Lord of the House

Accompanied by Su Tingzhan, Tian Chang, Yu Wenshan and other generals, She Feihu climbed the incense burner peak, looked up to the east, and could see the Huaidong Army patrolling the warships on the Cao'e River, with sails and masts in the sun Shining brightly, it is reflected in the light of the river water.

"The Huaidong Army has been gathering troops and horses to Shangyu for ten days," Tian Chang said.

She Feihu's face was expressionless and tense as iron; the situation in Kuaiji was critical these days, and She Feihu came to Kuaiji from Dongyang County in person. Obviously, in order to change the situation in Kuaiji, it is not something that can be accomplished by rushing over.

Su Tingzhan stood on the side and did not say a word - Huaidong gathered his troops on the east bank of the Cao'e River. To avoid a repeat of the defeat in southern Zhejiang in Kuaiji, he could only draw troops and horses from western Zhejiang to fill the shortage of defending troops.

Defending Kuaiji is far from being as simple as defending a few cities.

After Mingzhou Prefecture and the coastal counties of Taizhou and Yongjia Prefectures fell one after another, the grain-producing areas controlled by the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Zhejiang County were only left with Dongyang County as the starting point and Quzhou Prefecture as the center. There are two places in the Kuaiji Plain, which are dominated by the counties of Kuaiji, Shanyang, Zhuji and Xiaoshan.

Especially in the counties located on the Kuaiji Plain, there are nearly two million mu of paddy fields alone.

Before the fall of Mingzhou, the extravagant family extracted 300,000 shi of grain from the counties of Kuaiji.

After the fall of Mingzhou, in order to support the increasingly heavy military expenditures on the east and west fronts, the She family doubled the amount of grain extracted from the counties of Kuaiji in the past year to 600,000 shi.

If only a few cities were defended, and the rural areas were infiltrated and controlled unscrupulously in Huaidong, the luxury family would not be able to collect another grain of rice from Kuaiji. 130,000 soldiers and horses on the east and west fronts in Zhejiang, I am afraid it will be a problem to eat enough, let alone regain the initiative.

In the past, the Huaidong Army's troops in Mingzhou, mainly in Shengzhou, forced the Zhejiang and Fujian troops to establish defense lines in Dongyang County to the west of Shengzhou and Tiantai County to the south. The Shangyu garrison on the east bank of the lower reaches of the Cao'e River was dominated by the troops and horses belonging to the Zhedong Camp Army and the Jinghai Third Water Battalion.

However, since the end of the war in southern Zhejiang, Huaidong's troops in Shangyu continued to increase, and the pressure on Kuaiji became heavier day by day. Although it was a precautionary measure in advance, troops and horses were dispatched from the surrounding Fuyang, Linshui, Dongyang and other places to make up for Kuaiji, which increased the Kuaiji garrison by forty battalions and more than 24,000 people, but there was still a shortage.

Because when the Huaidong Army attacked eastern Zhejiang last year, it grabbed the Cao'e River estuary almost immediately, and all the warships of the Zhedong water camp that hid in the Cao'e River were destroyed. As the boundary river between Mingzhou Prefecture and Kuaiji Prefecture, Cao'e River has been fully controlled by Huaidong Water Camp warships since then.

Such a defensive situation is extremely unfavorable to the Zhejiang and Fujian Army. The Huaidong Army controls the Cao'e River waterway, and can cross the Cao'e River from any place to enter the west bank and invade Kuaiji.

The Zhejiang and Fujian troops could only clumsily build fortifications and fortifications on the west bank of the Cao'e River to prevent the Huaidong Army from infiltrating the west bank.

The Incense Burner Peak of Kuaiji Mountain, where She Feihu and others were located, was the most important defensive village for the Kuaiji defenders in the southeast of Shanyang County.

Located between Kuaiji, Zhuji, Shengzhou and Dongyang counties, Kuaiji Mountain is the watershed between Puyang River and Cao'e River. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yue Kingdom built fortresses in Kuaiji, forming a group of fortresses located in the hinterland.

Building large-scale fortifications and stationing elite troops in Kuaiji Mountain will be able to control the Cao'e River in a commanding manner, and regain some terrain advantages.

"The direction of Laotangpu is not looking right..." Su Tingzhan has good eyesight. He can see the corner of the lower reaches of the Cao'e River from a distance.

The Cao'e River forms a "zigzag" shape when it reaches the lower reaches. After passing through Shangyu County, it will turn westward towards Shanyang County, and then turn northward at a point more than ten miles northeast of Shanyang County, where it joins the Qianjiang River from the northeast corner of Kuaiji County. .

Laotangpu is the corner of Cao'e River on the northeast corner of Shanyang County. Su Tingzhan said that the direction of Laoyongpu was not right. She Feihu, Tian Chang and others all tried their best to see that there were dense black spots gathering on the river surface - anyone with a discerning eye could think that the warship of Huaidong Water Camp was there. Gathering on the river...

She Feihu subconsciously thought that the Huaidong Army might cross the Cao'e River in Laotangpu.

In Laotangpu, the Zhejiang and Fujian Army requisitioned a village to build a fortress, and stationed a battalion of elite soldiers. However, depending on the concentration of the Huaidong water camp on the river, it is possible to send five or six thousand soldiers across the Cao'e River at a time. to the West Bank.

The military significance of fortified defense lines is mainly two: one is to prevent small groups of enemy troops from infiltrating and crossing the border; Time for the horses to assemble.

She Feihu, Su Tingzhan, Tian Chang and others, while dispatching troops and surrounded by squires, rushed to Laotangpu to supervise the battle.

When She Feihu and Su Tingzhan arrived at Laotangpu, the Huaidong Army had already landed on the west bank. Thousands of soldiers lined up next to the river embankment. A strong bow and a giant crossbow flashing cold light in between.

After the Huaidong beach array, dozens of warships were lined up in an echelon. It seemed that a pontoon was built directly on the Cao'e River, which was three miles wide. On the other side of the river, the Huaidong Army had a large number of troops and horses. gather.

The defending army of Laotangpu initially dispatched several hundred soldiers, hoping to make a surprise attack while the Huaidong army was not stable on the west bank.

However, the Huaidong Army invested two battalions of soldiers at the beginning of the beach attack on the west bank. The strength was far greater than that of the Laotangpu garrison garrison, and the hundreds of soldiers who attacked Laotangpu were defeated.

When She Feihu and others led the entourage to Laotangpu, the reinforcements from the left and right also gathered, increasing the strength of Laotangpu to more than 3,000, but the Huaidong Army beach grabbing force had already established a firm foothold on the west bank.

More than a thousand soldiers are standing by the river embankment, and more than a dozen warships are assembled on each flank, ready to throw troops and horses ashore to support the flanks; after the formation, a pontoon bridge is being erected, and more troops and horses are waiting to cross directly to the west bank through the pontoon bridge. Come.

"Is the Huaidong Army going to start another war?" She Feihu asked sternly.

I can't blame the extravagant flying tiger for being frightened - less than a month has passed since the war in southern Zhejiang.

Even if the Zhejiang-Fujian Army suffered more than 15,000 casualties in the war in southern Zhejiang, the Huaidong Army's casualties would not be less than 10,000. In addition to the brutal and **** casualties, the continuous siege of the city and the fortress also meant that the supplies were consumed on a large scale.

Often, the material consumption of the attacking side is far greater than that of defending the city; in the letters left by Qin Zitan, it is written that the Huaidong Army attacked Yongjia, the arrow feathers covered the sky and closed the sun, there was no day or rest, and the arrows could not be shot for more than a month. With millions of feathers, there is almost no place in the city.

During the attack on Yongjia, the Huaidong Army destroyed hundreds of large equipment such as rock-throwing crossbows and bed crossbows...

According to the general situation, in such a short period of time, the Huaidong Army should not have used a large number of troops.

Just like at the beginning, She Feixiong forced Dong Yuan to retreat and won the Fuyang victory; but after the battle of Fuyang, the troops and horses of She Feixiong who entered Fuyang and Linshui suffered heavy casualties, and the supplies and grains were exhausted, and they had to wait to be mobilized from the rear. . As a result, they lost the possibility of attacking Anji from Linshui, Ningguo from Dusongguan, and Huizhou from Qianqiuguan.

Su Tingzhan said: "The Huaidong Army planned to have a long-term confrontation with our army in southern Zhejiang, and should reserve sufficient materials; the war in southern Zhejiang has ceased, and it only lasted for more than two months, which should be longer than the Huaidong military. It was expected to be shorter, so the Huaidong Army should have some supplies left in southern Zhejiang..."

"..." She Feihu frowned and remained silent.

He, the governor of southern Zhejiang, was appointed in danger the year before, and he was almost alone in the post. The soldiers and horses in southern and eastern Zhejiang, including Yu Wenshan, Su Tingzhan, Tian Tang, Wen Tingrui, and Anxiajiang generals, were almost all his elder brother Shefei. Servant of the bear. But no matter what, the fiasco in the battle of southern Zhejiang still has to be counted on his head. Not to mention that the situation is even more difficult, Qin Zitan, as She Feihu's only trusted and reliant confidant in southern Zhejiang, was unfortunately captured in the battle of Nanxiyuan River Valley and finally hanged himself, making She Feihu truly. feel the pain to the bone.

After a while, She Feihu gritted his teeth and said, "No matter how much it costs, we must drive the Huaidong Army off the Cao'e River!"

Su Tingzhan and Tian Chang looked at each other, Tian Chang nodded slightly, indicating that Su Tingzhan would act according to what She Feihu said.

Su Tingzhan sighed bitterly in his heart that the Huaidong Army had a very strong ability to fight the beach, and it was definitely the elites of the Huaidong Army who were the first to dispatch the force to attack the beach. A dense array is in front of the front to prepare for the impact, and there are warships on both flanks that can cover the shore. It is extremely difficult to drive the Huaidong Army from the Cao'e River~www.wuxiaspot.com~ A better strategy is to lure the Huaidong Army to go Interspersed in depth, here you can rely on the river bank to defend the fortress and defend the village to attack.

Su Tingzhan knew that it would be extremely unfavorable to directly attack the Huaidong Army's beach defense array, but at the same time he knew that She Feihu became more and more irritable and impatient after the defeat in the southern Zhejiang war. Boldly, he sent troops to fight the Huaidong Army's defensive formation, and drove the more than a thousand Huaidong Army soldiers who had boarded the west bank down the Cao'e River.

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Lin Fu stood at the head of Lihai Fangzhai on the east bank of Cao'e River, looking at the battlefield to the west.

In order to fulfill the promise with Chen Xiyan, although the preparations were not enough, Lin Fu resolutely decided to send a large force of troops to cross the Cao'e River and use a large number of troops on Kuaiji.

At this time, Huaidong will also feel very difficult to use troops. After all, the materials are consumed in the southern Zhejiang battlefield, and they cannot be replenished for a while, but there are obvious benefits.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army is very dependent on Kuaiji's grain supply. At this time, it is the season of harvesting wheat and planting rice in southern Zhejiang. At this time, sending troops to cross the Cao'e River and the great war will naturally seriously interfere with the Zhejiang-Fujian army's summer grain collection in Kuaiji.

In order to use large-scale troops against Kuaiji, Lin Fu adjusted the deployment of troops and horses on the southern line on a large scale after the war in southern Zhejiang. The entry into the eastern Zhejiang battalion and the Jinghai third water battalion increased the size of the eastern Zhejiang battalion by 60 battalions, and the size of the Jinghai 3rd water battalion also increased by 12 battalions by more than 12,000 people.

As of the first ten days of June, the total number of troops stationed on the front line of Shangyu has suddenly increased from more than 10,000 to more than 50,000, not to mention the more than 10,000 elites located in the upper reaches of the Cao'e River and Changshan Island in Shengzhou, who can go down the river at any time. Enter the Kuaiji battlefield. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter