The momentum of the Han army's southward movement did not seem huge, at least it was much smaller than the movement of Shijie Zhao State in previous years. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There are many reasons why the Han State decided to invade the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty this time, mainly when the Han State was at war with the Shijie Zhao State, the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty repeatedly ran around as the leader to contact the Zhuhu Union, and even took advantage of the decisive battle between the Han army and the Shijie Zhao State to sneak attack the rear, more often the Han army would come out to pick up the cheap every time the Han army attacked a certain state of the Shijie Zhao State, and even so serious that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty used the advantage of public opinion to constantly provoke the stability of the Han border.

In the eyes of the world, there is only one reason why the Han army went south, that is, about the competition for the status of Zhengshuo, even the various lords and families in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty thought so, and did not think that it would be a war to destroy the country.

The Han army was divided into three ways to approach the national border of the small imperial court, with Jiangdu as the center in the east to threaten Yangzhou, the central part to approach Shouchun with Ruyin County as the garrison point, and the south county as the garrison point to put on a posture of entering Jiangzhou.

Among them, the number of Han troops in Ruyin County is the largest, Xu Zhengqin led 110,000 people to Lianke City, which is only 20 miles away from Shouchun, and has conquered Wukou, Ping'a, Xia Cai and Matou, they are across the river from the Jin army that defended Shouchun.

The Han army in the Jiangdu part only had 40,000 troops, not counting the fleet, with Xie Ai as the main general, and they had destroyed the Jin army's naval division in Jingkou, the garrison of the Yangtze River, under their repeated attacks, and tried to land many times and were temporarily stopped by a depth of more than 30 miles.

The chief of Ruyin County was Huan Wen, and Xie Ai, who returned from the grassland, was appointed as a deputy general. There are only 30,000 Han troops in this part, and they have already reached Yunmengze at this stage, and the next stage should be to march into Nanping County.

Because there is a defensive chain thirty miles deep on the Jiankang side, which is still a defensive chain established by the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in almost four years, and the number of Han troops that can land and fight on this side is only 40,000, the small court does not think that it will be the main direction of attack of the Han army.

The number of Han troops on the Nanjun side is even less, only 30,000, and then Nanjun is a little far away from the capital of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so the Han army on this road belongs to the partial division at a glance.

However, there were a large number of Han troops in Ruyin County, and it was Xu Zheng, the general of the Han State who led the army, which led the world to generally believe that the main direction of attack of the Han army was here.

After a year or two of all-out preparations, the regular army of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty increased from 200,000 to 360,000.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty placed 100,000 on the side of thirty miles deep, and there will be so many that this side is the gateway to Jiankang, even if the Han army does not have many troops here, it really cannot be less.

Of the remaining 260,000, 150,000 were stationed in Shouchun and the surrounding areas by Xie Shi as a commander, and the rest were mainly distributed in Yangzhou, and a small part was scattered in Jiangzhou. For the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the country is large but there is not much essence, Jingzhou is the essence part, but it is secondary compared with Yangzhou.

Because they didn't think that the invasion of the Han Kingdom was a war to destroy the country, the mainstream concept of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was that as long as Yangzhou was firmly defended. If you can block the Han army's troops on Yangzhou's side, the rest of the fallen territories will be able to go back sooner or later, and once Yangzhou is finished, the rest of the states will not have to defend at all.

Xie Shi's defensive methods were very realistic, and he built a defense line through the favorable terrain around the south bank of the river, among which the defense line of Bagong Mountain was the most important. In the Huainan part, some troops were scattered to use boats and boats to maneuver, and if possible, they would attack and harass the Han army, but the relatively fierce fighting on this side was now on the edge of many tributaries of Huaishui, Yingshui, and Weishui.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had already discovered that Han ships often appeared on the sea east of Yangzhou, and they could imagine that the Han army was planning to land and fight, but to tell the truth, they did not necessarily attach much importance to it, because they believed that even if the Han army landed on the coastline, it could only be harassed and destroyed, and could not play a greater role at all.

Looking north from the head of Shouchun City, the mountains block the view and cannot see the camp of the Han army, but at night, you can see the clouds reflected by the light of the fire, which shows how big the camp of the Han army is.

Xie Shi invited Yu Yi to Bagong Mountain. He hasn't gotten an answer from Yu Yi's mouth, whether the Yu clan is watching or jumping, and Yu Yi always smiles and doesn't speak when asked.

Bagong Mountain is composed of many large and small peaks, it is one of the remaining veins of Dabie Mountain, the mountain range extends from north to south, the elevation of the peaks is mostly about 100 meters to 200 meters, there are more than 40 peaks and peaks in the number of people, the highest altitude is 241 meters of the peak called Bai'e Mountain.

In fact, the area of Bagong Mountain is very extensive, so it seems that there are fortifications built by the Jin army everywhere. Standing on the front of the peaks and mountains to the north, you can see the general distribution of the barracks of the Han army by taking advantage of the height of the terrain, and the relationship that is far away can only see the barracks, and the people look like some small black spots.

"There are more than 10,000 Han troops on this side, and they are commanded by a Han army general named Si Hongzhuang." Xie Shi raised his hand and pointed to the Han army's camp, then pointed to a slightly closer position, and said: "The Han army has tried to attack many times, and I have to admit that they can indeed fight, and there are not many fortifications left in the front line of our army. ”

Bagong Mountain is located on the northeast side of Shouchun, it does not belong to the position of the first line of the Huai River, it should be the periphery of the Huai River.

The Han army had already crossed the Huai River, and as a background was that the Jin army had no water army in the Huai River, and some of them were destroyed, and what was not sunk was to retreat to Shaobei.

From afar, with Yu Yi's eyes, he could see the movement on the Huai River, where there was no shortage of Han boats, and there were several places where he could see what seemed to be being transported.

"Yes......" Xie Shi said with a sad face: "The water war of the Han Kingdom is not good, but there are really too many of them. They used enough of their advantages to force us to retreat and make full use of the various water systems to continuously transport supplies. ”

In the past, it was not that there was no army to invade the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, such as Shijie Zhao State went south many times, but the Hu people were not good at water warfare, and the Jin army was always able to entangle with it in places with dense water networks, even if there were many cities conquered by the Shijie Zhao army, but the Jin army always used the skills of attacking the grain road of the Shijie Zhao army to force it to retreat, and then easily recaptured those fallen cities.

This time, the Jin army faced a terrible number of Han troops in water warfare, and the problem was that there were terrible Han troops. The two sides had the advantage of the Jin army's battle loss ratio in the water battle, and the data was that the Han army lost at least three warships in order to exchange for one Jin army's naval division, and the result was that the Jin army's naval division was difficult to fight again in the continuous victory.

"It should be said that the warships of the Han army are very sharp, but the combat skills are almost none." Xie Shi felt that this was the one who was aggrieved, and he smiled bitterly and said, "We are completely overwhelmed by the number and can't fight anymore." ”

"The Han Kingdom is now at war in many places, there are more than 200,000 Han troops in the south, as many as 400,000 Han troops fighting with Shijie, nearly 50,000 Han troops left in Bashu, 30,000 garrisons in Guanzhong, and 70,000 Han troops in Liaodong and Yan ,......" Yu Yi wanted to express a meaning: "If it is in terms of fighting attrition, the land army of the Han army can still be piled up in numbers." In other words, after losing the advantage of the water network, Yi was very suspicious that the Han army did not need to pile up with numbers at all. ”

Xie Shi wanted to ask, "This is the reason why the Yu family gate valve is watching or preparing to jump back?" But those words were not suitable to ask at all, he said: "There have been many battles, and Shi is very clear about the combat effectiveness of the Han army. ”

In the past, even after the Han army officially invaded the south, the battle loss ratio between the Han army and the Jin army on each front should be, and the Jin army could only fight out one Han army if it lost two people. And this battle loss ratio was played by the Jin army as the defending side, using all kinds of time, location, and people.

The Han army is really fierce, but the question is can the Jin army not fight? In the face of the strong invasion of the Han army, he knew that he would fight if he couldn't defeat the Jin army, and even the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty should do its best to resist, all because the gate lords and the family did not want to be included in the rule of the Han State.

Xie Shi was doubting what conditions Liu Yan, the king of Han, had given the Yu clan gate valve, causing Yu Yi to have such an attitude after the war broke out between the two sides. If Liu Yan is willing to preserve the strength of the Yu clan's gate valve, then Xie Shi said that the Xie clan gate valve is also willing to rebel, after all, as long as the interests are guaranteed, whoever is the ruler above his head is the same.

"Wing has never seen King Han at all." Yu Yi looked like he didn't believe it or not, and said very casually: "I was unloaded and killed a donkey, and I feel that my hard work is worthless." ”

Xie Shi immediately frowned.

It is a common practice for the Yu gate valve to be suppressed, just as the Wang gate valve was also suppressed after the death of Wang Dao, every era has a stage that belongs to the contemporary protagonist, and the old protagonist does not decline...... At least it looks weak on the surface, so how can the latecomers emerge?

Xie Shi frowned, it was the demeanor of the Yu family gate valve that was worse than the Wang family door valve, and he thought that the Wang family gate valve was suppressed at the beginning, and it was very free and easy, because in this way, there was a re-emergence of the new generation of Wang family figures, such as Wang Xizhi was blown into the ......sky, of course, Wang Xizhi can really be called a saint in calligraphy.

Yu Yi's approach is completely ruthless and one-time absolute, which makes people suspect that the Yu clan gate valve does not believe that the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty will continue to exist.

It is said that it is the Yu family gate valve instead of the Yu wing, it is impossible for the gate valve to be the master alone, and the head of the family has the absolute right to speak, but the major event has to open a clan meeting, and many elders will discuss and vote, not the head of the family alone.

For Yu Yi to say that he has not seen Liu Yan, the king of Han, no matter whether others believe it or not, Xie Shi doesn't believe it anyway.

Xie Shi recently discovered the resoluteness of the Han army's invasion, breaking the tacit understanding and rules between the families and writing a letter to Xie An, in which he asked Xie An a lot of questions, stating that even if Xie An was separated and developed on his own, Xie An was still a member of the Xie family and should have due obligations to the Xie family.

Xie An was on the Shouchun battlefield, Xie Shi didn't know which aspect Xie An was responsible for, the letter had already been sent, but it had been almost a month and there had been no reply.

Xie Shi walked around the various defense lines with Yu Yi, during which he also encountered the attack of the Han army, they were far away to watch, and a mountain attack and defense battle ended with the Han army retreating on its own initiative after only a short time.

The attacking Han army was only 1,000, and the soldiers were all light infantry, and the Jin army they attacked on a hill, and the two sides fought from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain. This time, the Han army did not carry out a long-term arrow array coverage in advance, and the Jin army shot a few waves and stopped, and the figures of hand-to-hand combat were all over the mountainside, and it only took less than a quarter of an hour for the Han army to sound the sound of gold.

"The Han army retreated in an orderly manner. It's just ......" Yu Yi's face was a little strange: "It's just that it doesn't look like it's an old army?" ”

People who are no strangers to war can see a lot from the actions of the troops, which is about the spirit of an army, and to put it bluntly, it is the soul of the army or something.

"The recent temptations of the Han army have become more frequent, and they are becoming more and more familiar with mountain warfare......" Xie Shi looked a little incomprehensible, and said to Yu Yi: "Frequent temptations mean that the Han army will soon launch a real offensive." ”

Yu Yi just smiled, he was waiting for Xie Shi's next words.

"Duke Yu is going to the barracks of the Han army, can you do Shi a favor?" Xie Shi didn't wait for Yu Yi to respond, and said directly: "Shi wrote a letter to Xu Zheng and invited the meeting to hunt on the west bank of the river, presumably they really want such a thing to happen, right?" ”

It can be said that Yu Yi was stunned, everyone knew that the Han army was fierce, but the Jin army wanted to have a dignified battle, so they would feel that something was wrong.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has an absolute geographical advantage, and there is no reason to give up those advantages, so Xie Shi's intentions will seem very strange.

Yu Yi looked at Xie Shi with a suspicious gaze, but saw that Xie Shi continued to smile bitterly. "What's the use?" he asked. ”

If Xie Shi planned to take the 150,000 Jin troops on Shouchun's side to fight with the Han army, and Xu Zheng agreed, it would mean that the Han army should dismantle the camp and retreat at least fifteen miles, so as to make enough space for the 150,000 Jin army to set up a position.

Looking at the terrain on the west bank of the river, there are also large and small mountains everywhere, but it is not the terrain of a flat river, and it is completely impossible for the 150,000 Jin army and more than 100,000 Han troops to put up a formation, so the hunting is still carried out in the mountains.

"Does the Yu Gong Gang help?" Xie Shi tried to behave as casually as possible, and said, "It's just a letter......

With the previous friendship between the Xie family and the Yu family, it was simply a matter of helping to bring a letter by the way.

At present, the relationship between the Xie family and the Yu family is not good, who let the Xie family and the Chu family work together to suppress the Yu family. Yu Yi must have had a good intention when he came to Shouchun to find Xie Shi, but he didn't say it when the time came.

Xie Shi turned his back to Yu Yi, and the ease on his face turned to nervousness.

As for what he can hunt, it's not that Xie Shi has been thinking about it for a day or two, it's one thing for him to send someone over to hand over the letter, but it's different for Yu Yi to bring him over, so he thinks that whether Yu Yi is willing to help or not is the key, and it is the turning point that determines this war.

"Hmm......" Yu Yi groaned for a while, waiting for Xie Shi to turn around and look over, he laughed "haha", as if he was talking to himself: "Help, or not help?" ”