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Chapter 712 The main force appears
Donghai County is where the old Nanqingzhou is located, and the county seat is in Qushan County.Goujian, king of Yue, built his capital near Qushan in order to dominate the Central Plains.

After Qin ruled the world, Qushan County was bounded by a stone, which was the east gate of the Great Qin, which was the extreme east of the Qin Dynasty.Qushan Port, outside Qushan County, is a good natural port, and there is a large offshore island, Yuzhou, outside the port, so there is no need to be afraid of being attacked by sea waves.

Qushan County is located between the two major ports of Dengzhou and Jiangdu. Its geographical location is extremely good, but Donghai County is sparsely populated. In the seventh year of Daye, there were only [-] households in the county, which is the lowest county in the country.

So Qushan County hangs alone by the East China Sea, almost forgotten.But because of this, it avoided the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and countless people flocked here to seek refuge.Haidong hero Zang Junxiang recruited elites from the refugees to take advantage of the momentum.

Right now, Du Fuwei's [-] Jianghuai army is approaching Donghai County, and has completely surrounded Qushan County.

After Du Fuwei's army went north, Zhao Jun's troops stationed in Donghai County abandoned most of the cities in Donghai County in order to shrink the front line.Song Jingang led the main force of the imperial guards, and had already retreated to Langya County, while Donghai County ruled Qushan County, and handed over to his general Hu Yalang, General Gao Tao, to garrison.

Gao Tao was the former Sui general who helped Li Chongjiu capture Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, last time.Because of his achievements in breaking Pyongyang, Gao Tao has been promoted by Li Chongjiu to Huya Lang.Because of the new establishment of the Imperial Guard Army, Li Chongjiu selected 2000 soldiers who were willing to join the Zhao Army among the soldiers of the Sui Army who were captured that year to join the Imperial Guard Army to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guard Army.

These captured soldiers of the Sui army were all veterans who had served in the army for a long time, and they had rich combat experience, which was a valuable asset for the newly formed Imperial Guard Army.As soon as they arrived in the Imperial Guard, many of them were immediately promoted to low-level generals.

Gao Tao stationed [-] soldiers in this mountain city, including [-] veterans of the Sui Army, many of them served as deputy commanders of the team leader, as for the other soldiers, most of them were local soldiers from Donghai County.After Zang Junxiang was killed that year, most of his [-] subordinates surrendered to Zhao Jun.

Xu Shiji eliminated most of Zang Junxiang's 5 horses and sent them home to farm, but only selected 5000 of them.The 5000 people were strong, and the guards took half of them, and the remaining half went to Song Jingang's guards.Song Jingang directly transferred [-] of them to Gao Tao.

Therefore, in the current Qushan City, although the 3000 troops of Zhao Jun are a new army that has just been formed, in terms of combat effectiveness, they are not inferior to ordinary battle-tested troops.

Three days ago, when Du Fuwei attacked Qushan City, he heard that there were only 3000 troops in the city, so he didn't take it seriously, and immediately sent someone to persuade him to surrender.But Du Fuwei's persuasion to surrender was rejected by Gao Tao.Du Fuwei was furious and sent Wang Xiongzi, the most valiant of his generals, to lead Danyang's elite troops to attack the city.

As a result, Wang Xiong salivated and attacked for two days, but he had no way to take Qushan City.

Du Fuwei was furious when he heard the news, but it was impossible for him to lead the 5 troops to besiege this mountain city all the time.

In Du Fuwei's plan, after the capture of Linyi County, Langya County is at your fingertips. At this time, whether it is going west, collecting Jibei, Qi, and Lu counties, suppressing the Yellow River, or looking east to Beihai, Gaomi, and Donglai The county, capturing Shandong, and looking at it from the sea are all a matter of course.

After taking over Shandong, Jianghuai and Yangzhou became one piece.The Jianghuai army can use Jiangyang's rich food and rice to raise Shandong's warriors. With Shandong's guards, no matter if they turn against Li Tang or Zhao in the future, Du Fuwei has the confidence to fight.

So Du Fuwei took the big and let go of the small. He felt that the two 3000 troops in Qushan City were nothing more than shrimp soldiers and crab generals.So Du Fuwei ordered Wang Xiong to lead 8000 troops to be stationed under the city of Qushan to besiege the city. He led the main force of the Jianghuai Army to continue northward, entered Langya County, and besieged Linyi County where Langya County was located. Chance.

Now Wang Xiongxi's men captured the pier in the east of the city last night and sealed off Qushan Port.

The fishing boats on the sea were collected by the Jianghuai army and ordered to dock on the shore.House-to-house searches were carried out in the port fishing village.The local fishermen were kicked out of their houses, and then detained by the Jianghuai army. After that, all the food, rice and salt were collected by the Jianghuai army soldiers, even the salted fish drying outside the house.

Immediately, the soldiers of the Jianghuai army, wearing blue battle jackets, built two small forts with simple civil engineering at the port, sealing off the sea exit.

Gao Tao naturally knew the intention of the Jianghuai Army to do this. After blocking the Qushan Port, it was cut off, and the defenders in the city came to help.It will take a few days for the soldiers and rations in the city to be exhausted. At this time, the Jianghuai Army can break through Qushan City without a single soldier.

At the beginning, Gao Tao believed that Qushan City was a dead city, and sooner or later it would be captured by the Jianghuai Army with superior forces.

The more territory the Jianghuai army occupied, the more they had to divide their troops to defend. Although Zhao Jun gave up a few counties, the shrinkage of troops was strengthened.But Song Jingang didn't expect that, so he refused without even thinking about it. He directly issued a military order to lead 3000 troops from his headquarters to guard Qushan Port, and told him that reinforcements would arrive in five days.

Gao Tao didn't understand why Song Jingang made such a decision, but after seeing that his appeal was invalid, he still decided to carry out the order.Soldiers regard obedience to decisions as loyalty, even if the decision is wrong, this is the case in Gao Tao's thoughts, just like when he conquered Liaodong, he knew that Goguryeo was dead, but the 30 Sui soldiers still had no hesitation.

Now Gao Tao and his soldiers are still defending Qushan City after two days of fierce fighting.

Although the current situation is very difficult, it will not be worse than when it was in Liao Dynasty.

Gao Tao comforted his subordinates in this way, and went to visit the wounded soldiers at the same time.There are two to three hundred soldiers gathered in the wounded barracks, Gao Tao usually loves soldiers like his son, now that Pao Ze is injured, he also wants to express his condolences.There was a shortage of medicine in the wounded barracks, and many of them belonged to the robes he had returned from Goguryeo when he was born and died. This time, they did not die in Liaodong, but several died in Qushan City.

Seeing this scene, Gao Tao burst into tears.At the beginning, the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who came back from Liaodong died one less.

After walking out of the wounded barracks, Gao Tao inspected the defense on the city wall again. The soldiers of the Zhao army were all exhausted and leaned against the city wall, while outside the city were the tough and brave Jianghuai elite soldiers.Right now the lack of food in the city is what makes him sleepy the most, but fortunately the morale of the army is not in turmoil right now, but he doesn't know if he will be able to hold on until the fifth day.

Gao Tao is thinking about the countermeasures.

"The tide is rising, General Lang!"

Hearing what the soldiers said, Gao Tao turned his head to look at the sea, but he saw the undulating waves, the sea was dotted with silver stars, and the lush scenery of Yuzhou Island in the distance. Gao Tao heard that there are immortals on Yuzhou Island, It is also heard that Tian Heng also stationed on this island, but I don't know if it is the island where five hundred men under his command committed suicide.

When the Southern Dynasty lost the land of Huaibei, Emperor Song Ming set up Qingzhou and Jizhou in Yuzhou on the sea. He planned to use this island as a base to counterattack Huaibei. There are many immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River who reclaimed the island, and now there are many fishermen living on the island.

When Gao Tao was thinking about this, he suddenly saw a black boat paddling away from the shore near Yuzhou Island. It seemed that there were not just one or two black boats, but ten or hundreds of them.And there seemed to be countless soldiers on the shore waiting to board the ship.

Gao Tao's heart was shocked, but his subordinates were more concerned and asked: "General Lang, what is this?"

Gao Tao wasn't sure if it was reinforcements, so he said, "I can't see clearly here, let me go up to the watchtower and have a look. Don't make noise, as usual, don't let the Jianghuai army see anything abnormal."

"promise!"

The place where the Jianghuai army is stationed under the city is very low-lying, and it is impossible to see the situation on Yuzhou Island, so this scene can only be seen from the top of the city.

Gao Tao went up to the watchtower in the east of the city, wanting to see it more clearly. Sure enough, from this angle, he could see the panorama of the bay very clearly. It was true that countless boats were heading north of Qushan Port.Each ship carried eight to ten soldiers, all of whom were wearing red armor.

Gao Tao's heart was filled with excitement, and he clenched his fist tightly. He was [-]% sure that this was Zhao Jun's man.But he wondered where did the reinforcements come from?With the strength of Song Jingang's troops, it is not enough to defend Langya County, how can we send reinforcements to land here.

However, Gao Tao was sure that the soldiers who landed were indeed Zhao Jun.

Soldiers of the Zhao army took advantage of the rising tide and landed from the cape on the north side. The cape on the north side was two or three miles away from the city. It was blocked by them, so they didn't send soldiers at all, but they defended the hill, and there wasn't even a lookout post.This is giving the reinforcements in the city a chance to land.

Taking advantage of the rising tide, hundreds of warships successfully avoided the rapids on the shore, and most of them successfully landed on the cape.
"Success!" Seeing this scene, Gao Tao couldn't help waving his fists excitedly, and immediately went down the tower and said to his subordinates, "Choose the dead soldiers immediately, and follow me to attack the camp!"

The subordinates took orders and left.

Gao Tao didn't know that at this moment, in the waters north of Yuzhou Island, hundreds of large crossing ships were moored on the sea.

Floating on the sea, the fleet looks like a cloud of dark clouds, covering the sea surface, and the masts on the ships are densely packed like a forest, standing upright to the sky.

This is Zhao Jun's sea fleet, and the [-] river boats at Liyang Ferry are the [-] Zhao Jun navy led by Cheng Mingzhen.

The real main force of the Zhao army led by Li Chongjiu is here, including [-] Wuwei soldiers, Yiwei soldiers, [-] court guards and [-] sailors.

The sea is calm and calm, but there is an undercurrent surging under the sea, just like the bay that is about to fall into the night, and a fight is about to usher in it.

(End of this chapter)