Although he successfully repulsed the partial division sent by Chen Zhihu, in order to successfully evacuate people and materials from Dengzhou, Gao Zongting did not publicize the news of victory to appease the people - it is difficult to leave the homeland, and some people will be afraid of it.
If there is danger, they will choose to flee, but more people are born and raised here, and their fields, homes, and properties are all here. How can it be so easy to abandon everything and leave home?
Under Gao Zongting's deliberate connivance, the pessimism and panic did not stop and spread in Dengzhou City——
Since Dengzhou City was far away from the coast, it was necessary to evacuate all the people and materials from the city before Chen Zhihu's main force arrived. Time was very tight, so Gao Zongting could only use panic to drive the people to leave their homeland resolutely.
Under the shroud of panic, people and dogs were barking in Dengzhou city, and there was no peace for a moment.
Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu were discussing matters in the temporary government office. Yuan Zhixing, the magistrate of the government, suddenly rushed over and said: "The magistrate of Laizhou sent people over, hoping that the Huaidong Army can help them evacuate..."
Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu looked at each other. Of course they wanted to evacuate the population of Shandong Peninsula, but they also had to have the ability to do so. Now they only have more than 3,000 remaining combat forces who have landed in Dengzhou, and most of them are concentrated.
Defending in Qijiaji provides a relatively safe evacuation space for Dengzhou City, which is temporarily on the inside.
As long as the main force of Chen Zhihu's army enters the west bank of the Jiao Lai River, Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu will consider withdrawing the soldiers and horses of Qijiaji. They do not have the strength to fight Chen Zhihu head-on in the Shandong Peninsula.
Gao Zongting said to Yuan Zhixing: "I will send people to Huaidong again, hoping to transfer more ships from Huaidong... Laizhou, Laiyang, Haiyang and other counties also hope that Lord Yuan will communicate with them and ask them to do their best.
Organize your own evacuation.”
Yuan Zhixing nodded with a heavy face, knowing that Gao Zongting could not send anyone to support Laizhou at this time.
When Yuan Zhixing arrived, Zhao Hu said: "Laizhou has gathered many shipbuilding craftsmen in recent years. Should I go and take a look?"
Laizhou Bay, including Laizhou and Changyi, is located at the north mouth of Jiaolai River.
The Tianjin-Hai Liang Road increased the number of ships gathering along the coast of Laizhou Bay, and also caused the rapid rise of the shipbuilding industry along the Laizhou Bay. With the fall of Beiland, the Tianjin-Hai Liang Road became a thing of the past, and the shipbuilding industry along the Laizhou Bay naturally followed.
Although it has declined, there are always a few ounces of meat from the lean camels. Changyi and Laizhou still have a lot of potential to develop the shipbuilding industry.
"With a shortage of manpower, Gao Yi stayed in the southwest of Buling. To ensure that the evacuation of Dengzhou can proceed smoothly, Laizhou is beyond our reach," Gao Zongting said: "In fact, before I came to Dengzhou, there was a lot of trouble within the military department.
We discussed various situations that may arise and countermeasures. Yanhu cannot be allowed to obtain shipbuilding capabilities that threaten Huaidong's position in the East China Sea. This is the goal we must ensure during this trip, but we must completely cut off Yanhu's hope of building ships to go to sea.
, may not be in Huaidong’s interests..."
After Gao Zongting arrived in Dengzhou, many things happened immediately. Zhao Hu had not had time to fully exchange opinions with him. For many times, Gao Zongting issued orders on behalf of the Military Division, and Zhao Hu actively cooperated - as for Huaidong Military Division's recent
Zhao Hu was naturally far less familiar with the thinking of Yan and Hu's strategy than Gao Zongting, who was directly involved in the formulation.
Gao Zongting continued: "If Yan Hu completely puts an end to the idea of going to sea, he is likely to block the coast and focus his troops on the middle or west route. This is not what the military commander wants to see. If Laizhou and Changyi are lost to Yan Hu,
Go, in fact, it is just a tasteless 'chicken rib' that is a pity to discard. In this way, Yanhu will probably have a considerable part of its resources tied up in developing the naval army..."
Zhao Hu smiled and said: "Give them a little hope to develop the navy. Once it reaches a certain scale, we will exterminate it with all our strength. Then give them a little more hope to develop the navy... What a strategy to add fuel to the fire. My name is Yan Hu."
Taste all the bitterness.”
"Ye Jier, the leader of the Yanhu Kingdom, is also a rare man of great talent and strategy. It is difficult to trick him, and it may not be effective. This strategy is also out of reach of Laizhou and Changyi at this time. It is said that it is helpless; if it is possible to defeat the entire
It would be more satisfactory if Shandong was evacuated." Gao Zongting said.
"How can there be such a good thing?" Zhao Hu said, "Even if Ye Jier sees through Huaidong's plan, what can he do? The coastline along the Liaodong Peninsula, Liaoxi, Jixi, Yanxi and Shandong Peninsula stretches for thousands of miles.
There are more than a thousand islands, big and small, can Yejier really tolerate Huaidong ships threatening these thousands of miles of coastline at any time?"
Gao Zongting smiled. The tens of thousands of miles of coastline from Yizhou in the south to Liangliao in the north and the two main rivers of the Yangzi River and the Yellow River will actually outline the territory of the Central Plains regime. The Central Plains emperors have always despised the development of maritime power.
The main reason is that for a long time, except for scattered pirate forces, it has not faced serious threats from the sea.
As long as Yanhu has the possibility to develop maritime combat power, even if he knows that drinking poison to quench his thirst, how can he be willing to let the thousands of miles of coastline go to the endless harassment of Huaidong?
Dominating the East China Sea is indeed a unique advantage of Huaidong, but when thinking of another thing, Gao Zongting sighed and said, "I don't know what the situation is like with Yang Yihang?"
Yang Yihang mobilized the limited troops and warships from Jinwei Island and waited at the mouth of the Zhulong River to give the main force of the Qingzhou Army trapped in Yangxin the last hope of escape——
Huaidong and Qingzhou are entangled in grievances, and regardless of the intertwined relationship between the Dongyang Township Party, Gu Wuchen is Lin Fu's master and father-in-law no matter what. There are some words that no one has said, but they are deeply worried about Gu Wuchen.
, Gu Siyuan and his son would choose to surrender to the enemy after being forced into a desperate situation!
Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan and his son led the Qingzhou army to surrender to the enemy, which dealt a huge blow to the Dongyang clan and Huaidong.
Looking at Yue Lengqiu's embarrassing position as a daughter-in-law in Jiangning today, one can imagine how severely Huaidong's reputation will suffer in the future; others don't care that Qingzhou and Huaidong have long been separated due to their support.
Lin Fu is Gu Wuchen's son-in-law, this fact cannot be changed.
How Gu Junxun would deal with himself in Huaidong was a problem. Lin Fu's family accident had no impact on the overall situation of Huaidong. How could the army and people of Huaidong easily accept the daughter or sister of a man who surrendered to the enemy and sought glory as his mother?
In addition, if Jiangning uses an excuse to purge the Dongyang Township Party, which is implicated in defecting to the enemy, Huaidong will inevitably be hit; Huaidong and Qingzhou come from the same source, and even if they break up due to support for the establishment of the Party, it will actually be difficult to completely draw a clear line between them.
Even if Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan and his son escaped and the entire Qingzhou Army was lost, this result would be easier for Huaidong to accept.
Lin Fu did not mention this matter when they were in Chongzhou, but both Lin Mengde and Qin Chengzu told Gao Zongting.
Therefore, when Dengzhou's military strength was at its peak, Gao Zongting still insisted on letting Yang Yihang lead his troops to guard the mouth of the Zhulong River.
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Under the crisis of the city, people are in panic.
The Liang family concentrated their forces and retreated to Jinan, allowing the Yan and Hu troops to easily advance to the Yellow River and the banks of the Xiaoqing River, leaving Yangxin City completely alone. The great victory in Qingzhou cheered up the desperate soldiers and civilians in Yangxin City for a few days.
They thought that they would win another battle and drive Chen Zhihu away from the hinterland of Qingzhou, and the siege of Yangxin would be solved soon. However, until today, no exciting news has come from the south. All signs, otherwise, it is to verify that Huaidong
He judged that Chen Zhihu's plan to cheat defeat was just a plan to gain access to the state.
The most despairing and devastating thing is that the hope that suddenly sprouted was snuffed out so quietly.
Yang Xinfei didn't have many defenders, but on the contrary, he had too many defenders.
After the Yangxin Defense War ended in the 10th year of Chongguan, the city defense of Yangxin was greatly strengthened, but the scale of the city did not expand and it was still a small town with more than a thousand households.
In a small town with a thousand households, more than 24,000 Qingzhou Army's main force and almost the same number of young and strong civilians are now crammed into it. This number is too many and is unbearable.
Yangxin's defenders were so "strong" and had a fortified city to defend. Naturally, the Yanhu troops did not dare to attack. However, precisely because of the large number of people, Yangxin's grain reserves were exhausted after two months of siege.
There is a danger of complaining.
The evening wind blew, and Gu Wuchen's white hair was flying, his eyes were desolate. After waiting for more than two months, no reinforcements were seen, and his beard and hair were all white. He definitely looked like a man in his fifties.
"grown ups……"
Gu Wuchen turned his head and saw Yang Pu approaching, without saying anything, and then turned to look at the vast and despairing night outside the city.
"Sir, the enemy didn't know that Yang Xin was going to be short of food at this time, so they didn't encircle him. They can't wait too long to break through!" Yang Pu said.
"How can we break out of the encirclement?" Led by the rebel general Yuan Lishan, the number of new auxiliary troops gathered around Yangxin totaled eighty or ninety thousand, and there were twenty thousand Huqi peeping around. Standing at the top of Yangxin City on a moonlit night,
Looking out from a distance, he could see under the crescent moon the endless enemy camps that were so desperate that Gu Wuchen said in a hoarse voice, "The enemy's attack on Yang Xin is just to force the Qingzhou Army out of the city to fight in the field! From here
It's three hundred miles to Qingzhou to the south. The Qingzhou army is not the elite of Huaidong. How could they escape with tens of thousands of cavalry chasing them?"
The Qingzhou Army initially had only four to five thousand elites. Later, it was incorporated into the Yunjun and recruited civilian braves, and the number increased to more than 30,000. The Qingzhou Army was formed in a short period of time, and its soldiers, training, and military attachés were seriously depleted. It could not defend the city.
, Gu Wuchen had no confidence at all to pull him out of the city and fight his way out of an enemy army that was several times his own.
"Huaidong has ships at the mouth of the Zhulong River. If we break out from Yangxin to the east, we only need to travel eighty miles to see the sea!" Yang Pu said.
"It is impossible for Huaidong to prepare a boat to carry fifty thousand people at a time. What do they mean by preparing to disembark at the mouth of the river?" Gu Wuchen closed his eyes in pain and said, "But the entire city's soldiers and civilians are trapped because of me.
Do I have the dignity to abandon them and run away alone?"
"..." Yang Pu was clumsy and didn't know how to persuade him. He looked up and saw tears streaming down Gu Wuchen's face.
Over the years that Yang Pu followed Gu Wuchen from birth to death, no matter how hard the life was during the ten years in Liubian, he never saw Gu Wuchen like this. He was stunned for a while, forgetting what to say.
"Go and ask Si Yuan to come over, I told him..." Gu Wuchen said.