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"The Zhejiang-Fujian army has limited strength in Yongjia, and after a battle at the tip of Wushan, it has lost more than 2,000 elite soldiers, and the troops are even more stretched - our department has formed a siege of Tianshui Village, and it is a matter of time before Tianshui Village is captured. At this time, we must guard against the Zhejiang-Fujian army defending Wuyun, Ouhai and other walled cities on the south bank to escape from the battle, I think before storming Tianshui Village, it is necessary to transfer a Chongcheng infantry battalion to land from the south bank of the Yongjia River, to contain the enemy army in Wuyun, Ouhai and other walled cities......"

Lin Lian leaned on the long case with his back to turn around, listening to Tang Fuguan standing in front of the topographical wall map of southern Zhejiang behind him to analyze the current situation.

Lin Jian hoped that Huaidong would be able to implement the principle of "great creation and annihilation" when fighting the battle, and that he would fight more battles of annihilation, rather than simply defeating or repelling things.

The war of annihilation can effectively weaken the strength of the enemy's army, and at the same time capture a large number of armor, materials and prisoners of war, which can effectively supplement and strengthen itself, and achieve the purpose of persisting in combat and continuing to strengthen.

A simple defeat and knockback obviously can't achieve this intention well.

Although Wujianshan annihilated a considerable number of Zhejiang and Fujian elites in the first battle, if they could not take advantage of the opportunity of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops scattered and stationed in the walled city to quickly cut and break each one, and let them escape and gather in Yongjia City, it would still pose a huge resistance to the advancement of the war in southern Zhejiang in the later period.

Lin Bin's knuckles gently tapped on the long case, looking at Zhou Tong, who had not shaved for several days, so that his unkempt beard crawled all over half of his face and looked rough, and said with a smile: "You don't have to wait for me to speak, what to do about the war in southern Zhejiang, the decision is in your hands, and I am only responsible for helping you boost morale......

Zhou Tong scratched his chin, twisted his beard that was about to be knotted, and said: "Since my lord said so, then you are welcome......" and turned to look at the officials and generals sitting in two columns, and immediately adjusted the battle plan and troop deployment for the latest situation, "On the northern front, the headquarters of Chen Yan has shrunk to the Wenqiao line, mainly to prevent the rebel garrisons stationed in Wenling and Huipu from rushing out. With the cooperation of the navy, Zhang Jiheng led his troops to land from the south bank, mainly to prevent the defenders of Wuyun Village from escaping. Before the opening of the Yongjia River waterway, the rebels still had the ability to quickly assemble on the south bank, and it was not easy for soldiers and horses on the south bank to enter too deep. Even if the Ouhai defenders escape, there is no way to do it. Tang Fuguan Department needs to be prepared to forcibly take Tianshui Village before the 11th......"

The general strategy has been decided, but there are still many details that need to be discussed clearly in terms of the specific battle plan.

In addition to paying attention to the development of the war in southern Zhejiang at any time, there are a large number of copies from various places transmitted by Mingzhou every day, various requests for instructions, and official letters and even edicts sent from Jiangning, which need to be read and approved by Lin Jian in time.

At the next meeting to discuss the details of the specific operation, Lin Jian no longer participated, and withdrew with Hu Zhiyong and Gao Zongting first, and returned to the official hall where he usually handled official business in Yueqing and met with local officials and generals.

Before noon, a boat came from Mingzhou, and the documents that Lin Jian needed to read in person were stacked more than a foot thick on the desk.

Lin Jian frowned when he saw it, sighed "sigh", sat down with the long case, and smiled with Gao Zongting and Hu Zhiyong: "Life is hard, I know why the ancients said that 'idle' can only be obtained by stealing......"

Gao Zongting and Hu Zhiyong smiled, and Song Jiazuo, who stood up behind the long case, returned the salute, and sat down in front of the chief case in the lower left.

Lin Jian turned his head sideways and asked Song Jia: "You pick up the important ones first......

This document is more than a foot thick, and Lin Jian has to review it for most of the day if he doesn't do anything else, usually Song Jia reads it first and writes a summary. The important Lin Jian will read the full text carefully, and even take it out to discuss with everyone; It doesn't matter if you just glance at the summary and throw it aside, so that you can dispose of all the official letters that you have to dispose of almost every day in the shortest possible time, so that you can spend time and energy on other things.

Song Jia has a very good memory, and on the one hand, he spread out all kinds of official letters and pond copies in front of Lin Bin, and on the other hand, he concisely described the main content of the book inside: "From the end of February, the atmosphere in Qingzhou warmed up, the river began to be unsealed, and the main force of the Yanhu cavalry withdrew from Qingzhou, Linzi and other places before March and retreated to the north bank of the Zhulong River. Qingzhou suffered a lot of hardship this time, and Qingzhou wrote Jiangning's excerpt to describe it as "destroying families and dying, countless people", and wanted to build a fortress on the south bank of the Zhulong River...... I am afraid that the worries of the past year are unavoidable. ”

Lin Jian took a stack of papers, these were all summaries of the news about Qingzhou sorted out by Song Jia, and he stopped on the desk in his hand, and he didn't fall for a long time. He has always been worried that the Qingzhou Army will adopt the strategy of external defense and shift the focus of defense to the Yangxin line.

After the Yellow River burst, the old river channel was abandoned and could no longer be used, and in the northern part of Shandong, the main waterways of the Zhulong River and other rivers were seized into the sea. The water potential of the Zhulong River has increased greatly, becoming the natural division between Shandong and Yanji in the north of Yangxin City, and it is also the natural barrier for Qingzhou to defend against the southern invasion of Yanhu soldiers and horses stationed in Yannan.

With Yangxin City as the core, the defense base was built along the south bank of the Zhulong River to form a dense walled city defense line, and heavy troops were stationed, which could effectively curb the penetration of the cavalry enemy. To achieve this, in addition to investing a lot of resources to build fortifications and requiring the Qingzhou Army to have considerable ability to go out of the city for field combat, it is also necessary to have enough time to operate this defense line.

Lin Jian looked through the transcript of the Jiangning excerpt in Qingzhou's book, and it was obvious that Qingzhou wanted to use seven or eight months to build the Yangxin-Zhulong River defense line before the winter and before the next wave of Yanhu's cross-border invasion.

Obviously, the current situation is extremely unfavorable for Qingzhou, whose strength is weak and fundamentally lacks the ability to carry out external defense.

Huaidong has always suggested that all the people from the south bank of the Zhulong River to Linzi should be withdrawn to the south to form a buffer zone of Qingye with a depth of 200 miles from north to south, and that a continuous defensive base be built between Yangxin and Linzi to limit the infiltration combat capability of the Yanhu cavalry in the direction of Qingzhou to the greatest extent.

Huaidong's suggestion was not accepted by Qingzhou, and Jiangning's side has always been the idea of building a fortification on the outside line.

Huaidong has chosen to completely abandon Qingzhou strategically, but Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan are Jun Xun's father and brother after all, and they are also Yingsleeve's uncle. Although they have torn their faces and completely broken with each other, once Qingzhou falls into an extremely bad and dangerous situation next, there will still be many unclear and unreasonable entanglements surfaced.

Maybe Zhang Yubo, Lin Tingli and others will stand up and intercede for Qingzhou at that time, and ask Huaidong to rescue Qingzhou, but when the time comes, Lin Tie will refuse at all, and everyone's faces will not look good.

Lin Jian stayed in southern Zhejiang to supervise the battle this time, in fact, he mainly wanted to avoid possible entanglements out of sight and out of mind.

Lin Jian quickly flipped through the documents about the news of Qingzhou, and even if it was a special letter sent by the Imperial Camp Division, he threw it to Gao Zongting to be responsible for the draft.

Gao Zongting and Hu Zhiyong were silent and silent about Qingzhou affairs, and Lin Jian picked up another document from the desk and motioned for Song Jia to continue.

"The new emperor ascended the throne, in mid-March in Jiangning Kaienke, and the sons from all over the country gathered in Jiangning one after another, but it first provoked a good show of jointly asking Zhang Xitong to behead," Song Jia said, "The voice of asking Yue Lengqiu to resign is also very turbulent......

"Zhang Xitong should have been beheaded a long time ago, but Yue Lengqiu still has to protect it!" Lin Jian sighed softly.

Although Huaidong and Yue Lengqiu have been fighting secretly for many years, they have to admit that Yue Lengqiu still has his own set of views on military affairs. The Jiangning ministers, Chen Xiyan, Cheng Yuqian, Wang Tian, including Lin Xuwen, have a very limited understanding of military affairs, and the core task of the Jiangning regime at present is to deal with the war between the north and the south.

Kicking Yue Lengqiu out of the center is likely to make Chen Xiyan, Zhang Yan, Cheng Yuqian, Wang Tian, Liu Zhi and others indiscriminately command the defense and military affairs of the north and the south, making a big mistake.

Although letting Yue Lengqiu stay in the center, Huaidong will be restrained by him, but in order to maintain his own interests, Yue Lengqiu will also try his best to stabilize the northern and southern defense lines.

From this point of view, letting Yue Lengqiu stay in the center would have more advantages than disadvantages.

In addition to the matter of raising a joint name to behead Zhang Xitong, Jiang Ning also has other turbulent undercurrents lurking under the relatively calm sea.

Xie Chaozhong, who was trusted by the new emperor because he served as the commander of the guard camp of the Ning Wangfu, and finally became the commander of the imperial camp and army, can be regarded as an upstart in Jiangning City, at least in Jiangning, the name is not under Lin Xuan, the Marquis of Huaidong.

When Xie Chaozhong followed the new emperor to Jiangning to take up the domain, the family stayed in Yanjing as a hostage; When Emperor Chongguan broke through, his family also traveled with the army and lost news in the war. Xie Chaozhong's newly married wife in Jiangning is not an outsider, but Yu Xinyuan's niece.

After Chen Xiyan completely retired due to the affairs of the Qu family, Yu Xinyuan became the new leader of the Wu Party, and Chen Xiyan made a comeback through the merit of supporting the establishment and directly served as the first assistant and became the head of the ministers of the new dynasty, which made Yu Xinyuan unhappy. These two fellow villagers secretly quarreled and looked at each other, and there were many differences in political affairs.

There are several similar complex relationships, such as Liu Zhi and Zhang Yan and Xie Chaozhong are close to the core figures of Ning Wangfu, after the new emperor ascended the throne, Liu Zhi divided Zhang Yan's power in the inner service province and Xie Chaozhong's power in the imperial army, which caused new contradictions between them. Turning their heads, Liu Zhi, Zhang Yan and others intended to rebuild the old friendship with Huaidong.

Yue Lengqiu and Huaidong competed for military resources, and Chen Xiyan and Yu Xinyuan were worried that Huaidong forces would infiltrate Jiangnan and infringe on the fundamental interests of the Wu Party, but as far as Liu Zhi, Zhang Yan and others were concerned, as long as Huaidong did not have the intention of abolishing Emperor Yongxing, there was no fundamental conflict of interests with Huaidong.

A mess of things, although Song Jia stood beside him and told it concisely, Lin Jian still looked at it with a big head.

Lin Tie suggested that Jiang Ning urge Dong Yuan, Deng Yu, Meng Yishan and other troops to cooperate with the war in southern Zhejiang, and step up the counterattack against the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in western Zhejiang-Jiang Ning's reaction was also very cold, Lin Tie stretched out his hand and rubbed his swollen temples, and said to Gao Zongting and others: "It seems that our steps in southern Zhejiang are faster and bigger......

Gao Zongting said: "If the war in southern Zhejiang drags on, there is still a possibility that it will be unfavorable to Huaidong. It is necessary to capture Ouhai, Yongjia, Huipu, Wenling, and Tiantai counties in one go, open up land links with Mingzhou Prefecture, and connect the southern and eastern Zhejiang theaters in order to achieve the initial goal of 'defending Huai and attacking Fujian'......"

"The real tough battle is to fight at the tip of Wushan," Lin Jian said with a frown, "The next thing is to attack Tianshui Village, the difficulty will not be too much, and it will be relatively easy to fight back to Pu and Wenling; Maybe the Zhejiang-Fujian army will take the initiative to withdraw from Ouhai, and the luxury family will not easily give up the two cities of Yongjia and Tiantai, which are hard bones that are difficult to gnaw but must be gnawed! ”

At this time, the guards came in to report that Tang Xitai and Squire Wen Qiao had entered the city.

Lin Lian, Hu Zhiyong, and Gao Zongting got up and personally went to the gate of the yamen to greet the squire Wen Qiao who came to Yueqing with Tang Xitai.

In order to gain the support of local forces, it is also necessary to avoid and ease the tension with local forces that may result from the implementation of the New Deal.