Xianxia version of Water Margin

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How could Jiang Hongfei not know about such a big move by the Zhao and Song court?

You know, Jiang Hongfei's number one spy Le He is still beside Zhao Ji's first favorite Cai You.

It is no exaggeration to say that when Zhao Ji asked Gao Qiu to come to suppress Shuibo Liangshan, Jiang Hongfei already knew the news.

No.

It should be said that Jiang Hongfei had already calculated it before taking over Shandong and Hebei. The Zhao and Song Dynasties could not sit back and watch themselves easily seize these two important areas.

There is no way, no matter who makes Shandong or Hebei, they are too close to Bianliang City in Tokyo.

If Jiang Hongfei successfully captures Shandong and Hebei, then the next step will definitely be to attack Bianliang City in Tokyo, or even send a large army to destroy the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

This is something that Zhao Ji and his ministers cannot accept, and is even what Zhao Ji and his ministers fear the most.

In this case, Zhao Ji and his ministers must destroy Jiang Hongfei, a huge threat.

Faced with this inevitable thing, Jiang Hongfei made two preparations:

On the one hand, while fighting against the Damingfu defense line, they also seized the Yellow River defense line, completely cutting off Hebei from the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and finally achieving the goal of occupying Hebei.

Daming Prefecture is adjacent to Guan County and Shen County of Shandong Province to the east, Nanle County of Henan Province to the south, Wei County to the west, Guangping County to the northwest, and Guantao County to the north. There are three rivers, Zhanghe River, Weihe River and Majiahe River, which pass through the county from north to south, dividing the county into three major parts: Weidong, Weixi and Zhangbei.

Because Daming Mansion is located at the junction of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan provinces, it is the junction of Hebei and the Central Plains in the chessboard pattern. Its geographical location is very important. It is also called the "key place". It is a strategic transportation hub and must be occupied during the battle. It can gain geographical advantages first, advance long distances into the opponent's hinterland, and retreat to defend key roads and resist the enemy from outside the country. It is also what Sun Tzu calls the "Four Masters", which has important military and geographical significance.

In addition, the Damingfu area is bounded by the eastern foothills of the Taihang Mountains to the west and the vast North China Plain to the north, south, east and south. Rivers such as the Yellow River, Zhang River and Yuhe are important transportation lines for military and grain transportation in the Damingfu area. Daming Mansion has both dangerous mountains and rivers to rely on and rivers and waterways to circulate. It is an important strategic location of the "mountain city". It is located on the north-south transportation artery and has been a battleground for military strategists in the past dynasties.

Therefore, Damingfu has always been called: the important town of Heshuo and the key to the north gate.

As long as Jiang Hongfei has the front line of Daming Mansion in his hands, he can block the connection between the Zhao and Song Dynasties and Hebei, and can also connect Hebei with his own Shandong.

However, for the sake of safety, Jiang Hongfei simply pushed the defense line along the Yellow River on this basis, that is, occupying several important towns along the Yellow River, so that the Song army would not dare to cross the Yellow River easily in the future.

These important towns are: Kaidefu, Anlijun, Weizhou, Hanoi (Huanzhou), and the Yellow River Bridge.

The Gyeonggi area was once divided into four auxiliaries, with Chanzhou (Kaide Prefecture) in the north being built as the northern auxiliary. Therefore, the importance of Kaide Prefecture cannot be overemphasized. Obtaining it is equivalent to the Liangshan Army lifting a sharp sword. On the heads of Zhao Ji and his ministers.

Daming Prefecture was an important transit point for transporting grain from the Yu River in the Zhao and Song Dynasties. The two states of Huai and Wei were prosperous and supplied military grain. Anli Army was located at the southern end of the Yu River and was a transportation hub from the Central Plains to Hebei. With these three places, It can facilitate the transportation of military supplies in Hebei area and has important military significance.

As long as these important towns are under the control of the Liangshan Army, the Song Army will not have any supplies even if it crosses the Yellow River, and will be easily attacked and harassed by the Liangshan Army occupying these important military towns.

This Yellow River Bridge was built in the 5th year of Zhenghe of Zhao Song Dynasty and spans the three mountains of Dalong Mountain, Fenghuang Mountain and Zijin Mountain.

——This bridge is divided into two sections. Zhao Ji once issued an edict to give the name. The pontoon bridge from Dalong Mountain to Fenghuang Mountain is called Tiancheng Bridge and belongs to Junzhou; the pontoon bridge from Fenghuang Mountain to Zijin Mountain is called Rongguang Bridge (later changed to Shenggong Bridge). Bridge), belongs to Huazhou.

Junzhou Yellow River Bridge is an important strategic point on the Yellow River and the gateway to the north. It has extremely important strategic significance.

Occupying this bridge and Liyangjin (Junzhou Yellow River Ferry) can effectively prevent the Song army from going north, and secondly, it can use this bridge to quickly attack the Gyeonggi area.

Historically, when the Jin people went south, the Zhao and Song courts were shocked when they heard the news. In order to strengthen the defense line on the Yellow River, they urgently sent Liang Fangping, their servant, to lead an army of 70,000 to guard Liyangjin. In the same month, the Jindong Route Army captured Zhending and forced Junzhou. The Zhao and Song Dynasties sent deputy envoy He Guan to Hedong, Hebei Province, with 20,000 troops to Junzhou for reinforcements. Together with Liang Fangping, they guarded the Tiancheng and Shenggong floating bridges on the Yellow River to resist the Jin soldiers.

Later, the Jurchen cavalry traveled day and night, crossing the border of Junzhou and reaching the Yellow River at lightning speed. Liang Fangping led his troops to garrison on the north bank of the Yellow River. When he saw the Jin soldiers arriving, he hurriedly ran away. The Jin army charged all the way south, and the Song army was no longer in formation. He Guan, who was stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River, was in a hurry and burned the pontoon bridge, hoping to use the natural danger to stop the Jin soldiers. At that time, the floating bridge was crowded with the defeated Song Dynasty troops who had not yet crossed the river. More than a thousand soldiers were instantly killed in the roaring Yellow River in the flames. Liang Fangping fled without a fight. Seeing that the situation was not good, He Guan retreated to Liyangjin. All the officers and soldiers guarding the bridge on the south bank of the Yellow River fled.

The Jin army occupied Junzhou and took small boats to cross the river. There was only room for a few people in one boat, and it took five days to complete the crossing of Jinbing. The cavalry followed the crossing, pursued the defeated army, and approached the capital.

After occupying the Junzhou Yellow River Bridge, there is another benefit to Shuibo Liangshan.

That is, if the Liangshan Army wants to fight a defensive war with the Song Army, it can fight a defensive war. If the Liangshan Army wants to fight a decisive battle with the Song Army, the Song Army must obediently come for a decisive battle.

——Otherwise, as long as the Liangshan army crossed the bridge in large numbers, Zhao Ji and his ministers would be scared out of their wits.

However, Jiang Hongfei doesn't want to fight the Song army yet.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei didn’t want to fight the Song Army was

First of all, the person who is eager for a quick victory is not Jiang Hongfei, but Zhao Jijun and his ministers.

For today, Jiang Hongfei had prepared too long and too fully. In terms of food alone, Jiang Hongfei had already saved 30 to 40 million dan.

On the contrary, the Zhao Song Dynasty has currently lost its economic and food important Jiangnan area. Even if Tong Guan regains a little, it will become a scorched earth and will not be able to supply blood to the Zhao Song Dynasty in a short time.

In this case, the two sides fought a war of attrition, and the loser would definitely be the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Secondly, although the Liangshan Army has separated Hebei from the Zhao and Song Dynasties, there are still large areas in Hebei that are not under the control of Shuibo Liangshan, and there are still a large number of Song troops there. Jiang Hongfei wants to completely occupy Hebei first, and then look at it. situation, a decisive battle with the Song Army.

——Capturing the whole of Hebei is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time, and the longer it is delayed, the more difficult it becomes. At the moment when the Zhao and Song Dynasties have just transferred the main force of Hebei to the southeast to suppress Fangla, it was Jiang Hongfei who occupied it. The best opportunity in Hebei was missed. When the Song army destroyed Fangla and returned to support, it would be very difficult for Jiang Hongfei to occupy Hebei again.

Thirdly, the current situation is that if Jiang Hongfei fights too hard here, there is no guarantee that the Western Army or Tong Guan will not come to reinforce him.

——In that case, it would be Jiang Hongfei sharing the pressure for Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, and conversely, it would be Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La sharing the pressure for Jiang Hongfei. To put it bluntly, Jiang Hongfei also has to prepare for everyone to compete in the Central Plains in the future.

Based on this, Jiang Hongfei discussed with a group of military advisors and decided:

Xu Guanzhong led the Second Bu Army and the First Ma Army to clean up the forces of the Zhao and Song Dynasties around Daming Mansion, and then guard Daming Mansion.

The Fourth Infantry Army and the Fourth Horse Army will clean up the forces of the Zhao and Song Dynasty around Kaide Mansion, and then guard Kaide Mansion.

The Fifth Bu Army and the Eighth Ma Army will clean up the Anli Army and the Zhao and Song Dynasty forces surrounding the Anli Army, and then guard the Anli Army.

The Seventh Infantry Army and the Third Army of Ma were to clean up the forces of the Zhao and Song dynasties around Weizhou and secure Weizhou.

The Ninth Infantry Army and the Second Horse Army were used to clean up the forces of the Zhao and Song Dynasties in the Hanoi area and guard the Hanoi area.

The Tenth Infantry Army and the Eleventh Horse Army guard Liyangjin and Junzhou, and stick to the Tiancheng and Shenggong Second Floating Bridges on the Yellow River.

Xiao Jiasui led the Bu San Army, Ma Wu Army, Ma Liu Army and garrison troops from all over Shandong to guard the Shandong area.

In addition, Sun Jing led the Ma Jiu Army, Ma 10th Army, and Bu 11th Army to capture the Hebei East Road; Zhu Wu led the Ma 12th Army, Ma 13th Army, and Bu 6th Army to capture the Hebei West Road.

Jiang Hongfei personally led the remaining troops and the navy and garrison forces in Liangshan to mediate with the "million-strong army" led by Gao Qiu.

Under this grand strategy, Jiang Hongfei's second-hand preparation was to try to eliminate hidden dangers in Shuibo Liangshan and try to consolidate the defense line in Shuibo Liangshan.

To eliminate hidden dangers, the main thing is to take down Dongping Prefecture, Dongchang Prefecture and other places in Shandong that the Liangshan Army has not captured before.

——Previously, this area had 100,000 imperial troops, Xiang troops, and rural troops led by Shandong Zhenfu General Zhang Ji and Mrs. Jia and his wife. I have to admit that although Mrs. Jia is a woman, she does have her own tricks, and she has Dong under her command. Fierce generals like Ping and Zhang Qing were not easy to fight for a while, so Liangshan Army gave up this place.

In fact, Dongping Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture were not the only areas in Shandong that Liangshan's army failed to capture.

There are also some other areas.

Such as Xingqingfu and Puzhou.

Yuncheng County in Puzhou is a nail wedged into the watery Liangshan Mountains.

In addition, the southern areas of Shandong, such as Nanjing Yingtianfu, southern Xuzhou areas, and the Huaiyang Army, are not within the control of the Liangshan Army.

In addition, there is also a small area in the Qingnan area of ​​Qingzhou (that is, the area controlled by Zhengyi Village, Yuntianbiao, and the Moslem Mountain) that is not within the control of Liangshan Army.

The central part of Shandong Province is mountainous, the southwest and northwest are low-lying and flat, and the east is gently hilly, forming a general terrain with mountains and hills as the skeleton and plains and basins interlaced in between.

According to the current occupied area of ​​Shuibo Liangshan and the natural conditions of Shandong.

If Yuntianbiao and the others in the Qingnan area don't evacuate in time, they may be trapped in Qingzhou by Xiao Jiasui and the others.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei is not worried about this area.

Jiang Hongfei estimated that although the people in Zhengyi Village and Qingzhen Mountain were definitely not willing to leave, they would most likely give up on the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack area under Yun Tianbiao's persuasion and choose to break out and leave Shandong.

And once Yun Tianbiao and the others dare to move, Xiao Jiasui, Cao Zheng, Hua Rong, Luan Tingyu and others who have been staring at them will definitely bite off a large piece of meat from them, not to mention 100% eating this Song army. Until they completely left Shandong.

As for the area in the south of Shandong, Jiang Hongfei deliberately did not want it for no other reason than that it was difficult to defend and easy to attack. If he wanted it, it would be a huge waste of the troops in Liangshan.

Needless to say, Xingqing Mansion and Puzhou should be the main battlefields where the Liangshan Army and the Song Army fought.

As for the areas of Dongping Mansion and Dongchang Mansion, they have to concentrate their forces for a fight. After all, the Liangshan Army wants to avoid fighting on two fronts.

Looking at Jiang Hongfei's current territory, the only loophole is actually here in Yizhou.

Yizhou controls the only passage to Shandong on the east side of the Shandong hills. If the Song army enters Shandong in large numbers from here, it can support the war with war. Then the Zhao and Song dynasties may not be afraid of fighting a war of attrition with Shuibo Liangshan.

As long as Shuibo Liangshan blocks this passage and wipes out the Song Army in Dongping Mansion and Dongchang Mansion, the Song Army will have to fight the Liangshan Army in Xingqing Mansion and Puzhou! ! !

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Yizhou.

Qingyun Mountain.

Jiang Hongfei and Liu Huiniang, along with the leaders of the Guards and Di Yun, the leader of the branch village in Qingyun Mountain, went down the mountain for several days to see how the location was.

There used to be an empty city in the south of the mountain. In the past, a bandit patrol was stationed. The city had a radius of five or six miles. Later, it was moved to another place and the empty city still remains.

Liu Huiniang told Di Yun: "This city is in good shape. It can be repaired according to the original foundation. There is no need to transform it. However, there is no need for four gates. The east gate is directly blocked, and one is built outside the west gate and south gate. Zicheng." Then he pointed with his horsewhip and said: "Build two earthen walls outside the north gate, connecting them to the foot of Qingyun Mountain to serve as a barrier."

The group went into the city again and saw that all the city gates were gone. The dead grass in the city bumped against the horse's belly. No one was seen, and there was not a single house. There was only one martial arts hall, and most of it collapsed. It looked like a teaching ground in front of it. There is another ruined temple outside the Zhaoqiang. Those who know better say it is the Temple of King Guan, and there is also the Temple of the City God behind it.

The group of people saw it and rode south.

Along the way, Liu Huiniang asked the guards to hold the compass and the pole. She suddenly rode on horseback and suddenly walked, looking to the east and west, pointing and saying: somewhere is good to build a fort, somewhere is good to build a watchtower, somewhere is good. It is good to dig trenches and set up Binghuang somewhere.

Jiang Hongfei, who had read the Heavenly Book, also understood the art of war, but he did not say a word, let alone express an opinion. Instead, like everyone else, whatever Liu Huiniang said was what he said.

The reason for this is that firstly, Jiang Hongfei knew that Liu Huiniang's level was much higher than his own, and secondly, because of Liu Huiniang's arrangement, Jiang Hongfei was very satisfied.

For two or three days, Jiang Hongfei, Liu Huiniang and his party took a look at the situation around them, and then returned to Qingyun Village.

Jiang Hongfei saw Liu Huiniang frowning, lowering her head and saying nothing, and asked: "What are you thinking about? Is it because of the Zhang family?"

Liu Huiniang said: "Exactly. Looking at the situation, only the Humen heading due north is the most dangerous. Two mountains are approaching, and the dragon is closing in on one of the roads. It is close to the Ai Mountain, and it is really like a tiger's claws on the ground. Build a few forts there, and only need a thousand The remaining people are guarding it, and even if they have hundreds of thousands of troops, they can't attack it. The Luchuan area is easy to deal with, and it can be guarded if there are more Binghuang watchtowers. But the Zhangjia road entrance stretches for more than ten miles, and is flat and flat. There is no where to go. If the Song army comes to cover up here in large numbers, let alone guarding, they can escape and there is nowhere to hide. The only way is to build a brick city and set up trenches to reach the Wei River. But this project is huge and takes a year. It won't last for half a year. How can the Song army wait until I build the city?"

At this time, a voice suddenly sounded: "My virtuous niece, don't worry, I have already made arrangements there..."

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