Zhong Changqing returned to the camp to explain briefly, then took more than a hundred guards and traveled with the messenger to the Shaopi North Camp at starry night.
Anfeng County, Shouzhou, located in the northern foothills of Huaiyang Mountain, has high terrain on its east, south, and west sides, while the terrain on its north side is low-lying, sloping toward the Huaihe River.
Every summer and autumn, there are heavy rains and flash floods, which often cause severe waterlogging in Anfeng and Shouchun counties. In years with less rain, the surrounding fields often do not get enough water because the terrain releases water too quickly.
irrigation, and droughts of varying degrees occurred.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Yin Sunshu'ao, the commander of the Chu State, organized people to build long weirs according to the mountain topography in the northern part of Anfeng County, intercepting all the mountain streams in the south in the low-lying areas in the northern part of Anfeng County. At the same time, he also opened canals to divert the Pihe River into the river, forming the first river in history
Shaopei, also known as Anfengtang, is a large-scale water storage irrigation project that has irrigated hundreds of thousands of acres of surrounding grain fields. It is also the most important grain-producing area in Shouzhou.
At dawn, Zhong Changqing arrived near Shaopi North Camp.
This is also the command center of the entire East Route Army in the Huaixi battlefield, and where the tent of King Tu Ge of Ping Yan Zong is located.
Changqing did not rush into the military camp, but instead rode up to a high hill at the northern foot of Longchi Mountain to look at the terrain on the left and right.
Shaopi North Camp is not under Shouchun City, it is still fifty miles away from Shouchun City, but Tu Ge set up his tent here, which is closely related to the topography of southern Shouzhou.
The north-south flow direction is roughly parallel to the Pihe River, Jishui River and Dongfei River on the south bank of the Huaihe River, dividing Shouzhou and neighboring Haozhou into three long and narrow areas, of which the area between the Pihe River and Dongfei River is the largest.
Important, it was also the only way for the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasties to break the siege of Shouchun.
Especially in the lower reaches of the Dongfei River, accumulated water formed Wabu Lake, which has the largest water area in Huainan except Hongzepu and is about 120 miles long from north to south. This basically eliminated the possibility of soldiers and horses from the Southern Dynasties approaching Shouchun City directly from the east wing.
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At present, their defense area in the Lu'an-Nanfeihe-Hefei area is still too wide, with a depth of more than 200 miles. At this time, Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai controlled the eastern and western flanks of the Southern Dynasty, with a total of 1780,000 troops. Zhong Changqing
He has absolutely no confidence that he can defend the Lu'an-Nanfeihe-Hefei defense line.
However, if they can make up their mind to shrink the defense line to the vicinity of Shaopi, then their interception defense line will suddenly be reduced to a narrow area of about 40 miles in depth between Feihe River and Dongfeishui River.
By then, the Shaopi North Camp will actually be able to better schedule and direct the deployment of troops and horses on this line of defense.
From this point alone, we can see that the Red Husband rose up in the desert in just thirty or forty years, and successively conquered Monan, Mobei, various tribes in the Western Regions, as well as the Khitan and Dangxiang countries, and it was no accident that their troops swept across the Central Plains.
However, the biggest problem right now is that there are existences in this world that are more evil than the Chihu people.
At this time, a group of cavalry came from the north. Zhong Changqing stopped and watched for a while before he saw clearly that it was Yue Hailou coming out of the camp with a dozen guards.
"The report said that a group of cavalry was coming, so I guessed that you came here overnight after receiving the message from the king. I couldn't sleep well in the camp, so I took the people out for a walk early in the morning." Yue Hailou got off his horse and walked over to find that
Zhong Changqing stood where he could have a panoramic view of the terrain on the left and right, and asked, "Do you think Liu'an is right now?"
-Hefei can’t be defended?”
Since the East Route Army moved southward, Zhong Changqing led his troops to be temporarily under East Route control, but he would write letters to Yue Hailou from time to time to report on the progress of the war on the southern front and his views on the changes in the situation in the Southern Dynasties.
However, Zhong Changqing would not express all his inner thoughts.
For example, he would not write it in the letter if the Liu'an-Hefei front line could not be defended. In the grand scheme of things, this would shake the morale of the military.
Now that they were meeting face to face, Zhong Changqing naturally did not need to hide anything in front of Yue Hailou. He frowned and said worriedly: "Currently, there are a total of 1780,000 soldiers and horses on the east and west wings of the Southern Dynasty. It seems that there are far more miscellaneous soldiers than elites, but
Marquis Jingsheng’s military management has long been beyond our ability to underestimate..."
Xu Huai's strategy on the southern front at this time basically had no secrets at all, and it couldn't even be said to be very clever. It was to actually remove all the warlords from all directions and give them command and control power above that of the envoys, so that the total number would be as high as ten.
King Qin's troops of ten thousand were divided into parts, with battalions as units, relying on the key nodes controlled by the Beijing-Xiang Army and the Suwei Forbidden Army to advance forward.
In addition to the previous attacks that forced them to abandon the defense of Dafan Mountain and withdraw from the Lujiang River, Xu Huaidu had already captured Shucheng, an important town at the eastern foot of Huaiyang Mountain.
They took it back, but still relied on the Southern Dynasty's more abundant material supply and more convenient material transportation, and used this tactic to push the troops northward step by step without being arrogant or impetuous.
Although Xu Huai has implemented this tactic from beginning to end, it may be delayed until two months before he can truly deploy his troops on the front of Nan Fei River, but the key problem is that they currently have no effective means to target this tactic.
The Jingxiang army is too strong. The Suwei Forbidden Army obtained a large amount of fine armor from Jingxiang. After the war equipment was replenished, the combat effectiveness was greatly improved. They had no advantage in field battles with them. They wanted to forcefully attack the Jingxiang army and Suwei who were holding strong positions
The elite Imperial Guards are even more unrealistic.
The soldiers and horses of King Qin of the Southern Dynasties were undoubtedly soft persimmons, but soft persimmons relied on fortresses and were not so easy to chew.
What's more, the elite Beijing-Xiangjun Army and the Suwei Forbidden Army coveted one side and did not give them a chance to surround and gnaw without any distractions.
Even though they still take advantage of the opportunity of King Qin of the Southern Dynasty to advance his troops and form camps to attack decisively, the possibility of defeating their defenses is getting lower and lower.
And because the soldiers and horses of King Qin of the Southern Dynasty were separated and pushed forward, even if they still had a chance to defeat one or two of the soldiers of King Qin of the Southern Dynasty who were advancing, they were completely unable to form a chain rout, and the results they could gain were very limited.
The impact on the overall situation is also minimal.
Not to mention that if they want to reap such results now, the price they have to pay is getting bigger and bigger.
Although it was generally believed within the Ping Yanzong Palace that the Southern Dynasties used this tactic to slowly advance their troops forward, and that they seemed to have nothing to do, they could just use this opportunity to attack Shouchun City with greater force, but Zhong Changqing was not convinced in his heart.
I agree that this is really a good opportunity for them to attack Shouchun.
A more optimistic judgment is that they can capture Shouchun City in two or three months. At this time, the southern armies on the east and west flanks can also attack the front of the Nanfei River and the Huaiyang hills east of Hefei and Feidong.
The belt unfolded, and the two sides formed a angled front more than 400 miles long on the land of Huaixi.
If this
This front was too long, which was not conducive to a long-term confrontation with the Southern Dynasties. They could also shrink their troops to the Shaopi and Wabu Lake areas.
The problem is that they haven't captured Shouchun City within three months?
At that time, Xu Huai will slowly and calmly shrink the defense line for them, instead of taking advantage of their exhausted troops to attack Shouchun and secretly transfer tens of thousands of elites from Rucai and other places into Huaixi, and suddenly go from Lu'an to Hefei.
By intersecting the north, it no longer gives them the opportunity to shrink their defense line to the north, but forces them to fight decisively on the north bank of the Nanfei River?
In addition, Zhong Changqing did not even think that capturing Shouchun and annihilating Han Shiliang and Ge Yu's troops was their best choice at this time.
"...This time the East Route Army made a surprise attack on the waterway and boldly rushed into the Yangtze River. It caused great disturbance to the Southern Dynasty and achieved great results. However, it did not fundamentally shake the foundation of the Southern Dynasty. Instead, it allowed Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai to gain control.
Opportunities for the Southern Dynasty's government. I am now worried that annihilating Han Shiliang and Ge Yu's tribe will not allow us to truly form an advantage over the Southern Dynasty, but will cause Emperor Shaolong of the Southern Dynasty to completely fall into Xu Huai's toy??????????
?????A puppet in the palm of your hand. When the time comes, what we have to face will no longer be Xu Huai who only controls the seven states of Beijing and Xiangzhou, but Xu Huai who controls the seventy states of the Southern Dynasties!"
Zhong Changqing stared at the foothills in the distance and asked Yuehai Tower,
"Why did King Zong come to see King Pingyan this time? He also realized that the Southern Dynasty had completely fallen into Xu Huai's control, and there would be real trouble, right?"
"In the middle of last month, the Great Khan was patrolling the Yin Mountains. King Zong went north to meet him. Then he came to Wancheng and summoned us to cross the Huaihe River to meet King Pingyan. But what happened was not explained in detail on the way." Yue Hai
Lou said.
"Has King Khan's attitude softened?" Zhong Changqing asked happily, not expecting King Khan to go south on a hunting tour last month.
The two-year confrontation in the middle route failed, and they even suffered greater losses. At that time, the Zhennan Zong Palace advocated negotiating peace with the Southern Dynasty. In fact, it advocated separating Jingxiang and the Southern Dynasty, while treating Jingxiang (Chushan) as
The most stubborn enemy of the empire paid great attention to it, and took advantage of the internal suspicion of Jing and Xiang in the Southern Dynasties and the power of rebellion to jointly contain and suppress the continued rise of Jing and Xiang.
However, the Zhennan Zong Palace's proposal did not receive a positive response, and even aroused a lot of contempt and ridicule within the empire.
Zhong Changqing originally thought that the empire would not change so quickly, but after hearing Yue Hailou say that King Zong came to Shouzhou urgently after meeting the Khan in the north, he couldn't help but guess that the attitude of the Khan had changed.
Yue Hailou has suffered too many losses at the hands of Jingxiang (Chushan) over the years. He also sympathizes with many of Zhong Changqing's thoughts and said: "It is still unknown what the attitude of King Khan is. Maybe he is not so persistent.
But there are some things that cannot be settled by the Zong Wang alone, and King Pingyan needs to be persuaded first. In addition, no one can say what kind of attitude King Jingpan will have..."
At present, Chihu's three-pronged armies are advancing parallelly against the Southern Dynasty. In the process of Chihu's rise and sweeping the world, the three sects of Zhennan, Pingyan and Jingpan have formed their own relatively independent military and political systems - obviously
Regarding the Southern Dynasty's military strategy, the three major kings could not reach an agreement, and the Khan's court could not easily use the final decision-making power.
