Kai Fu Han

Chapter 494 Battle in Cangzhou 1
The troops disembarked from the proposed port outside Boxing and entered the simple barracks outside Boxing Town to rest.

The next day, Liu Xinqi eliminated ten reconnaissance troops heading north, all of them cavalry.Each reconnaissance unit is composed of a cavalry platoon. After entering the territory of Hebei East Road, these reconnaissance units will be dispersed again and densely spread throughout the territory of Hebei East Road to investigate all the Jin Kingdom's military information on Hebei East Road.

After the number of troops under his command exceeded [-], it was no longer possible for Liu Xinqi to go to the front line in person. The work of dispatching and commanding from behind had taken up all his energy.

"Report! The Jin Army has entered Hebei East Road and reached Baoding Army."

Liu Xinqi, who was discussing the military situation at the general headquarters, looked at the map and found that the Jin army was marching faster than previously expected.

"Immediately send an order to Gao Yuan to speed up the troop transportation. It must be completed within ten days."

"Yes!"

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"Report! The entire pseudo-Qizhou County on Hebei East Road is transporting grain and grass supplies to Cangzhou."

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"Report! The Puppet Qi Daming Mansion has gathered more than [-] troops, and the prefectures and counties occupied by the Puppet Qi such as North Beijing Road and Gyeonggi Road are still gathering troops towards Daming Mansion."

Intelligence is constantly gathering, and the situation around the Xinghan League is getting more and more serious.

"Xu Zhong, how is the development of the rebel army?" Liu Xinqi asked the person in charge of Diting.

"Now we have occupied Xingrenfu and Guangji Army, and have digested them, and we are planning to develop towards Gyeonggi Road."

After Zhao Guo withdrew from Kaifeng, Kaifeng has gone through several wars, and now it is not as good as before. Although the population is relatively large, no one in the surrounding forces allows him to have military strength.Therefore, in the eyes of the rebels, this is a big piece of fat, and eating it will greatly increase their strength.

"Notify, let Wu Nan, who is stationed in Juye, lead troops into Puzhou, and then go north to threaten Daming Mansion."

"Yes!"

"Notify the rebels to hold their troops temporarily."

"Yes!"

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December 27

"Report! Nan Zhao has mobilized [-] troops to Haizhou."

"It's finally here." Liu Xinqi looked at the military map and murmured.

"This treacherous Song Zhao is so shameless." Zhao Yinghao cursed.

"That's right, they were too timid when fighting against the Jin Kingdom and the puppet Qi, but they are brave enough to deal with our Xinghan League." Liu Zhijie also scolded him.

After receiving Liu Xinqi's order, Gao Yuan immediately recruited a large number of merchant ships from Penglai to assist in transporting troops. Starting on the 27th and ending on the 2th, all the troops of the [-]th and [-]th field brigades of more than [-] people were equipped and initially equipped in nine days. supplies arrived at the new town.

Newtown has now become a huge military camp.

"Where is Liu Xinjun's second field regiment?" Liu Xinqi asked.

Xu Zhong picked up a small red flag and stuck it in the lower right corner of the sand table, and replied: "Here, Licheng Town, eighty miles away from Haizhou."

Licheng Town is located on the southeastern border of Linyi.
Huaiyangjun on Jingdong East Road and Haizhou East on Huainan East Road are juxtaposed, like two interlocking teeth extending out of a gear, intersecting each other.Huairen County, the northernmost part of Haizhou, is already located in the middle of Yizhou. The southernmost part of the Huaiyang Army surpasses Haizhou and borders Chuzhou.

During the Western Attack, in order not to overly stimulate Southern Zhao, the Huaiyang Army was not moved. The Huaiyang Army was eventually recovered by Yue Peng.

"That is to say, if Zhao Guo goes north now, Liu Xinjun will face the two Zhao armies led by Yue Peng and Han Zhong, 5 people?" Liu Xinqi frowned as he looked at the enemy situation around Yizhou.

"Yes, the 1 people of the Second Field Regiment versus the 5 people of Southern Zhao." Xu Zhong replied.

"Do you think Southern Zhao will go north?" Liu Xinqi asked several generals at the headquarters.

"I think so. The news of the Jin army going south must have reached Nan Zhao. Facing the 17 main force of the Jin Kingdom, our Xinghan Alliance must have no time to go south now. He Nan Zhao must have a plan to gather troops in Haizhou at this time. .” Zhao Yinghao felt that Southern Zhao would go north.

"I don't think Southern Zhao will go north until we decide the outcome with the Jin Kingdom. Why should we go north to participate in this war when we can obviously reap the benefits." Liu Zhijie had a different view.

"If our Xinghan Alliance wins, Southern Zhao will have good harvests in the future. If Song Gou has a little foresight, he will take this opportunity to go north and weaken us." Zhao Yinghao retorted.

"Does Song Gou have the foresight? If he has the foresight, why would he withdraw Li Gang before? And he, Song Gou, dares to be hostile to our Xinghan Alliance?" Liu Zhijie replied.

"Everything is possible." Liu Xinqi interrupted the argument between the two and ordered.

"Inform the Ye family to lead the [-]th Field Brigade south to support Liu Xinjun."

"Yes!" The communications officer standing against the wall in the command post immediately received the order.

"Although the Ye family's move south may intensify the confrontation on the southern front, it is better than being attacked by Southern Zhao." Liu Xinqi explained to several senior officers.

"But when facing the Jin Kingdom, we are already at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. If we send another 1 people to go south, it will be 17 versus [-]." Liu Zhijie analyzed.

Sun Li's 3 men were responsible for guarding Jishui. Only four brigades led by Liu Xinqi were fighting against the Jin army. After sending one brigade south, there were only three brigades left.

"Indeed, the prefectures and counties in Hebei are still sending auxiliary soldiers to the Jin Army's large forces. By then, the number of troops will definitely exceed 20. The difference in strength between the enemy and us is too great." Zhao Yinghao, who was arguing with Liu Zhijie just now, also stood up said.

Liu Xinqi looked down at the sand table. Before the [-] recruits entered the army, Liu Xinqi still felt that his own troops were finally no longer tense. He didn't expect that there was still a shortage of people everywhere when the war started.

"Ask Sun Li to send the Fifth Field Brigade to New Town, notify the Ministry of War, and send [-] garrison troops from the Glue Recruitment Battalion to New Town."

These [-] garrison soldiers are pseudo-Qijiang soldiers who were remade in the new barracks and have only received one month of training.

"Yes!" Xu Zhong went down to deliver the order in person to prevent his subordinates from making mistakes.

"This way we are 17 to [-]." Liu Xinqi said to the two generals, and then looked at Liu Xinbao: "Where is the Jin Army now?"

The lower levels of Diting and the Military Intelligence Department are still operating separately, but the headquarters is already working together, so that the two intelligence systems can dispatch some of the intelligence personnel from the headquarters to the front line.

So what Xu Zhong knew, Liu Xinbao also knew.

"The Jin Army's march has slowed down in the past few days and is currently located in Qingchi County, Cangzhou."

"It seems that the Jin army's plan to disperse food and grass is not going very well." Liu Xinqi guessed.

The march slowed down probably because they were waiting for food and fodder to arrive.

"Yes, although the states and counties responded very positively, we successively sent [-] cavalry and special independent battalions to Hebei, so the Jin Army's decentralized food distribution operation did not go smoothly." Liu Xinbao replied.

(End of this chapter)