Chapter 1022 Opponents with different styles
On the fourth day of June, the rivers and lakes outside Hefei were full of boats.
The county magistrate He Chong was almost dumbfounded.
All kinds of materials were transported here for free, and there was almost no room for storage, so we had to recruit old and healthy women to temporarily build more warehouses and pavilions.
Soldiers with various accents were also gathering here, one battalion after another, huge in scale.
To be honest, in the past Jiangbei Expedition, the wealthy families from all over the country were like sending beggars, giving three melons and two dates, recruiting a few soldiers and sending them to the court, and that was basically it.
But this time the "Northern Expedition" was generally quite generous. It almost returned to the situation when the Jin Dynasty was still there, when various wealthy families honestly pooled money and provided food, cloth, and silk to Luoyang, and it was even more so.
Shan Xia Shan Yanlin brought five thousand forbidden troops ashore in Hefei.
He was followed by more than 16,000 navy and army sergeants from the Xiyang King Sima Kang tribe, including 10,000 navy, 5,000 infantry, 1,000 cavalry, and hundreds of personal soldiers.
The composition of the force is still so top-heavy.
I can only think on the bright side. During Sun Quan's time, it was common practice for navy troops to go ashore and serve as infantry, but it was obviously not as professional as real infantry. It was extremely difficult to attack Hefei, which was guarded by thousands of people.
There are still 6,000 people from Sima Yi tribe stationed on Chao Lake. There is no other way. The ship is too big and it is a bit risky to enter the Nanfei River rashly. I will stay behind to transfer grain, grass and military supplies.
The 5,000 imperial troops of the Shanya Division are all infantry. They are well-trained, well-equipped, and have been in the army for a long time. However, they have a huge shortcoming: they have little war experience.
This kind of army has very obvious advantages and disadvantages, and Shao Thief scratched his head after seeing it.
Shanya didn't stay long in Hefei.
He organized all the large navy ships into a group, including the ships stranded in Pitang and rivers near Hefei, and put them under the command of the veteran general Ju Rong Xuchao. There were a total of 12,000 navy ships to protect the Chaohu and Hefei front lines and provide support. still The troops rushing here - Xu Dynasty used to be Zhou Fang and Gan Zhuo's generals. After the two died of illness, they were transferred to Dongguan Water and Land Governor. His family was originally from Runan. During the reign of Emperor Zhongping of Han Ling, he moved south to Jiangdong. His wife Ge is Ge Hong's sister.
On the fifth day of June, Shanya arrived near Chengde County.
At this time, there were no fewer than 35,000 land and sea troops of Jin gathered here.
"Meet the Governor." When they boarded the temporary high platform, all the generals came to pay their respects.
Shan Ya glanced at it and suddenly felt a heroic spirit.
First, though, he needs to solve real problems.
"The ancestors are in Chengde?" Shan Ya asked, looking at the slightly dilapidated city.
"Grand Governor, Zuyue's troops should be no less than 10,000 people, divided into two places: inside the city and outside the city." Lu Wan pointed to the distance and introduced: "There is a camp in the east of the city, about 5,000 people. There are slightly more soldiers in the city. It should be between 5,000 and 7,000. The city and the camp supported each other, and they were attacked at the end of the day. After several battles, they failed to take advantage."
"I think back when our ancestor Shizhi recruited refugees and smelted weapons in Huaiyin, many people laughed at him at that time." Shan Ya sighed: "But over the years, his troops have become elite and dare to fight, and they are like a strong army. Shiyao, I got a soldier from Luoyang. The book of war was written by the Shao thief Written and awarded to the disciples of various martial arts professors, there are many remarkable things in it. When Shao thieves fight, they must know the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and ourselves. Looking at it now, where is the strength of the ancestors and where is the weakness of our army? ?”
Lu Wan thought for a while and said: "The soldiers of our ancestors have been fighting for many years, and this one is the strongest."
"The troops are well equipped with gold and drums, and their orders are strict. They are the second strongest."
"Zu Yue is good at bewitching the soldiers, so his morale is still strong. These are the three strongest men."
"Most of the family members of the ancestral sergeants live in Xuzhou, so this one is weak."
"The ancestral army is cramped in one place and has insufficient resources and supplies. These two are weak."
"The ancestors' soldiers made chaos for no reason and acted rebelliously. No one in the counties and common people responded. These are the three weak points."
After hearing this, Shan Ya felt that it was quite similar, so he praised: "Shi Yao is really a good general."
"The strength of our army lies in its famous divisions, the strength of its navy, and its sufficient resources." Lu Wan continued: "The weakness of our army lies in its infantry——
"The first one is 'a lot of bad habits.' The soldiers are not afraid of fighting, and their skills are remarkable. However, the stragglers have a lot of bad habits and must be vigorously rectified."
"The second one is 'not under each other'. There are two thousand in Part A, three thousand in Part B, and four thousand in Part C, all gathered together. There are different pronunciations for ten miles south of the Yangtze River, and different customs for hundreds of miles. It is so scattered that it is difficult to work together. The war went smoothly. Sometimes they fight indiscriminately, but when the war goes against them, they disperse in a hurry, with no one to stop them, and they are like a rabble."
"The third one is 'too few battles'. The imperial ministers sit quietly in Jianye, talking all day long and not doing their jobs. For many years, Jianghuai has relied on plundering refugees into armies and making them work for their lives, but they have ignored them, just like in Jiangbei. This is the land of Huawai. If things go on like this, Zu Yue and others will do the opposite. This is what Tai Ah is doing."
After listening to this, Shan Ya felt as if he had been struck by lightning and was speechless for a long time.
After hearing this, Sima Yi smiled bitterly and said: "What Shi Yao said is not without purpose, but it is serious, but I don't know how Sun Wu dealt with it?"
"In the spring of the 22nd year of Jian'an in the Han Dynasty, Danyang bandit commander Fei Zhan (formerly the leader of Shanyue) received the seal of Cao Cao and incited Shanyue, thinking that he was an internal response, and attacked Cao's army from the north and south. After Cao's army returned without success, Sun Zhongmou sent my uncle (Lu Xun) and Kuaiji to congratulate him. Gongmiao (He Qi) led the army to conquer, destroyed the waste stacks, captured the evil people in the mountains, and used the strong as soldiers and the weak to supplement the households, and gained tens of thousands of elite soldiers. "
"The previous year, the commander of Yue Zong in Poyang Mountain suddenly received the seal of Cao Cao, and the people of Shanyue in all counties responded. It was also my uncle and He Gongmiao who fought for peace and won eight thousand troops."
"Farther afield, Zhou Gongjin took the six counties east of the Yangtze River to command the millions of people in China, and his army had many mountains and mountains."
Sima Yi understood it as soon as he heard it.
At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, if any powerful family had the strongest power, it would definitely be Soochow.
Sun Ce and Sun Quan wanted to organize their own armies, but they suffered from insufficient household registration. Therefore, when they could not directly seize the Dingkou of the wealthy family, it became inevitable to conquer Shanyue.
Because Shanyue "has no owner", whoever grabs it will get it, which is equivalent to the Sun family and Jiangdong's wealthy families sending troops together to "divide the spoils" after victory.
An army formed from the mountains, strictly organized and trained, this is Sun's own army and has nothing to do with the wealthy family. Of course, in the end of Soochow I, such an army was still too small, and in the end they were not able to suppress the old Jiangdong tribe, but it was indeed an idea.
Lu Wan mentioned this matter to tell them that today's northern refugees are the former "Shanyue" and are the only household registrations that the Jin Dynasty can control. However, you are indifferent and stop them in Jiangbei, leaving them to be consumed by the Shao thieves. His dirty thoughts were totally wrong.
Fortunately, things have changed now.
The rise of Qiaojun and Qiaoxian showed that the court began to take this issue seriously.
As time goes by, the weak and weak among the refugees will be registered and turned into household registrations that provide supplies for the court; the strong will be organized into an army, rigorously trained, and equipped with sophisticated equipment, and they may become an army that sweeps across the Northland in the future. , the powerful Beifu team that defeated the Puppet Liang.
I just didn't expect that Soochow had been subjugated for decades, and now the Jin Dynasty, which had established its capital in Ye, was still facing the same situation as Soochow and had to follow the same old path.
"This matter will be discussed later." Shan Ya came forward to end the discussion and asked instead: "How to defeat the enemy now?"
Lu Wan thought for a while and sighed: "The navy can't break the city. If we attack by force, we will only lose our troops and generals. When the army comes to cover us up, it may be disadvantageous."
"What? Where did this army come from?" Shan Ya asked in shock.
"The last general captured a few ancestral soldiers who were out collecting firewood yesterday, only to find out that Shao soldiers had crossed the Huai River and were stationed in Shouchun." Lu Wan said.
"How powerful is Shao Bing?"
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"Some say 20,000 to 30,000, some say 30,000 to 50,000, and some even say that Shao Bing has no less than 100,000 soldiers."
"Why so many?" Shan Ya became uneasy.
Even if it is calculated as a minimum of 20,000 people, it is enough to determine the outcome of the entire war.
Just as Lu Wan said, even if you put all the 30,000 to 40,000 land and sea troops in front of you and besiege Chengde County, you may not be able to defeat it. When the old soldiers in the division were tired, Shao Bing went south from Shouchun. It was not difficult to win by cooperating with the inside and outside.
He suddenly felt that the prospects for this battle were bleak.
"Grand Governor, it is not without a chance of victory." Sima Yan saw Shanya with an ugly face and said with relief: "Su Shigao and Liu Yueshi are all the way..."
Shan Ya's face softened slightly, but he was still worried.
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There were actually three thousand ancestral soldiers near Shouchun, but they were sent out by Zhang Shuo: they were led by Zu Huan and headed eastward to collect grain and grass.
In fact, there is not much hope. Foreign troops like the Zu family army may not be able to make the counties that Zhengying City protects themselves surrender, even if they pull out the tiger skin of Daliang.
Zhang Shuo has been in Shouchun for several days.
He counted the troops and horses on hand, roughly——
The Yinqianzhong camp has six thousand troops stationed in Shouchun City;
Four thousand proton troops deployed at Bagong Mountain;
Zuo Feilongwei's 4,800 troops have completed crossing the river and are stationed outside Shouchun City.
Serving these 15,000 people are more than 10,000 young people from the five counties of Ruyin, Chen, Liang, Nandun and Xincai.
In addition, three thousand people from Fu Hong's tribe took over the defense of Shishan in East and West Erxia;
Zuo Feilongwei's 4,800 men marched eastward to Wokou to monitor the direction of Yicheng - Huainan County has three counties on the north bank of the Huai River, namely Xiacai, Ping'a, and Yicheng. Among them, Xiacai and Ping'a have been serving for many years. The fight had long been abandoned by the Wu soldiers and the people had been relocated, but Yicheng County was still in their hands.
In the end, there were thousands of naval forces, but Zhang Shuo didn't pay attention to them at all, because Yang Bao was so cowardly that he only dared to put stakes in the river instead of actively looking for Jiangdong naval forces to fight.
On the fifth day of June, after receiving news of the battles between Hubingtang and Chengde, he had a rough idea of the opponent's strength.
In the afternoon of the same day, he left General Xu Lang of Zuo Feilong Guard to guard Shouchun, and Lieutenant Commander Yang Bao of the Navy Army. He led the entire Silver Spear Battalion of 6,000 men, the Proton Army of 1,000 men, the Zuo Feilong Guard Division of 1,200 men, and all the troops. There were 7,000 strong men in the county, and a total of 15,000 cavalry rushed southward, rushing towards Chengde to help Zu Yue.
The next day after he left, a large fleet sailed on the Huai River.
There were no less than five hundred ships, large and small, following the southeast wind, using both oars and sails, and sailing upstream with great momentum.
On the early morning of the sixth day of the lunar month, the vanguard fleet arrived near the mouth of the vortex.
In the drizzle, the thick crossbow arrows flew with great force towards the sergeants of Zuo Feilong Weiyanggu and Erlong Xiangfu of Hexiang who were camped near the mouth of the vortex.
Chen Yingen, the governor of the Hexiang tribe who was stationed here, was furious.
But the thieves didn't come ashore to fight them, so they had no choice but to pass the news on as quickly as possible.
After noon on the seventh day of the lunar month, the Jin navy's vanguard arrived near Bagong Mountain.
On the wide river, the sound of drums rumbled endlessly.
When they were approaching the barrage, several stern boats came forward, tied thick ropes to the wooden piles, and then dragged them downstream, trying to remove this water obstacle at Feikou.
Not long after, Jin general Han Huang led 3,000 men, and under the cover of the navy, landed on the south bank and advanced towards Bagong Mountain.
At the same time, Tong Jian led 3,000 people to the north bank and landed near Xiacai County, which had mostly collapsed.
Almost instantly, the battle in Shouchun Sakon started.
Liang Jun, who was accustomed to fighting in the north, encountered an army with a very different style.
(End of chapter)