Throughout the autumn, except for the Cao family who sent troops into northern Sichuan, the war in other areas was relatively calm.
The She family launched a sneak attack on Huaidong, and the entire Mingzhou Prefecture, including Kuaiji Prefecture, from the area east of the Yujiang River fell into the hands of Huaidong. They had to deal with the nearly 50,000 troops deployed along Huaidong along Shengzhou, Shangyu, and threatening southern Zhejiang.
The infantry and the She family really dare not start another large-scale war on the western front until the defense line in Dongyang County is stabilized.
Once the western front is frustrated, Huaidong's offensive from the eastern front will inevitably become fierce again, making it impossible to look at each other. This is the fundamental reason why military strategists usually try their best to avoid fighting on two fronts.
On the west bank of the Lanxi River, on the north side of the She family's military camp in Dongyang County, Qin Zitan walked through a messy place and stood on a high place to look at the Huaidong Army defense camp on the other side.
Down the gentle slope, there are traces of flood erosion everywhere.
In June and July, soldiers and horses stationed in Luohepo in Huaidong threw stones into the Lanxi River to block the river, forcing the Lanxi River to change its course and triggering floods. Countless fields and villages on both sides of Dongyang County were destroyed by floods, and even Dongyang County was destroyed by floods.
After being submerged in the flood for more than a month, a lot of manpower and material resources were invested in consolidating the city wall.
The floods have receded for more than a month, but people are fleeing to the west in large numbers to avoid the war. Large areas of the fields are deserted, and the surrounding area is in a state of chaos, which also makes it difficult for the military resources after the autumn.
"Cut the river and destroy the city, hurting so many innocent people." The junior high school student next to Qin Zitan was the son of a local squire in Dongyang County. Looking at the debris on the ground, he felt endless hatred for the Huaidong Army and beat his hands with his fists, feeling resentful.
Said, "The Huaidong Army is also very hateful."
Qin Zitan sighed softly in his heart. War has always been cruel, but there is no room for mercy towards the opponent. How can we expect that Huaidong's methods will be weaker?
Even though he thought so in his heart, Qin Zitan still felt unusually bitter.
Counting Huaidong's troops on the southern front, Deng Yu, Dong Yuan, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen, and Jiangxi's two-system envoys, the total number of troops the She family had to fight on the northern front reached 100,000, exceeding the She family's.
The total number of soldiers and horses entering Zhejiang. These soldiers and horses belonging to the Yuan clan of Jiangning, after many years of brutal war, from generals to soldiers, are not weak and can be bullied.
I originally thought that Jiang Ning would make some changes in the matter of supporting Prince Ning, which would give this side an opportunity to take advantage of. Unexpectedly, Lin Fu did not hesitate to break with the Gu family and stood up to support Prince Ning first, which made the Yuan family form a new family in Jiangning extremely smoothly.
The ruling center makes it impossible to find any opportunities here.
In fact, after the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang and Fujian armies lost strategic initiative.
First, Huaidong gathered a large number of soldiers and horses in Mingzhou Prefecture, which contained the assault force in western Zhejiang. Secondly, Huaidong gathered almost more than three-quarters of the navy force on the southern line to harass the coasts of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian.
Just like building an extremely sharp spear does not require a pound of good iron; but building a set of armor with strong defense requires dozens of times more iron and hundreds of more laborers - Huaidong
The naval force cooperated with the armored soldiers to land and infiltrate from the coasts of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian. If the Zhejiang and Fujian governorates wanted to build a complete defense line along the coast, they would have to invest several times or even ten times more troops and materials.
Huaidong established a large camp in Shengzhou to engage in military confrontation with the Zhejiang and Fujian armies. He also used the advantage of controlling the sea area to continuously harass the weakly defended coasts of Zhejiang and Fujian, which has greatly weakened the military potential of Zhejiang and Fujian.
Qin Zitan couldn't see where they would turn for the moment, but he saw that Huaidong's next move would be southern Zhejiang.
Huaidong occupied Mingzhou Prefecture and used Shengzhou and Shangyu as bases to station troops aggressively, forcing them to station heavy troops to fight; if Huaidong used Yueqing as a base to strengthen its offensive against southern Zhejiang, they would inevitably follow in Yongjia and Ouhai.
Use heavy troops to prepare for the Huaidong Army to move up the Yongjia River and attack the flanks of western Zhejiang. By then, their two-line confrontation in Zhejiang County will inevitably develop into a three-line confrontation. This pressure is not ordinary!
In the Huaidong Army's defensive stronghold on the east bank of the Lanxi River, Lin Fu stood on the wall, looking at the sunset scenery of Dongyang County in front of Luohe Mountain. It was too far away, and he didn't know the hills on the west bank.
Among the figures was Qin Zitan.
Fu Qinghe, Liang Wenzhan, Hu Zhiyong, Ye Junan and others all came with Lin Fu to inspect the Shengzhou camp.
Gao Zongting and Ao Canghai were standing side by side. At this time, they had received definite news from the north. Chen Zhihu led his troops into western Shanxi to destroy the Wubao and Walled City that were still resisting on behalf of Yanhu. This was regarded as officially surrendering to Yanhu and working for the tiger.
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Gao Zongting and Ao Canghai were both Chen Zhihu's colleagues in Ganri and Chen Zhihu's former generals. When they heard the news, they were both very sorry and unwilling to think about the possibility of meeting and fighting on the battlefield in the future.
"General Yu's ship should be arriving in eastern Zhejiang soon, right?" Ao Canghai said.
"Counting the time, we can see Wan Gao when we return to Mingzhou Prefecture from here," Gao Zongting said, "I just heard that when they were forced to withdraw from Jieyang, General Yu was seriously injured..."
Recalling that the East Fujian Army, which was once prosperous at the time, was now in such a state of disarray, and would probably have to fight on the battlefield in the future, Chen Dingbang stood behind him and sighed in his heart.
"Those scoundrels in Guangnan County will kill them one day!" Ao Canghai cursed bitterly.
Yu Wangao withdrew and occupied Jieyang from the south of Jian'an. If he could rely on Guangnan County, he could contain a considerable part of the She family's troops on the southern front. However, Guangnan County and local forces did not dare to offend the She family, who had a strong army, and instead sent troops to fight with the She family.
The She family surrounded Jieyang and blocked Jiangning, forcing Yu Wangao to lead his troops to break out of Jieyang and go into guerrilla warfare in the mountains.
When Yu Wangao broke out from Jieyang, he was hit by an arrow and retreated into the mountains. He lacked medical treatment and medicine. He led the troops and worked hard, and the arrow wound lasted for more than a year. When Huaidong sent someone to contact him, Yu Wangao could no longer get out of bed and walk.
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At the beginning of the war in East Fujian, Yu Wancao had 20,000 elite men under his command. After years of hard fighting, the soldiers could not be replaced, and the conditions were extremely difficult. In the end, the number of troops withdrawn was less than 3,000. The remaining 3,000 soldiers, regardless of
Both their morale and combat power were extremely weak. However, they and the She family had too much blood on each other, and there was no possibility of surrender. This time they all retreated to Yizhou to rest and recuperate.
Yu Wangao, escorted by his nephew, went to Jiangning to pay homage to the new emperor. The plan was to stop in Chongzhou. However, Lin Fu came to eastern Zhejiang for inspection, and he notified the ship to dock at Mingzhou Prefecture at short notice. Lin Fu planned to meet Yu Wangao.
Yu Wangao, Dong Yuan, Chen Zhihu, Governor Lu and others were all generals promoted by the Commander-in-Chief. Dong Yuan just kept silent after knowing the truth about the Commander-in-Chief's death. Chen Dingbang couldn't help but think: Yu Wangao knew the truth about the Commander-in-Chief's death.
After that, will you still be loyal to the Yuan family as always?
Lin Fu inspected the defense situation of the Luohe Mountain Fort and said to Zhang Gou, the chief general here: "The Zhejiang and Fujian rebels have a wide defense area, but our defense area is narrow. This determines that we send a small group of elites to infiltrate more easily.
Their line of defense - after months of peaceful confrontation here, it's time for the other side to tighten their nerves."
"This is a good arrangement," Zhang Gou asked, "will the next step be to decide to use troops in southern Zhejiang?"
"How easy is that? I'm still researching it!" Lin Fu said.
Although the Yongjia Resistance Army grew in power last year and once recaptured the cities of Yongjia and Yueqing, the former leader of the Yongjia Resistance Army, Ye Su, rejected Huaidong's suggestion and insisted on holding on to the inland Yongjia City. In the end, the city was captured by She Feihu.
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Including Ye Su, nearly 10,000 Yongjia soldiers and civilians who defended the city were massacred after the city was broken.
Suffering this heavy setback, the remnants of the Yongjia Army, led by Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying, also realized the cruel status quo, moved closer to Huaidong, and were incorporated into the Marching Army in East Zhejiang in July.
Fu Qinghe first ordered thousands of Yueqing people and the families of generals to evacuate by sea, turning Yueqing City and the Lushan Island behind it into a pure military fortress. At the same time, he also dispatched a large number of grassroots military attachés to the remnants of the Yongjia Army to improve the Yongjia Army.
The fighting strength of the remaining troops, but there are only three battalions of soldiers holding Yueqing City and Lushan Island, which is far from enough to change the balance of military power between the two sides in southern Zhejiang.
After occupying Yizhou, the main forces of the First Water Camp and the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion were mainly based on Yizhou and penetrated nearby to attack the coastal forces in eastern Fujian. Lin Fu wanted to open up the southern Zhejiang battlefield in Yueqing, constantly forcing the She family to attack on the east side.
The defense line of the She family is stretched longer and tighter. Until the She family can no longer support it and has to carry out military adventures in order to break the deadlock that is increasingly unfavorable to the She family, Huaidong will also be able to find a blow to the She family.
A chance to die.
But opening up another battlefield in southern Zhejiang will undoubtedly be very painful for the She family, but Huaidong may not be so easy either.
Before the Tianjin navy withdrew to Chongzhou to rest and recuperate, the entire Huaidong heartland and defense force mainly relied on the female battalion and hundreds of cavalry guards, except for some water battalions.
Before, the Lin and Gu families didn't break up, and their relationship was quite harmonious. With the Jiangning Water Camp controlled by Gu Wuchen, Lin Fu wasn't too worried that Chongzhou would be threatened, but now, he has to keep an elite team in Chongzhou, so
The Cavalry Camp and the Jinhai Camp were left in Chongzhou to prevent anyone in Jiangning from being ruthless and cruel to Huaidong.
As a result, Lin Fu would not be able to spare the troops to open up the battlefield in southern Zhejiang.
Although there are still reserve troops that can be drawn, the remnants of the Yongjia Army are not elite combat forces. Drawing in reserve forces to supplement them will quickly increase the total number of troops, but the actual combat strength will not make people optimistic.
Furthermore, Lin Fu also had to consider the pressure on supplies and the supply of soldiers and armor.
Lin Fu came to eastern Zhejiang this time. In addition to inspecting military affairs, he was more interested in inspecting the implementation of the new policy in eastern Zhejiang. He hoped that the Mingzhou government could provide more material support to Huaidong.
Mingzhou Prefecture changed hands twice in just three years, and the local forces were brutally attacked. The She family attacked those who refused to surrender, and Huaidong attacked those who surrendered to the She family. At the same time, the local forces could only
The last breath was too late to form any substantial resistance to the implementation of the New Deal. The land inventory, official land confiscation, household registration, resettlement and household relocation were all carried out in an orderly manner.
In addition to the 380,000 acres of land confiscated and confiscated by the officials, 270,000 acres of unregistered and abandoned land in Mingzhou Prefecture were surveyed and 270,000 acres were expropriated for the officials. Cultivable water was measured in Changguo, Daishan, and Shengsi Islands.
There are 390,000 acres of dry land, totaling 1.04 million acres of paddy and dry land. There are also more than 40,000 acres of island pastures suitable for grazing, and countless woodlands.
Mainly by using these official lands that were expropriated as official lands, in the past six months, Mingzhou Prefecture, including Changguo and Shengsi counties, resettled a total of 60,000 households who moved south.
The income from the official tax of autumn grain in Mingzhou alone reached 470,000 dan from rice and 80,000 pieces of cloth. The income from official fields was 250,000 dan from rice and grain. The income from official fields was low, mainly because people who migrated south did not start until May.
Fortunately, tens of thousands of people were recruited from Hecheng and other places to move to Mingzhou and 300,000 acres of paddy fields were planted. Otherwise, this year's official farmland income would be far less than this amount.
When the people who migrated south have completely settled down, the income of official land will reach a new level next year; with frequent wars, a large amount of official land will be used for pensions and merit awards, which will naturally limit the increase in official land income. At present,
One of the main tasks is to continuously increase the reserves of official land through various means.
The Huaidong Army now has to maintain a total strength of more than 80,000 people in armaments, pay, normal soldiers and armor, and ordnance supplements; maintain a total number of labor camps of more than 120,000 people; and maintain consumption and investment in many manufacturing matters;
The resettlement of large batches of refugees and people who moved south must also support the construction of the Huaisi defense line in Huaiyang Town - the monthly consumption of money and materials has reached a level that makes outsiders stunned.
If it weren't for Huaidong's huge profits of nearly 1.6 million taels this year from the monopoly of Haidong trade, it would have imported 800,000 kilo of grain and a large amount of wood, coal, iron, leather, and copper from Haidong at low prices.
Huaidong simply cannot support such a large consumption of silver and other materials.
Maintaining 10,000 baggage troops is not very expensive, but converting 10,000 baggage troops into combat soldiers, only the equipment of soldiers and armor will give people a splitting headache. It is invested in southern Zhejiang to open up a new battlefield. During the war, soldiers and armor are included.
It is a headache to think about the consumption of arrows and ordnance to build a city, the consumption of camp materials, the additional supplies during war, the investment in treating casualties, and the investment in later casualty pensions and awards.
Historically, whenever a war broke out in the imperial court, most of the household officials in charge of money and food were from the peace-promoting faction. This was the main reason. They would rather kneel down and offer silver to seek peace than end up falling behind and killing one hundred thousand enemies and losing eighty thousand to themselves.
's endgame.
Zhang Gou was looking forward to expanding the scale of the war in southern Zhejiang, but Lin Fu felt that this decision was difficult to make. While he was thinking wildly, a scout came to the horse and sent an urgent message.
Gao Zongting took it and looked at it, handed it to Lin Fu, and said: "The ship from Yizhou has arrived at Jikou, and Admiral Yu is seriously injured..."
Since the She family rebelled again, many generals and Qingliu scholars who claimed to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty had surrendered. However, Yu Wangao remained unyielding in the most difficult moments and led his troops to guerrilla attacks on the Zhejiang and Fujian sides. A generation of generals were about to return to Jiangning.
Thousands of people perished on the ship, which was extremely sad.
"Let's go back to Mingzhou..." Lin Fu said.
"Mr. Gao, Dingbang, please burn incense to Governor Yu on my behalf." Ao Canghai said. He was the commander of the Shengzhou camp and could not leave Shengzhou for Mingzhou.
Gao Zongting nodded and thought: The Five Tigers of East Fujian already belong to the past era, right?