Li Xiu and Li Qi led their troops to cross the Chu River, then bypassed the western foot of Dasi Mountain and rushed to the mouth of the Wushou River where it flows into the Yangtze River. They waited there for the warships from Xuzhou Shuiying to arrive, and then sent them to Shuzhou.
Join the Huaixi Forbidden Army.
After Wei Zhen was kidnapped by Wu Huada and taken back to Jinling to be punished, more than a thousand Chuzhou officials and soldiers who followed Li Xiu and Li Qi's cavalry broke out of the enemy siege and rushed to the foot of Tingzi Mountain were gathered at the foot of the south side of Dazhai at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain.
The temporary and crude camp was reorganized.
The defenders of Chuzhou City were mainly recruited from the aristocratic clan soldiers who rushed to the north bank to occupy fields and plunder slaves in the early days. The soldiers and armor were quite sophisticated, and they also had more than a thousand war horses that were extremely rare.
There is no grazing land for raising livestock and horses in the Jianghuai River. In addition to small-scale private breeding, a small number of Qiang horses and Yunnan horses are also imported every year via the Shu Kingdom or through the Ruan River Channel in central Guizhou.
In the past few years, Han Qian has been in charge of Xuzhou, and he has also continued to purchase small but strong endurance Yunnan horses from central Guizhou, Nanzhao and other places. Now he has accumulated tens of thousands of them, but they are mainly used to supplement the shortage of livestock power in farming and craftsmen's workshops.
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As far as the cavalry is concerned, even including the horses captured during the Jinling Incident, the Xuzhou Cavalry Battalion only had about 500 soldiers in the end, and they were all still responsible for the guard battalion that guarded Han Qian's safety.
In addition to the high cost of maintaining the cavalry, the main reason is that there are mountains and rivers in Syria, which is not conducive to cavalry operations.
Of course, Han Qian could requisition more horses from Xuzhou to serve as war horses during the war, but since horses were extremely difficult to transport as large livestock, the early transportation capacity still had to be freed up to transport the most scarce materials such as generals and soldiers and weapons.
Therefore, Tangyi had barely scraped together a thousand cavalry. In addition to some cavalry led by Xi Faer, Guo Que and others to act as reconnaissance cavalry, some cavalry led by Han Donghu stayed behind Han Qian as bodyguard cavalry, and some cavalry were taken away by Kong Xirong.
, was stranded in the Wijianshan Mountains at this time, together with the remnants of the Navy and the people of Chuzhou who had evacuated into the Wijianshan Mountains.
In fact, the Tangyi soldiers no longer had an established cavalry that could be used for assault or roundabout harassment operations.
After learning that the Chuzhou City garrison had more than a thousand war horses, Zhao Wuji arrived at Tangyi by boat yesterday and planned to reorganize a cavalry battalion. Zhao Wuji rushed over with his men at noon to monopolize these horses.
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Feng Xuan and his troops stationed at the mouth of the Wushou River, Lin Haizheng, and Zhou Chu, who stayed behind in Puyang Daying and Tangyi, but Tian Cheng disagreed.
Feng Xuan was in charge of the Tingshan camp, Lin Haizheng, Tiancheng, and Zhou Chu heard the news and rushed over in advance in the name of discussing matters, demanding a share of the war horses.
Based on a small number of elite infantry battalions in Xuzhou, their unit was incorporated into the old Zuo Guangde Army and the Zhuangyong of the Refugees. In a short period of time, it expanded sharply to three to four thousand people. In addition to conventional soldiers and weapons, they were also in dire need of equipment.
A batch of war horses capable of rapid reconnaissance and assault operations.
It was not convenient for Han Qian to interfere in this kind of thing, so they would divide it up among themselves.
In addition to the war horses, Han Qian also asked them to divide the more than a thousand Chuzhou garrison soldiers into various battalions and deal with them.
Everyone only wanted war horses, but they were not very interested in the generals of the Chuzhou garrison, who were mainly recruited from aristocratic families, and even regarded them as a nuisance.
In the early days of Tangyi's army, in addition to the reinforcements from the water camp led by Yang Qin and Lin Zongjing, they also expanded the Wudu infantry and cavalry at the fastest speed based on the more than 3,000 elite members of Xuzhou and Chishanhui.
In the early stage, it was mainly due to Zhou Pang's comprehensive cooperation that he directly disbanded three thousand Jiangzhou soldiers and organized them into various capitals.
Later, Chen Jingzhou led more than a thousand Guangde soldiers and 3,000 Guangde people based on the old Zuo Guangde army to bravely cross the river. In addition, thousands of brave men were recruited from the refugees, so that in a very short period of time, the Tangyi soldiers
The Wudu infantry and cavalry grew from scratch, and their military strength rapidly expanded to more than 17,000.
Whether they are the elites of Xuzhou, the old Zuo Guangde army, or the state soldiers brought from Jiangzhou by Zhou Pang, the quality of the soldiers is quite good.
In addition to the brave soldiers and refugees from Jiangzhou, there are more than 7,000 generals who can be said to have deep connections and involvement with Xuzhou and Han Qian.
Lin Haizheng, Zhou Chu, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, Guo Que, Lin Zongjing, He Liufeng, Xiao Dahu, Dou Rong, Wei Xu and other generals also have a very high reputation among these generals, and they are also quite familiar with the grassroots military attachés.
Also, Xuzhou has always attached great importance to cultivating grassroots military attachés.
Therefore, Tangyi soldiers were reorganized very quickly, and they almost had considerable combat effectiveness once they were reorganized.
This is also the key to being able to directly enter the battlefield in such a short period of time, and the Shouzhou Army will be caught off guard.
Of course, the hasty recruitment of six to seven thousand untrained refugees will have a serious negative impact on the combat effectiveness of various tribes.
Last night, Feng Xuan led his troops to storm the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain. The casualties were much heavier than those of the defenders, which is proof of this.
Although many generals are very clear about Han Qian's strategic intentions, when actually commanding troops and horses in combat, too many new soldiers have to be rushed into battle to fight a war of attrition. It is still more or less difficult for the generals to get along with the generals day and night.
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At this time, Han Qian wanted to break up the Chuzhou garrison who had strong feelings of resistance and distribute them to various ministries to take over. Everyone wanted to reject them directly, so it was better to recruit more untrained refugees and brave men.
Zhao Wuji refused the most simply. He reorganized the cavalry battalion to perform reconnaissance, escort and other tasks in the future. The loyalty of the generals was high. Basically, they could only be recruited from the old Zuo Guangde Army and young refugees with innocent backgrounds.
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After pushing back and forth, the more than a thousand generals were finally forced to be taken over by Zhou Chu and Lin Haizheng, who would be responsible for the main attack on Liyang City.
Liyang City is located at the southern foot of Qingcang Mountain and borders Chaohu Lake to the west. Although there are currently only more than 2,000 defenders, the city is highly dangerous and is definitely much more difficult to attack than the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain with a protective wall of only five or six feet.
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Liyang is located between Chuchao and its strategic location is not even as important as Tangyi. When Li Zhigao led his troops to attack Chaozhou City, he also stationed his elite troops in Liyang.
However, when he withdrew his troops from Chaozhou City, Li Zhigao never expected that Han Qian's military strength in Tangyi would develop so rapidly. He directly abandoned Liyang City and withdrew his troops to Shuzhou, southwest of Chaozhou.
And just a month ago, Han Qian didn't know when the court's attitude towards him would soften, and he didn't dare to disperse the limited troops easily. He could only sit back and watch Wen Bo attack directly from Chaozhou without spending a single soldier.
The city divided its troops and took over Liyang City.
Liyang City is less than a hundred miles away from Chaozhou City and Chuzhou City. Once they launch an attack on Liyang City, it will be difficult to suddenly fall into it. Reinforcements from the Shouzhou Army can come from other directions quickly.
To capture Liyang City, in addition to siege and attack, we must also consider attacking enemy reinforcements from Chaozhou City and Chuzhou City from two directions.
Since there are more than 50,000 Shouzhou troops stationed in Chaozhou City and surrounding city fortresses, if they all come to reinforce Liyang, it will be impossible to stop the enemy's front if all Tangyi soldiers are exhausted. At this time, Li Zhigao needs to send troops from Shuzhou to attack
The Chaozhou garrison carried out containment.
If possible, it is even necessary to send troops from Wang Wenqian and Zhao Zhen from Yangzhou to contain part of the Shouzhou army from Chuzhou.
In short, this battle was much more complicated than the previous two camps. However, Han Qian asked Feng Liao, Gao Shao and others to formulate a complete battle plan within twenty days, and asked all ministries to prepare their troops for the Liyang City at the same time.
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After all, if they delay any longer and wait for the Shouzhou Army to transport a large amount of combat materials into Liyang City from the rear, it will be twice as difficult for them to capture Liyang City.
However, since Liyang City and Fucha Mountain to the north cannot be controlled, there is no way to cut off the connection between Chuzhou City and Chaozhou City from the east.
In order to ensure the mission of storming Liyang City, Lin Haizheng and Zhou Chu will temporarily expand their troops to 5,000 men, while Feng Xuan will expand the camp at the eastern foot of Tingzi Mountain to confuse the enemy.
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After a day of military discussions, Han Qiancai, Xi Rong, Feng Liao, Guo Rong, Han Chengmeng, Chen Zhiyong and others returned to the south bank camp to rest at dusk.
Although they had not had a good rest for more than ten days, and could only squeeze out a small amount of time to relax for a while every day to replenish their energy, but even though the war was temporarily over, it was already dark when they returned to the south bank, and they were used to dealing with things at a fast pace.
Han Qian still didn't feel sleepy.
Han Qian thought that when Yin Peng left before noon, he said that Wang Wenqian had asked him to bring more than ten books to him this time, so he asked someone to bring those books over.
A thick pile of books was wrapped in silk cloth. Xi Yin helped to open the package and found that the dozens of books were actually an ancient book "Yue Jueshu" that recorded miscellaneous history before the Wuyue and Warring States Periods.
"Why did Wang Wenqian give me this set of miscellaneous histories? What's the purpose?" Han Qian felt a little confused. He took a book and rested it on Xi Lin's thigh, reading it casually as a way of resting.
Xi Rong wasted no time picking up a rather old book and looking through it, not knowing what the purpose was.
"Oh..." After a long time, Xi Rong thought Han Qian had fallen asleep on her pillow, but she heard him sigh, looked down curiously, and asked, "What did you see?"
"Wang Jun asked Yin Peng to send these books. Yin Peng couldn't say directly, so he said they were given to me by Wang Wenqian. I also said that Wang Wenqian and I have no relationship with each other for donating books!" Han Qian said.
"What does Wang Jun mean by sending this set of books?" Xi Yan opened her beautiful eyes and asked in confusion.
Han Qian held up the book in his hand and pointed to a passage he had just turned to show her: "... Today, the teachings of the Kan (water) army are comparable to the methods of the Ling (land) army. Those with big wings are the most important of the Ling army."
Chariots, those with small wings should be the light chariots of the mausoleum army; those with sudden jumps should be the charging chariots of the mausoleum army; those with flat boats should be the traveling chariots of the mausoleum army; those with bridge boats should be the light-footed hussars of the mausoleum army - this passage
What we are talking about is the situation of the Wu Kingdom's navy formation fighting in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, Wu and Yue were competing for supremacy in the Jianghuai area. The navy was not limited to fighting in inland rivers and streams, but also fought for control of the surrounding sea areas. When the Wu Kingdom was strong,
During the Northern Expedition to Qi State, they once used a partial force to attack the coastal fortresses of Qi State by sea route..."
"Wang Jun, does she think that Zhu Yu is planning to build a navy camp in Haizhou and may attack the Jianghuai coast from the sea?" Xi Rong asked in surprise.