"In this way, in addition to the garrisons on the east and west wings, we fill 150,000 troops in Guangcheng, Ruyang, Xiangcheng, Zhaoling, Wuyang and other places, which is enough to resist the enemy's attack!"

After the establishment of the Jingxiang General Department, Xu Wujiang stayed in Jingzhou, as the governor and the commander of the military commander, in charge of the military farming and settlement of the four counties in Jingbei and Nancai County, in charge of the military farming and the settlement of the troops in the four counties in Jingbei and Nancai County, in the spring breeze to prevent the bandits from blowing again, and to prepare for defense along the river and downstream of the Han River.

This time he also rushed to Biyang to attend the preparation meeting, and only then did he know the final judgment of the Military Information Department on the enemy's autumn and winter offensive.

The enemy could only mobilize about 300,000 troops in the middle. Xu Wujiang thought that Jingxiang relied on a mature defense line on the front battlefield and assembled 150,000 troops, which was enough to resist.

The defense line of Jingxiang’s west wing is Wuguan-Xichuan.

Xu Huai decided to give up Shangluo and had already contracted the defense line to the Wuguan River area where the narrow mountains and dangerous land was. Considering that the enemy general Meng Tulie of the Western Front's attack on Wuguan this autumn and winter, it should be enough to deal with the 10,000 regular troops led by Fan Zongqi, and the reserve troops who were both farming and fighting in the nearby villages should be prepared.

?????????????????????????? The eastern wing Shenzhou Xingying Defense Zone includes Queshan County, Qingyiling Yingcheng, Huaiyuan County, Chushan County, Xinyang County, Luoshan County and other places.

Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and others joined the rebel leaders, mainly because they took advantage of the opportunistic mentality. When they themselves and their subordinates left their families in Jianye, Jingnan and other places, they did not bear great pressure and were unlikely to surrender to the enemy.

It is hard to imagine that the Chihu people on the middle and eastern fronts would easily abandon the front battlefield. Without sufficient preparations, the army would directly cross the Huaihe River, which had a short freezing period, to siege Huangchuan and other cities.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about major problems that will occur in the German army in a short period of time.

The main pressure on the defense line in the northeast wing of Jingxiang is mainly in the direction of Queshan and Qingyiling.

However, considering that the freezing period of Ruying and other waters, as well as the floodplain areas with wide and 100-mile depths on both sides of Ruying and Ying are also very short, the military strength afforded by Queshan, Qingyiling and other places is also relatively small.

With the elite base of more than 15,000 left army led by Xu Xin'an, the scale of the East Wing guards was expanded to 30,000, mainly to ensure that the production of the inside line is not disturbed.

Speaking of the front battlefields of Ru and Cai, they are divided into two wings.

The west wing is the gap between Jishan, Yishui and Guangchengze, the northern foothills of Funiu Mountain, and it is also the western end of the Ruzhou trough-shaped basin. It is also the battlefield of the Guangcheng War before Ruyang fell. At that time, Yang Lin, Yang Qiye and his son led the main force of Zuo Xiaosheng Army to be repelled by Cao Shixiong, and were forced to defend Ruyang and Liang County, which eventually made Ruyang fall into a dilemma of isolation and helplessness and lost.

In the past two years, Jingxiang (Chushan) not only built the four-mile-deep Guangcheng Military Village north of Guangchengze, strengthening the defense of the western wing of Ruzhou, but also reopened the Jiufeng Mountain Pass between Songxian, Ruyang and Lushan.

As the northern part of Sanya Road on the Wanluo West Line, after the Jiufeng Mountain Pass post road is restored, if Ruyang is besieged again, reinforcements can go from the upper reaches of the Han River (Shahe River) and go to the south of Ruyang City through the Jiufeng Mountain Pass.

The plank road between Ruyang and Songxian has also been built, making the three cities of Ruyang, Songxian and Guangcheng (city) support each other, forming a solid defense line that controls and concisely rushes, does not fear isolation and blockade. In addition, there are several holes in Ruzhou that cross Jishan, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The enemy sent troops from Luoyang and headed south along the right bank of Yishui. In addition to the narrow passage between Yishui and Wan'an Mountains, under the pressure of Guangchengzhai and the mountains in the southeast of Jishan, the battlefield space for them to spread their troops was limited.

Therefore, based on the Right Army led by Wang Xian, the defensive troops were expanded by about 50,000, and everyone believed that there would not be too big problems.

The difficulty of Ru Cai’s defense line lies in the Eastern Front.

The enemy can cross the Yingshui River from Xuzhou, enter Xiangcheng, Zhaoling and other cities on the north bank of the Rushui River (阿日本), and compete with Jingxiang for the upper reaches of the Rushui River, and also control the eastern entrance of the Rushui Basin.

However, fortunately, the Ru Ying victory opened the Ru River, forming a floodplain between Ru Ying and a hundred miles. In the later period, it affected all the middle and lower reaches of the Ru Ying River.

In addition to the short-term freezing period, the middle and lower reaches of Ruying were filled with mud swamps, which made the enemy not dare to enter easily. In the short-term freezing period, enemy cavalry would enter and attack, and usually not exceed one month.

This actually shortened the Caizhou defense line, which was originally more than 400 miles long, to more than 100 miles wide.

On the more than a hundred defense lines, Jingxiang (Chushan) built a solid and complete defense line based on Rushui (Beijing Junshui) and Xiangcheng and Zhaoling.

Based on the front army headed by Chen Zixiao, the defensive troops in Xiangcheng, Zhaoling and Wuyang were expanded to 100,000, and everyone thought it was enough to resist the enemy's attack.

According to the general calculation, Jingxiang has to withstand the enemy's attack this winter, and the total mobilization scale is slightly less than 200,000 people.

This is the result that Jingxiang can fully bear at this time.

                                                                                                                              

Relying on the carefully built defense line over the years, with relatively sufficient money and food, everyone was confident that they mobilized a total of 200,000 troops to fill the defense line, focusing on defense, and resisting the attack of the Chihu people.

The Military Information Department also mobilized 200,000 troops, but Xu Huai has been thinking about another thing these days. At this time, he threw out the problem and looked at Shi Zhen and asked:

"If we mobilize 300,000 troops, can the money and grain of the Ministry of Finance support?"

Shi Zhen was still pondering about Xu Huai's question, but Su Laochang couldn't help but wonder in his heart and asked:

"I think there is a chance to fight back this autumn and winter, or maybe this autumn and winter, there is a chance to fight the enemy between Ruying?"

Xu Huai has long determined the strategy of focusing on defense this fall and winter.

The four war zones, Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jingbei and Xincai County, have promoted many affairs according to this.

If you successfully resist the enemy's offensive and have to find opportunities to fight back, many places will not be prepared enough.

Defense and offense, the requirements for the combat effectiveness of the generals and the investment of materials are very different.

Everyone looked at Xu Huai in surprise. It was almost the limit of the Department of Control that mobilizing 300,000 troops, and this limit was limited to defense and did not have the ability to launch a large-scale counterattack.

At most, they were fighting with the main enemy forces between Ruying, but it would be too difficult to cross the Ying River and break into Xuzhou and Chenzhou.

He even took the initiative to come out of the defense base and fought field with the enemy. So many people had too many gaps in the armor, combat equipment, etc., and the original plan was to spend two years to make up for this gap.

If more than 200,000 generals and soldiers simply take the spear and go to the battlefield, casualties will be too difficult to control.

No one understands why Xu Huai asked this question.

Xu Huai shook his head and said calmly: "No, all defense zones this autumn and winter must resolutely implement the strategy of defense-oriented - I just want to make this autumn and winter defense more difficult and more forced!"

Xu Huai said this, and Shi Zhen and Han Gui both subconsciously glanced at Dong Cheng.

Mobilizing 300,000 troops to finally resist the enemy's attack, and mobilizing 200,000 troops to resist the enemy's attack. The former does not reflect the stronger mobilization ability of Jingxiang, but will make Jingxiang's resistance this time more reluctant and more thrilling.

After all, when life was the most humble, the Dongjing bandits ravaged Jinghu, they claimed to have millions of troops.

The Dongjing coalition forces were wiped out, and the Jingxiang was recruiting hundreds of refugees, including 400,000 young and strong men. This is no secret.

In order to resist the attack of the Chihu people, Jingxiang hurriedly pulled 200,000 to the battlefield with no training, which could only ensure basic diet. Each person sent a spear, which was naturally much more embarrassing than putting 120,000 well-trained young and strong equipment onto the camp with excellent armor.

This also makes the Commander's heart even less confident when facing the fierce enemy.

However, was Xu Huai's intention to do this to confuse the enemy?

The General Administration held a preparation meeting this time. In addition to the main generals and officials of the General Administration, Cheng Lunying, Xu Wujiang, Chen Zixiao, Wang Xian, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Fan Zongqi and other provincial prefectures, all the main generals and officials of the General Administration were driven back.

Many of these people were the direct confidants who had followed Xu Huai's battles for many years. Cheng Lunying also clearly followed Chushan before the Zheng family father and son led the Shenwu army to Huainan. Therefore, after the establishment of the General Office, he was able to serve as the prefect of Xiangyang.

Xu Huai recommended Dong Cheng to serve as such an important position in the official affairs of the Criminal Prison. He mainly valued Dong Cheng's past reputation, used Dong Cheng's contact, and supervised the officials appointed by the imperial court in the prefectures of Jingxiang Road.

However, in addition to the old things that were not very pleasant during the Tongbai bandits' rebellion, did Dong Cheng cry deep in his heart because of Xu Huai's extraordinary recommendation? From then on, he completely turned to the General Office and the Jingsheng Marquis' Mansion, and everyone still had doubts.

However, today's fight meeting is not convenient to exclude Dong Cheng.

Although the previous preparations for war were top secrets, as long as the secret was not leaked to the Chihu people, there would be no big problem - at this point, Dong Cheng is still trustworthy.

However, Xu Huai expressed his hope to mobilize 300,000 troops this autumn and winter to prepare for the war. The real motivation behind this must not be easily passed into the ears of Jingxiang's confidant. Shi Zhen and Han Gui suspected that Dong Cheng was still trustworthy?

Dong Cheng saw Shi Zhen, Han Gui looked over, pondered for a moment, bowed to Xu Huai and said, "The enemy is powerful, Jingxiang is weak and the power is single, and it is difficult to resist. The envoy should not act irresponsible. He also needs to sincerely ask the court for help, so as not to miss the major event..."
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