Lord of the House

In Sishui, which is not bound by river banks, after May, the river swelled up and spread to the beach on both sides of the river.

After the summer, all the waters between the rivers and Huaihe overflowed, further restricting the movement of the Yanhu cavalry between the rivers and the Huaihe. In comparison, Huaidong warships can penetrate deeper into Henan and western Shandong, making the battle between the two sides in the defense line after the summer and autumn, and the balance tilted towards Huaidong.

Beiyan's troops and horses in Jining and Dongping, north of Xuzhou, all shrunk behind the defense line.

After Xuzhou entered the summer, the direct war pressure it faced was relieved, which was beneficial to agriculture. Farther in the field of vision, it is the wheat seedlings that are beginning to head, and they can be harvested in half a month. This is the second harvest season on the north bank of the Huaihe River after the war in Xuzhou. The people in the fields seem to have forgotten the pain caused by the war and are just waiting for the harvest season to come.

Liu Miaozhen, Wu Qi, Li Wei, Chu Zheng, Sun Zhuang, Ma Lantou, Li Liang, Liu Xilin and other generals Xu Yi went out of the city to welcome them at the Sishui wharf. It has been nearly a year since last year's southward expedition to Fujian. Liu Miaozhen was wearing red armor, but not her bronze mask, and her face as bright as peach blossoms was valiant against the armor.

Liu Miaozhen led the generals to perform the ceremony of the chief minister, Lin Fu held her hand in the palm of his hand and did not let go, and asked, "In the past half a year, Xuzhou has been under a lot of pressure..."

Liu Miaozhen couldn't pull her hand back, her face flushed, but Li Wei was informed and knowledgeable, and answered Lin Fu's question on behalf of Liu Miaozhen: "Everything is under the master's calculation, and I act according to the policy and there is no pressure."

"Mr. Li also learns to say good things to fool people!" Lin Bie said with a smile, "Jiang Ning is trapped, and I'm still sweating on my nose, can you sleep peacefully?"

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Lin Fu came to Xuzhou for the first time, and everyone knew what he was interested in. He was not bothered by the military and government, and asked him to meet Liu Miaozhen for a few days. Song Fu, Chen Huazhang and others were also free to attend and accompany Li Wei, Ma Lantou, Sun Zhuang and others. .

Song Fu has not been out of Fujian for nearly 20 years. In the future, if he wants to assist Lin Fumou's calculation center, he feels that his grasp of the situation in the world is not enough. "On paper, I feel shallow." The opportunity to walk around and take a look is also very rare. When I came out this time, I walked around non-stop; the same is true for Chen Huazhang.

Both Song Fu and Chen Huazhang were over fifty years old, with a lot of hard work and gray hair. Li Wei was older than them, but had black hair.

Lin Fu was busy reuniting with Liu Miaozhen, and Song Fu and Chen Huazhang took this opportunity to get in touch with all aspects of Xuzhou.

To be able to drive away Chen Hansan and capture Xuzhou City, can also be said to be 12 points of luck to Huaidong.

It was precisely because of the capture of Xuzhou City that the Xusi defense line was complete. Seeing that it was difficult for Beiyan to break through the two Huaihe defense lines in a short period of time, it decisively turned to the defensive in Henan and Shandong. Therefore, after the autumn of last year, the conditions were ripe for launching the Mindong offensive, and then a series of changes were made, so that the overall situation of Jiangning can be controlled today.

If the city of Xuzhou is given to Beiyan, there will be a brutal tug-of-war on the north bank of the Huaihe River. Even if Huaidong can block the onslaught of Beiyan's 200,000 to 300,000 troops and defend the Huaihe River, life will never be easier. He breathed a sigh of relief and got a chance to recuperate—Song Fu finally made the decision to lead the Song family to join Huaidong, and also saw Xuzhou City fall into the hands of Huaidong.

Xuzhou is located between the rivers and the Huaihe River. The northeast is the uninterrupted Lunan Mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles, the north is the rivers and lakes, and the west is the remnants of the Lunan Mountains extending towards Huaiyang, surrounded by mountains. Bian River and Si River bypass Xucheng from east to west and connect with Huai River, which is also known as the first hub of Huai Si.

The transformation of the world's general trend is often in the line.

Song Fu had never had contact with Chen Hansan, but when he thought of his rise as a local ruler, he should be a bit of a hero. I don't know how he felt today when he was expelled from Huaishan and became a bandit again. ?

Lin Bie could only be happy for a few days in Xuzhou City, Liu Miaozhen's bed affairs were jerky, but he added a lot of fun, making him reluctant to think about Shu. It was not until mid-May that he made up his mind to go with Liu Miaozhen to inspect Xu Yi's front-line defense.

Before leaving, Wu Qi, who was in charge of intelligence affairs in the North and the military affairs of Yishan, reported that the Yanhu royal family and the princes and ministers had left Yanjing and returned to Liaoyang for summer for two consecutive summers. According to the information received, the Yanlu princes and ministers will move north to Liaoyang to escape the summer after the summer of this year. The time should be in early June. At this time, a small number of elites will be dispatched to break into the Bohai Sea with warships. Summer rides and horses may be able to perform miracles..."

Wu Qi put forward this proposal, and the people of Xuzhou were also very interested.

If the chariots and horses of the princes and ministers who are going north to escape the summer in Western Liaoning can be severely damaged, the initially sound military and political system of Beiyan will be completely disrupted; if they are lucky enough to hunt down the captive king, they may force the Yan captives out of the customs without fighting. go.

Lin Fu frowned slightly and said, "This plan is not bad, but if it is implemented at this time, it may not be able to make a miracle. What does Duke Song think?"

"It is not suitable for the time being," Song Fu said. "The princes and ministers of Yanluo go north to Liaoyang to escape the summer heat, and there will be no shortage of guards and horses. If the princes and princes of Yanluo go north with 20,000 cavalry with them, Huaidong will not be able to draw enough to defeat them at this time. The troops of 20,000 elite cavalry came from Yuguan to Liaoyang. There were also many fortresses built by the Yanluo, so they could escape in danger. When the Huaidong troops and horses landed on the shore, it was difficult to be caught suddenly. The matter. This tactic does not work at this time, it should be strictly kept secret, and the implementation will have to wait until the conditions are ripe, and then throw 40,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers in western Liaoning all at once, only then can you be sure of success!”

"After next year, the navy of Yanlu in Dengzhou will gradually become large, and it will become difficult to break into the Bohai Sea." Wu Qi said.

Between Dengzhou and Jinzhou in the southeastern corner of Liaoning Province, Haikouzi is only more than 100 miles wide, and there are dense islands such as Miaoshan. Beiyan can easily form a blockade chain on Beihaikou in Dengzhou, protecting the Bohai Sea on the inside.

Song Fu smiled and said, "Don't talk about the Bohaikou in Dengzhou, and the luxury water army came here, can you block the Yangtze River and completely block the advance of the Huaidong Water Camp?"

The mouth of the Yangtze River is also more than a hundred miles wide, but the water depth of the mouth of the Yangtze River cannot be compared with the mouth of the Bohai Sea, so it is easier to block than the mouth of the Bohai Sea. In just two or three years, it has caught up with the level of the luxury water army.

The navy of the She family lost their armor and armor to the Huaidong water camp. Huaidong is confident and does not need to worry about the ability of the Yanlu to seal the mouth of the Bohai Sea.

Song Fu continued: "At the moment, not only should we not stop the Yanlu from blocking the Bohai estuary, but we should also convince the Yanlu that they have the ability to block the Bohai estuary, so as to urge their troops and horses along the coast of Bohai Bay to move away... If you want to attack Zhejiang from the east and west, If Dongzhi’s strategy works again, it will definitely block Yanlu’s vision.”

Yanhu did not have a navy, and in the battles in southern Yan, he also initially learned how the Jiangdong Left Army moved quickly by sea and carried out logistical supplies. The important places are stationed with heavy troops to guard against the attack of Huaidong soldiers and horses from the sea, and at the same time build a naval army in the Ludong area.

There is no way to move these troops and horses away, and the effect of the surprise attack from the sea will become limited, which will evolve into a tug-of-war and a war of attrition in the offshore area. However, it should also be considered that the Yanhu people have a wide and deep hinterland in the north, which will weaken the actual effect of disturbing the coast of Yanji.

Lin Bie nodded and said, "If you want to fight, you must fight hard. If you make Yanlu make up his mind to shift his political focus to Jinnan or Jinnan at this time, it won't be particularly beneficial to the future situation..."

It will also take more than three years for the Donghu people to digest the northern land, and they have a good grasp of Jinzhong and Yanji.

When the Western Liaoning Corridor was increasingly threatened by sea routes, the Donghu people could also build a detour from the direction of Datong to the western foot of the Taihang Mountains, connecting the traditional areas of Yandong and Yanxi Huhus to the Central Plains through Jinzhong. Although the efficiency is bound to be far inferior to going directly through the Liaoning Corridor, it can also make the Donghu people support the situation and not collapse immediately.

If the Donghu people can take the first step to capture the Guanshan area and open up the channel for Xiangfan to invade Jinghu, it is hard to say who will kill the deer in the world.

At this time, the roots of the Donghu people were still in the Liaodong and Liaoyang areas, and the cultivated land and Dingkou resources of the Yanji Plain were far richer than those of Jinzhong at the western foot of the Taihang Mountains. Although the offshore area is vulnerable to the invasion of sea routes from Huaidong, the convenience of connecting Liaodong and Yanji areas by the Liaoxi Corridor is extremely difficult for the Donghu people to reluctantly abandon.

When Huaidong was still at the foundation of its operation, it could not help the Donghu people make up their minds to abandon the coastal areas.

Song Fu added: "I think that Huaidong is currently on the eastern front. One is to strengthen the tug of war between Yishan and Yan's troops in Ludong, and the other is to strengthen the assistance to Zhen's family in Haiyang County, Gaoli. Yanlu deepened the impression that Huaidong wanted to open up land passages from Shandong and the Korean Peninsula, and then threatened its hinterland in an orderly manner, forcing it to deploy more troops to eastern Shandong and southwestern Liaoning."

At this time, the frontal defense line of Yanlu in Henan and Shandong was mainly composed of three sections. Henan was dominated by Chen Zhihu. Yan, headed by the rebel general Yuan Lishan in Jizhen, built the Western Luxi defense line with Tai'an City as the central area, and there were more than 40,000 horse infantry stationed in Ludong; There are more than 40,000 horse infantry troops and navy troops stationed in the prefectures and other places - behind these three lines of defense, Ye Jiduodi has nearly 40,000 elites in Jinan to be prepared, forming a strategic depth.

In the past, the confrontation between Huaidong and Beiyan on the east line was mainly concentrated on the Xuzhou side, and the defenders of Xuzhou were as many as 40,000; this was also due to the relatively flat terrain in the west of Lu, and the majority of Yanlu troops could pass quickly, and Huaidong could not. In order to concentrate heavily on this side of the defense.

In the east of Xuzhou to the north of Yizhou, the mountains of Yishan, Mengshan and Kunyu Mountain are vertical and horizontal, forming a geographical barrier that blocks the north and the south, which is not conducive to the passage of the army. The military pressure directly faced by Yizhou is relatively small, and the actual competition is the right Yimeng and other mountainous areas. Therefore, the deployment of troops on this front is dominated by the Yishan Resistance Army, which is only 10,000 troops, far from being comparable to Xuzhou.

In the past, Huaidong was on the defensive in the Xusi line of defense, and only the troops were deployed with the east and the west. Now, the Yanlu has completely abandoned the plan of directly attacking the Jianghuai hinterland from the east line, and switched from defense to offense, and Huaidong is here. to be positive.

On the open terrain of Luxi flat, Xuzhou's 40,000-50,000 troops were not enough to form a counter-offensive advantage against Jining, Dongping, Tai'an and other cities. In contrast, strengthening the deployment of troops on the front line of Yizhou and strengthening the competition for Yishan is more likely to threaten the soft threat of the Yanluo in eastern Shandong, thereby attracting the Yanluo's forces in Jidong and Yandong to the front...

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