Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 746 Dilemma
Although the town has decided to abandon the defense of Runan, how to evacuate is also a problem.

If it's just pure transport capacity, the Huainan Army can be drawn out.Although Xi Jian led a part of the Xuzhou army to leave Xuyi, he did not completely ignore the Huainan army, and still left a considerable part of the force.Among them were dozens of warships, and even two huge ships of that kind, probably to express their apology to the Huainan Army.

Although the idea of ​​turning to Huaiyin was proposed by Shen Zhezi, the situation at that time was different from the current situation.At present, the Jienu Central Route Army has been defeated and temporarily retreated. If the two towns can send troops together and go up through Yingshui and Weishui, then there is a great possibility that Jienu's newly defeated and panicked army will be surrounded and wiped out in the southern part of Henan. Give Shihu a chance to breathe.

But in this way, there is no doubt that the Huainan Army is the leader in this battle, and the Xuzhou Army has only received a little help in the auxiliary attack.Such a situation is somewhat unacceptable to both Xi Jian and those military leaders in Xuzhou who have always been rebellious.Moreover, if the Xuzhou army goes far away, the internal defense will be empty, and the enemy of Huaiyin may go south to attack the heart of Guangling.Taking big risks without getting enough credit.

Therefore, the Xuzhou Army still chose to open up a new battlefield, unwilling to become a vassal of the Huainan Army in Huaizhong.

For the Xuzhou Army's decision, Shen Zhezi had no choice but to accept it, and anything else was superfluous and useless.

Runan, especially the land of Xuanhu, is naturally a favorable location, but because it has been dilapidated for a long time and it is not easy to repair, it is not of great strategic significance for the defense of Huainan as a whole.The reason why the defense was set up before was mainly to appease and protect the refugees in Huaibei, but now it has gradually become a burden.Therefore, sticking here is far inferior to withdrawing manpower to Shouchun to strengthen the strength of the town.

A considerable number of these refugees gathered in Runan had already passed through Huainan to Yiyang.However, due to Jingzhou's defense dispatch, Jiangxia was unable to respond, so tens of thousands of people still stayed here.Later, Taobao came south and drove a large number of people hiding in the countryside here.Right now, how many refugees have gathered in the place of hanging gourd, even Mao Bao doesn't have a specific idea.

Such a large-scale retreat and relocation is very difficult even on weekdays, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of peach leopards around.

So although the town had made this decision, it did not evacuate immediately.The navy sent another batch of funds to maintain people's hearts. On the one hand, Mao Bao dispatched troops to repel the invasion and attack of the Peach Leopard slave army again and again. On the other hand, he also counted the population and household registration. evacuate.

The governance of the current Xuanhu Land can be said to be extremely chaotic, and there is no order at all.Not to mention that the town did not prepare too many talents in this field for Mao Bao. Even if there were, it would be really difficult to establish any order in this situation where refugees were influx and slave soldiers were frequently intruding.The reason why it has not completely collapsed until now is because the area around Xuanhu is hard to get in and out, and the slave soldiers are all around, so if you stay here, you can survive temporarily, if you really run away, you will die immediately.

Regarding the decision to retreat in the town, Mao Bao only explained to Li Cang, but did not reveal much to the others.It is not easy for the land of Xuanhu to be able to maintain it now. If it is known that the Huainan army is about to withdraw, the people who are already full of fear may collapse immediately and chaos will occur. When the news is learned by the slave army, they will definitely stop the attack along the way.

After more than ten days, the offensives of the slave army became more and more frequent, and internal strife and other signs of chaos began to appear in the Xuanhu Land due to lack of resources. It was difficult to maintain it.After discussing with each other, Mao Bao and Li Cang didn't even dare to separate their troops to defend them. Instead, they began to assemble their troops and defend them in several fixed areas.I am worried that once the troops are dispersed too much, they will be attacked by some treacherous Liang Liang and slave soldiers mixed in with the villagers.

There is also a rough statistic of the villagers gathered in the place of hanging gourd, there are nearly 7 men, women, old and children, and as for the men and women in their prime, there are only less than [-].This was also a situation deliberately created by the slave army. When they cleaned the countryside, some males and females were naturally used as slaves, while the old, weak, sick and disabled were driven into Xuanhu as consumables.

These 7 people are completely unorganized villagers.In addition, there are Li Cang's troops, the original troops plus the young men who have been recruited since the defense of Runan.If you add the Huainan army guarding Rukou under Mao Bao, even if it is just to support Ding Li's retreat, the number of people who need to retreat is nearly 2.

But this is impossible, once the retreat begins, it is absolutely difficult to complete it in a short time.At that time, there will inevitably be a large number of people swarming up, so the Huainan Army needs to prepare at least 5 passengers, and there must be enough troops to break through the interception of the slave army. This is undoubtedly an extremely serious task.

When Mao Bao was still trying his best to maintain it in Runan, Shouchun Town had already started various arrangements to prepare for it.Since a considerable number of households in this town have been resettled in Liang County, Hefei, etc., the capacity of Shouchun Township is still sufficient.However, considering that the people in Runan have not been organized and reorganized, it is not suitable to be directly resettled in the town, so some temporary shelters were opened between the mountains and ditches in the west of Shouchun to let the people who retreated from the south temporarily. Stay among them, and then gradually absorb them into Shouchun Township.

At the same time, with regard to the specific steps and route of retreat, there have been many discussions in the town recently, and many plans have been proposed. Even Shen Zhezi himself, accompanied by the generals, went up the Huai River in person and went around Yingkou to inspect the specific situation of the retreat route. Make more appropriate preparations.

This time when Runan withdraws its defenses, the obstacles it will face are not only the Taobao troops who are besieging Xuanhu.

In the previous battle of Yingkou, although Jienu Shihu's central army was successfully pushed back, due to the flooding of the Huai Road, Yingkou's original defense and interception function was greatly reduced.In the upper reaches of Yingshui, Jiehu's navy still maintained a complete structure and combat effectiveness, and did not participate in the previous Yingkou battle.

In terms of combat effectiveness on the waterway alone, Jiehu's water army is not an opponent of the Huainan army.Although there is no large-scale massing of the southward plunder, the frequent southward disturbances have recently restrained a considerable part of the energy of the Huainan navy, and this part of the slave army does not focus on winning the battle on the water, but focuses on breaking through the Huainan army. The interception of waterways, the carrying of small groups of slaves across the Huai River to harass the place, burning, killing and looting, did everything possible, which caused a lot of trouble to the defense of Shouchun's western border.This is also one of the reasons why Shen Zhezi wanted to call back the Runan Army to increase the strength of the headquarters' defense.

As for the slave army Taobao's unit, there were as many as [-] slave troops along the way, and they were independent divisions. They did not participate in the battle of Yingkou, and were less affected.Moreover, Tao Leopard does not have the same ambition as Shi Hu. If Nan Lai is not stable, he has to rush to a decisive battle with the Huainan army. Instead, he gives full play to his superiority in strength, cleans up the mountains and fields, and encircles the hanging lake step by step, leaving the Huainan army in a dilemma. The choice is either to increase the number of troops in Runan, or to abandon the defense and shrink back.

The slave soldiers roamed the four wilds in the early years, and now they have widely occupied the Central Plains, but old generals like Taobao still maintain a strong style of gangsters in terms of tactical intentions. War feeds war, and human life is the existence of consumables.His troops have recently attacked the Xuanhu area violently, but they have never penetrated too deep, and they are advancing and retreating. On the one hand, it is naturally because of the Huainan army's tenacious counterattack, and on the other hand, they have not exhausted their full strength.

Obviously, Taobao intends to besiege the people of Runan here, so as to attract the Huainan army to devote more troops to this place.There is no large-scale and well-organized water army under his command, and the only boats and ships have heavy transport capacity, so it is difficult to directly put them into combat.There are too many ditches in Runan, except for the main stream of the Huai River, including the Ru River, due to too many diversions and insufficient water power, so it is not easy for the Huainan navy to gather and dispatch on a large scale here. is advantageous.

The current Runan, if it sticks to the rules, it will be a bottomless pit, which cannot be filled at all, and the collapse is not far away.If they retreat, they will also face great difficulties. Not only will they have to bear the resistance of the peach leopards, but if too many troops are invested and Shouchun's defense is empty, Shihu's central army is very likely to come south again.

Of course, this does not mean that it was a wrong decision to fortify Runan before. The defense of Runan has its own significance, and the most important thing is naturally to appease and protect the refugees in southern Henan.

This time the Slave Kingdom used troops, the force of conscription was unprecedented since the founding of the nation, and it severely damaged the livelihood of the people.Just in the southern part of Henan, although it is not desolate for thousands of miles, it is still full of fish, and it is extremely cruel.

A large number of families were destroyed. If there is no vigorous recruitment and resettlement, these people will undoubtedly die in large numbers in the subsequent wars.Runan has not been fortified for a long time, and the number of people in southern Henan recruited and transferred has reached tens of thousands.Although these people crossing the Huai River will cause great pressure in the short term, they are also the gathering of Jin people's vitality and will be the basis for the future large-scale northern expedition to the Central Plains.

Moreover, the fortification of Runan greatly delayed the progress of the Taobao Department of the slave army.If there is no block from Runan, it is very likely that during the battle of Yingkou, the Huainan army will not only face the pressure of Shihu's powerful Chinese army, but also deal with the threat from the west. It is absolutely difficult to win the battle of Yingkou in a very short time. victory.

From a military point of view, since the town does not intend to maintain the front line in Runan for a long time, the best way is undoubtedly to withdraw its troops directly.But in this way, it is undoubtedly handing over the tens of thousands of people in Xuanhu to Jiehu. One can imagine what the fate of welcoming them is.

So after more than ten days of discussions, Shen Zhezi still decided to bring as many people as possible to Huaihuai.In addition to being bound by morality, there is no lack of courage among these people, and they are an extremely high-quality source of soldiers. After a little rectification, they can be directly added to the Huainan Army.

(End of this chapter)