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Throughout the autumn, except for the Cao family's troops into northern Sichuan, the fighting in other regions was relatively calm.

The luxury family gave Huaidong a sneak attack on the waist, and the entire Mingzhou Mansion, including the area east of the Yujiang River in Huiji Prefecture, fell into the hands of Huaidong, and had to deal with the nearly 50,000 water infantry troops deployed in Huaidong along Shengzhou, Shangyu and threatening southern Zhejiang.

Once the western front is frustrated, Huaidong's offensive from the eastern front will inevitably become fierce again, so that it will not be able to take care of each other, which is also the fundamental reason why soldiers usually try to avoid fighting on two fronts.

On the west bank of the Lanxi River, on the north side of the camp of the soldiers and horses stationed in Dongyang County, Qin Zitan walked through a wolf-like place, standing on a high place and looking at the Huaidong military defense camp on the opposite bank.

Under the gentle slope, there are traces of flood erosion everywhere.

In June and July, the soldiers and horses stationed in Luohepo in Huaidong threw stones into the Lanxi River to block the river, forcing the Lanxi River to divert its course, inducing floods, so that the fields and villages on both sides of Dongyang County were washed away by the flood, and even Dongyang County was soaked in the flood for more than a month, and it was necessary to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to consolidate the city wall.

The flood has been out for more than a month, but a large number of people have fled west to escape the fighting, and the fields are also largely barren, and the surrounding area is in disarray, which also makes the military resources after the autumn quite difficult.

"Intercepting the river and destroying the city, hurting so many innocents" The little colonel next to Qin Zitan is the son of a local squire in Dongyang County, looking at the wreckage, he hated the Huaidong Army, beat his hands with his fists, and said resentfully, "The Huaidong Army is also hateful. ”

Qin Zitan sighed lightly in his heart, wars have always been ferocious, but he can't tolerate the slightest mercy towards the enemy, how can he expect Huaidong's methods to be weaker?

Although he thought so in his heart, Qin Zitan still felt unusually bitter.

Counting Huaidong's soldiers and horses on the southern front, Deng Yu, Dong Yuan, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen, and the envoys of the two systems in Jiangxi, the total number of soldiers and horses that the luxury family had to fight against on the northern front reached 189,000, exceeding the total number of soldiers and horses in Zhejiang. These soldiers and horses belonging to the Jiangning Yuan clan, after years of brutal warfare, from generals to soldiers, are not weak and can be bullied.

I thought that Jiang Ning would make some changes in the matter of supporting the establishment first, so that this side would have an opportunity to take advantage of, but I didn't expect Lin Jian to break with the Gu family and stand up for King Ning first, so that the Yuan clan would form a new ruling center in Jiangning unusually smoothly, so that there would be no opportunity to take advantage of it here.

In fact, after the war in eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang-Fujian army lost the initiative strategically.

First of all, Huaidong gathered a large number of troops and horses in Mingzhou Mansion to contain the assault force in western Zhejiang, and secondly, Huaidong gathered more than three-quarters of the naval forces on the southern front to attack and harass the coastal areas of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian.

It's like building a spear that is extremely sharp, and you don't need a pound of good iron; In order to build a set of armor with strong defensive power, it needs dozens of times more iron materials and hundreds of more artificial materials - Huaidong uses the navy to cooperate with the armor soldiers to infiltrate from the coasts of southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian, and the governor's office of Zhejiang and Fujian wants to build a complete defense line along the coast, so it will invest several times or even more than ten times the troops and materials.

Huaidong established a large camp in Shengzhou to engage in military confrontation with the Zhejiang-Fujian army, and also took advantage of the advantage of controlling the sea area to continuously attack and harass the weakly defended coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian, which had greatly weakened the military potential of Zhejiang-Fujian.

Qin Zitan couldn't see where their turnaround was for a while, but he saw that Huaidong's next move must be southern Zhejiang.

Huaidong occupied the Mingzhou Mansion, and used Shengzhou and Shangyu as bases to deploy troops on a large scale, forcing them to also garrison heavy troops to fight; If Huaidong uses Yueqing as a base to strengthen the offensive in southern Zhejiang, they will inevitably follow the heavy troops stationed in Yongjia and Ouhai to prevent the Huaidong Army from going up the Yongjia River and sneaking into the flank of western Zhejiang.

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In the defense wall of the Huaidong Army on the east bank of the Lanxi River, Lin Jian stood on the wall, looking at the scenery of Dongyang County's town unfolding in front of Luohe Mountain in the sunset. It was too far away, and he didn't know that Qin Zitan was in the handful of figures on the hills on the west bank.

Fu Qinghe, Liang Wenzhan, Hu Zhiyong, Ye Junan and others all came to inspect the Shengzhou camp with Lin Tie.

Gao Zongting and Ao Canghai stood side by side, and at this time, they had received accurate news from the north, Chen Zhihu led his troops into the west of Jin, and exterminated the dock fort and walled city that were still insisting on resistance for Yanhu.

Gao Zongting and Ao Canghai were Chen Zhihu's colleagues and Chen Zhihu's former generals, and when they heard such news, they were very sorry, and they didn't want to think that they might meet and fight on the battlefield in the future.

"General Yu's boat should be about to arrive in eastern Zhejiang, right?" Ao Canghai said.

"Counting the time, we will be able to see Wan Gao when we return to the Mingzhou Mansion from here," Gao Zongting said, "but I heard that when they were forced to withdraw from Jieyang, General Yu was seriously injured......"

Recalling that the Eastern Fujian Army, which was at its peak at the beginning, is now so scattered, and it is likely to fight on the battlefield in the future, Chen Dingbang stood behind him and sighed in his heart.

"Those dogs in Quang Nam County will slaughter them one day!" Ao Canghai scolded hatefully.

Yu Wangao withdrew from Jian'an South to occupy Jieyang, and if he could rely on Guangnan County, he would be able to contain a considerable part of the troops of the Hao family on the southern front. However, the Guangnan County Division and local forces did not dare to offend the strong and strong luxury family, but instead sent troops to encircle Jieyang and blockade Jiangning, forcing Yu Wangao to lead his troops to break through from Jieyang and turn into a guerrilla attack in the mountains.

When Yu Wangao broke through from Jieyang, he was hit by an arrow and retreated into the mountains, lacking medical treatment and medicine, he led the troops and worked hard, and the arrow wound dragged on for more than a year.

At the beginning of the resumption of the war in Eastern Fujian, Yu Wangao had 20,000 elites under his command, and they fought hard for several years, not to mention that the soldiers could not be replenished, and the conditions were extremely difficult, and the final withdrawal of troops was less than 3,000 people. The three thousand remnants, both in terms of morale and combat strength, were extremely weakened, but they had too much blood with each other, and there was no possibility of surrender, so they all withdrew to Yizhou to rest this time.

Yu Wangao was escorted by his nephews and nephews to Jiangning to worship the new emperor, and the plan was to anchor in Chongzhou; However, Lin Tie came to inspect eastern Zhejiang, and temporarily notified the ship to dock at Mingzhou Mansion, and Lin Tie planned to meet Yu Wangao.

Yu Wangao, Dong Yuan, Chen Zhihu, Lu Dudu and others are all generals who were raised by the commander, Dong Yuan knew the truth about the death of the commander, but he remained silent, Chen Dingbang couldn't help but think: After Yu Wangao knows the truth about the death of the commander, will he be loyal to the Yuan clan as always?

Lin Jian inspected the defense of Luohe Mountain, and said to Zhang Gou, the chief general here: "The defense of the rebels in Zhejiang and Fujian is wide, and the area of our defense is narrow, which determines that we will send a small group of elites, and it will be easier to penetrate their defense line - this side has been calm and confrontation for several months, and it is time to make the other side tense up." ”

"This is a good arrangement," Zhang Gou asked, "is the next step to decide to use troops in southern Zhejiang?" ”

"That's what an easy thing to do, I'm still researching!" Lin Jian said.

Although the power of the Yongjia Resistance Army rose sharply last year, and once recovered the two cities of Yongjia and Yueqing, Ye Su, the leader of the original Yongjia Resistance Army, rejected Huaidong's suggestion and held on to the Yongjia City located inland.

Including Ye Su, nearly 10,000 Yongjia soldiers and civilians who held the city were slaughtered after the city was broken.

Suffering from this setback, the remnants of the Yongjia Army headed by Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying also realized the cruel status quo, moved closer to Huaidong in an all-round way, and were incorporated into the camp army in eastern Zhejiang in July.

Fu Qinghe first ordered the withdrawal of thousands of Yueqing people and their families from the sea, and turned Yueqing City and the Qishan Island behind it into a purely military walled city, and also sent a large number of grassroots military attaches to the remnants of the Yongjia Army to improve the combat effectiveness of the remnants of the Yongjia Army, but there were only three battalions of soldiers who held Yueqing City and Qishan Island in front of them, which was far from enough to change the military strength of the two sides in southern Zhejiang.

After the occupation of Yizhou, the main forces of the First Water Battalion and the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion were mainly based on Yizhou, and infiltrated and attacked the coastal forces in eastern Fujian nearby. Lin Jian wanted to open up another battlefield in southern Zhejiang in Yueqing, and constantly forced the luxury family's defense line on the east side to be longer and tighter. Until the luxury family can no longer support it, and has to carry out military adventures in order to break the current deadlock that is increasingly unfavorable to the luxury family, Huaidong will also be able to find an opportunity to kill the luxury family with one blow.

But if you open up a battlefield in southern Zhejiang, it will undoubtedly be very painful for the luxury family, but Huaidong may not be so easy.

Before the Tianjin Navy withdrew to Chongzhou for rest, the entire hinterland of Huaidong, except for some water battalions, mainly relied on female battalions and hundreds of cavalry guards.

Lin Gu and the two families did not tear their faces before, and the relationship was quite harmonious, with the Jiangning Water Camp controlled by Gu Wuchen, Lin Jian was not very worried that Chongzhou would be threatened, but for now, he had to leave an elite in Chongzhou, so he left the cavalry camp and the Jinhai camp in Chongzhou, in case someone in Jiangning was ruthless and risky to Huaidong.

In this way, Lin Jian will not be able to draw troops to open up the battlefield in southern Zhejiang.

Although there are still reserve troops to be drawn, the remnants of the Yongjia army are not the shelves of elite combat power, and the reserve forces can be drawn to make up for it, although the total number of soldiers can be quickly supported, but the actual combat power will not be too optimistic.

In addition, Lin Jian also had to consider the pressure on the supply of supplies and armor.

Lin Jian came to eastern Zhejiang this time, in addition to inspecting military affairs, he was more concerned about inspecting the implementation of the new policy in eastern Zhejiang, and wanted to hope that the Mingzhou government could provide more material support to Huaidong.

The Mingzhou government changed hands twice in a short period of three years, and the local forces were brutally attacked, with the luxury families striking at those who refused to surrender, and Huaidong cracking down on those who surrendered to the luxury families.

In addition to the 380,000 mu of land that was confiscated and confiscated for officials, 270,000 mu of land was expropriated for officials in the Mingzhou Prefecture, and 390,000 mu of arable water and drought official land was measured on the Changguo, Daishan, and Shengsi islands, totaling 1.04 million mu of water and dry land. In addition, there are more than 40,000 acres of island grassland suitable for grazing, and countless forest lands.

In the past six months, a total of 60,000 households have been resettled in Mingzhou Prefecture, including Changguo and Shengsi counties.

The income of Mingzhou's autumn grain alone reached 470,000 stone of rice and 80,000 horses of cloth, and the income of Guantian was 250,000 stone. The income of Guantian is low, mainly because the people who moved south only entered the resettlement after May. Fortunately, tens of thousands of people were drawn from Hecheng and other places to fill in Mingzhou first, and 300,000 mu of paddy fields were planted, otherwise this year's official land income is far less than this number.

When the people who have migrated south have completely settled down, by next year, the income of Guantian will reach a new level; With the frequent occurrence of wars, there will also be a large amount of official land to be used for bereavement and meritorious service, which will naturally limit the increase in the income of official land. The main task at hand is also to continuously increase the reserves of official land through various means.

The Huaidong Army now has to maintain armaments with a total strength of more than 80,000 troops, money and salaries, as well as normal armor and ordnance; Maintain the consumption and investment of the industrial camp with a total number of more than 120,000 people and many industrial services; The resettlement of a large number of displaced people and people who moved south also supported Huaiyang Town to build the Huaisi defense line - the huge consumption of silver money and materials every month has reached the point of making outsiders jaw-dropping.

If it weren't for the fact that Huaidong had already obtained nearly 1.6 million taels of silver from the monopoly Haidong trade this year, and had imported 800,000 stone rice grains and a large amount of wood, coal, iron, leather, copper and silver and other materials from Haidong at low prices, Huaidong would not have been able to support such a large consumption.

Maintain 10,000 soldiers, the consumption is not high, but the 10,000 soldiers into soldiers, only the armor and ordnance equipment, it is a headache, put into southern Zhejiang to open up a new battlefield, wartime including armor arrows and ordnance to build a city, the consumption of camp materials, the additional supply during the war, the investment in treating casualties and the later casualties and awards, think about it is a headache.

Historically, whenever the imperial court encountered a war with each other, most of the household officials in charge of money and grain were the main peace faction, and this was the main reason. I'd rather bend my knees and offer silver to sue for peace, rather than end up falling behind the endgame of killing 100,000 enemies and losing 80,000 myself.

Zhang Gou was looking forward to expanding the scale of the war in southern Zhejiang, but Lin Jian felt that this decision was difficult, and he was thinking about it crankily, when a scout sent an urgent letter.

After Gao Zongting took it, he handed it to Lin Tie and said, "The ship from Yizhou has arrived at Hukou, and Admiral Yu is seriously injured and will not ......."

Since the rebellion of the luxury family, how many generals and Qingliu scholars who boasted of loyalty and loyalty surrendered, but Yu Wangao was indomitable at the most difficult moment, and led the guerrilla attacks to harass the flanks of Zhejiang and Fujian. A generation of generals died on the ship that was about to return to Jiangning, which is very emotional.

"Let's go back to Mingzhou...... Lin Jian said.

"Mr. Gao, Dingbang, put incense on my behalf to Governor Yu." Ao Canghai said that he was the commander of the Shengzhou camp and could not leave Shengzhou to go to Mingzhou.

Gao Zongting nodded, thinking: The Five Tigers of Eastern Fujian already belong to a bygone era, right?