(I wish my brothers and sisters a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, and another chapter will fly by today!)
In order to cope with the collapse of the Hehuai situation, in addition to large-scale adjustments to the deployment of troops in Haidong, at the end of September and early October, Lin Fu also made a series of adjustments to the deployment of troops north of Chongzhou.
Huaidong is becoming increasingly independent, and it is increasingly estranged from Jiangning. No matter how tight the combat power of the northern and southern fronts is, it is necessary to set up a special guard army to protect the core area from threats.
Ma Yigong was transferred to Haidong, and Zhao Hu succeeded Ma Yigong as the commander of Jinhai Camp, assuming the responsibility of guarding Chongzhou.
The original Jinhai Camp had four brigades, and the troops on the north and south fronts were very tight. Lin Fu only left two brigades of soldiers for Zhao Hu, who were organized into the Infantry Division's Central Army to guard Chongzhou and take on the duty of guard. The extra ones
Of the two brigades, one was led by Ma Yigong to Haidong to strengthen the attack on the west coast of the Koryo Peninsula; the other was led by Geng Quanshan to go north and incorporated into Fengli Camp. The most urgent thing in Huaidong at this time was to strengthen the offensive on the northern line.
Strength to deal with the Yanhu army that may sweep in at any time.
In addition to Geng Quanshan's troops, nearly 2,000 mourning soldiers who had been withdrawn from Yangxin were all integrated into Fengli Camp, causing Fengli Camp to rapidly expand from the previous four brigades to seven brigades with more than 20,000 soldiers.
Liu Xilin was temporarily reorganized into the Military Intelligence Department as a commander and joined the army. Yang Shi was appointed as the deputy commander of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion. He followed Ge Cunxiong and led the main force of the Third Water Battalion northward and stationed in Shanyang.
Before Lin Fu went north to supervise the war, Yuan returned to power and came to see him again.
In mid-July, Yuan returned to power and entered Chongcheng to seek support from Huaidong for the Liang family's retreat to the south. Lin Fu flatly refused, and the meeting with Empress Dowager Liang ended on bad terms. Afterwards, Empress Dowager Liang returned to Jiangning in no mood to do anything, and still stayed in Chongzhou due to illness.
Walk.
In just over two months, the situation collapsed, there was no response, the Hehuai defense line was about to collapse, and the Liang family was about to be wiped out. Naturally, no one in Jiangning was thinking about urging the Queen Mother to return to the court.
Liang Xi was trapped in Dongping County. Liang Chengchong had less than 20,000 troops in Jining, which was not enough to break the siege of Dongping. Hou Yuan of Yongchang, who was tied with the Liang family, returned to power and ran back and forth to find a way to rescue Dongping.
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"How is your health, Queen Mother?"
In the afternoon, the gradually chilling autumn wind swept through the treetops, and the golden-red maple leaves rustled down to the courtyard. Lin Fu was in the courtyard outside the Shoujing Hall, accompanied by Gao Zongting and Ye Junan to receive him.
When the Yuan Dynasty returned to power, I first greeted the Empress Dowager Liang.
Compared with the last time we met, Yuan Guizheng, who has been working as a lobbyist for the past two or three months, is even more embarrassed and haggard.
Last time, although the Yongchang Hou Mansion was oppressed by Xie Chaozhong and other upstarts in Jiangning, it still had Liang Cheng's thick thighs to hold it. Today, the Liang family has become a lost dog, and the Yongchang Hou Mansion is even more turbulent.
"The Queen Mother's body is still weak. She is thinking about the war in Dongping and has trouble sleeping and eating, so she is getting thinner and thinner," Yuan Guizheng said, "I just came from Jining, and the Queen Mother asked me to ask Mr. Lin Hou, when will the Huaidong troops be launched?
Can we go north to help Dongping?"
"The Marquis must have gone to Guoyang to meet Master Dong. What does Master Dong think of the Hehuai War?" Lin Fu asked.
"Jiang Ning is very anxious to urge Shilang Dong to send troops to the north to aid Dongping. However, Shilang Dong forgets public hatred for his personal grudges and holds his troops in Guoyang without moving. The time has been delayed for a month. Duke Lu has pinned his last hope on
Marquis Lin is in trouble." Yuan Gui Zhengyan said sincerely.
"I can't bear the great trust of Duke Lu," Lin Fu said. "Dong Shilang is the one who is good at running the army and employing soldiers in the world. He is not willing to be second to others. Dong Shilang has his own considerations when he sends troops to Guoyang. It cannot be simply
Speaking of personal grudges and forgetting public grudges - Speaking of private grudges, what personal grudges does Dong Shilang have with the Liang family? Speaking of private grudges, there are still some unresolved old grudges between the Liang family and I. How can the Duke of Lu pin his hopes on Huaidong?
On the head?"
Yuan Guizheng did not expect Lin Fu's words to be so naked. Tang Haoxin's death was indeed directly related to the Liang family's plan for Shandong at that time. The Liang family did not want to wipe their butts clean, but Tang Haoxin's death was Lin Fu's death.
Lin Fu was tied to a wedge machine for self-reliance in Huaidong, including the subsequent matter of salt and silver to protect grain. Didn't Lin Fu use Tang Haoxin's death to benefit his own family?
Furthermore, Tang Haoxin went on a hunger strike in Qingzhou, and Emperor Yongxing, who was still King Ning when he was transiting from Shandong to Jiangning to become a vassal, could not escape the relationship. No wonder Lin Fu wanted to go further and talk about the Sumen case, which was long ago.
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Yuan Guizheng couldn't guess Lin Fu's inner plan for a while, so he remained silent and looked at Lin Fu with gloomy and cold eyes.
Lin Fu continued: "I believe that Dong Yuan's decision to attack Guoyang was not due to personal grudges... Hehuai can no longer withstand a major defeat. Even Jiang Ning's opinion is to be cautious. To be honest.
Mr. Yuanhou, what I have submitted to Jiang Ning is that I suggest that the Changhuai Army withdraw directly to the defense line in Huaixi, and Dong Yuan will be under unified control to organize the defense of the middle line. If the Marquis of Changxiang does not want to be in the front, he can withdraw to Nanyang.
With the Qinyang Marquis guarding the Hezhong Mansion, they share the same lips, teeth and horns, so they can defend the western front..."
Yuan returned to the government and was stunned for a while. After supporting the establishment, all the eyes and ears of the Yongchang Hou Mansion in Jiangning were eliminated. If Lin Fu hadn't mentioned it to his face, it would be difficult for him to know the court's motion on the Hehuai War in time, let alone Lin Fu.
Such a twist in the bondage meeting...
If the Chang Huai Army retreats north to Huaixi and accepts Dong Yuan's control, it will directly form a heavy military group with more than 100,000 troops in Huaixi. Is it any wonder that Lin Fuzhen wants Dong Yuan to be evenly matched with him?
Seeing the hesitation in Yuan Guizheng's eyes, Lin Fu sighed softly in his heart.
Huaidong has become what it is today. If Lin Fu has no ambition in his heart, he is deceiving himself and others, but things are divided into priorities, and conflicts also have priorities.
Compared with the seemingly incompatible and distant relationship between Huaidong and Jiangning, the main conflict faced by Huaidong and Jiangning publicly is to join forces to block Yanhu's overwhelming offensive - under the overthrow of the nest, how can the eggs be completed?
If Yan and Hu troops were to break through the Jianghuai defense line with overwhelming force, not even half of the country could be saved. Huaidong and Jiangning continued to fight in secret, scheming against each other, just to make future generations laugh and hate them.
Under the current circumstances, Lin Fu was confident that he could barely hold on to the eastern front, so he would rather give all the troops and horses of Tao Chun of the Changhuai Army to Dong Yuan and support Changxiang Marquis Liang Cheng to retreat to Nanyang, but also jointly hold the Huaihe River and Qinling lines.
Although doing so will directly form a heavy military group with more than 100,000 troops under Dong Yuan's command, Liang Chengchong and Liang Chengyi will also be reunited on the western front, and from Nanyang to the south, they can develop their forces in the area controlled by Luo Xiancheng.
But at least half of the Southern Dynasty could be supported first.
However, if Lin Fu's three-line defense plan is to be successfully implemented, there is a prerequisite for it, which is to ignore Yan Hu's encirclement and reinforcement plan, give up the plan to Liang Xi's troops who are trapped in Dongping, and temporarily leave the scorched earth in northern Henan that has been crippled.
Give up to Yan Hu...
Yuan Guizheng came here to try his best to persuade Lin Fu to send troops to relieve the siege of Dongping, but Lin Fu asked Yuan Guizheng to persuade Liang Chengchong to give up his father and Dongping.
Yuan Guizheng was stunned for a moment. Their understandings and ideas were so different that he didn't know what to say for a moment.
Abandoning Dongping, Liang Chengchong led the remaining troops to withdraw west to Nanyang. This matter was not decided by Yuan Guizheng. Yuan Guizheng sat down for a while and then left.
Lin Fuli sent Yuan back to power and left the Shoujing Hall, and returned to the Dongya Branch Hall with Gao Zongting and Ye Junan.
Ye Junan said as he walked: "Throughout the ages, filial piety and righteousness have come first. Is Liang Chengchong afraid to bear the crime of abandoning his father to save lives?"
Gao Zongting smiled faintly and said: "Are there still rare examples of brothers fighting for power in the past and present, and father and son fighting each other? What's more, Liang Chengchong still has the shield of the Empress Dowager Liang. As long as within the Liang family, the decision to abandon Dongping comes from
Empress Dowager Liang instead of Liang Chengchong, Liang Chengchong is not that difficult to be a man! Of course, this will inevitably lay the foundation for the breakup between Liang Chengchong and Liang Chengyi brothers. The Western Front still cannot be twisted into one and hugged together... Relatively speaking, Liang Chengchong withdrew to Nanyang,
Still located inside the shelter of Liang Chengyi, conflicts with Luo Xiancheng are inevitable."
Ye Junan was still more Confucian and his calculations were not as profound as Gao Zongting's.
Regarding the discussion between Ye Junan and Gao Zongting, Lin Fu did not comment. He just looked at the yellow leaves in the courtyard while walking. Winter has arrived again. In addition to the Huaihe River, the rivers north of the Huaihe River will soon freeze seriously. This winter will not be possible.
Only by getting through it can we see the dawn of victory.
Ye Junan thought of a question and asked: "Dong Yuan went out to control Huaixi and left Meng Yishan with none of his troops in northern Zhejiang. Did he anticipate today's situation?"
Lin Fu stopped and looked at Gao Zongting.
No one knew Chen Zhihu or Dong Yuan as well as Gao Zongting. Gao Zongting had known and worked with Dong Yuan for more than ten years. If Huaidong wanted to accurately judge Dong Yuan's motives, there was no one else but Gao Zongting.
Gao Zongting said: "After Dong Yuan raised his troops and marched north to Guoyang, he stopped advancing. Guoyang is still three to four hundred miles away from Jining, so naturally it is impossible to contain the main enemy force surrounding Dongping. But we can't complain.
Dong Yuan stood still, and it had been less than three months since Dong Yuan left to take control of Huaixi. In addition, as Mr. Jun An said, Dong Yuan left almost all of the Northern Zhejiang Army he had brought out to guard Hangzhou with Meng Yishan, and led the troops to march north.
The one that controls Huaixi is the first part of the imperial camp adapted from the Jiangning garrison. Including Xiao Kui'an's troops, the 30,000 soldiers and horses Dong Yuan assembled in Guoyang at this time are far from elite soldiers. The terrain is flat.
On the vast Hehuai Plain, Yanhu gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses outside Dongping, including more than 40,000 elite cavalry. Who is confident enough to lead 350,000 to 50,000 infantry? No matter how harsh and stern the eyes are,
He would excuse Dong Yuan by saying that "a clever woman can't make a meal without rice" - in this situation, it is a normal idea to avoid a hasty decisive battle that will lead to larger losses of troops and generals, and to withdraw the Changhuai Army and fill it in the middle line...
Of course, with the vision of the emperor, Chen Xiyan and others, the Chang Huai Army was withdrawn to Huaixi and placed under Dong Yuan's control. They were not afraid of Dong Yuan's ability to support his own troops. It is not surprising that Dong Yuan could see this step..."
Whether you can support your troops with self-respect, the first thing is whether you have enough confidants and direct generals to control the army. Obviously, after the Changhuai Army withdrew into Huaixi, even if a heavy army group with more than 100,000 troops was formed in Huaixi,
Since the generals of the entire corps come from complex sources, and almost all of them are not direct descendants of Dong Yuan, it is impossible for Dong Yuan to support his troops and respect himself. In this case, the Wu Party forces such as Emperor Yongxing and Chen Xiyan will also be more assured to support Dong Yuan.
He originally went to command the Huaixi troops.
Lin Fu touched his chin, looked at the yellow leaves in the courtyard, and said, "Zong Ting hasn't finished what he said. Dong Yuan also took into account the development of the situation on the southern front..."
After Lin Fu woke up, Ye Junan immediately figured it out. He patted his thigh and said, "What a good plan! Shefeng and Fujian have declined on the eastern front. As long as our army or the Northern Zhejiang Army can recapture Fuyang, Northern Zhejiang and Suhu
The plains will once again become a relatively safe inner line, and Meng Yishan's troops can mobilize northward to support the war against Yanhu. This is also the meaning of the title. At this time, the Northern Zhejiang Army that Dong Yuan gave up before heading north to Huaixi
The direct lineage will return to his control - at this point, it will be possible for Dong Yuan to digest the Huaixi soldiers and horses for himself. Dong Yuan is really a good city and a good plan!"
Gao Zongting smiled bitterly and said: "Even if I know that he may have such a plan, Huaidong can only support the Changhuai Army to withdraw to Huaixi..."
Lin Fu smiled easily and said: "Since ancient times, many people have succeeded in troubled times due to circumstances, but how many people have succeeded simply by conspiracy?"