Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 880

The mayfly light vehicle is a type of vehicle used by the Huainan Army for transportation. As the name suggests, this vehicle is shaped like a mayfly, with a thin and light board, two wings stretched together, a full elliptical lower shaft, and the axle wheels can be disassembled.This kind of vehicle weighs about two hundred catties and does not require animal power. Usually, two or three strong laborers can use it for transportation.

The reason why the Huainan Army wanted to build this type of transport vehicle was because of Chenliu's special combat environment.The land of Chenliu is shaped like a belt, next to a big river, with a chasm passing through it, and the waterways in the domain are extremely rich.Between Yucheng, Fugou, Weishi, Yuanling, and Junyi, the terrain is open and flat, and there is a large area of ​​fertile soil available for cultivation.

This kind of terrain is naturally beneficial to the large-scale assembly and attack of the army.Therefore, when the Huainan army continued northward from Xuchang to attack Chen Guang's rebel army in mid-April, in just ten days, they took down more than [-] walls of Chenliuwu and killed [-] rebel troops with little effort. More than [-] people were captured in Dingkou.With a sweeping momentum, they wiped out all the strongholds set up by Chen Guang's rebel army on the outskirts of Chenliu.

In May, the land of Chenliu was still under the control of the rebels, only a few places such as Yongqiu, Chenliu Ancient City, Liangyuan, Cangyuan, and Waihuang.Moreover, because the war in Qingzhou in the east was progressing smoothly, Shen Mu, Li Hong and others took down Guanggu City in Qingzhou, where Shihu's general Ran Min and others were entrenched in World War I, and completely wiped out Shihu's forces south of the Yellow River. Yanzhou has increased its troops, and the former army has arrived in Jiyang, which further squeezed the space for the rebellious army to operate.

It's just that the progress of the next battle was not too smooth. On the one hand, Yongqiu and other places were the key bases of the rebel army's operations, and they were deeply rooted in this area.On the other hand, due to the great changes in the topography of this area, there are many river marshes, scattered canals, and countless pits, which caused great inconvenience to the movement of the army.

It should be known that the chasm is not a natural waterway, but artificially excavated to lure water from the Yellow River to connect many waterways in Henan. Therefore, since ancient times, this area has been plagued by floods, and the river often swells and wreaks havoc on the countryside.In addition, the land of Chenliu is also the essence of the Central Plains. It has been developed for a long time, and there are also erosion of civil repairs, which makes the water situation and topography of this area extremely complicated.

After Yongjia, there were frequent wars in the Central Plains, and the river channels were in disrepair for a long time.In the past few years, Chen Guang's rebellious army also deliberately took advantage of such terrain for internal reinforcement, which exacerbated the flooding in this area.As of now, there isn't even a complete road for access.Around Yongqiu alone, there are more than a dozen swamps and flats, including Huangze, Baiyangpi, Xiayongze, and Gaoshipi.

The Huainan army's large-scale northward march this time is to eradicate internal troubles in one battle. Although the terrain here is complicated, they will never give up halfway. With Tian Jing, Jian Ning, Ji Hong, Duan Qi and other generals, a total of [-] soldiers entered the battle. Suppress the rebel army.In the follow-up, Han Huang led seven thousand cavalry as his successor, and he was about to wipe out the chaos army completely.

The Governor's Mansion attached great importance to this battle, and the Shengwu Army directly led by Shen Zhezi alone invested [-] troops.The newly-built Shengwu Army is not only well-equipped, but its members are selected from among the armies. Not only is it unstoppable to fight alone, but it is also extremely capable of individual combat.

In mid-May, the armies officially launched an attack on the rebel army gathered in Yongqiu from Gaoshipi, which is located southwest of Yongqiu.However, this battle was extremely unsuccessful, and it can even be said that it was a rare defeat since the Huainan Army became an army.Before the battle even started, vicious incidents of failure, loss, and complete annihilation occurred one after another.

One of the commanders along the way was veteran Ji Hong, who was originally in charge of capturing Gaoshi Fort, a fortified area in Gaoshipi, but he fell into a trap by mistake during the march. Nearly a thousand soldiers were almost wiped out by the rebel army, and Ji Hong was also here. die in battle.

Although the Huainan Army successfully captured Gaoshibao in the follow-up, the reason was that the rebel army voluntarily gave up, and the Huainan Army almost picked up this dock wall for nothing.Moreover, due to the lack of follow-up and the Yongqiu rebel army's strong walls and clear fields, the Huainan army that had penetrated deep had no choice but to retreat and set up a camp to the south of Chenliu's old city, where they confronted the rebel army.

Although the battle of Yongqiu could not be said to be fruitless, it also sounded the alarm for the fierce Huainan army, especially in the situation where all the troops were in danger of being wiped out and the generals were besieged. The vicious incident to death also made the generals who participated in the war feel ashamed and angry.

Sending such a battle report to Xuchang also touched Shen Zhezi deeply. Although he thought he had paid enough attention to Chen Guang's rebellious army, he still didn't pay enough attention to it.Because of the previous experience of successfully suppressing Liu Zheng's rebellious army, it should not be a big problem to solve Chen Guang in Shen Zhezi's view.If this kind of mentality falls on the military, it will inevitably be a little too hasty.

Now that the war has progressed, the strategy of the Huainan Army has become completely clear, to blockade Luoyang in the west and wipe out the internal troubles in Henan.In the past, in his opinion, the Chen Guang army entrenched in Chenliu was just a case of mange, so he didn't pay too much attention to the details.

Although he had maintained the encirclement and suppression of Chen Guang's rebellious army before, in fact, the series of tough government orders he implemented in southern Henan still provided Chen Guang with an opportunity to strengthen himself.

This point was actually revealed when Chen Liu's outlying strongholds were pulled out.The population density in Chenliujing is far higher than that of Huainan, Runan and other places before.In other words, almost all the township sects who refused to accept his administrative orders in southern Henan turned to Chen Guang in the north.So much so that today's Chen Guang has become a stubborn cancer. Even if he is not aggressive enough, his army is entrenched here and has a large number of people. It is really not an opponent that can be wiped out with one blow.

The local wars in this aspect are not progressing smoothly, which will have a chain of adverse effects on subsequent wars.First of all, the tiny place of Chenliu restrained more than 1 front-line combat troops of the Huainan Army, which was a huge loss in terms of money and food.Moreover, the recalcitrant attitude of Chen Guang's rebellious army shows that even if the combat effectiveness of the rebellious army is resolved, it will not be easy to appease and digest those rebellious people in the future.

Secondly, due to the existence of the chaotic army, it is equivalent to a hard bone between the Huainan army and the Xuzhou army, preventing the two armies from being smoothly connected through the waterway of the Yellow River.And this directly affected Shen Zhezi's follow-up battle plan.

The Huainan Army has mobilized more than 10 troops this year, so it is naturally impossible for the main target to be Chen Guang and Liu Zheng, the two surviving chaotic troops, or even Luoyang's peach leopards.Shen Zhezi's imaginary enemy has always been Shi Kan, who has a large army and is entrenched in Yecheng, Hebei.

Whether it was the joint suppression of Liu Zheng with the Xuzhou Army, or the encirclement and suppression of Chen Guang by the Huainan Army, including the follow-up sweep of Henan by the two coalition forces, they were actually clearing the battlefield for the later battle with Shi Kan.

In fact, the current battle situation in Henan and Hebei is similar to the battle of Guandu in the early years.Although Shi Kan is entrenched in Hebei, in fact, he does not belong to the core force of Jie Kingdom at all, so Shi Kan does not participate in the raging battle for Xiang Kingdom in Hebei today.Of course, if Shi Le's widow Liu Shi can still exert influence normally, Shi Kan can still join the struggle for the highest power in the Jie Kingdom with a dummy as the Queen Mother's strong support.

But now the Liu family has been abolished and banned by Cheng Xia, and even assassinated. Now Cheng Xia is holding the elder king Shi Hong hostage, and Shi Hu is holding the young king Shi Hui hostage. The chips are in hand, and neither of the two parties has the possibility of co-existing and cooperating with him.Therefore, at present, Shi Kan still focuses on the separatist regime, and the focus is on Henan, and he also wants to avoid direct conflict with the orthodoxy of Jie Kingdom.

Those with a similar mentality include Shi Sheng who is now trapped in Guanzhong.Although Guanzhong was extremely chaotic, if Shi Sheng wanted to escape, the other parties would wish to lose a major enemy, and would not fight Shi Sheng desperately to make wedding clothes for others.But Shi Sheng showed no signs of leaving the customs, because he also knew that Hebei would not have his place, so he might as well seek the rise of the frontier.

Of course, Taobao in Luoyang is an exception. Taobao is neither a kinsman, nor is he a highly appealing elder of the Jie tribe like Kui'an, and as he gets older, even if he has the ambition of Shi Le, he has no ambitions. time, even his people can't seek independence and self-reliance.

The reason why his people are still able to guard the Luoyang Emperor's House at the moment is that although all parties are fighting endlessly, the real trend of separatism has not yet formed.Not only Shen Zhezi was thinking about the old capital of Luoyang, even after Shi Kan and Shi Sheng had stabilized the situation, they would definitely regard Luoyang as an inevitable target in the next step.The reason why Taobao can still sit on tens of thousands of defeated troops is not that they have any extraordinary leadership, but that those soldiers can't see where the road ahead is, so they can only stay safe for the time being and hug together for warmth.

Shi Kan wants to seek a way out from Henan, so the Huainan Army will inevitably have a battle with him.Shen Zhezi's original plan was to completely wipe out Chen Guang's rebellious army before June, and then gather heavy troops from the Huainan Army to deploy on the south bank of the Yellow River. In the First World War, he dispelled his ability to interfere in Henan, and then he guarded the front line of the Yellow River and attacked Luoyang from the west.

The reason why Chen Guang was first attacked instead of Luoyang was because Luoyang was in danger of eight passes, and the goal was too big.Once Shen Zhezi went west to Luoyang, whether it was Shikan in Hebei or Chen Guang in Henan, they would definitely fish in troubled waters and send troops to interfere.

It was not the case for Chen Liu. Although Chen Guang was subordinate to Shi Kan in name, he was an independent force after all. To Shi Kan, he had neither personal pain nor conflict of goals.Even if his people want to send troops to interfere, they will definitely control the scale, and it is absolutely impossible to send heavy troops to the south to fight Huainan to save Chen Guang.

As for Peach Leopard, Luoyang was his shelter and also a layer of shackles.It's like an old farmer with a lot of money in his arms, who dare not leave home even for a while.He should be more willing to stay out of the matter, to be a oriole after the mantis catches the cicada, to sit and watch the success or failure, waiting for a piece of the leftovers, it is impossible to give up such a superior base in Luoyang and raise troops to go out to participate in a war that has no profit at all. middle.

However, the Huainan army encountered obstacles in the process of destroying Chen Guang's rebellious army. This will bring many unpredictable effects to the war. It is even possible that Shi Kan will come to the south on his own initiative, and Taobao will become restless. The army may have to face multi-line operations.

Fortunately, Shen Zhezi set a big combat goal at the beginning of the war. In the case of maintaining the west encirclement and east suppression, Xuchang, the temporary base camp, has already gathered more than [-] troops. The army can also not fall behind, but it can't maintain its absolute advantage as expected.

　I was originally weak in war, and it was more difficult to write about this kind of multi-party war environment.I worry that the main story is not clear if I open too many branches, and I worry that the plot will not be full if I write too much from the main perspective. Recently, I have been in Kawen every day, and these days are really hot and dry. The update is a bit unsatisfactory. Sorry, sorry.Next month, we will strive for a stable update and strive to ensure full attendance.Let's make an update today, and if there is nothing to do on the weekend, I will make it up. . .

　　
　
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