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In the monastery where Lin Fu was staying, Song Jia was sitting on Lin Fu's lap, slowly opening a map, looking back at Lin Fu, smiling charmingly, and said: "If Duke Wenzhuang sees this map, he might be able to identify it."
Will vomit three liters of blood!"
Lin Fu hugged the fragrant beauty in his arms, and saw that her skin was like mutton-fat jade, and her crow-like hair seemed to be shining like a waterfall under the lamp. He smiled and said: "This plan is also very dangerous, but in order to end it as soon as possible
In order to bring peace to China during the war, sometimes we have to take some risks..." Holding Song Jia's body, she felt the touching plumpness coming from the fragrant and warm beauty, and she had to calm down and deduce the next step based on the map.
The development of the war situation.
Although the trap has been set, whether more of the enemy's effective forces can be eliminated depends on whether the best opportunity can be grasped.
Compared with the map shown to Yue Lengqiu and Zuo Chengmu in the meeting hall, this map, which was only half the size of a long table when unfolded, also clearly plotted the route of the Huaishan Plank Road.
In order to ensure that the construction of the Huaishan Plank Road would not be leaked in advance, nearly 30,000 mountain residents were forcibly relocated from the mountainous area in western Luzhou and upstream of Motan River after the beginning of summer last year in the name of joint village guarantee.
Only by looking at this map can we understand Lin Fu's true intention.
"The Prime Minister Zuo is here!" At this time, Ru Jiang, who had grown into a beautiful girl, came in and reported. Seeing Song Jia sitting in Lin Fu's arms, a blush appeared on her face, as if she was sitting in Lin Fu's arms.
Like a fortress.
"Oh, please come in, Prime Minister Zuo." Lin Fu stood up, straightened his clothes, and asked Song Jia to stand aside to welcome Zuo Chengmu in.
Zuo Chengmu came to Qichun, ostensibly to represent the imperial labor force, but in fact he was still worried that Huaidong would trap Jinghu - there was a precedent in Nanyang, and both Hu Wenmu and Zuo Chengmu were worried that Lin Fu might trap Jinghu again.
Bundle.
Zuo Chengmu walked in, and there was no beautiful concubine standing by Lin Fu's side. He bowed and said, "Why did Chong Guo Gong summon me at night?"
Zuo Chengmu was the deputy prime minister and had the same rank as the privy envoy. However, as Lin Fu was the Duke of the country, Zuo Chengmu had to pay his respects first.
"You're welcome, Prime Minister Zuo," Lin Fu said with a smile, "I happened to have a beautiful picture in my hand, and I would like to invite Prime Minister Zuo to taste it together..."
Zuo Chengmu caught a glimpse of the map spread on the long desk, but there were only Lin Fu and two beauties on the left and right. Not only was Yue Lengqiu not present, but also Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others from Huaidong were not present. Lin Fu was looking for him.
How could they be discussing military matters?
Lin Fu naturally saw the confusion in Zuo Chengmu's eyes and extended his hand to ask him to sit in front of the case.
Zuo Chengmu once served as the envoy of the Jinghu system. He had no intention of separatizing the local area and establishing himself as king. In the early years of Yongxing, Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne in Jiangning and inherited the rule. He gave up his local power and became the prime minister of the court. At that time, he
I still hope to revive the imperial family.
At the beginning, Zuo Chengmu cooperated with Chen Xiyan tacitly, which also made the situation in Jianghuai greatly improved. When Emperor Yongxing became stubborn, he refused to listen to the advice of his ministers and insisted on using Xie Chaozhong to send troops to Huinan. Eventually, Huizhou and Jiangning were defeated. Chen Xiyan was defeated in Jiangning.
After the recapture, his energy was exhausted and Zuo Chengmu became disheartened.
After returning to Jiangning, Huaidong took sole charge of Jiangning's government. Although Zuo Chengmu did not do much, he was still more straightforward than Cheng Yuqian and others. Although he could not gain Huaidong's trust and had no intention of seeking refuge with Huaidong,
However, he was increasingly alienated from the officials of Emperor Yongxing and the Queen Mother, and had no intention of collaborating with them...
Of course, Zuo Chengmu's influence in Jinghu cannot be replaced by others, including Hu Wenmu and a series of Jinghu civil and military officials, many of whom were promoted by Zuo Chengmu.
Lin Fu once considered asking Zuo Chengmu to return to Jinghu to divide Hu Wenmu's power. However, Zuo Chengmu was not moved by the power, but he was a strong man. Even if he was idle in Jiangning, he would not return to Jinghu to disrupt the situation.
In terms of character, Zuo Chengmu is more worthy of recognition and trust than Yue Lengqiu.
Lin Fu would not show the map on the long desk to Yue Lengqiu, and there was no need to show it to Yue Lengqiu, but he could not show it to Zuo Chengmu.
The key to the whole plan is to definitely call Yan Hu and She She, Luo is unaware of the existence of the Huaidong Plank Road, and the other is to have Hu Wenmu be able to defend Jingzhou.
As a general, normal military deployment will be in an echelon arrangement - only the longer Jingzhou is defended and the more fierce Huaidong fights on the east side of Hubei, the more likely it is possible to gradually attract the main troops of Beiyan, She and Luo.
Come to the front.
Obviously Hu Wenmu will not leave Jingzhou to Huaidong for defense, but depends on the strength of the Jinghu Army. How long can it hold Jingzhou? Will it be unable to withstand the fierce attack of Yanhu and abandon Jingzhou and withdraw? Lin Fu
There is no absolute certainty at this time.
Once Yan Hu is asked to capture Jingzhou, and after September, the large wheat fields around Jingzhou enter the autumn harvest period, the entire plan will be greatly compromised and it will be difficult to achieve the expected results.
At present, the one who can convince the people in Jinghu to stick to Jingzhou as much as possible is Zuo Chengmu. Of course, Huaidong must also take practical actions to strengthen the determination of the people in Jinghu to stick to Jingzhou.
Lin Fu stretched out his hand and asked Zuo Chengmu to look at the map.
Zuo Chengmu knew military affairs and quickly saw the difference between this map and the large map they saw in the meeting hall before dark. This was not surprising, and even Zuo Chengmu's self-cultivation was shocked.
With a shake of his hand, he knocked over the copper oil lamp on the table.
The fire was extinguished, but the hot lamp oil splashed onto Irie's instep, causing the girl to scream in shock.
Lin Fu waved his hand and called the guards who rushed in after hearing the sound to go out. He picked up the copper oil lamp and asked Song Jia to take it and light it again.
Fortunately, there were many candle lights in the room, which did not affect the lighting. Lin Fu looked at Zuo Chengmu and said with a smile, "What do you think, Prime Minister Zuo, of this plan?"
Zuo Chengmu then calmed down and looked at the map carefully. In fact, it was not much different from what he saw during the day. It was just that a winding road connecting the northwest of Luzhou and the southeast of Suizhou was marked in the Huaishan Mountains.
Zuo Chengmu took a breath of cold air, raised his head and asked Lin Fu: "How many troops can be sent along this route?"
"Only three to five thousand people!" Lin Fu didn't tell the complete truth to Zuo Chengmu.
"That's enough!" Zuo Chengmu said without thinking too much, "Three to five thousand dead soldiers have sneaked into the heart of the country. As long as the timing is right, they can cut off their food routes! Now Xiangsui and other landowners are seriously short of food, and Yan and Hu's army is heading south.
Twenty or thirty soldiers and horses consume a lot of food, so they can only rely on transporting food from the rear. Duke Chongguo can send dead soldiers to sneak into his heart, even if he only needs to intercept and burn a batch of Yanhu's food and grass, he can call Yanhu's soldiers and horses in
The front line is untenable, but the siege of Jingzhou is not difficult to break!"
Of course, Zuo Chengmu would not have thought that Lin Fu had built a passage for sending troops through Huaishan. He could imagine that someone under Luo Xiancheng had asked Lin Fu to bribe him, thinking that three to five thousand elites had passed through Huaidong in batches and lurked in Suizhou.
Waiting for the opportunity to take action.
"That's what I mean," Lin Fu said, "but this plan is too dangerous. If the news is leaked, it will be difficult to succeed. On the contrary, it will cost thousands of people's lives. So although I hope that Jingzhou can hold on, I can't ask the people in Jinghu to
Someone revealed this plan..."
Zuo Chengmu nodded, frowned and thought for a moment, then asked: "Is General Chaishan the king prime minister of the Changle Bandit together with Zhong Rong?"
Lin Fu nodded, secretly feeling that although Zuo Chengmu was on the sidelines in Jiangning, he did not ignore the situation in the world at all.
"With the king helping Huaidong, why don't you send troops to attack Fengshan at this time?" Zuo Chengmu said.
Lin Fu secretly felt a headache. To tell a lie, he had to use a hundred people's lies to cover it up, especially for a well-informed and quick-thinking person like Zuo Chengmu, but he couldn't completely reveal the truth to him.
Lin Fu said: "The Prime Minister and Chen Hansan are not on good terms, so it is difficult for Chaishan's partial army to attack Fengshan. Chaishan's partial army can only use one attack, and if it fails, this strategy will fail. Rather than risking an attack on Fengshan at this time, it is better to wait
When the enemy is negligent, cut off his food path!"
After weighing the situation, Zuo Chengmu felt that what Lin Fu said was reasonable, and it was obviously more in Huaidong's interests to intercept the Yan and Hu armies' food routes and disrupt their positions after they gathered on the southern front.
Zuo Chengmu told the truth sincerely, saying: "Jingzhou is still the foundation of Jinghu Lake. If we don't defend it, Jiangxia will turn Ezhou into ruins. Wen Mu is worried about it. Duke Chong has two strategies to advance and retreat in his attack on Ezhou. Since I know that Chong
The Duke has an ambush in Chaishan, and he will advise Wen Mu not to worry too much!"
"Everything depends on Zuo Xiang's decision." Lin Fu said, and after talking for a while, Zuo Chengmu left and went back to the post house to rest.
Lin Fu couldn't rest yet, so he sat down and studied the map.
"Why not use the left prime minister?" Song Jiayi came over and asked.
"This old man is too straightforward, which is not a good thing," Lin Fu said with a smile, asking Song Jia to sit on his lap again, and they looked at the map together, pointing to the direction of Suizhou City, and said, "Don't think Luo Xiancheng has nothing to do with living in Suizhou these years.
A great achievement, but its strength should not be underestimated!"
Luo Xiancheng was as famous as Liu An'er in his early years. He traveled across the Central Plains and Hunan and Chu, and defeated local officers and soldiers until they abandoned their armor.
When Liu An'er led his troops into Huaisi, Huaidong joined forces with the Changhuai Army and the Liang family. Fortunately, Chen Hansan was lured to betray him, and he successfully trapped and killed Liu An'er outside Xuzhou City and disintegrated the Huaisi refugee army.
For a long time, except for Jinghu, no one from Huaidong, Huaixi, or Luzhou could spare their troops to invade Chao Luo Xiancheng. Relying only on Jinghu's troops, he could only fight with Luo Xiancheng's troops in Hubei.
In the east, there is a tug of war on both sides of the Han River.
For a considerable period of time, although the Jinghu Army occupied Hanjin, Huangpi, Huangzhou and other cities on the north bank of the Yangtze River, most of the area in eastern Hubei was reduced to a buffer zone between Jinghu and Luo Xiancheng, and was reduced to wasteland.
The line from the southern foot of Dahong Mountain to Tieshanmen and to Chajunshan and Qishan became Luo Xiancheng's peripheral defense line to defend Jinghu Army and control Suizhou. Luo Xiancheng rested behind this line of defense in his early days and became the strongest in the past two years.
Stronger than the Huaisi Liuming Army in its heyday.
However, Qichun and Huangmei in the southeast corner of Eastern Hubei were far away from the central area of Suizhou. Luo Xiancheng deliberately turned these areas into ruins. It was not until Chen Hansan led his troops to enter that they regained some vitality.
After the She family crossed north, in addition to controlling Qichun, Luotian, Bahe and other remaining cities in eastern Hubei, they also captured Hanjin, Huangpi, Huangzhou and other cities from Jinghu, thus fully occupying Hubei.
Eastern region.
This time, Chen Hansan abandoned Qichun and Huangzhou was a city close to the Yangtze River. He was afraid of the powerful attack power of the Huaidong Army relying on Shuiying to attack along the river, so he withdrew hundreds of miles to the northwest. In fact, he was on the eastern front of eastern Hubei.
After retreating to Luo Xiancheng's defense line against the Jinghu Army, there is now a defensive stronghold that can be used, the terrain is also steep, and there is the Suizhou hinterland behind it to rely on. It is also deep with the Yangtze River to avoid being directly attacked by the Huaidong water camp.
However, at the west end, the Hanjin, Huangpi and other cities that the She family captured from Jinghu were intact, so they did not retreat to the southwest foot of Dahong Mountain. Instead, they used the mountains and rivers of Hanjin and Huangpi to blockade the Han Dynasty.
The water branch and the key point from Huangpi into the Hanshui River Valley at the western foot of Dahong Mountain.
Hanjin (today's Hankou, Wuhan) is an alluvial plain formed by the flow of the Han River into the Yangtze River. There are lakes and swamps there, patches of sand, and the water regime is extremely complex.
The She family had neither the intention nor the courage to use the navy to compete with Huaidong on the Yangtze River, but it could still be done by sinking ships, digging hidden piles, and blocking the main channel from the Yangtze River to the Han River.
If the She family does not defend Hanjin, as long as the infantry of the Huaidong Army can enter both sides of the Han River, it will take up to ten days and a half to clear the obstacles at the entrance of the Han River and open up the channel so that the Huaidong warships can enter.
The battle on the Han River - this is obviously not what the She family and Yanhu want to see.
Therefore, to block the river, we must build forts near the shore. The She family blocked the waterway at the mouth of Hanshui, and Hanjin City is the place where the She family must defend. Otherwise, the Huaidong warships can directly reach Xiangfan through the Han River.
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Of course, Hanjin is not the only place where the She family can block the lower reaches of the Han River.
Shicheng (today's Zhongxiang), three hundred miles northwest from Hanjin, is also an important city on the east bank of the Han River. It is also located at the foot of Dahong Mountain and has the function of blocking the Han River Valley.
However, Jingmen on the other side of Shicheng is the key point in the north of Jingzhou. It is guarded between the eastern foot of Jingshan Mountain and the west bank of the Han River. It is the peripheral pass to defend Jingzhou.
Considering that Jingmen might not be able to be conquered smoothly, the main force of Yanhu soldiers and horses wanted to bypass the Jingmen pass and attack Jingzhou directly, so they could not block the Han River channel near Shicheng in advance.
After Beiyan captured Nanyang, they would directly attack Jingzhou and build defense lines to protect their flanks at Hanjin, Huangpi, Tiemen Mountain and Fengshan. This was something Lin Fu and the others could foresee in advance.
Lin Fu's most fundamental purpose this time is to make Yan Hu, as well as the She family and Luo Xiancheng's troops, attract more troops to the east of Hubei while attacking Jingzhou - Luo Xiancheng will also attack north of Tongbai Mountain
Retain some troops and horses to cooperate with Chen Zhihu's troops to contain Dong Yuan's troops in Huaixi - in this way, the three armies of Yanhu, Shejia and Luo Xiancheng, with a total strength of 400,000, actually formed a pattern that was concentrated on the north and south sides and the central area was empty.
Not only would Luo Xiancheng's garrison in many cities in the heart of Suizhou be greatly reduced; after Yanhu moved south, as long as he did not realize that his flanks would be threatened, he would not be able to leave many troops to defend Xiangyang, Fancheng, Xinye, Nanyang and other cities.
From Chaishan to the west, passing through Lishan, Suizhou, Zaoyang, and all the way to the hinterland of Xiangfan, an area of almost six to seven hundred miles in depth will become a hollow area without troops to garrison.
The Huaishan Plank Road can deliver tens of thousands of Huaidong elites stationed in the northwest of Luzhou directly through Chaishan to this hollow area.
Everything is well planned, and the worst-case outcome is that even if Suizhou City cannot be captured, a force of tens of thousands of elites suddenly rushes out from behind and cuts off the retreat, which can cause chaos to the enemy troops entering the eastern Hubei defense line. Together with the Huaidong Army,
It will be easy for the main force to unite with the Chizhou Army to violently attack the Eastern Hubei defense line from the front and defeat the enemy troops entering the Eastern Hubei defense line.
Of course, Lin Fu's expectations this time were even greater. He wanted Yan Hu to make a big mistake in Jingxiang and reverse the balance of power and the pattern of the confrontation between the north and the south in one fell swoop.
Of course, if the main force of Yan and Hu does not attack Jingzhou after taking Nanyang, but instead all the soldiers and horses rush directly to the east of Hubei, hoping to fight the main force of the Huaidong Army, it will be even more like Lin Fu's intention.
The main force of Yanhu attacked Jingzhou, and its food road was on the west bank of the Han River. The food road was relatively short and straight. Unless Luzhou's soldiers and horses could directly capture Xiangyang and Fancheng, it would be possible to cut off its food road; while the main force of Yanhu went straight to
Coming from the east of Hubei, the grain road is on the east bank of the Han River, which is straight and long. It will be easy for Luzhou's strange soldiers to cut off the grain road.
The combined Huaidong and Chizhou armies numbered hundreds of thousands and were stationed along the river. Even if Yanhu mobilized 400,000 troops and went south together, it would take more than ten days and a half to wipe out all of Huaidong's 100,000 elite troops.
However, the main forces of Yan and Hu have gathered in eastern Hubei. Once the food route is cut off, it will be extremely difficult to persist for ten days and a half.
Considering that it was very difficult for Yanhu to transport grain to the south, and the amount of grain they could collect from the hinterland of Suizhou was extremely limited, and the Huaidong Army fought along the Yangtze River and could either advance or retreat, Lin Fu believed that Yanhu could not be so stupid.
Head straight to the east of Hubei to seize the power of Jingzhou.
Even if there is no Huaidong plank road to send out surprise troops, if Yan Hu concentrates his troops and goes straight to the east of Hubei, the Huaidong army will probably go to Qichun, and the Huangmei line will shrink, and Yan Hu will definitely be able to return without success.
Lin Fu and Song Jiazheng were seriously deducing the battle situation. At this moment, Gao Zongting broke into the room. He did not care about avoiding suspicion and said breathlessly: "Nanyang City was defeated. Liang Chengchong led his troops to Biyang to break through, and they were defeated in Tang Hebei.
I don’t know whether I am alive or dead; Ye Jiluorong ordered the massacre of Nanyang City for three days the day before yesterday!”