Huaishui out of Hongzepu, in the northwest of Huai'an City and Surabaya confluence, the water potential is surging, to the east to the north, in the north of Tinghu County in the territory of Yuntili into the sea.

In the south of Tinghu County, the water surface of Qingjiangpu between Sheyang County is sparse, the mouth is thirty or forty miles wide, but it is very shallow, even ordinary fishing boats do not go to sea from there, and the waterway in the cloud ladder is the real outlet of the Huai River.

As the East China Sea became prosperous, Huai'an Mansion set up a patrol inspection department on the north shore of Huaikou, built a military fortress, placed more than 100 sword archers, and placed three or five warships all year round to prevent piracy at sea, which was called Yunti Pass.

Since Huaishui became the outlet channel for grain, the Yunti Pass of the garrison Huaikou was suddenly dangerous. The defenders also changed from county sword archers to regular town troops, and the number of soldiers increased from more than 100 to 600 soldiers in a battalion, and a captain Zhenwei with a positive sixth grade was promoted as the main general.

On the 15th, the exiled army won Suyu without a fight, and then spread out like a tide on the north bank of the Huai River.

At that time, Sun Zhuangzi, the leader of Hongzepu Lianzhai Jiu, and today's pioneer of the Wandering Army, Qu Shuai, led the outpost of 4,000 elites to spread their feet and run east. Ignoring the officers and soldiers who retreated to Shuyang would threaten the flank, until the scout reported that he saw the yellow and muddy Huang Shuiyang, Sun Zhuang ordered the pawn to stop his feet, and watched the sky get dark without stopping, and ordered the pawn to light the torch and go to the Yunti Pass to attach the ants, and spread the enclosure of the four thousand elites to bite the Yunti Pass and attack.

Yunti Pass is the mouth of the grain out of Huai, one or two hundred stone carrying capacity of the Cao boat can not withstand the toss of the wind and waves, so it stops at the Yunti Pass to vacate the warehouse, Jiangdong according to the inspection of the Sidu Cao Hall in the Yunti Pass to build a large-scale granary, so that Huaikou can be smoothly connected with the Jinhai Grain Road. The Metropolitan Procuratorate also has an overseer of the Imperial Historian who oversees the affairs of the Metropolitan Inspectorate here.

The displaced army was forced to fight in all directions, raising and grabbing food everywhere, and its reputation was not very good.

After the destruction of the cities in Haozhou and Sizhou after last spring, the vitality has not been restored, and after Yue Lengqiu arrived in Jiangning, he did not have the intention of running Hao and Si at all, and naturally there was not much grain in the city -- the biggest problem of the nearly 200,000 wandering troops on the north bank of the Huai River today is still the lack of food.

Sun Zhuang led the elite of the outpost from Suyu and walked more than 250 miles in two days and one night, just to grab the granary of Yunti Pass. If you can get 70,000 or 80,000 stone rice grains from Yunti Pass, hundreds of thousands of troops will be able to calmly encircle and annihilate the Changhuai army in Huaibei.

The officers and soldiers abandoned Suyu, and they did not know that they would meet Huai'an Mansion, and Sun Zhuang led the crowd to run in the stars and the moon, and the action was extremely fast, and the Yunti Pass was unprepared, and he was caught off guard.

During the siege, nearly half of the defenders of Yunti Pass were forced to go to sea with the boats on the pier, and only 300 defenders were left in Yunti Pass, which was attacked overnight and then collapsed.

Two of the nine warehouses in Yunti Pass were completely burned down, and the other seven were also set on fire, causing a lot of losses.

Sun Gongzi got angry, and took more than 200 officers and soldiers prisoners, 17 officials sent to Yuntiguan Ducao by the Jiangdong Inspection Mission, and more than 300 shipwrights and people in Yuntiguan who had no time to escape to the ship, and cut off their heads and piled them up in front of the wharf to build a Beijing Temple.

Sun Gongzi didn't close his eyes for four days and four nights before the battle, captured the Cloud Ladder Pass, cut off nearly a thousand heads and piled them up in front of the dock to build a Beijing view, and arrested the concubine of Du Cao Yushi into the room and him hard. Regardless of the delicate beauty who almost gave him the body odor of not bathing for months and splashing countless blood, or whether he was angry and angry, he was so angry that the beauty's mouth was cracked, fortunately, he was standing and playing with the old man's cart, otherwise his two-hundred-pound body would be pressed up, and most of the delicate beauties would not be able to save their lives. After venting, Sun Gongzi kicked the beauty out of the room and handed it over to others to continue tossing. Men need women to vent, but going around to fight, Sun Gongzi doesn't want to be involved by female dependents, what a beautiful woman, he just loses his hand after one or two times, and he is not greedy.

He vented, and he fell asleep; I don't know how long I slept, but Sun Gongzi woke up the horn outside.

Sun Gongzi lifted his pants and covered the black and smelly crotch, there were still some blood marks on the pants, as if he had opened a new place, picked up the Xuanhua axe on the table and walked out, shouting in his mouth: "Dog's day, where are the officers and soldiers coming, Tinghu, Haizhou, Muyang or Huai'an City?" In his opinion, at this time, the officers and soldiers who could come over to counterattack Yunti Pass would not come from anywhere else.

"It's a sea ship coming to grab the opening to enter the river, I don't know which way the soldiers and horses!" Chen Zhen was about to come over and call him with a knife.

There are two fierce generals under the command of Sun Gongzi, and he is his right-hand man.

One person is the tiger in front of him, when he fled back from the northern army with Liu An'er, he was good at using swords and shields, attacking the cloud ladder pass, he led the brave soldiers to join the wall and attacked, personally killed more than ten officers and soldiers, cut three good knives, he was stunned and did not even have a big wound in the eyes of copper coins.

Sun Gongzi secretly took a sip, he also added two mouthfuls to his body, how could Chen Yan be so lucky, could it be called Dengcheng Tiger, and the matter of robbing the city and attacking the village was handed over to him more reliable than anyone else.

There is also a member of Sun Gongzi's subordinates, and the fierce general he relies on is called Tiangu Zhang Gou, whose original name is indeed called "Dog", and he changed "Dog" to "Gou" before joining the army.

Sun Gongzi climbed the wall and saw the warship that Huaikou grabbed in by taking advantage of the wind, and the cold air on his back was rising.

The big ship at the head had a deck about as high as the wall here, and the tail ship was twenty feet, so there were three such big ships. Sun Zhuang was a water bandit, and when he switched from Huaishang to Hanzhong, he abandoned the ship and went ashore, and he still had some knowledge of warships. The largest ship I had seen in Hongzepu before was the ship that Qin Chengbo had entered Hongzepu, and these three warships were several points larger than Qin Chengbo's ship.

At the beginning, in order to leave Qin Chengbo behind, he only besieged his ship, and then transferred nearly half of the elite before the army, Sun Zhuang secretly said that these three ships entered Huaishui, how to fight this water battle? Wu Shiyi was still supervising the construction of warships in Haozhou, and Sun Zhuang thought to himself that it was important to send someone to sink a few more ships on the east entrance of Hongzepu!

Sun Gongzi and Chen Yan were illiterate, and they couldn't recognize the big flag unfurled on the mast of the first big ship, thinking that Zhang Gou was literate and didn't see his figure, he asked: "What about the tengu, where did this turtle egg go?" ”

"Zhang Gou went back to Suyu to see An Shuai, Master Gong, you slept soundly, so you didn't alarm Qu Shuai," Chen Yan said, "These 60,000 or 70,000 stone meters, without carriages, horses and ships, with our 6,000 hands, we can't move back to Suyu." Zhang Gou went back to Suyu to see An Shuai, and saw if he could collect some big cars from Suyu......"

"Then find a literate person, this dog/mother's raiser, the words with a big basin can be recognized, but the lord doesn't know them......" Sun Zhuang said scoldingly.

Chen Yan sent someone to find a literate person first, but he first went to call Qu Shuaisun Pole, and then he pulled people to ask.

The literate man was a teacher who was encumbered into the gang, and Chen Yan valued him very much, and he replied: "Huaidong Jingkou system envoy, Jiangdong Xuanfu envoy Si Zuo participated in politics Lin ......"

Sun Zhuang frowned and said, "Jing Kou, is the court of this dog day treating us as Kou?" Take my big bow and ......"

The Wanderers would send scouts to inquire about the news before attacking the city, but they were far from establishing an intelligence-gathering network throughout the counties.

Sun Zhuang knew the name of the Jiangdong Left Army and Lin Tie, but he didn't know that Lin Tie also had an official title of Jiangdong Left to participate in politics, let alone what kind of trick Huaidong Jingkou system envoy was.

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Lin Jian led the army and Zhang Yubo from Chongzhou, on the night of the 17th, they went out of the river mouth and entered the sea, and took advantage of the southeast wind to go north, only two days and two nights passed, it can be said that there was no delay at all, but unfortunately the Yuntiguan fell the day before they rushed into Huaikou.

In addition to the loss of more than 100,000 stone rice grains, more importantly, the loss of Huaikou, the Jinhai grain route was forced to go through the river mouth to get grain, and the temporary chaos will further aggravate the grain pressure of the Gyeonggi and Northern Army.

Seeing that the situation in Huaibei was so precipitous, Zhang Yubo realized how prescient Lin Bin's secret trip to Jinhai at the beginning of the year was.

The Heishui Ocean Channel from Chongzhou to Jinhai was officially put into use in early March, although the grain did not gather in Chongzhou, but a large number of commercial grains have gathered in Chongzhou, and now Huaikou has fallen, a large number of grain ships that hastily withdrew from Huaikou have changed to transport grain from Chongzhou, which can restore the capacity of the Jinhai Grain Road in the shortest possible time, and keep the lifeblood of the north - but also make Lin Tie's position in Chongzhou more stable as Mount Tai.

Du Cao Yushi escaped by luck, and when the rogue attacked, he happened to be on the boat. At this time, he stood beside Lin Lian, looking at the mountains of heads piled up on the dock, his feet were weak, his face was pale, and he didn't care about what the beautiful concubine he threw in the Seri would be ruined, and said to Lin Jian with a trembling voice: "Liukou is really a great crime, more than 1,000 people in Yuntiguan have parents, wives and children, they were slaughtered, miserable, so evil, heaven does not tolerate it, please Lin Daren slaughter him to avenge the blood hatred of the dead!" ”

"Revenge for blood?" Lin Jian held the saber in his hand, looked at the Du Cao Yushi sent by Jingzhong, and asked rhetorically with a smile, but did not say anything more.

Now according to the Yunti Pass is the elite outpost of the 4,000 Liumin Army, the Yunti Pass did not suffer much damage when it was lost, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack on the plain on the north bank of Huaikou, the grain and grass in the Guancheng are sufficient, and there are tens of thousands of Liumin troops wandering one or two hundred miles away, and the Jiangdong Left Army is not a heavenly soldier and a god general, plus the first water battalion responsible for the operation, the main auxiliary soldiers are not more than 10,000 people, and they simply do not have the conditions to recapture the Yunti Pass from the tiger's mouth.

Lin Jian pursed his lips and said to Du Cao Yushi: "The Jinhai grain road cannot be broken, and I also ask Lord Tao to go to Chongzhou Ducao immediately, I will order the officials of Chongzhou to cooperate with Lord Tao, my duty is to guard Huaidong, the strength is very limited, and the situation in Huaibei seems to have to wait for Governor Yue to find a way......"

Du Cao Yushi couldn't get up in front of Lin Tie at this time, he didn't say anything, but he thought in his heart that Huaikou was lost, even if the Liang family occupied Shandong, the two ends of the Jinhai grain road were still pinched in his hands, but to speak, the Liang family was also a kind person.

At this time, seeing the general of the Wandering Army standing on the wall holding a big bow and stepping on the battlement to pull the string, Tao Yushi subconsciously wanted to hide behind Lin Lian.

Lin Jian smiled slightly, he hadn't seen a strong bow that could reach three hundred paces even if it was thrown, and the arrow was pointing flat to this side, but the side guards were nervously erecting shields to defend.

Lin Jian pointed to the person who opened the bow on the wall of the cloud ladder pass, and said to Zhang Yubo, who was standing side by side: "That person should be the pioneer of the Liukou Qu Shuai Sun Zhuang, also known as Sun Gongzi, is the first brave general of Hongze Liukou except Liu Miaozhen, Qin Xibo was defeated in Luoyang Lake, and it was he and Liu An'er who led the Yongkou to rush into the ship......"

The arrow broke through the air, and it was not able to fall into the water after twenty or thirty steps, even so, the range of the bow held by Sun Pole was amazingly far, comparable to the big crossbow on the ship, just looking at Sun Pole's weightless bow, you can know that his arms have at least four or five hundred catties of strength.

The fact that Yunti Pass fell is difficult to reverse in a short period of time, Lin Tie waved his hand and said: "Continue to move westward, don't stay, let's go to Yikou ......" The troops are not enough to besiege the city, and even fall into a big disadvantage, to annihilate and defeat the scattered exile army in the field battle and movement war as much as possible, Lin Tie will not be stupid enough to storm Yunti Pass, and in turn give the exile army an internal and external attack. It is necessary to drag the enemy into stagnation, rather than actively falling into stagnation yourself.