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Lin Fu cared most about the She family. Long before Jiangdong Zuojun formed an army, he sent sentinels to Jin'an, Jian'an and other places.
At this time, the She family detoured from western Zhejiang to seize Xianxia Pass and Shangguan, blocking the passage in and out of western Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Yu Wangao would naturally set up a dragnet in Jian'an, Shaowu, Pucheng and other places to prevent enemy scouts from infiltrating, and Jiangdong
It was extremely difficult for the left army's sentinels to pass through the blockade network of both the enemy and ourselves and send the news back to Chongzhou.
On the fifth day of November, Lin Fu received the intelligence from Jian'an from the sentinel in Jiangning.
After it was confirmed that the She family had sent troops to attack eastern Zhejiang, the county magistrates in eastern Zhejiang had a dispute over whether to send troops to the She family. The Eastern Fujian Xuanfu envoy and the inspection envoy insisted on asking the court for instructions before handling the matter. Admiral Yu Wangao was worried that his escape route would be blocked.
, the troops from Jian'an were divided into east and west routes to guard Xianxia Pass and the back route of Shan Pass.
The letter road was deliberately blocked by the She family. When the Zhejiang County Sheriff confirmed the news of the She family sending troops to eastern Zhejiang in Jian'an Prefecture in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River, it was already October 24th. On the 24th, the people in Jian'an City
There were large-scale floods and fires in many granaries and the streets near neighboring storage areas. Under such troubles, Yu Wangao resolutely divided his troops from Jian'an on the 25th to guard Shanguan and Xianxiaguan.
On the 25th, Xianxia Pass had been captured by the She family's surprise troops who detoured from western Zhejiang, and on the 26th, Shangguan also fell one after another.
Around the 27th, the Jian'an Army was ambushed in the valley roads north of Pucheng and northwest of Shaowu. The east road was greatly defeated, and Pucheng was captured in the chaos. The defeated army retreated to Jianzhou (now Jianou) before stabilizing its position;
The army retreated to Shaowu.
On the 28th, all counties in Jin'an rebelled. Except for the magistrate of Jianyang County, who was missing, the magistrates, county lieutenants and other officials sent by the imperial court to other counties in Jin'an were tied up by the rebels and sent to the She family.
, the Jin'an rebels headed by Song and other eight surnames formed an alliance through bloodshed, formed the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang, and jointly recommended Shewenzhuang as the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.
On the 26th, the Song family army headed by Yongtaibo Song Fu sent troops south to capture Quanzhou.
The news came out from Jianzhou on the 29th, and it only took eight days to reach Jiangning, which can be said to be very fast. The counties in northern Zhejiang, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi did not even know the situation in Jin'an and Jian'an.
After Xianxia Pass and Shangguan were captured by the She family, there were no troops in western Zhejiang and southern Jiangxi to send to recapture the key passes. Some officials were even worried that Yu Wangao, who had been robbed, would join the She family.
In Lin Fu's view, Yu Wangao and his generals had been fighting a bloody battle with the She family for nearly ten years. Both sides' hands were covered in each other's blood. How could they surrender?
Besides, Yu Wangao has already become an admiral, a military attache of the third rank, a captain of light carriages, and a magistrate of Qingjiang County. He has been demoted to the She family. What kind of official position can the She family grant him?
When the news came out from Jianzhou on the 29th, Yu Wangao's Jian'an Army still controlled the three cities of Jianzhou, Shaowu and Jian'an in northern Fujian. However, after the Jin family rebels headed by the She family captured Quanzhou,
He was even more interested in taking Zhangzhou first.
Eastern Fujian has many hills and few plains. There is a saying that nine points are divided into mountains and one part is farmland. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The main plains are only a few small ones such as Jin'an, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou.
These multi-field plains are concentrated on a narrow coastal belt with Jin'an as the north end and Zhangzhou as the south end. The length from north to south is no more than 500 miles. After capturing Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, it will not only be easy to control, but also rich in these areas.
The land obtained a large amount of grain and grass to feed the Jin'an rebels.
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"Yu Wangao's Jian'an Army is actually under siege by the Jin'an rebels..." Gu Wuchen learned from Lin Fu the news that the sentinel sent from Jianzhou on the 29th, staring at the slightly crude map of Eastern Fujian.
, frowning at the current embarrassing situation, and also worried about Yu Wangao's Jian'an Army.
Lin Fu held his chin and remained silent. He glanced at Liu Xilin, wanting to see what he had to say.
"Northern Fujian is separated by mountains and rivers, and the streams are crisscrossed. The only way out for the Jian'an Army is to go down the Min River to attack Jin'an, or to attack Shan Pass and Xianxia Pass to open up a channel connecting Jiangxi and western Zhejiang," Lin Fu encouraged.
, Liu Xilin stood up and said, "The eight surnames have run Jin'an for nearly two hundred years, making Jin'an the most powerful city in East Fujian. Although the Jian'an army has the power to build a stronghold, it is really difficult to conquer. Once the forced siege of the city is frustrated, the Jian'an army will
We must fall into a desperate situation. Yu Wangao is good at military affairs and most likely will not take this strategy. The Jin'an rebels have occupied Mingzhou and Kuaiji. They captured Xianxia Pass with a strange force and instigated the miners to rebel in Xianxia Ridge. Quzhou has become a dangerous place. There are no reinforcements.
Send out, Quzhou will fall soon, Jin'an rebels will soon form a line in southern Zhejiang, and Yu Wanguo will retake Xianxia Pass from the She family. There are many difficulties, but we can only start from Shan Pass..."
Shanguan is located between Fuzhou in Jiangxi and Zhaowu in eastern Fujian. The She family sent two thousand elites to go through the Yushui Valley and cross the mountains between Xinzhou and Fuzhou before unexpectedly capturing Shanguan.
As long as Xinzhou and Fuzhou are not lost, the two thousand elite troops of the She family occupying Shanguan are actually alone. They are attacked by Yu Wangao and Jiangxi County soldiers. They have no food and reinforcements and only occupy a sparsely populated Guancheng. They may not be able to hold on for long.
However, Shangguan is located among high mountains and ridges, so it is not easy to recapture it.
Shewenzhuang naturally knew that sending troops to seize Shanguan would be dangerous, and the general leading the troops must be a perseverant and trustworthy person. It is estimated that the final key would be to see whether the Shanguan garrison would run out of food and grass first, or whether the Jian'an army would not be able to stabilize its morale first.
The Jin'an rebels in eastern Zhejiang will attack Xinzhou in Jiangxi to eliminate the threat from the Shangguan flank.
The Jian'an Army had nearly 20,000 soldiers, but it was far from enough to support the several mountain cities of Jianzhou and Jian'an through imperial edicts. Food and wages were all shipped from western Zhejiang and Jiangxi. The She family sent troops just before the autumn wages were shipped, and they sent secret agents in advance to burn the troops.
The Jian'an cities store grain, and it is unclear how long the Jian'an army's food and grass will last after the source of pay is cut off. Under such a situation, it is difficult for the military's morale to remain shaken.
Regarding the situation in southern Zhejiang, except for Mingzhou and Kuaiji, the counties in Kuaiji were captured by the Jin rebels at lightning speed. However, Quzhou, Taizhou, Pingyang, Chuzhou and other counties in southern Zhejiang have not yet fallen.
After the defeat of Longshan, Zhejiang's troops were exhausted, and the few defeated troops fled across the sea and river into Jiaxing. Hangzhou and other places were reorganized. The defense of the counties in southern Zhejiang could only rely on local soldiers. Dong Yuan was at Jiahang Lake on the north bank of the Qianjiang River, etc.
The troops that can be mobilized are only 20,000, mainly Weiyang Army and Ning Haijun, mixed with broken troops and local rural soldiers. The elites are limited. The three areas of Jiahang Lake on the north bank are still struggling, and they cannot send troops to aid Quzhou at all.
Pingyang, Taizhou and other prefectures and counties sandwiched between Minghui and Jin'an are even beyond reach.
The Jin'an rebels suddenly captured Mingzhou and Kuaiji, and sent out surprise troops to seal Yu Wangao's Jian'an army in the mountain city of northern Fujian. They also wanted to send troops to seize Zhangquan and other places. They were in the stage of rushing to make arrangements, and for the time being they couldn't decide who to seize.
Zhenan Prefecture County.
The rebels in Jin'an were unable to seize the counties in southern Zhejiang, and the counties in the southeast could not mobilize elite troops to aid the two Zhejiang provinces.
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At the end of October, Liu An'er's refugee army was blocked from marching north to eastern Shaanxi and retreated to Shang County. He sent Liu Miaozhen, a red-coat girl, to go down the Dan River to seize Junzhou and then conquer Nanyang. On the first day of November, Liu Miaozhen, Yang Quan and other rebel generals led an army.
The elite of the refugee army marched north from Nanyang to Ruzhou, which was empty of defenses, and formally advanced into western Henan, intending to join forces with Chen Hansan's Tianyi Left Guard Army in central Henan.
Although Liu An'er, Gong Yucai, Luo Xiancheng and other forces of the refugee army suffered several setbacks, their momentum continued unabated. They moved from Huaishang to fight in Hubei, eastern Sichuan, Western Qin and other places. The more they fought in Vietnam, the more courageous they became, and they became like a prairie fire. The size of the refugee army was almost
million.
Among them, Liu An'er had the most elite troops. In addition to Liu Miaozhen and Yang Quan, Wu Shiyi, Sun Ganzi, and Malantou were all rebel generals under his command who were good at recruiting and fighting.
Although Chen Hansan led the bandit camp and defected to Liu An'er, he was actually an independent unit. For a long time, he only maintained a strength of four to five thousand troops, but he was the most elite. There were many war horses in the army, and they came and went like the wind. After Chen Hansan rebelled, he joined the refugee army to fight.
More than ten times, they were defeated in every battle, which frightened the officers and soldiers in Huaishang, Hanzhong, Nanyang, Northern Henan and other places as well as local soldiers.
After stimulating the rebellion of 300,000 civilians who built embankments on the Yellow River, Chen Hansan regarded himself as the Tianyi Left Guard Army, and then officially recruited Jianyong in Liaocheng, Western Shandong, and expanded his troops to more than 20,000 people.
Yue Lengqiu led the Huai army to go north to suppress the civil uprising. The first thing he had to face was Chen Hansan, Liu Miaozhen, Yang Quan and other elite refugee rebels who had joined forces in central Henan. At this time, he didn't know how sure he was.
, but there are still three reinforcements coming from the north to support Yue Lengqiu.
Although Lin Fu was tit for tat with Yue Lengqiu, just as Yue Lengqiu did not want the Jiangdong Left Army to be defeated in Chongzhou, Lin Fu did not want the Changhuai Army to suffer a big setback in Henan, which would ruin the entire situation in the Central Plains.
The war in the north was also raging. At the end of the month, a report came by sea, reporting the battle situation on the northwest front of Yanshan. In late October, the Eastern captives broke through the border wall north of Datong and poured into northern Shanxi in large numbers. The fortresses around Datong fell one after another.
, only Chen Zhihu led his elite troops to defend Datong.
Chen Zhihu sent a messenger to break out of the siege and ask for help from Li Zhuo. He said that the Donglu offensive was urgent, but he also said that there was no shortage of food and grass in the city and could defend it for three to five months. He asked Li Zhuo not to rush the reinforcements to avoid the enemy's plan to send reinforcements... However,
He has the demeanor of a general.
As long as Datong is not lost, most of the Donghu cavalry will not dare to detour deep into the center of Jin, and the situation in Yanbei can barely be maintained. At the same time, there are voices from the court, asking Li Zhuo to take the opportunity to send troops from Jibei Linyu to attack Donghu, which can solve the problem of Datong.
siege, and can take the opportunity to regain the lost territory in western Liaoning.
Li Zhuo ignored such voices and has been impeached many times.
The situation in the Central Plains is unstable, and the Tianyi rebels may threaten Yanjing. Li Zhuo has only been training troops in Jibei for half a year, with limited results. Although the main force of the Eastern captives has been attracted to the same front in Shanxi, he is by no means sending troops to seize his hometown in western Liaoning at this time.
opportunity.
When the Dongqi attacked from north to south, they went from a poor land to a rich land. They could grab food on the spot to relieve their supplies. To regain their old land in western Liaoning, when they fought from south to north, they went from a rich land to a poor land. They already had the idea of supporting war with war.
It is impossible to raise food in the remote areas of western Liaoning, so we can only rely on the rear. Even without the Tianyi rebels making a big splash in northern Shandong, the current Tianjin-Sea food route can barely maintain the food and grass supplies for the armies in the capital and the northern front.
, how can there be any spare strength to send troops out of Jibei and Linyu to seize the hometown of western Liaoning?
The so-called encirclement of Wei and rescue of Zhao is just an unrealistic scholar's talk. However, it is very popular in the court. I don't know if someone is secretly instigating it. Those officials are very jumpy. They accuse Li Zhuo of not sending troops because he is afraid of the enemy.
In such a stormy situation, Lin Fu left Jiangning on the eighth day of November and returned to Chongzhou by boat.
The dispute with the Ministry of Industry in Jiangning was also inconclusive, but Ge Siyu seduced him. Nearly a hundred people from Longjiang Shipyard and Zhufangsi moved their families with Lin Fu to Chongzhou to settle down. Lin Fu spent money to buy Yong Longjiang.
Officials in the Shipyard and Zhufang Division, as well as officials from the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, were completely unaware of this. In the eyes of these officials, no matter how good the craftsmanship was, he was still a lowly citizen and would not be placed in his hands.
Following Lin Fu down the river at the same time were the two battalions of Jian Rui led by Yang Shi who went to Chongzhou for water warfare training. They were the elite cavalrymen brought by Gu Wuchen from the Inspectorate and the Jian Yong drawn from Dongyang Township Yongli.
Once the training is complete, they will be directly incorporated into the Jiangning Water Camp and become the main force. At this time, the Jiangning Water Camp has been transferred to Gu Wuchen in three rotations south to support the war in eastern Zhejiang, accepting Dong Yuan's dispatch.