The breakthrough failed, the grain storage in the city was extinguished, Gu Wuchen and Zhao Qinmin drank wine in the city tower and died, and the defenders, whose morale was already seriously frustrated, suddenly collapsed like a sand tower.

When the city was defended until the food was exhausted, it was considered to have fulfilled his duties, but Gu Wuchen finally chose to commit suicide by drinking, which made the defenders feel his loyalty to the imperial court.

The soldiers were in chaos, the people were panicked, and outsiders naturally couldn't investigate the cause of Zhao Qinmin's death in detail, but when he finally chose to die with Gu Wuchen's righteous martyrs - Zhao Jin didn't understand why his father would suddenly be martyred in the end, but things have developed to this point, others can descend to Yanhu, but he can only inherit the "father's will" One way can go, leading more than 1,000 generals who refused to surrender to the city in the end.

Without assistance, more than 1,000 generals want to break through from among thousands of troops and horses, how can they escape the fate of annihilation? Zhao Jin died in the chaos, and in the end, only more than 100 remnants broke through the encirclement, fled to the mouth of the Zhulong River, and were picked up on the boat.

After Gu Siyuan begged for Yang Pu's death, he lost his soul and was in a trance, and when he knew the news that Gu Wuchen had committed suicide and Yangxin had fallen, he was even more severely hit, and he was like a sudden illness, bedridden, and the whole person seemed to be ten years old.

Yang Yihang and Chen Enze did not continue to guard the meaning of the Zhulong River estuary, and after the sixth day of the ninth month, they confirmed that there were no remnants of Qingzhou to escape, so they set sail to Dengzhou, and entered the knife fish village on September 8 to meet Gao Zongting.

After the fall of Yangxin, the main force of Yanhu's soldiers and horses on the eastern front was no longer restrained in any way, and all of them became active. Since the beginning of September, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, both on foot and on horse, have surged south like a tide from Yangxin, Guangrao, Huantai and Linzi, and entered the hinterland of Qingzhou.

When Gu Siyuan, Chen Enze and others arrived at Dengzhou Daoyu Village, the cities of Shouguang, Changyi and Qingzhou were all captured, and Chen Zhihu had already led his troops to cross the Jiaolai River, and then captured Laizhou, Pingdu, Laiyang, Haiyang and other cities.

Chen Zhihu was defeated outside Qingzhou City, and Du Juefu, Cheng Weiyuan, Yang Shi and others thought it was a great victory. Although Huaidong sent people into Qingzhou to warn, the 4,000 soldiers and horses originally gathered in Qingzhou City had dispersed to Changyi, Shouguang and other cities, and finally broke Chen Zhihu. Du Juefu died in the battle in Changyi, but only Cheng Weiyuan and Yang Shi rushed to Qingzhou before they were besieged and killed, and fled to Linqu with more than 1,000 remnants of the army, struggling to support.

Liu Yefei deceived the news of the annihilation of Dengzhou City by deception, but it was not completely blocked. The news reached Pingdu, causing chaos in the Dengzhou town army, and Liu Yefei's henchmen and cronies were afraid that they would be liquidated if they withdrew to Dengzhou, so they gathered a crowd to mutini and kill the main general Zhao Zhen and surrendered to the enemy.

At this time, Chen Zhihu's soldiers were divided into two routes, one was led by Gao Yi, and about 10,000 people from the newly attached army and the descended army came to Dengzhou, and the first route was led by Chen Zhihu himself, and went to Jimo, the important town of Jiaozhou Bay.

On the Dengzhou side, the soldiers and horses stationed at the southern foot of the port have also withdrawn, and it is only a matter of the past two days to completely abandon Dengzhou City and retreat to Daoyu Village.

Personnel and materials were not able to evacuate to Huaidong for a while, except for the knife fish village, the Miaodao Islands, which are closest to Penglai Jiao in Dengzhou, became a temporary evacuation point. Nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians and millions of stones of materials were piled up in a mess on Miaodao Island, Daheishan Island, Zhushan Island, Daqin Island, and Huangcheng Island in the north and south.

At about this time, the Huaidong Decree signed by Lin Jian personally came, ordering Yang Yihang to serve as the commander of Jinwei, Miaoshan, and Penglai, appointing Chen Enze as the deputy commander and Hu Yu'er as the commander to join the army, and assisting in guarding Miaoshan, and invited Li Ji, the son of King Danluo, to assist in guarding Penglai and Miaoshan, and asked Yang Yihang to stick to Daoyu Village as much as possible, in order to attract more Yanhu soldiers and horses in the northeast corner of Shandong. He also ordered Gao Zongting, Zhao Hu and others, after the situation in Dengzhou was roughly preliminary, to return to Chongzhou in advance, and another important task was appointed, so that Gao Zongting would bring Yuan Zhixing, an official of Dengzhou, and others to Chongzhou in advance......

Miaoshan Islands and Penglai Swordfish Village, for the Bohai Sea lock throat important place, and Liaodong Jinzhou across the sea, but also the firm support of Jinwei Island - Dengzhou did not fall in the future, the knife fish village for Dengzhou Sailor stationed in the city, Miaoshan Islands for Dengzhou Sailor jurisdiction, even if Huaidong saw its danger, did not occupy its own position.

At this time, Dengzhou fell, the entire Shandong situation, including the Hehuai defense line, will completely collapse, Jiangning naturally has no time to fight for the right to control the Miaoshan Islands, Huaidong does not take the Miaoshan Islands at this time, and when?

In fact, Jinwei Island is Dokdo, and it does not take advantage of the large number of warships and the stationing of large armies; As the largest coastal island group north of the Yangtze River estuary, the Miaoshan Islands are far from being comparable to Jinwei Island in terms of the number of islands and the area.

Miaoshan archipelago, there are 32 large and small islands, the main island is more than 30 miles around, the island and mountains are steep, the beach is dangerous and the reef is strange, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are fields to be cultivated in the island, and more than 1,000 islanders live here, making a living from farming and fishing.

Compared with Jinwei Island, Miaoshan Islands are more suitable as the main camp of the Northern Special Camp.

Including the garrison of the former Jinwei Island and the remnants of the Dengzhou Naval Division, the total is nearly 3,000 people. Lin Jian asked Yang Yihang to increase the number of men and horses to about 6,000 according to the actual situation, and arrange the warships and ordnance materials of the former Dengzhou Naval Division for him to use, so that he could use the Miaoshan Islands as a base to attack and harass Liaodong, Jixi, Yanxi, and the coastal areas of Shandong, and contain as many enemy troops as possible.

Li Jisuo, the son of King Danluo, suffered heavy casualties in the first battle of Qijiaji, and Lin Jian allowed him to recruit brave men in Dengzhou, and even allowed him to recruit two more battalions of Ding Zhuang to supplement the losses in the army.

Although Danluo became an independent country, it had more than 30,000 eloquence in the country, which was actually less than the population under the jurisdiction of the middle counties in the Central Plains.

Before and after the Battle of Seogwipo, Dan Luo lost a large number of Ding Zhuang. At present, Danluo wants to maintain a relatively high proportion of standing troops, and it is especially aware of the shortage of population. Lin Jian recruited brave men from Dengzhou this time, which can be regarded as sharing the war dividends with them, anyway, there are hundreds of thousands of people to be withdrawn from Dengzhou, and one or two thousand people are divided into Danluo, which is not even nothing.

Considering that Chen Zhihu's department was quite good at siege warfare, and although the Daoyu Village was strong according to the dangers of mountains and seas, it also needed elite soldiers and horses to assist in defense to defend it steadily, Zhao Hu finally transferred a battalion of elite soldiers and horses from Haidong to Yang Yihang's department.

On September 12, Gao Yi stationed in Dengzhou, which had become an empty city and a ruined city, and the next day led his troops to surround the Daoyu Village, seeing that the Daoyu Walled City was solid and dangerous, and there were Huaidong elites defending the city, driving the people to dig trenches and build fortifications outside the city as a long-term siege plan.

Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu returned south by boat on the 18th, in addition to Yuan Zhixing and other Dengzhou officials, Gu Siyuan carried Yang Pu and Ma Chao's coffins sealed with lime also went south, and arrived in Chongzhou on the 23rd.

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In Chongzhou in late September, autumn is deep, and the leaves are cold.

When the news of Yangxin came, Gu Junxun cried several times, and when Yang Shi escorted her mother and sister-in-law over, she cried for several nights. When the Dengzhou boat came, Gu Junxun's eyes were red and swollen, and his cheeks were thin and sunken, especially thin in the autumn wind that fell with yellow leaves.

Tang Gu's is not as sharp as when he was in Jiangning in previous years, Huafa was born early, his face is full of wrinkles, he is already a weak old woman, holding his daughter Jun Xun and daughter-in-law Du Shi, standing tremblingly by the river, blowing the river wind, crumbling, Gu Wuchen's death hit her extremely hard.

Lin Lian, dressed in a green shirt, stood aside, watching the ship slowly heading towards the dock on the south bank.

Gu Yingsleeve looked at Lin Lian, and thought to herself, regardless of the grievances and grievances between Huaidong and Qingzhou over the years, but thinking about his uncle's life makes people sigh.

When he was young, he was outspoken, he was convicted for his words, he was on the side for ten years, and he tasted the hardships of the world, so he had to take advantage of the situation and become a powerful minister in Jiangdong, and he took a wrong step in supporting the establishment, and was finally forced to leave Jiangning - and regardless of the past right and wrong, the uncle used himself as a bait to leave a way for Hei Yuan to live, for the sake of his loving father; In the end, he committed suicide by drinking in Yangxin City, not yielding to the enemy, and was a loyal minister to the imperial court - in the past, even if Huaidong had a grudge against the people of Qingzhou, it probably disappeared and ceased to exist at this moment, leaving only those past events that were in the purpose for people to recall.

Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu landed from other places, and Lin Jian and his mother-in-law Tang Gu, Jun Xun, Ying Sleeve and Yang Shi went to Nanya Wharf to welcome Gu Siyuan, Yang Pu, Ma Chao and others.

Gu Siyuan looked at the dock and the south cliff of Zilang Mountain that were approaching, and looked at Lin Bin, his mother, wife, sister, and cousin standing on the pier, feeling guilty and remorseful, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.

Gu Wuchen's body fell in Yangxin, and the rebel general Yuan Lishan had no intention of humiliating him, so that Gu Wuchen's body was buried on Zhulongpo outside Yangxin City, next to Lu Jingyan's cemetery.

The two countries were at war, and it was unrealistic to retrieve Gu Wuchen's bones, so Lin Tie set up a mourning hall for Gu Wuchen in Chongzhou, and set up another mound for the Gu family's ancestral tomb in Shiliang Lake.

Seeing Gu Siyuan get off the boat, he was relatively speechless, and after a long time, Lin Jian said: "Uncle Yang and Uncle Ma died loyally, I want to put the coffin of the two of them and my father-in-law in a mourning hall for people to pay tribute, what do you think?" "The things before and after the fall of Yangxin, Chongzhou's side has also been generally verified, only Zhao Qinmin died strangely, Lin Jian didn't think that Zhao Qinmin was the one who could be martyred with him, but the details are unknown.

Gu Siyuan nodded, took out his father's suicide note brought out by Yang Pu from his arms, and said: "These two letters, when you broke through the city, your father asked Uncle Yang to take them to you and Xunniang, who would have thought that Uncle Yang knew that his father had the will to die, and he had no intention of living alone," said to Yang Shi, "The Gu family owes you too much and too much ...... father and son."

Yang Shi said sadly: "The young man's words are serious. ”

Gu Siyuan knelt down at Tang Gu again, crying, "The child is incompetent, he is born alone, but he is tired of his father's corpse and cannot return to his homeland in the northland......"

"......" Tang Gu's eyes were covered with tears, and his thin fingers grabbed his son's shoulders tightly, swallowing hard for a long time. Gu Junxun and Gu Siyuan's wife Liu also cried into tears.

Lin Jian took the suicide note that Gu Wuchen left for him and Jun Xun and stood aside.