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Lin Fu walked into the combat staff room of the Military Intelligence Department. Luo Wenhu was looking at the glazed lamp in trance:
The oil-storing lamp holder is made of amber colored glass, the lamp holder is made of copper, the windshielding lampshade is made of transparent colored glass, the cotton rope wick extends from the lamp holder into the lamp holder, and the lamp holder is half-full of transparent liquid oil with a slightly fragrant aroma.
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When Luo Wenhu first saw such a lamp, he thought it was a treasure belonging to a noble family member in the army. Gao Zongting told him that the salary of a first-level brigade general could buy two or three glazed lamps a month, which frightened him into thinking that Huaidong's salary was high.
It was astonishing. Ercai told others that the salary of the Huaidong Brigade general was about four silver dollars per month, which was equivalent to that of a county official. It was neither high nor low. It was just that Luo Wenhu couldn't imagine not using two silver coins.
Can you buy such a beautiful and rare lamp?
When Luo Wenhu led his troops to surrender in Lishan, Cao Ziang supplied him with combat armor that was in short supply. Some of the newly made items had just been promoted in the Huaidong Army. Naturally, they could only be best used in the Chinese army's large tent.
See it first.
Luo Wenhu prided himself on being both civil and military, so Lin Fu asked him to join the Military Intelligence Department. He also thought that joining the Military Intelligence Department and participating in military aircraft would help him a lot, but when he entered the combat staff room, he was a little dumbfounded:
With the sand table made of fine sand and gum and the detailed battle map, Luo Wenhu couldn't imagine when the land of Jingxiang was so thoroughly explored by Huaidong's scouts?
Lin Fu looked at Luo Wenhu who stood up to salute and forgot that he was still holding a single-cylinder copper telescope in his hand. Seeing that he couldn't throw it away or pick it up, he smiled and said: "This thing is very expensive.
We only made twenty or thirty pieces, but they were not enough for a first-level general in the army; but the Military Intelligence Department was the most generous, and they immediately deducted eight of them for my personal use..."
Gao Zongting said: "The telescope can see objects several miles away, and people's faces can be clearly seen. If they are distributed immediately, they may not be effective. It is better to put them in the Military Intelligence Department first."
"You are now in charge of the Military Intelligence Department, so naturally you can put in a good word for the Military Intelligence Department. Put these things down and see if they will be used later?" Lin Fu retorted to Gao Zongting with a smile.
Many things were commonplace to Lin Fu, and were shocking in the world at that time, but they were not impossible to make. The key was the lack of skilled craftsmen.
In the early years, Lin Fu just ordered a few glass lamps to be made indoors for viewing. However, it was not until he took control of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry's glass factory that he obtained nearly two hundred skilled glass craftsmen, and was able to manufacture cheap glassware on a large scale.
- This "cheapness" is also relative. A county magistrate's normal monthly salary can only buy two glazed lamps. The glazed lamps cannot be called cheap, but they are not as high as before.
The principle of the telescope is simple. Even if it was too expensive to use transparent glass in the early days, it was possible to grind the lenses with crystals, but the grinding of the lenses was too labor-intensive. It took Graham more than a month to grind out one.
Qualified lenses come. However, the simplest optical principles cannot form a theoretical system that can be passed down and taught. Asking other craftsmen to grind the lenses and giving them step-by-step instructions will hardly make them understand the key points - even if they can create three-dimensional lenses.
Four telescopes have no practical value.
Many new products in Huaidong were gradually put into practical use after controlling Jiangning and the Jiangning Ministry of Industry.
Craftsman households are traditionally classified as lowly households, but in Jiangning City, they are a very large group of people.
Take Jiangning Weaving Factory as an example. During the Chongguan period, there were more than 4,000 craftsmen working in the weaving factory. After Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne in Jiangning, the scale further expanded to nearly 7,000 people. It was a typical government-run factory at that time.
miniature.
The industrial manufacturing system controlled by Huaidong used to focus on the development of iron smelting, weaving, armor, shipbuilding and other industries; it was only after controlling the Jiangning Ministry of Industry that it gained a group of skilled craftsmen with a scale of 100,000, and had spare capacity.
To develop other derived manufacturing industries, Huaidong has created an endless stream of new products in the past two years.
Lin Fu called Luo Wenhu and others to gather around the sand table and asked Gao Zongting: "How sure is your plan to cross the river? If you throw people to the south bank, if the enemy's retreat is cut off, it will cost you three to five thousand Huaidong."
The safety of the generals; to this day, many Huaidong soldiers have died on the battlefield, but they have never been destroyed by the enemy in an organized manner, so I hope you can be more cautious!"
"It has been tried and tested three times and it is quite reliable!" Gao Zongting said.
Lin Fu asked Tang Xitai who came from Fancheng to see him: "After Zhou Tong went to Fancheng, he should have organized the generals to discuss this plan. What are the opinions of Liu Zhenzhi, Chen Zhe, Huang Zuyu, Zhou Bin and others?"
"There's not much else. It's just that Chen Zhi and Huang Zuyu were vying to lead the army to the other side. Commander Zhou was so quarrelsome that he couldn't help it, saying that he wanted you, my lord, to make the decision..." Tang Xitai said.
"This climbing tiger is really messing around," Lin Fu smiled helplessly and said, "Since we are very sure, let's send the climbing tiger over, and ask Huang Zuyu to take charge of the flanks to contain the enemies of Zanyang." He then said to Ao Canghai, "Chang
The Shan army should also speed up, and Zhang Jiheng’s troops should contain the enemies of Xinye before the day after tomorrow..."
A staff officer recorded Lin Fu's words one by one. Lin Fu, Gao Zongting, and Ao Canghai reviewed these injunctive words to confirm that there were no errors. Afterwards, Lin Fu pointed to the sand table and asked everyone: "You guys
Think about it again, is there anything else that I haven't considered carefully..."
Although Luo Wenhu stood with the generals, he was taciturn. In the past, he boasted that he was both civilized and military, and was familiar with military books. He did not think that the training at Huaidong Battle Training School would be of any benefit to him, and he also boasted that he was qualified to command and join the army.
But tonight he had just initially come into contact with the core secrets of the Huaidong Army, and found that the gap was so huge that he was ashamed to face it...
The sand table clearly shows the confrontation situation between the enemy and ourselves in Nanyang and Xiangyang, and the main terrain such as mountains, rivers, forests and ravines is accurately displayed:
The Han River is divided between the north and south banks. The upper reaches of the Han River from the shallow siltation waters at the northwest foot of Longzui Mountain to the north are now under the control of the Yanhu Navy. The iron cable pontoon bridges that were erected between Xiang and Fan have long been
Cut it off.
However, since the Han River is a gorge from Gucheng to the west, and Gucheng is surrounded by Jingshan and Xianshi Mountains from the south and southwest, the Yan army on the south bank wants to withdraw north, so they can only board a boat from the west of Gucheng and travel upstream for four miles.
From ten miles to the west of Chanyang and Baiyangguan, it enters the north bank.
At present, with the transportation capacity of Yanhu, only more than 3,000 men and horses can be used to cross the river every day, which makes the enemy forces on the north and south banks in a state of semi-isolation. Although Yanhu has many troops and horses on the south bank, they are unable to support the battle on the north bank for the time being.
The enemy troops on the north bank, dominated by Chen Zhihu's troops, supplemented by Tu'an and the cavalry that retreated north first, totaled more than 70,000. These 70,000 enemy troops were supported by Wuguan, Jingguan and Xichuan City on the inner line, and on the outer line
From Baiyangguan on the bank of the Han River, Zanyang slopes eastward to the north, all the way to Dengzhou and Xinye, forming a defense line covering the Danjiang River.
The enemy's diagonal defense line from Baiyangguan to Xinye also ensured the northward retreat of soldiers and horses on the south bank of Yeji Luorong. In order to ensure that this defense line would not be torn apart by the Huaidong Army, Chen Zhihu led his troops from Queshan to Nanyang.
, had no intention of controlling the entire Nanyang Basin, but quickly entered Xichuan, Xinye and other city fortresses to the west and south of Nanyang.
The enemy's defense line on the east flank of the Danjiang River extended from southwest to northeast and was about 160 miles long, blocking the Huaidong Army's front in Fancheng from penetrating the Danjiang flank.
At this time, the troops of the Huaidong Army entering Fancheng were mainly composed of Chen Zhi and Liu Zhenzhi of the Chongcheng Army and Huang Zuyu of Luzhou, totaling 50,000 people, which was not enough to tear apart the enemy's defense line on the east flank of Danjiang.
Although the main force of the Huaidong Army's southern front will soon move northward and enter Fancheng and the line west of Fancheng, and the number of infantry, cavalry and horses will quickly increase to 100,000, the enemy's troops will not be able to defend the defense line, and there can be more than 3,000 men and horses every day.
Withdrew to the north bank and supplemented the east flank defense line, making it difficult for the Huaidong Army to win suddenly.
It would take ten days and a half to wait for the main force of the navy, with a total strength of nearly 30,000 people, to slowly come from the lower reaches. By then, Yanhu's main force on the south bank would have already withdrawn to the north bank.
It was because Yan Hu saw that it was safe to withdraw, and even had the possibility of turning his back on Wuguan and confronting the main force of the Huaidong Army in Nanyang, the morale of the army was determined, and it gradually got rid of the shadow of the initial defeat in eastern Hubei - this can be said to be the
The Huaidong Army is most disadvantaged.
From the confrontation between the two armies in Fancheng, Baiyangguan, Xinye and other places, we can also see the bad influence and consequences of Dong Yuan's deliberate manipulation of the enemy - Sun Zhuang led his troops to encircle and annihilate Azige when Yanhu counterattacked Fancheng in the battle of Baihetan
With more than 10,000 troops and reinforcements, if Chen Zhihu's general Gao Yi had not approached Xinye, Sun Zhuang and Huang Zuyu could have used the two to three days' gap to send troops to seize Dengzhou in the northwest of Xinye or ignore the defense of Xinye.
Facing the threat from the weak enemy flanks of Fancheng, they directly sent troops to capture the small town of Zanyang to the west of Fancheng, opening a channel to attack Baiyang Pass and completely exposing the flanks on the east bank of the Danjiang River.
Once the flanks on the east bank of the Danjiang River are completely exposed to Huaidong's 100,000 elite troops, the main force on the Yanhu west line south of the Han River, if not completely annihilated, can at most escape with 10,000 or 20,000 troops.
It was because of Dong Yuan's malicious intention to indulge the enemy that Chen Zhihu's general Gao Yi led 8,000 elite infantry and cavalry into the new field in time on the night of the 21st to restrain the 10,000 Huaidong Army's leading troops living in Fancheng from moving further west and north.
To expand the possibility of victory; on the night of the 22nd, Chen Zhihu's general Leng Zilin led the Wuyang troops southward through Fangcheng and entered Nanyang City; on the 23rd, Chen Zhihu also led his troops across Biyang and entered the southern foothills of Funiu Mountain; to
On the 25th, the enemy's Tu'an troops in Fangcheng, Nanyang, and Biyang all completed the transfer process to the west with Wuguan and Xichuan as the inner lines, and combined with Yan and Hu to withdraw troops and horses from the north, more than 70,000 troops
The cavalry regiment shrank to an area less than 1,560 miles south of Funiu Mountain and west of Danjiang River - and before the 25th, in addition to guarding Suizhou City, the Chaishan ambush troops had nearly half of the troops.
Liu Zhenzhi and Sun Zhuang had to lead the army to encircle and defeat the enemy at Longzuishan, Heishigou and Pinglinbu!
Even compared with the defense lines formed by the Huaidong Army in Fancheng, Zaoyang, Pinglinbu and Longzuishan at that time, in an area that was almost 1560 miles deep, the number of troops was less than 40,000, which was nearly half the enemy's force.
At present, the Huaidong Army wants to tear through Yanhu's defense line on the east flank of the Danjiang River in a short period of time. In addition to not having an absolute advantage in military strength, it also needs to overcome the hilly terrain obstacles on the east flank of the Danjiang River.
The hills on the east side of the Danjiang River are the remnants of the southern foothills of the Funiu Mountains. Most of them are hills with elevations ranging from about 30 to 100 feet. Just looking at the elevation, these mountains are far from dangerous and cannot be compared with those to the west of the Danjiang River and the Han Dynasty.
Compared with the lofty mountain systems such as Jingshan Mountain and Xianshi Mountain on the south bank of the water.
The hills and valleys on the east side of the Danjiang River are short and shallow, but the special fold valleys make the hills and valleys east of Dandong steep and slippery, making it difficult for humans and animals to travel.
In the early years, people lived on the east bank of the Danjiang River, and the population multiplied, and passages to the outside world were built between the hills and valleys. However, places such as Chanyang are located on the east bank of the Danjiang River and the north bank of the Han River. Compared with the south bank of the Han River and the west bank of the Danjiang River,
The mountains along the river are quite rough, and almost every flood flows into the territory of Zanyang.
In the past ten years, Nanyang has experienced banditry, civil unrest, rebellion and foreign invasion. The population has suffered two near-annihilation losses in just ten years. It is almost impossible to see any local people remaining in Zanyang.
No one repaired the dams. In the past ten years, Sanyang County was hit by three large-scale floods. Even some roads built by predecessors between the hills and valleys were destroyed.
Even if we don't talk about other things, the main force of the Huaidong Army will continue to move westward after entering the Fancheng line to threaten the flanks of Danjiang. The troops will be directed directly under the Zanyang city fortress. Just relying on these bad roads can drag down the enemy.
Stay in Huaidongjun for several days!
After the Battle of Baihetan, Fancheng was no longer threatened by enemy forces approaching. Huang Zuyu and Tang Xitai also wanted to restore the road directly westward from Fancheng and approach the east bank of Danjiang River. However, in the past ten days, it has only extended westward for less than 40 miles.
, it is still more than forty miles away from Chanyang, and it is even more eighty miles away from Baiyangguan, the east branch of Danjiang River.
No wonder the enemy was determined. As long as the Huaidong Shuiying warships could not come up from the downstream in time, their defense line on the east flank of the Danjiang River seemed to be unbreakable, and they could buy more than ten crucial days for the soldiers and horses on the south bank to withdraw northward.
Regarding the current confrontation between the enemy and us in Fancheng, Zanyang, Baiyangguan, Xinye and other places, victory cannot be won without a clever plan; but before Luo Wenhu joined the Military Intelligence Department and learned about the military aircraft, he never imagined that the Huaidong Army would be able to do so without borrowing a ferry.
Directly project troops and horses to fight on the south bank!
At this time, Yanhu still had nearly 90,000 troops on the south bank who had not yet retreated to the Baiyang Pass and Zanyang lines on the north bank of the Han River.