In the deep cold of winter, the She family mobilized a large number of troops to march westward and invaded Yuzhang and Ganzhou. The government and the public were shocked and helpless.
At that time, Chang Huai's army withdrew south to fill Huaixi. The original 30,000 troops and horses in Huaixi were all piled up north of the Huaihe River.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from Yan and Hu were gathered in Shouzhang. During the Dongping period, Jiangning was even more worried about the Liang family's change and wanted to surrender the clan to the captives. The soldiers and horses on the northern front did not dare to act rashly. The soldiers and horses in Jiangzhou and Luzhou were also
Move as far north as possible, to Yuzhang, Ganzhou and other counties in southern Jiangxi, with less than 30,000 defensive troops.
Although the area from western Zhejiang to eastern Jiangxi is hilly and crisscrossed, only river valleys and streams can transport troops, but it is located on the inner line and the straight-line distance is short. Even if troops are marched westward from Wuyuan and Shangrao, there are three to four hundred miles of mountain roads, and the army must gather to march towards the fortress.
It takes more than ten days, but by taking the outer route, from the Hanghu area, through Taihu Lake into the Yangtze River, upstream, to Jiangzhou and into Poyang Lake, it is thousands of miles away.
The Hanghu Army regained Fuyang before mid-December, and the defensive situation was greatly improved. As long as the two entrances from Tonglu to Fuyang and Chun'an to Linshui were blocked, the She family's troops and horses could be blocked in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River.
Go eastward.
The Hanghu Army has 60,000 troops, at least half of which can be used to support the Jiangxi war.
Thirty thousand Hangzhou troops marched westward by water, entering Poyang Lake, with Yuzhang in the southwest of Poyang Lake as their destination. It took at least a month from the ship assembly to replenishment along the way, which fully demonstrated the advantages of waterway transportation.
It is said that there is enough time. There are still more than 30,000 troops in Ganzhou. It is always possible to stick to key cities such as Yuzhang, Ganzhou, and Yichun and wait for reinforcements for a month. In addition to the Hanghu Army, Jiangzhou, Luzhou and other places,
There are also 20,000 to 30,000 reinforcements that can be urgently transferred to Jiangxi for support.
As long as Yuzhang, Yichun, Ganzhou and other key cities are not lost, all other prefectures and counties in southern Jiangxi will be occupied by the She family. When reinforcements from various places arrive, the She family will have nothing to do except withdraw their troops.
The most fatal problem at this time was Jiangning's lack of prestige, the lack of effective restrictions on local areas, and the lack of authority to impose orders and prohibitions on the recruitment of troops and horses from various places.
First of all, the She family completely abandoned Fuyang in mid-December, but there were still a considerable number of troops stationed in Tonglu upstream of Fuyang. The Hanghu area, including Meng Yishan, the imperial commander of the Hanghu military capital, and others were worried about the She family's attempt.
The strategy of attacking in the east and attacking in the west has the possibility of turning back the carbine, and they do not want the troops of Hangzhou and Hu to be transferred to support Jiangxi.
The prefectures and counties around Taihu Lake are the foundation of the Wu Party's power. The Wu Party's forces, headed by Chen Xiyan, are deeply concerned about the safety of the prefectures and counties around Taihu Lake.
At that time, the Fang family rebelled and sacrificed the Fang family port, so that the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels captured Linshui without any effort. Although Dong Yuan was determined to defend Fuyang at the beginning, the entire defense line was compromised due to the fall of Linshui.
After taking 30,000 to 40,000 lives in Fuyang, Dong Yuan was finally forced to abandon Fuyang, and his half-life fame was almost destroyed in one day.
The fall of Fuyang not only left Hanghu, the most prosperous city in the world, half crippled, but also put Jiangning under direct threat from the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels.
If the Huaidong Army had not landed in eastern Zhejiang and captured Mingzhou Prefecture in time, crippled the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels and rendered their successors powerless, otherwise even if Jiangning could barely hold on, all the prefectures and counties around Taihu Lake would have been completely crippled - now
Nearly half of Jiangning's finances come from the counties around Taihu Lake. The counties around Taihu Lake are not only the foundation of the Wu Party's power, but also the foundation of Jiangning's regime.
The Wu Party, headed by Chen Xiyan, acted conservatively and prudently. Before eliminating the possibility of the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels fighting back, it was not unimaginable to hinder the Hangzhou and Huxi armies from advancing westward to aid Jiangxi.
Chen Xiyan and others were alarmist, and Emperor Yongxing could not make up his mind. In the end, he just ordered the Hanghu Army and the Huinan Army to attack Tonglu and Chun'an, and try to contain as many Zhejiang and Fujian rebels as possible on the eastern front.
Zhejiang and Fujian are crisscrossed by hills and mountains. It is difficult to attack Fuyang from Tonglu and Chun'an near the water. It is even more difficult to attack Tonglu and Chun'an from Fuyang, Linshui and upstream against the mountains.
Secondly, the order of Si Jianbi, the leader of Jiangning and Ganzhou, to clear the country and defend the city was not well implemented.
During Li Zhuo's campaign against Eastern Fujian, he mainly sent troops to collect grain from Jiangxi. Ten years of war made Jiangxi's remote and remote areas even more impoverished. After that, there were successive years of famine and riots, and Poyang Lake was infested with lake bandits who could not be wiped out.
When facing a strong enemy, the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the field is usually effective, but this strategy is a double-edged sword that kills one thousand enemies and damages oneself eight hundred. Not everyone can use it.
It is good to stick to the strong walls of the strong city, but except for a few strong cities, the counties and vast countryside will suffer cruel destruction, and tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, or millions of refugees will inevitably be produced in the coming year.
When Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan were guarding Qingzhou in the early days, it was not that they did not understand the dangers of external defense, but they did not have the courage and confidence to turn hundreds of miles north of Linzi City into a wasteland.
Now Huaidong is bounded by Xuzhou, and all the people from the north of Xuzhou to Linzhou, which is about 300 miles deep, have been evacuated southward. Houses and cities have been destroyed, leaving no income for Yanhu. They have built forts southward from Xuzhou to the banks of the Huaihe River.
, in the final analysis, the entire Huaidong is behind this strategy.
Pan Qifeng, the governor of Ganzhou, had the ambition to cede territory to the princes. After Ganzhou was crippled, if he expected Jiangning to support money and grain, restore production, and provide disaster relief, he would naturally have to obey Jiangning's orders.
For Pan Qifeng, in order to protect the foundation and the power of a prince, he must defend his enemies from outside the country.
At the beginning, the She family had not given up on Fuyang, so they mobilized Fuyang soldiers and horses to march westward. Their forward troops were limited, so they marched westward from Wujiang and Xinjiang. Although Jiangning strictly ordered Pan Qifeng to wait for help, Pan Qifeng ignored Jiangning's order.
, determined to concentrate their forces, defeat them one by one, and drive the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels out of the country.
Pan Qifeng led the main force of the Ganzhou Army to cross the Ganjiang River from Yichun and Yuzhang to the east. In Dongxiang, he repelled the Zhejiang and Fujian Army forwards who were advancing west from Shangrao and went up the Xinjiang River.
Between Yujiang and Huangxi in the west of Xinzhou, facing Pan Qifeng's more than 20,000 troops who had lured the enemy deep into the army, She Feixiong led only more than 10,000 Bamin elites to fight. After two days of bloody fighting, Pan Qifeng's army was defeated.
After the war, Pan Qifeng led his remnant troops to retreat to Yujiang. At that time, She Feixiong's more than 10,000 elite troops were also crippled. However, She Feixiong used 3,000 remaining soldiers to pin Pan Qifeng to Yujiang. He was unable to advance or retreat, which changed the situation in the entire south of Jiangxi.
Everything collapsed and fell into chaos.
Subsequently, the main force of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies continued to advance westward. By late December, there were more than 60,000 Zhejiang and Fujian armies marching to the east bank of the Ganjiang River. She Feixiong led his troops to bypass Yujiang and crossed the Ganjiang River.
, and the soldiers and horses that set out from Wuyuan met at the foot of Yuzhang City in late December.
Seeing that Pan Qifeng's main force had been crippled, Jiangzhou's reinforcements fought a hasty battle north of Yuzhang City and lost more than a thousand troops, so they hurriedly withdrew north and defended Jiangzhou.
At that time, the Yuzhang garrison was less than 3,000. She Feixiong gathered more than 50,000 soldiers and horses under the Yuzhang city. He also divided his troops into tens of thousands. They went up the river from both sides of the Gan River and went south to attack Yichun and Ganzhou, where Po Qifeng made his fortune...
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By late December, the snow on the shores of Shigou Lake had not melted, and Song Jia had quietly gone south. Su Meilai took over the post of Nei Dian Shi to help Lin Fu handle various correspondence.
"The so-called 'putting one's life on the line to survive'..." After reading the battle reports from Jiangxi, Lin Fu couldn't help but be filled with emotion.
The She family abandoned Fuyang and marched westward. It was a deviant sword and a dangerous strategy. It was risking death to survive. Once the westward march was frustrated, it would be completely passive.
She Feixiong led more than 10,000 elite troops to march westward from Shangrao, and lured Pan Qifeng to lead the main force of the Ganzhou Army to march eastward, which was a dangerous strategy of "death and survival".
One is to use risks strategically, and the other is to use risks tactically. It can be said that every step is thrilling.
"With these two steps, if Jiangning cannot send troops from Jiangzhou to relieve the siege of Yuzhang, the situation of the She family on the western front will be revitalized," Liu Miaozhen said.
Liu Miaozhen has already led his troops to withdraw from Linzhou.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that women went out to fight as generals on behalf of their fathers and brothers, but it is rare for women to serve as officials. Lin Fu recommended Liu Miaozhen to Xuzhou, which caused an uproar in Jiangning.
After several rounds of bargaining, Jiangning finally agreed that Liu Miaozhen would serve as the deputy envoy of Xuzhou's establishment and garrison in Xuzhou. Huaidong recommended Li Wei, the former magistrate of Suining County, to be appointed as the deputy magistrate of Xuzhou, and Zhang Yubo was transferred to the Ministry of Personnel as Zuo Shilang.
In recent months, Lin Fu has been hiding in Zhuangzi by Shigou Lake and ignoring worldly affairs. Liu Miaozhen, Xuzhou magistrate Li Wei, Chief Secretary Ye Junan and others were invited to Huzhuang as guests, and they changed into brocade and red women's clothes. Liu Miaozhen practiced martial arts when she was young.
He grew up in a fishing village, and later moved to the world with his brother and uncle. He didn't learn piano, chess, or female workers. He had nothing to talk about with Su Mei, Xiao Man, and other female relatives. He couldn't ask Sun Wenwan for advice on martial arts.
Lin Fu asked people to cut open the lake ice and sit in a small pavilion by the lake, enjoying fishing with Li Wei and Ye Junan. Liu Miaozhen sat aside and talked about state affairs.
"In the current situation, let's hold on to Jiangzhou." Ye Junan said with emotion.
Jiangzhou (today's Jiujiang), the most dangerous place in the world, is located at the mouth of Poyang Lake into the Yangtze River. It is the northern gateway to Jiangxi and the western gateway to Jiangning. If Jiangzhou is defended, the situation in Jiangxi will not be completely collapsed. We are afraid now.
The Shejia siege in Yuzhang was a strategy to encircle the area and provide reinforcements.
Huaidong did not dare to take a peek at the fifty-eight thousand Fujian soldiers. Where did Jiangning mobilize elite soldiers and generals to fight to the death with the main force of the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels marching westward at Yuzhang City? In the current situation, it is still necessary to defend Jiangzhou first, and wait.
Only when the deployment of troops and horses on the northern and southern fronts is straightened out can we solve the problem in Jiangxi.
"There are voices in Jiangning saying that Yue Lengqiu will be invited to come out to Jiangzhou to supervise the war. What do you think, sir?" Li Wei asked.
"Yue Lengqiu doesn't have any troops, so going to Jiangzhou to supervise the battle would be a big deal," Lin Fu said. "I would rather dispatch 20,000 to 30,000 elite soldiers from Huinan and Hanghu to go to Jiangzhou with Yue Lengqiu..."
"Wouldn't it be possible to breed tigers?" Ye Junan asked worriedly.
In the past, Yue Lengqiu was concerned about his position, so he was able to distribute military power to Deng Yu and Tao Chun. He did not directly lead the army. He was forced to resign due to Liu Yefei's involvement, and his mood must have changed. If he is given direct control of military power again
chances are you won't let it go again.
Li Wei remained silent. Although he recognized Chen Zhi as his son-in-law and regarded Huaidong as his main priority, it was difficult to completely change the traditional idea of loyalty to the emperor.
Lin Fu said: "It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Yue Lengqiu knows military affairs, but he has no soldiers and horses to use, and it is difficult to tame the forces of Jiangzhou and withstand the She family's offensive. As for raising tigers, Dong Yuan is not a ferocious tiger.
Are you afraid that Duoyue Lengqiu will be killed? To make a plan, I suggest that troops and horses be dispatched from Huinan and Hanghu to follow Yue Lengqiu to assist Jiangzhou..."
Although this move may allow Yue Lengqiu to gain power in Jiangzhou, the deployment of troops and horses from Hangzhou, Huizhou and Huinan will further strengthen Huaidong's strong position on the eastern front.
At this time, a horse was galloping toward Huzhuang, but urgent military information came from the northern front: Liang Xi ordered General Tu An to be killed, and Dongping troops surrendered!