On the small river, in addition to the slightly rancid smell of river mud, there is also a smell of burnt smell in the air. Most of the fortifications such as bamboo rows and wooden fences on the edge have been uprooted at this time.

A simple pier in the northeast corner of the river island was the place where the fighting was most intense before, and in addition to a piece of bamboo and wood debris floating on the river's surface, there were many swollen and white corpses that had been soaked in the river.

After a period of continuous siege, the Huainan army finally captured this river island. Due to the failure of the enemy army on the north bank to provide timely assistance, and the Huainan army invested more troops, and even invested a batch of large ordnance for attacking fortifications, more than 2,000 enemy troops on the river island were surrounded and annihilated, and the rest were defeated and fled.

Although he captured Hezhou, Li Youzhi, the commander of the Huainan Army, did not have much joy on his face after landing and inspecting the shore.

The river was originally made up of rocks and layers of silt, but this year's lack of precipitation has led to the river falling so that the water is exposed and covered with lush reeds.

The scale of the river island is not large, and the terrain is not very high. Previously, the enemy army held on to this time, and carried out great damage to the landform of Hezhou. At present, although it was taken by the Huainan army, it is no longer a complete solid soil, potholes, and the entire river island is divided into a small piece of small islands by the river water, especially in the middle, there is a puddle with a small area, which is directly connected with the river water.

The reason why the Huainan army wanted to seize these rivers was to be able to obtain some strongholds in the rivers that could provide supplies and recuperate, so as to better control the waterways. But now that this river island is in such a situation, it is clear that it no longer has this role.

"At the very least, it will be difficult for the enemy to use this place to intercept our ships."

Li Youzhi said to himself, which can be regarded as a little comfort to himself and the soldiers who have fought for many days. If you really want to talk about the supply point in the river, the enemy's needs are much greater than those of the Huainan army.

Water warfare is extremely costly, especially on a wide waterway like the Yellow River. Even the Huainan Army, which is good at water warfare, rarely chooses to engage in broadside battles when there are other options. Because once you choose to take overboard, even if you win, it will cause great damage to your own ships and the lives of your soldiers, and will weaken the ability to fight for a long time.

Whether in the north or south, as long as the lives of soldiers are not treated as mere consumables, it is indispensable to prepare various long-range offensive means. However, the carrying capacity of the boat is fixed, and if there are more soldiers, there will be less material use, and if there are more material uses, there will be insufficient soldiers.

In particular, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it needs to be adjusted sensitively, so if you can get a strong stronghold in the nearest battlefield position, you can gain a great advantage in battle.

Even if the Huainan Army does not have a stronghold, there are still some large warships that can take on such a task, and they can adjust the use of supplies and the rationing of soldiers. However, the enemy army had few such large warships, and could only rely on a few fixed strongholds. And once these strongholds are lost, they will fall into great passivity.

Although the river island has been devastated and can no longer store a large number of people and goods, it can also be used as a temporary stop with a little repair.

But when he thought that his team had been entangled in this river continent for such a long time, Li Youzhi always felt that the gains and losses could not be compensated, so he was quite a little unrelieved.

"The Shengwu army recovered many lost lands in Hebei with a few thousand soldiers, and Xiao Douhu even picked up the sour jujube city......"

Not only Li Youzhi couldn't let go, but the other commanders also felt quite lost after going ashore to check it out.

"If you want to make meritorious contributions, are you afraid that you won't have a chance?"

Hearing the chatter of the commanders under his command, Li Youzhi couldn't help but laugh and scold, recently the army has made many great achievements, and even the entire Huainan Army is holding back a lot of energy, and they all want to compete for a great achievement. Similar to the current capture of this river island, it could have been regarded as a success, but now it is not very popular.

They anchored in this river island to rest for a while, and by the way, they sent someone to present the results of the battle. After nearly two hours, news came back from the camp, ordering this naval army to continue to garrison in place for rest, and at the same time, a batch of materials was replenished. In addition, there was another military order, summoning Li Youzhi to return to the sour jujube camp on the south bank to meet the governor.

Li Youzhi did not dare to slack off after receiving the order, and changed to a fast boat to cross the river and return, and when he arrived at the Lingchang ferry, night had fallen.

At present, Lingchangjin is also a gathering point of the Huainan Naval Army, the original dense reeds have been cleared out, the dilapidated embankment that was hit by the attack earlier has also been repaired and reinforced, the water camp built of bamboo and wood extends to the river for several miles, and there are more than 30 warships of different sizes anchored here, ready to dispatch at any time.

After Li Youzhi landed on the shore, he found that some other generals of the navy who were leading their troops also came here one after another. At present, the Huainan Army has nearly 30,000 sailors active on this section of the Yellow River, with hundreds of boats and boats.

In addition to some heavily defended fixed Jindu camps, there were also nearly 10,000 people scattered up and down this section of the river, so as to control the wide waterway of the Yellow River.

The generals gathered together, or talked about the achievements during this time, and there was no shortage of speculation that so many generals were gathered, could it be that there was going to be a big action?

Hearing this speculation, all the generals became excited, during this period of time, the overall results of the naval army were good, and the enemy army was completely suppressed to Yanjin, and the section of the Yellow River waterway from Tiger Prison City to Yanjin has almost become the inland river of the Huainan Army, and it is unimpeded. But if it is distributed among each army, it is really not enough.

In the Huainan Army, the naval army has a very high strategic position, and its relative autonomy is relatively poor, and there is almost no opportunity to act independently to hunt for military merits before there is a specific battle plan. Seeing that the other ministries had gained a lot, these naval generals were also anxious in their hearts.

These generals also gathered here to discuss a lot, Xu Maoxing, who was the superintendent of the navy, came out and arranged for the generals to change to war horses and rush to the sour jujube camp in the south.

After everyone arrived at the sour date, they were directly introduced into the big tent of the Chinese army, and then they saw that Lu Yong, Cao Na and other generals of the navy were already here, and they were reporting the military situation to the governor.

"In recent days, the enemy's ships in the vicinity of Yanjin have indeed declined. A few days ago, there were nearly 300 boats, but from yesterday to today, there are less than 100 boats coming in and out......"

Lu Yongnai is the chief superintendent of the navy, and the daily battle situation of each battalion must be summarized, and on such a long front, some local abnormalities are not obvious, but if they are gathered together, there will be a great amplification effect.

The military situation in the past few days alone shows that the traces of the enemy's activities on the Yellow River have suddenly decreased, as if they have given up control of the Yellow River waterway, which is really too strange.

Although the enemy army is at a disadvantage in the waterway, and it seems that it does not intend to win a decisive victory in a water battle with the Huainan army, with such a small number of ships and ships, let alone guarding some strongholds along the river, I am afraid that even the basic vigilance will not be maintained.

At present, there is only a Yellow River between the two armies, and the Huainan Army has a great advantage on the river, but the enemy army is shrinking even the basic vigilance, which is simply a joke!

Once the Huainan Army launched a sneak attack, even if it was discovered in the middle of the crossing, the deployment and defense of as many as tens of thousands of soldiers could not be completed in a hurry.

Unless they are always vigilant against the attack of the Huainan army, but those soldiers are also flesh and blood, once the intense preparation lasts for too long, it will be a huge loss of physical strength and morale.

If it is only a small-scale confrontation of three or five hundred, this kind of consumption is not too obvious. But at present, the two armies are gathered in tens of thousands of people, and if they cannot maintain a relatively calm resting environment, this tension is enough to drag down the entire army.

"It seems that Shi Kan is planning something elsewhere!"

Lu Yong's literal report was not an image, when Li Youzhi and other generals on the Yellow River reported the real-time military situation respectively, the generals felt that the enemy army was not in a posture, but really inadequate, so Cao Na said in a deep voice.

It is important to deduce where the enemy will make a move, and what kind of response and preparedness the Huainan army will need to make.

"It shouldn't be a fangtou."

Shen Zhezi pondered for a moment and said, although Fangtou is far away from the sour jujube, Xie Ai will have a military report every day, and the current situation of Fangtou is good, and even Xie Ai is still brewing some new external offensive actions. Shen Zhezi believed in Xie Ai's vision and ability, and it was impossible for the enemy army to not be able to see the movements under his nose.

With the Yellow River blocking it, it is not difficult to guess what the enemy's movements are, since it is not upstream, then it must be downstream. But downstream, where would the enemy plot?

In many cases, the inability to make accurate judgments is not a slight lack of talent, but a lack of information. This is the current situation of the Huainan army, and all the generals have their own guesses, but none of them are sure.

The discussion continued until late at night, and in the end, Shen Zhezi only signaled Lu Yong to start assembling all the men and horses of the navy, no matter where the enemy was directing, first of all, he had to ensure that he had enough mobile strength to be able to respond at the first time.

At dawn the next day, not long after Shen Zhezi fell asleep, suddenly the direction came from the slipway in the east, saying that he had found signs of the enemy crossing the river in a larger way downstream, and there seemed to be a large number of war horses among them.

After learning the news, Shen Zhezi was also shocked in his heart. In such a large-scale battle, in fact, it is difficult to have any genius, the choices that both sides can make are very limited, and the tactics that are too clever cannot be completed by tens of thousands of bloated troops, so as soon as they get the information from the slippery side, they can already guess the enemy's intentions.

At present, the Huainan Army seems to have an advantage, but in fact it is still flawed, that is, it has insufficient control over the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The Huainan Army had just been properly arranged in terms of the slipway, and the area further downstream had not yet been extended at all.

Originally, this defect was to hope that the Xuzhou army would go north to make up for it, but there was news from Xuzhou that Taishan County was unstable again, so the date of the division would be delayed for a while. There is nothing to be done about this, after all, the time for the Huainan Army to assemble in the north has been advanced. However, the Xuzhou army is nearly thousands of miles away, and it is difficult to make immediate adjustments.

Obviously, Shi Kan is going to take advantage of this loophole to make a counterattack, and the counterattack must be very strong, so big that in his opinion, the frontal Huainan army does not have time to attack while Liyang is weak.

After learning this, Shen Zhezi immediately ordered the river water army to quickly assemble at the slipway, and at the same time, the army of sour jujube also increased the strength to reinforce the slideway. If the enemy's cavalry came south on a large scale, then the damage caused to Henan would be great, and it might even directly threaten the safety of the front-line army.

At the same time, he also gave an order to Xie Ai, who was at the head of Fangtou, to give Xie Ai more power to act cheaply. After the various ministries made adjustments, Shen Zhezi anxiously waited for the news feedback in the sour date, but the slippery platform did not wait for the latest news, but the news came from the direction of Chen Liu: Chen Guang was counterattacked by the troops and had been defeated, and Han Huang's department, which originally dealt with Chen Guang, was urgently heading north at the moment.

"God help me!"

After learning this news, Shen Zhezi was pleasantly surprised, first ordered Han Huang to go to the slipway quickly, and then ordered the rest of the armies to ignore the movements of the enemy forces downstream, and immediately launched a general attack on Liyang!

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