Watching Gao Zongting leave, Sun Shangwang sighed with emotion, and secretly said that he still had the last trace of hope for the Yuan family in his heart, right?

After Gao Zongting left, Sun Shangwang re-ascended to the top of the city, and Lin Xuwen went elsewhere while he was talking to Gao Zongting - he saw a sea ship docked from a distance, and he didn't know whether the sea ship from Denglai or the sea ship from Chongzhou was over, but as long as he saw the sea ship landing, he was full of hope for the refugees trapped in Jinhai.

They didn't want Jinhai to be able to hold it, but the price to pay for filling three or four hundred thousand people in Jinhai was too great. As for Huaidong's arrangement, more than 300,000 refugees will be evacuated first, but 20,000 defenders, including the Huaidong cavalry camp, will be left to hold on to the end.

This so-called "final" actually depends on the reaction of the Donghu people, if you really think that if you fill in 300,000 or 400,000 people here, you will definitely be able to hold Jinhai, and you will be too much to regard the Donghu people as nothing.

Besides, if Jinhai is defended, Yanjing will definitely be able to defend? It is expected that Yanjing will run out of food by the end of July, and when the food is out of food, the test of the morale of the Yanjing defenders will really come.

The world is chess, and it is not only Huaidong who has fallen on this chessboard.

In any case, Gao Zongting is still Li Zhuo's adviser, and he refuses to do his best to plan for Huaidong at this time, which can't help but feel regretful. That's okay, Huaidong is not everyone who wants Gao Zongting to join and suddenly get a high position.

Sun Shangwang was inspecting the defense of the walled city, while thinking wildly, and when he walked to the south wall, a guard ran from the main city and told him that there was a letter from Huaidong. Sun Shangwang rushed back to the official hall, and Lin Xuwen, Gao Zongting, Wu Qi, Zhou Pu, Ma Yigong and others had already rushed over.

"What my lord means is that I hope that after the fall of Yanjing, we will still hold on as long as possible," Wu Qi said as he handed the letter in his hand to Sun Shangwang, who was qualified to read Lin Lian's handwritten letter, "The evacuation of personnel, my lordship hopes to start from now on without further delay." First evacuate the refugees from the sea to Laizhou, go south along the Jiaolai River, and then take the sea and land to Huaikou and then transit, and Huaidong has already sent personnel to Laizhou, Jimo and other places to prepare...... These people are all staying in Jinhai to consume and sacrifice, and they may not be able to change the overall situation, and they will fight back against Yanji in the future, but they can rely on them as their combat power! ”

When Sun Shangwang took the letter, he glanced at Gao Zongting again, the current situation is already obvious, it is Jiang Ning who is ready to support the new emperor and refuses to save Yanjing, and Lin is bound in Huaidong, and he also has an accurate grasp of Lin Xuwen and Gao Zongting's mentality - Gao Zongting turned his eyes away with shame.

Sun Shangwang unfolded Lin Lian's handwritten letter from Huaidong: Although the situation in the north is hopeless, the achievements of eastern Zhejiang are very encouraging, at least on the eastern front, which has forced the luxury family to turn offensive to defensive.

If we can move the 300,000 or 400,000 people of Jinhai to Daishan, Changguo, Mingzhou and other places for resettlement, and then select the strong ones to be incorporated into the battalion, Huaidong can get 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers, and this result is better than consuming them in Jinhai.

When Sun Shangwang read the letter, Wu Qi continued: "Yanjing is likely to run out of food by the end of July, and before the end of July, Yanjing is likely to organize a breakthrough. As far as the deployment of the Donghu people is concerned, it is also a trend of 'encircling three que', but Jinhai can receive reinforcements, and should also receive reinforcements as much as possible, but on the topography of Jinhai, there is no advantage of long-term defense, and it is necessary to evacuate the wounded and sick to Jinwei Island in time for resettlement. ”

The Donghu people did not encircle Yanjing under the city, but deployed 50,000 or 60,000 elite cavalry on the periphery, and Yanjing wanted to organize a large-scale breakthrough in the direction of Jinhai, how easy was it to say? Maybe only sporadically save some people.

In addition, the Jinhai Sea is located at the mouth of the lower reaches of the Whirlpool River and the Chaohe River, facing water on one side and land on three sides, and spreading out nearly 20 miles wide of the attack area. If the Donghu people want to capture Jinhai, it will be difficult to hold such a wide face without enough troops.

Jinwei Island is lonely in the sea, the terrain of the island is also dangerous to defend, the only drawback is that it is too small, in addition to the outer fortifications, the interior of the island is only a hundred acres in size, and the dock on the southwest side of the island can not be berthed a few ships. Tsuwei Island is qualified as the last support point of Tsukai Castle, but it cannot keep too many soldiers and horses for a long time.

How to defend the Jinhai Sea has been studied for a long time in the past two months, and several sets of evacuation plans have been formulated, just waiting for the final decision.

"What do you think of the evacuation of personnel, Lord Lin?" Sun Shangwang asked Lin Xuwen. In any case, in Jinhai, you must follow Lin Xuwen's orders.

"Send someone to inform Lord Huang, here are the first preparations. When Lord Huang agreed, he arranged for someone to evacuate to Dengzhou first. Lin Xuwen said that the grain stock here is only enough for three or four hundred thousand people to support until the end of July, and whether Jinhai is guarded or stayed, it actually depends on Huaidong's attitude.

Since Lin Jian left Jinhai in early March, Huang Jinnian was so angry that he vomited blood, and since then he has not been able to get sick, and he has not cared about Jinhai's defensive affairs. Fortunately, Huang Jinnian, on behalf of the household department, has no other real power in Jinhai except for the jurisdiction of Jinhai Cang, and he does not show up, which is convenient for Lin Xuwen and them not to serve him, the uncle.

However, in the matter of organizing a large-scale evacuation of personnel from Jinhai, Lin Xuwen also had to inform Huang Jinnian.

"I'd better take a trip!" Sun Shangwang said.

Huang Jinnian was probably the only minister of Sanpin who could travel south from the north, and if he chose to pledge allegiance to the new emperor, he would not have a low status in Jiangning. Even if there are high-ranking civil officials in Yanjing who will eventually escape, it will only be a fugitive who has lost his family, and an official like Huang Jinnian, who insisted on Jinhai and was finally forced to retreat south, cannot be compared with his political prestige.

Although in early March, Huaidong used King Qin as an excuse to attack the west, which made Huang Jinnian scold, but Huaidong still hoped that Huang Jinnian could bow his head in the face of the situation.

It seems that Huang Jinnian is a descendant official of the Zhang and Yue lines, but it is not impossible to differentiate.

If Huang Jinnian is willing to cooperate with Huaidong, Huaidong will of course spare no effort to support Huang Jinnian to gain a high political position in Jiangning. If Huang Jinnian stubbornly holds a grudge against Huaidong, perhaps it would be more beneficial for Huaidong to let him end up living and dying with Jinhai and being loyal to the imperial court.

How to deal with Huang Jinnian, Zhang Wendeng and others, Lin Jian had already sent a secret letter to Wu Qi and Sun Shangwang, asking them to deal with it with their authority.

Sun Shangwang wanted to see Huang Jinnian in person, he was taking this opportunity to test Huang Jinnian's mind, and Lin Xuwen would not be untouched. He hesitated for a moment, nodded to Wu Qi and Sun Shangwang, and asked them to go to the side hall to talk to him secretly.

Gao Zongting watched Wu Qi and Sun Shangwang follow Lin Xuwen to the side hall, and his heart fluctuated.

Lin Xuwen wanted to ask Wu Qi and Sun Shangwang what to say, and it was not difficult for him to guess; In fact, since the name of Lin Tie and the fake King Qin to deceive the world, Huaidong has shown his heart and posture of not being subordinate, and he has no way to retreat as a loyal minister.

"The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook", even if Lin Jian has the heart to be a loyal minister, the end will never be half a point better than that of Jingbei Hou Su back then.

Isn't the only road that can be taken in front of Huaidong clear enough?

The generals of Geng Quanshan can't see such a depth, if Gao Zongting can't see it, how can he be worthy of the praise of "the world's strategy"?

To get to this point, Lin Xuwen must also make a choice.

Either retreat to the south to pledge allegiance to the new emperor, or surrender to Huaidong, and from then on, two of the three branches of the Lin clan were owned by Huaidong. If Huaidong can integrate the Jinhai forces, its strength will definitely leap to another level, and it will surpass the Liang clan and become the head of the Southern Ministers.

With Lin Xuwen's qualifications, he can also squeeze into the center of Jiangning and become one of Huaidong's spokesmen in the Jiangning regime. In the future, if Huaidong can really take the world against the grain, Lin Xuwen will naturally be indispensable to the glory and wealth of the king and the prince.

However, with the depth of Lin Bin's calculations, the last layer of thought, except for a few people such as Lin Mengde, Fu Qinghe, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, etc., probably will not talk to Wu Qi, Sun Shangwang and others.

Gao Zongting thought to himself: Lin Xuwen will probably have to go to Chongzhou to know the exact answer, and it is impossible for Wu Qi and Sun Shangwang to give him an accurate answer.

Thinking of this, Gao Zongting asked bitterly in his heart: Commander, Commander, how do you want Sect Court and me to deal with it? Commander, do you want to see Huaidong take the world against the world?

At this time, a small school hurriedly walked in and said: "There is an abnormality in the vortex river, and the water level has dropped by two inches at noon......

"Ahh Gao Zongting was stunned when he heard this, and Lin Xuwen, Wu Qi, and Sun Shangwang also rushed out of the side hall when they heard the sound. At this time, the rainy season is coming, the upstream rain is sufficient, there is no possibility of breaking the flow, the water level of the vortex river continues to decline, there is only one possibility, that is, the Donghu people intercept the flow in the upper reaches.

Lin Xuwen and the generals hurriedly left the main city and rushed to the river port wharf in the south, and from the moss of the wharf dam stone, they could clearly see the traces of the river falling.

There is no doubt that the Donghu people intercepted the flow of the upper reaches of the Whirlpool River. Wu Qi frowned and ordered: "Send someone to explore the water level of the Chaohe River!" "The colonel who received the military order did not go far, and the scout on the other side of the Chaohe River came with the news that the water level of the Chaohe River had dropped.

Everyone looked at each other, and before the soldiers and horses of the Donghu people surrounded them, they began to cut off the waterways of the Whirlpool River and the Chaohe River, which was by no means a good sign.

"All ships need to withdraw from the Whirlpool River and Chaohe River immediately, and they must take soil to build a high platform, and build a platform road connecting with the main city, and the evacuation of the people will start from the low-lying land!" Gao Zongting suggested.

The way to attack and defend the city is the most important terrain and water potential.

Seriously speaking, if you really want to build Jinhai City, Wang Dengtai Mountain in the west is the only slope terrain on the left and right that is not afraid of flooding, but Wang Dengtai Mountain is more than 30 miles away from the coast.

Jinhai was located on the side of Yanjing, and it was impossible for the imperial court to allow Jinhai to establish a walled defense system that stretched from the harbor to the inland for 30 miles. In the later period of Jinhai, only a small sentry fort was built on Wang Dengtai Mountain, but from Wang Dengtai Mountain, there was almost twenty-four or five miles of space. Before the soldiers and horses of the Donghu people surrounded it on a large scale, this side would abandon the Wang Dengtai Mountain sentry post and withdraw the 100 soldiers and horses there.

Jinhai by the sea to build the city, is on the harbor, the mouth of the river convenience, but also the beginning of the construction of the city of Jinhai, in such a difficult and embarrassing situation, the best choice, but in the terrain has the weakness of being in the low-lying and easy to flood, especially the west of the Kan, away from the two villages, the lowest terrain, forming a gap extending to the main city, which is the most fatal weakness of Jinhai City.

The Donghu people did not besiege the city and intercepted the whirlpool water and the Chaohe waterway, and it is likely that they have already seen through the weakness of Jinhai's city defense, and their next step is likely to be to channel the water potential of the two rivers into the low-lying area west of Jinhai City.

Gao Zongting was secretly frightened: It's really a little peep at Donghu. There are not a few talented people recruited by Donghu over the years, and the more patient the Donghu people are, the more difficult it is to defend Jinhai.