Under the banner of the forest, the long procession of fish and horses drove straight north, the sound of the rumbling chariots and horses kicking and marching and the rustle of the collision and friction of the whole body.

After these things, whether it is to think about it first, or purely to prevent the gradual deterioration, we can no longer let this model rear army that has been infiltrated by the imperial court continue to stay in this Huainan locality, otherwise I don't know how many fish and eyeliner are left in it, and the Huainan defense area I built is a complete joke;

Therefore, the whole army will move northward en masse, most of which will be garrisoned across the Yellow River and strengthened to the Hebei region, and some will be retrained and replenished in Huaidong, so that even if there are any dissidents and hidden noises among them, it is unlikely that they will cross the natural barrier of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River and regain contact with the Southern Dynasties; As for after arriving in Hebei, do they want to send a message to Zhang Bangchang's department in Hebei, or Han Zhongyan's department in Pinglu?

The ready-made defense areas and basic plates left by the model rear army are expected to be taken over by the Dongning Army, the Fourth Army of the Garrison transferred by Anton; This newly expanded military order is mainly based on the generals and non-commissioned officers sent by Huaizhen as the backbone, and is filled with the children of Liaoxi from Andong as the main body, and from the historical source, it lacks a sufficient sense of identity with the Liang court, nor does it have any superfluous interest ties and related contacts.

In addition, their net worth and property (mainly military fields and family resettlement sites) are also under the strict control of Huaizhen, and it is no longer so easy for Guochao to impress and infiltrate them.

This is the result of the long-term unification of military and political orders and the institutionalization of the army, without any promotion costs and rewards, and as soon as the order is given, they immediately set off for the place.

It has its own grain yards, grain institutes and cao warehouses of the transportation department along the way, and allocates them according to the official documents of Tongbing; In addition, in advance, the corresponding auxiliary transportation personnel and animal power were deployed and requisitioned from the nearby cantonment and management areas and labor camps, and even requested the help of the nearby vehicle and ship fleets and water transportation forces; In the case of no need to disturb the place too much, it is relatively smooth to complete the relay transit work of the corresponding lot.

At present, in the fifteen prefectures in Huainan, the main areas that are still under the control of the Huai army are Chuzhou, Gaoyouzhou, (southern) Tongzhou, Taizhou, and Yangzhou in the eastern coastal areas, as well as parts of Zhenzhou, Chuzhou, and Haozhou in the inland areas reached by the branch line of Tongcao;

As for Shouzhou, Luzhou, Hezhou, Wuweizhou, Shuzhou, Linzhou, Huangzhou, Gwangju and other places located in the central and western regions, they are basically still in a state of disorder and chaos in which they are left to fend for themselves and are left to their own devices, and there are many cottages and forts everywhere, and bandits, homeless people, and local groups, and volunteers are alternately mixed.

Among them, a considerable part of them are the places where a large number of defeated soldiers and wanderers who retreated or fled back in the Northern Expedition were entrenched and occupied on the spot; Among them, the powerful ones have a city to a few towns, and the small ones are just a village and a township, and then they spontaneously emerged with the local clans and large clans, and the local Tuan and volunteers who joined the Wubao village to defend and protect themselves, and all kinds of battles and killings did not stop.

At that time, the imperial court was in charge of the aftermath of Jiangbei, and then established the Huainan camp adjacent to Yuhuai Town, and after gaining a firm foothold in the eastern coastal areas where supplies were convenient, he continued to clean up the chaos in Huainan and the follow-up plan, and appeased, co-opted and cleaned up these chaotic local forces in the inland areas, and reorganized them into the help of the imperial court and local resources that could be used; Even the corresponding letters of appointment and pardon were ready, waiting to be given as soon as contact began.

It's a pity that the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, and the painstaking management and layout of the camp in Huainan finally have to give way to the great cause of the second northern expedition of the imperial court, and have to be gradually weakened with the military strength and resources that have been withdrawn again and again until the day of extinction and abolition.

After taking over the old marshal Liu Shaoneng was ordered to transfer to Shannan, the corresponding subordinate Tuyu documents and books were also regarded as part of some kind of private exchange and secretly handed over to Huaizhen under my leadership; Even a considerable number of the scribes and clerks who remained in the local area to maintain order defected to Huaizhen under the guidance of Mrs. Chen's connection, so it played a considerable role in helping and facilitating the situation in Huainan under my command.

Of course, with the strength of Huaizhen under my current control, it is already a certain limit to invest and maintain two provinces and three armies in Huainan Province; Even if the whole army is mobilized immediately to expand the army, it will take at least a few months to half a year to see the basic results in personnel training and the integration of production equipment, or it can be said that it can barely come in handy.

After all, Huaizhen has always taken the line of strengthening the army with elite troops, and resolutely implemented the mobilization system and strategy of "no education and no recruitment"; If it is simply a traditional practice of forcibly pulling the people under his rule out of the fields and issuing them weapons or unarmed formations, they can be sent to the battlefield and resigned to their fate; Nahuai Town can easily mobilize an "army of 100,000" at any time and at any time.

This is also the real reason why the battle reports between those feudal towns often produce tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and tens of thousands of troops and the results of the battle.

Of course, for the time being, I don't have to force me to swallow the entire Huainan Province, as long as I maintain the first line facing the Jiangnan Provinces, in addition to the basic form, in addition to already in control, the other side is Yangzhou and Nantong Prefecture of Jiangdong Province, that is, Hezhou and Wuwei Prefecture across the river adjacent to Jiangxi Province, which need to be prioritized into the current control.

Then, send troops to clean up and expel all kinds of local forces, control the few ferries and bridges that can be berthed to and from on a large scale, and build police posts and flints between several garrison points to guard against and guard against sneak attacks and raids from the south bank; Immediately after that, manpower was concentrated to preemptively repair access roads and canal water systems to ensure the mobility and response capability of military mobilization in the corresponding areas.

In the end, it is necessary to clean up and operate one by one, and establish new administrative areas and reclamation areas in the inland plains; As for the corresponding candidates, I am ready to transfer Yang Zaixing from the land of Haidong, and it is enough to leave Wu Jue.

As the saying goes, since ancient times, the victory of the north-south confrontation in the world is that "defending the river must defend the Huai", and the north and the south are also "taking the river must first take the Huai"; According to the Lianghuai, it is also based on a large side area facing the hinterland of the Central Plains and Jiangnan with the East China Sea as its back, and it is part of the Jinjiao (the land of Andong and Silla) and the Eunbian (Huaibei Province) in the general trend of the world expressed in Go.

Therefore, in the expectation of the future confrontation between the north and the south, it is very likely that the Liang court will be attacked and offensive with all its strength from the south of the Yangtze River, compared with the Nantong Prefecture of Yangzhou, which has already had a foundation, and the Hezhou and Wuwei Prefectures that are just to be included in the control, are obviously the weak link in the layout along the river.

Moreover, because my Nanyang sailors ventured into the waters of the Yangtze River to carry out the task of receiving and blocking the blockade; Although there is an advantage of strong ships and guns from the sea, there is no corresponding port that can be berthed in the area along the river, nor there is no corresponding supporting maintenance and repair facilities and foundations; Therefore, with the passage of time and the change of the situation, this kind of isolation and blockade on the river cannot be maintained indefinitely;

Although the fatigue of the ship's personnel and the consumption of equipment can be replaced, the hull strain and service life of the corresponding warship during the cruise and combat need to be regularly maintained and maintained in a professional dock. At present, although there are not a few coastal ports and berthing and sheltered places under the rule of Huaizhen, there are only a few places that can provide the function of repairing and building warships; The nearest ones are Yuzhou Port in Haizhou and Taoshan New Port in Yizhou.

Although I have ordered the Beiyang Naval Division, which is operating between the Yellow Sea and the North Sea, to dispatch a number of vessels and manpower suitable for entering the inland waterways, to come south to take over the follow-up duties of the Nanyang Naval Division; However, there is not much time and buffer period left for us to straighten out the interior and sort out the rear.

Therefore, during the period of local residence and inspection, with the collection of inquiries from all sides, a plan was gradually formed, abandoning the beachhead confrontation and counter-landing on the riverbank, and instead using the early warning system of the sentry towers and flints along the river, and then concentrating the limited forces, and taking advantage of the generation difference in time and space to maneuver and wander, and successively landing the enemy who has successfully landed and maintained stability, and destroying and killing a large number of people, which is a relatively flexible anti-defensive counterattack strategy;

In addition, located in Yangzhou, Nantong Prefecture and Taizhou, the old road of the Caohe River, which has been silted up and diverted in many places and turned into a continuous water pool, must also be stepped up to rush through; In this way, the newly established defense line and warning area along the Yangtze River in the Jiangbei region will also be able to receive the fire support of a fleet of water ships and gunboats, including the Sizhou Water Battalion from Huaishui, and the ability of steam vehicles and ships to transport troops and grain. Whether it is for the suppression of the local area or for operation and construction, it is a considerable degree of assistance and convenience.

All these arrangements are all sorted, and it suddenly makes people feel that there is a long way to go and a thousand things to do.

In addition, Liu Yanqing still said goodbye to me for the time being, but instead of returning to the south of the Yangtze River, he took a fully equipped guard and headed west to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River inland, to meet Liu Shuneng, the commander of the Fifth Army and now the deputy governor of Jinghu and the deputy privy envoy, and went to find his own answer.

Then, before the next batch of backups arrives and my team sets off again, it's time to take care of the housekeeping of my private life; For example, the little Jin Jun who was brought back by me and was a little neglected during this time.

(End of chapter)