Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 673
When Shen Zhezi talked about these things with Yu Yi, it was by no means aimless or unfounded.Because the location of Shouchun is really very important, especially in this situation of confrontation between the North and the South, whether it is the Jiangdong court guarding the Huaihe River, or the North is aggressively coming south, this is the most important strategic location.

Since Yongjia, there have been troubled times for more than [-] years, and the northern and southern conquests. Almost all of the large-scale wars have been related to Shouchun.Among them, the most famous Battle of Feishui in the former Qin Dynasty, its main battlefield was Bagong Mountain not far from Shouchun City.And the most significant time when the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty who was the king of Jin at the time, set up his headquarters in Shouchun, restrained an army of more than [-] troops, and went south to destroy Chen.

For the northern imperial court, the three main roads going south were from Xiangyang to Hanmian, and from Hanshui to the Yangtze River.

However, from Pengcheng and Xiapi to Guangling through Huaiyin, the disadvantage is that the river is forty miles wide, which requires too high demands on the navy and the overall national strength.In addition, the founding of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was basically Qing, Yan, Xu and other people who traveled to the south. The surrounding area of ​​Guangling has always been the most important defensive area for the country. Even in the Southern Dynasty, this tradition has been maintained.Going south from here, not to mention reaching the big river, even breaking through the Zhongdu River in the lower reaches of the Huai River is extremely difficult.

As for the route of Shouchun, its starting point is the Heluo Plain in the heart of the Central Plains. It is very convenient to dispatch large-scale personnel and materials. Ruxukou reached the Hengjiang River, and once they crossed the Hengjiang River, they would wipe out the Three Wus!
As far as the Southern Dynasties were concerned, the use of troops to the north was mostly due to the old political and military structure.Jingzhou has been an important town in Shaanxi since ancient times. As long as Xiangyang gets a hand, it will open a southern gate to China.Xuzhou is the foundation of the Jiangdong court, with many soldiers and generals, and no worries about the future.

But this does not mean that Shouchun is not important. Shouchun is located in the middle of the Huai River, where the so-called eight rivers converge.Regardless of whether troops are sent from east to west, this is the most important support route.Since Yingshui went straight to Heluo, if the northern regime did not have a strong and stable center, the advance of this road would be enough to split and paralyze the northern regime!
Taking charge of Shouchun, for Shen Zhezi, this is the first time he touches a strategic location that can affect the general trend of the world.All the previous efforts can be said to be all for today!Only in this position can he really have the means and ability to directly affect the north-south pattern!

It is true that among the three major towns in Jiangbei, Yuzhou is the weakest.But at this point in time, Tao Kan in Jingzhou is getting old. Although he is still struggling, once the power is handed over, it will inevitably cause turmoil in Jingzhou's subordinates, and there will be no room for further progress.

As for Xuzhou, the situation has always been complicated, with more than enough conservative and less aggressive.If the internal conflicts are not clarified, there will be no opportunity to make a concerted effort to attack with all one's strength!
Therefore, although Yuzhou has the weakest background and the weakest strength, at the moment when Shi Zhao is about to hand over the regime and violent internal turmoil is about to occur, only Shouchun can seize this opportunity and attack lightly!
Under such circumstances, Shen Zhezi could not allow the fire in the backyard to happen no matter what, and he must ensure that the alliance with the Yu family is close and close, and there should be no suspicion that can be exploited by others!
Without Yu Yi's full support, it would be impossible for him to secure Shouchun.Even with the support of the empress dowager, it would be difficult, not to mention that the empress dowager's support for him may not be the kind he would like to see. It is more likely that the empress dowager even hopes to transfer him back to the rear of Jiankang instead of putting him in Shouchun. The land of long battles.

So before the start of the war, Shen Zhezi sent someone to send Princess Xingnan back to Jiankang, hoping to use the princess to influence the empress dowager and the emperor, don't trust people's words, and transfer him away from the front line of Shouchun.

Once this opportunity is missed this year, if you want to make up for it, you may not have this opportunity in ten years!And even if you seize the opportunity in the future, the price you have to pay at that time will definitely be much higher than it is now.

Shen Zhezi's current authority is definitely not enough if he wants to secure Shouchun.Although he now actually has the power in charge, he is still only an official of Yu Yi, the governor of Yuzhou, in name. Even after successive victories, he is not even qualified to directly submit combat plans and battle reports to Taichung.

In other words, even if Shen Zhezi has regained Huainan and Shouchun, if his battle report has not been confirmed and submitted by Yuzhou Governor's Office, if Taichung wants to hold back, it may not recognize this victory at all.As for his behavior of showing his kindness and making great contributions to those Huainan dock wall owners, it is just a piece of nonsense!
Shen Zhezi's current official positions are only general Xizhong and prefect of Liang County.Of course, this general number is considered high, but if it is not matched with a specific ministry, it is just a title.Only after the holidays do they have the power to lead troops independently.But it is not enough to rely on these alone to secure Shouchun.

Even if the original Liangjun old department didn't care about Shen Zhezi's fame, it would be difficult for these newly cast Huainan Wubi masters to suppress them if they didn't have enough fame to govern them.Even Guo Song, Mao Bao, and Shen Zhezi, who cooperated with the operation this time, do not have the right to direct dispatch, and have to go through the Yuzhou Governor's Office.

Once the battle becomes fierce, a large-scale deployment of troops is required. It is okay to do it once or twice, but if you frequently leave the governor's office aside, you will treat Yu Yi as nothing.No matter how good the relationship is, it will become awkward.

Therefore, if he wanted to govern Shouchun in a legitimate manner, Shen Zhezi had to step up his reputation.Even if it is temporarily impossible to open the mansion because of age, the Huainan prefect is the most basic, and military must obtain the post of supervising the army.

In the future, even if Shen Zhezi will still be subordinate to Yu Yi's Yuzhou Governor's Mansion, but if he wants to preside over the war in the coming year, he still needs to separate Liang Jun and Huainan into a separate combat zone, which he will fully control.

Therefore, these questions should be explained to Yu Yi in advance, so as to avoid any unnecessary quarrels between them.To be honest, Yu Yi may not be a strong person because he has an overly strong elder brother. This is also one of the prerequisites for the Shen family to be able to walk together with the Yu family.

If Yu Bing is replaced, or even Yu Yi, who has not yet become successful, is in charge of the Yu family, it is inevitable that the two families will part ways after their cooperation reaches this point.

Now that the border of Yuzhou Township has directly advanced to the Huaishui River, there will inevitably be a large-scale adjustment in the personnel structure.Since Shen Zhezi has decided that he will be in charge of Shouchun in the future, he hopes to hand over the rear area of ​​Liang County to Yu Tiao.

Yu Tiao is currently serving in Linchuan, Jiangzhou. Although he had some considerations at the time, it seems that the role Yu Tiao can play in Jiangzhou is far less than that in Jiangbei.In the future, Yuzhou and Xuzhou will inevitably have closer ties, and Yu Tiao was quite popular among the military leaders in Guangling because of his relationship with Yinjue in his early years.

Yu Yi originally hoped to transfer Yu Yi, the youngest of his brothers, to Liang Jun. This place would be the most important supply place in Huainan in the future. It was not too dangerous and had enough experience.

But Shen Zhezi had already regarded Liang County as his own private land, so he felt that Yu Tiao was more suitable than Yu Yi.If you really want to choose Yu Yi, it is better to let Du He stay in Liang County.So he simply refused on the grounds that Liang County was important and Yu Yi's qualifications were not very senior.I don't know how he has the confidence to say such a thing. You must know that Yu Yi is also his brother-in-law in seniority, and he is much older than him.

But Yu Yi just listened to Shen Zhezi's words, and at the same time could not help but complain that the eldest brother suppressed his brothers too much when he was alive.Yu Yi is now nearly 20 years old, but he has not shown any usefulness. He is still white in his [-]s, and he can't show enough convincing resumes when he is now employing people.

If Yu Tiao is transferred to Jiangbei, the Yu family will no longer stay in Jiangzhou.This is a bit of a pity for Yu Yi. Although Taichung already intends to let Yuzhang prefect Zhong Ya take over Tao Kan's Jiangzhou in the future, as the situation has grown in recent years, Yu Yi also has this idea.

Now the brothers of the Yu family, except for Yu Bing, who is scattered in the capital, occasionally shows his presence in the center, and the rest of the three have to concentrate in Yuzhou.Hefei and Huainan were recovered one after another, and Liyang became a stable rear. In the future, Yu Yi moved to Hefei, so he temporarily stayed in Liyang with Yu Yi as his supervisor.

Now that it was Shouchun, Yu Yi was not in a hurry to leave, and simply stepped forward to appease the villagers in Jingzhong.

Jienu sent troops in his early years, but he only attacked Zuyue who was in Shouchun, and took away nearly [-] households in Shouchun City.As for the farther countryside, the damage was not too great.The middle of the Huaihe River is one of the concentrated areas guarded by dock walls, especially around Shaopi, where water conservancy is convenient and there is no shortage of fertile land, which is enough for recuperation.

After Shen Zhezi settled in Shouchun, he took over Jie Nu's investigation of the surrounding Wubi and Dingkou in the past two years to obtain information.There are as many as hundreds of large and small docks in this area.

Over the past two years, Peng Biao has either defeated or coerced to win over here, nearly two hundred families have disappeared, and this part of the population is now directly controlled by Huainan.Among them, in addition to more than [-] households who directly stayed in several cities such as Shouchun, there were also more than [-] households who were dispatched to garrison fields and fortresses.

Therefore, in the first battle of Huainan, the direct population harvest alone reached more than 3 people.

As for the remaining dock walls, more than 100 of them are still living in the mountains, close to the door and not caring about foreign affairs.Shen Zhezi will not be polite to these people who are ignorant of current affairs and pretend to live in Taoyuan. They will be the main targets of cleaning up in the next few months. In order to restore the vitality of Huainan as soon as possible.

There are seventy or eighty families who take the initiative to seek refuge, if they are divided by clan.It seems that there are not many, but those who dare to poke their heads out to make a bet in the chaos are not weak.Among them, the fewest ones gather close to a hundred households, and the ones with more than a thousand households have five or six households.

Calculated in this way, in the battle of Huainan alone, not to mention the land and cities, the gains for the mere population amounted to 20-[-]!Of course, most of them cannot be directly grasped right now, but this number is enough to make Yu Yi and Shen Zhezi overjoyed.

Although the production of reclamation depends on the seasons and is cyclical, but if there are so many people under control, many problems that were originally intractable can be solved!Such an astonishing harvest, for people like them who are used to accepting wasteland and starting from scratch, it is quite a joy of getting rich.

　After fighting so far, it is finally possible to see the money back. . .It's the new year, and the Spring Festival is not far away. I wish you all a happy holiday. . .

　　
　
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