Although the governor of the Privy Council has the right to control all the camps, the envoys, the towns, and the military offices, Huaixi, like Jinghu, has its own military and political systems, and most of the preparations for soldiers' salaries, money, food, and even armor and weapons are self-produced, and they are not deeply controlled by the Privy Council.

The armies are not so much subordinate as they are fighting in conjunction with each other.

The premise of coalition warfare is to trust each other - everyone is used to blood, and everyone is used to deceit, and we all know that the possible foundation of trust will not be built on a piece of paper, nor on other people's promises.

Zuo Chengmu, as the deputy prime minister, stayed in Huangzhou on behalf of the imperial court to "watch the army", nominally as a military envoy, but in fact more on behalf of the Jinghu forces in Huangzhou to monitor the Huaidong Army's combat performance against the enemies of Hanjin, Huangpi and Tiemen Mountain.

In addition, Hu Wenmu's son, Hu Xuechang, went to Ezhou, on the one hand, he was responsible for leading the Ezhou soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress Chen Zishou's troops who collected the remnants of the army at the northern foot of the Mufu Mountain, and on the other hand, he requisitioned grain and grass for the Huangzhou and Qichun war zones in Ezhou. On the other hand, it is also because Ezhou is located after Huangzhou and Qichun, and Senior Hu is sitting in Ezhou on behalf of Hu Wenmu, if the Huaidong Army and the Chizhou Army want to leave without telling them, Senior Hu will be able to detect it in advance, and the main force of the Jinghu Army will be able to avoid falling into the danger of being alone in Jingzhou.

Liu Tingzhou came to represent Huaixi to understand the combat readiness of the Huaidong Army, the Chizhou Army, and the Jinghu Army on the Southern Front.

In order to make Huaixi feel at ease to concentrate his forces on the Xinyang front line and contain the Yan army's Chen Zhihu and Tu'an troops on the northern front, so as to reduce the military pressure on the southern front, Lin Jian must make the military deployment of the Huaidong Army on the Huangzhou front line, so that Liu Tingzhou can see it clearly, so that he believes that the Huaidong Army has the determination to fight the Battle of Jingxiang.

For the arrival of Yue Lengqiu and Liu Tingzhou, Lin Jian specially prepared a thin banquet.

Liu Tingzhou came here, in addition to more than 100 soldiers, there were also more than a dozen accompanying staff, after all, to observe the Huaidong Army's overall combat readiness on the front line of Huangzhou in just three or five days, it is not something that Liu Tingzhou's two eyes can see.

There were officials in the staff, and only four or five people entered the hall to have a banquet with Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu.

The Huaidong army won Huangzhou City, which was also dilapidated, Lin Jian chose a slightly neat courtyard to be stationed as the line, but it was also very simple, Liu Tingzhou and others walked into the hall, and they could see that there were burn marks on the pillars.

Of course, you can't expect any mountain delicacies from the Lin Tie Banquet, there is no shortage of seafood, and even as soon as you walk in, you can smell a faint fishy smell.

Some people are sensitive to the smell of the sea, looking at the several accompanying scribes behind Liu Tingzhou frowning slightly, Lin Jian smiled: "Here in Huangzhou, the most delicious meat is pickled salted fish, which is the specialty of the banquet guests, don't ......dislike Yue Du and Lord Liu."

Huaidong developed large-scale offshore fishing in Changguo, Shengsi, Hecheng and other places to supplement the shortage of meat in the army. It's only September now, and after the sea fish are caught and salted in Changguo, Shengsi, and Hecheng, they are transported to Huangzhou by water, and it takes ten days before and after. If you can eat it, how can you expect that there is no fishy smell at all?

Of course, if Huangzhou began to eat pickled sea fish on a large scale, it would mean that Huaidong's supply line from the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the Huangzhou theater had already been established.

As long as food and other war materials can be continuously transported from the rear to the Huangzhou theater, Huaidong soldiers and horses will also be quickly transferred to complete the assembly in Huangzhou.

At this time, Liu Tingzhou felt that the meridians of the Dayue Dynasty were all unblocked, even if there would be disadvantages in the early stage of the Jingxiang Battle, but the longer the time dragged on, the situation would become more favorable to Dayue - it was a pity that all of this was under the control of Lin Lian.

Lin Jian called Gao Zongting, Cao Ziang and other people who had dealings with Liu Tingzhou over to accompany him to the banquet, which was naturally a cold noise. During the banquet, Lin Jian smiled and said to Liu Tingzhou: "Jingtang and they are all in Wuyun Village, and they don't have time to rush back to wash the dust for Lord Liu - but it's okay, it's not easy for Lord Liu to come to Huangzhou, and Wuyun Village has to go there." ”

Sun Jingtang has always been the core figure of Huaidong in this regard, in Huai'an in the early years, he had a lot of contact with Liu Tingzhou, and he had been in charge of Xu Si before that.

On the one hand, Liu Miaozhen, Ning Zechen, Ge Cunxin, and Geng Quanshan led the elite soldiers and strong generals to sit in the town, on the one hand, Li Wei and other civilian officials helped the displaced people and settled the local meritorious service, and on the other hand, Sun Jingtang led the labor camp to build a defensive fortress on the front line of Xusi, build a chidao, and a river port.

Now that Lin Jian is going to have a big fight with the Yan army in Jingxiang, in addition to the famous handsome and brave generals under his command, Sun Jingtang, Ge Siyu, Zhu Ai and other characters who are good at creating naturally cannot be absent.

In addition to the construction of fortifications, roads and bridges in the theater, the collection and transportation of grain, war, weapons and other strategic materials are also the core affairs of the war, and Lin Mengde, the envoy of the branch and Lin Xuwen of the household department, are naturally in Jiangning, responsible for the general dispatch of grain and grass materials from Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to Jingxiang, and Chen Huawen, the prefect of Luzhou, and Yang Zichen, the prefect of Jiangzhou, are also the deputy envoys of the branch this time, in charge of the transportation of the two key points of transshipment in Luzhou and Jiangzhou.

In the Huangzhou Theater, Fu Qinghe's former grain battalion, Sun Wenbing, Lin Xuhong, Song Fu and other Huaidong officials were also transferred to Huangzhou to assist in the transfer of goods.

The outpost has been engaged, and everyone who has been transferred to Huangzhou in Huaidong has been busy, although Liu Tingzhou has had contacts with many officials in the Huaidong family, he can't expect them to put down what they are doing and come to the banquet.

Lin Jian casually said that Sun Jingtang and others were in Huangzhou, and he also wanted to explain to Liu Tingzhou the strong determination of Huaidong to fight the Battle of Jingxiang.

During the banquet, Liu Tingzhou asked about the arrangements for the soldiers who were recruited into the camp.

"This," Lin Lian said, "The loss of Nanyang reached Jiangning, Jiangning scholars were indignant, many scholars knocked on the palace door to petition, and wanted to kill thieves from Rong, Lin Xiang and Cheng Xiang wrote a letter to ask about it, I discussed with Zuo Xiang and Yue Du, and finally issued an order to recruit candidates, but I didn't expect the applicants to gather. Scholars from Jiangning, Weiyang, Pingjiang and other places have gone to Huangzhou with ships, and there are already 500 people. There is a lack of clerks in the army's construction, transfer and other affairs, and the soldiers enlist in the battalion, which solves many headaches; In addition, there will be some enlisted battalions who will temporarily resign themselves to the general's deputy to learn military affairs, and there will be no chance of leading troops into battle in the future......"

In the future, these people want to be officials, and the generals can recommend them, but whether they are hired or not depends on whether the general's face is big enough, but even if the general's face is big enough, it is impossible to recommend three or five hundred staff members to be officials at once.

Lin Jian recruited soldiers to enlist in the battalion, and he was mainly responsible for logistics affairs, so it was not much different from inviting staff, but the scale was larger. However, in the official letter issued to the world, it was clearly written that the expectation of making up officials in the future was clearly written, which was to change private officials into public officials.

Including the private officials who followed Lin Jian before, after that, they can be officially appointed as magistrates, county magistrates, county lieutenants, prefects, general judges and other local official positions. Before that, if Lin Jian wanted to recommend anyone to be the governor of the county, he had to write a separate excerpt, and it would be approved by the household department and the political affairs hall before the entire procedure could be considered complete.

Liu Tingzhou had private thoughts, and did not recommend Ning Yujie, a talented man of salt desecration, to Lin Tie during the banquet, and invited him to Huaixi as an official when he returned to the post house after the banquet.

Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengqiu's every move after entering Huangzhou, Lin Jian was naturally clear.

Hearing Gao Zongting say that Ning Yujie temporarily wooed Liu Tingzhou to go to Huaixi, Lin Jian just smiled: "Huaixi can win over one, I can win over five hundred, let him go!" ”

Yue Lengqiu accompanied Liu Tingzhou to stay in Huangzhou for two days, both to discuss the cooperation of Huaixi soldiers and horses on the northern front, and Lin Jian also officially informed Liu Tingzhou that Ning Zechen would lead Feng to leave the camp and enter Huaixi to fight together.

After July, the Shandong soldiers and horses under the command of Ye Ji Duodi also fully advanced to the Xusi defense line, and generals such as Yuan Lishan and Nahe Xiongqi respectively led the main force of nearly 100,000 troops and horses to enter the buffer zone south of Jining and Linqu. The intention was to contain Huaidong's troops and horses on the Xusi defense line, and could not aid from the west.

To the north of Xusi, Liu Miaozhen, Wu Qi, Ma Lantou, Li Liang, Geng Quanshan, Chu Zheng and other generals had only 60,000 troops in the Xusi defense line, after replenishing some of the troops.

Although there are 30,000 elites in the Fengli Battalion and 20,000 sailors in the Jinghai Second Water Battalion in Huaidong, Shanyang and Yuntiguan are the rear lines of the Xusi defense line, and Yanhu is on the eastern front, in addition to Yuan Lishan and Nahe Xiongqi, Ye Jiduodi, who is sitting in Jinan, still has 40,000 cavalry in hand, which can quickly press the front line of Xusi - Lin Tie cannot empty the troops on the first line of Shanyang and Yuntiguan, so the troops who can enter Huaixi with Ning Zechen are only 20,000.

Lin Lian can transfer the elite of Huaidong to enter Huaixi to fight together, how can Liu Tingzhou be suspicious of people at this time?

In the past two days, Liu Tingzhou and Yue Lengtian could see that almost more than 10,000 Huaidong soldiers entered Huangzhou every day, and from Huangzhou they went to Wuyunzhai, Fenghuangshan and other front camps.

After negotiating these things, Yue Lengqiu went back to Qichun to supervise the battle first, but Liu Tingzhou didn't understand, and Cao Ziang was also in a hurry to return to Luzhou after Yue Lengqiu. On 6 September, Lin Jian personally accompanied Liu Ting to Wuyunzhai, Fenghuang Mountain, and other former camps to inspect the military situation......

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From Wuyun Village to Phoenix Village to cross the Jushui River, although the Jushui River is already the periphery of the Huangzhou Theater of Operations, but the Huaidong Army is still erecting a pontoon bridge on the Jushui River, not afraid of the enemy raiding in to destroy the pontoon bridge.

As far as the time of Zhou Shang, there is a record of connecting boats as bridges.

The pontoon bridge on the Jushui River is also a bridge with piles and boats, and a bridge is paved for a bridge.

On the river nearly 300 steps wide, two pontoon bridges were erected, and the upstream and downstream were 2,300 steps apart. Each pontoon bridge was fixed with 20 boats piled, connected by large iron nails and hooks and chains on pallets, and fixed on both sides with iron cables as thick as an arm.

The most important fixing of the pontoon bridge is to bear the weight of the transition people, carriages and horses, and to withstand the impact of the river, so the selection of fixes at both ends of the iron cable is the most important.

If there are conditions, the mountain stone is usually chiseled as a lock, and the iron cable that fixes the boat bridge is tied to the mountain stone and connected with the hill as a whole, so as to resist the impact of the river and carry hundreds of people to cross the bridge at the same time.

The pontoon bridge in the lower reaches of the Jushui River is located on the official road ferry from Huangzhou to Huangpi, surrounded by Pingchuan, the old trees that can be used to fix the iron cable, and also cut down the enemy soldiers before retreating, there is no natural fixation, but at both ends of the boat bridge, the black and dark giants, the huge objects, are actually several bottles of iron casting huge blocks.

Huaixi iron material is very scarce, Huaidong actually used iron to fix the boat bridge, and the two pontoon bridges threw tens of thousands of catties of iron in the wild!

Liu Tingzhou straddled the horse, followed Lin Tie, and walked across the steady Zhushui River pontoon bridge, not knowing what to say.

There is a beacon village built in the northwest of the pontoon bridge to guard the pontoon bridge and monitor the enemy's situation.

The beacon village is not big, the fence camp, but a large area of thistle terrestris is sprinkled outside the fence camp, and the spikes of the thistle terrestris are erected, shining in the overgrown weeds, warning people and beasts not to approach.

There is a sentry soldier stationed there, and there are more than 100 people with the army and civilians to protect the pontoon bridge can be repaired at any time, materials and soldiers can pass, and people can also be requisitioned at any time to assist in crossing the river.

Liu Tingzhou followed Lin Tie over, and saw that Lin Tie could actually call the name of the sentry general, and he also knew that Lin Tie's mastery of the Huaidong Army was irreplaceable by others.

Although it is only a beacon village, the generals are very well prepared, even the most ordinary soldiers, and they all wear armor. In addition to Mo knives, guns and spears, the guards have many strong bows and hard crossbows, and on the fence wall, there are three bed crossbows covered with lacquered cloth.

In such a beacon village, even if one or two thousand enemy cavalry leaked in, there was no way to pull it out in a short period of time before reinforcements from the left and right arrived.

Seeing this, Liu Tingzhou categorically no longer doubted Lin Lian's determination to fight the Battle of Jingxiang, and also believed that no matter how bad the Huaidong Army was, even if Jingzhou fell, it would be able to fight the Yan Army in the eastern Hubei region......