Chapter 645: Anti-General First Army
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Yuzhou Island is also known as Tianheng Island, in the East China Sea of Haizhou, hundreds of miles back in a week, Tang is on Yuzhou Island to strike Donghai County. It belongs to one of the four counties of Haizhou of Taining Army, and Qingdao Port at the southern end of Laizhou is 500 miles away from Yuzhou Island, and can be reached by fast boat in one day and night.
The location of Yuju Island is also very important, especially for the Zhenguo Army. Yuzhou Island to the west is Haizhou, not far to the west is Yizhou, there is an important passage from Huaisi to Ziqing Town, Yishu River Valley Passage. Since ancient times, it has been the most convenient and fast passage from Huaisi to Ziqing.
And not far south of the coast is the mouth of the Huai River.
To the southwest, it is the intersection of the Yishu River Valley passage and Surabaya, and the important town of the Reform Army, Xiapicheng. To the west of Xiapi is Pengcheng, Xuzhou, an important town in Huaibei, and to the south is Linhuai, Sizhou, an important town of Huaihe.
Li Jing knew very well the strategic significance of if the Zhenguo army occupied Donghai County, fundamentally, to occupy this large island. The Zhenguo Army almost monitored the Taining Army and the Reform Army. It is reported that it has the ability to land in Haizhou at any time, cut off the main road of Yishu, and at the critical time, it can even penetrate directly into Sizhou Xiapi, and has the ability to attack Pengcheng in Xuzhou in the west and Linhuai in Sizhou in the south.
In addition, the garrison of Wooju Island can also protect the coastal sea trade routes.
What made Li Jing most excited was that with the powerful naval army possessed by the Zhenguo Army, if the Zhenguo Army was stationed on Yuzhou Island, then even if the Taining Army wanted to be unfavorable to the garrison on the island, they would not be able to cross the sea to make enemies with the Zhenguo Army. This is completely a wonderful strategic zone that can be attacked and defended.
As long as he has Yuzhou Island, Li Jing has almost put a sharp sword on the backs of the Taining Army and the Reform Army. Once they want to make any changes to the Zhenguo Army. Li Jing could finish them off at any time. Let them be attacked in the back.
Yuzhou is so important. Of course, the Zhenguo Army has also noticed it in the past. But Yuzhou Island is a county in Haizhou, and the Taining Army will naturally not easily hand over this important place to Li Jing. But now it's different, with Wang Haojun's reminder, Li Jing immediately realized that Gao Yu's order actually gave Li Jing the best reason.
Li Jing organized a large army to move south from the sea to Yuzhou Island, and asked to go ashore for supplies. With Coco Li's current status and fame. Coupled with Gao Yu's order, could the Taining Army dare to stop it. Especially just now there was a small mutiny in the Taining army, and the Taining army general Qi Kerang secretly instructed his subordinates to mutiny, and as a result, Yang Zhizhi, the commander of the Taining army, that is, when Wang Xianzhi attacked Jiangling City, the former Jingnan Jiedu envoy who had a large army but still lost the Jiangling City, fled to the eastern capital in a frightened manner. After Zikerang asked the court to stay with him, the court had not yet decided on this matter.
At this juncture, Li Jing believed that Zike had let the mutiny come to power. I don't dare to do anything with the Zhenguo Army.
The Zhenguo army doesn't need to do anything, as long as it is directly in the name of building a supply point. If a heavy army is stationed on the island, then in fact this place will become the actual control area of Li Jing.
Thinking of the effect after controlling this important island, Li Jing almost couldn't help but want to hug Wang Haojun and kiss him fiercely.
However, in Wang Haojun's strategy, the most exciting thing for Li Jing is not the plan of Yuzhou Island, but the plan of Hu Zhuzhou.
Hu Tuzhou, is the later generations of Nantong, Jiangsu, this is the Yangtze River estuary alluvial sediment siltation into a sandbar, because there are many beans on the island, that is, broad beans, so it is called Hu Tuzhou.
The area of Hushuzhou is larger than that of Yuzhou Island, 80 miles from east to west, 35 miles from north to south, and it is larger than ordinary counties. There are no counties and townships on this island, only a few homeless hermits who fish and cook salt here.
But the location of this island is even more important, from Hu Tuzhou to Yangzhou, the seat of Huainan Town, is only 340 miles. It is only 500 miles to reach Runzhou, the Haidu envoy in western Zhejiang.
As long as Li Jing sent a heavy army south in the name of Gao Biao's order, and then occupied this large island with a radius of 100 miles, stationed heavy troops on it, and was escorted by the naval fleet of the Zhenguo Army, even if he stared at Gao Biao and Zhou Bao, the two famous generals, he didn't have to worry too much.
Although far away from Dengzhou, Li Jing does not have to worry about supply and other problems. Dengzhou already had a large number of merchant ships coming and going, and it was enough to directly use merchant ships to replenish the supply.
Li Jing can imagine that there is such a large army stationed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, stationed behind Gao Biao, and you can imagine Gao Biao's feelings. In this way, Li Jing can not only threaten Gao Yu at any time, but also protect his trade interests in the Yangtze River estuary and the southeast coast.
Li Jing shook his head and chuckled and said to Wang Haojun, "How did you come up with this?" ”
"Actually, it's not the concubine's alone." Wang Haojun saw that although Li Jing glared at her a few times before, but later the more he looked at the fold, the more happy he became, and even couldn't help but slap the table with his hand in the middle, and he was overjoyed, so he knew that Li Jing was actually quite happy about this plan. I was a little worried in my heart, but I was not too complacent at this time, but was a little more cautious.
Li Jing looked at her, and then looked down at the fold, "Let me guess, could it be that Megan and Julie are also involved in this matter?" ”
Wang Haojun nodded, although she was smart, she was only a woman after all. She and Meghan were close to each other, just to win them over. She saw that although these two people were not very liked by the old lady, they were Li Jing's concubines, but they could still be generals and command the fleet, so she knew that the two of them were very liked by Li Jing. Anyway, the two of them are Hu Nu, and they are not afraid of the two of them winning favor. Therefore, they became close and close, and after a period of time, they sometimes talked about some things in the army. In fact, the main ideas of this strategy are all from the hands of Meghan and Julie, and Wang Yijun is just the most reluctant.
Hearing this result, Li Jing only smiled faintly. He doesn't like women to participate in military and political affairs, and that's because of these women, each of whom has a family with a high status behind him. Such as Wang Pu, such as Pei You, such as Zhang Rui, such as Xiao Shi, etc., are afraid that the inner family and the foreign ministers will unite and affect decision-making.
"This jade pendant will be given to you." Li Jing untied a piece of jade pendant and gave it to Wang Haojun, and then said with a straight face: "In the future, if you have any opinions on military and political affairs, you can write them into folds and hand them to me, but there is always a boundary between things." I don't want you to be confused.? ”
Li Jing can take a step back appropriately. Let Wang Haojun write some excerpts of opinions. Giving some advice, but I don't want her to get involved in any more things.
After saying a few more words to Wang Haojun, Li Jing went out with her fold and went directly to the festival hall with the guards.
The meeting of the Heavenly Wolf Festival Hall was originally a military meeting, but now it has become a meeting of senior officials of the Zhenguo Army. The civil and military chiefs of the 16 prefectures, the military commanders of the various armies, the principals of the Wutang and the military academy, and the chiefs of the General Staff Department, the Xiaocai Division, the Propaganda Department and other divisions. It's all here.
With such a large number of senior officials, the meeting would have been an extremely important one.
Even when Wang Chong and Lin Wu, Li Jing's brothers-in-law, talked secretly, they all thought that Li Jing might want to give Tian Lingzi and Gao Biao a good look this time. They are even ready to pull the flag and rebel, and for the two, no matter what Li Jing decides, they will support them unconditionally.
However, after talking with Gai Yu and Li Zhen, and unexpectedly getting Wang Haojun's excerpt, in fact, this meeting is no longer of much significance.
Everything, Li Jing already has a proposition in his heart, now. It's just a matter of announcing his decision.
Li Jing first summoned the tax collector sent by Lu Xian and the city envoy sent by Tian Lingzi to the court, and then directly announced his decision to the two. The first is the intention to tax the imperial court. Li Jing's reply was to stop paying the Son of Heaven a monthly tribute of one million from now on. However, at the same time, two taxes of two million guan will be handed over to the imperial court every year, plus two million guan of salt and iron tea tax. This year, 1 million guan will be handed in every month in 8914 months.
As for the taxation of the city's envoys, Li Jing simply refused. The Zhenguo army fought for the imperial court in Liaodong and Liaoxi, recovered the land of Andong, and did not ask the imperial court for a penny. According to the usual practice, the military of the feudal town sent food, and as long as it went out of the boundary, the imperial court had to be responsible for supplying the food. The Zhenguo army fought for several years, whether it was Liaodong or Daibei, the imperial court never supplied the army. Therefore, the tax money collected by Dengzhou Haimao was retained by the Zhenguo Army as a cost for supplying the army.
Lu Xian's envoy and the eunuch sent by Tian Lingzi wanted to say something, but Li Jing waved his hand directly, and immediately several gold-armored guards walked into the festival hall with swords and guns, and dragged them down.
When the messenger saw this, his legs trembled.
But contrary to his expectations, Li Jing did not reprimand him, nor even refused Gao Yu's order.
On the contrary, he said a lot of things, saying that everyone is responsible for suppressing bandits, and the Zhenguo army is duty-bound, and so on, and then said that the Zhenguo army will transfer troops to the south in the near future.
Li Jing's words, not to mention Gao Yu's envoy, were shocked, but many of the Zhenguo army and military forces in the hall were very surprised.
They couldn't understand why Li Jing had to accept this appointment, Li Jing was the king of Andong County, and both his title and official rank were above Gao Yu. The Zhenguo army fought for the country in Liaodong, why did it accept Gao Yu's order?
Li Jing did not explain to the generals that before the formal meeting, he only came and talked about his new plans with Li Zhen, Li Liang, Gai Yu, Jing Xiang, Guo Chengan, Lin Wei and a few others. Even the teachers Cui Yunqing and Li Jing never told him.
Li Jing directly announced that there were 2,000 people in the First Fleet and 2,000 people in the Second Fleet of the Water Force. In addition, 8,000 Yanyun troops were transferred, 5,000 Xuanfeng troops were selected, plus 20,000 people from the Zhenyuan Army, the Weiwu Army, the Xiongwu Army, and the Jingsai Army of the newly attached Jitan Prefecture, totaling 37,000 troops. The southeast camp was formed, with Pei You as the commander of the camp, Megan and Julie as the commander of the camp and the navy, Liu Xun as the pioneer of the camp, and Guo Zhenshan and the head of the Hebei Fourth Army as the commander of the Mabu Army. Wang Pu is the Sima of the marching camp, Wang Zhen is the Marquis of Duyu, and Megan is also the marching instructor.
Li Jing transferred six armies and two naval fleets to the south at one time, and it seems that Li Jing really wants to obey Gao Yu's order to attack Huangchao.
But behind this series of appointments, Gao Yu's envoy inexplicably felt a sense of fear.
Before coming, from Gao Biao to Zhang Yan, Liang Zhang, Lu Yongzhi, Zhang Shenjian and other Huainan generals, and even the envoy himself, no one thought that Li Jing would accept this obviously insulting order.
But the more impossible things happen, the more they happen.
Li Jing not only accepted the order, but also did not send a few people casually. Instead, a large army was really sent, six armies plus two naval fleets, 37,000 men and horses. The Fourth Army of Hebei may not have much fame and combat effectiveness, but the Yanyun Army plus the Xuanfeng Army, although these two armies are not aces in the Zhenguo Army, they are also first-class troops. Guo Zhenshan and Liu Xun are both generals under Li Jing. Especially Pei You, when Li Jing sent him south to pacify Wang Ying, it was the Zhenguo army led by him.
If something goes wrong, it's a demon!
Just above this Heavenly Wolf Festival Hall, Gao Yu's envoy frowned and began to worry.
Everyone thought that Li Jing would not send troops, but now, Li Jing has sent troops, and he has sent a real army.
The meeting in the Sirius Festival Hall lasted less than an hour before it was over.
Li Jing's personal guard Zhao Jiang pulled his neck and shouted: "Stand up"
The civil and military officers in the festival hall stood up in unison, stood upright, and then raised their right hand to hammer their left chest to Li Jing and saluted.
Li Jing also bowed seriously.
"Adjournment!" Zhao Jiang shouted loudly again!
The civil and military forces of the Zhenguo Army began to get up and leave the table, but the envoy of Gao Yu was still standing on top of the festival hall, a little dazed and at a loss! (To be continued......)