Although the Huainan army has all contracted into the town, the source of Huainan news has not been completely cut off due to the foundation laid by previous activities in Huainan. As time goes by, more and more news about the conclusive movements of the Jiehu army have spread through the Huainan River, and the situation has become clearer. The Jiehu army has indeed rushed towards Shouchun.

If the people in Huainan had learned this news before, even if they would not collapse immediately, they would have been turbulent and would not have the will to fight. On the one hand, there was a huge gap in strength between them, and on the other hand, the Jie Hu had been rampant for a long time and accumulated great power, making it difficult for people to confront each other.

However, with Shen Zhezi's advance warning and the encouragement of the success of the victory, even if it is now confirmed that the Jiehu army is indeed planning to attack Shouchun, it has not caused much trouble. The inside and outside of the military town are still in order, and the civil and military officials are all in their own duties, and there is not much turmoil in the countryside.

Shen Zhezi no longer greed for the first time. In addition to the necessary raft scouts, all the people and horses in Huaibei retreated to the town and acted as if they were to defend the Huai Line. Previously, a batch of war horses were given to Xi Jian, but Xi Jian did not send envoys to thank him alone, but also sent several warships that could gallop across the river. Although they were not the type of building ships that were several levels, they also had benefits for Huainan's current defense.

The Huainan Army may not be able to pick out too many qualified knights, but there are many qualified naval soldiers. After all, even if these soldiers did not have been in the army for a long time, since they were born in the land of fish and rice, they were all used to floating pedals.

The competition on the waterway is the top priority of Huainan's defense. Shouchun is directly in Huainan, and the defense on the Huainan line alone is from Rukou upstream to Luojian downstream. Any waterway that lasts hundreds of miles long may become a place for the enemy to attack and rush over.

The Huainan army is named 50,000, but if it is completely scattered on such a long front, its forces will be diluted to the extreme, and it will not be able to reach the end of the general trend. The Huainan land is not surprising and dangerous. Once it is robbed by the slave army, Shouchun will become an isolated city. The entire Huainan land will become a place where slave soldiers gallop on horseback, and it will also bring serious blows to Shen Zhezi's operations in Huainan, Liangjun and other places.

Therefore, regarding Huainan's defense, Shen Zhezi only wanted to block the slave soldiers north of the Huai River, and did not think about the second way. It was difficult to defend the long front and it was perfect, so he could only make choices. Similar to Rukou, which is far away from Shouchun, has been designated as a secondary battlefield by him. If he really couldn't defend, he could only give up shrinking.

Among these hundreds of miles of water, the most important thing is Yingkou. The Ying River directly connects to the heartland of the Central Plains and connects to the Great Valley, which is the most important tributary in the Huai River. It is a arduous task to stop the slave army from rushing directly into the Huai River.

Therefore, in Yingkou, Shen Zhezi not only sent Guo Song, who had the most experience in fighting with slave soldiers, but also Han Huang helped him support him, and even prepared Chen's heavy troops around Yingkou, with more than 20,000 cavalrymen on the water and land.

When setting up the defense line, Shen Zhezi was particularly glad that he was the command of the ancients. With the formation of chariots, the water and land forces under his command could obtain the greatest mobility, without having to shrink and retreat, and leave the fixed station, and be able to devote themselves to any battlefield on Huaihang at any time due to war needs.

The moon formation is not a powerful weapon to win every battle, and its power is by no means limited to the battle formation itself. It has extremely strict requirements for the cooperation of terrain, troops, weapons, and even fighter jets. If the focus is on the battle formation itself, then it is not only not a winning weapon, but a gift package for the door.

The shocking battle in Liu Yu's northern expedition in history was not the first battle of the Queyue Formation, but a manifestation of the great success. The Queyue Formation really started when the Northern Prefecture Army entered Wuzhong south to clear out the Tianshidao rebellion.

Wuzhong water networks are densely populated, and many of the rebels in the Tianshidao are Wuzhong Haozong, who are familiar with the geographical situation, join. Although the Northern Army is brave and good at fighting, there is almost no advantage in such a war environment. If a small team advances, it is very likely that it will be defeated by the rebels flexibly dispatching some advantages. If the brigades gather to advance, the rebels can be broken into pieces and wander around and avoid war.

In this case, the Queyue Formation has a place to be used. First of all, the navy with absolute advantage must control the waterway to resolve the lack of power of the Queyue Formation, quickly put the chariot into the battlefield through the navy, and at the same time be prepared for the flank rear path to respond. If you want to try your best to expand the results of the battle, you also need to cooperate with the light cavalry. After breaking the enemy's rushing formation, the cavalry rushed out of the rushing formation to maximize the victory.

In short, the rost formation is a moving camp, which can be put into various battlefields at any time through the cooperation of the navy to strengthen the formation. But at the same time, the effect of forming a formation of the chariot is actually much weaker than that of the regular camp. Moreover, because of insufficient mobility, if you leave the waterway too far away and do not have flexible waterway cooperation, you may be suffocated on land.

In order to make up for the protection of the chariots that are far inferior to the camp, the soldiers and equipment in the formation must be sufficient and diverse, so that they can have flexible and changeable defense methods and combat rhythms, and increase lethality as much as possible.

Without these conditions, the chariot formation will not be practical. After all, the formation of chariot formation is essentially a tactic that has been eliminated by history. The greatest function of the chariot formation is not to take the initiative to attack, but to defend. Especially when defending the important water and land, the enemy must attack, because it saves the time to build a fixed camp, the formation is convenient and sudden, and it has a certain degree of deception, so it can often achieve miraculous effects.

In other words, if Shen Zhezi had enough time, energy and a lot of money to invest in wealth and goods, he could establish camps and strongholds everywhere along the Huai River, then he would not need to rely on the stopgap strategy of the moon formation. However, in that case, the manpower and material resources he invested were so huge that it was unimaginable. Moreover, camps were fixed and dead, and once they were siege and broken, they would lose their military role.

Therefore, after entering the town, Shen Zhezi also focused on building chariots and training this kind of tactic of water and land. In this Shouchun defense battle, although the Huainan Army was in a great position, it had great control over the control of the waterway. At the same time, every section of the Huai River that can cross the river is a must-attack for Jiehu.

So this battle was simply tailor-made for the Queyue Formation, or the Queyue Formation itself was invented for this battlefield environment. The slave soldiers thought they were rushing to a military formation, but in fact it was a strong city, and it also had counterattack methods and mobility that the city did not have.

Of course, Shen Zhezi did not think that this method alone could win. The huge gap in strength could not be made up for the striking of the competition by just one or two tactics. In fact, there are not many techniques to use in water defense. In essence, it is nothing more than setting obstacles and destroying ships.

In order to resist the southern expedition of the Jin army of the Central and North Korea, the iron cable crossed the river. Although it sounded a bit stupid, it was actually the basic tactic of water war. Although Shen Zhezi had a deep friendship with the people of Jiangdong and had close ties, he could not achieve the powerful force and heroic work of a king of a country. Moreover, the cost was too high and practical. The casting workshop he owned was already busy with simple combat and was even more impossible to create a flashy and impractical thing like an iron cable.

Therefore, in the defense of the waterway, in addition to the narrow and dangerous places of the waterways such as Kushicheng, there are water barriers, giant trees, etc., which block the river and cut off the current at critical moments, the focus is on destroying ships. The town selects people who are good at swimming and fighting, gather together to build a ship when the pirate ship arrives. At the same time, in the arms, they also increase the ignition and ignition aids and other ignition and ignition to prepare for fire attacks.

Similar preparations are still ongoing. Many matters that were temporarily put on hold because they were busy with the Huaibei war have also become more busy at this time, striving to make full use of the short time on the eve of the war to the extreme and make more comprehensive preparations.

The war was nothing more than life and money and food. Shen Zhezi felt particularly profound at this moment. Recently, he lived in the town and understood why Du He was so anxious. Now, there are tens of thousands of military and civilians in Shouchun Town. Although some of the households have begun to settle down, they have not yet produced any resources, so the use of resources completely requires external replenishment.

With so many people and the necessary animal power, even if they stay still, they consume thousands of hu of food every day. But now, soldiers have to train and prepare for war, and Dingkou has to work and produce materials, and the consumption of labor has doubled. Moreover, these manpower is not concentrated in one place, especially Yingkou and other front-line areas where heavy troops are stationed must be reserved to prevent the danger of the slave army cutting off the food route after the war begins.

By doing this, to maintain the operation of the entire Huainan, the amount of grain consumed every day is as huge as tens of thousands of hu of hu. Such a number is awe-inspiring when you hear it. As a specific practitioner, you can imagine how much pressure Du He has under.

In fact, a considerable part of the current situation is caused by Shen Zhezi. The people in Taiwan have grievances against him, but they are not unreasonable. The pace of regaining Hefei, building Liang County, and then reviving Shouchun in Huainan is too fast. This will inevitably double the consumption, and the internal replenishment power is far from enough.

To be honest, if it weren't for Shen Zhezi's other channels to raise goods, relying solely on Taichung's support and without waiting for Jienu to attack, when he advanced into Shouchun, the achievements of Jiangbei might have collapsed without fighting.

But Shen Zhezi also had his own reasons. He had no strength or opportunity to intervene in Jiangbei affairs before, and he waited until he eliminated Wang Shu before he got such an opportunity. The Northland is about to usher in a big change, and there is too little time left for him. Moreover, although he needs to face various problems with such a fast pace, even if he slows down and moves steadily, he will face other endless problems, which may not be better than the moment.

It can be called good news recently, that is, his father Chen Chong went north to the capital as the governor of Yangzhou and entered the capital of Zhenjing. In this way, Shen Zhezi's retreat guarantee is more stable. Moreover, in his opinion, even if he lost Shouchun in this battle, his family wanted to survive the disaster and seize Jiangdong, and to attack Jiankang from Jingzhou, it would be much more convenient and smoother than entrenching in Kuaiji.
Chapter completed!