In the temporary palace in Jinzhou City, in the dead of night, Ye Jier was still awake. Concubine Yu stood aside holding a colored glass lamp and shining it on him to look at the map. On the map was a large geographical map of the rivers, Huaihe and Bohai Sea from Guanzhong to Liaoning.
, embroidered with silk threads of various colors, covering the entire long table, accurately marking the defense situation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. If you want to take a closer look at something, you have to hold a lamp and lean over to see.
After the Xuzhou War, the intention of moving south from the Xusi area could not be realized, and Beiyan's strategy was forced to move westward. However, after suffering a heavy setback in the Battle of Jingxiang, Beiyan was forced to change its offensive into a strategic defense line, and the focus of defense was changed.
Moved back to the Eastern Front.
"Your Majesty, it's late at night, and you have to get up early tomorrow, so you'd better rest early!"
Whenever Yejier had free time, he would ask the palace attendant to spread out the large map of geography and look at it carefully day and night. He did not know how many times he had looked at this large map. There was still black blood from his coughing up on the corners. Look at him.
She stayed awake late at night, but looked at this picture carefully over and over again, and Concubine Yu persuaded her with heartache.
"How can you sleep if your heart cannot be calm?" Yejier smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand to take the glazed lamp, and said, "Concubine Yu, go and have a rest. I don't want to make you tired."
"If the emperor doesn't sleep, how can I sleep peacefully?" Concubine Yu sighed softly.
Ye Jier put down the glazed lamp. He, who was over fifty years old, looked at the flourishing Jade Concubine next to him, looking at her as if she were a summer flower blooming in full bloom at this season. He lovingly touched her face and cheeks as smooth as spring water,
She felt a little chilly, so she tightened the thin shirt she was wearing.
"Your Majesty, Prince Duodi and General Xiongqi would like to see you." A young eunuch walked in and reported.
"Hurry up." Ye Ji'er said. He knew that Lao San and Na He Xiongqi would not ask for a meeting late at night for no reason. Something big must have happened, and he would not let Concubine Yu retreat. Beiyan has not yet been completely Chineseized, and women are not.
Avoid political affairs.
Ye Jiduo Dy and Na He Xiongqi walked in quickly, followed by Tong Chenghua, the Superintendent of the West Temple.
"What's the news?" Ye Ji'er sat back on the armrest and felt a little cold. After the summer, it was still cushioned on a high-backed pearwood chair with thin cushions. He decided to cross the sea to Liaodong at the last minute. There was no building specially built for him in Jinzhou City.
Instead of staying in his palace, he temporarily occupied the Jinzhou guard's mansion to stay, so naturally he couldn't pay attention to everything.
"Lin Fu suddenly traveled from Shouzhou to Haizhou. According to reports from Xu Si's secret agent, Zhen Feng, the leader of the Goryeo rebels, and Saga Laiyuan, the ruler of Fuso Zhuzi Kingdom, were all in Haizhou and had a secret meeting with Lin Fu..." Tong Huacheng reported
road.
"Should we call Baishi and Zhang Xie over to discuss it?" Ye Jiduo asked.
"No need, there's no rush." Yezier shook his head feebly. It wasn't that the matter wasn't urgent or important, but rather he felt helpless and resigned.
Zhen Feng and Saga Yorigen were both two forces supported by Lin Fu in Haidong after the eleventh year of Chongguan. Lin Fu paid Zhen Feng, and Saga Yorigen came across the sea to meet him, with intentions like lice on a bald man's head.
It is nothing more than strengthening the Zhen family's offensive against the troops of Goryeo Prime Minister Zuo Jing and strengthening the penetration of the Fusang Islands through the Saga family.
No matter what happened, Beiyan didn't want to see it, but it wasn't something Beiyan could directly stop.
"In addition, the South Vietnamese Military Staff established a new army in Haizhou, with the number Lu Qi03 as the town division, and appointed Hu Qiaoguan, a figure in Chongzhou's boyhood, as the commanding officer," Tong Huacheng continued, "'Lu Qi' is
The order of the Huaidong Haidong Marching Army was with Ma Yigong as the commander. Previously, there were only about 15,000 water infantry troops stationed in Haidong. At this time, a new town division was established, directly designated as "Lu 703"
sequence, the slaves suspect that the Danluo Kingdom and the Dongzhou Dudufu will probably be directly merged into the Dudufu that Huaidong set up in Jeju earlier, and their troops will be directly organized into the currently missing 'Lu 702' town division.
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Tong Huacheng was the scout leader recommended by Nahe Xiongqi. He was in charge of the West Temple Supervisor and was responsible for spying on the situation in Huaidong. He was naturally good at intelligence analysis.
Lin Fu wanted to create a social atmosphere in Jianghuai. After taking charge of the government, he gradually disclosed many affairs of Haidong, Nanyang, the Privy Council, and the Military Staff to the outside world. They were no longer strictly prohibited as military secrets, so the West Temple Supervisor could also have access to them.
A more comprehensive understanding and spying on Huaidong’s intelligence.
General Lin Fu separated the Intelligence Department from the Privy Council and established the Military Staff Department as the central military command center. The purpose was to formalize military-political relations and naturally reorganize the military order more straightforwardly.
General Lin Fu's cavalry army, forbidden camp army, Chongcheng army, Changshan army, Fengli army, Huaidong army and Haidong marching army and other horse infantry armies are all classified into the army services, divided into "Lu one", "Lu two"...
…all the way up to the "Lu Qi" sequence; the town divisions and brigades below the army level are directly numbered after "Lu x" and then numbered sequentially, so that the military staff can directly grasp the troops and horses of the armies.
In addition to the army, "Shui Yi" refers to the Jingjiang Navy, "Hai Yi" refers to the Jinghai Division, and "Hai Er" refers to the Southeast Navy. These are Lin Fu's measures to nationalize the Huaidong Army.
Some of the specific and subtle details here are also to strengthen the status of the "Navy Division" in the minds of traditional generals and officials and to balance the status between the navy and the army.
At present, the Military Staff Army directly controls ten camp and corps-level military units, with twenty-six town divisions under its jurisdiction. Counting the directly-administered Denghai independent town division, the Huaidong field elite troops have twenty-seven town divisions.
division.
In addition, Lin Fu also set up the Military Preparation Department of the various counties under the Privy Council, with Sun Jingtang as the military preparation commander of the counties. He actually led the local military preparation affairs dually with the local county secretaries and prefectures, and transferred the previous government troops and part of the garrison troops to
All are incorporated into the local security forces.
In order of "arms preparation of such and such town division", in principle, each county is only given the establishment of one military preparation town division, and the actual number of troops will be adjusted according to actual needs. Currently, under the military preparation department of the admiral counties, there are nine
There are individual military preparation divisions, but there are only fourteen military preparation brigades.
Lin Fu carried out defense and armament restructuring in this way to facilitate the isolation of the military staff from local security and armament affairs, so that the field army could be more completely transformed into the national defense force in the future. These new structures were also announced to the world in the form of official reports.
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Also because Lin Fu implemented new policies and new systems in Jiangning, the Western Temple Supervisor and Yan Ting were able to more accurately grasp the intelligence of Huaidong and judge Huaidong's military strength more accurately.
At present, excluding the 140,000 soldiers and horses in the six towns of Henan, headed by Dong Yuan, Yue Lengqiu and others, the military equipment directly controlled by the Duke of the State exceeds 440,000, of which 60,000 are local security troops.
The number of elite field troops of the Mabu Navy was as high as 380,000, not counting the 200,000 to 300,000 troops stationed in Xusi, Shouzhou, Luzhou and other places.
Since Lin Fu was directly assigned to the "Third Town Division" under the "Lu Qi" sequence, it probably means that the garrison sent by Lin Fu to Haidong will be increased to the size of three town divisions. This issue is more complicated than Zhen's.
Feng, Saga Laigen crossed the sea to have a secret meeting with Lin Fu, which was much more serious and severe. It meant that Lin Fu intended to make the Huaidong Army directly participate in the civil war of Goryeo.
"After the Battle of Jingxiang, everyone knows that the center of gravity of the confrontation between the North and the South has shifted to the Eastern Front." Ye Jier stood up with his hands on the handrails, walked to the long desk, and included Shandong, Bohai, Huangshuiyang and the Korean Peninsula.
With a panic that could not be concealed, he said, "I really expected the worst, and that's what happened!"
Ye Jiduo and Na He Xiongqi were also heavy-hearted.
After the Battle of Jingxiang, it was clear that the strategic focus of the North and the South shifted eastward.
The naval force in Huaidong has obvious advantages, and Huaidong, Xusi and other places that have been operating for many years are on the eastern front. The northern expedition from the eastern front has advantages that are incomparable to the western front, and it can also overcome the disadvantage of Huaidong Army's insufficient cavalry.
After the Battle of Jingxiang, the Huaidong Army, with nearly 200,000 troops, gradually moved eastward, filling in the defense line east of Shouzhou, and launched a strong offensive against Shandong to the north.
Therefore, in the past six months, Beiyan has also regarded Shandong's defense as its top priority, and Ye Jier has also inspected Shandong's defense despite his illness. Locking the sea defense line and returning it to the Dengzhou Governor's Office is only a part of Shandong's defense.
Ye Jier often said to the Northern Yan generals that "the Central Plains is full of talents", and in actual management of military affairs, he also integrated words and deeds. He ordered Ye Jiduo to manage Shandong's defense. The entire defense concept was directly derived from Li Zhuo's "inner line defense"
"Thinking.
The entire Shandong County is divided into three lines: south, middle and north. The southern line is the Lunan area, from the Five Lakes area in southwest Shandong to Yizhou at the southern foot of the Yimeng Mountains and Ju County, Jimo and other places in the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula. For a long time, both sides
buffer zone between.
As the main force of the Huaidong Army moved to the east, the Huaidong Army's penetration and control of the southern Shandong area gradually strengthened.
The actual limited control area of Beiyan's defense in Shandong is on the center line, and the mountains of Tai, Yi, Mongolia, and Kunyu form a natural barrier between the north and the south on the center line.
There are three main northbound passages that are relatively easy to travel along the east route:
The first is to go north from southwestern Shandong along the Bianshui River and Sishui River, which is usually the main battlefield between the north and the south on the eastern front.
The second is to start from Yizhou, pass through the valley roads between the mountains of Yimeng, break through the Chexian Pass and directly attack Linqu County in the south of Linzi Prefecture.
As for the southeastern coast of Shandong, that is, the southern foothills of the Kunyu Mountains, due to the large number of coastal beaches and the roads that have been abandoned for many years, it cannot be regarded as a good route for large numbers of troops to move north. The third way is to take the sea route and directly enter the Bohai Bay.
In view of the terrain characteristics of Shandong, Beiyan built a peripheral defense line on the periphery of Bian and Sizhu Rivers and on the Poche Xianguan Valley Road, with Jining, Tai'an, Poche Xianguan, Linqu and other city gates as the core, and stationed elite infantry troops.
However, the cavalry units that really played a decisive strategic role were mainly concentrated in Jinan and other places on the inner line.
In this way, even if the Huaidong Army relied on its superiority in military strength to forcefully tear through the peripheral defense line and advance northward, it would not be able to conquer Beiyan's majestic forts on the peripheral defense line one after another in a short period of time. Even if the Huaidong Army had
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses entered the inner lines of Jinan and Linzi, and there was no possibility of a decisive battle with the Beiyan cavalry on the inner lines. If the Huaidong Army was not in a hurry to advance north, but wanted to storm the strong cities and fortresses on the outer defense line, and the Beiyan Army
The main cavalry deployed on the inner line can choose a favorable opportunity to send troops to relieve the siege and inflict heavy damage to the besieged Huaidong.
Internal defense thinking is a very effective defense strategy for the weak side and will not cause unpredictable crises due to military adventures.
Ye Jier summed up the success of the southern invasion and attributed his greatest contribution to the fact that except for Li Zhuo, there was no one in the Yuan Yue Center who really knew military strategy at that time; if the Yuan Yue Center in Yanjing at that time could implement Li Zhuo's internal defense
The idea is that without taking risks and hoping to capture Liaoyang City directly, Beiyan has no way to defeat Yuanyue for the time being.
Huaidong also implemented an internal defense strategy on the Xusi defense line in the early days. The main forces, including the Fengli Army and the Jinghai Division, were deployed on the backup defense line, and the Huai River could be relied on, making the entire defense line rich and layered.
Full of flexibility, it finally succeeded in forcing Beiyan to abandon its strategy of attacking on the eastern front.
Yuan Lishan and other newly attached Han troops were mainly surrendered by the Yuan Yue border troops. They were also the main force deployed in the outer fortresses of Beiyan for internal defense. They might not be able to fight in the field, but they were extremely experienced in defending the fortresses.
What Ye Zier is more worried about is whether the sea-locking defense line has the ability to block the Huaidong Navy warships from the Bohai Sea.
After seeing the construction of the sea-locking defense line this time, Ye Jier's mood had improved a bit. At least in the short term, he was not afraid that Huaidong could attack Shandong. However, knowing that the situation was developing in the worst direction as expected, Lin Fu
However, when the Korean Peninsula was included in his Eastern Front strategy, Yezier's mood was completely shattered.
Zhen Feng, the governor of Haiyang County, was captured by Lin Fu in the battle of Seogwipo. Goryeo Prime Minister Zuo Jing couldn't wait to send his cronies to take over Haiyang County. However, he asked Lin Fu to let the tiger return to the mountain and make the tiger and wolf fight against each other.
Zhen Feng and three thousand Haiyang floating soldiers returned to Goryeo, which prompted a sharp confrontation between Zhen Feng and Zuo Jing.
Although there was peace between Zhen Feng and Zuo Jing for two years under the suppression of Bei Yan, after Zhen Feng was well prepared in Haiyang, he quickly raised troops to march north in the name of avenging his shame and being on the side of the Qing Dynasty to attack the Prime Minister Zuo Jing's control of the King of Korea.
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Although Zhen Feng was defeated by Lin Fu in the battle of Seogwipo, he was indeed a well-known veteran general of Goryeo and used ruthless troops. However, Beiyan had been deliberately weakening Goryeo's national defense strength for more than ten years, which made Goryeo controlled by Zuo Jing
The royal army retreated steadily at the beginning of the war. In order to prevent the situation from being irreversible, Yejier sent 20,000 Goryeo soldiers back to the country at the most critical moment of the war on the Western Front to help Zuo Jing regain the lost territory.
In fact, in the later period, the Goryeo King's army controlled by Zuo Jing had 150,000 troops and 30,000 to 40,000 elite troops, but it was unable to defeat the Haiyang Army with less than 60,000 troops and only the Haedong Marching Army on the periphery.
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If Huaidong directly sent 40,000 to 50,000 elite troops to participate in the civil war of Koryo, and Zuo Jing controlled the Koryo royal army, could he hold the defense line at the southern border of Hanyang County? If Hanyang, the capital of Koryo, was lost and Zuo Jing was executed, the entire capital of Koryo would be
If we turn to Huaidong, Liaodong, the base of Northern Yan, will directly face a powerful attack by the combined troops of Goryeo and Huaidong.
In other words, Huaidong does not even need to capture Shandong. The main force can directly go to the Korean Peninsula to invade Liaodong and Yanji...
Goryeo must be defended. The King of Goryeo's army controlled only by Zuo Jing is very unsafe. Once Goryeo falls, the consequences for Beiyan will be disastrous - Beiyan must respond to this problem, and they need to directly send troops and horses into Goryeo to participate in the war.
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However, where to mobilize troops and who to mobilize to help defend Goryeo, these questions were spread out in front of Yejier, making it so difficult for him to answer!