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Sailing south from Jiaozhou Bay, in order to avoid wind and waves, we sailed close to the sea.
The sea south of the Huaihe River mouth is the Yellow River. The Huaikou is similar to the river mouth. There are many sandbars, but the scale is slightly smaller. The water in this sea area is turbid and shallow. The boat people hired from Chongzhou and Denglai and other places are also familiar with the conditions of the Huaikou.
I was not very familiar with it, and it looked like it was several miles away from the land. When the "Jinhai" passed through this sea area, it broke off two large rudders, and then used three thousand-stone ships in front to measure the depth with plumb bobs before barely passing.
It took a day to cross Huaikou, and it was not until the 15th that we saw Changshan Island.
There are many sandbars outside the river mouth, but few bedrock islands. Changshan Island is quite easy to recognize. Lin Fu stood on the deck, pointed in the direction of Changshan Island, and said to Sun Jingxuan and Sun Jingtang: "That is Changshan Island.
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The blue water is rippling, and the turbulent sea water seems to be a whole piece embedded between the sky and the earth, rippling with huge emeralds that are full of brilliance. Changshan Island covered with trees is green and black, as if it is a dot of dense green in the whole piece of emerald.
As the fleet passed by, birds flying on the islands flew over the fleet, making it look as dark as a large rain cloud.
At this time, the Jinhai lowered its sails and slowed down, and the messenger waved the signal flag, instructing other ships to adjust their bows and sail toward the river mouth.
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On April 6, Lin Fu received the warning message from Chongzhou from Fu Qinghe in Qingzhou. Almost a little later, Beijing received a letter from Qingzhou about the closure of the mutiny in Changyi and the attack on Chongzhou.
No matter how many undercurrents there are in the DPRK, the attack on Chongzhou means that Huaikou in the north is also threatened by the East China Sea pirates, and Huaikou is currently the main sea passage for grain transportation in Jiangdong, Liangzhejiang, Jing, Hunan, Zhongzhou and other counties. Ninghai Town Navy
Since there is not enough to rely on, it is a top priority to mobilize the Jiangdong Left Army to garrison in Chongzhou to ensure the safety of Huaikou.
The summary of the closure of the Changyi Mutiny was approved by the Imperial Council that night, and an official letter was sent to the Ministry of War to mobilize troops, and they arrived in Qingzhou on April 9th.
Lin Fu's official position also had a small change, from the seventh-rank Jiangdong County Inspector and Sidu Supervisor to the sixth-rank Jinghai Commander-in-Chief.
On the night when Lin Fu received the message from Fu Qinghe from Chongzhou, he sent messengers to contact the scattered Jiangdong Left Army to gather in Jimo and prepare to return to Chongzhou. In addition to leaving a few elite sentries and generals who were still recuperating
A total of about 400 people were controlled by Sun Shangwang in Jinhai. Ning Zechen led 600 soldiers to Jimo on the 11th, joined forces with Lin Fu, and set off back to Chongzhou.
Also on the day Lin Fu set sail from Jimo, Li Zhuo officially took up the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of War with the title of Youdu Censor and was also in charge of the garrisons of Yanji, Ninghe, Jizhou, Jinhai and Linyu, all of which were placed under his jurisdiction.
This move, such as the detachment of 40,000 soldiers and horses from Datong and Xuanhua towns to strengthen Ji Town, makes Ji Town have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. It is the first step of Li Zhuoping's strategic concept of "slowing down Liaoxi and stabilizing Yanshan".
A substantial step; also because of the need to alleviate the grain shortage in the capital, about 60,000 troops and horses were stationed in Ninghe, Jizhou, Jinhai and other offshore fortresses. In fact, an internal defense pattern has been initially formed.
Li Zhuo patrolled Jinhai on the 12th, joined Hao Zongcheng, and took over the 20,000 Ji Town Army stationed at Jinhai.
Later on the 13th, Gao Zongting arrived in Qingzhou and met with Tang Haoxin.
The Dengzhou Army is a very important part of Li Zhuoping's plan for the three-pronged strategy of Lu Ce. Although the Dengzhou Army is under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of War and is controlled by Li Zhuo, it has little to do with the Shandong local area. However, without the cooperation of the Shandong local area, if he wants to make one or two
It is very difficult to greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Dengzhou Army in the past year.
The split between Tang and Gu and Zhang and Yue provided convenient conditions for Li Zhuo to gain Tang Haoxin's support in Shandong. Perhaps Li Zhuo and Gao Zongting would regret that the internal rupture within the Chu party came a little late, otherwise the situation in Jiangdong County would have been better.
Some; but things in the world are impermanent and do not depend on human will.
When Gao Zongting arrived in Qingzhou, Lin Fu was already at sea, and he was unable to see him again in a hurry.
The change of Lin Fu's official position was naturally attributed to Li Zhuo's promotion, and of course Hao Zongcheng's credit was also included.
After the Qingzhou Military Incident, Lin Fu led the troops ashore, and the Jinhai and other ships directly bypassed the Shandong Peninsula to Jiaozhou Bay to transport grain northward. The more than 20,000 stones and rice grains were not included in the grain plan of Jinhaicang, and Lin Fu together
It was assigned to the Jibei Army to repay Hao Zongcheng's favor for not preventing the Jiangdong Left Army from leaving Jinhai.
Si Dujian, the governor of Jiangdong, was promoted to a full seventh-grade civil servant, and the governor of Jinghai was promoted to a full sixth-grade civil servant. Since Lin Fu's rank and title were both from the fifth grade, this promotion of official rank does not seem to have much significance. In fact,
The above is quite different.
Dujian is an official position developed from the supervision of the army. It was not a formal official position at first, but an envoy temporarily entrusted by Beijing to supervise the army to control the generals in charge of the army. The position is small but powerful, and there are many xx envoys.
During the reform of Qingyu, the post of Dujian was integrated into the Duchayuan system and became a formal official position of the County Inspectorate. Together with the official position of Military Preparation and Qianshi, it formed a formal system of civil servants and supervisors of the army. The official title of xx Dujian was gradually eliminated.
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The Dujian is a formal official title within the Jingcha Envoy system. It is an official. All affairs are under the control of the Jingcha Envoy and are usually directly led by deputy envoys or ministers.
Although the rank of Jinghai Duyu Envoy is only the sixth rank, in fact, he is the same envoy with the titles of Inspector Envoy, Xuanfu Envoy, Governor, Xuanfu Ambassador, Military Observer Envoy, Military Supervisor Envoy, Salt and Iron Envoy, and Water Transport Envoy.
Category, for the chief official of Zhengyin.
Although they are still controlled by the local county secretary or the governor's office, they are far different from the subordinate officials who are under the control of everything. They have much greater freedom. They can even directly bypass the county secretary or the governor's office and submit the report to the central government; at the same time,
Under the control of the Ministry of War, this also laid the groundwork for Li Zhuo to mobilize the Jiangdong left army north to participate in the war.
Official letters from the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of War also directly stipulated that the Jiangdong Left Army should take coastal areas as its defense direction. Based on the fixed number of three thousand soldiers, part of the force can be allocated to prepare for the construction of water camps.
Naturally, Lin Fu would not be restricted by the fixed number of 3,000 soldiers. The actual number of soldiers stationed on Jinwei Island was nearly 400. On the south bank of the Woishui River, there were more than 300 soldiers selected from the common people who were brave and brave, and were controlled by Sun Shangwang.
Lin Fu finally decided to leave four thousand-stone sea-going ships in Jinhai. Except for one that was stationed at Jinwei Island as a backup, the other three thousand-stone sea-going ships were all equipped with armored soldiers, 60 local soldiers each, boatmen, sailors and handymen.
More than thirty people, working as escort warships and grain merchant ships, provided escort protection for the fleet passing through the Liaodong waters.
The fleet that followed Lin Fu southward included three 5,000-stone ships including the Jinhai and nine thousand-stone ships including the Dongyang. Zhou Pu and Zhao Qingshan led the cavalry battalion, with the fifth battalion having about 1,200 soldiers and nearly 1,000 Xihe congregation members.
Returning to Chongzhou by land, Sun Jingtang, Sun Jingxuan and others led more than 500 members of the congregation who were weak or had been injured in prison, and nearly 3,000 people from the 1st, 3rd and 4th battalions of the Jiangdong Left Army returned by sea ship.
Chongzhou.
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When the fleet was getting better and better, Ge Cunxin directed the boatmen to raise the sails and adjust the bow, so that the Jinhai sailed directly to Changshan Island.
As the Jinghai Capital Supervisor who relies on sea areas for defense, Lin Fu can handle it according to his authority without even going through the Ministry of War and Jiangdong County Secretary. He "secretly recruits and surrenders" the Changshan Island bandits.
Just send a letter to report the reward.
Lin Fu always wanted to use Changshan Island as a secret chess move, and he would not trust Yue Lengqiu at all. When dealing with Changshan Island, he would naturally first "surrender" Quan, and put aside the reporting matter.
go.
As the Jinhai sailed towards Changshan Island, it was naturally a "surrender" request.
In addition to Lin Fu, Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin, Zhou Tong, Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang and other Sun family members, the personnel on board the Jinhai were mainly the two sentry soldiers of the first battalion led by Ao Canghai, and the boatmen and sailors were also from the Ge family.
Children of ship households who were brought out from Huaibei and whose families moved to Changshan Island.
Different sand islands are surrounded by shallow tidal flats. Changshan Island, which is a bedrock island, has a small natural harbor on the southeast side for large ships to berth and take shelter from the wind. The Jinhai is anchored against the stone promontory on the east side of the bay.
There is a lookout post built at the southern end of the promontory.
This was not the first time that the boatmen and sailors of Jinhai Island had docked at Changshan Island. They greeted the sentry at the watch post from a long distance away. Qin Chengzu led the island guards on the shore to kneel down on one knee, salute Lin Fu, and said
: "It is a pity that I could not follow you to the north to fight. From now on, I am willing to ride for you, and I hope you will not dislike it..." This can be regarded as officially calling myself a subordinate.
"Mr. Qin, who are you? Why are you so open-minded?" Lin Fu hurriedly walked to the boat and landed, helped Qin Chengzu up from the ground, and asked everyone behind Qin Chengzu to stand up and talk. He looked at a young man and Ge Cunxin.
He had a similar appearance and a curly beard on his chin, and asked, "Are you Ge Yuan, the Hunjiang Dragon?" He turned back to Ge Cunxin behind him and smiled, "Ge Yuan is more heroic than you!"
Ge Cunxin smiled, jumped onto the shore, patted his son on the shoulder, and scolded him: "What are you doing standing there in such a daze? You still don't salute!"
Lin Fu supported Ge Yuan and said, "You and I can just treat each other as brothers. There are not so many false etiquette and clichés to talk about..."
Sun Jingxuan, Sun Jingtang, Sun Wenyao, Sun Wenwan and Zhou Tong who followed them ashore looked at each other in confusion and secretly thought, "Didn't they come here to surrender the pirates? How come they are so familiar with each other as if they were part of the same family?"
"These are Zhou Tong from Wu County, Sun Jingxuan from Xihe, and cousin Sun Jing. This is Wen Yao, the eldest son of Jingtang." Lin Fu introduced Zhou Tong, Sun Jingtang and others to Qin Chengzu and asked, "The situation in Chongzhou
how?"
The East China Sea Bandits invaded Chongzhou on April 4th. Lin Fu received news in Qingzhou on the 6th, and then on the third day he received news that the East China Sea Bandits had invaded Chongzhou City. After that, Lin Fu stayed at sea until today. It was the East China Sea Bandits who invaded Chongzhou.
It's the eleventh day. Changshan Island is about 300 miles away from Guanyin Beach, and only about 150 miles northeast of Hecheng in Chongzhou. Naturally, we can know the latest information about Chongzhou.
Qin Chengzu shook his head and said: "The She family borrowed the name of Yuan Tingdong, the Harrier of the East China Sea, and gathered more than 8,000 bandits from the East China Sea to land in the east of Langshan. They made 4,000 bandits and more than 60 warships prepare troops for the mountain stronghold and Xisha Island, and surrounded the 4,000 bandits.
Chongzhou, broke through the south gate on the night of the 8th, entered on the 9th, 10th, and 11th, massacred the city for three consecutive days, and withdrew the troops the day before yesterday..."