Wei Chujun served as Shangshu Youcheng and also led the envoys of the five routes. He also set up an independent office in Lujiang City. There were many officials to assist the left to ensure the money and grain rent of Jiangxi, Jiangdong, Jingnan, Jingbei and Guangxi.
It can be dispatched directly to Huaixi to make up for the huge consumption of the war.
Theoretically, Wei Chujun, like Liu Yan, has a higher status than other generals in Huaixi, second only to Xu Huai.
Luo Wang was a direct general who had followed Ge Boyi for many years, and his relationship with Wei Chujun, Ge Boyi's eldest son-in-law, was of course extraordinary. After the military meeting, he had nothing to avoid, so he went directly to Wei Chujun's residence to talk.
"Xu Huai's plan is to drain the firepower!" During the military meeting, Luo Wang saw that everyone could not oppose Xu Huai's deployment, and he was holding back his words. At this time, he went to Wei Chujun to pour out his bitterness.
At present, there are still a total of 25,000 reinforcements transferred from Jingnan to Huaixi. If Xu Huai's deployment is followed, it is equivalent to 60 people who will be out of the control of him, the highest commander in Jingnan.
Even if he misses Xu Huai's rescue from the siege, and even if there weren't so many grudges and entanglements in the past, he will never be happy in his heart.
"The top priority is to clear the siege of Shouchun first," Wei Chujun frowned and comforted Luo Wang and said, "You and Gao Juntang will lead your troops to Qingliu County and attack the flanks of the Japanese soldiers from Lianzi Mountain and Qingliu Pass. We can still capture some of them.
Initiative…”
"All the generals have no opinions and are left to their own devices?" Luo Wang asked.
It has been half a month since the siege of Lujiang was lifted, but before that, Lujiang had always been a target that the Japanese soldiers wanted to exterminate. As the commander-in-chief, Luo Wang also wore armor and went to the city to supervise the battle many times to stabilize the morale of the troops. He was at the city.
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He was injured by an arrow for the first time. After relieving the siege, while recuperating from his injuries, he led his troops to Wuwei County to rest and recuperate. He did not have time to think deeply about many things.
Wei Chujun just smiled bitterly after hearing Luo Wang's question.
At the insistence of Zhou He and others, the imperial court established the new post of Wuludu Envoy in mid-February. It had been a month and a half since he arrived in Tongling and took office, and he was still quite clear about the progress of the cross-river battle.
The early stage of the cross-river battle was very cruel. On the one hand, King Qin's troops and horses needed to be broken up to cross the river in batches. This was mainly due to the limitations of the space and terrain along the Yuxi River. On the other hand, the casualties of the generals crossing the river were so heavy.
Du Yuhou, a local general at the level of Du Yu, was unwilling to personally lead his troops into battle.
Even after landing and establishing shore camps and beachhead positions, senior generals preferred to stay in the safety and security of the Tonggu Mountain camp on the south bank, rather than set up simple camps to face the continuous counterattacks of the Japanese soldiers.
After King Qin crossed the river with his troops, for a long time the battalion commanders or lower-ranking generals were the main commanders.
At this time, the battlefield is divided into small areas, joint defense is carried out, and the commanders of the Jingxiang Army and the Suwei Forbidden Army have priority control over the joint defense and the Suwei Forbidden Army; not to mention the Jingxiang and Suwei Forbidden Army, as well as Wang Jun, Sun Yanguan,
Xiao Xun, Chen Jin and other commanders, and a senior general at the level of Du Yuhou crossed the river to supervise the battle.
In addition, the composition of the soldiers and horses of King Zhuluqin is based on regiment training and mainly rural soldiers, who "wear armor during war and return to the fields in leisure time". The generals and generals of King Luqin are not so sensitive to the control power of soldiers and horses.
Even the Huaidong generals from the original Shenwu Army, who harbored the greatest hostility towards Jingxiang (Chushan),
At this time, I had no intention of fighting for military control.
After all, they were transferred from Huaidong to Jingbei and served as Du Yuhou under the Military and Horse Deployment Department and the Military and Horse Supervision Department of various states. They were all commanders of such local senior generals. Under normal circumstances, they only commanded a small number of garrison troops.
, maybe only three to five hundred people.
Now, due to the fierce fighting and critical situation, the armies of various states have been rapidly expanded to four to five thousand men, but these are only temporary.
When the war ends or the situation is relieved, the 89 or 90-strong armies of the various states will be disarmed and return to the fields. At this time, they are fighting for military power. Don't they feel that their life is too rich?
Of course, the more critical thing is that Xu Huai, or Jingxiang, has the ability to bypass the deployment department of all the troops and horses, directly control and command the separated troops of King Qin, and achieve very good results, so that they have no
stance to question Xu Huai’s combat deployment as the coach.
And this is precisely what Wei Chujun is deeply afraid of.
For reinforcements in Huaixi, Beijing and Xiangdu did not use all their strength, not even vigorously. The number of directly mobilized troops may not be as large as that of the Suwei Forbidden Army.
On the one hand, Xu Huai wanted to arrange manpower to strengthen the control of the Suwei Forbidden Army. On the other hand, he wanted to bypass the military deployment department and go directly to the battlefield to effectively control the nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses. They were not under each other's control and the relationship was complicated.
All the troops and horses of the King of Qin, what kind of terrifying control and dominance is this?
Wei Chujun had been assisting Ge Boyi in military affairs for a long time. It can be said that his feeling or fear of this was much deeper than that of ordinary military commanders.
His only thought now is not to encourage anyone to fight against King Qin
He wanted to control the troops and horses, but wanted to relieve the siege of Shouchun as soon as possible.
At that time, all the soldiers and horses of King Qin, including all the rebels, will be returned to the local area, and there will be no dispute for control.
By then, even if Jingxiang does not hand over the military power of the Suwei Forbidden Army, and even if Liu Shiwang, Chen Jin, and the rest of the Communist Party are determined to follow Jingxiang all the way to the dark side, Xu Huai will only have 100,000 direct troops under his direct control.
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And after the siege of Shouchun is solved, the elite troops they have at their disposal will not be too disadvantaged.
What Wei Chujun could not imagine the most was that Shouchun fell, and Han Shiliang and Ge Yu's troops were annihilated by the Red Husbands. How bad and miserable the situation they would face would be.
Don't talk about the Gao family at that time, the Gu family will be easily bribed by the benefits provided by Jingxiang - as long as the benefits promised by Jingxiang are large enough and big enough, the Gao family and the Gu family will not have to work hard to protect Emperor Shaolong - Wei Chujun
It is suspected that even Gu Fan and Deng Gui may not be reliable in Chuzhou.
The two things Wei Chujun is most nervous about right now:
The first is to persuade Emperor Shaolong to appoint King Yin of Qi as his heir apparent, and to regain the support of the former emperor's former officials such as Hu Kai, Qian Zerui, Zhang Xin, etc. Even if they are allowed to remain neutral, it will be far more difficult than pushing them all to Beijing and Xiangzhou.
It's so much better in my arms.
The second is to solve the siege of Shouchun, and this is the real bargaining chip that makes Jingxiang and Xiangzhou fearful and restrain themselves.
Wei Chujun had not had the opportunity to explain the current delicate situation to Luo Wang face to face before, so it was a rare opportunity to talk to him face to face at this time.
After the lights were burned out and the sky was dawning, Wei Chujun dragged his tired body to send Luo Wang away...
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Zhong Changqing reined in his horse and stopped at the top of Jiangjun Ridge. He stopped and looked into the distance. On the grassland that had returned to spring and green again, there was a rather lush road.
The river meanders to the north, and another river flows to the south-east.
These two rivers both originate from Jiangjun Ridge at his feet, but their flow directions are completely different. The water flow is not very wide, but they are famous in history.
These two rivers are the Feishui River that frightened the 800,000 soldiers and horses of the former Qin Dynasty: the water vein that flows north through Shouchun and flows into the Huaihe River is also called Dong Feishui; the water vein that flows southeast into Chaohu Lake is also called Nan Feishui
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The two water veins of Dongfeishui and Nanfeishui were not connected originally. However, during the late Han Dynasty and the Cao and Wei Dynasties, when grain and fodder were transported to Hefei for the Jianghuai soldiers and horses, Cao Cao dug a canal to the east of Jiangjun Ridge to connect the two rivers - this canal
Also known as Cao Cao River.
The terrain around Jiangjun Ridge is still high, and the flow of the Feishui River is short. It is very difficult to maintain a high enough water level in the Caocao River for shipping.
After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, as the Hangou water transport system became increasingly mature, and the Central Plains relied more and more on the wealth of the Southeast through Hangou, the Central Plains dynasties did not have much motivation and spent too much money to maintain the Fei River canal.
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In the past hundred years, the Caocao River has been basically abandoned, and the Fei River has become two isolated natural rivers again.
However, at this moment, thousands of civilians have been driven over to the east of Jiangjun Ridge to dig a channel on the old site of Caocao River.
The reason for this is very simple. The Ruxu River connecting the Yangtze River to the south of Chaohu Lake has been completely controlled by the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasties. If this is not done, the naval warships will not be able to withdraw to the Huaihe River after withdrawing to the river west of Hefei, and will be completely reduced to
A living target for Jingzhou naval forces to attack.
Of course, Prince Pingyanzong's palace hopes to open up the waterway connection between Shouchun and Hefei.
Become a link to occupy Hefei for a long time.
However, Zhong Changqing did not think that they had any chance of occupying Hefei for a long time.
Even if they could annihilate Han Shiliang and Ge Yu's tribe in time and occupy Shouchun, Zhong Changqing felt that it would be more appropriate to shrink their defense line to Shouchun, or abandon Shouchun and completely withdraw to the north of the Huaihe River.
Because at this time they could not confirm that the Huaihe River would not be cut off by the armored warships from Beijing and Xiangzhou.
The development time of the Jingzhou Navy was very short. During this period, Jingxiang fought in high-level confrontation with Jingxi and Heluo for nearly two years. In such a short period of time, the Jingzhou Navy equipped at least more than thirty armored warships.
As time goes by, Jingxiang will equip more armored warships, and at the same time firmly control the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. What confidence does Chihu have that he can always control the middle and lower reaches of the Huaihe River?
Zhong Changqing was worried about the upcoming battle, and also noticed that at this time, there were numerous fast horses galloping from north to south towards the camp at the western foot of Jiangjun Ridge.
There were stationed the remaining 5,000 troops that Zhong Changqing had withdrawn from.
Because Jiangjun Ridge controls the source of the Fei River and is also a key point connecting Lu'an to the west, its strategic location is extremely important. Zhong Changqing was arranged to lead his troops to garrison here.
Zhong Changqing didn't know what urgent message was coming from the north. He looked at the setting sun in the west and went down the mountain with his guards. Halfway through he met a messenger coming from the camp:
"Prince Zong has arrived at the Shaopi North Camp and has specially summoned General Zhong to discuss matters!"
"..." Zhong Changqing was stunned for a moment, thinking that Brother Tu was supervising the battle in Shaopi North Camp, so where did he say that "the king of Zong has arrived at Shaopi North Camp"? He then thought about what the messenger said was Wu Lulie, the king of Zhennan.
, Fei Pingyan King Tu Ge asked in surprise, "Zhennan
Has Prince Zong arrived in Huainan?"
"Prince Zong and Commander Yue both arrived in Shouchun last night!" the messenger said.
