In early August, the weather in Huaixi finally became cooler and no longer so hot.
After entering August, there were no new flood peaks in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. This year's extremely severe flood control situation gave people a slight breath of relief. In just over a month, the new autumn grain harvest season will begin again.
Tangyi's 8,000 advance troops and horses gathered in Huoqiu. In early July, some of the elite troops went north via Yingshui River and arrived at Wanqiu. In the early days, a small number of soldiers and civilians could be evacuated from Bianjing City, but in mid-to-late July, Wei
The state rebels and Mongol scouts entered the southern area of Bianjing and wandered directly on both sides of the Chen-Bian Post Road.
At present, the biggest combat mission of the advance army is to tangle with enemy scouts and prevent the enemy from organizing large-scale troops to destroy Chenbian Yi Road.
The main force of the Bian aid army formed by 30,000 elites recruited from the first, second, and fourth towns and 20,000 auxiliary troops recruited from the fourth town has been gathering at the camp on the south bank of Jiaoshan Gorge for half a month.
At this time, we have not yet crossed the Huaihe River in large numbers and officially started heading north.
In addition to building the Jiaoshan Gorge pontoon bridge and rushing to repair the post road in Xiacai County on the north bank, the main thing is to wait for the last shoe to land in Xiangbei.
Lu Qingxia coerced Queen Mother Wang Chan'er and her party to flee to Xiangzhou. According to the information obtained from Tangyi, Li Zhigao did not follow Lu Qingxia and others into Xiangcheng, but directly took his stepmother Su Hongyu, his disciples Li Zhi and others by boat to Liangzhou.
The state is in charge.
In the following days, Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan, Chai Jian and others took charge of the establishment of the King of Xiang, the abolition of the defense envoy office of the capital of Xiangbei, and the establishment of the Shangshu Province in Jingxiang.
Based on the main force of the forbidden army in the previous three towns, the Xiangbei Army merged with the local state troops and was subsequently adjusted into three marching armies.
The main force of the original Zuo Longque Army moved to Liangzhou with Li Zhigao and set up a military camp in Liangzhou. Li Zhigao took charge of the military camp and also served as the governor of Liangzhou. The number of soldiers and horses was maintained at about 15,000, and he was responsible for Liangzhou and the newly established gold.
The state’s military and political affairs.
With the elites of the two left-wing military guards, the Suizhou soldiers were merged to form a 10,000-year-old Suizhou camp army. Zhou Shu led the battalion commander and also led the Suizhou governor. He was responsible for the garrison affairs at the western foot of Dahong Mountain and the blockade of Pingjing, Wusheng and other passes at the western foot of Huaiyang Mountain.
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At this time, the Zuo Shenwu Army was the main force, and the elites of the three capitals of Zuo Wuwei Army, the elites of Zuo Longque Army, and Deng Junying's three prefecture soldiers were combined, with a total of 35,000 troops, and the Xiangzhou Camp Army was established. It can be said that the Jingxiang Rebellion
The main force of the army is Chai Jian, the envoy of Xuanwei in Jingxiang and the general manager of the camp and army, responsible for the defense of Junzhou, Dengzhou, Xiangzhou and Yingzhou.
At this point, Li Zhigao retreated to Liangzhou, and Chai Jian became the number one leader of the Jingxiang rebels.
In addition, Lu Qingxia also recruited a strong bodyguard army of 3,000 people from Xiangzhou, mainly the bodyguards who fled west, and appointed Xu An, the former Weaving Bureau's canon army, as the capital Yuhou to protect them.
At the center of the Xingshang Shutai, with the Weaving Bureau's guards and the Xiangzhou Prefecture soldiers, a Xiangzhou naval force of five thousand troops was stationed, with Zhong Yanhu as the capital commander.
The total number of Jingxiang rebels is 68,000. At first glance, they are outnumbered. They can barely spread out their stalls, and there is no sign of shrinking from the outskirts of Yingsui and Deng three states to the vicinity of Xiangcheng. So the Tangyi people will be able to do it for the time being.
Don't worry that they will jump over the wall and join the Mongol people.
And He Xiang and Deng Jun followed the seven states of Ying, Jin, and Liang. Even though farming recovered quickly under Li Zhigao's rule in the past three or four years, the total number of people was only 900,000. Maintaining such a large-scale army can be said to be the limit. Tangyi is temporarily
There is no need to worry about their ability to break out from the mountain pass at the western foot of Huaiyang Mountain and threaten the western flank of Tangyi.
Of course, it can be seen from the fact that the Suizhou camp army only has 10,000 soldiers and horses that Lu Qingxia will not be eager to expand from the northeast wing to Tangyi territory at this time. They are currently mainly thinking about occupying the mountain pass at the western foot of Huaiyang Mountain and Dazhou.
The dangerous terrain at the western foot of Hongshan Mountain is to defend this flank.
The severe test they are currently facing is the rebel army whose vanguard troops have arrived in Huangzhou.
Jinling uses Huangzhou and Jingzhou as assembly areas, with the Youwu Xiang Army and the Youwu Guard Army as the main force, and recruits soldiers and horses from the states in Jiangxi and Hunan. It plans to assemble a total of 60,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 soldiers and civilians.
, to advance and suppress the Jingxiang rebels, the imperial edict has been officially spread throughout the world, and the Minister of War has been appointed. Zhou Bingwu, the Deputy Privy Envoy, has been appointed as the Recruiting Envoy, and Zhao Zhen and Zhang Zhi have been appointed as the Deputy Recruiting Envoy.
There is a saying in military literature that "all warfighters rely on the right combination to win by surprise." Jinling gathered 90,000 troops. In the early stage, there were only four channels for troops to approach the city: one was for the navy to advance north along the Han River, and the other was for the horse and infantry to attack north along the east bank of the Han River.
For Yingzhou City, which stands between the Han River and the Dahong Mountains, one can take the land route from Jingzhou to the north to attack Jingmen, the gateway to Xiangnan. These three passages can be merged into one, which can be said to be the main attack direction for recruiting the army.
At the end of July, Zhou Bingwu was ordered to arrive at Jingling City, more than 130 miles south of Yingzhou City, to supervise the battle.
During the previous dynasty, Jingling Mausoleum belonged to Fuzhou. When Dachu was founded, Fuzhou was abandoned and abandoned. Jingling Mausoleum belonged to Yingzhou.
Jingling is bounded by Dahong Mountain to the north, Han River to the southwest, and Huang'e to the east. It is located in the north of the Jianghan Plain and is also the closest city to Yingzhou City. It is necessary to open the door to the Xiangying Valley and Nanyang Basin along the wings of the Han River. Zhou Bingwu
Jingling is the most convenient place to gather troops, supplies, and weapons.
In order to facilitate the recruitment of war, Jinling also re-established Fuzhou. Jingling, which originally belonged to Yingzhou, Jianli, which belonged to Jingzhou, and Mianyang, which belonged to Ezhou, were reclassified into Fuzhou. Jingling was the state government. In order to facilitate Zhou Bingwu
In order to rectify the military equipment and collect combat materials on the spot, Jinling also specially appointed him to concurrently serve as the governor of Fuzhou.
Although Fuzhou only governs three counties, these three counties are the heart of the Jianghan Plain, with a combined population of nearly 300,000. This time, the plan includes 30,000 soldiers and civilians to recruit the army, as well as 100,000 stone grains used in the early stage.
Valley is mainly recruited from these three counties.
Zhang Wei, who had been stationed in Jingzhou for many years, wanted to show his "loyalty" to the new emperor. After receiving the imperial edict to attack the rebels, he immediately dispatched troops to attack Jingmen, and in early August he cleared the south wing of Jingmen.
The remaining forces of the rebels camped the vanguard thirty miles south of Jingmen City. Waiting for the main force of the rebel army to complete its assembly, the west wing could launch an offensive against Jingmen City at any time.
In addition to the passage along the Han River, the rebel army also had another passage through which they could attack the Jingxiang rebels.
That was to go north from Huangzhou City along the Yunshui River Valley at the southwest foot of Huaiyang Mountain, and to attack Suiyang from the east foot of Dahong Mountain and Pingjing, Wusheng and other passes to the north of Suiyang.
Jinling also ordered Tangyi to send troops to attack Pingjing, Wusheng and other passes, but Han Qian had expressed his position very early that Tangyi would use the main troops for the Hehuai War in autumn and winter, leaving only one elite brigade on the west wing to return.
Zhou Pan's command could only contain the rebels in Pingjing, Wusheng and other passes from Luoshan and Yiyang at most.
At this moment, it was finally time for the Tangyi Army to officially send troops to Hehuai.
In addition to Kong Xirong's advance army marching north along the Yingshui River as a partial division, the main force of 50,000 troops to aid Bian gathered near Jiaoshan Gorge will directly cross the Huaihe River under the command of Tian Cheng as the main general and Wen Bo and Lin Haizheng as deputy generals.
, heading north from the plain area on the east bank of Yingshui River.
Although going north from Haozhou, passing through Woshui to Woyang, the city of Qiaozhou, and then heading northwest to the city of Bozhou, there is the Woshui River connecting it. However, after Xu Mingzhen took control of Qiaobo and other places, he set up a dark river along the Woshui River.
A large number of obstacles were set up with piles, iron cables, sunken ships and other means to prevent Tangyi navy warships from entering.
At this time, the Zuolou Naval Forces had assembled a certain number of elite naval forces and warships on the upper reaches of the Jishui River, making it difficult for the Tangyi Naval Forces to perform in this Hehuai War.
At present, Yang Qin is responsible for leading the Tangyi navy to stay on the Jiaoshan and Linhuai front lines. Only when the horse infantry conquers the city west of the Wushui River and clears the obstacles in the Wushui River can they go north.
Of course, this was the smoothest situation for the war.
Before the end of June, Xu Mingzhen ordered the detention of the Liang Dynasty officials appointed by Bianjing in the 19 counties of Qiao, Bo, Song, and Suzhou, and replaced them all with direct line generals of the Shouzhou Army to control the counties. Even though Xu Mingzhen was still at this time.
He did not openly surrender to Zhu Rang, but in fact he had no other choice at this time.
The Xu family is different from the Wen family and has nothing to do with hatred.
When Wen Bo was trapped in Luoshan City, he had less than 10,000 direct troops left. Han Qian could even tolerate Wen Bo directly leading these 10,000 elite troops to merge with the Tangyi Army, without worrying that this would lead to a situation where he would usurp the throne.
Wen Bo and the Wen family did not need to be panic-stricken. They worried every day that Han Qian would kill his military power at any time.
After that, the Youshenwu Army was dismantled and reorganized. The Wen family's children and old generals were able to better integrate into Tangyi, and they gradually improved on this basis.
Xu Mingzhen led the Shouzhou army to retreat to the north bank of the Huaihe River. The total number of soldiers and horses together with the family was more than 200,000. If necessary, 70,000 to 80,000 strong soldiers and horses could be mobilized. Xu Mingzhen surrendered to Tangyi at this time. Han Qian dared to accept the surrender.
Ask Xu Mingzhen to continue to command these 70,000 to 80,000 troops. Aren't you worried that one day they will be turned against the enemy?
And Xu Mingzhen was willing, or in other words, he had the courage to disband the 70,000 to 80,000 troops and fully accept the reorganization of Tangyi, so he took his family of more than 100 people to live in East Lake, waiting for Han Qian to give him an open mind.
Broad disposal?
When Emperor Zhu Yu of the Liang Dynasty surrendered Xu Mingzhen, he had to be granted the title Duke Huo and Huainan Jiedu Envoy, and command one hundred thousand troops to guard Huaixi. Han Qian had no conditions to negotiate peace with Xu Mingzhen, so how could he dare to directly attack Xu Mingzhen's headquarters?
Threatening the flanks of Chen-Bian Yi Road, dare to send more than 50,000 troops from the extremely thin Chen-Bian Yi Road to reinforce Bianjing?
The Tangyi Army had only one option, which was to assemble the main force and cross the Huaihe River from the front of Qiao Bo and other places occupied by Xu Mingzhen to attack north.
Either annihilate Xu Mingzhen's troops, or drive Xu Mingzhen's troops to the east bank of the Woshui River until the channel between the two water systems of Yingwo and Bianjing is opened...
