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The Huaidong Army lacked cavalry in Mingzhou Prefecture, and when the main force of the Kuaiji garrison was defeated, the Huaidong Army could only muster more than 300 cavalry to join the battlefield on the west bank, and mainly relied on infantry to kill the troops on foot.
Surrounded by more than a hundred cavalry and generals, She Feihu fled the battlefield and took refuge in Shanyin City.
She Feihu and the generals were panic-stricken and hurriedly climbed to the top of the city to see that the mountains and plains were full of broken soldiers.
The uniforms of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops are brown, like the mountains and forests after autumn; while the uniforms of the Huaidong troops are blue-black, like the furious sea waves covered by dark clouds.
They are clearly separated from each other. Standing at the top of the city, you can clearly see the situation of chasing each other in the vast mountains and fields, which is shocking. The so-called defeat is like a mountain falling.
God, She Feihu hates God and wants to scold him.
Su Tingzhan was determined to atone for his sins and personally led his followers to press at the gate of the north city to receive the remnants of the defeated troops and enter the city to prevent the Huaidong Army from following the defeated troops and rushing to seize the city.
From Laotangpu to Shanyin County, there are hills, ravines, and fields. The terrain is as undulating as the waves of a lake in spring. The mountains and plains are full of broken soldiers. It is difficult for large groups of soldiers and horses to move. Tang Fuguan sent his generals Huang Zuyu and Feng Yan to lead their elite troops.
Supplemented by a small number of cavalry, they went ahead and attacked Shanin directly.
Huang Zuyu and Feng Yan each gathered their troops and obtained more than 600 soldiers, followed by dozens of cavalry. They passed through the broken troops, but they advanced to the north gate of Shanyin, where they were intercepted by Su Tingzhan with all his strength.
Before Tang Fuguan and his main force arrived, Huang Zuyu and Feng Yan failed to seize the city gate and screamed with regret, with expressions of regret on their faces.
Looking at the north gate of Shanyin that was slowly closing, and the arrows on the city tower were as dense as a rainstorm, and the defenses were very tight, Tang Fuguan could only give up the idea of taking Shanyin by force, turned his horse's head, and led his troops to pass diagonally across the northeast corner of Shanyin City, heading towards Hengda.
Here to intercept the defeated troops.
Including the defenders of Laotangpu, Daoxubu, Hutangtou and other places, She Feihu mobilized a total of about 15,000 troops to participate in this battle - those who could eventually escape into Shanyin City with She Feihu
The defeated army only had more than 2,000 soldiers. Including the Shanyin soldiers and horses left behind, there were less than 3,000 defenders in Shanyin City behind She Feihu.
The three thousand defenders were also in shock. Except for the soldiers and horses left behind in Shanyin, who were still in good order, the other soldiers were all in a mess. They couldn't find the generals, and they couldn't find the soldiers. They were in shock, like a frightened bird - She Feihu.
It is impossible to rely on these three thousand defenders to go out of the city to counterattack. It is difficult to even defend the city. Seeing the Huaidong Army's large number of soldiers and horses rushing to the city and hesitating, She Feihu's heart was in his throat.
She Feihu lost all confidence at this time and was afraid that Huaidong would attack Shanyin regardless of casualties.
Except for some of the defeated soldiers who retreated into Shanyin City with She Feihu, the only main force of the Kuaiji garrison that had completely withdrawn from the battlefield was probably the troops and horses that Yu Wenshan had previously led to rush to the aid of Daoxu Port.
Because Mao Teng's far troops were defeated at the beach, a large number of soldiers were driven down the Cao'e River in chaos like dumplings before engaging the enemy. The warships deployed by the Huaidong Water Camp in the upper reaches were hurriedly mobilized to search and rescue the fallen soldiers, so that even in the upper reaches, many soldiers were thrown into the water.
No more troops were sent across the river. Yu Wenshan led his troops some distance away from the Laotangpu battlefield. Seeing that something was not right, he fled to the south to the Xianglu Peak Fort at the northern foot of Kuaiji Mountain. Finally, he led more than 2,000 people to escape into Xianglu.
Fengfang Village.
Although the main force of the Kuaiji garrison was defeated in one fell swoop at Laotangpu, the towns such as Shanyin, Xianglufeng, Daoxubu, Hutangtou, and Kuaiji were all very close to Laotangpu, making it easy for the defeated soldiers to escape.
Even with enough cavalry, it would be difficult to intercept and annihilate more than 10,000 defeated troops in the wild. After the main force of the Kuaiji garrison was defeated at Laotangpu, Lin Fu ordered the generals to take advantage of the chaos to attack and seize the city in subsequent operations.
want.
The battle of Laotangpu started at noon on the 14th, and the main force of the Kuaiji garrison was defeated at noon on the 15th. After dark on the 15th, the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were at Laotangpu, Daoxuguan, and Hutang on the west bank of the Cao'e River.
Tou Zhuzhai successively declared their losses.
Tang Fuguan led his troops to attack Shanyin and failed. Zhuji and Xiaoshan were far away from Laotangpu and beyond reach. After seeing the main force of the Kuaiji army in Laotangpu defeated, Han Caizhi led his troops and was the first to divide his troops and personally led an elite force to attack the bottom of Jinghu Lake.
of Kuaiji.
When Han Caizhi took advantage of the chaos and entered the city, he personally led his elite troops to seize the southern gate of Kuaiji County. The defenders of Kuaiji City resisted fiercely, and Han Caizhi's troops were once driven out of Kuaiji City.
Fortunately, Han Caizhi destroyed the city gate of the south city of Kuaiji early, and when Zuo Guangying led his troops to come to the rescue, he first repelled Cheng Yi, the remnant of Cheng Yiqun of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy who landed on the north bank of Jinghu Lake to aid Kuaiji City, and then attacked from the south city overnight, seizing the city.
They went down to Kuaiji City and annihilated more than 1,300 defenders, leaving only about 300 remaining soldiers to flee to Xiaoshan at night.
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Tian Chang received the order from She Feihu and rushed to Chun'an to see She Feixiong on the 14th. He wanted to mobilize troops from Fuyang to Kuaiji. He took a boat up the river and met at Tonglu on the upper reaches of Fuyang at noon on the 15th.
To Luxury Flying Bear.
Hearing that Tian Changxi reported that his second brother wanted to fight the Huaidong Army on the west bank of the Cao'e River, Shefei Xionghu opened his eyes angrily and reprimanded Tian Chang: "The governor's office has clearly ordered that the defense of the city is important, but you have eaten the courage of a leopard and treated it as a crime."
Is the imperial edict of the Governor's Mansion like child's play?"
"Second Young Master is also interested in boosting morale. The situation is like this. Please ask the governor to quickly dispatch troops and horses for reinforcements. I am afraid that if it takes too long, the Huaidong Army will dispatch troops and horses from elsewhere, which will cause disadvantages to Kuaiji!" Tian Changshang didn't know.
The main force of the Kuaiji garrison had already been defeated miserably at Laotangpu, so it was not felt that She Feihu's decision to fight the Huaidong Army on the west bank of the Cao'e River made any fatal mistake.
She Feixiong was so angry that he almost vomited blood. With a gloomy face, he exhaled "huhuhuhu" and forced himself to calm down.
She Feihu wants to make a decision on the west bank. If the Huaidong Army is defeated, the worst possible outcome is to retreat to the east bank; and if the Zhejiang and Fujian Army is defeated...
She Feixiong didn't dare to think about the bad situation that would happen if the Kuaiji garrison failed in the battle - he just felt that his collar was buttoned too tightly, making it difficult for him to breathe, so he pulled open his collar, sat down on the couch, and put the
Several generals who accompanied him to Tonglu called forward and gave instructions one by one: "Deng Shen quickly goes to Fuyang to recruit 10,000 elites; I will rush there soon, and 10,000 elites will follow me to help Kuaiji - I hope it's not too late!"
He sent his aide Chen Yu to draft a letter of order and dictated, "Ask Wuyuan, Xinzhou, and Linshui tribes. After receiving this order, we will immediately stop the offensive against Gan, Jiang, Hui, and Ning. We will turn to defense and mobilize Zhou Wenchong."
, Wen Tingxi, Fang Zhenhe and other tribes marched eastward along the Qianjiang River to Fuyang, waiting for further orders!"
Tian Chang was horrified. According to She Feixiong's plan, not only would the entire western front be turned to defense, but almost half of the troops from the western front would be transferred eastward and eventually into Kuaiji.
The order letters were delivered to various places by horse or ship. She Feixiong did not delay in Tonglu and rushed to Fuyang by ship with his retinue.
The Qianjiang River from Tonglu to Fuyang was flowing rapidly. At dusk, Tian Chang followed She Feixiong into Fuyang. When he learned that the main force of the Kuaiji garrison was defeated at Laotangpu, Tian Chang suddenly turned pale with shock: He expected that the Second Young Master
We can mobilize 15,000 or 6,000 elite troops on the west bank of the Cao'e River, but no matter how hard we try, we can't defeat them in just over a day!
Shefei Xiong was heartbroken. After waiting for Fuyang's 10,000 elite troops to gather together, he took the remaining warships of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy and set off overnight. In the early morning of the 16th, he rushed to the Puyang River Estuary and learned that Kuaiji City had been captured.
She Feixiong leads only 10,000 elite troops, and the territory of Kuaiji is in chaos. It is not known whether Shanyin and Zhuji have been captured, and how many troops and horses are left. However, the Huaidong Army can easily send 20,000 to 30,000 infantry across.
The Cao'e River enters the west bank.
It was very unlikely to recapture Kuaiji City from the prepared Huaidong Army with a quick attack. She Feixiong had no choice but to lead his troops to escape into Xiaoshan and wait for reinforcements from Wuyuan, Chun'an, and Linshui...
Before nightfall on the 16th, Ao Canghai led nine thousand elites down the Cao'e River, crossed the river from Laotangpu, entered the west bank, and stationed camp on the south bank of Jinghu Lake; while the main force of about thirty battalions of infantry from the east Zhejiang camp also crossed
The Cao'e River enters the west bank, with Kuaiji City as the center, and approaches the Puyang River along the north bank of Jinghu Lake.
Kuaiji County is the capital and administrative seat of Kuaiji Prefecture. It faces Shanyin County across Jinghu Lake. It is connected to Xiaoshan County in the north (before the war, Xiaoshan was affiliated to Hangzhou and faced Hangzhou across the Qianjiang River). To the west of Jinghu Lake, there is Puyang River.
It flows down from Zhuji in the upper reaches and merges into Jinghu Lake. It flows northwest from Jinghu Lake and merges into Qianjiang River. Going up from the Puyang River mouth is the boundary of Fuyang.
If we compare the topography of southern Zhejiang, Kuaiji is like Yueqing City.
After the Huaidong Army occupied Yueqing, the troops of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army in southern Zhejiang were divided into Yongjia and Taizhou. They had to travel three to four hundred miles over mountains and ridges from the west to support each other - the Huaidong Army occupied Kuaiji
Once the Puyang River is successfully cut off, the Zhejiang and Fujian troops in western Zhejiang can only enter Dongyang County by taking Tonglu in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River, upstream from the fast-flowing and shallow Lanxi River, and borrowing a road from Quzhou.
It would take an extra three hundred or four hundred miles of detour; to further bring reinforcements to Shanyin County, we would have to borrow a road from Zhuji and walk an extra hundred or two hundred miles of narrow road.
What's more, after the fall of Kuaiji City, except for Zhuji in the upper reaches of the Puyang River, Shanyin and Xiaoshan would directly become war zones, resulting in a loss of four to five million shi in grain revenue every year. The summer grain revenue after June alone would be
The loss of 1780,000 kilograms of rice and grain—the defeat of Laotangpu really made She Feixiong and the generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies feel the pain.
She Feixiong couldn't blame Lao Er for his military success or failure, but he knew that Kuaiji couldn't lose.
As of the 22nd, the Zhejiang and Fujian troops assembled in Xiaoshan included nearly 40,000 remnants of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy. At the same time, She Feihu also mobilized troops from Dongyang County and entered Shanyin via Zhuji, leaving the Zhejiang and Fujian troops in the
The number of troops south of Jinghu Lake increased to more than 20,000.
But at the same time, after the Huaidong Army arrived in Chenzhi and Zhang Jiheng's troops, the troops entering the west line of Cao'e River reached more than 36,000 infantrymen of the 60th Battalion, not counting Lin Fu's emergency troops from Mingzhou and Changguo.
More than 20,000 troops were mobilized from other places to help defend the city.
Since it was not possible to dig a waterway from Laotangtou to connect Jinghu Lake and the Cao'e River in a few days, the Jinghai No. 3 Water Camp resolutely used the clumsy method of oxen and horse dragging to move more than a hundred warships from the Cao'e River in a few days.
By forcibly dragging them into Jinghu Lake, the navy troops organized by the third battalion were able to enter Jinghu Lake and cooperate with the infantry on the north and south sides of Jinghu Lake.
Since the water level of Jinghu Lake in Kuaiji is shallow, large warships above the Jiyun level cannot enter Jinghu for combat; and small and medium-sized warships such as Mengyou ships, even copper-clad Mengyou ships, are empty ships.
The net weight is only over 20,000 kilograms. It is not difficult to pull it across the shallow river channel using twenty or thirty oxen or hundreds of troops.
The real battle in Kuaiji seems to be about to break out.
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Huaidong's soldiers and horses in Kuaiji are divided into two camps, the north and south. The south camp is led by Ao Canghai, and has the 9,000 elite infantry of the third brigade of Changshan Camp as the main combat force. The camp is built south of Laotangpu in preparation for Zhejiang and Fujian.
The troops and horses of the army in Shanin.
Beiying Lin Fu personally presided over the assembly, including Tang Fuguan, Zhang Jiheng, Chen Zhi, Han Caizhi, Chen Kuili, and Zuo Guangying, including the elites of the two brigades of the Chongcheng Infantry Camp, the 30th Infantry Battalion of the East Zhejiang Marching Army, and the 3rd Jinghai Brigade.
The water army of the third battalion of Shuiying, with Kuaiji City as its center of gravity, built camps along the north bank of Jinghu Lake to prepare for the troops and horses assembled by the Zhejiang and Fujian troops in Xiaoshan.
Lin Fu temporarily requisitioned the government office as a camp. Late at night, the lights in the official hall were brightly lit. When the war broke out, in addition to military affairs, the transportation of grain, fodder, and ordnance was the most tiring.
Liang Wenzhan also rushed to the west bank of the Cao'e River, and stayed up all night with Gao Zongting, Ye Junan and others to deal with government affairs in the official hall, and managed to stabilize the situation of the general.
War drums were beating outside the city, and the Zhejiang and Fujian troops assembled in Xiaoshan kept sending troops to penetrate into Kuaiji territory, and small-scale contacts continued for days. It was necessary to dig out a waterway through the Cao'e River and Jinghu Lake as soon as possible, but it was hot summer, and the rivers and lakes were full of water and rain.
The river excavation is far less convenient than in the dry season of autumn and winter. This trip to recover Kuaiji and temporarily merge it into the jurisdiction of Mingzhou Prefecture. The Jingning area can even allow local forces to quickly contribute money and effort to the Kuaiji war. Liang Wenzhan still has a lot of work to do.
Ye Junan drafted a report on the war in Kuaiji to Jiangning on behalf of Lin Fu. Gao Zongting read it first and felt it was okay, so he and Ye Junan went to the side hall to see Lin Fu.
Lin Fu said he was hiding in a side hall to study the military situation. Gao Zongting came over to take a look and almost laughed angrily. Lin Fu had already stopped his efforts and asked Fu Qinghe to sit in front of the case, talking with his hands for fun. The chessboard had already been finished.
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Song Jia, a scholar in the inner canon, was wearing plain clothes, sitting beside Lin Fu, fanning him with a round fan.
"Has the chess piece been drawn up?" Lin Fu saw Gao Zongting and Ye Junan walking in. He stopped holding the chess pieces, took the chess piece drawn up by Ye Junan, and motioned for them to sit down and wait.
Military and political affairs were becoming increasingly heavy and tense, with more than ten orders and various letters sent directly from Lin Fu every day, all of which were the responsibilities of Dianshu.
Gao Zongting was good at strategy, but the daily tedious government affairs were on his head, and the pressure was also great. Therefore, Lin Fu transferred Ye Junan, known as Mr. Siming, who was good at government affairs planning, to his side to share the responsibilities of the book.
It can be regarded as officially including Ye Junan, a representative of local forces in eastern Zhejiang, among the core figures in Huaidong.
Ye Jun'an wrote good articles. Lin Fu read the excerpt he had drafted and said: "The setback at Daoxu Port has taught us profound lessons that need to be summarized within the military department. However, Mao Teng died in the war far away and asked the court for credit. It is not appropriate to leave him out."
...Uncle Fu, what do you think?" Lin Fu handed the fold to Fu Qinghe.
Common sense says, "Soldiers are more valuable than more troops." Lin Fu has always adopted the strategy of elite troops.
However, in addition to the use of elite combat forces to attack key battles, with the expansion of Huaidong's control area, a large number of soldiers and horses are also needed to garrison the area.
Lin Fu set up a separate camp army, mixed with water, infantry and cavalry units for garrison purposes, but the investment in armor, ordnance, horses and other resources were inferior to the elite combat power directly under the military command.
Lin Fu actually positioned the marching army as a secondary force between the elite combat forces directly under the jurisdiction of the military department and the labor camp.
This can also ensure that Huaidong can allocate military resources more rationally.
According to Lin Fu's idea, the main responsibility of the camp army is to garrison the place and cooperate with the elite combat forces directly under the military department in important battles. This time, in order to cooperate with Chen Xiyan in transferring Dong Yuan out of northern Zhejiang, Lin Fu was not fully prepared.
Very suddenly, troops were mobilized to fight on the west bank of the Cao'e River.
Neither the elite Changshan Battalion nor the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion had time to mobilize into the preset, so Lin Fu could only let the East Zhejiang Marching Army be the main force of the attack.
In fact, Lin Fu not only prioritized the supply of armor and ordnance for elite combat forces under the direct control of the military department, but also prioritized the integration of outstanding generals into the direct jurisdiction of the military department. The generals of the camp army were somewhat mixed.
Tang Fuguan grew up from the war in East Fujian and was an outstanding general who had always relied on Yu Wangao. Even many of the generals who defected to Huaidong with him from the remnants of the Jian'an Army also had excellent military qualities. After all, they grew up in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
A general cannot be far behind.
Han Caizhi and Chen Kuili were born in the Linli Township camp, and then fought all over the world with the refugee army, and finally surrendered to Huaidong. In the refugee army, their military quality was actually inferior to that of Zhang Gou and Chen Zi, let alone Sun Zhuang.
Liu Miaozhen compared.
Zuo Guangying was originally a local military attache who caught thieves. He was the weakest among the resistance forces in southern Zhejiang. At that time, Huaidong was not favored by Liu Wenzhong and Ye Su could only try his best to win over Zuo Guangying, and Zuo Guangying was able to
He became an important general of the army marching in eastern Zhejiang. In fact, Zuo Guangying's two generals, Li Baidao and Geng Wenfan, attracted Lin Fu's attention and intended to strengthen their training.
Mao Tengyuan was originally a lieutenant in Mingzhou Prefecture who had defected to the She family. It was precisely because of his surrender that the Huaidong Army was able to take over the city of Mingzhou Prefecture without bloodshed last spring. After the war, the meritorious service was also to win over and win the trust of the place.
, Lin Fu listed Mao Tengyuan as one of the four captains, but did not disband his subordinates, and Mao Tengyuan still led him.
Various factors resulted in the fact that even among the troops marching in eastern Zhejiang, Mao Tengyuan's unit had the weakest combat capability.
On the ever-changing battlefield, after Mao Tengyuan defeated the defenders who initially intercepted him, he saw reinforcements rushing in. His will was not firm enough, he hesitated, and failed to decisively deploy his troops and suffered a disastrous defeat. Thinking about it carefully, it is also true that
Not that surprising.
If the responsibility is to be investigated, Lin Fu cannot escape his responsibility. Lin Fu made deployment adjustments based on the positions of the various ministries at that time, without seriously considering the differences in combat power between the various ministries, which was also a lack of consideration.
Mao Tengyuan refused to say anything about his death, and most of the more than 3,000 soldiers did not engage in the battle, so they drove Cao Ejiang away in chaos.
Fortunately, there were warships covering the flanks and the wooden troop transport ships had not gone far. They participated in the search and rescue in time, and the tragedy of more than 3,000 soldiers drowning in the Cao E River was avoided. But even so, more than 600 soldiers were too late to search and rescue, and drowned.
The soldiers who fled to Daoxu Port also killed more than 200 people in the chaos, and the first brigade of the Zhejiang East Camp was almost crippled, which was a pity.
There were many factors responsible for the setback of Daoxu Port, and Lin Fu would not put all the blame on Mao Tengyuan alone; besides, Mao Tengyuan died in this battle, and there was a rule in the world that "it is great to be buried in the grave".
Fu Qinghe took a brief look at Ye Junan's draft and said, "You can't leave out Captain Mao in the plea, otherwise it will chill people's hearts..."
"I'll add it right away..." Ye Junan said. Because he and Mao Tengyuan came from Mingzhou together, in order to avoid suspicion, he deliberately omitted Mao Tengyuan's name from the list of applicants. After all, the setback of Daoxubu was too great.
It looked a bit uglier, and it was difficult to shirk responsibility for Mao Tengyuan. Lin Fu personally asked to add Mao Tengyuan's name, and Ye Junan naturally complied.
Ye Junan took the book to revise, and Lin Fu picked up the chess pieces again and continued to play chess with Fu Qinghe. He also talked distractedly with Fu Qinghe and Gao Zongting: "We were lucky to win this battle. It seems that we will have to win this battle in the future."
Firm determination to deploy elite combat forces on the frontal battlefield..."
"Indeed, if Han Caizhi's troops were blocked from trying to seize the beach at Hutangtou, their first attempt at crossing the river would most likely be in vain," Gao Zongting said.
Lin Fu said: "I plan to make further adjustments to the marching army in eastern Zhejiang - transfer Tang Fuguan to serve as deputy commander of the Chongcheng infantry camp, transfer Chen Zhi and Zhang Jiheng who have entered Kuaiji to his unified command; promote Feng Yan and Huang Zuyu
He will temporarily act as brigade commander for commanding and joining the army, transfer Chen Baidao, Geng Wenfan and their troops to strengthen the combat strength of Feng Yan and Huang Zuyu, each serving as a battalion general, and expand the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion in Kuaiji to the fourth brigade and twenty
Camp, this way I also have an elite combat force that can be directly called upon in the North Camp..."
"Will you make adjustments before this battle?" Fu Qinghe asked.
"The troops gathered by the two young masters of the She family in Kuaiji are not enough to attack me by force," Lin Fu said with a smile. "The troops I gathered in Kuaiji are not enough to attack them by force. Could it be that they still expect me to pull the troops out at this time?"
Going out to fight with them in the field? In the current situation, it is useless to waste money. Can they consume more energy than me? "
"You should be good when you get a bargain," Gao Zongting said. "North of Jinghu Lake, the terrain of Kuaiji is much heavier than that of Xiaoshan. The defenders have stored up to 100,000 shi of military rations in Kuaiji City. The reserves in Xiaoshan should be far less than this.
; Now She Fei Xiong leads 40,000 soldiers and horses to gather in Xiaoshan, and the army rations will be exhausted soon - just wait and see what they do!"