Chapter 107: The Unfinished War
At noon on March 26, all the fighting inside and outside Fuzhou City was officially declared over, Lin Feng on the one hand sent special soldiers to post a notice throughout the city, announcing that the people of Fuzhou were exempt from rent for one year, and on the other hand, he convened the generals in the army to discuss, and finally decided to leave 5,000 Jianzhou troops to guard Fuzhou City, 20,000 Quanzhou troops rushed to the Fu'an front line in the north, and the remaining soldiers took a short rest and rushed back to Quanzhou, and were ready to support Zhang Hansi's troops who invaded the Southern Han Dynasty at any time.
On the afternoon of March 27, Lin Feng followed the 20,000-strong army to the front line of Fu'an, and found that it was in full swing.
Seeing the arrival of the reinforcements, Wei San, who was sweating profusely, rushed over when he heard the news, and shouted at Lin Feng from afar: "Lord Lin, Fuzhou City is a big victory?" ”
Lin Feng smiled and nodded, hugged Wei San fiercely, and then anxiously asked about the battle situation here.
Wei San pointed to Fu'an City on the north shore and said loudly: "Wu Yue sent five thousand reinforcements from the direction of Jinghai, and was ambushed by our elite men and horses in the mountains, and the enemy soldiers are currently stationed on a mountain, seemingly waiting for follow-up reinforcements to arrive!" ”
Lin Feng put his mind at ease, pointed to the army behind him, and laughed loudly: "Wu Yue has reinforcements coming again, so he will pretend to fail, let them come, and then come to an urn to catch turtles!" ”
Wei San pointed to his own defensive position, and then pointed to Fu'an City on the north bank, and said with a smile: "As long as the enemy army does not exceed 20,000, our original team can solve them with Fu'an City and this position!" ”
Lin Feng laughed loudly, punched Wei Sanyi, and said with an unusually solemn expression: "Brother Wei, we can't just get used to fighting more with less, we also have to learn how to bully less with less!" ”
Hearing Lin Feng's words, including Wei San, all the brothers laughed wildly.
By the end of March, not only had the fighting in Fuzhou temporarily entered a period of calm, but the fighting in other parts of the country also came to an end.
Not far north of Fuzhou, the Southern Tang Zhaowu Army, the Southern Tang Dynasty Army, and the Wu Yuejing Navy, which was fighting across the border, were like reaching a tacit understanding in advance, and they did not compete against each other from the beginning, leisurely waiting for the progress of the war in other regions.
After receiving the news that the 5,000 soldiers who went to Fuzhou for rescue were blocked in Fu'an, Qian Hongyu immediately withdrew the border army to Quzhou as a western barrier to protect the Jingjiang Army (Zhiwenzhou), and could go south to support the Fu'an front line at any time. The Zhaowu army of the Southern Tang Dynasty did not follow closely step by step, and was stationed in place without moving.
In the middle of the Southern Tang Army, Xu Zhizheng, the commander of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the envoy of the Ningguo Army and the Xuanzhou Assassin Shi Xu Zhizheng, instructed his subordinates to hold out, and Qian Hongwei, the Wuyue Huzhou Assassin Shi who was fighting against him, had no choice but to confront.
On the northern road of the Southern Tang Army, the King of E, the Jiangyin Army, who had won two battles in a row, made Li Jingda face Wu Yuezhong, who was defending Suzhou, and the Wu army had no choice but to look at the city and sigh.
Seeing that no substantial progress could be made by land, Wu Yue, who was anxious about the war situation, secretly gathered nearly 300 large and small ships from all over the country at the insistence of Wu Cheng of Xiangguo, and suddenly launched an attack on the Chu-Tang fleet besieging Hangzhou Bay on the morning of 24 March.
Gao Sheng, the deputy commander of the Chu and Tang fleets, was originally a fierce general of the Chu navy, and after allowing Qiong to be demoted to Mengzhou, he was recommended by the boss of Tuoba Heng to re-emerge from the mountain.
According to the request of Ma Cungui, the commander of the Chu and Tang naval armies, Gao Sachs led 110 Haiyu warships to fight fiercely with the Wu Yue naval army for a day, losing nearly 20 warships and still fighting to the death, and repeatedly commanded the damaged warships to die with the enemy. As a result, those huge sea falcon warships rushed forward like crazy, and their most insane madness often accompanied the burial of several large and small Wuyue warships. This kind of desperate fighting made Wu Yue's naval army cowardly at first, and had to take the initiative to stop fighting when it was approaching dusk.
On the second day, the Chu Tang fleet, which was inferior in numbers, mainly opposed the guests, and took the initiative to attack at the early tide, forcing the Wu Yue naval army back a mile in one fell swoop.
On the third day, 150 two-chariot ships arrived from Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and the offensive of the Chu-Tang coalition army was even stronger, and the losses of the Wu-Yue naval army were getting bigger and bigger, and they had to retreat westward again. If they attack to the west, they may be besieged by the Wu Yuebu army on the shore, and the Chu-Tang fleet will also stop, and the battle situation will fall back into a confrontational situation.
Further north, nearly 20,000 Houzhou soldiers surrounded the city of Jinzhou, but they could not attack the hedgehog-like city. On the west side, the Later Zhou Bao army and the Protector Army tried to send sailors across the Yellow River to raid Jin, Jiang and other prefectures, but they were all sunk by the crazy Northern Han river patrol fleet, and they were unable to make progress. Wang Yan, who had already given birth to a lot of gray hair, was so angry that he was about to go crazy, but he couldn't wait for follow-up reinforcements from the rear, nor could he wait for any orders from the rear, so he had to stop the senseless siege, and the battle situation was at a stalemate again.
The war still continues, and a small amount of heat is in the east and west of the Southern Han region:
Late at night on 25 March, under the city of Hezhou in the Guiguan area, Xie Guan, the deputy marshal of the Southern Han Dynasty, who was guarding the large camp and did not dare to fight, looked at the fewer and fewer soldiers in the battalion and did not dare to hesitate any longer. Xie Guan left all the wounded soldiers behind, concentrated all the 15,000 Southern Han soldiers who could still fight, only carried dry food for a few days, and suddenly exerted his strength, broke through several low walls on the east side of the camp, and fled in a hurry towards the return road to the east.
Some of the unprepared Hezhou defenders immediately organized men and horses to follow the attack, and the soldiers of the Yi tribes fought bravely, giving full play to the advantages of trekking through mountains and rivers, and constantly attacked the Southern Han deserters from the Li River in the north and the mountains in the south, and began a pursuit battle.
Subsequently, 15,000 Southern Han invading troops were driven by tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops in the Guiguan area to lose their armor and flee back to Wuzhou in a hurry, meeting the 10,000 Southern Han soldiers besieging the city, and returned directly to the Southern Han Dynasty like a lost dog. Ma Jiwei, who unified the army, hurriedly marched west with 10,000 troops, and forced the 10,000 Southern Han soldiers surrounding Mengzhou on the southern front to surrender, while he joined the defenders of Wuzhou, and invaded the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty again with the momentum of the wind and clouds, and occupied Yining County (now southeast of Xinxing County, Guangdong, west of Kaiping County), which had been burned and plundered once before, on March 29, and the army could not leave here!
At the same time, Ma Jiwei learned from Lin Feng and set up a slightly smaller "Jingguan" in the corresponding position in the east of Yining City and the north of Lishui, and made a strong bloody warning to the aggression of the Southern Han Dynasty!
Also on the night of March 25, Zhang Hansi, the deputy commander of the former Qingyuan Army, who led an army of 30,000, broke through the border line of the Southern Han Dynasty under the response of Cheng Yuehai and others who had infiltrated earlier, and the army fought all the way to the city of Chaozhou, attacked the city overnight, broke through the city in the early morning of the 26th, and finally successfully took the city at the cost of 3,000 losses.
Subsequently, Cheng Yuehai, who had already explored the reality of this place, and his subordinates led the way, taking the Hanjiang River north of Chaozhou City as the boundary, and quickly swept away the Southern Han defenders north of the Hanjiang River. Zhang Hansi led the army south, and the troops approached Jieyang in the Southern Han Dynasty.
On March 26, the news of the invasion of the Southern Tang army completely shocked the Southern Han government and the public. After urgent discussion, the monarchs and ministers immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army in the Guiguan area, sent 20,000 troops to Jieyang, and urgently requested the armies of Jingzhou (now Meizhou, Guangdong) and Qichangfu (now Xingning County, Guangdong) to send troops from the west to threaten Chaozhou, and jointly block the fierce attack of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
For this war, which everyone knew was impossible to fight, the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty were full of momentum.
Just when the war in various places gradually became dull, the open and secret battles in the Southern Tang Dynasty became fierce again.