The breakout failed, and the city's grain reserves were reported. Gu Wuchen and Zhao Qinmin drank poisonous wine and died in the tower. The morale of the defenders, whose morale had been severely dampened, suddenly collapsed like a sand tower. On the second day of September, they promoted the replacement of the envoy, the deputy envoy Shen Zhidu.
Hao Bo went out of the city to propose surrender.
Defending the city until the food ran out was considered as fulfilling its duty, but Gu Wuchen finally chose to drink poison and commit suicide, which made the defenders lament his loyalty to the court. More than a thousand people decided to follow him and refused to surrender.
They took Zhao Jin, the son of Zhao Qinmin, as the leader and fought out at night.
The war was raging and people were panicked. Naturally, outsiders could not investigate the cause of Zhao Qinmin's death in detail. They only thought that he chose to follow Gu Wuchen to die righteously in the end. Zhao Jin didn't understand why his father suddenly followed him to death in the end, but when things developed to this point,
Others could surrender to Yan Hu, but he could only inherit his "father's will" and lead more than a thousand generals who refused to surrender in the end to fight out of the city.
Without support, more than a thousand generals wanted to break out from the encirclement of thousands of troops. How could they escape the fate of destruction? Zhao Jin died in the Luàn army. In the end, only a hundred remaining soldiers broke through the encirclement and fled to Zhu.
Longhekou, pick me up on the boat.
After Yang Pu begged for death, Gu Siyuan fell into a state of despair and confusion. When he found out that Gu Wuchen had committed suicide by drinking poison and that Yangxin had been captured, he was even more severely hit. He seemed to be suffering from a sudden illness. He lay in bed and seemed to be getting old.
Ten years old.
Yang Yihang and Chen Enze had no intention of continuing to guard the mouth of the Zhulong River. After the sixth day of September, after confirming that no remnants of Qingzhou soldiers had escaped, they set sail for Dengzhou. On September 8th, they entered Daoyu Village and met Gao Zongting.
After the fall of Yangxin, the main force of soldiers and horses gathered by Yanhu on the eastern front was no longer restrained by any restrictions and became active. From early September, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, both infantry and cavalry, were mobilized from Yangxin.
The line between Guangrao, Huantai and Linzi surges southwards like water and enters the hinterland of Qingzhou.
When Gu Siyuan, Chen Enze and others arrived at Dengzhou Daoyu Village, Shouguang, Changyi, and Qingzhou cities were all captured. Chen Zhihu had already led his troops across the Jiaolai River, and then captured Laizhou, Pingdu, Laiyang, and Haiyang with overwhelming force.
Wait for the city.
Chen Zhihu faked defeat outside Qingzhou City. Du Juefu, Cheng Weiyuan, Yang Shi and others all thought it was a great victory. Although Huaidong quickly sent people into Qingzhou to warn, the four thousand soldiers and horses originally gathered in Qingzhou City had dispersed to Changyi.
Shouguang and other cities were finally defeated by Chen Zhihu one by one. Du Juefu died in the battle in Changyi, but Cheng Weiyuan and Yang Shi fled to Linqu with more than a thousand remaining soldiers before Qingzhou was surrounded and died, struggling to support themselves.
Liu Yefei used a trick to deceive the news of the annihilation of Dengzhou City, but it was not completely blocked in the end. The news spread to Pingdu, causing confusion in the Dengzhou town army. Liu Yefei's close confidants were afraid that they would be liquidated if they retreated to Dengzhou, so they gathered a crowd to mutiny and killed the general.
Zhao Zhen then surrendered to the enemy.
At this time, Chen Zhihu's troops were divided into two groups. One group was led by Gao Yi, and the newly attached and surrendered troops came to Dengzhou with about 10,000 people. The other group, led by Chen Zhihu himself, headed for Jimo, an important town in Jiaozhou Bay.
On the Dengzhou side, the soldiers and horses stationed at Qijiaji at the southern foot of Buling Mountain have also withdrawn. It will only take a day or two to completely abandon Dengzhou City and retreat to Daoyu Village.
It was too late for all personnel and materials to be evacuated to Huaidong. In addition to Daoyu Village, the Miaodao Islands closest to Penglaijiao, Dengzhou, became a temporary evacuation point. Nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians, millions of stones of materials, were in a mess.
The bad ones are gathered on Miao Island, Daheishan Island, Daxiao Zhushan Island, Daxiao Qin Island, Nanbeihuangcheng Island and other islands.
At about this time, a Huaidong order letter signed by Lin Fu personally came, ordering Yang Yihang to serve as the commander of the Jinwei, Miaoshan, and Penglai ministries, and appointed Chen Enze as the deputy commander, and Hu Yuer as the commander to join the army and assist in guarding the temple.
Shan, he also invited Li Jixie, the crown prince of Danluo, to guard Penglai and Miaoshan, and asked Yang Yihang to hold on to Daoyu Village as much as possible, in order to attract more Yanhu soldiers and horses in the northeast corner of Shandong. He also ordered Gao Zongting, Zhao Hu and others to monitor the situation in Dengzhou
After the general outline was decided, he returned to Chongzhou in advance. He was also assigned important tasks. He ordered Gao Zongting to take Dengzhou official Yuan Zhixing and others to Chongzhou in advance...
The Miaoshan Islands and Penglai Swordfish Village are the strategic chokepoints of the Bohai Sea, facing Jinzhou in Liaodong across the sea. They are also the staunch support of Jinwei Island. Dengzhou has not fallen since then, and Swordfish Village is the Dengzhou Navy garrison.
The city and Miaoshan Islands were under the jurisdiction of Dengzhou Navy. Even though Huaidong saw its dangerous and strange places, it had no position to claim them as its own.
At this time, Dengzhou falls, and the entire Shandong situation, including the Hehuai defense line, will completely collapse. Jiangning naturally has no time to fight for the jurisdiction of the Miaoshan Islands. If Huaidong does not take over the Miaoshan Islands now, when will it wait?
In fact, Jinwei Island is a single island and does not use large numbers of warships to gather and station troops. As the largest coastal island group north of the Yangtze River Estuary, the Miaoshan Islands are far inferior to Jinwei Islands in terms of both the number of islands and the area.
The island is incomparable.
There are thirty-two large and small islands in the Miaoshan Islands. The main island is more than ten miles away. The island is steep and mountainous, with dangerous beaches and strange reefs. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There are still fields for farming on the island, and more than a thousand islanders live here.
, make a living by farming and fishing.
Compared with Jinwei Island, Miaoshan Islands are more suitable as the main base of the northern special camp.
Including the garrison of the original Jinwei Island and the remnants of the Dengzhou Navy, the total number was nearly 3,000. Lin Fu asked Yang Yihang to increase the number of troops to about 6,000 based on the actual situation, and add the warships and the original Dengzhou Navy to
All ordnance and supplies were compiled for his use, allowing him to use the Miaoshan Islands as a base to raid Liaodong, Jixi, Yanxi and the Shandong coast, and contain as many enemy forces as possible.
Li Ji, the crown prince of Danluo, suffered heavy casualties in the battle at Qijiaji. Lin Fu allowed him to recruit brave men in Dengzhou, and even allowed him to recruit two more battalions of men to make up for the loss in strength.
Although Danluo is an independent country, it has more than 30,000 eloquent people in the country, which is actually less than the population under the jurisdiction of Zhongzhong County in the Central Plains.
Before and after the Seogwipo War, Danluo lost a large number of young men. Currently, Danluo has to maintain a high proportion of standing troops, especially the lack of population. This time, Lin Fu asked Danluo to recruit brave men from Dengzhou, which can be regarded as
Share the war dividends with them. Anyway, the number of people to be evacuated from Dengzhou is tens of thousands, and giving Danluo one or two thousand people is nothing.
Considering that Chen Zhihu's troops are quite good at siege warfare, although Daoyu Village is surrounded by dangerous mountains and seas and the city is strong, it still needs elite soldiers and horses to defend it. Zhao Hu finally transferred a battalion of elite soldiers from Haidong soldiers and horses.
Incorporated into Yang Yihang's department.
On September 12, Gaoyi entered Dengzhou, which had become an empty city. The next day, he led his troops to surround Daoyu Village. Seeing that Daoyu Village was solid and dangerous, and there were elite Huaidong defenders guarding the city, he ordered the civilians to stay outside the city.
Dig trenches and build fortifications for a long-term siege.
The situation in Dengzhou was generally like this, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were not able to be loaded on ships and evacuated south from Miao Island at once. Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu returned south by ship on the 18th. In addition to Yuan Zhixing and other Dengzhou officials, Gu Siyuan
Carrying Yang Pu and Ma Chao's coffin sealed with lime, they also headed south and arrived in Chongzhou on the 23rd.
In late September in Chongzhou, autumn has already begun, and the leaves are falling and the wind is cold.
When the news of Yangxin came, Gu Junxun cried several times. After Yang Shi escorted her mother and sister-in-law, she cried non-stop for several nights. When the boat came to the state, Gu Junxun's eyes were red and swollen, and her cheeks were sunken.
In the autumn wind where the leaves were falling, he looked particularly thin.
Mrs. Tang Gu is no longer as fierce as she was in Jiangning in the past. She has premature hair and wrinkles on her face. She is already a frail old woman. She is supported by her daughter Junxun and daughter-in-law Du Shi, and she stands tremblingly by the river, blown by the river wind.
Still reeling, Gu Wuchen's death hit her particularly hard.
Lin Fu, wearing a green shirt, stood aside and watched the ships slowly approaching the dock on the south bank.
Gu Yingxiu looked at Lin Fu and thought to herself, regardless of the grievances between Huaidong and Qingzhou over the years, it makes people sad to think about her uncle's life.
He was outspoken when he was young, but he was convicted for his words and lived in exile for ten years. After experiencing all the hardships in the world, he was able to take advantage of the situation and become a powerful official in Jiangdong. However, he made a wrong step in supporting Jiangning and was eventually forced to leave Jiangning - never mind
In the past, whether he was right or wrong, my uncle used himself as bait to leave a way for Siyuan to survive, as a loving father; and in the end, he drank poison and committed suicide in Yangxin City, not giving in to the enemy, and as a loyal minister to the court——
Even if Huaidong had resentment towards the people of Qingzhou in the past, it would probably disappear at this moment and cease to exist, leaving only those vivid past events for people to recall.
Gao Zongting, Zhao Hu and others landed from elsewhere. Lin Fu, his mother-in-law Tang Gu, Jun Xun, Yingxiu, Yang Shi and others went to Nanya Pier to welcome the coffins of Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, Ma Chao and others.
Gu Siyuan looked at the approaching pier and the southern cliff of Zilang Mountain, and at Lin Fu, his mother, wife, sister, and cousin standing on the pier. He felt guilty, regretful, and had mixed feelings in his heart.
Gu Wuchen's body was found in Yangxin, and the rebel general Yuan Lishan had no intention of insulting him, so he had Gu Wuchen's body buried on Zhulongpo outside Yangxin City, next to Lu Jingyan's cemetery.
The two countries were at war, and it was unrealistic to recover Gu Wuchen's bones. Therefore, Lin Fu built a mourning hall for Gu Wuchen in Chongzhou, and asked Lin Ting to build a tomb for the Gu family's ancestors at Shiliang Lake Pond.
Seeing Gu Siyuan disembarking, he was relatively speechless. After a long time, Lin Fu said: "Uncle Yang, Uncle Ma died a loyal man. I want to put his two coffins in the same mourning hall as my father-in-law for people to pay homage to. Siyuan, you
What do you think?" The events before and after the fall of Yangxin were generally verified by Chongzhou. Only Zhao Qinmin died under strange circumstances. Lin Fu did not think that Zhao Qinmin could follow him to die, but the details are unknown.
Gu Siyuan nodded, took out his father's suicide note that Yang Pu brought out from his arms, and said: "These two letters, when I left the city to break out of the siege, my father asked Uncle Yang to take them and bring them to you and Xunniang. Who would have thought that Uncle Yang would know
My father is determined to die and has no intention of living alone," he said to Yang Shi, "The Gu family owes you and your son so much... so much..."
Yang Shi said sadly: "Young Master, you have spoken harshly."
Gu Siyuan knelt down to Mrs. Tang Gu again and cried, "The child is incompetent and escaped alone, but his father's body fell in the north and he cannot return to his homeland..."
"..." Mrs. Tang Gu's eyes were covered with tears, her skinny fingers tightly grasped her son's shoulders, and she swallowed hard and could not speak for a long time. Gu Junxun and Gu Siyuan's wife Liu Shi also burst into tears.
Lin Fu stood aside holding the suicide note that Gu Wuchen left for him and Jun Xun.