In mid-to-late July, there was no need for a major war, and Lin Lian's entire mind was devoted to adjusting the defense deployment in eastern Zhejiang.

Although the Huaidong Army had more than 80,000 soldiers and horses on the southern front, with Mingzhou as the center of gravity, the eastern Zhejiang defense line was divided into three relatively independent sections:

First, with Ouhai as the center, there is a need to garrison troops in Yongjia, Ouhai, Pingyang, and Huipu counties; First, with Shengzhou as the center, at the northern foot of Tiantai Mountain and the northwest foot of Luohe Mountain, stationed in the elite, the garrison of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army in Dongyang conducted a military confrontation; First, with Xiaoshan as the priority, it is necessary to garrison troops in Shanyin, Huiji, and Xiaoshan, and even take into account the Hanghu area, which is threatened by the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops stationed in Fuyang.

There are about 60,000 foot soldiers in the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, Changshan Battalion and Zhedongxing Battalion, and more than 10,000 sailors in the Jinghai Third Water Battalion, nearly 70,000 troops were forced to disperse in these three sections of defense line, and even in the Mingzhou Fucheng, there were 20,000 soldiers and five battalions of Zhedongxing Battalion in addition to the surrounding areas, and Fu Qinghe had no more reserve troops in his hands.

Not only was the main force of the infantry deeply trapped in the defense line of eastern Zhejiang, but even the main force of the water battalion could not withdraw from the southern front.

The reason why Lin Jian dared to deploy the main force of the infantry battalion on the three-stage defense line in a relatively scattered manner was to rely on the high-speed mobility provided by the water camp by sea and the Qianjiang waterway.

The Zhejiang-Fujian army gathered forces to attack one side, and the Huaidong army was able to quickly adjust its strength through the water camp warships.

Although there are more than 1,000 miles from Pingyang, the southernmost tip of the defense line, to Xiaoshan, the northwesternmost point, through the contact of the water camp warships, they can support each other within two or three days at the shortest, thus reducing the danger of attacking the Zhejiang-Fujian army.

Naturally, Lin Jian easily did not dare to transfer the main force of the water camp out of the southern line.

In addition, in addition to ensuring that Yizhou was foolproof, it was also necessary to maintain a continuous attack on Quanzhou, Jieyang, and even Quang Nam County by sea.

Yizhou is no longer just a transit base for Huaidong's attack on the southern region of eastern Fujian and Guangnan County, since the end of last year, Lin Jian has officially decided to develop Yizhou Island on a large scale.

The number of people relocated in the early days was limited, but since the opening of the battlefield in southern Zhejiang, a total of more than 14,000 prisoners of war from the Zhejiang-Fujian army and prisoners of serious crimes in the Jianghuai region have been captured - Lin Jian handed over these people to Sun Shangwang to supplement the lack of manpower in the reclamation of Yizhou Island.

At the same time, Lin Jian was also urging Jiang Ning to agree to move the prison city to Yizhou Island, and use the exiled prisoners gathered in the prison city to promote the development of Yizhou Island.

Huaidong invested so much manpower and materials in Yizhou, naturally there is no room for loss, but the garrison on the island is very limited, only three battalions of foot soldiers, mainly relying on the water battalion warships to block the Yizhou Strait, Zhao Qingshan led the main force of the first water battalion in Jinghai, almost all the year round stationed on Yizhou Island.

In just two or three years, Huaidong expanded from more than 10,000 elite soldiers to 100,000 troops, and in the end, in addition to the last reserve elite combat force of less than 10,000 people in Chongzhou, the Jinhai battalion was also very stretched in strength for a while.

In addition to annihilating more than 27,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies (including more than 6,000 people exiled to Yizhou Island and more than 7,000 local township soldiers), nearly 100,000 pieces of armor were also captured, including more than 10,000 sets of armor and more than 9,000 bows and crossbows.

In addition to the expansion of the camp army in eastern Zhejiang, more than 6,000 sets of armor and more than 4,000 bows and crossbows were also saved, which was enough to equip 20 battalions of armor soldiers at a rate of 50%.

Fighting a war has always been a matter of rising and disappearing, and the lost troops of the Zhejiang and Fujian army can be made up with a bite, but the damaged armor will take several years to make up.

After the peace conference in Jian'an, nearly 100,000 old soldiers were disarmed and returned to the field, and the armor was put into storage, although the strength was once compressed to less than 20,000, but the military potential was still there, and it was not weakened - it was precisely since the luxury family raised the flag again, the total number of troops in Zhejiang and Fujian rapidly expanded to 200,000, and the total number of soldiers and horses far exceeded the supply of reserve armor before, and the average combat power had a tendency to decline.

In order to achieve the annual armor and ordnance manufacturing capacity of 20 battalions of armor soldiers, the Huaidong Ordnance Supervision employs a total of more than 30,000 craftsmen - this is still the manufacturing level reached by Huaidong after in-depth promotion of the factory system and greatly improving efficiency.

This also means that if the armor lost by the Zhejiang-Fujian army this time cannot be captured from other places, it will take six or seven years to make up for it only by making it itself.

The stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker, just as Yan Hu captured a large amount of armor from the border army, Huaidong was also much more generous in the supply of armor.

The surplus of this seizure, plus the storage of the Ordnance Supervision for more than half a year, Huaidong can still equip the 30th to 40th battalions.

However, Lin Jian had to consider the financial pressure that Huaidong was facing at this time.

Lin Jian and Lin Mengde wanted to add an additional one million taels of silver in advance for military expenses, and Lin Mengde and the others were already so anxious that they jumped to their feet; If he proposed to equip forty battalions of armor soldiers at this time, Lin Jian would be afraid that Lin Meng would have to pick and choose.

The 40 battalions of soldiers and horses can maintain the establishment of the workers' battalions and can actively participate in local water conservancy, land reclamation, road construction, and other industrial affairs; in addition to helping the localities resume production, nearly half of the expenses of the workers' battalions can also be directly included in the local financial expenditures.

Even if the investment is large, the benefits are not small, especially since Lin Jian built a large-scale water conservancy project in Huaidong, the local area has benefited greatly. Not only has a large amount of wasteland been converted into grain fields, but the ability of the original fields to resist drought and flooding has been greatly increased, and the grain yield has continued to be abundant.

If it weren't for the strength of the Huaidong Army and the number of grain workshops in Chongzhou, Hecheng, Guanyintan and other places, the grain price in Huaidong would have been much lower than that in the surrounding areas.

It is precisely because the total number of soldiers and soldiers of the Huaidong Army exceeds 200,000, and within the scope of Huaidong, the number of workshop households that are not engaged in farming has increased year after year, and the total number has reached 110,000 households -- this part of the population, except for the 800,000 stone rice grain that Huaidong transports from Haidong every year, the problem of eating grain mainly depends on Huaidong's own rice and grain, and we can know that Huaidong's total grain output today is far from being comparable to that of four or five years ago and before Lin Jian became the master of Huaidong.

One of the most successful experiences is that Huaidong has maintained a large-scale establishment of labor battalions for a long time.

Once the 40 battalions of soldiers and horses were equipped from the baggage troops and organized into soldiers, not only would these people no longer be able to pay tribute to local affairs, but they would also have to spend a large amount of additional military funds, which would undoubtedly make Huaidong's finances, which were somewhat stretched at this time, even worse.

Lin Jian could only grit his teeth and see if the situation could change a little until the autumn and winter, even if Liu Yefei and Dengzhou Town surrendered to Yanhu now, they would not be able to extract the main forces of the first and second water battalions of Jinghai from the southern line to destroy the Dengzhou Town garrison camp and shipbuilding and repair base.

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In late July, Emperor Yongxing and the prime ministers finally reached an agreement on the defense of Huaixi, not to set up a separate envoy, and to set up another imperial front Hao Shou army, with Dong Yuan serving as the commander of the imperial front Hao Shou army, and transferring 20,000 soldiers and horses from the imperial camp to Dong Yuan's command, stationed in Haozhou and Shouzhou, and controlling the armies of Wuyang, Luzhou and Dongyang.

Jiang Ning no longer let Dong Yuan run the place, and added the word "imperial front" to the Haoshou army, with the intention of implementing the military system of "wartime soldiers and horses are controlled by the generals, and the war is over, and the generals return the military power to the imperial court".

After the fire in July, the weather is not as difficult as the hot summer, and the wind and waves in the East China Sea tend to be calm, in order to return to Chongzhou as soon as possible, Lin Jian chose to take the sea route by boat.

Prior to that, from late May to late July, as many as five hurricanes swept over the sea from Jishan Island to Changshan Island in depth, which was nearly 1,000 miles deep. In the area under the jurisdiction of Huaidong, Changguo Island was the most severely affected by the typhoon in late June, but fortunately, the disaster relief was timely, and except for 19 people who were crushed to death or disappeared from the collapsed houses, all other losses were minimized.

By late July, the storm season in the East China Sea will not be completely over, but the chances of a hurricane sweeping away will be greatly reduced. As long as they are not unlucky enough to sweep the wind band in the center of the hurricane, under normal circumstances, they can even resist huge waves two feet high.

When the boat enters the estuary, the flood peak discharged from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to Jiangning, the river bank suddenly becomes dozens of miles or even nearly 100 miles wide, and the flood water loses its prestige without the constraints on both sides of the river, but the river water is muddy, and a large number of debris washed from the upstream is floating.

The first to enter the field of vision is Jiangmen, which is also a walled city built by Huaidong according to the Jiangning Garrison Pier Platform.

In addition to the early investment of some people in Guanyintan, the prison city was mainly in Jiangmen in the later period.

A large number of exiled prisoners were released and brought to Jiangmen, and in addition to some of them for cultivation and planting, more of them were resettled in various workshops and workshops. After the Guanyin Beach was crowded with shipyards and ordnance supervisors' workshops, the suburbs of Jiangmen, Hecheng and Chongzhou East Gate actually became a gathering place for civilian workshops.

In addition to a large number of exiled prisoners, Jiangmen also has more than 10,000 workshop households, and the urban rate even exceeds that of Danyang, Huiji, Mingzhou and other big cities.

Jiangmen is currently under the jurisdiction of Hecheng, but in terms of the scale of workshop households, Jiangmen has already entered the ranks of large counties.

Lin Tie originally intended to settle in Jiangmen, stay for one night and then go back to Chongcheng, but as soon as the boat landed, the post rider galloping out of Chongcheng chased to Jiangmen, bringing two bad news:

First, Qin Zongyuan, who was only given the envoy of eastern Sichuan a year later, defeated Cao Yiqu in Deyang, led his troops to surrender to Cao's family, and gave Cao Jia the title of envoy to eastern Sichuan, and continued to lead his troops to attack the exiled army entrenched in eastern Sichuan.

The second is that Chen Zhihu led his troops to throw off Yangxin in mid-July, crossed the Xiaoqing River, first defeated the Qingzhou army guarding the Xiaoqing River, and then rushed to Linzi - because the main force of the Qingzhou army was trapped in Yangxin, the Linzi defenders were less than 1,000 people, and the Liang family reinforcements were far away, Chen Zhihu led more than 10,000 elites to attack Linzi, and the city was captured in three days, and after the city was captured, the troops plundered Linzi for three days.

"Eastern Sichuan may not be bad news," Gao Zongting touched the short mustache on his lips and said, "Qin Zongyuan and Gong Yuqi fought in eastern Sichuan for three or four years, but they failed to separate the victory, but they beat the counties of eastern Sichuan in the land of abundance to the ground. At this time, the eastern and western Sichuan were all given to the Cao family, and if they were not rectified, they would not be enough to dominate the world. However, letting the Cao family take eastern Sichuan as soon as possible will help the main force of the Cao family's soldiers and horses return north in time to guard against Yanhu ......"

The capital is closed in the middle and the world is king, that was a matter of the Qin and Han dynasties.

In the past five or six hundred years, the water conservancy in Guanzhong has been seriously damaged by natural and man-made disasters. The severe drought for many years has become a bitter land in the border areas.

In addition to the threat of aliens in the west, the most important thing is that the real estate in Guanzhong is not enough to support the royal capital, and the waterway of the Yellow River from Tongguan is too narrow to import grain from other places.

After Cao Yiqu had the idea of separation, he built water conservancy in Guanzhong, and sat in Guanzhong to seek two rivers. Its strategy is good, but it still lacks enough time - first of all, the Cao family is building water conservancy in Guanzhong, which is repairing the corners, and it can't change the general situation of the drought in Guanzhong for many years, and then the wandering army has entered the two rivers on a large scale, and the eastern part of Sichuan, which is known as the country of abundance, has been disabled, and the Cao family does not have enough time to operate the eastern part of Sichuan, so it will face the threat of Yanhu Buqi in the northeast.