Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1309 Recovering Leling
Compared with the heavy army gathered around the upper reaches of Fengfen, which is very lively, Le'an, located in the northern border of Qingzhou, is much more lonely, so that here the king's division crossed Hebei and attacked Leling in southern Hebei without any obstacles. Apart from the intrusion of some township tycoons and cross-border bandits, there was hardly any decent resistance.

Those in charge of attacking Leling were Qingzhou Guanggu Army Governor General Xu Ning, Water Army Governor General Xu Mao, and General Mo Zhong who had been sent to Le'an earlier.Although Xu Mao is the main general of these three groups of troops, there is no obvious master-slave relationship among them. It can also be said that they are fighting on their own. Governor Shen Mu has given them different combat missions.

Xu Mao's navy was originally part of the river defense army, but with the opening of sea routes, especially after the increasingly frequent cross-sea contact with Liao, they gradually stationed in Le'an Harbor, and recruited sailors before going to Taiwan Moving westward, Xu Mao's troops became the most important naval force staying in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Originally, Xu Mao was supposed to return home to reinforce Fen Fen, but after Fen Fen fell and the war resumed, he was ordered by Shen Mu to stay in Le'an and wait for orders, so there was no need to rush back west.

After Shen Mu formally determined the overall strategic thinking of this battle, Xu Mao's naval force became the most important force to cross the river and attack many defensive strongholds along the coast of Leling.

Although this naval army has a strength of more than [-] in name, more than half of them are either boatmen, soldiers at the local water port in Le'an, or soldiers escorted by sea ships, and they are clearly under the command of Xu Mao. Even dissatisfied with the number of the three armies, it can reach more than [-] people.

However, the defensive forces along the Leling area in Jie State are even weaker. Jie State does not even have an established naval force stationed here. It mainly relies on some local powerful villages to organize fishing boats to resist the Jin army along the river and sea. approaching or landing entry.

The reason why the defense is so slack, on the one hand, is naturally because the Jie country does not have enough strength, and it is simply not willing to invest a lot of money in building river and coastal defense lines.On the other hand, there are secret constraints and obstructions from these local tyrants.

These tyrants in Leling do not want the center of the Jie Kingdom to insert too many hands into the countryside. This is naturally due to the nature of the tyrants. Another reason is that they are reluctant to give up the high profits of trading with Qingzhou in the south.

This kind of smuggling behavior is not prohibited by the officials stationed in Qingzhou, but is encouraged in private.Therefore, Leling can be said to be the biggest window for the large-scale influx of goods from the southern countries into Hebei. All industries in Hebei are dying, and all uses are in a hurry, and all kinds of needs must be relied on outside.

Leling is close to the river and the sea, and these local tyrants themselves have the benefits of fishing and salt. .

Naturally, Shi Hu would not turn a blind eye to this point, but the reason why he was able to restrain himself was naturally because the various goods pouring into Hebei through Leling had indeed solved the urgent needs of Jie State in all aspects.If he controlled this territory in his hands, Jin people might not be able to trade, and it would be like cutting off a channel for external supplementation.

Moreover, Leling was controlled by Shao Xu, a native of Jin, in the early years, and it was not brought under the rule of Jie until very late.Yanci controlled by Shao Xu in the old years even became the last stronghold of the Jin Kingdom in Hebei.

Years of wars and attacks have already made Leling Township sluggish to the extreme, because it is the current tyrants who are entrenched in the territory and reaping business benefits, some of them are military leaders stationed by the Jie Kingdom in the past, and some of them are There are not many Donghu people from the Xianbei Duan family, but there are not many Jin people in Leling.

So even if they wanted to betray Zhao to Jin, they might not accept them because of their always arrogant Jin temperament.Of course, Shi Hu will not let these people help Nanguo to search for Hebei's wealth and grease, and ignore them. He has to extort huge amounts of money from these tyrants every year, so he will indulge them a little bit, leaving a size beyond the law. land.

And this part of the goods obtained has also become one of the few incomes of the current Xiajie country besides the poverty of the countryside.

Previously, Xingtai focused on the western front, and did not have any large-scale development plans on the eastern front, so the past few years have been uneventful.But now, not to mention that the west line of Xingtai has gradually been decided, and it can be used to look eastward. Just because Jie Guoshixuan started the war lightly and attacked Fufen rashly, it is impossible for Xingtai to give up.

The previous so-called appearance of making money from harmony was suddenly torn away, and Master Wang's ferocious claws and claws immediately came out mercilessly.After Xu Mao's navy crossed the river mouth, they swept along the line, and within a day they pulled out dozens of defensive strongholds along the waterfront of Leling.

These strongholds are called garrison locations, but in fact, there are not many military operations. They are more like warehouses and warehouses for the distribution of goods. When the Wang Shishui army rushed to attack, some of the Jie soldiers inside were still turning over the sun. Parallel imports, and even fishing along the water, have no concept or awareness that the war has begun.

Following the navy was an army of [-] cavalry originally stationed in Taishan County led by Mo Zhong.With the navy's early removal of strongholds, these cavalry were sent to the land of Leling County by ships without any hindrance.After a short rest, he aggressively attacked the inland of the entry area, encircling and annihilating any garrison strongholds along the way who dared to resist.

The current Leling County is extremely empty both inside and outside. The county soldiers and powerful tribes who were originally stationed there, generally of any size, have been conscripted to Pingyuan County to gather for battle, and then they were rushed by Shi Xuan. Move to Fufu.

Even if there are still some left behind in the county, the number is not too many, and they were caught off guard by the Jin army, so they didn't dare to take the lead.Therefore, after Mo Zhongshui's army entered the country, within a day, they killed hundreds of miles away from the county, and directly arrived outside the city of Yanci.

Yanci city is still the old city left by Shao Xu when he was in the country in the old days.In the past few years, the land of Leling County has been greatly enriched. After further repairs, the city looks deep, wide and tall, and there are still thousands of soldiers stationed there.

But these defenders were naturally hard to call elites. Seeing the Jin army approaching so aggressively, they didn't even dare to poke their heads out.

Mo Zhong's cavalry did not forcefully attack the city, but passed around the city, focusing on attacking the Jie troops in the surrounding counties who dared to show up to reinforce Yanci, as if they were in an uninhabited land, invincible.

Not to mention whether the local guards in Leling were conscripted away, even if they were still on standby in the plains, Mo Zhong would not dare to be so unscrupulous with [-] cavalry.

But he knew in his heart that most of the Jie army in the plain had already marched westward. In the current Jie country, if another army strong enough to stop him would emerge, it would take at least five or six days.

Mo Zhong naturally didn't dare to waste the opportunity created by the general Shen Mu. He changed his horse and ran all the way, killing for two days and one night. After outside the city, Mo Zhongcai led a group of exhausted cavalry back to the barracks outside Yanci city to rest.

Yanci City is deep, wide and tall, and there are more than [-] guards in the city. It stands to reason that it will not be conquered in a short period of time.Moreover, Wang Shi didn't have many troops to invest in this battlefield.

After all, the North and the South have been confronted for many years, and the two sides have a little understanding of each other's military deployment, and the gap is not too big.Shi Xuan was able to gather nearly [-] troops to defend the siege. If Shen Mu wanted to have enough power to encircle or even break through, he would definitely need to raise a lot of troops, so there were not many troops that could be sent to the side battlefield .

If there is another difference in the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, it is that the remaining forces of the Jie Kingdom in southern Hebei are basically scattered among the powerful or Hu chiefs in various villages, and it is relatively difficult to coordinate and recruit in a short period of time.

The Jin army is a military government with a strict structure, especially around Guanggu, Qingzhou, which can mobilize nearly [-] troops in a very short period of time, which has become an additional force that Shen Mu can use flexibly in the overall planning and layout. , has also become the most important force for him to crack the current situation.

After Xu Ning arrived in Yanci, Xu Mao, who had completed the task of eradicating and mopping up the outer strongholds, also pulled out, and with 2000 people as a wave, he sent three consecutive reinforcements to Yanci City.In this way, nearly [-] Jin troops gathered outside Yanci City.

The [-] defenders in the city were isolated and had no support, but they saw the Jin army outside the city increasing their troops again and again. Soon the enemy outside the city surpassed the number inside the city by several times, and it was not known whether there would be reinforcements in the back.

Especially when the general artillery of Xu Ning's army began to bombard the city, it blasted a small gap in the originally unbreakable city in a very short period of time, and there were still outside the city that Mo Zhong had previously mopped up the county. The powerful family members who were captured kept shouting, so after another difficult night, the defenders in the city raised a white flag and left the city to surrender.

After taking Yanci City, Xu Ning and others can say that half of the mission of this battle has been completed.Xu Mao followed into the city, and seeing the familiar city with all kinds of features, the grey-haired veteran couldn't help but burst into tears, and he just sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity..."

Xu Mao was a general of Liu Xia in Xuzhou in the old year. Because he was excluded by his colleagues, he had to seek help from Jiangdong. This is how he got acquainted with Shen Chong, and thus embarked on a completely different path from his colleagues in the old year.

Liu Xia is Shao Xu's son-in-law. After the last stronghold of the Jin State in Hebei was attacked by the Jie State, he led Shao Xu's old troops to the south, and was involved in the internal strife in Jiangdong shortly thereafter.

It can also be said that Xu Mao fought bloody battles here in the old year.Now that I revisit the old place, I am no longer the isolated and frightened city defender in the old days, but an identity as a conqueror and recoverer.My mind was turning back and forth, and I couldn't tell whether I felt sorry for the two generals who I had followed in the past, or felt lucky for myself.

After staying in Yanci city for one night, Xu Mao bid farewell to Xu Ning who was about to stay in the city: "I'm old and sad. When I heard the news of the death of the second year of high school, I was already in tears, and now I don't want to stay in the old place anymore. The troops continued northward."

Xu Ning didn't hold back either, and sent Xu Mao and Mo Zhong, who was also leaving the country to go north to the Bohai Sea, away from Yanci City, and then returned to Yanci City, hurrying up to repair the city's defenses.

The task that Shen Mu entrusted to the master of this road, first of all, Leling County must be in his hands, and as for the Bohai Sea in the north, it is to grab as many as he can during this gap period, and disturb the land of Hebei. The rare money and food center, strive to make the Shi family father and son have no money to survive this cold winter!
(End of this chapter)