The sunset, as red as flowing red, lies on the top of the mountain in the west and is about to sink. Like gold and silver, the river is vast and sparkling with golden light...
Xiao Baiming, who had just led his troops to fight from the mouth of the Haining River, had no intention of admiring the evening view of the Qianjiang River under the setting sun. He looked at the Huaidong warships on the south bank of the river that were covered with sky and sun. Their sails and masts were like walls, covering the south bank of the river shrouded in dusk.
, he fell weakly on the bow of the ship, with desperate thoughts in his mind: No reinforcements would come, and with just a few broken ships behind him, he would not be able to break out at all.
They are the navy sent by Su Tingzhan to raid the hinterland of northern Zhejiang. There are more than 3,000 people. For several days, they have used Haining and Haiyan's dense river network to attack in separate groups, burn, kill, loot, and wanton rape/prostitution. I am so unhappy. Who can do it?
Do you think that all these good things will come to an end on the 24th?
Who would have thought that the warships of the Huaidong Navy would rush in like crucian carp crossing the river and cut off their retreat.
The more they fought, the denser the Huaidong warships became. Seeing reinforcements coming, the defenders in Haining City, as if they had taken a tonic, rushed out and shot them with crossbows along the coast. They finally rushed out of Haining County and finally
It was discovered that above the Qianjiang River, the Huaidong Navy's ship formation was like a dragnet, trapping the mouth of the Haining River in it, leaving them with no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
"Captain..."
Xiao Baiming looked back and saw that Dutou Lao Niu, who had followed him since Ninghai Town, addressed him by his official position in Ninghai Town. Lao Niu had two broken arrows stuck in his shoulders. The shafts of the arrows had been cut off with scissors, but the arrows were deep.
It was inserted into the flesh, and there was no cure or medicine, so I didn't dare to pull it out rashly. Blood flowed from the shoulder, dyeing the green and black soldier's uniform purple-black. After fighting for a long time, I couldn't smell the blood, and there was no look in my cloudy eyes.
The bravery and ruthlessness of the times, the pessimism and despair, but also hidden some expectations that make Xiao Baiming less unfamiliar...
"Lao Niu's life can't be saved, but brothers can't just fight it all! Du Jian, keep the green hills here, don't worry about running out of firewood!" Lao Niu's voice was hoarse, and his words shocked Xiao Baiming and everyone around him.
The thoughts that I had suppressed in my heart and dared not speak out came out.
Everyone turned to look at Xiao Baiming, waiting for him to make a decision. No one noticed that Chen Qianhu came from behind the boat carrying a short spear, with a fierce light in his eyes, and stabbed it through the old cow's back.
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By this point in the fight, Chen Qianhu had lost his mind. His blood-red copper bell eyes flashed with a gnawing ferocious light, and he shouted in a deep voice: "When the captain died, everyone was determined to take revenge. How could we surrender to Huaidong? Who dares to have such a thought in his heart?"
Thoughts, this is an example!”
Lao Niu twisted his head and looked at Chen Qianhu in disbelief, and fell down, completely losing his life. Chen Qianhu stepped on Lao Niu's body and pulled out the short spear. Maybe it was too much blood, and there was only a little bright red.
The blood seeped out from the armor...
Xiao Baiming sighed in his heart, then he regained his composure and said in a loud voice: "Huaidong will never leave us a way to survive. If we fall into their hands, life will be worse than death. Let's go out to fight, eat wine, eat meat and play with women, Bai Ming please
Brothers, you have been enjoying yourself for half a month; if you can't be killed, you will still be a good man in twenty years, so don't let others look down on you!"
Ge Cunxiong didn't know that the several broken ships that rushed out of the Haining River mouth were the remnants of the Ninghai Zhenshui Army that had defected to the She family. Xiao Baiming, Chen Qianhu and others on board were old enemies of Huaidong. He saw that the enemy ships did not surrender.
I mean, I don’t have the patience to wait any longer, so I sent an order to each wing to send six warships to attack, to destroy the remnant army in eastern Zhejiang before nightfall, and to end the war at the mouth of the Haining River!
Unable to wait for the war here to end, Ge Cunxiong dispatched some combat forces from the Third Water Camp to go westward across the Yangtze River, and before nightfall came, they blocked the mouth of the Cao'e River between Kuaiji and Shangyu.
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The news that the remnants of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy that had entered Haining to harass were all annihilated by the Third Water Battalion came back to Pokou Village by the time the moon was bright and the stars were dim.
In the Poikou Village, the temporary Nanzheng camp was set up, and dozens of giant candles illuminated the official hall as bright as day.
Qin Chengzu was responsible for presiding over specific military affairs in the main hall. The generals and officials from the headquarters and the Military Intelligence Department were busy around him, walking in and out. All military intelligence information was first summarized and sorted here by Qin Chengzu.
Lin Fu would not be distracted by the tedious military affairs. After he landed in Bokou Village at noon, he stayed in the side hall for most of the day, studying the war situation with the map hanging on the north wall for a long time - the latest situation of the enemy and ourselves.
The development and evolution will be clearly and timely marked on the map with Song Jia's assistance.
The map shows that from the time when the advance troops of the Huaidong Army launched a surprise attack in the early morning until now, there have been as many as 17 battle locations in eastern Zhejiang and Haining, Haiyan and other places on the north bank of the Qianjiang River. Cixi County and Pikou have been captured.
, Jintang, Chongshou, Xiapu and other seven villages on the northeast coast of Mingzhou Prefecture, captured three docks and two shipyards including Laotangshan, Meishan and Xietang.
The lower reaches of the Qian (Tang) River have a standard bell-mouth topography. The south bank starts from Chongshou Village in the northeast corner of Mingzhou Prefecture, and the north bank starts from Xitang Qiao Village in Jiaxing Prefecture. If it is counted as the dividing line between the Qianjiang River and the East China Sea, here
The river is more than 60 miles wide and the water channel is deep, which is suitable for the warships of the Jinghai camp. However, when the river goes west to the south of Haining County, it suddenly shrinks to less than five or six miles wide, and the water is shallow, and the bottom of the river is shallow.
Hidden in the sand ridge, the warships of the Jinghaihai Battalion with a deep draft were not conducive to entering the battle.
After the war in eastern Zhejiang began, Zhao Qingshan led the main force of the First Water Battalion. After advancing westward along the Qianjiang River, he mainly deployed defenses on the section of the river between the west of the Cao'e River mouth and Dingqiao in Haining, and was responsible for intercepting the east Zhejiang troops in Fuyang at this time.
The main force of the Navy went down the river. After the second water battalion landed ashore with the cover infantry battalion, it merged with the third water battalion. It was responsible for finding and annihilating the East Zhejiang Navy who stayed in Mingzhou Prefecture or harassed the north bank in the waters east of the mouth of the Cao'e River.
troops.
Song Jia, who was wearing a Confucian shirt and had been accompanying Lin Fu since entering Jinhai from the north, had not closed her eyes to rest from last night to this time, and her bones showed fatigue. She picked up the pile of letters and newspapers like snow flakes.
At first, he saw Lin Fu lying on the map, personally drawing the route of the Third Water Camp to the mouth of the Cao'e River, and said lazily: "The main force of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy has not been captured from the upper reaches at this time, and it will probably be defeated in a short time.
It won’t come out!”
"You have to be bold strategically, but when it comes to the implementation of specific tactics, you have to be cautious before you can be too careful," Lin Fu made a sign, left the map a little further, re-examined the latest situation between the enemy and ourselves in eastern Zhejiang, looked back at Song Jia, and said,
"Only after Aocanghai conquers Shangyu and the Third Water Battalion completely controls the Cao'e River, the main force of the First Water Battalion can be withdrawn and used elsewhere! And we will have more time to attack Mingzhou Fucheng."
As guest guests, Chen Mingzhe and Chen Xiyan were also invited to stay in the side hall to keep an eye on the development of the situation in eastern Zhejiang. They all saw that Song Jia was disguised as a man.
The presence of women was most taboo in the military camp. Chen Xiyan and Chen Mingzhe frowned at Song Jia staying in the side hall and brazenly giving instructions on the war, but they were helpless. Lin Fu even organized a female camp in Chongzhou to supplement his confidants.
Insufficient military strength.
There were so many deviant things that happened to Lin Fu that it seemed normal to leave a female official disguised as a man in the side hall.
The candles projected Lin Fu's figure on the map, as if a huge shadow covered the land of eastern Zhejiang.
In addition to the water camp, Ao Canghai led the main force of the Changshan Battalion to land at Chongshou and Xietang in the northeast and north of Mingzhou Prefecture at noon. After capturing Chongshou and Xietang villages, the Changshan Battalion troops quickly divided into two groups and headed towards
Cixi and Shangyu are advancing, forming two huge arrows on the map advancing from the coast to the inland.
Before nightfall, the right wing of Changshan Camp successfully captured Cixi City with less than 600 defenders, and the left wing formed an encirclement on Shangyu City, cutting off the connection between Shangyu and Kuaiji to the west. The plan was to attack Shangyu overnight, but there was no new battle report yet.
Pass back.
At the same time, Lin Fu also asked Ge Cunxiong to lead the main force of the Third Water Battalion westward into the lower and middle reaches of the Cao'e River after clearing out the remnants of the Zhejiang Navy that had invaded Haining and Haiyan, and make full use of the Cao'e River as the natural dividing line between Kuaiji and Mingzhou to intercept the Soviet Union.
In front of the court, She Feixiong leads the reinforcements to prepare for marching eastward to Mingzhou Prefecture.
Due to the military deployment of the She family in eastern Zhejiang, with Kuaiji as the center, Su Tingzhan led the troops from eastern Zhejiang to attack Fuyang. There were still 3,000 defenders left in Kuaiji city. At the same time, Kuaiji and Fuyang are also close to each other, with a straight line distance
With only a hundred miles left, Su Tingzhan led his troops from Fuyang to return to Kuaiji quickly - in the first stage of the war in eastern Zhejiang, Lin Fu had no intention of attacking Kuaiji, so he attacked Kuaiji with surprise troops, which was obviously very difficult.
Not realistic.
In addition to Kuaiji, the troops and horses left by the She family to guard Mingzhou Prefecture are obviously mainly to guard against small-scale harassment from the sea. Mingzhou Prefecture, including the defense lines established by the She family in Daishan and Changguo Islands, is left behind to guard Mingzhou Prefecture.
The total strength of the water infantry is more than 13,000, and about 4,000 soldiers and horses are stationed at Daishan. There are no major changes in the Changguo Islands. The other 8,000 soldiers and horses are scattered and stationed in various defensive villages and cities along the coast of Mingzhou Prefecture.
A navy was also detached to raid Haiyan, Haining, Jiaxing and other places on the other side.
This gave the Huaidong Army the opportunity to attack quickly, divide it up, and then concentrate its forces to break through individually, creating a very advantageous fighter opportunity.
Lin Fu's idea for the first stage of the war in eastern Zhejiang was very clear, which was to disperse the troops first, seize the peripheral cities of Mingzhou Prefecture, defend the stronghold, and form an interception and defense line against the She family's reinforcements coming from southern and western Zhejiang.
, and then shrink the troops to attack the cities inside Mingzhou Prefecture, and strive for the first stage to regain the entire territory of Mingzhou!
In addition to Ao Canghai leading the first section of the Changshan Battalion to advance westward to attack Shangyu County in preparation for the reinforcements from western Zhejiang, Zhou Tong led the main force of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, under the cover of some warships of the Second Water Battalion, to advance directly to Xiangshan in the south of Mingzhou Prefecture.
In the bay, we disembarked from the iron port and marched westward to seize Shengzhou first.
It was Shengzhou. Lin Fu put it on the map and drew a big red circle on the map of Shengzhou with a charcoal pen with a red core.
If She Feihu leads his troops from southern Zhejiang to aid Mingzhou Prefecture, Shengzhou is the place he must go.
After Zhou Tong led his troops to disembark from Tiegang, they had to cross the southern foothills of the Siming Mountains before entering the territory of Shengzhou, which could take at least two days earlier than She Feihu.
It is still unknown whether the Chongcheng infantry camp can successfully capture Shengzhou City in two days due to the lack of siege equipment.
Although more than 21,000 infantry including Changshan Camp, Chongcheng Infantry Camp, and Hailing Prefecture Army have been transferred to the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang, considering that eastern Zhejiang is likely to face the upcoming battle from southern Zhejiang and western Zhejiang.
Despite the massive counterattack and the nearly 4,000 remnant troops from Eastern Zhejiang on Changguo Island, Lin Fu still felt that the troops at hand were not enough.
The first stage of the war in eastern Zhejiang is to rely on clever strategies to capture the cities and defenses of Mingzhou Prefecture; then, the initial victory must be achieved by repelling the She family's counterattack and defending Mingzhou Prefecture.
"The remnants of the Zhejiang Navy that entered Haining were largely wiped out." Qin Chengzu personally took a battle report and walked in with joy. "Preliminary estimates are that the number of enemies annihilated is around 1,900, and more than 300 were captured. Ninghai was captured alive.
The traitor general Xiao Baiming is on his way here..."
"Okay!" Lin Fu excitedly squeezed the charcoal in his hand and waved it vigorously in front of his eyes, and said, "Immediately send an order to Chongzhou to recruit merchant ships to carry reserve troops from Jiangmen to support this side!"
Up to now, Huaidong Navy has almost annihilated about 3,000 people of the main force of East Zhejiang Navy west of Haining Waterway. As long as Zhao Qingshan leads the main force of the First Water Battalion, the main force of East Zhejiang Navy gathered in Fuyang will be blocked in Haining.
If we can't go down from the west, in the waters surrounded by Mingzhou Prefecture, Changguo, and Daishan Islands, there are no naval forces that can threaten the Huaidong Army. At this time, using commercial and civilian ships to transport reserve troops southward, there is naturally not much danger.
"As for Xiao Baiming..." At the mention of this name, scenes from the past came to mind. Lin Fu pondered for a moment and said, "Let him meet Xiao Changze and reward them both with a whole corpse!" He asked Chen Xiyan again, "
Mr. Chen Ge, do you think this is a good solution?"
Chen Xiyan smiled bitterly, Lin Fu had the power and could kill one or two captured generals, so why did he need to ask for their opinions?
But when it comes to Xiao Baiming, Chen Xiyan has also seen him.
The generals of the navy in Ninghai Town led their troops to defect to the She family, which caused great harm to the Wu Party and the Pingjiang Prefecture. When Laotangshan Port was captured, Xiao Taoyuan's second son Xiao Changhui was killed on the spot, and Xiao Taoyuan's eldest son was captured.
Xiao Changze and Lin Fu decided to execute Xiao Changze and Xiao Baiming at the same time. How could Chen Xiyan object?