The situation in Baoying County is the same as that in Shanyang County. Officials and other people can run away, but the flat-headed people can’t escape "waiting for death"
Zhou’s old trick did not stop to continue south, but went all the way to Gaoyou Army. On March 20, he occupied gaoyou county, gaoyou county, and rested for two days. On the one hand, he waited for the logistics forces, on the other hand, he also let the troops and horses take more rest.
At the same time, Zhou sent a large number of sentries to spy on Song Jun in Yangzhou.
A few weeks ago, I learned that Liu Kun decided to lead an army to defend Huainan, an important town in Huainan, Yangzhou. Liu Kun’s army must take the lead in defending Yangzhou and then go north.
Although they have not done so now, the army has advanced to Gaoyou and occupied the initiative. At this time, the best choice for Song Jun is to defend Yangzhou’s southern crossing route, Guazhou, avoid the army and Liguazhou, and go to Jiangnan.
Soon the sentinel heard that they had found a 10,000-person-scale Song Jun rushing to settle in Lujin Town, which seemed to be attacking the north.
Zhou was not surprised to learn that.
This period of time is enough for Liu Kun to know that the army has begun to act and attack the city like a man’s land, and he will inevitably respond.
Zhou then inquired carefully and learned that the army in Lujin Town was Liu Kun, a general, and Wang Gang led the army. The 10,000-person army was relatively neat and not like Uzbekistan.
Yes, I finally waited for a decent army. If all the Song civil servants and military commanders met the running king, Zhou really doubted whether this army could annex the Southern Song Dynasty.
It seems that there are still some loyal ministers and generals in the Southern Song Dynasty who dare to confront the army head-on.
Of course, it’s dare to confront Liu Kun head-on, but the original goal of Liu Kun’s attack on Wang Gang is not the town of Lujin, but Baoying County.
In early February, Liu Kun expressed the court’s request to change the tactics of guarding the river and not guarding the Huai River, focusing on defending Huainan, Huainan and Jiangnan, avoiding Jiangnan and facing the army directly.
Although there is a natural barrier of the Yangtze River in the south of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River is very long, and there are many places suitable for the northern troops to cross the river. If the troops are arranged from east to west, it is equivalent to a long snake array, and no matter where they are broken, the whole Yangtze River defense line will fall.
This is very unfavorable for Jiangnan politics. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that defending the river and defending the Huaihe River.
However, it was not until March 20 that Liu Kun got a reply from the court that he was allowed to act like this and send troops to defend Huainan.
However, it was too late, and no matter how quickly Liu Kun acted, he failed to establish a reliable Huaihe River defense line before the troops were dispatched.
Chapter 62 Lose the upper hand, Liu Kun
Yu Shoujiang must defend Huai River. It is not Liu Kun. People of insight in the South Song Dynasty have already come out. They also hope that the court can correct it.
After Naishaoxing’s peace talks, the Southern Song Dynasty was afraid of any friction caused by the state of Jin, and Huainan was also facing the risk of diversion and flooding of the Yellow River. It was not worthwhile to invest a lot of money to build long-term military defense facilities.
One thousand floods are enough to destroy Huainan’s military defense facilities, and then the blood will be lost or the court will pay.
In view of this, the Lord and the Southern Song Dynasty government simply decided to focus on defending the major ferries of the Yangtze River rather than the Huaihe River, and decided to move the defense line back.
On the one hand, it can avoid the danger caused by the flood of the Yellow River, and on the other hand, it can increase the military buffer zone to prevent the fire from going off with the Huaibei Jin State.
Once the war starts, we are ready to give up Huainan and lengthen the enemy supply line to increase the possibility of Song Jun’s defense winning.
And if the Yellow River overflows during the war, then Song Jun will win without fighting. Wouldn’t it be flattered that the northern army is unbeaten and defeated?
With this in mind, this strategy in the Southern Song Dynasty has been implemented, even after the fall of the Jin State, this strategy has been fully extended and has not been changed.
When Liu Kun was transferred from Jinghu War Zone to Huainan War Zone, he found that it was not safe for the Southern Song government not to set up defense measures along the Huaihe River, so he repeatedly asked to be stationed in the important towns along the Huaihe River
He is going to set up the general headquarters in Yangzhou, an important town in Huainan, and divide the troops to defend Baoying and Xuyi, so as to ensure Huainan does not lose and intends to station troops in Qinghekou to monitor and stop the army from going south.
The imperial court didn’t respond at first, and Liu Kun ignored him.
At that time, the imperial court wanted peace. Who could care about war?
It is destined to build the Huaihe River defense line. What if it is misunderstood by the country and surprised the friendly countries?
It was not until the Song War was overcast that the court paid attention to Liu Yong’s suggestion.
When Zhou Lin’s mission had little chance of winning, the court rushed to allow Liu Kun to be stationed in Huainan town, and suggested that Liu Kun be allowed to leave Yangzhou town and realize his garrison plan in three places, and also offered him a large number of troops on his own initiative.
It was March 20 when Liu Kun got the permission of the court, and there were three days left before the army sent troops. No matter how fast he rushed, he couldn’t do it.
Unless there is a train, it is impossible for Gen to realize his plan of stationing troops in Huainan in three days.
Not to mention that it took a long time for Liu Kun to move from Jinghu War Zone to Jianghuai War Zone, and it took a group of officers to barely control the Zhenjiang government army, otherwise the Zhenjiang government army would not be able to command at all.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were many hills and hills in the army. Although Liu Yong was a famous star in the Huaihe River region, he was later released from the army and became a civil servant in Jingnan Prefecture.
More than ten years have passed, and Liu Kun has been a civilian for a long time. Even if Liu Kun once defeated Jin Jun, he was not burdened by the military faction, which was very headache for commanding the army.
It was only after Liu Bao and Liu Bao were impeached and resigned that Liu Yong took over the army, which was tantamount to lowering the capital to control the army, but he still had doubts and ignored his orders.
Nai Liu Kun can ask the court to transfer his nephew Liu Li’s cronies to help him control the army.
In this case, it was not difficult for the court. He allowed his request, but nevertheless, he still needed to integrate the morale of the army and get rid of the disobedient leader.
And the military action really surprised Liu Kun.
When he was allowed by the imperial court to station in Huainan on March 20, he still thought that even if there was going to be a war between the two sides of the Song Dynasty, there should be another month or two when the army needed to dispatch and arrange, and it was impossible to attack immediately.
He didn’t know that the military dispatch had been completed and was waiting for the order.
He felt that this period was enough for him to arrange Huainan defense from dispatching troops.
So he sent people to Yangzhou on March 20 to arrange an army to cross the river, and the situation began to rectify the army and prepare to cross the river on March 22.
He never imagined that the Japanese army would send troops on March 23.
At that time, there was nothing to fight against the army in Huainan, and the army officials rushed south to hand over the city to the army. The progress was rapid, almost all the way was to hurry.
When Liu Kun learned that the army had sent troops on March 26th, the army had already attacked Baoying County.
Liu Kun was frightened to disgrace and immediately made arrangements for the general Wang Gang to lead ten thousand military forces to cross the river first and rush to Baoying to be stationed. I hope that they can come again. If they don’t come, they will settle for the next time and station in Gaoyou to block Junnan Road.
When Wang Gang led his army to gallop in Huainan, the Japanese army conquered gaoyou county on March 20. When Wang Gang got the news, he knew that the event was not good, but he could also continue to garrison in the nearby town of Lujin and tell Liu Kun what to do next.
On March 29th, when Liu Kun just dragged his sick body from Zhenjiang to Yangzhou, he got a report from Wang Gang that the army had occupied Gaoyou and there was a possibility of further south.
Liu Kun was frightened to disgrace and realized that he had lost the opportunity and there was no possibility of successfully establishing Huainan defense
He forced himself to calm down and found that the only thing he could do was to find a way to contain the front of the army and try his best to keep Yangzhou and Guazhou from crossing the river and stepping on the south of the Yangtze River successfully.
Damn it!
Liu Kun punched the console table and hated the army.
He didn’t expect the army to attack suddenly, and he didn’t expect those counties in Huainan to fall so quickly. He felt that the army might not have fought, and these counties also had no resistance army. They were on their way and then entered the city and broke through Huainan without blowing off dust.
He guessed that there was no choice to resist Huainan officials. First, he was timid. Second, he wanted to resist without troops and weapons. What about defense?
They can choose to escape.
Liu Kun Kenai can order Wang Gang to defend carefully and block Junnan Road. When he receives the troops, he will fight for it.
After Wang Gang received the order, he began to decorate his defense, thinking that if he wanted to finish it, Liu Kun would give it to him to fight for it.
It’s no use crying over spilt milk. Liu Kun also has to sigh that the army’s quick action and ingenious tactics have stabilized Huainan. Unless Song Jun can recapture Gaoyou and push back the Huaihe River, Huainan will be difficult to defend.
Liu Kun dragged his sick body and looked at the map to think about the strategy. Looking left and right, he felt that it was difficult to accomplish anything by himself.