At dusk on the second day of the first month of the tenth year of Chongguan, the dead land of Cangnan was covered with snow. Gradually, the silent earth trembled faintly, and the birds and beasts foraging in the snow were alarmed, and swept around, and walked away in an instant, only an old crow that stopped on the corpse of a dead man pecking at frozen meat looked hesitantly in the direction of the sunset, not knowing whether to stay and continue to enjoy the food at his feet, or to avoid it first.

The horizon over there suddenly poured out a cavalry in brown armor, appearing in the sunset, as if wearing a xia robe, the crow was frightened, spread his wings and flew into the clear sky, only to see that the distant horizon exposed more cavalry, thousands of troops and horses came slowly, like a black and brown tide in the snow, the crow fled in the direction of the sea.

The two wings and the outpost rangers spread out rapidly, and Nahe Xiongqi, the commander of the Donghu Su Guards, rode an extraordinary white-maned horse, surrounded by dozens of cavalry guards, galloped to the sea pond, frowning, looking at the battlefield where more than a thousand Donghu men died in battle eight days ago, his eyes were full of corpses that had their heads cut off and were frozen solid.

The hateful Jiangdong Left Army dared to do such a thing as the corpse of the cheap Dong Hu Nan'er, and Na He Xiongqi, who had always been old and dignified, was filled with a grudge that was difficult to vent, and some military attachés were even more indignant to draw their knives and slash indiscriminately to vent their hatred.

The entire Cangnan is empty.

Since December 24, there has been no snow in Hajian Province.

The snow in the north is difficult to melt after the dry and cold wind blows, and even if the weather is continuous cold and sunny, the entire Yanji Plain is still covered with snow.

It can be clearly seen that after the battle on the 25th and 26th, the villagers of Cangnan gathered in Xiaobotou Village, and then set out from Xiaobotou Village and went to Linzi Mansion in the south.

The sentinels who infiltrated south of Yangxin captured and interrogated the local hunters and peasants, and also confirmed the fact that a large number of horses and infantry troops were coercing the villagers to cross the border on the 30th.

"Xiongqi, what are you hesitating about!" An armored warrior with a beard strode over and shouted at Nahe Xiongqi, "If we let the Jiangdong Left Army flee to the south of Linzi Province, how will we explain to Yezir Khan?" He also poked the ground with the scabbard to express his dissatisfaction with Nahe Xiongqi's indecision.

"Long-winded fart, there are no heroes in the world except for your Xinjue family," Na He Xiongqi raised his eyebrows and scolded his deputy, suppressing his arrogance, "The Xinjue family are all heroes, then Timur, you come and tell me, why did the Jiangdong Left Army keep fleeing south?" ”

"I see that you have been fighting for so many years, and the more you fight, the more you shrink, what is so difficult to guess, the Jiangdong Left Army is afraid of the anger of my Donghu Iron Cavalry, except to flee south in a hurry, what choice do you think they have?" Xinjue Timur said unconvinced.

"Ignorant fools!" Na He Xiongqi unceremoniously taught his deputy, "Dare to intersperse the Jiangdong Left Army in Cangnan to ambush Ye Ji Nayan and Ye Ji Na Tuzhen, don't you have the courage to defend the city and fight?" It is true that most of the Southern Korean soldiers we encountered in the south were soft eggs, but if you think that the Southern Korean soldiers are all soft eggs, then you are a complete fool! ”

Xinjue Timur was rude, scolded Nahe Xiongqi a few words, and then his attitude softened, and said: "How could the Jiangdong Left Army not flee south, all traces show that there is a large group of soldiers and horses passing by Yangxinnan, as long as you keep chasing it, you will naturally know the result......"

"The Khan has taught us that we need to use our brains in battle," Nakh Xiongqi said, "why did Yejin Nayan be wiped out and only a few dozen people escaped?" Ye Ji Nayan is a fool like you, he just mistakenly thought that the Jiangdong Left Army with them in Yangxin North only had eight or nine hundred people, but he didn't find out that the Jiangdong Left Army had already divided its troops and hidden the main force in Cangnan in advance...... The first section of the Jiangdong Left Army and Ye Jinayan circled in the north of Yangxin for a few days, in such a harsh environment, the Jiangdong Left Army was meaninglessly in the field with infantry soldiers for several days with the elite of our cavalry, isn't this suspicion obvious enough? Ye Ji Nayan is a fool, I didn't see such a big suspicion. Now that the Jiangdong Left Army has no reason to flee south in a hurry, but flees south in a hurry, isn't this suspicion obvious enough? ”

"Then where can they hide, it's impossible to dig a pit and bury themselves, right?" Xinjue Timur gave a lesson and completely lost his temper, and still asked unconvinced.

"There will be traces in the snow, but the waves left by the ship passing by the sea, when the wind blows, the shadow of the fart cannot be seen!" Nakh Xiongqi pointed to the sea outside the sea pond.

Xinjue Timur looked at the vast sea outside the sea pond, the sea water was clear and blue, not far from the coast, there were some islands scattered in between, and he asked suspiciously: "Will the Jiangdong Left Army hide on the island?" You can't see that it's hiding someone......"

"Who knows?" Na He Xiongqi spread his hands and said, he didn't look like he was hiding soldiers on the island, but he also couldn't understand why the Jiangdong Left Army, which had just won victory in Cangnan, had to flee south in a hurry? If the other party was a timid army, it would be impossible for Ye Ji Nayan and Ye Ji Na Tuzhen to die in the hands of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Before leaving, Yezir Khan specially called him over, analyzed with him all kinds of doubts in the first battle of Cangnan, and asked him to pay attention to the cunning of the main general of the Jiangdong Left Army, and not to be blinded by resentment.

Nahe Qixiong asked Hu Cong to gather several staff leaders and deputy staff leaders to discuss things, so that all departments were stationed on the spot, strengthen vigilance, and send people to collect the headless corpses of Donghu Nan'er who were all over the ground, and there was no boat to go to sea nearby, so Nahe Qixiong asked his subordinates to cut down a few big trees and empty the cano, and went to the island to have a look and look for traces of the Jiangdong Left Army.

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On the island opposite Xiaobotou Village, Lin Lian, Cao Ziang, Ge Cunxin and others stood in the shrubs with withered leaves, watching the direction of Xiaobotou Village.

"The captive who leads the team is not an easy person to tease...... Lin Jian said softly, turning around and walking towards the east side of the island.

"If they don't chase south, then I'll take the second battalion to take advantage of the darkness to sail south, and send cavalry ashore in Yangxin South or Bincheng County to intercept and kill their outpost rangers," Cao Ziang said, "and see how long they can hold out without wavering......

Lin Jian stopped, looked at the tall masts erected on the east side of the island, several galleons and more fast paddle boats hidden behind the island, and said: "Then do it, but you must remember that you must not be greedy for war, and after annihilating and expelling its outpost rangers, you must quickly retreat, so that it cannot figure out the deployment of our Jiangdong Left Army......"

Since the beginning of winter this year, the Bohai Sea in the north has frozen in the north of the sea after the winter, and it often extends from the coast for dozens of miles and is frozen solid, and people can walk, horses, and drive, but the Bohai Sea surface in the south is not frozen, and ships can still dock.

As early as four days ago, after the villagers of Cangnan retreated south by land and sea by two routes, Lin Jian also led the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army to get on the sea boat, hid behind the island, and monitored every move around Xiaobotou Village.

Seeing that the thousands of captives who were counterattacking did not confuse the illusion of retreating south, Cao Ziang decided to lead the fourth battalion to take the sea route to intercept and kill the outposts of the captive cavalry in Yangxinnan and Bincheng County, and continue to confuse the captive cavalry.

The outer sea area in the south of Bincheng County belongs to the Laizhou Bay that is often called in later generations, and it is nearly 300 miles by sea in the past by detour, which is nearly 100 miles farther than taking the land route, but at this time the north wind prevails, and the sea boat Zhang Fan goes south, which is faster than the galloping horse, and the sea route of 300 miles is at most one day and one night.

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Whether it is Changshan Island, Prison Island, or Xisha Island, the development of power around these three islands is inseparable from ships. Lin Lian's eyes had long been on the waterway of the Yangtze River and the wider outer seas, and he even did not hesitate to give up most of the interests of the Jiangning estuary, also in order to obtain a more sufficient excuse to develop the fleet under the name of Jiyun Society.

In addition to the early "Dongyang", "Jiyun I" and "Jiyun II" three thousand-stone ships, Lin Jian ordered two five-masted ships with a carrying capacity of 5,000 stone from the Longjiang Shipyard under the Ministry of Industry of Jiangning as early as May last year in the name of Jiyun Society, and these two 5,000-stone ships were also completed and launched as early as early November.

It's just that the southeast wind is extremely rare in winter, which is not conducive to the northward movement of sailboats.

Although in order to facilitate maneuvering, the two 5,000-stone ships were each equipped with eight large oars, and these eight large oars were only used for short-range maneuvers, and Lin Jian could not rely entirely on wind power if he wanted to use the 5,000-stone large ship as a war ship. But even if it is unloaded, it is impossible to travel thousands of miles by sea from Jiangning to Cangxian County, Hejian, and it is impossible to travel completely by manpower.

Under the influence of Lin Bin, the Lin family also ordered four thousand-stone ships for their warehouse.

After the two five-masted ships were caused, the loach lord Ge Cunxin took Lin Bin's letter back to Jiangning, and with the help of the seventh lady, he directly lent out the four new ships in the hands of the Lin family, forming two five-masted ships, seven three-masted ships and towing a huge fleet of more than a dozen other medium-sized ships from Xisha Island, Chongzhou.

When there is no wind, it is rocked, when the wind is headwind, it anchors and anchors, and sails quickly with the wind, but after the winter, the north wind prevails, and it takes almost a month and a half to rush to the sea area of Hejian Province to meet with the forest.

Nearly 2,000 old and weak women and children who are not good at walking in Cangnan Sizhai were carried away by sea, and it was hard to squeeze a little, only two thousand stone boats were needed, and the boats left behind were more for loading horses, and the space occupied by horses was much larger than that of people, and people could squeeze, but horses could not squeeze.

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The two five-masted ships on the east side of the hiding island are 20 zhang long and 4 zhang wide, and the main mast is 12 zhang high.

Each cost more than 19,000 taels of silver, which is four or five times more expensive than a conventional five-masted sea ship, but both the material and the structural strength are far more than the level of conventional sea ships.

Transferred to the five-masted ship by oarboat, Lin Tie stepped on the deck that swayed slightly with the waves, and said to Cao Ziang: "The captives are stronger than the cavalry, they travel by land for thousands of miles like the wind, and the frontal charge shakes like a mountain, but with the seawall as the frontier, the captives and cavalry are ten times and a hundred times stronger, and they do not have the spare strength to exert - our eyes are more far-reaching than the Donglu Shengman who walked down from Burun Mountain, and the battlefield should not be limited to land." ”

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