"What?" Sun Jichang had just rode a horse from Huangpi City to Xiongjiagang Camp to attend the military meeting. He walked into Shewenzhuang's tent. Before he could take a breath, he stared in disbelief when he heard Shewenzhuang's suggestion.
Looking at him, "The King of Fujian wants me to lead my troops out of Huangpi to attack the Huaidong Army's camp in Zhaohu Mountain? Why?"
"Except for Fengshan and Tiemen Mountains, almost all the troops and horses that can be gathered on the east bank of the Han River are gathered at Huangpi, while Huaidong's troops and horses in Luzhou don't seem to be mobilized," Shewenzhuang stood on the hanging wall with his hands behind his hands.
On the map, he pointed to Luzhou on the southeast corner of Huaishan Mountain, "General Sun didn't feel anything unusual?"
Sun Jichang was puzzled as to why Shewenzhuang mentioned this. In recent years, the Huaidong Army's attack on Huangpi City had never stopped. At this critical moment, Shewenzhuang summoned him out of Huangpi City because of this incident. He was somewhat dissatisfied.
He pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the hall, untied his armor collar which made him a little out of breath, and said: "According to the previous speculation of the King of Min, after the offensive against Huangpi was officially launched, Lin Fu should put him in the hut.
Tang Fuguan and Liu Zhenzhi from Tangzhou were transferred to Huangzhou to supplement the shortage of troops. However, in the past few days, the Huaidong Army's offensives against Huangpi and other places have shown no signs of weakening, indicating that the Huaidong Army has no shortage of troops.
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"But it is also obvious that the Huaidong Army failed to achieve breakthroughs from Baitahe, Huangpi, and Xiongjiagang!" She Wenzhuang said.
Meng Anchan, who was sitting on the sidelines, was a little unhappy after hearing this and said: "The King of Fujian supervised the battle in eastern Hubei. He assembled 120,000 infantry, cavalry and naval troops. The land they defended was less than a hundred miles, and the Huaidong Army could not break it. Isn't it normal?
Is it possible that the King of Fujian thought that the Huaidong Army should capture Baita River, Huangpi, Xiongjiagang or a place in Hanjin City?"
Sun Jichang said: "From what I can see, Lin Fu was not sure whether Hu Wenmu could hold Jingzhou beforehand, so he did not put his hope in Hu Wenmu's ability to hold Jingzhou - Lin Fu may be thinking about what to do after the fall of Jingzhou.
To clean up the mess, what would be the use of transferring troops and horses from Luzhou to Huangzhou? Is it possible that the Huaidong Army only has 20,000 to 30,000 more troops and horses in the south, and can capture Huangpi, but not Hanjin?"
Sun Jichang seemed to have forgotten that he was beaten like a dog by the Huaidong Army ten days ago and finally looked forward to coming to Shewenzhuang to lead the Shicheng reinforcements.
"General Sun makes sense," Meng Anchan said. He was not a reckless man who only knew how to charge into battle. He was the leader of the Yanxi generals, and he had his own merits. He said, "After Prince Mu captured Jingzhou,
As long as a small number of soldiers and horses are left to defend Jingzhou, other soldiers and horses can cross the Han River to join the battle on the east bank. At that time, the Huaidong Army will inevitably retreat and use the several fortresses it built in the early stage along the river to resist.
In order to contain our troops and horses. The Huaidong Army has fortifications along the Yangtze River with its back to the Yangtze River, and there are many tidal flats along the river, making it difficult to conquer quickly. We can only continue to consolidate the defense line in eastern Hubei, and the troops are directed to Huaixi. We naturally hope that Huaidong will
All the soldiers and horses from Luzhou were transferred to Huangzhou so that when we attacked Huaixi, Shouzhou had no support. The King of Min said that Lin Fu was a man who was good at planning, so it was not very good for him to put 30,000 elite soldiers in Luzhou and stand still.
Is it common sense?”
Shewenzhuang stood with his arms folded, knowing that Sun Jichang, Meng Anchan and the others did not take his warning seriously. They frowned and thought to themselves: Is this East China Sea Fox really thinking about how to clean up the mess after the fall of Jingzhou?
Sun Jichang and Meng Anchan's judgments were all based on Ye Jiluo Rong's successful capture of Jingzhou on the west bank of the Han River. The news from the west bank of the Han River was indeed very optimistic. As long as the Huaidong Army was defeated,
The main force restrains the east of Hubei and cannot aid Jingzhou in the west. It is only a matter of time that Jingzhou is captured sooner or later.
After the fall of Jingzhou, Lin Fu had to consider overall the defense issues of the nearly thousand miles of coastline on the south bank of the Yangtze River and Huaixi. Xiangzhou and Jiangxia were still Zhang Han and Hu Wenmu's defensive territories. Huangzhou, Qichun and other places had Chizhou troops to cooperate with Huaidong.
The army set the nail on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and the Huaidong Army mainly deployed heavy troops in Jiangzhou and Luzhou for defense.
Since Lin Fu didn't have much hope that Hu Wenmu could hold Jingzhou, why would he move troops and horses from Luzhou back and forth to disrupt his own position?
But, would Lin Fu's idea be that simple?
She Wenzhuang was very suspicious of this, but Meng Anchan and Sun Jichang were very optimistic about the war in Jingzhou, ignoring his worries and doubts, thinking: In their hearts, they might think that they had given Huaidong all these years.
Isn't it a bit shameful for the army to fight so badly?
Shewenzhuang originally planned to launch a counterattack from Huangpi and Xiongjiagang against the Huaidong Army's fortress outside Huangpi to test the Huaidong Army. However, Sun Jichang, Meng Anchan and others did not want to cause trouble before the Jingzhou War was finally won, so the military meeting was held.
Parted unhappy.
Generals such as Sun Jichang, Meng Anchan and Ma Kuide returned to the camp one after another. She Yuan looked at his aging grandfather and said, "Do you want to send more secret cells to Luzhou..."
She Wenzhuang nodded, but did not have high expectations.
To go deep into the hinterland to gather intelligence, it is best to find spies who are familiar with the local conditions and dialects to infiltrate.
After the Jiangning War, the last batch of informants deployed by the Zhejiang and Fujian Army in Jiangning were all uprooted, and it was difficult to find suitable candidates to infiltrate in a short period of time.
What's more, Huaidong has very tight control over the peripheral areas of Luzhou. After the alliance and the guarantee, it is extremely difficult for those unfamiliar with the situation to penetrate into Huaishan. Although Shewenzhuang sent a group of scouts to Luzhou after arriving at Huangpi, but in the past
For ten days, there was no news. He didn't hold out much hope for another dispatch, but he still had to do work...
Of course, even if the infiltrated scouts saw something, by the time the information was passed to Shewenzhuang, it would be too late.
In Xiangyang City, Azige was in a irritable mood and lost his temper at every turn. He asked the waitresses to be careful, for fear of doing something wrong and being scolded at every turn.
Azig's irritability was not because the battle on the front line was unfavorable, but rather because the news coming from the front line was too smooth, which made him feel unhappy.
The straight road from Jingzhou to Xiangyang is less than four hundred miles. Azige can know the battle situation in Jingzhou in time every day. Judging from the current battle situation, Hu Wenmu can last in Jingzhou city for at most three to five days.
After taking the city of Jingzhou, Prince Mu led the main force of troops to cross the Han River and march eastward. The Huaidong Army would inevitably retreat to Huangzhou and other cities along the coast. The supposed grand battle of Jingzhou and Xiangzhou would probably end with the capture of Jingzhou.
Coming to an end.
From the attack on Wuguan to the beginning of the Nanyang War, to the attack on Huangpi in Huaidong to the beginning of the Jingxiang War, Azige didn't win a single battle. How could he be in a good mood?
He didn't want to be a guard in Xiangyang. He wanted to fight on the battlefield and regain the glory he had lost in the defeat at Yannan.
However, the further south we fought, the greater the restrictions on cavalry, and the role of infantry camps and naval forces became increasingly significant.
In addition to Na He Xiongqi's naval control in Dengzhou, Prince Mu also expanded the navy on a large scale in Xiangyang, Shicheng, and Hanjin based on the She family's support of the navy, and eventually had to compete with the Huaidong water camp for the middle of the Yangtze River.
Upstream control.
In the next battlefield, how many opportunities are left for him to lead his cavalry?
Azig even hoped that the Huaidong Army's landing in Jingzhou would cause some setback to Prince Mu. He was ordered to guard Xiangfan, but he deployed 6,000 of the 8,000 elite defenders in Xiangyang on the south bank of the Han River, just in the hope of reinforcements for the Jingzhou battlefield.
opportunity, but unfortunately the main force of the Huaidong Army was contained at Huangpi, and the troops in Prince Mu's hands were enough to capture Jingzhou two or three times.
Azige was in a bad mood in the house, feeling unspeakably irritable. He felt that someone was peeking inside, so he stood up and suddenly opened the door, but his companion Sixiko was standing furtively in the corridor, frowning, unhappy.
asked: "What's the matter that makes you so sneaky that you don't dare to come in and talk about it?"
"Is the master in a better mood?" Sixi Zi asked, "The master is in a bad mood, and Sixi Zi does not dare to say nonsense?"
"If you fart quickly, if you fart if you don't, I will reward you with twenty sticks."
"Master Shen sent someone over to say that he accidentally found four singing girls. He looked at Shuiling and asked if the master was in the mood to listen to music. Si Xizi was supposed to go back for the master, but she heard that these four singing girls
The girl is really very smart, it’s not difficult for Mr. Shen to go there..."
"What's going on!" Azige was not yet at the age of indulging in women, and he didn't like Shen Haobo's flattering tactics, so he asked Si Xizi, "The intelligence from Jingzhou just came in. I took a look. There are people on the North Bank today.
Is there nothing I should know?"
"It's nothing important," Sixizi said. "All the people from Xiangyang have been sent to Jingzhou. Xiangyang, Fancheng, Xinye, and Nanyang are all short of manpower. The King of Xiangyang transferred 3,000 men from Chaishan, and they were lucky.
A batch of grain and grass came over, and I heard that Chaishan sent two thousand soldiers to escort it. Si Xizi just heard about it from Master Shen, and felt strange..."
"Is there anything strange?" Azig said nonchalantly, "All the young people in the hinterland of Suizhou have been drained. If we want to transfer people now, we can only transfer them from the east..."
In order to attack Jingzhou, Ye Jiluorong spent almost 20,000 surrendered soldiers and 40,000 to 50,000 civilians under the Jingzhou city, resulting in a serious shortage of logistics and miscellaneous troops to assist the siege. In order not to delay the war in Jingzhou, Ye Jiluorong could only
The manpower was transferred from Xiangyang, which caused Xiangyang to be depleted of manpower. Nanyang in the north had just been slaughtered, so they could only find Luo Xiancheng from the east to find a solution...
At this time, Luo Xiancheng sent people to escort thousands of people and a batch of grain and grass from Chaishan. Azig felt that there was nothing surprising.
Si Xizi said: "It's more than 600 miles away from Chaishan. How can it be said that people can be transferred here? Master Shen guessed that it might be that Luo Xiancheng just sent Chaishan's people to Suizhou. When he heard that there was a shortage of people here, he filled them first.
Come here. But Sixizi is strange again. Didn't Luo Xiancheng also complain some time ago that the rice and wheat in the fields lacked manpower to harvest? He also complained that this year's harvest was disrupted by the war and there was a shortage of food. Why did he suddenly become rich again?
, who also gives away people and food?”
"It's a bit strange," Azig nodded and said, "Go to the North Bank for me and have a look. Don't ask Luo Xiancheng to make up for it with some old and weak children and some old and rotten grain!" g@.