The all-round general offensive aimed at tearing through the Baita River-Huangpi City-Xiongjiagang defense line will be delayed for a day or two, waiting for fighter jets from the hinterland of Jingxiang, but a regular offensive will continue to exert pressure on the enemy forces along this line of defense.
It won't stop.
On the contrary, Chen Zhi, Yu Wencheng, Zhang Jiheng, Zhang Gou and other frontline generals even used their battlefield dispatching rights to increase their offensive on Baitahe, Huangpi City, Xiongjiagang and other lines in order to warm up for the upcoming general offensive.
By the 20th, the Chaishan ambush was no longer a secret to the ordinary generals of the Huaidong Army. After all, Lin Fu had to fully mobilize the entire army before the general attack. In fact, starting from the 18th, the Jingxiang strategy was
The overall plan, step-by-step from top to bottom, was announced to all the generals - there were 50,000 Huaidong elites waiting for them to join forces in the hinterland of Jingxiang, waiting for them to win the final victory together and enter Jingxiang.
The Hulu and their lackeys in the area were wiped out, and the strategic pattern of confrontation between the North and the South was reversed in one fell swoop. There is probably no news that can directly inspire people and boost morale than this news...
The logistics support of Huangzhou City in the entire front base camp, in addition to the 10,000 forbidden camp troops led by Zhao Hu, was also stationed at a larger scale of transport troops, craftsmen and a large number of civilian officials. Fu Qinghe
He stayed in Huangzhou to take charge of the general administration, and Zuo Chengmu served as an envoy to observe the army. During the war, he spent more time in Huangzhou city.
The mobilization order issued by Lin Fu regarding the general attack on the enemy forces in Jingxiang was not officially posted in Huangzhou City until the 20th, notifying civilian officials and labor teams. It was not until this moment that Zuo Chengmu was notified by Fu Qinghe to Huai.
The true scale of the Eastern Army's lurking troops in Chaishan.
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At this moment, what else could Zuo Chengmu say, staring at the map. Even if he told Fu Qinghe the truth face to face, nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses would have to directly cross the most dangerous middle mountain range of Huaishan Mountain from their hometown in the northwest of Luzhou to lurk on the eastern edge of Suizhou.
It was all an unimaginable thing for Zuo Chengmu.
It can only be said that Lin Fu used a huge amount of unimaginable resources to carry out this plan, and designing this plan to lure Yan Hu into the trap itself required imagination beyond ordinary people.
In order to carry out this plan, Huaidong used such a huge amount of resources and even bet the outcome of the battle between Jing and Xiang on this plan and placed great expectations on it. Will Lin Fu reveal this to himself in advance?
Zuo Chengmu's mood was extremely complicated at this moment, with inexplicable loss, depression, and worry for the Hu Wenmu people and Jinghu troops guarding Jingzhou.
Even if we immediately send people to Jingzhou to announce the news and boost morale, and with the determination of Jingzhou generals to defend the city, it will still take three days to reach the gate of Jingzhou city by waterway as quickly as possible. According to Lin Fu's plan, the main force of Chaishan soldiers and horses should be
If we attack Suizhou today, no matter whether we can successfully capture Suizhou City or not, the true details of the troops lurking in the hinterland of Jingxiang in Huaidong will not reach Jingzhou until three days at the earliest - this means that in the Han Dynasty
Ye Jiluorong on the west bank of the river will continue to be kept in the dark during these three days and attack Jingzhou fiercely.
The only good news is probably that even if Ye Jiluorong captures Jingzhou City, it is impossible to massacre the city: first, Ye Jiluorong will not have enough time to massacre Jingzhou City, and secondly, Ye Jiluorong will have to break through in a short time
The encirclement formed by Huaidong on the Fancheng line is difficult. It needs to stay on the west bank of the Han River for a long time to control a complete Jingzhou City, which is more beneficial to the withdrawal of the Yanhu troops on the west bank of the Han River to the north.
As for the enemy troops on the east bank of the Han River, Zuo Chengmu really couldn’t see that they had any chance of escaping to life. Maybe ten or twenty thousand of them would escape in the end, right? Zuo Chengmu thought to himself, but he also knew that this battle would be detrimental to Jingsheng.
As for the Hu Army, maybe Hu Wenmu and a few others would withdraw from Jingzhou at the last critical moment, but the main force of the Jinghu Army was destroyed in Jingzhou City. Jingzhou and the surrounding cities of Jingzhou were withered and broken in the war. Jiangxia and Ezhou on the south bank were also destroyed.
Due to the over-exploitation of military potential in the war, Jinghu's forces were actually half disabled from now on...
Can you accuse Lin Fu of borrowing a knife to kill people? Can you say that he is wrong? Zuo Chengmu felt bitter in his heart. He was speechless for a moment and faced Fu Qinghe. He only said: "I will immediately send someone to Jingzhou to inform him of this matter, so that he must stick to Jingzhou.
, waiting for victory..." I secretly hoped in my heart: Hu Wenmu, Hu Wenmu, your left foot is for life, your right foot is for death, it depends on whether you can grit your teeth and hold on for this critical three days...
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When Sun Wenbing returned to Jiangzhou, he detoured to Qichun and informed Yue Lengqiu, Deng Yu, Yue Zhi and other members of the Chizhou Army about the overall strategy for Huaidong, and ordered the Chizhou Army to surround Fengshan so that Chen Hansan could not escape.
Chance.
Sun Wenbing sent a letter on behalf of Huaidong and then left, leaving Yue Lengqiu, Deng Yu and Yue Zhi who looked at each other in silence and didn't know what to say.
After more than a month of repairs in Qichun City, some buildings could be used for official duties, so Yue Lengqiu moved the carriage from the low and inconvenient tent to the repaired Qichun County Yamen.
At this time, the north wind was howling. At the end of mid-October, it was already winter, and it was getting colder outside. However, the white dew and frost had disappeared under the warm sunshine of early winter. It was exactly when the temperature was high at noon. Yue Lengqiu and Deng
Yue Zhi had many indescribable emotions in the room.
Shocked, shocked that Huaidong could pull off such a plan to hide the truth from the enemy, shocked by how many resources Huaidong had to invest in Luzhou to quietly send 50,000 soldiers and horses into the hinterland of Jingxiang before the war?
Afraid, afraid of who in Huaidong can be the enemy after the battle of Jingxiang? Who else in the world can restrain Lin Fu?
Lin Fu didn't notify Qichun until the last moment, and also handed over an order to the Chizhou Army to annihilate Chen Hansan in Fengshan.
I suspect that all this is because Lin Fu wants to deceive Qichun. There is no Huaidong ambush in the hinterland of Jingxiang, but it is just to induce the Chizhou army to fight with Chen Hansan...
"Is it possible that the Privy Council intends to injure both the Chizhou Army and Fengshan Chen Hansan?" Yue Zhi spoke less restrainedly in front of Yue Lengqiu, and expressed the questions in his heart. He still did not believe that Huaidong could do so quietly.
Send 50,000 troops and horses into the hinterland of Jingxiang.
Yue Lengqiu closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "You go to the front base to prepare for the attack on Wuyunhe and Fengshan. Even if the news is untrue, we will attack Fengshan after the Huaidong Army launches a general attack on Huangpi...
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Lin Fu's general attack on the Baitahe-Huangpi-Xiongjiagang defense line will take place in the next two days. It is already too late to send scouts and explore horses to the hinterland of Luzhou or Jingzhou for verification. However, as long as the main force of the Huaidong Army in Huangzhou attacks the Baitahe-Huangpi
-The Xiongjiagang defense line launches a general attack, then eight or nine are inseparable.
Deng Yu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "How can the Chizhou Army follow suit and win a great victory..."
Yue Lengqiu nodded. Normally, he should have thought through some things, but when it came to the end, he still felt a lot of unwillingness, so he felt depressed, but he should have thought through it.
After the defeat of Songyang, the Chizhou Army no longer had an independent position: it could not violate Lin Fu's overall strategic arrangements before; when the battle of Jingxiang was about to win, it was even less able to violate Lin Fu's orders.
Then we can only follow Lin Fu's orders to attack Chen Hansan's troops who are guarding Fengshan. Even if it doesn't work, Chen Hansan must be tightly trapped in Fengshan so that his troops cannot escape.
The meaning of Deng Yu's words is also very obvious. As a general leading troops, his desire for victory is stronger and more direct than intrigues...
Chen Hansan completely blocked his retreat in Jiangning. He will definitely struggle to the death, and he will definitely be trapped and fighting. The Chizhou Army may suffer heavy casualties as a result, but for Deng Yu and other Chizhou Army generals, instead of thinking at this time
In order to preserve the strength, rather than being unable to draw it out in external fights, it is better to use a hearty victory to wash away the shame caused by the Huinan and Songyang defeats.
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In Suizhou City, there was a group of about 5,000 soldiers and horses. At this time, the tail of the group had just walked out of the east gate. The group rushed along the post road in four columns and spread out for more than two miles. The soldiers at the head of the line carried green and black banners and spread them out in the wind.
, the sound of hunting; these are Luo Xiancheng's direct soldiers and horses who stayed in Suizhou. They are all well-equipped and the chosen soldiers are strong. They look strong and majestic. They are completely unaware that this will be a point of no return and death.
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Luo Wenhu sent Zhou Sheng (Gou Sheng) to Suizhou to ask for reinforcements, declared the king and rebelled, and led the Huaidong Army to sneak in from the Fohou Ridge line in the middle of Huaishan Mountain. One part attacked the grain road in Fancheng, and the other part attacked Lishan - Luo Wenhu was in Lishan
Unprepared, he asked Prime Minister Wang to lead 3,000 enemy troops to seize the east city. However, he still led the defenders to defend the west city and refused to retreat. He asked Suizhou to rush for reinforcements.
Luo Xianyi, Ma Zhen and others who stayed behind in Suizhou City were shocked when they heard that Wang Xiang had rebelled, but they immediately confirmed that it was true because it matched Wang Xiang's words and deeds before the war.
They could not imagine the possibility of tens of thousands of Huaidong troops sneaking into Chaishan on a large scale. Luo Xianyi was a younger brother of Luo Xiancheng. In his early years, he followed Luo Xiancheng in smuggling salt and often traveled between the Huaishan Mountains. Naturally, he knew the Buddha in the middle of the Huaishan Mountains that isolated Luzhou.
Monkey Ridge is so steep and tortuous that even if a team of one or two hundred people wants to cross Fohou Ridge to Luzhou, it will take more than half a month. It is impossible for a large group of soldiers and horses to pass through it - they can only treat it as Wang Xiang
With the cooperation of the Huaidong Army, thousands of soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army crossed the middle of the Huaishan Mountains and lurked in, seizing the opportunity to split their troops and attack the weak points in the hinterland of Jingxiang, cut off the grain roads in Jingxiang, and disrupt Beiyan's defense lines in various places in Jingxiang.
As long as they were not aware of the possibility of the Huaidong Army transferring the entire troops stationed in Luzhou into the hinterland of Jingxiang, they would almost make the same judgment as Luo Xianyi and Ma Zhen - Luo Xianyi and Ma Zhen did not expect that Luo Wenhu was already under the powerful
Chaishan lowered his stock without any struggle in front of the soldiers and horses. Naturally, he did not doubt that Luo Wenhu sent people to ask for help as a deception...
Lishan is located to the east of Suizhou, is related to Suizhou's flanks, and can threaten the flanks and rear of the defense line at the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain.
Even if Ye Ji Luorong successfully captures Jingzhou City and ends the war on the west bank of the Han River, the war on the east bank of the Han River will continue for a long time. How can the hinterland east of Suizhou City be messed up by the lurking Huaidong Army?
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Luo Xianyi immediately ordered Ma Zhen and his deputy Shen Xiao to guard Suizhou City. He personally led five thousand troops and horses to Lishan for help.
At Luodian and Changling at the junction of Lishan and Suizhou, Luo Wenhu led more than 2,000 people, disguised as soldiers and horses that had retreated from Lishan, and dispersed in the direction of Suizhou. Tang Fuguan personally led 2,000 elite soldiers disguised as pursuers and then pursued them.
Troops and horses marched in tandem to greet the five thousand reinforcements who had entered Suizhou City...
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The source of the Shihe River comes from the deep mountains of the northern ridge of the Huaishan Mountain, and is one of the most important tributaries on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. In early September, Ning Zechen led the Fengli Army's first town division, with the cooperation of more than 10,000 elite troops in Shuiying, up the Huaihe River and entered
Go up the Shihe River and go all the way to the northern foot of Huaishan Mountain, enter Xinyang City, and join the Xinyang garrison led by Meng Zhen and Meng Zhixiang.
At the same time, Dong Yuan personally led 20,000 troops out of Shouzhou, passed through Huoqiu, and recaptured Gushi, Huangchuan, Guangshan, Xixian, Luoshan and other cities east of Xinyang.
The tributaries of the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, such as the Shihe River, the Zhutang River, and the Shiyan River, all originate from the northern vein of the Huaishan Mountains. These streams and rivers are the main ditches that irrigate the vast hectares of farmland in Xinyang, and their upper reaches of the river valley are also the passage through the Huaishan Mountains southward to Suizhou.
In early July, Luo Xiancheng came out from Huaishan along these rivers and attacked the counties in southern Xinyang to contain the troops stationed in Luzhou in Huaixi and Huaidong. When Nanyang fell in September, Ye Ji Luorong led the main force south to attack Jingzhou.
Luo Xiancheng also led his troops to retreat south along these rivers, taking refuge among the steep mountains in the northern range of Huaishan Mountain, and guarding the upper valleys of these streams and rivers.
Since Luo Xiancheng ran Suizhou many years before Dong Yuan, when Dong Yuan was in charge of Huaixi, almost the entire northern chain of the Huaishan Mountains fell under Luo Xiancheng's control.
In the upper reaches of the river valley, the original mountain strongholds were used to establish a northern defense line that was more than 200 miles long and about 60 miles deep. Luo Xiancheng led almost 50,000 troops to fill this defense line.
After the reinforcements led by Ning Zechen merged with the Xinyang garrison, and the reinforcements led by Dong Yuan personally entered the Huangchuan line, the total number of troops at the northern foot of Huaishan was only 50,000. In addition, Tao Chun led his troops from the west of Woyang
They moved together with Xiao Kui'an who was guarding Zhengyang County on the north bank of the upper reaches of the Huai River to contain Chen Zhihu and slaughter two enemy troops on the bank, with a total of only 50,000 troops.
Although the total number of troops entering Xinyang in mid-to-late September reached 100,000, they were still at a disadvantage in terms of strength. In comparison, although the enemy forces on the northern front were more dispersed, they had a slight advantage in strength and occupied the terrain.
The advantage was too obvious, and the defense was shrinking. Dong Yuan wanted to bite the enemy on the northern front, but he couldn't find a place to bite...
On the 20th, also on the same day, Ning Zechen sent people into Dong Yuan's camp in Huangchuan to inform him of the overall strategy for Huaidong...