When forced to do so, the Yokoyama defense line was not impossible to give up.

Fei Fei Xiong thought silently in his heart, but he didn't say it; Once such rhetoric gets out, it will seriously dampen morale.

At this time, dark clouds rolled in the sky, and the sky was overcast. Seeing that the rain was not small, the extravagant flying bear did not rush back to prevent the wall rain, but strode to a high place and waited for the rain to fall.

The scouts can't penetrate it, if you want to know whether the Huaidong Army has done anything in the upper reaches of Shanxi, you can also see one or two from the change in the water level after the rain.

Hu Qi took the robe, and Deng Yu took one and handed it to the extravagant flying bear: "Young marshal, ......"

The Flying Bear took the rain and put it on his armor, looking at the river that caused a little ripple for the raindrops. At this point, he was able to fully understand the strategy adopted by Huaidong: Huaidong was to advance step by step, and consume their resources in Jiangxi to achieve the goal of dragging down the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

They built a defensive line at the jaws and Litang on the periphery of Changshan, while the Huaidong army avoided the jaws and Litang and found another way, marched west along Fenglin Creek, entered Guanxi Ridge, and dug a passage for troops, forcing them to follow and invest huge resources in the south of Hengshan to build a defensive line.

The Huaidong army advanced the front trench to the front of the Jiahe fortress and launched a bloody attack, forcing them to invest more resources to strengthen the defense of the fortress.

On the bright side, once the Huaidong Army built a dam and built a lake to store water in the upper reaches of Shanxi, the front trenches of the Huaidong Army were also within the impact range of the lake - but how much loss could this be for the Huaidong Army?

The Huaidong Army transported 300,000 stone of materials into Quzhou every month, which was three times the amount that the luxury family invested in the Shangrao defense line.

Compared with the construction of the Hengshan defense line, in order to cross the Guanxi Ridge, the Huaidong Army invested more resources in Fenglinbu, Guanxi Ridge and the front base, which may be three or four times as much as the Zhejiang-Fujian Army invested in the Hengshan defense line.

The front trenches of the Huaidong Army collapsed, and as long as there were no major losses in the men and horses, one or two more front trenches could be built; If the Jiahe defense is given to the Huaidong Army to use water to attack and wash away, even if the Huaidong soldiers and horses do not take advantage of the situation to attack Hengshan and Shangrao, will the Zhejiang-Fujian Army still have the ability to build a defensive line on the front of Hengshan?

In Shangrao, the Huaidong Army can withstand such attrition, although the consumption of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army is only one-third of that of the Huaidong Army, but it has been forced to the brink of precariousness and imminent collapse.

In fact, the Huaidong Army continued the strategy of attacking and harassing the eastern coast of Fujian in the early years, and used high-intensity military confrontation to consume the military potential of this side and achieve the goal of weakening and dragging it down.

Moreover, Huaidong's actions are far more than that, so that when Jinghu and Chizhou sent troops to delay their troops in Jiangzhou, the increasingly fierce civil unrest and bandits in the hinterland of southern Jiangxi, eastern Jiangxi and western Jiangxi were all driven by Huaidong behind the scenes.

At that time, Li Zhuo made the Zhejiang and Fujian army suffer a lot, but they could barely fight an equal match, and Lin Tie's method of "surrendering people without a fight" really made people feel a deep chill from the tail spine to the top of the skull.

Thinking of this, Luxury Feixiong turned to Deng Yu and Wang Hui and said: "From now on, the materials transported from Shangrao will be reduced by half and set aside as reserves!" ”

Wang Hui was shocked and said: "If you reduce it again, the soldiers' daily food will be less than a catty, I am afraid that it will hurt morale!" ”

It's not that I'm afraid of hurting morale, but the military food is being deducted day by day, and the lower-level soldiers have already bred a lot of dissatisfaction - there was very little oil and water in the world, and the adult Ding Zhuang could barely eat two catties of food a day, and now only half of it is supplied every day, how can the soldiers be satisfied?

The soldiers can still eat a pound of food a day, and the nearly 30,000 people who were forcibly recruited for the defense of the army, the city, and the construction of war equipment can only get less than 60% of the supply of the soldiers. These people have no food to eat, and they have to bear extremely heavy labor every day, and Wang Hui can almost see naked anger and resentment in the eyes of these people.

The Huaidong army is attacking, and they have to cut the military food again, how can this battle be fought?

Deng Yu, he can know the hard work of the extravagant flying bear.

Once the Huaidong Army built a dam and built a lake in the upper reaches of Shanxi, they could not break out of the Jiahe River defense, so they could only reluctantly cut off the Hengshan defense line. At that point, even if they can successfully withdraw to Shangrao City, Shangrao's communication with the periphery will inevitably be cut off from the Huaidong Army, and it will be difficult for them to obtain supplies from the outside world, so they can only use the reserves in Shangrao City to support until the end of the war.

It's just that Deng Yu suspects that they haven't had time yet, they have invested too much in the Hengshan defense line, they have fallen too deep, and Hengshan has given up, in order to avoid dividing and encircling the Huaidong army, the soldiers and horses on the Changshan side will also be withdrawn - at this time, giving up the Hengshan defense line is unimaginable the weight of morale bruising, and it is very worrying that it can collapse!

The rain was falling sparsely, and the extravagant flying bear made a decision in an unquestionable tone, although Wang Hui felt very deeply uneasy, but it could only be like this.

It is said that spring rain is as expensive as oil, but the people in Jiangxi are in turmoil, and even if they can survive the winter wheat harvest, the grain and grass that can be collected will be limited.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army has been unable to rely on its own combat power to repel the war launched by Huaidong from western Zhejiang, and can only hope that the Northern Yan cavalry can go south one day earlier, and at that time, Huaidong wants to protect the Jianghuai defense line, and must turn from attack to defense in the periphery of Shangrao, so as to draw more troops to the north.

The rain was not heavy, but it continued intermittently, and there were other military affairs to deal with, and the extravagant flying bear could not always hold the riverbank, so he was ready to lead the cavalry back to the east base of the Jiahe River. When he was about to enter the defense block, a young general came over with a horse in his hand, holding a bamboo knot in his hand, and shouted: "Father! The secret room finally sent back the news, and the letter was hidden in this bamboo joint, and the child used a fishing net to trap it, and almost missed it......"

This young man was the second son of Luxury Flying Bear, he was only sixteen years old at the time, and he had been in the army with Luxury Flying Bear for two years, and he handed over the bamboo knot in his hand.

When the Zhejiang-Fujian army completely abandoned Zhejiang, it still sent some people to lurk. Some of these people were cleaned up by the Huaidong Army after they were exposed, and some people pretended to be civilian husbands to recruit the Huaidong Army into the camp as labor, but the Huaidong Army's control over the periphery of Quzhou became more and more tight, and it became increasingly difficult for these secret offices to pass over the news.

However, no matter how tightly the Huaidong army blockaded, it also gave the secret room a chance to approach the Shanxi River, hide the secret letter in the bamboo branches, and flow down the river......

Flying Bear didn't borrow a secret message and asked, "What's the news?" ”

Extravagant and stunned, he guarded the riverside and caught the bamboo with the secret letter, and he didn't have time to open it, but he finally got in touch with the secret room hidden in the Huaidong army, and he was inevitably excited, and he didn't know whether the news from the secret room was good or bad.

Hao Jiao took a knife to cut the sealing wax at one end of the bamboo branch, and took out the secret letter rolled into a thin roll, and after reading it, his face changed greatly.

Extravagant Jiao's face was exposed in Deng Yu's eyes, he took the secret letter, and said in shock: "Just as the young marshal expected, the water of the Shanxi River was turbid before noon, and it was indeed the Huaidong Army throwing stones upstream to seal the river......"

Wang Hui stood there only knowing that his back was chilling, he was full of confidence just now that it was impossible for the Huaidong Army to go to great lengths to build a dam and seal the river - he didn't expect to see a more cruel side so soon!

Extravagant Fei Bear didn't expect the joy of the enemy at all, just a bitter face, spit out a mouthful of phlegm, wanting to spit out the bitterness in his heart, the phlegm was sandwiched with blood, but it was quickly washed away by the rain.

It is obvious that Huaidong's craftsmanship in building embankments and dams has been the most mature in recent years, and the 300-mile Huaidong Hanhai Levee was built in only two years. At this time, Huaidong gathered nearly 50,000 soldiers and people in the camp of Guanxiling, and built a dam to intercept the flow of the upper reaches of Shanxi to make a lake, as long as the preparations were sufficient, it would not even take half a month.

How could Lin Jian not take advantage of the advantage of occupying the upper reaches of the river to build a lake and attack the water?

At this time, will you give up the defense of the river and retreat to Hengshan and Shangrao?

At this time, he suddenly hated that he was not decisive enough, and when Huaidong intended to open up the Guanxi Ridge passage, he would not have invested so much defense in the south of Hengshan.

Almost half of the materials accumulated in Shangrao were consumed on the Hengshan defense line, how can you be willing to give up at this time?

The flying bear held down the saber at his waist, the green tendons between his wrist bones exposed, and he wanted to pinch the ebony knife into pieces.

"The river valley is open before the Jiahe River is blocked, even if the Huaidong Army intercepts the river to make a lake in the upper reaches, when they release the water, the water potential weakens the upstream river valley, and it may not really have much impact on the Jiahe River blockage!" Deng Yu said.

Deng Yu used to be a farmer and was very familiar with the work of manufacturing.

Although the Jiahe River Blockage is built near the river, it will never be so simple to accumulate enough water potential to directly collapse the Jiahe River Blockage. It can even be said that before the rainy season comes, even if the Huaidong Army builds a dam upstream, it will not be able to store much water.

"The most important thing at the moment is to block the news, so that the morale of the army cannot be shaken?" Wang Hui said.

"How to block?" Fei Fei asked bitterly.

The Huaidong army built a dam upstream, and Shanxi would soon be cut off. Shanxi is cut off, how can you block the news from the middle and lower class generals?

As for whether the water potential stored by the Huaidong Army in the upper reaches will directly pose a devastating threat to the defense of the Jiahe River, even if there is only a three-to-fifty percentage possibility, Luxury Feixiong has no confidence to gamble!

In fact, as long as the Shanxi River is cut off, the hanging lake upstream will be like a sharp sword hanging above everyone's heads, and as for this sharp sword will not fall, how can the generals placed under the sword be at ease? And how to resist the onslaught launched by the Huaidong Army from the front trenches with all their might?

Deng Yu and Wang Hui stared at the extravagant flying bear, waiting for him to make a final decision.

I don't know when, another sergeant on the riverside came to me and said: "When it rains for three quarters, the river does not rise by half a minute, but falls by an inch!" ”

The water level has fallen instead of rising, which means that the dam mouth upstream has been closed, and the news of the upstream river closure will soon spread among the army.

Whether to fight out or retreat to Hengshan, we must immediately make up our minds, if it is dragged to the Huaidong Army to store enough water in the upper reaches, it will be too late to make any decision at that time - Xuan Feixiong watched the rain gradually stop, only the rain foam was floating, took off his clothes, and said: "Quickly order all the ships in the river to withdraw into the Xinjiang River, and in addition, immediately send someone to call Shi Hejin and others to discuss military affairs!" ”

The Shanxi River will be cut off, and if you don't want the boats in the river to run aground and be trapped in the river mud, you can only withdraw to the river mouth in the north first, and then, the connection between the river blockade and the Hengshan City in the north can only rely on land routes.

As soon as he entered the east gate, the police drum in the south city "rumbled", and the extravagant flying bear was so irritable that he wanted to stomp his feet. He should have been able to figure out that they just wanted to give up the defense of the river and retreat to Shangrao, and the Huaidong army would not ask them to withdraw calmly, so they could only rush to the south city wall with Deng Yu and Wang Hui, who had broken faces, to see what was going on over there.

Taking advantage of the rain to stop, a large number of soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army were slowly coming out from behind the trench and pressing towards the city wall, which was about to officially attack the city.