At that time, there were no wireless telegraphy and other communication facilities, and the complexities faced by warfare were often difficult to control and anticipate in advance.

It was also after it was known that the main force of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Shangrao was overwhelmed by the water, and the Huaidong Army officially broke through the defense line of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Shangrao - Lin Lian, Fu Qinghe, and Gao Zongting's deduction of the changes in the battle situation in Jiangxi after that was based on this basis.

The latest official letter issued by Lin Jian ordering the towns to deal with the changes in the situation in Jiangxi was also sent to various places by Kuaiqi after that. When the secret letter arrived in Zongyang County, it was already the night of the 23rd.

Prior to this, the Privy Council's military deployment on the northern line of Jiangzhou was mainly to order the Chizhou Army and the Jinghu Army to attack Jiangzhou from the east and west sides, so as to contain the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Zhuhao family in Jiangzhou.

The Chizhou army entered Jiangzhou from the east flank, mainly divided into two routes, one was from the south bank of the Yangtze River, from Qiupu to the east, and entered Pengze, Hukou and other counties east of Jiangzhou Fu; One is from the south bank of the Yangzi River, from Yicheng and Zongyang to the Huanglongling on the other side of Jiangzhou and the Chen Han three divisions that occupy the remnants of Huangmei.

Yue Lengqiu is known for his steadiness in the use of troops, and after he defended Chizhou, he focused on the north shore in his early days, which was to fight for the southern foot of Huai Mountain.

However, Chen Hansan's ambition to guard Huangmei and run Eastern Hubei is very strong, and the luxury family also has thousands of elites stationed in Huanglongling in the south of Huangmei City, so Yue Lengqiu decided to attack one of them. Therefore, Yue Lengqiu built a company camp in Xiaocangshan to the west of Zongyang, and actually intended to digest the three counties of Yicheng, Zongyang, and Qianshan in the east of Xiaocangshan, west of Yicheng, and at the southern foot of Huaishan.

But as Hu Qiaozhong infiltrated eastern Jiangxi, Yu Wencheng, Yu Wenbei, and Pan Wenshu made a lot of noise in eastern Jiangxi, so that discerning people knew that the situation of the luxury family in Jiangxi was precarious, and Yue Lengqiu became greedy to divide the land of eastern Jiangxi.

Seeing that it was difficult to win suddenly on the north shore, from mid-March, Yue Lengqiu transferred another part of his troops from the north shore to the south bank, and stationed it west of Qiupu, hoping to seize Pengze and Hukou, which were guarded by the rebel general Tian Chang at this time.

By the end of March, there were 50,000 Chizhou troops, three in the south and two in the north.

Yue Lengqiu's wishful thinking was also extremely fine, he had no intention of taking the entire Jiangzhou, and knew that Lin Lian would not allow the Chizhou army to occupy the entire Jiangzhou Mansion in the northern plain of Poyang Lake. Yue Lengqiu intended to take the mouth of Poyang Lake as the boundary, cede several counties west of Jiangzhou Prefecture to Hu Wenmu, and he took the eastern plain of Jiangxi east of Hukou. At that time, even if Lin Jian was furious, Chizhou and Jinghu could resist the whole territory of Jiangxi falling into the hands of Huaidong together with the Jinghu family.

After breaking through the Shangrao defense line, Lin Jian was not worried that Haowenzhuang would lead Jiangzhou troops to aid Shangrao, but was even more worried that Haowenzhuang would lead the remnants to cross the river and learn from the poor Kou to flee north.

Therefore, in a secret letter to Yue Lengqiu, Lin Jian asked him to immediately concentrate his troops on the north bank and maintain military pressure on Jiangzhou's beachhead on the north bank from both land and water, so that the luxury family would not dare to cross the river and flee north on a large scale before the water threat was lifted.

As long as Yue Lengqiu supports it for three or five days, and when Ge Cunxin leads the water battalion to go upriver from the Yi River and join the Chizhou naval army, he will be able to form a military advantage on the Yangtze River, completely block the Yangtze River, and cut off the way for the luxury family to flee north.

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Yue Lengqiu had his considerations, and he suspected that Lin Jian deliberately stated the situation too optimistically in the secret letter in order to lure the Chizhou army to intercept it on the north bank.

Once the situation of the luxury family in Jiangxi can be barely maintained, the luxury Wenzhuang must give priority to Shangrao, rather than desperately crossing the river to the north. In this case, Yue Lengqiu should naturally gather troops and horses on the south bank, and take Pengze and Hukou while the Zhejiang and Fujian armies are coming south and Jiangzhou is empty.

The matter of territory has always been the one who takes it.

After the Chizhou Mansion was divided into Huaidong, there were two counties left, and the three counties at the southern foot of the Huai Mountain were full of lakes and swamps, and they were not rooted in the ground; Only Pengze, Hukou and other counties in the northeast of Jiangxi Province have a wide range of people, rich and abundant, and they can nourish and live, and they can also divide the trend of Huaidong to monopolize Jiangxi.

Under all kinds of trade-offs, in addition to immediately moving a naval army that had been transferred to Chizhou to rest and recuperate to Yangui Lake Water Village, Yue Lengqiu temporarily decided to wait and see for three or five days before speaking.

However, Yue Lengqiu's heart was also tormented.

What if the situation is really as Lin Jian judged in the secret letter, the remnants of the luxury family fled north across the river, and the Chizhou army failed to intercept it?

At that time, the luxury family was entangled with Chen Hansan and Luo Xiancheng, and the pressure on Jinghu Lake in the west was extremely great.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for Jinghu to take the risk of offending Huaidong to occupy Jiangzhou, and it is impossible for the Chizhou army to fight against Huaidong who has just won a great victory in Jiangxi!

Yue Lengqiu was very entangled in his heart, and he was also worried about the possibility that Jiangzhou would indeed cross to the north, so he himself decided to stay on the north bank and only asked Deng Yu to sneak to the south bank secretly to help his nephew Yue Zhi lead the troops. Yue Lengqiu stayed on the north shore, but he was also afraid that he would really delay the fighter, and he would have an excuse in the future.

In the early morning of the 24th, a number of scouts were dispatched to Huangmei, Pengze, and the hinterland of Jiangzhou, hoping to get more accurate information. However, throughout the day of the 24th, there was no obvious change in the situation in eastern Gansu, and no direct news spread across eastern Jiangxi to Chizhou.

However, the Jiangzhou Navy did not shrink to the inner line of Poyang Lake until the night of the 24th, which made Yue Lengqiu aware of some abnormalities, but it was not ruled out that Haowenzhuang was suspicious in Jiangzhou.

Even if Luwenzhuang wants to help Shangrao, it will inevitably try to delay the pace of Jinghu and Chizhou soldiers and horses entering the siege from the east and west wings.

On the 24th, Ge Cunxin led the main force of the Jinghai Third Water Battalion to assemble and set off from Yijiang. Cao Ziang also sent an envoy to Zongyang in Luzhou, and once again urged Yue Lengqiu to gather his troops and horses on the north bank, in order to prepare for the Jiangzhou army to cross the river and flee north.

On the night of the 24th, Yue Lengqiu sat in front of the map all night. Even though he knew that the scouts sent out didn't send back the news so quickly, he kept asking questions. It wasn't until the early hours of the morning that Yue Lengqiu couldn't stay up and was exhausted, so he lay down with his clothes to rest.

Yue Lengqiu woke up to the sound of hurried footsteps in his sleep, and saw his son Duming and Deng Yu's second son Deng Wenchang rushing to the account. Yue Lengqiu propped himself up and asked in surprise: "Jiangzhou soldiers have gone south!" ”

"Smack", Yue Duming slapped the table fiercely and said, "It's right again, the section of the river south of the Huanglongling Mountains after the early morning, thousands of boats cover the river, and the luxury family is indeed going to abandon Jiangzhou and flee north!" ”

"That's true!" Yue Lengqiu sat up in surprise and asked again, "Can you find out how many soldiers and horses of the Jiangzhou army crossed the river last night?" ”

"Most of the people who crossed the river last night were dependents, and there were very few soldiers, about 20,000 people." Yue Duming said.

Yes, if the luxury family wants to flee north, ordinary soldiers are just fine, but if you want to finally hold the soldiers and horses in your hands, the generals and the dependents of the clan's children cannot be left behind.

"Governor Yue, what should I do?" Deng Wenchang asked.

Yue Lengqiu touched the beard under his chin, Chen Han Sandro Xiancheng and the luxury family supported him behind him, and led the remnants south to eastern Hubei last winter, occupying Qichun, Huangmei and other eastern Hubei counties, which are very special in the cracks of Jinghu, Chizhou, Suizhou and Jiangxi.

Chen Hansan had more than 4,000 troops in Huangmei; On the south side of Huangmei Remnant City, Huanglongling, which is across the river from Jiangzhou City, has 3,000 elites stationed in the luxury family for a long time. It was precisely because Chen Hansan was stationed in Huangmei's department and relied on the horns of Huanglongling that Yue Lengqiu couldn't bite any of them for a while.

Now that the luxury family wants to cross the river and flee north, they must also use the beachhead of Huanglongling to continuously withdraw people and materials from Jiangzhou City.

"The child led the army to attack Huanglongling by land, and Daddy can supervise the westward march of the water army, so that the Jiangzhou army cannot cross north!" Yue Duming said that he was eager to try and fight for the army. Prior to this, Yue Lengqiu mainly cultivated his nephew Yue Zhi with his heart, and Yue Duming only served as a staff officer in the army.

The luxury family still has nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses on land and water in Jiangzhou, and Yue Lengqiu does not dare to put the 70,000 Jiangzhou soldiers of the luxury family on the north bank.

The only way to do this is to press the Chizhou naval army and force the Jiangzhou army not to dare to cross the river on a large scale.

As for the land, the communication between Huangmei City and Huanglongling should also be cut off immediately, and the enemy of Huanglongling should be restricted from extending eastward.

Unlike other sections of the river, which have large open beaches, the Yangtze River near Huanglongling has a narrow and turbulent river surface that flows straight into the middle of the river. Once the southern ridge of the Huanglong Mountains along the coast of the Jiangzhou Army is deployed, if the infantry has throwing stones and crossbows and other combat weapons, it can also well support the surface combat, which will expand the advantage of the Jiangzhou Navy to occupy the upper reaches.

Whenever it was necessary to fight with the Jiangzhou naval army on the Yangtze River, the Chizhou army always advanced by land and water, and its infantry battalion attacked from Xiaocang Mountain, advanced to Huanglongling, and entangled the garrison of the luxury family in Huanglongling, so that it could not help the naval army.

Huanglongling and Xiaocang Mountain are only 30 miles apart.

On the one hand, Yue Lengqiu was shocked by Lin Lian's statement that the Zhonghao family fled to the north, and on the other hand, he was relieved that his son could make a military strategy so quickly, nodded and agreed to this arrangement, and urgently sent someone to the south bank to contact Deng Yu, and led his troops and horses to attack Peng Ze from the south bank.

No matter what, if there is an opportunity to take the counties in northeastern Jiangxi, Yue Lengqiu will certainly not let it go.

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The east ridge of Huanglongling Feilai Peak is a boulder.

The stone is as white as jade, Zhou Qizhang Xu, hanging above the head of the ridge, as if flying from the sky.

Feilai Peak has now become the most important lookout post on the east wing of the Huanglongling garrison.

Luxury Wenzhuang's face was sad, looking at the vast south of the Yangtze River, and he regarded the Chizhou soldiers and horses swarming from the east as nothing.

Shi Hu Zongguo, the veteran general and governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion around Luwenzhuang, saw that Chizhou's troops were advancing westward so urgently, and seemed to fancy that there was no counterattack here, and he was contemptuous in his heart, and he was angry after being despised and said: "The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, and this group of vicious dogs in Chizhou really doesn't know whether to live or die!" Yue Lengqiu is also old, Duke Wenzhuang, you see that he sent troops in three ways, and he seems to be leaky, but in fact, he is also dizzy, and he is too eager to lose everywhere. Isn't it just called extravagant yuan to fight? ”

Seeking victory and defeat, the Zhejiang-Fujian army retreated to Jiangxi, and Haowenzhuang was worried that the situation in Jiangxi would be difficult to maintain, and the defense line might be the first to collapse from Shangrao.

Chen Hansan led the remnants to the south, and on the bright side, Jiangzhou handed over all the land in eastern Hubei to Chen Hansan to manage, in order to buffer the military pressure of Jinghu and Chichi on Jiangzhou, and the luxury family only occupied a corner of Huanglongling on the north bank, and the garrison was reduced to more than 3,000 people.

Since last autumn, Lin Tie has been planning to encircle Jiangxi, and Chizhou, Jinghu, and Tanzhou are all pawns in Lin Bin's military deployment, and they cooperate with the elite of the Huaidong Army Headquarters to form an encirclement of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops that retreat to Jiangxi.

Huanglongling looks small, but in fact it is the last retreat for the luxury family to escape from the encirclement of Huaidong.

In the past six months, the Huanglongling garrison has maintained a five-battalion establishment, but the number of soldiers in one battalion is more than 1,000, and the strength of Huanglongling has never been less than 6,000. Coupled with the soldiers who crossed the river first last night, the luxury family has 10,000 soldiers in Huanglongling.

This kind of subtotal should not have been concealed from Yue Lengqiu, even if Yue Lengqiu could not accurately detect the number of troops stationed in Huanglongling, he should not relax his vigilance.

Seeing the direction of Xiaocang Mountain, Yue Lengqiu's son Yue Duming led 10,000 soldiers and horses to force Huanglongling, and Hu Zongguo also sighed that Yue Lengqiu was old.

Hao Wenzhuang's face was like crying, his eyes were full of desolation, and he said: "What if the Chizhou army is defeated? Half a year layout, just waiting for this defeat, it's really panicked like a dog! Wait for Chen Hansan to attack from Huangmei to divide the enemy soldiers, and let Hao Yuan attack! To consider luxury, if you can't take Xiaocangshan in one fell swoop, there will be no way out for the luxury family! ”

In addition to defeating the soldiers and horses of the Chizhou army advancing to Huanglongling from the north bank, it is also necessary to break through the camp of the Chizhou army in Xiaocang Mountain. Only in this way can the water village at the eastern foot of Xiaocang Mountain and the west bank of Yangui Lake be exposed, can the Chizhou naval army be forced to flee in panic, and can the Jinghai camp arrive to win two or three days of crucial time for the next Jiangzhou people and horses to cross the river on a large scale.