After nightfall, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the wind and rain blew the green bamboo in the corner of the courtyard, and the sound of rustling. On this stormy night, Qin Zitan untied his belt in the single courtyard where he was imprisoned and committed suicide by hanging himself. When the guards found out, the body was cold, and there was no rush to rescue it.

When Lin Jian heard the reply, he sat up in his clothes, got out of bed and walked to Song Jia's resting room, and saw her sitting in front of the window, only the remnants of the candle on the table were about to go out, presumably after sitting all night without sleeping, and walked over to hold her cold hand.

"He studied under my father for three months, and my father didn't like his conceit, so he finally broke up. After that, no one mentioned this incident, so no one knew about his relationship with the Song family......" Song Jia said.

"He wanted to surrender, but he misunderstood that I was not the kind of person who was eager to seek talent; Such an ending may not be bad for him," Lin Jian leaned slightly, held up Song Jia's soft chin, looked at her charming and clear eyes, and said softly: "I will let people choose a cemetery to bury him, and I will also let his reputation for loyalty to the luxury family be passed back to Jin'an......"

Helping Song Jia to the bed to rest, Lin Jian was completely sleepy, passed through the corridor, walked to the attendant room in the outer courtyard, and heard the guards talking about Qin Zitan's suicide by hanging the beam in the room.

Huaidong and the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels have been entangled for these years, loyal to the old master, and would rather die than give in, the Fujian warriors and generals have encountered a lot, but Qin Zitan was escorted from Nanyuan Creek, and there was nothing abnormal for a few days, but he committed suicide by hanging himself on the first night of Ouhai, which was really incomprehensible, and it was no wonder that the guards talked about it in the room.

Qin Zitan may have the intention of surrendering, or maybe he just has no intention of dying; Lin Jian can tolerate Qin Zitan from dying, but he can't use a character who is incompatible with Huaidong - Song Jia walked out from behind the screen, that is, he showed Huaidong's hole card to Qin Zitan.

Lin Jian and Song Jia could both expect that Qin Zitan would commit suicide, but thinking that this ending could not be considered bad for him, they both remained silent.

Lin Lian walked into the guard room, and the night guard who was resting in the house stood up in a panic to greet him, Lin Lian called Chen Hua's face out and said to him: "Qin Zitan is loyal to the luxury family and died, don't have those unnecessary discussions; Find a cemetery outside Ouhai City for him to bury, not publicity, and don't be too casual ......"

In these years, he paid attention to a "each has its own master, each is loyal to his own thing": Qin Zitan was embarrassed to capture prisoners, and all the generals of the Huaidong Army looked down on him; But when the news of Qin Zitan's suicide came out, the generals of the Huaidong Army felt that he was loyal to the old lord and a retainer with strong moral character, and most people felt sorry for him.

In any case, in the bloody and troubled times, Qin Zitan died hanging from a beam, like a small wave stirred up in a big river, which calmed down after a few days, and few people talked about it again; Although the war in southern Zhejiang came to an end temporarily, Yongjia Mansion was extra busy with affairs after the war, and Lin Jian couldn't get out of it for a while, so he stayed in Ouhai.

The two counties of Huipu and Wenling originally belonged to Taizhou Prefecture, but Taizhou Prefecture only recovered these two counties, and Lin Jian naturally did not have extraneous branches, so they were simply placed under the jurisdiction of Yongjia Mansion.

Yongjia City is dilapidated, and it is too deep into the valley of the Nanxi River.

Huaidong because of the water momentum, the ship is large and strong, the core city of the region is naturally located on the bank of the river, Lin Tie decided to set up the Yongjia Mansion in Ouhai City on the south bank, and recommended Hu Zhiyong to Jiangning to know the affairs of the Yongjia Mansion, and Zhou Tong was commanded by the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion and supervised the local military preparations of the Yongjia Mansion.

At the same time, Lin Jian also decided to relocate Yongjia County on the north bank of the Yongjia River, in the open valley area of Xixiakou, where the Nanxi River joins the Yongjia River, and the original Yongjia County was reorganized and used by the garrison. In the upper reaches of the Yongjia River, the Wenxi River and the Yongjia River converge at the mouth of the river, the village was requisitioned, the fortifications were built, and elite soldiers were stationed to resist the Zhejiang-Fujian army stationed in Qingtian County upstream.

The Yongjia River goes up from the mouth of the Wenxi River, the water flow is turbulent, the terrain is large, the beach is dangerous, and the terrain on both sides is dangerous. Whether it is the Zhejiang-Fujian army fighting downstream from Qingtian along the Yongjia River, or Huaidong relying on Wenxi Village to fight upstream, it is extremely difficult.

In addition to Wenxi, Yongjia Mansion also requisitioned cottages to build fortifications in the watershed of Wenxi River and Nanxi River, that is, Dabai Mountain in the west of the Nanxi Source River Valley, stationed elite soldiers, blocked the western foot of Kuocang Mountain, and entered Yongjia from Xianju, Jinyun and other counties - the mountain road is steep, and only half of the road has relatively open river valleys to walk. It was also at this time that the resources of the luxury family were almost exhausted, otherwise the Zhejiang-Fujian army would have built a few more fortifications along this dangerous road, and the Yongjia defenders would have responded when they retreated, and they would never have been defeated so badly.

The two counties of Zhejiang and Fujian, the mountains and mountains are widely distributed, and the terrain is cut into fragments. Under normal circumstances, the Huaidong Army attacked the hinterland of Zhejiang County from the coastal plain, either advancing west along the Qianxi River, or fighting from Shengzhou to Dongyang County.

"In the later period, it was very difficult to directly threaten the eastern front of the Zhejiang-Fujian army from Yongjia, and this task should be handed over to the Shengzhou side; In addition to guarding against the Zhejiang-Fujian army from the upper reaches of the Yongjia River and the Jiaojiang River, the Yongjia garrison mainly crossed the Feiyun River, entered Cangnan, and forced northern Fujian...... "Lin Jian summoned the main generals of Yongjia to analyze the current military situation in southern Zhejiang, "Zhejiang-Fujian Mountain has many dangerous roads, and the terrain is broken. From Xiapu in Jin'an Province to bypass the eastern foot of Tailao Mountain, and from the water dividing pass, you can cross into the territory of Cangnan County, Yongjia Province - we can call this passage the Tailao Mountain Corridor. If there is no East China Sea, the Tailao Mountain Corridor can be said to be extremely dangerous, when the head is sealed Cangnan or the water pass, the soldiers and horses in southern Zhejiang will not be able to go south. However, due to the fact that the Tailao Mountain Corridor faces the East China Sea, such a long and narrow terrain with a lack of depth is a deadly place. In this narrow corridor of 200 miles, especially in Xiapu County, there are dozens of easy landing sites, and this corridor can be cut off at any time......"

"If the Zhejiang-Fujian army doesn't want to lose Cangnan, which is deep into the territory of Yongjia, it will establish a dense defense wall along the Tailao Mountain corridor for coastal landing, in case the back road of Cangnan is cut off," Tang Fuguan listened to Lin Lian's analysis and asked suspiciously, "The last general is puzzled, why didn't the luxury family decisively abandon Cangnan this time and retreat to Xiapu on all fronts?" ”

"The luxury family probably didn't expect that the battle of the Nanxiyuan River Valley would be defeated so badly," Lin Jian took over and said, "If Wen Tingrui and Qin Zitan are allowed to flee from Yongjia with five or six thousand elites to Xianju and Linhai, they will be sent over to form a trend of enemies gathering and scattering." Don't underestimate these five or six thousand people, in addition to the increase in the strength of the Zhejiang-Fujian army, the key is morale. In addition to increasing the garrison in Wenxi and Dabai Mountain, we must also focus on guarding against the lower reaches of the Jiaojiang River and guarding against the surprise attack of the Zhejiang-Fujian army from Xianju and Linhai along the Jiaojiang River! In this case, we really can't gather too many troops in southern Zhejiang to force Cangnan. Moreover, if the luxury family gives up Cangnan, the situation in northern Fujian will be very ugly. Cangnan is still surrounded by mountains, and there is only a relatively open road from Binh Duong in the north to enter Cangnan. Abandoning Cangnan, any part of the Tailao Mountain Corridor will face a two-line attack by our Huaidong Army on the waterway, especially Fuding Bay, which can directly send the large warships of our Huaidong Water Battalion into a depth of sixty or seventy miles - it can be said with certainty that as long as there is no repetition on the western front, the luxury family will have no chance to turn the sky on the eastern front. ”

Gao Zongting sat on the side and listened to Lin Jian and the generals analyze the situation, and couldn't help nodding slightly: The luxury family abandoned the land and went to the sea, lived a game of endgame, and almost took the entire Zhejiang County, but after the advantage of the luxury family in the East China Sea was comprehensively surpassed by Huaidong, it was destined to not take the initiative.

Whether it is the two Zhejiang, or the eastern Fujian, the depth is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and the road is desperate and dangerous, so that the core areas controlled and relied on by the Zhejiang-Fujian army are almost all concentrated in the narrow and relatively scattered coastal and coastal areas, and the terrain is very shallow.

Once it lost control of the East China Sea, the core area of the Zhejiang-Fujian army was almost exposed to Huaidong's troops. And once one is captured, it is usually an area that loses its coherence, and is broken into several pieces that cannot be taken care of from beginning to end.

This is called a dead shape in military affairs, and it is also called a dead chess that lacks an eye when playing chess.

Just like this war in southern Zhejiang, the Taizhou defenders and Yongjia defenders of the Zhejiang-Fujian army were in the north of Yueqing and the west of Yueqing, but it was because Yueqing was occupied by the Huaidong Army, Taizhou and Yongjia were separated from the steep North Yandang Mountain, Kuocang Mountain and other lofty mountains, and they had to go around more than 400 miles of steep and dangerous mountain roads in order to support each other.

With this kind of passive terrain, how can the Zhejiang-Fujian army win?

"So what's next? Is it to storm northern Fujian and smash the luxury family's nest, or to put the main direction in Shengzhou? Or directly gather troops and horses in Shangyu, cross the Cao'e River, and directly besiege Huiji......" Chen Dingbang asked.

"The luxury family has fully contracted on the eastern front," Lin Jian patiently answered the generals' questions and said, "Its eastern front is centered on Dongyang County, and the four cities of Xianju, Linhai, Tiantai, and Jinyun constitute the left wing of its eastern front, and Zhuji and Huiji constitute the right wing of its eastern front. However, the strength of the luxury family in western Zhejiang was almost centered on Chun'an, with cities such as Fuyang and Linshui as the left wing, and cities such as Xinzhou as the right wing. The most important connection point of its east-west line is in Fuyang. To cut off Fuyang, if the east and west lines of the luxury family in Zhejiang County want to connect, they have to detour six or seven hundred miles more from Quzhou and Xinzhou. The Qianjiang waterway has been blocked, and presumably the generals of northern Zhejiang will not let the Huaidong Army directly attack Fuyang by the way; Then we will gather soldiers and horses in Shangyu and on the east bank of the Cao'e River, and prepare for the meeting...... Laying down the Huiji can also cut off the connection between the east and west lines of the luxury family. ”

"Once we gather troops and horses in Shangyu and prepare for a battle, the luxury family will inevitably draw troops from Fuyang to strengthen the Huiji, and we are afraid that it will be difficult to defeat the Huiji for a while-Wouldn't it be a favor to those people in northern Zhejiang?" Zhou Tong asked.

"That's exactly what it should be!" Lin Jian said with a smile.

If you don't help northern Zhejiang reduce the pressure, how can Jiangning transfer Dong Yuan away? Lin Jian was also prepared to prevent Dong Yuan from taking the risk of breaking through from northern Zhejiang after Dong Yuan was transferred, so he gave up the advanced force to northern Fujian and concentrated his troops in Mingzhou Mansion.

At this time, Jiangning mainly relied on the taxes of Jiangning, Danyang, Pingjiang, and Weiyang, and Lin Jian did not dare to let Danyang and Pingjiang give Zhejiang and Fujian a cripple at this time.

At that moment, Lin Jian announced the adjustment of the deployment of troops in southern Zhejiang: the Chongcheng infantry battalion stationed in Yongjia Mansion was the mainstay, and the wounded generals in the war in southern Zhejiang were healed, and the Chongcheng infantry battalion would be given priority to replenish the Chongcheng infantry battalion, so that the Chongcheng infantry battalion would be expanded to 15,000 soldiers in the fifth brigade. Chongzhou didn't even need to support ordnance, and captured armor alone was enough to support this level of expansion.

The new southern Zhejiang army was officially incorporated into the eastern Zhejiang camp army, to show that Yongjia Mansion as a whole was included in the jurisdiction of the eastern Zhejiang envoy division, and the total strength of the eastern Zhejiang camp army increased to 24,000 soldiers.

In this way, in Yongjiafu and Yizhou, the strength of the troops was mainly the Chongzhou Infantry Battalion, the Jinghai First Water Battalion, and the first part of the Zhejiang East Battalion Army, with about 24,000 troops. It is not only necessary to garrison Yongjiafu and Yizhou Island, but also to maintain an offensive and harassment operation against the coastal areas of eastern Fujian from land and water.

In Mingzhou Mansion, it is dominated by the Changshan Battalion, the main force of the Zhejiang East Battalion, the Second Water Battalion, and the Third Water Battalion, with about 50,000 troops, mainly stationed in Mingzhou Mansion, and maintaining military pressure on Dongyang County and Huiji from Shengzhou and Shangyu. In addition, the total number of Huaidong soldiers in the Mingzhou Mansion who were incorporated into the workers' camp also reached 40,000.

As soon as the war in southern Zhejiang ended, Lin Jian did not mean to let the luxury family breathe a sigh of relief. Because of the barrier of Cangkuo Mountain, Tiantai Mountain and other mountains, it is not conducive to Lin Tie organizing troops to fight a war of attrition on the southern front, so the war of attrition will be transferred to Mingzhou Mansion and an attack on Huiji will be launched along the Cao'e River, the terrain is flat, and the Huaidong Army has the geographical advantage of controlling the Cao'e River.