After the discussion was over, the crowd walked out of Lin Fu's camp in Juchao City. Yuan Jinsheng called to the Jingzhou Mansion to judge Wei Jinyuan, who came from Jinghu on behalf of Hu Wenmu: "Master Wei, Master Wei," he bowed and said, "Jinsheng
It’s polite here…”
"Young Master, you're welcome!" Wei Jinyuan was in his forties, with a thin and long face, and a beard that seemed to be stuck to his lips. When Yuan Jinsheng called out to him, he stopped, and bowed to Yuan Jinsheng. When he saw Liu Tingzhou
He came from behind and gave another salute.
"It's still early. Jinsheng is willing to make a treat for Mr. Wei. Mr. Liu tasted the delicacies of Chaohu Lake and found out about an excellent place in the city. Mr. Wei, Mr. Liu, can you give me a favor?" Yuan Jinsheng asked.
"Young Master Young Marquis asked for it, but Jin Yuan couldn't ask for it." Wei Jinyuan said.
Jinghu and Nanyang jointly faced the Changle bandits from Xiangfan and Suizhou, and their interests were relatively consistent. However, because the channels were blocked, any official correspondence had to be bypassed through Xinyang and Shouzhou.
Not wanting any of their affairs to be exposed under the noses of Huaixi and Huaidong, the two families could only handle business affairs honestly, and there was not much personal friendship between the core characters.
There has never been any substantive secret talks between Nanyang and Jinghu, including Huaixi. Neither Yuan Jinsheng nor Liu Tingzhou could figure out Jinghu's attitude towards Huaidong living in Jiangning and controlling the government.
Jinghu is far away from Jiangning. If Huaidong is based on Luzhou and penetrates westward, it will border Jinghu in Jichun. But now Lin Fu has made it clear that Yicheng will be included in Chizhou's defense zone, which makes Jinghu
There is no direct conflict of interest between Hu and Huaidong.
During Lin Fu's military discussion, he claimed that whoever attacked the other family carefully would get more money and food. To be honest, Liu Tingzhou was worried that Lin Fu's move was to divide other vassals.
Naturally, Deng Yu was not in the mood to accompany Liu Tingzhou, Yuan Jinsheng, Wei Jinyuan and the others out for a drink today. He had to write down the conclusions of today's military meeting and send them back to Chizhou.
Yuan Jinsheng invited Liu Tingzhou, Wei, Jin and Yuan to the city to find a restaurant.
Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and fled westward, which caused particularly serious damage to Juchao. In the past six months, the city has remained very depressed, with only two or three wine shops putting up front signs to welcome customers.
These days, there are not so many things to pay attention to. Liu Tingzhou is in Shouzhou, and Yuan Jinsheng is in Nanyang. It is difficult to eat meat. When you go into a wine shop, you can ask for wine, meat or fish. Yuan Jinsheng and Liu Tingzhou also talk about individual systems.
, Suihu tastes shapeless when eaten, and it is too bitter in Nanyang and Huaixi.
"Chizhou has issued a military order, and troops will be used against Jiangzhou in ten months. Jinghu's troops in Ezhou cannot escape the responsibility of restraining them from the west wing," Yuan Jinsheng asked, "Jinsheng asked, don't you?"
If I have to ask, how many troops might Qiu Hou in Jinghu invest in Ezhou?"
"Are you worried that the young prince will not have enough troops to defend against the Changle bandits in the north?" Wei Jinyuan asked.
Yuan Jinsheng didn't know for a moment whether Wei Jinyuan was really confused or pretending to be confused. He thought that the meaning of his question was clear enough. Could it be that the Jinghu people really wanted to help Huaidong wipe out the She family?
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After the banquet of wine, Wei Jinyuan didn't say anything sincerely, and Yuan Jinsheng felt vaguely worried.
On the way back to the post house, Wei Jinyuan was there. Yuan Jinsheng and Liu Tingzhou couldn't talk about anything, so they entered the post house. Wei Jinyuan decided to go back to the post house to rest first.
Yuan Jinsheng sighed softly: "Jinghu has never suffered from Huaidong, so I'm afraid he is greedy for Jiangzhou..."
Liu Tingzhou frowned as he looked at the moonlight floating on the tops of the laurel trees in the courtyard. Hearing what Yuan Jinsheng said, he nodded and said: "What Huaidong did was probably to make friends with distant people and attack those with close friends. If Hu Wenmu didn't use his support,
For the sake of the imperial family, there is no guarantee that they will not fall into Huaidong's trap. Think about it, Wei Jinyuan's expression when the Privy Council agreed to place Yicheng under the jurisdiction of Chizhou..."
Yuan Jinsheng frowned and thought, thinking carefully, it was indeed possible.
Jinghu Lake is sandwiched between Jiangxi, Sichuan East, Xiangtan and Xiangfan: Luo Xiancheng has 200,000 troops in Xiangfan. No matter how weak or how strong, it is certain that it will be difficult to wipe out in a short time; Eastern Sichuan is the Cao family,
Xiangtan belongs to the Zhang family, and like Jinghu, they are nominally the commander-in-chief appointed by the imperial court to govern the vassals. The current occupation of Jiangxi with the other families is the only opportunity for Jinghu to expand outward in the near future.
Chizhou is here to drive away the ducks, and it will be fought even if it doesn't happen after autumn. Tanzhou wants to protect itself, and must also try its best to weaken the She family's military strength from the south of the Luoxiao Mountains to Xiangtan. If the three families really fight, the Jinghu family will not dare to fake it.
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Yuan Jinsheng recalled the details of the military meeting. Deng Yu requested that Yicheng on the north bank of the Yangtze River be added to Chizhou. Wei Jinyuan subconsciously frowned, presumably very dissatisfied with this arrangement, but Yicheng is on the north bank of Chizhou, away from Chizhou.
Jiangxia, the core area on the east line controlled by Jinghu, was far away, and Wei Jinyuan had no reason to stand up and stop Chizhou from passing Yicheng.
At present, the possibility of Yue Lengqiu wanting to develop eastward has been eliminated. If he wants to gain a firm foothold, he can only expand westward - if Yue Lengqiu finally takes over Jiangzhou, and also controls Chizhou and Yicheng, and runs Huangmei to the west,
They will inevitably compete with Jinghu for control of the Chudong area. To prevent this situation from happening, the best way for Jinghu is to occupy Jiangzhou first!
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My beloved son died in battle, my beloved general was captured in a fierce battle on the east bank of Gucheng Lake, and I still don’t know where he was imprisoned in Huaidong. He abandoned his old friends, defected to Huaidong, and cut off his clothes to become enemies. This kind of thing
With the pressure on my heart, after Shewenzhuang arrived in Jiangzhou, his beard and hair were dyed like snow.
At the beginning of the year, Jiangzhou was successfully captured, and the main force of the eight Fujian elites also successfully withdrew into Jiangxi without suffering any disaster. The surrender of Huang Binghao, Yang Xiong, Chen Zishou and other generals allowed the She family to obtain more than 50,000 yuan for nothing.
Combat strength - In the series of wars in Mindong, Yijiang, Liyang, etc. that began after the autumn of last year, the number of troops lost to Huaidong was less than 40,000.
In other words, the number of troops controlled by the She family increased by more than 10,000 compared to before the war. After the war, they recruited Jianyong from Jiangzhou and Yuzhang into the army to continuously expand the size of the army.
After occupying Jiangzhou, the twenty counties along Poyang Lake and nearly twenty counties along the Gan River basically fell into the hands of the She family. There was little resistance left, and most of them retreated into the deep mountains and old forests. In a short period of time,
It's hard to do any serious harm.
This situation should be slightly better compared to last year when all the subordinates were beaten, but She Wenzhuang, She Feixiong and others all knew that there was a greater crisis hidden in the silence - they occupied more than 40 counties in Jiangxi
It's true, but Huaidong will never give them more opportunities to rest and recuperate.
Hu Zongguo, the chief historian, pushed open the door and came in, holding a crumpled piece of paper in his hand. He looked at Shewenzhuang sitting in front of the public case and read the letter, and said: "Luzhou secret report, Lin Fu summoned all the vassals in Luzhou to discuss
What happened was indeed the use of troops against Jiangxi after the Autumn - Lin Fu transferred Yicheng on the north bank to Chizhou, and Yue Lengqiu first sent a force to cross the river to rectify the remaining city."
She Wenzhuang took the secret report from Luzhou and read it. He spread out the map and asked Hu Zongguo to sit in front of the case to study with him. He tapped his finger on the yellow plum position on the tail ridge of Huaishan Mountain on the other side of Jiangzhou and said: "
This is it!”
The entire southern foot of Huaishan Mountain is about three to four hundred miles wide from east to west. It is bordered by rivers and mountains. There are shoals, lakes and swamps along the river. The existence of these shoals and swamps makes crossing along the river very difficult.
Only on both sides of Yicheng and Huangmei, there are ridges extending directly to the river bank. The land is solid, the river bank is stable and the river channel is narrow. It is easy to build water and land docks and it is also very convenient to cross the river.
After Shewenzhuang led his remaining troops to retreat to Jiangzhou, he first built a fort and garrisoned troops at Huanglongling on the opposite bank to control the strategic points along the river in Huangmei County.
The guard at Huanglongling was Han Li, Zheng Mingjing's general who broke out from the east bank of Gucheng Lake.
Zheng Mingjing personally led his elite troops to intercept and intercept in order to ensure that the main force could withdraw into Jiuzishan in time. In the end, of the more than 8,000 dead soldiers who stayed with Zheng Mingjing on the east bank of Gucheng Lake to contain the Huaidong troops, only less than 1,000 broke out.
To occupy territory, an area is usually encircled by several points. When Yue Lengqiu sends troops to enter the north bank, they must move along the north bank of the river and westward along the southern foot of Huaishan Mountain. In the end, they must compete with the She family for Huangmei, which is the southwest foothill of Huaishan Mountain.
Control of ridge areas.
The Huangmei City can be left unoccupied, but the She family cannot give up the Huanglong Ridge on the north bank, which is more than ten miles south of the Huangmei City. Once Huanglong Ridge is lost, not only will Jiangzhou City be under the prying eyes of Huanglong Ridge on the other side, but it will also enter the hinterland of Jiangxi.
The mouth of Poyang Lake is also under the peek of Huanglong Ridge on the other side.
"If this is true or not, there will always be a battle!" Hu Zongguo said, "It's just that it's hard to figure out Huaidong's movements!"
When there is a big battle to be fought after the autumn, the most difficult thing is Huaidong. Not counting Huaidong's troops in Jin'an, its troops on the western front exceed 120,000, mainly concentrated in western Zhejiang and Luzhou...
"Huaidong will attack Shangrao after the Autumn!" She Wenzhuang moved the map down and pointed out the direction of Shangrao. "Huaidong cannot unite with Yue Lengqiu. Hu Wenmu will use the water to attack Jiangzhou and conquer Luzhou and Yi.
Jiang's troops are transferred to the south, and Huaidong can gather a hundred thousand troops to march westward from western Zhejiang to attack Shangrao!"
Hu Zongguo felt chills running down his spine:
After the Jiangning War, in order to avoid spreading their forces to the Huaidong Army to defeat them individually, they took the initiative to abandon Quzhou, Fuyang, Huizhou, Chun'an, Wuyuan and other places, and concentrated all the forces previously scattered in western Zhejiang and central Zhejiang into Shangrao.
, Xinzhou and other cities to guard the eastern gateway of Jiangxi, and even transferred 10,000 elites from Jian'an Prefecture in the middle reaches of the Min River to supplement the eastern front.
Even so, their strength on the Eastern Front is only 30,000.
There is no confidence that the eastern front defense built by 30,000 soldiers and horses can withstand the impact of 100,000 elite troops from Huaidong? How many troops must be mobilized from Jiangzhou to supplement the Shangrao defense line before we can be sure of holding it?
Wanting to be here, Hu Zongguo felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.
In this way, the total number of soldiers and horses under the nominal jurisdiction of the Zhejiang and Fujian Governor's Office is not large:
There are 20,000 elite troops in the middle and upper reaches of the Min River to control Jian'an, Pucheng, Shaowu and other western Fujian areas. There are 30,000 troops and horses in the eastern defense line of Shangrao and Xinzhou to defend the Huaidong Army from advancing westward from western Zhejiang. The eldest son leads 20,000 elite troops along the southern Ganjiang River.
Next, the remaining resistance forces of the Chao family, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou, marched west from Yuanzhou with 30,000 soldiers and horses, passing through Luxi to attack Tanzhou. Next came the soldiers and horses stationed in Jiangzhou, with a total of more than 70,000 water infantry.
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Over the years, the She family's military strength has not significantly decreased. After all, the area under its control has been increasing. If there are battle losses, they can recruit strong and brave soldiers to make up for it.
Men are everywhere fighting for their lives; even if they are unwilling to join the army, are they left to the local villagers to make their choice?
It's just that these 170,000 to 80,000 soldiers and horses can no longer be compared with the hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers who fought during the second outbreak of Fujian and Fujian. There are only less than 60,000 real soldiers from Fujian and Fujian, and the rest are from Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
The soldiers raised are brave or the troops surrendered.
Former counselor of the Admiral's Office of Zhejiang Province and Zhejiang Province, former governor of Huxi and acquainted with Pengze County Affairs Tian Chang, former Jiangzhou Zhizhi Envoy, Xiangtan Recruitment Envoy and an acquaintance of Yuanzhou Prefecture Huang Binghao, former Dongting Lake Bandit, Jiangzhou Navy Commander Yang Xiong and
The four former East China Sea bandits and Jiangzhou navy commander Su Tingzhan, who joined the army, were not direct descendants of Fujian, but the total number of direct descendants of these four men was more than 90,000.
Huang Binghao pretended to surrender to She Feixiong and was forced to give up Jiangzhou. However, he led his troops to use Yuanzhou as his base and made great efforts to conquer Xizhou, carve out a new territory to stand on his own, and weaken the She family's control over him. Yang Xiong
He was rather proud of his position as the Commander-in-Chief of the Jiangzhou Navy, but his navy did not have the strength to compete with the Huaidong Navy for supremacy in the Yangtze River. Tian Chang and Su Tingzhan were both able to fight to the death with Huaidong. Various factors caused this.
But there is no guarantee that they will not be bribed by Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu at the last moment - Tian Chang and Su Tingzhan are now stationed in Jiangzhou, and it is Jinghu and Chizhou that they have to deal with - the two of them and Jinghu
, Chizhou has no grudges. If Jinghu and Chizhou come forward to win over, people's hearts will be unpredictable.
If Huaidong really took action after the fall, the time left for the She family would be too short - only half a year had passed since the war in Jiangning ended and they evacuated to Jiangning.
Before the dust settled in the Jiangzhou war, the counties along Poyang Lake served as a buffer zone for the war, and agricultural production was greatly affected. After the She family occupied Jiangzhou, they tried their best to restore production, but the time was too short, only half a year.
That's all, it's hard to have any effect in such a short period of time.
In order to raise food for the army, even though they knew that local farming was far from being restored, they still imposed a large-scale summer tax. Poyang County, Guankou, Ganyuan and other counties had to send troops because of civil unrest.
Due to the suppression, a large number of farmers even fled into the mountains and forests to evade taxes. If the She family occupied Jiangxi and wanted to gain a foothold, it would take at least three to five years to move hundreds of thousands of people from Fujian.
buffer period.
Who would have thought that Huaidong would not give him a year, and he would be ready to fight the baby after the fall, which would make people breathless!
When we made the decision to march north from Huizhou to invade Jiangning, in addition to transferring Yue Lengqiu's troops from Jiangzhou, the main purpose was to destroy the economic foundation of Jiangning's periphery and make Jiangning unable to do so.
The war will start again in a short period of time.
North Huizhou, East Chizhou and a dozen counties around Jiangning are one of the core areas of Jiangnan, with a population of about 500,000 households. After Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne three times to increase taxes, these ten counties plus the summer tax of Jiangning City
The autumn tax, various local taxes, additional taxes and various miscellaneous donations totaled about three million taels of silver a year.
Political turmoil, the balance among the vassal forces, and the sudden loss of such a large tax source. To maintain the stability of the Huaihei defense line to prepare for the Yan captives, there are as many as 14.5 million refugees who need to invest a lot of additional resources.
Resource placement, relief, rice prices and taxes in Jiangnan have reached the limit that the people can bear - Hu Zongguo and others believe that even if Huaidong can control Jiangning, it will take two or three days to sort out these things and digest Jiangning.
It would take a year to have enough energy to start the war again. How could I have thought that all parties had been silent for half a year and were ready to fight again...
"Could it be that Huaidong faked a shot?" Hu Zongguo asked hesitantly. There was no one else around. There were not many taboos in discussing issues, and he was not afraid of shaking the morale of the army by asking this question.
Huaidong actually does not have the ability to invade western Zhejiang on a large scale in the autumn, but it is not impossible to create momentum and force them to deploy troops and generals in order to further consume Jiangxi's resources.
"I would rather Huaidong make a false shot, and we may end up with a false alarm," Shewenzhuang shook his head and said: "But for more than half a year, Huaidong has not used its own reserves to settle the situation around Jiangning, and even
There is still enough money left to spend a lot of money to build schools in Guangdong, which shows that Huaidong is still capable of fighting another battle in western Zhejiang..."
Hu Zongguo's heart was tightening for a while. Huaidong Qiuhou was really going to fight, and with the addition of Chizhou, Jinghu, and Tanzhou, how would they deal with it this year?
"Is there any news from Chen Hansan today?" She Wenzhuang asked.
"Not yet," Hu Zongguo asked. "When the governor sent his troops to invade Jiangning, Luo Xian was stationary in Chengdu. Can we really count on him at this time?"
"Luo Xiancheng lacks quick wit and is not indecisive, but he is still standing with 200,000 soldiers and horses, and he will not be a straw bag. The total time we were trapped in Jiangning was too short. Luo Xiancheng failed to respond in time, and the North
Yan didn't have time to make any moves. After all, Huaidong was too fast!" She Wenzhuang said, "This time, even if Luo Xiancheng still stands still and lends more than 10,000 troops to Chen Hansan to lead him south, he can still
Take a lot of pressure off of us!”
"That's the only way," Hu Zongguo said, "If it doesn't work, we will send people north tomorrow..."
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Xuzhou was defeated, and Chen Hansan led his remaining troops to flee into Huaishan.
With the support of Huaidong and Jiangning, before the autumn of last year, Nanyang and Huaixi focused on rectification and prevention, and strengthened the blockade of Tongbai Mountain and Huaishan. People moved into the village, and the small villages merged with the big villages to protect each other.
Directly in Zhaizhai, Liang Chengchong and Dong Yuan quickly formed an iron-clad blockade on Huaishan in Nanyang, Xinyang and other places. Luo Xiancheng was afraid of offending Jiang Ning and insisted on not allowing Chen Hansan to lead his remnants into Suizhou to rest. Last year, Chen Hansan's more than 3,000
The remnants of the army lived among the high mountains and ridges of Huaishan Mountain, living like bereaved dogs.
When the She family invaded Jiangning from Huizhou, Chen Hansan's power was too weak. The She family mainly sent people to win over Luo Xiancheng. However, Luo Xiancheng was too cautious and did not dare to take any action. Chen Hansan was trapped in Huaishan until he reached the She family.
After the soldiers and horses were driven out of Jiangning by the Huaidong Army, we learned about the series of changes in the war after the Huizhou War.
When Shewenzhuang led the remnants of his troops to retreat into Jiangzhou and reunited with the main force of Shefei Xiong's Yuzhang Army. After it seemed that they had established a foothold in Jiangxi, Chen Hansan was afraid that Ma Zhen would sneak to Jiangzhou to meet Shewenzhuang and proposed to surrender...
She Wenzhuang had no intention of directly accepting the surrender of Chen Hansan. Chen Hansan led his troops to surrender, but it only added two to three thousand more disabled soldiers, which could not improve the crisis faced by the She family at this time - She Wenzhuang intended
Support Chen Hansan to establish himself in the Jichun area south of Suizhou and at the southwest foot of Huaishan Mountain to form a third-party force connecting Jiangxi and Xiangsui.
Obviously, even if Luo Xiancheng intends to unite with the She family, he does not want to see the She family's power develop to the north bank and occupy Jichun and other places. Jichun is connected to Suizhou in the north.
In the next step, Luo Xiancheng must consider the risk of annexation by the She family.
Support Chen Hansan's self-sufficiency in Jichun. On the one hand, Chen Hansan's power will not be able to threaten the Changle Army if it develops in a short period of time. Chen Hansan can connect Jiangxi and Changle Army together, and can also replace the Changle Army.
Sharing the military pressure on Jinghu - this plan would be easier for Luo Xiancheng to accept, and he would even secretly support it.
Unlike Luo Xiancheng, who became conservative after gaining power, Chen Hansan had almost nothing after his defeat in Xuzhou, and was even more ruthless and desperate to fight for his life. At this stage of the She family, it is even more necessary for characters like Chen Hansan to stand up and charge into the battle.
, it would be better to allocate Jichun, Huangmei and other places on the north bank to Chen Hansan for independent occupation. This would be better at resolving the military pressure from Chizhou and Jinghu on both sides than directly bringing Chen Hansan under his command.
This time Chen Hansan and Ma Zhen came to Suizhou to meet Luo Xiancheng in person to discuss borrowing troops and food.