Chapter 57: So Fast
Gu Siyuan went out of Tongguan, went to Hezhongfu, entered the Huaisi area, selected Jianrui from the homeless people, and expanded from more than 200 followers to more than 2,400 soldiers in four battalions, plus nearly 6,000 family members of the army.
Fortunately, the Huaisi area has been ripe for the past two years, and there has been no military disaster before, and the supply of grain and grass has survived the hardships, and the shortage is the armor.
There are more than 2,400 soldiers in the four battalions, more than 300 sets of various armors, and less than 600 bows and crossbows.
When Yang Pu and Zhao Qinmin went to Tongguan to pick up Gu Siyuan, they had more than 200 good horses with them, which were damaged all the way, and the ordinary mules and horses added in the later period were less than 200.
Fortunately, there are two hundred elites loyal to the Gu family as the foundation, and they can choose Jianrui from the homeless people to their heart's content, and the foundation of Gu Siyuan's four battalions of soldiers is quite not bad.
Lin Jian led his troops to Siyang and asked Gu Siyuan to stay and guard Suining, of course he didn't want him to have any accidents.
When he came over this time, he planned to meet Gu Siyuan in Suining or Suyu, and he was well prepared. Immediately took out 600 sets of armor, 200 crossbows, 200 crossbows, 400 bundles of arrows, 600 shields, 100 shield cars, 600 straight ridge steel knives, 200 Mo knives and horse chopping knives, 1,000 stainless steel spears, hemostatic medicine, gauze, bandages and other materials to Gu Siyuan.
In addition, fifty war horses and two hundred camel horses were also allocated to Gu Siyuan.
The soldiers of the fourth battalion of Gu Siyuan's department changed their clothes overnight, and suddenly there was a feeling that a crow had turned into a phoenix, and his combat effectiveness had increased by two levels, not to mention that he had become an elite soldier.
Zhao Qinmin was secretly frightened when he saw it, he did not suggest that Gu Siyuan should ask Lin to stay in the army to assist in the defense, but asked for some support for the armor. They were indeed short of armor, but they only hoped that Lin Jian could leave them with the armor they had captured in the past few days, but they didn't expect Lin Jian to be generous with so much of it.
This batch of military funds, plus one or two thousand guns and spears, is enough to equip four battalions of elite town troops. It was Gu Wuchen, who was the left attendant of the Jiangning Military Department, and it was not easy to take out such a military armor at once.
Lin Bin's move, on the one hand, can see that Lin Tie has no mustard here, and spares no effort to help each other, and is completely worthy of Tang Haoxin and Gu Wuchen's cultivation and promotion in the past two or three years, and on the other hand, it can also see how amazing the strength under the potential water surface of Chongzhou Yuer County is.
The Jiangdong Left Army only carried out a major expansion after the year, and just recruited 6,000 new soldiers into the pro-guard battalion. Fortunately, the previous seizures were sufficient, and Chongzhou's ordnance manufacturing formed a scale, and it would not be too difficult to take out this batch of armor. Otherwise, this batch of armor will be bought from the black market, not to mention 100,000 taels of silver.
Forming an in-law with each other, the Lin Gu family needs to unite more closely under the current situation, Lin Jian doesn't want to be too stingy, and leave something in everyone's hearts.
On the other hand, at present, the Gu Department has 20,000 troops in Qingzhou headed by Chen/Yuan Liang, but the combat power of these 20,000 troops is quite limited, and they may not even be stronger than the current exile army, which is far from enough to curb the expansion of the Liang family's forces to Qingzhou.
Gu Siyuan was going to Qingzhou after this battle, and without an elite combat force, it was not enough to curb the ambitions of the Liang family.
In addition, Lin Jian also decided to leave two elite water battalions in the Surabaya River section north of Suining, in addition to blocking the Surabaya River, but also to ensure that Gu Siyuan would have a way out if he couldn't hold Suining.
Gu Wuchen only has this only son, if Gu Siyuan dies in Suining, Lin Jian will not have the face to see Gu Wu.
In addition to reorganizing the third water battalion in Huaisi, when the Changshan battalion went south, he also transferred three outposts from the first water battalion to organize warships and water battalion soldiers.
June and July are the storm season in the East China Sea, and the Heishui Ocean route from Chongzhou to Jinhai has also been suspended. It was Lin Jian who withdrew all the water camps from the Sisheng defense line, and he was not afraid that the luxury family would take the sea route to attack Chongzhou - at this time, for the luxury family, taking the sea route to transport troops to attack Chongzhou, even if it was close to the sea, the risk was too great, and they lacked a strong ship that could resist the wind and waves.
By land, there is Pingjiang Mansion in the south of Chongzhou, and there is the defense line in northern Zhejiang presided over by Dong Yuan in the south of Pingjiang Mansion.
Chongzhou was quite safe at this time, in addition to transferring some of the warships of the second water battalion back to Chongzhou, Lin Jian only left a battalion of cavalry soldiers on land, and almost all the troops that could be transferred were transferred to Huaisi.
In addition to the 6,000 new soldiers of the personal guard battalion left behind in Shukou under the command of Zhao Hu, Lin Tie's troops in Huaisi also included 3,000 soldiers of the Jiuxianshui Battalion, 3,000 soldiers of the Changshan Battalion, 3,000 soldiers of the Fengli Battalion, 1,000 soldiers of the Cavalry Battalion, and a number of auxiliary soldiers of the Gongqi Battalion.
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In order to let the generals rest more time and recuperate their physical strength, Lin Jian planned to send troops south to Siyang after dawn to aid Liu Tingzhou.
In the early morning, Lin Tie put on his clothes and armor, and was just about to go to the school field to order troops out of the city, when the spies came to report: "A cavalry of the Wandering People's Army, about 6,000 people, is going south along Surabaya from Xuzhou, and it is estimated that it is less than 30 miles away from Suining!" ”
"So fast!" When Lin Jian heard the news, he looked at Qin Chengzu, Gu Siyuan and the others, and exclaimed in surprise.
Lin Lian, Qin Chengzu and others had calculated before that they set off from Suining, and the reinforcements sent by the main force of the Wandering Army from Xuzhou should be a hundred miles away, and without them, there would be 6,000 cavalry from the Wandering Army to thirty miles away.
There are very few cavalry in the Wandering Army, otherwise Chen Hansan's two thousand cavalry would not be so noble. The Wandering Army can have 6,000 cavalry galloping, which shows that it should be the elite combat strength of the Wandering Army drawn from the main force of the siege of Xuzhou.
Lin Jian took Suining, and really stepped on the sore spot of the exile army.
"Have you ever found out who the main general is?" Qin Chengzu asked the sentinel who was rushing back quickly.
"The scouts scattered by the enemy cavalry are very wide and dense, and they cannot be approached to reconnoitre, and they can only vaguely see that the cavalry in front of them are wearing red armor." The sentinel replied.
"The Girl in the Red Jacket!" Zhou Pu's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly, "It seems that there is a head!" ”
There are many generals above the level of the Wandering People's Army, after all, there is such a large base, but there are not many people who can excite Zhou Pu.
The red-jacketed girl Liu Miaozhen is not Chen Hansan's opportunistic goods.
For the sake of the overall situation of the Wandering People's Army in Huaisi, Liu Miaozhen will not say that she will fight all the troops, but she will sacrifice her own life, and she will not frown if she thinks about it.
Zhou Pu was excited, but Lin Tie and Qin Chengzu felt that it was extremely tricky, if they could, Lin Tie would never want to use the blood sea corpse mountain of soldiers to fill in the dazzling battle exploits.
Although it is only seventy miles closer than estimated, these seventy miles are a day's journey.
To be able to increase the distance of seventy miles, it not only means that Lin Jian can lead his troops to attack Siyang, and he can have an extra day of free time, but also means that they can have an extra day of safe distance from the reinforcements of the main force of the Liumin army besieging Xuzhou.
Lin Tie entered Huaisi this time, and the key was a quick word.
Attacking quickly, attacking quickly, breaking through and advancing quickly, so that the wandering army could not take care of the head and tail, so that their superior forces could not be brought into play, and their rhythm was completely disrupted.
Liu Miaozhen was able to lead reinforcements so decisively and quickly, it can be seen that she or Liu An'er or other generals of the Liumin Army in Xuzhou were likely to see through the "fast" word of the Jiangdong Left Army before last night. The elite is also trying to fight fast to disrupt the rhythm of the Jiangdong Left Army after entering the Huai and regain the initiative.
What gave Lin Jian and Qin Chengzu a headache was not only that the 6,000 cavalry led by Liu Miaozhen was the elite of the Wandering Army, but also that Liu Miaozhen had seen through the rhythm of their use of troops this time.
"The girl in the red jacket is likely to bypass Suining and go directly to Suyu or Siyang!" Qin Chengzu pointed out the key point, their previous battle plan was completely useless at this time, and they had to reformulate their combat strategy.
Lin Jian touched his chin and frowned in thought, there was not much time left for him to make a decision.
"I'm just afraid that I can't take care of Liu Tingzhou at the moment......," Zhao Qinmin said.
Gu Siyuan didn't speak, he had already learned the city government and left the decision to Lin Tie and not interfere with his decision.
Yang Pu is even more observant.
Lin Jian did not respond to Zhao Qinmin's words: In the later period, Liu Tingzhou fought against himself everywhere in Huai'an, maybe Liu Tingzhou's death in Siyang was more in line with his interests of secretly seizing Huai'an, but if he really had to stand by and watch, what was the difference between Hao Zongcheng who sat and watched the fall of the Jin army in Yannan, and Yue Lengqiu, who sat and watched the fall of Shao Wu's army in Jinan?
How will the remaining generals of the Jinzhong Army and Shao Wujun identify with themselves?
How will Huai'an, Jiangning, and even the government and the opposition view this matter? Do they really think that after the Jiangdong Left Army captured Suining so smoothly, it would not have the spare strength to go to Siyang to save Liu Tingzhou?
"The main force of the Wandering People's Army in Xuzhou does not gather more than 6,000 cavalry, and a considerable number of them must be foot soldiers who temporarily ride horses, and horses cannot be good horses," Lin Jian knocked on the table and said, "Zhou Pu, you gallop to Siyang at a rate of four hundred light armor, if you have the opportunity to relieve the siege for Liu Tingzhou, then attack it, the water camp will not be transferred away for the time being, stay in Suining with Mr. Qin, and assist the heir Yuan to guard Suining, I will lead the Changshan camp and Feng to leave the camp by land and go to Siyang......" and told Zhou Pudao, "If there is an enemy cavalry bypassing me first, you must not easily engage with it!" ”
"Yes!" Zhou Pu responded, picked up the saber, and ordered the armored light cavalry to go out of the city first.
The four hundred light cavalry rode the war horses with good footsteps, and there were horses to replace, and they rushed to Siyang before Liu Miaozhen's department and had the strength to fight, there was no problem at all, the key was that the number was too small. The precious armored cavalry team of only 200 people had to march behind Lin Tie.
Even if the soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army were on the march, they could better resist the cavalry impact, but to take Liu Tingzhou's Duhuai army out, it was necessary to have a cavalry to cover its flanks from the impact of the cavalry of the Wandering Army.
The more than 400 armored light cavalry led by Zhou Pu could not be easily broken.
Lin Jian said to Gu Siyuan again: "It seems that the war horses and camel horses given to you, I will borrow them first, and I will give them back to you twice after the war!" ”
"Say what?" Gu Siyuan said with a smile.
Although the Changshan Battalion and the Fengli Battalion led by Lin Tie were infantry, they had a large number of mules and horses, and a considerable part of them were actually horse infantry.
The so-called horse infantry is to ride a horse and maneuver when marching, and dismount to engage in battle when encountering an enemy.
This is also an important guarantee for the high mobility and strong combat effectiveness of the Jiangdong Left Army's infantry troops.
The more than 6,000 cavalry led by Liu Miaozhen could not be pure cavalry, and a considerable part of them must be horse infantry.
If it weren't for this, Lin Jian led the 6,000 foot soldiers of the Changshan Battalion and the Fengli Battalion to go overland, and the elite of the 6,000 cavalry of the Wandering Army were bitten, and when they walked to Siyang with difficulty, Liu Tingzhou's body was afraid that it would rot.
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