Lord of the House: Chapter 100 Southern Zhejiang battlefield

(asking for a red ticket)

Throughout the autumn, except for the Cao family that sent troops into northern Sichuan, the fighting in other areas was relatively calm.

The She family attacked Huaidong in the back, and the entire Mingzhou Prefecture, including the Kuaiji Prefecture, fell to Huaidong's hands from the area east of the Yujiang River. They had to deal with the nearly 50,000 waters deployed along Huaidong's Shengzhou, Shangyu, and threatening southern Zhejiang. The Infantry, the She family did not dare to launch a large-scale battle on the Western Front until the Dongyang County defense line was stabilized.

Once the western front is frustrated, Huaidong's offensive from the eastern front will inevitably become fierce again, making it impossible to care for each other.

On the west bank of the Lanxi River, on the north side of the camp where the Shejia soldiers and horses were stationed in Dongyang County, Qin Zitan walked through a deserted place and stood on a high place overlooking the Huaidong military defense camp on the other side.

Under the gentle slope, there are traces of flooding everywhere.

In June and July, the soldiers and horses stationed in Hepo from Huaidong threw stones into the Lanxi River to block the river, forcing the Lanxi River to divert its course and causing floods, causing the fields and villages on both sides of Dongyang County to be washed away by floods, even Dongyang County. After soaking in the flood for more than a month, a lot of manpower and material resources were needed to consolidate the city wall.

The flood has been withdrawn for more than a month, but people have fled westward in large numbers to avoid the war. The fields are also largely barren, and the surrounding is in a mess, which also makes the military resources in the autumn quite difficult.

"Cut the river and destroy the city, hurting so many innocent people." The small school next to Qin Zitan was the son of a local squire in Dongyang County. Said, "The Huaidong Army is also hateful."

Qin Zitan sighed softly in his heart. Wars have always been brutal, but he can't tolerate any kindness to his opponents. How can he expect Huaidong's tactics to be weaker?

Even though he thought so in his heart, Qin Zitan still felt extremely bitter.

Counting Huaidong's soldiers and horses on the southern front, Deng Yu, Dong Yuan, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen, and Jiangxi's two-system envoys, the total number of soldiers and horses that the She family had to fight on the northern front reached 189,000, more than the She family's. The total number of troops and horses entering Zhejiang. These soldiers and horses belonging to the Jiangning Yuan clan, after years of brutal warfare, from generals to soldiers, are not weak to be bullied.

I thought that Jiang Ning had made some changes in the matter of supporting Li, so that this side could take advantage of it, but I didn't expect that Lin Fu would not hesitate to break with the Gu family and stand up first to support King Ning, which made the Yuan family form a new one in Jiangning very smoothly. The ruling center of the city, so that there is no chance to find it here.

In fact, after the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang-Fujian army lost the initiative in strategy.

First, Huaidong assembled a large number of troops and horses in Mingzhou Prefecture, which contained the assault force in western Zhejiang. Second, Huaidong assembled more than three-quarters of the naval force on the southern front to attack the coastal areas of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian.

Just like to build a sharp spear, you don't need a pound of good iron; to build a set of armor with strong defense, you need dozens of times more iron materials and hundreds of labors - Huaidong The navy cooperated with the soldiers to infiltrate from the coasts of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian. To build a complete defense line along the coast, the governor's office of Zhejiang and Fujian would have to invest several times or even a dozen times more troops and materials.

Huaidong established a large camp in Shengzhou to conduct military confrontation with the Zhejiang and Fujian troops, and took advantage of the control of the sea to carry out continuous harassment of the weak coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian, which has greatly weakened the military potential of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Qin Zitan couldn't see where they turned for a while, but saw that Huaidong's next move must be southern Zhejiang.

Huaidong occupied Mingzhou Prefecture and used Shengzhou and Shangyu as bases to station troops, forcing them to also station heavy troops to confront them; if Huaidong used Yueqing as a base to strengthen the offensive against southern Zhejiang, they would inevitably follow in Yongjia and Ouhai. With heavy troops, we can prevent the Huaidong Army from advancing along the Yongjia River and attacking the flanks of western Zhejiang. At that time, their two-front confrontation in Zhejiang County will inevitably develop into a three-front confrontation. This pressure is not ordinary!

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In the defense village of the Huaidong Army on the east bank of the Lanxi River, Lin Fu stood on the wall of the village and looked at the scenery of Dongyang County, which unfolded in front of Luohe Mountain, under the sunset. It was too far away, and he didn't know that Qin Zitan was in a group of people in the hills on the west bank.

Fu Qinghe, Liang Wenzhan, Hu Zhiyong, Ye Junan and others all came with Lin Bie to inspect the Shengzhou Camp.

Gao Zongting stood side by side with Ao Canghai. At this time, the exact news had been received from the north. Chen Zhihu led his troops into western Shanxi to destroy the fortresses and fortresses that were still resisting for Yanhu. It was a formal vote for Yanhu. .

Gao Zongting and Ao Canghai were Chen Zhihu's colleagues, and Chen Zhihu's former subordinates. Hearing such news, they were very sorry, and they didn't want to think that they might meet and fight on the battlefield in the future.

"General Yu's boat should be arriving in eastern Zhejiang soon, right?" said Ao Canghai.

"Counting the time, we can see Wan Gao when we return to Mingzhou from here," Gao Zongting said, "I just heard that when they were forced to withdraw from Jieyang, General Yu was seriously injured..."

Recalling that the Dongmin Army, which was prosperous for a while, is now so disorganized, and it is very likely that they will fight on the battlefield in the future, Chen Dingbang stood behind him and sighed in his heart.

"Those **** in Guangnan County will one day kill them!" Ao Canghai cursed bitterly.

Yu Wangao withdrew from Jian'an South and occupied Jieyang. If he could rely on Guangnan County, he would be able to contain a considerable part of the forces of the She family on the southern front. However, the Guangnan County Commander and local forces did not dare to offend the strong and strong She family, but instead sent troops to encircle Jieyang with the She family and block Jiangning, forcing Yu Wangao to lead his troops to break out of Jieyang and turn into guerrillas in the mountains.

When Yu Wangao broke through the siege of Jieyang, he was stricken with arrows and retreated into the mountains. He was short of doctors and medicines. He led the troops and worked hard. The arrow wound dragged on for more than a year. .

At the beginning of the war in Dongmin, Yu Wangao had 20,000 elites under his command. After years of hard work, the soldiers could not be replenished, and the conditions were extremely difficult. In the end, less than 3,000 troops were withdrawn. The 3,000 remnants, both morale and combat power, were all weakened to the extreme, but the She family had dipped too much blood on each other, and there was no possibility of surrender, so they all retreated to Yizhou to rest this time.

Escorted by his son and nephew, Yu Wangao went to Jiangning to pay homage to the new emperor. The plan was to stay in Chongzhou; however, when Lin Fu came to eastern Zhejiang for inspection, he temporarily notified the ship to stop at Mingzhou. Lin Fu planned to meet Yu Wangao.

Yu Wangao, Dong Yuan, Chen Zhihu, Dudu Lu and others were all generals who were raised by the commander-in-chief. Dong Yuan just kept silent after knowing the truth of the death of the commander. Chen Dingbang couldn't help thinking: Yu Wangao knew the truth of the death of the commander. After that, will you remain loyal to the Yuan clan as always?

Lin Fu inspected the defense of Luohe Mountain's defense village, and said to Zhang Gou, the main general here: "The defense of the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels is wide, and our defense is narrow, which determines that we send a small group of elites, which is easier to penetrate. Their line of defense - this side has been fighting peacefully for several months, it's time for the other side to tighten their nerves."

"This is a good arrangement," Zhang Gou asked. "Is it the next step to decide to use troops in southern Zhejiang?"

"How easy is that, I'm still researching!" Lin Bie said.

Although the Yongjia Resistance Army had grown in strength last year and once regained the two cities of Yongjia and Yueqing, Ye Su, the former leader of the Yongjia Resistance Army, rejected Huaidong's suggestion and insisted on holding on to the inland Yongjia City. In the end, the city was broken by She Feihu. .

Including Ye Su, nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians in Yongjia who were defending the city were massacred after the city was broken.

Affected by this heavy setback, the remnants of the Yongjia Army headed by Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying also realized the cruel status quo, and moved closer to Huaidong in an all-round way.

Fu Qinghe first ordered the evacuation of thousands of Yueqing people and their families from the sea, and turned Yueqing City and the Jishan Island behind it into a purely military fortress. The fighting strength of the remnants, but only three battalions of soldiers standing in front of Yueqing City and Jishan Island, is far from enough to change the military strength of the two sides in southern Zhejiang.

After occupying Yizhou, the main forces of the First Water Camp and Chongcheng Buying were mainly based on Yizhou, and they penetrated and attacked the coastal forces in eastern Fujian. Lin Fu wanted to open up another battlefield in southern Zhejiang in Yueqing, and constantly forced the She family's defense line on the east side to stretch longer and tighter. Until the She family can't support it and have to take military adventures to break the current stalemate that is more and more unfavorable to the She family, Huaidong will also be able to find a chance to kill the She family with one blow.

But to open up a battlefield in southern Zhejiang, the luxury family will undoubtedly be very painful, but Huaidong may not be so easy.

Before the Tianjin Navy retreated to Chongzhou for rest, the entire Huaidong's heart, except for some water battalions, mainly relied on female battalions and hundreds of cavalry guards.

Before the Lin Gu family did not tear their faces, the relationship was quite harmonious. With the Jiangning Water Camp controlled by Gu Wuchen, Lin Fu was not too worried that Chongzhou would be threatened, but now, he had to keep an elite team in Chongzhou, so Both the riding camp and the Jinhai camp were left in Chongzhou, in case someone in Jiangning was ruthless against Huaidong.

As a result, Lin Fu would not be able to draw out his troops to open up the southern Zhejiang battlefield.

Although there are still reserves that can be drawn, the remnants of the Yongjia Army are not the shelf of elite combat power. Although the total number of troops can be quickly supported, the actual combat power will not be too optimistic.

Furthermore, Lin Fu also had to consider the pressure on supplies and armour supply.

When Lin Fu came to eastern Zhejiang this time, in addition to inspecting military affairs, he was more concerned about the implementation of the new policy in eastern Zhejiang, hoping that the Mingzhou government could provide more material support to Huaidong.

The Mingzhou government has changed hands twice in just three years, and the local forces have been brutally attacked. With the respite, it was impossible to form a substantial resistance to the implementation of the New Deal. The inspection of farmland, the seizure of official land, the establishment of households, and the resettlement of households were carried out in an orderly manner.

In addition to the 380,000 mu of land acquired by convicted criminals, the 270,000 mu of land that was confiscated and abandoned in Mingzhou Prefecture, and arable water was measured in Changguo, Daishan, and Shengsi islands. There are 390,000 mu of dry official land, with a total of 1.04 million mu of water and dry land. In addition, there are more than 40,000 mu of island grassland suitable for grazing, and countless woodlands.

The main reason is to use these levied official fields. In the past six months, Mingzhou Prefecture, including Changguo and Shengsi counties, has resettled 60,000 households of people who moved south.

The income of Mingzhou Autumn Grain Zhengfu alone reached 470,000 shi of rice and 80,000 horses of cloth, and the income of official fields was 250,000 shi of rice. The income of the official land is low, mainly because the people who moved to the south were gradually resettled after May. Fortunately, tens of thousands of people were drawn from Hecheng and other places to fill in Mingzhou first, and 300,000 mu of paddy fields were planted. Otherwise, this year's official land income would be far less than that.

When the people who have moved to the south are completely settled, by next year, the income of official fields will reach a new level; the frequent occurrence of wars will also have a large number of official fields to be used for pensions and merit awards, which will naturally limit the increase of official field income. The main task at hand is to continuously increase the reserves of official fields through various means.

The Huaidong Army now has to maintain armaments with a total strength of more than 80,000 people, money and salaries, and the supplement of normal armour and ordnance; maintain a total of more than 120,000 people in labor camps and a lot of consumption and investment in manufacturing affairs; The resettlement of mass refugees and people who moved south, but also to support Huaiyang Town in building the Huai Si defense line—the consumption of money and materials every month has reached the point where outsiders are stunned.

If it weren't for Huaidong's huge profits of nearly 1.6 million taels of silver from the monopolized Haidong trade this year, 800,000 stone grains and a large amount of wood, coal, iron, leather, and copper were imported from Haidong at a low price. Silver and other materials, Huaidong simply could not support such a large consumption.

Maintaining 10,000 soldiers is not very expensive, but turning 10,000 soldiers into soldiers, only the equipment of armor and ordnance is a headache, and it is thrown into southern Zhejiang to open up a new battlefield, including armor in wartime Arrows and ordnance fortification, consumption of camp materials, additional supplies during wartime, investment in treating casualties, as well as pensions and awards for later casualties, it is a headache to think about.

Historically, when the imperial court encountered a lot of trouble with wars, the household officials in charge of money and grain were mostly the Lord and faction, and this was the main reason. I would rather bow my knees and offer silver to make peace, than want to end up behind in the endgame of killing 100,000 enemies and losing 80,000.

Zhang Gou was looking forward to expanding the scale of the war in southern Zhejiang, but Lin Fu felt that this decision was difficult, and was thinking wildly, a scout sent an urgent message to the horse.

After Gao Zongting took it, he handed it to Lin Fu, and said, "The boat from Yizhou has arrived at Hekou, and Admiral Yu is seriously injured..."

Since the She family rebelled again, many generals and courtiers and scholars of the Qing Dynasty who boasted of loyalty and integrity have surrendered. However, Yu Wangao, in the most difficult time, persevered and led his guerrillas to attack the rear of Zhejiang and Fujian. A generation of generals perished on the ship that was about to return to Jiangning, which is very emotional.

"Let's go back to Mingzhou..." Lin Fu said.

"Mr. Gao, Dingbang, put a stick of incense to Governor Yu on my behalf." Ao Canghai said that he was the head coach of the Shengzhou camp and could not leave Shengzhou to go to Mingzhou.

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