Zhang Yubo and Ma Zhen left, and Lin Fu invited Liu Tingzhou over.
Lin Fu did not tell the story thoroughly. He did not trust Dong Yuanzong without reservation and told him all his trump cards. He only said that Zhang Yubo offered a false surrender strategy and that Chen Hansan might use his plan to make the fake show come true. But
To solve the crisis in the Hehuai River, Huaidong had no choice but to take a risk. It was agreed that Dong Yuan would lead his troops from Guoyang to the north to Suiyang and Yucheng on a certain date, so as to limit the later Yanhu troops from entering Xuzhou from the west.
nearby.
Liu Tingzhou rushed back to Guoyang without stopping to meet Dong Yuan. It was already entering the severe cold season in late October.
Hearing that Lin Fu was trying to trick the enemy into surrendering, Dong Yuan was full of doubts and said: "Every strange strategy Huaidong makes may seem dangerous, but he will only do it if he actually has a great chance of winning. This time, Huaidong guessed
What kind of thoughts are there, but no one can understand them."
Dong Yuan was out of town in Huaixi and was new here. In addition, Liu Tingzhou had a high reputation, so Dong Yuan was willing to discuss everything with him.
"Knowing that Chen Hansan might actually pull off the fake act, he still mobilized the main force of Huaiyang Town to rush to Xuzhou City. He would be in danger of being attacked by Chen Hansan and the soldiers going south." Xiao Kui'an also frowned, confused.
Xie said, "Even if Lin Huaidong has confidence in the combat power of the Huaiyang town army, Chen Hansan saw the opportunity and was able to usher the southward soldiers into Xuzhou City, which is enough to make Huaidong unable to do anything..."
Liu Tingzhou guessed: "Perhaps Lin Huaidong believed that Chen Hansan would definitely surrender to the enemy, but at this time he was suffering from the unknown situation of his troops - instead of waiting until the situation collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Yanhu troops came to force Chen Hansan to surrender to the enemy, it would be better
At this time, Chen Hansan was forced to surrender to the enemy and the situation became clear first. Even if Chen Hansan saw the opportunity and retreated to Xuzhou City without leaving, the situation for Huaidong is not the worst..."
At this time, the main force of Yanhu troops and horses was still dragged in the Dongping area, which was three hundred miles away from Xuzhou, and was unable to go south for the time being.
The main reason why Yan and Hu soldiers and horses are temporarily unable to move south is that Lu Guogong Liang Cheng has 20,000 to 30,000 remaining soldiers besieged in Dongping, while Liang Chengchong leads his troops to garrison in Jining, ready to break the siege of Dongping at any time. The other is that the west of Jinan
, the area to the south has been damaged by wars in the past few years and has not been able to restore production. Even the landlords and wealthy households have been plowed over and over again by the refugee army. After tens of thousands of Yanhu troops entered, they could not move from the local area.
To obtain sufficient supplies of grain and grass in a timely manner, this requires that the main force of the Yanhu troops must be centered in Jinan and transfer large amounts of grain, fodder, ordnance from Yanji and other places.
As long as Dongping City has not been exterminated, the main force of Yanhu soldiers and horses cannot go south for the time being.
When the main force of Yan and Hu soldiers and horses could not go south, Chen Hansan was forced to openly surrender to the enemy. Although Huaidong had no hope of capturing the heavily defended Xuzhou City, it could first remove the outer walls of Xuzhou without waiting for the main force of Yan and Hu Nan soldiers and horses to arrive.
After that, he fell into complete passivity.
Dong Yuan held his chin with a short beard in his hand and said: "What Mr. Liu said should indeed be an aspect that Huaidong should consider, but if the main force of Huaiyang Town suffers a heavy defeat at the foot of Xuzhou City, even if it is only a narrow victory,
, the next situation on the Eastern Front will do more harm than good. As for the situation on the Eastern Front, if we are not 70% to 80% sure, we would rather lose the city of Xuzhou than spend two years of thinking and investing a lot of resources in constructing it.
Huaiyang defense line to take risks."
The key to Huaisi's situation lies in Xuzhou, the gateway is in Xuzhou, and Xuzhou's terrain is important, needless to say. But Xuzhou is controlled by Chen Hansan, and Huaidong is hostile, which is what Huaidong has always faced when operating the Huaisi defense line.
Reality. Therefore, in the past two or three years, Huaidong has focused on strengthening the cities of Huaiyang, Suining, Suyu and other cities in the south of Xuzhou. It also built an additional fortified city on the west bank of the Bian River between Suining and Huaiyang, in order to
To a certain extent, it resolves Xuzhou’s terrain suppression of the Huaisi area.
The situation was so critical. Lin Fuqi had tried hard for several years and still had no confidence, but he still took the risk to seize Xuzhou City. Naturally, Dong Yuan was puzzled.
Liu Tingzhou added: "Lin Huaidong agreed with Chen Hansan on the condition of sending troops to Xiapi to lure the enemy deeper into the country. It is also possible that Lin Fu stopped moving after sending troops to Xiapi..."
"This is also possible, but in the end, Chen Hansan was asked to dedicate Xuzhou to Yanlu. Even if Huaidong gets an additional Xiapi City, it may not be able to take advantage of it!" As the saying goes, "Use the right combination to win with the unexpected", Huaidong
Before the end of the line, Dong Yuan would not easily believe that Lin Fu, assisted by Gao Zongting, would risk the safety of the entire Huaisi defense line for a chance to seize Xuzhou with a 50% chance of victory.
Dong Yuan unfolded the map piled on his desk, took the charcoal produced in Huaidong, drew a mark on the location of Xiapi, and said to himself: "Huaidong sent troops to station in Xiapi, and Yuan Lishan sent a partial division to capture Xuzhou.
We can only approach Xuzhou City by taking the western route. The terrain to the west or northwest of Xuzhou City is not particularly conducive to defeating more with less!"
Xuzhou is adjacent to Bianshui River in the west, and Surabaya River flows to the north and east. To the west are low mountains such as Jiuli Mountain and Quan Mountain, most of which are between tens of feet to more than a hundred feet. When the river enters the winter, it will gradually freeze, and several
Although the mountains appear quite high in the flat Hehuai Plain, they are cramped and far from being in danger of swallowing.
"Nuo, you see," Dong Yuan pressed his hand on the Jiuli Mountain northwest of Xuzhou and said, "If Huaidong wants to capture Xuzhou this time, it can only be done before Yanhu's partial army approaches the city of Xuzhou from the northwest.
The main force of the Huaiyang Town Army was promptly and decisively inserted into the vicinity of Jiuli Mountain, so as to block the passage of Yanlu's partial division into Xuzhou. In order to win Yanlu's trust, Chen Hansan must go out of the city and attack the Huaiyang Town Army with Yanlu's partial division."
"Doesn't it mean that the Huaiyang Town Army must defeat the alliance between Chen Hansan's headquarters and Yanlu's partial division near Jiuli Mountain before they have a chance to seize Xuzhou City?" Xiao Kui'an asked.
"Perhaps as long as Chen Han's three troops are defeated, it will be enough, but the Yanlu Pian division commander must be extremely stupid to stand aside and watch the Huaiyang town army defeat Chen Han's three troops first and do nothing." Dong Yuan said.
After calculating to this point, Dong Yuan also understood that even if Huaidong had any arrangements, they should be in the Jiuli Mountain area, but he never figured out what kind of conspiracy Huaidong had to ensure that he would have a greater chance of winning under Xuzhou City.
Dong Yuan stared at the location of Jiuli Mountain on the map. The map was relatively simple, but he had traveled through Xuzhou in his early years and had some impressions of Jiuli Mountain.
Jiuli Mountain is also known as Jiu Ning Mountain. It is named after it is nine miles long from east to west. The main vein and its branches have nine mountain tops, but the highest is only 40 feet. There are two tributaries that merge into the Bianshui River in the west - such a terrain
Not much of a benefit.
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"Jiuli Mountain?" Chen Hansan's voice raised an octave, staring at Zhang Yubo who was in the middle of the message, "Master Lin wants to send people into Jiuli Mountain first to arrange?"
"Yes," Liu Xilin, who followed Zhang Yubo into the Xuzhou Zhizhishi Yamen, stood up and explained, "our Huaidong soldiers and horses were stationed in Xiapi, and Chen Shuai used a trick of pretending to surrender to lure the Yanhu soldiers and horses to go deep, so he could only go from the west
The line is close to Xuzhou City, and Jiuli Mountain is the place it must pass. Looking at the terrain around Xuzhou City, there is no place more suitable for annihilating the captive soldiers than Jiuli Mountain. The captive soldiers going south should be mainly cavalry. My lord thinks that this
A battle that is not a battle of annihilation cannot be considered a great victory. Once the Lu cavalry enters the area south of Jiuli Mountain, the Huaiyang Town Army and the Xuzhou Army will attack the Lu troops from the east and west directions and from the flanks. The east-west extending terrain of Jiuli Mountain will effectively block the Lu troops.
The soldiers escaped from the battlefield - since the battlefield was chosen in Jiuli Mountain, we naturally have to use these two or three days to further explore the terrain around Jiuli Mountain, and also to hide half the battalion of armored soldiers in Jiuli Mountain, so that we can
A sudden attack during a fierce battle can be effective!"
"Master Lin, it's a perfect plan. It's a perfect plan. I will give my full cooperation..." Chen Hansan said with a gloomy face and immediately agreed to the matter.
Even if Lin Fu had no control over Xuzhou, Chen Hansan had no excuse to stop Lin Fu from choosing the Jiuli Mountain area as the battlefield since he had decided to falsely surrender to lure the enemy.
Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin settled the matter and left immediately. Chen Hansan frowned and said, "The East China Sea Fox is very wary!"
"It would be strange for Lin Fu to be unsuspecting," Ma Zhen said, "but Jiuli Mountain is only thirty or forty feet high. Even if it was occupied by the Huaiyang Town Army during the war, they would not be able to defeat the elite soldiers sent by Marshal Master and Yuan Marshal.
How long can we hold on under the attack of troops and horses? Isn't the terrain of Jiuli Mountain that spreads from east to west just enough to prevent the Huaiyang Army from retreating? Even if the fight persists, the Huaiyang Army cannot be easily eliminated before reinforcements arrive.
, it will be convenient for our army and the elite sent by Marshal Yuan to withdraw into Xuzhou City!"
Chen Hansan nodded and said: "The Huaiyang Town Army sent half a battalion of ambush troops to Jiuli Mountain. We also followed suit and sent half a battalion of ambush troops to Jiuli Mountain to keep an eye on them to prevent them from doing anything in Jiuli Mountain.
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Ma Zhen didn't believe that the three to five hundred people sent by Huaiyang Town to hide in Jiuli Mountain could do anything, but what Chen Hansan said was also a mature and prudent way, and it meant what it should be. This is a battle about the world situation, how can it be tolerated?
Are people a little careless?
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"Jiuli Mountain!" Zhou Zhizhong dismounted from his horse and received the secret report from the Xuzhou Army. Chen Hansan's envoy sent the secret report, which not only stated that the Huaidong Army chose Jiuli Mountain as the ambush battlefield, but also included a secret report:
Detailed topographic map around Fenjiuli Mountain.
Zhou Zhizhong was originally transferred to the jurisdiction of Chen Zhihu, but Chen Zhihu lured out the main force of Dengzhou Town in order to fake defeat, and took the soldiers and horses that were sent to death under Qingzhou City. Most of them were Zhou Zhizhong's subordinates. Zhou Zhizhong fell out with Chen Zhihu because of this matter.
At that time, he did not dare to disobey Chen Zhihu's military orders, so he later rushed to Ye Jiduo to complain. Yejiduo was also afraid of the general's discord, so he not only replenished Zhou Zhizhong's troops, but also transferred him to a relatively mild military force.
Yuan Lishan temperance.
As early as half a year ago, Ye Jiduo Dy sent people to Xuzhou to persuade Chen Hansan to surrender. Ye Jiduo Dy was stationed in Jinan, and Yuan Lishan was responsible for the war outside Dongping. In order to further persuade Chen Hansan to surrender as soon as possible, Yuan Lishan
Even through Ye Jiduo Dy, he asked Gao Yi, who had met Chen Hansan several times, to come forward and sneak to Xuzhou to persuade him to surrender.
Chen Hansan promised to sacrifice the city of Xuzhou this time, and also planned to set up a trap. He wanted to join forces with Dayan to lure the main force of the Huaidong Army guarding Huaisi to Xuzhou City and annihilate it. Such a good opportunity, Yuan Lishan would naturally not miss it, so he called Zhou Zhi
They assembled 20,000 cavalry on foot, passed between Caozhou and Jining, and headed towards Xuzhou.
"Is Chen Hansan reliable?" The deputy general of the partial division was Mo Jiben, the former Linqing general.
Although Chen Hansan had agreed to lure the main force stationed in Huaisi in Huaidong into a trap and join forces to annihilate them, there was a possibility that their side troops might be big fish swallowing bait, and Mo Ji seemed a little worried.
"Chen Hansan shouldn't be stupid," Zhou Zhizhong said, "Looking at his capriciousness in the past, he shouldn't be the kind of person who would block his own retreat - he helped Huaidong eat us. Regarding the current situation in the Hehuai River,
It doesn't have much impact; but once we cooperate with us and eat up the main force of Huaidong defending Huai, the whole situation will completely tilt towards Dayan. Which one has high merit and which one has low merit, how could Chen Hansan not see it? Furthermore,
Our secret agents who infiltrated Xuzhou also discovered that hundreds of sergeants have been coming in and out of Jiuli Mountain in the past two or three days, something unusual, which proves that Chen Hansan is not lying."
"But one thing needs to be clear. Before Chen Hansan takes action, it is better for us to stand still. Although the three kings promised to replenish their manpower after the war, once all the direct relatives are gone, what is the point of replenishing them with scraps?"
Mo Jiben said.
Zhou Zhizhong nodded and admitted that what Mo Jiben said was reasonable.