Lord of the House

(The third update, make up for the previous missing update)

Lin Bui arrived at Shanyang County at dawn on horseback, but Jinhai and other ships set off from Shukou Yingzhai at about the same time yesterday, and did not arrive at the ferry in the north of Shanyang City until the morning sun rose to the top of the trees. boarding.

Lin Fu boarded the boat and went to the north bank to watch the terrain of Sikou. Hundreds of light-armored riders took the official road and headed to the ferry port on the south bank of Shukou to cross the Huaihe River by boat.

The fleet was still three or four miles away from the north bank, and seven or eight paddle boats sailed out from the reeds at the mouth of the river to intercept it.

The river branch from Sishui into Huai is seventeen or eighteen li wide. Except for the three or four li waterway, the rest is almost covered with reeds. Lin Bian stood at the bow of the boat and could not see the end of the reeds for a while. Although it is smaller than the reeds in Qingjiangpu, it also forms a natural barrier to cover the warships of the refugee army.

The seven or eight boats were narrow and slender, and each boat was oared by six people, as fast as a shuttle. In addition to the oarsmen, there were more than 20 soldiers of the refugee army standing on the boat with knives and shields. Before the boat was killed, the murderous aura of Bianstone could be seen in their eyes.

Many people in Liu An'er's department were water bandits and fishermen, and they were not weak in manoeuvring boats and water battles. After moving to Hanzhong, the refugee army once gave up all the warships in their hands, and most of the warships they now own are requisitioned civilian ships for renovation.

The Jinhai was Lin Bing's ship, and would not easily meet the enemy. In the **** fleet, two Jiyun-class warships, two loach ships, and four squat warships broke through the waves and stepped forward to resist the enemy.

Jiyun-class warships rely on sail masts when they travel far, but there are 16 large sculls on board for engagement.

The hulls are very different, and the warships of the refugee army have no numerical advantage. The Jiyun-class warships have not yet exerted their force. The two sea loach boats are oars and rushed into the eight shuttle-shaped warships of the refugee army. Rampage, like a wolf into a flock.

Relying on the advantage of the ship's shape, two enemy ships were knocked over in a short while.

The remaining six shuttle-shaped warships saw that the opportunity was wrong, and they did not have time to rush to pick up the drowning person, and turned around and fled into the reeds.

"I want to lure us into the reeds!" Ge Cunxiong stood beside Lin Bing, staring at the small-scale contact battle. Seeing that the refugee army's warship had a slight loss, he would drill into the reeds, and he ordered the warship to be restrained. He was not allowed to enter the reeds to pursue him, so he pointed to the reeds five or six miles deep on one side, and said to Lin Bie, "Back then, when the boats on Huai River couldn't beat the official ships, they lured them into the reeds, and led them in shallow water. Stranded in the narrow water, slaughtering like that is random, I never thought that someone would use this trick to deal with it today..."

Speaking of which, the first group of people who followed Liu An'er to raise the flag to rebel were fishermen and boatmen who resisted taxes and taxes. The Ge brothers also led the fishermen who resisted taxes and taxes in their early years to fight against the government.

The reeds are difficult to deal with, but the scale of the reeds at the mouth of the river is not comparable to that of the Qingjiangpu. When the boat goes upstream and pours a sufficient amount of lamp oil along the current, it is best to borrow the wind. Although Dang is still tender and green, it can quickly burn out.

In this world, lamp oil is not cheap, it is comparable to the price of meat. To burn this piece of reeds, I am afraid that it will take hundreds of barrels of oil.

Although the Jiangdong Zuojun had some foundation, they could not stand the outposts and wasted like this.

The refugee army sent boats to harass them, but they refused, but they would not pursue the refugee army hiding in the reeds. Lin Bing looked at the terrain near Sikou, and had no intention of attacking the small soldiers hiding in the reeds. The displaced people's army hurried down to Shukou.

At dusk, seeing the newly recruited more than 10,000 Duhuai reinforcements going to the official road in Shanyang to set up camp, Lin Fu was puzzled and sent people to the shore to summon Xiao Kuian and Ma Rulong to board the boat.

Although the envoy of the Jingkou system was a temporary dispatch, Lin Fu had the right to control the local military.

Although Lin Fu was indifferent to Liu Tingzhou's recruitment of new troops in Huai'an City, Liu Tingzhou had to inform Lin Fu of the whole process. Lin Fu knew that the Duhuai reinforcements had Xiao Kuian as the main general and Ma Rulong as the deputy general.

Lin Bie called, Xiao Kuian and Ma Rulong couldn't escape, so they had to get on the boat for questioning.

"Looking at the weather today, there will be stars and moon shining on the road. You are walking along the official road, and there are no enemies to guard against on the north bank. It is more than 30 miles away from Shanyang. Why did you stop in the middle of the camp? "Lin Bie frowned and looked at Xiao Kuian and Ma Rulong, "Isn't it better to go to Shanyang overnight?"

In mid-May, because of the curfew violation, Ma Rulong forcibly removed the military attache rank of Zuoying Colonel to Lin Fu. This time Liu Tingzhou raised volunteers to go north to aid Xuzhou, and the Ma family contributed money and people, but Ma Rulong took the opportunity to gain a place in the Duhuai reinforcements.

"It's not that we deliberately delayed, but that these new soldiers were not paying attention, they took An Jiayin and turned their heads and fled. When we were on the road at night, we couldn't take precautions. Master Liu had no choice but to tell us to travel with the sun..." Xiao Kuian replied.

This has not yet left the Huai'an realm, and the new soldier has the problem of escaping, not to mention that the time is so rushed, and it is really worrying that the fine work of the refugee army cannot be identified.

Lin Fu sent Xiao Kuian and Ma Rulong ashore and continued eastward. The fleet went down the river, and the speed was very fast. Before it was completely dark, they rushed to the Shukou camp.

Compared with the dragging and messy process of crossing the Huaihe reinforcements, Zhao Hu and his 6,000 new soldiers had already crossed the Huaihe River before dusk and entered the Shukou camp on the north bank.

Shukou Yingzhai is also on the east end of Shanyang Bay, where the Shushui River merges into the Huai River.

Lin Fu had a firm grasp of this place as early as more than two months ago. The Shukou camp built on the north bank is impregnable. In addition to the conventional dry camp, there is also a water village. He also built a ferry on the south bank to facilitate the transportation of troops, horses and troops. capital.

After Lin Fu landed, he did not delay. He took Qin Chengzu, Ning Zechen and the others who were greeted by the ferry, and went directly to the command shed, and said as he walked, "If you have anything to eat, cold noodles, gruel, etc., you can bring it. Come up, we will discuss matters while eating. From tomorrow, the new soldiers of the Guard Battalion will take turns to go out to fight, and comprehensively strengthen contact with the enemy to fight. In two to three days, the scouts of Chen Han's third department will be defeated. All compressed back to the narrow bridge..."

"This is not a small difficulty," Qin Chengzu said, approaching the command shed, pulling out the map and laying it on the wooden case, pointing to a point more than 20 miles north of Shukou Yingzhai, "Chen Hansan was at the Fenghe Camp in Zhaiqiao. There are 15,000 elite soldiers stationed, 2,000 of them are cavalry soldiers who have been with Chen Hansan for a long time, and the number of cavalry is far higher than ours. Today, the guard camp is crossing the river, and there is quite a lot of movement. Chen Hansan sent to scout the vigilant swimmers. The number of cavalry has greatly increased, and there are almost three or four hundred cavalry." He pointed out several points around the Shukou camp, "We have to send infantry to set up camps here, here, and here to limit Chen Hansan. The activities of the parade…”

"If we attack Chen Hansan's Fenghe camp in Zhaiqiao, how will Chen Hansan react?" Lin Fu asked.

Ning Zechen said: "Crossing Huai to help Xu, if our main attack direction is Chen Hansan's Zhaiqiao camp, generally speaking, if we break it, we will be able to take out the Shuyang defenders. Next, we must work together to capture Yancheng. Only then can we cross the Yishui River. At the same time, there must be a boat entering Sishui from Sikou, otherwise, even if we can reach the Sishui River by land, we will be stopped outside Xuzhou..."

Ge Cunxiong said: "The refugee army in Siyang is not capable of blocking such a wide river branch mouth, but in Suyu and Suining, there are measures to block rivers and ships. The water camp has to enter Sishui from Sikou, and it has to be connected all the way. The two river-blocking camps built by the bandits in Suyu and Suining. Considering that once the war breaks out, the bandits will always strengthen their defense forces along the way, and how long it will take them to break through is really hard to say..."

"The key depends on whether Liu Tingzhou can successfully cross the river with the reinforcements who cross the Huaihe River, and whether it can successfully put pressure on the Siyang defenders after crossing the river, so that Liu Tingzhou will attract the displaced troops from Suyu and Suining to Siyang," Qin Chengzu said, "We Before Liu Tingzhou, the more bluffing towards Chen Hansan's narrow bridge camp, the more Chen Hansan would doubt our determination to go north to aid Xu..."

"What is true is false, UU reading www.uukanshu.com what is false is true," Lin Bie nodded and said, "I think Chen Hansan should be able to confirm my discord with Liu Tingzhou."

Qin Chengzu said: "If it were you, he would most likely sit and watch Liu Tingzhou cross Huaihe and die, and it is impossible to go deep alone and take risks to save the great enemy Yue Lengqiu. Liu Tingzhou led the reinforcements to cross Huai to fight Siyang, and he would be able to confirm them. guess, to dispel their doubts..."

Qin Chengzu and others have been dealing with Chen Hansan for more than ten years, and they have suffered a lot from him. They are not familiar with Chen Hansan, I am afraid that other generals of the refugee army are far behind.

Lin Fu thought for a while, and said to Ge Cunxiong: "You lead the third water camp westward to help Liu Tingzhou cross the Huaihe River with all your strength. I will sign another letter for you to bring to Liu Tingzhou to merge the defenders of Shanyang County into the Huai Huai reinforcement army. I'll take him across the Huai River to fight..."

The defenders of Shanyang County belonged to the newly reorganized Huaian Prefecture Army, and their fundamental responsibility was to defend the homeland.

Although Liu Tingzhou was the prefect, but without Lin Fu's consent, he could not mobilize the government troops to cross Huaihuai to fight.

Compared with the matter of crossing the Huaihe River and assisting Xu, it is more important to ensure that the Huaihe line of defense is worry-free.

The Duhuai reinforcements built by Liu Tingzhou were basically a mob, and under the pretext of voluntariness, less than 20% of the soldiers who could fight were recruited from the government army. Even if Liu Tingzhou can successfully cross the Huaihe River, he will not be able to form a restraining force in Siyang.

After the chaos in Hongzepu, Shanyang County has been on the front line for a long time, and the defenders have a good fighting strength. At this moment, Lin Bui transferred the Shanyang County defenders to follow Liu Tingzhou to cross Huaihe River, mainly because he did not want Liu Tingzhou to fight too badly after crossing Huaihuai. .

The more important reason is that after the Shanyang County defenders are transferred, the Huai defending line will have a neutral position at the most critical position. In the eyes of Liu An'er, Chen Hansan and other refugee army generals, it is even less likely that the Jiangdong Left Army will go north at this time. . My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter