In the bitter cold of the deep winter, the luxury family raised troops to the west, committed Yuzhang and Ganzhou, and the government and the opposition were panicked and helpless.

At that time, the Changhuai army retreated south to fill Huaixi, and the original 30,000 soldiers and horses in Huaixi were all piled up north of the Huai River.

At that time, Yanhu's 100,000 soldiers and horses were piled up in Shouzhang and Dongping for a while, and Jiang Ning was even more worried that the Liang clan would change and surrender to the people, and the soldiers and horses on the northern front did not dare to act easily. The soldiers and horses of Jiangzhou and Luzhou also moved north as much as possible, and Yuzhang, Ganzhou and other southern prefectures and counties in Jiangxi Province had less than 30,000 defense troops.

From western Zhejiang to eastern Jiangxi, although the hills are vertical and horizontal, only the river valley and the stream can transport troops, but it is in the inner line, and the straight line is short. Even if it takes more than ten days for the army to assemble and march from Wuyuan and Shangrao to the west, three or four hundred miles of mountain roads, it is thousands of miles away from the Hanghu area, through Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River, and to Jiangzhou and Poyang Lake.

The Hanghu Army regained Fuyang before mid-December, and the defensive situation was greatly improved, as long as the two openings of Tonglu into Fuyang and Chun'an into Linshui were blocked, the soldiers and horses of the luxury family could be blocked in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River and could not advance eastward.

The 60,000 soldiers and horses of the Hanghu Army can be withdrawn to support the war in Jiangxi.

The 30,000 Hanghu Army marched westward by water, entered Poyang Lake, and took Yuzhang in the southwest of Poyang Lake as its destination, and it took a month from the assembly of ships to the replenishment along the way, which already reflected the advantages of waterway transportation.

It is said that there is enough time, there are still more than 30,000 troops in Ganzhou, and it is always possible to stick to key cities such as Yuzhang, Ganzhou, and Yichun, and hold on for a month to wait for reinforcements. In addition to the Hanghu Army, Jiangzhou, Luzhou and other places also have 20,000 or 30,000 reinforcements that can be urgently transferred to Jiangxi to support.

As long as Yuzhang, Yichun, Ganzhou and other key cities are not lost, other prefectures and counties in southern Jiangxi will all be occupied by the luxury family, and when reinforcements from all over the country arrive, the luxury family will have nothing to do except withdraw the troops.

At this time, the most fatal problem was that Jiangning's prestige was insufficient, there was a lack of effective restraint on the localities, and there was no prestige to prohibit the recruitment and deployment of troops and horses from various localities.

First of all, the luxury family completely abandoned Fuyang in mid-December, but there were still a considerable number of soldiers and horses in Tonglu, the upper reaches of Fuyang, and the Hanghu localities, including Meng Yishan and others, who were under the control of the Hanghu army in front of the imperial palace, were worried that the luxury family was playing with the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, and there was the possibility of returning the horse pistol, and they did not want the Hanghu army to transfer soldiers and horses to support Jiangxi.

The prefectures and counties around the Taihu Lake are the foundation of the Wu Party's forces, and the Wu Party forces headed by Chen Xiyan are full of worries about the safety of the prefectures and counties around the Taihu Lake.

In that year, the Fang family rebelled and sacrificed Fang's port, so that the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels took Linshui without wasted their efforts. Although Dong Yuan had the determination to defend Fuyang, but the entire defense line was leaked due to the fall of Linshui, and after the two sides filled in Fuyang with 30,000 or 40,000 lives, Dong Yuan was finally forced to abandon Fuyang, and his reputation for half of his life was almost ruined.

The loss of Fuyang not only made Hanghu, which was rich in the world, half-crippled, but also made Jiangning directly threatened by the rebels of Zhejiang and Fujian.

If it weren't for the Huaidong Army's timely landing from eastern Zhejiang to capture Mingzhou Mansion, cripple the waist and eyes of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels, and make the follow-up powerless, otherwise even if Jiangning barely held on, the prefectures and counties around the Taihu Lake would have been completely crippled - now nearly half of Jiangning's finances come from the prefectures and counties around the Taihu Lake. The prefectures and counties around the Taihu Lake are not only the foundation of the Wu Party's power, but also the foundation of the Jiangning regime.

The Wu Party forces, headed by Chen Xiyan, acted conservatively and prudently, and it was not inconceivable to hinder the westward advance of the Hanghu Army to aid Jiangxi before eliminating the possibility of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels returning the pistol.

Chen Xiyan and others were alarmist, and Emperor Yongxing couldn't make up his mind, so in the end he just ordered the Hanghu Army and the Huinan Army to attack Tonglu and Chun'an, and contain as many Zhejiang-Fujian rebels as possible on the eastern front.

Zhejiang, Fujian, hills and mountains, from Tonglu, Chun'an to Fuyang, Linshui difficult, from Fuyang, Linshui to the top of the mountain to attack Tonglu, Chun'an, it is not easy.

Secondly, Jiangning's order to make Si Jianbi clear the wilderness and hold on to the city was not well implemented.

During Li Zhuo's expedition to Eastern Fujian, he mainly drew troops from Jiangxi to collect grain, and the ten-year war made Jiangxi poor and remote, and more and more impoverished. Subsequently, there were years of famine and riots, and the lake in Poyang Lake was even more vertical and horizontal, and the slaughter was endless.

In the face of a strong enemy, the strategy of clearing the field is usually effective, but this strategy is a double-edged sword that kills 1,000 enemies and damages 800 yourself, and not everyone can play it.

It is good to stick to the strong walls of Xiongcheng, but except for a few fortified cities, the counties and the vast countryside will be brutally devastated, and tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, or millions of refugees will inevitably arise in the coming year.

At the beginning of Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan's defense of Qingzhou, it was not that they did not understand the danger of external defense, but they just did not have the courage and confidence to turn a radius of hundreds of miles north of Linzi City into a remnant land.

Now Huaidong is on the periphery of Xuzhou, and the people who are almost 300 miles deep from the north of Xuzhou to Linzhou are all evacuated to the south, and the houses and cities are destroyed, so that Yanhu will not be gained, and the city walls will be built along the Huai River in the south of Xuzhou, and in the final analysis, the entire Huaidong will support this strategy behind the back.

After Ganzhou was disabled, if he expected Jiangning to support the resumption of production of money and grain, disaster relief, he would naturally obey Jiangning.

For Pan Qifeng, in order to protect the fundamentals and the power of the princes, it is necessary to defend the enemy from abroad.

At the beginning, the luxury family had not given up Fuyang and transferred Fuyang soldiers and horses to the west, and its forward soldiers and horses were limited, and they were divided into two roads from Wujiang and Xinjiang to the west. Although Jiang Ning strictly ordered Pan Qifeng to hold on and wait for help, Pan Qifeng ignored Jiang Ning's decree and decided to concentrate his forces and break them down one by one, so as to control the rebels of Zhejiang and Fujian outside the border.

Pan Qifeng led the main force of the Ganzhou Army from Yichun and Yuzhang to the east of the Ganjiang River, and repelled the advance of the Zhejiang-Fujian army advancing west from Shangrao in Dongxiang, and traced the Xinjiang River up.

Between Yujiang and Huangxi in the west of Xinzhou, in the face of more than 20,000 people under Pan Qifeng's department who lured the enemy into depth, Luxury Feixiong only led more than 10,000 Fujian elites to meet the battle, and fought bloodily for two days to defeat Pan Qifeng's army.

After the war, Pan Qifeng led the remnants to retreat to Yujiang, and at that time, more than 10,000 elites of the Luxury Feixiong Department were also disabled, but the Luxury Flying Bear used 3,000 remnants of the army to nail Pan Qifeng to the Yujiang River, and he could not advance or retreat, which made the situation in the entire southern part of Jiangxi collapse and fall into chaos.

Subsequently, the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian army continued to advance westward, and by the end of December, the Zhejiang-Fujian army marched to the east bank of the Ganjiang River with more than 60,000 troops. Extravagant Fei Xiong led his troops to bypass the Yujiang River, led his troops to cross the Ganjiang River, and the soldiers and horses set off from Wuyuan met under the city of Yuzhang in late December.

The Jiangzhou reinforcements saw that the main force of Pan Qifeng's department was disabled, and fought a hastily battle in the north of Yuzhang City, losing more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, so they hurriedly retreated north and stuck to Jiangzhou.

At that time, the defenders of Yuzhang were less than 3,000, and the extravagant flying bear gathered more than 50,000 soldiers and horses under the city of Yuzhang, and divided tens of thousands of troops, tracing up the water from both sides of the Ganjiang River, and marching south to attack Yichun and Ganzhou, the old nest of Poqifeng......

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By the end of December, the snow on the shore of Shigu Lake had not melted, and Song Jia had quietly gone south, and Su Mei took up the post of internal history to help Lin Jian deal with various correspondence.

"The so-called 'put death and then live' is also ......" After reading the battle report from Jiangxi, Lin Jian couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

The extravagant family abandons Fuyang and goes westward, which is a sword to go sideways, a dangerous strategy, and a life after death, once the westward advance is frustrated, it will completely fall into passivity.

Extravagant Feixiong led more than 10,000 elites to advance westward from Shangrao, luring Pan Qifeng to lead the main force of the Ganzhou Army to the east, which was a risky strategy of "death and resurrection".

One is the strategic use of risks, and the other is the tactical use of risks, which can be described as thrilling step by step.

"In these two steps, if Jiangning can't send troops from Jiangzhou to relieve the siege of Yuzhang, the situation of the luxury family on the western front will have a tendency to be revitalized." Liu Miaozhen said.

Liu Miaozhen has already led his troops to withdraw from Linzhou.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that a woman goes out on behalf of her father and brother as a general, but it is rare to see a woman as a official. Lin Lian recommended Liu Miaozhen to go out of Xuzhou, which caused an uproar in Jiangning.

After several bargains, Jiang Ning finally agreed that Liu Miaozhen would be appointed as the deputy envoy of Xuzhou and the commander of Xuzhou.

In recent months, Lin Jian has been hiding in the Zhuangzi on the shore of Shigou Lake and ignoring the world, Liu Miaozhen and Xuzhou Governor Li Wei, Changshi Ye Junan and others invited them to Huzhuang as guests and changed into brocade red women's clothes. Liu Miaozhen practiced martial arts when she was young, grew up in a fishing village, and later moved to the world with her brother and uncle, did not practice piano and chess, did not learn female workers, and had no topics to talk about with Su Mei, Xiaoman and other female dependents, and could not discuss martial arts with Sun Wenwan.

Lin Tie made people chisel open the lake ice, sat in the lakeside pavilion, and had fun fishing with Li Wei and Ye Junan, while Liu Miaozhen sat aside and talked about state affairs.

"In the current situation, let's hold Jiangzhou." Ye Junan said with emotion.

Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang), the danger of choking rivers and lakes, is located at the mouth of Poyang Lake into the Yangtze River, is the northern gateway of Jiangxi, but also the west gateway of Jiangning. Hold Jiangzhou, the situation in Jiangxi can not be said to collapse completely, and now I am afraid that the luxury family will surround Yuzhang is a strategy to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

Fifty-eight Fujian soldiers, Huaidong did not dare to peep, where did Jiangning send elite soldiers and strong generals to Yuzhang City to fight to the death with the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels advancing westward? In the current situation, it is still necessary to hold Jiangzhou first, and only when the deployment of troops and horses on the north and south lines is straightened out can we solve the problem in Jiangxi.

"There is a voice in Jiangning saying that Yue Lengqiu will be invited to go out of the mountain to Jiangzhou to supervise the war, what do you think?" Li Wei asked.

"Yue Lengqiu doesn't have soldiers and horses in his hands, so he can't help but pay attention to going to Jiangzhou to supervise the war," Lin Jian said, "I am more in favor of sending twenty or thirty thousand elite soldiers from Huinan and Hanghu to go to Jiangzhou with Yue Lengqiu ......."

"Wouldn't you raise a tiger for trouble?" Ye Junan asked worriedly.

Yue Lengqiu used to be in phase, so he was able to divide the military power to Deng Yu and Tao Chun, and he did not directly lead the troops. He was dragged by Liu Yefei and forced to resign, presumably his mood will change. If he is given the opportunity to directly control the military power, he will most likely not let it go again.

Li Wei was silent, although he agreed with Chen Yan as his son-in-law and regarded Huaidong as the main thing, it was difficult for the traditional idea of loyalty to the monarch to be completely changed all at once.

Lin Lian said: "It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, Yue Lengqiu knows the military affairs, but there are no soldiers and horses to use, and it is difficult to tame the Jiangzhou forces and resist the offensive of the luxury family." As for raising tigers, how could Dong Yuan not be a fierce tiger, and he was afraid of Duoyue Lengqiu? If you want to fold it, it is recommended to transfer troops and horses from Huinan and Hanghu to aid Jiangzhou with Yue Lengqiu......"

Although this move may make Yue Lengqiu sit in Jiangzhou, the transfer of troops and horses from Hanghu and Huinan will further strengthen Huaidong's strong position on the eastern front.

At this time, a fast horse galloped towards Huzhuang, but it was an urgent military situation from the northern front: Liang Xi killed the general Tu'an, and Dongping's troops surrendered!