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Chapter 555: Sending troops late at night(2/2)

Chuzhou City, forty miles away to the north of Tingzi Mountain, is backed by the peaks and ridges of the southern section of the Wijian Mountains. It is further north than Chaozhou City in terms of terrain - the Yangtze River waterway runs from Jiangzhou to the east, running from southwest to northeast.

The angle flow direction makes Chuzhou City in the east much closer to the Yangtze River coastline, but in terms of orientation, it is further north than Chaozhou City. Therefore, after they occupy Chuzhou City, they will not receive support from Dasi Mountain.

It is too far away, but it can peek behind Chaozhou, threatening the enemy's communication between Chaozhou and Shouzhou.

At this time, relying on the protection of Chuzhou City, the Tangyi Army's line defense along the north bank of the Yangtze River can stride forward from Dasi Mountain and extend to the Qingcang Mountain in Liyang County to the west, which can actually seal off the enemy.

The passage from the area east of Chaohu Lake to the Yangtze River in the south.

But the biggest problem is that even if the main force of the Shouzhou Army in Chaozhou City is restrained by Li Zhigao from the southwest, there are still 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses on its northern line heading south from Zhongli or through Mopan Valley and Yongyang.

How many soldiers and horses can Han Qian have to defend Chuzhou City at this time?

This is still the dilemma that Liang Jun faces if the main force does not adjust its strategic deployment.

In addition to defending Chuzhou City, Han Qian had a more feasible alternative.

That is to abandon Chuzhou City and copy the mountain-as-city strategy originally implemented in Maoshan to the Wijianshan Mountains.

In that case, as long as the Tangyi camp army has an elite force of 3,000 to 5,000 people, operating within the Wijian Mountains without being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, it can greatly contain the enemy's activities in Chaozhou and the northern part of Chuzhou.

, significantly weakening their control over this area, they can also achieve the purpose they envisioned.

The problem is that among the remnant soldiers who have retreated to the peaks of the southern section of the Wujian Mountains at this time, it is difficult to imagine that Li Xiu and Li Qi's troops will obey his instructions. They are mainly cavalry. As long as they find a gap, they can attack at any time.

It would not be particularly difficult to evacuate to the north bank of the Yangtze River as quickly as possible, or even cross Chaozhou to meet Li Zhigao in Shuzhou.

The cavalry is still the strongest mobile combat force in the world.

The other remnants were mainly the remnants of the Zuo Wu Ya Army Navy. The morale of the generals was extremely poor, they were eager to retreat south, and they were not good at fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains. Han Qian wanted to withdraw them and incorporate them into the navy, and also dispatched an elite group to the Wu Ya Army.

Jianshan, the number of troops maintained in Wajianshan is no less than 3,000.

In addition, the defenders accompanying Chuzhou Governor Wei Zhen to defend Chuzhou City at this time were a headache for Han Qian.

After the recapture of Chuzhou City, all the local households had long since fled. After Wei Zhen took office, he did not directly recruit the refugees to resume farming. Instead, he gathered a large number of children from the Gyeonggi sect to cross the river to occupy the fields, and then gathered them in a big way.

The refugees were sold or directly plundered into slaves of various families.

Since Chuzhou City is further north than Chaozhou, in addition to Li Pu, Chen Mingsheng led the main force of the right Shenwu Army to be stationed here to get a glimpse of the gap between Chaozhou and Shouzhou, and to protect the land route from Tangyi to Chaozhou Camp.

Outside the supply line, the state soldiers newly formed to maintain local security were mainly recruited from the children of the Dujiang clan or their family soldiers. The children of the clan were also willing to participate in this to cover their occupation of land, plunder of slaves and other things.

The Right Shenwu Army was brought to Zhongli by Chen Mingsheng and others and was annihilated. The defenders trapped in Chuzhou City at this time were, to put it bluntly, the direct descendants of the Gyeonggi clan. It was hard for Han Qian to imagine that under the leadership of Wei Zhen, they would be obedient to him.

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Han Qian had no intention of caring about the life and death of the Chuzhou garrison, but there were still almost 20,000 people in Chuzhou City at this time, mainly slaves that Wei Zhen and the Gyeonggi clan's descendants had plundered and sold from the refugees, but Han Qian was not reconciled to these people.

Dingdu fell into the hands of the Shouzhou army or was massacred.

Exit from the north gate of Tangyi City, go west for several miles, and then continue westward along the north bank of the Chu River. There are official roads extending all the way to Liyang County.

At this time, the sky is full of stars and moon, which is convenient for the infantry to march westward at night.

Before dawn tomorrow, there was no possibility of engaging the enemy's vanguard. Han Qian and the others were quite calm at this time, riding on horseback to discuss possible changes in the battle situation before and after entering Tingzi Mountain.

When discussing the matter of replacing the remnants of the navy from Wujianshan, Han Qian couldn't help but sigh:

"There are so many magical schemes in this world. Just like when I kept Wang Lin and didn't reveal his identity, I mainly wanted to use counterintuitive tactics. I thought I could use Wang Lin to spread fake news to confuse Chuzhou, but in fact Jinling

Too many things before and after the incident were unpredictable - the same goes for not revealing Wen Ruilin's identity. He thought that he would be able to use this secret move when confronting Liang Jun in the future, but he didn't expect that it would be self-defeating. Gao Chengyuan refused to enter Tangyi

He would rather die on the river than treat his wounds. He probably resented me very much when he was dying."

Zhou Pan and Chen Jingzhou also felt sorry for Gao Chengyuan's death, but they knew in their hearts that the main reason why the whole thing happened was Emperor Yanyou's unreasonable suspicion and precaution against Han Qian.

It is true that Han Qian is good at using dangerous tactics and taking deviant moves, but the problem is that several times when the situation is most critical, Han Qian has to use dangerous tactics and take deviated moves to reverse the crisis.

How could this be a reason for suspicion?

Not only Zhou Fang, but Chen Jingzhou also immediately chose to support Han Qian after receiving Zhou Fang's secret letter.

In fact, they were born as Shanzhai generals, and they were well aware of the attitude of the aristocratic clans towards them, and Emperor Yanyou did not trust them and was unwilling to use them to command the army.

Zhou Tan was in his prime, but Chen Jingzhou was over fifty years old. He was injured on the battlefield in his early years and suffered from hidden illnesses. His health was getting worse year by year. He was worried that one day he would die of illness and take office. Zhou Tan was a lonely tree and it was difficult to support him. Guangde Mansion's

The situation may repeat itself in Junzhou, and the copycat disciples who stayed in Junzhou will be bloody purged by the clan clans.
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