Yang Xin had to minimize the collateral losses of the war, so this battlefield could not be placed in a densely populated area.

Huaibei is the most suitable.

The Yellow River breach in Xuzhou has been blocked, but the city of Xuzhou has been basically buried by the sediment accumulated in the past two years, and it will definitely have to be rebuilt next, and from Xuzhou to the south to the Huai River, even the flood sweep and his migration before it, it can basically be said that it is sparsely populated......

Originally, there was not much population in that area.

The land that was swept away once as soon as the Yellow River burst had a few populations.

That area belongs to Fengyang Mansion.

The population of Fengyang Prefecture is only 1.2 million, and most of them are concentrated in Huainan, Huaibei is also in the Yingzhou area in the west, and Suzhou and other places south of Xuzhou are the flood discharge areas of the Yellow River, and the desertification areas where sediment accumulates after flooding again and again. There were more than 20 breaks in the Wanli years, and although he was the emperor for forty-eight years, on average, it was still less than one break in two years, and it was almost once a year in the year of the Apocalypse. Although there is an expert such as Pan Jitao, his control of water and sand is only effective for a short time, and it cannot change the trend of the Yellow River silting up and then the riverbed rising......

No one has recruited this.

Up to now, the south of Xuzhou and the north of the Huai River are completely for the Yellow River to play, and the city of Sizhou often makes fish swim in the city's boats and treetops.

Such a place is just suitable for use as a battlefield, otherwise those cavalry will lose a lot of money when they go south, not to mention the loss of crops by trampling on them, these guys have little discipline, especially the Mongol cavalry. If the battlefield is not limited, the two sides will definitely take Fengyang, Yangzhou, and Wuxi as the three main battlefields, the official army will attack Fengyang, Yang Xin will attack Yangzhou, and the eastern front will fight in Wuxi.

Fengyang is better, it is sparsely populated, but Yangzhou and Wuxi are real grain producing areas.

The cavalry swept and it was over.

For Yang Dudu, there is nothing more important than grain production at present, as long as grain production can be ensured, everything else is negotiable, and ......

"It's good for you!

Your cavalry likes this kind of battlefield, otherwise you will have to face the mountains in Huainan or the water network of Huaiyang, but in Huaibei, where it is almost a pure plain, your cavalry has an absolute advantage. ”

Yang Xin said.

Of course, it's just as good for him.

Because behind him is the Yangjiatun Reclamation District.

"Since the Duke of Yingguo has an order, how dare the lower officials disobey."

Lu Xiangsheng said.

Their advantage was cavalry.

Yang Xinsuo's department did not have a real cavalry army, only a cavalry brigade subordinate to the infantry army, which was actually equipped with infantry to fight, and the real elite was only the brigade of the Dangkou army.

But those don't work either.

This cavalry is not enough compared to those elites of Liaodong Hundred Battles, in essence, they are just apprentices of the latter, although the number one elite who went south this time is not the Cao Wenzhao Department, but whether it is Zu Dashou or Wu Xiang's subordinates, they are all elites. The remaining Luo Cheng and You Shiwei are not weaker than the former, and the gap between these elite cavalry in Liaodong is not very large, and they are all built with the support of Sun Chengzong's willing to spend money.

One cavalry bust, two short spears with repair tools, helmets with visor, war horses, knives and spears, etc., add up to more than fifty taels.

A cavalry army alone is equipped with 500,000 troops.

And that's not even counting military salaries and the like.

Sun Ge is kind!

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng didn't know that Sun Ge Lao had originally done 20,000 foot cavalry and 2 million a year in history.

Since Yang Xin wants to fight a decisive battle on the battlefield most suitable for cavalry, Lu Xiangsheng certainly welcomes it, he was originally worried that his huge cavalry army would be tied up in the Jiangnan water net! Now that Yang Xin has solved this problem for him himself, he can't ask for it!

"But your Zhejiang army also has to stop."

Plug Yinxi said.

The Zhejiang Front Army is attacking Huizhou, to Yang Xin's surprise, those big families in Huizhou rely on the abundance of silver, and they also quickly armed a regimental training headed by Jin Sheng, and then add the original Datong Army there is now Zhejiang regimental training, and defend the Zhejiang Front Army at Congshan Pass.

It was even supported by a group training team sent by Hangzhou.

But it's just a stubborn resistance.

After all, those Zhejiang regimental exercises were really driven to a dead end, and all the people there were really diehards, Jin Sheng himself was a lifter, he was the one who later scolded Hong Chengchou and said that Hong Chengchou had been martyred, what are you. The biggest problem there is not the tenants, in fact, there are not many tenants in Huizhou, and the vast majority of them are serfs. Their problem can be said to be more serious, as long as the Jingnan army crosses the Congshan Pass, then basically the serfs in the entire Huizhou will go crazy, so they must defend to the death.

"No, I can't.

In fact, you are not qualified to negotiate conditions, it will take at least a month for your cavalry to arrive, and the follow-up infantry will not be able to reach before May.

So I'm not going to attack there.

The final ownership of Susongjiahu and other places is determined by this battle between us, including Huaiyang, I will not attack that area, even if you transfer the regimental training to Huaibei, I will not take the opportunity to attack.

But.

Don't bother me to attack Zhejiang. ”

Yang Xin said.

Susongjiahu, including the Huaiyang area, is too densely populated, and there are too many textile workers, these workers are not very enthusiastic, after all, Yang Dudu's practice restricts the textile industry, although there are solutions, but at least for the textile workers of the third of the population in Suzhou, it is difficult to be as eager for Yang Dudu as tenant serfs.

The same goes for Matsue.

The Songjiang gentry, led by Xu Guangqi's family, had already begun to reduce rents, and they also knew that if they wanted to fight Yang Xin, they had to stabilize the rear first, and the developed industry and commerce gave the peasants many additional channels of income.

Their lives are not too bad.

After all, the entire battlefield was supplied there, nearly 100,000 officers and regiments on the Western Front were trained by the factories in Songjiang to provide military supplies, and all the gentry were increasing the number of factories with blood-red eyes, and the industrial boom brought economic prosperity, and the prosperous economy would seriously affect the rebellious enthusiasm of the peasants, which was simply the difference between Tsarist Russia and Britain.

It is possible that war will not be devastating.

And the population density in that area means that any war will cause a large number of deaths, and this kind of thing is not so easy to control, and Yang Dudu's men are not so disciplined that they sleep on the streets. So the best way there is not to turn it into a battlefield, and then use this gentleman's battle in Huaibei to decide, as long as Lu Xiangsheng fails, the gentry there will almost accept their fate. It is useless for them not to admit their fate, they have lost the support of the imperial court, and in the face of the torrent of the Jingnan army, they have only a dead end to resist, those gentry are very shrewd, surrender is just the loss of land, and if they do not surrender, there is nothing.

But Zhejiang is different.

The Ming Dynasty did have a developed textile industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but this Zhejiang is Jiahu Hangzhou, Shaoxing is not counted, and the vast majority of Zhejiang is still agriculture.

Beyond the triangle of Jiahuhang, there are countless ancient county towns and villages on small flatlands between the mountains, and in these counties and villages that were rarely affected by the war, those families that had survived from the Song Dynasty and even earlier, had a firm grip on everything with the tenant system. And it is not a serious tenant, the vast majority of them are tenants at various levels, that is, the situation of second landlord and third landlord, which is still a bad habit that has continued since the Southern Song Dynasty.

Plus serfs......

Of course, it's not just Zhejiang.

In fact, Jiangxi and Fujian are all like this.

Serfdom was deeply entrenched in the region, and in some places there was even some kind of privilege.

It has been recorded in the notes of the literati of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the root of the Jiangnan slavery in the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, in history, because the Chongzhen Dynasty became worse and worse, the local military power existed in name only, and those serfs got a chance, and the entire Jiangnan was full of slave mutinies, and even some places scared the gentry so much that they did not dare to collect rent.

After all, it costs to collect rent.

When the rent received is not enough to support the thugs who collect the rent, what does it mean to collect the rent or not?

It's about the same as the skinhead guy.

This is also the case in many places in Jiangnan in the later period of the bald guy.

Such a place is the easiest and must be solved by force, because the civil foundation is good, and those tenant serfs can't wait, as long as they fight and erect the banner, the rest is to destroy the withering and decay, and there is no need to really fight at all. That's why the gentry's resistance at Congshan Pass was so tenacious, they knew that if this fire was burned in, everything would be over, and those tenant serfs would be like a raging fire, letting them die in the fire, and they had to defend Congshan Pass and wait for their last ray of hope.

"Yes!"

Their rays of hope said.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't think about it so far-reaching, in fact, he didn't know much about the situation, after all, he had been in Liaodong before.

But Plug Yinxi knows.

Du Yinxi hurriedly glanced at him.

Yang Xin grabbed his belt very simply, and Du Yinxi screamed, obviously trying to pull out the short gun on his waist, but unfortunately he moved too slowly, and then he was thrown out by Yang Xin, and then fell into the river with an exclamation.

Fortunately, there was a centipede boat on the side, and the soldiers quickly stretched out their hooks and dragged him back from the water......

"A sesame official doesn't understand the rules at all!"

Yang Xin said disdainfully.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at him speechlessly.

"Duke Yingguo, you won't go to the battlefield in person, will you?"

He said.

This is an important question.

The Liaodong Army has a deep-rooted reverence for Yang Xin, if Yang Xin plays in person, I'm afraid no one will dare to face him, Luo has always said that if Yang Xin goes into battle, he will bypass it, and he and his subordinates will not fight with Yingguo Gong. Although the three of Zu Dashou did not make a similar statement, their subordinates all grew up listening to Yang Xin's legends, and if Yang Xin really showed his hand with a weapon such as the Green Dragon Glaive Knife, I am afraid that those cavalry would collapse in an instant.

"No, this is not killing Jiannu, I can't raise that interest!"

Yang Xin said.

Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief.

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