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Jiang Ning also realized that it was difficult to truly stabilize the Hehuai defense line by relying only on the strategy of clearing the wilderness.

In addition to the defensive line along the Yellow River, the defensive line along the Huai River had to be strengthened so that Jiangning did not have to face the direct threat of the Yanhu cavalry.

In late November, Lin Jian inspected the Huaiyang defense line under the escort of only a few subordinates, and Jiang Ning was mixed with joy and sorrow about the news.

Worryingly, Huaidong's influence and control over Huaiyang Town far exceeded previous speculations, and Jiangning and other forces need to re-examine Huaidong's strength. Purely calculated in terms of military strength, Lin Jian has undoubtedly jumped to the top of the leading troops.

The strength of the foreign feudal domain and the weakness of the monarchy were not a good thing for the newly established Jiangning regime.

But in any case, Lin Jian supported the Jiangning regime. Although there are distant worries that the ministers are strong and the monarchs are weak, but in terms of the current situation, the stronger Huaidong's control over Huaiyang Town, the more stable the Huaisi defense line. At least in the current situation, it is a good thing.

Zhao'an Liu Miaozhen and Chen Han guarded Xuzhou and Huaiyang, and coupled with Huaidong's operation of the Shanyang, Siyang, and Shukou defense lines, the defense line of the Huai River from the lower reaches of Hongzepu was by no means easily pierced by Yanhu Buqi, even if it was not impregnable.

On this line of defense, Chen Han's three divisions had 20,000 elite soldiers, Liu Miaozhen's subordinates had 30,000 elite soldiers, Huaidong also had 20 battalions of elite soldiers directly under Shanyang, Siyang, and Shukou and several battalions of sailors, in addition to as many as 30,000 troops deployed on the north bank of the Huai River.

Even if Chen Han's three divisions were excluded, Huaidong could mobilize 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers and horses in the lower reaches of the Huai River for defense in a short period of time. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for Yan Hu to break through the Huaisi defense line at once.

Compared with Huaidong, the defense of Huaibei is too weak.

In early December, Lin Jian inspected Huaisi and returned to Chongzhou, and Jiang Ning's edict also followed him to Chongzhou.

Jiangning quasi-Huaidong played, abolished Hecheng Caochang Division County, and commissioned Huaidong Military Department to recommend Hu Zhicheng as the county; Lin Mengde, the envoy of the Huaidong Branch, concurrently led the Huaidong and Zhedong military leaders, and the money and grain of Xu Huai'an, Hailing, and Mingzhou were collected and supported by the military department.

At the same time, Jiangning set up a town in Wuyang, Xiao Kuian led the Wuyang town army with the rank of captain of the cavalry, and governed the garrison affairs of Wuyang, Shouzhou, Haozhou, Sizhou and other counties, and set up two Huai army commanders.

"No matter what, at this point, the framework of the Huai defense line has finally been put up, and a year's hard work has finally paid off. It's just that after the collapse of Henan and Shandong, Chen Han's three guards in Xuzhou are an extremely unstable factor, and Huaiyang is under great pressure! Gao Zongting stood in front of the new Hehuai defense line situation wall chart and said with emotion.

Lin Jian sat behind the long case of Nanmu, twisting his head to look at the map of the Hehuai defense line hanging on the screen behind him.

In this time and space, there has never been a situation of long-term confrontation between the north and the south, and the people of the world have not yet had a profound understanding of the military principle of "defending the river and guarding the Huai." However, the situation of many north-south confrontations in another time and space experienced by Lin Jian proved that once the situation in Yanji and Jinjun collapsed, the defense line organized along the Yellow River would be extremely vulnerable in the face of the superior forces in the north.

Regardless of Xuzhou, Huaiyang Town is located in the center of the entire Huaiyang defense line, and once the situation in Henan and Shandong collapses, Huaiyang will inevitably bear the greatest military pressure.

Of course, all this was also in the consideration of the people of Huaidong, otherwise Huaidong would not have made such great efforts to strengthen Huaiyang Town.

Qin Chengzu said: "For now, we can only do this. After the collapse of Henan, Yanhu theoretically had a passage from Hezhongfu to the south through Nanyang and Xiangyang to hit Jinghu, but Tongguan and Huaiyang formed a flanking trend against this passage. Even if Yanhu successfully captures the entire territory of Henan and Shandong, the next step will be to either go west to Tongguan and occupy Qin County, or completely collapse our military deployment on the north bank of the Huai River, otherwise it will be impossible to risk going south from Nanyang to attack Xiangyang ......"

Lin Mengde said: "Yanhu has not suffered a major setback in the past ten years, and maybe he will take a risk. ”

Lin Jian shook his head and said: "The idea of hoping that the enemy will make a mistake is not to be lucky, and the focus of Huaidong's future work must adhere to the principle of 'defending Huai and attacking Fujian'......"

Lin Mengde smiled, although he was second only to Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen in Huaidong after he was also the commander and envoy of the Huaidong Army, but he was good at political affairs, and military strategy was not his forte, so it was normal to have a fluke idea.

Once Yanhu's soldiers and horses captured Henan, before the threat of the two flanks was resolved, they rashly went south to Nanyang and Xiangyang to conquer Jinghu, Huaidong could transfer the main force of the water army to the north to disturb Yanji, and the main force of the infantry battalion could send troops from Huaiyang to cut off the middle of Yanhu's southern expedition, which would definitely make Yanhu suffer a big loss - if this was the case, the situation would become relatively simpler.

In the hope that Yanhu would make such a low-level mistake in strategy of lightly advancing against the enemy, Huaidong would also make corresponding adjustments to the strategy of "defending Huai and attacking Fujian": give up opening up a battlefield in southern Zhejiang, shrink the offensive against Zhejiang and Fujian, and actively reserve combat strength on the front line of Shanyang, in the hope of striking a fatal blow when Yanhu lightly advanced against the enemy.

Of course, Lin Lian, Qin Chengzu, Gao Zongting and others had more pragmatic ideas.

did not expect Yanhu to make a big strategic mistake, and while actively establishing a defensive line to defend Huai and making preparations for a long-term pull-in battle, he focused on attacking Zhejiang and Fujian. Under the current situation, if Huaidong wants to maintain the stability and unity of the Jiangning regime, it cannot expand its power within Jianghuai, and if it can't do it internally, it can only obtain a broader space for expansion from the Zhejiang and Fujian regions controlled by the luxury family.

And only after the luxury family is completely defeated, Huaidong can draw out the main force from the southern front and launch a counterattack offensive against Yanhu on the northern front.

Under this guiding ideology, the next step for Huaidong is to open up the battlefield in southern Zhejiang.

After Lin Lian returned to Chongzhou, in addition to the Yueqing soldiers and horses led by Liu Wenzhong and Zuo Guangying, he also took Tang Fuguan, Chen Dingbang, Yang Zichen and others as the leaders, and the military attache of the old department of the Jian'an Army as the backbone. The 10th battalion of the new southern Zhejiang army has already begun its training work in Chongzhou, and it will go to Yueqing by sea after the year. After converging with the Yueqing army, the new southern Zhejiang army will be based on Yueqing, along the Yongjia River, and launch an offensive against the Zhejiang-Fujian army guarding Yongjia and Ouhai.

Just when Lin Tie summoned his generals to further determine Huaidong's future guidance strategy, the post cavalry came from Qingzhou with the bad news that Pingdu had fallen and more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians had been slaughtered.

Pingdu County is a county on the east bank of the Jiaolai River, which originally belonged to Dengzhou Prefecture, and later in order to better manage the transportation of Jiaolai River, or in the efforts of Tang Haoxin, it was included in Qingzhou Mansion together with Laizhou. After Liu Ye flew out of Zhidengzhou Mansion, Laizhou was first reclassified back to Dengzhou Mansion, and Pingdu County was temporarily subordinate to Qingzhou.

Although Pingdu is an important city along the Jiaolai River, the defenders are mainly local village soldiers, and they did not transfer troops from the Qingzhou army to strengthen the city defense, so that the Yanhu cavalry who infiltrated it was easy to capture and suffer the disaster of slaughtering the city.

The fall of Pingdu means that the Jiaolai River will be destroyed by the Yanhu cavalry.

Once upon a time, Lin Jian once hoped that the soldiers and horses of Qingzhou could retreat to the walled cities along Yishan and Jiaozhou Bay, as well as Dengzhou City. These are all areas where Huaidong can be directly supported by land and sea, and the Qingzhou Army, which is relatively weak in combat strength, will be able to use guerrilla tactics to engage in tug-of-war operations with Yanhu's superior forces on the Shandong Peninsula, gradually depleting and striking down the vigor of its offensive, thus creating more favorable conditions for a future counteroffensive.

Lin Gu broke up, and Lin Jiao's plan naturally went bankrupt, and Huaidong had completely abandoned Qingzhou strategically.

The news of the fall of Pingdu and the slaughter of more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians reached Chongzhou only made the people of Huaidong sad, and they would not adjust the established military deployment in Huaidong for this reason.

"Huaidong has to guard against Liu Yefei and the Dengzhou Navy to surrender to the enemy!" In the face of Pingdu's slaughtered Tang Copy, Qin Chengzu had more realistic worries, and Yan Hu chose to slaughter the city, naturally to fight the resistance of the Shandong army and civilians.

The Qingzhou Army was better, Zhang Jinxian, Cheng Weiyuan, Chu Zheng and others all persevered at such a difficult time back then, and they would never have the intention of surrendering. And Gu Wuchen led the Qingzhou system envoy with the title of military department, and actually seized Qingzhou, and it was impossible to obtain a higher status than this by surrendering Yan Huduan. Even after surrendering, Yan Hu will be driven to fight Huaidong, and the Gu family's father and son will not easily surrender until they reach the point of exhaustion.

But Liu Yefei and the generals of Dengzhou Town are difficult to say.

"Before the fall of Qingzhou, Liu Yefei should not choose to surrender," Gao Zongting said, "otherwise, Dengzhou Mansion will face Qingzhou from both sides by land and Huaidong by sea." But after the fall of Qingzhou, Dengzhou was blockaded in a corner of the peninsula, and there was no way to retreat, at that point, rather than counting on Liu Yefei to cooperate with Huaidong to defend Dengzhou, I believe that it is more likely that he will choose to surrender...... We need to be prepared for that. ”

Lin Lian nodded, asking Gao Zongting and Qin Chengzu to draw up a preparatory plan, and he didn't say anything more about it.

Even if Gu Junxun could understand Huaidong's choice to abandon the deployment of Qingzhou, it was about his father and brother, and when he heard the news of the fall of Pingdu and the slaughter of 30,000 soldiers and civilians, he naturally felt uncomfortable.

Lin Jian left Dongya and returned to Beilu Villa, where he saw Gu Junxun sitting in the room sullenly, and didn't know how to comfort her. At this point, even if the people of Qingzhou release their suspicions with Huaidong at this time, it is impossible for Huaidong to vigorously support Qingzhou in terms of materials.

Gu Yingsleeve was sitting in the room and was comforting Jun Xun, when she saw Lin Jian coming back, she stood up and asked: "This New Year's Festival is really not worry-free, just watch the north be encroached and fall step by step, can you really defend this half of the country in the future?" ”

"The change of the situation must have a process of eliminating and rising," Lin Jian said, "It is impossible to hope that the situation will be reversed all at once, but it is certain that victory will eventually belong to us, and we must first have the determination and ......preparation to fight for a long time."

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