Lord of the House

Vol 9 Chapter 48: Xin Chuan Southern Zhejiang

From the mouth of the river, it is about forty miles up the Yongjia River. Yongjia and Ouhai face each other across the river, while the Nanxi River, the main tributary of the lower reaches of the Yongjia River, bypasses Yongjia City and joins the Yongjia River from the north bank.

The Huaidong Navy attacked Yongjia, Yueqing and others after the fall of last year, and the resistance army in southern Zhejiang also came down from Kuocang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain to seize the city and plunder the land to strengthen the resistance to the luxury family in southern Zhejiang.

She Feihu was ordered to go to southern Zhejiang to organize a counterattack against the resistance of southern Zhejiang, and strengthen the control of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian over southern Zhejiang.

She Feihu set up his governor's mansion in southern Zhejiang in Ouhai City on the south bank of the Yongjia River. In addition to the emergency support of more than 10,000 East Fujian elites to the coast of southern Zhejiang, She Feihu also recruited more than 10,000 local forces in Ouhai, Qingtian and other counties. The soldiers and horses were prepared to prevent the Huaidong Navy from harassing the coast, while suppressing the resistance army in southern Zhejiang led by Ye Su, Liu Wenzhong and others.

After She Feihu arrived in southern Zhejiang, he first used dark piles, sunken boats, bamboo and wooden rafts, etc. in Wuxi, downstream of the Ouhai Sea, to completely block the Yongjia River waterway to prevent Huaidong warships from breaking into the Yongjia River from the mouth of the river. Afterwards, soldiers were set up in Wuxi, Yaoxi, Longshui, Tianhe and other places to guard against the harassment of Huaidong soldiers landing on the shore.

For the two cities of Yongjia and Yueqing occupied by the resistance army in southern Zhejiang, She Feihu also decisively cut off the connection between the two cities, and in the early stage brutally suppressed the village forces that sympathized with or secretly colluded with the resistance army in southern Zhejiang.

Since Yueqing is near the sea, it is easy to get the support and supplies of the Huaidong Navy. According to the established steps, She Feihu decided to attack Yongjia first.

Although more than 2,000 remnants of the Southern Zhejiang Army were completely besieged in Yongjia City a few years ago, in order to slacken Dong Yuan's vigilance in northern Zhejiang, She Feihu dragged on in Southern Zhejiang and did not attack Yongjia City until March.

It was not until She Feixiong made a surprise attack on Linshui and assembled troops to attack Fuyang that She Feihu officially attacked Yongjia City, which had been besieged for nearly half a year, on the 21st...

Ye Su failed to decisively lead his troops to abandon Yongjia and withdraw to Yueqing City near the sea; Liu Wenzhong received a lot of supplies from northern Zhejiang, but when the fleet went south, the road to Yongjia westward had been cut off by She Feihu, and he was never able to supply supplies. Sent to Yongjia City.

The Yongjia military and civilians headed by Ye Su ran out of food after being trapped in Yongjia City for about half a year. At the same time, the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels were well prepared to attack the city. They seized two city gates in the southeast in just three days. The Yongjia defenders blocked the city gate with earth, stone, bricks and wood. After the city gate fell, they wanted to break out of the city gate. But it was impossible to go, Ye Su gave up resistance and chose to lead the remnants to surrender before the dusk of the 24th.

She Feihu, wearing blue armor and a crimson cloak, stood in the building of the South City Gate, looking at the Yongjia prisoners gathered inside the city gate through the carved window, and asked Qin Zitan in a low voice, "How is it? deal with?"

"..." Qin Zitan waved his hand and made a gesture of cutting his neck, and the surrounding generals felt the chill on their necks.

Beside She Feihu, in addition to the generals from Zhejiang and Fujian, there were also generals who took refuge in Yongjia. The more than a thousand prisoners were almost all natives of Yongjia Prefecture, and they were all killed.

She Feihu couldn't make up his mind for a while. He was not merciful, but was weighing the pros and cons of slaughtering the prisoners. Killing prisoners can deter local forces in southern Zhejiang, but at the same time it will increase the difficulty of attacking Yueqing City.

At this time, a sentry in black walked directly into the city gate. Qin Zitan, who was in charge of military intelligence, took the bamboo tube containing the message from the sentinel, checked that the seal was correct, opened it and looked closely, the more he looked, the more serious his face became.

She Feihu looked at Qin Zitan's solemn face and asked, "How is the situation in East Zhejiang?"

Through the beacon fire and wolf smoke communication, She Feihu and Qin Zitan knew the news of the attack in eastern Zhejiang at sunrise, but the scale and extent of the attack are still unknown. Even though Qin Zitan has a bad omen in his heart, he still does not believe that Huaidong, after the main force of Mabei's army, has the ability to organize a large-scale attack on Zhejiang...

"..." Qin Zitan handed the letter to She Feihu, and when She Feihu took a look, his face suddenly collapsed, he sucked in a breath of cold air, and smacked his lips to complain, "Huaidong Ming repairs the plank road and crosses Chencang secretly! What a pain! !"

The generals were startled, and when they heard She Feihu spit out such a sentence inexplicably, they could not guess Huaidong's method of "cultivating the plank road in the clear and crossing the Chencang in the dark".

It was mentioned in the letter that the two villages of Hekou and Jintang were attacked and lost in the morning, and the Huaidong navy entered the waters of Daishan and Changnai on a large scale, and the warships covered the sky and closed the sea. Never less than 10,000 people.

Qin Zitan and She Feihu could also clearly understand at this time: Huaidong used King Qin as a guise before, everything was a cover-up, and they were waiting for the opportunity of Zhedong's emptiness to strike this fatal blow.

No one else knows how many troops Huaidong can draw at most, but Qin Zitan and She Feihu can still estimate a general number.

Although Su Tingzhan led his troops westward to attack Fuyang, and left more than 10,000 defensive troops in Mingzhou Prefecture, the defense idea of ​​Mingzhou Prefecture at this time was to guard against the small-scale Huaidong Army and Haiyu Army that might come from the sea. harassment, so the defense force of more than 10,000 troops is scattered in each city.

This kind of defensive deployment can effectively reduce the gaps for small-scale enemy troops to penetrate and penetrate inland from coastal landings, but once encountering a large-scale surprise attack, it will expose the fatal weakness of scattered troops and easy to break through.

All the previous information can lead to the conclusion that the main force of the Huaidong Army is definitely heading north, including Su Tingzhan, almost all generals from Zhejiang and Fujian, even Qin Zitan and She Feihu in southern Zhejiang, did not consider Zhejiang East has the possibility of a large-scale military raid.

She Feihu named a few trusted generals to accompany him and Qin Zitan to the side hall of the Nancheng Gate Tower. He asked Qin Zitan directly, "What should we do?"

"Fortunately, after knowing the news of the attack in eastern Zhejiang, I rushed to capture Yongjia City today, otherwise the situation is really hard to imagine!" Qin Zitan's back was covered in cold sweat, "Yueqing can't take care of it for the time being, and the external monitoring force We must also withdraw. However, in order to prevent the Huaidong Army from using Yueqing as a stronghold and attacking southern Zhejiang on a large scale, the troops scattered in the coastal villages need to immediately concentrate on Ouhai, Yongjia and other cities, and prepare for the Huaidong Army to defeat each of them! The two villages of Xiu and Tianshui need to be heavily defended, and the defense of southern Zhejiang must be centered on Yongjia..."

Not only the defensive forces of Mingzhou Prefecture were scattered in various villages, but the Zhedong Navy was also scattered and harassed Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places at this time, creating favorable conditions for the attack on Fuyang. Not yet known.

Once the Zhedong Navy is destroyed...

Thinking of this, Qin Zitan couldn't help but pat his aching head, hoping that the eldest son would not be foolish enough to rush to send the Zhedong Navy from Fuyang to rescue the Mingzhou Prefecture - to preserve part of the Zhedong Navy in the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River The combat power can at least contain the main force of the Huaidong Navy on the front line of the Qianjiang River and dare not go south immediately, and gain some critical time for the adjustment and deployment of southern Zhejiang and central Fujian.

Although there are about 20,000 soldiers and horses in the elite and local affiliated troops in southern Zhejiang, nearly half of them are scattered in coastal villages, and it takes time to assemble.

The river barriers blocking the Yongjia River are mainly concentrated between the two villages of Wuxi and Tianshui. To defend the two villages of Wuxi and Tianshui is not to give the Huaidong Army a chance to land on the shore to clear the river barrier, so as to prevent the Huaidong Army from borrowing water. The division warships bypassed Ouhai City along the Yongjia River and headed westward to attack the hinterland of southern Zhejiang.

Yueqing and Yongjia, which were occupied by the resistance army in southern Zhejiang, were on the north bank of the river. More importantly, the Nanxi River where Yongjia was located was the eastern channel connecting Kuaiji and Mingzhou to the north through Kuocang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain. Once Yongjia fell, southern Zhejiang had to make contact with Kuaiji and Mingzhou, and it would have to make a big circle from western Zhejiang.

Although Yongjia City and Ouhai City face each other across the river, in terms of strategic situation, Yongjia is much more important than Ouhai.

This is also an important reason for Yongjia Prefecture to set up the government in Yongjia County with narrow terrain, rather than in Ouhai County with open terrain, in a world where land roads and inland waterways are the main traffic conditions.

"Ouhai and Yongjia will set up river barriers again, and strive to build a trestle bridge on the Yongjia River waterway west of Ouhai to connect Ouhai and Yongjia," She Feihu's brain began to liven up from the shock of the first news, and followed Qin Zitan added to his thoughts, instructing a burly general beside him, and said, "Xiaowei Wen, I will lead troops and horses to help eastern Zhejiang, Ren Zitan will stay at the governor's office in southern Zhejiang, you lead troops and horses to assist Zitan... "

"How to deal with the prisoners in the city?" As the direct general of the Zhejiang-Fujian Army, Wen Tingrui's ability and loyalty are worthy of trust, he asked.

"Kill," She Feihu could no longer consider the issue of recovering Yueqing at this time. He first had to ensure that the local forces in southern Zhejiang would not cause trouble, and he ordered viciously, "Kill the prisoners; the families of the prisoners in the city, also Kill! Listen to Zi Tan and handle this matter carefully, there can be no more trouble here."

There are only more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians in Yongjia City, and the family members are also killed. I am afraid that only one or two thousand people will survive in the end.

Qin Zitan would not feel pity for Yongjia's army and people. The killings and brutal suppression brought about by the war were common occurrences. He was considering the matter of She Feihu personally leading his troops to help eastern Zhejiang, and said, "The eldest son should send reinforcements more than we do. In the early front line, Kuaiji is close to Fuyang, so it should not be in time for help. However, the defense deployment of Mingzhou Prefecture is too scattered, even if Mingzhou Prefecture can hold for three days, it is very predictable, and Huaidong’s troops after entering Mingzhou Prefecture Expansion and penetration cannot be known in advance. It is natural for the governor to lead his troops to help eastern Zhejiang~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But after the governor enters eastern Zhejiang, if he can scramble to occupy Shengzhou first, it is not appropriate to rush into it..."

Shengzhou is located in the upper reaches of the Cao'e River and belongs to Mingzhou Prefecture. It is adjacent to Fenghua, Yuyao and Ninghai in the east, Zhuji in the west, Shangyu and Kuaiji in the north.

She Feihu led his troops north to help from Yongjia, and it took more than three hundred miles to reach Shengzhou, and it would take three or four days at the fastest.

The situation in Shengzhou is also dangerous, and at the same time it goes deep into the interior. Fei Xiong or Su Tingzhan can take the lead in strengthening Kuaiji's defense, or at least contain the collapse of eastern Zhejiang within the territory of Mingzhou.

To counter-attack in a big way, at least we have to wait until we understand the reality of the Huaidong Army. She Feihu can transfer only five or six thousand elites from Yongjia. At that time, not only the situation in eastern Zhejiang was critical, but even southern Zhejiang might be completely lost.

The Zhejiang land south of the Qianjiang River has two fields, one field, and seven mountains. These two fields are mainly concentrated in Mingzhou, Kuaiji and other provinces in eastern Zhejiang. After winning the eastern Zhejiang, nearly half of the food and salaries of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were raised here, which shows the importance of eastern Zhejiang to the luxury family.

Although East Zhejiang is extremely important to the luxury family, Huaidong's attack on East Zhejiang is too sudden, and we cannot deal with it carefully at this time. If one wrong step is taken, it is very likely that the whole situation will collapse.

"I'll save..." She Feihu nodded and fought against Huaidong. Although she was defeated every time, She Feihu's experience in leading troops should be considered experienced, and after discussing with his cronies for a while, he called all the generals. He came in and announced his decision to leave Qin Zitan to temporarily handle affairs in southern Zhejiang. He led 5,000 elites from Yongjia to the north that night. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter

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