It is about forty miles upstream from the mouth of the Yongjia River. Yongjia faces Ouhai across the river. The Nanxi River, the most important tributary in the lower reaches of the Yongjia River, bypasses Yongjia City and merges into the Yongjia River from the north bank.
The Huaidong Navy raided Yongjia, Yueqing and others after the autumn of last year. The southern Zhejiang resistance army also came down from Kuocang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain to seize cities and land to strengthen the resistance against the She family in southern Zhejiang.
She Feihu was ordered to go to southern Zhejiang in person to organize troops to counterattack the resistance in southern Zhejiang and strengthen the control of the Zhejiang and Fujian governorates over southern Zhejiang.
She Feihu set up his headquarters of the Governor's Office in Southern Zhejiang in Ouhai City on the south bank of the Yongjia River. In addition to the tens of thousands of Eastern Fujian elites who provided emergency support to the southern Zhejiang coast, She Feihu also recruited more than ten thousand local loyalists in Ouhai, Qingtian and other counties.
Soldiers and horses, on the one hand, they were prepared to prevent the Huaidong Navy from raiding the coast, and on the other hand, they suppressed the southern Zhejiang resistance army led by Ye Su, Liu Wenzhong and others.
After She Feihu arrived in southern Zhejiang, he first used hidden piles, sunken ships, bamboo rafts, etc. to completely block the Yongjia River waterway in Wuguo, downstream of Ouhai, to prevent Huaidong warships from entering the Yongjia River from the river mouth. Later, he used hidden piles, sunken ships, bamboo rafts, etc.
Military forts were set up in Gui, Yaoxi, Longshui, Tianhe and other places to guard against Huaidong soldiers landing on the shore to attack.
Regarding the two cities of Yongjia and Yueqing that were occupied by the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army, She Feihu also decisively severed the connection between the two cities and brutally suppressed the rural forces in the periphery who sympathized with or secretly colluded with the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army.
Since Yueqing was offshore, it was easy to get support and supplies from the Huaidong Navy. Following the established steps, She Feihu decided to attack Yongjia first.
Although more than 2,000 remnants of the southern Zhejiang army were completely besieged in Yongjia City years ago, in order to slacken Dong Yuan's vigilance in northern Zhejiang, She Feihu delayed the attack in southern Zhejiang until March without attacking Yongjia City.
It was not until She Fei Xiong captured Linshui in a surprise attack and gathered troops to attack Fuyang that She Fei Hu officially attacked Yongjia City on the 21st, which had been besieged for nearly half a year...
Ye Su failed to decisively lead his troops to abandon Yongjia and evacuate to Yueqing City offshore; although Liu Wenzhong obtained a large amount of supplies from northern Zhejiang, when the fleet went south, the road to Yongjia from the west had been cut off by She Feihu, and he was still unable to bring the supplies
Send it to Yongjia City.
After being trapped in Yongjia City for about half a year, the Yongjia army and civilians led by Ye Su ran out of food and arrows. At the same time, the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels were well prepared for the siege. In just three days, they seized two city gates in the southeast. The Yongjia defenders
The city gate was blocked with earth, stone, bricks and wood. After the city gate building fell, it was impossible to break out through the city gate. Ye Su gave up resistance before dusk on the 24th and chose to lead the remaining troops to surrender.
She Feihu, wearing green armor and a scarlet cloak, stood in the south gate building, looking through the carved window at the Yongjia prisoners of war gathered inside the gate, and asked Qin Zitan in a low voice: "How?
Disposal?"
"..." Qin Zitan waved his hand and made a neck-cutting gesture, and all the generals around him felt a chill on their necks.
Beside She Feihu, in addition to the direct generals from Zhejiang and Fujian, there were also generals who had taken refuge in Yongjia. The more than a thousand captured troops were almost all locals of Yongjia Prefecture, and they all were killed. They finally couldn't bear it.
She Feihu couldn't make up his mind for a moment. He was not being merciful, but was weighing the pros and cons of massacring the captured troops. Killing prisoners could deter the local forces in southern Zhejiang, but at the same time it would make it more difficult to attack Yueqing City.
At this time, a sentry in black walked directly into the city gate building. Qin Zitan, who was in charge of military intelligence, took the bamboo tube containing the message from the sentry, took it in, checked that the seal was correct, and opened it.
If you look closely, your face becomes more and more serious.
She Feihu saw Qin Zitan's serious face and asked, "How is the situation in eastern Zhejiang?"
Through the beacon signal, She Feihu and Qin Zitan learned about the attack in eastern Zhejiang at sunrise, but the scale and extent of the attack were still unknown. Even though Qin Zitan had bad omens in his heart, he still did not
I believe that Huaidong is still capable of organizing a large-scale attack on eastern Zhejiang...
"..." Qin Zitan handed the letter to She Feihu. When She Feihu took a look at it, his face suddenly collapsed. He took a breath and smacked his lips in pain, "Huaidong is building a plank road in the open and crossing Chencang secretly! It's so painful.
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The generals were shocked and confused when they first heard She Feihu utter such words incomprehensibly. They could not figure out how Huaidong was able to "build the plank road in the open and cross the Chencang secretly" method.
The letter mentioned that the two villages of Pokou and Jintang were attacked and fell in the morning. The Huaidong Navy broke into the sea from Daishan and Changchang on a large scale. The warships covered the sky and closed the sea. The specific scale of the troop dispatch is still unknown, but
It will never be less than 10,000 people.
Qin Zitan and She Feihu could also clearly understand at this time: Huaidong had used King Qin as a cover before, everything was a cover-up, and they were just waiting for the opportunity when Zhejiang's troops were empty to strike this fatal blow.
Others don't know the maximum number of troops Huaidong can draw, but Qin Zitan and She Feihu can still estimate a rough number.
Although Su Tingzhan led his troops westward to attack Fuyang and left more than 10,000 defensive troops in Mingzhou Prefecture, Mingzhou Prefecture's defense idea at this time was to defend against the Huaidong Army. The Haiyu Army might have a small force coming from the sea.
In order to harass the city, more than 10,000 defensive troops were scattered in various castles.
This kind of defensive deployment can effectively reduce the gaps for small-scale enemy troops to penetrate from the coast to the inland. However, once a large-scale force is attacked, it will expose the fatal weakness of dispersed troops and easy to be defeated by each one.
All previous intelligence can lead to the conclusion that the main force of the Huaidong Army went north to King Qin. Including Su Tingzhan, almost all Zhejiang and Fujian generals, even Qin Zitan and She Feihu in southern Zhejiang, did not consider Zhejiang.
There is the possibility of a large-scale surprise attack in the east.
She Feihu asked several trusted generals to accompany him and Qin Zitan to the side hall of the south city gate tower to discuss matters. He directly asked Qin Zitan: "How to deal with it?"
"Fortunately, after knowing the news of the attack in eastern Zhejiang, we rushed to capture Yongjia City today, otherwise the situation would be unimaginable!" Qin Zitan broke out in a cold sweat, "Yueqing side can't take care of it for the time being, and the peripheral surveillance troops
We also need to withdraw. However, we must be prepared for the Huaidong Army to use Yueqing as its stronghold and launch a large-scale attack on southern Zhejiang. The troops scattered in the coastal villages need to immediately concentrate on Ouhai, Yongjia and other cities to prevent the Huaidong Army from defeating them one by one! Wu
Well, the two villages of Tianshui need to be heavily defended, and the defense of southern Zhejiang must be centered on Yongjia..."
Not only were Mingzhou Prefecture's defensive forces dispersed across villages, but the Zhejiang Navy was also dispersed to harass Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places at this time, creating favorable conditions for the attack on Fuyang. How much strength could the Zhejiang Navy retain under Huaidong's surprise attack?
It's still unknown.
Once the Zhejiang Navy is destroyed...
Thinking of this, Qin Zitan couldn't help but pat his painful head. He hoped that the eldest son would not be so stupid as to rush to send the Zhejiang Navy from Fuyang to save Mingzhou Prefecture - to save part of the Zhejiang Navy in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River.
The combat power can at least restrain the main force of the Huaidong Navy on the Qianjiang River line and not dare to go south immediately, giving southern Zhejiang and central Fujian some critical time to adjust their deployment.
Although there are about 20,000 elite and local vassal troops in southern Zhejiang, nearly half of them are scattered in coastal villages, and it will take time to assemble.
The river barriers blocking the Yongjia River are mainly concentrated between the two villages of Wuguo and Tianshui. Guarding the two villages of Wuguo and Tianshui means not giving the Huaidong Army a chance to land on the shore and clear the river obstacles. This will prevent the Huaidong Army from borrowing water.
The division's warships sailed along the Yongjia River, bypassing Ouhai City, and marched westward to attack the hinterland of southern Zhejiang.
Yueqing and Yongjia, which were occupied by the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army, are on the north bank of the river. More importantly, the Nanxi River where Yongjia is located is the eastern channel that goes north through Kuocang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain and connects Kuaiji and Mingzhou. Once
After Yongjia fell, if southern Zhejiang wanted to contact Kuaiji and Mingzhou, it would have to make a big circle from western Zhejiang.
Although Yongjia City and Ouhai City face each other across the river, in terms of strategic situation, Yongjia is much more important than Ouhai.
This is also an important reason why Yongjia Prefecture wants to locate its government in Yongjia County, which has a narrow terrain, rather than in Ouhai County, which has an open terrain, in a world where land roads and inland waterways are the main transportation systems.
"Ouhai and Yongjia will set up river barriers again and strive to build a trestle on the Yongjia River waterway west of Ouhai to connect Ouhai and Yongjia," She Feihu's mind began to become active from the shock of the first news, and he followed
Qin Zitan supplemented his thoughts and ordered a burly general beside him, saying, "Captain Wen, I will lead my troops to assist eastern Zhejiang. I will leave Zitan to guard the governor's office in southern Zhejiang. You will lead your troops to assist Zitan..."
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"How to deal with the captured troops in the city?" As a direct general of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army, Wen Tingrui's ability and loyalty are worthy of trust, he asked.
"Kill," She Feihu could no longer think about the issue of regaining Yueqing at this time. He first wanted to ensure that the local forces in southern Zhejiang were suppressed and no trouble occurred. He ordered fiercely, "Kill the captured troops; the families of the captured soldiers in the city will also be killed."
Kill! Let Zitan handle this matter carefully, there won't be any more trouble here."
There were no more than ten thousand soldiers and civilians in Yongjia City, so they killed all their family members, fearing that only one or two thousand people would survive in the end.
Qin Zitan would not feel sorry for the soldiers and civilians of Yongjia. The killings and brutal suppression caused by the war were commonplace. He was thinking about She Feihu personally leading his troops to aid eastern Zhejiang, and said: "The eldest son should send reinforcements better than us."
On the early front line, Kuaiji is close to Fuyang, so reinforcements should not be rushed in time. However, the defense deployment of Mingzhou Prefecture is too scattered. Even if Mingzhou Prefecture can hold the city for three days, it is very foreseeable, and the troops and horses after Huaidong enters Mingzhou Prefecture
Expansion and penetration cannot be known in advance. It is natural for the governor to lead his troops to assist eastern Zhejiang, but after the governor enters eastern Zhejiang and can seize Shengzhou first, it is not appropriate to march rashly..."
Shengzhou is located in the upper reaches of the Cao'e River and belongs to Mingzhou Prefecture. It borders Fenghua, Yuyao and Ninghai to the east, Zhuji to the west, Shangyu and Kuaiji to the north. It is an important land pass connecting eastern Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang.
She Feihu led his troops north from Yongjia to rush for reinforcements. It was more than 300 miles away from Shengzhou, and it would take three or four days at the fastest.
The situation in Shengzhou is also dangerous, and at the same time it is deep inland. The Huaidong Army must first clear out the walled city along the coast of Mingzhou Prefecture, and will not go deep into the hinterland quickly. If Shefeihu can take the lead in strengthening Shengzhou's defense, and Shengzhou
Feixiong or Su Tingzhan can strengthen Kuaiji's defense first, and at least contain the collapse of eastern Zhejiang within Mingzhou Prefecture.
To launch a massive counterattack, at least we have to wait until we have a clear picture of the strength of the Huaidong Army. She Feihu can only transfer five to six thousand elites from Yongjia. If he is not careful and rashly enters the hinterland of Mingzhou Prefecture to rush for reinforcements, he will be eaten.
The danger was greater. At that time, not only the situation in eastern Zhejiang was critical, but even southern Zhejiang might be completely lost.
The Zhejiang land south of the Qianjiang River is divided into two parts: fields, one part water, and seven parts mountains. These two parts of land are mainly concentrated in Mingzhou, Kuaiji and other two prefectures in eastern Zhejiang. After the capture of eastern Zhejiang, the food and salary of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies
Nearly half of it was raised here, which shows the importance of eastern Zhejiang to the She family.
Although eastern Zhejiang is extremely important to the She family, Huaidong's attack on eastern Zhejiang is too sudden. We cannot handle it carefully at this time. If we make a wrong move, the whole situation may collapse.
"I don't have to..." She Feihu nodded and fought with Huaidong. Although he was at a disadvantage every time, She Feihu was very experienced in leading troops. After discussing with his cronies for a while, he summoned all the generals.
He came in and announced his decision, leaving Qin Zitan with full power to deal with the affairs of southern Zhejiang for the time being. He led five thousand elite troops northward from Yongjia that night.