Surabaya, which is not constrained by the river embankment, rises after May and spreads to the beach on both sides, sweeping for more than ten miles, the water potential is extremely vast, and the reeds in the shallow water surface are green.

After the beginning of summer, all the water between the river and the Huai River rose and overflowed, further restricting the movement of the Yanhu cavalry between the river and the Huai. In contrast, the Huaidong warships were able to penetrate deeper into Henan and western Shandong, so that the balance of the two sides in the battle for the defensive line after summer and autumn was tilted towards Huaidong.

The soldiers and horses of the Northern Yan in Jining and Dongping, north of Xuzhou, all shrank behind the defensive line.

After the summer of Xuzhou, the direct war pressure was reduced, which was conducive to agriculture. Farther away, the wheat seedlings that have begun to tassel will be harvested in more than half a month. This is the second harvest season on the north bank of the Huai River after the war in Xuzhou, and the people in the fields seem to have forgotten the pain caused by the war and are only waiting for the harvest season to come.

Liu Miaozhen, Wu Qi, Li Wei, Chu Zheng, Sun Zhuang, Ma Lantou, Li Liang, Liu Xilin and other Xu Yi generals went out of the city to meet them at the Surabaya wharf. It has been nearly a year since she went south to lead troops to conquer eastern Fujian last year, Liu Miaozhen was wearing red armor, but she did not wear her bronze mask, and her face as bright as peach blossoms was set off by the armor, and she was heroic.

Liu Miaozhen led the generals to perform the courtesy of the ministers, but Lin Jian grabbed her hand in the palm of her hand and did not let go, and asked: "In the past half a year, there has been a lot of pressure in Xuzhou......

Liu Miaozhen couldn't pull back her hand, her face was flushed, but Li Wei was knowledgeable and interesting, and answered Lin Lian's question for Liu Miaozhen: "Everything is under the calculation of the lord, and there is no pressure to act according to the policy." ”

"Li Gong also learned to say good things and bluff people!" Lin Jian smiled, "Jiang Ning is falling, I still have a sweat in my heart, can you sleep peacefully?" ”

When Lin Jian first came to Xuzhou, everyone was also knowledgeable and interested, and they did not bother with the military and politics, so they asked him to get together with Liu Miaozhen for a few days, and Song Fu, Chen Huazhang and others were also free Li Wei, Ma Lantou, Sun Zhuang and others to receive and accompany them.

Song Fu has not been out of Fujian for nearly 20 years, and if he wants to assist Lin Jian in his calculations in the future, he feels that his grasp of the situation in the world is insufficient. "On paper, it is shallow", and the opportunity to walk around and take a look on the spot is also very rare. The same is true for Chen Huazhang.

Song Fu and Chen Huazhang are both people over fifty years old, they work a lot, and their hair turns gray early, Li Wei is older than them, but he has black hair.

Lin Jian was busy reuniting with Liu Miaozhen, and Song Fu and Chen Huazhang took this opportunity to get in touch with all aspects of Xuzhou.

Being able to drive away Chen Hansan and capture Xuzhou City can also be said to be twelve points of luck for Huaidong.

It was precisely because of the capture of Xuzhou City that the Xusi defense line was complete, and Beiyan saw that it was difficult to break through the Lianghuai defense line in a short period of time, so he decisively turned to the defensive in Henan and Shandong, and dispatched troops and horses to attack Guanshan from western Qin.

If Xuzhou City is given to Beiyan, there will be a cruel tug-of-war on the north bank of the Huai River, even if Huaidong can block the impact of Beiyan's two or three hundred thousand troops and hold the Huai River, life will never be good, on the contrary, the luxury family will breathe a sigh of relief and get the opportunity to recuperate - Song Fu finally made the decision to lead the Song people to join Huaidong, and also saw Xuzhou City fall into the hands of Huaidong.

Xuzhou is located between the river and Huai, the northeast direction is the Lunan Mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles without interruption, the north is the rivers and lakes in the north, and the west is the Yumai hills that extend from the Lunan Mountains to the direction of Huaiyang, surrounded by mountains, Bianshui and Surabaya bypass and connect with Huaishui from the east and west of Xucheng, and also deserve to be called the first key to Huaisi.

The transformation of the general trend of the world is often between the first line.

Song Fu has never had contact with Chen Hansan, but thinking that he rose to become the control envoy of a place with a horse coarse, when he is a bit eloquent, I don't know how he feels when he is expelled from Huaishan and re-established as a bandit today?

Lin Tie can only live happily for a few days in Xuzhou City, and Liu Miaozhen's bed is jerky, but it adds a lot of fun to make him happy. It wasn't until mid-May that I made up my mind to go with Liu Miaozhen to inspect the defense of Xu Yi's front line.

Before leaving, Wu Qi, who was in charge of the intelligence affairs of the northern region and the military affairs of Yishan, reported that the Yanhu royal family and the princes and ministers had left Yanjing and returned to Liaoyang in the summer for two consecutive summers, and said: "According to the information from the informants in Yanjing, the ministers of the Yanlu princes will also move north to Liaoyang to escape the summer after the summer this year, and the time should be in early June.......

Wu Qi proposed this proposal, so that the people of Xuzhou were also very interested.

To be able to inflict heavy damage on the chariots and horses of the princes and ministers who went north to escape the summer in Liaoxi, they will be able to completely disrupt the initially sound military and political system of Northern Yan; If you are lucky enough to hunt the captive king, it is possible to force Yan Lu out of the pass without a fight.

Lin Jian frowned slightly, and said: "This plan is not bad, but if it is implemented at this time, it may not be able to make a miraculous effect, what does Song Gong think?" ”

"It's not suitable for the time being," Song Fu said, "The princes and ministers of Yanyu will go north to Liaoyang to escape the summer, and there will be no shortage of guards and horses." If there are 20,000 cavalry in the north of the prince and minister of Yanlu, Huaidong will not be able to draw enough troops to defeat 20,000 elite cavalry at this time - from Yuguan to Liaoyang, Yanlu has many forts, and in danger can be avoided. This strategy will not work at this time, it should be strictly kept secret, and if it is to be implemented, it must wait until the conditions are ripe, and it is necessary to throw 40,000 to 50,000 elite infantry soldiers into Liaoxi at once to have a chance of success! ”

"After next year, Yanyu's naval army in Dengzhou will gradually become large, and it will become difficult to break through to the Bohai Sea." Wu Qi said.

Between Dengzhou and Jinzhou in the southeast corner of Liaoning, Haikouzi is only more than 100 miles wide, and Miaoshan and other islands are dense between them, and Beiyan is easy to form a blockade chain on Dengzhou's Beihaikouzi to protect the Bohai Sea inside.

Song Fu smiled and said: "Don't talk about the Bohai Sea in Dengzhou, if you change the luxury navy, can you block the Yangtze River and completely block the advance of the Huaidong Water Camp?" ”

The mouth of the Yangtze River is also more than 100 miles wide, but the water depth of the mouth of the Yangtze River cannot be compared with that of the Bohai Sea, so it is easier to blockade than the Bohai Sea - it is certain that even if Yan Yu goes all out to develop the water army, it will not be possible to catch up with the level of the luxury water army in just two or three years.

The extravagant navy has beaten the Huaidong water camp to lose its armor, Huaidong has self-confidence, and he doesn't have to worry about Yan Yu reading books] just ~ come to а}}P ability to seal Bohai Haikou.

Song Fu continued: "At present, instead of preventing Yan Lu from blocking the Bohai Sea, we must also convince Yan Lu that they have the ability to block the Bohai Sea, so as to prompt their troops and horses along the Bohai Bay to be transferred...... If you want to work wonders again when you attack the east and west to attack eastern Zhejiang, you must block Yanyu's vision. ”

Yanhu did not have a naval army, and in the battles of Yannan, he also initially understood the power of the Jiangdong Left Army at that time to move rapidly by sea and carry out logistical supply, so in Yandong, Jidong, Liaoxi, Liaodong and other coastal places in the Bohai Bay, they were stationed with heavy troops to guard against Huaidong soldiers and horses from attacking from the sea, and at the same time built a naval army in the Ludong area.

There is no way to transfer these troops and horses, and the effect of the surprise attack from the sea will become limited, which will evolve into a tug-of-war and a war of attrition in the coastal area - although the situation is extremely favorable to Huaidong for see-saw and attrition along the coast of Yanji, it is also necessary to consider the depth and breadth of the hinterland of the Yanhu people in the northland, which will weaken the actual effect of disturbing the Yanji coast.

Lin Lian nodded and said: "If you want to fight, you must fight ruthlessly, if at this time, Yan Yu is determined to shift the focus of military and political gravity to Jinnan or Jinnan, it will not be particularly beneficial to the future situation......"

The Donghu people will also have more than three years to digest the northern land, and they will have a good grasp of Jinzhong and swallow thistle.

When the threat of the Western Liaoning Corridor was becoming more and more serious by the sea route, the Donghu people could also establish a passage to the western foot of the Taihang Mountains that detoured from the direction of Datong, connecting the traditional areas of Yandong and Yanxi Zhuhu with the Central Plains through Jinzhong. Although the efficiency is inevitably far less than that of going directly to the Liaoxi Corridor, it can also make the Donghu people support the situation and not collapse immediately.

If the Donghu people can capture the Guanshan region first, and open the passage for Xiangfan to invade Jinghu, it is really hard to say who will die in the world.

At this time, the foundation of the Donghu people was still in Liaodong and Liaoyang, and the cultivated land and Dingkou resources of the Yanji Plain were much richer than those of Jinzhong at the western foot of Taihang Mountain. Although the coastal areas are vulnerable to the invasion of the sea route from Huaidong, the convenience of the Liaoxi Corridor connecting Liaodong and the Yanji region is extremely difficult for the Donghu people to make up their minds to abandon.

At this time, Huaidong was still in the foundation of business, so it could not help the Donghu people to make up their minds to cut off the coastal areas.

Song Fu said again: "I think that Huaidong is currently on the eastern front, one is to strengthen the tug-of-war between Yishan and Yan Lu in Ludong, and the other is to strengthen the assistance to the Zhen clan of Haiyang County, Goryeo - to let Yan Lu deepen the impression that Huaidong wants to open a land passage from Shandong and the Goryeo Peninsula and threaten its hinterland in an orderly manner, forcing it to deploy more troops to Ludong and southwest Liao. ”

At this time, the frontal defense line of Yanlu in Henan and Shandong was mainly composed of three sections, Henan was dominated by Chen Zhihu, and the corresponding ones were Huaixi, Nanyang and Hezhong; In the north of Xuzhou, the Northern Yan led by Yuan Lishan, a rebel general of Jizhen, built a Luxi defense line with Tai'an City as the central area, with more than 40,000 horse infantry stationed there; In Ludong, led by the veteran Nahe Xiongqi, there were more than 40,000 horse infantry troops and naval troops stationed in Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou - in the rear of these three defensive lines, Ye Ji Duodi still had nearly 40,000 elites in Jinan to prepare for trouble, forming a strategic depth.

In the past, the confrontation between Huaidong and Beiyan on the eastern front was mainly concentrated on the Xuzhou side, and the defenders of Xuzhou were as many as 40,000 people; This is also due to the relatively flat terrain of Luxi, and a large number of Yanlu troops and horses can pass quickly, and Huaidong must not concentrate heavy troops on this side to defend.

To the north of Yizhou in the east of Xuzhou, the mountains of Yishan, Mengshan, and Kunyu Mountains are vertical and horizontal, forming a geographical barrier belt blocking the north and south, which is not conducive to the passage of large armies, and the military pressure directly faced by Yizhou is small, and what is actually fighting for is the control of Yimeng and other mountainous areas. Therefore, the deployment of troops on this line is mainly based on the Yishan Resistance Army, which is only 10,000 troops, which is far from being comparable with Xuzhou.

In the past, Huaidong was on the defensive in the Xusi defense line, so it was necessary to deploy troops in the east and west; At present, Yan Yu has completely given up the plan to directly attack the hinterland of Jianghuai from the eastern front, and has turned defense into attack, so Huaidong will become active here.

On the Luxi Plain, where the terrain is open, the 40,000 or 50,000 troops in Xuzhou are not enough to form a counteroffensive advantage against Jining, Dongping, Tai'an and other cities. In contrast, strengthening the deployment of troops on the front line of Yizhou and strengthening the competition for Yishan are more likely to threaten the soft coercion of Yanlu in the eastern part of Shandong, so as to attract Yanyu's forces in Jidong and Yandong to the front......

The main purpose of Lin Lian's visit to Xuzhou is also to adjust the deployment of troops and defensive ideas in the Xusi area.