Han Qian petitioned the Zuo Longque Army to move out of Shuzhou. Even though all the officials in the political affairs hall were aware that this was the general trend, the matter involved a lot, and no one wanted to take a stand easily, or they still wanted to delay for a while to see if the situation would change.
The new change of mind is here.
However, the matter soon spread among middle- and lower-level officials and in the streets.
Li Zhigao was good at planning and making decisions. He grew up with his father in the army since he was a child. Since he was adopted as an adopted son by Marquis Xinchang, he has made countless achievements and made great contributions to the new emperor's ascension to the throne.
Li Zhigao has been in the army for nearly twenty years and has experienced more than a hundred battles, large and small. If you break it down and crush it, you will see that he has made no mistakes or mistakes and is fully qualified to represent the younger generation among the famous generals.
Whether he was presiding over the siege of Jinling City or leading various imperial troops to recapture Chuzhou and Chaozhou, Li Zhigao accumulated rich experience in commanding large-scale troops.
In addition to the older generation of generals such as Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu, and Zhang Zhi, among the younger generation of guards and generals of the imperial army, Zheng Hui is comparable to Li Zhigao.
However, the eyes of the world are always fixed on the most dazzling one. Apart from that, everyone else is just scum.
And speaking of radiance, who can be as radiant as Han Qian, the Marquis of Qianyang?
Although Marquis Qianyang is so unlikeable and even disgusting, when it comes to his illustrious military exploits, who can compare with him?
The Wuya Army on the left and the Shenwu Army on the right were destroyed in Hongzepu and Zhongli City. I felt my conscience and said that the responsibility did not lie with Li Zhigao at all, and even Li Zhigao was implicated.
If Emperor Yanyou and Duke Li Pu of Chang Kingdom had not set a trap by Zhongwen Ruilin, even if the Liang Army sent reinforcements from the south to reinforce the Shouzhou Army the winter before last, they would still be able to hold Chuzhou, Liyang, Lujiang and other major cities in southwestern Huaihe until the spring of the following year.
After the ice and snow melted, it continued to consume the strength of the Shouzhou Army and pushed the defense line northward step by step until the negative impact of the Jinling Incident on Dachu was completely eliminated.
This is also the safest way to use troops, and it is also the way to use troops praised by Shen Yang, Yang En and others.
Although Han Qian tried to turn the tide several times, he always took the wrong path and could never be called the right path.
However, the world and even the middle and lower-level officials expect miracles even more, and only the legend of taking the wrong path can meet the most secret expectations deep in their hearts.
Before Han Qian won the great victory at Wujinling, the atmosphere in Beijing was relatively friendly to Li Zhigao.
After the news of the victory at Wujinling reached Jinling City, when the middle and lower-level officials and the streets and alleys discussed the Jianghuai war in the past two years after Emperor Yanyou ascended the throne, it was inevitable that some people would accuse Li Zhigao of hesitating to use troops in Chaozhou.
The failure to capture Chaozhou City for half a year was the reason why the left and right Wuya Army and the right Shenwu Army had to take risks and ultimately suffered a disastrous defeat.
Although Han Qian deliberately delayed the news of the victory at Wujinling for more than ten days, Deng Tai did not react at all in Shuzhou and watched Tangyi soldiers immediately take over control of both sides of the Longtan River and push the Zuo Longque Army
Isolated from the Shouzhou Army, Deng Tai, Li Zhigao and even Cishou Palace could not express any complaints.
After all, when the Tangyi soldiers fought their way into Huaiyang Mountain alone, the Zuo Longque Army did not move at all on the Lujiang defense line!
Could it be that he had the nerve to stand up and complain at this time that Marquis Qianyang did not report the news of the victory at Wujinling in time, causing Zuo Longque Army to miss the opportunity to send troops?
They are not afraid
Xingzi, who has been sprayed with saliva by the world, is so shameless?
As for Han Qian's petition to request the Zuo Longque Army to move out of Shuzhou, the vast majority of the streets and even the middle and lower-level officials supported it. Combined with the fact that the Huaixi Forbidden Army had been unable to attack Chaozhou for a long time, the main force of the Chu Navy was destroyed.
, some people even denounced the Zuo Longque Army as a waste of national funds and just doing nothing.
The officials at the Yushitai heard about the memorial, and not only did a memorial convey the opinions of the middle and lower-level officials and the people in the city, but even the Yushi directly wrote a letter to impeach the Marquis of Xinjin and the Zuowu Guards, and the generals of the Zuolongque Army were passive and inactive.
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It was delayed until late March. The princes of Chongwen Palace, Cishou Palace and Zhengshitang reached an agreement. The Privy Council transferred the Zuolongque Army to move to Suizhou and urged Li Zhigao to strengthen the attack on the upper reaches of the Huaihe River from the gaps in Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain.
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At the cusp of this storm, no one mentioned Li Zhigao's further appointment as Jiedushi.
In late March, the reward to the Tangyi Army was also handed down.
Due to his meritorious service, Han Qian was awarded the rank of General Qianniuwei of the third rank and the title of Minister of the Ministry of War. He also took charge of the envoys of Tangyi's camp and the envoys' office of the camp to control the military and administration of Huaixi. He was allowed to recruit 30,000 soldiers to organize the left and right of Tangyi's camp.
After setting up an army, the envoy was assigned to provide military personnel with food and salary according to the standard of 30,000 regular soldiers of the Forbidden Army.
After the great victory at Wujinling, the generals in Tangyi received rewards. In addition to a large number of military officer titles ranging from ninth to fourth grades, the only ones that could be considered beneficial were more than 9,000 pieces of brocade and silk, 400 pieces of good horses, and palace gold.
There were more than 10,000 pieces of silver coins and other items; in addition, 320,000 yuan of military merit was awarded to soldiers who were killed and disabled in battle, which was considered to be the largest reward money the imperial court had allocated in recent years.
It was extremely difficult for the imperial court to squeeze out this reward and pension money. However, in addition to Han Daoming's insistence, Shen Yang, Yang En and others also advocated squeezing it out through their teeth. After all, only in this way can the Tangyi Army generals remember that they are great heroes.
The generals of Chu and the people of Chu.
In April, the defense change between the left Shenwu Army and the right Longque Army was completely completed. Li Zhigao continued to strengthen the offensive in the east of Guangzhou and the west of Huozhou, occupying the important town of Yiyang in Huaishang, forcing Xu Mingzhen to transfer Wen Bo to the west as the main general.
, making Wen Bo serve as the governor of Guangzhou to resist Li Zhigao's offensive, allowing the two old rivals to become entangled again.
The main force of the Liang Army, under the command of Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty, centered on Weizhou and besieged Zezhou and Luzhou, the important towns in the southern part of the Jin Kingdom. It was temporarily unable to go south, while the Shouzhou Army wanted to block the Zuowu Wei Army, and the Zuo Longque Army came from Tong.
Heading north from the east entrance of Baishan Mountain, we were completely unable to launch any further offensive against Huaiyang Mountain.
Xu Mingzhen's second son, Xu Sizhao, finally led his troops to withdraw from the north of Chaozhou City in late April.
In terms of topography, Chaozhou City, located on the north bank of Chao Lake, is not much southerly than Anfeng Village and Mopan Valley to the east. At this time, the defense situation on the east side of Shouzhou does not look much different from that before the Hongzepu Water Battle.
At that time, the Shouzhou Army also suffered the fall of Chuzhou, and mainly relied on Chaozhou City to confront the elite Chu army. They were also expelled across the river and were in short supply of combat materials, so their morale and combat effectiveness were weaker than those of the Chu Imperial Army.
However, at that time, they were forced to defend the city of Chaozhou, which was also a dangerous strategy. The main reason was that they were betting that the young and energetic Yang Yuanpu would lose patience, and that the mediocre and incompetent Li Pu would not be willing to be overshadowed by Li Zhigao.
What else could they bet on at this time, whether Han Qian would fall into their trap one day?
Compared with two years ago, at this time, the pass at the northeastern foot of the Huaiyang Mountains fell under the control of the Tangyi Army; and Li Zhigao led tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses to attack the west flank of Shouzhou from the east entrance of Tongbai Mountain.
These two lines of Chu army soldiers and horses have super
There are over 60,000 regular soldiers and 40,000 state soldiers or auxiliary soldiers.
Along both sides of the Huaihe River, the troops of Han, Yuan, Qi, and Chen and Kun were held back by Yang Yuanyan's Huaidong Army. They could mobilize only 60,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 garrison troops or auxiliary troops in the middle and upper reaches of the Huaihe River. The total strength was
Already at a disadvantage.
Not to mention the new defeat, Shouzhou will once again be severely short of supplies in the foreseeable future.
Even though they still firmly control the four states of Guanghuo, Shouhao and Guangzhou, after repeated losses, the total number of registered militia and military households in the four states has dropped to about 110,000, and they have to maintain 90,000 soldiers and horses, which is almost one household.
The level of raising a soldier.
In addition, more than half of the able-bodied labor force must be incorporated into the army, and agricultural production can only rely more on the elderly, weak, women and children. Even if the land in the four states of Guanghuoshouhao is vast and fertile, the output of food and other materials is extremely limited.
Bianjing allocates more than 50,000 shi of grain from Ying and Song and other southern states to Shouzhou every month, but Xu Mingzhen can barely maintain such a huge force, and confronts Tangyi soldiers, especially in field battles.
The requirements for war equipment are extremely high, and the Shouzhou Army still finds it extremely difficult.
In this case, they cannot expect Han Qian to make low-level mistakes. Besides shrinking the defense line, what other options do they have?
In comparison, Yang Yuanyan was the most relaxed in Huaidong.
This was mainly due to the disastrous defeat of the Shouzhou Army at Wujinling and the precarious situation on the Western Front. This made Han Yuanqi and Chen Kun become cautious and only maintained small-scale harassment operations on a daily basis. This also greatly reduced the military pressure on Huaidong, even in
While the Shouzhou Army withdrew from Chuzhou, they also took the opportunity to send troops to occupy Shiliang County.
With the improvement of the situation and the fact that the imperial court allocated 50,000 shi of grain and grain to the victims every month from March onwards, Huaidong was able to speed up the restoration of farming.
With the promotion of Wang Wenqian, Ruan Yan and others, the Huaidong Army also established a military system of military buildings independent of the center based on the original settlement system in Chu Taiyang and other places.
There are 90,000 households, accounting for almost half of the population of Huaidong.
Compared with Chai Jian's inaction when he was stationed at the Wuzhiling defense line, Zheng Hui led the Youlongque Army southward, and started planning with Huang Hua, the Xuanwei envoy of Hunan Province, and others to wipe out the remnants of the Ma family's rebels and regain the two prefectures of Yongchen.
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Except for Chen Siye's four prefectures, when Hunan officially promoted the system of Shangshu Province, Ezhou, which traditionally belonged to the Jingxiang area, was not included.
However, the Shangshu Province of Hunan controlled the five prefectures of Shaohenglang and Yuetan, and the local military and political system was thoroughly sorted out in the past five or six years. It was recorded that 400,000 Ding households with a population of 2.7 million, the land taxes, taxes, taxes and various miscellaneous things collected
The donation is even slightly higher than that of the Jiangdong states.
At present, Jiangdong (including Zhejiang and Zhejiang) has a total of 14 prefectures. The aristocratic clan clans have a large number of slaves and maidservants. In addition, with the escaped households living in the mountains and forests, a large number of Dingkou are outside the control of prefectures and counties. Currently, there are only four registered households.
There are more than 100,000 households and 3 million people.
To be honest, if it hadn't been for a more thorough sorting out of the land in Hunan, Hubei, Huangjiangchi and other states after the vassal war, and a significant increase in the annual income of the import centers in these areas, it might not have been able to support the huge expenses of the Jianghuai War in the past two years.
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