Chen Mo has already transferred all the elite weapons to Linzhou.

After occupying Linzhou, Chen Mo ordered the establishment of two large granaries in the north and south of Linzhou, each with 500,000 stone of grain, in preparation for the fight against Jiangdong and Huaizhou.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is a hundred battles.

Chen Mo likes to analyze both strengths and weaknesses.

What are the advantages of the Huai Army?

He has more combat experience, has come out of the blood and fire many times, has been in the army for more than ten or twenty years, and has been fighting recently, in terms of experience, it is definitely better than the Chen army, which has only been established for a few years.

What are the advantages of our army?

It is well-equipped, with a god arm crossbow and a clay pot bomb.

There is also an opportunity to take the lead, Chen Mo has mastered Liu Ji, a person who understands the defense of King Huai, and secondly, for now, the soldiers and horses of Huaizhou do not know that Chen Mo is going to attack Huaizhou.

Another major advantage is that the troops have been training together for a long time and are more familiar with each other.

What are the disadvantages?

The sailors and infantry who came from the Wu family had not yet run in with the Chen army.

There is also the fact that the Wu army has been stable for too long, rarely fighting on the battlefield, and the overall combat effectiveness may not be as good as Chen Mo's trap guard.

Therefore, even if the current situation is more urgent, Chen Mo cannot immediately pull a large army to attack Huaizhou, and he must also do targeted training on the run-in of the two armies.

Chen Mo asked Wu Jun to join the training of the Five Guards (Shenyong, Shenwu, Trapping, Fish Scale, and Xiaoqi), and Lü Tong readily agreed.

As a result, the two armies began to conduct high-intensity training for several days.

Of course, the time is urgent, and Chen Mo can't let them train all the time, after five days of high-intensity training, they have seen that the run-in is already a little decent, all the military orders are in order, and the whole army is running or a little sluggish, but it is already very good.

Chen Mo ordered the army to rest for two days, and during the two days of rest, Chen Mo asked the people below to slaughter pigs and sheep, and let the soldiers of the whole army let go of their stomachs to eat meat and be full.

After that, Chen Mo asked Sun Meng to spread the news that Linzhou's troops were all gathered in Qiantang.

Tianjiang Chen Mo has already made people blockade, just to prevent the news of his marriage with Wu Mi from spreading.

In addition, Chen Mo asked all the merchant ships in Linzhou to gather and anchor on the south bank of Linzhou, and asked Nangong Wen to convert some of the warships into merchant ships.

……

June 24, 10th year of Xuanhe.

Chen Mo took the pro-soldier battalion to Xunwang City, an important town on the south bank of Linzhou, and let the pro-soldier battalion and 5,000 brave guards board the merchant ship and ambush them in the cabin.

You must know that the overall scale of merchant ships is not inferior to that of warships, and even the space is larger than that of warships, but the speed and sturdiness of travel are not as good as those of warships.

After that, Chen Mo ordered the boatmen who rocked the oars and sailed on the deck to wear ordinary linen clothes without armor, and asked Sun Meng to disguise himself as merchants and march along the river to Huaizhou.

When Chen Mo returned to Linzhou, he asked the caravan from Linzhou to Huaizhou to be temporarily stopped, so that the original large-scale trade stopped for half a month.

In addition, the shipwrights on the ship, Chen Mo used acquaintances of the caravan, so that the patrol posts in Huaizhou along the way did not arouse vigilance, but all the sentry posts, including the sergeants standing guard, were "all restrained".

Regarding this, in fact, Chen Mo wanted to thank King Huai.

In order not to alert himself and know that he was going to fight Qingzhou, King Huai did not interrupt the commercial activities between Huaizhou and Linzhou, and even in June, the two states were still in trade.

Therefore, this led to the defenders of Huaizhou not knowing anything about such a huge military operation as Chen Mo.

On 25 June, it stands to reason that the ship was going to dock at "Huainan County," where the water was deep and a dock had been built.

But Chen Mo rerouted the fleet and went to "Xiaotian Town." ”

On the deck, Liu Ji held a cane and said to Chen Mo: "Huainan County and Xiaotian Town are both riverside counties on the north bank of Huaizhou. Although I don't know how many troops are stationed in Huainan County, as long as King Huai is not a fool, he will definitely send heavy troops to defend it.

Master Hou, although you have successfully crossed the river at present, it is impossible to quickly capture Huainan County with this little bit of people. In addition, once Huainan County is attacked, the adjacent counties such as "Wuguan" and "Beiwu" can immediately rush to help. But Xiaotian Town is different, it is remote, surrounded by shallows, the water flow is gentle, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the scale is not large, there are only about 300 households, the city walls of the county town are still built by the previous dynasty, until now there is only one earthen fortress left, the city gate is a gap, there is not even a door beam, the most suitable for capture

Even if there were soldiers and horses stationed there, there would not be too many people. ”

When the words fell, before Chen Mo could speak, Sun Meng said: "Since it is a shoal, then our ships can't get to the shore." ”

"It's true that ships can't get ashore, but people can. The water flow in Oda Town is gentle, and when it gets dark, you can swim directly when you get off the boat, drill into the mountains and forests on both sides, and the sentry posts on the shore can't be found, and when they all dock, you can easily take Oda Town. Liu Ji said very confidently.

Chen Mo didn't speak, hearing is false, seeing is believing, only when he sees the terrain of the scene with his own eyes, he will be sure.

As a result, as Liu Ji said, in order not to be discovered by the sentry on the shore, Chen Mo went to investigate alone.

It was found that the terrain around Oda Town was a concave shape, and the location of Oda Town was exactly in that notch.

It was night, and there was no moon in the sky.

The flotilla stopped at a deep place on the river outside the town of Oda.

"Puff puff puff."

More than a dozen soldiers with excellent water ability jumped out of the boat and touched the mountain forest on the right side of Oda Town.

Two of these soldiers were warriors, and each of them held an extremely long hemp rope tied to the mast of the ship at one end.

When they went ashore and entered the woods, they tied the other end of the hemp rope to a tree trunk, and then made a torch and lit it.

In the silence of the night, especially under the cover of the trees next to it, the light of a torch would not be noticeable at all.

At the bow of the boat, Chen Mo saw a flash of fire in the distance, and waved his hand: "Go into the water." ”

"Get into the water." Sun Meng and a group of personal soldiers passed on the order in turn.

"Puff puff puff."

A soldier took off his armor and jumped from the boat into the water.

The soldier who did not know how to swim, the moment he fell into the water, quickly sank to the bottom of the water, but soon floated up, and under the care of his companion who knew how to water, he grabbed the hemp rope on the surface of the river, followed the hemp rope, and swam towards the position where the fire was lit.

It wasn't until the hour that all the soldiers on the ship docked.

Finally, a raft was made and the armor was transported.

(End of chapter)