Lord of the House

(The first one, ask for a red ticket)

More than 40 pirate boats took advantage of the rising tide in the Yunyan River at noon to open the North Water Gate and go out, which made the salt guards on the north bank really nervous for a while.

At this time, the elites of the Jiangdong Zuo Army had already controlled the southern beach head of the Haitang Shiba, and Lin Fu was standing on the Shitang beach head, watching the Kou boat turn out of the estuary and head south towards the shallow water beach.

She Feihu, standing on the bow of the sea loach, was wearing scale armor, and was not very conspicuous when surrounded by guards, but on a cloudless sunny afternoon, Lin Fu was only 140 or 50 paces away from him when he was closest. Naturally, he clearly looked at his slightly twisted face in the bottom of his eyes, smiled and said to the people behind him: "It seems that he really hates me to the bone!"

Behind him, Zhou Tong smiled knowingly, and secretly asked how the hatred of taking his wife could make Lord She Shaohou calmly deal with it? This kind of joke should not be said in public, but it is a serious analysis of the enemy's situation, saying: "The pirate boat is heading south in the shallow water, probably to force the Jinghai camp, who is responsible for guarding the river mouth, to dare not The whole division is dispatched to participate in the war here..."

Cao Zi'ang looked at the pirate boat that was heading south in the shallow water, and said, "Looking at She Feihu's way of doing this, it is considered a semi-open and direct control of the pirates in the East China Sea. It seems that it will not be long before the She family raises the flag of rebellion again..."

"Let's go with him..." Lin Bie said lightly, turning back and walking down the stone pond.

Here, in the name of Song Xiaobo Hecheng Superintendent, all the grassland households in the coastal area have been evacuated to the west, forming an uninhabited grassland with a depth of 40 to 50 miles in the east beach of Hecheng, and in Jiangmen Village in the southeast Shajiao. Heavy troops were stationed to block the mouth of the river, and the Kou soldiers took boats and traveled southward in the shallow waters, which did not form any containment on the left army in Jiangdong at all.

At this time, Lin Fu didn't immediately mobilize Jinghai Camp's mind, but She Feihu divided his troops out of the fortress. Although it was not the time to force an attack, he could let go of his hands and feet to speed up the blockade of Hecheng Fortress.

Although the Yunyan River is more than 100 paces wide, after the tide recedes, there is only shallow water less than two feet deep in the river channel. We organized the villagers to transport 5,000 or 6,000 truckloads of soil into the river, and fill in a mud dam before the next tide rises. Come out and directly seal the last section of the river connecting the Crane Fortress with the outer sea.

If a mud dam is built, the north and south banks will be connected to form a whole, and the Jiangdong Zuo Army can support the salt protection camp on the north bank. According to the established plan, Mao Wenjing could use some of his troops to restore the coastal outposts and beacon towers along the line from Sheyang to Hecheng in the north.

The guard soldiers also gave up their efforts to maintain the land passage connecting the east gate to the seawall. After the Yanhe River was blocked, there was room outside the east gate for the Jiangdong left army to maneuver and insert, and it was easy to fight in pairs. A very unfavorable war of attrition for the Seko soldiers.

Since She Feihu personally led his troops to the sea, the main responsibility of the remaining Kou soldiers was to defend the Hecheng Fortress, contain as much as possible the Jiangdong Zuo Army, and insist that when the situation on the southern front becomes clear, enough troops can be dispatched to come and relieve the siege.

Since the guard soldiers had this mentality, the Jiangdong Left Army would naturally be able to let go of their hands and feet to rush to repair the trench wall, and the number of civilians requisitioned before the battle increased to 10,000.

In addition to the camp of the Salt Protection Army on the north bank, the trench wall built by the Jiangdong Left Army on the south bank in six or seven days was more than 2,000 steps long, six feet thick and more than ten feet high, completely besieging the Hecheng Fortress.

Under the auspices of Cao Zi'ang, the four camps of the Chongcheng Foot Camp were embedded directly into the moat.

The wooden fence was first erected, filled with rammed soil, and built to a height of two feet. Then, the outside of the fence was covered with blue bricks, and four layers of blue bricks were laid on top to prevent the infiltration of rainwater, and a crenel wall was built on it.

Although the circumference of each garrison camp is less than 200 paces, and it has a ribbed wall with a strange shape. There are no more than three or four hundred elite soldiers in the camp, but it is very strong. To build these four small fortresses, the manpower used. And the material is even more than the trench wall that is more than 2,000 steps long.

After the prismatic fort is built, it forms a whole with the trench wall, and a small number of elite soldiers are stationed, which can not only completely block the fortress of the crane, but also prevent the soldiers from the outside approaching the attack.

After the fortification system is built, it is necessary to completely surround the 2,000 soldiers of the Hecheng Fortress, leaving more than 1,000 elite soldiers of the Chongzhou Infantry Battalion on the south bank to defend with 2,000 township soldiers and more than 1,000 fortifications on the north bank. The salt guards are enough.

The cavalry can get out and use it as a mobile combat force on the inside of Chongzhou, without having to be responsible for guarding the periphery of the Hecheng Fortress.

Even Zhang Yan, who doesn't know much about military affairs, can see the intention of Jiangdong Zuo Army's spending so much effort to recruit more than 10,000 civilians to build a trench wall: After the war, Lin Fu only needed to be in the trench wall. On the basis of further thickening and heightening, outsourcing blue bricks, and opening three or two city gates, the Hecheng Fortress in front of you can become the real Hecheng City, and the besieged Fortress City at this time is the inner city of Hecheng.

Lin Fu really took the defense zone of Jiangdong Zuojun as his own without any hesitation. Zhang Yan felt very depressed, but he had to admit that although Lin Fu's tactics consumed a lot of manpower and materials, it was solid and effective.

Not only the harvesting of autumn grains in Chongzhou and the construction of new cities were not affected by the raid by the pirates, but even the Hecheng Si Yamen, which was temporarily set up in Xishutai, began to organize grass-farm households to mow grass bales in the area near Xishutai— Besides Chongzhou, what other county could be so calm under the threat of thousands of bandits?

However, after Lin Fu had entrusted all the military and political affairs of the northern front to Cao Zi'ang, he had been away from Hecheng for several days.

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The waves were furious, hitting the bow of the ship and scattered into jade flowers.

In October, the monsoon gradually turns. At this time, the southeasterly wind and the northwesterly wind alternately repeat on the eastern sea surface. As long as you wait for the wind, whether it is going south or north, it is very convenient.

The main island of the Shengsi Islands, Daheng Island, is like a huge chicken claw lying on the sea 178 miles away from Haiyu East. , looks unusually majestic and majestic.

After the boat division of Jiangdong Zuojun rose up in the East China Sea, She Feixiong managed the Jinjishan stronghold on Daheng Island with all his heart.

Donghai pirates first saw the dark shadows of several sail masts exposed on the skyline of the north sea at the observation post on the north cliff of Jinji Mountain. Not long after, a huge fleet emerged on the sea. Feeling that the ships headed by this fleet were obviously several times larger than the ships on the flanks, the long horn of the warning blew up: "Enemy attack, enemy attack! Jiangdong Zuojun warships are coming. !"

Su Tingzhan boarded the outpost and looked at the sea to the north, frowning slightly. Compared with the Jiangdong Zuo Army navy patrolling the sea in early August, the Jiangdong Zuo Army navy fleet that came this time was much larger: that kind of capacity. There were as many as four large warships of the 5,000-stone class and designated the Jinhai-class for the Jiangdong Zuo Army, and there were as many as 16 Jiyun-class warships, supplemented by 60 or 70 sea loach, sea falcon, Cangshan, Dayi and other small and medium-sized warships, the huge fleet is like a floating island in the sea, following the wind, it seems to be slow but actually very urgent to attack Daheng Island.

At this time, there were only 3,000 defenders on Daheng Island. In terms of the number of small and medium-sized warships, they were only equivalent to the number of boat divisions of the Jiangdong Zuo Army, not to mention the huge difference in the shape of the warships.

Especially the two warships Jiyun and Jinhai seem to be huge in size, but there are much more sail masts on the deck than ordinary sailboats. They travel by the wind and are faster than loach ships. The sidewalls of the ships are wrapped. The iron plate, the bow is equipped with an iron ram, and its own structure is very strong, and the impact ability at sea is extremely strong - Su Tingzhan has no warship that can match it at sea at all.

In the past, I wanted to use the number of warships to win. At this time, the entire Jiangdong Zuo army boat division came. After the situation was strengthened, the force was afraid that there would be no less than three or four thousand people. The warships avoided entering the inner harbor, and all the crossbows were transferred to the camp at Jinji Cape to increase the defense of the bay mouth and prevent the sailors of the Jiangdong Left Army from breaking through the blockade of the cape mouth.

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She Feihu's Hecheng division allowed Lin Fu to calmly deploy troops from the northern line, and the cavalry battalion escaped from the northern line, becoming a mobile fighting force capable of interior lines. All the Jinghai battalions stationed in Jiangmen to block the estuary were dispatched to attack Daheng Island.

Once the Jiangdong Zuo Army used the boat division to expand the front to the outer line, the Hecheng Fortress, which was guarded by two thousand pirates, would become a dead place, and it would not be a problem at all. The more than 2,000 bandits led by She Feihu went out to sea and harassed more than other prefectures and counties along the coast, but they did not pose a threat to Chongzhou, let alone compete with Jinghai Camp for dominance at sea.

As for the possibility that the luxury flying tiger might enter the estuary on a pirate boat, Lin Fu was not worried about attacking the upstream counties such as Jiyang and Hailing. One is that these areas belong to the water camp of Ninghai Town for defense. Lin Bing will not be kind enough to take the defense responsibility of the water camp of Ninghai Town. Besides, She Feihu really dares to go deep into the Yangtze River, and the Jinghai Water Camp will return to the division to block the river mouth to catch turtles in the urn. Not too late.

In fact, after She Feihu split up and left Hecheng, seeing that the coast of Hecheng had become deserted and no opportunity to take advantage of it, he continued to walk southward in shallow water to attack Haiyu, and the fire burned to the ground of Ludong Gongzhuang, Haiyu, and Jinhu. and other counties.

Lin Bie was standing on the aft deck of Lijinhai as a mountain, overlooking the cape at the northwest corner of Jinji Mountain on Daheng Island.

Unlike the shallow water silt beaches or shallow water silt beaches along the coast of Shadao, the surrounding large bedrock islands with a length of 30 to 40 miles, the coastal terrain is complex enough—the clever use of the coastal terrain is enough to construct a complex defense system.

The base of East China Sea bandits on Daheng Island is mainly located at the northwest foot of Jinji Mountain.

There is a natural bay mouth here, which is connected with the Qingshi River flowing down from Jinji Mountain in the island. Although Qingshixi is shallow, it forms a deep-water river bay three or four miles long at the northern foot of Jinji Mountain, which is a natural sheltered harbor.

There are many reefs at the mouth of the bay, and those who are not familiar with the waterway can easily break in and have a high chance of hitting the reef.

Entering the mouth of the bay is quite deep, and there is a cape island on the south bank. At low tide, the headland is connected to the south bank by a shoal. At high tide, the shoal is submerged. The headland divides the Beilu Bay of Jinji Mountain into inner and outer ports. The main channel on the north side is only more than 300 steps wide. There may be hidden piles, and the waterway that is really conducive to passage may be more than a hundred paces wide.

Donghai pirates built a camp on the port island, like a giant spirit guarding the inner harbor. The giant arrows of the bed and crossbow at the wall of the camp fortress flickered coldly, warning any enemies who wanted to force the port to consider the price they would pay. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter