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When the Huaidong Army lacked cavalry in Mingzhou Mansion and the main force of the Huiji garrison was defeated, the Huaidong Army only put together more than 300 cavalry to put into the battlefield on the west bank, mainly relying on foot soldiers to kill the routs on foot.

Surrounded by more than 100 cavalry and generals, the Flying Tiger fled the battlefield first and avoided Sanyin City.

The extravagant flying tiger and the generals were frightened, and hurriedly climbed to the top of the city to see that the mountains were full of routs.

The color of the uniforms of the Zhejiang-Fujian army is brown, such as the mountains and forests after autumn; The Huaidong military uniform is blue-black, like a furious sea wave covered by clouds.

Standing at the head of the city, you can clearly see the situation of chasing each other and rushing to kill in the vast mountains and wilderness, which is shocking - the so-called defeat is like a mountain, it is like this, who is replaced, and there is no power to return to the sky.

Su Tingzhan had the intention to atone for his crimes, and personally led the subordinates to press at the gate of the north city, contained the remnants of the army and entered the city, and prevented the Huaidong army from following the rout and rushing to capture the city.

From Laotangpu to Shanyin County, hills and ravines, Tian Mo is connected, the terrain is undulating like a spring lake, the mountains are full of routs, a large force of soldiers and horses is difficult to travel, Tang Fuguan sent Huang Zuyu and Feng Yan to lead the elite of the department supplemented by a small number of cavalry to go first, and directly attacked Shanyin.

Huang Zuyu and Feng Yan each gathered their subordinates, and they had more than 600 soldiers, and dozens of cavalry followed, interspersed from the rout, but they approached the north gate of Shanyin and were intercepted by Su Tingzhan.

Before Tang Fuguan led the main force to arrive, Huang Zuyu and Feng Yan's two generals did not take the city gate, and they shouted with hatred and regret.

Looking at the slowly closed north gate of Shanyin, and the archery of the city tower was as dense as a torrential rain, and the precautions were very dense, Tang Fuguan could only give up the idea of forcibly seizing Shanyin, turned the horse's head, and led his troops to sweep diagonally across the northeast corner of Shanyin City, and intercepted the rout in Hengli.

Coupled with the defenders of Laotangpu, Daoxubu, Hutangtou and other places, Luxury Feihu mobilized a total of more than 15,000 troops to participate in this battle - in the end, there were only more than 2,000 rout soldiers who could escape into Shanyin City with Luxury Feihu, plus the soldiers and horses left behind Shanyin, there were less than 3,000 defenders in Shanyin City behind Luxury Feihu.

The three thousand guards are also frightened, except for the soldiers and horses left behind in Shanyin are still neat, the other soldiers are in a mess, the soldiers can't find the generals, the generals can't find the soldiers, they are frightened, like a frightened bird - luxury Feihu can't rely on these three thousand defenders to go out of the city to counterattack, and it is difficult to even defend the city.

At this time, the confidence of the luxury Feihu was lost, and he was afraid that Huaidong would attack Shanyin at this time, regardless of casualties.

Except for some of the defeated soldiers who withdrew into Shanyin City with the Extravagant Flying Tiger, the only one who completely withdrew the main force of the Huiji garrison from the battlefield was probably the part of the troops and horses that Yu Wenshan had led to aid Daoxu Port before.

Because Mao Teng's distant troops were defeated at the beachhead, a large number of soldiers drove down the Cao'e River like dumplings in the chaos before they could meet the enemy, and the warships arranged by the Huaidong Water Battalion in the upper reaches were hastily called to search and rescue the soldiers who fell into the water, so that no troops and horses could be sent to cross the river in the upper reaches. Yu Wenshan led his troops to a distance from the Laotangpu battlefield, and seeing that the situation was not right, he fled to the incense burner peak defense village at the north foot of Huiji Mountain in the south, and finally led more than 2,000 people to escape into the incense burner peak defense village.

Although the main force of the Jiangji garrison was defeated in Laotangpu in one fell swoop, the walled cities such as Shanyin, Xianglufeng, Daoxubu, Hutangtou, and Huiji were very close to Laotangpu, and it was easy for the rout to escape and avoid entering. Even if there were enough cavalry, it would be difficult to intercept more than 10,000 defeated troops in the field for annihilation - after the main force of the Huiji defenders was defeated at Laotangpu, Lin Jian instructed the generals to take advantage of the chaos to attack and seize the walled city.

The battle of Laotangpu began at noon on the 14th, and at noon on the 15th, the main force of the Huiji garrison was defeated, and at dark on the 15th, the Zhejiang-Fujian army successively declared the fall of Laotangpu, Daoxuguan, and Hutangtou Zhuzhai on the west bank of the Cao'e River.

Tang Fuguan led his troops to attack Shanyin and failed, Zhuji and Xiaoshan were far away from Laotangpu, and the whip was beyond reach, Han Caizhi led his troops to see the main force of the Huiji army in Laotangpu defeated, and was the first to divide the troops, and personally led an elite to attack the Huiji under Jinghu.

When Han Caizhi took advantage of the chaos to enter the city, he personally led the elite to occupy the south gate of Huiji County. The defenders of Huiji City resisted fiercely, and Han Caizhi's troops were once expelled from Huiji City.

Fortunately, Han Caizhi destroyed the gate of Huiji Nancheng one step earlier, and waited for Zuo Guangying to lead his troops to come to help, first repelled Cheng Yiqun, the remnant of Cheng Yiqun, a naval division in eastern Zhejiang, who landed from the north shore of Jinghu Lake to help Huiji City, and then attacked from Nancheng overnight, captured Huiji City, annihilated more than 1,300 defenders, and only let more than 300 remnants flee to Xiaoshan at night.

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Tian Chang got the order of the luxury flying tiger, rushed to Chun'an on the 14th to see the luxury flying bear, wanted to transfer troops from Fuyang and Linshui into Huiji, he took a boat to go up the river, and at noon on the 15th in Tonglu in the upper reaches of Fuyang, he saw the luxury flying bear.

Hearing that Tian Chang wanted to fight with the Huaidong Army on the west bank of the Cao'e River, he was angry and reprimanded Tian Chang sharply: "The Dadu Governor's Mansion has clearly ordered the city to be guarded, and you have eaten the leopard's gall and regarded the order of the Dadu Governor's Mansion as child's play?" ”

"The second son also has the intention of boosting morale; The situation is already like this, and I also ask the governor to quickly send troops and horses to help, I am afraid that the time will drag on, and the Huaidong army will transfer troops and horses from other places, and it will be disadvantageous! Tian Chang still didn't know that the main force of the Huiji garrison had been defeated in Laotangpu, so he didn't think that there was any fatal mistake in the decision of the Luxury Feihu to meet the Huaidong Army on the west bank of the Cao'e River.

Extravagant Fei Xiong was so angry that he almost vomited blood, his face was gloomy, and he exhaled "huhuhu" to force himself to calm down.

If the Huaidong Army is defeated, it will be a big deal to retreat to the east bank; And if the Zhejiang-Fujian army is defeated......

Extravagant Fei Xiong didn't dare to think about the bad situation that would occur after the defeat of the Huiji garrison in the battle - he only felt that the collar was too tightly buttoned, making it difficult for him to exhale, so he tore off the collar placket, sat on the couch, and shouted the several generals who accompanied him to Tonglu to come close and ordered one by one: "Deng Shen quickly go to Fuyang to order 10,000 elites; I'll be on my way, and 10,000 of the elite will come with me to the aid of the Huiji—hopefully it's still too late! He also asked his staff member Chen Yu to write an order for others, dictating, "With the Wuyuan, Xinzhou, and Linshui departments, after receiving this order, immediately stop the offensive against Jiangxi, Jiang, Hui and Ningguo, turn to the defense, transfer Zhou Wenchong, Wen Tingxi, Fang Zhenhe, and the troops to the east along the Qianjiang River to Fuyang, and wait for further orders!" ”

Tian Chang was shocked, according to the deployment of the extravagant flying bear, not to mention that the western front was completely turned into defense, and almost half of the troops and horses from the western front were transferred to the east, and finally entered Huiji.

The order letter was delivered to various places by horse or boat, and the extravagant flying bear did not delay in Tonglu, and rushed to Fuyang by boat with Hu Cong.

From Tonglu to Fuyang, the Qianjiang River flowed rapidly, and at dusk, Tian Chang entered Fuyang with the extravagant flying bear, and learned that the main force of the Huiji garrison was defeated in Laotangpu, Tian Chang's face turned pale in an instant: he expected that the second son could mobilize 15,000 or 6,000 elites on the west bank of the Cao'e River, and no matter how bad it was, he couldn't beat it in just over a day!

After the 10,000 elites of Fuyang were gathered, he took the remnants of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division to march overnight, and rushed to the mouth of the Puyang River in the early morning of the 16th, and learned that Huiji City had fallen.

There are only 10,000 elites led by Luxury Feixiong, and there is chaos in Huiji, and I don't know if the two cities of Shanyin and Zhuji have fallen, and how many soldiers and horses are available, but the Huaidong army can easily send 20,000 or 30,000 foot soldiers to cross the Cao'e River into the west bank.

If he wanted to fight fast and recapture Huiji City from the guarded Huaidong Army, the possibility was very small, so he had to lead his troops to avoid Xiaoshan first, waiting for reinforcements from Wuyuan, Chun'an, and Linshui......

Before nightfall on the 16th, Ao Canghai led 9,000 elites down the Cao'e River, crossed the river from Laotangpu and entered the west bank, and camped on the south bank of Jinghu Lake; The main force of about 30 battalions of infantry in the eastward camp of Zhejiang also crossed the Cao'e River and entered the west bank, with Huiji City as the center, along the north bank of Jinghu Lake, and marched towards the Puyang River.

Huiji County is the first county of Huiji Prefecture, where the government is located, and Shanyin County faces each other across the mirror lake; It is bordered by Xiaoshan County in the north (before the war, Xiaoshan belonged to Hangzhou and faced Hangzhou across the Qianjiang River); To the west of Jinghu Lake, the Puyang River flows down from the upstream Zhuji and flows into the Jinghu Lake, and the Jinghu Lake flows northwest and flows into the Qianjiang River; Above the mouth of the Puyang River, it is the boundary of Fuyang.

If you compare the topography of southern Zhejiang, Huiji is like Yueqing City.

After the Huaidong Army entered Yueqing, the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in southern Zhejiang were divided into two parts, Yongjia and Taizhou, and they had to go over the mountains and mountains from the west to cross the mountains and mountains to support each other - the Huaidong Army occupied Huiji City, and once the Puyang River was successfully cut off, the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in western Zhejiang could only go to Tonglu in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River, and trace the water from the shallow Lanxi River, and borrow the road from Quzhou to enter Dongyang County, which also had to go around three or four hundred miles more; To further receive aid to Shanyin County, we have to borrow the road from Zhuji, and we have to walk one or two hundred miles more narrow roads.

What's more, after the loss of Huiji City, in addition to Zhuji in the upper reaches of the Puyang River, Shanyin and Xiaoshan will be directly reduced to war zones, and they will lose four or five hundred thousand stone of grain income every year. Only after June, the summer grain income will lose 1780,000 stone rice grains - the defeat of Laotangpu really made the luxury Feixiong and the generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies feel the pain.

Fei Fei Xiong couldn't blame the second child for his gains and losses, but he knew that he couldn't afford to lose.

As of the 22nd, the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army assembled in Xiaoshan, including the remnants of the East Zhejiang Naval Division, were about 40,000 people; At the same time, Hao Feihu also transferred troops from Dongyang County and entered Shanyin through Zhuji, which increased the strength of the Zhejiang-Fujian army south of Jinghu to more than 20,000.

However, at the same time, after the arrival of Chen Yan and Zhang Jiheng's headquarters, the Huaidong Army entered the west line of Cao'e River, and the number of infantry soldiers alone reached more than 36,000 people in the 60th battalion, not including the more than 20,000 troops urgently transferred by Lin Jian from Mingzhou, Changguo and other places to assist in defending the walled city.

Since it would not take a few days to dig up a waterway connecting Jinghu Lake and the Cao'e River from Laotangtou, the Jinghai No. 3 Water Battalion resolutely dragged more than 100 warships from the Cao'e River into Jinghu Lake in a few days by means of oxen pulling horses and horses, so that the naval army formed by the Third Battalion could enter Jinghu Lake and cooperate with the infantry on the north and south banks of Jinghu Lake.

Due to the shallow water level of Jinghu Lake in Huiji, large warships above the level of Jiyun could not enter Jinghu to fight; And small and medium-sized warships such as warships, even if they are hazy ships covered with bronze armor, the net weight of the empty ship is more than 20,000 catties, and it is not difficult to use twenty or thirty oxen or hundreds of soldiers to force together to pull through the shallow and silted river.

The real battle seems to be about to break out.

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Huaidong's soldiers and horses in the territory of Huiji are divided into two battalions in the north and south, the southern battalion is mainly composed of Ao Canghai, and the 9,000 elite infantry soldiers of the 3rd Brigade of the Changshan Battalion are the main combat force, and the camp is built in the south of Laotangpu to prepare for the soldiers and horses of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in Shanyin.

Beiying Lin Jian personally presided over the assembly, including Tang Fuguan, Zhang Jiheng, Chen Yan, Han Caizhi, Chen Kuili, Zuo Guangying, including the elite of the two brigades of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, the 30th Battalion of the Eastern Zhejiang Battalion and the 3rd Battalion of the Jinghai 3rd Water Battalion.

Lin Tie temporarily requisitioned the government as a line, and in the middle of the night, the lights in the official hall were bright - the war was booming, in addition to the military affairs, the transportation of grain and ordnance was the most tiring.

Liang Wenzhan also rushed to the west bank of the Cao'e River, and worked all night with Gao Zongting, Ye Junan and others, handling government affairs in the Xingyuan official hall, and barely stabilized the situation in the government.

The war drums outside the city were beating, and the Zhejiang-Fujian army assembled in Xiaoshan kept sending troops to infiltrate and test the territory of Huiji, and small-scale contacts continued day after day. It is necessary to dig out the waterways that run through the Cao'e River and Jinghu Lake as soon as possible, but it is a hot summer, the rivers and lakes are full of water and frequent rain, and the excavation of the river is far less convenient than the dry season in autumn and winter - this trip to recover Huiji, temporarily incorporated into the jurisdiction of Mingzhou Prefecture, Jingning place, and even let local forces quickly contribute money and efforts to the Huiji war, Liang Wenzhan still has a lot of work to do; Ye Jun'an drafted an excerpt for Jiang Ning to report on the war on behalf of Lin Lian, Gao Zongting read it first, felt that it was okay, and went to the side hall with Ye Junan to see Lin Bin.

Lin Tie said that he was hiding in the side hall to study the military battle form, Gao Zongting came over to take a look, and almost laughed angrily, Lin Tie had already rested his strength, pulled Fu Qinghe to sit on the case, talking about pastime with his hands, and the chessboard had already become an endgame.

Song Jia, the inner canon, was dressed in plain clothes, sat behind Lin Bin's side, and fanned him with a fan.

"Ready?" Lin Jian saw Gao Zongting and Ye Junan walking in, pinched the chess pieces and stopped, took the excerpt that Ye Junan had prepared on his behalf, and motioned for them to sit down and wait.

Military and political affairs are becoming more and more onerous, and when there is tension, there are more than a dozen letters of order directly from Lin Jian every day, as well as various letters, which are the responsibility of the book.

Gao Zongting is good at strategy, but the daily cumbersome government affairs are pressed on his head, and the pressure is also extremely great. Therefore, Lin Jian will have the elegant title of Mr. Siming this time, and Ye Junan, who is good at government affairs and calculations, will be transferred to his side to share the ministry of the book, which can be regarded as Ye Junan, who is the representative of the local forces in eastern Zhejiang, officially included in the core figure of Huaidong.

Ye Junan wrote a good article, Lin Jian read the excerpt he drafted, and said: "The setback of Daoxubu is a profound lesson, and the military department must summarize it internally; But Mao Tengyuan died in the war, and asked the court for credit, so it was not appropriate to leave him out...... Uncle Fu, what do you think? Lin Jian handed the fold to Fu Qinghe.

Common sense says that "soldiers are expensive but not too expensive", and Lin Jian has always followed the strategy of elite soldiers.

However, in addition to the elite combat power used for the battle attack, with the expansion of the Huaidong control area, a large number of soldiers and horses are also needed to garrison the place.

Lin Tie set up a separate marching army, mixed with all branches of the water infantry cavalry, as a garrison place, but in terms of the investment of armor, ordnance, horses and other resources, it is inferior to the elite combat power directly under the military department.

Lin Jian actually positioned the marching camp army as a secondary branch between the elite combat force and the industrial battalion directly under the military department.

This can also ensure that Huaidong can allocate military resources more rationally.

According to Lin Bin's assumption, the main responsibility of the marching camp army is to garrison the locality, and in important battles, cooperate with the elite combat forces directly under the military department. This time, in order to cooperate with Chen Xiyan to transfer Dong Yuan out of northern Zhejiang, Lin Jian was not fully prepared, so he suddenly transferred troops into the west bank of the Cao'e River to fight.

Whether it is the Changshan Battalion or the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, the two elites have no time to mobilize into the preset, and Lin Jian can only completely let the eastern Zhejiang camp army be the main force of the attack.

In fact, Lin Jian not only gave priority to supplying soldiers and ordnance to the elite combat force directly under the military department, but also gave priority to integrating outstanding generals directly under the military department, and the generals of the marching camp army were somewhat uneven.

Tang Fuguan is an excellent general who grew up in the war in Eastern Fujian and has always relied on Yu Wangao, and even many generals who joined Huaidong with him from the remnants of the Jian'an Army are also very good.

Han Caizhi and Chen Kuili came out of the camp in Linli Township, and followed the exile army to conquer the world, and finally surrendered to Huaidong. In the Exile Army, their military literacy is really inferior to Zhang Gou and Chen Yan, and they cannot be compared with Sun Zhuang and Liu Miaozhen.

Zuo Guangying was originally a military attache who caught thieves and thieves in the local area, and his power was the weakest in the resistance army in southern Zhejiang. At that time, Huaidong did not pay attention to Liu Wenzhong and Ye Su, so he could only try his best to win over Zuo Guangying, and Zuo Guangying was also able to become an important general of the camp army in eastern Zhejiang. In fact, the two generals under Zuo Guangying, Li Baidao and Geng Wenfan, attracted the attention of Lin Jian even more, and intended to strengthen training.

Mao Tengyuan was originally the captain of Mingzhou Mansion who joined the luxury family, and it was because of his attachment that the Huaidong Army was able to take the Mingzhou Mansion without blood after the spring of last year. After the war, it was also a place to win over and win trust, and Lin Jian listed Mao Tengyuan as one of the four captains, and did not disband his subordinates, but also led by Mao Tengyuan.

All kinds of factors have caused the reality that even among the camping troops in eastern Zhejiang, the combat strength of Mao Tengyuan's troops is the weakest.

On the ever-changing battlefield, after Mao Tengyuan defeated the defenders who had intercepted the initial attack, he saw that reinforcements were coming, his will was not firm enough, he hesitated, and failed to decisively deploy his troops and suffered a crushing defeat.

If he wants to be held responsible, it will be difficult for Lin Jian to escape his responsibility. Lin Jian adjusted the deployment of the positions of the various departments at that time, and did not seriously consider the difference in combat power between the various departments, which was also inconsiderate.

Not to mention that Mao Tengyuan died in battle, most of the more than 3,000 soldiers did not engage in the battle, so they drove down the Cao E River in the chaos.

Fortunately, there were warships covering the flanks and the wooden troop carriers did not go far, and they participated in the search and rescue in time to avoid the tragedy of more than 3,000 soldiers drowning the Cao'e River. But even so, there were more than 600 soldiers who had no time to search and rescue and drowned, and the soldiers who fled to Daoxubu also killed more than 200 people in the chaos, and the establishment of the first brigade of the eastern battalion in Zhejiang was almost disabled, which is a pity.

There are many factors in the setback of Daoxubu, and Lin Jian will not put the responsibility on Mao Tengyuan alone; Besides, Mao Tengyuan died in this battle, and there was a rule of "entering the soil for the greatest" in the world.

Fu Qinghe took a cursory look at Ye Junan's excerpt, and said: "Please don't miss Captain Mao, otherwise it will chill people's hearts......"

"I'm going to add ......," Ye Junan said, because he went out of Mingzhou with Mao Tengyuan, in order to avoid suspicion, he deliberately omitted Mao Tengyuan's name from the list of meritorious contributions, after all, the setback of Daoxubu was too ugly, and it was difficult to shirk responsibility for Mao Tengyuan. Lin Jian personally said that he added Mao Tengyuan's name, and Ye Junan naturally complied.

Ye Junan took the fold to revise it, Lin Jian picked up the chess pieces again, continued to play chess with Fu Qinghe, and said things with Fu Qinghe and Gao Zongting: "This battle, we are a little lucky to win, it seems that in the future, we must strengthen our determination to invest in elite combat forces on the frontal battlefield......

"Also, if Han Caizhi's department is blocked from grabbing the beach at the head of the lake, it is likely that the first crossing of the river will be in vain." Gao Zongting said.

Lin Jian said: "I plan to make further adjustments to the camp army in eastern Zhejiang-transfer Tang Fuguan to serve as the deputy commander of the Chongcheng infantry battalion, and transfer Chen Yan and Zhang Jiheng's subordinates who entered the meeting to him for unified command; Promote Feng Yan and Huang Zuyu to command the temporary acting brigade commanders of the army, transfer Chen Baidao and Geng Wenfan and their subordinates to strengthen the combat strength of Feng Yan and Huang Zuyu, and each battalion general will be expanded to the Chongcheng infantry battalion in Huiji to the 4th brigade and 20 battalions, so that I also have an elite combat force in Beiying that can be directly called......"

"Don't wait for this battle to adjust?" Fu Qinghe asked.

"The forces that the two sons of the luxury family have gathered in Huiji are not enough to storm me," Lin Jian said with a smile, "The forces I have assembled in Huiji are not enough to storm them—is it possible that they still expect me to send troops out to fight them in the field at this time?" In today's situation, no cost is consumption, and they can consume more energy than me? ”

"If you get cheap, you should sell well," Gao Zongting said, "to the north of Jinghu, the terrain of Huiji is much heavier than that of Xiaoshan, and the defenders reserve military food in Huiji City up to 100,000 stones, and the storage of Xiaoshan should be far less than this; Now that the 40,000 soldiers and horses are gathered in Xiaoshan, the military rations will be quickly exhausted - just watch their actions then! ”