Lord of the House: Chapter 87 Soldiers Gather West of Crane City

(Chapter 1, asking for a red ticket)

The Jiangdong Zuo Army fought on the inside in Chongzhou, the roads were accessible, there was no logistical worries, and they were dispatched quickly. The Chongzhou Infantry Camp and the Cavalry Camp set off from the Zilang Mountain camp at the same time in the afternoon. Before three minutes, the sun had just set in the west, and Lin Fu, Cao Ziang and Zhou Puxian led the Cavalry Camp and some of the personal guards to the west gate of Hecheng. .

Just in time to catch up with twenty or thirty pirate ships coming from the east, they did not dare to rush into the hinterland of Chongzhou easily. They stopped at the south embankment outside the east of the garrison, and three or four hundred bandits landed on the shore, tentatively approaching the garrison. Repel the bow and crossbow, see the cavalry here to help, retreat to the river bank to defend, and do not retreat.

Lin Fu got off his horse and, accompanied by Liu Zhenzhi, the former guard of the west garrison of Hecheng, boarded the garrison with Cao Zi'ang, Zhou Pu and others to watch the enemy formation. Relying on the horizontal boat fleet lined up in the river, this group of bandits formed a formation on the river bank. Compared with last year's **** battle in Jiyang, the formation was much stricter.

"The horse still has spare strength, and can make two or three waves," Zhou Pu said, rubbing his hands beside him, "I have to drive out the group of turtle grandchildren before it gets dark, so as not to stay here as an eyesore..."

The project to connect the Xishan River and the Yunyan River only requires the excavation of a three-mile-long river channel. In early August, more than 10,000 people were recruited and tens of millions of dollars were spent, and the navigation was opened in early September.

The Jiyun-class Qianshi warships can sail directly from Zilang Mountain to the northwest hinterland of Chongzhou by taking the Xishan River, but the Yunyan River from Jiuhua to Hecheng has been in disrepair for centuries, and the siltation is so bad that it is difficult for a hundred stone boats to travel unimpeded.

In order to achieve the goal of making the large warships run unimpeded in the Chongzhou inland river, Lin Fuzheng is planning to carry out a large-scale dredging of the Chongzhou section of the Yanhe River after the autumn. People were dumbfounded.

It will take a month for this matter to be officially launched, and it is expected to be initially completed after the spring of next year. At present, the Jinghai Camp can only support Jiuhua in the inland river.

In the sea area where the Jinhai-class warships can pass unobstructed, the Jinghai battalion can rely on the advantages of warships and tactics to fight against two to three times the number of pirates without losing. However, when fighting in shallow waters, large warships cannot participate in the war. , The number of small and medium-sized warships is insufficient, and the Jinghai Sea Battalion is like tying its hands, and compared with the bandit soldiers, its advantages are lost.

In order to facilitate the invasion of the coastal counties of Jiangdong and Zhejiang, the East Sea pirates chose mostly flat-bottomed boats with shallow drafts, and the loach boats could directly sail to the shallows to dock and land. The East China Sea pirates also saw the strengths and weaknesses of each other's navy, so this time they avoided the estuary where the water depth was unobstructed, and chose to attack the coastal areas with shallow tidal flat terrain.

Lin Fu did not intend to transfer the Jinghai battalion to the Yunyan River to fight against the bandits. There were only a few small oar boats on the west garrison side of Hecheng, and a large group of bandits attacked, so I couldn't expect these small boats to be able to fight against the bandits. To fight against the bandits, it was just that the situation was wrong. These small boats were used to scuttle and block the river.

At this time, 20 or 30 small pirates came from the Hecheng army, relying on the garrison built by the river, blocking the river with bows and crossbows. Within the range of the blockade, the Kou boat did not dare to rush past it easily.

Cao Zi'ang looked at the sky and said, "The sky is clear and cloudless, if the sky does not change, the stars and moon will be bright enough to support the night battle. This group of bandits will not retreat. The small stocks infiltrate and scramble to the rear, and we will be more passive at that time..."

The Jiangdong Zuo Army is fighting on the inside. If it is a battle, it will be more convenient to gather forces, form a local advantage, and achieve the goal of defeating the Kou soldiers, but the Kou soldiers obviously have no intention of fighting with the Jiangdong Zuo Army. Infiltrating the hinterland, slaughtering and looting civilians, the Jiangdong Left Army was fighting on the inside, and there was not enough troops to defend Chongzhou.

Lin Bie frowned and looked at the Hecheng military fortress in the distance. The fall of Hecheng made their side much more passive. Otherwise, he would only need to concentrate his forces in Jiangmen and threaten the East China Sea bandits. If there is no result, they will be withdrawn in ten days and a half months.

"The Kou soldiers formed a formation on the river bank, and there was no worries about the side. Our troops rushed to both sides of the river bank, and they would be hit by the bows and crossbows on the ship." Lin Fu then recovered his thoughts and responded to Zhou Pu's request for battle , "You can only use armored soldiers to oppress them from the front. As long as they disrupt their positions, and then use cavalry to attack quickly on the river bank, the purpose of repulsion can be achieved - but before dark, it is necessary to frustrate their spirit, and you will discuss it below. How to fight this first battle, I and Ziang are here to watch."

"Okay." Zhou Pu replied, slapped Liu Zhenzhi on the shoulder again, and said, "The armor is the main force, and the cavalry and battalion cooperate. How to fight, you plan."

Liu Zhenzhi was twenty-six years old at the time. He was also a refugee from Xisha Island and a native of Wuxian County in Jinzhong.

There was a great famine in Jinzhong the year before last. Jinzhong was adjacent to Yanjing, and there were very few local warehouses. However, a batch of relief grain was transported to Jinzhong along the Taihang Mountain Road. It is even more greedy, and there is no grain of rice.

The disaster victims in Wu County gathered in the city to beg for relief. They rushed Chen Zhihu to lead his troops across Wu County, and forcefully drove away the rioting victims. After encountering resistance, the situation escalated to the attitude of the Qing bandits.

To this day, people in Jinzhong still talk about the discoloration of the tiger.

Liu Zhenzhi led his clansmen to participate in the gathering and begging for relief, and was included in the list of twenty-three bandit leaders in Wuxian County, and was forced to flee south to Chongzhou with his clansmen to avoid disaster. Last year's disaster on Xisha Island, Liu Zhen's clan was severely damaged. Less than 30 people from Wuxian County with 200 to 300 people survived, his wife drowned, and his three sons survived.

After the disaster, Liu Zhenzhi actively participated in the disaster relief work, joined the Xisha Island Township Camp, and participated in the defense of Taihu Lake pirates. The kings of Qin who went north to the north were all good at fighting and valiant. They were dug up by Lin Fu from the army, and he was quickly promoted to the position of the first sentry general of the Chongzhou Infantry Battalion.

Earlier, Jiuhua was also assigned to Lin Fu to stand alone, but after the west garrison of Hecheng was tight, Liu Zhenzhi was transferred here.

In the army, Zhou Pu's status is naturally much higher than that of Liu Zhenzhi, but he knows that in order to develop the Jiangdong Left Army, there must be more outstanding young generals like Zhao Hu, Ning Zechen, and Liu Zhenzhi, and he doesn't mind. In the first battle, Liu Zhenzhi served as a foil.

Liu Zhenzhi's expression lifted, it was the year of Ruizhi's aggressiveness, he did not give in, he handed over to Zhou Pu, and thanked Zhou Pu, "Please advise Zhou Yingguan." Then he and Zhou Pu first went down to the garrison to arrange a war.

The West Gate of Hecheng is built on the south bank of the Yunyan River with a height of five feet. It is a hollow enemy platform with a square of nine feet. It is based on strips of stone. Along the river bank on the west side of Taiwan is a small military fort that can hold 300 soldiers.

As early as the first ten days of June, Lin Fu replaced a large number of farms nearby, with as many as 1,000 households. In addition to Liu Zhenzhi's rate of 200 soldiers, he also mobilized more than 400 civilians to defend. Lin Fu first led the cavalry battalion to help, and Zhou Tong led the second, third, and fourth sentries of the Chongzhou Infantry Battalion to arrive before dark.

Before dark, there will be 2,400 or 500 troops gathered here.

"I don't know if Li Bingbu has any actual achievements in training troops in Jibei, and whether it can resist the Donglu invaders in the autumn," Cao Ziang didn't look at the Hecheng Army Fortress in the distance, turned to look back at the Yunyan River in the west, and sighed. "If we can survive this winter, no one will be able to shake the foundation of the adults in Chongzhou..."

"I don't want to fight a big war if I can," Lin Fu said, "but She Feixiong wants to let the troops from eastern Zhejiang enter the city, and the action here must be small, so that Quan Ciqing can be assured of attacking Changguo, I am I'm really worried that Quan Ciqing will be fooled. Once the situation in eastern Zhejiang goes bad, even if Li Shuai can block the eastern captives in the north, the general situation in the world will not turn around. We can dred the Yunyan River this year, which is considered to have laid some foundations, but the accumulation of The reserves are too thin to withstand the consumption of the war."

"Brother Lin, tomorrow is your big day. Why do you come here in person?" Ge Siyu, wearing a short jacket, came up to the garrison and asked, "Are you really going to attack the Hecheng military fortress?"

"Why are you here?" Lin Fu asked in amazement when he saw Ge Siyu on the garrison, "It's too dangerous here, and besides, it's rare for Shu Han to come to Chongzhou from Jiangning to be a guest. I'll let you pick it up in Jiuhua. You, how did you get here?"

"I'm worried, I'm relieved to see you here. You brought so many soldiers here, and I heard that there are still soldiers gathering here. It looks like a big battle is about to take place," Ge Siyu ran angrily. Breathing heavily, he said, "The old man is worried that I will come to Chongzhou to fight with him to build a city, UU read www.uukanshu.com You can talk about it, I will be so ignorant when I play with his father and son, but compared to building a city, transporting salt The dredging of the river is really a major event that has been famous for thousands of years in the local area. Only you have the courage to do this in Chongzhou, other people would not dare to think about it. "

Lin Bie smiled and said, "Just stay with me. Chongzhou is no longer safe. I don't know if this battle will be fought tomorrow - who would like to lead troops to fight outside on the big day?"

In early August, after Lin Fu ordered the last batch of sea-going ships from Longjiang Shipyard and delivered, he will no longer be able to obtain warships from Longjiang Shipyard in a short period of time. In the future, Longjiang Shipyard will concentrate manpower and material resources to build a batch of warships for Jiangning Water Camp and Ninghai Town Water Camp, mostly small and medium-sized warships for inland river operations.

Ge Siyu Zhi was supervising the construction of large-scale sea ships that his predecessors dared not imagine. At this time, he was unwilling to stay in the Longjiang Shipyard to waste time; Lin Fu, in the name of building a city, seconded Ge Siyu to Chongzhou as a supervisor. official.

The work of supervising the construction of Chongzhou New City has been undertaken by Ge Fu, an old worker and Ge Siyu's old father. Ge Siyu's actual work after arriving in Chongzhou is to lead a group of master craftsmen and officials to clear the river for the transportation of salt. The silt project is ready and busy.

Desilting the hundred-mile-long salt-carrying river channel to the point where a thousand or even five thousand stone ships can pass without hindrance is a major event that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. According to preliminary estimates, it will cost 400,000 to 500,000 taels of silver and 100,000 people.

Generally speaking, there is no financial or manpower in the local area to do such a thing. Even if the imperial court wants to do this, it is more common to assign a minister of the Ministry of Industry to supervise the construction of such a large project. It is natural to be very excited to be in charge of such a big project that has left a name through the ages. It was rare for Zhao Shuhan to come from Jiangning, so he couldn't escape and hurried back to Zilang Mountain. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter