Chen Daozi came back from the north and reunited with his family in Chongzhou for three days before being sent north again to sneak into Yishan and join Wu Qi, Chu Zheng and others.
"The She family's early strategy of secretly manipulating the East China Sea bandits and raiding the Jianghuai River was undoubtedly correct. Although the She family is already exhausted, we can learn from the good things in its combat thinking. There is no need to deny this. It cannot be because
It’s a hostile relationship, and we don’t want to learn from the enemy’s interests. This is not the correct attitude, it is an awkward attitude..."
Lin Fu has been vigorously transporting outstanding military officers and logistics and government personnel to the northern front so that he can more firmly carry out guerrilla operations against the enemy among the mountains and rivers of Yidi. This time, more than a hundred people will go north with Chen Daozi.
Before all the people heading north set off, Lin Fu will personally give a mobilization speech, taking the trouble to introduce to everyone the situation from Qingzhou to Yinan, to Tai'an, and to Dengzhou, as well as the main tasks they will perform in the mountains and rivers of Yidi.
"From Mount Tai to Mount Yi, from Mount Yi to Mount Meng, to Mount Kunyu, the entire central Shandong region is filled with hills and ravines. What are these places rich in? Bandits and horse thieves abound. The mountains in Yitai are connected to Heji and Yimeng in the west.
Zhushan connects Xusi to the west, and has been the site of the Four Wars for several years. In the ninth year of Chongguan, the east invaders invaded the border areas and defeated Jinan, and a large number of defeated troops fled to the Yitai Mountains to become bandits. During the Huaisi War, they gathered in southwest Shandong and Huaihe
The number of refugee armies between Si and Si was once as high as 400,000 to 500,000, but they were defeated by the Pingji Army, the Changhuai Army, and our Huaidong Army. Naturally, there were also a large number of refugee army generals trying to avoid the pursuit of the officers and soldiers.
They suppressed and fled into the mountains and rivers of Yidi. This greatly increased the power of mountain bandits and horse bandits among the lofty mountains and neighboring areas in central Shandong, and their momentum was no less powerful than that of the East China Sea bandits in the early years..." Lin Fu stood there
Above the lecture hall, the officers and officials who were about to leave for the north were all sitting below the lecture hall to listen to instructions.
"... Speaking of which, most of you can understand why I just used the She family as an example. Indeed, the mountain bandits and horse thieves in the mountains of Taiyi and Mengyu are all targets for us to actively unite to resist the Donglu.
——But there are some things that we need to distinguish clearly. Good experiences must be learned, but bad experiences must be resolutely not learned. The She family's alliance with the East China Sea bandits is a good experience, but condoning the East China Sea bandits to cause harm to Jiangsu and Zhejiang will cause harm to the common people.
The tragic losses and disasters seemed to have seriously affected the military potential of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it also made it impossible for the She family to win the hearts of the people and stabilize their rule even after taking over most of the two Zhejiang areas - this is exactly what our Huaidong Army did in southern Zhejiang.
The key factor for East Zhejiang's unstoppable power. Most of the mountain bandits and horse thieves in Yidi's mountains and rivers had good backgrounds. Some were farmers who had no food to eat, and some were ordinary soldiers who were dragged down by generals and lost the battle and were afraid of being held accountable. They were forced to become
As bandits, there is nothing we can do about them. We must forget about them and actively fight for them. But this is a limit. Those who continue to harm the place after the past are the black sheep. Even if they cannot be eradicated in a short time, we must not follow them.
They are complicit - and after we go to Yishan, we must resolutely avoid harming the people when we invade the areas controlled by Donglu. You must know that in the future, the basis for us to gain a foothold in Yishan will not only be the swords, guns and crossbows in our hands.
, what’s more important is relying on the people and mobilizing the people. If even the people’s support is lost, what’s the point of relying on and mobilizing?”
"At this time, the enemy force is strong. After everyone goes north, don't worry about the gains and losses of one city or one village. You must be good at making use of the situation, maximize your strengths and avoid weaknesses, and resolutely implement the combat strategy of 'avoiding strong enemies, disturbing the garrison, and defeating the exhausted troops'. Preserve your strength.
It is not a shameful thing. We conserve our strength today so that we can better attack the enemy tomorrow. War is cruel and tortuous. It is not responsible to blindly send soldiers to the front line to die without a correct understanding of the war situation.
This attitude is not conducive to the final victory in the future, but the enemy has become exhausted and is retreating. We must be resolute in our attack and not be afraid of sacrifice... I hope that everyone here can analyze the situation independently.
, to become a qualified general of the Huaidong Army..."
Lin Fu, Qin Chengzu, Gao Zongting and others personally sent Chen Daozi and others on their journey. In order to save time, they would ride directly through the Yinan area controlled by the Liang family.
Looking at the cavalry heading north, Gao Zongting said with emotion: "It would be great if this work could be done a year earlier."
"It's time to return to Shu and return to Long." Qin Chengzu smiled slightly, saying that Gao Zongting was not greedy enough, and said, "A year ago, the Liang family tightly controlled Yinan; the Gu family knew that Huaidong sent people to Yishan, so they might directly send troops into Yinan.
Mountain invasion and suppression—how could they have the foresight to realize that Huaidong had taken so much pains to leave a way out for them?"
Gao Zongting smiled bitterly.
Lin Fu said calmly: "Although the situation is more urgent, we will not run out of time..."
Zhou Pu came from the city on horseback. He got off his horse and cursed, "The Liang family is so stupid. News just came from the north. Liang Chengchong abandoned Pingyuan at the end of July."
, withdrew all their troops to the south bank of the Yellow River. They fought against each other for the ferry and even pushed each other, drowning thousands of people!"
The Liang family was one of the main conspirators in the Su family case, and the generals and officers promoted by Jingbei Hou Su Hu in the border army were almost all suppressed by the Liang family without exception. Many people even disappeared inexplicably and there was no news -
-Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu and other old generals of the Su family had absolutely no favorable impressions of the Liang family father and son.
"The situation has become more urgent!" Gao Zongting said with a frown, "The Donglu soldiers captured Linzi and threatened the Liang family's flanks, but Liang Chengchong's troops stationed in the plains, how could they not threaten the Donglu troops' flank when they entered Qingzhou?"
Withdraw, Yangxin was completely trapped in a siege. Without flanking threats, Ye Jiduo was able to send more troops and horses directly from the east line and enter Linzi before he could pull out Yangxin... Donglu was in Linzi
As more soldiers and horses are gathered, there are two options: One: you can go southwest, pass through the low hills between Mount Tai and Mount Yi, forcefully invade Tai'an, and cut off the Liang family's retreat from Jinan..."
"Ye Jiduodi will probably not choose this option," Qin Chengzu said. "Once Tai'an falls, Liang Xi, Liang Chengchong and his son's retreat southward will be cut off, but to the west is the defense line of the Changhuai Army, and further west is Liang Chengyi's responsibility.
The defensive Hezhong Prefecture has reinforcements. It has not yet fallen into a siege, so it must be based on Jinan... No matter how stupid Liang Xi, Liang Chengchong and his son are, they have 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses at their disposal. As long as the rice and food supplies in Jinan city continue,
How can we hold it? For Ye Jiduo Dy, it is better to apply frontal pressure and force the Liang family and his son to abandon Jinan and flee south. After the Liang family and his son leave Jinan, they can send an elite cavalry to attack them halfway."
"If pressure is exerted from the front, from Pingyuan Prefecture, to force the Liang family and his son to abandon Jinan and flee south, and Ye Jiduo led a main force to slowly enter Pingyuan Prefecture, it will take some time. Then the second thing he can do on the eastern front is
The choice is to use Chen Zhihu as the vanguard again to penetrate eastward and seize the Dengzhou water town!" Gao Zongting said firmly, "Your Excellency, you should immediately report to the court secretly, please withdraw the Dengzhou water army and destroy all the water towns in Denglai area on the spot.
Build ship facilities and places, and force craftsmen to go south..."
"The imperial court issued an order, but Ye Liufei refused to carry it out. How should we deal with it?" Ye Junan asked.
Even if the imperial court wanted to protect the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, it would not want the Dengzhou navy and the shipbuilding workshops and craftsmen in Denglai area to fall into the hands of Yan Hu. The only thing to worry about was Liu Yefei. The Dengzhou navy retreated south, but as the prefect of Dengzhou, Liu Yefei
If Liu Yefei is loyal to the court, he will naturally obey the order; if Liu Yefei has already decided to surrender to Yanhu at this time, he will definitely do everything possible to prevent the Dengzhou Navy from going south in order to gain more capital for surrender in front of Yanhu...
…
"Those who resist the decree will be killed, and those who intend to rebel and surrender, what nonsense is there to say?" Lin Fu said coldly, and ordered Ye Junan to say, "Mr. Ye, please go and draw up a plan with Zongting quickly, and send someone today.
Pass it to Jiangning... please get the secret order, and take the sea route directly from Jiangning to Dengzhou north, and you should be able to make it in time."
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In Linzi Prefecture's back house, Lu Xiong, the dog, was sitting in the willow shade beside the small pond, half-squinting at the lotus pods and green lotus leaves in the pond. What he didn't understand in the past year, since he and Chen Zhihu
If you want to avenge the commander-in-chief, why do you help the Donglu siege the city and kill people? And why do those scholars who have repeatedly received favors from the emperor, look serious, and are full of benevolence, justice, and morality rush to join the Donglu?
Lu Xiong was as powerful as a tiger, but he couldn't figure out many things, but the commander-in-chief was poisoned to death, which filled his heart with resentment, like a murder weapon. Chen Zhihu drove him to attack the city, and it was like a massacre; after the war, he helped Chen Zhihu
As a guard of the house and courtyard, he could only place his feelings for the governor on Chen Zhihu.
"You go back and tell Mr. Liu that there is no chance for bargaining in front of me. I promised him the conditions today, but the three kings or Emperor Tianming finally refused. Isn't it all nonsense," came a low voice like spring thunder from the room with the carved windows open.
The voice said, "The person surnamed Liu should also understand in his heart what Dayan needs. As long as he can keep these for Dayan, he is still worried about having no way out?"
After a while, several people came out of the house. Even in the inner courtyard, these people looked very uneasy.
He directly pulled the carriage to the inner courtyard. The carriage was covered tightly, not even a trace was exposed. Seeing those strange people getting into the carriage and never showing up again, Lu Xiong stood up and punched his waist, saying to himself
He said: "You damn thing, you're afraid of showing your face, why don't you take it off?"
The carriage drove out of the house and Chen Zhihu walked out of the house.
Chen Zhi had a tiger's back and a heavy waist. Even in the inner house, he wore soft armor. He had a large spot on his face, which looked like tiger stripes. He had a natural depression on the left side of his forehead and a gaping hare lip, which made his appearance look extremely ferocious and ugly.
This flaw in appearance caused him to be abandoned by his parents when he was young, and he was adopted by a monastery and became a monk at an early age. Even as a monk, he was bullied so much that when the old monk who adopted him died when he was thirteen, he raised a few
Using the boning knife, he killed every one of the other twenty-six monks in the monastery, burned the monastery with fire, and Luo Cao became a bandit.
Lu Xiong, the dog calf, asked: "Master Tiger, are there still battles to be fought?"
"Maybe!" Chen Zhihu said lightly. When he spoke, his mouth became even more cracked, like a living tiger's face.
"Master Hu, do you think Mr. Gao will blame us if he knows that we are helping the barbarians to fight? Will the Commander-in-Chief blame us in the Palace of Hell?" Lu Xiong asked.
"Since you are determined to avenge the Commander-in-Chief, are you still afraid that the Commander-in-Chief will blame you?" Chen Zhihu asked back. Seeing Lu Xiong scratching his forehead inexplicably, he smiled, then frowned and looked into the distance, thinking to himself: Governor
Handsome, don't blame me. I have done my duty to you. This bastard court has no place worthy of my loyalty...
Chen Zhihu touched the ugly spots that covered half of his face again, recalling all the humiliation and torture he suffered in his childhood. He recalled that he was first summoned to the palace by Emperor Chongguan, and Chongguan'er looked at him as if he had seen an evil ghost.
A piece of land, Chen Zhihu only had endless resentment in his heart.