Jiang Ning also realized that it would be difficult to truly stabilize the Hehuai defense line by relying solely on the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country.
In addition to the defense lines along the Yellow River, the defense lines along the Huai River must be reinforced so that Jiangning does not have to directly face the threat of Yan and Hu cavalry.
In late November, Lin Fu inspected the Huaiyang defense line with only a few guards escorting him. Jiang Ning was both happy and worried about the news.
Worryingly, Huaidong's influence and control over Huaiyang Town far exceeds previous speculation. Jiang Ning and other forces need to re-examine Huaidong's strength. Based solely on military strength, Lin Fu has undoubtedly become the leader.
The leader of handsome ministers.
The foreign vassals were strong and the monarchy was weak, which was not a good thing for the newly established Jiangning regime.
But no matter what, Lin Fu supports the Jiangning regime. Although there is a long-term concern that the ministers are strong and the emperor is weak, as far as the current situation is concerned, the stronger Huaidong's control over Huaiyang Town, the more stable the Huaisi defense line will be.
.At least it can be considered a good thing in the current precarious situation.
Recruiting Liu Miaozhen and Chen Hansan to defend Xuzhou and Huaiyang, as well as Huaidong's management of the defense lines in Shanyang, Siyang, and Shukou, made the defense line on the lower reaches of the Huaihe River from Hongzepu even if it cannot be said to be impregnable, it is by no means impregnable.
Can be easily pierced.
On this line of defense, Chen Han's third division has 20,000 elite troops, Liu Miaozhen's division has 30,000 elite troops, and Huaidong has 20 battalions of elite soldiers and several battalions of naval troops directly under them in Shanyang, Siyang, and Shukou.
In addition, as many as 30,000 troops were deployed on the north bank of the Huaihe River.
Even if Chen Han's three troops are excluded, Huaidong can mobilize 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers and horses in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River for defense in a short period of time. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for Yanhu to attack the Huaisi defense line at once
wear.
Compared with Huaidong, the defenses in northwest Huaibei are too weak.
In early December, Lin Fu inspected Huaisi and returned to Chongzhou, and Jiangning Shangyu also arrived in Chongzhou shortly after.
Jiangning Zhun Huaidong reported that the Hecheng Grassland Division was abolished and the county was established, and Hu Zhicheng, recommended by the Huaidong Army Division, was appointed as the county magistrate; Lin Mengde, the Huaidong branch envoy, was appointed to also take charge of Huaidong, and the Zhejiang East Army Chief Envoy, Xu Huai'an, Hai
The money and food for the three prefectures of Ling and Mingzhou were collected and financed by the military commander themselves.
At the same time, Jiangning set up a town in Woyang, and Xiao Kui'an went out to lead the Woyang town army with the rank of cavalry captain, administering the garrison in Woyang, Shouzhou, Haozhou, Sizhou and other counties, and set up two Huai army commanders, Liu Tingzhou
Zuo Qiandu, the censor of the capital, led the two Huai army envoys and was aware of the affairs of the Haozhou Prefecture. He incorporated Shouzhou, Woyang, Sizhou and other counties into the Haozhou Prefecture to strengthen the military defense force in the northwest of Huaihe.
"No matter what, at this point, the framework for defending the Huaihe line has finally been set up, and a year of hard work has finally paid off. However, after the collapse of Henan and Shandong, Chen Han's defense of Xuzhou is an extremely unstable factor.
Huaiyang is under great pressure!" Gao Zongting said with emotion as he stood in front of the new wall chart of the situation of the Hehuai defense line.
Lin Fu sat behind a long nanmu desk, twisting his head and looking at the Hehuai defense line map hanging on the screen behind him.
In this time and space, there has never been a long-term confrontation between the North and the South, and the world has not yet had a deep understanding of the military principle of "defending the river must defend the Huaihe River." However, in another time and space that Lin Fu experienced, many confrontations between the North and the South proved that once
The situation in Yan, Hebei and Jin counties collapsed, and the defense lines organized along the Yellow River were extremely vulnerable in the face of the superior forces in the north.
Not taking Xuzhou into account, Huaiyang Town is located in the middle and front position of the entire Huai defense line. Once the situation in Henan and Shandong collapses, Huaiyang will inevitably bear the greatest military pressure.
Of course, all this was already within the consideration of the people in Huaidong, otherwise Huaidong would not have worked so hard to strengthen Huaiyang Town.
Qin Chengzu said: "For now, we can only do this one step. After the collapse of Henan, Yanhu theoretically has a passage from Hezhongfu through Nanyang and Xiangyang to the south to Jinghu, but Tongguan and Huaiyang are opposite
This passage forms a pincer attack. Even if Yanhu successfully captures Henan and all of Shandong, he will either march westward to Tongguan and occupy Qin County, or completely collapse our military deployment on the north bank of the Huaihe River. Otherwise, it will be impossible to risk the attack from Nanyang.
Go south to attack Xiangyang..."
Lin Mengde said: "Yanhu has not suffered any major setbacks in the past ten years, so maybe he will take a chance."
Lin Fu shook his head and said: "There is no good chance of hoping that the enemy will make mistakes. The focus of Huaidong's future work must be to adhere to the principle of 'defending Huaihe and attacking Fujian'..."
Lin Mengde smiled sarcastically. Although he was second only to Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen in Huaidong after serving as the commander-in-chief of the Huaidong Army, he was good at political affairs and military strategy was not his specialty, so he was lucky.
The thoughts are also normal.
Once Yan and Hu soldiers and horses have captured Henan and have not dealt with the threats on both wings, they rashly go to Nanyang and go south to Xiangyang to conquer Jinghu. Huaidong can transfer the main force of the navy to the north to harass Yanji, and the main force of the infantry camp can send troops from Huaiyang to cut them off in the middle.
The middle route of Yan Hu's southern expedition will definitely cause Yan Hu to suffer a big loss - if this is the case, the situation will become relatively simple.
In the hope that Yanhu would make such a low-level strategic mistake of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly, Huaidong should also make corresponding adjustments to the strategy of "defending Huaihe and attacking Fujian": giving up opening up battlefields in southern Zhejiang, shrinking the offensive against Zhejiang and Fujian, and actively
Shanyang's front line reserves combat power, hoping to deliver a fatal blow when Yan Hu underestimates the enemy and advances.
Of course, Lin Fu, Qin Chengzu, Gao Zongting and others had more pragmatic ideas.
Don't expect Yan and Hu to make a big strategic mistake. While actively establishing a defense line to defend the Huaihe River and making preparations for a long-term secession war, focus on conquering Zhejiang and Fujian. Under the current situation, Huaidong must maintain the stability and unity of the Jiangning regime.
Due to the situation, we cannot expand our power within Jianghuai. If we can't do it internally, we can only obtain broader space for expansion from the Zhejiang and Fujian areas controlled by the She family.
Only after the She family was completely defeated, Huaidong could withdraw its main troops from the southern front and launch a counterattack against Yanhu on the northern front.
Under this guiding ideology, Huaidong's next step is to open up the battlefield in southern Zhejiang.
After Lin Fu returned to Chongzhou, in addition to the Yueqing soldiers and horses led by Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying, he also headed by Tang Fuguan, Chen Dingbang, Yang Zichen and others, with the old military attachés of the Jian'an Army as the backbone, and recruited Jianrui from the labor camps to form a new southern Zhejiang army.
Army. The New Zhejiang Southern Army has temporarily established ten battalions of armored soldiers and has begun training in Chongzhou. After the year, it will take the sea route to Yueqing. After joining the Yueqing Army, the New Zhejiang Southern Army will be based on Yueqing and move along the Yongjia River.
Go up and launch an offensive against the Zhejiang and Fujian troops guarding Yongjia and Ouhai.
It's hard to say for the generals in Lin? and Dengzhou Town.
"Before the fall of Qingzhou, Liu Yefei probably would not have chosen to surrender," Gao Zongting said. "Otherwise, Dengzhou would have faced a flanking attack from Qingzhou by land and Huaidong by sea. But after the fall of Qingzhou, Dengzhou was blocked in a corner of the peninsula.
There is no retreat. At that point, instead of expecting Liu Yefei to cooperate with Huaidong to defend Dengzhou, I believe it is more likely that he will choose to surrender... We must be prepared for this."
Lin Fu nodded and asked Gao Zongting and Qin Chengzu to draw up a preliminary plan, but did not say anything more about it.
Even though Gu Junxun could understand Huaidong's choice to abandon Qingzhou's deployment, it concerned his father and brother. He naturally felt uncomfortable when he heard the news that Pingdu had fallen and 30,000 soldiers and civilians were massacred.
Lin Fu left Dongya and returned to Beilu Bieyuan. He saw Gu Junxun sitting in the room and was unhappy. He didn't know how to comfort her. At this point, even if the people of Qingzhou settled their differences with Huaidong at this time, Huaidong would not
Maybe we can provide more support to Qingzhou in terms of materials.
Gu Yingxiu was sitting in the room and was comforting Jun Xun. When she saw Lin Fu coming back, she stood up and asked: "It's really not easy to spend this new year. I just watch the north being encroached and fallen step by step. How can this happen?"
Can we really hold on to half of the country in the future?"
"Changes in the situation must go through a process of ebb and flow," Lin Fu said. "It is impossible to hope that the situation will be reversed all at once, but victory is certain to belong to us in the end. First of all, we must have the determination to fight for a long time and the
Prepare……"
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