"Next, if Wang Yong, the Lord of Shu, goes to Yuzhou to gather troops and horses as agreed, Jinling should not dare to make any changes. However, Han Qian is still too soft-hearted, knowing that Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan were expelled

They would surrender to the Mongol people, but they did not ask Li Zhigao to hand them over..."

"Sometimes being kind and soft-hearted is not a bad thing," Han Wenhuan said with a smile, "Chai Jian has always been closer to Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan, but it is impossible for him to work with Li Zhigao to send his son Chai Zhi to Luoyang.

There’s no trade-off…”

Of course Feng Yi knew these truths, but he just saw people like Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan jumping around again and again, which made him feel quite bored. He smiled and said to Han Wenhuan: "You are so proud. You are now the leader."

The great emperor is the lord of the kingdom..."

Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, founded the country and respected his father Liu Taigong as the Supreme Emperor. Only then did he officially have the titles of Supreme Emperor and Supreme Leader of the country. However, there is no precedent in history for his grandson to be the emperor or the leader of the country while his grandfather is still alive.

However, Han Wenhuan must be given a serious and upright title. It seems that Feng Yi just used the term "Taihuang Taishang Lord" at this time.

"You little naughty boy!" Han Wenhuan laughed.

Liangzhou is stable, Shu is stable, Tiancheng sends envoy to Shu

After entering the country, after receiving the news, he rushed directly to Xuzhou to take charge. The brutal first stage of the Yiluo River Defense War was also over. Even though everyone was under house arrest in the Han Mansion with a radius of a hundred steps, they were not allowed to be free.

But there was no uneasiness.

"What Han Qian means is that no matter what demands Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and the others put forward, we can negotiate now, and we have to negotiate to buy time," Feng Yi said while drinking tea, "As long as we wait until the flood season of the Yu River comes, Heluo can If we can get another four to five months of respite, then we can talk about whether Jin Ling loves to talk about it or not..."

"Xiao Yiqing may have regretted that Liang Shixiong dug the Yuhe River embankment in the east of Xingyang." Wen Ruilin was sitting under Feng Yi. Although he was still a little unnatural in his thoughts, he still tried his best to catch up with Feng Yi. Follow their words.

"So, we still have to thank Xiao Yiqing!" Feng Yi smiled heartlessly.

The Yu River broke its banks and invaded the Shaying River to the south, forming a large floodplain area in the middle and lower reaches of the Jialu River and both sides of the Shaying River. After the weather warmed up in the southern plain of the Yu River in mid-February, it became completely muddy.

Although there was still a period of ice-free period before, the time was too short to allow the Dongliang Army to launch a large-scale westward invasion offensive from the east of Yingshui River.

This made the first stage of the Heluo Defense War directly restrict the Dongliang Army from using troops from Xingyang, Bianliang, Bozhou, Fuyang and other places to attack the west bank of Yingshui River.

In fact, until the end of October and the beginning of November, before Yingshui completely freezes again, Lin Haizheng, Yang Qin and others, who are currently mainly in charge of the eastern defense in Xiacai and Linhao, only need to lead the elite Xiacai Xingying Army to hold the Xiacai defense line. Can.

Although the Xiacai defense line protrudes east of Yingshui River and north of Huaihe River, it has formed a complete defense system of Chengzhaigouhao. With the help of the natural dangers in the middle reaches of Huaihe River, there are 30,000 water camp infantry. Although it will be very difficult, it can be Reluctantly, Xu Si's army and Shouzhou army, which had several times the number of troops, were blocked to the north of the Huaihe River. It was difficult to take a step forward, and the Yingshui River and the middle reaches of the Huaihe River were protected.

Otherwise, in front of the Dongliang Army, which can mobilize more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, Cai Xingying's enlarged army, which has less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the more than 10,000 Old Liang Army stationed in Xuchen and other places, will not be able to do anything. It is impossible to defend this thousand-mile defense line from Xinzheng along the Jialu River to the Shaying River, and then from Shouchun to the west bank of Hongzepu without leakage.

However, along the west bank of Yingshui River, it was also the key flank of Xinliang Kingdom.

Xu Ru Cai Ying not only has millions of people living there and reproducing, but it is also the hub linking Jingxiang, Heluo and Huaixi.

Not only can this area not be occupied or cut by the enemy, it can even be penetrated by the enemy, which will directly affect the transportation of people, horses and supplies. The Songshan Plank Road is equivalent to being cut off.

The negative impact this had on the Heluo War was quite fatal.

At that time, Han Qian would have to deploy troops and horses from Huaixi to strengthen the defense of this area.

The defense lines along the Yingshui and Jialu Rivers are too long, and it is not enough to mobilize 10,000 or 20,000 troops and horses.

It has been dragging on for nearly a month, and Chu Ting has just put everyone under house arrest here without any embarrassment, nor has it revealed any clear intention to declare war on Xinliang or to take back Huaixi.

In addition to the time required for Chu Ting to adjust the military deployment near the capital and mobilize the state troops in Jiangdong, the more important thing is that in addition to the expansion of eight brigades stationed in Xichuan, Pingjing north of Suiyang, Donghu, Chuzhou, and Xiacai In addition to the 60,000 elite infantrymen, after the troops and horses of Chishanhui were assembled, the naval force assembled in Donghu and Tangyi alone exceeded 40,000 people.

Strong and callable military power is the most effective tranquilizer. Not only Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and others are currently silent. Although Yang Yuanyan in Chuzhou is gathering troops in the area between Fanliang Lake and Hongzepu, It has not crossed the border between Chuzhou and Chuzhou yet.

Of course, after Liang Shixiong excavated the Yu River embankment, the Yu River diverted the Huai River and flowed into the sea. As a result, a large area between Fanliang Lake and Hongzepu was flooded last summer and autumn, and a large number of roads and bridges were washed away. This is why Yang Yuanyan cannot A key reason why he dared to easily send troops to invade Chuzhou.

Han Daoming, Qin Wen, and Wen Ruilin speculated that Yang Yuanyan did not want to send troops at this time, nor was he completely concerned that Chu Ting had not made a final decision. It was actually the poor road conditions between Chuzhou and Chuzhou, as well as this summer and autumn this year. There is a high probability that the area will be flooded again, which will block his retreat and make him afraid to leave Chu Ting and use troops against Huaixi alone.

And if there were no flood plains ranging from 30 to 50 or even 70 to 80 miles wide on both sides of the Yingshui River, Xinliang would be forced to deploy 50,000 or more elite combat troops from Huaixi to the areas along the Yingshui River to participate in the defense. .

By that time, let alone Yang Yuan, you can think of Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Zhang Chao, and even Zheng Chang, Zheng Yu, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu, etc., all of them will be eager to send troops to take back Huaixi; The change in attitude of Liangzhou and Shu was also difficult to play a key role.

At present, more than 700 miles along the Jialu River and Shaying River have become floodplains. This is actually equivalent to helping the New Liang Kingdom shorten its defense line by more than 700 miles outside the short ice period. In addition, it also connects the southern line with Chu Ting The focus of the confrontation was concentrated on the Yangtze River waterway, which restricted Chuzhou's land-based military communications with Huaixi.

Otherwise, he would be surrounded by enemies on three sides, and no matter how powerful Han Qian was, it would be difficult to mobilize his troops.

If we are forced to compromise with Chu Ting at that time, the concessions and sacrifices we have to make will be too great.

At that time, it would be useless even if the Empress Dowager Changxin was completely on their side. After all, the Empress Dowager Changxin could not go against the will of the Chu court officials.

However, the Empress Dowager Changxin could not reverse the will of the ministers, so she secretly kept Cai Chen and Lei Cheng by her side and did not complete the matter.

Han Daoming said with emotion: "Xiao Yiqing's plan was good, but he didn't think enough of Emperor Liang Zhu Yu. Of course, we also far underestimated Zhu Yu's ambition..."

They were under house arrest in the mansion and had nothing else to do in the past month. In their spare time, they repeatedly considered the situation in Hehuai and clarified the many complicated situations. They knew that if Zhu Yu hadn't been broad-minded enough, , and decisive enough, otherwise none of them would be able to defeat the overall situation that Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing have set up in Hehuai in the past two years.

It was precisely Zhu Yu's plan that others could not plan and defeat that others could not defeat, which was why Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing made many seemingly brilliant arrangements, such as breaking the Yu River embankment, and temporarily ordering Liang Shixiong's remaining troops to leave Luoyang. The withdrawal of Yanshi, etc., in turn, became a favorable factor for this side.
Chapter completed!