(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

After the bloody battle in Jiyang, the Donghai Kou recruited more Jin'an veterans into the gang, and on the surface they were still pirates, but in fact they had completed the transformation from a rabble to an elite division.

From Song Jia's mouth, Lin Jian knew that this was a strategy offered by Qin Zitan, a strategist beside the Luxury Flying Tiger, using the frequent invasion wars to consume the original rabble and replenish the elite veterans loyal to the Luxury Family, which not only made it convenient for the Luxury Family to control the Donghai Kou, but also changed the Donghai Kou into a hundred battles in a short period of time.

Although this strategy is cruel, but it is very effective, Xisha Island has also instigated Qin Zitan to invade Taihu Lake, resulting in heavy losses for the military and civilians, when in Meixi Lake, caught Du Rong, but missed Qin Zitan, a big fish, Lin Tie also felt a pity at this time.

Lin Jian and Cao Ziang stood on the platform and watched Liu Zhenzhi's relatives lead their soldiers to attack the river embankment.

The Yunyan River is in disrepair all the year round, the river embankment is almost silted up with the beach on the outside, and there is no topographical convenience to occupy the river embankment, but the Kou soldiers have a tight array of bows, crossbows, knives and guns, and they are not afraid of battle, nor do they rush forward, relying on the support of the river warships and crossbows, and always press the foot soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army under the embankment, and finally Zhou Pu could not bear it, so that the two teams of cavalry rushed from both wings in the rain of arrows.

The cavalry all wore armor and could block arrows, even if they were hit by arrows on the side, they were not critical, but the more than 100 war horses that rushed from the flanks were exposed to the enemy's crossbows.

"Shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, capture the thief and capture the king first", the most profound tactics are just some very simple truths to put it bluntly.

This side uses infantry to confront head-on, and uses cavalry to attack the flanks of the Kou soldiers, in order to achieve the purpose of crushing the blow; The Kou soldiers also had to take advantage of the coordination of the bow and crossbow on the ship to block the cavalry from attacking the flanks of the riverbank Kou array, and mainly by shooting the war horses to break up the cavalry formation, forming a powerful flank impact.

The cavalry battalion brought out by Zhou Pu can fight a tough battle, and the river embankment soldiers will hand over the flanks to the Kou boats behind them to cover, once the cavalry is not afraid of the approach of arrows and stones from the flanks, the formation will immediately be devastated, Liu Zhenzhi led the soldiers from the embankment to work together, and more than 200 soldiers were pressed into the river and driven down the river.

The result of the battle was only like this, the Kou soldiers had the support of boats, and watching the river embankment Kou soldiers drive down the river, the Kou boats quickly approached the embankment, and covered the fallen Kou soldiers with close range of shots. The cavalry and soldiers here cannot occupy the river embankment for a long time to shoot the fallen criminals, and even have to quickly disengage after defeating the river embankment soldiers to avoid unnecessary casualties.

Although the first battle was won, the casualties were small, but the war horses of the flank assault suffered great losses, and few of the more than 100 horses that went into battle missed the arrow, and there were thirty or forty horses at the moment.

Lin Jian finally brought back only 800 horses from the Yannan battlefield, and there were few supplements, and it could even be said that horses were more expensive than people, and one less horse would die if they died.

The cavalry battalion is so used, and the loss of war horses is so serious, Lin Jian is also heartbroken when he looks at it on the platform, but there is no way, the first battle is about morale, and it can't be solved cleanly, and it can't be solved if it is delayed until dark, but it will give Kou soldiers the courage to break into the hinterland of Chongzhou, which will bring greater risks.

War has always consumed resources, Ge Siyu, a person who does not know much about military affairs, is also heartbroken for the loss of war horses, and there are only 800 war horses in the cavalry camp, I am afraid that if this war is over, there will not be many horses left.

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During the war, the cavalry dragged the corpses of more than a dozen soldiers down the river embankment with ropes, and hung their heads on the flagpole in front of the garrison to show their prestige, so that the morale of the soldiers and civilians inside and outside the garrison was greatly boosted.

Lin Jian and Cao Ziang went down to the garrison to visit the injured generals, and at this time they didn't care about the distressed horses: the war was like this, and after this war, even if the war horses were consumed, there would be no surprises.

The Jiangdong Left Army had just laid a foundation in Chongzhou, and it had almost no savings and could not withstand large consumption, which was the main reason why Lin Jian did not want to fight a major battle with Donghai Kou in Chongzhou.

"If you drive the East China Sea Kou overseas, can you raise a batch of war horses in the pasture first?" Cao Ziang asked in a low voice.

"It's fine." Lin Jian nodded.

Even with Song Xiaobo's cooperation, Lin Jian could not openly and privately reclaim the territory of Hecheng Grassland on a large scale, but it was a feasible strategy to use exiled prisoners to raise mules, horses, and livestock within the Hecheng Grassland, and the action was not so obvious.

Lin Jian knew very well in his heart that he didn't have much resources to raise cavalry, and in his plan, he might use cavalry to attack the flanks in a roundabout way or be incorporated into the reserve for use, but the infantry was always the decisive force on the frontal battlefield.

Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu, Wu Qi, and even Fu Qinghe, Qin Chengzu and others all preferred cavalry, and Lin Jian also considered that even if the Jiangdong Left Army did not use cavalry as the main force, it also needed a part of cavalry as a flank maneuver, as a sentry and a messenger.

Jiangmen will be shepherding ordinary mules and horses, cattle farming, after all, to make full use of Chongzhou's land resources, resource accumulation, animal power is an extremely important indicator, but the conditions permit, it is true that Jiangmen can introduce high-quality horses, first shepherd a group of war horses.

For war horses, it is better to start with cubs and be incorporated into a cavalry battalion after two years of pasture grazing.

The source of horses in the Dayue Dynasty does not mean that there are no high-quality stallions in the Central Plains, and the Central Plains are all fertile fields, where are there still large areas of grassland to raise horses? It's not that the horse administration of horse weavers who use bean feed to raise war horses in captivity is absolutely impossible, but the cost of captive horses is too high, and a thousand horses will cost the wealth of a high-class county, which is no longer something that the imperial court can afford.

"The Kou soldiers don't seem to have any intention of retreating," Zhou Pu walked over on his riding boots, and he was not very satisfied with the results just now, he knew in his heart that the Jiangdong Left Army could not afford to fight at this time, after all, the foundation was still shallow, in addition to foreign enemies, Yue Lengqiu and other political enemies were also eyeing the Jiangdong Left Army, just waiting for the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army to be weakened in a large-scale battle, Zhou Pu pointed to the center of the river in the distance, "Before dark, the Kou Boat does not retreat, and it is likely that it will continue to strengthen the confrontation." Now we are not able to blockade the north bank, once the main force of our infantry is pinned down near the garrison on the south bank, the Kou soldiers will cut off the river with warships, but the infantry can advance west along the north bank......"

"If Kou Bing wants to achieve this step, he must have an absolute advantage over us in terms of troops...... Liu Zhenzhi is also not stage frightened and expresses his opinions.

"In the early hours of the morning, the Donghai Kou raided the Hecheng Fortress with 2,000 Kou soldiers, and then attacked the northern outpost fort by various roads - I think the Donghai Kou didn't think of how easily the Hecheng Fortress could be taken at first, so they adopted the strategy of dividing the troops to attack in order to achieve the strategy of creating momentum and exhausting our army, in fact, they didn't have the intention of fighting with our army at all," Cao Ziang said, "But since the Hecheng Fortress is captured, especially the Donghai Kou still want to make a big noise on the northern front and concentrate their forces on the Hecheng Fortress, it is also a matter of course. There won't be just 2,000 soldiers gathered here. If we compare forces, we really can't have an advantage......"

"yes, you can't beat the Kou soldiers hard, they always have to try to break west." Lin Lian sighed, before the provocation, Donghai Kou gathered tens of thousands of troops on the northern front and in the Shengsi Islands, and if he wanted Quan Jiqing to raise troops to counterattack Changguo Island, he must continue to move the center of gravity of the troops on the northern line to the north, so as to eliminate Quan Ciqing's vigilance and make him take the bait, and the pressure on Chongzhou will be greater and greater. In the battle just now, he killed fifty or sixty soldiers, and he couldn't make the generals who were secretly presided over by the luxury family feel half a point of heartache.

"Are you sending some warships?" Cao Ziang asked.

"......" Lin Jian shook his head and said, "The Jinghai Sea Camp must be used intensively, so that the Kou soldiers can feel the pressure of being isolated from the back road, and besides, this is not a good battlefield for water battles." Just blocking the river would have sunk a few ships in the middle of the river, but it still wouldn't solve the crisis of the Kou soldiers advancing westward with the advantage of troops. If you want to beat them hard and effectively annihilate their 1,000 to 2,000 people, they will honestly shrink into the Hecheng military fortress and not come out, and then use the Jinghai Sea Camp to go to sea and block the route between Hecheng and the Shengsi Islands, so that the Kou soldiers can be forced to withdraw from the Hecheng military fortress and eliminate the disaster of war invisibly. ”

"Then wait for Zhou Tong to come over and discuss it well, he has a lot of ideas." Zhou Pu said. The soldiers they suffered were not a rabble, and in the case that they had the advantage of warships, they would have to pay a considerable price to annihilate one or two thousand soldiers by normal means. Once the price is too high, the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army will be weakened, and not only will it not be able to stop the Kou soldiers, but will induce the Kou soldiers to advance westward on a larger scale.

Lin Lian walked on the embankment, staring at the sparkling river flowing eastward, although the terrain of Chongzhou is low, but the salt river is the Chenghuai River that leads to Hongzepu and Gaoyou Lake in the west and flows into the sea in the east, he carefully observed the enemy ships in the distance for a long time, suddenly turned around and walked towards Ge Siyu, and asked him: "You are allowed to mobilize all the manpower, and completely block the river with soil and stones, how much time will you need at the earliest?" ”

"That's not difficult," said Ge Siyu, who squatted down and picked up a branch in the mud and calculated, "If you can prepare in advance, just to close the river, an hour is enough." ”

The salt river is only 100 steps wide, the autumn is deep, the upstream water begins to decrease, the water potential is not large, it is not difficult to block the river, Ge Siyu has been preparing for the dredging work of the salt river during this time, and all kinds of data have a spectrum in his heart.

"Then beat the fuck here," Lin Jian spat out a dirty word fiercely, and resolutely made up his mind, "Ziang, you and Si Yu go to Jiuhua, one night is enough to prepare for blocking the river, Jiuhua is a hundred miles away, and the sentinels of the Kou soldiers can't penetrate that far, and I will personally sit here." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to ...... a day or two" Cao Ziang said, he came here with Lin Lian, originally planned for him to stay and preside over the overall situation, so that Lin Lian would go back to the church tomorrow to get married, so as not to miss the wedding date because of the war, at this time Lin Lian asked him to go to Jiuhua, and he stayed to sit in charge himself, which was contrary to his original intention of following him.

"It's them who are urgent, as long as the stars and moon are bright enough tonight, the Kou soldiers will definitely strengthen the confrontation," Lin Jian pointed to the enemy ships that were making deployment adjustments in the distance, and said, "Look at them, they are obviously summing up the lesson of the flank of the river embankment just now for my cavalry to break down." Take a few flat-topped boats to dock close to each other, and connect with the river embankment with trestles to form a platform that is easy to enter and exit, as long as the number of soldiers ashore is small, you can quickly retreat to the ship to prevent the flanks from forcibly breaking through. If there are a large number of soldiers ashore, these platforms can also build an effective flank position to prevent our cavalry infantry from rushing from the flank......"

"The other party is quite a soldier character...... Cao Ziang sighed slightly, most of the Kou ships are not connected, and it is inconvenient for them to attack with fire when they move on the river.

"The luxury family and Li Zhuo have been fighting in Eastern Fujian for ten years, and there are many elite veterans, and there are not a few outstanding generals. Without this bit of capital, the luxury family wants to seek the world, and I am afraid that it will make the world laugh off its big teeth," Lin Jian said, "This is also the reason why the luxury flying bear dares to divide his troops to lure the enemy." ”