The red sunset of Liudan, lying on the hill to the west, is about to sink. Covered with gold and sprinkled with silver, the river is mighty and golden......

Xiao Baiming, who had just led his troops to fight out of the Haining estuary, had no intention of enjoying the evening view of the Qianjiang River at sunset, looking at the Huaidong warship covering the sky and sun on the south river, the sail mast was like a wall, covering the river bank on the south bank shrouded in twilight, and he sat on the bow of the boat weakly, and desperate thoughts surged in his heart: there would be no reinforcements coming, and with a few wrecked ships behind him, he would not be able to break out at all.

They are the naval army sent by Su Tingzhan to attack and harass the hinterland of northern Zhejiang, more than 3,000 people, who have used the dense river network of Haining and Haiyan for several days to attack together, burn, kill, plunder, and wantonly rape/adultery, so unhappy, who would have thought that such a good thing would end on the 24th?

Who would have thought that the warships of the Huaidong Navy Division would rush like crucians crossing the river and cut off their back roads.

The more they fought, the denser the Huaidong warships became; The defenders in Haining City, when they saw that reinforcements were coming, also killed them as if they had taken tonics, and shot them along the coast with bows and crossbows. Finally rushed out of Haining County, only to find that on the Qianjiang River, the Huaidong Sailor Division's boat formation was like a net from heaven to earth, engulfing the Haining estuary inside, making them have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground.

"Metropolitan Supervisor ......"

Xiao Baiming looked back and saw that the old cow, the head of the capital who had followed him since Ninghai Town, opened his mouth to call him the official position when he was in Ninghai Town. The old cow had two broken arrows stuck in his shoulders, and the shafts of the arrows had been broken with big scissors, but the arrows were deeply inserted into the flesh, and there was no medical treatment, so he did not dare to pull them out rashly. Blood flowed down his shoulders, dyeing the blue and black uniforms purple and black, after fighting for a long time, he couldn't smell blood, and his cloudy eyes did not have the courage and ruthlessness of the past, pessimistic and desperate, and there was also a little expectation that made Xiao Baiming not so unfamiliar......

"Lao Niu's life can't be saved, but the brothers can't just fight it out! Prison of the capital, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood! Lao Niu's voice was hoarse, and his words poked out the thoughts that Xiao Baiming and the people around him were pressed in their hearts and dared not speak.

Everyone turned their eyes to look at Xiao Baiming, waiting for him to make a decision, no one noticed that Chen Qianhu walked from behind the boat with a short spear, his eyes flashed with fierce light, and he stabbed in from the back of the old cow.

At this point in the fight, Chen Qianhu had lost his mind, and the blood-red copper bell burst into a devouring fierce light, and shouted in a deep voice: "When the commander died, everyone was determined to take revenge, how could they surrender to Huaidong?" Whoever dares to have such a thought in his heart is an example! ”

Lao Niu turned his head to look at Chen Qianhu in disbelief, and his body fell down, and he completely lost his vitality. Chen Qianhu stepped on the corpse of the old cow and pulled out the short spear, perhaps because the blood had flowed too much, only a little bright red blood seeped out of the armor......

Xiao Baiming sighed in his heart, cheered up later, and said in a loud voice: "Huaidong will never leave us a way to live, and if it falls into their hands, it will only be worse than death." Fight out, eat wine and meat and play with girls, Baiming invites the brothers to be happy for half a month; If you can't kill it, you'll still be a good man after 20 years, don't let people look down on you! ”

Ge Cunxiong didn't know that the few wrecked boats that rushed out of the mouth of the Haining River were the remnants of the Ninghai Town Navy that had defected to the extravagant family, and Xiao Baiming, Chen Qianhu and others on the boats were Huaidong's old enemies. Seeing that the enemy ships had no intention of surrendering, he had no patience to wait any longer, so he ordered each wing to send six warships to attack, destroy the remnants of the eastern Zhejiang army before nightfall, and end the battle at the mouth of the Haining River!

Unable to wait for the war here to end, Ge Cunxiong dispatched part of his combat strength from the Third Water Battalion to march west to the west, and blocked the Cao'e River Estuary between Huiji and Shangyu before night came.

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The news that the remnants of the Zhedong Water Division, which had entered Haining to disturb the attack, had annihilated the Third Water Battalion and returned to Hukou Village, and it was already a bright moon and stars.

In the Hukou Village, the temporary use of the Southern Expedition, more than a dozen giant candles will reflect the official hall as bright as day.

Qin Chengzu was responsible for presiding over specific military affairs in the main hall, and the generals and officials of the Xingyuan and the Military Intelligence Department were busy around him, walking in and out, and all the military information was summarized and sorted out here by Qin Chengzu.

Lin Jian would not be distracted by tedious military affairs, after he landed at noon and entered the Hukou Village, he stayed in the side hall for most of the day, and studied the battle on the map hanging on the north wall for a long time - the latest development and evolution of the situation between the enemy and the enemy would be assisted by Song Jia, who would clearly and promptly mark it on the map.

The map shows that from the beginning of the surprise attack launched by the advance troops of the Huaidong Army in the early morning to the present, there have been as many as 17 places where battles have taken place in eastern Zhejiang and Haining and Haiyan on the north bank of the Qianjiang River, capturing Cixi County and seven villages on the northeast coast of Mingzhou Prefecture, including Hukou, Jintang, Chongshou, and Xiapu, and capturing three dock ports and two ship yards such as Laotangshan, Meishan, and Xietang.

The lower reaches of the Qian (Tang) River waterway is the standard trumpet topography, the south bank starts from the Chongshou Village in the northeast corner of Mingzhou Prefecture, and the north bank starts from the Xitang Bridge Village in Jiaxing Prefecture, if it is counted as the dividing line between the Qian River and the East China Sea, the river surface here is more than 60 miles wide, and the waterway is also deep, which is suitable for the ships of the Jinghai Sea Battalion to fight. However, when the river road moved west to the south of Haining County, it suddenly shrank to less than five or six miles wide, and the silt water was shallow, and the sand and ridge were hidden at the bottom of the river, so it was not conducive to the warships of the Jinghai Sea Battalion that had a deep draft to enter the battle.

After the war in eastern Zhejiang was unveiled, Zhao Qingshan led the main force of the first water battalion, and after advancing west along the Qianjiang River, he mainly deployed the section of the river between the west of the Cao'e River Estuary and the Dingqiao Bridge in Haining, and was responsible for intercepting the main force of the Eastern Zhejiang Water Division in Fuyang at this time down the river. After covering the landing of the infantry battalion, the 2nd Water Battalion joined up with the 3rd Water Battalion and was responsible for finding and destroying the troops of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division remaining in the Mingzhou Mansion or harassing the north bank in the waters east of the Cao'e River estuary.

Song Jia, who was wearing a Confucian shirt and had been accompanying Lin Jian since entering Jinhai from the north, had not closed his eyes to rest since last night, and his bones were full of tiredness. She raised her head from the pile of snowflakes of letters, saw Lin Jian lying on the map, personally drew the route of the third water battalion to the mouth of the Cao'e River, and said lazily: "The main force of the Eastern Zhejiang Water Division has not been beaten down from the upstream by this time, and it will probably not come out in a short time!" ”

"Strategically, you have to be bold, but when it comes to the implementation of specific tactics, you must be careful and careful," Lin Jian made a good mark, left the map a little farther away, re-examined the latest situation of the enemy in eastern Zhejiang, glanced back at Song Jia, and said, "Only after Ao Canghai conquers Shangyu and the Third Water Battalion completely controls the Cao'e River, can the main force of the First Water Battalion be withdrawn and used elsewhere!" And we have more time to attack the capital city of Mingzhou. ”

Chen Mingzhen and Chen Xiyan, as guest secretaries, were also invited to stay in the side hall to pay attention to the development of the situation in eastern Zhejiang at any time, and they all saw that Song Jia was a woman dressed as a man.

The existence of women in the military camp is the most taboo, Chen Xiyan and Chen Mingzhe frowned at Song Jia's stay in the side hall, and they were ashamed to point out the war, but they were helpless, Lin Jian even made up a women's battalion in Chongzhou to make up for the lack of cronies.

There are too many deviant things that have happened to Lin Bin, and it seems normal to leave a female official dressed as a man in the side hall.

The lights and candles cast the figure of Lin Jian on the map, as if a huge shadow covered the land of eastern Zhejiang.

In addition to the water camp, Ao Canghai led the main force of the Changshan battalion to land at the same time in Chongshou and Xie Tang in the northeast and north of Mingzhou Prefecture at noon. After capturing Chongshou and Xie Tang, the Changshan battalion quickly advanced to Cixi and Shangyu in two ways, forming two huge arrows advancing from the coast to the inland on the map.

Before nightfall, the right wing of the Changshan battalion successfully captured Cixi City, which was less than 600 defenders, and the left wing formed a siege of Shangyu City, cutting the connection between Shangyu and Huiji in the west, and the plan was to attack Shangyu overnight, but no new battle report was sent back.

At the same time, Lin Jian also asked Ge Cunxiong to lead the main force of the Third Water Battalion to the west into the lower and middle reaches of the Cao'e River after clearing the remnants of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division that attacked Haining and Haiyan, and make full use of the Cao'e River as the natural terrain of Huiji and Mingzhou, and make preparations to intercept Su Tingzhan and Xu Feixiong to lead reinforcements eastward into Mingzhou Prefecture.

Due to the military deployment of the luxury family in eastern Zhejiang, with Huiji as the center, Su Tingzhan led the soldiers and horses of eastern Zhejiang to attack Fuyang, and there were still 3,000 defenders left in Huiji City. At the same time, the distance between Huiji and Fuyang is also close, the straight-line distance is only more than 100 miles, and the troops led by Luxury Feixiong and Su Tingzhan to return from Fuyang to help Huiji are also fast - in the first stage of the war in eastern Zhejiang, Lin Jian has no intention of attacking Huiji, and it is obviously unrealistic to attack Huiji with strange troops.

In addition to Huiji, the soldiers and horses left behind by the luxury family to guard the Mingzhou Mansion were obviously mainly to guard against small-scale disturbances from the sea. Mingzhou Prefecture including the defense line established by the luxury family in Daishan and Changguo Islands, the total strength of the remaining Shuibu Army exceeded 13,000 people, about 4,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Daishan and Changguo Islands did not change much, and the other more than 8,000 soldiers and horses were scattered to garrison the coastal defense villages and cities of Mingzhou Prefecture, and also divided a naval division to disturb Haiyan, Haining, Jiaxing and other places on the opposite bank.

This created a very favorable fighter plane for the Huaidong Army to attack quickly, divide it and then concentrate its forces to break through.

Lin Tie's idea for the first stage of the war in eastern Zhejiang is very clear, that is, first disperse the troops, seize the outer cities and defensive walls of Mingzhou Mansion, form an interception line against the reinforcements from southern and western Zhejiang, and then shrink the forces to attack the inner line of Mingzhou Mansion, and strive for the first stage, to recover the entire territory of Mingzhou!

In addition to Ao Canghai leading a section of the Changshan Battalion to the west to attack Shangyu County first to prepare for reinforcements from western Zhejiang, Zhou Tong led the main force of the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion to advance directly to Xiangshan Bay in the south of Mingzhou Mansion under the cover of some warships of the Second Water Battalion, and landed from the iron port to seize Shengzhou first.

It was Shengzhou, Lin was bound to the map, and drew a big red circle on the map of Shengzhou with a charcoal pen with Danhong as the core.

If the luxury Feihu led his troops from southern Zhejiang to aid the Mingzhou Mansion, Shengzhou was the place where he must go.

After Zhou Tong led his troops to land from the iron port, he had to climb over the southern hills of the Siming Mountains to enter the territory of Shengzhou, which was two days earlier than the luxury flying tiger.

In the absence of siege equipment, it is really unknown whether the Chongcheng infantry battalion can successfully capture Shengzhou City in two days.

Although more than 21,000 foot soldiers, including the Changshan Battalion, the Chongcheng Infantry Battalion, and the Hailing Mansion Army, were transferred to the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang, considering that they were likely to face a great counterattack from southern and western Zhejiang in eastern Zhejiang, as well as the nearly 4,000 remnants of eastern Zhejiang on Changguo Island, Lin Jian still felt that the troops at hand were very insufficient.

Relying on Qi Ce's attack to capture the cities and fortifications of Mingzhou Mansion was the first stage of the war in eastern Zhejiang; Next, it is necessary to be able to repel the counterattack of the luxury family and hold the Mingzhou Mansion in order to obtain a preliminary victory.

"The remnants of the Eastern Zhejiang Navy Division that entered Haining were largely annihilated," Qin Chengzu personally took a battle report and walked in happily, "The preliminary estimate is that the number of enemies destroyed is about 1,900 people, more than 300 people have been captured, and Xiao Baiming, the rebel general of Ninghai, has been captured alive, and he is on the way to this side......"

"Good!" Lin Jian excitedly clenched the charcoal in his hand and waved it vigorously in front of him, and said, "Immediately send an order to Chongzhou, and the merchant ships will carry reserve soldiers from Jiangmen to support this side!" ”

Up to now, the Huaidong Naval Division has almost annihilated the main force of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division west of the Haining Waterway of about 3,000 people, as long as Zhao Qingshan leads the main force of the first water battalion to block the main force of the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division assembled in Fuyang to the west of Haining, in the waters surrounded by Mingzhou Mansion and Changguo and Daishan Islands, there is no naval force that can threaten the Huaidong Army. At this time, there was naturally not much danger in using merchant ships to transport reserve troops south.

"As for Xiao Baiming......" mentioned this name, scenes of the past came to mind, Lin Jian groaned slightly, and said, "Let him meet Xiao Changze, and then reward the two of them with a whole corpse!" He asked Chen Xiyan again, "Does Elder Chen Ge think it's good to deal with it like this?" ”

Chen Xiyan smiled bitterly, Lin Jian was in power, and he killed one or two prisoners, so why did he need to consult them?

But when it comes to Xiao Baiming, Chen Xiyan has also seen it.

When the Laotangshan Port was captured, Xiao Taoyuan's second son Xiao Changhui was killed on the spot, and Xiao Taoyuan's eldest son Xiao Changze was captured.