Accompanied by Wen Ruilin, Xi Ying and the guards arrived at Daishanzhai at the northwest foot of Wuya Mountain by carriage and horse, it was already noon the next day.

At this time, not only did Lin Haizheng, the commander of the left army, Feng Xuan, the deputy commander, and Gao Shao, the military commander, rush to Daishanzhai, but Han Qian also arrived at Daishanzhai through a safer passage last night, escorted by Han Donghu and other guard cavalry.

There are only 500 garrisons in Daishanzhai, but in addition to the two battalions of 600 guards and cavalry led by Han Donghu and more than 400 guards and horses of Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan, Gao Shao and others, 2,000 soldiers from Shiquan, Yongyang and other places have also been transferred to Daishanzhai overnight.

In the early years, Daishanzhai was a town at the northwest foot of the southern section of Wujian Mountain, and then it was a fortress that the Shouzhou Army blocked Tangyi from the northwest and attacked the southern section of Wujian Mountain; After the Battle of Wujinling, the Shouzhou Army fully contracted the defensive line, and Daishanzhai became a former camp stronghold at the northwest foot of Wujian Mountain controlled by the Tangyi Army, and peeked into Zhaoyi, Huailing, and Mopan Valley.

Daishanzhai has been repaired several times in recent years, and it is now a city with a depth of 600 steps, the city wall is high and thick, and the city is surrounded by deep moats.

Before the battle of Wujinling, Kong Xirong led his troops to hold on to Wujian Mountain for more than a year, thoroughly implementing Han Qian's strategic intention of guerrilla warfare, in addition to sending troops to attack the Shouzhou army, he also began to operate the interior of Wujian Mountain, requisitioned labor, and constantly renovated and widened the dangerous mountain roads in the mountains, so that the villages in the mountains were more closely linked.

After the victory of Wujin Ridge, Han Qian mobilized thousands of heavy troops to build a post road across the southern section of Wujian Mountain and connecting Chuzhou City and Daishanzhai outside the Mopan Valley.

Although Wujian Mountain stretches for two hundred miles from southwest to northeast, the mountain is much easier than Huaiyang Mountain, and the main peak is two or three hundred meters high.

Although the Daichu Post Road is more than ten miles longer than the Huazhu Peak Post Road, there is already a considerable length of ready-made passage connection in the mountain, even if it is built according to the standard of the ten-foot road, the scale and difficulty of the project will be reduced by a level.

In addition to Chuzhou City, Yongyang in the north of Chuzhou, Shiquan, Wushou, Puyang, Tangyang counties in the south, people and horses, materials can bypass the grinding boat, pass through the Daichu Post Road, and continue to quickly pass through the Wujian Mountains and enter the Daishan Village, and there is no need to detour from Shiquan County in the west of the Wujian Mountains.

Feng Yi and the others were mainly worried that they would not be able to win Chen Kun's trust in advance, so that they would not be able to reap any benefits in the end, and they would also be infamous and stained by collaborating with the enemy.

But they didn't expect that in the early morning, not only the Hejin troops stationed at the west entrance of Mopangu and the front bases north of Daishanzhai had withdrawn one after another, but Chen Kun even asked Wen Ruilin to return Xi Ying, who was very likely to be detained, and put all their worries down, and at this time they made every effort to arrange for the takeover of Haozhou.

Due to the long-term Liang-Chu war and the serious flooding from the middle reaches of the Huai River and the west bank of Hongzepu, the Dingkou of the four counties of Zhaoyi, Huailing, Zhongli and Haocheng added up to only 40,000 or 50,000 people, but after the Anning Palace surrounded a large number of households to flee north, and after the battle of Wujinling, Xu Mingzhen urgently moved the households in the south of Huozhou and Shouzhou, located in Haozhou, which was located on the inner side of the defense line of the two armies, and the number of households in Dingkou surged to 200,000 in just three or four years.

No matter how the follow-up situation develops, this time he can take over the four counties of Zhaoyi, Huailing, Zhongli, Haocheng and 200,000 Dingkou without spending a single soldier, Feng Yi feels that no matter how the news comes out, how the government and the opposition scold the Tangyi army for collaborating with the enemy and eating inside and out, they are all worth it.

Think about it, how much risk they took before and after in order to control the more than 200,000 Dingkou in Huaiyang Mountain, how many elite generals were sacrificed, and how much grain did they invest in just one year to operate the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain and fix the Wujinling defense line?

Once they control the southern part of Huozhou, the strategic value of the Huazhufeng plank road will drop dramatically, but in order to ensure that they occupy a strategic advantage in the hinterland of Huaiyang Mountain, how much manpower and material resources do they invest to build this plank road?

Thousands of able-bodied laborers carved rocks against the cliffs in the ice and snow, and almost every day laborers fell off the cliffs and died.

Wen Ruilin saw the people in Tangyi, although he didn't worry much that he would be detained, but his heart was particularly bitter, even if Daliang could survive this time, but the results of the southern and northern wars in the four or five years after His Majesty ascended the throne were very likely to come to naught.

Wen Ruilin restrained his complicated mood, and came forward to meet Han Qian, Feng Yi, Lin Haizheng and others, he came mainly to show goodwill, hoping that Haozhou could change hands in an orderly manner, so that the elite of the Hejin army could calmly cross the Huai to the north.

In the long run, even if His Majesty is able to turn the tide, for a long time in the future, Liang can only take a defensive position on the southern front, and it is also necessary to ease the situation of Liang Chu over the years, so that everyone has a chance to recuperate.

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Chen Kun led 2,000 cavalry to cross the Huai River to the north, and the rest of the Hejin Army's more than 17,000 soldiers withdrew from the south bank of Tongkou on the evening of 3 March, and entered Tongkou City, which was subordinate to Sizhou on the north bank of the Huai River.

Under the leadership of Lin Hai, the commander of the capital, Feng Xuan, the deputy commander of the capital, and Zhao Qi, the marquis of Yu, together with Zhao Wuji and Han Donghu, led 2,000 guards and cavalry and more than 4,000 heavy battalion soldiers, they were stationed in Moat, Zhaoyi, Huailing, Zhongli and other places, and took over Haozhou in an all-round way.

All of this happened in just three days.

Not only the Shouzhou Army on the west side, not only the civilian households in Haozhou, but even the Huaidong Army in Shiliang County, which is located south of Hongzepu and east of the northern section of Wujian Mountain, was also dumbfounded by what had happened in Haozhou in the past two days, and had no idea what had happened.

On 5 March, Yin Peng accompanied Prime Minister Ruan Yan to meet Han Qian in Haocheng to inquire about the details in accordance with Wang Yang Yuanyan's order.

Haocheng is also known as silkworm wealth, Linhuai, is the old governance of Haozhou, the terrain is high in the south and low in the north.

The Jiushan Mountain in the south is the remaining vein of Huaiyang Mountain, stretching for more than 30 miles from east to west, the main peak is less than 100 zhang high, the overall terrain is smaller than the Wujian Mountain Range, and the north is the alluvial plain of the Huai River, the terrain is low-lying.

In Linhuai County, most of the land, especially the Huai River alluvial plain in the north, is quite fertile, but with Zhongli County in the east, floods almost every year, even if in the past two or three years, large-scale Dingkou moved from Huozhou and Shouzhou, the use of this most fertile alluvial plain is also very limited.

Climb the rammed earth and build, is growing new grass of the Linhuai city wall, see far and near mostly barren, there are some remnants of the wall in the middle, it is either war, or by the flood and abandoned villages, everywhere after the flood can not be drained away and the formation of swamps, lakes.

The flood not only comes from the upper reaches of the Huai River, there are also many streams and rivers in Haozhou, the farthest source is the northern slope of the Wujian Mountains, flowing into the Huai River, the dams of these streams and rivers are also in disrepair, and Hongzepu in the east, every summer and autumn is flooded.

Xu Mingzhen guarded Huaixi, operated a defensive line with Shouzhou as the core, focused on the upper reaches of the Huai River, and even deliberately indulged the flooding of the area near the Huai River in the northern part of Haozhou, so as to form large and small marshes and lakes as a topographical obstacle to limit the southward movement of the Liang army's soldiers and horses.

Of course, Ruan Yan, accompanied by Yin Peng, rushed to Linhuai City to see Han Qian, not because he cared about this, they were more eager to find out what was going on.

Not only did the Hejin army stationed in Haozhou suddenly retreat northward, but the soldiers and horses of the Liang army Xu Si, east of Hongzepu and north of the Huai River, also suddenly abandoned the defensive fortress built along the north bank of the Huai River from the night of 2 March, and rapidly shrank to several major cities such as Sizhou and Haizhou.

Liang Guo has 60,000 elites in Xuzhou, although it is mainly based on the Xuzhou soldiers who have been operated by Sima for many years, but there are also 15,000 infantry cavalry soldiers led by Han Yuanqi from Caizhou and more than 10,000 people of the newly formed Youlou ship army.

Huaidong's scout secret room, although not as powerful as Tangyi, is also always watching Xu Si's movements on the north bank of the Huai River.

It was only at dusk on March 4 that they learned that in addition to the northward contraction of the soldiers and horses along the defense line on the north bank of the Huai River, Han Yuanqi had led 6,000 cavalry to the north before nightfall on 1 March, and then 9,000 elite soldiers of the Caizhou Army marched north from their respective defense areas on 2 and 3 March.

At present, the defense of Xusi is taken over by Sima Tan, deputy envoy of Xuzhou Jiedu.

By the 4th of March, the Liang army even had the intention of abandoning the naval camp built by Haizhou, which had invested a lot of money and grain, and a part of the warships and generals of the Youlou Boat Army went up the Huai River to Tongkou and joined up with Chen Kun's Hejin army, depending on the situation, to follow Han Yuanqi's main force of Caizhou's army north at any time; The other part was taken by sea and withdrew to Michigan to the north.

Yang Yuanyan, Wang Wenqian, Ruan Yan and others could guess that Liang Guo was very likely to have great turmoil at this time, but on the one hand, they did not have exact information, just guessed, and it could not be ruled out that all this might be a trick of the Liang army to lure the enemy, on the other hand, any soldier and horse from defense to offense would require a process.

At this time, they only sent a small group of scout sentinels and horses to reconnoiter the enemy situation on the north bank of the Huai River, and the main force did not dare to easily cross the Huai River to the north.

Even if it was not a plan to lure the enemy, between Xu and Si, there were more than 30,000 Xuzhou soldiers under the control of Sima's command.

If Huaidong wants to launch a large-scale campaign to regain the land they had previously lost on the north bank of the Huai River, they still need to carry out careful planning and preparation.

But before they can do that, they have to figure out what's going on.

The soldiers and horses of the Tangyi Army were mobilized on a large scale from Shiquan, Chuzhou City, and Puyang to the south of Haozhou on the night of the 31st; Obviously, it is impossible to hide the eyeliner that Huaidong has planted in Tangyi.

As for the large-scale movement of the Liang army, the earliest time in Haozhou was March 1, and between Xu and Si was March 2.

This undoubtedly shows that Han Qian already knew what was going on in the Liang State before the large-scale changes in the Liang army......