The Huai River flows out of Hongzepu and joins the Sishui River in the northwest of Huai'an City. The water is strong and flows east-north, entering the sea at Yuntili in the north of Tinghu County.
In the south of Tinghu County and between Sheyang County, the water surface of Qingjiangpu is very narrow, with a mouth of thirty to forty miles wide, but it is very shallow. Even ordinary fishing boats do not go out to sea from there. The waterway passing through the cloud ladder is the real beauty of the Huaihe River.
The outlet to the sea.
As the pirates in the East China Sea became more and more popular, the Huai'an Prefecture set up an inspection department on the north bank of Huaikou, built a military fortress, placed more than a hundred sword archers, and set up three or five stern warships all the year round to guard against sea pirates, which was called Yunti Pass.
Since the Huaihe River became the waterway for grain transportation, the Yunti Pass guarding Huaikou has suddenly become more dangerous. The defenders have also changed from county sword archers to regular town troops, and the number of soldiers has also increased from more than a hundred to 600 soldiers per battalion.
A sixth-grade Captain Zhenwei was appointed as the chief general.
The refugee army captured Suyu without fighting on the 15th day, and then spread out like a tide on the north bank of the Huaihe River.
At that time, Sun Ganzi, the ninth leader of the village in Hongzepu, and today's vanguard of the refugee army, Qu Shuai Sun Zhuang, led four thousand elite outposts and ran eastward. They ignored the officers and soldiers who retreated to Shuyang and threatened the flanks until the scouts reported that they saw Huang Hun.
In the muddy yellow water, Sun Zhuangcai ordered his soldiers to stop their feet. He didn't stop watching the sky getting dark. He ordered his soldiers to light torches and go to Yunti Pass. The ants were attached to them. He spread out the surrounding four thousand elite soldiers and attacked Yunti Pass.
Yunti Pass is the opening for grain to leave the Huaihe River. Cao ships with a capacity of one or two hundred stone could not withstand the tossing of wind and waves, so they docked at Yunti Pass to empty their warehouses. The Caoting Department of the Jiangdong Provincial Envoy built a large-scale granary at Yunti Pass.
In order for Huaikou to be connected smoothly with the Jinhai grain road, the Metropolitan Procuratorate also has a supervisory censor here to supervise the affairs of the capital.
The refugee army was forced to fight in different places due to lack of food, raising and grabbing food everywhere, and their reputation was not very good.
Although Suyu was captured with no effort, the officers and soldiers set fire to the granary before retreating. After the cities of Haozhou and Sizhou were destroyed in the spring of last year, their vitality has not recovered. After Yue Lengqiu arrived in Jiangning, he did not manage Haozhou at all.
Si's thoughts, naturally there is not much food stored in the city - the biggest problem of the nearly 200,000 refugee troops on the north bank of the Huaihe River is still the lack of food.
Sun Zhuang led the elite outposts from Suyu and traveled more than 250 miles in two days and one night to rob the granary of Yunti Pass. If he could get 70,000 to 80,000 kilograms of grain from Yunti Pass, he would have an army of hundreds of thousands.
Then he can calmly and annihilate the Chang Huai army in Huaibei.
The officers and soldiers abandoned the garrison in Suyu and unexpectedly returned to Huai'an Prefecture. Sun Zhuang and his men came rushing towards them, covered with stars and moonlight. Their movements were extremely fast. The Yunti Pass was unprepared and was caught off guard.
During the siege, nearly half of the defenders at Yunti Pass were forced to go out to sea with the canal boats on the dock. Only 300 defenders at Yunti Pass were defeated after being attacked overnight.
Two of the nine large warehouses in Yunti Pass were completely burned down, and the other seven were also set on fire, resulting in considerable losses.
Sun Ganzi lost his temper, and captured more than 200 officers and soldiers, as well as 17 officials from the Jiangdong Procuratorate stationed in Yunti Pass, and more than 300 boatmen in Yunti Pass who had no time to escape to the ship. The civilians also cut off their heads and piled them in front of the dock.
Build a view of Beijing.
Sun Ganzi didn't sleep for four days and four nights before the war. He captured Yunti Pass, cut off nearly a thousand heads and piled them in front of the dock to build a palace. He also caught the concubine of the Censor of Ducao in his room and fucked her hard.
It didn’t matter that the delicate beauty was almost suffocated to death by his body odor after not taking a bath for months and being splashed with countless blood, or that he was so angry that his disobedience made the beauty’s mouth sore. Fortunately, he was standing and playing with the old man’s stroller.
Otherwise, if his two-hundred-pound body pressed down on him, the delicate beauty would probably not be able to save her life. After venting, Sun Ganzi kicked the beauty out of the room and left it to others to continue tossing. Men need women to vent, but they are fighting everywhere.
Sun Ganzi didn't want to be bothered by women. He only wanted to get rid of such beautiful women once or twice, and he was not greedy.
After he vented his anger, he fell asleep. He didn't know how long he slept, but Sun Ganzi was woken up by the sound of a trumpet outside.
Sun Ganzi lifted up his trousers to cover his black and smelly crotch. There were still some blood stains on his trousers, as if he had made a new opening. He picked up the Xuanhua ax on the table and walked out, shouting: "It's a dog day."
Where did the officers and soldiers come from, Tinghu, Haizhou, Muyang or Huai'an City?" In his opinion, the officers and soldiers who could come to counterattack Yunti Pass at this time would not come from anywhere else.
"It's a sea ship coming to grab the opening to enter the river. I don't know which way the soldiers and horses are!" Chen Zhi was about to call him with a knife in hand.
Sun Ganzi had two powerful generals under his command, whom he relied on as his right-hand man.
One of them is Chen Zhi, the tiger who climbed the city before him. He escaped from the Northern Army with Liu An'er and was good at using swords and shields to attack Yunti Pass. He led his brave soldiers to attack the wall and killed more than ten officers and soldiers himself, and cut down three good ones.
Knife, he was so stunned that there wasn't even a wound the size of a copper coin.
Sun Ganzi secretly spat, he also had two wives, how could Chen Zhi be so lucky? Could it be that he was called a city-climbing tiger? He was more reliable than anyone else in taking over the city.
There is also a fierce general under Sun Ganzi who he relies on called Heavenly Dog Zhang Gou. His original name is indeed "Gou'er". It was only after he joined the army that he changed "Dog" to "Gou". What is quite rare is that compared to Duo Tou
Zhang Gou is a reckless man who has some calculations.
Sun Ganzi climbed up the wall of the village and saw the warships that had taken advantage of the wind to come in from Huaikou, and a chill ran down his spine.
The stern deck of the big ship at the head is almost as high as the wall here, and the stern is twenty feet long. There are three such big ships. Sun Zhuang was a water bandit, and when he moved from Huaishang to fight in Hanzhong, he abandoned the ship and went ashore to fight.
There is also some knowledge about ships. The largest ship I have seen in Hongzepo before was the ship that Qin Chengbo entered Hongzepo. These three warships were several times larger than Qin Chengbo's ship.
In order to keep Uncle Qin Cheng behind, he only besieged his ship, so he mobilized nearly half of the elite troops in front of the army. Sun Zhuang secretly thought that these three ships entered the Huai River, how to fight this water battle? Wu Shiyi was still in charge of Haozhou
As for building warships, Sun Zhuang thought that it would be more important to send people to sink a few more ships at the east entrance of Hongzepu!
Sun Ganzi and Chen Zhi were both illiterate and could not recognize the flag unfurled on the tall mast of the leading ship. Thinking that Zhang Gou was literate, they did not see him and asked, "Where is the Tengu? Where did this turtle egg go?"
"Zhang Gou returned to Suyu to see An Shuai. Mr. Gan, you slept soundly and did not disturb Qu Shuai," Chen Zhi said. "These 60,000 to 70,000 kilometres, without carriages, horses or ships, just rely on our 6,000 hands.
But I can't move back to Suyu. Zhang Gou went back to Suyu to see An Shuai and see if he could collect some big cars from Suyu..."
"Then find someone who can read. This son of a bitch can read me with a big face, but I can't read them..." Sun Zhuang said cursingly.
Chen Zhi sent someone to find someone who could read first, but he first called Sun Ganzi, the commander-in-chief of Ququ, and then he brought the person in for questioning.
The literate person was a teacher who joined the gang, and Chen Zhi thought highly of him. He replied: "Huaidong Jingkou established an envoy, and Jiangdong Xuanfu envoy Si Zuo participated in the political affairs of Lin..."
Sun Zhuang frowned and said: "Jingkou, this shitty court thinks we are bandits? Get my big bow..."
The refugee army moved to four places and would send scouts to gather information before attacking cities and plundering territory, but it was far from establishing an intelligence collection network throughout every county.
Sun Zhuang knew the names of Jiangdong Zuojun and Lin Fu, but he didn't know that Lin Fu also had the official title of Jiangdong Zuo to participate in politics, and he didn't know what the envoys of Huaidong Jingkou were.
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Lin Fu led his army and Zhang Yubo from Chongzhou. On the night of the 17th, they left the river mouth and entered the sea. Taking advantage of the southeast wind, they headed north. Only two days and two nights had passed, and there was no delay at all. Unfortunately, Yunti Pass was closed the day before they entered Huaikou.
Report loss.
In addition to the loss of more than 100,000 tons of grain, more importantly, the loss of Huaikou forced the Jinhai grain route to go through the river mouth to obtain grain. The temporary chaos will further increase the grain pressure on the capital and the Northern Army.
Seeing how dangerous the situation in Huaibei was, Zhang Yubo realized how prescient Lin Fu's secret trip to Jinhai at the beginning of the year was.
The Heishui Ocean Channel from Chongzhou to Jinhai was officially put into use in early March. Although Cao grain did not go to Chongzhou, a large number of commercial grains were already gathered in Chongzhou. Now that Huaikou has been lost, a large number of grain ships that hastily left Huaikou have been diverted from Chongzhou.
Transporting grain can restore the transport capacity of the Tianjin-Hai Grain Road in the shortest possible time and keep the lifeline of the Northland intact - but also make Lin Fu's position in Chongzhou more stable.
The Censor of the Capital City was lucky enough to escape. When the bandits attacked, he happened to be on the boat. At this time, he was standing next to Lin Fu, looking at the mountains of heads on the dock. His feet were weak and his face was pale, and he couldn't care less.
What would happen to the beautiful concubine he left in the fortress? He said to Lin Fu with a trembling voice: "The rogue bandits are really heinous. There are more than a thousand people in Yunti Pass who all have parents, wives and children. They were massacred. It is inhumane. Such evil bandits
, God cannot tolerate it, please ask Mr. Lin to slaughter him to avenge the bloodshed of the deceased!"
"Revenge of bloodshed?" Lin Fu held a saber in his hand and looked at the Censor of Cao who was sent from the capital. He asked with a half-smile but said nothing more.
Currently, there are 4,000 elite outposts of the refugee army guarding Yunti Pass. Yunti Pass did not suffer much damage when it fell. Standing on the plain on the north bank of Huaikou, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are sufficient grain, grass and arrows in the pass, and there are tens of thousands of refugees.
The army was wandering one or two hundred miles away, and the Jiangdong left army was not a heavenly general. In addition, the first water battalion in charge of operations had no more than 10,000 auxiliary troops, so it simply did not have the conditions to recapture Yunti Pass from the tiger's mouth.
Lin Fu pursed his lips and said to the Censor of Capital Cao: "The Tianjin-Sea grain road cannot be cut off. Please ask Lord Tao to go to Chongzhou Capital Cao immediately. I will order the Chongzhou officials to cooperate with Lord Tao. My duty is to guard Huaidong. The military strength is
The situation in Huaibei is very limited, and it seems that the situation in Huaibei has to wait for Governor Yue to find a solution..."
Ducao Yushi couldn't stand up in front of Lin Fu at this time. He kept mumbling and said nothing, but he thought in his heart that Huaikou was lost. Even if Shandong was occupied by the Liang family, both ends of the Jinhai grain road would still be in his hands.
, but speaking of which, the Liang family are also kind people.
At this time, when he saw the general of the refugee army standing on the wall holding a big bow and stepping on the crenel to pull the string, Tao Yushi subconsciously wanted to hide behind Lin Fu.
Lin Fu smiled slightly. He had never seen a strong bow that could reach three hundred steps even if it was thrown. Moreover, the arrow was pointing straight this way, but the side guards were tensely guarding with their shields.
Lin Fu pointed at the man with a bow on the wall of Yunti Pass, and said to Zhang Yubo who was standing side by side: "That man should be Qu Shuai Sun Zhuang, the vanguard of the rogue bandits, also known as Sun Ganzi. He was the number one rogue bandit in Hongze besides Liu Miaozhen.
The brave general Qin Xibo was defeated at Luoyang Lake. It was he and Liu An'er who led the brave bandits to attack the ship..."
The arrow came through the air and fell into the water after twenty or thirty steps. Even so, the range of the bow held by Sun Gangzi was astonishingly far, comparable to the big crossbow on the ship. Just watching Sun Gangzi fire the bow with ease,
You can tell that his arms are at least four to five hundred kilograms strong.
The fact that Yunti Pass fell was difficult to reverse in a short time. Lin Fu waved his hand and said: "Continue to move westward, don't stay, let's go to Yikou..." The troops were not enough to siege the city, and they were even at a big disadvantage. We had to do our best.
It is possible to annihilate and defeat the dispersed refugee army in field battles and mobile battles. Lin Fu will not be stupid enough to storm Yunti Pass, but instead crowd the refugee army with internal and external attacks. He must drag the enemy into a stagnation position, rather than actively falling into a stagnation position himself.