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In the dead of night.

Although he successfully repelled the deviant division sent by Chen Zhihu, in order to smoothly evacuate the people and materials from Dengzhou, Gao Zongting did not publicize the news of the victory to appease the people - the homeland is difficult to leave, some people will choose to flee out of fear and the slightest danger, but more people were born and raised in Si, and their fields and families are here, how can it be so easy to give up everything and leave their hometown?

Under the deliberate connivance of Gao Zongting, the mood of pessimism and panic did not stop, spreading in Dengzhou City-

Due to the fact that Dengzhou City is far away from the coast, it is necessary to withdraw all the people and materials in the city before Chen Zhihu's main force arrives, and the time is very urgent, Gao Zongting can only use panic to drive the people to resolutely leave their homeland.

Under the shroud of panic, people in Dengzhou City are naturally barking and dogs, and there is no peace for a moment.

Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu were discussing in the temporary government office, and Yuan Zhixing, the governor of the government, hurriedly came and said: "Laizhou Zhixian sent people over, hoping that the Huaidong army can help them evacuate......"

Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu looked at each other, of course they wanted to evacuate the population of the Shandong Peninsula, but they also had to have this ability - now they have more than 3,000 remaining combat forces in Dengzhou, most of which are concentrated in Qijiaji to defend, providing a relatively safe evacuation space for Dengzhou City, which is temporarily in the inner line.

As long as Chen Zhihu's main force enters the west bank of the Jiaolai River, Gao Zongting and Zhao Hu will consider withdrawing the soldiers and horses of Qijiaji, and they do not have the strength to fight Chen Zhihu the Shandong Peninsula at all.

Gao Zongting said to Yuan Zhixing: "I will send someone to Huaidong again, hoping to transfer more ships from Huaidong...... Laizhou, Laiyang, Haiyang and other counties also hope that the Yuan people will communicate with them and ask them to organize their own evacuation as much as possible. ”

Yuan Zhixing nodded with a heavy face, knowing that Gao Zongting would not be able to send people to support Laizhou at this time.

Yuan Zhixing walked, and Zhao Hu said: "Laizhou has gathered a lot of shipbuilders over the years, should I go for a trip?" ”

Laizhou Bay, including Laizhou and Changyi, is located at the northern mouth of the Jiaolai River.

The Jinhai Grain Road has led to a surge in the number of ships gathered along the coast of Laizhou Bay, and also caused the shipbuilding industry along the coast of Laizhou Bay to rise rapidly. With the fall of Beidi, the Jinhai grain road has become a historical cloud, and the shipbuilding industry along the coast of Laizhou Bay has naturally declined, but the emaciated camel always has a few taels of meat, and Changyi and Laizhou still have a lot of potential for the development of shipbuilding industry.

"There is a shortage of manpower, so Gao Yi will be nailed to the southwest of Buling, and to ensure that the evacuation of Dengzhou can be carried out smoothly, Laizhou will be a little beyond the reach of the whip," Gao Zongting said: "In fact, before I came to Dengzhou, the military department discussed various situations that might arise and how to deal with them. It is the goal of our trip to ensure that Yanhu cannot gain shipbuilding capabilities that threaten Huaidong's position in the East China Sea, but it may not be in Huaidong's interests to completely cut off Yanhu's hope of building ships to go to sea......"

After Gao Zongting arrived in Dengzhou, many things happened one after another, Zhao Hu did not have time to fully exchange views with him, and many times, Gao Zongting gave orders on behalf of the military department, and Zhao Hu actively cooperated - as far as Huaidong Military Division's recent thinking on Yanhu's strategy, Zhao Hu was naturally far less familiar than Gao Zongting, the person who was directly involved in the drafting.

Gao Zongting continued: "If Yan Hu completely puts an end to the idea of going to sea, it is likely that he will blockade the coast, and the focus of the use of troops will be on the middle or west road, which is not what the military department wants to see. If Laizhou and Changyi are given to Yanhu, it will actually be just a tasteless and discarded 'chicken rib', so Yanhu is likely to have a considerable part of the resources to be restrained in the development of the water army......"

Zhao Hu smiled and said: "Give them a little hope to develop a water army, and after a little scale, they will extinguish it with all their might, and then give them some hope to develop a water army...... is a good strategy to add oil, and Guan Bao made Yan Hu taste all the hardships. ”

"Yezier, the lord of Yanhu, is also a rare man of great talent, it is difficult to make him fooled, and he may not be able to do so. It would be more desirable to make it possible to empty the entire Shandong. Gao Zongting said.

"How can there be such a good thing?" Zhao Hu said, "Even if Ye Zier sees through Huaidong's plan, what can he do? The coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula, the coast of Liaoxi, the coast of Jixi, the coast of Yanxi, and the coast of the Shandong Peninsula stretches out for thousands of miles, and there are more than 1,000 islands of all sizes. ”

Gao Zongting smiled, from the south from Yizhou to the north to the Liangliao coastline of tens of thousands of miles, the Yangzi River and the Yellow River, the two main streams, will actually outline the outline of the Central Plains regime. The main reason why the Central Plains Imperial Court has always despised the development of maritime power is that for a long time, except for scattered pirate forces, it has never been seriously threatened from the sea.

As long as Yan Hu has the possibility of developing naval combat power, even if he knows that he is drinking to quench his thirst, how can he be willing to let go of the thousands of miles of coast and let Huaidong be attacked endlessly?

Dominating the East China Sea is indeed an advantage that Huaidong has exclusive, but thinking of another matter, Gao Zongting sighed lightly and said, "I don't know what the situation is in Yang Yihang?" ”

Yang Yihang transferred the limited troops and warships of Jinwei Island and waited at the mouth of the Zhulong River to give the main force of the Qingzhou Army trapped in Yangxin the hope of escaping on the last line-

Huaidong and Qingzhou are entangled in grievances, and regardless of the staggered relationship between the Dongyang Township Party, Gu Wuchen is Lin Lian's master and father-in-law no matter what he says - there are some things that everyone has not said, but they are deeply worried that Gu Wuchen and Gu Siyuan will choose to join the enemy after being forced into a desperate situation!

Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan and his son led the Qingzhou army to surrender to the enemy, which dealt a great blow to the Dongyang family and Huaidong.

Looking at Yue Lengqiu's embarrassing position as a little daughter-in-law in Jiangning today, one can imagine how hard Huaidong will be hit in prestige in the future; Others don't care about Qingzhou and Huaidong have long been broken up because of their support, and Lin Lian, as Gu Wuchen's son-in-law, can't change this fact.

And how Gu Junxun behaves in Huaidong is a problem, how can Lin Lian's family incident not have any impact on the overall situation of Huaidong, and how can the military and people of Huaidong easily accept the daughter or sister of a person who has surrendered to the enemy and sought glory?

In addition, if Jiang Ning uses the excuse of purging the Dongyang Township Party implicated in defecting to the enemy, Huaidong will inevitably be hit as well; Huaidong and Qingzhou come from the same source, even if they are separated by supporting the establishment, it is actually difficult to completely draw a clear line.

Even if Gu Wuchen, Gu Siyuan, father and son escaped and the entire Qingzhou Army was lost, this result would be easier for Huaidong to accept.

When this matter was in Chongzhou, Lin Jian did not mention it, but Lin Mengde and Qin Chengzu both talked to Gao Zongting.

Therefore, when the strength of Dengzhou was the most tense, Gao Zongting still insisted that Yang Yihang lead his troops to guard the mouth of the Zhulong River.

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Under the dangerous city, people's hearts are panicking.

The Liang family concentrated their forces to retreat to Jinan, so that the Yanhu soldiers and horses easily advanced to the banks of the Yellow River and Xiaoqing River, and Yangxin City was completely isolated - the victory in Qingzhou made the desperate soldiers and civilians in Yangxin City excited for a few days, thinking that they would win another battle and drive Chen Zhihu away from the hinterland of Qingzhou, and the siege of Yangxin could be solved in a few days, but until today, there is no exciting news from the south. All the signs, otherwise it is to verify Huaidong's judgment, Chen Zhihu's plan to deceive and defeat is just to seek Dengzhou.

The most desperate and devastating thing is that nothing more than the sudden germination of hope has been quietly extinguished.

Yang Xin did not have many guards, on the contrary, there were too many guards.

After the end of the ten-year Yangxin defense war in Chongguan, Yangxin's city defense was greatly strengthened, but the scale of the city did not expand, and it was still a small city with more than 1,000 households.

Thousands of small towns, now stuffed into the main force of the Qingzhou army of more than 24,000 people and almost the same number of young and strong people, this number is too much, too many people to bear.

Yangxin's garrison was so "strong" and there was a strong city to defend, so Yanhu's troops naturally did not dare to attack, but it was precisely because of the excessive number of people that Yangxin's grain reserves were in danger of dying two months after the siege.

The evening breeze blew, Gu Wuchen's white hair was scattered, his eyes were desolate, he waited for more than two months, no reinforcements were seen, and his beard was all dyed white, and he didn't look like a person in his fifties.

"Adult ......"

Gu Wuchen turned his head and saw Yang Pu coming over, didn't say anything, and then turned his head to look at the vast and desperate night outside the city.

"My lord, the enemy didn't know that Yangxin was about to run out of food at this time, so he didn't encircle him, and he couldn't delay breaking through for too long!" Yang Pu said.

"How do you break through?" Led by the rebel general Yuan Lishan, the new annex army assembled around Yangxin amounted to 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers, and 20,000 Hu cavalry peeped around. Standing at the head of Yangxin City on a moonlit night, looking out from afar, you can see that under the crescent moon, the enemy camp tents are endless to the point of despair, Gu Wuchen said in a hoarse voice, "The enemy army is surrounded by Yangxin three times, but it is just forcing the Qingzhou army out of the city to fight!" It is 300 miles south from here to Qingzhou, and the Qingzhou army is not the elite of Huaidong, how can it escape under the pursuit of tens of thousands of iron horsemen? ”

The Qingzhou Army had only four or five thousand elite people at the beginning, and it was later incorporated into the Yunjun Army and recruited the people to surge to more than 30,000. The formation time of the Qingzhou army is too short, the armor, training and military attachés are seriously lacking, it is okay to defend the city, and if you want to pull out of the city to fight the bloody way from the encirclement of the enemy army several times larger than yourself, Gu Wuchen has no confidence at all.

"Huaidong has a sea boat at the mouth of the Zhulong River, and if you break through from Yangxin to the east, you can see the sea as long as you travel eighty miles!" Yang Pu said.

"It is impossible for Huaidong to prepare a boat that can carry 50,000 people at a time, what does it mean that they are preparing to disembark at the mouth of the river, I understand in my heart," Gu Wuchen closed his eyes painfully and said, "But this city full of soldiers and civilians are trapped here because of me, do I have the face to abandon them and flee alone?" ”

"......" Yang Pu was clumsy, he didn't know how to persuade him, and when he looked up, he saw that Gu Wuchen's face was already full of old tears.

Over the years since Yang Pu was born and died with Gu Wuchen, even if his life was hard during the ten years of Liubian, he had never seen Gu Wuchen like this, and he was stunned for a while, forgetting what to say.

"You go and call Si Yuan over, I have a ...... to tell him," Gu Wuchen said.