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A small group of Kou soldiers entrenched in the corner of the stone house in the village stubbornly resisted and refused to surrender, so that the battle to seize the village was tossed until dawn, and finally from the hole in the broken wall to take a clay pot filled with fire oil and throw it into the fire, burning more than 20 remnants of the Kou to death, before ending the war.

Due to the strong will of the Kou soldiers who defended the fortress on Dayangshan Island, in the end less than 50 people abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and most of the Kou troops died in battle, and the casualties paid by the Jiangdong Left Army for the capture of the village were even greater than the naval battle during the day.

Accumulated salary for the raft, the 21 soldiers who died in the battle of seizing the village were wrapped in white and arranged on the raft, pushed into the sea, led to cremation, in the slightly white morning light of the sky, drifted with the wind, drifted into the distance, like a bright light on the sea in the morning mist.

After the sea burial ceremony was over, the generals dispersed and performed their duties. Lin Tie put on the shackle, fastened the leather cord under his chin, and stared at the distant fire raft, the corpse would eventually burn to ashes and sprinkle into the sea. In the future, patrolling the sea of the Jinghai Battalion fleet will be the norm, and small-scale battles will occur frequently, with nearly 100 casualties at every turn, and the consumption of military strength is very large.

Song Bo and Wang Chengfu both felt that the atmosphere was solemn, looking at the looks in the eyes of the generals around them, the death in front of them did not weaken their martial arts and fighting spirit, and it seemed that the soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army were more likely to overcome the fear brought by death.

Forgetting the life and death of generals has been an important criterion for judging a strong army since ancient times.

Although the Jiangdong Left Army recruited displaced people and rushed into the army, Yannan Sijie may have a direct relationship with Lin Jian himself as the most outstanding literati general who has risen since Li Zhuo in recent years, but it cannot be denied that today's Jiangdong Left Army has grown into a rare heroic elite in the world.

When Song Bo was in Jinan, he had contact with the Jiangdong Left Army, and after the Jiangdong Left Army entered Yannan in the north and created a record of four battles and four victories to create the enemy's Yingwan, he conducted a serious analysis of the Jiangdong Left Army, and now he can observe the Jiangdong Left Army at close range, which is a rare opportunity.

Although the Jiangdong Left Army was said to recruit displaced people to form an army, it had a large number of outstanding military attachés, which was the fundamental reason why the Jiangdong Left Army was able to burst out with powerful combat power after it became an army in a short period of time.

Today, Zhou Pu, Ao Canghai, Zhao Qingshan, Cao Ziang, Ning Zechen, Zhou and other major generals of the Jiangdong Left Army are also widely known.

Ao Canghai was originally a general under Chen Zhihu, Zhao Qingshan has also been the main general of the Lin Township Battalion, and Zhou Tong was originally a young general of the Jinzhong Army.

The Jiangdong Left Army marched north immediately after Jiangning became an army, and when it arrived in Jinan, it dared to fight with the small shareholders and cavalry, and its performance was even better than that of the ordinary Zhenfu army. In order to achieve this in a short period of time, it is very difficult to rely on only five or six generals who are good at leading the troops, and in addition to Lin Lian's early implementation of the people's brave rotation training at the mouth of the Jiangning River and Xisha Island, there should also be a group of grassroots military attaches who are loyal to him and trust him.

As far as the situation of the Jiangdong Left Army is concerned, outsiders can only speculate that when Lin Jian was serving as a prison officer in Jiangning, he cultivated a group of excellent grassroots military attachés in the two small-scale armed forces of the prison guards and the Jiyun Wuwei, so that the Jiangdong Left Army could quickly grow into an elite division after recruiting displaced people into an army.

There were 3,000 generals in the Jiangdong Left Army, but Song Bo knew that the actual number of the Jiangdong Left Army far exceeded the number of nuclear troops, and there were nearly 2,000 soldiers and auxiliaries in the patrol fleet alone, and it was impossible for Lin Jian to leave only 1,000 troops to guard his base camp.

Song Bo estimated that the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army should be more than 6,000 men, which was comparable to the strength of the Dongyang Xiangyong and Xinjianjin Navy.

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After this incident, Lin Jian first went on the ship to see the military doctor on board to treat the wounded, and then went ashore to see the cleaning of the battlefield and count the results.

This is the outpost stronghold of the East China Sea Kou, two villages on Yangshan Island, a total of more than 300 Kou soldiers, all of whom are descendants of the extravagant Fei Xiong under the pseudonym Yuan Tingdong of the East China Sea Harrier, so they will resist so fiercely, a total of only 81 Kou soldiers abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and nearly 230 Kou soldiers died in battle.

Except for hundreds of stone rice grains, hundreds of armor pairs, and a few ships that had not had time to evacuate, there were no other captures. These captures could not make up for the losses of the Jiangdong Left Army on this sea patrol, and they were only better than the Yuan; The Jiangdong Left Army must establish a perfect supply system in Chongzhou.

Lin Jian climbed to the top of the hill on the south side of Dayangshan Island, looking at the terrain on the left and right, and at the edge of the field of vision on the south side, there were two Kou soldier sentry ships. This kind of sentinel ship hull is slender like a shuttle, the end and tail are cocked, with the ups and downs of the waves, can not carry a few people, but because of the sail wave by wave speed is very fast, people are called the tip of the boat. It is more convenient to transfer to the sea than a warship with a huge hull, and not only the East China Sea Kou, but also the local boatmen in the coastal prefectures and counties also use the Gonggong boat as a sentry boat.

It was not clear whether the two pirate sentinels were sent from Daheng Island or from Tushan or Daishan Islands, Lin Jian was not worried about the help of the East China Sea Kou, he was more looking forward to finding the opportunity to fight at sea, which would have a much greater advantage than attacking the city.

The two pirate sentinels stared at this side from afar, very vigilant, and when they saw that there were warships chasing here, they set sail early to avoid it. Lin Jian didn't bother to pay attention to the two pirate sentry ships, and in the distance, about twenty miles of the sea, there were eight or nine small islands scattered on the sea, and together with Xiaoyangshan Island, they were clustered around Dayangshan Island.

Lin Jian pointed to the stockade in the mountain col and asked Song Bo and Wang Chengfu: "You watched the battle last night, what would you do if you came to guard Dayangshan Island?" ”

Song Bo groaned, reluctant to answer Lin Tie's question of a more competitive nature, Wang Chengfu said: "The stronghold built by the Donghai Kou is located in a low flat, facing the sea on one side, vulnerable to enemies on three sides, and failing to effectively use the steep mountains on the island - in other words, I built a village at the mouth of the cliff in front, facing the sea on both sides, and a mountain on one side, only a narrow valley road in the northeast is conducive to entry and exit, and the village is easy to defend, even if the enemy who captures the island is ten times or twenty times as much, but if the troops cannot be deployed in front of the village, it is impossible to launch a fierce offensive, and it is much easier to defend the village...... The person in charge of building a base here in the East Sea Kou didn't think about it comprehensively. ”

"Maybe it's not that it's not considered comprehensive," Lin Jian said, "The village under the mountain, it was a village earlier, to reclaim the land to grow grain, the village naturally has to be built into a leeward low flat place, twenty years ago, the big Kou Ma Kui three slaughtered the Yangshan Island, which crisscrossed the Shengsi Seas, and used the village to build a stronghold, and then after the luxury family controlled the East China Sea Kou, the time was also short, and the use of the old village to strengthen and build an outpost stronghold is always much simpler and less labor-saving than building a new village in a steep place - the luxury family is not unable to see the advantages of the terrain, but the resources in their hands are limited, and it is impossible to be in every stronghold, all invested a lot of resources to choose a steep place to build a strong fortress. Brother Song, do you think that's the case? ”

Song Bo sighed slightly and said, "Lord Lin knows everything, how can Song Bo have anything to tell Lord Lin?" "I thought to myself: The luxury family's control of the East China Sea Kou is the biggest threat to the Jiangdong Left Army at present, and Lin Lian knows so much about the luxury family, which is not a surprising thing.

Wang Chengfu boldly suggested: "Chengfu thinks that the Jiangdong Left Army can choose a risk to build a strong new village, and the old village is a horn, and the generals will be stationed to guard Dayangshan Island, or it may be able to restrict the East China Sea Kou from infesting the Shengsi sea area......"

Lin Lian smiled slightly, and said lightly: "Maybe......" I didn't mind Wang Chengfu's overstepping words, but he didn't say anything about it.

Wang Chengfu's suggestion also has some truth, as long as there are enough manpower and material resources to invest, it is not difficult to build a dangerous village facing the sea on both sides and a mountain on the cliff, and dispatching hundreds of elites can defend Dayangshan Island.

Dayangshan Island lacks a deep bay mouth to hide warships, and it is simple to build an outpost and a military fortress on Dayangshan Island, but it cannot be built into a boat division water camp base. In the vast sea, hundreds of elites have more than enough to defend the island, and without warships, they cannot go out to sea to fight, and they do not have the ability to go out to attack, and the effect on restricting the entry and exit of the East China Sea is very limited.

Although when the Kou ship entered the Shengsi sea area, the Dayangshan Island garrison could transmit the beacon fire warning in time, but the sailing boat division had a long way to come from Chongzhou, unless the Jinghai Naval Division could establish a base on the east coast of Haiyu County to station a large army, which was only sixty or seventy miles away by sea, and when the wind was down, it would only take one or two hours for the boat division to send out reinforcements, so as to effectively restrict the activities of the Donghai Kou in this sea area.

Compared with Dayangshan Island, Lin Tie is more interested in Daheng Island.

Daheng Island is the main island of Shengsi Islands, lies in the sea area east of Haiyu County, stretches out more than 20 miles from east to west, the main peak Jinji Mountain is as high as seventy or eighty zhang, the peak is high and the bay is dangerous, and the water camp base of the boat division can be built. Dahengdao Island is deep and wide, and there is plenty of fresh water, in addition to stationing more troops, you can also immigrate to the island to grow grain.

The island chain of the entire Shengsi archipelago is spread out in an east-west direction, dozens of large and small islands, extending up to 300 miles wide from the near-shore to the eastern seas.

If the fleet of the Donghai Kou wanted to cross the Shengsi sea area and go north, it had to make a detour from the open sea, while the fleet of the East China Sea Kou, which was dominated by loach ships, took the high-sea route with rapid winds and waves and was much more dangerous than going to the near sea.

It's just that now is not the time to storm Oyokoshima.

First, the Jiangdong Left Army has not yet reached the time of strategic expansion, and the foundation of Chongzhou is not solid enough, and for a long time in the future, the main energy will still be used to run Chongzhou, even if Daheng Island is captured, there are not too many resources for building the Daheng Island Boat Division Water Camp Base.

Second, Daheng Island has been the main base of the East China Sea for decades, and the luxury family is also particularly concerned about the operation of Daheng Island, in addition to the fortress and the danger of fortification, there are also one or two thousand elite soldiers, and at this stage the Jiangdong Left Army does not have the conditions to storm Daheng Island.

This kind of consideration, Lin Jian can't talk to Wang Chengfu in detail, but Wang Chengfu has no actual experience in using troops, and he doesn't know the situation of the Jiangdong Left Army and Chongzhou, so it is very good to have such a suggestion.

At this time, three Wupeng boats appeared in the western sea, entered the warning line of the patrol fleet, and made contact with the sentinel ships on the periphery, and then the sentinel ships played the flag of asking for approach, Lin Jian thought to himself: Could it be the patrol ship from Haiyu County?