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After Qin Zitan joined the reinforcements who came from Daishan Island with the Flying Tiger, he waited for half the night on Wenqin Island in the west of Daishan, and waited for the southwest wind to blow up, and then rushed to Daheng Island when the sun rose from the east - the boat division of the Jiangdong Left Army had withdrawn from the siege, and the mouth of the bay at the northwest foot of Jinji Mountain was a wolf, and several ships were burned to the point that only the charred hulls sank on the shoals, and the air was still filled with the smell of fire oil and burning of the ship's wood.

The main stone wall on the southeast side of the fort had collapsed, and the corpses had been cleaned up, but the reef, the broken wall, and the broken stone wall were splashed with dark brown blood.

Due to the devastation of the fort, the headland had little place to stand, and the remaining defenders were camped on the south shore.

In the shallows between the camp fort and the south shore was a sea falcon ship, the cabin was charred, a large hole was exposed in the bow, and only a corner of the few battle flags planted on the side was left, and the original appearance could not be seen, but there were no sea falcon ships on Daheng Island, which should have been sunk by the Jiangdong Left Army—and several broken masts were lying on the beach.

Qin Zitan landed on the south shore of the outer harbor with the extravagant flying tiger, and landed on the headland island on the shallows, only then did he see that the situation in the inner harbor was several times more ruthless and miserable - there were wreckage of the warships of the Jiangdong Left Army sunk in the shallows, and more were the wreckage of the warships that were burned and sunk by Daheng Island, and the water surface of the inner harbor was full of fragments of broken masts, ship boards, battle flags, armor, swords, guns, shields and crossbows, and the simple wharf built by driving wooden piles and filling the soil on the south bank also collapsed a large area, and it was ruined. In the shallows, there are more than a dozen corpses floating and sinking in the water, and in addition to the relatively clear water surface of the inner harbor that is dozens of paces wide for the upstream stream, the shallows on both sides of the bank are stained with red blood and large areas of oil, so that people cannot see how many people died in the battle last night.

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At the end of September, Qin Zitan finally went to sea with the extravagant flying tiger, leaving Du Cheli to assist Xu Zhong in defending the Hecheng fortress, wanting to wait for the situation in eastern Zhejiang to be clear, and then try to Chongzhou.

Although Su Tingzhan finally held Daheng Island, looking at the tragic situation in front of him, it seems that he can't be called a victory. There are still more than a dozen corpses in the shallows that have not had time to be collected, and the armor is all the defenders of Daheng Island - since the Jiangdong Left Army can calmly collect the corpses of the dead soldiers when they leave, it shows that the Jiangdong Left Army has completely controlled the inner harbor before withdrawing from the siege, but it has not been able to capture the camp on the shore.

Su Tingzhan walked over, bowed to the luxury flying tiger, and said in a hoarse voice: "Second son...... His left arm and right shoulder were wrapped in white cloth, and there were red blood stains oozing out, his face was pale due to blood loss, and all the armor soldiers around him were also wounded.

"It's the last general who underestimated the enemy," Su Tingzhan's hoarse voice recalled the battle that lasted from dusk to dawn last night, and felt a drop of blood in his heart, and he couldn't resist the dizziness caused by the blood loss caused by the injury, and told the details of the battle on Daheng Island to Hao Feihu and others, "The Jiangdong Left Army first seized the outer harbor, and placed catapults on the ship, nearly twenty catapults, and stormed the Cape Island Camp Fort together, and we were caught off guard, and the bed crossbow placed on the top of the Cape Island Camp Fort had almost no effect, and it was smashed and destroyed, The warships hiding in the inner harbor were forced to rush out to fight......"

In the battle last night, although the Jiangdong Left Army was finally repulsed, the warships left on Daheng Island were destroyed except for a few sentinel ships that did not withdraw into the inner harbor.

Although Qin Zitan didn't know how the Jiangdong Left Army managed to put the cumbersome catapult on the deck of the warship to launch stone projectiles, it was not difficult to imagine the tragedy of last night's battle after listening to Su Tingzhan's description.

The terrain was extremely rugged, and there was only one trail on the southeast side that could lead to the opposite shore of the headland, so when he built a fort on the headland of the bay, he did not consider being attacked by catapults.

Although it was built with local materials and stone barriers, the walls of the fort were much thinner than those of a regular castle. For example, Chongzhou New Town is based on a stone, with blue bricks on the outside, and a three-layer soil on the inside, which is tamped layer by layer, with a thickness of 30 feet. Such a strong city wall may collapse once dozens of large catapults are smashed overnight for more than ten or twenty days, not to mention that the stone wall of the cape island camp fort is only three or four feet thick.

In order to limit the rush of enemy ships, the camp fort was built four feet high, and while increasing the height, it also increased the bomb surface. On top of the camp fort, it is only a battlement wall, and there is no war shed to block the arrow stone to attack by projectile, once the bed crossbow on the top of the camp is smashed and unable to fight back, the camp fort becomes a live target for the catapult -

Once the fort blockading the mouth of the Inner Harbor River was ineffective under the suppression of the catapults, and even lasted less than two hours, the stone wall to the east of the fort collapsed, and it is not difficult to imagine how tragic the water battle would be.

First, Su Tingzhan did not prepare for a water battle at the beginning, and sent soldiers ashore to defend, and the number of troops preparing for war was seriously insufficient. Second, the mouth of the inner harbor was more than 200 paces wide, and when 70 or 80 warships rushed out to fight, when the outer harbor was already occupied by the Jiangdong Left Army, they could not give full play to the advantages of small ships and flexible mobility, but instead pressed and attacked the large warships of the Jiangdong Left Army in cooperation with small and medium-sized warships.

When the defense line of the mouth of the inner harbor was finally broken through, and a large number of warships were suppressed and the inner side of the inner harbor could not move, it gave the Jiangdong Left Army the opportunity to attack with fire......

"I didn't expect the Jiangdong Left Army to have such sharp tactics," Qin Zitan sighed in his heart, and had to admit his previous miscalculation in front of the second prince, they divided their troops from Hecheng, so that when Lin Tie mobilized the boat division to attack Daheng Island, there were still surplus troops left behind in Chongzhou, he frowned, and said, "Lin Tie's move is to destroy all the simple ports of our army on the islands of Shengsi, Daishan, and Tushan, and to expel all our warships back to the main island of Changguo...... The situation in Hecheng is not optimistic, do you concentrate your forces to pick up Xu Zhong and Che Li from them from Hecheng? ”

The original intention of Xu Feihu to leave Jiangning and go to sea was not to fight with his brother for control of the situation in the East China Sea - he could not fight - he wanted to occupy Hecheng, use Hecheng as a base to develop the northern front forces, curb the expansion of the Jiangdong Left Army, attack the Lianghuai Salt Administration, threaten Huaikou, attack the grain ships that sailed from Huaikou to Jiaozhou Bay, and destroy the Jinhai grain route that the Dayue Dynasty relied on to save its life at this time.

In order to achieve this strategic goal he envisioned, and the defense capability of the Jiangdong Left Army in Chongzhou was extremely strong, there was almost nothing else to rob in the Huainan Salt Area except for the salt warehouse—at least after the formation of power in Hecheng, it was necessary to use the Shengsi Islands as the backing, and the initial replenishment of soldiers, materials, grain and grass, and armor had to be obtained from the Shengsi Islands, from the main island of Changguo, and even from Jin'an, which was thousands of miles away.

Although I am not worried that Hecheng will be lost in the short term, the battle last night showed that under the deterrence of the powerful boat division of the Jiangdong Left Army, not to mention that the warships crossed the Shengsi Islands and the Jiangkou went north, even if they docked at the Shengsi Islands, it was a very unsafe thing.

Even if he barely held Hecheng, it was a lonely place and a dead land, with no potential for developing forces, and there was still a danger of being conquered and destroyed by the Jiangdong Left Army at any time.

At this time, it was not a wise act to defend Hecheng, and it was imperative to concentrate forces to take out the defenders of Hecheng while the Jiangdong Left Army also needed to recuperate.

Luxury Feihu clenched his fists, he knew that Qin Zitan's suggestion was wise, there were defeats and victories in the war, this was nothing, the key was not to lose all his belongings at once, but how could he be willing to withdraw his troops from Hecheng like this?

Seeing that Hao Feihu's lips were bitten and oozing blood, Qin Zitan also knew how difficult it was to let him make such a decision, he gave Su Tingzhan a look, asking him to take him to see the battlefield elsewhere, leave Hao Feihu behind, and let him calm down and think about it.

Last night, the battle in Wangang was very fierce, but the Jiangdong Left Army landed on the shore after the offensive was very reluctant, and the hard head attacked a few times, and then gave up, after all, in a hurry, in their unfamiliar terrain to attack the steep enemy village, the wise man is not for it - but thousands of casualties and more than 70 loach boats were destroyed, anyone will be heartbroken, if it is not for the luxury flying tiger to bring troops to help, Su Tingzhan will be trapped on Daheng Island, not an inch can be done, in the sea, the boat is the foot!

Qin Zitan and Su Tingzhan returned to the southern coast of the cape island, and Yu Feihu was in a hurry to send someone to find them: "I think about it, I don't have to give up Hecheng - Hecheng is worry-free for the time being, and the situation in eastern Zhejiang will be further clarified in the future. What we are worried about is that Hecheng is relatively isolated, hanging alone in the north, and surrounded by Chongzhou, and the sea route from Shengsi to Hecheng has to pass through the Jiangkou garrisoned by the Jiangdong Left Army, which is inconvenient. However, in order to truly manage Hecheng into a stronghold on the northern route that is conducive to development and achieve the strategic goals we expect, we only need to find another strategic place near Hecheng that can be used as a corner, and we can revitalize the situation in Hecheng in the early stage......"

Qin Zitan didn't expect the second prince to dispute so deeply, frowning and pondering his thoughts, Su Tingzhan flashed a thought, and said: "I think of this strategic place that the second prince said, I think of one place......

"Where?" Fei Fei Hu asked.

"Changshan Island," Su Tingzhan said, "is about a little east of the north of Daheng Island, directly east of Hecheng, about one hundred and seventy or eighty miles away from Hecheng, and about two hundred and sixty miles away from Shengsi Island, occupied by a force called the East China Sea Fox, about five or six hundred people, who make a living by robbing salt boats, and seem to have colluded with the two Huai salt lords, and have been refusing to join the gang. Although the topography of Changshan Island is good, it is located to the east and is an isolated island, so I have not made any effort to collect it......"

Xuan Feihu and Qin Zitan knew about the existence of Changshan Island, but their understanding of the situation was not as detailed as Su Tingzhan's.