During the Lantern Festival, Emperor Tianming celebrated with the people, which made Yanjing City lively for a while, and then the night in Yanjing City fell into the silence of the curfew.
This is already the eighth year since the fall of Yanjing, and Ye Jier has been proclaimed emperor in Yanjing City for eight years. Although most of the officials trapped in Yanjing City chose to surrender at that time, the popularity of Yanjing City is still far from being discussed.
Worthy of submission.
After the Battle of Jingxiang, the anti-Hu movement in Yanjing City became even more turbulent, with a strong tendency to move from behind the scenes to the front. Several assassinations were also carried out, causing the city of Yanjing to be in turmoil——
The Nine City Soldiers and Horses Division also destroyed several secret strongholds of the resistance forces in the city, but they did not interfere with Huaidong's intelligence line - if you think about it with your toes, anyone can imagine that Huaidong has a very deep spy in Yanjing.
Hidden, but unable to be dug out, we can only use barbaric military means such as curfew to suppress the role that Huaidong lurking personnel can play in Yanjing City.
The result of the Battle of Jingxiang greatly shocked people's hearts. Although the princes and princes of Yan and Hu still had strong self-confidence, they had no confidence in the Han people in Yanjing and those Han ministers who were not very willing to surrender to the Hu.
They all believed that Wang Shi's Northern Expedition could be expected - so the secret room in Yanhu was used to make it difficult for spies to infiltrate Jiangning, while the secret room in Huaidong was used for spies to infiltrate Yanjing, so it was easy to infiltrate.
The only regret is that among the underground resistance forces in Yanjing City, many people regard the Yuan family as orthodox and have strong resistance to Huaidong. As a result, Huaidong's latent network in Yanjing City cannot fully control the underground resistance forces. Many people
The resistance forces acted independently, did not follow orders, and acted without authorization, which often resulted in unnecessary casualties and made it more difficult for Huaidong's latent personnel in Yanjing to carry out their work.
Don't be afraid of opponents who are like wolves, but be afraid of teammates who are like pigs - there was also an assassination case of the Pingyuan magistrate years ago. The assassination failed, and the assassin was arrested and could not stand the punishment, which led to the secret intelligence station of the Military Intelligence Department in Hebi being leaked.
In the early stages of the Northern Expedition, nearly twenty latent intelligence agents were lost at one time. All secret strongholds from Jinan to Pingyuan to Cangzhou and Jinhai were forced to move. The communication lines were not restored until the Lantern Festival, resulting in huge losses.
The Beiyan Jiucheng Soldiers and Horses Division, which specializes in arresting and stealing thieves, did not know that their destruction of the Hebi Intelligence Station would cause such great losses to the Huaidong Military Intelligence Division's intelligence work in the North. After the Lantern Festival, they still followed
According to Jin's plan, a strict curfew was imposed on Yanjing City after dark. Occasionally, people who were sick at night would be stopped by soldiers and horses patrolling the city when they were seeking medical treatment. They completely ignored their family members' emergency medical treatment and arbitrarily brought the soldiers back.
Ma Si was tortured and interrogated.
For a city with hundreds of thousands of residents, such tragedies happen every night.
There are nine gates in Yanjing City. After nightfall, only Taiyang Gate in the West City is used for firewood and water trucks to enter and exit. The other eight gates are closed and cannot be opened except under extremely special circumstances.
Under the stars and moon in the sky, Tong Huacheng, the supervisor of the Western Temple who was responsible for the intelligence affairs of the Southern Dynasties, rushed to the Shengtai Gate under the escort of dozens of cavalry. He raised his head and glanced at the dim wind lantern in front of the city gate tower, remembering that Jiangning City had begun to implement the use of glazed lanterns.
When looking at street lights, you can especially feel the difference between the north and the south.
Tong Huacheng was a Han nationality in Liaodong. Although he still had a Han appearance, he was given the surname Tong and became a member of the Eastern Hu clan. He already regarded himself as a Hu from the bottom of his heart. Unlike other ministers in charge of spying, Tong Huacheng disguised himself twice.
He dressed up and lurked in Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places for several months to learn about the Southern Dynasties. He was actually one of the officials in Beiyan who had the deepest understanding of the Southern Dynasties and Huaidong.
It was precisely because of this that Yejier relied on him so much in spying matters in the Southern Dynasties.
Tong Huacheng should return to Yanjing after the new year to report to Emperor Tianming face to face that the situation in Xu Shou and Yihai in the Southern Dynasty was abnormal. However, it happened that Hebi destroyed a latent stronghold of the Huaidong Military Intelligence Department and captured him alive in Huaidong.
Sixteen lurking personnel. Tong Huacheng rushed to Hebi at short notice to arrest and interrogate him personally, which delayed him for more than half a month.
Although Huaidong's military reporting base in the north was quickly transferred, Tong Huacheng's trip to Hebi was still a great gain. After leaving Hebi, he rushed back to Yanjing.
Entering the city from Shengtai Gate, Tong Chenghua went directly to the Yamen Office of the West Temple Supervisor in Yanjing City. His subordinates asked him: "Master Tong, should you go back to your home to rest, or should you spend the night in the small room at the back?"
"The emperor wants me to report my itinerary immediately after returning to Beijing," Tong Huacheng said to his subordinates, "Follow me to the palace. If the emperor rests, it won't be too late for us to rest again..."
As soon as Tong Huacheng and his subordinates left the government office, the courtiers sent by Ye Jier rushed over: "Master Tong, the emperor knows that you have returned to Beijing, and has specially summoned you..."
Rushing to Ye Ji'er's mausoleum, Tong Huacheng entered the hall and kowtowed. He saw that in addition to Fan Wenlan, the governor of Henan, Ye Ji Luorong, the king of Chengji County, was also in the palace. He quickly saluted him as well: "What are you doing with the great prince and Lord Fan?"
Have you returned to Beijing yet?"
"I was going to Hebi to meet you, but something happened unexpectedly in Jinzhong. Wenlan and I took the road from Jinzhong to return to Beijing, but we didn't expect that we would be two days earlier than you." Ye Jiluo Rong sat down at Ye Ji.
Beside you, respond to Tong Huacheng's words.
Fan Wenlan was originally one of the Liaodong Han officials whom Ye Jier relied on the most; because the strategic focus in previous years was on the Western Front, Ye Jier sent Fan Wenlan to Ye Jirorong as his assistant, responsible for the food and fodder on the Western Front.
and the management of Hezhong Mansion.
Jingxiang was defeated miserably, and Ye Jier had to leave Fan Wenlan in Hezhong Mansion to stabilize the defense on the west line of Hehuai River. Now Dong Yuan had different intentions and was not in the same pot with Huaidong, which actually greatly relieved Beiyan's situation.
Under the military pressure on the Western Front, Yeji Luorong still had to bear the responsibility for the tragic defeat of Jingxiang. Yejier could not immediately transfer him back and reuse him. He temporarily called him back to ask for advice. Later, he still had to send him to Hezhong Prefecture to take charge.
He will take charge of the defense of the western line of the Hehuai River, but Fan Wenlan will stay in Beijing.
Ye Jier's health was getting worse and worse, Zhang Xie was an old fox, and the other princes and ministers had no particularly powerful figures, so they could only call Fan Wenlan back from Hehuai as his assistant.
Tong Huacheng knew that Fan Wenlan would be transferred back to Yanjing, but he did not expect that Emperor Tianming would also summon the prince to Yanjing to ask for advice. It can be seen that Emperor Tianming also regarded the current situation as a critical moment.
"Get up quickly," Ye Zier asked Tong Huacheng to get up, and asked the courtiers to bring a small couch for Tong Huacheng to sit on. He asked impatiently, "What did you gain from going to Hebi..."
"Huaidong's military intelligence chief in Hecheng died during the arrest and resisted. If he failed to capture this key figure, the information that could be extracted would be incomplete," Tong Chenghua said, sitting upright and detailing the results of his trip to Hebi.
I still came up with some information that the Western Temple Supervisor had not grasped before. First, there was a big shot in Huaidong who recently passed through Shandong and sneaked into the Taihang Mountains. The specific person is unknown, but his rank will not be lower than that of the brigade commander. When the slaves rushed to Hebi, they missed the roundup.
The timing is a pity. In addition to this unknown big shot, Huaidong has transferred as many as 100 people to Taihang Mountain via Hebi in the past six months. Nuchen estimates that, including other lines, Huaidong has sent to
There may be more than 200 people in Taihang Mountain..."
"It's so dense!" Yejier took a breath after hearing this, slapped the long case angrily, and ordered the courtiers beside him angrily, "Draw up the decree, Yejiduo will general Hebi and Pingyuan.
Officials were dismissed and investigated, and the channel downstream of the river was immediately cut off. All business travelers crossing the border must be strictly regulated, and no one from the Southern Dynasties can be asked to cross the border from Shandong or Henan again..."
Ye Jiluorong's expression suddenly became solemn.
From various previous signs, including Yue Lengqiu's leadership of Zhengyang and the change of troops in the two towns of Guoyang, all the princes and princes in Yanjing tended to believe that Lin Fu was preparing to usurp the throne and proclaim himself emperor. However, in the past six months, the Southern Dynasty had so intensively
sent lurking personnel into the Taihang Mountains, which also shows that the Southern Dynasty was actively preparing for the Northern Expedition.
The Taihang Mountains are thousands of miles apart, connected to the Jinshan Mountains in the west and the Yanshan Mountains in the north. The terrain is complex and resistance forces arise one after another. They are a thorn in the side of Jinji, but it is very difficult to eradicate them. Especially after the Battle of Jingxiang, the ordinary people of Jinji
They were all ready to take action. Not only did they secretly exchange supplies with the resistance forces, but they also helped spread the news from time to time, making it difficult for the invasion to launch and penetrate deep into the Taihang Mountains.
At present, Yanjing can only roughly know the size of the resistance forces in the Taihang Mountains. From the thirteen families in the early years to the Five Armies Alliance today, the total strength is about 20,000.
Although the equipment of these resistance forces is very poor and their force is not very strong, they have only relied on the steep and deep and wide terrain of the Taihang Mountains for many years to resist, but their ability to fight out of the mountains is not strong. However, Taihang Mountain borders Jinzhong to the west, Yanji to the east, and Yanji to the south.
It is connected to Henan and adjacent to the plains of Shandong and Hebi.
Once the Southern Dynasty organized a large army from Hehuai and Shandong to attack Beiyan's Henan and Shandong defense lines from the front, these resistance forces would unite out of the Taihang Mountains, attack the sides and rear of the Henan and Shandong defense lines, and destroy food. The problem would be quite difficult.
"It is said that the East China Sea Fox is good at using suspicion and tricks," Fan Wenlan frowned and said, "The battle between Jingxiang and Xiang was too hasty, and I feel particularly deeply at this time..."
Tong Huacheng could understand the profound meaning of Fan Wenlan's words.
They had previously believed that Lin Fu would usurp the throne and proclaim himself emperor first, so they wanted to launch an active attack on the defense lines in Henan and Shandong. This was not to say that they would actually use troops against the Huaidong Army's defense lines in Xusi and Yihai, but to attack the defense lines in Xusi and Yihai.
Dong Yuan, who guarded Xuchang, showed his courage in fighting against Huaidong.
If Beiyan's soldiers and horses do not press forward, if Dong Yuan in Xuchang has the slightest intention to resist Huaidong, he will face a pincer attack from Nanyang, Zhengyang in the north and Guoyang in the west. Xuchang's foundation is too poor, Lin Fuzhen will
With one hundred thousand elites attacking, it is hard to imagine that Dong Yuan could hold out for a month in Xuchang. But once Beiyan's soldiers and horses pressed forward, even if Dong Yuan refused to accept Lin Fu's usurpation of the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Lin Fu would not dare to use troops against Xuchang easily.
If Lin Furu usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, Beiyan must win over Dong Yuan and support him in supporting the new emperor established by the Cao family in Yuzhou.
Looking at the past six months, Huaidong has sent two to three hundred lurking personnel to the Taihang Mountains. It seems that Huaidong is planning to go to the Northern Expedition first, but it is also very likely that Huaidong has created a suspicious formation to confuse the attention here.
Once it was determined that Huaidong would go to the Northern Expedition first, especially when it tried every possible means to strengthen its control over the Taihang Army's resistance troops, Yan Beifei not only could not push its troops to the outer defense line, but also had to retain the northern Shandong and southern Shanxi areas that were connected to the Taihang Mountains.
A relatively strong force can ensure that when the peripheral defense line resists the Huaibei Expedition, the Shandong and Henan defense lines will not be destroyed by the Taihang Mountain resistance troops and horses...
Ye Ji'er sighed awkwardly: "The intelligence brought by the formation is very important, but if this intelligence is a conspiracy deliberately released by Huaidong, and we believe it to be true, we will focus on deploying the troops in the Shandong and Henan defense areas on the inside. In fact, it is
It is equivalent to asking Huaidong to have two to three hundred lurkers to stabilize one hundred thousand troops!"
Beiyan's troops deployed in Shandong and Henan's defense line have reached 260,000, but they are currently focusing on the inner line, especially the cavalry regiments, which are concentrated in southern Shanxi and northern Shandong.
If these soldiers and horses do not press southward and do not give Dong Yuan strong support, once Lin Fu usurps the throne and proclaims himself emperor, Dong Yuan may not have the courage to directly raise the banner of supporting the Yuan family and oppose Lin Fu's proclaiming emperor - the foundation of Xuchang
Too weak, Yue Lengqiu has pledged his support to Huaidong again. If there is any change in Xuchang, in Guoyang, Zhengyang's Changhuai army will most likely pounce fiercely and bite him; if Dong Yuan wants to resist Lin Fu, he must at least be able to
Withstand the first wave of offensive.
Dong Yuan's soldiers and horses in Xuchang were not monolithic. Lin Fu usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. Dong Yuan immediately raised the banner of supporting Yuan and rebelling against Lin. He could use this to tie all his soldiers and horses to a warship. But Dong Yuan could not raise the banner immediately.
If he raises the banner of supporting Yuan and rebelling against Lin, he will lose his rightful name in the future and will be embarrassed to be caught in the middle. Lin Fu will then have enough means to divide Xuchang's troops to completely weaken and eliminate Dong Yuan's army.
Purpose.
"Yue Lengqiu chose this moment when Yi Zhi publicly surrendered to Huaidong, like a knife against Xuchang's waist," Ye Jiluorong said, "The deployment of troops in Shandong can be different, but in Guoyang
From the front, we should send two to thirty thousand elite troops to press forward and suppress the Huai army, the new commander, in order to provide support to Xuchang."
"Send two to thirty thousand more troops to the front of Guoyang, and the troops in southern Shanxi will be empty." Ye Ji'er felt that his head was swollen and painful, which had seriously affected his thinking. He asked Ye Ji Luo Rong, Fan Wen
Lan, "Can we send 20,000 soldiers and horses from Yanjing and Jinhai to make up for it? If things don't develop as we expect, we must also strengthen the suppression of bandits in the Taihang Mountains. We cannot let this problem harm the overall situation in the future.
possible."
Tong Huacheng was in charge of spying on the military situation and did not dare to interrupt casual matters. He listened to Emperor Tianming discussing with the Grand Prince and Fan Wenlan and decided to transfer another 20,000 troops and horses from the hinterland of Yanji to the southern front in case of emergencies.
Reported: "In the intercepted information, in recent months, there have been many items such as fire crossbows, third-level battleships, and fourth-level battleships. I feel that I have to pay close attention..."