Chapter 30: The Battle of Jinhai

(3rd Update, Asking for Red Tickets)

From the 14th, the battle in the Jinhai Sea, which had been tepid for several days, intensified sharply, and the Jiangdong Left Army's infantry and cavalry landed on a large scale and moved along the north and south lines of the vortex village, pinning down the cavalry of the Nahe Xiongqi Division, seeking opportunities to fight, and trying to penetrate the inner line.

In the early morning of the 16th, led by Cao Ziang, the second, third, and fifth battalions led by Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen bypassed the vortex village and went directly to the inner line on the west side, equipped with a large number of mules and horses, and made a large-scale posture of forcibly advancing to the western front.

The battle in Jinan was fierce, and the troops on the southern front of the Eastern Capture were almost pressed on the entire front, and the northern front headed by the eldest prince Yeji Luorong had to guard against the hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Gyeonggi by the Southern Dynasties, and they could not draw a single soldier.

The Jiangdong Left Army was not large in number, but if it was allowed to penetrate and rush to the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain and move along the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain, it would cause great interference to the rear roads of the north and south lines.

On the 16th, the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army bypassed the Wukou Village and interspersed to the west, even if it was known that this area was between the three villages of Wukou, Changlu and Qingqi, Nahe Xiongqi was forced to send cavalry to intercept it to prevent the Jiangdong Left Army from interspersing with the Changlu Village in the west.

From Jinhai and Qingxian, the dock villages that the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers held one after another, there were as many as seven or eight, and the westernmost dock village was at the westernmost end of Qingxian. Nahe Xiongqi was worried that the Jiangdong Left Army would first move the main force to the west of Qingxian in the way of relay of village after village, and by then the Jiangdong Left Army would be less than 200 miles away from the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain.

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Bathing in the early morning sun, the green armor on Lin Bin's body was shining, he was not wearing a helmet, the sea breeze blew his sideburns flying, he stood on the top deck of the tail cabin of the Dongyang and looked at the battlefield west of the vortex village, looking at the movement route of the cavalry of the Nahe Xiong Qi Division, the four thousand cavalry of the Na He Xiong Qi Department were divided into two routes, all the way to intercept Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu, and Ning Zechen's troops interspersed to the south, and all the way to the south of the Vortex Village, monitoring the Vortex Kou Village and several large sea ships outside the East Sea Pond of the Vortex Zhai.

Nahe Xiongqi wore scale armor that glittered in the morning light, and rode up to a slope south of the vortex village, surrounded by all the brown armor captives, very conspicuous, and seemed to be looking this way, but it was too far away, and it couldn't really be seen.

"Heh, that Hexiong Qi Lao'er is also looking at this side," Lin Mengde squinted into the distance and said with a smile, "He is afraid that you will make another conspiracy and tricks, and personally take a large team of cavalry to monitor this side......"

"Then win him with dignity," Lin Jian stared at the distance with his eyes slightly narrowed, instructed Ao Canghai on his side, and said, "You and Zhao Qingshan led the first and fourth battalions to the south to find an opportunity to land, make a gesture of interspersing westward, and watch how Na He Xiongqi copes." If Na He Xiongqi does not have the intention of concentrating his forces to fight me all the way, after you land on the shore, you will go west for four or five miles, and then turn around and move to Wang Dengtai Mountain. If we can annihilate a captive cavalry on Wangdengtai Mountain, at least in the northern part of Hejian Province, the situation will not persist any longer, and no matter whether we move to the west of Qingxian or make a detour to Cangnan, we will be able to calmly ......."

Ao Canghai changed boats by small boat, and Zhao Qingshan led his troops to go south, the tail boat and the bilge hidden horses, and the soldiers could only stand on the deck, crowding the decks of the two thousand stone ships, sailing around the sea, like galloping horses.

Lin Jian squinted at Wang Dengtai Mountain in the southwest direction, this small dirt mountain in the south of Jinhai is only thirteen or fourteen zhang high, but the only hill within ten miles of Wukou Village, there is a remnant village at the foot of Wang Dengtai Mountain, after He Xiongqi led his troops over, he occupied it as a camp.

Lin Jian divided the Jiangdong Left Army into two routes, that is, Nahe Xiongqi could not see their intentions clearly and was forced to divide his troops to deal with it, and then turned to Wang Dengtai Mountain from both directions at the same time. Even if Nahe Xiongqi intended to concentrate his forces to attack one part of the Jiangdong Left Army, the other part would still be able to attack the camp of the captive soldier Wang Dengtai Mountain and force him to come to his rescue, and eventually a favorable situation would be formed.

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The Jiangdong Left Army made a move here, and the two ships were loaded with armor and went south, and Nahe Xiongqi had to divide his troops to follow the embankment to the south to monitor.

Although most of the Jiangdong Left Army was infantry, it had a large number of horses, and after going ashore, it was able to quickly maneuver to the designated place on horseback and then dismount to fight.

After two divisions of troops, Na He Xiongqi felt that the troops at hand were insufficient, in addition to mainly monitoring the side of the vortex village, he also sent a small number of rangers to monitor the movements of Changlu, Qingqi and other villages, and he also smelled a trace of danger: Could it be that the Jiangdong Left Army wants to win the battle with our department in the Jinhai field?

After the soldiers and horses left behind in Xiaobotou Village were completely annihilated, the advantage of the Nahexiong Qi Department over the Jiangdong Left Army in terms of strength was not so obvious.

In the past few days of continuous fighting, there have been many casualties among the Nahexiong Qi troops, plus the food, grass, baggage, and wounded need to be taken care of, and the cavalry he can call on is only about 3,000 people. However, the Jiangdong Left Army made good use of the advantages of sea ships, and the grain, grass, baggage, and wounded could all be placed with the ships, and they could also be placed on the islands, and there was no need to take the role of sending troops to Nahe Xiongqi to copy the back road, and the casualties and attrition could also be replenished by the reserve soldiers in time, and the complete establishment of five battalions and 3,000 soldiers was always maintained.

Although the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers are not strong in fighting in the village, they are quite numerous after uniting with the township soldiers.

Na He Xiongqi gasped, realizing that it was entirely possible that the Jiangdong Left Army would want to fight them to the death in the south of Jinhai County.

Concentrate forces to attack one of them?

Na He Xiongqi doubted that he could successfully defeat the nearly 2,000 Jiangdong Left Army infantry and cavalry advancing westward, and he would not be delusional if he could eat this Jiangdong Left Army.

In the past few days, Na He Xiongqi found that even the formation of Jiangdong Left Army infantry of 200 people was difficult to defeat.

The Jiangdong Left Army, which advanced westward, had nine sentinels and 27 capital teams, while the Jiangdong Left Army marched in formation with 60 soldiers as the basic unit, so that its infantry cavalry also had strong mobility under the threat and interference of cavalry. Even if he threw all the troops in his hands, he could not guarantee that he would be able to defeat the left army of Jiangdong in the west, and it would be difficult to prevent the left army of Jiangdong from retreating to Wukou Village, and then it would be a battle.

The principle of "concentrating forces to strike at one part" does not work here; However, Nahe Xiongqi could not sit idly by and ignore the movement of the Jiangdong Left Army to the west, so he sent someone to find Timur and told him that the Jiangdong Left Army had the intention of fighting, and asked Timur to pay attention to abnormalities at any time, and if he felt that the situation was wrong, he would immediately retreat in the direction of the southeast garrison.

Although entering the spring season, but the weather before the afternoon was cold and clear, Ao Canghai and Zhao Qingshan led their troops to borrow a large headland stone extending into the sea in the south of the vortex village fourteen miles away, and Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu, and Ning Zechen who went west were about twenty-four or five miles away.

After receiving the report, Nahe Xiongqi had already passed half of the incense burning, and he had already determined that the Jiangdong Left Army had the intention of fighting, and it was no longer necessary to personally monitor the Wukou Village, so he wanted to lead the remaining 600 horsemen back to the camp of Wang Dengtai Mountain and respond in the center.

At this time, the north and south gates of the vortex village were opened at the same time, and the remnants of the Jinzhong rode out from the two gates.

Nahe Xiongqi was startled when he saw the number of foot riders dispatched by Vortex Village, there were two battalions of 1,200 foot riders, and they were fully equipped. He didn't expect that there would be so many people hiding in Vortex Village, and he didn't know that many soldiers had sneaked into Vortex Village from Changlu, Qingqi and other villages at night in the past few days. The first battalion is mainly composed of Yang Yihang, the first battalion is composed of Ma Yigong and Zhou Tongbu, and the other villages are all selected to be elite, with a total of 900 infantry and 300 cavalry.

Sending a small group of cavalry to attack the array of the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers, and shooting a lot of dense arrows, Nahe Xiongqi gave up the idea of defeating the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers, and led his troops to beat the horses and run directly to Wang Dengtai Mountain.

Na He Xiongqi guessed that Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army to Jinhai to intend to contact the remnants of the Jinzhong army, but he still underestimated the combat power of the remnants of the Jinzhong army before.

It can't be said that Na He Xiongqi is underestimated, the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers are incomplete in armor, the arrows are insufficient, the food is not wrapped, and the clothes are not covered, in the past two months, the will of the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers to defend the village is very strong, but the combat ability of the village is very poor, this is not true, that He Xiongqi did not expect that the Jiangdong Left Army will be so strong in the supply capacity of the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers.

Yang Yihang, who was riding on horseback, grabbed the reins and glanced in the direction of the Dongyang mooring, and couldn't see the look on Lin Lian's face from a distance, he turned around and roared: "Gao Yang is defeated, everyone has fire and hatred in their hearts, if you can get a section back today, don't fucking pretend to be a bear for me!" "Only a small number of cavalry were used to cover the flanks, and most of the foot soldiers opened their legs and pursued Wang Dengtai Mountain in a marching array.

After Yang Yihang led his troops to advance, a pile of wolf smoke burned in the vortex village, and the black straight smoke column blew away, notifying the villages.

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Lin Tie his hand pressed the side of the boat to support the chest-high women's wall guard, and watched Yang Yihang and Ma Yi's power department also march towards Wang Dengtai Mountain as promised, he pressed the handle of the knife, and said to Ge Cunxin: "How many troops are still organized to go ashore to prepare, if Na Hexiong Qi holds on to Wang Dengtai Mountain, as many troops can be invested here, and the time left for us is very limited......

The possibility of Na He Xiongqi holding on is not high, after all, it is easier for him to choose to break through, but everything must be prevented, Ye Ji Luorong sent reinforcements to come, more than two hundred li, and it only takes more than a day for the light cavalry to break through, counting the time to report the message, at most it will leave a day and a night for the Jiangdong Left Army.

Nahe Xiongqi chose to hold on, and Lin Jian did not expect to be able to wipe out Nahe Xiongqi in a day and a night, at that time, he besieged Xiaobotou and left the rear captive to ride, if he didn't use fire in the end, he might not be able to capture it in twice as long as he could - he couldn't be completely annihilated, but he also had to use sharp weapons such as strong bows and crossbows to kill and injure Nahe Xiongqi on a large scale.

Lin Tie mainly considered the situation that the Nahe Xiongqi troops chose to break through, so that the Jiangdong Left Army and the remnants of the Jinzhong Army formed a situation of attacking Wangtai from three different directions in the afternoon, and when the Nahe Xiongqi troops retreated and prepared to break through, the gap between the various roads of the encirclement formed would also shrink to a distance of less than three miles. To the east is the sea, not the direction of Nahe Xiongqi's breakthrough, and the wolf smoke that burned from the vortex village just now is to inform the other villages, especially the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers assembled in Changlu and Qingqi villages, to send a small interception force in the southwest and northwest direction of the captive cavalry at this time, asking them to do everything possible to delay the breakthrough speed of the Nahe Xiongqi cavalry, regardless of casualties.

For the first time, Lin Jian was able to transfer superior troops, so he naturally wanted to test the ability of the Jiangdong Left Army to fight with the captives in the field.

At this time, a sentinel ship in the northern sea area sailed back, waving a flag and asking to board the Dongyang, Lin Jian was quite strange, what did the sentinel ship in the north do when it came back, and what important news did it have to hand back? Of course, it won't be the discovery of the enemy, in which case the wolf smoke in the cabin should be burned directly.