Lord of the House

After the discussion was over, the crowd walked out of Lin Bie's hut in Juchao City. Yuan Jinsheng called to the Jingzhou prefecture, who came from Jinghu on behalf of Hu Wenmu, to sentence Wei Jinyuan: "Master Wei, Master Wei," Yili said, "Jinsheng Be polite here..."

"You're welcome, Young Marquis!" Wei Jin Yuan was in his forties, with a thin and long face, and his beard seemed to be glued to his lips. Seeing Yuan Jinsheng calling him, he stood up, bowed to Yuan Jinsheng and saluted when he saw Liu Tingzhou Came from behind and gave another salute.

"It's still early, and Jinsheng would like to invite Lord Wei and Lord Liu to taste the deliciousness of Chaohu Lake. I found out that there is an excellent source in the city. Can Lord Wei and Lord Liu give you a face?" Yuan Jinsheng asked.

"Master Young Master has an invitation, but Jin Yuan can't ask for it." Wei Jinyuan said.

Jinghu and Nanyang face the Changle bandits from Xiangfan and Suizhou together, and their interests are relatively the same, but because the channel is blocked, any official correspondence must be detoured from Xinyang and Shouzhou.

I don't want any activities to be exposed under the eyes and noses of Huaixi and Huaidong. The two can only do business honestly, and there is not much personal friendship between the core characters.

There has never been any substantive secret talks between Nanyang and Jinghu, including Huaixi. Yuan Jinsheng and Liu Tingzhou could not understand Jinghu's attitude towards Huaidong stealing Jiangning and controlling the government.

Jinghu Lake is far away from Jiangning. If Huaidong is based on Luzhou and penetrates westward, it will border Jinghu Lake in Jichun, but now Lin Bing has made it clear that Yicheng will be included in the defense zone of Chizhou, which makes Jinghu. There is no direct conflict of interest between the lake and Huaidong.

When Lin Fu was discussing the military, he claimed that whoever fought with his heart would get more money and food. To be honest, Liu Tingzhou was worried that Lin Fu's move was to divide other vassals.

Deng Yu naturally didn't have the heart to accompany Liu Tingzhou, Yuan Jinsheng, Wei Jinyuan and the others out for a drink today. He also had to write down the conclusion of today's military meeting and send someone back to Chizhou.

Yuan Jinsheng invited Liu Tingzhou and Wei Jinyuan to find a restaurant in the city.

Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and fled westward, and the damage to Juchao was particularly serious. In the past six months, the city was still very depressed, and only two or three wine shops had put up signs to welcome guests.

These years are not so particular. Liu Tingzhou in Shouzhou and Yuan Jinsheng in Nanyang have a hard time wanting to eat meat. They go to the wine shop and ask if they have wine, meat and fish. Yuan Jinsheng and Liu Tingzhou also talked about individuality, and they had no shape when they tasted it, and Nanyang and Huaixi were too bitter.

"This Chizhou is regarded as a military order. After October, it will use troops against Jiangzhou. Jinghu's troops in Ezhou cannot escape the duty of restraining from the west wing," Yuan Jinsheng asked, "Jinsheng asked no questions. If I should ask, how many troops are likely to be invested in Ezhou by the autumn queen over Jinghu?"

"Master Young Master is worried that our troops will be insufficient to guard against Changle bandits in the north?" Wei Jinyuan asked.

Yuan Jinsheng didn't know for a while whether Wei Jinyuan was really confused or pretended to be confused. He thought that what he meant in his question was clear enough. Could it be that Jinghu really wants to help Huaidong to destroy the luxury family honestly. ?

After the meal, Wei Jinyuan didn't tell the truth, and Yuan Jinsheng was a little worried.

On the way back to the inn, there was Wei Jinyuan there. Yuan Jinsheng and Liu Tingzhou were inconvenient to talk about anything, so they entered the inn. Wei Jinyuan returned to the inn to rest first.

Yuan Jinsheng sighed softly: "Jinghu has never suffered from Huaidong, I'm afraid he has greed for Jiangzhou..."

Liu Tingzhou looked at the moonlight floating on the tops of the osmanthus trees in the atrium, frowned, listened to Yuan Jinsheng's words, nodded, and said: "Huaidong's actions are probably a plan to make friends far and near, if Hu Wenmu doesn't help If the imperial family is thinking about it, it is hard not to fall into Huaidong's trap. Think about it, when the privy envoy agreed to put Yicheng under the jurisdiction of Chizhou, Wei Jinyuan's expression..."

Yuan Jinsheng frowned and thought, thinking about it, it was indeed possible.

Jinghu Lake is sandwiched between Jiangxi, East Sichuan, Xiangtan and Xiangfan: Luo Xiancheng has 200,000 soldiers and horses in Xiangfan, no matter how empty or how much there is, it is certain that it will be difficult to destroy for a while; East Sichuan is the Cao family, Xiangtan is the Zhang family. Like Jinghu, it is nominally a commander appointed by the imperial court to rule over the various vassals. Currently, it shares Jiangxi with the other families, which is the only opportunity for Jinghu to expand outwards in the near future.

Chizhou puts the ducks on the shelves. If they don’t fight after the autumn, they will fight. Tanzhou requires self-protection. It must also try to weaken the military strength of the She family from the south of Luoxiaoling to the west to Xiangtan. .

Yuan Jinsheng recalled the details of the military meeting. Deng Yu requested that Yicheng on the north bank of the Jiangbei be assigned to Chizhou. Wei Jinyuan frowned subconsciously. He must have been very dissatisfied with this arrangement. The core area of ​​the east line controlled by Jinghu is far away from Jiangxia, and Wei Jinyuan has no reason to stand up to stop Chizhou from taking Yicheng over.

At present, the possibility of Yue Lengqiu's development in the east has been eliminated. If you want to gain a firm foothold, you can only expand to the west. If Yue Lengqiu finally occupies Jiangzhou, and then manages Huangmei in the west according to Chizhou and Yicheng, It will inevitably compete with Jinghu for control of the Eastern Chu region. To prevent this from happening, the best way for Jinghu is to occupy Xiajiangzhou first!

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Aiko died in battle, and Ai was captured on the east bank of Gucheng Lake. So far, I don't know where he was imprisoned in Huaidong. He also abandoned his old past, defected to Huaidong, and cut his robes to become enemies. Pressed in his heart, after Shewenzhuang arrived in Jiangzhou, his beard and hair were dyed like snow.

At the beginning of the year, Jiangzhou was successfully captured, and most of the Bamin elites also successfully withdrew into Jiangxi, without suffering the disaster; Huang Binghao, Yang Xiong, Chen Zishou and other generals were attached, so that the luxury family got more than 50,000 yuan for nothing. Combat strength - and in the series of wars in Mindong, Yijiang, Liyang, etc. that started after the fall of last year, the troops that were damaged in Huaidong's hands were less than 40,000.

That is to say, the troops controlled by the She family increased by more than ten thousand compared to before the war. After the war, Jianyong was recruited from Jiangzhou and Yuzhang to be incorporated into the army, and the scale of troops and horses was continuously expanded.

After occupying Jiangzhou, the twenty counties along the Poyang Lake and nearly twenty counties along the Gan River basically fell into the pockets of luxury families, with little resistance left, and most of them retreated into the deep mountains and old forests. Hard to do great harm.

In such a situation, it should be slightly better than the situation where the first family members were beaten last year, but Shewenzhuang, She Feixiong and others all know that there is a greater crisis in the silence - they occupy more than forty counties in Jiangxi. True, but Huaidong will never give them more opportunities to rest and recuperate.

Long Shi Hu Zongguo pushed open the door and came in, holding a crumpled note in his hand, watching Shewenzhuang sitting in front of the koan and reading the letter, saying: "Luzhou secretly reported, Lin Bie summoned all the vassals in Luzhou to discuss It is indeed the matter of employing troops in Jiangxi after the autumn - Lin Fu placed Yicheng on the north bank under Chizhou, and Yue Lengqiu first dispatched a group of troops and horses to cross the river to rectify the ruined city."

Shewenzhuang took the secret report from Luzhou and read it, then spread out the map and asked Hu Zongguo to sit in front of the case and study with him, tap his finger on the Huangmei position on the opposite bank of Jiangzhou and the tail ridge of Huaishan, and said: " It's here!"

The entire southern foot of Huaishan is about three or four hundred miles wide from east to west, bordering the river and the mountains, and there are shoals and lakes and silts along the river. The existence of these shoals and swamps makes it very difficult to cross the river.

Only on both sides of Yicheng and Huangmei, there are ridges that extend directly to the river bank. The land is solid, the river bank is stable, and the river channel is narrow. It is easy to build land and water wharfs, and it is also very convenient to cross the river.

After Shewenzhuang led the remnants to retreat to Jiangzhou, he first built a garrison on the opposite side of Huanglongling to control the key points along the river in Huangmei County.

The defender of Huanglongling was Han Li, a general of Zheng Mingjing who broke out from the east bank of Gucheng Lake.

Zheng Mingjing personally led the elites to intercept the broken tail in order to ensure that the main force could withdraw into Jiuzi Mountain in time. In the end, less than a thousand of the more than 8,000 dead soldiers who stayed with Zheng Mingjing on the east bank of Gucheng Lake to contain Huaidong troops and horses broke through.

To occupy the site, usually a few points enclose an area. When Yue Lengqiu sent troops to the north bank, it was bound to move westward along the north bank of the river and the southern foot of Huaishan Mountain. In the end, it was bound to seize control of Huangmei, the tail ridge area at the southwestern foot of Huaishan Mountain, with the She family.

The Huangmei Remnant City can not be occupied, but the luxury family cannot give up the Huanglongling on the north bank and a dozen miles south of the Huangmei Remnant City. Once Huanglongling falls, not only Jiangzhou City will be under the peeping of Huanglongling on the other side, but also the mouth of Poyang Lake, which enters the hinterland of Jiangxi, will also be under the peeping of Huanglongling on the other side.

"It's true or false, there's always going to be a battle!" Hu Zongguo said, "It's just difficult to understand Huaidong's movements!"

After the autumn, the most difficult thing to fight is Huaidong. Not counting Huaidong's troops in Jin'an, its troops on the western front exceeded 120,000, mainly concentrated in western Zhejiang and Luzhou...

"Huaidong will fight Shangrao in the autumn!" Shewenzhuang moved the map down, pointing out the location of Shangrao, "Huaidong cannot join forces with Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu to attack Jiangzhou from the waterway, and take Luzhou, Yi Jiang's troops are transferred to the south, and Huaidong can gather 100,000 troops to attack Shangrao from the west of Zhejiang!"

Hu Zongguo's back was chilled:

After the Jiangning War, in order to avoid the dispersal of the troops to the Huaidong Army, they voluntarily gave up Quzhou, Fuyang, Huizhou, Chun'an, Wuyuan and other places, and concentrated the troops previously scattered in the west and middle of Zhejiang to the upper circle. , Xinzhou and other cities, to guard the east gate of Jiangxi, and even transferred 10,000 elites from Jian'an Prefecture in the middle reaches of the Minjiang River to supplement the east line.

Even so, they had only 30,000 troops on the Eastern Front.

The eastern line of defense built by 30,000 soldiers and horses makes people not confident that they can defend against the attack of 100,000 elites in Huaidong? To transfer troops from Jiangzhou to supplement the Shangrao line of defense, how much do you need to draw to have the confidence to hold it?

Wanting to be here, Hu Zongguo felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

In this way, the total number of troops and horses under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of Zhejiang and Fujian is not many:

There are 20,000 elites in the middle and upper reaches of the Minjiang River to control Jian'an, Pucheng, Shaowu and other areas in western Fujian, Shangrao and Xinzhou eastern defense lines, with 30,000 soldiers and horses, to defend the Huaidong Army from west Zhejiang; Next, the remaining resistance forces of the Chao Fan family, Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou led 30,000 soldiers and horses to march west from Yuanzhou, hit Tanzhou via Luxi, and then the soldiers and horses stationed in Jiangzhou, with a total of more than 70,000 water infantry troops. .

Over the years, the strength of the She family has not decreased significantly. After all, the area under control has been increasing, and there are battle losses. You can recruit strong and brave soldiers to make up for the soldiers. In the chaotic autumn, you can eat food, and are willing to carry spears and spears to the battlefield. There are many men who are fighting; even if they are unwilling, they are forced to enlist in the army, and they are left to the local villagers to choose?

It's just that these 170,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses can no longer be compared with the hundreds of thousands of elites in the second battle of Bamin. There are less than 60,000 soldiers left in the real Bamin war. The rest are new from Zhejiang and Gansu. recruited soldiers or surrendered troops.

Former Councilor of the two Zhejiang Admiral's Office, Huxi Guard Envoy and Governor of Pengze County Tian Chang, former Jiangzhou System Settlement Envoy, Xiangtan Recruitment Envoy and Director of Yuanzhou Prefecture Huang Binghao, former Dongting Lake Bandit, Jiangzhou Navy Governor Yang Xiong and The original East China Sea pirates and the Jiangzhou naval commander Su Tingzhan were all not directly related to the Eight Fujian Provinces, but the total number of soldiers and horses they commanded exceeded 90,000.

Huang Binghao swindled She Feixiong to surrender and was forced to leave Jiangzhou, but he led his troops to Yuanzhou as the base, and he tried his best to want Xizhou, and created a new territory to stand on his own, weakening the control of the She family over him. Yang Xiong was quite proud of his position as the governor of the Jiangzhou Navy, but his navy did not have the strength to compete with the Huaidong water battalion in the Yangtze River. Tian Chang and Su Tingzhan were able to fight Huaidong to the death. There were various factors. , but it cannot be guaranteed that they will not bribe Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu at the last moment - Tian Chang and Su Tingzhan are now stationed in Jiangzhou, and they are dealing with Jinghu and Chizhou - he and Jing There is no grievance between Lake and Chizhou. If Jinghu and Chizhou come forward to win over, people's hearts will be unpredictable.

If Huaidong really started after the autumn, the time left for the luxury family was too short - only half a year had passed since the Jiangning war ended and they were evacuated to Jiangning.

Before the war in Jiangzhou settled, the counties along the Poyang Lake served as a buffer zone for the war, and agricultural production was greatly affected. The luxury family occupied Jiangzhou and tried their best to restore production, but the time was too short, only half a year. It's just that, in such a short period of time, it is difficult to have any effect.

In order to raise food for the army, even though they knew that local agricultural affairs were far from being restored, they still insisted on imposing a large proportion of the summer tax. Poyang County, Guankou, Ganyuan and other counties had to send troops and horses over because of the chaos of the people. Repression, and even a large number of peasant households fled into the deep mountains and forests for tax evasion - the luxury family occupying Jiangxi wants to gain a foothold and relocate hundreds of thousands of people from Fujian. buffer period.

Who would have thought that Huaidong would not be given for a year, and he would be ready to be born after the fall, and the pressure was so overwhelming that people could not breathe!

When the decision was made to march north from Huizhou to attack Jiangning, in addition to transferring the troops and horses of Yue Lengqiu from Jiangzhou, the main purpose was to destroy the economic foundation of Jiangning's periphery and make Jiangning incapable. Restart the war in a short time.

Huizhou North, Chizhou East and dozens of counties around Jiangning are one of the core elite areas of Jiangnan, with a population of about 500,000 households. After Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne three times, these dozens of counties, plus Jiangning City's summer tax and autumn levy, various local levies, extra tax levies and various miscellaneous donations, totaled about three times a year. million taels of silver.

Political turmoil, the balance between the forces of the various vassal forces, and the sudden loss of such a large tax source, and to maintain the stability of the two Huaihe defense lines to prepare for the captives, there are as many as 14.5 million refugees who have to invest a lot of extra money. Resource resettlement and relief, the price of rice and taxes in Jiangnan have reached the limit that the people can bear - Hu Zongguo and others believe that even if Huaidong can control Jiangning, they need to sort out these things well and digest Jiangning, no matter how much it takes two or three. It will only take years to have the spare energy to fight again. How can you think that the parties have been silent for half a year, and they are ready to fight again...

"Could it be that Huaidong made a false shot?" Hu Zongguo asked hesitantly. There was no one else around, and there were not too many taboos to discuss the issue, so he was not afraid to shake the military's heart.

In fact, Huaidong was not capable of making a large-scale invasion in western Zhejiang after the autumn, but it was not impossible to create momentum to force them to dispatch troops to achieve the purpose of further consuming Jiangxi's resources.

"I'd rather Huaidong faltered a shot, and we have a big false alarm," She Wenzhuang shook his head and said, "But for more than half a year, Huaidong settled the situation around Jiangning without using his own reserves, or even There is still enough money to spend a lot of money to build a school, which shows that Huaidong still has the ability to fight another battle in western Zhejiang..."

Hu Zongguo's heart tensed for a while, Huaidong really wanted to fight after the autumn, plus Chizhou, Jinghu, and Tanzhou, how would they deal with it this year?

"Is there any news from Chen Hansan today?" She Wenzhuang asked.

"Not yet," Hu Zongguo asked. "When the commander-in-chief attacked Jiangning, Luo Xiancheng did not move. Can we really count on him at this time?"

"Luo Xiancheng is short-witted and unrelenting, but he has stood with 200,000 soldiers and horses until now, and he will not be a bum. The time we spent in Jiangning is too short. Luo Xiancheng failed to respond in time. Yan didn't have time to make any moves, after all, Huaidong was too fast!" She Wenzhuang said, "This trip, even if Luo Xiancheng still does not move, borrowing more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to lead Chen Hansan to the south, he can still Share a lot of pressure for us!"

"That's the only way," Hu Zongguo said. "If it doesn't work, I'll send someone north tomorrow..."

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Xuzhou was defeated, and Chen Hansan led the remnants to flee into Huaishan.

With the support of Huaidong and Jiangning, before the fall of last year, Nanyang and Huaixi focused on rectification and prevention, and strengthened the blockade of Tongbai Mountain and Huaishan Mountain. The people moved into the village, the Xiaozhai and the Dazhai. The village was protected by the village, and the village was directly. Liang Chengchong and Dong Yuan soon formed a copper-walled blockade of Huaishan in Nanyang, Xinyang and other places. Luo Xiancheng was afraid of offending Jiangning and insisted not to let Chen Han San led the remnants to Suizhou to rest. Last year, Chen Hansan's more than 3,000 remnants lived among the mountains and mountains of Huaishan, living like a bereaved dog.

When the She family invaded Jiangning from Huizhou, Chen Hansan's power was too weak, and the She family mainly sent people to win over Luo Xiancheng, but Luo Xiancheng was too cautious and never dared to make any move, and Chen Hansan was trapped in Huaishan~www.wuxiaspot. com~ It was not until the soldiers and horses of the luxury family were expelled from Jiangning by the Huaidong Army that they learned of a series of changes in the war after the Huizhou war.

When Shewenzhuang led the remnants to retreat into Jiangzhou, and joined the main force of Shefeixiong's Yuzhang army, it seemed that after gaining a foothold in Jiangxi, Chen Hansan was afraid that Ma Zhen would sneak to Jiangzhou to see Shewenzhuang, and proposed to surrender...

Shewenzhuang has no intention of directly accepting Chen Hansan's submission. Chen Hansan led his troops to join him, but it only added two or three thousand dead soldiers, and it could not improve the crisis the She family was facing at this time - Shewenzhuang deliberately supported Chen Hansan's construction in the south of Suizhou and the southwest of Huaishan Mountain. The Jichun area is self-reliant to form a third-party force connecting Jiangxi and Xiangsui.

Obviously, even if Luo Xiancheng was interested in uniting with the She family, he would not want to see the She family's power develop to the north shore and occupy Jichun and other places. Jichun is connected to Suizhou in the north. At that point, Luo Xiancheng must consider the danger of annexation to the luxury family.

Support Chen Hansan to be self-sufficient in Jichun. On the one hand, if Chen Hansan's forces develop in a short period of time, it will not be enough to threaten the Changle army. Using Chen Hansan can connect Jiangxi with the Changle army and replace the Changle army. Share the military pressure of Jinghu - this kind of plan is easier for Luo Xiancheng to accept, and even secretly supports it.

Unlike Luo Xiancheng, who became conservative after he gained power, Chen Hansan had almost nothing after his defeat in Xuzhou, and he was even more ruthless and fought for his life. At this stage of the luxury family, it is even more necessary for a character like Chen Hansan to stand up and charge into the battle. , would rather assign the North Shore Jichun, Huangmei and other places to Chen Hansan to occupy independence. This is better than bringing Chen Hansan directly under his command, and it can better resolve the military pressure from Chizhou and Jinghu on both sides.

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