On the small river island, in addition to the slightly rotten smell of river mud, there is also a burnt smell in the air. Most of the fortifications such as bamboo and wooden fences on the edge have been removed at this time.

A simple pier located in the northeast corner of Hezhou is the place where the battle was most intense. Now, in addition to a piece of bamboo and wood debris floating on the river surface, there are many corpses that have been soaked in the river water and have swollen and white.

After a period of continuous siege, the Huainan army finally captured this river continent. Because the enemy on the north bank failed to provide timely assistance, and the Huainan army invested more troops and even invested a batch of large-scale weapons for attacks, more than 2,000 enemy troops on the river continent were surrounded and annihilated, and the rest were defeated and fled. They wanted to escape back to the north bank of the river, but were chased by the Huainan army's tail, and only a few hundred people were able to escape successfully.

Although he captured Hezhou, Huainan General Li Youzhi had no joy on his face after he made ashore inspection.

This river continent was originally stacked with rocks, with layers of silt deposited above it. This year, there was not much precipitation and the river surface fell, so the water surface was exposed and covered with lush reeds.

The Hezhou is not large in scale and the terrain is not high. The enemy had previously stood firm at this time and greatly damaged the Hezhou landform. Although it was captured by the Huainan Army, it was no longer a complete piece of solid soil and bumpy. The entire Hezhou was penetrated by the river water and divided it into small islands, especially a large puddle in the middle, which directly connected with the river water.

The reason why the Huainan Army wanted to seize these rivers was to obtain some strongholds in the rivers that could provide supplies and rest in order to better control the waterways. However, in this situation in this river, it is obvious that this function is no longer available.

"At least it will be difficult for the enemy to use this place to intercept our ships."

Li Youzhi said this to himself, which was a little comfort to himself and the Japanese soldiers who fought for many times. If you really want to talk about the supply points in the river, the enemy's needs were much greater than that of the Huainan Army.

Water warfare consumes a lot of things, especially on wide waterways like the Yellow River. Even the Huainan Army, which is proficient in water warfare, rarely chooses to fight on the side when there are other choices. Because once you choose to fight on the side, even if you win, it will greatly damage the lives of the boat and the soldiers, and will weaken the ability to fight on a long-term basis.

Whether north or south, as long as the lives of soldiers are not regarded as simple consumables, it is essential to prepare various long-range attack methods. However, the load capacity of the boat is fixed. If there are too many soldiers, there will be less use of things, and if there are too many soldiers, there will be insufficient soldiers.

Especially on the battlefield, the situation changes rapidly and requires sensitive adjustments. Therefore, if you can obtain a solid stronghold at the closest battlefield, you can gain a great advantage in combat.

Even if the Huainan Army has no strongholds, there are still some large warships that can take on such tasks, adjust the supplement and the rations of the troops. However, the enemy has almost no such large warships and can only rely on some fixed strongholds. Once these strongholds are lost, they will fall into a huge passive situation.

Although this river has been destroyed and fragmented and cannot store a large number of people and objects, it can also be used as a temporary stop after a little repair.

But when he thought of his team being entangled by this river for so long, Li Youzhi always felt that the gains and losses could not be compromised, so he was quite unable to let go.

"The Shengwu Army has recovered many lost land in Hebei, and Xiao Duhu even picked up the big city of Sourju…"

Not only did Li Youzhi not let go, but the other soldiers were also quite disappointed after checking ashore.

"If you want to make a contribution, are you afraid you won't have a chance?"

Hearing the nagging of the soldiers under his command, Li Youzhi couldn't help but laugh and scolded him. Recently, the army made great achievements repeatedly, and the entire Huainan army was holding a breath and wanted to compete for a great victory. Similar to the current capture of this Hezhou, which was originally considered a merit, but now it is not seen by others.

They moored and rested in the river for a while, and sent people to submit the results back. After nearly two hours, news was sent back from the camp, ordering the navy to continue to garrison on site for rest, and at the same time, a batch of goods came to supplement them. In addition, there was another military order to summon Li Youzhi to return to the Nan'an Sourzao Camp and meet the governor.

After receiving the order, Li Youzhi did not dare to be negligent, so he changed to a quick boat to cross the river and returned. When he arrived at Lingchang Ferry, night had already fallen.

Lingchangjin is now also a gathering point for the Huainan Navy. The originally dense reed marshes have been cleared out. The dike that was previously attacked and destroyed was also repaired and reinforced. The water camp built by bamboo and wood extends to several miles of the river. More than 30 warships of different sizes are moored here and are ready to go out at any time.

After Li Youzhi landed, he found that other naval generals led their troops to come here one after another. At present, the Huainan Army's naval army was active on this section of the Yellow River, with hundreds of boats and boats of all sizes.

In addition to some fixed ferry camps defended by heavy troops, nearly ten thousand people were scattered up and down this section of the river, so that the wide Yellow River waterway could be controlled.

When the generals gathered together or talked about the performance of the battle during this period, there were also many speculations that so many generals would gather. Could it be that there would be a big move?

Hearing this speculation, all the generals became excited. During this period, the overall results of the navy were good. They completely suppressed the enemy to Yanjin. The Yellow River waterway from Hulao City to Yanjin has almost become an inland river for the Huainan Army, and it is unimpeded. However, if it is distributed to each unit, it is really not enough to see.

The navy has a very high strategic position in the Huainan army and its relative autonomy is worse. Before there is no specific combat plan, there is almost no opportunity to take independent action to hunt for military achievements. Seeing that other troops have gained something, these navy generals were also anxious.

These generals were still talking here. Xu Maoxing, who was the supervisor of the navy, came out and arranged for the generals to transfer to the war horses and rush to the Sour Zao Camp to the south.

After everyone arrived at the sour jujube, they were directly introduced into the central army's tent. Then they saw that Lu Yong, Cao Na and other naval generals had already been here and were reporting military information to the governor.

"In recent days, the enemy's ships have indeed declined when dispatching boats near Yanjin. There were nearly 300 boats a few days ago, but from yesterday to today, there are less than 100 ships entering and leaving..."

Lu Yong is the superviser of the navy. The daily battle situations of each battalion must be summarized. On such a long front, some local abnormalities are not obvious, but if they are gathered together, they will have a great amplification effect.

According to the military information in the past few days, the enemy's movements on the Yellow River suddenly decreased, as if he had given up control of the Yellow River waterway, which seemed too strange.

Although the enemy was at a disadvantage in the waterway and did not seem to plan to win the decisive battle with the Huainan Army, with such a small amount of ships, not to mention protecting some strongholds along the river, I am afraid that even basic alerts will not be easy to maintain.

At present, there is only one Yellow River between the two armies, and the Huainan Army has a great advantage in the river channel, but the enemy's even shrinks its basic alert. This is simply a joke!

Once the Huainan army launches a sneak attack, even if it is discovered in the halfway, the deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers will not be completed in a hurry.

Unless they are always alert to the attack of the Huainan Army, those soldiers are also flesh and blood. Once they are nervously prepared for the war for too long, it will be a huge loss of physical strength and morale.

If it is just a small confrontation of three or five hundred, this consumption is not too obvious. However, at present, the two armies gather tens of thousands of people. If a relatively calm rest environment cannot be maintained, this tension will be enough to drag down the entire army.

"It seems Shi Kan has made some moves elsewhere!"

Lu Yong's literal report was not vivid. When Li Youzhi and other generals who were active on the Yellow River reported real-time military information, the generals realized that the enemy was not acting, but really not being able to match their strength. Therefore, Cao Na pondered and said.

This conclusion is not difficult to draw. The important thing is to calculate where the enemy will take action and what kind of response and defense the Huainan Army needs to make.

"It shouldn't be Fangtou."

Shen Zhezi pondered for a moment and said that although Fangtou is far away from the sour jujube, Xie Ai will report military information every day. Fangtou is in good shape at the moment, and Xie Ai is even planning some new external attack actions. Shen Zhezi believes that Xie Ai's vision and ability, and it is impossible for the enemy to be unable to see the movements under his nose.

With the Yellow River blocking it, it is not difficult to guess what the enemy will do. Since it is not upstream, it must be downstream. But if it is downstream, where is the enemy's plan?

Many times, it is not impossible to make accurate judgments, but not enough talent, but insufficient information. This is the current situation of the Huainan Army. All the generals have their own guesses, but they are not sure.

The discussion continued until late at night, and in the end, Shen Zhezi just signaled Lu Yong to start gathering various naval forces. No matter where the enemy's intentions were, the first thing to do was to ensure that he had enough mobile power to react as soon as possible.

At dawn the next day, not long after Shen Zhezi fell asleep, suddenly the direction came from the sliding platform to the east. Yan found signs of the enemy's crossing the river in a downstream position, and there seemed to be a large number of war horses.

After learning the news, Shen Zhezi was also shocked. It is actually difficult to have any magical strokes for such a large-scale battle. The choices that both sides can make are very limited, and the tactics that are too clever cannot be completed by tens of thousands of bloated troops. Therefore, once they get the information from the Huatai side, they can guess the intentions of the enemy.

At present, the Huainan Army seems to have an advantage, but in fact it still has flaws, that is, it is insufficient control over the lower reaches of the Yellow River. This is not because of lack of strategy, but because of lack of strength. The Huainan Army has just made proper arrangements in terms of sliding platforms, and the downstream areas have not yet been extended.

Originally, this flaw was hoped that the Xuzhou army would go north to make up for it, but Xuzhou had previously reported that it was unstable to say that Taishan County was unstable, so the date of the meeting had to be delayed for a while. There was no way to do this. After all, the time for the gathering of the Huainan army to the north was advanced. However, the Xuzhou army was nearly a thousand miles away, so it was difficult to make immediate cooperation and adjustments.

It is obvious that Shi Kan is going to use this loophole to counterattack, and the counterattack is definitely very strong, so big that in his opinion, the Huainan army on the front did not have time to launch an attack while Li Yang was weak.

After learning this, Shen Zhezi immediately ordered the river naval army to gather at the skating platform quickly, and the Suzao Army also increased its efforts to reinforce the skating platform. If the enemy cavalry came south on a large scale, the damage caused to Henan would be great, and it might even directly threaten the safety of the front-line army.

At the same time, he also ordered Xie Ai from Fangtou to give Xie Ai more power to act cheaply. After the departments made adjustments, Shen Zhezi anxiously waited for the news feedback in the sour days, but the sash platform had not yet waited for the latest news. Instead, Chen Liu heard from the direction of Chen Liu: Chen Guang was counterattacked by his subordinates and had been defeated, and Han Huang's troops, who were originally dealing with Chen Guang, were now heading north urgently.

"God really helped me!"

After learning the news, Shen Zhezi was extremely surprised. He first ordered Han Huang to go to the skating platform quickly, and then ordered the other troops to no longer pay attention to the movements of the enemy downstream and immediately launch a general attack on Li Yang!
Chapter completed!