During the rainy season, a fleet of more than a dozen ships of various sizes slowly docked on the Hengjiang River.

Shen Zhezi had already stood on the deck of one of the warships, and saw that there were already many armor soldiers on the shore, and there was no shortage of uniforms waiting for him, and there was no lack of excitement in his heart. His crossing of the river this time is finally no longer a hurried trip, and his presence here is not only a summary of his efforts in the past years, but also a starting point of his life's work since then.

The only regret is that the timing doesn't seem to be very ingenious, in such a rainy weather, the sky is drizzling, even if you want to pursue a sense of ritual, it is inevitable to be dispelled by the cold wind and drizzle. This is the case since Jiankang, and when I arrived in Yuzhou, the rain has not stopped.

The warship docked steadily, and without waiting for the soldiers to lay down the suspension board to connect the wharf, several young people on the wharf had already jumped onto the ship with a cable, led by Yu Manzhi, who stayed in Yuzhou after getting married, and Shen Yun, who had returned to the capital earlier and returned early. The armor on their bodies had long been soaked by the rain, but these people were still full of enthusiasm, stepped forward to salute with a military salute, and shouted: "General! ”

Shen Zhezi's foreign appointment this time, there is no change in his official position, he is still engaged in the appointment of General Zhaowu and Fake Festival, and he is engaged in Yuzhou Bingcao, which has not changed much compared with before he entered Taiwan in the early years, but since the meaning is different, in the final analysis, it is still on this "fake festival".

Although the imperial power is weak now, the festival scepter is not a rolling pin, and there are really many people like Shen Zhezi who frequently fake festivals before he is crowned. When Su Jun was in turmoil, Shen Zhezi was able to fake the festival can also be said to be an expedient measure, allowing him to act cheaply, which can be regarded as the favor and promotion of the queen mother. As for this holiday, the meaning is different.

Aside from the number of captains and generals, Shen Zhezi's main position is only that of Bingcao, and although he is also an extremely important subordinate official of the Assassin Mansion, it really does not reach the level of needing a fake festival. Even if it is necessary to replace the assassin Shi in charge of the army at an extraordinary moment, it is enough to add a superintendent. To be honest, this combination is really a bit nondescript.

For this point, the princes of Taiwan are also very entangled. To be honest, even if Shen Zhezi directly seeks county governance, they will be a little more acceptable. To be honest, although the face of the people is tender, but the great achievement of recovering Gyeonggi is really there, not to mention that in the later period of the Qing Dynasty, he was also conscientious, although he did not reach the reputation of the way, but he also successfully completed the task, and because of this, he was promoted to the Huangmen squire.

But this young man, although he was annoying a lot in the past, he couldn't stand it modestly at this time, and refused to accept the several county rules proposed by Tainai, so he recognized Bingcao. According to this kid's past style, it is inevitable that some people will suspect that he wants to use Taichung's innocence and despicable use as an excuse to incite public feelings.

So after a few days of wrangling, this weird combination came out. Although the Taifu people felt a little awkward in their hearts, at that time, there was even no shortage of people gloating and thinking, and it should be Yu Yi who really felt awkward later. Yu Yi is also a fake festival, and as a result, a subordinate is treated the same as him, how to place people, and how to divide the ministry?

Even if Yu Yi has no temper and is happy with the Shen family's pants, what will the generals under him think? You must know that the first battle of Hefei is also now attracting attention from inside and outside, and Yu Yi's power has also been amplified. These two people are also veterans of the old achievements, so they can bear to be ridden on their heads?

Of course, this is just the reverie of an outsider with a little bad taste, even if those generals are really dissatisfied, they can only endure it, dare to hold grudges because of this, so that they delay the fighter, and the punishment is not negotiable. After all, Shen Zhezi, regardless of his old skills or qualifications, is more than enough to take charge of the fake festival alone.

As Yu Manzhi and the others boarded the ship, Shen Zhezi also saw Yu Yi, who had been waiting for a long time, and did not dare to slack off, so he even got off the boat to greet him.

Yu Yi smiled and pulled Shen Zhezi to introduce him to the officials of the Assassin Mansion who came to greet him this time, such as Guo Yu, Xu Mao, Han Huang, etc., who were already close to the Shen family, so there was no need to mention it. The rest also have Nanyang Fan Guang, who served as the long history of Yu Yi, who was not famous at that time, but Fan Ye, a historian of the Southern Dynasty and the author of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, is a descendant of Nanyang Fan, and also a family with a long inheritance of the old surname of Yuzhou.

As for others, there are also Wang Shouqi, who has been reappointed to Yuzhou since Jiangxia, as well as Wang Zhang, Liu Shi and other generals who were promoted by Yu Yi in office, as well as Yu Yi who has also been transferred to Yuzhou. As for Mao Bao, who rose to prominence in the Su Jun Rebellion and is now serving as the Taishou of Lujiang, because he is stepping up preparations for war, Shen Zhezi is not fortunate to see him.

After this introduction, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but feel that Yu Yi really attached great importance to his arrival, and the dozens of people present included both leading generals and officials who governed the territory, which can be said to include all the military and political teams in Yuzhou today.

When these people faced Shen Zhezi, although they were not lacking in curiosity, they were generally polite. Of course, even if there is any dissatisfaction, it cannot be shown on such an occasion. And these people present don't underestimate the confidence and capital of the other party at all, the only thing that can win is probably age, but this is not something to be proud of. Even in terms of bravery, the top generals in Yuzhou, Guo Yu, Han Huang, etc., are all the only ones who look ahead, and the rest of the people have the confidence to shout.

What's more, people don't come on their own at all. As Shen Zhezi got off the boat, the people accompanying him this time also got off the boat one by one. The military personnel include Shen Mu, Xie Yi, etc., who have already been waiting for foreign appointments, as well as Lu Yong, a general who led his own subordinates. In terms of literary affairs, there are also a number of young people from the family such as Ji You and Jiang Yu, and there is also a relatively heavyweight Yingchuan stereotype.

There are 30 or 40 people worth introducing, and there are more than 2,000 soldiers, who are spread out along the river, and the momentum can be described as huge. In comparison, the battle on Yuzhou's side was slightly inferior.

Of course, there are not only Shen Zhezi and others in this fleet, but also Chu Jiye, who rushed to Wuchang to take office. However, compared with Shen Zhezi's mighty team, Chu Jiye was a little shabby, his own attaché and a group of old friends who went to Wuchang to get a way out, and they made up two boatloads of people.

When Shen Zhezi and the rest of the entourage got off the boat, Chu Jiye and the others also got off the boat, although the destination was not here, but since they passed by, they always had to say hello. It's just that in the face of Yu Yi's warm retention, Chu Jiye still refused. On the one hand, even if you stay for a few days, it is difficult to see the reality of Yuzhou at a glance. On the other hand, the Jingjiang merger is also a turbulent period at the moment, and the sooner you arrive, the easier it will be to install your own men and occupy a favorable position.

Of course, there is another point that is really selfish, and there is a huge disparity in the number of attachés between each other, even Chu Jiye can't help but ask himself what he has been doing in the past few years, and he is really not happy to be with Shen Zhezi for a long time. So after saying hello and having a banquet by the riverside, Chu Jiye hurried on the road again, and Yu Yi naturally had to arrange for the sergeant to escort him along the way.

After sending off the outsiders, the next time for the civil and military forces in Yuzhou to gather to discuss the next battle in Japan.

The rainy road was slippery, and it was getting late, so the group was no longer in a hurry to return to Liyang, and temporarily settled down in the already large-scale tun near Hengjiang.

There were more than a dozen attendees, and it was inevitable that they would be noisy, and Shen Zhezi only brought the old rules to attend. Chen Gui is a talent selected by the Qing Dynasty earlier, it stands to reason that there are some grievances to follow Shen Zhezi's foreign appointment, but the scenery should be long-term, although Yingchuan Chen is Wangzong, but the old reputation is difficult to continue, for Chen Gui, rather than serving as a dispensable minister in the capital, it is better to use the external appointment, and revitalize the family reputation with solid achievements.

"Wei Zhou's arrival today really makes me feel at ease!"

Sitting down with each other, Yu Yixian said with a smile, this is not to put on a low posture of Corporal Lixian, but to feel this way recently. The First World War in Hefei is different from the state, the purpose is different, the meaning is also different, all aspects, inextricably linked, to be honest, Yu Yi has a sense of lack of skills recently, and it is really reluctant to deal with it.

The arrival of Shen Zhezi may not make difficult things simpler, but even if it is not based on talent, his identity alone is an excellent coordinator. After all, Yuzhou is still very thin here, and it is really difficult to look north with the power of this town alone.

"I am really flattered to make the king praise falsely, but if I do my best, I will live up to the weight of the country and make the king have high hopes."

Although Shen Zhezi and Yu Yi are already familiar with each other, after all, they still have to be restrained in the face of so many Yuzhou officials. To be honest, there are more than a dozen people in the field, just looking at the team run by Yu Yi himself, it is really a bit shabby, and there are almost no people with good reputation. Of course, the reputation of the times does not measure the number of talents of a person, but it can reflect the desire of the people.

In the people of Yuzhou, such as Chu Yi and Zhong Ya, who were only the first to look forward to the horse in the early years, most of them have now set up their own doors. So in terms of popularity, Yu Yi is really far from his brother. However, there is really no need to complain about these things, and now that the Jiangbei Economic Strategy has officially begun, who can get to which step in the future, it is really not vulgar energy.

After the polite words, I got to the point. Yu Yi first asked people to hang up a map, which is naturally not the same as the maps that Shen Zhezi has seen in later generations, and there is no lack of rough deformation, but many geographical points are also marked one by one, which is enough to understand the current situation in Yuzhou.

Today's Yuzhou is bounded by the big river, and the counties along the river are marked, and the east reaches the Yuhu Lake on the east bank of the Hengjiang River, which is when Tu. To the west, it has been to Leichi, near Huangcheng, it can be said that it is the middle section of the river below Xunyang all the way to Hengjiang, all under control. The reason why there will be such a big expansion of forces along the Yangtze River is naturally due to the Battle of Jiangzhou.

Before the Battle of Jiangzhou, although the section from Huancheng to Misukou was nominally under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou, in fact it had always been under the control of Jiangzhou. Why did Wang Shu look down on Yu Yi, because the Jiangzhou army was almost under Liyang City. It can be said that if there is no external intervention, if Yu Yi is given another 30 years, he will not be able to turn the sky in Yuzhou, at most he can do a little bit of small actions to block the river and set up cards to charge.

And to recover compound fertilizer, the most important point on the waterway is the wet beard. It is an inlet into the river from the south of Chaohu, and the dock built by Lu Meng of Eastern Wu in the old time can be described as a waterway fortress that the river must be firmly grasped in its hands regardless of whether it is attacking or defending! Once this one place is not in hand, then the convenience of waterways cannot be mentioned.

So putting aside all other factors, as long as Shen Zhezi wants to go up the Northern Expedition from Yuzhou, he must get rid of Wang Shu and take the Whisker Pass in his hands! If this cannot be achieved, and if water power cannot be relied upon, the logistical pressure alone will be a heavy burden, and there will be no strength to launch any large-scale military operations.

As for further north, the boundary is also very obvious, that is, Tushui is the boundary, although the north of Tushui is nominally also the jurisdiction, but in fact the control is not reached at all. In particular, the location of the upstream of Tushui near Hefei is a line of defense demarcated by Yu Liang in the early years to guard against the ancestral covenant of Yuzhou.

Shen Zhezi first sent Du He to cross the river last year to operate in the lower reaches of Tushui, in order to master this extremely important waterway tributary in the lower reaches of the river.

Duhe's operation alone will naturally not rise to any strategic height, but if Yuzhou can open up the upstream of Tushui here, then the two places can immediately hook up, and completely confirm the important strategic position of Yuzhou as the gateway to the Western Domain, and the role is not limited to the defense of Jingzhou upstream, directly cutting off the passage of Beiyu close to the river!

This is the current geographical situation in Yuzhou, and the next is the distribution of military strength. Although the Battle of Jiangzhou defeated Wang Shu and completely mastered the convenience of the river, the strength of the Yuzhou army did not double, after all, the military strength was limited not only by the territory but also by the grain. Yu Yi was very happy to rob along the river, but the gains in terms of resources were not as great as Shen Chong, who went deep into Poyang. After all, the use of capital is also an important intention of Tao Kan to take Jiangzhou, and the strength of Jingzhou's naval army is better than that of Yuzhou, so he will not allow Yu Yi to plunder too much.

At present, there are as many as seven armies in Yuzhou, with more than 20,000 people. However, in addition to the original chassis of the Liyang Army, most of the newly returned soldiers are used for reclamation, and even if they are fully mobilized, their combat effectiveness is worrying. Therefore, at present, there are only the three armies that can really be used.

This is a data before the Battle of Jiangzhou, after the Battle of Jiangzhou, Yu Yi also collected a large number of Jiangzhou defeated soldiers, and there were a total of two armies. However, it is still doubtful whether this part of the army can be invested in the future battle of Hefei, because at present, Jingzhou is still arguing over the ownership of this part of the army.

After all, no one thinks that they have too many soldiers in this era, and when Wang Shu was defending the three towns, almost all the soldiers under his rule were summoned to the north, and all of them were scattered. After Tao Kan arrived in Yuzhang, it can be said that he only received an empty shell. And most of these defeated soldiers are registered soldiers in Jiangzhou, if it is only a few hundred people, then they will laugh it off. But with a large number of thousands of people at every turn, this is simply bullying the old people and making them dizzy!

Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the children of the soldiers, the most important point is that the soldiers are the most reliable and reliable source of soldiers in this era! Although there is no shortage of large-scale recruitment of nomadic food refugees into the army in this era, such as the Jiangzhou New Army compiled and trained by Wang Shu, but then again, if Wang Shu didn't play this hand, he wouldn't collapse so quickly!

There is not one out of ten soldiers in the register, not to mention that Tao Kan is just old now, even if he is dead, the coffin board can't be suppressed! If he doesn't ask for it back, if Taichung asks for a crime in the future, most of the people in Jiashiyang will die madly, it will also be a big crime!

So at the moment, Yu Yi detained those Jiangzhou routs, just as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Tao Kan, and he couldn't really put them into the battle sequence.

From this point, it can be seen that compared with Shen Chong, Yu Yi is still slightly immature. Shen Chong was also greedy for thousands of Jiangzhou troops, but these were all new troops stationed in Poyang, and they had not yet been naturalized, even if Tao Kan wanted to get them back, what evidence did he have? Do you want to go to the front of the battle to identify and call out thousands of people?

However, fortunately, Shen Chong did not bring people back to Dongyangzhou, but left them to his son. However, Shen Zhezi had not yet arrived, and he had already signaled that these thousands of scattered recruits would be selected, leaving only one army, which really made Yu Yi feel distressed. In his opinion, even if these soldiers are not sent into battle, they can scare and scare people simply by standing on the field!

Therefore, at present, the soldiers that can be called on here in Liyang are about 10,000 people from the four armies, but if you want to advance by land and water and completely cover the entire Hefei theater, it is still very poor. Therefore, Lujiang Mao Bao also returned to Yu Yi to dispatch, Lujiang has more than 5,000 people from the two armies, and can cooperate with the naval army assembled at the mouth of the Xukou to launch an attack on Hefei from the direction of Chaohu.

"Now that everything is ready in the town, and the armies have gathered at the mouth of the Susu, they can be traced up at any time, and I will also march with the army at that time. What else do you want to add here? ”

After introducing the current situation in Yuzhou, Yu Yi turned to look at Shen Zhezi. This battle was a shameful battle for his family, so Yu Yi also attached great importance to this and personally led the people to the north.

Although Shen Zhezi arrived with the team, he couldn't really flash Yu Yi aside. Therefore, the headquarters of the Yuzhou Army was still led by Yu Yi and was responsible for the main attack, and generals such as Guo Yu and Xu Mao also followed. Shen Zhezi was responsible for going up from the land route, directly from Liyang, sweeping the east flank of Hefei, and the most important thing was to open up the first line of Tushui, and then continue up along Tushui with Du He's division, cutting off the connection between Hefei and Huainan.

Shen Zhezi didn't rush to say anything after hearing this, but just took an ink strip and drew the map on the paper nailed to the wooden board in his hand, writing and drawing. He knew that he was not a military wizard, so he didn't talk too much about it, and after a long silence, he just said: "Is it possible that Huang Quan fled without a fight?" ”

Everyone in the stadium was stunned when they heard this, obviously they had not envisioned this possibility when they formulated their tactics earlier.

When introducing the situation of the Yuzhou Army just now, there were also some introductions on the situation in Hefei. Of course, it is impossible for the data and details to be so accurate, but the basic military strength of Huang Quan's department and the situation of the garrison are still slightly explained. Huang Quan's department is conservatively estimated at about 10,000 people, in addition to the town of Shou County, the original Hefei City also has a garrison, and there is no shortage of camps along the coast of Chaohu Lake.

"Shouldn't that? Although the king used his life up and down, he hated it, but, but ......"

After a moment of silence, the first person to speak was Wang Suqi, who hesitated a lot, not because he was moved by Shen Zhezi's words, but because he had no confidence in Wang Shi's deterrent power. Not to mention that Hu has abused China for a long time, and his reputation is blazing, just compared with each other's strength, Yuzhou does not occupy an absolute advantage here. Deterrence alone allows the enemy to flee without a fight? They want to think about it, too, but it's a bit ridiculous to look at it!

Shen Zhezi could naturally see the strange expressions of everyone who wanted to speak and stopped, dropped the ink strip in his hand and said with a smile: "You can't guarantee that there is no such possibility, since it has been proposed, you might as well talk about it, if Huang Quan flees without a fight, or if he loses a small battle and abandons his defense, how should he deal with it?" ”