Although craftsmen were recruited from Mizhou and Xuzhou to build shipyards and naval camps in the sea, the disturbance of the Liang army on the south bank of the Huai River on the eastern front was mainly from Sizhou City in the north of Chuzhou.

Even the naval army, at this stage, is to first assemble in Sizhou, and then launch an attack on the south bank; Xuzhou Jiedu envoy Han Yuanqi also set up a tooth tent in Sizhou.

In mid-June, Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng went to Chuzhou to meet with Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, and Wen Ruilin also rushed to Sizhou to meet Han Yuanqi on the orders of Xu Mingzhen to communicate the gains and losses of the eastern and western defense lines.

Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang returned to Bianjing two months ago, and before leaving, he asked the Xuzhou Jiedu Envoy and the Shouzhou Jiedu Envoy not to be in a hurry, to stabilize their own positions and defense lines first, to accumulate small victories for big victories, to constantly attack and weaken the Chu army, and not to seek miraculous victories.

Of course, Emperor Liang still gave Xu Mingzhen the greatest autonomy, even if there was a decree issued to Shouzhou, it was mostly a big word of encouragement, but the instructions to Han Yuanqi were much more trivial.

On the day that Wen Rui came to Sizhou City to see Han Yuanqi, a holy decree happened to come over.

Han Yuanqi also knew that His Majesty regarded Wen Ruilin as a close confidant, so he arranged for Xu Mingzhen to serve by his side, so he directly showed the newly arrived holy decree to Wen Ruilin.

This holy decree is a reply to Han Yuanqi's first book on the construction of sea ships, Wen Ruilin saw that the holy decree was written two or three thousand words, and there were several places to change the circle, as if His Majesty was talking to Han Yuanqi in common words, and many things were also tirelessly explained in detail, and the holy decree for the Shouzhou Jiedu Embassy and concise sentences were completely two styles.

Wen Ruilin can also understand the difference.

It is true that Xu Mingzhen led the Shouzhou army to join the Liang, but there must still be great vigilance and worry in the hearts of the Shouzhou generals, and they were eliminated in a short time.

In this case, it is inconvenient for His Majesty to have too much fingering at Shouzhou, but he has known Han Yuanqi and his ministers for nearly 20 years, and the holy decree is written so sloppily and chattering, and many things are tirelessly explained, Han Yuanqi will only feel close to His Majesty, and will not have other ideas.

Wen Ruilin carefully looked at what the Holy Decree said, and it was mainly to discuss the operational strategy of attacking the Jianghuai coastal area in a roundabout way.

Zhu Yu asked Han Yuanqi not to expect that the concealment work in the early stage would really be able to deceive the Chu court, not to pin his hopes for offshore disturbance operations on unexpected attacks, but to first carry out close-range attacks from the Chu army's coastal salt fields near Huaikou, to train a naval army, to accumulate experience in coastal operations, to be consistent with the strategy of the naval army to attack and harass the south bank of the Huai River, and to get used to scattered operations and small-scale guerrilla operations......

Seeing Wen Ruilin respectfully handing over the holy decree, Han Yuanqi said to him: "The Tangyi soldiers have a soldier and horse, using Wujian Mountain as a passage to harass and plunder the northern part of Chaozhou, Haozhou and other places. ”

Wen Ruilin was also very excited to get the praise of characters like Han Yuanqi, and besides, His Majesty directly copied the excerpts he wrote to Han Yuanqi, which was also His Majesty's direct affirmation of him.

Wen Ruilin suppressed his excitement and talked about the detailed situation of the Shouzhou army confronting the Tangyi soldiers in Chuzhou and Chaozhou: "Just like building a fortress along the upper reaches of the Puyang River on the south side of the Mopan Valley to suppress the Tangyi army, for the Tangyi soldiers led by the enemy general Kong Xirong in Wujian Mountain, they mainly chose the pass valley that is relatively easy to get out of the mountain, built a fortified camp, and restricted their activities. Even if there is Bianjing to support the grain and straw, the material use is also extremely tight, Wen Bo advocated this, but it is a prudent method, but it is a pity that the previous battles have not been able to inflict heavy losses on the Tangyi soldiers. ”

Wen Ruilin was very excited to get the praise of His Majesty, Han Yuanwen and others, but he also had to admit that they had no effective way to break the stalemate of the Tangyi soldiers on the Western Front.

"Wen Bo's use of soldiers is delicate and steady, and he is taught by his father Wen Duqiao, and he knows how to apply it to the world, and His Majesty also attaches great importance to Wen Bo - as for the Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain, the failure to make meritorious contributions in several battles is not the fault of the war, and the responsibility is not Wen Bo. The new formation of Tangyi soldiers has such combat power, which is really surprising, if it weren't for Wen Bo and his descendants who dare to fight and dare to fight, maybe Chuzhou City has been defended. "Han Yuanqi is the main general of the first battle of Xichuan, the earliest big loss in the hands of Han Qian, but also because he initially suffered a big loss in the hands of Han Qian, and he has learned from the pain for many years, at this time he is the younger generation of generals in Daliang, the most famous general, he can naturally look at the gains and losses of the Shouzhou army and the Tangyi soldiers at this time, and at the same time wake up Wen Ruilin, to know that Wen Bo and Xu Mingzhen still have some differences in the eyes of His Majesty.

Wen Ruilin thought to himself, whether it was Zhao Mingting or Wen Bo in those battles, they did not make any obvious mistakes, and the elite of their subordinates also dared to fight and dare to fight, but the new formation of Tangyi soldiers had such a strong combat effectiveness, which was beyond everyone's expectations, so that it was controlled by Han Qian Chuhe is not counted, and Liyang and other places are taken away.

The Tangyi army controlled the only waterway leading to Chaohu Lake, and controlled the highlands on the east bank of Chaohu Lake, so that the warships of the Zuolou Boat Army were suppressed in the river on the north shore of Chaohu Lake, and lost control of Chaohu Lake, let alone enter the Yangtze River waterway.

Wen Ruilin also mentioned some of the recent situations of Han Qian's operation of Tangyi.

At present, there is money and food surplus in Xuzhou, and the main thing is to make every effort to build new armor and weapons and warships to send to Tangyi; Tangyi can directly get the money and grain in hand, in addition to the Chu Ting Center paying 40,000 stone grain and grain every month, and then there is the Han family selling the land and the house, and they can also raise an additional 40,000 or 50,000 yuan every month to hand over to Han Qian.

These are not difficult for Wen Ruilin to collect in Chuzhou.

However, in addition to being enough for Han Qian to continue to strengthen the camps in Puyang, Tingshan, Wanshou, Shiquan, Donghu and other places, these money and food are only enough for Han Qian to raise the army.

The soldier's salary is not enough to support the family, and Han Qian has to take out an extra part of the money and food to help.

In addition to several mines and a shipyard in East Lake in a short period of time, Wen Ruilin has not seen any signs of large-scale construction in Tangyi for the time being.

However, because the territory occupied by Han Qian on the south bank of the Chuhe River is large enough, there are tens of thousands of houses in the two cities of Liyang and Tangyi alone, and there are also a large number of villages between Dajing Mountain, Qingcang Mountain, and Weixu Mountain.

It didn't take long to be deserted, and these village houses were slightly repaired, and they were all taken by Han Qian to settle nearly 100,000 generals and their families; The nearby fields have not been abandoned for a long time, and it is not difficult to reclaim them, so they have been directly allocated for cultivation.

Wen Ruilin also noticed that this was obviously the key reason why the Tangyi soldiers had not suffered such heavy casualties in the early battles, and that they had not yet declined, and that they had even been able to continue to actively attack the north bank of the Chuhe River in the past two or three months.

Speaking of which, Xu Mingzhen and Wen Bo have no problem with Tangyi soldiers in the near future.

Due to the gradual improvement of the defense line built by the Tangyi soldiers along the Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain, even if the Shouzhou army could capture this defense line regardless of casualties, the casualties would be extremely heavy, and there would be no way to stop Li Zhihe from leading the Huaixi Forbidden Army from Shuzhou at that time.

Comparatively speaking, Han Yuanqi personally sat in Sizhou, whether it was running Sizhou and Haizhou, or constantly departing small groups of troops and horses to launch attacks on the Chu River on the south bank, it was much more active and effective than the Western Front.

Of course, Han Yuanqi was in Sizhou, except for Sizhou and Haizhou, two remnant prefectures under his jurisdiction, which needed to invest a lot of resources to hoard and plunder civilians for reclamation, Xuzhou, which had always been an important town in the southeast of Daliang, and Mizhou in the north, were all under his control, and the money, grain, and materials that could be mobilized were extremely abundant.

A large number of newly built inland river warships were originally consumables, and he didn't even need to consider that the wood shipbuilding that had not been fully dried was very easy to deform and leak, so he built small and medium-sized warships on a large scale to infiltrate and intrude into the river network on the south bank of the Huai River, forcing the Huaidong Army to have no time to repair the river embankment and resettle the displaced people after the war, and repeatedly attacked and destroyed the agricultural reclamation and water conservancy along the Chuzhou line.

As a result, Han Yuanqi commanded 60,000 horse infantry on the eastern front, and although the size of the soldiers and horses was only half of that of the Huaidong Army on the south side, he was able to take the offensive and take the initiative.

"Your Majesty learned the news that Emperor Shi Chongsi of the Jin Dynasty was terminally ill, and returned to Bianjing with his troops and horses in advance, what further news could there be from the north at this time?" Wen Ruilin thought of one thing and asked Han Yuanqi respectfully.

After the fall of the previous dynasty, Shi Chongsi established the Jin State according to Hedong and Hebei, and the strength of the army in the early years made the Liang army retreat.

However, in addition to fighting the Liang state on the north bank of the Yellow River for many years, the Jin state was also under the military pressure of the increasingly powerful Mongol people in the north, who had been formally established for less than 30 years.

At the same time, the Jin Emperor Shi Chongsi was riddled with illness in his later years and had no energy to take care of the government, so that when the Liang civil strife occurred, the Jin army failed to take the opportunity to do something.

Zhu Yu returned to Bianjing two months ago, except for Huaidong and Huaixi who could not see more favorable fighters, mainly because the secret spies sent back the news that Emperor Jin was critically ill from the Jin Kingdom.

The internal situation of the Jin State is more complicated than the Chu State in the later years of Emperor Tianyou, Shi Chonghe's sons are weak, and the border generals hold heavy troops, the tail is too big to control, and the Jin Emperor is critically ill and even died, it is difficult to imagine that the Jin State can make a smooth transition.

In any case, Zhu Yu had to return to Bianjing in advance to make some preparations.

It's just that it's been two months since the incident, and Wen Ruilin wants to know if there is any follow-up news.

"The Jin Kingdom has blocked the Chidao, and the border towns have also raised their vigilance, and there is no further news for the time being, but looking at the situation, the Jin Emperor Shi Chongsi is very likely to have died, and some people may be afraid ......of the situation turmoil, or there may be a chance to plot, so they will not mourn the secret," Han Yuanqi said.

Wen Ruilin thought about the unpredictable situation in the Chu State in recent years, and he didn't know what kind of turmoil would be set off in Hedong and Hebei after the death of Emperor Shi Chonghei of the Jin Dynasty.

Of course, he hopes that Daliang will have the opportunity to occupy Hedong and Hebei, even if he can't do so, he also hopes that this time he can weaken the Jin State as much as possible, only when Daliang has no worries in the north, can he concentrate his troops, horses, money and food, and continue to expand his strategic advantage over the Chu army on the southern front, until he completely captures Huaidong, Huaixi and Jingxiang.

Only at that point can the girder truly have the weather to dominate the world......