When Xi Rong and other guards, accompanied by Wen Ruilin, arrived at Daishan Village at the northwest foot of Wuya Mountain by carriage and horse, it was already noon the next day.
At this time, not only Lin Haizheng, the commander of the Zuo Army, Feng Xuan, the deputy commander, and Ma Gaoshao, the commander of the army, rushed to Daishan stronghold. Han Qian also passed through a safer channel last night, escorted by the cavalry guards such as Han Donghu.
Arrive at Daishan Village.
There are only 500 troops stationed in Daishan Village, but in addition to two battalions of 600 guard cavalry led by Han Donghu and more than 400 guards and horses from Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan, Gao Shao and others, troops from Shiquan, Yongyang and other places
Two thousand soldiers have also been transferred to Daishan stronghold overnight.
In the early years, Daishanzhai was a town at the northwest foot of the southern section of Wujianshan Mountain. Later, it was a fortress where the Shouzhou Army blocked Tangyi from the northwest and attacked from the peaks of the southern section of Wujian Mountain. After the battle of Wujinling, Shouzhou
The army fully reduced its defense line, and Daishan Village became a front camp stronghold for Tangyi Army to control the northwest foot of Wujian Mountain, Peep Zhaoyi, Huailing, and Mopan Valley.
Daishan Village has been repaired several times in recent years, and is now a city with a depth of 600 steps, a wall as high as 10 feet, and surrounded by deep trenches.
Before the battle of Wujinling, Kong Xirong led his troops to defend Wujianshan for more than a year, thoroughly implementing Han Qian's strategic intention of guerrilla warfare. In addition to sending troops to harass the Shouzhou Army, he also started to manage the interior of Wujianshan, requisitioning labor, and constantly repairing and widening the dangerous mountain roads in the mountain.
, making the villages in the mountain more closely connected.
After the victory at Wujinling, Han Qian mobilized thousands of troops to build a post road across the southern section of Wujian Mountain outside Mopan Valley, connecting Chuzhou City and Daishan Village.
Although Wujian Mountain stretches for two hundred miles from southwest to northeast, the mountain terrain is much easier than Huaiyang Mountain, and the main peak is only two to three hundred meters high.
Although the Daichu Post Road is more than ten miles longer than the Huazhufeng Post Road, there are already quite long existing passages connecting it in the mountains. Even if it is built according to the standards of the Shichi Road, the scale and difficulty of the project will be reduced by one level.
The Dai-Chu Post Road was built years ago. In addition to Chuzhou City, Yongyang in the north of Chuzhou, Shiquan, Wushou, Puyang, and Tangyang counties in the south, people, horses, and materials can bypass the Mopan Ship and pass through the Dai-Chu Post Road.
There is no need to detour from Shiquan County to the west of the Wujian Mountains to enter Daishanzhai.
Feng Liao and others were mainly worried that they would not be able to win Chen Kun's trust, so in the end they would not get any benefits, and they would be stigmatized and tainted as collaborators.
However, they did not expect that in the early morning, not only the Hejin troops stationed at the west entrance of Mopan Valley and the front fortresses north of Daishan Village would withdraw one after another, but Chen Kun would also ask Wen Ruilin to send back Xi Rong, who was most likely to be detained.
Let go of your worries and make all-out arrangements to take over Haozhou.
Haozhou was once due to the long-term war between Liang and Chu and severe flooding from the middle reaches of the Huaihe River and the west bank of Hongzepu. The total number of Dingkou in the four counties of Zhaoyi, Huailing, Zhongli, and Haocheng was only 40 to 50,000, but Anning Palace threatened a large number of people.
After Hubei fled and the battle of Wujinling, Xu Mingzhen urgently moved the households in Huozhou and southern Shouzhou. In Haozhou, which was located inside the defense line of the two armies, the number of households increased to 20 in just three or four years.
Ten thousand.
No matter how the subsequent situation develops, Feng Liao feels that no matter how the news comes out, he can take over the four counties of Zhaoyi, Huailing, Zhongli, Haocheng and 200,000 Dingkou without spending a single soldier.
They scolded the Tangyi army for collaborating with the enemy and cheating on them, but they all deserved it.
Think about it, how many risks they took and how many elite soldiers they sacrificed in order to control more than 200,000 people in the Huaiyang Mountains. In just one year, how much money they invested in operating the hinterland of the Huaiyang Mountains and fixing the Wujin Ridge
Line of defense?
Once they control southern Huozhou, the strategic value of the Huazhufeng Plank Road will drop dramatically. But in order to ensure that they have a strategic advantage in the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain, how much manpower and material resources will they invest in building this plank road?
Thousands of strong laborers worked in the ice and snow to cut rocks and cut mountains along the cliffs. Almost every day, some laborers lost their footing and fell off the cliff to their deaths.
Wen Ruilin saw the people in Tangyi. Although he was not worried that he would be detained, he felt particularly bitter in his heart. Even if Daliang could survive this time, the results of his majesty's four or five years of conquering the north and south after he ascended the throne would be extremely bad.
It might all come to nothing.
Wen Ruilin calmed down his complicated emotions and came forward to meet Han Qian, Feng Liao, Lin Haizheng and others. He came mainly to express his goodwill and hoped that Haozhou could change hands in an orderly manner so that the elite troops of Hejin could cross the border calmly.
Heading to Huaibei.
In the long run, even if His Majesty is able to turn the tide, Daliang will have to be on the defensive on the southern front for a long period of time in the future. It is also necessary to ease the situation in Liang and Chu over the years and give everyone a chance to recuperate.
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Chen Kun led 2,000 cavalry to cross the Huaibei River first, and the remaining Hejin Army units, with more than 17,000 armored soldiers, had all withdrawn from the south bank of Tongkou Ferry at Tongkou Ferry and entered the north bank of the Huaihe River at dusk on March 3, under the jurisdiction of Si.
Tongkou City in the state.
Tangyi established 6,000 elite left army troops. Under the leadership of the capital commander Lin Hai, deputy capital commander Feng Xuan, and Du Yuhou Zhao Qi, Zhao Wuji and Han Donghu led 2,000 guard cavalry and more than 4,000 baggage garrison troops respectively.
He stationed himself in Haocheng, Zhaoyi, Huailing, Zhongli and other places, and took over Haozhou in an all-round way.
All this happened in just three days.
Not only the Shouzhou Army on the west side, not only the civilian households in Haozhou, but also the Huaidong Army in Shiliang County, which is located south of Hongzepu and east of the northern section of Wujianshan Mountains, is stationed against Haozhou.
I was stunned by everything that happened in the past two days and had no idea what was going on.
On March 5, Yin Peng accompanied the Prime Minister Ruan Yan and, following Wang Yang Yuanyan's order, rushed to Haocheng to see Han Qian and inquire about the details.
Haocheng, also known as Canfu, Linhuai, is where Haozhou was formerly governed. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north.
The Jiu Mountain in the south is a remnant of the Huaiyang Mountain, stretching for more than 30 miles from east to west. The main peak is less than a hundred feet high. The overall terrain is smaller than the Wujian Mountain Range, while the north is the alluvial plain of the Huaihe River and the terrain is low-lying.
Most of the land in Linhuai County, especially the Huaihe River alluvial plain in the north, is quite fertile, but Zhongli County in the east is flooded almost every year. Even in the past two or three years, large-scale Dingkou from Huozhou, Shou
Since the state moved here, the use of this most fertile alluvial plain has been extremely limited.
Linhuai City Wall, which is built on rammed earth and is growing new grass, looks mostly like a wasteland from far and near. There are some ruined walls and ruins in the middle. They are villages abandoned by wars or floods. They are everywhere.
Swamps and lakes formed by floods that failed to drain away.
Floods not only come from the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, but there are also many streams and rivers in Haozhou. The farthest source originates from the northern slope of the Wujian Mountains and flows into the Huaihe River. The dams of these streams and rivers are also in disrepair. Like Hongzepu in the east, there are floods every summer and autumn.
It's a flood.
Xu Mingzhen guarded Huaixi and ran the defense line with Shouzhou as the core, focusing on the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. He even deliberately allowed the area in the north of Haozhou near the Huaihe River to flood, so as to form large and small swamps and lakes as a way to restrict Liang Junbing.
Terrain obstacles as Manan descends.
Of course, when Ruan Yan, accompanied by Yin Peng, rushed to Linhuai City to see Han Qian, they were not concerned about this. They were more eager to find out what happened.
Not only the Hejin Army stationed in Haozhou suddenly withdrew northward, but the Liang Army and Xusi troops east of Hongzepu and north of the Huaihe River also suddenly abandoned the defensive forts built along the north bank of the Huaihe River from the night of March 2 and rushed to Sizhou.
Several major cities such as Haizhou shrank.
Liang Guo has 60,000 elite soldiers in Xuzhou. Although they are mainly composed of Xuzhou soldiers who have been run by the Sima family for many years, there are also 15,000 direct infantry and cavalry generals commanded by Han Yuanqi from Caizhou and a newly-organized right-story naval force.
More than ten thousand people.
Although the secret scouts in Huaidong are not as powerful as Tangyi, they are always keeping an eye on Xu Si's movements on the north bank of the Huaihe River.
It was just that it was inconvenient for the news to come from enemy territory. It was not until the dusk of March 4 that Yang Yuanyan and the others learned that in addition to the troops and horses along the defense line along the north bank of the Huaihe River shrinking northward, Han Yuanqi had already arrived before nightfall on March 1st.
He led 6,000 cavalry to go north, and then 9,000 elite soldiers of Caizhou Army were divided into several teams to go north from their respective defense areas on March 2 and 3.
At present, the defense of Xu Si is taken over by Sima Tan, deputy envoy of Xuzhou Jiedu.
By March 4th, Liang Jun even wanted to abandon the navy camp that Haizhou had invested a lot of money and food in building. Some of the warships and generals of the right-story fleet went up the Huaihe River to Tongkou to meet with Chen
Kun's Hejin Army has gathered together, and depending on the situation, it will follow the main force of Han, Yuan and Qi's Caizhou Army to the north at any time; the other part will take the sea route and withdraw into Mizhou in the north.
At this time, Yang Yuanyan, Wang Wenqian, Ruan Yan and others could guess that there might be serious turmoil in the Liang Kingdom. However, on the one hand, they did not have exact information. They were just guessing, which could not rule out the possibility that all this was caused by Liang Jun.
The strategy of luring the enemy, on the other hand, requires a process for any army to switch from defense to offense.
At this time, they only sent a small group of scouts and horses to the north bank of the Huaihe River to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. The main force of troops did not dare to cross the Huaibei River easily.
Even if it is not a trick to lure the enemy, there are still more than 30,000 Xuzhou soldiers under Sima's control stationed between Xu and Si.
If Huaidong wants to launch a large-scale campaign to regain the land they lost on the north bank of the Huaihe River, careful planning and preparation are needed.
But before all this, they must first figure out what happened.
On the night of the 31st, soldiers and horses of the Tangyi Army mobilized on a large scale from Shiquan, Chuzhou City, and Puyang to the south of Haozhou; this was obviously impossible to hide from Huaidong's spies who were stationed in Tangyi.
As for Liang Jun's large-scale change, the earliest one occurred on March 1st in Haozhou and March 2nd between Xu and Si.
This undoubtedly shows that Han Qian already knew what happened in the Liang Kingdom before the large-scale changes occurred in the Liang Army...