Chapter 1247: Father's business and son's inheritance
It’s no wonder that Wu Mingche likes to let Wu Huijue guard his rear every time he goes on an expedition. Not only because Wu Huijue is his son, Wu Mingche’s commanding ability in the army can also guarantee the loyalty of others, but if he really serves as his son
For the sake of the family, Wu Huijue should be kept by his side in order to have a chance to gain more credit.
The main reason is because of Wu Huijue's always calm character. Compared with Xiao Mohe who is better at winning with surprise troops, Wu Huijue is obviously more suitable for the task of covering the rear. And facts have proved that the original Battle of Luliang was precisely because of Wu Huijue's presence in the rear.
The planning was good, enough ships were assembled, and the rear army covered both wings, which gave Wu Mingche a chance to quickly jump out of the encirclement net. Otherwise, if he was surrounded on the north bank, he would really have nothing to do but watch the roar of the Huaihe River.
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Later, when Wu Mingche went south, he still left Wu Huijue to guard Huainan, and Wu Huijue did an outstanding job. For a long time, whether he was defending the Huai River and not giving Wang Gui an opportunity to the north, he was also going south to deal with the incoming waves.
Chen Shuling, Fan Meng, and Wu Huijue were not at a disadvantage. They even had a chance to cross the river and break through Jingkou, solving Fan Meng, Li Xinchen's henchman.
Therefore, although Wu Huijue never made any achievements on the frontal battlefield, he was still an important general that the Han Dynasty could not ignore.
"I see your Majesty!" Before Li Xingchen could get ashore, Wu Huijue had already arrived in three steps at a time.
Li Xinchen immediately stretched out his hand to support him. Naturally, Li Xinchen could not despise Wu Huijue. Almost all of the Wu family's influence in the military was inherited by Wu Huijue, and Li Xinchen was now busy stabilizing various aristocratic family factions in the country, even eliminating and defeating wanted ones.
To weaken their strength, the reason why Li Xingchen had such courage was because he had the support of the army behind him.
This time, Li Xinchen changed his previous plan and came directly to Zhongli, who was at the front line. He had the intention to stabilize the morale of the Huainan army. After all, Li Xinchen had rotated north and south in these years, and almost the entire Han army had been directly ordered by Li Xinchen, including even such as
The original Jiangnan generals such as the Chunyu family, but Huainan, or to be precise, these armies in Huaixi, have always been under the control of Wu Huijue and Lu Zicai, and have never been directly under Li Xinchen.
And this is also the team with the most generals from the south of the Yangtze River in the army, and all of them are from the south of the Yangtze River. This means that their families are more or less related to the Southeast family, and they are even from the Southeast.
Part of an aristocratic family, such as the Wu family.
Therefore, Li Xingchen came to inspect the Huainan defense line this time, and the importance of stabilizing people's hearts was highlighted. Of course, Li Xingchen came to take great risks this time. After all, no one knows what will happen under the calm water.
There could be an undercurrent surging, and the southeastern family, which had been suppressed by Li Xinchen in every possible way, would choose to take risks in a place far away from Jiankang Mansion and far away from the core of Li Xinchen's rule.
Especially this time, Li Xingchen's trip to the north was impromptu, which meant that careful people would not have time to prepare, but it also meant that reckless people were likely to seize this opportunity and take risks. Therefore, Li Xingchen, who was guarding Li Xingchen,
Everyone was nervous, but Chen Yu rushed over with his white robe first.
Of course, Chen Yu was not only responsible for Li Xingchen's safety issues, but also to be closer to the north from Zhongli. He was obviously also responsible for the news connection with Chang'an. Now that the north and south are doing business, it is more convenient for people in white robes to travel between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River.
Entering Yu Wenxian's territory, not to mention the relationship between Yu Wenxian and Yang Jian, a large number of spies were pervasive. In addition, the Central Plains, Guanzhong and Hebei have already become a whole after so many years of rule by the Northern Dynasties, let alone
Roads extend in all directions on the plain, making it difficult to set up checkpoints for investigation, so now both sides have developed a state of ignoring them.
On the contrary, between Li Xingchen and Yang Jian, because the passable roads are mainly concentrated from Wuguan to Qinling and then to the Helan Mountain in the northwest, the mountain passes can be counted after all, so both sides will strictly check the pedestrians.
Therefore, what is interesting is that if the Han spies want to enter Guanzhong, the more convenient way is to go north through Yu Wenxian's control area and then turn west. Especially since both sides focus on investigating the people to the east or west
On the other hand, he didn't care about the passers-by who spoke with southern accents. This could be regarded as exploiting a loophole in people's subconscious mind.
With the Han Dynasty's external work in full swing, Baipao, once the most mysterious organization of Han Dynasty, has gradually surfaced. Especially at the previous Zhengdan Ceremony, Baipao showed its ferocious minions, making all officials deeply feel Baipao.
The power of the robe.
Although later, under the leadership of Chen Yu and with the tacit approval of Li Xingchen, Baipao moved to Jiangbei to avoid internal disputes, but with the prestige in front of him, Chen Yu and Baipao's center were personally in charge of Zhongli, which should be enough to intimidate some young people.
Zhongli County is still the Zhongli County that Li Xingchen is familiar with. The towering city wall symbolizes the strongest gateway of the Han Dynasty on the Huaihe River defense line, and the not-so-wide streets seem a bit desolate. After all, most of the military personnel in the city are now participating.
After reclamation, the outside of the city was even more lively than the inside.
Behind this defense line as solid as the Iron Curtain, the only thing that can show any vitality and vitality is probably the small pieces of land reclaimed by the soldiers who accompanied the army. Of course, they planted crops on these lands.
The grain and vegetables provided by the army were barely enough to improve the diet. The army mainly relied on the imperial government to provide them with horse chews.
There is a reason why Li Xingchen was anxious to dredge the Hangou ditch. In the future, food and equipment can be transported to the Huainan front line by water transportation, which will naturally save a lot of manpower and material resources. You must know that even in the era of highly developed technology a thousand years later,
, water transportation through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is still the cheapest and most cost-effective method of transportation.
"What is the situation of the Huainan army now?" Li Xingchen asked impatiently as soon as he crossed the gate of the government office.
"Zhongli currently has 80,000 troops garrisoned. In addition, there are 50,000 troops stationed in Liang County and other places. In addition, there are 20,000 troops stationed in Guangling County. The entire Huainan army has more than 150,000 troops for this battle. Excluding those necessary to defend the city, there should be 100,000 troops available.
Follow your Majesty's orders and launch the Northern Expedition!" Wu Huijue led Li Xingchen forward while introducing the current situation of the Huainan defense line. After several years of painstaking management, the Huainan defense line has finally returned to its original glory before Wu Mingche's Northern Expedition.
After a pause, Wu Huijue then said: "In addition, General Qiu Zhi of the Navy has 20,000 navy officers and hundreds of warships. There are 300 large ships available to transport personnel. The entire army can be transported to