Lord of the House

Although the governor-general of the Privy Council has the power to control all the battalions, the envoys, the towns, and the military mansions, Huaixi, like Jinghu, has its own military and government. Most are dependent on self-production, and are not deeply restrained by the Privy Council.

The armies are not so much a subordinate relationship, but a joint battle.

The premise of the coalition fighting is to trust each other - we are all used to seeing blood and intrigue, and we all know that there may be a foundation of trust that will not be built on a piece of paper, nor on others. on the promise.

Zuo Chengmu, as deputy prime minister, stayed in Huangzhou on behalf of the imperial court to "watch the army's appearance". In name, he was sent by a military envoy. In fact, he represented Jinghu forces in Huangzhou to supervise the Huaidong Army's attack on Hanjin, Huangpi and Tiemen. The combat performance of the enemy of the mountain.

In addition, Hu Xuechang, the son of Hu Wenmu, went to Ezhou. On the one hand, he was responsible for leading the troops and horses of Ezhou to encircle and suppress Chen Zishou's troops who gathered the remaining soldiers at the northern foot of Mufu Mountain. More importantly, it is also because Ezhou is located after Huangzhou and Qichun, and Hu Xuechang sits in Ezhou on behalf of Hu Wenmu. If Huaidong Army and Chizhou Army want to leave without notice, Hu Xuechang will be able to detect it in advance, and the main force of Jinghu Army will be able to. Avoid the danger of being alone in Jingzhou.

Liu Tingzhou came to represent Huaixi to learn about the combat readiness of the Huaidong Army, Chizhou Army and Jinghu Army on the southern front.

In order to reassure Huaixi to concentrate its troops on the Xinyang front line, to contain the Yan Army's Chen Zhihu and Tu'an troops on the northern front, and to relieve the military pressure on the southern front, Lin Fu must have the Huaidong Army on the Huangzhou front line. Military deployment, let Liu Tingzhou look at it clearly, and let him believe that the Huaidong Army has the determination to fight the battle of Jingxiang.

For the arrival of Yue Lengqiu and Liu Tingzhou, Lin Fu specially prepared a feast.

Liu Tingzhou came here, in addition to more than 100 entourages, there are dozens of accompanying staff, after all, in just three or five days to observe the comprehensive combat readiness of the Huaidong Army on the front line of Huangzhou, not Liu Tingzhou's two eyes can see over here.

Only four or five of the staff with official positions entered the hall with Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu for a banquet.

The Huaidong Army captured Huangzhou City, which was also dilapidated. Lin Fu chose a slightly refurbished courtyard to be stationed in, but it was also very simple. When Liu Tingzhou and others walked into the hall, they could see burn marks on the pillars.

Of course, you can't expect Lin Bie's banquet to have any treasures, but there is no shortage of seafood, and even when you walk in, you can smell a faint fishy smell.

Some people are sensitive to the fishy smell of the sea. Seeing that several clerks behind Liu Tingzhou frowned slightly, Lin Fu said with a smile: "The most delicious meat in Huangzhou is pickled and salted fish, which is a specialty of the banquet guests. Now, Governor Yue and Lord Liu don't dislike it..."

Huaidong developed offshore fishing on a large scale in Changguo, Shengsi and Hecheng to supplement the army's lack of meat. It is September now, and the fish is caught and pickled in Changguo, Shengsi and Hecheng, and then transported to Huangzhou by water, which takes ten days before and after. You can eat it, how can you expect no fishy smell at all?

Of course, if Huangzhou began to eat pickled sea fish on a large scale, it would mean that the supply line from Huaidong from the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the Huangzhou theater had already been established.

As long as food and other combat materials can be continuously transported from the rear to the Huangzhou theater, Huaidong troops and horses are quickly transferred up and assembled in Huangzhou. Even if the soldiers are consumed on a large scale during the war, they can Replenish the soldiers from the civilian husbands who were encouraged to cross the river to join the war by the grant of field orders.

At this time, Liu Tingzhou felt that the meridians of the Dayue Dynasty were unblocked. Even if there would be disadvantages in the early stage of the battle of Jingxiang, the longer the time dragged on, the situation would become more favorable for Dayue. under the control of bondage.

Lin Fu called Gao Zongting, Cao Zi'ang and other people who had contacts with Liu Tingzhou to accompany the banquet, which was naturally a chatter. During the banquet, Lin Fu smiled again and said to Liu Tingzhou: "Jingtang, they are all in Wuyun Village, and it's too late to come back to wash the dust for Master Liu - but it's okay, it's not easy for Master Liu to come to Huangzhou, Wuyun Village is over there. Go too."

The Huaidong Ligong Ying Camp is based on the training of the soldiers and the field construction. Sun Jingtang has always been the core figure in Huaidong in this regard. In his early years in Huai'an, he had a lot of contact with Liu Tingzhou.

Over the years, Huaidong has managed the Xuzhou line of defense like an iron barrel. On the one hand, Liu Miaozhen, Ning Zechen, Ge Cunxin, and Geng Quanshan led the elite troops and strong generals to sit in the town. On the other hand, Sun Jingtang led the workers and battalions to build fortifications, build roads, and river ports on the front line of Xusi.

Now Lin Fu is going to fight with the Yan army in Jingxiang. In addition to the famous generals under his command, Sun Jingtang, Ge Siyu, Zhu Ai and other characters who are good at creating will naturally not be absent.

In addition to the construction of fortifications, roads and bridges in the theater, the collection and transportation of grain, war and other strategic materials are also the core affairs of the war. In order to dispatch the food and grass materials from Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to Jingxiang, Chen Huawen, the prefect of Luzhou, and Yang Zichen, the prefect of Jiangzhou, this time, are also the deputy envoys of Zhidu, who are responsible for the two key points of transshipment in Luzhou and Jiangzhou. 's transportation.

In the Huangzhou War Zone, Fu Qinghe, the former head of the army, Sun Wenbing, Lin Xuhong, Song Fu and other Huaidong officials were also transferred to Huangzhou to assist in the transfer of losses.

The outpost has been engaged, and Huaidong has been busy with all the people who have been transferred to Huangzhou. Although Liu Tingzhou has had contacts with many officials in the Huaidong family, he cannot expect them to let go of the things at hand and come to accompany the banquet. .

Lin Fu casually said that Sun Jingtang and others were in Huangzhou, and he also wanted to explain to Liu Tingzhou how determined Huaidong was to fight the battle of Jingxiang.

During the banquet, Liu Tingzhou asked about the arrangement of the scholars who were recruited into the battalion.

"This," Lin Fu said, "the fall of Nanyang came to Jiangning, and the scholars in Jiangning were indignant. Many scholars knocked on the palace gate to petition, all wanting to join the army and kill the thieves. Lin Xiang and Cheng Xiang wrote to ask about this. I agree with you. Minister Zuo and Governor Yue discussed together, and finally issued an order to recruit candidates. I did not expect the number of applicants to gather. Scholars from Jiangning, Weiyang, Pingjiang and other places have arrived in Huangzhou with ships. There are already 500 people. There is a lack of literate officials in matters such as losing, and the enlistment of scholars in the army battalion has solved many headaches; in addition, some enlisted battalions will temporarily become deputy generals to learn military affairs, and there will be opportunities to lead troops to fight in the future... "

The generals of the world will recruit scholars to be responsible for matters such as grain, grain, pen and other matters, but these people can only be regarded as personal staff hired by the generals. Not big enough, but even if the general's face is big enough, it is impossible to recommend three or five hundred aides to become officials all at once.

Lin Fu recruited scholars to join the army camp, mainly responsible for logistical affairs, so it was not much different from hiring staff, but the scale was larger. However, in the official letter issued to the world, it was clearly written down the expectation of making up officials in the future, which is to turn private officials into public officials.

Including the private officials who followed Lin Fu before, they can be formally appointed as magistrates, county magistrates, county magistrates, prefects, and general officials after that. Before that, if Lin Fu wanted to recommend who to serve as the county magistrate, he had to write a separate document, which was approved by the Ministry of Households and the Political Affairs Hall before the entire process was complete.

Liu Tingzhou had private thoughts in his heart, so he did not recommend Ning Yujie, a talented Yandu scholar, to Lin Fu during the banquet. After the banquet, he returned to the post house and invited him to Huaixi as an official.

Lin Fu was naturally aware of Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu's every move after entering Huangzhou.

Hearing that Gao Zongting said that Ning Yujie temporarily wooed Liu Tingzhou to Huaixi, Lin Fu just smiled: "Huaixi can woo one, I can woo five hundred, let him go!"

Yue Lengqiu stayed with Liu Tingzhou in Huangzhou for two days, all of which were to discuss the cooperation of Huaixi troops and horses on the northern front. Lin Fu also officially notified Liu Tingzhou that Ning Zechen would lead the Fengli battalion and enter Huaixi to fight together.

The Shandong soldiers and horses headed by Ye Jiduodi also advanced to the Xusi line of defense in an all-round way after July. South buffer zone. Its intention is to contain Huaidong's troops and horses on the Xusi line of defense and not be able to help from the west.

To the north of Xusi, Liu Miaozhen, Wu Qi, Ma Lantou, Li Liang, Geng Quanshan, Chu Zheng and other generals in the Xusi defense line had a total force of only 60,000 after supplementing some of the soldiers.

Although there are 30,000 elites from Fengli Camp in Huaidong and 20,000 soldiers from Jinghai Second Water Camp in Shanyang and Yuntiguan, Shanyang and Yuntiguan are the back lines of Xu Si's defense line, Yanhu is on the east front, except for Yuan Li. In addition to Shan and Nahexiongqi, Ye Jiduodi, who is based in Jinan, has 40,000 cavalry in hand, and can quickly press down on the front line of Xu Si - Lin Fu can't take all the troops of Shanyang and Yuntiguan. Therefore, there were only 20,000 troops who could follow Ning Zechen into Huaixi to fight.

Lin Fu can transfer Huaidong elites into Huaixi to fight together, how could Liu Tingzhou think there are few people at this time?

In the past two days, Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengtian could see that almost tens of thousands of Huaidong soldiers entered Huangzhou every day, and then went to Wuyunzhai, Phoenix Mountain and other front base camps from Huangzhou.

After negotiating these matters, Yue Lengqiu went back to Qichun to supervise the battle, but Liu Tingzhou didn't understand. Cao Zi'ang also rushed back to Luzhou after Yue Lengqiu. On September 6, Lin Bie accompanied Liu Ting to Wuyunzhai, Phoenix Mountain and other front base camps to inspect the military situation...

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From Wuyunzhai to Fenghuangzhai, we have to cross the Jushui River. Although the Jushui River is already the periphery of the Huangzhou Theater, the Huaidong Army still erected a pontoon bridge on the Jushui River, not afraid of the enemy's surprise attack and destruction of the pontoon bridge.

As far back as Zhou and Shang, there was a record of connecting boats as bridges.

The pontoon bridge on the Qishui River is also a bridge with piles connected with boats and bridges.

On the river, which is nearly three hundred steps wide, two floating bridges are erected, with a distance of two or three hundred steps between the upper and lower reaches. Each pontoon bridge is fixed with 20 bridge boats driven by piling, connected by pallets with large iron nails, iron hooks and chains, and fixed on both sides with iron cables as thick as arms.

The most important fixation of the pontoon bridge is to bear the weight of transitional people, carriages and horses, and to withstand the impact of river water. Therefore, the choice of fixation at both ends of the iron cable is the most important.

If conditions permit, it is usually made by chiseling mountains and rocks as locks, and tying the iron ropes that fix the boat bridge to the rocks ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and connecting the hills as one, so as to resist the impact of the river water and carry hundreds of people to cross at the same time. Bridge across the river.

The pontoon on the lower reaches of the Jushui River is located on the official road ferry from Huangzhou to Huangpi. It is surrounded by flat rivers. The old trees that can be used to fix the iron cables are also cut off by the enemy soldiers before they retreat. There is no natural fixation, but the boat At both ends of the bridge, the black giants and objects turned out to be several bottles of iron.

Huaixi was in short supply of iron materials, and Huaidong even used iron to fix the boat bridge, and the two pontoon bridges threw tens of thousands of kilograms of iron in the wild!

Liu Tingzhou walked across the horse, followed Lin Fu, and walked across the steady Jushui River pontoon bridge, not knowing what to say in his heart.

To the northwest of the pontoon bridge, there is a beacon fire village to guard the pontoon bridge and monitor the enemy.

The beacon fire village is not big, and it is a gated camp, but a large number of iron caltrops are sprinkled outside the gate.

There is a sentinel of soldiers and more than 100 military and civilian husbands stationed there to protect the pontoon bridge from being repaired at any time, materials and soldiers can pass through, and civilian husbands can be requisitioned to assist in crossing the river at any time.

Liu Tingzhou followed Lin Fu and saw that Lin Fu could actually call out the name of the sentry general, and also knew that Lin Fu's mastery of the Huaidong Army was irreplaceable by others.

Although it is only a beacon fire village, the generals and soldiers are very well prepared, even the most common soldiers, and they all wear tie armor. In addition to the swords, spears, and spears, many of the guards were strong bows and crossbows, and on the fence, there were three bed crossbows covered with linoleum.

In such a beacon fire village, even if one or two thousand enemy cavalry leaked in, there was no way to pull it out in a short period of time before reinforcements from left and right arrived.

Seeing this, Liu Tingzhou no longer doubted Lin Fu's determination to fight the battle of Jingxiang. He also believed that no matter how bad the Huaidong Army was, even if Jingzhou fell, it would still be able to tug at the Yan Army in the eastern Hubei area... My QT room is open ! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter