Chapter 57: Northward Attack

(The second update, I got up too early today, and now I really want to sleep, so I ask for a red ticket)

Yue Lengqiu sent a letter in the name of the governor of the Qinwang Division on the southern front, asking the Jiangdong Left Army to move westward, waiting for an opportunity to recover Jiyin, Linyi, Dezhou and other cities, and follow the attacking captives, looking for an opportunity to continue to annihilate a captive army. Although the floodplain formed by the breach of the Yellow River is not very vast, the Qinwangshi of the southern line on the first line of Jinan blocked the road to the north, and it is necessary to advance eastward along the south bank of the Yellow River to recover Zhangqiu first, and make a detour to Yangxinlai in order to bypass the floodplain.

Lin Lian can ignore Yue Lengqiu's order as bullshit, the battlefield is changing rapidly, "The general is outside, the monarch's order is not granted", not to mention that Yue Lengqiu is only in the name of the temporary governor. Now that Yue Lengqiu led the troops to recover Jinan, Lin Lian's next step was to wave his army north to support Jinhai, so as to avoid the number of villages at the vortex mouth to be pulled out by the way when the captives came out of the Jingdong region.

It's just that Yue Lengqiu also issued an additional military order, requiring Shao Wu's remnants to immediately take a detour from Zhangqiu back to Jinan.

Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang and others were all directly subordinate generals under the rule of Eastern Fujian, and without the protection of a prestige and powerful general like Lu Jingyan, they would not be able to fight against Yue Lengqiu.

The Jiangdong Left Army and the Shao Wu Remnant Army were not subordinate to each other, and Lin Lian could not protect the Shao Wu Remnant Army against Yue Lengqiu's military order.

Outside, the sky was already clear, but there were still huge candles lit in the tents, and the candles reflected on the faces of the people.

"Please allow the secret room to deliberate." Geng Quanshan said.

The camp tent is divided into inside and outside, the outer room is the meeting hall, and the inner room is the rest room, and Lin Jian asked Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang to follow him to the inner room.

"My lord, now only you can save Shao Wujun!" Walking inside, Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang knelt on the ground together.

"You immediately go to the Li Bingbu - as long as you don't go to Jinan, you have the merit of keeping the war, presumably Yue Lengqiu can't help you," Lin Jian thought to himself that at this time, only Li Zhuo could protect Geng Quanshan, Chen Dingbang and others, and said, "Suppress the Hongzepu thieves, the Li Bingbu will be able to use you......" Zuo Shangrong was killed, and the Changhuai Zhenjun was destroyed in Haozhou, even if there was no further news, Lin Jian knew that it must be Li Zhuo who was in charge of the Jiangdong military affairs at this time to prevent the situation in Jiangdong from continuing to deteriorate.

"If we go to vote for Li Shuai, we will only create big trouble for Li Shuai. Besides, life and death are trivial matters," Geng Quanshan knelt on the ground and said, "Yue Lengqiu can't openly cut off the heads of me and Captain Chen, but Yue Lengqiu can do it to send Shao Wu's remnants to death!" Captain Chen and I will go to Jinan to restore our lives and give Yue Lengqiu an explanation, but Shao Wujun is the only one left with these brothers, and they finally survived, we can't take them to Jinan to die, so I beg you to take them in! Just as if they were all killed in the battle of Yangxin!

"Okay," Lin Jian thought for a moment, then flatly agreed, and said, "I said that Shao Wujun had broken up and incorporated me into the Jiangdong Left Army to fight before the war, and Yue Lengqiu couldn't help me." I'll take care of the remaining generals of Shao Wujun for you first, and you go to Jinan to deal with Yue Lengqiu first......"

"And Chu Zheng, he is the commander of the Du Lieutenant's personal guard battalion, he went to Jinan with us, I am afraid that Yue Lengqiu will be killed on the spot. When Jihe was ambushed by the captives, Chu Zheng had already lost an arm for the protection of the captain, and the captain asked him to remain incognito before he died, and hoped that the adults could take him in. Geng Quanshan said.

The general dies, the guards will be killed if they don't fight, and the commander of the guard battalion will be killed if they don't fight! Shao Wujun fought too miserably, Chu Zheng might not be charged with the Zhu clan, but don't think that Yue Lengqiu would save his life if he had a reasonable excuse.

Lin Jian nodded and said, "I'll arrange him." ”

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After discussing everything, Lin Jian asked Song Bo to come to the camp tent and said to him: "Yue Governor wants our army to move westward, pursue the captives, recover Linyi, Jihe and other cities, we think about it carefully, I think that the captives will go out of Jingdong, and should be determined to attack Jinhai and hit its flank, I am determined to lead the Jiangdong Left Army to the north into Jinhai, and ask Song Shuban to explain one or two ...... to Yue Du on my behalf."

"Song knows." Song Bo said, thinking that he was afraid that Yue Lengqiu didn't expect Lin Lian to act according to his orders.

Lin Jian said: "When the remnants of Shaowu Town avoided Yangxin, there were only six or seven hundred people left, in order to ensure the combat strength of Yangxin to defend the city, I had already withdrawn the remnants of Shaowu into the Jiangdong Left Army, except for Geng and Chen, the Shaowu Town Army no longer existed. If Governor Yue insists that the remnants of Shao Wuzhen's army go to Jinan to restore his life, then please be a little patient, and after the war, I will withdraw Shao Wuzhen's generals from the army one by one and return them to Governor Yue. ”

"......" Song Bo glanced at Lin Jian in surprise, but he didn't expect that he decided to shelter the remnants of Shao Wu.

However, this excuse is difficult to refute, and it is not at the cost of weakening the combat strength of the Jiangdong Left Army, and the remnants of Shao Wu's army are forcibly withdrawn. Yue Lengqiu really wanted to tear up and harden his attitude, and Lin Lian could bite to death and not let go. This lawsuit went to the military department, and it was useless, everyone was fed into the stomach of the Jiangdong Left Army, and they could vomit it again?

What's more, the military exploits of the Jiangdong Left Army are so brilliant, and everything must be biased in favor of the Jiangdong Left Army.

Song Bo is only responsible for delivering the message, what does Lin Tie say, he is only responsible for bringing it back to Jinan, so he will not have any disputes with Lin Tie, and he will behave well in everything. also knew that Yue Lengqiu's move to steal merit would make the generals of the Jiangdong Left Army who really fought hard and made great achievements very disdainful. In this regard, he was also very helpless, but he did not expect how close the Jiangdong Left Army would be to him.

The matter was decided in this way, Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang first followed Song Bo to Jinan to return to Yue Lengqiu, only took a small number of personal guards to go first, and the others followed the Jiangdong Left Army to the north.

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The Jinzhong army led by Zhou Tong was not controlled by Yue Lengqiu at all, and naturally there was no doubt that they would march north with Lin Bin, but the issue of the way out of the Jinzhong army was also mentioned on the agenda, and Zhou Tong was also sad, Yue Lengqiu was a narrow-minded person, and Hao Zongcheng was not an open-minded master.

Before the whole army marched north, Lin Jian had other things to do, he invited Zhang Jinxian and Cheng Weiyuan, the county lieutenant of Yangxin County, and said directly: "I hope that the captured people will be disbanded immediately, and each person will be given a piece of winter clothing, 20 catties of grain, and 1,000 copper coins, and then they will stay with them. In addition, more than 1,000 rebels, I will escort them to Jinhai......"

Yue Lengqiu led the army north, and it was bound to borrow from Yangxin, and Lin Jian would not be so stupid as to leave the captured people and rebels to Yue Lengqiu to behead him as his war exploits. If these things are not handled well, he will not be able to leave Yangxin immediately.

"Do as Lord Lin wants." Zhang Jinxian and Cheng Weiyuan were also extremely disgusted with Yue Lengqiu, who avoided before the war and rushed to fight for merit after the war.

"I asked Captain Chu and the guards who still stayed in front of Lu Duwei what they meant, Lu Duwei stopped in Yangxin, they can't go north with us, they want to stay and guard the coffin for Lu Duwei," Lin Jian said, "I also hope that Lord Zhang and Lord Cheng will take care of ...... on their behalf."

"Can Yoshin keep them?" Zhang Jinxian asked.

Lin Jian knew what Zhang Jinxian meant, Yang Xin now has more than 1,000 troops on the ground, although it has been tested by war, but the training and combat experience are far inferior to the regular army, if Chu Zheng and other officers and veterans can be left, the strengthening of local military equipment will be significant.

Chu Zheng and the others are all Lu Jingyan's personal guards, Lu Jingyan died in battle, even if he is extrajudicially gracious, Chu Zheng and the others are at least sentenced to be in the army. Zhang Jinxian, Cheng Weiyuan and others are representatives of Yangxin's local forces, and if the army is in chaos, they naturally have the ability to cover more than ten or twenty people, Lin Jian nodded and said: "I have to ask their own opinions on this, if Yangxin can keep them, I have no opinion." ”

Judging from the performance of the Jiangdong Left Army, the Jinzhong Army, and the Shao Wu Army in the more than ten days of defending the city, Zhang Jinxian and Cheng Weiyuan knew that it was extremely beneficial to the local government to keep Chu Zheng and others. Even if the matter is revealed, it is necessary to take these risks for the sake of local interests and for the next time the invasion of captives is met.

Zhang Jinxian and Cheng Weiyuan did not delay any longer, and immediately prepared according to Lin Bin's intentions.

Lin Jian called the generals and instructed Zhou Tongdao: "We escort the rebels to the north, and it is likely that we will be harassed by a small group of captives, so I have decided that you will lead the troops to take the lead and serve as the vanguard to cover the left flank of our army." The distance of the exploration should be twenty miles, and then release the scout for ten miles......"

He also said to Zhou Pu, "It is a big problem to send troops to the north, I decided to immediately issue guns, spears, swords, shields and other ordnance to the troops, and you will draw a hundred capable veterans from the army to temporarily serve as the commander and banner leader." When marching, you and Zhao Qingshan led the troops to cover the left and right, and I came to personally lead the remnants of Shao Wu, and together they were the Chinese army; Ning Zechen led his troops to cover the left rear flank. ”

The military attachés in the captured and surrendered troops were all cut off their heads, and the organizational system of the captured and surrendered troops was completely broken, and the distribution of weapons and temporary formation of troops was not a big problem, but the morale and combat effectiveness of such a temporary army were so weak that they were scum, and it was likely to become a rout if the captives and cavalry rushed away. The most important thing to consider at the moment is that if there is an encounter with the captives on the way, these routs should not be allowed to storm the main formation. Cover on the inside, it's good to bluff. As a result, the wounded and sick were moved to Zhulong Bay to board the ship, and their force along the coastline to the north looked to be 4,000 men.

Lin Jian asked all the generals to prepare, and strive to leave Yangxin and go north before dark.

Today's weather is fine, and it is likely to be a good moonlight at night, so you can march at night, and force your way to the north of Cangxian County, where there are scattered dock villages to rely on, and the march will be relatively safer. Although the wind direction is unfavorable and it is not easy for the ship to go north, the ships that meet the south of Jinhai will also appear in the waters around Cangxian County tomorrow afternoon.

At dusk, everything was ready, and the injuries and illnesses were moved to Zhulong Bay to board the ship as early as noon, at this time I was afraid that it had already arrived in Zhulong Bay, and the detectives and scouts were also released twenty miles away, Lin Tie turned over and stepped on horseback, so that Zhou Tong led the cavalry first, and he and Zhou Pu and Zhao Qingshan also led the troops to pull out the camp at any time.

Looking at the people of the city who knelt on the ground, Lin Jian also hardened his heart and kept silent, Yuan Jianhai and others stood on the north city tower to see off, the small county lord Yuan Yan's thin body looked at a bright spring flower at the head of the city from a distance, Lin Jian smiled slightly over there, and Zhang Jinxian, Cheng Weiyuan and other Yangxin officials and gentry who went out of the city bowed their hands, and then pulled the reins and turned the horse's head and went north.

As soon as the army on Lin Lian's side was opened, the people who were guarding Zhulongpo and had not dispersed followed together.

Although Yangxin gave them food, clothing, and travel expenses, most of their hometowns had fallen to the enemy, and they had no recovery and nowhere to go.

Some people thought they had a way, and stayed in Yangxin and waited for the war to be completely over before returning to their hometowns, and most of them were poor tenant farmers. After this catastrophe, the family members were either taken captive or killed, or fled to a foreign land, separated and feared that it would be difficult to see each other again in this life. Most of them have already lost their families, what is the use of a winter coat, 20 catties of grain, and 1,000 copper coins?

Besides, they are also worried that staying in Yangxin will give the local government a liquidation.

Although the Jiangdong Left Army caught them, but in the past two days to provide food and clothing, and today Yang Xin sent them winter clothes, dry food and travel expenses, in the hearts of the drowning people, the Jiangdong Left Army, the Jiangdong Left Army commander Lin Jian is undoubtedly a life-saving boat in the stormy waves, in addition to following the Jiangdong Left Army to the north, what other good way out?

So many people formed a tide of displaced people to follow behind, seriously affecting the speed and formation of the march, Lin Jian sent people to drive them away twice at first, but these people scattered and reunited, and followed behind the army.

Lin Jian was not allowed to make Zhou Tong lead his troops to Jinhai first, for a small city like Wukou, two hundred elites arrived, which was a very powerful support; Ning Zechen and Zhao Qingshan's troops were transferred to the left flank to cover the army, and he, Zhou Pu and Ao Canghai led the army and four or five thousand scattered people to march slowly to Jinhai.