Yuan Zhou's secret letter was delivered to Lin Jian two days later, in the middle of the night on August 11.

Lin Jian and Song Jia got dressed and rushed to the side hall of Yanwutang, and Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others had also arrived from their residences.

Lin Jian was in Yuzhang, and the command and military intelligence center of the Privy Council would inevitably be temporarily moved to Yuzhang with Lin Bin.

After entering July, the Yanhu soldiers guided Yangyang, and the situation on the entire Western Front suddenly became tense. On the entire Western Front, as many as 100 pieces of information were sent to Yuzhang every day.

In late July, Song Fu and others transferred Lin Jian from Jiangning to share the pressure on Gao Zongting's shoulders.

Above the Ming Hall, the candle is burning, reflecting the inside of the hall as bright as day; Outside the hall, the guards wore armor and swords, and the swords were killed.

Fu Qinghe, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others had all read Yuan Zhou's secret letter and were holding candles to discuss in front of the sand table in the hall.

The sand table is two zhang long and one zhang six feet wide, and the terrain from Yuzhang to Yuanzhou is faithfully shaped with fine sand and gum. Wugong Mountain, Heshan, Ganjiang, Yuanhe and other major mountains and valleys in western Jiangxi, as well as Luxi, Yuanzhou, Xiayuan, Xinyu, Qingjiang, Yuzhang Zhucheng and the main passages between Zhucheng and Zhucheng, which are easy to call a large number of soldiers and horses to pass through, are all presented on the sand table.

Song Jia's dress was neat, and she combed her sideburns in a hurry, but Lin Tie was informal, wearing a green shirt, and her belt was not tied, she walked in loosely, looked at Gao Zongting and others, and asked, "Yuan Zhou's letter, you have all read it......"

"I've seen it," Gao Zongting replied, "The plan for Huang Binghao's troops revealed by Zhou Zhizheng in the letter and the plot collected by the Military Intelligence Department from other places these days can be corresponding, true and credible, and Chen Zishou should send troops from Xia Yuan no later than tomorrow." ”

At this time, Zhou Pu and Zhang Jiheng walked in together. As soon as he stepped in, Zhou Pu asked in a rough voice: "Huang Binghao, this greedy snake, is out of the hole?" ”

Lin Jian handed him the secret letter sent back by Yuan Zhou.

Zhou Pu was forced by Lin Tie to know the pen and ink, and it was not a problem to read the letter, and after reading the letter, he said: "Chen Zishou will send troops tomorrow, we can't ask them to get Xinyu City first, we have to rush to the front, only I lead the cavalry first!" ”

"Aren't you afraid that Zhou Zhi is Huang Binghao's rebellion?" Lin Jian saw that Zhou Pu had read the secret letter and asked Zhan to go to Xinyu, and questioned him with a smile.

"What about the pros and cons?" Zhou Pu chuckled, "Even if Huang Binghao sets up an ambush circle of 40,000 soldiers and horses in Xinyu and lures me to lead the cavalry battalion into it, they must have good enough teeth to eat us!" ”

Lin Jian smiled and pointed to Gao Zongting: "The cavalry camp and the infantry camp must make preparations for pulling out the camp before dawn; For the specific strategy of dispatching troops, you can discuss it with the sect court......"

Fighting Huang Binghao is not because he is afraid of his many soldiers, but because he is afraid that Huang Binghao will shrink into Yuanzhou City and not show his head.

Through Xinyu, tracing the Yuan River upstream, you can strike down Yuan, Yuanzhou, but from Xinyu to the west, the hills and mountains on both sides of the Yuan River confront each other, the valleys are vertical and horizontal, Wugong Mountain, Heshan and other mountains are vertical and horizontal in Yuanzhou, and the two cities of Yuan and Yuanzhou are built by the mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Huang Binghao's extravagance in Jiangzhou was also a misjudgment of the situation, thinking that Emperor Yongxing abandoned Jiangning and left, and the situation in Jiangnan would inevitably collapse and be uncontrollable. When the extravagant bear took his relatives under the city, Huang Binghao chose to surrender in order to protect his relatives. When Huaidong recovered Jiangning and welcomed the emperor's return to the east, even if Huang Binghao knew that reducing luxury was a wrong move, he could only make mistakes again and again.

In the hearts of those Jiangzhou officials and generals who were coerced and extravagant, there was a different taste in their hearts. Although Huang Binghao was controlled by Enwei, since he was transferred to Yuanzhou to fight against Tanzhou, the morale of Yuanzhou's soldiers and horses has never been able to cheer up.

During the Shangrao War, before the invincible luxury flying bear on the Western Front died in the Huaidong Formation, tens of thousands of elites of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were annihilated, and the luxury family did not even have the courage to defend Yuzhang and Jiangzhou, and fled north across the river in a panic, which was a serious blow to the morale of the soldiers and horses of Yuanzhou.

Huang Binghao, Chen Zishou and a few other Yuanzhou generals, while worried that Huaidong would be liquidated after surrendering, were greedy for the power of the king and marquis promised by Yanhu, but for most of the Yuanzhou generals, they could not see the future at this time.

Perhaps the most ordinary soldiers will be coerced and blindly obeyed, but the middle and lower-level military attaches and generals, as the backbone of an army, are not strong-willed and feel confused about the future, and the weakening of combat power will be difficult to estimate.

Since May, soldiers have escaped from Yuanzhou one after another, and this is evidenced by the fact that there are no middle and lower-level generals.

Zhou Pu said that Huang Binghao set up an ambush circle in Xinyu, and he also dared to lead the elite cavalry to rush in and kill, but he did not have the heart of underestimating the enemy, but had an accurate grasp of the situation of Yuanzhou's soldiers and horses.

With the situation of Huang Binghao's department at this time, even if there are twice as many troops, it will be difficult to shake the Huaidong infantry and cavalry battle formation in the field battle, but if Huang Binghao does not come out of Yuanzhou City, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it will really cause people a headache.

Although after the Shangrao War, Lin Jian could lead 100,000 soldiers up the Yuan River and forcibly capture Yuanzhou.

However, in the Shangrao War, Huaidong had already consumed too many resources. Including shipbuilding materials, the eight-month-long Shangrao War only transported materials to the west of Quzhou, with a total of 2.4 million stones.

Coupled with the cost of transportation along the way, the Shangrao War consumed nearly five million taels of silver in Huaidong.

In the next military deployment, in order to cope with the increasingly tense situation on the western front, Lin Jian will inevitably use more resources in Luzhou and Jiangzhou.

With 100,000 soldiers marching up the Yuan River to attack Yuanzhou, in May, Lin Lian, Gao Zongting and others could not estimate how serious the adverse impact would be on the later military deployment.

At the very least, if the fighting was not immediately stopped, the famine in Jiangxi would continue, and tens of thousands of people would die of starvation, and the situation in Jiangxi would hardly be eased in a short period of time.

In addition, the Shangrao War also caused a considerable proportion of the two elite combat forces of the Chongcheng Army and the Changshan Army to lose their personnel, and the Chen Zhen Station Department undertook the interception combat mission twice, and the proportion of casualties among the generals was as high as 50%; And in the continuous hard fighting, the proportion of non-combat attrition has increased significantly.

If the troops did not immediately rest and recuperate, but continued to storm Yuanzhou, the loss of casualties and the weakening of combat strength caused by the attrition would be difficult to control, and it would not be conducive to the military deployment of Lin Jian for the entire war.

Therefore, after May, Lin Jian categorically gave up the plan to storm Yuanzhou, and transferred Tang Fuguan, Liu Zhenzhi, and Yu Wencheng to the north to rest and prepare for the war on the Western Front in advance, while Chen Yan and Zhang Jiheng's troops were stationed in Ganzhou and Yuzhang at the same time to enter a thorough rest.

For Yuanzhou, the strategy proposed by Lin Tie is on the basis of "leading the snake out of the hole", defeating Yuanzhou's soldiers and horses in the field, for Huaidong, whether it is the most resource-saving and time-saving.

Otherwise, even if the siege war can be smooth, it is difficult to estimate the resources and time consumed in the early preparation of the siege battle.

If at this time, Huang Binghao was not greedy and accepted the surrender conditions offered here, and Lin Jian sent an elite brigade into Xinyu to seal the passage of Yuanzhou to the east, and Lin Jian could mobilize other soldiers and horses in the hinterland of Jiangxi to Jiangzhou, so that Yan Hu could go south along the Han River after taking Nanyang.

Huang Binghao couldn't bear his temperament and dared to come out of Yuanzhou, so Lin Jian had to take the initiative to attack with the elite infantry stationed in Yuzhang, and crippled the soldiers and horses of Yuanzhou in the field battle, so that it could no longer become a hidden danger in the hinterland of Jiangxi.

The battle plan has been prepared for several copies a long time ago, but for more accurate information, final adjustments have to be made.

After Lin Jian issued the order to open the army, the preparation and mobilization of the march before the march were organized by the generals at the sentry level of the battalion, and the generals who commanded the army and above the brigade and battalion were soon summoned to the main hall of the Yanwu Hall, and Zhou Pu and Gao Zongting organized and determined the final battle plan.

Lin Jian would go out with the infantry battalion, but did not participate in the final adjustment of the battle plan, but stayed in the side hall.

The sand table was placed in the center of the side hall, but Lin Jian did not pay attention to the sand table anymore, but took it upon himself to pull open a curtain hanging on the north wall.

Hidden behind the curtain is a topographic map of the entire western front, including Guanzhong, Henan, Huaixi, Nanyang, Jingxiang, and northern Jiangxi.

The topographic map is so large that it almost covers the entire wall, and on the topographic map, the soldiers and horses of Yanhu, the remnants of the luxury family, the Luo Xiancheng department, Huaixi, Jinghu, Chizhou, and Huaidong in Luzhou and Jiangzhou are accurately marked on the map.

On the map, the three armies of Yanhu, Haojia, and Luo Bandits have been fully deployed, and the thickest arrows are shocking and straight to Daoyang, while the defensive signs of Nanyang's soldiers and horses are so thin that they seem to be about to be pierced by the arrows of the enemy soldiers in an instant.

This map has reflected the latest military developments on the Western Front, and it is also one of the core military secrets of the Yanwutang.

"Shanyang's water camp should make a situation of advancing west to aid Shouzhou at this time, and avoid Yanhu from taking advantage of the situation to attack Huaixi after taking Nanyang!" Song Fu also stayed in the side hall, he had just marked the latest military developments on the map, looked at the latest development of the situation in the direction of Nanyang, and suggested to Lin Bin.

The luxury family and Luo Xiancheng used troops from the south to face Nanyang and Xinyang at the same time, forming a flanking situation, which doomed the situation in Nanyang to be unsalvageable, especially the luxury family sent troops from Fancheng and cut into the hinterland of Nanyang from the south, which would make Nanyang's defensive deployment smashed.

No matter whether Liang Chengchong surrendered, collapsed or fled in Nanyang, the situation in Nanyang could not last long.

In the next military deployment that Lin Jian had already planned, the loss of Nanyang was expected.

But after the loss of Nanyang, after the main force of Yanhu's soldiers and horses joined the two families of the Hao family and Luo Xiancheng, their troops would move eastward or southward, and Huaidong would have to lead them by the nose in order to make them finally fall into the big pit laid by Huaidong.

Lin Jian did not hesitate to put Cao Ziang in Luzhou to build a mountain road for a year, just for this moment.