(The first update, ask for a red ticket)

Zhang Yan brought two thousand salt guards from Weiyang, and transferred a large number of salt guards from Qingjiangpu to the south, and the salt guards gathered in Sheyang were as many as more than 7,000 people, far more than the Kou soldiers guarding Hecheng in terms of numbers - but Dafeng was defeated, and the crotch of the salt guards was poked into a translucent light, and what eggs were hidden in it, anyone with a discerning eye could see it clearly.

In Kou Bing's view, it was impossible to break through the defense line of the Jiangdong Left Army and march west to Chongzhou, but the salt protection army was definitely a soft man.

Most of the official salt comes from the two Huai, and most of the private salt also comes from the two Huai, and the officials and generals who have fornicated with the salt lord and the salt merchant are all full of private pockets, buy houses and fields in the famous city of Dayi, and raise beautiful concubines, how many people dare to lead the army to kill the enemy with the arrow?

Zhang Yan hated that iron could not become steel, stared at Song Xiaobo's fat face with a gloomy face, and asked in a soft voice: "I treat you well, what benefits did you get from Chongzhou to help others come to Hecheng?" ”

"My lord, you have wronged me!" Song Xiaobo fell to his knees, snot and tears said that he would be biao, and walked to Zhang Yan's feet, looking wronged, and wanted to hug Zhang Yan's thighs and cry......

Zhang Yan took a step back in disgust.

Song Xiaobo is confused, but when it comes to his own interests, he is not ambiguous at all.

If Zhang Yan treats him well, why kick him to come to Hecheng Chengcao, one tube is five years? What Lin Tie has in mind, Song Xiaobo doesn't care, if he doesn't continue to perform this play, the black veil on his head is difficult to protect, maybe the head on his neck will also move, and he continues to cry with a handful of snot and tears: "I want the soldiers to come for the first time, the momentum is violent, the adults and Mao Duwei are far away, and the lower officials can only hastily break through to Chongzhou for help, so as to solve the danger of Hecheng......"

"Breakout?" Mao Wenjing sneered, "You broke through the siege so well, how did I hear that it was you who abandoned the city and fled first, which caused the fall of Hecheng and caused the situation in Huainan Salt District to be very bad?" ”

"The fall of Hecheng, my family really can't escape responsibility, but the situation in Huainan is very bad, and even the defeat of Dafeng, what does it have to do with my family?" Wang Chengfu, who had been pretending to be Song Xiaobo's personal follower, stood up and said, "After the fall of Hecheng, my family actively campaigned, gathered the rout, and joined forces with the Jiangdong Left Army, so there was a great victory in Chongzhou. The great victory in Chongzhou dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the East China Sea Kou, and the situation was very good, but Mao Duwei coerced the communiqué privately, suppressed our family with force, emphasized that the Hecheng army went north, and sabotaged the proposal of our Hecheng army and the Jiangdong Left Army to join forces, so that our family was left without a horse, and then missed the good opportunity to counterattack Hecheng. If you want to talk about the loss of sin, the guillotine must first be put on the neck of Captain Mao! ”

"What kind of bastard are you, and this is a place for you to talk?" Mao Wenjing stared at Wang Chengfu angrily, far away, he couldn't raise his foot and kick it, so he wanted to call someone to knock him out of the tent.

Zhang Yan coughed lightly and reminded Mao Wenjing that he was the one who was in charge here.

Song Xiaobo also pretended to be angry and scolded Wang Chengfu: "Shut up, Mao Duwei is guilty, and you can talk about it?" Stand back! ”

At this time, Liu Shidu and Wu Meijiu reported that they had entered the account, and when they saw the appearance in the tent, they knew that Zhang Yan, Mao Wenjing, and Song Xiaobo had quarrels.

Zhang Yan glanced at Song Xiaobo and said, "You go out first......" He knew that Song Xiaobo could no longer be trusted, so he invited Song Xiaobo and his sharp-tongued and unruly followers out, and then asked Liu Shidu, "Lord Liu, what did he say?" ”

Of course, Liu Shidu hoped to promote the joint army as soon as possible, after all, Gaocheng in the north of Chongzhou was also threatened by the Kou soldiers, so he relayed Lin Bin's words in a relaxed way, and said: "Time does not wait for people, the situation drags on, even if you can repel the Kou soldiers, it will be difficult to clean up." ”

Zhang Yan knew that he couldn't delay it, and once he caused a large number of salt households to flee, it would inevitably delay the salt industry in autumn and winter, but Lin Yan actually threatened to cut troops, which also made him feel a bad breath in his heart, and said: "The Jiangdong Left Army is too sharp, and it seems that it is not good for Lord Liu!" ”

Liu Shidu snorted and said: "Everything is loyal and dutiful to the court, how can I have Liu's personal interests?" ”

Wu Meijiu couldn't see through what Liu Shidu was thinking, but he didn't mean to promote the alliance. In any case, the Jiangdong Left Army protects the surface of the river and the sea, and Hailing Mansion is not troubled by banditry, at least at present, it is a rare benefit, as for the future...... The world is unpredictable, who can control the future.

Seeing that Liu Shidu also said this, Zhang Yan also lost his temper, and said with a bluffed face: "If the Jiangdong Left Army can also assume the responsibility of transshipment, this official has nothing to say!" ”

The grassland of Hecheng is vast and sparsely populated, and it is not difficult for tens of thousands of grassland households to harvest six or seven million pieces of hay from Hecheng every year, but the hay is bundled into bundles, light in quality and large in shape, and the difficulty is to transport the six or seven million pieces of hay to the Dafeng and Sheyang salt areas in the north -- the grassland households are suffering here, on average, each person harvests and transports six or seven hundred rounds of forage a year, and the forage sales officer only gets one dollar, and he has to stick the money for cars and boats, mules and horses, and the whole family works hard all year round, and even the belly wrapping is a problem.

There are more than 1,200 garrisons in Hecheng, and in addition to garrisoning, the most important duty is to supervise transportation.

The Hecheng grassland is assigned to the defense of the Jiangdong Left Army, as long as the supply of forage is guaranteed, so that the Jiangdong Left Army will assume the responsibility of supervising the transportation, there will not be too many practical benefits for the Yantie Division, but the loss is dignity and face! In addition, once this opening is opened, Lin Yan's ambition is afraid that it will be difficult to stop it easily-however, Zhang Yan is forced to have no way out, and he can't ask for reinforcements from elsewhere at this time......

As far as the principle of tactics and strategy is concerned, in a relatively narrow area, it is more advantageous for the defense zone to have a unified command and dispatch.

Regarding the fragmented defense system around Chongzhou, Lin Jian had already written a letter to the military department to bluntly talk about its drawbacks, and the military department had long been talking about putting the Hecheng grassland into the Jiangdong Left Army Defense Zone. However, the matter of salt and iron is very special, and if the salt and iron division does not let go, the things supported by the military department cannot be passed.

Zhang Yan relieved himself, it was the most critical step, as long as the Jiangdong Left Army actually controlled Hecheng Port and Hecheng Military Fortress, he would not worry about things repeating again.

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At dawn, there was a clear morning light outside the window, the candle flame on the long beak of the copper crane was swaying, the blue-black hood was placed on the desk, and the extravagant Feihu was sitting in front of the desk in armor to study the military situation for another night, and he didn't realize that it was already dawn.

Qin Zitan stood up with a long body, and before he knew it, the weather was as cold as water at night.

Others may not be able to guess, but it should not be difficult for Lin Jian to guess that the second prince is hiding here, the strange thing is that the Jiangdong Left Army has not moved in the past few days, what is he waiting for?

"The Jiangdong Left Army has moved, and a team of thousands of people is advancing towards Dasai!" Cheng Yiqun came in to report, the arrow wound on his shoulder had not yet healed, his left shoulder was not wearing armor, and he was wearing a robe over his armor, like a Confucian general who abandoned his pen and followed Rong.

Hearing this, he and Qin Zitan followed Cheng Yiqun out of the house and on the wall to see how the Jiangdong Left Army moved; Xu Zhong also heard the news and came out of the camp - there have been two years of preparation, they have become a force in the East China Sea, they have fought to raise war, rob places, and accumulate a lot of savings, even if the luxury family raises the flag again, it will be no big problem, so they are not as cautious as before, and the ordinary officers in the army also know the arrival of the luxury flying tiger. At this point, they should also let ordinary generals know what they are fighting for!

Standing on the battlement wall, Hao Feihu saw that in the still dim morning light, the Jiangdong Left Army came out of the camp, and near the Yunyan River embankment in the northwest corner of Dasai, the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army had already lined up to suppress them and send troops out of the fortress.

"What do they want to do?" Yu Feihu asked left and right in confusion, "Lin Tie won't be stupid enough to storm the Great Fortress, right?" Looking back, there was no warship of the Jiangdong Left Army Water Camp in the vast sea to the east.

Hecheng is one of the four stops in Huainan salt area, the old plug in the early years was washed away by the big waves set off by the tsunami, and then the new plug was rebuilt, and the wave-proof stone pond was repaired.

The new plug is much stronger than the old stopper, the plug wall is based on stones, covered with green bricks, rammed earth as the core, four zhang high, three zhang thick, six hundred steps. The new Sai is built according to the south bank of the Yunyan River, the east, west and north three gates are opened, the east and west gates are the dry gates, the north gate has a waterway to communicate with the Yunyan River, it is the water gate, and the north water gate is connected to the big pool that occupies nearly half of the area of the big plug, and there are fifty or sixty warships that can be hidden in the Sai.

When the new fortress was built, it was to learn from the experience of Dengzhou Shuicheng and want to station a battalion of boat divisions here, but for various reasons, it was put on hold, but at this time, it was cheaper to Donghai Kou. Although the water from the upper reaches of the Yunyan River is intercepted, the terrain here is quite low, and there is still shallow water cover in normal times, and at high tide, it is filled with recharged seawater, which is convenient for warships to go to sea.

Dafeng's victory, so that the morale of Chongzhou after the defeat was restored, and the soldiers were more elite, according to the Xiongsai - to be honest, the luxury flying tiger wished that Lin Tie would send troops to attack. With the strength and reserves of the Jiangdong Left Army today, it simply cannot withstand the consumption of such a cruel siege warfare.

"There will be no strong attack," Qin Zitan shook his head, he saw that there was also an army approaching on the north bank at this time, pointing that way, "After a few days of delay, maybe Lin Tie is negotiating some conditions with the Salt and Iron Division...... Lin Tie seems to be loyal, but he is a person who does not rush to do unprofitable things. ”

"Fuck it, I'll order a battalion of elite soldiers, they dare to form a formation under the plug, and kill his mother's shit while his position is unstable......," Xu Zhong said scoldingly.

Extravagant Feihu nodded, he couldn't let the Jiangdong Left Army approach the city without any action, and ordered Cheng Yiqun to bring more strong bows and crossbows to this side to plug the wall and support Xu Zhong to rush out of the fortress.

The Kou soldiers only had foot soldiers in Hecheng Seri, and they could not impact the cavalry array of the Jiangdong Left Army, so they could only wait for the Jiangdong Left Army's foot soldiers to approach, and take advantage of their unstable position to attack the fortress, hoping to frustrate their spirit.

When the array of foot soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army approached and was completely displayed in the morning light, Hao Feihu was dumbfounded: the infantry of the Jiangdong Left Army under the attack was about 2,3400 people, divided into two teams, one team advanced along the south embankment of the Yunyan River, and the other team entered the southwest corner of Dasai.

Extravagant Feihu gave up the idea of sending troops to raid, and saw that the Jiangdong Left Army used nearly 100 chariots to form a chariot camp in the southwest and northwest corners of Dasai, forming a horn to look at the West Gate - this kind of chariot is covered with high cards when it is marching, and when it is stopped, the high cards on both wings are unfolded, forming a covering surface that is up to one zhang and five or six wide, and the 100 chariots are buckled and knotted, which is enough to form a strong camp with a circumference of 150 or 60 zhang wide, filled with elite soldiers, set up a strong bow and crossbow, look at the West Gate, and suppress the troops sent out of the West Gate to rush out.

Seeing the Jiangdong Left Army forming a car camp outside the Saiwai, the Luxury Feihu made people test the formation with a bed crossbow, and at a distance of 2560 paces, although the bed crossbow was sharp, it could not shoot through the high card, injuring the Jiangdong Left Army in the car camp. However, the camp was formed, and the Jiangdong Left Army did not attack the blockade, and a large group of men and horses came from a distance, carrying spades and shovels and other tools for digging ditches and filling in the soil on their shoulders.

"It's not good, I'm afraid that the Jiangdong Left Army is going to build a trench wall to besiege us," Qin Zitan frowned when he looked at the layout of the Jiangdong Left Army under the plug, and immediately pulled the Feihu to the east wall, pointed to the open space in front of the plug, and said, "We must send troops to occupy this place, if we let the Jiangdong Left Army build a trench wall under this side, I am afraid that we will soon lose the passage to the sea......"

Xinsai was built according to the Yunyan River, but it was still five or six hundred paces away from the Fangbo Sea Pond to the east - it was too easy to blockade the Yunyan River, and it would be enough to scuttle a few ships - once this open space was cut off by a trench wall for the Jiangdong Left Army, they would be completely trapped in the Blockade.