Lord of the House

Huangcheng Island, located at the mouth of the Bohai Sea, is more than 120 miles away from Dengzhou Daoyu Village in the south and more than 80 miles away from Tieshan, Jinzhou, Liaodong, in the north. The shape is long and narrow, and the long and narrow islands and mountains are three to four feet high. It has been the anchoring place for ships traveling from north to south in sea shipping throughout the ages.

The fleet of the Haidong Camping Army was hidden in the small bay of Laoyukou on the east side of Nanhuangcheng Island.

The sea between the north and south Huangcheng Island is as calm as a blue lake. Zhaohu stands on the top of Nanhuang Mountain, which is about 30 feet high. Looking into the distance, the southwest is the big and small Qinshan Island, Zhushan Island and Miaoshan. The island is like a coloring model on a sand table, standing still on the blue sea, and the shore mountains in the direction of Dengzhou Swordfish Village cover the series of islands at the mouth of the Bohai Sea.

Otherwise, even at such a long distance, it is said that you should be able to see the border of Danya Mountain where Daoyu Village is located.

Two young generals in their thirties climbed the top of Nanhuang Mountain from the back slope, and when they saw Zhao Hu looking southwest, they came over.

The two generals were not other people. One was Chi Yuanji, the son of Chi Zhou, the governor of Dongzhou, the state of Danluo, and the other was Ge Changgen, the son of Ge Cunxin.

Lin Fu had predicted as early as June that the main force of the Huaidong Shui Infantry would be contained in the southern line, unable to escape to the north - and this is exactly the case - Huaidong wanted to interfere in the war situation in Shandong, and the expedient solution was to transfer from Haidong. troops.

After the Battle of Danluo, in order to control the situation in Haedong Commercial Road and Jeju, Dongju and other places, Zhao Hu was ordered by Lin Fu to set up a Haedong camp army in Jeju, with more than 5,000 water infantry troops.

In addition to some of these troops stationed in Jeju City on Danluo Island, a considerable part are scattered to guard the maritime trade routes. The actual troops that can be drawn are limited, and it takes time to gather in advance.

In mid-June, Zhao Hu received a secret order from Lin Fu to assemble troops in Jeju. In Lin Fu's name, he also borrowed troops from the Governor's Mansion in Dongzhou and the state of Danluo, and did not assemble until late July.

After the news of the fall of Linzi reached Jeju, Zhao Hucai led his troops across the sea from Jeju; after meeting with Yang Yihang's troops, the total strength of the Shui Infantry Army hidden between Huangcheng Island was only more than 7,000.

After the fall of Yanji, maritime shipping into the Bohai Sea was almost cut off. The mouth of the Bohai Sea was where many forces fought, and fishing boats also disappeared. And once there is no war, the waters around Huangcheng Island will not even see half of the ghosts, making it the best place for warships to hide their tracks and lurch.

Even if the patrol ship of the Dengzhou Navy occasionally passed by, Zhao Hu was ordered to be detained.

Of course, Huangcheng Island is quite close to Tieshanjiao in Jinzhou, Eastern Liaoning. On a sunny day, maybe Yanhu's soldiers stationed in Jinzhou can be aware of the abnormality in the waters of Huangcheng Island while standing on a high mountain. However, it is not possible to directly cross the sea from Jinzhou, Liaodong, and it takes ten days and a half months to send the message to Yanjing, and then from Yanjing to Shandong.

Therefore, there is such a team of editors hidden between Huangcheng Island, and the various forces fighting fiercely on the Shandong Peninsula did not notice it for a while.

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Ge Changgen stood by Zhao Hu's side, followed him to look into the distance, and said, "General Zhao, Qingzhou won a great victory. The last general thought that our division should immediately enter the Jiaolai River from the west of Laizhou to support the Qingzhou army in the battle!"

Huaidong did not expect Chen Zhihu to resort to cheating and defeat, but he was only worried that the Dengzhou navy would make a mistake. Qingzhou won a great victory, turning the situation in the eastern part of the Shandong Peninsula into a safe place, and Huaidong's previous concerns seemed to disappear.

At least for now, Huaidong's move in the outer seas of Dengzhou will lose its due effect.

The generals in the Haidong camp, including Ge Changgen, Chi Yuanji, etc., were unwilling to leave empty-handed, and intended to take the initiative to attack. I hope Zhao Hu can make a decision to immediately command the troops and horses to enter Qingzhou from the Jiaolai River on the west bank of Laizhou, and cooperate with them. The Qingzhou Army fought against the newly attached troops entering the hinterland of Qingzhou.

Although the Jiaolai River was severely destroyed at the beginning of the year, the damage was mainly concentrated in the middle section. The section of the river from Changyi County to the north to the west of Laizhou into the sea was still intact, which could be used by the Haidong Water Infantry to enter the battle.

Lin Fu's previous order to Zhao Hu was to tell him to wait and watch the changes in the outer waters of Dengzhou, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the main general is not qualified because of his ability to capture fighters, rather than stick to the established plan.

Hearing Ge Changgen's suggestion, Zhao Hu was also eager to try, and he was determined to take the initiative to attack, but after all, he was more patient than Ge Changgen and Chi Yuanji. It is inconvenient to contact the East, but the spy sent to Yishan should be able to return in two days, so be patient and wait for two more days..."

They have been lurking on Huangcheng Island for eight days, and they don't care about waiting for two more days.

In any case, even if they were to fight back, they had to adjust their troops and horses in Qingzhou, otherwise it would be difficult for them to play a big role by relying only on the six or seven thousand water infantry on their side.

"Then we will do some preparations first..." Ge Changgen said.

Zhao Hu nodded and watched Ge Changgen and Chi Yuanji go down the mountain. In the distance, two ships were approaching from south to north.

Ge Changgen also saw the approaching ship, stopped and said hesitantly, "Could it be a letter ship sent by Huaidong?" At the moment, the order sent a warship to go around to intercept it, so he accompanied Zhao Hu to stand on the top of the hill to watch, it really was Gao Zongting from Huai The mouth went out to sea by boat to meet.

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There was also Chen Enze who accompanied Gao Zongting to Huangcheng Island.

Zhao Hu met with Gao Zongting in Jiangning in the early years. Lin Fu was afraid that he would not have a deep impression of Gao Zongting, which would cause problems in communication with each other, so he specially sent Chen Enze over.

Knowing that Gao Zongting was coming, Zhao Hu, Ge Changgen, Chi Yuanji and others would rush to the simple dock to welcome them and introduce the generals to Gao Zongting.

The Haidongxing battalion is not strong enough, but borrowing troops from the Chi family in Dongzhou and the country of Danluo, they still made up a partial division. Gao Zongting saw Zhao Hu and introduced that Chi Yuanji was the eldest son of Chi Zhou, the former pirate chief and the current governor of Dongzhou. , I feel quite emotional: Lin Bie's strategic thinking in managing Haidong is far beyond the imagination of the world.

Others think that Huaidong is alone and weak, and it is true that Lin Fu rose in Huaidong, and he has only occupied the four prefectures until today, and it is far from being comparable to the Cao family who just occupied the two Sichuans.

However, only Huaidong operates Haidong, and through trade exports, the annual profit from Haidong area has exceeded 2 million taels of silver, of which about 60% is directly used by the Huaidong Army Division to support the army - the Cao family occupies Guanzhong, from hundreds of Xiqin County, which had been reduced to a bitter and cold place on the northwest frontier a few years ago, directly contributed tax revenue a year, even less than what Huaidong earned from operating the Haidong Trade Road.

Huaidong was transported back from the Haidong area, and it was not only silver, but also many strategic materials such as rice grain, coal and iron, silver and copper, leather, wood, fish glue and so on.

Because of the existence of sea routes, Lin Fu made the entire Haidong area a strategic material export base in Huaidong.

Now, the sea route to the Nanyang Islands via Yizhou has also been opened up. After two years of exploration, the route has also stabilized. In the first half of this year, 200,000 shi of rice was imported from the Nanyang Islands. This is almost equal to the tax contribution of Huaidong Prefecture before the implementation of the New Deal.

Today, the Chi family of Dongzhou and the Li family of Danluo state directly support the Huaidong operation, which is of great significance.

Zhao Hu stationed in a simple camp at the foot of Nanhuang Mountain, invited Gao Zongting and others ashore, entered the commanding shed, and asked earnestly, "Did something happen, why did Mr. Laogao come to Dengzhou?"

"The collapse of Chen Zhihu's department under Qingzhou city is most likely a fraud," Gao Zongting said, "The deployment of Dengzhou needs to be adjusted. The adults should come over in person, but they can't get away. I am a little bit more aware of the situation in Dengzhou than others. If you are familiar with this place, come here..." The generals and the generals explained the analysis of the situation in Qingzhou to Zhao Hu and the generals of Haidong.

Zhao Hu, Ge Changgen, Chi Yuanji and others were skeptical, but Gao Zongting brought Lin Fu's warrant, so they could not believe it.

"You have been lurking here for a few days, has the Dengzhou town army changed?" Gao Zongting asked. He had not received the latest information for two days. When he left Huaikou to the sea, the Dengzhou town army still had obvious movements. Regarding the latest information in Dengzhou in the past two days, he wanted to ask Zhao Hu, "Has Dengzhou Town noticed anything unusual here?"

"Some of the navy in Dengzhou Town is being adjusted ashore to gather~www.readwn.com~ There are indeed signs of concentrating forces into Qingzhou to fight," Zhao Hu said with a dignified expression, frowning, "It is also fortunate that we do not like Liu Yefeisu. , I didn't mistakenly think that when the situation in Qingzhou turned into a safe place, I took the initiative to contact Dengzhou Town - Dengzhou Town should not be aware of our existence! Contact the Gu family. But even if Yang Yihang reveals the details to the Gu family, the news will not reach Dengzhou Town."

"That's good..." Gao Zongting breathed a sigh of relief.

Although there were more than 7,000 soldiers and horses assembled on Huangcheng Island, after deducting the sailors, there were less than 6,000 soldiers with knives and swords, and about 4,000 infantrymen. The pawns can make up eight battalions of infantry armor.

However, these eight battalions of infantry armor are composed of five parts: Fengli Camp, Haidong Camp Army, Dongzhou Army, Jinwei Island Left-behind Army, and Danluo Wang Army, and the overall level of combat effectiveness is absolutely limited.

If it is used as an elite war brigade of Fengli Camp and Changshan Camp to fight tough battles, it will most likely suffer a big loss.

The biggest advantage at the moment is that such a sect is lurking in the vicinity of Dengzhou Swordfish Village, only more than a hundred miles away, and has not yet been noticed by Liu Yefei and Chen Zhihu.

"Liu Ye Fei Ruozhen secretly surrendered the captives of Yan, and actively cooperated with Chen Zhihu's plan to move the tiger away from the mountain. We have nothing to stop us!" Ge Changgen said.

"Chen Zhihu used a deceit, why can't we use a deceit?" Gao Zongting smiled softly and said, "The most troublesome thing at the moment is Yangxin. Yangxin City is only surrounded by three sides, and the scouts and sentries can still enter and exit, Qingzhou victory. The news should have spread to Yangxin City, the Gu family is afraid that they have firmed their heart to keep Yangxin - they do not break through, even if we send more ships to respond at the mouth of the Zhulong River, it will not be of any use." My QT room is open ! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter