Lord of the House

Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu landed at the Jianggang in the south of Huangzhou City.

Huangzhou and Ezhou stand across the river, and the two cities are only 11 or 2 miles apart.

The hills are near the shore, with more cliffs and less silt beaches, so it is a natural and excellent river port, which is convenient for large ships to berth.

Huangzhou and Ezhou have long been important riverside port cities in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and they are also one of the main distribution centers for the transshipment of materials from Jingxiang to the Jianghuai region.

For more than 200 years, Huangzhou and Ezhou have been the big cities of Jinghu Lake. If you only compare the prosperity of business and travel, Huangzhou, Ezhou and Jiangxia are much more dazzling than Jingzhou. However, strategically, because Jiangxia is at the mouth of the Han River, and Huangzhou and Ezhou are very close to Jiangxia, their status is not very important, and they cannot be compared with Jingzhou.

Because of this, although the prosperous business travel in the southern port area of ​​Huangzhou City has formed a Jiangbu market town close to Huangzhou City, Huangzhou City itself is short and small.

In this way, the prosperous Jiangbu market town was completely ruined, and the city of Huangzhou was also dilapidated.

After Liu Tingzhou entered the city, he found that there were not many direct troops stationed by the Huaidong Army in Huangzhou City, but more civilians and scholars who were encouraged to cross the river and come to Huangzhou to apply for recruitment under the decree of the field and the order to recruit scholars into the army.

"Master Liu..."

Hearing that someone was calling him, Liu Tingzhou stopped to look in the crowd, and saw a young scholar dressed as a Confucian scholar with an extraordinary appearance bowing and saluting, and striding forward again.

The guard looked at Liu Tingzhou's reaction and let the scholar approach.

"Student Ning Yujie, see Master Liu, Master Yue..."

"Oh, Ning Yujie, the son of Yandu County." Liu Tingzhou recognized the person Ning Yujie, the son of Yandu, who took part in the scientific examination and gained fame when he was the magistrate of Yandu County.

After Liu Tingzhou's introduction, Yue Lengqiu also had some impressions that he was the son of Jiangdong who had been advocating for five years.

In the fifth year of Chongguan, the eighth year of Chongguan, and the eleventh year of Chongguan, Jiangdong County admitted nearly 500 candidates. The reason why Yue Lengqiu remembered Ning Yujie this year was when he was elected in the fifth year of Chongguan. Only seventeen years old, he is a talented JAC who became famous before Chen Mingzhe, and his reputation is not small. Even today, Ning Yujie is only in his early thirties.

However, in the sixth year of Chongguan, Ning Yujie was frustrated when he went to Beijing to take the exam. In the ninth year of Chongguan, he was unable to enter Beijing due to illness. In the 12th year, because the situation in the northern region was close to collapse, the Beijing exam was interrupted. further.

Although it is said that he is qualified to be an official if he is successful, Lin Fu has also climbed from the position of a junior prison officer of the nine ranks to the status of an extremely personable minister today, but Jiangdong County is a hometown of farming and reading, and many candidates are admitted, but there are vacancies. There are few vacancies. If you want to get an official position, you can only wait in line. Most people will not be able to become an official in their entire life. Ning Yujie is a typical example.

Liu Tingzhou, Yue Lengqiu and the others did not think that people like Ning Yujie could not wait for Jiangning to resume the scientific examination, and they also wrote to join the army and recruited to cross the east to join the army.

Ning Yujie called on the street, naturally he wanted to get a good job in the Huaidong Army through Liu Tingzhou's recommendation, instead of being incorporated into the various ministries with other scholars in one fell swoop.

Liu Tingzhou invited Ning Yujie to accompany him, thinking that it is the beauty of an adult to have a chance to speak in front of Lin Bie.

Naturally, Ning Yujie could not go with Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu, and went with their staff.

Liu Tingzhou knew that nearly 30,000 infantrymen of Yu Wencheng and Chen Zui of the Huaidong Army had crossed the river and entered the north bank, but seeing that there were not many troops stationed in Huangzhou City, and most of the guards along the streets were cavalry, they should be soldiers and horses of the forbidden cavalry army. He asked Yue Lengqiu suspiciously, "The Huaidong Army is not in Huangzhou City, has it already moved towards Huangpi and Tiemen Mountain?"

"Yu Wencheng and Chen Zui have entered Wuyun Village in the northwest of Huangzhou and Fenghuang Mountain in the west of Huangzhou, and controlled both sides of the Jushui River. They have indeed formed a situation of attacking Tiemen Mountain and Huangpi." Yue Lengqiu said.

The Huaidong Army and the Chizhou Army were fighting together in eastern Hubei. Naturally, they had to inform each other about the movement of their troops and horses at any time. They also sent observation attachés to follow the army's advance and retreat.

Before Liu Tingzhou came here, he had a serious study of the geography of eastern Hubei, and he was naturally familiar with the names of mountains and rivers in eastern Hubei. He knew that Fenghuang Mountain and Wuyun Village were 60 to 70 miles away from Huangzhou City, and Huangpi City and Huangzhou City were drawn in a straight line. , Phoenix Mountain is at the midpoint of this straight line.

The topographic advantage of Fenghuang Mountain is that it faces the river. It is across the river from Miaoling Mountain in the east of Hubei, and it is the key point to control the Yangtze River in the upper reaches of Huangzhou. In the lower reaches of Phoenix Mountain, there is a sandbar called Laolongzui in the Yangtze River, just as the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are flowing, and it is also at the mouth of the estuary...

Liu Tingzhou was also very familiar with military affairs, so he asked Yue Lengqiu, "So, there is one place where the Huaidong Naval Army is stationed in Laolongzui?"

Yue Lengqiu nodded and said: "Yes, there is a camp in Laolongzui. In addition, Jinghu's naval forces in eastern Hubei have all moved west to aid Jingzhou. The privy envoy did not directly ask Huaidong Army to take over the city of Ezhou. However, there is a post station in Miaoling Mountain on the south bank. The privy envoy sent a group of troops to build a fortress with the Miaoling Post, and stick to the south bank. From Laolongzui to the west, the Yangtze River is sandwiched between Miaoling Mountain and Phoenix Mountain, and the river is narrow. Only five miles away..."

Liu Tingzhou nodded. Everyone was a military officer. Lin Fu deployed the fortress on the periphery of Huangzhou to a key point six or seventy miles away from the city of Huangzhou, extending the depth of the direct control of Huangzhou by nearly a hundred miles. And to control the upper reaches of Yangzi River, the soldiers of the water camp went directly to the mouth of the Hanshui River, making it clear that they were ready to fight with Yanhu in eastern Hubei.

Even if Jingzhou was unfortunately defeated by Yanhu, as long as Huangzhou managed well, it could still be embedded in the north bank, and Yanhu's large number of troops could be contained in the eastern Hubei area, so that it could not concentrate its forces to attack Huaixi.

Of course, to achieve this step, Huaidong also has to invest a lot of troops and resources in the Huangzhou area. Resources and troops are always limited. Once the two sides are in a stalemate in Eastern Hubei, it will become extremely difficult for Huaidong to open up another battlefield.

Ning Yujie and Liu Yue's entourage were walking behind, and could vaguely hear them talking in front, and interjected to ask: "In the humble opinion of the students, in the battle of Jingxiang, the main thing is to defend Jingzhou, but Jinghu is asking for help. Since the troops and horses under his command are weak, why didn't the privy envoy send an elite team to take over the city defense of Jingzhou?"

It was very rude for Ning Yujie to suddenly interject, but it is not surprising that he became famous as a young man and was somewhat arrogant.

Yue Lengqiu turned around and smiled, and said, "I'm afraid the envoy of Jinghu may not agree with what you said..." Of course, he knew that even if Hu Wenmu agreed to hand over the defense of Jingzhou, the Huaidong Army would not necessarily take over.

No matter how elite troops and horses are, they must be used in a concentrated manner; if 20,000 or 30,000 elites are scattered in Jingzhou city, Lin Tie will be able to gather and use fewer elite troops in Huangzhou.

Dividing troops is a taboo in the military.

What's more, how could Hu Wenmu easily give up his military power and hand over the defense zone?

Hu Wenmu is now able to free up his hands and concentrate the main combat power of the Jinghu Army in Jingzhou, which is also a big city built on the river, so he is not afraid of being cut off. To tell the truth, defending Jingzhou, there is a strong city to rely on, even if the enemy troops are large and powerful, as long as the soldiers and civilians defending the city can be united and determined, 30,000 defenders are enough. No matter how many troops there are, it is not good. As long as more Yan and Hu troops can be contained here, Hu Wenmu should have a certain degree of confidence in defending Jingzhou.

Liu Tingzhou also turned his head and smiled, and said something to Yue Lengqiu with emotion: "For Yanlu, even if they can't defeat Jingzhou, they probably want to have the main force of Huaidong's troops and horses contained in eastern Hubei, right?"

Yue Lengqiu nodded, Lin Fu rose in Huaidong, but in the early days of his rise, the development of the infantry camp was very restrained, but the development of the water camp was very rapid. In the early years of Yongxing, Huaidong's water battalion achieved the position of completely suppressing the Shejia navy in the East China Sea.

How could Yan Hu not notice this?

Once the Huaidong Army is called to retake Jiangxi, it will free up its hands. How can Yanhu travel from Shandong to Yanqi to the coastline of two or three thousand kilometers in the Liangliao and Liaoning Provinces? The attack of the battalion force?

Now that Yanhu took Jingzhou, he wanted to keep the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army's infantry and water battalions firmly contained on the western front.

"Except for Chen Zhu and Yu Wencheng, Zhang Gou's troops in Fuzhou should also go north, right?" Liu Tingzhou is also very familiar with the Huaidong generals, but he has just traveled south from Shouzhou, and he is very familiar with the recent transfer of the Huaidong Army. Yue Lengqiu is not familiar with the deployment, "After all, the remnants of the She family in Jian'an have not been completely destroyed, will there be hidden dangers?"

After Shewenzhuang was attached to Yanhu, it has a tendency to re-emerge, which means that its remnants in northern Fujian still have the last glimmer of hope.

Jian'an is located in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, with mountains and rivers criss-crossing it. At the beginning, Yu Wangao led the remnants to retreat into the mountains. In three years, the She family was not wiped out, and the She family fled into the mountains with the remnants of Jian'an. Even if Zhao Qingshan occupied the most important Jian'an City , It is not easy to completely wipe out the remnants of the luxury family.

"The privy envoy Zhao Qingshan is guarding Dongmin. Since Zhang Gou's troops are sent north, they should be sure to stabilize the situation in Dongmin. There are three to five thousand remnants who have fled into the mountains, which cannot affect the overall situation. It is in the south of Ezhou, Huang Binghao's subordinate general. Chen Zishou gathered a group of people on Mubu Mountain, but he still refused to surrender, which is somewhat troublesome." Yue Lengqiu said.

Liu Tingzhou glanced at Yue Lengqiu. At the beginning, Yue Lengqiu was the tiger returning to the mountain, and he asked Chen Zishou to have the opportunity to join the extravagant family and join with Huang Binghao. Yuanzhou's army was severely defeated, and even if Chen Zishou gathered three to five thousand remnants on Mufu Mountain, his morale would not be lifted, and there would not be too much threat.

The situation on the southern bank of the Yangtze River was almost settled, and Liu Tingzhou was just worried that Lin Fu would be able to gather enough troops in Huangzhou.

The infantry that Lin Fu could call in Huangzhou included Yu Wencheng, Zhang Jiheng, Zhang Gou, and Chen Zui, with a total strength of 60,000, but Jiangzhou, Yuzhang and other places had to leave a small number of garrison troops and were injured during the Yuanzhou battle. There are still some soldiers who have not recovered. Lin Bie can only mobilize more than 50,000 soldiers in Huangzhou.

In terms of water camps, Hu Yu'er's division of Jiangning's forbidden navy has been ordered to move westward and join with Ge Cunxiong's division of Jiangzhou navy. There are about 30,000 soldiers and horses.

In terms of cavalry, that is, Zhou Pu, the cavalry army of the Jiangning Forbidden Battalion, is also the elite cavalry of Lin Fu's guard, with 5,000 people.

In addition, there were 30,000 troops from Liu Zhenzhi and Tang Fuguan, two troops stationed by Huaidong in Luzhou.

Liu Tingzhou believed that once it was confirmed that the main attack direction of Yanhu troops and horses was Jingzhou and could not turn to attack Huaixi, Lin Fu would inevitably transfer Luzhou troops and horses to Huangzhou.

The main force of the Huaidong Army on the western front was less than 120,000 people.

Although Lin Fu had a firm determination to fight the battle of Jingxiang, Liu Tingzhou still felt that it was too difficult to fight, and that the Huaidong Army could not form an advantage over Yanhu in terms of strength, so how could it contain the main force of Yanhu?

Although the Huaidong Army was an unmatched elite in the world, during the Shangrao War, Lin Fu concentrated more than twice the strength of the Shangrao defending army and almost the same number of soldiers and civilians. Overcame the defense line in Shangrao.

Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu walked and talked, and unknowingly walked into Lin Fu's heavily guarded line.

Their entourages all stayed outside the row, and the civilian retinues followed them into the row.

Lin Fu stood in front of the conference hall and learned that Yue and Liu had entered the city. He also specially invited Zuo Chengmu, the deputy minister who was watching the army in Huangzhou, and said to Yue Lengqiu and Liu Tingzhou: "If there is a loss, I hope Lord Yue and Lord Liu were not seen; I just got the news, and I have to tell Lord Yue: Luo Xiancheng’s department has another 20,000 troops heading south from the north line and entering Tiemen Mountain…”

"Ah!" Yue Lengqiu and Liu Tingzhou were startled.

Luo Xiancheng was the most powerful, with 200,000 troops. Later, more than half of the bandit soldiers were cut to the colonies, and only 80,000 soldiers were retained.

After Luo Xiancheng was thrown into captivity, he organized a large number of soldiers into the battalion, and went out of Huaishan to attack Xinyang to contain Huaixi troops and horses. The actual strength is likely to exceed 120,000.

Although the combat power of Luo Xiancheng's troops may not be comparable to the remnants of the extravagant family, the victory is due to the large number of troops and it is difficult to deal with.

Now Luo Xiancheng's troops gathered at Tieshanmen have more than 40,000 troops, with Zhong Rong as the general, and it is believed that the number will continue to increase in the later period. In the two cities of Hanjin and Huangpi, Yang Xiong, Sun Jichang and the later came to capture the generals. Shengliang led the cavalry, the total number of troops and horses also reached 50,000.

In comparison, Chen Hansan's troops in Fengshan have not been supplemented, but the terrain of Fengshan and Bailianhe is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although the Chizhou army has twice the strength, it has no confidence in being able to storm Fengshan—— Chen Hansan himself is a stalwart, and he is also a stalwart who retreats to the block, and his followers are all heinous and vicious people.

Seeing the uneasy expressions on Yue Lengqiu and Liu Tingzhou's faces, Lin Fu knew their worries, just smiled and asked them to speak inside.

Indeed, compared to military strength, the Huaidong Army and Chizhou Army were not at all superior.

Of course, the strength of the Huaidong Army was not as lacking as it appeared.

Due to the rapid expansion of the Huaidong Army, the labor camp, which had a size of hundreds of thousands of people in the early days, rapidly shrunk last year, and was once less than 50,000 people. But after the Battle of Jiangning, the most important task of the Huaidong Army was to re-expand the battalion on a large scale to protect the adequacy of the reserve troops.

This work focuses on Xuzhou, Luzhou, and Jinan, and strives to expand the number of soldiers in Xuzhou, Luzhou, and Jinan to more than 50,000 people.

After the Battle of Shangrao, Zhang Gou led his troops south from Fuzhou to attack Shaowu, and cooperated with Zhao Qingshan of eastern Fujian to attack Jian'anfu along the west of the Minjiang River. There are only 10,000 people in the remnants of the She family in northern Fujian. Under the attack of 40,000 soldiers and horses, they can only abandon the cities along the Minjiang River and retreat into the deep mountains and old forests.

Lin Fu left Zhao Qingshan to sit in Jian'an, and continued to suppress the remnants of the Shejia family in northern Fujian, so Zhang Gou led his troops north to participate in the war. In fact, at the same time, Lin Fu secretly ordered Chen Dingbang's division of the East Fujian battalion army to be incorporated into the second town division of Changshan battalion on the spot and go north together.

Zhang Gou led his troops north to participate in the war. In fact, the strength of the troops was not the 15,000 people predicted by outsiders, but the 24,000 elites of the Seven Brigades.

Chen Zuo's troops suffered a lot of casualties during the Shangrao war. Nearly 2,000 generals were killed and more than 4,000 were injured. Therefore, after the Shangrao war, Lin Tie transferred Chen Zuo's troops to the army. Go to Ganzhou to rest. In addition to rest and reorganization, another purpose of Chen Zhu and his troops stationed in Ganzhou was to absorb the resistance forces in southern Ganzhou. In the same way that the strengthening of Chen Zhu's department, it consumes the hidden dangers of local security.

Chen Zhuo led his troops north to participate, and the strength of the troops was not the 15,000 soldiers predicted by the foreigners in the Fifth Brigade~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but the 222,000 soldiers in the Sixth Brigade.

In Jiangzhou and Yuzhang, the garrison troops and horses, Lin Fu all transferred the soldiers to enter, and replaced the elite soldiers. In Yu Wencheng, Zhang Jiheng and other troops, they crossed Jiangzhou and crossed the river north to Qichun, and then entered Huangzhou. Each battalion was overtaken by 20% of the soldiers.

The troops and horses of Tang Fuguan, Liu Zhenzhi, Sun Zhuang, Huang Zuyu and other troops in Luzhou are not considered as partial divisions. Lin Bie can mobilize the troops in Huangzhou, including Zhang Jiheng, Yu Wencheng, Zhang Gou, and Chen Zui. Up to 85,000 people.

Zhou Pu led a riding camp of 5,000 people.

The navy led by Ge Cunxiong, Su Pinxiao, and Hu Yuer was not 30,000 in name, but was actually oversized by 10,000, making a total of 40,000.

In addition, Lin Fu had already ordered Zhao Hu to lead the 10,000 troops of Jiangning's forbidden infantry army to the west immediately, leaving only 10,000 troops and horses for Qin Chengzu in Jiangning to sit in the center. However, there is no threat around Jiangning, 10,000 guards are enough.

Not counting the Chizhou army, not counting the Chaishan division, Lin Suo was in front of the Eastern Hubei defense line, and the number of troops he could gather would reach 140,000. If you count the Chaishan divisions, Lin Biao's troops in Jingxiang would be nearly 200,000; if you include the Chizhou Army and the Jinghu Army, the strength of the entire southern line was actually not much lower than that of Yanhu.

Compared to before, there were only 20,000 soldiers transferred to Huangzhou to assist in the battle. Therefore, he issued a land grant order to attract and motivate civilians, tenant farmers and urban poor to come to Huangzhou to assist in the battle to supplement the army. The insufficiency of the people.

For this battle, Lin Filiang worked hard and prepared meticulously for a long time. Naturally, he wanted to play all the tricks and show his weakness to the enemy, but it was the most basic method. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter