After the defeat in the Battle of Huiji, Dongyang and Fuyang were the last two key points of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in eastern Zhejiang.

With Fuyang in hand, the Zhejiang-Fujian army has always maintained a threat to core areas such as Jiangning and Taihu Prefecture, but for the Zhejiang-Fujian army, it does not gain more living space because of this. Abandoning Fuyang, for the Zhejiang-Fujian army, is only consciously abandoning the situation of threatening Jiangning from the eastern front, and the strategy of the eastern front completely turns from offensive to defensive, but it is not easy to attack Tonglu and Chun'an from Fuyang and Linshui, so it poses little threat to the rear flank of the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

The meaning of Dongyang County is different.

If Dongyang County is not abandoned, it will first be able to contain tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Huaidong in eastern Zhejiang on the defensive line.

The luxury family is most afraid of Huaidong, if Huaidong's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang are revitalized, the coastal area of eastern Fujian will be more threatened.

Secondly, Dongyang County is the eastern gateway of the valley in central Zhejiang.

The central valley of Zhejiang was originally the last grain-producing area occupied by the luxury family in Zhejiang County, and its significance is not trivial. In addition, the central valley of Zhejiang is a large passage through the east and west of Zhejiang, from Dongyang County through Quzhou, Shangrao, and then along the Xinjiang River west, there is a relatively easy terrain, can directly enter the territory of Jiangxi, it is precisely the back road of the westward march led by the luxury flying bear.

From Quzhou to the south to Xianxia Ridge, Xianxia Ridge is the key point of Fujian and Zhejiang; From Xinzhou to the south for Fuzhou, the Shanguan in the south of Fuzhou is the key point where Fujian and Jiangxi meet, once these two places are taken away by Huaidong, the luxury family will be cut off.

In this sense, Dongyang County is a luxury family that must be defended, at least before the luxury family gains a firm foothold in Ganzhou, Yuzhang and other places, Dongyang County must not be lost.

At the beginning of the signs of the luxury family's westward expansion, Huaidong gathered troops and horses and forcibly sent troops from Shengzhou to attack Dongyang County, which would directly destroy the luxury family's westward expansion strategy.

Therefore, Song Jia said that Huaidong had the intention of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and it was not groundless and groundless.

"How could it not have thoroughly considered the problem of Dongyang before Luwenzhuang resolutely went west?" Song Fu asked, "Huaidong drives tigers and devours wolves, so he is not afraid of raising tigers?" ”

Song Bo helped his sister up from the cold brick floor, thinking to himself: Huaidong has the intention of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, and the luxury family is not the other way around to take advantage of Huaidong's thoughts. Even if Huaidong decided to storm Dongyang County at the beginning, it had no chance of winning; Even if it is considered to destroy the westward expansion strategy of the luxury family, and when Huaidong's soldiers and horses on the southern front are disabled, the luxury family can still take the initiative on the eastern front.

In this way, Dongyang County is not a weakness of the luxury family, at least for now, the westward expansion strategy of the luxury family is successful.

Most of the soldiers and horses are marching south along both sides of the Ganjiang River, and it is a matter of time before the forces of Yiyang (now Yichun) and Ganzhou are subjugated, and western Fujian, western Zhejiang, and southern Jiangxi will be connected; Next, you can go west to Jingxiang, but you can go north to Kejiangzhou, and condescendingly to attack Jiangning - after the luxury family captured Yuzhang, they swept away the previous decline, and the number of lives in the world has not been able to peep so far.

Song Jia walked to the corner pavilion, sat down on the cold stone bench, and said: "If you give the luxury family three or five years, there is indeed a risk of raising tigers, but where will the luxury family have three or five years to run Jiangxi?" Jiangning intends to use Yue Lengqiu to go to Jiangzhou to supervise the war, and now the luxury family is completely on the defensive on the eastern front, so Yue Lengqiu can transfer troops and horses from the Hanghu Army and the Huinan Army to the west to strengthen Jiangzhou - let me ask Yue Lengqiu has more than 60,000 troops in Jiangzhou, and the luxury family still has the possibility of running Jiangxi? ”

Song Fu looked at his daughter's face with interest and asked, "Huaidong will be in Jiangzhou in the cold autumn?" ”

Yue Lengqiu once served as the governor of Eastern Fujian, and Song Fu still knew Yue Lengqiu quite well.

Yue Lengqiu was forced to resign due to Liu Yefei's defection to the enemy, and went to Jiangzhou to supervise the war, and the meaning of going alone and leading the troops was completely different - Song Fu did not expect that Huaidong would condone Yue Lengqiu to lead troops to Jiangzhou to supervise the war, once Yue Lengqiu surrendered to Jiangzhou's head snake, he would inevitably be a prince of one side.

"The luxury family is a tiger, can't let Yue Lengqiu go to Jiangzhou to be a toothless tiger?" Song Jia said.

Song Fu also sat down, his fingers tapping on the stone table, and he was speechless for a long time.

Song Bo was secretly frightened in his heart: his sister revealed that it should be the core strategy of Huaidong, and the luxury family went west, and there was indeed a worry about raising tigers, but at the same time, Yue Lengqiu led troops to Jiangzhou to supervise the war, even if the luxury family took root in southern Jiangnan, it was also a pattern of two tigers contending.

Looking at the big picture, Dong Yuan was also transferred from Hangzhou to Huaixi in the middle of the year to grasp the military power, and now the Changhuai army has withdrawn into Huaixi for rectification, making Huaixi's troops prosperous for a while. It seems that the power of Dong Yuan and Yue Lengqiu has been re-consolidated, which is unfavorable to Huaidong, but in fact, the entire eastern front will form a situation in which Huaidong is one dominant; The forces that can pose a threat to Huaidong are concentrated on the western front and entangled, making the pattern facing Huaidong clearer - this kind of strategy in the overall situation has to be said to be very clever.

"It is very surprising that Huaidong was able to win a big victory in Xuzhou and take Xuzhou City so easily," Song Fu asked, "but looking at the military deployment of Northern Yan in Shandong, there are signs of stabilizing Shandong and Henan and turning southward - for example, how should Huaidong deal with Northern Yan's seizure of the pass from Yulin South?" ”

The east road can be passed, and the Yanhu soldiers and horses take the east road to the south to take Jiangning, and the speed is the fastest. At this time, the east road is blocked, and the two wings of the middle road are vulnerable to threats, unless Yanhu is satisfied, otherwise it is an inevitable choice to take the western route and take the strategy of "first seizing Guanzhong and then seizing Jingxiang".

Yulin is one of the nine towns, and the north is the Yanxi Zhubu.

Guanzhong faces the hinterland of the Central Plains, which is high in mountains and waters, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in the face of the north and northwest, there are not so many dangerous places to defend, and the Yanhu cavalry can go south from the relatively gentle Loess Plateau. The Cao family guarded Tong Pass, but it was extremely difficult to keep Hu Ma out of the country from the north.

Once Guanzhong is lost, Yanhu does not need to attack Liangchuan again, he can go out of Wuguan to trap Jingxiang, and he can take advantage of Jianghuai's geographical advantages.

Today, the Xusi defense line in Huaidong relies on the danger of the Huai River. As long as the water system in Huaisi and other places is in control, there is no need to worry that Yanhu dares to encircle Xuzhou. Once Jingxiang and other places in the upper reaches of the Jianghuai River are captured by Yanhu, Jiangning's defensive focus will only rely on the Yangtze River, and the area between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River will become a buffer zone for war - even if the Yanhu soldiers and horses are not in a hurry to cross the Yangtze River to the south, they can also advance eastward along the north bank of the Yangtze River or the south bank of the Huai River, and the flanks of the core area of Huaidong will be directly exposed to the blows of the Yanhu soldiers and horses.

Song Jia's intention to return to Quanzhou this time is self-evident, but if the general trend of the world is not in Huaidong, how could the Song family make a hasty choice at this time?

Song Jia said: "When the main force of the Huaidong Water Battalion is all moved to the northern front, how many soldiers and horses can Yan Hu draw out to take the western front? The Cao family is not without the strength of a battle, even if Yan Hu successfully captured Guanzhong, and when he wanted to go out of Wuguan to capture Jingxiang, thousands of warships and hundreds of thousands of elites in Huaidong bypassed Shandong and landed directly from Yan Ji and Liangliao, how should Yan Hu respond? In the final analysis, the luxury family has won two Zhejiang for the first time, and it is also like a bamboo, what is the situation today? Even if everything goes well in Jiangxi, it is also the end of the strong crossbow. At this time, Huaidong transferred 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Xiapu from the land and sea, what choice would the luxury family make? ”

Xiapu is the northern gateway of Jin'an Mansion, once Xiapu is lost, the core area of Jin'an Mansion will be threatened, and Huaidong can indeed attack Xiapu by land from Pingyang in southern Zhejiang in addition to the sea route.

Song Fu shook his head and sighed: "The biggest defeat of Luwenzhuang may be that it did not carry out the strategy of 'abandoning land and going to sea' to the end......"

Song Bo was also silent in his heart, just as Lin Bin's prestige in Huaidong was unparalleled, and the children of Ba Min also had a natural affinity and worship for Luxury, even if there was no complicated entanglement of interests, no one wanted to see Luxuryzhuang lose.

The biggest significance of the luxury family to win southern Jiangxi is that even if Mindong is completely disabled by Huaidong, it can still breathe and struggle to survive - but the foundation of the luxury family has always been under the direct threat of Huaidong, except for the luxury family can resolutely give up the coastal areas of eastern Fujian. But as my sister said before, there is no three or five years to run southern Jiangnan, and the luxury family gives up the eastern coast of Fujian at this time, which is undoubtedly a breath of self-destruction.

Yan Hu was the strongest at this time, but like the luxury family, he had one of the most fatal weaknesses, and the testicles/pills were exposed under Huaidong's eyes and nose.

Yanhu originated in Liaodong, and after going south, it will inevitably take swallow thistle as its foundation.

With the traditional pattern, as long as Yanhu holds Shandong, Yanji and Liangliao are safe inner lines. Huaidong's development of powerful maritime combat power has completely destroyed the traditional pattern of warfare. Huaidong warships can carry a large number of elites into the Bohai Bay, land on the coast of Yanji and Liangliao, and directly attack Yanhu's heart.

In the situation that the heart and soul have not gotten rid of the threat, how can Yan Hu press the main force on the Western Front?

In other words, if you are a human being, you probably have a sense of threat that the testicles/pills are always pinched in the hands of others, right?

"Zhejiang and Fujian operate Yizhou, and in 60 years, a county has multiplied more than 10,000 households," Song Jia continued, "My daughter stayed in Yizhou for a few days this time, and Yizhou has more than 20,000 households registered today, in addition to the original county, four new tun districts have been set up in the southwest, and now there are more than 20,000 households, and there are more than 30,000 laborers, and the newly reclaimed land reaches 200,000 mu; Next, Yizhou intends to register the students on a large scale......"

After the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang-Fujian army was forced to abandon the East China Sea on all fronts, and took advantage of the fact that the Huaidong water camp had no time to separate, and destroyed Yizhou County first, and forcibly moved about 20,000 islanders away - careful calculation, in less than two years, Huaidong moved nearly 100,000 people to Yizhou Island, and the speed was really jaw-dropping.

Of course, in addition to the relocation, there are also a large number of aborigines on Yizhou Island, that is, Shengyi and Shengfan, who live on the island in the form of tribal settlements.

At that time, the luxury family got more than 20,000 households in Yizhou County, in addition to the relocation, a considerable part of them were forcibly naturalized, and it was roughly estimated that there were more than 100,000 people living on the entire Yizhou Island.

Compared with the strangeness of the use of soldiers, the strength of Huaidong's governance is even more impressive.

Song Jia came to Quanzhou at this time, and the biggest role was to tell the truth about Huaidong, so as not to missee the situation and stand on the wrong team.

Huaidong is now spending great efforts to run Yizhou, and it is destined that it will be impossible for the luxury family to recover its disadvantage on the eastern front.

Even if Huaidong does not continue to increase troops on the southern front, with the further development of Yizhou Island, the pressure felt along the coast of eastern Fujian will only increase.