In the palace where Jinzhou City was temporarily stationed, in the dead of night, Ye Zier was still sleepless, and Concubine Yu stood aside holding a glass lamp to look at the picture for him. On the case is a large map of the Hehuai and Bohai Seas from Guanzhong to Liao, embroidered with various silk threads, covering the entire long case, marking the defense situation of the northern and southern dynasties with great accuracy.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the operational intention of moving south from the Xusi area could not be realized, and the strategy of the Northern Yan was forced to move westward, but after the heavy setback in the Battle of Jingxiang, the Northern Yan was forced to change the offensive into a strategic defensive line, and the focus of defense was shifted to the eastern front again.

"Your Majesty, it's late at night, and you have to get up early tomorrow, so let's rest early!"

Ye Zier every time he was free, he ordered the palace attendants to spread out the big picture of the land, and he was reluctant to look at it day and night, I don't know how many times I saw this big picture, and the corner was still stained with the black blood he coughed up, seeing that he couldn't sleep at night, but repeatedly looked at this picture, and the jade concubine persuaded in distress.

"If the heart can't be still, how can you sleep?" Ye Zier smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand to take the glass lamp, and said, "Concubine Yu, you go and rest, don't be tired of you." ”

"If the emperor doesn't sleep, how can the concubine sleep with peace of mind?" Concubine Yu sighed lightly.

Ye Zier put down the glass lamp, he was over fifty years old, looked at the jade concubine who was in her prime next to her, and saw that she seemed to be a summer flower in full bloom at this time, and touched her smooth cheeks like spring water lovingly, only to feel a little cold in his body, and tightened the thin shirt she was wearing.

"Your Majesty, the prince of Duodi and General Xiongqi ask to meet." A young eunuch walked in and said.

"Announce quickly." Ye Zier said that he knew that the third child and Nahe Xiongqi would not ask to see each other late at night for no reason, there must be something big happening, and he would not let Concubine Yu retreat, Beiyan has not yet been completely sinicized, and women do not avoid political affairs.

Ye Ji Duodi and Nahe Xiongqi quickly walked in and followed him in, as well as Tong Chenghua, the governor of the West Temple.

"What's the news?" Ye Zier sat back on the armrest slightly cold, and after the summer, he still wore a high-backed pear blossom wooden chair with thin cushions, he temporarily decided to cross the sea to Liaodong, and there was no palace built for him in Jinzhou City, but temporarily occupied the mansion of the Jinzhou guard, and naturally everything could not be paid attention to.

"Lin Jian Hu went from Shouzhou to Haizhou, according to Xu Si's secret detective, Zhen Feng, the leader of the Goryeo rebels, and Saga Raiyuan, the ruler of Fuso Zhuzi State, were all in Haizhou, and they had a secret meeting with Lin Jian ......" Tong Hua Cheng said.

"Did you summon Baishi and Zhang Xie to come over to discuss?" Ye Ji Duodi asked.

"No need, don't rush it." Ye Zier shook his head weakly, not that the matter was not urgent or important, but that there was a helplessness and decadence beyond his strength.

Zhen Feng and Saga Lai Yuan are the two forces supported by Lin Tie in Haidong after the eleventh year of Chongguan. Lin Jian and Saga Yorigen came across the sea to meet him, with the intention of being like lice on a bald man's head, and it was nothing more than to strengthen the Zhen clan's offensive against the troops and horses of the Goryeo Prime Minister Zuo Jingsuo and strengthen the penetration of the Fuso Islands through the Saga clan.

No matter what happens, it is not what Beiyan wants to see, but it is not something that Beiyan can directly stop.

"In addition, the South Vietnamese Military Staff set up a new army in Haizhou, numbered by Lu 703 Town Division, and appointed Hu Qiaoguan, a figure in the Chongzhou Tongzi that year, as the army," Tong Huacheng continued, "'Lu Qi' is the serial number of the Huaidong Haidong East Camp Army, with Ma Yigong as the commander, and only about 15,000 people were stationed in Haidong before. Lu 703' sequence, the minions suspect that the Danluo Kingdom and the Dongju Governor's Mansion are likely to be directly merged into the Governor's Mansion set up by Huaidong in Jeju earlier this time, and their soldiers and horses will be directly organized into the 'Lu 702' Town Division, which is currently lacking......"

Tong Huacheng is the scout leader recommended by Nahe Xiongqi, who is in charge of the Western Temple Supervisor and specializes in spying on the situation in Huaidong, so he is naturally good at intelligence analysis.

After the government was governed, he gradually announced to the outside world many affairs of Haidong, Nanyang, the Privy Council, and the Military Staff, and no longer strictly forbade leaking them as military secrets, so that the Western Temple Supervisor could also have a more comprehensive understanding and spy on Huaidong's intelligence.

Lin Jian separated the General Intelligence Department from the Privy Council and set up the Military Staff Department as the central military command post, in order to make the military-government relations more formalized, and naturally it was also a more straightforward reorganization of the military sequence.

Lin Jian put the cavalry battalion, the forbidden camp army, the Chongcheng army, the Changshan army, the Fengli army, the Huaidong army and the Haidong Xingying army and other horse infantry armies into the army branches, and divided them into "Lu I" and "Lu II...... all the way to the "Lu Qi" sequence; Town divisions and brigades below the corps level will be directly numbered as "Lu X" and then ordinal numbers, so that the military staff can directly grasp the soldiers and horses of all armies.

In addition to the army, "Shuiyi" refers to the Jingjiang Naval Division, "Haiyi" refers to the Jingjiang Naval Division, and "Haiyi" refers to the Southeast Naval Division. These are some specific and subtle details of Lin Binding's measures to turn Huaidong into a militarized army, and they are also aimed at strengthening the status of the "naval division" in the minds of traditional generals and officials and balancing the status of the navy and army branches.

At present, there are 10 military units at the battalion and army level under the direct control of the military staff corps, and 26 town divisions under its jurisdiction.

In addition, Lin Jian also set up the military preparation department of the counties under the Privy Council, with Sun Jingtang as the military commander of the counties, and actually led the local military affairs with the local county department and the prefecture and county, and incorporated the previous government army and some cantonment soldiers into the local security forces.

In principle, each county will only be given the establishment of one military town division, and the actual number of troops will be adjusted according to actual needs. At present, there are nine military divisions under the commander's county armament division, but only 14 garrison brigades are formed.

In this way, Lin Jian carried out the reform of defense and armament, which was also to facilitate the isolation of the military staff from the local security and armament affairs, so that in the future, the field army could be more completely transformed into the national defense force.

It was also because of Lin Tie's implementation of the new policy and new system in Jiangning that the Western Temple Supervisor and Yan Ting were able to more accurately grasp the intelligence of Huaidong and judge Huaidong's military strength more accurately.

At present, excluding the 140,000 soldiers and horses of the six towns in Henan headed by Dong Yuan, Yue Lengqiu, and others, the Guogong Mansion has more than 440,000 troops directly in its possession, of which 60,000 are local security troops, and the elite field troops of the Mabu Water Army are as high as 380,000, and the Zhutuntian soldiers who are set up in Xusi, Shouzhou, Luzhou, and other places and have as many as 200,000 people have not been counted.

Since Lin Tie is under the "Lu Qi" sequence and directly organizes the "Third Town Division", it is likely to mean that the garrison sent by Lin Tie to Haidong will be increased to the scale of three town divisions. This problem was much more serious and serious than Zhen Feng and Saga Raiyuan crossing the sea to meet with Lin Bin, which meant that Lin Jian intended to involve the Huaidong army directly in the civil war in Goryeo.

"After the Battle of Jingxiang, everyone knows that the center of gravity of the confrontation between the north and the south has shifted to the eastern front," Ye Zier stood up with his hand on the handrail, walked to the long case, and drew Shandong, Bohai, Huangshuiyang, and the Goryeo Peninsula all in his hand, with an unconcealable panic, and said, "I really expect the worst, what will come!" ”

Ye Ji Duodi and Na He Xiongqi are also heavy-hearted.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, the strategic center of gravity of the north and the south shifted eastward, which was clear.

Huaidong's naval army has obvious advantages, and Huaidong, Xusi and other places that have been operating for many years are on the eastern front, and the northern expedition from the eastern front has an incomparable advantage on the western front, and can also overcome the disadvantage of insufficient cavalry in Huaidong.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army moved eastward one after another, filling in the defense line east of Shouzhou, and launched a strong offensive against Shandong in the north.

Therefore, in the past six months, Beiyan has also regarded Shandong's defense as the top priority, and Yezier has also inspected Shandong's defense with his sick body; The sea defense line was under the command of the Dengzhou Governor's Mansion and was only part of Shandong's defense.

Ye Jier and the generals of the Northern Yan often called "the Central Plains is full of talents", and when he actually administers the military and government, he is also a combination of words and deeds, which makes Ye Jiduodi govern the defense of Shandong, and the entire concept of the defense line is directly stripped from Li Zhuo's "inner line defense" idea back then.

The whole Shandong County is divided into three lines in the south, the middle and the north, and the southern line is the southern Lunan region, from the five lakes area in southwest Lu, to Yizhou at the southern foot of the Yimeng Mountains, and Juxian and Jimo in the southeast of the Shandong Peninsula, which have long been a buffer zone between the two sides.

With the eastern front of the main force of the Huaidong Army, the penetration and control of the Huaidong Army in the southern Lunan region was gradually strengthened.

The actual limited control area of the Northern Yan in Shandong's defense is on the middle line, and the Tai, Yi, Mongolian, and Kunyu mountains form a natural barrier between the north and the south on the middle line.

There are three main northbound passages that are relatively easy to take the eastern route:

The first is to advance northward along Bianshui and Surabaya from southwest Lu, which is usually the main battlefield for the north-south struggle on the eastern front.

The second is from Yizhou, through the valley road between the Yimeng mountains, through the Chexian Pass and directly into Linqu County in the south of Linzi Prefecture.

The southeast coast of Shandong, that is, the southern foot of the Kunyu Mountains, due to the large number of coastal flats, the road has been abandoned for many years, but it cannot be regarded as a good road for a large number of soldiers and horses to march north, and the third channel is to take the sea route and directly enter the Bohai Bay.

In view of the topographical characteristics of Shandong, Beiyan is on the periphery of Bianshui and Sizhushui, and on the valley road of Pochexian Pass, with Jining, Tai'an, Pochexian Pass, Linqu and other Chengguan as the core, to build a peripheral defense line, stationed elite infantry, but the cavalry units that really play a strategic decisive role are mainly concentrated in Jinan and other places on the inner line.

In this way, even if the Huaidong Army relied on its superiority in strength to forcibly tear through the outer defense line and advance northward, it could not conquer the Xiongcheng Fort on the outer defense line of the Northern Yan in a short period of time. Even if the Huaidong Army had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses entering the inner line of Jinan and Linzi, there was no possibility of a decisive battle with the Northern Yan cavalry on the inner line. However, if the Huaidong Army was not in a hurry to advance northward, but to storm the Xiongcheng fort on the outer defensive line, and the main cavalry deployed by the Northern Yan on the inner line could choose a favorable time to send troops to relieve the siege and inflict heavy losses on the besieging Huaidong.

Defensive thinking on the inside line, for the weaker side, is quite an effective defensive strategy, and it will not bring unpredictable crises due to military adventures.

Ye Zier summed up that since the victory of the southern invasion of Zhujie, the greatest credit was placed on the center of Yuan and Yue at that time, except for Li Zhuo, there was no one who really knew the strategy; If the Yuanyue Yanjing Center at that time could implement Li Zhuo's internal defense ideas, and not risk the extravagant hope of directly capturing Liaoyang City, Beiyan would have no way to take Yuanyue for the time being.

Huaidong was also the implementation of the strategy of internal defense on the Xusi defense line in the early days, and the main forces, including the Fengli Army and the Jinghai Division, were deployed on the reserve defense line, and Huaishui could rely on it, making the entire defense line rich and flexible, and finally successfully forced the Northern Yan to abandon the strategy of attacking the eastern front.

Yuan Lishan and other newly attached Han troops, mainly from the Yuanyue border army, were also the main force of the Northern Yan to implement the inner line defense deployed in the outer fortresses.

Yezier was more worried about the sea defense line, whether he had the ability to block the Huaidong naval warships from the Bohai Sea.

After seeing the construction of the sea defense line this time, Yezier's mood had improved a little, at least in the short term, he was not afraid that Huaidong would be able to storm Shandong. However, knowing that the situation was developing in the worst direction as expected, and that Lin Jian had included the Goryeo Peninsula in the scope of his eastern strategy, Yezier's mood was completely ruined.

The governor of Haiyang County, Zhen Feng, was captured by Lin Jian in the battle of Seogwipo, and Zuo Jing, the prime minister of Goryeo, couldn't wait to send his cronies to take over Haiyang County, but asked Lin Jian to return to the mountains with the tiger and make the tiger and wolf fight, and let Zhen Feng and 3,000 Haiyang floating soldiers return to Goryeo, prompting the contradiction between Zhen Feng and Zuo Jing to sharply oppose.

Although under the suppression of Northern Yan, there was peace between Zhen Feng and Zuo Jing for two years, but after Zhen Feng was properly prepared in Haiyang, he quickly raised troops to the north in the name of Xue Qiansha and Qing Jun's side, attacking Zuo Jing, the prime minister, to control the Goryeo royal army.

Although Zhen Feng was defeated at the hands of Lin Jian in the battle of Seogwipo, he was indeed a famous general in Goryeo, and he used his troops ruthlessly, and Northern Yan has been deliberately weakening Goryeo's national defense forces for more than ten years, so that the Goryeo royal army controlled by Zuo Jing was defeated at the beginning of the war. In order to avoid the situation being impossible to recover, Yezir sent 20,000 Goryeo soldiers back to China when the war on the Western Front was most urgent, so as to help Zuo Jing regain the lost territory.

In fact, in the later period, the Goryeo royal army controlled by Zuo Jing had 150,000 soldiers and horses, and there were as many as 30,000 or 40,000 elites, but there was nothing to be done about the Haiyang army, which had less than 60,000 soldiers and horses and could only be assisted by the Haidong marching army on the periphery.

If Huaidong directly sent 40,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers and horses to participate in the civil war of Goryeo, would Zuo Jing control the army of the king of Goryeo, would he be able to hold the defense line in the south of Hanyang County? If Hanyang, the capital of Goryeo, is lost, Zuo Jing is executed, and the entire Goryeo Kingdom falls to Huaidong, then Liaodong, the foundation of Northern Yan, will directly face the powerful attack of the combined soldiers and horses of Goryeo and Huaidong.

In other words, Huaidong does not even need to take Shandong, and the main force can directly go to the Goryeo Peninsula to attack Liaodong and Yanji......

Goryeo must be protected, the Goryeo royal army controlled by Zuo Jing alone is very unsafe, once Goryeo is lost, the consequences for Northern Yan will be disastrous - this son, Northern Yan must respond, and it needs to directly send troops and horses into Goryeo to participate in the war.

However, where to transfer troops and who to transfer to help defend Goryeo, these questions are spread out in front of Yezier, which makes him so difficult to answer!