Lord of the House

Yuanzhou's secret letter was delivered to Lin Fu two days later, and it was late at night on August 11th.

Lin Fu and Song Jia got dressed and rushed to the side hall of Yanwu Hall. Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others had also arrived from their residence.

Lin Bie was in Yuzhang, and the command and military intelligence center of the Privy Council must temporarily move to Yuzhang with Lin Bie.

After entering the seventh month, Yan Hu soldiers guide Yang, and the situation on the entire Western Front suddenly became tense. On the entire western front, as many as 100 pieces of information are sent to Yuzhang every day.

The removal of the false and the truth, the analysis, and the deduction of the battle situation became extremely complicated. In late July, Song Fu and others transferred Lin Fu from Jiangning to share the pressure on Gao Zongting's shoulders.

Above the bright hall, a large candle burns high, reflecting the interior of the hall as bright as day;

Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others have all read Yuanzhou's secret letter, and they are holding candles and discussing in front of the sand table in the hall.

The sand table is two feet long and six feet wide, and uses fine sand and gum to faithfully shape the terrain from Yuzhang to Yuanzhou. Wugong Mountain, Heshan, Ganjiang, Yuanhe and other major mountains, rivers and valleys in western Jiangxi, as well as Luxi, Yuanzhou, Xiayuan, Xinyu, Qingjiang, Yuzhang Zhucheng and the main places where large groups of troops and horses can pass through. The passages are presented on the sand table in a simplified manner.

Song Jia straightened her dress, and hurriedly combed her hair on the temples, but Lin Bie was casual, wearing a green shirt with no belt tied. I've seen it all..."

"I have seen it," Gao Zongting replied, "The plan of Huang Binghao's dispatching of troops disclosed by Zhou Zhizheng in the letter can correspond to the plots collected from other places by the Ministry of Military Intelligence these days. It is true and credible. Not later than tomorrow."

At this time, Zhou Pu and Zhang Jiheng walked in together. As soon as he stepped in, Zhou Pu asked in a rough voice: "Huang Binghao, this greedy snake, has come out of its hole?"

Lin Fu handed him the secret letter returned by Yuanzhou.

Under Lin Fu's coercion, Zhou Pu had a rough knowledge of pen and ink, and it was not a problem to read the letter. After reading the letter, he said, "Chen Zishou will go to the army tomorrow, we can't ask them to get Xinyu City first, we have to rush ahead, only I lead the cavalry. Go ahead!"

"Aren't you afraid that Zhou Pu is Huang Binghao's villain?" Seeing that Zhou Pu had read the secret letter, Lin Fu asked Zhan to go to Xinyu and questioned him with a smile.

"What about Zhou Zhi's pros and cons?" Zhou Pu smirked, "Even if Huang Binghao sets up an ambush for 40,000 soldiers and horses in Xinyu, and lures me to lead the cavalry to get in, they must have enough teeth to be able to put them in an ambush. We eat it!"

Lin Fu smiled and pointed to Gao Zongting: "The cavalry battalion and the foot battalion must make preparations for the camp before dawn; the specific strategy for dispatching troops, you discuss with the Zongting..."

When attacking Huang Binghao, it was not because he was afraid of having too many soldiers, but because he was afraid that Huang Binghao would not show up in Yuanzhou City.

Passing through Xinyu and going up the Yuan River, you can hit Yuan and Yuanzhou, but from Xinyu to the west, the hills and mountains on both sides of the Yuan River face each other, and the valleys and valleys are vertical and horizontal. Several large mountains such as Wugong Mountain and Heshan are vertical and horizontal in Yuanzhou. The two cities of Xiayuan and Yuanzhou were built on mountains and rivers, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Huang Binghao's reduction of luxury in Jiangzhou was also a misjudgment of the situation, thinking that if Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and left, the situation in Jiangnan would inevitably collapse and could not be cleaned up. When She Feixiong held his relatives under the city, Huang Binghao chose to surrender to protect his relatives. When Huaidong recovers Jiangning and welcomes the emperor to return, even if Huang Binghao knows that reducing luxury is a wrong move, he can only make mistakes again and again.

In the hearts of Jiangzhou officials and generals who were threatened and reduced their extravagances, there was a different feeling in their hearts. Although Huang Binghao was controlled by both grace and power, but since he was transferred to Yuanzhou to fight against Tanzhou, the morale of Yuanzhou's troops and horses has never been able to cheer up.

During the war in Shangrao, before the invincible She Feixiong on the Western Front was killed in the Huaidong Front, tens of thousands of elites from Zhejiang and Fujian were annihilated. Running away was a serious blow to the morale of Yuanzhou's troops and horses.

A few Yuanzhou generals, such as Huang Binghao and Chen Zishou, were worried that Huaidong would be liquidated after the surrender, and at the same time, they were also greedy for the power that Yanhu had promised to split the earth to seal the king and the marquis, but for most Yuanzhou generals, The future is unclear at this time.

Perhaps the most common soldiers would be frightened and blindly obeyed, but as the backbone of an army, the middle and lower-level military attachés and generals have weak will, and are confused about the future, and the weakening of combat power will be inestimable.

Since May, soldiers have escaped from Yuanzhou one after another, regardless of the middle and lower ranks, which proves this.

Zhou Pu said that Huang Binghao had set up an ambush circle in Xinyu, and he dared to lead the elite cavalry to get in and rush to kill, but he did not underestimate the enemy, but had an accurate grasp of the situation of Yuanzhou's troops and horses.

Given the current situation of Huang Binghao's troops, even if they doubled their strength, it would be difficult to shake the Huaidong infantry and cavalry formation in the field. Headache.

Although after the battle of Shangrao, Lin Fu could lead a hundred thousand soldiers to go up Yuanhe and forcibly capture Yuanzhou.

However, during the Shangrao War, Huaidong had already consumed too many resources. Including shipbuilding materials, the eight-month-long battle in Shangrao was only shipped to the west of Quzhou, with a total of 2.4 million stone.

In addition to the transportation costs along the way, the Shangrao War consumed nearly five million taels of silver in Huaidong.

In the next military deployment, in order to cope with the increasingly tense situation on the Western Front, Lin Fu will inevitably use more resources in Luzhou and Jiangzhou.

Using 100,000 soldiers to go up the Yuan River to attack Yuanzhou, in May, Lin Fu, Gao Zongting and others could not estimate how serious the adverse effects would be on the military deployment in the later period.

At least, if the fighting was not stopped immediately, the famine in Jiangxi would continue, and tens of thousands of people would die of starvation, and the situation in Jiangxi would be difficult to ease in a short period of time.

In addition, the battle in Shangrao also caused a considerable reduction in the two elite combat forces of the Chongcheng Army and the Changshan Army. They took on the interception mission twice, and the casualty ratio of the generals was as high as 50%. The proportion of combat attrition increased significantly.

If the ministries did not immediately rest and reorganize at that time, but continued to attack Yuanzhou, the casualties and the reduction of the combat power caused by the reduction would be difficult to control, which would be detrimental to Lin Fu's military deployment for the entire war.

Therefore, after May, Lin Fu resolutely gave up the plan to attack Yuanzhou, and relocated Tang Fuguan, Liu Zhenzhi, Yu Wencheng to the north, and prepared for the war on the western front in advance. At the same time into a complete rest.

For Yuanzhou, Lin Fu's strategy was based on "leading the snake out of the hole" and defeating Yuanzhou's troops in the field. For Huaidong, it was the most resource- and time-saving.

Otherwise, even if the siege battle can go smoothly, the resources and time consumed in the preparation of the siege battle in the early stage are difficult to estimate in advance.

If at this time, Huang Binghao is not greedy and accepts the conditions for recruiting and surrendering here, Lin Fu sends a brigade of elite troops to Xinyu to seal the passage from Yuanzhou to the east, and Lin Fu will be able to mobilize other troops and horses from the hinterland of Jiangxi to Jiangzhou. , in case Yanhu went south along the Han River after taking Nanyang.

Huang Binghao couldn't bear his temper and dared to come out of Yuanzhou. Lin Fu would take the initiative to attack with the elite cavalry stationed in Yuzhang, and crippled Yuanzhou's soldiers and horses in the field, making it no longer a hidden danger in the hinterland of Jiangxi.

The battle plan has long been prepared for multiple backups, but for more accurate information, final adjustments have to be made.

After Lin Fu issued the order to start the army, the preparations and mobilization of the march before the start of the army had its own battalion-level generals organization. The generals who commanded the army and the brigade battalion and above were quickly summoned to the main hall of the Yanwu Hall. Zhou Pu and Gao Zongting organized the final decision. battle plan.

Lin Fu will go out with the battalion, but will not participate in the final adjustment of the battle plan, but will stay in the side hall.

The sand table was placed in the center of the side hall, but Lin Fu didn't pay attention to the sand table any more, but pulled away a curtain hanging on the north wall by himself.

Hidden behind the cloth is a topographic map of the entire western line, including Guanzhong, Henan, Huaixi, Nanyang, Jingxiang, and northern Jiangxi. The topographic map is so large that it almost covers the entire area. On the topographic map, Yanhu, the remnants of the She family, Luo Xiancheng's department, Huaixi, Jinghu, Chizhou and Huaidong's troops and horses in Luzhou and Jiangzhou are all accurately marked on the map.

On the picture, the three armies of Yanhu, Shejia, and Luo Bandit have been fully deployed, and the thickest arrows are shockingly directed towards the sun, while the defense signs of Nanyang soldiers and horses are so thinly drawn that it seems that they will be given to the enemy in an instant. Soldier's arrows slaughtered.

This map reflects the latest military developments on the Western Front, and it is also one of the core military secrets of the Yanwu Hall. Even if the guards are usually heavily guarded, and Lin Fu and others are not in the side hall, they must be covered with a curtain, and it is strictly forbidden to open it.

"Shanyang's water camp should move westward to aid Shouzhou at this time, to prevent Yanhu from taking advantage of the situation to attack Huaixi after winning Nanyang!" Song Fu also stayed in the side hall. The military dynamics are marked on the map. Looking at the latest development of the situation in the direction of Nanyang, he suggested to Lin Fu.

She family and Luo Xiancheng simultaneously attacked Nanyang and Xinyang from the south, forming a situation of pincer attack. It was doomed that the situation in Nanyang could not be saved. In particular, the She family sent troops from Fancheng and cut into the hinterland of Nanyang from the south, which would disrupt Nanyang's defense deployment. sloppy.

Regardless of whether Liang Chengchong surrendered, collapsed or fled in Nanyang, the situation in Nanyang would not last long.

In the next military deployment planned by Lin Fu long ago, Nanyang's fall was expected.

But after Nanyang fell, the main force of Yanhu troops and horses joined Shejia and Luo Xiancheng, their forces would move eastward or southward, and Huaidong had to lead them by the nose in order to make them fall last. Enter the big pit laid out by Huaidong.

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