The horse's hoof tramples the leaves, and the leaves are broken off by the hoof.
One after another, fast horses rushed into the city from Shengtai Gate. Almost one-third of the couriers could not survive the last moment of entering the palace and fell down on the street. Although the couriers would soon be taken away by the imperial army,
Such frequent urgent messages and the desperate and crazy faces of the messengers made the onlookers in Yanjing understand that a drastic change had occurred in the south that was extremely unfavorable to the Yanlu...
In the Beiyan Palace, which is also the Yuanyue Imperial City, Emperor Ye Jier of Heaven fainted after hearing the news that the entire army of Dengzhou Navy was destroyed after failing to last even one day.
Come.
The eldest prince Ye Ji Baishi was trapped in Gao Li, the eldest prince Ye Ji Luorong was in Luoyang, the third prince Ye Ji Duodi was in Jinan, Wu Gu, Meng Ye and Zhang Xie and other princes and ministers could only ask the queen mother who had been living in the palace for a long time to come out to host
State affairs.
"It's ridiculous. From what I've seen, the Third Prince and Na He Xiongqi were frightened by the Southern thieves, and Fan Wenlan is not from our tribe, so his intentions must be different - he would abandon the capital and flee after a small setback, so what's the point?
Faced with the late emperor's will of 'building a clan through war' and 'building a country through war'?" Nahe Wugu went up to the palace with an ax and hammered the ebony wood until the pavement of the Dazheng Hall made a clanging sound. He said to Nahe Xiongqi
Together with Ye Jiduo and Fan Wenlan, they jointly proposed the move to the capital and were scolded fiercely.
Hearing that Hewugu denounced Fan Wenlan, who had been trusted by the Emperor of Heaven, as a "foreign race", Zhang Xie was panicked and did not dare to say anything about abandoning the capital - he just hoped that the Emperor of Heaven would wake up and maybe save Beiyan.
The last chance of defeat.
The Suohai Defense Line, which once served as a barrier for Yan, was so devastatingly defeated by the Huaidong Army. The main force of Beiyan's troops were pressed against the Henan and Shandong defense lines, and the Huaidong Army's 100,000 troops in Haizhou were
The elite troops can land from Jinhai, Changli and other places in as little as three to five days. How can they defend Yanjing?
The Queen Mother of Beiyan also had no idea at all. She didn't know if the emperor could wake up. She looked at the princes and ministers in the palace with a sad face. No one agreed to abandon the capital. She was thinking that the emperor could trust Lao San, Na He Xiongqi and Fan Wenlan before.
Then their words are not without merit, so they can only compromise and say: "Send a horse to Luoyang quickly and ask the prince to return to Yanjing to preside over the state affairs..."
Zhang Xie was so worried that he sent a fast horse to Luoyang. When Ye Ji Luorong returned, it would be ten days later. After ten days, the Huaidong Army might have already reached Yanjing City, right?
Zhang Xie bit the bullet and said: "When the Southern Bandits rose up in Huaidong, they had been operating the Jinhai Sea for several years. The Southern Bandits were very familiar with the conditions and terrain of the Jinhai Sea. Their navy captured the sea-locking defense line. If they had to march straight in by sea, they would inevitably take it by force.
Jinhai, and then attack Yanjing. I sincerely ask the Queen Mother and all the princes and ministers to gather all the troops from the left and right of Zhou to reinforce Jinhai and not let the southern thieves plot..."
At the moment, we can only hope that Jinhai can be defended for two more days. In that case, even if it is to defend Yanjing, more troops and horses can be brought back from the periphery. Perhaps the advantage of military strength can be used to protect Yanjing.
Zhang Xie is also not good at military affairs. He still hopes that the superiority of the number of soldiers and horses and the superiority of cavalry in the plains can defend Yanjing. Even if the Suohai defense line is lost, what a bad impact it will have on the entire Henan and Shandong defense lines.
He didn't want to think about whether it would lead to collapse, he just hoped to survive this disaster.
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In Yejier's dormitory, a row of imperial doctors from the outer hall were sitting anxiously and with sad faces.
In the inner hall, Concubine Jade sat on the bed with a sad face, looking at the Emperor Tianming who was lying still like a corpse. Emperor Tianming's cheeks and eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his complexion was as gray as ashes - she had been thinking about it for the past few months.
Hanging on the southern defense line, his energy was about to run out. It was time for the oil to run out and the lamp to burn out. He could no longer withstand the blow of the Dengzhou Navy's collapse, and he vomited blood and fainted.
No one is sure when he will wake up, and no one is sure whether he will wake up?
Concubine Jade sat with a sad face. In her mind, King Khan was her heaven and her land. She had never seen anything that could knock King Khan down. Huaidong's Fuhuo Crossbow was really
Is it so magical that it can cause the earth to collapse?
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April 21, the fifth day after the Dengzhou naval battle.
Nanmiaoshan Island, which was stormed by the two elite brigades of Denghai Town Division, looked like a busy port in the early morning sun. Large sea ships continued to sail in from the southern sea and entered the island surrounded by Nanmiaoshan Island.
In the crescent-shaped bay on the long side.
Huangcheng Island has the most dangerous gorge and is the only place that the traditional Laotieshan Seaway must pass through. However, Huangcheng Island is too small. Nanmiaoshan Island is fifteen miles long from north to south and four miles deep from east to west.
The crescent-shaped bay is a large natural harbor.
Nanmiaoshan Island is only fourteen miles away from Daoyu Village, and only two miles away from Beimiaoshan Island in the north. The narrow waterway formed by the north and south Miaoshan Islands and the northwest coast of Dengzhou City is called Miaoshan Strait by the locals, also known as Dengzhou.
Waterway - After the entire Dengzhou Navy was destroyed, Miaoshan Island was the best springboard for the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack Jinhai and Yanjing.
Liu Miaozhen, Commander of the Northern Command, Commander of the Fengli Army, Sun Jingtang, Commander-in-Chief of Military Preparation of the Counties, Zhao Qingshan, Commander of the Southeast Navy, Commander of the Military Staff Department Yang Yihang, and Zhou Pu, Commander of the First Cavalry Division, Haizhou
The prefect and others sat outside the town, and other members of the headquarters, including Cao Zi'ang, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Ge Cunxin, Yue Zhi and others, followed Lin Fu and temporarily moved to Nanmiao Mountain Island in order to command the battle of Benjin Sea nearby.
The military victory of the Northern Expedition can be expected, and the recovery of Yanjing is also just around the corner. However, there is still a lot of work to be done after the recovery of Yanjing. Vice Prime Minister Zuo Chengmu and Governor of East Fujian Huang Jinnian also left Jiangning and Shanxi respectively on April 20th.
An came to Miaoshan Island by boat...
When Zuo Chengmu set out from Jiangning by boat, the news of the great victory in Dengzhou had not yet reached Jiangning. He was summoned to Haizhou to meet Lin Fu. On the way, he received a temporary notice and came directly to Miaoshan Island.
Standing on the bow of the ship, Zuo Chengmu, dressed in purple, looked at the weaving of ship masts in the Crescent Bay harbor with his hands on his sleeves. He stood there in a daze, and his heart was temporarily blocked by inexplicable emotions...
During the Battle of Jingxiang, Zuo Chengmu could imagine that the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains would one day be accomplished in the hands of Lin Fu, but he did not expect that it would come so quickly, so quickly, and so unexpectedly - in fact, Zuo Chengmu was the one who conquered the Huaihe River.
Apart from the core figures in the East, he was one of the first few people to clearly inform him of the Northern Expedition route in late March. But even by late March, Zuo Chengmu still couldn't guess what Lin Fu would do to seize the opportunity before the storm season.
The sea defense line was torn apart.
Who could have imagined that the sea-locking defense line, which both the enemy and ourselves thought was impregnable, would be so fragile?
Huang Jinnian, who arrived one step earlier than Zuo Chengmu, greeted Zuo Chengmu on the shore. Watching Zuo Chengmu's boat squeeze through the narrow waterway between countless merchant warships, he strode forward to greet him and said with a smile: "The South Island is reserved for the military."
Qinsi, where logistics ships are stationed for unloading cargo. The headquarters has just moved its branch to Beidao. The Privy Council asked me to wait for the left minister here and then go there together..."
Zuo Chengmu did not complain about walking a few more steps. He landed on the South Island first, took a car north to Beiya Bay Pier on Nanmiaoshan Island, and took a small boat to the North Island. When passing through Nanmiaoshan Island, the road
There are temporary military camps on both sides.
The Denghai Town Division, the 3rd Town Division of the Haixing Battalion, He Zongliang, Wang Shouer's two brigades, and the 1st Town Division of the Fengli Army have been fully assembled on Miaoshan Island in the north and south, waiting to be stationed at Daqinshan Island and Huangcheng Island for rest.
After the Jinghai Division's First and Second Task Forces replenished their ammunition, they immediately sent their divisions northward to attack Jinhai.
Nanmiaoshan Island is the main interruption base. In order to ensure that the buildings on Nanmiaoshan Island are relatively intact, the remaining soldiers on the island were captured by the Denghai Town Division and the Fengli First Town Division. The remains of the remaining enemies were cleared away.
Miaoshan Island is obviously neat and orderly.
Beimiaoshan Island is full of broken walls left by shelling - Lin Fu's tent is temporarily stationed among the ruins.
Zuo Chengmu and Huang Jinnian came in, and Lin Fuzheng, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin, Zhang Gou, Yang Shi, Chen Zhi and other generals finally deduced the battle plan for attacking Jinhai.
Seeing Zuo Chengmu come in, Lin Fu put down the charcoal in his hand, stood up straight, and greeted with a smile: "You have had a hard time, Prime Minister Zuo, on the journey. Are you feeling uncomfortable on the sea ship this time?"
"The whole journey was calm, and my old bones could barely bear it. I was a little worried about the war in Dengzhou on the way, but I didn't expect the Privy Councilor to kick open Yan Lu's back door so easily. I was really overjoyed." Zuo
Cheng Mu smiled.
"It's not easy to win, but it's also dangerous to win," Lin Fu put his hands on his hips and said, "These prodigal sons, they lost 60% of the ammunition accumulated by the military in two years in two battles. If the enemy army can be more tenacious,
Some things are not so smooth - even now, we have to stop here for two days to revise the battle plan for storming Jinhai."
It was also when Zuo Chengmu was about to arrive at Miaoshan Island that he saw the actual prototypes of Fuhuo Crossbow and Huaidong's new warships. The Hejin Naval Battle and the Dengzhou Naval Battle did not last long. If it were not for the preparations made by the military in the past two years,
It was not sufficient, which meant that the amount of supplies consumed in just a few days was staggering - but seeing that Lin Fu didn't look worried, Zuo Chengmu thought that the problem wouldn't be too big.
The sea defense line has been torn apart. Although there are tens of thousands of elite enemy troops gathered in Dengzhou across the strait of more than ten miles, even across the strait of more than ten miles, the enemy can fly over without fear.
Lin Fu naturally had nothing to worry about.
However, there seemed to be no casualties in the two naval battles, but the consumption was extremely horrific.
The Battle of Hejin was average, with only half of the First Task Force's combat strength being used. However, the Battle of Denzhou was astonishingly expensive, with 40,000 solid iron bullets being fired on the first day alone.
Forty thousand solid iron bullets can be broken into 4 to 50,000 jins of iron, which is really nothing. However, it takes 4 to 50,000 jins of iron to be cast into four, eight, 12, and 18 jins.
And standard spherical solid iron bullets weighing 24 kilograms or even 32 kilograms, but it is definitely not a simple matter.
The casting cost of these solid projectiles is actually no cheaper than casting a thousand artillery pieces.
In addition, the amount of gunpowder consumed in the two wars was as high as 150,000 to 60,000 kilograms, of which 60,000 kilograms of bitter paste was consumed - which actually consumed nearly 60% of the military's ammunition reserves in the past two years.
In other words, if the Dengzhou Navy could be just a little bit more tenacious, the Northern Expeditionary Army would have no problem tearing apart the Suohai defense line, but then they would go to attack Jinhai and Yanjing, and they would be somewhat helpless.
Fortunately, there is still 40% of the ammunition reserves. Fortunately, the Ordnance Supervisor's artillery shell and gunpowder factory is operating non-stop. It has reached the level of casting 400 solid artillery pellets per day, 100 loose shells, and 1,200 kilograms of gunpowder per day.
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At this time, a staff general sent in the latest collected intelligence. Gao Zongting briefly read it and applauded: "The enemies of Yanjing have sent reinforcements to Jinhai, and they have no intention of abandoning the capital and fleeing westward."
Lin Fu turned around when he heard the sound and said: "That's good. It seems that the pressure on Wei Zhonglong and Wu Jingze can be relieved. A message has been sent to them, asking them to stand still and eliminate as many Yan captives as possible on the Yanji Plain...