Updated: 2011-12-17

On the fifth day of the first month of August, Lin Lian summoned people from various towns in Qianyuan, just as Liu Tingzhou and others had predicted in advance, and what they discussed was the use of troops against Jiangxi.

"Chizhou is narrow and thin, and the road to the west is dangerous, and it is difficult to use troops in Jiangzhou after the autumn......"

Lin Tie sat on the hall, the civil and military officials sat in two columns, Deng Yu sat at the head of Liu Tingzhou, and naturally pushed Lin Tie to urge Chizhou to use troops against Jiangxi.

Deng Yu took out a letter from his arms, and then said: "The embarrassment of Chizhou, Governor Yue has stated it in the letter, please ask the privy envoy to observe ......"

"Everyone is complaining everywhere, this difficulty, that difficulty, if there is any problem, we will call this hospital to solve it for you, what else do you want everyone to do?" Lin Jian said dissatisfiedly, asked Deng Yu to hand Yue Lengqiu's letter to the case, opened it to read, and frowned more and more he frowned, and finally threw the letter aside impatiently, and said, "When Lord Yue was the governor of Jianghuai, this court ruled Chongzhou alone, and did not get a penny of grain from the county department, and the East China Sea was alone in the territory, was the situation in Chongzhou better than today's Chizhou?" ”

Liu Tingzhou and the others sat in the hall, thinking that Lin Lian had not forgotten that Yue Lengqiu had given him small shoes back then, and now that feng shui is taking turns, there is no need to say it so naked......

Deng Yu looked embarrassed, Lin Jian wanted to turn over the old account with Yue Lengqiu, so how could he respond?

"Then does Chizhou have a plan to use troops?" Lin Tie his hand on the table and asked Deng Yu, "It's been three months since Tanzhou fought with the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels; Jinghu also had heavy troops in Ezhou, attacking Jiangzhou from the west flank, sharing the worries of Tanzhou, and the soldiers and horses of Chizhou were unable to move forward, could it be that after Jinghu and Tanzhou defeated Jiangzhou, they would then ask Chizhou to send troops to take it? ”

Although Jinghu Lake and Xianghu Lake are roughly divided by the Yangtze River, they are located on the south bank of the Yangzi River and the northern foot of Luoxiaoling, Jinkou, Ezhou and other places, and are integrated with Jiangxia and Jichun on the north bank in terms of topography, so they have been subordinate to the north bank since ancient times. Jiangxi and Xianghu border, mostly the passage of the southern foot of Luoxiao Ridge and the north foot of Nanling, from Yuzhang along the Ganjiang River is Yuanzhou, from Yuanzhou to the west, through Luxi, it will reach the east of Tanzhou.

After the remnants of the army retreated to Jiangzhou, the rebel general Huang Binghao led the original troops and horses from Yuanzhou to the west of Xiangtan, which posed great pressure on Tanzhou, which was not strong in troops.

At the same time, they had to deal with the downstream Chizhou and Huaidong water camps, and in addition to guarding the mouth of Poyang Lake, they were unable to move westward against the current to control the river areas of Ezhou and Jiangxia in the upper reaches.

After Emperor Yongxing returned to Jiangning, Jiangning changed his policy towards the Cao family, and sent envoys to Guanzhong in early March to appoint Cao Yiqu to the governor of Sichuan and Qin.

The Cao family was also overwhelmed by the Yan soldiers who came from the northwest in a roundabout way, and they wished to stop fighting with Jiangning.

The urgent situation of defending eastern Sichuan on the western front of Jinghu was eased, so that more troops could be used for other purposes.

Although Luo Xiancheng has always been the biggest threat to Jinghu, Luo Xiancheng did not dare to make any moves when the luxury family invaded Jiangning. Of course, it is more likely that Luo Xiancheng didn't have time to make any moves, but in the eyes of Jinghu Hu Wenmu, compared to the threat of the luxury family from Jiangzhou to Ezhou and Jiangxia, Luo Xiancheng's threat is much smaller.

From March onwards, Hu Wenmu focused on strengthening the defense of Ezhou and Jiangxia on the eastern front in Jinghu.

Now in the periphery of Jiangxi, there are soldiers and horses of the Huaidong headquarters bordering Jiangxi from the direction of Shangrao at the southern foot of Yishan, Tanzhou bordering Jiangxi from the direction of Luxi at the southern foot of Luoxiao Mountains, Jinghu bordering Jiangxi from the direction of Ezhou at the northern foot of Luoxiao Mountains, Chizhou from the northern foot of Yishan and Jiuzishan bordering Jiangxi.

Although Deng Yu is old, in front of Lin Lian, who is young and vigorous, has a high position, and has brilliant military achievements, he is just embarrassed and his face is red, and he can't refute half a sentence.

Don't look at Yue Duming complaining behind his back, he really came to the capital hall to discuss matters, shrunk there, and really didn't have the courage to stand up to help Deng Yu and openly argue with Lin Lian......

In this military discussion, Chizhou, Jinghu, Nanyang and Huaixi sent people over, and Lin Tie pulled Jinghu and hit Chizhou - Liu Tingzhou coughed lightly and said: "The situation in Chizhou is indeed much more embarrassing than Jinghu, and it is difficult to pose a threat to Jiangzhou. Hasty use of troops will cause harm; If it is defeated, the barrier to the west of Jiangning will have to be blocked by the soldiers and horses of Huaidong, which is not a good thing......"

Liu Tingzhou helped Deng Yu speak, Lin Jian didn't feel strange, he said: "If you have difficulties, you can mention them, but you can't just put the difficulties out and complain to Jiang Ning?" There will be no difficulties in Jinghu, and there will be no difficulties in Tanzhou? Shouzhou or Nanyang, which one has a better life? Now that the total plate of money and grain drawn out by the household department to the Privy Council is so big, a nest of porridge is divided equally, and no one will work seriously. If Huaixi can drive the remnants of Chen Hansan from the northeast foot of Huaishan this year, and allocate an extra two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, it is also deserved, but the total plate is so big, and Huaixi has more, then there must be a place to get less, so in this way, everyone can probably understand what to do, right? ”

Hearing this, Deng Yu's face swelled like a pig's liver, and he said angrily: "This is a big injustice to Chizhou!" ”

"What's the injustice?" Lin Jian asked.

"Jing, Tan, Shou, Nanyang, all have people under their rule, and the soldiers can be recruited to supplement Ding Zhuang, but the people under the rule of Chizhou are less than 10,000 people, and the soldiers and horses go out to fight, and the people are not enough, if there is any loss, the soldiers and horses cannot be supplemented, where is this a lasting solution?" Deng Yu argued.

"Then you will call Peng Ze and Duchang, won't there be territory, and won't there be governance of the people?" Lin Jian asked.

"Thinking about defeat before winning is the right way to use troops - if you want Chizhou to send troops to fight Jiangzhou, you can also; Yicheng and Chizhou stand between the river, and they need to be under the rule of Chizhou, so that they can be sandwiched along the river, so that it is possible to avoid Jiangzhou's interception in Duchang and Pengze, and make a ......mistake in it," Deng Yu said, laying out the conditions for Chizhou to send troops.

Yicheng is the Anqing of the later generations, located at the southern foot of Huai Mountain, connecting with Luzhou in the east, and Jichun in the west is the passage of the west foot of Huai Mountain from Suizhou to the south. Anqing and Chizhou stand on the sandwich river, south of Jiuzi Mountain, Yishan Mountain, north of Huai Mountain, Tianzhu Mountain, is the key to control the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Compared with Chizhou, which has many mountains and few fields, narrow terrain and steep hills, Anqing is located at the southern foot of Huai Mountain, with relatively open terrain and a large population.

The reason Deng Yu said does exist. The mountains of Chizhou are steep and dangerous, standing between the rivers, the passage to the west is very dangerous and narrow, the luxury family can block the mouth of Chizhou in the west with only a small number of troops in Pengze, and to the north bank, along the southern foot of Huaishan to the west, from Zongyang to Yicheng, and then to Suwei and Huangmei, it will go directly to the opposite bank of Jiangzhou City, and it can bypass the defense line established by the luxury family in Pengze and Duchang, and cross the river from Huangmei to fight Jiangzhou directly......

"Yicheng may be assigned to Chizhou," Lin Jian touched his chin and said, "As for General Deng's statement that Dingzhuang in Chizhou is scarce, and even the people are not enough to requisition in the war, there are more than 20,000 Dingkou here in Luzhou, and Chizhou can be asked to move to Yicheng in Yishi, and the money and grain can be pulled out by an additional 100,000 each, but Deng Yue dares to make a military order on behalf of Chizhou, and he will use troops against Jiangzhou after the autumn?" ”

"Chizhou is still short of iron materials, and if you can pull out an extra 200,000 catties of iron, the last general will wait for Chizhou to make a military order!" Deng Yu said in a decisive manner.

"Don't lie to this hospital!" Lin Lian's eyes stared at Deng Yu.

"The last general will not dare." Deng Yu said.

"That fine iron and wool iron each allocated 100,000 catties to Chizhou," Lin Jian said, "This court doesn't want you to make any military orders on behalf of Chizhou, everyone can testify, just the end of October, there is no action in Chizhou at the end of October, and the materials allocated today will be doubled by this court in the coming year!" ”

Yuan Jinsheng asked Liu Tingzhou in a low voice: "How can the privy envoy be willing to let the people of Luzhou move to Yishi City?" ”

"When the emperor returned to Jiangning, some people abandoned the nest!" Liu Tingzhou whispered.

Yuan Jinsheng suddenly realized.

Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning to patrol Huaixi, although he stayed in Juchao for more than a month, the time was not long, but the production around Juchao was greatly damaged. At that time, there were more than 100,000 Jiangning soldiers and civilians who followed the emperor to the west of Lushan, and the grain and grass were unprepared, so they could only rely on plundering the countryside to survive. In the end, only a few of these people were able to return to Jiangning, and about 30,000 imperial battalion troops were moved to Huaixi and Chizhou respectively at that time, and finally nearly 40,000 soldiers and civilians, including thousands of palace attendants, remained in Luzhou for resettlement.

In addition to this, before and after the Jiangning War, including the later period of the outlying prefectures and counties, and the mountainous areas, nearly 40,000 rebels, rebels, and mobs who took advantage of the chaos to riot and loot were severely suppressed.

Suppression is not simply killing and killing, but more of servitude.

There are so many of them, almost 10,000 people.

Those who are easy to digest and Huaidong are willing to digest are mostly those who have small families, and these people can generally settle down when they settle down, whether they are planting or recruiting soldiers, they can do their best.

Those floating dings, vagrants, and deserters, if they want to be reformed, they need a very high time and cost, and they will even cause nuisance if they are placed in the place.

Chizhou is also too short of Ding Zhuang, and even the soldiers and civilians are not enough to fight the war, and at this time they are not qualified to pick fat and thin with Huaidong. Being able to divide Yicheng into Chizhou and move 20,000 or 30,000 households from Luzhou to enrich Yicheng's households, Deng Yu couldn't help but agree to Yue Lengqiu.

Yuan Jinsheng thought that Huaidong's abacus was really fine, thinking that it was already August at this time, and it had only been more than two months, and Chizhou had to use troops against Jiangzhou.

After the luxury family occupied Jiangxi, although it occupied the Poyang Lake Plain, the five roads were enemy, and the five roads were fought after the autumn, can the luxury family easily survive?

What did Hu Wenmu think in his heart, did he really look forward to the luxury family to exterminate Huaidong?

Huang Binghao led his troops from Luxi to the west, and Tanzhou was forced to fight; Chizhou did not have the strength to delay without fighting at this time, and the mountains on the side of Jinghu Lake were high and the emperor was far away, and the situation was completely different. In addition, Hu Wenmu has been running Jinghu for a long time, controlling Jingzhou, Jiangxia, Ezhou and other places, the area is vertical and horizontal, and there is a wide area of half a county, even if he does not have a penny of grain in Jiangning, it will not be particularly difficult to raise 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses under his command. Hu Wenmu is not worried that after Huaidong pacifies Jiangxi and Fujian, he will confiscate the military power in the hands of the feudal lords?

Yuan Jinsheng thought wildly, today's deliberations were over, and Lin Jian didn't invite everyone to stay for the banquet, so he asked them all to go back to the post house to rest.

Everyone retreated, Lin Jian rubbed his head and shouted headache, and said: "This ghost Laozi privy envoy is really not good, or just command Huaidong's soldiers and horses, like an arm to command......" asked Gao Zongting and Song Fu, who came from Jiangning to participate in this military meeting, "Zongting and Song Gong, do you think that Chizhou will fight Jiangzhou after the autumn, how much will it be really fought?" ”

"From Yicheng to the west, Huangmei County is the throat of Wutou Chuwei and Jingyang, and it is connected to Jiangzhou across the river from Xunyang Ancient County," Gao Zongting said, "If Yue Lengqiu wants to control Yicheng, he must rely on Huangmei in the west, so that the terrain at the southern foot of Huaishan is complete." In the past, the counties at the southern foot of the Huaishan Mountains were broken by bandits, and the embankments along the rivers were destroyed. It's difficult for our side to take care of the past for a while, and after the luxury family retreated to Jiangzhou at the beginning of the year, they didn't have the ability to stretch out their hands to the north bank, and now they really want to ask Yue Lengqiu to lead their troops to run Yicheng, how could the luxury family give up the Huangmei on the other side of Jiangzhou to Yue Lengqiu? ”

"No matter how much real fight you can have," Song Fu said, "Yue Lengqiu and Hu Wenmu are sandwiched around Jiangzhou, and the soldiers and horses left by the luxury family to defend in Jiangzhou will not dare to be few, and they can fight in Shangrao after the autumn, and the main force of the Changshan Army should also be transferred over......"

As long as there are no stalemate wars in other places, a small number of soldiers and horses are left in Luzhou and Yijiang to garrison, and there are still 30,000 forbidden battalion troops in Jiangning to defend the city, there is no fear that Huaixi and Yue Lengqiu will have any differences - it is necessary for Huaixi and Yue Lengqiu to have any changes, and it will be too late to transfer troops from Xuzhou or withdraw the main force of soldiers and horses from western Zhejiang.

The principle of warfare boils down to one point, that is, to concentrate superior forces.

Lin Jian nodded, agreeing with Song Fu's suggestion.