and counties in Jinghu. They would probably write to the central government to impeach Xu Huai for indiscriminately invading the power and duties of the Production and Construction Department of Jinghu North Road.
However, His Majesty was recently mourned. After Xu Huai came to Beijing with an imperial edict, he ensnared the Zheng family and his son with lightning speed, and supported the king of Huai with other ministers. Kong Changyu, Gao Juntang and others had also learned about the relevant situation at this time.
How do they speculate on the relationship between Chushan and the Huai Palace? How do they view the fact that Xu Huai returned to Nancai with the Privy Council's recruitment order just after the burial of Emperor Jianji and before the funeral was over?
"Your Majesty passed away, and the Zheng family had ulterior motives and wanted to abolish the establishment. Although Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son have been detained by His Highness the King of Huai and the princes, it will not be easy for the Huaidong Army to properly deal with it. From this point of view, Dong
The Jing thief army really needs to be dealt with quickly to avoid causing chaos."
Kong Changyu saw that all the generals were silent, but this time he said with rare consideration,
"The ambition of Marquis Jingsheng, who refuses to obey his filial piety but sends troops to suppress the bandits, is truly tragic. We should follow his ambition vigorously - what do you think?"
"What the envoy said is true," someone took over Kong Changyu's words and said, "Your Majesty sent a secret edict to Xu Hou when he was critically ill. He must have never thought that the Dongjing bandit army was not destroyed, and the Holy Heart was uneasy - that's true.
We have failed in suppressing the bandits, and it is a shame that His Majesty cannot still care about Jinghu when he is about to leave."
The title of King Huai's successor as emperor has been determined, and the enthronement ceremony will be held after the funeral period.
Seeing that Kong Changyu and others were so naughty, Gao Juntang could not sing any negative tune at this moment and said: "Everything is as the envoy sees it."
"The Marquis of Jingsheng was saddened by His Majesty's death and urgently sent troops to comfort His Majesty's legacy. It is inevitable that there will be many omissions in the writing. To avoid any mistakes, we have to cross the river to meet with the Marquis of Jingsheng. We need to prepare for the battle."
Have a good time discussing..." Kong Changyu said.
The Dongjing bandit army raided Ezhou last year and caused such a big ripple in the north of Jingjiang River. At that time, Kong Changyu was just a transit envoy, but even if Xu Huai personally led his troops to defeat the bandit army entrenched in Qianchapu and settled in Nancai, he did not
Thinking about meeting Xu Huai.
At this time, not only did Kong Changyu not mind Xu Huai's domineering and rude writing, but he proposed to cross the river to Nancai to meet Xu Huai. Everyone knew what Kong Changyu was thinking.
When the King of Huai ascended the throne, he had to rely on his ministers to govern the place and govern the government. But the problem was that there were so many ministers, not everyone could rely on them.
The reason why Kong Changyu was promoted from a transport envoy to an independent envoy was not because of his reputation and power, but because Chushan established Nancai in northern Hubei. Zhou He and others were worried about Chushan's influence in the court.
There would be further penetration of Jinghu North Road, and Wang Fan had all the troops and horses deployed in a hurry and could not be transferred out, so he strongly advocated the establishment of a manufacturing department to monopolize the military and political power of Jinghu North Road.
With the Emperor and his ministers, King Huai ascended the throne, and Kong Changyu obviously did not think that he could really sit in the position of envoy.
And with so many things happening in Jianye these days, it is hard to imagine that Xu Huai and Prince Huai were still strangers...
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In the afternoon of the next day, Kong Changyu led ten generals from the Jinghu North Road System to cross the river and head north.
At this time, the Nancai Recruitment and Control Department had officially sent navy boats to block the Han River directly from the west dock of Nancai City at the mouth of the Hualing River, driving away merchants, fishermen and boats. At the same time, more than a hundred boats and boats were gathered in the past of Nancai City.
Ten miles away, thousands of craftsmen and laborers began to build pontoons to connect the east and west banks of the Han River.
In the downstream direction of the site for erecting the pontoon bridge, not far from the mouth of the Han River where it enters the Yangtze River, dozens of giant ships anchored in pairs on the water, and dozens of wooden piles more than several feet long were driven into the river bed.
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The wooden piles were driven into the river bed, and the surface of the water was less than ten feet. At the same time, a huge anchor with a weight of more than two or three thousand kilograms attached to a long rope was also connected to the river bottom to prevent the wooden piles from being washed away by the current; later, iron cables were used
Connecting these wooden piles will eventually form an iron chain blockade of the Han River to prevent boats from intruding into the upper reaches of the Han River.
The reason why this can be done is that in addition to the fact that there were no fixed dams on both sides of the Han River at that time, it was diverted many times on the Jianghan Plain, and the river bed was shallow and silted. After autumn, the water level further dropped, and the water flow was shallow and slow. Chushan was building weirs and embankments.
He has accumulated a lot of experience in water conservancy engineering and casting of large ironware.
Accompanied by Hanchuan County Magistrate Yin Yaozhi, Kong Changyu and others boarded the newly built embankment in the west of Nancai City. When they saw that Chushan did not take into account the opinions of the Jingbei Zhiji Division, they directly cut off the Han River.
His face couldn't help but twitch slightly.
"There is no delay in advancing and suppressing the bandit army. Xu Hou arrived in Nancai yesterday. After reading the orders of King Huai and the Privy Council, he decided on various strategies to advance and suppress the bandits overnight. Early this morning, surrounded by more than a hundred guards, he crossed the Han River to Hualing.
But I didn’t know that the envoy would come to Nancai..." Han Gui said to Kong Changyu and others with his hands in hand.
The recruitment of the main troops has not yet begun. Fan Zongqi, Wu Chichuan, Han Qihu and other generals are still staying in Nancai for the time being. Generals such as Wu Chihai and Wang Jun have led the selected vanguard knights to arrive in Nancai one after another today. They still need to
Nancai rested for two days, but Xu Huai would not wait until everything was ready before setting off for Hualing.
Of course, when Xu Huai, Wang Ju, Guo Junpan and others set off surrounded by guards and horses, Kong Changyu had already sent a messenger to Nancai Tong to meet and discuss the campaign, but Xu Huaidang did not receive the messenger
After passing the news, he directly crossed the Han River and headed westward.
Xu Huai was fully aware of why Kong Changyu and others lowered their posture at this time. He could also predict what kind of faces Kong Changyu and others would change after King Huai and many ministers in the court recovered. How could he be willing to waste time with them?
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The reason why it was Han Gui who came forward to deal with Kong Changyu and others was because Xu Huai did not need Han Gui to advise him. In fact, Han Gui was a Confucian scholar and it was too much for him to ride a horse for several days, so he temporarily stayed in Nancai to rest for two days.
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Xu Huai wanted to mobilize his troops to the west of the Han River as soon as possible before King Huai and others came to their senses and took back their orders. However, tens of thousands of troops were deployed and faced the Dongjing coalition from the north to maintain the offensive and suppression momentum.
It is not a simple matter and requires a lot of resources.
Nancai originally housed more than 200,000 hungry people, so it needed to regularly import large amounts of food from the outside to survive. This time, the financing time was too short, and the food reserves in Nancai were seriously insufficient to sustain tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on the Han River.
Time unfolds.
In addition to the need to immediately open a transportation channel from Wuyang through Nanyang, Xiangyang and into the Hualing River and Changlin River, we must also find ways to collect grain, fodder and other materials as locally as possible.
It is necessary to gain control of the states and counties north of the Jingjiang River and west of the Han River as much as possible before Kong Changyu and others turn their backs.
In addition to pretending to be arrogant and forcing Kong Changyu and others to bow their heads while not knowing the truth, Xu Huai ordered the blockade of the Han River. In name, it was to prevent thieves who were good at water warfare from invading Nancai. In fact, it was to prevent Ezhou from being invaded.
It is possible for the navy to enter the Han River and, if necessary, even directly cut off the channel between the Jinghu North Road System and Jingzhou, Xiaxia and Fuzhou...
