(The first change, ask for a red ticket, this one came a little late, I'm guilty, take the red ticket and smash me)

The outpost cavalry that entered Yangxin, Bincheng, and Bohai was as many as five or six hundred, and more than a dozen horsemen and dozens of horsemen were scattered everywhere, and the soldiers in the city gathered to kill them, and they fled away on horseback, and Yangxin collected the troops, and they gathered again and surrounded Yangxin City.

The scouts in the city can't let them out, and the scouts outside the city can't get in, except for the lookout posts at the head of the city to observe the surrounding enemy situation, they can't get detailed information outside the city. Until the evening of the 21st, the agreed wolf smoke was lit in the direction of Zhulong Bay, and Lin Jian knew that Zhou Pu was leading the Jiangdong Left Army to arrive at Zhulong Bay by sea boat.

In the first battle of Jinhai, nearly 1,400 heads were obtained, and the seriously injured could not be treated in time, and it was difficult for them to survive in the cold wilderness, and the final number of enemies killed should be about double the number of heads. The Ministry of War will also approve of this kind of military merit calculation, even if it is exaggerated, there is no problem at all; Similarly, the Jiangdong Left Army and the Jinzhong Army also suffered heavy casualties.

The Jiangdong Left Army did not have many direct casualties, only more than 130 people, which was even less than the direct death of the Cangnan victory.

That's the way it is, if you really go into battle without fear of life and death, you are not easy to be fatally injured. The vast majority of the cavalry in the east were light horses, and in addition to riding bows, they mainly wielded knives and slashed. The Modao soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army wore group armor, and most of the other foot soldiers wore combined armor, which in addition to defending against the shot of the cavalry bow, it could also effectively resist the slashing of the scimitar knife.

Even if it was an ordinary serious injury, with the existing medical care conditions of the Jiangdong Left Army, his life could be basically saved.

It's just that the wounded need time to recuperate, counting the wounded who can't be put into battle immediately, the victory in Jinhai also reduced the combat strength of the Jiangdong Left Army to nearly 30%.

A large number of wounded were transferred to the ships for treatment, and when the news of the fall of Jinan was received and Yangxin was rushed from Jinhai to the aid of Yangxin, the Jiangdong Left Army was able to mobilize only a little more than 2,200 troops.

Lin Jian pulled out the only more than 600 cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army, and Zhou Tong led the Jinzhong cavalry to follow, barely scraping together a thousand cavalry to rush to Yangxin by land.

The subsequent rest time of the Jiangdong Left Army could be slightly fuller, and the troops could be urgently transferred from the township soldiers. In order not to greatly affect the combat capability of the Jiangdong Left Army, it only selected more than 400 soldiers from Cangnan and Jinhai townships to supplement it at a ratio of four to one. After deducting the troops left with Cao Ziang to assist in guarding Jinhai, the troops brought out by Zhou Puneng were only 14,500 people.

The elite that Lin Tie can call in Yangxin is only two, four, or five hundred.

Comparatively speaking, after the capture of Jinan by the Eastern Captives, taking into account the two factors of the addition of the rebels and the casualties of the storming of Jinan, the troops that can be mobilized on the southern front will also exceed 40,000, and in Shandong, except for the 24,500 elites who can be mobilized in the hands of Lin Jian and the more than 10,000 town troops in Dengzhou, there is no army that can be seen a little.

The situation was really bad to the extreme, and in addition to the fact that time was a favorable factor, it was hoped that the envoys sent by the military headquarters to Zhongzhou would be able to effectively restrain the various Qinwang divisions assembled in Zhongzhou to put pressure on the main force of the southern front of the Eastern Capture.

Lin Tie his hand pressed the saber and climbed the West City Gatehouse. Judging from his harsh eyes, the defensive capabilities of Yangxin City's city walls and city gate towers are not particularly strong, but they are more than enough to deal with the Dongyu cavalry with weaker siege capabilities. Maybe the East Prisoners will disperse the rebels to attack the city, Lin Jian thought to himself.

Lin Jian now knows more details about the fall of Jinan City, after the Linqing Guards broke the Dezhou City, they did not dare to fight, and they fled for fear of settling accounts with the Autumn Queen, so they simply led more than 9,000 Linqing defenders to surrender to the east. When attacking Jinan, Dongyu drove the Linqing rebels to attack the city. These rebels did not have the courage to resist the cavalry of the Eastern Captives when they were stationed in the city, but they worked very hard when attacking Jinan.

At this time, Lin Jian was worried that Zhao Jinlong, the deputy general of the two Zhejiang Qin Wang Divisions, would choose to surrender to the Donglu if he figured it out, which provided another 6,000 siege troops to the Dongyu.

Lin Lian pinched the handle of the knife in his hand, his knuckles were tense, and he felt unappeased hatred in his heart.

To study it in detail, the Chu Party had to bear most of the responsibility for this rotten situation, and vigorously advocated peace negotiations in the early stage, so that the imperial court did not send envoys and governors Tianxia Qinwang Division to unify the command and fight against the Kou Dongyu, and connived at Hao Zongcheng to bury 20,000 elite soldiers in Jinzhong, so that the situation was completely erosive.

Although the Chu Party can use the Jiangdong Left Army as a fig leaf, it can't hide the eyes of people of real insight, although Lin Jian is a member of the Chu Party, he also has an indescribable boredom with the actions of the Chu Party.

Lin Jian looked far away, and his vision was full of Dongyu sentinels scattered in the fields outside the city.

However, after the defenders of the city were incorporated into the elite of the Jiangdong Left Army, the captives outpost did not dare to play the trick of using shields to cover the archers to shoot the defenders from the battlements near the city. This set is completely ineffective for the Jiangdong Left Army, the stepping strong crossbow at the head of the wall can shoot through the light shield at close range, and the provocation of the captive outpost daring to go down the city wall is just a free mobile target for the Jiangdong Left Army soldiers to practice archery.

The Jiangdong Left Army did not have much experience in defending the city, so Lin Jian would take time to gather all the sentinels and commanders in the past two days and urgently train the tactics of defending the city. At this time, the commanders of the capitals returned to the city, gathered the bannerheads below and the combat backbone of the squad to explain the key points of the city defense battle.

Most of them were illiterate, and the methods of defending the city were very rudimentary, but they were better than nothing. When Lin Jian asked Ao Canghai and Zhou Tong to inspect the cities, they had the opportunity to teach the generals as carefully as possible the precautions for defending the city.

Ao Canghai is used to this way, but Zhou Tong is strange, where is the general talking so much nonsense with the banner head below or even ordinary armor? However, the victory in Jinhai also made Zhou Tong see the strong combat power of the Jiangdong Left Army, as long as Lin Lian's request was not very incomprehensible, Zhou Tong did not question it, and did as he was told.

There are more than 2,000 people in the Yangxin garrison army, Lin Tie does not need so many people to defend the city, only 800 people are selected, and they cooperate with the Jiangdong Left Army to defend the city, which is the Jiangdong Left Army.

Most of the people in the Yangxin garrison army were organized into auxiliary soldiers, and it was necessary to pull up to the city again, and for the time being, according to the requirements of Lin Tie, they would demolish houses and houses in the city, and collect as many bricks, stones, beams and pillars as possible to transport them to the city wall for later use.

The defense of Yangxin City is relatively simple, except for the brick wall of the city gate building, the others are earth rammed walls.

At this time, Lin Jian and Ao Canghai walked around the city wall, which was to carefully check whether the city wall was weak and strengthened.

At this time, there was no way to strengthen the defenses outside the city walls, so you could only use more brains inside the city walls.

Seeing the county lieutenant Cheng Weiyuan coming over, Lin Jian called him over and said, "The four city gates are thinner, and it is easy to knock them open......

"I've also thought about this question," Cheng Weiyuan said, "Is it the filling of the earth to completely seal the city gate from the inside?" ”

"This is not the best way," Lin Tie said, sealing himself in the city, which is quite advantageous for simple weak soldiers to defend the city, but he came over, in addition to holding Yangxin, he also hoped to contain the main force of the southern line of Dongyu as much as possible to turn into the east of Shandong, naturally he could not completely seal himself in the city, and lost the ability to take the initiative to attack, Lin Tie picked up a piece of blue brick and drew a pattern on the city wall brick for Cheng Weiyuan to see, "Look at this, can you organize people to build a thick brick wall parallel to the city gate on the inside of the four city gates." , seal the streets into the city, but leave narrow openings on both sides for soldiers and horses to pass, and limit the passage of two horses in parallel. In this case, even if the city gate is broken from the outside, and there is this wall in the way, the enemy soldiers will not be able to rush in quickly to provide conditions for us to counterattack, and of course, the two sides must clear the open space to pile up the masonry and earth that blocks the city gate hole......"

Lin Xu and Cheng Weiyuan said that there were many places in the city that could be strengthened to improve the defense, and at this time, the whistle bell in the southwest corner rang three times, and he, Ao Canghai and Cheng Weiyuan walked to the mouth of the battlement of the city wall, and there was no change in the cavalry close to the city.

There is a low slope about three or four miles away on the west side, which is not high, but it is enough to block the view of the city head and form a dead end. This is the most unfavorable place for Yang Xin to defend the city, standing at the head of the city, it is impossible to see what the enemy soldiers are deploying behind the low slope.

Lin Jian also made Zhou Tong lead three hundred Jin Zhongjing cavalry to attack and reconnoiter twice, confirming that the main force of the Eastern Capture had not yet come.

There were four or five groups of cavalry scattered on the low slope, and there were more than a hundred people. They were only responsible for monitoring Yangxin, and when Yangxin did not send troops, they dismounted and let the horses arch the snow and eat the green wheat seedlings on the slopes. Then they were seen riding together on horseback and gathering to the top of the slope, as if something had happened on the other side of the low slope, but they could not see it at the head of the city.

Lin Jian frowned and stared at that side, there were a large number of enemy horsemen on both sides of the low slope that could not be stopped, Cheng Weiyuan said: "Could it be that the main force of the captives attacking the city is coming?" ”

"No," Lin Jian shook his head, "Dongyu shouldn't have the idea of attacking Yangxin anymore, its main force hasn't been reorganized, and it won't rush here-"

"The cavalry will not march to come, and the array formed is still to guard against the back of the hillside......" Ao Canghai judged.

"It's the defenders of Jinan who broke through," Lin Jian faintly heard the sound of soldiers fighting each other in the wind at this time, and immediately ordered Ao Canghaidao, "You send someone to call Captain Zhou over quickly, and ask the soldiers of Jin Zhong to prepare for the attack, and you also go down to prepare for going out of the city to respond......

Cheng Weiyuan was a little worried, looking at the sentry horses outside the city, they all gathered in the west city at this time, obviously to prevent the defenders in the city from going out of the city to respond. Besides, it is not clear how many soldiers and horses broke through from Jinan, how many captives and cavalry were pursued, and the mobile troops that could be mobilized in the city were only 300 cavalry led by Zhou Tong and 200 armor soldiers led by Ao Canghai.

Cheng Weiyuan wanted to persuade Lin Tie to be cautious, but when he saw him staring at the hillside with a resolute brow, he thought that if Lin Tie was a cautious person who only thought about himself, he would not rush to the aid of Shouyang Xin from Jinhai, which was more than three hundred miles away, so he restrained himself and did not say anything.