When it got dark, bonfires lit inside and outside the wall, and Yang Yihang stood on the wall and looked south.

There was a faint light of fire on the horizon, and it was so far away that it was impossible to distinguish whether it was a campfire set up by the Jiangdong Left Army or the captive Nakh Xiongqi Division. It took five days for the Jiangdong Left Army to move to the southern part of Jinhai from the seventh day of the first month, and it had been three days since the Nahexiong Qi Department chased after it.

Can the coalition be of any use?

In the villages that were not breached in Jinhai and Qingxian, Yang Yihang was able to contact the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers of about 3,000 people, and the commander was killed in battle, and the Jinzhong soldiers were killed in eight or nine out of ten, which was already a fiasco of annihilation, even if the Jiangdong Left Army was added, there were only more than 6,000 people on their side, and Ye Ji Luorong, one of the chieftains of the Dongyu, led the main force of nearly 40,000 cavalry on the northern front of the Dongyu to the south of Gyeonggi, two hundred miles away.

After the defeat of Gaoyang, and then the three prefectures and counties of Yannan gathered and fell, Yang Yihang did not send people to cross Hejian Province to the south to reconnoiter and liaise in Shandong. For them, the Jibei soldiers stabbed them in the back, how could they be so stupid as to pin their ethereal hopes on the "friendly army"? It was almost delayed until seven or eight days that I learned the news of the victory in Cangnan. However, they have always paid attention to what the imperial court has to say about the soldiers of Jinzhong, the battle of Gaoyang, the admiral who died in the battle, and Hao Zongcheng who sat and watched, and they have always sent people to and from Yanjing and Wukou.

After the Battle of Gaoyang, the imperial court confirmed that the Admiral led his troops to die in battle, so he posthumously awarded the title of Secretary of the Military Department, which is not the meaning of the title. What is chilling is that Hao Zongcheng, who directly led to the fiasco of Gaoyang because he led the elite of Jibei and sat back and watched, did not hold him accountable. After the Battle of Gaoyang, the central government still did not send envoys to the governor of the world, but appointed Hao Zongcheng, the chief of the great eunuch, to be the king of the world.

How can the nearly 20,000 Jin lieutenant generals and admirals who died tragically in Gaoyang be blind? Even though Yang Yihang didn't want to believe that it was the emperor and the Chu Party who joined forces to sell the Admiral and the 20,000 Jin soldiers, he couldn't find the slightest reason to convince himself.

Yang Yihang clenched the saber at his waist, and couldn't wait to pull it out and slash at the wall a few times to vent his resentment.

"One voyage!"

Yang Yihang looked back and saw Wei Zhonglong, who was not tall but unusually strong, standing under the wall and shouting at him.

"What's the matter?" Yang Yihang sat on the wall and asked.

"Look at me here!" Wei Zhonglong untied his armor robe, ignoring the cold weather, naked, and pointed to the whip marks on his body that barely had a good place, "If you are thinking of joining forces with the Jiangdong Left Army, you should first open your eyes and look at my injuries; This is not what the thief left on me. Yang Du was hit by several arrows in his body, and ordered me to lead more than 100 people to break out of the siege, and finally knelt down and begged Hao Zongcheng to send reinforcements; Hao Zongcheng tied me up and whipped me for three days, and he didn't stop for a cup of tea. He openly framed me and said that I was sent by the captives to earn his spies, and tortured me to extract a confession, and I knew in my heart that he wanted me to say something when he tortured me, and he wanted me to tell me the lie that you and Yang Du had betrayed the thieves. Even if I give him a suck to death, I will never be able to say these words to Yang Du and you. Snakes and rats in the temple, do you dare to put the lives of the six hundred and seventy-two brothers in Wukou Village on the line and trust them again? Yang Du and the brothers in Jinzhong died unjustly! Wei Zhonglong was full of resentment, and his eyes were full of tears.

Wu Tian stood in the distance, looked at the dazzling scars on Wei Zhonglong's back, stopped talking, silently went up to the wall, walked to Yang Yihang's side, and let the soldiers around him leave, before he said to Yang Yihang: "Yang Du also said when he was alive that the thieves entered the prison this time with the intention of looting, and they must go to the beginning of spring...... At this time, it is not a few days before the ice and snow melt, after the thieves retreat, what should we do, what will we do with the 672 brothers of this vortex village? What should the brothers of Changlu, Qingqi and other villages do? ”

"......" Yang Yihang glanced at Wu Tian suspiciously.

“…… It should be said that Gyeonggi is more aware of the situation here, but why is it delayed to this day, only Lin Jian sent a messenger to ask for a joint force? Have you thought about it? Wu Tian asked.

"You mean......" Yang Yihang asked.

"Yes, no one will offend the great eunuch Hao Zongcheng for the sake of our remnants of the defeated army," Wu Tian said, "Not to mention that the responsibility for the defeat of the Gaoyang Hui may be held accountable afterwards, even if Hao Zongcheng will not do anything to us, but if we are unfortunately incorporated into Jibei Town after the retreat of Dongyu, what will happen to us, as well as the more than 600 brothers in the village who have survived with great difficulty, and the brothers of other villages, can't you imagine?" ”

"His little seven products are all imprisoned, what can he do? If Hao Zongcheng must send us to the north to be consumed, is he still qualified to fight against Hao Zongcheng? Wei Zhonglong asked sharply.

"I don't know if he can or not, and I don't know if he is qualified," Wu Tian said, "but I know that the Jiangdong Left Army is the only army that has taken the initiative to contact us in the past two months, and it is also the only army that has annihilated most of the thieves in the field twice in the past two months......"

"I'd rather go to Taihang Mountain than send my life to the palm of someone else!" Wei Zhonglong said excitedly.

"Dare to say this kind of thing out loud!" Yang Yihang frowned and scolded, he knew that the question raised by Wu Tian was very critical, they didn't have the luxury of expecting to avenge Yang Du's blood hatred, but when Dongyu retreated, where was the way out for the more than six hundred brothers who had finally survived? Where is the way out for the brothers who have avoided other villages? Whether it is to return to Jinzhong or to be incorporated into other armies, I am afraid that it will not end well, and he has also moved the mind of going to the cottage, but it is bound to involve his family, and it may also ruin the reputation of Yang Du I because of them.

"In any case, even if you want to deal with the enemy cavalry in Jinhainan, you should liaise with the Jiangdong Left Army; In any case, we have to get in touch with the Jiangdong Left Army and Lin Tie......" Wu Tian said, "Could it be that we are guarding the stockade and not avenging Yang Du and the 20,000 brothers who died at all?" At least the Jiangdong Left Army still has the courage to fight with the captive cavalry, and you and I are inferior to him in this regard. ”

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In the early morning, there was a small sampan coming from Dengzhou, and there were post rumors copied from Dengzhou.

Lin Jian was most concerned about the situation in Jinan, and when Tang copied it, he got up from the bed.

The number of scouts of the Jiangdong Left Army was limited, and they could not keep an eye on the movements of Jinan Prefecture and constantly let people come back with news, and they also had to rely on Dengzhou to obtain the latest situation of the prefectures and counties in Shandong and the counties of the Central Plains.

"The day before yesterday, Dongyu began to attack Jinan......" Lin Jian handed the Tang copy to Cao Ziang.

Cao Ziang led the second battalion to the mouth of the Jinhai vortex only two days ago to join the main force.

Not only did Cao Ziang come back, but after the Cangnan villagers arrived in Linyunan, Sun Shangwang led two hundred Cangnan villagers to return north to join the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army to kill the captives, and Sun Wenbing and Sun Fengyi continued to lead most of them to Jimo. Fortunately, he met the scouts sent by Cao Ziang on the way, and they took a boat to the vortex together, otherwise it is difficult to imagine what kind of disaster it would be for Sun Shangwang to lead two hundred Cangnan Zidi villagers to meet the cavalry of the Nahe Xiongqi tribe on the shore.

Lin Lian scolded Sun Shangwang, who was a donkey, and finally left him in the army as a secretary. The generals can't spare time, Sun Shangwang is talented, has a lot of life experience, and is capable, so it is appropriate to assist Lin Jian in handling chores in the army.

The Cangnan children and township soldiers who returned north with Sun Shangwang were temporarily handed over to the big loach master Ge Cunxin and incorporated into the ships as escorts.

The sea ships could only hide for a while, and after setting fire to Xiaobotou Village, Na He Xiongqi could no longer have imagined that they had sea ships to rely on, so Lin Jian simply arrayed seven thousand stone ships along the coastline, and only hid the two five thousand stone giant ships.

I have to admit that Na He Xiongqi is one of the generals of the Eastern Captives, and he has rich experience in fighting against foot soldiers and is a veteran general, once the captives and cavalry get rid of the problem of arrogance and light advance, it will be difficult for the Jiangdong Left Army to seize the opportunity to annihilate the enemy. For several days, they were fighting a sticky war, and Lin Jian just took this opportunity to transfer the troops ashore in turn for exercise. It is not only to train soldiers, but also to gain the trust of the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers in Wuzhai, Changlu, Qingqi and other docks.

In the area of Qingxian and Jinhai, there are still more than 3,000 remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers, and if they can be used well, they are a force that cannot be underestimated.

However, Hao Zongcheng, who killed Yang Zhaoqi and killed 20,000 Jinzhong Qinwang Divisions, probably wouldn't want to see the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers continue to maintain a complete establishment after the war...... Lin Jian looked at the copper oil lamp and wandered slightly, sometimes it is relatively easy to lead the troops to fight, and the danger and knife hidden behind it will be a hundred times more vicious than the soldiers.

Cao Ziang didn't know what Lin Jian was thinking, he took the Tang copy from Dengzhou, and said: "If Jinan Mansion can hold on for ten days and half a month, the main force of Dongyu should almost retreat...... Today, the Eastern Front is relatively safe. ”

"I hope so." Lin Jian said softly.

At this time, the north wind was in full swing, it was difficult to take the sea route from south to north, and it was easy to go from north to south, Lin Jian led the Jiangdong Left Army at the mouth of the Jinhai vortex, and it did not take a day to sail to Yangxin, in fact, it actually restrained the captives and cavalry from using troops against Yangxin, Bohai and other cities in the eastern coastal waters of Shandong. Jinan could not be attacked, so the captives could only go out of the pass along the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain or detour to Jinzhong.

At this time, the guard guarding outside the cabin came in and reported: "Someone has come to the vortex, and a ship has been sent from the shore to deliver ......."

"Oh, is it? Hurry up, please come in," Lin Tie said happily, and Cao Ziang hurriedly stood up and came out of the cabin to greet him, he led the Jiangdong Left Army to Jinhai for five days, and as soon as he arrived in Jinhai, he sent people to the villages to surrender the letter, although the villages no longer turned away the messengers, but the reaction to the coalition soldiers was very cold, and the vortex village could take the initiative to send people to contact, Lin Tie was of course very happy.

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PS: Ask for red tickets, brothers, red tickets should be powerful.