(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

Camp with chariots, divide the two sides, form horns, set up a big crossbow and a strong bow, and clamp the soldiers so that they cannot go out of the west gate; He also made the cavalry line up in the southwest to prevent the Kou soldiers from going out of the east gate to attack and disturb, and then sent the people to dig and build a long trench along the west of the Hecheng fortress, at a distance of 300 paces.

In other words, if someone else guarded Hecheng, Lin Jian might not have to go to such great lengths, but Yu Feihu regarded Hecheng as a soft threat to the Jiangdong Left Army, and he couldn't expect him to easily abandon the fortress and retreat under pressure.

Most of the soldiers in Hecheng are old soldiers of Jin'an, and the luxury Feihu became famous for his good fighting in Eastern Fujian when he was a teenager, and there are many brave generals under his command, so to avoid the heavy losses that may result from the strong attack, Lin Bin's safe strategy can only be to build a wall on the periphery to trap it - even if the Kou soldiers are forced out of the fortress to fight in the field, it is better than forcibly attacking Hecheng.

Lin Jian and Ao Canghai rushed to the north bank, found Zhang Yan and Mao Wenjing, and reminded them: "There are still three hours, the salt river will be filled with the tide, and then the Kou ships will go out of the north gate to fight, and the salt guards need to build a simple wall along the north bank within three hours to prevent the Kou boats from attacking the north bank from the river......"

At this time, the tide receded, and there was only two or three feet of shallow water in the salt river, so that the Hecheng Saikou ship could not go out of the north gate to fight, and its west gate was clamped by the Jiangdong Left Army.

Mao Wenjing is a martial artist, greedy and incompetent, listening to Lin Lian say that there will be a rising tide in three hours, he doesn't believe it in his heart, but he knows that he can't delay the construction of the camp, and he doesn't argue with Lin Jian face to face, and he stares at his generals and hurriedly builds the camp - they have collected more than 1,000 people and a large number of camp building materials from Chongzhou, and they are not slow to move.

Lin Lian looked at the look on Mao Wenjing's face, and sighed in his heart: As a captain of the salt protection school in the salt area, he doesn't even know the rise and fall of the tide, how can he lead the troops to fight in the coastal area?

The ebb and flow of the tide is related to the operation of the sun and the moon, and the heaviest astronomical calendar in the world has been able to accurately infer the cycle of the ebb and flow of the tide, but it is not all based on experience, Lin Jian is too lazy to say this to Mao Wenjing, and now it is to help the salt army build a camp on the north bank, build a strong defense line on the north bank, and restore the production of salt areas.

Lin Jian and Zhang Yan stayed up all night last night to discuss secretly, and they reached an agreement with each other to cooperate in defense.

With the Yunyan River as the boundary, the Hecheng grassland area south of the Yunyan River is divided into the defense area of the Jiangdong Left Army, and the Jiangdong Left Army is responsible for the counteroffensive to recapture the Hecheng fortress and garrison, and is responsible for supervising the transportation of 8 million surrounding forage every year for the use of decoction and boiling salt in the Dafeng and Sheyang salt areas; Song Xiaobo made meritorious service and continued to serve as the capital supervisor of Hecheng, supervising the grass administration, dismantling the original Hecheng army and merging it into the Dafeng Yan District guard.

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Seeing that the salt guards on the north bank hurried to build a breast wall on the river embankment before noon, Lin Jian hurried back to the south bank before the high tide.

In the early morning, Lin Jian dispatched the troops and horses of the northern front to the east, and the reinforced more than 1,000 elite soldiers of the Chongcheng infantry battalion were divided into two teams of chariot battalions to enter the wall, which was only 300 steps away from the foot of the wall.

Six hundred elite cavalry covered the flanks of the Che Battalion, but the more numerous were the Chongzhou Township soldiers lined up behind the Che Battalion.

Lin Jian sent Feng to leave the camp and return to Chongcheng yesterday, but transferred another 2,000 township soldiers from Chongcheng, so that more than 4,000 people gathered on the northern front were militia soldiers.

Due to the previous victory, a large number of soldiers were captured, and the equipment of these 4,000 township soldiers was almost the same as that of regular soldiers, but the training was still small, but it was only affected by the early victory, especially the reward and salary of the township soldiers recruited by Lin Tie were the same as those of the Jiangdong Left Army, especially in the world, so that the morale of the township soldiers was quite usable.

In addition, more than 4,000 people who were recruited rushed to build a wall with some of the township soldiers who were drawn out under the arrows, stones, knives and guns.

When Lin Jian rushed back to the south bank, a chest barrier nearly four hundred steps wide had been built on this side, connecting the car camps on both sides and completely blocking the west gate of Hecheng.

In this process, the Kou soldiers had twice tried to attack out of the Sai, but the bows and crossbows prepared in the camp were very intensive, almost nearly 600 strong bows and crossbows with more than a dozen stone-throwing crossbows from the two wings to block the passage of the Kou soldiers out of the West Gate, and there were still obstacles such as rejecting horses, and the Kou soldiers rushed twice, all failed, and were forced to give up the idea of disturbing the attack from the West Gate.

At this time, the chest barrier was still very thin, only chest high, and no more than two feet thick. The Kou soldiers really want to forcibly break through, such a chest is also a few rushes to collapse, but can help the inexperienced villagers to stabilize their positions behind the chest, and then they can calmly tamp on this basis, thicken and heighten, with the increase of soil, an inner trench can also be formed on the inside of the chest, until the Kou soldiers are completely blocked in the Crane City Saili.

Limiting the Kou soldiers to the Hecheng Fortress and not being able to attack, it will not affect the upcoming autumn grain harvest in Chongzhou, and there is still some time to play these water mill kung fu with the Hecheng Kou soldiers, Lin Jian sat on horseback and looked at the Hecheng Plug Wall in the distance, there are a few people over there who are well-dressed and fresh, I don't know if the Luxury Feihu is looking at this side on the wall, he smiled in his heart, and said with Ao Canghai on the side: "The Luxury Flying Tiger may really think that if he occupies the Crane City and does not retreat, he will choke our throat, but he doesn't know that this is a dead place!" ”

Ao Canghai stared at the wall in the distance with a gloomy face.

He is not as easy as Lin Tie, and the extravagant family has a hatred for him to slaughter the city and exterminate the clan, which is also the main reason why he is unwilling to lead the troops directly - he is worried that hatred will blind his eyes and affect his judgment of the enemy's situation, which will be harmful to leading troops.

At this time, Cao Ziang sent someone to report and asked him to go to the east gate to observe the enemy's situation.

When the soldiers were approaching the fortress, the Chinese soldiers did not actively attack at the west gate, but they sent a force of more than 1,000 sharp soldiers to form a formation outside the east gate, and sent captured people to build a horizontal position on the five or six hundred steps deep field between the east gate and the anti-wave sea pond.

Lin Lian and Xi Canghai and others galloped to Haitang to observe the enemy's situation, Cao Ziang did not have any extra troops to launch and block the east gate at the same time, only Zhou Pu led two sentinels to monitor the guard.

"They are afraid that after we block the dead land passage, we will completely block the mouth of the Yunyan River," Cao Ziang pointed to the movement of the Kou soldiers in the distance, "They built a wall parallel to the river embankment, so that after we block the river, there will still be a land passage outside the east gate and on the south bank......

The soldiers detained not many people in the fortress, only three or four hundred, and the movement was far less rapid than the Jiangdong Left Army to build a fortress outside the west gate, and only then did it build a chest barrier more than 200 steps wide against the wall. However, more than 200 steps away were under the cover of the bow and crossbow at the head of the wall, and the Kou soldiers who went out of the cover were mainly in formation, and the cavalry had to risk a lot of casualties, so they were all confrontations before, and both sides did not move outside the east gate.

Lin Jian looked up at the sky and said: "In another hour, the tide will rise, I think outside this situation, most of the Kou ships will be moved outside the Saiwai to prevent us from being completely blocked in the Hecheng Seli - take turns to transfer the township soldiers to attack this side, let Zhou Pu take the cavalry to suppress the position, and then organize a team of soldiers to go north to fight in Haitang, so that even if the Xiangyong is defeated, there will be no major problems." ”

"Okay, I also want to fight, but if the township soldiers don't go into battle, they can't practice martial arts." Cao Ziang echoed.

After the victory in Hecheng, Lin Lian collected all the Chongzhou township warriors and gathered more than 6,000 troops, which was almost the same as the Jiangdong Left Army.

These villagers are all private soldiers and social soldiers recruited by the powerful clan forces in Chongzhou Township to protect the village and protect the fortress, mainly local bravery, but there are also quite a lot of brave and strong men recruited from the displaced households.

Even if these townsmen are trained, they are only short-term drills of one or two hundred people, and they can be used to strengthen the army and defend the wall, but it is a bit hasty to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Lin Jian didn't have the resources to calmly train an elite that was comparable to the Jiangdong Left Army, if conditions permitted, as long as it was ensured that it would not cause chaos, these townsmen would still be trained on the battlefield first - braving the rain of guns and arrows, and still holding the weapons in their hands and impacting forward, it was the first level of the elite veterans. Maybe when this war is over, a considerable elite force will be selected. Even if there will be large casualties - in this era, generals can't help but show mercy to the soldiers, but being too concerned about casualties is not a good general who leads the troops to fight.

In Lin Bin's opinion, the defense line temporarily built by the salt guard army on the north bank is still too weak, the tide is rising, and the Kou boat can go out to fight, in order to prevent the luxury flying tiger from sending troops to attack the salt guard army lined up on the north bank, he must launch an offensive on the south bank and exert pressure.

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Towards noon, the tide gradually rose, forming a considerable wave in the salt river, which had been blocked by only four or five miles of water.

At this time, the Jiangdong Left Army also launched an unrelenting offensive against the positions outside the East Gate, preventing them from building a chest barrier connected to the sea pond to ensure that there was a land passage to the sea outside the East Gate.

Qin Zitan stood under the tent in the northeast corner of Hecheng Sai, and since he saw the battle outside the east gate, he could also observe the rising tide of the salt river.

Qin Zitan frowned and looked at the river less than two miles long to the sea, a layer of hidden worry surfaced in his heart, listening to the sound of footsteps behind him, looking back, he saw that it was the second son who came over accompanied by Du Cheli.

Turning his head to look at the east gate, this wave of offensive of the Jiangdong Left Army had been repulsed, Qin Zitan said: "Lin is bound and blocked, it is impossible to ignore the change of tides, the Jiangdong Left Army should have the ability to block the estuary before the tide rises at the same time, but at this time, there are no warships of the Jiangdong Left Army in the field of vision, don't the second prince feel strange?" ”

The sky was clear and cloudless, and the sentry post on the high place could overlook the far sea twenty miles away, and at this time, there were no warships of the Jiangdong Left Army, so it seems that Lin Jian did not have the intention of blocking the river and restricting the warships on this side to go to sea - this of course cannot be explained by Lin Bin's negligence.

Extravagant Feihu said with a smile: "It's just a strategy to surround three and one - I have four thousand elites in hand, and the grain and grass in the plug are enough to last for a month, but the swineherd really dares to surround me for a month?" ”

Cheng Yiqun climbed up from the dock at the foot of the wall in armor and climbed up from the dock at the foot of the wall, heard the conversation here, and said, "That's it! There is a month's time, which is enough for the eldest prince to eat the Zhedong soldiers to the point that there are no bones left. At that time, the eldest prince will draw more than 10,000 male soldiers to the north, is it better for the swineherd to break the siege or not? The salt guards are all soft bones, how many soldiers can Lin Tie draw out in Chongzhou? Second son, I thought that Lin Jian also deliberately gave up this way of life, forcing us to retreat. Even if we divide our troops and go out, it will be convenient to reduce the pressure of his strong attack - now we have to concentrate our forces to defend Hecheng, as long as the situation in eastern Zhejiang is opened, Hecheng is the time to really play a role. ”

Hearing what the second son and Cheng Yiqun said, Qin Zitan still had doubts in his heart, and asked Du Cheli: "Che Li, what do you think of this?" ”

"A safe policy, the warship should be better than the Sai Strategy...... Du Cheli is Du Rong's brother, he is a military general of Jin'an, and Du Rong sneaked to Jiangdong to change his identity, he has been responsible for leading Qingfengxing's military guards, Du Rong died in Meixi Lake in the hands of Lin Binding, he took Du Rong's place, but in fact, under the suppression of all forces, Qingfengxing has been difficult to do, this time secretly arranged for Qingfeng Xing's military guards to escort luxury Feihu sneaking away from Jiangning, and also followed out, which plugged the real elite and loyal combat power, It is the personal guard of Qingfeng Xingwu and the luxury flying tiger of four or five hundred people.

Qin Zitan nodded slightly, after all, he couldn't completely pin his hopes on the eldest prince.

"This side divides the troops to the sea, and then let Lin Tie then close the river, and the two sides will be isolated...... How do you know that the warships of the Jiangdong Left Army are not waiting for us in the open sea? Cheng Yiqun said that he still hopes to concentrate on defending the blockade.

"The warship still has to go out to play a role," said Yu Feihu, "The loach walks in shallow water, has two thousand combat power, and does not dare to fight with the boat division of the Jiangdong Left Army, and it is enough to keep two thousand elite soldiers in the garrison!" ”

Cheng Yiqun said: "Then I will lead the ship to the sea, as long as I have a thousand troops, it is enough to deal with the boat division of the Jiangdong Left Army!" "Cheng Yiqun is better at water warfare than Xu Zhong and Du Cheli, since he decided to send a boat out, he can't shrink back.

"I thought it was better for the second prince to be outside," Qin Zitan said, "I stayed to assist General Xu in guarding the fortress." ”

Extravagant Feihu knew what Qin Zitan meant, whether it was to defend the fortress or go to sea, there was a certain risk, if he was to trap the crane city, and the situation in eastern Zhejiang was not as smooth as expected, Cheng Yiqun would not be able to mobilize the troops of the Shengsi Islands to help.