From the mouth of the river to the Yongjia River up about 40 miles, Yongjia and Ouhai across the river, and the main tributary of the lower reaches of the Yongjia River, the Nanxi River, bypasses Yongjia City and joins the Yongjia River from the north bank.

After the Huaidong Navy attacked Yongjia, Yueqing and others in the autumn of last year, the resistance army in southern Zhejiang also came down from Kuocang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain to seize cities and seize land, and strengthen the resistance to luxury families in southern Zhejiang.

Luxury Feihu was ordered to go to southern Zhejiang to organize troops to counterattack the resistance of southern Zhejiang, and strengthen the control of the Zhejiang and Fujian governors over southern Zhejiang.

In addition to more than 10,000 elite elites in eastern Fujian to urgently support the southern coastal areas of Zhejiang, luxury Feihu also recruited more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Ouhai, Qingtian and other counties, on the one hand, to prevent the Huaidong Naval Division from disturbing the coast, and on the other hand to suppress the southern Zhejiang resistance led by Ye Su, Liu Wenzhong and others.

After the extravagant tiger arrived in southern Zhejiang, he first used hidden piles, sunken ships, bamboo and wood rafts in Wuyun in the lower reaches of the Ouhai Sea to completely block the waterway of the Yongjia River and prevent the Huaidong warships from breaking into the Yongjia River from the mouth of the river. Later, they set up military villages in Wuyun, Yaoxi, Longshui, Tianhe and other places to prevent Huaidong soldiers from landing and harassing.

For the two cities of Yongjia and Yueqing occupied by the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army, Xuan Feihu also decisively severed the connection between the two cities, and brutally suppressed the rural forces that sympathized with the periphery or secretly colluded with the Southern Zhejiang Resistance Army in the early stage.

Due to the offshore waters of Yueqing, it is easy to get the support and supply of the Huaidong Naval Division, and according to the established steps, Luxury Feihu decided to fight Yongjia first.

Although more than 2,000 remnants of the southern Zhejiang army were completely besieged in Yongjia City a year ago, in order to slack off the vigilance of Dong Yuan in northern Zhejiang, Luxury Feihu dragged on in southern Zhejiang until March and did not attack Yongjia City.

It wasn't until after the Luxury Flying Bear made a surprise attack to capture Linshui and gathered troops and horses to attack Fuyang that the Luxury Flying Tiger officially attacked Yongjia City, which had been besieged for nearly half a year, on the 21st......

Ye Su failed to decisively lead his troops to abandon Yongjia and withdraw to Yueqing City near the sea; Although Liu Wenzhong received a large amount of supplies from northern Zhejiang, when the fleet went south, the road to Yongjia in the west had been cut off by Hao Feihu, and he was never able to send supplies into Yongjia City.

The Yongjia soldiers and civilians led by Ye Su ran out of food after being trapped in Yongjia City for about half a year. At the same time, the siege of the rebels in Zhejiang and Fujian was well prepared, and it took only three days to seize two city gate buildings in the southeast, and the Yongjia defenders blocked the city gate with earth, stone, bricks and wood, and after the city gate tower fell, it was impossible to break through the city gate, Ye Su gave up resistance before dusk on the 24th, and chose to lead the remnants to surrender.

Wearing green armor and a crimson coat, he stood in the south gate building, looking at the Yongjia prisoners who were concentrated on the inside of the city gate through the carved window, and asked Qin Zitan in a suppressed voice: "How to deal with it?" ”

"......" Qin Zitan waved his hand and made a gesture to cut his neck, and all the generals around him felt cold and swishing on their necks.

On the side of the extravagant flying tiger, in addition to the generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian lineages, there are also generals who have taken refuge in Yongjia, and almost all of the more than 1,000 captives are locals of Yongjia Mansion, and they are all killed, and they can't bear it.

He couldn't make up his mind for a while, he was not soft-handed, but he was weighing the pros and cons of slaughtering the captives. Killing prisoners can deter local forces in southern Zhejiang, but at the same time, it will make it more difficult to attack Yueqing City.

At this time, a sentry dressed in black walked directly into the city gate building. Qin Zitan, who specializes in military intelligence scouts, took the bamboo tube containing the letter from the sentry scout, checked that the seal was correct, opened it and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the heavier his face became.

Hao Feihu looked at Qin Zitan's solemn face and asked, "What is the situation in eastern Zhejiang?" ”

Through the news of the beacon fire and wolf smoke, Xuan Feihu and Qin Zitan knew the news of the attack in eastern Zhejiang at sunrise, but the scale and extent of the attack are still unknown. Even if Qin Zitan had a bad omen in his heart, he still didn't believe that Huaidong still had the ability to organize a large-scale attack on eastern Zhejiang after the main force of soldiers and horses went north to the queen......

"......" Qin Zitan handed the letter to Hao Feihu, and when he saw it, his face suddenly collapsed, he gasped, and smacked his lips and complained, "Huai Dongming repairs the plank road and secretly crosses Chen Cang!" Bitter! ”

The generals were shocked, and at first glance, they heard that Luxury Feihu spit out such a sentence inexplicably, and they couldn't guess what kind of "Ming Xiu Plank Road, Secretly Crossing Chen Cang" method was in Huaidong.

The letter mentioned that the two villages of Hukou and Jintang were attacked and lost in the morning, and the Huaidong Navy broke through from the waters of Daishan and Changnai on a large scale, and the warships covered the sky and closed the sea, and the specific scale of the troops was unknown, but it would never be less than 10,000 people.

Qin Zitan and Hao Feihu can also understand at this time: Huaidong used King Qin as a cover before, and everything was a trick, so they waited for the opportunity to strike this fatal blow with the empty troops in eastern Zhejiang.

How many troops Huaidong can draw at most, others don't know, Qin Zitan and Hao Feihu can still estimate a rough number.

Although Su Tingzhan led his troops west to attack Fuyang, leaving more than 10,000 defensive troops in Mingzhou Mansion, Mingzhou Mansion's defense idea at this time was to guard against the possibility of small-scale disturbance by the Huaidong Army and Haiyu Army from the sea, so the defense of more than 10,000 troops were scattered in various walled cities.

This kind of defensive deployment can effectively reduce the gap between the infiltration and penetration of small-scale enemy forces from the coastal landing to the inland, but once it encounters a surprise attack by large-scale troops, it will expose the Achilles heel of scattered troops and easy to break through each one.

All the previous intelligence can conclude that the main force of the Huaidong Army is exactly going north to King Qin, including Su Tingzhan, almost all the generals of Zhejiang and Fujian, and even Qin Zitan and Hao Feihu in southern Zhejiang, did not consider the possibility of a large-scale surprise attack in eastern Zhejiang.

Hao Feihu asked a few cronies and generals to follow him and Qin Zitan to the side hall of the South City Gate Tower to discuss matters, and he went straight to Qin Zitan to ask for advice: "How to deal with it?" ”

"Fortunately, after knowing the news of the attack in eastern Zhejiang, Yongjia City was captured today, otherwise the situation is really unimaginable!" Qin Zitan broke out in a cold sweat on his back, "Yueqing's side can't take care of it for the time being, and the peripheral surveillance forces will also be withdrawn." However, in order to prevent the Huaidong Army from taking Yueqing as a stronghold and attacking southern Zhejiang on a large scale, the troops scattered in the coastal cantonments need to be immediately concentrated in Ouhai, Yongjia and other cities, and the Huaidong Army needs to be broken by each of them! Wuyun and Tianshui need to be heavily defended, and the defense of southern Zhejiang should be centered on Yongjia......"

Not only the defensive forces of Mingzhou Mansion were scattered in various villages, but the eastern Zhejiang naval division was also scattered at this time to attack Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places to create favorable conditions for attacking Fuyang.

Once the Zhedong Navy Division was destroyed......

Thinking of this, Qin Zitan couldn't help but pat his head in pain, hoping that the eldest prince would not be stupid enough to hastily send the Zhedong Naval Division from Fuyang to save the Mingzhou Mansion - to preserve part of the combat strength of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River, at least to contain the main force of the Huaidong Naval Division on the front line of the Qianjiang River and not dare to go south immediately, so as to win some critical time for southern Zhejiang and central Fujian to adjust their deployment.

Although there are about 20,000 soldiers and horses in southern Zhejiang, nearly half of them are scattered along the coastal camps, and it takes time to assemble.

The blockade of the river barriers on the Yongjia River is mainly concentrated between the two villages of Wuyun and Tianshui, and the defense of the two villages of Wuyun and Tianshui is to prevent the Huaidong Army from landing on the shore to clear the river barriers, so as to prevent the Huaidong Army from borrowing the warships of the water division to bypass Ouhai City along the Yongjia River and advance westward to attack the hinterland of southern Zhejiang.

Yueqing and Yongjia, which were occupied by the resistance army in southern Zhejiang, are on the north bank of the river, and more importantly, the Nanxi River, where Yongjia is located, is the eastern route passage that passes through Kuocang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain to connect Huiji and Mingzhou in the north. Once Yongjia is lost, if southern Zhejiang wants to contact Huiji and Mingzhou, it will have to go around a big circle from western Zhejiang.

Although Yongjia City and Ouhai City are across the river, in terms of strategic situation, Yongjia is much more important than Ouhai.

This is also an important reason why in the current era when land and inland waterways are the main traffic situation, Yongjia Prefecture should set up its government in Yongjia County, which has narrow terrain, rather than in Ouhai County, which has open terrain.

"Ouhai and Yongjia will set up a river barrier again, and strive to erect a trestle bridge on the Yongjia River waterway west of Ouhai to connect Ouhai and Yongjia," Yu Feihu's brain began to come alive from the shock of the first news, and he followed Qin Zitan's train of thought to add, and instructed a burly general next to him, and said, "Captain Wen, I will lead troops and horses to aid eastern Zhejiang, and Ren Zitan will stay for the governor's mansion in southern Zhejiang, and you will lead troops and horses to assist Zitan......"

"What to do with the prisoners in the city?" As a descendant general of the Zhejiang-Fujian army, Wen Tingrui's ability and loyalty are trustworthy, he asked.

"Kill," Hao Feihu couldn't think about recovering Yueqing at this time, he first had to ensure that the local forces in southern Zhejiang were not in chaos, and viciously ordered, "Capture the army and kill; The families of the captured soldiers in the city, also killed! You listen to Zitan to handle this matter carefully, and there can be no more chaos here. ”

There are only more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians in Yongjia City, and they will also kill all their families, but I am afraid that only one or two thousand people will survive in the end.

Qin Zitan will not be pitiful for the Yongjia army and people, the killing and brutal suppression brought about by the war are common things, he is thinking about the matter of Hao Feihu personally leading his troops to aid eastern Zhejiang, and said: "The eldest prince should send reinforcements earlier than us, and he will be close to Fuyang, so he should not rush to help in time." However, the defense deployment of Mingzhou Mansion is too scattered, even if Mingzhou Mansion can hold it for three days, it is very predictable, and the expansion and infiltration of soldiers and horses after Huaidong enters Mingzhou Mansion cannot be known in advance. It is a matter of course for the governor to lead his troops to aid eastern Zhejiang, but after the governor enters eastern Zhejiang, he can compete to occupy Shengzhou first, so it is not appropriate to rush into the army......"

Shengzhou is located in the upper reaches of the Cao'e River, belongs to the Mingzhou Prefecture, east of Fenghua, Yuyao, Ninghai, west of Zhuji, north of Shangyu, Huiji, is the land pass of eastern Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang.

Luxury Feihu led his troops north from Yongjia to help, and rushed to Shengzhou for more than 300 miles, and it took three or four days at the earliest.

The situation in Shengzhou is also precipitous, and at the same time it goes deep inland, the Huaidong army must first remove the coastal city of Mingzhou Prefecture, and the speed of going deep into the hinterland will not be fast, if the luxury Feihu can take the first step to strengthen the defense of Shengzhou, and the luxury Feixiong or Su Tingzhan can take the lead in strengthening the defense of Huiji, at least the situation of the collapse of eastern Zhejiang can be contained in the territory of Mingzhou Prefecture.

If you want to launch a large-scale counterattack, at least after finding out the reality of the Huaidong Army, the elite of the luxury Feihu can be transferred from Yongjia is only five or six thousand, if you are not careful, rashly enter the hinterland of Mingzhou Mansion to help, the danger of eating is greater, at that time not only the situation in eastern Zhejiang is critical, but even southern Zhejiang may be completely lost.

In the south of the Qianjiang River, Zhejiang, there are two fields, one water, and seven mountains, and these two fields are mainly concentrated in Mingzhou, Huiji and other eastern Zhejiang provinces. After the capture of eastern Zhejiang, nearly half of the food and salary of the Zhejiang-Fujian army were raised here, which shows the importance of eastern Zhejiang to the luxury family.

Although Zhedong is extremely important to the luxury family, Huaidong's attack on Zhedong is too sudden, and at this time, you can't deal with it carefully, and if you make a mistake, it is likely to collapse the whole situation.

"I can save ......" Luxury Feihu nodded, fighting with Huaidong, although he fell behind every time, but the experience of leading the troops to fight should be considered old, and after discussing with his cronies for a while, he summoned all the generals to announce the decision, leaving Qin Zitan to temporarily dispose of the affairs of southern Zhejiang, and he led five thousand elites from Yongjia to the north that night.