Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 703
The first person to speak was a young man in his twenties. Shen Zhezi looked around and recognized this young man's name was Li Youzhi.

"The purpose of gathering here today is to gather ideas and discuss. If you have any plans, you can tell them. You don't have to be restrained, just speak freely."

Shen Zhezi nodded to Li Youzhi with a smile, not lacking in encouragement.For the Li family who was born in the begging army, he was quite curious and looked forward to it.

Earlier, Zhu Feng, the master of Wubi, died in the countryside on his way home. All the families in the territory were not lacking in greed for the many Wubi people left by him, and all of them were ready to move, even giving weapons to take actual actions.

But in the end it was Zhu Feng's old department, Li Cang, who rose up, organized defense and self-protection, inherited most of Zhu Feng's inheritance, and expressed his surrender to Shouchun Township immediately.

Shen Zhezi has never met Li Cang so far, but his courage and ability during the process are worthy of a high regard.Although they are still on guard against each other right now, they are far from returning home.But this is also human nature. After a long time, even if there is a little grudge, it will naturally be smoothed over.

When everyone looked over, Li Youzhi was a little shy.Although he was born in the begging army, he traveled with his relatives in the army when he was young, but he is quiet, thoughtful, and slightly introverted.It is because of this character that his uncle sent Shouchun to obey his orders. Even if he has no success, he can avoid troubles.

Hearing Shen Zhezi's comfort and encouragement, Li Youzhi calmed down a little, sorted out his thoughts a little, and then said: "The headquarters is guarded, and the land is near Rukou. This area was plundered by Shi Cong in the early years, and it has not yet been ruled. .The earth is sheltered by your water, and there is earth in the middle that hangs like a gourd..."

At the beginning, Li Youzhi's tone was still a bit stumbling, but as he narrated, his thoughts became clearer and his tone became more relaxed.After receiving this reminder, many local generals seemed to have realized something, and they all joined the discussion, adding some details that Li Youzhi could not describe clearly.

After Shen Zhezi listened for a while, he also understood Li Youzhi's train of thought.

From Shouchun to the west along the Huai River, it is Ruyin, which is Runan.In fact, this is the real Yuzhou.

In the middle and early dynasties, a part was separated from Runan to establish Ruyin.During the Yongjia Rebellion, Shi Le, who was the general of the Han Dynasty at that time, broke through this territory, and was later recovered by Zu Ti's Northern Expedition.Later, Zu Yue succeeded and retreated to Shouchun, taking his son Zu Ji as the internal history of Runan.But a few years ago, after Zhao Shicong plundered and attacked Shouchun in the south, he turned to Runan, smashed the city defenses under the collusion of the villains in the village, and plundered and returned.

But in this battle, because Yu Liang, who was in power at the time, failed to give aid to Yuzhou in time, instead he used Guo Mo to build a mud pond in the rear to guard against the ancestral covenant, so the contradiction between Yuzhou and the central government was completely intensified.At that time, Su Jun, who was in Liyang, sent Han Huang and other generals to help Zuyue. Since then, the two have been linked together, and together they caused a great chaos.

Since then, this territory has been occupied by Later Zhao. Since Shen Zhezi's northern expedition, he has only recovered Shouchun, and has not been able to go west in the future.Therefore, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, although Zhou Fu served as the prefect of Runan and Mao Bao served as the prefect of Ruyin, they both only got titles and did not govern the territory.

Shen Zhezi also had an impression of the place Li Youzhi mentioned about the hanging gourd.In later generations, the city was built on the ground, so it was named Xuanhu City, which was located in Runan Town, and it was also called Tianzhong, which means the center of the whole world.Even when Mongolia went south to destroy the Song Dynasty in later generations, this territory still has great strategic significance.

However, in the descriptions of these villagers, the Xuanhu City has not yet been built, and the original Runan City has long been destroyed by the war.Although Jienu occupied this territory in name, they did not garrison too many troops, they only deterred the village clan and occasionally preyed on them.

Therefore, Runan is currently in a state of anarchy, and the villagers form a village to protect themselves and temporarily serve under the banner of Jiehu.

Shen Zhezi didn't send troops to occupy Runan before. On the one hand, it was because his energy was inseparable. The affairs of Shouchun and Huainan alone made him extremely busy.

On the other hand, although the land of Runan and Shouchun are connected by the Huai River, the connection is very weak. On land, the west of Shouchun is a piece of hills and mountains and rivers.Especially in Shouchun's already quite mature defense system, Runan is just a slightly connected enclave.Even if it is won, there is no obvious improvement in Shouchun's defense, and it will waste too much energy.

Now that Shen Zhezi suffers from the lack of a place to comfort and resettle the displaced refugees on the north bank of the Huai River, Runan has become a better choice.As described by Li Youzhi and other villagers, this dangerous place is divided into river valleys, like hanging gourds, which can greatly restrict the activities of slave riders.

If a large number of refugees are recruited here, the Huainan army does not need to invest too much energy at all. As long as the water army is basically cruising in the waterways, before the Jie slave army comes south, the tyrannical slave soldiers in these places can be deterred to the greatest extent. .Moreover, as long as Xiashi City and Yingkou and Rukou in the upper reaches are guarded, these refugees can also avoid a vicious impact on Shouchun from the south.

Even if the slave soldiers come south in large numbers in the future, Runan is not a desperate place with no retreat. They can go south over Tongbai Mountain and enter Yiyang, which is Xinyang in later generations.

After passing Yiyang, you can go straight to Jiangxia along the waterway from Sui County, so as to avoid the massive attack of slave soldiers.Although the distance is far away, and it is rare to borrow the power of boats and boats, it is better than dying in the north.

Although this plan can't directly attract exiles to the county for his own use, but if keeping the lives and vitality of the Jin people is the key consideration right now, there is no need to worry too much about gains and losses.What's more, Sima Wuji, the king of Qiao, now serves as Jiang Xia's prime minister, which was originally a part of Shen Zhezi's Jiangbei strategy.Reaching a closer relationship with Jiang Xia is also in line with Shen Zhezi's complete strategic conception.

Li Youzhi proposed this strategy because his family's Wubi was originally located in the west of Shouchun, close to Rukou on the Huaihe River.Because of the needs of life, he frequently crossed the mountains and entered Runan to carry out some transactions or other activities, so he knew the geographical situation of this place very well.When I heard the general's question, I naturally thought of this.

And after a little discussion, everyone felt that this was a good choice.If you want to wipe out Runan, you don't need to send out too many troops, you just need to clean up some slave soldiers scattered in the countryside, and at the same time remove a few evil tyrants from the village who are obviously old slaves, and you won't suffer too much. Stubborn resistance.

The difficulty is how to organize and resettle those refugees to Runan, and how much it will cost.After all, the refugees have lost their homes and have no possessions. If you just gather them together without supplies, it will also be a dead end.Moreover, the war is imminent at this time, and any military action must take into account or what consequences it will bring.

So soon, the discussion in the meeting changed from where to choose to how much to invest, and the variables that Jienu will have.

Population is the most precious wealth in this era, and its value cannot be measured by the amount of money and food.However, now that the war is imminent, it is not known how long this war will last. Huainan's local money and food need to be paid out, and Shen Zhezi cannot be allowed to be too extravagant.

How much money, food and materials are used depends on how much food and grass can be mobilized in a short period of time by Duhe's inspection of internal affairs.So right now, it is useless for the generals to talk too much.

As for the reaction that Jie Nu may have, it is difficult for people to deal with it easily.

Later Zhao Shihu has not yet officially come to the south, so there is a lot of speculation about where the majority of Jienu will attack.If it is an ordinary opponent, it is not difficult to guess, if the opponent's main camp is Han Mian, the attack must be Xiangyang.But if you repair Ru and Ying, then Shouchun needs to be careful.If troops are mobilized for civil service in Pengcheng and Surabaya, Huaiyin and Guangling must be taken.

But now, all the lands of slave soldiers are in turmoil, and it is impossible to guess where they mean!

And mentioning this point, Shen Zhezi also hated his teeth itching, this stone tiger is a beast, no matter whether he just wants to confuse the enemy in the south, so that people can't see what his army is pointing at, so he can't make effective actions layout.

Or do they have other plans, and want to use it to achieve some political purpose, such as eliminating dissidents.All are based on the widespread abuse of Jin people in the Han area, treating human life as worthless, and the atrocities are heinous!
Because it is impossible to determine where the opponent's main force will go, the generals will inevitably be wary when considering the Runan issue.Worried that this move might be regarded as a provocation by Jie Numu, and thus the main attack direction will be placed on Shouchun, which may make Shouchun in danger of not defending.

Such a level of consideration, if spoken out, will inevitably make people feel cowardly.But people's subconscious mind can't deceive themselves. There are many generals who talk about this matter with excuses, or say that it is not easy to manage, or that it is difficult for small people, or that it is not appropriate to act rashly. In short, they don't agree. Deeply afraid.

When Shen Zhezi was in Liang County, he could use strong voices to inspire people, but in the town, these false words may not be very effective.After all, this is the town of the front line, directly facing the threat of Jienu's strong army, there is a risk of defeat and death at every turn.So if you just talk about empty words regardless of reality, no matter how nice the words are, it is of no use.

"In this battle, Master Wang is defending due to the situation, so he will inevitably fall into a passive position. The slaves and thieves will not attack, and they don't know what they are referring to. They may use this to shake the hearts of the people, so that all the towns will not be at peace. But in fact, when we examine their original intentions in using troops, we will The generals in Huainan really don’t need to be lucky.”

Shen Zhezi sighed and said: "As early as in the old town of Liang County, people were sent north to spy. The slave master Shi Shilong fell ill for a long time, his son Shi Daya was cowardly and unable to stand up, and Shi Jilong was even more rebellious than before. Inheritance becomes doubtful, and internal strife will inevitably arise. Since the poor country this time, it has only been thinking about intimidating the borders, but it has no intention of going straight to the east of the river. So where the crowd will point, you can figure it out with a little thought."

This is the first time that Shen Zhezi has analyzed Jie Nu's military intentions so thoroughly in front of the generals.After hearing this, the expressions of all the generals, especially those local generals in Shouchun, changed suddenly.

(End of this chapter)