Chapter 652 Han Jiajin

In early winter, the cold wind is bleak, and the water plants on the shore are blowing in the wind. A water bird is walking on the shallows for food. From time to time, he looks up and looks around vigilantly to see if there are any natural enemies. The lonely birds on the deserted beaches are cold waves. The tall Jiushi Mountain on both sides of the Huai River in the distance is like a huge screen, reflected on the blue-gray sky, which makes people feel chilled from a distance.

The water bird suddenly raised its head, listened with its ears, and suddenly spread its wings and flew. At this time, a slogan sound came from a distance. In a river bay not far away, groups of men were busy in the shallow water, knocking thick wooden stakes into the bottom of the water, and then connecting them with iron chains to form a semi-closed water village. On the shore, countless heads were moving like ants. With their efforts, several huge trenches and soil trenches were slowly forming.

On the high ground, the central army was reporting the progress of the camp construction to Huo Yanwei: "General, before dinner, the trenches and earthen piles can be repaired, and the army can rest in the camp protected by the trenches and earthen piles." Speaking of this, the officer paused for a moment, looked at Huo Yanwei's face, and then continued carefully: "However, the construction of the trenches is still far from building the trenches, and the progress of the trenches is very slow. There is no wooden wall on the trenches, and the progress of the water village is also very slow!"

"Yeah!" Huo Yanwei responded, his eyes flashed across the vast Huaibei land in front of him. The vast plain was vast, but there was no people everywhere in his sight. After a long time, a wry smile appeared on Huo Yanwei's face: "Now Caicheng is located in a key place, and the north and south are all gathered here. The forests outside the city have naturally been cut down completely, so as not to be left for the enemy to build attack tools. Even if there are, they will definitely stay in the city. After the Wu bandits broke through the city, they moved all the people away, so how could they still leave wood?"

The officer looked around, gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice to Huo Yanwei: "The Wu bandits burned their accumulations and drove all the people. Our army was unable to set up camps here, and there was no base for guarding them. All the food and fodders must be transported from hundreds of miles away, and they consumed a lot. What the generals saw in the end, it would be better to go from Feikou to Huaihe River and drive directly to Shouzhou, raise the masses to besiege the city, and even light cavalry to siege the wilderness, burn them to accumulate, and plunder the people, so that the Huai River and the soldiers and millet were all gone, so that Wu'er could rise and fall, and the spirits were happy to fly over!"

Huo Yanwei was silent when he heard this and did not answer immediately. It turned out that the "Feikou" mentioned by the officer was the mouth of Feishui entering Huai River. It was located in the northeast of Shouzhou and the south bank of Huai River. Since the Feishui River could use ships to transport food and fodder, since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the troops attacking Shouzhou from the northern route have mostly crossed the Huai River from here. The officer's suggestion was that since the Wu army was in the stable walls and cleared the fields in Huaibei, the Liang army would simply cross the river directly, first surrounded Shouzhou with a large army, and then benefit.

Using the advantages of our own cavalry, imitating the old tricks of the Wu army, and plundering the wealthy Huainan land, we can not only use these civil and material resources to support our siege, but also weaken the military and political potential of Shouzhou and even the Huainan region. This kind of combat method was a strategy often adopted by the northern nomadic regimes during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. However, according to this strategy, the war between Liang and Wu will inevitably fall into a situation of long-term and attrition. After all, after years of hard work,

The city defense of Shouzhou is very strong. It cannot achieve decisive victory by only surrounding and plundering the periphery. Moreover, the multiple garrisons on the Huai River on the periphery of Shouzhou, such as Kushicheng, Matou Shu, Pancheng, Liangcheng, Huangcheng, etc., are mostly under the control of the Wu army. Once the Liang army ignores these key points, its supply line can easily fall into the attack of Wu army reinforcements from the direction of Guangling, but if the troops are divided to guard the existing forces, it is not enough to achieve this goal. In a word, the height of the officer determines that he cannot see this fact-the reality of the main enemy of Liang State in the north determines that Huo Yanwei cannot adopt this strategy that will lead to the expansion and long-term war, but Huo Yanwei understands this: after losing the opportunity to quickly seize Caixin and old city and quickly gain a strong opportunity to attack the Shouzhou base, his plan to manage Huaixi this time has actually failed.

Just as the officer was anxiously looking forward to Huo Yanwei's answer, a panting personal soldier ran up from the high ground and rushed to Huo Yanwei and knelt down and said, "Report to the general that a boat has come to the south bank. The person on the ship claimed to be an envoy sent by the Wushouzhou regiment envoy, saying that he would pay homage to the general!" At this point, the personal soldier paused for a moment before continuing, "That guy said he was here to work hard."

"Hard work?" Huo Yanwei felt surprised when the Wu army envoy came. He couldn't help but open his one-eye with curiosity.

"That's exactly what that guy said, but he did have a dozen pigs, a cow, and a few jars of wine poured into his boat."

Huo Yanwei frowned. The strange actions of the other party's messenger made him feel at a loss. This feeling made him very uncomfortable. He made a gesture to his subordinates and began to consider how to deal with this enemy who had not met yet.

Han Jiajin jumped ashore and glanced at the Liang army camp not far away. The camps of tens of thousands of troops were very complicated, but he could write down the key points in his mind. As a rising star in the Wu regime, Han Jiajin was naturally the leader. Being able to be selected by Lu Fang to his beloved son Lu Runxing and serve as the military account room in his shogunate can show how outstanding he is. After all, being able to become the crown prince's team will be for him to have a future political future.

It was a bright spot, and the positions of high-ranking officials and nobles such as Privy Councilor, Pushe, and Xia Pingzhangshi of the Secretariat were all waving to him. Everything he saw in front of him made Han Jiajin very satisfied. It was obvious that the lord's adventure was not in vain. As a large army from afar, the commander of the Liang army had to spend his precious time and soldiers' physical strength on building camps, and the importance of these to the outcome of the war was self-evident. Thinking of this, he had more confidence in the success of his trip.

The Liang army officer who escorted the Han family to the Han family did not waste much time. He was soon taken to Huo Yanwei. Huo Yanwei carefully looked at the person's appearance: a green robe, a slender and symmetrical body, three-filtered long beard under his chin, an elegant appearance, and a pair of eyes with clear eyes. Obviously, this is not a good guy to deal with. Huo Yanwei gave up the plan to wield the other party and smiled: "I wonder what this gentleman calls him?"

The Han family carried out rituals and replied proudly: "A certain family is a member of the Han family under the command of the Shouzhou regiment envoy, the Han family is in charge. Yesterday, my family heard that the general led a large army to hunt in Huaibei, and the troops were very prosperous. I remembered that a few days ago had sent troops to wipe out the rebel Liu An. The people were displaced. Huaibei was already in white land. I was afraid that the general's military supply would be insufficient and that he would be rude to you, so I let the villain come with small things to relieve the fatigue and accept it with the general's smile!"

"Oh! Mr. Lu's family is intent! The person comes, bring a hundred pieces of silk cloth!" Huo Yanwei smiled and said, "Some small things are not respectful. Please take them back. Please take them as gifts and don't refuse them."

"Don't dare!" Han Jiajin quickly went down to thank Xun. Both sides were polite and smiled, and they looked like friends, but they were full of cleverness. After a few rounds, Huo Yanwei was a warrior after all. Although his cunning was deep, his words were far inferior to Han Jiajin. When the officers on the side saw him, they found an opportunity to interject: "My general went south with tens of thousands of tigers to fight against the unjust ministers. How can you resist the Chinese army? If you open the city gates, return the papers, and surrender, you will not lose the reward of being a marquis. If you are stubborn and unsuccessful, the thunderous anger will be burned, and you will be too late to regret it at that time!"

The threatening words of the officer that Han Jiajin heard, and his smile disappeared immediately, replaced by a cold expression: "I have heard that there is no master in the world, and those with virtue and ability live there. If you only use force, you cannot practice benevolence and righteousness, Qin and Sui are all the lessons of the past. Although the Liang army is numerous, I use Huai River as a pool and the army as a city, so why should I be afraid of it? If he does not believe it, he can come to the country. My king also went to the battle of Qingkou back then. Zhu Jin and Wang Maozhang are still here. How dare your country try it?"

After Han Jiajin's words, the Liang generals and Zuo who were watching changed color. The person's words were very clear: In the battle of Qingkou, Zhu Wen overthrew the army and killed the generals, and suffered heavy losses. He did not dare to ask about the matters of Huai Shang again. Zhu Jin, the most important figure in Huainan in the Battle of Qingkou, is now under the command of Lu Fang of Wu. At this time, many good generals in Liang State died, and the situation in the north was far worse than that in the past. The power comparison between Hedong and Liang State had increased and decreased. In this case, if there was another battle of Qingkou, it would be that the Liang army would go south, but that the Wu army would go north and return to the river with Shatuer to divide the world equally.

At this moment, Huo Yanwei suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Mr. Han was joking. The rebel soldiers and generals were not in the He family, so we should attack them together. When Mr. Lu led his troops to come, he sent an envoy to reward him. It shows his affection. Don't mention this kind of military affairs again. People are preparing for a banquet. Today I will go with Mr. Han without getting drunk!"
Chapter completed!