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In the middle and late July, there is hardly a war, and Lin Fu's whole mind is used to adjust the defense deployment of eastern Zhejiang.

Although the Huaidong Army had more than 80,000 troops on the southern front, with Mingzhou as the center of gravity, the Eastern Zhejiang defense line was divided into three relatively independent sections:

One is centered on Ouhai, and there is a need for garrison defense in Yongjia, Ouhai, Pingyang, and Huipu counties; one is centered on Shengzhou, guarding villages at the northern foot of Tiantai Mountain and the northwestern foot of Luohe Mountain, stationed with elite troops , to conduct a military confrontation with the Zhejiang-Fujian Army's garrison in Dongyang; firstly, focusing on Xiaoshan, the need for garrisoning in Shanyin, Kuaiji, and Xiaoshan, and even taking into account the threat of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army's troops stationed in Fuyang, Hanghu area.

About 60,000 infantrymen from Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, Changshan Battalion, and Zhedonghang Battalion, as well as more than 10,000 navy troops from the Jinghai Third Water Battalion, were forced to disperse nearly 70,000 troops on these three lines of defense. With 20,000 soldiers and the five battalions marching in eastern Zhejiang, Fu Qinghe did not have any more reserve troops in his hands.

Not only the main force of the infantry was trapped in the eastern Zhejiang defense line, but the main force of the water camp could not get out from the southern line.

The reason why Lin Fu dared to deploy the main force of the infantry camp in a relatively scattered manner on the third line of defense was to rely on the high-speed mobility provided by the sea route of the water camp and the Qianjiang waterway.

The Zhejiang and Fujian troops gathered their forces to attack one side, and the Huaidong Army could quickly adjust their strength through the water camps and warships.

Although it is more than a thousand miles away from Pingyang at the southernmost point of the defense line to Xiaoshan at the northernmost point, through the contact of the water-battalion and warships, they can assist each other within two or three days at the shortest, so it reduces the number of troops who are divided and attacked by the Zhejiang and Fujian troops. Danger.

Naturally, Lin Bie did not dare to transfer the main force of the water camp out of the southern route.

In addition, in addition to ensuring that Yizhou is safe, it is also necessary to continue to harass Quanzhou, Jieyang and even Guangnan County by sea.

Yizhou is not only a transit base for Huaidong to harass southern Fujian and Guangnan County. From the end of last year, Lin Fu officially decided to develop Yizhou Island on a large scale.

The number of migrants in the early days was limited, but since the opening of the southern Zhejiang battlefield, there have been more than 14,000 prisoners of war in the Zhejiang-Fujian army and prisoners of felony crimes in the Jianghuai region. Lin Fu handed all these people over to Sun Shangwang. To supplement the shortage of manpower to reclaim Yizhou Island.

At the same time, Lin Fu is also urging Jiangning to agree to move Laocheng to Yizhou Island, and use the prisoners gathered in Laocheng to promote the development of Yizhou Island.

Huaidong invested so much manpower and materials in Yizhou, and naturally there was no room for loss, but the garrison on the island was very limited, only three battalions of infantry, and they mainly relied on water camps and warships to block the Yizhou Strait. Zhao Qingshan led Jinghai The main force of the First Water Battalion is stationed on Yizhou Island almost all the year round.

In just two or three years, Huaidong expanded from more than 10,000 elite troops to 100,000 troops. When it came to the end, in addition to Chongzhou, the last remaining elite fighting force of Jinhai Battalion, which was less than 10,000 people, suddenly increased in strength. Also very stretched.

The only thing that can make people feel relieved is the victory in southern Zhejiang and the victory in Laotangpu, in addition to annihilating more than 27,000 soldiers and horses of Zhejiang and Fujian troops (including more than 6,000 exiled from Yizhou Island and more than 7,000 local village soldiers) In addition, they also seized nearly 100,000 pieces of armor, including more than 12,000 sets of armor, and more than 9,000 crossbows.

In addition to the expansion of the battalion in eastern Zhejiang, more than 6,000 sets of armor and more than 4,000 bows and crossbows were saved. Calculated by the 50% armor rate, it was enough to equip another 20 battalions of armored soldiers.

Fighting has always been a matter of rising and falling. The strength of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops can be made up with a bite, but it will take several years to make up for the damaged armor.

After the She Family built the peace talks, nearly 100,000 old soldiers were disarmed and returned to the fields, and their armour was put into the warehouse. Although the military strength was once reduced to less than 20,000 people, the military potential was still there, and it was not weakened - precisely since the She Family raised the flag of betrayal again. , the total number of Zhejiang and Fujian troops has rapidly expanded to a huge 200,000, and the total number of troops and horses far exceeds the supply of the previous reserve armor, and the average combat strength has a tendency to decline.

Huaidong Ordnance Superintendent employs more than 30,000 craftsmen in order to achieve the annual equipment manufacturing capacity of 20 battalions of armored ordnance. This is still the manufacturing level achieved after Huaidong's in-depth promotion of the workshop system and greatly improved efficiency. Two years of financial resources were almost dragged down, and it was even impossible to maintain half of Huaidong's armor manufacturing capabilities.

This means that if the armor lost by the Zhejiang-Fujian Army this time cannot be captured from other places, it can only be made up by itself, at least it will take six or seven years to make up for it.

The stronger the stronger and the weaker the weaker, just like Yan Hu captured a large number of armour from the border army, Huaidong was much more abundant in the supply of armour.

The savings from this seizure, plus the storage of the Ordnance Supervisor for more than half a year, Huaidong can still equip 30 to 40 battalions of armored soldiers.

However, Lin Fu had to consider the financial pressure Huaidong was facing at this time.

Lin Fu and Lin Mengde wanted an additional advance of one million taels for the military, and Lin Mengde and others were already jumping up and down. quit.

The 40th battalion maintains the establishment of the battalion, and can actively participate in local water conservancy, land reclamation, road construction and other industrial affairs. In addition to helping the local production resume, nearly half of the cost of the battalion can also be directly included in the local financial expenditure.

Even if the investment is large, the benefits are not small, especially since Lin Fu built a large-scale water conservancy project in Huaidong, the local area has benefited greatly. In addition to the large amount of wasteland transformed into grain fields, the original fields have greatly increased their ability to resist drought and flood, and continue to produce high grain yields.

If it weren't for the generous donation of the Huaidong Army and the number of grain workshops in Chongzhou, Hecheng, Guanyintan and other places, the price of grain in Huaidong would have been much lower than the surrounding areas.

It is precisely because the total number of soldiers and soldiers of the Huaidong Army exceeds 200,000, and within the Huaidong area, the number of workshop households who do not engage in farming has increased year by year, and the total number has reached 110,000. This part of the population, except for the Huai East transports 800,000 stone of rice grain from Haidong every year. The main problem of eating grain is relying on Huaidong's self-produced rice grain. It can be known that Huaidong's current total grain output is far from what it was four or five years ago, when Lin Fu was not the owner. Huaidong can compare before.

The most successful experience of this is that Huaidong has maintained a large-scale labor camp for a long time.

Once the 40th battalion of soldiers and horses are equipped from the brigades and organized as pawns, not only will these people no longer be able to contribute to local affairs, but also a lot of extra military resources will be spent, which will undoubtedly make it a little stretched at this time. Huaidong's finances are worse.

Lin Fu could only grit his teeth to see if the situation would improve after the autumn and winter seasons. Even if Liu Yefei and Dengzhou Town surrendered to Yanhu now, they would not be able to draw the main force of Jinghai's first and second water battalions from the southern line. Come out and destroy the Dengzhou town camp and shipbuilding and ship repairing base.

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In late July, Emperor Yongxing and the prime ministers finally reached an agreement on the defense of Huaixi, not to set up a separate envoy, but to set up the Yuqian Haoshou Army. 20,000 soldiers and horses returned to Dong Yuan's command, stationed in Haozhou and Shouzhou, and controlled the troops of Guoyang, Luzhou and Dongyang.

Jiangning no longer let Dong Yuan go to run the place, and added the word "Yu Qian" to Hao Shou's army. The intention was to implement the military system of "wartime soldiers and horses are controlled by generals, and when war is over, generals return military power to the imperial court". .

In July, there is a fire, and after the late ten days, the weather is not as difficult as summer, and the wind and waves in the East China Sea also tend to calm down. In order to return to Chongzhou as soon as possible, Lin Bie chose to take a boat and go by sea.

Before that, from late May to late July, there were as many as five hurricanes that swept through the sea from Jishan Island to Changshan Island in a depth of nearly a thousand miles. In the area under the jurisdiction of Huaidong, Changguo Island was the most severely affected by the typhoon in late June. Fortunately, the disaster relief was timely. Except for 19 people who were crushed to death by collapsed houses or disappeared, other losses were minimized.

By the end of July, the storm season in the East China Sea cannot be said to be completely over, but the probability of hurricane sweeping is greatly reduced. And the ability of the little princess-class super-large sea ship to resist storms is not comparable to that of ordinary sea ships. As long as it is not unlucky enough to be swept by the wind belt in the center of the hurricane, under normal circumstances, it can even withstand huge waves with a height of two feet.

When the boat entered the estuary, the flood peak discharged from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and after reaching Jiangning, the river bank suddenly became dozens of miles or even nearly a hundred miles wide. A lot of debris rushed from upstream.

The first to enter the field of vision is Jiangmen, which is also a fortress built by Huaidong based on the piers built by Jiangning.

In addition to investing some people in Guanyintan in the early days, Laocheng was mainly located in Jiangmen in the later period.

A large number of exiled prisoners were released to Jiangmen. In addition to some of them being used for reclamation and planting, more were set up to build various workshops. After the Guanyin Beach filled the factories of the shipyard and the ordnance supervisor, Jiangmen, Hecheng and the suburbs of East Gate of Chongzhou actually became the gathering places of civilian factories.

In addition to a large number of prisoners in Jiangmen, there are more than 10,000 workshop households, and the urban rate is even higher than that of Danyang, Kuaiji, Mingzhou and other big cities.

Jiangmen is currently affiliated to Hecheng, but in terms of the scale of workshops, Jiangmen has already entered the ranks of large counties.

Lin Fu originally intended to settle in Jiangmen, stay one night and then go back to Chongcheng. As soon as the boat docked, the post riders from Chongcheng chased Jiangmen and brought two pieces of bad news:

First, Qin Zongyuan, who was granted the envoy of the East Sichuan system after the year, defeated Cao Yiqu in Deyang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and led his troops to surrender to the Cao family, appointed the Cao family as the envoy of the East Sichuan system, and continued to lead his troops to attack and occupy Sichuan. East Refugee Army.

Second, in mid-July, Chen Zhihu led his troops to dump Yangxin and crossed the Xiaoqing River, first defeating part of the Qingzhou Army guarding the Xiaoqing River, and then attacking Linzi. Since the main force of the Qingzhou Army was trapped in Yangxin, the Linzi defender was less than a thousand people. The Liang family's reinforcements were far away, and Chen Zhihu led more than 10,000 elite troops to attack Linzi. He seized the city within three days.

"Chuandong may not be bad news," said Gao Zongting, touching the short mustache on his lips, "Qin Zongyuan and Gong Yucai fought in Chuandong for three or four years, and they failed to win a victory. The counties in eastern Sichuan have been beaten to pieces. At this time, the east and west of Sichuan are all given to the Cao family. If they are not rectified, they will not be enough to dominate the world. However, letting the Cao family win the east of Sichuan as soon as possible is beneficial to the main force of the Cao family. Return to the north in time to guard against Yanhu..."

It was a matter of the Qin and Han dynasties when the capital was all closed and the world was ruled.

In the past five or six hundred years, the water conservancy in Guanzhong has been severely damaged by natural and man-made disasters. Years of severe droughts have made it a bitter frontier.

Before Dayue, the Chen and Yan dynasties were no longer both in Guanzhong. Apart from the threat of aliens in the west, the most important thing was that the real estate in Guanzhong was not enough to support the capital, and the waterway of the Yellow River from Tongguan was too narrow. It is not conducive to importing grain from other places.

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