At present, Li Zhigao can only say that he has a good grasp of the Zuo Longque Army, but he spent more than half a year besieging Chaozhou without being able to capture it. He lost troops and generals and was eventually forced to withdraw, which also dealt a serious blow to the morale of the Zuo Longque Army.
The Zuowu Guards have been Du Chongtao's direct descendants for many years.
Because Yang Yuanpu suspected that Du Chongtao was wooing the Queen Mother, he transferred Du Chongtao to the court as Minister of War, and made Zhou Shu temporarily take over the post of commander of the Zuowu Guards.
Although it was confirmed at this time that Du Chongtao and the Queen Mother were not involved, and everything was a plan by Lu Qingxia and others, even though Zhou Shu was now fully in the arms of Li Zhigao, they wanted to control him like an arm.
The Zuowu Guards cannot be accomplished in three to five months, or even in three to five years.
Han Qian has focused on independently cultivating junior military attachés since he recruited his family soldiers in his early years.
Even so, there were many twists and turns before and after the Jingxiang War. It was not until he was ordered to coerce the scouts of Jinyun Tower, Zuo Si Gongshi and his children fled to Xuzhou, and coupled with the shadow guard composed of the Xi family's children, that Han Qian truly had someone loyal to him.
the first group of backbones.
Also relying on this group of backbone forces, the Xuzhou soldiers formed by Han Qian in the early stages of the vassal reduction war were able to attack Chenzhou, Wuling and other places with invincibility.
After the vassal reduction war, regardless of the ups and downs of Han Qian's official position, his direct lineage in Xuzhou was still growing.
During the Jinling Incident, Han Qian sneaked into Jinling and was able to find opportunities in the confrontation between the Chuzhou Army and Anning Palace. He was able to quickly and fiercely form the Chishan Army. He was able to fight against the elite Chuzhou Army without losing, and he was able to capture Lang.
Xicheng, forcing Gu Zhilong to accept recruitment, the core force was the thousands of grassroots military attachés and craftsmen he transferred from Xuzhou to Jinling to participate in the formation of the Chishan Army.
Although the Tangyi soldiers seemed to have been hastily prepared at this time, except for the guards who sneaked into Jinling with Han Qian in the early days, almost half of the two thousand elites transferred from Xuzhou in the later period had been systematically trained in the martial arts school.
With the elite military attaché group in Xuzhou, the deep foundation of Zuo Guangde's old army, and the support of the Shanzhai military attaché group headed by Zhou Pan and Chen Jingzhou, Han Qian was able to directly pull out Tangyi and follow him on the day Tangyi formed an army.
The elite Shouzhou army fought bloody battles in the field to achieve victory in both battles, and they even made preparations to attack Liyang City at this time.
Li Zhigao's military command ability is definitely not inferior to anyone in Dachu. Even Han Qian cannot be said to have done better than him in many battles he has commanded. The Zuo Longque Army under Li Zhigao has always shown strong enough
combat effectiveness.
However, the problem is that before the Jingxiang War, Li Zhigao had always been a vassal of the Xinchang Houfu. His status was not much higher than that of Chai Jian, Li Chong and others. He had to obey the orders of Li Pu and Lu Qingxia in everything.
Except for the dozens of grassroots military attachés around him, all other aspects were controlled by Li Pu and Lu Qingxia who was hiding behind the scenes.
After the Jingxiang War, Li Zhigao was in charge of Junzhou, then Shaozhou, and then transferred to Ezhou. Even Lu Qingxia showed a suppressive attitude, which made it difficult for Li Zhigao to have the opportunity to cultivate direct descendants. Even if he had, it was only limited.
In terms of traditional promotion and win-win, let alone follow Han Qian's example of systematically cultivating the military attache group.
The current military attachés either come from the traditional generals, such as the children of the princes of eastern Zhejiang Province, or they are soldiers who fight bloody battles from the bottom step by step.
Both of these methods doom the traditional training of military attaches to be inefficient and costly.
During the rise of the Longhuai Army, it was first split into the Left and Right Longque Army, and then Gao Chengyuan and Chai Jiandu successively detached part of their combat power from the Zuo Longque Army to form the Yueyang|Navy Army and the Zuo Shenwu Army.
In the end, although Li Zhigao was able to better control the Zuo Longque Army, a considerable number of grassroots military attachés who had grown up and matured after these years of bloody fighting were separated. The number of talents who could really be used under Li Zhigao's command was still quite limited;
At the same time, there are quite a lot of problems accumulated within the Longque Army, which need time to be sorted out.
To be honest, if Li Pu, Chen Mingsheng and others could have died directly during the Jinling Incident, and if Li Zhigao and Chai Jian had directly divided the power of the Xinchang Hou Mansion, the situation would have been much better than it is now, and the power they directly controlled would be much better than it is now.
Much stronger.
However, during the Jinling Incident, although Li Pu was initially defeated at Baohua Mountain and later seized military power by Han Qian, he finally relied on the Li children headed by Li Xiu and Li Qi to integrate the Gyeonggi family and Xuanzhou soldiers to form the Youguangde Army.
By establishing military exploits, not only did he not lose his reputation, but he also restored his reputation to a considerable extent and maintained his prestige.
After that, Li Pu used all the resources he could control to fully support the construction of the Right Shenwu Army, which not only further dispersed the power that the Xinchang Marquis Mansion could gather, but also directly restricted the development of Li Zhigao and the Zuo Longque Army.
During this process, although Lu Qingxia secretly supported Li Zhigao, it was also another form of restraint.
Even though he felt the strong rise of Tangyi soldiers and Xuzhou, the situation became more urgent for Li Zhigao, but his principles and mentality were different from those of Lu Qingxia, Yao Xishui, Li Pu and others who were more accustomed to hiding in the dark and engaging in conspiracy.
There is still a fundamental difference.
At this time, he will need a relatively stable environment to stabilize his own foundation, instead of trying to hold others back and racking his brains to scheme against others.
Not to mention that it may not be possible to hold Xuzhou back. Even if it can be done, both sides will suffer losses with Xuzhou. How can Liang Jun, Zheng family, etc. be easy to deal with?
To put it bluntly, even if he was the grandson of the former emperor, Lu Qingxia might not have the possibility of replacing him with Chai Jian.
Han Qian and the Han family turned against each other, prompting the Queen Mother to return to the court as an auxiliary rather than a regent. This actually greatly reduced the constraints that Lu Qingxia and others had on Li Zhigao; and the Tangyi soldiers were able to capture Liyang in the shortest time, and the general
The Shouzhou Army is restricted to Chaozhou City and the front cannot extend outwards. This will also make Shuzhou's east wing safer and free up Li Zhigao to do what he wants to do.
Therefore, before Feng Liao crossed the river and returned to Jinling City, Han Qian judged that the two sides had a basis for cooperation in attacking Liyang City.
Some things, including the fact that Li Zhigao was the grandson of the former emperor, no longer needed to be kept secret from Han Daoming and Han Daochang. At this time, Feng Liao told them Han Qian's thoughts exactly, so that they could understand why Li Zhigao supported the Queen Mother.
This plan of assisting the government, and why he cooperated with the Tangyi soldiers' attack on Liyang, so that they could cooperate in Jinling without any reservations or scruples.
Han Daoming and Han Daochang were shocked for a long time and didn't know what to say. They didn't expect that Xuzhou had mastered so many shocking secrets long ago.
At this time, they all knew in their hearts that Han Qian had been showing off in Tangyi before, saying that he would leave Jinling and return to Jinling at any time. The main purpose was to force them to express their stance.
In addition to solving Han Jun's hidden dangers, Han Qian asked the Han family to invest all their resources in the north bank. In fact, he wanted the Han family to take Xuzhou as the leader in the future.
Perhaps Han Qian was worried that they would be like Lu Qingxia and restrain him in the future, or hold Xuzhou back?
Of course, even if they realized this, Han Daoming and Han Daochang just smiled bitterly in their hearts.
Even though the early "Epidemic Shui Shu" and the strategy of reducing the vassal clan were written by Lao San, and Lao San secretly planned and made contributions, two and a half years have passed since Lao San was tortured and died. During this time,
A huge change occurred in Jinling. It was Han Qian who sneaked into Jinling brazenly, took away the military power of the remnants of Taowu's army from Li Pu, and recruited slaves to join the army, thus reversing the crisis.
Even if the recruitment of slaves and maidservants to attack the clan clans would make people think that Han Qian had offended the clan clans completely, and his methods violated the taboos of monarchs and ministers, and there would be no chance of returning to the center, but who would have thought that Han Qian would not only be responsible for
Returning to Jianghuai, he even managed to gain a living space between His Majesty and the Queen Mother.
Han Daoming could only express his admiration for the skill displayed by Han Qian, but in his heart he could no longer think of restraining Han Qian.
Even if Han Qian will continue to suppress the power of the aristocratic clans in the future, the interests of the Han family and Han Qian are naturally tied together, and there is no need to worry about temporary gains and losses.
"call……"
Han Daoming turned his head and looked around. He didn't know when the old man fell asleep. He leaned on the chair and started to doze slightly...
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The person who rushed to the Bijiashan camp to discuss in detail the Huaixi Forbidden Army's cooperation with Tangyi in attacking Liyang was Guo Rong, who carried Han Qian's handwriting.
To be honest, Li Zhigao, Yang En, Zhou Shu, Deng Tai and others were shocked when Tangyi soldiers launched another offensive against Shouzhou army in such a short period of time and captured Dazhai at the east foot of Tingzi Mountain.
They thought that this was the limit of the initial formation of the Tangyi soldiers, and they could understand Han Qian's eagerness to bring Dasi Mountain under his control and gain a certain depth of defense for the Tangyi soldiers on the north bank.
When Guo Rong said that Tangyi soldiers were ready to attack Liyang City and occupy Fucha Mountain, Qingcang Mountain and other places east of Chaohu Lake, Li Zhigao and Yang En were also moved. They stared at Guo Rong and even doubted what he said.
Youjia asked: "Tangyi's soldiers were first organized into an army, but it has only been more than a month and the generals have not been fully trained. Is the Marquis of Qianyang really sure that he can capture Liyang?"
"We also advised the Marquis not to be so hasty, but the Marquis said that the Tangyi army was weak, but the Shouzhou army had not recovered from its fatigue. Perhaps it was the only way to capture Liyang and cut off the Lou Chuan army.
Chaohu is the last chance to enter the Yangtze River waterway. Even if more than half of the casualties are killed, this battle will still be fought. I only hope that the Marquis of Xinjin can contain the enemy on the west flank!" Guo Rong said.
At present, the Shouzhou Army has a strategic advantage. There are 50,000 defenders in Chaozhou, so naturally they cannot all huddle in Chaozhou City.
In fact, the Zuowu Guards and the Zuo Longque Army, plus the Huaixi Forbidden Army from various states, maintained a strength of about 60,000, and were still the main threat to the Shouzhou Army garrisoned in Chaozhou.
Therefore, the Chaozhou garrison has 40,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the city forts on the west bank of Chao Lake, and is currently actively transporting a large amount of materials to build these city forts.
They only defended two points, but built a series of fortifications with Lujiang City and Bijia Mountain as the core, extending diagonally for nearly a hundred miles from southeast to northwest, with a defense line thirty or forty miles deep.
The Chaozhou defenders placed their main forces to the west of Chaozhou. On the one hand, they wanted to maintain military oppression to the maximum extent on the Huaixi Forbidden Army, forcing the Huaixi Forbidden Army to be unable to rest in a short time. On the other hand, the Shouzhou Army needed to form more
Stabilizing the defense line will not only facilitate the continuous supply of bulk materials and energy and uninterrupted transportation into Chaozhou, but also help to recruit refugees on a larger scale and resume production.
Another important reason is that the Shouzhou Army completely controls Chaohu from the left and right, and controls the waterways from Chaohu into the Yangtze River. After the Huaihe River and Feishui River thaw, the warships of the Louchuan Army can enter the Yangtze River through these waterways.
Although the Lou Chuanjun army currently does not have strong ships and cannot compete with the Xuzhou water camp in the deep Yangtze River waterway, their navy force can enter the Yangtze River waterway to guerrilla and harass them, and can also greatly divide the eastern and western areas of Da Chu.
Effective contact.
If Han Qian can capture Liyang City, occupy Qingcang Mountain, and advance his troops from the east coast to Chaohu, the situation will be extremely favorable not only for Tangyi, but also for Shuzhou.
The only concern is whether the Tangyi soldiers who have just formed an army can capture Liyang?
Is Han Qian really determined to take half of Tangyi's soldiers' casualties and capture Liyang?
Even if they contained the enemy forces on the west bank of Chao Lake, the city of Liyang was so thick that it would be difficult to capture it suddenly in a short period of time. Xu Mingzhen was still able to mobilize a large number of troops to reinforce Liyang.