In Surabaya, which is not restricted by river banks, the water rose after May and spread to the beaches on both sides of the river. It was no less than ten miles long and the water was extremely vast. The reeds in the shallow water surfaced and green vines spread out.
After the summer, all the water between the Hehuai River and the Huaihe River swelled and overflowed, further restricting the movement of the Yanhu cavalry between the Hehuai River and the Huaihe River. In comparison, the Huaidong warships were able to penetrate deeper into Henan and eastern Shandong, making the Xia and Autumn
After that, the battle between the two sides on the defensive line tilted towards Huaidong.
Beiyan's troops in Jining, north of Xuzhou, and Dongping's troops all shrank behind the defense line.
After the beginning of summer in Xuzhou, the direct war pressure faced by Xuzhou was reduced, which was conducive to farming. Further in the field of vision, there are wheat seedlings that have begun to ear, and they will be harvested in more than half a month. This is the second one on the north bank of the Huaihe River after the Xuzhou War.
During the harvest season, the people in the fields seem to have forgotten the pain caused by the war and are only waiting for the harvest season to come.
Liu Miaozhen, Wu Qi, Li Wei, Chu Zheng, Sun Zhuang, Malantou, Li Liang, Liu Xilin and other generals from Xu Yi came out of the city to the Surabaya Pier to greet them. Nearly a year had passed since Liu Miaozhen led his troops south to conquer eastern Fujian last year.
Wearing red armor, but not wearing her bronze mask, her face as gorgeous as a peach blossom looks heroic against the backdrop of the armor.
Liu Miaozhen led the generals to perform the courtesy of a minister. Lin Fu grabbed her hand and did not let go. He asked: "There has been a lot of pressure in Xuzhou in the past six months..."
Liu Miaozhen couldn't pull back her hand and her face turned red. However, Li Wei knew better and answered Lin Fu's question for Liu Miaozhen: "Everything is under the master's plan. I act according to my humble position and there is no pressure."
"Li Gong also learned how to say nice things to deceive people!" Lin Fu said with a smile, "Jiangning fell, I'm still sweating in my heart, can you sleep peacefully?"
When Lin Fu first came to Xuzhou, everyone was well informed and did not bother with military affairs. He and Liu Miaozhen had a good time together for several days. Song Fu, Chen Huazhang and others were also free to be accompanied by Li Wei, Malantou, Sun Zhuang and others.
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Song Fu had not been out of Fujian for nearly twenty years. In the future, he had to assist Lin Fu in planning, but he felt that his grasp of the world situation was insufficient. "What you learn on paper will always be shallow," and you can't walk it on the ground.
, the opportunity to take a look is also very rare. When I came out this time, I walked around non-stop; the same was true for Chen Huazhang.
Song Fu and Chen Huazhang were both in their fifties. They worked a lot and their hair turned gray early. Li Wei was older than them and had black hair.
Lin Fu was busy reuniting with Liu Miaozhen, and Song Fu and Chen Huazhang took this opportunity to get in touch with all aspects of Xuzhou.
Being able to drive away Chen Hansan and capture the city of Xuzhou can be said to be extremely lucky for Huaidong.
Precisely because the capture of Xuzhou City completed the Xu Si defense line, Beiyan saw that it would be difficult to break through the Huaihe defense line in a short period of time, so he decisively turned to the defensive in Henan and Shandong, and deployed troops and horses from Qinxi to attack Guanshan and Huaidong in a roundabout way.
Therefore, after the autumn of last year, the conditions were ripe for launching the Eastern Fujian Offensive, and only then did a series of changes take place, so that the overall situation in Jiangning can be controlled today.
If Xuzhou City is given to Beiyan, a brutal tug-of-war will form on the north bank of the Huaihe River. Even if Huaidong can withstand the attack of Beiyan's two to three hundred thousand troops and defend the Huaihe River, life will never be easy. On the contrary, the She family will
Breathing a sigh of relief and getting a chance to recuperate - Song Fu finally made the decision to lead the Song people to surrender to Huaidong, and also saw Xuzhou City fall into the hands of Huaidong.
Xuzhou is located between the Hehuai River and the Huaihe River. To the northeast is the uninterrupted Lunan Mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles. To the north are rivers and lakes. To the west are the remaining hills and mountains of the Lunan Mountains extending toward Huaiyang. It is surrounded by mountains.
Bianshui River and Si River bypass Xucheng from east to west and connect with Huai River. They are also known as the first strategic point of Huai Si River.
The world's general trend changes often just between the lines.
Song Fu had no contact with Chen Hansan, but when he thought that he had risen as a bandit and became a local envoy, he must have been a bit of a hero. I wonder how he felt when he was expelled from Huaishan Mountain and became a bandit again.
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Lin Fu could only live happily for a few days in Xuzhou City. Liu Miaozhen was not good at bed, but it added a lot of interest, which made him happy and reluctant to miss Shu. It was not until mid-May that he decided to go with Liu Miaozhen to inspect Xu Yi's front-line defenses.
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Before leaving, Wu Qi, who was in charge of intelligence affairs in the North and military affairs in Yishan, reported the information that the Yanhu royal family and the princes and ministers had left Yanjing and returned to Liaoyang for two summers in a row.
According to the information received, the princes and ministers of Yanlu will move north to Liaoyang for summer vacation this year. The time should be early June. At this time, a small number of elites will be dispatched to rush into the Bohai Sea with warships and land in western Liaoning for a surprise attack.
Summer chariots and horses may be able to accomplish extraordinary feats..."
Wu Qi proposed this proposal, and everyone in Xuzhou was also very interested.
If we can severely damage the carriages and horses of the princes, princes and ministers who are heading north to escape the summer in western Liaoning, it will completely disrupt the initially sound military and political system of Northern Yan; if we are lucky enough to hunt down the king of the captives, we may force the Yan captives out of the pass without a fight.
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Lin Fu frowned slightly and said: "This plan is good, but if implemented at this time, it may not have miraculous results. What does Song Gong think?"
"It is not advisable to go at the moment," Song Fu said. "The princes and ministers of Yanlu are going north to Liaoyang to escape the summer heat. There will be no shortage of escorts. If the princes and ministers of Yanlu are accompanied by 20,000 cavalry when they go north, Huaidong will not be able to send out enough to defeat them at this time.
The troops of 20,000 fine cavalry are coming - from Yuguan to Liaoyang, the Yan captives have built many forts, which can be avoided in case of danger. Huaidong soldiers and horses land on the shore, and it is difficult to fall into it suddenly. On the contrary, it will scare the snake and make the Yan captives cut off Xia Shubei.
Things to do. This strategy will not work at this time. It should be strictly kept secret. It must be implemented only after the conditions are mature. Only by sending 40,000 to 50,000 elite infantry to western Liaoning at once can we be sure of success!"
"After next year, Yanlu's navy in Dengzhou will gradually grow in size, and it will become difficult to break into the Bohai Sea." Wu Qi said.
Between Dengzhou and Jinzhou in the southeast corner of Liaoning Province, Haikou is only more than a hundred miles wide, and there are many islands such as Miaoshan in between. It is easy for Beiyan to form a blockade chain on the Beihai Pass of Dengzhou to protect the Bohai Sea on the inside.
Song Fu smiled and said: "Not to mention the Bohai Port in Dengzhou, if the She family navy comes over, can they block the Yangtze River and completely block the intrusion of the Huaidong water camp?"
The Yangtze River estuary is also more than a hundred miles wide, but the water depth at the Yangtze River estuary is not comparable to that of the Bohai estuary, so it is easier to blockade than the Bohai estuary. It is certain that even if Yanlu develops its navy with all its strength, it will not be possible.
In just two or three years, it has caught up with the level of the luxurious navy.
The She family navy was completely defeated by the Huaidong water camp. Huaidong was confident that he didn't have to worry about Yan Lu having the ability to seal the mouth of the Bohai Sea.
Song Fu continued: "Right now, not only should we not stop the Yanlu from blocking the Bohai Port, but we should also convince the Yanlu that they have the ability to blockade the Bohai Port, so as to prompt them to mobilize their troops along the Bohai Bay... If they want to attack east and west in the past,
If Zhejiang's policy in eastern Zhejiang works again, it will inevitably block Yanlu's vision."
Yanhu did not have a naval force. In the battles in Yannan, they also initially experienced the power of the Jiangdong left army at that time to use the sea route to move quickly and carry out logistical supplies. Therefore, they fought in Yandong, Jidong, Liaoxi, Liaodong and other Bohai Bay coasts.
Heavy troops were stationed in key areas to guard against Huaidong soldiers and horses attacking from the sea, and at the same time, naval forces were built in the Ludong area.
There is no way to mobilize these soldiers and horses, and the effect of surprise attacks by sea will become limited, which will evolve into a tug-of-war and a war of attrition in the offshore area - although the tug-of-war and attrition along the Yanji coast, the situation is extremely favorable to Huaidong.
, but we must also consider that the Yanhu people’s hinterland in the North is deep and vast, which will weaken the actual effect of harassing the Yanji coastal areas.
Lin Fu nodded and said: "If you want to fight, you must fight hard. If Yan Lu is determined to shift the focus of military affairs to southern Shanxi or Shanxi at this time, it will not be particularly beneficial to the future situation..."
It will take more than three years for the Donghu people to digest the Northland, and they have a better grasp of Jinzhong and Yanji.
When the Western Liaoning Corridor is increasingly threatened by sea routes, the Donghu people can also build a circuitous passage from the western foot of the Taihang Mountains from the direction of Datong to connect the traditional areas of Yandong and Yanxi Zhuhu areas with the Central Plains through Jinzhong. Although the efficiency must be
It is far inferior to taking the Liaoxi Corridor directly, but it can also help the Donghu people to support the situation and prevent it from collapsing immediately.
If the Donghu people can capture the Guan-Shaanxi area first and open up the channel for Xiangfan to invade Jinghu, it's hard to say who will win in the world.
At this time, the Donghu people were still based in Liaodong and Liaoyang, and the cultivated land and Dingkou resources in the Yanji Plain were much richer than those in Jinzhong at the western foot of the Taihang Mountains. Although the offshore areas were vulnerable to sea route invasion from Huaidong, western Liaoning
The convenience of the corridor connecting Liaodong and Yanji areas is extremely difficult for the Donghu people to make the decision to give up.
At this time, Huaidong was still at its business foundation, so it could not help the Donghu people to make up their mind to abandon the offshore area.
Song Fu added: "I think that Huaidong is currently on the eastern front. One is to strengthen the tug-of-war between Yishan and Yanlu in Ludong, and the other is to strengthen the assistance to the Zhen family of Haiyang County in Goryeo——
He asked Yanlu to deepen the impression that Huaidong wanted to open a land passage from Shandong and the Korean Peninsula and gradually threaten its hinterland, forcing it to deploy more troops to Ludong and southwestern Liaoning."
At this time, Yanlu's frontal defense line in Henan and Shandong mainly consisted of three sections. Henan was dominated by Chen Zhihu, which corresponded to Huaixi, Nanyang, and Hezhong; to the north of Xuzhou, Beiyan used Ji to suppress the rebel general Yuan Li.
Headed by Shan Shan, a western Lu defense line with Tai'an City as the central area was built, with more than 40,000 horse infantry stationed; in eastern Shandong, headed by veteran Na He Xiongqi, horse infantry and infantry were stationed in Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places.
There are more than 40,000 navy troops - behind these three lines of defense, Ye Jiduo has nearly 40,000 elite troops in Jinan to prepare for emergencies, forming strategic depth.
In the past, the confrontation between Huaidong and Beiyan on the eastern front was mainly concentrated on the Xuzhou side, with as many as 40,000 Xuzhou defenders. This was also because the terrain in western Shandong was relatively flat, and large groups of Yan soldiers and horses could pass through quickly, while Huaidong could not.
It is necessary to concentrate heavy defense on this side.
To the east of Xuzhou and to the north of Yizhou, the mountains of Yishan, Mengshan, and Kunyu Mountains are crisscrossing each other, forming a geographical barrier that blocks the north and south, making it difficult for the army to pass. The military pressure that Yizhou directly faces is relatively small, and the actual competition is for the enemy.
Control of Yimeng and other mountainous areas. Therefore, the deployment of troops on this front line is dominated by the Yishan Resistance Army, which only has 10,000 troops, which is far less than that of Xuzhou.
In the past, Huaidong was on the defensive on the Xusi defense line, so they deployed troops with light forces in the east and heavy forces in the west. Now, Yanlu has completely given up on the plan to directly invade the hinterland of Jianghuai from the east and switched from defense to offense. So where is Huaidong here?
Just become positive.
On the open terrain of the Luxi plains, Xuzhou's 40,000 to 50,000 troops are not enough to form a counterattack advantage against Jining, Dongping, Tai'an and other cities. In comparison, strengthening the deployment of troops on the front line of Yizhou and strengthening the competition for Yishan will make it even more difficult.
It is easy to threaten Yanlu's soft threat in eastern Shandong, thus attracting Yanlu's troops in Jidong and Yandong to the front...
The main purpose of Lin Fu's inspection in Xuzhou was to adjust the troop deployment and defense ideas in the Xusi area.