Chapter 57: Recovering Jiangxi

There is light shining through, and the room seems to be shrouded in half-light and half-dark transparent water.

Lin Jian woke up from sleep, opened his eyes and saw Song Jia looking at herself, her eyes were extremely beautiful in the morning light, clear and free of impurities, he struggled with Song Jia for half a night until dawn before falling asleep, looking at the light in the room, thinking it was early morning, and asked suspiciously: "I didn't sleep for long?" ”

"Heh, you've slept all day, the sun has gone down, and you haven't slept for long?" Song Jiayan smiled, leaned over to the side, and lay on Lin Bin's body, naked, so that Lin Jian felt that her skin was as delicate and smooth as satin.

"And you're still in bed with me?" Lin Lian hugged Song Jia's plump waist and couldn't help but touch her more elastic buttocks.

The meat on Song Jia's buttocks is the thickest, full and elastic, tender and greasy, like colloid, especially when the bed is pouted and Lin Tie helps the pestle to enter, the buttocks are like waves, which makes people look beautiful.

In addition to those charming eyes, Lin Jian likes Song Jia the most.

Song Jia asked Lin Jian to touch his buttocks and tickle his heart, half lying on his body, like a fish moving in shallow water, and said: "I woke up and looked at the sunset window, and I saw it beautifully, which one is willing to get up?" Holding Lin Bin's chest, he said, "Now I'm going to get up, and my stomach is hungry." ”

"Now that it's night, why bother putting on and undressing again?" Lin Jian held Song Jia's waist and didn't tell her to get up.

Song Jia stretched out his hand and touched it, and Lin Jian had already stood up violently, and smiled a little shyly: "You are really hungry and panicked." "Listening to the fact that there was no movement in the courtyard, knowing that others would not be uninteresting to scratch, he rode on Lin Lian's body, straightened up, sat on the pestle, and just learned to grind the noodles and turn twice, and then listened to someone in the courtyard walking in, but it was Gao Zongting who reported loudly through the window: "Fuliang is in a hurry, and the Chizhou army is ...... rout on the north bank."

was extremely disappointed, Lin Jian and Song Jia got up and dressed in embarrassment, and they didn't bother to wash, so they hurried to the lobby to discuss the matter.

Su Tingzhan has withdrawn his troops from Fuliang, and Yu Wenbei led his troops to Fuliang, so that the channel west of Chizhou through Fuliang to Shangrao was opened. That's it, the news of the defeat of the Chizhou army also dragged on until a day and a night before reaching Shangrao.

The letter sent by Fuliang only wrote about the collapse of the Chizhou army on the north bank, and when the letter was transmitted, the gains and losses of Zongyang, Yicheng, and Qianshan Zhucheng had not yet come to fruition.

Lin Jian and Song Jia came in, and Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting and others had already gathered here, and the news of the letter newspaper was intuitively marked on the map.

"The secret letter of the lord was delivered to Zongyang on the night of the 23rd, Yue Lengqiu stayed on the north bank, but asked Deng Yu to cross the river to the south bank to assist Yue Zhi, it can be seen that Yue Lengqiu did not take what the lord said to heart on the 23rd," Gao Zongting said, "On the 24th, Ziang sent people in Luzhou to urge Yue Lengqiu to transfer troops north, but Yue Lengqiu hesitated, and in the early morning of the 25th, Jiangzhou suddenly crossed the river, and Yue Lengqiu should not have made a decision. Yue Lengqiu was forced to deal in a hurry, and the soldiers and horses were divided into three ways to attack the north and south of Jiangzhou, and the root of the bane was buried here! ”

Lin Jian didn't care about the victory or defeat of the Chizhou army, and asked: "Is it possible that the Jiangzhou soldiers took advantage of the defeat of the Chizhou army to cover up the attack on Luzhou?" ”

"For example, when the attack on Luzhou was covered, I thought that it was possible for Luwenzhuang to take Jiangxia first," Gao Zongting analyzed, "When Chizhou was defeated on the north bank, General Cunxin led the third water battalion to Lujiang at most, and when he heard that Chizhou was defeated, the third water battalion stopped at Lujiang." Although Luzhou has few soldiers, there is a third water battalion to rely on, and Luzhou should have no big worries. After the naval forces on the north bank and Chizhou were defeated one after another, the soldiers and horses of Chizhou attacking Peng Ze on the south bank shrank back, and Yue Lengqiu should still be able to gather nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses in Qiupu......"

Lin Jian nodded: The terrain at the southern foot of Huai Mountain is shallow, unless Haowenzhuang has the confidence to control the waterway of the Yangtze River, otherwise its eastward march will expose its flanks, which is really unwise. Compared with attacking Luzhou and Huaidong, the remnants of the luxury family should be eager to obtain a certain living space on the north bank, and take advantage of the unpreparedness of Jinghu Lake to gather troops in Jiangxia and enter the Han River, which is more beneficial to the remnants of the luxury family to get more opportunities for the remnants to breathe and prolong their breathing.

"In this way, it is difficult to change the trend of Yanhu's soldiers and horses going south, and this step is out, and the luxury family will take the road under their feet!" Song Jia sighed faintly.

When the luxury family lost Jiangxi, they lost the capital to stand on their own, and the remnants fled across the river to the north, just for the purpose of opening the way for Yanhu. After crossing the river north into Jinghu, sandwiched between Luo Xiancheng and Hu Wenmu, there was no living space for the luxury family, and Luo Xiancheng was attached to Yanhu together, which was the last choice of the luxury family.

At this point, the strategy that Huaidong had set at the beginning to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf can be regarded as being used to the extreme.

At this time, the main force of the Huaidong Army was still stranded along the Xinjiang River, and it was necessary to solve the enemy at Hengfeng first, and then solve the problem of Huang Binghao in Yuanzhou, so that it was possible to finally free up his hands.

The section of the Huanglongling River is one of the most suitable ferries in the middle reaches of the Yangzi River, and the mouth of Poyang Lake is just Huanglongling, so that the people and horses of the luxury family in Jiangzhou can first board the boat from the inner line of Poyang Lake, and then take advantage of the night to go out of the lake to rush to cross the Yangtze River. Unless it can advance by land and water and completely encircle Jiangzhou, it will be difficult to stop the luxury family from abandoning Jiangzhou and crossing north.

The vitality of the Chizhou army was greatly damaged, Jinghu was isolated, it was difficult to contact for a while, Huaidong's foot soldiers in Luzhou were only enough to defend the city, even if Ao Canghai and Zhang Jiheng led their troops to the north first, and converged with the soldiers and horses of Jiangdong, it was difficult to rush to the periphery of Jiangzhou in time.

The Chizhou army was defeated on the north bank, and it was difficult to change the outcome when the remnants of the luxury family crossed the river and fled north in Jiangzhou, and the best result was that Hu Wenmu could hold Jiangxia.

However, it is difficult for Hu Wenmu to hold Jiangxia.

Jiangxia is located in the west of Ezhou, and the government governs Hanjin, that is, Wuhan Hanyang. Previously, Hu Wenmu was ordered to advance from Ezhou to Jiangzhou, and most of his troops were concentrated on the south bank, and the garrison in Hanjin was mainly to guard against Chen Hansan.

After Chen Hansan led the remnants of his troops south, although Luo Xiancheng secretly supported him, he only accumulated 10,000 soldiers and horses in half a year, and he had to be attacked by Jinghu and Chizhou from left to right, how much of a threat could he pose to Hanjin?

Hu Wenmu's troops in Hanjin are very limited, the Chizhou army was defeated, and after the remnants of the luxury family crossed the river, there was no threat on the eastern flank, and they could concentrate their forces to attack Hanjin.

Luo Xiancheng is not a person who is willing to be lonely, since he secretly helped Chen Hansan, Lin Xiancheng gave up his efforts to win over Luo Xiancheng, and instead worked hard to divide the people in Suizhou.

Previously, Suizhou was sandwiched between Nanyang, Huaixi, and Jinghu, and Yanhu soldiers and horses were blocked from Jianghuai, so Luo Xiancheng did not dare to make any changes. After the remnants of the luxury family cross the river, they will directly become a barrier in the south of Suizhou, and Luo Xiancheng is very likely to openly surrender to Yanhu and use troops against Nanyang or Hanzhong - in this case, will the Cao family still be alone in Guanzhong?

The situation is not so bad for Huaidong, at least the overall situation of Jiangxi has been decided, even if Yanhu soldiers and horses go south, Dong Yuan is difficult to resist in Huaidong, and the main force of the Huaidong Army can also withdraw from Jiangxi to the north to defend the two key points of Luzhou and Xuzhou.

The situation in Jinghu is difficult to take into account for the time being, but at present, it is still necessary to stabilize the situation in Jiangxi as soon as possible, so that Jiangxi can change from chaos to governance, which is the fundamental way to respond to all changes with no change.

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The situation in Jinghu has changed drastically, and Lin Jian can't wait to see the recovery of Jiangxi in an orderly manner.

On the 28th, Zhang Gou entered and occupied Fuzhou, turned south from Fuzhou, and marched to Shanguan at the turn of Jiangxi and Fujian.

The remnants of the enemy in Hengfeng, when they learned the news that the luxury family abandoned Jiangxi and crossed the river to the north, gave up the idea of waiting for help, and also broke through to the west of Hengfeng City on the 28th. Zhou Tong deliberately let go of the western passage to lure the remnants of Hengfeng to scatter between Huating and Hengfeng, and took advantage of the water camp to rush to the beach in the middle section to break through the flank of the remnants of the enemy, and to the west of Huating Pass, the enemy of Hengfeng was routed.

In the following days, the main force of the Huaidong Army was stranded in eastern Jiangxi, and more of it was chasing and destroying the routed troops.

At the same time, the situation on the northern front is also developing rapidly, and the changes are so rapid that people are not able to respond to it.

As expected in advance, although the Jiangzhou army won a great victory in Xiaocangshan, it had lost its sharpness, and had no intention of attacking Luzhou in the east, and even Zongyang was abandoned.

On the outskirts of Yicheng, after the battle with Sun Zhuang's troops was frustrated, Chen Hansan was worried that Zongyang was too prominent, and there was a risk that the Huaidong army would be outflanked by land and water, so he retreated to Xiaocangshan to the west of Zongyang and at the junction with Huangmei, so as to cover the river crossing passage of the remnants of the luxury family.

The remnants of the Chizhou Army retreated to Qiupu, without the support of land routes, and the third water battalion of Jinghai had no obvious advantage on the river, and it was difficult to attack westward against the water, and retreated to the Lujiang River and the coast of Juchao.

The luxury family took advantage of the aftermath of the victory in Xiaocangshan, used the Jiangzhou naval army to cover the eastern wing, and requisitioned hundreds of large and small fishing boats to cross the Jiangzhou people. In just three days from 26 to 28 July, more than 90,000 soldiers and civilians fled from Jiangzhou to the north, either voluntarily or under duress.

Affected by the rout of the Chizhou army, Jinghu's soldiers and horses in Ezhou also became hesitant, since they had no courage to force into the city of Jiangzhou and drag the luxury family to flee across the river to the north, they were reluctant to immediately abandon Jiangzhou and transfer troops to strengthen the defense of the Jianghan hinterland.

On the 27th, the soldiers and horses of the vanguard of the luxury family crossing to the north shore were almost 40,000 people, including the elite of the luxury family headquarters and the Tian Chang department. Taking advantage of the emptiness of Huaidong's troops in the direction of Luzhou, and the new defeat of the Chizhou army and the retreat to Qiupu, all of which were unable to contain their troops from the eastern front, the soldiers and horses of the Haojia army crossing the river and entering the north bank quickly spread to the west, to the direction of Hanjin, and to the north bank of the Hanshui.

The soldiers and horses of the extravagant family who withdrew from the hinterland of Jiangxi, including Su Tingzhan, Han Li and other troops, as well as the remaining troops who were finally left behind in Pengze, Hukou, and Jiangzhou, about 20,000 people, all crossed the river and entered the north bank on the first day of May.

Taking May as the division, after experiencing the fiasco of Shangrao, the luxury family abandoned Jiangxi and fled smoothly to the eastern Hubei region on the north bank.

After Su Tingzhan led his troops to cross the river, he succeeded Chen Hansan and stationed in Huanglongling and Huangmeicheng. The Jiangzhou Navy Yang Xiong's department is dependent on Su Tingzhan and Han Li's department by land and water, with 40,000 soldiers and horses on land and water, temporarily guarding the back of the luxurious family.

Chen Hansan led his troops to march west from Xiaocangshan in early May, and joined forces with the remnants of the Zhejiang-Fujian army under the command of Haowenzhuang, Haoyuan, and Hu Zongguo to enter the north bank of the Han River.

Hu Wenmu was forced to abandon the city of Hanjin on the north bank of the Han River and rebuild the defense line on the south bank of the Han River.

Ordered by Ao Canghai, Yu Wencheng and Yu Wenbei led their troops to recover Pengze and Hukou in early May. After the Chizhou army retreated to Qiupu, it did not dare to make a big move, and after Chen Hansan led his troops to withdraw from Zongyang, Yue Lengqiu did not dare to march westward, but gathered the rout in Yicheng.

The remnants of the luxury family spread out in the direction of Hanjin, and the troops pointed directly at the side of Jinghu, Hu Wenmu did not dare to enter Jiangzhou again, but transferred troops from Ezhou to the west to the hinterland of Jingzhou on the south bank of the Han River.

The first is that Hu Wenmu no longer dares to provoke Huaidong at this time, and the second is that Jinghu needs more garrisons on the south bank of the Han River, and cannot divide troops in Jiangzhou.

Su Pin Xiao's water camp landed on the northwest shore of Poyang Lake on the fifth day of the fifth month of May and recovered Jiangzhou City, which was almost as empty as an empty city; With the support of the upstream, Ge Cunxin also led a warship of the Third Water Battalion to boldly march westward to Jiangzhou to join Ao Canghai, completely controlling Jiangxi.

Haowenzhuang also knew that when the Huaidong Army adjusted its deployment, especially after the main force of the Huaidong Army entered and occupied Jiangzhou, the main force of the Jinghai Battalion would also move westward to the Jiang-Hubei line, and its naval army would not be enough to compete with Huaidong on the Jiang-Hubei line.

In order to avoid being forced by the Jinghai Sea Battalion along the river, the luxury family also intended to shorten the defense line along the river on the north bank.

As the Huaidong Army gradually took control of Jiangzhou and other places, the army gradually abandoned the riverside area at the southern foot of Huaishan Mountain in early May, and its forces shrank westward, retreating to the territory of Qichun, and building a defensive line at the southern foot of Huai's east and west.

The south bank of Qichun is Ezhou, which is the defense area of Jinghu Lake. As long as Hu Wenmu did not give up Ezhou, and the west of Qichun was nominally the defense area of the Chizhou Army, the luxury family could temporarily avoid confrontation with the Huaidong Army.

The remnants of the luxury family would rather give up the area east of Qichun, and temporarily avoid the Huaidong troops.