Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 59

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After the night meeting in the hall, Ye Jiluorong soon returned to the Luoyang governor, Tong Huacheng also returned to Dengzhou, and joined with Na Hexiongqi, Fan Wenlan stayed in Yanjing and served as the Minister of Chengzheng; Wu Mancheng led people to review the ancient books , Trial production of Fuhuodan.

During this period, Henan and Shandong became more and more troubled.

The two towns of Zhengyang and Guoyang officially changed their banners to the Changhuai Army in the first ten days of December of the seventh year of Yongxing’s reign. In accordance with Lin Fu’s previous nuclear troop reduction order, the weak and the strong were eliminated, and the number of soldiers was reduced by 2.5%. Thirty thousand teachers. It seems that the number of soldiers in the Changhuai Army has decreased, but the remaining soldiers are all organized into battalions, military camps, yamen and other institutions. The actual total size of the troops in Guoyang has not decreased, but has continued to increase.

The incorporation of more than 200 generals, including Hu Qiaokou, made the staff system of the Changhuai Army rapidly established.

In addition to the replenishment of weapons such as scorpion crossbows, bed crossbows, and shield carts, more importantly, after the Changhuai Army established the battalion, a large number of carriages, small and medium-sized warships, transport ships, and mules and horses were replenished. The ability to attack from a distance on the Hehuai Plain.

In the past, although the six towns in Henan gave money and food according to the human head, the lack of decks for mules, horses, carriages, and ships made the six towns in Henan more than enough to defend the ground, but not enough to attack and fight. one.

Without strong enough logistics capabilities, what offensive capabilities are we talking about?

Years later, the military resources allocated by the military to the Changhuai Army did not increase, but in three months, the military supplied the Changhuai Army with materials that were not included in the military capital: more than 5,000 mules and horses (heads). ), 1,200 war horses, 1,000 light and heavy vehicles, 1,000 war weapons (vehicles), more than 100 small and medium-sized inland warships and transport ships, in addition to bows, swords, armor, etc. There are nearly 20,000 pieces of high-quality armor and one million arrows of various types.

Yue Lengqiu stood on the top of Luyi Mountain, which was not too high, and looked at the soldiers and horses marching in front of the enemy during the joint exercise of the Shanxi Wing Horse Infantry Team and the Yi team.

Perhaps it is necessary to really integrate into it, in order to truly understand how powerful Huaidong is under Lin Fu’s control.

The soldiers of the Changhuai Army mainly came from the old Changhuai Army, Guoyang, Huizhou Army, and Chizhou Army.

From the perspective of the old army, the Changhuai Army can naturally be called an elite, but Yue Lengqiu asked himself, and the Changhuai Army stayed at a level comparable to that of the elite troops of Yuan Tingli, the newly attached Han Army.

After the military department has supplemented the Changhuai Army with various combat ordnance and other materials, as well as the gradual establishment of the staff system and the new military system, in the past three months, Yue Lengqiu has deeply felt that the Changhuai Army has improved its combat capability. A qualitative leap – with such sufficient and excellent weapons, as well as strong logistical supply capabilities, Yue Lengqiu even had the courage to take the two town divisions of the Changhuai Army and directly advance northward along the Bian River, inserting the Yanhu soldiers and horses. Between Jinan and Daliang, which were heavily defended, they stood for ten days and a half months.

Although the Changhuai Army is dominated by infantry, the military department will send generals from the cavalry battalion and the Jingjiang navy to assist the Changhuai Army with two battalions of new horsemen and two elite navy battalions to enhance their joint combat capabilities in the Hehuai Plain. .

In addition to the Yi battalion, there are also a new military medical battalion and a craftsman battalion.

An army is like a sword of war; soldiers are like a blade, which is extremely important, but the strength of the blade is not only determined by its own tenacity and sharpness. Call it a sharp edge.

If we say that at the beginning of the Changhuai Army’s change of flags, it was a dull knife that touched Xuchang’s waist, but at this time it became a sharp, cold-blooded blade.

With this knife in place, even if Xuchang could not be killed on the spot, it could still make Xuchang collapse to the ground, and it would be hard to do anything.

At this time, the Changhuai Army could truly be called an elite infantry brigade with both offensive and defensive capabilities and a moderate advance and retreat, and such an elite infantry brigade had seventeen divisions in Huaidong, plus nineteen in the Changhuai Army. .

Of course, the Changhuai Army lacked talents in navy, military medicine, and engineering, and even the secretaries of the battalion were seriously insufficient. Naturally, they were supplemented by personnel directly dispatched by the military. In fact, at this time, the Changhuai Army, in addition to Hu Qiaozhong led more than 200 staff generals, and the logistics system mainly depended on the nearly 1,000 people directly transferred from the military to support.

The Changhuai Army merged into Huaidong faster than Yue Lengqiu imagined. As the war approached, even if the military did not explicitly request it, the generals of the Changhuai Army gradually moved their families to the safer places of Shouzhou, Luzhou and even Shouzhou. Jiangning transfer.

Yue Lengqiu also knew that to integrate into Huaidong, he actually had to integrate into the new learning and new policy system created by Lin Fu. In the beginning of the spring, he made his son Yue Duming’s wife and grandson move to Jiangning, and enrolled in Jiangning Elementary School for Children. There are also the children of generals such as the eldest grandson of veteran Deng Yu.

Standing on the top of Luyi Mountain, Yue Lengqiu looked at the Hehuai Plain in the early spring, and thought to himself: The military has strengthened the armament of the Changhuai Army with such a high intensity in a short period of time, and the Changhuai Army has been so fast. If you are integrated into the Huaidong system, if you don’t know the details of the fire crossbow and the new warships, you will also conclude that Lin Bing’s northern expedition strategy should focus on dispatching troops from Xuzhou, along the Bian River and Sishui River northward, and attack the south bank of the Yellow River!

The troop reduction order signed by Lin Fu was strongly resisted and suppressed by Xuchang, and he refused to implement the troop reduction order until early February.

Lin Fu didn’t care. As soon as the deadline for the reduction order in early February arrived, he directly ordered to deduct all the food and salaries allocated to Xuchang. At the same time, he ordered Ao Canghai to set up a division of the Changshan Army to advance to Fangcheng and Wuyang. Arrived from the west wing to Xuchang’s waist, and told Dong Yuan not to move half a point in Xuchang.

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Although it was February, Beiyan mobilized 20,000 horses of infantry and entered the front line of Suixian and Ningling, only more than 100 miles away from Luyi and Qiaocheng, which were guarded by the Changhuai Army. The wings and the west wing unfolded sharply, and at the same time, they responded to Dong Yuan’s troops in Xuchang.

Suixian was less than 200 miles away from Xuchang, and there were 20,000 horses of infantry to suppress the Changhuai Army. At least Dong Yuan didn’t have to worry that Yue Lengqiu would let go of his southeastern flank.

As for the Changshan Army led by Ao Canghai, Chen Zhihu, who can enter and exit Nanyang and Xiangfan from Wuguan, cannot let go of Fangcheng and attack the southwest wing of Xuchang…

In the first ten days of February, Dong Yuan even transferred Xiao Kuian’s department, who had close ties with Huaidong, to the north of Xuchang, and transferred Liang Chengdong, Luo Jian and other departments to between Xuchang, Guoyang, and Nanyang to speed up the movement along the Shahe River and the Yingshui River. The fortress was built in order to respond **** for tat to the advance of the Changhuai Army and Changshan Army on Xuchang.

In the more than two months after the New Year’s Festival, although Lin Fu still did not have a large-scale expansion of armaments, the military staff’s high-intensity supplement to the Changhuai Army could not conceal the reconnaissance of Yanhu’s lurking eyes on both sides of the Huai River.

Six or seven thousand mules and horses, two or three thousand vehicles, hundreds of warships and transport ships, hundreds of thousands of stone forage, and millions of arrows, all in just two or three months. Huai Army – this action is impossible to hide from anyone.

The improvement of the combat power of the Changhuai Army’s pawns is the second, and its logistics supply ability has improved by leaps and bounds, especially its sharp edges, and even the ability to break through the peripheral defense lines and attack core cities such as Daliang and Jining.

Who knows, instead of expanding troops and horses, it is far better to strengthen the old-fashioned powerhouses of the Changhuai Army.

It is not important that the troops of the Huaidong direct line are not expanded, and even the deployment of the Huaiyang Army and Fengli Army on the eastern front has not changed much. It is not important to have been stationed in the Yihai area with Haizhou as the core after the year.

Years later, the road that runs through Yizhou and connects Haizhou and Xuzhou was officially completed.

The completion of Xuhaichi Road has shortened the land transportation between Haizhou and Xuzhou to less than 400 miles.

The Xuhaichi road is wide and six horses drive in parallel. The big rivers such as Mushui, Yishui, Guanhe, and Sishui are all connected by two-way pontoon bridges with iron cables; more than a dozen small rivers are directly bridged by bridges cast with iron wood and stone slurry. .

As long as a military order is issued, the tens of thousands of elite brigades assembled in the Yihai area can transfer to Xuzhou in just five or six days, or directly move north from the east wing of Xuzhou to attack Jining… and Yanhu is in the east. Wing, even if it is Linzi’s soldiers and horses, has to be transferred to Tai’an and Jining in the west wing, and it will not be possible without half a month.

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In mid-March, Jiangnan was already the season when grass grows and warblers fly, and the early morning in Yanjing City is still cold in spring.

Listening to the constant coughing in the outer pavilion, Concubine Yu woke up, only to find that the emperor had gotten up early and went outside to read the official documents; When he was about to go out, he saw Ye Jier hiding Xuepa, who was coughing up blood, in his arms, and said with a heartache: “The emperor has been working hard for months, and he can’t rest every day, how can his body support it?”

Yezier smiled wryly. The military situation on the southern front was becoming increasingly critical, and the war was imminent. Moreover, the war was about the country far away from Dayan. Where could he rest if he wanted to?

“It is said that the East Sea Fox will usurp the throne first, but depending on the style, he will fight Shandong first; it is said that he will fight Shandong first~www.mtlnovel.com~ But no matter how strong the Huaidong Army is, if there is any certainty, it will be able to speed up. Keshan?” Concubine Yu was only thirty-two years old at this time, but she has been serving Yejier for seventeen years since she was fifteen years old, and she is also very familiar with military and political affairs, and can also share Yejier’s worries. One or two.

Ye Zier smiled wryly and said, “This is where people’s minds are boiled. The strategic initiative lies in the south. It’s a pity that those old officials and generals in Beijing don’t know it themselves, so the more difficult it is for state affairs…”

“It’s useless to think too much, it’s nothing more than soldiers coming to block, water coming to cover,” Yu Fei said with relief, “Shandong and Henan have the first and third princes watching, that Hexiongqi is also a veteran who has experienced battles, and you are also the emperor. He said that he knew Huaidong very well. There are 300,000 strong soldiers piled up there, what can the emperor feel at ease? Are you afraid that the Huaidong army will directly attack Yanjing City with wings attached?” Standing beside Ye Jier, Reaching out and gently rubbing his sun hall, trying to make him relax.

Ye Jier first heard the words of Concubine Yu who said, “The Huaidong Army will directly attack Yanjing City with its wings on”, and his heart throbbed. He suddenly stood up, as if he was grabbing something. A flash of thought escaped.

Concubine Yu didn’t know where she said something wrong, and asked Tiandi Ming to react like this.

Yezier walked to the wall chart on the west wing wall. At this time, the morning light was twilight. He muttered to himself: “The Huaidong Navy has been traversing the East China Sea for all these years. It has never met an opponent, and it is impossible to give up the advantage of the navy at the key point. We think that the sea defense line is impregnable, but we don’t know that this is always our key point… …” loudly instructed the waiters who were waiting outside the hall, “speed Zhang Fan and the others to enter the palace to discuss matters.” My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter