Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 71

A horse’s hoof steps on a leaf, and the hoof is broken.

A fast horse rushed into the city from Shengtai Gate, almost one-third of the messengers could not support the last moment of entering the palace, and fell down on the street. Although the messengers would soon be taken away by the Imperial Army, the frequent expedited messages and the desperate and crazy faces of those messengers made the onlookers in Yanjing understand that there was a drastic change in the south that was extremely unfavorable for Yanlu…

Beiyan Palace, also the imperial city of Yuanyue, the Emperor of Heaven, Ye Jier, after knowing the news that the Dengzhou navy could not support the entire army in one day, the blood spurted a long case, and fainted, and did not wake up for two days. Come.

The eldest prince Ye Jibaishi was trapped in Gao Li, the eldest prince Ye Ji Luo Rong was in Luoyang, the third prince Ye Jiduo was in Jinan, and the princes and officials such as Wu Gu, Mengye and Zhang Xie could only invite the queen mother who had lived in the deep palace for a long time to preside over them. State affairs.

“It’s absurd. From what the old minister saw, the third prince and He Xiongqi were afraid of the southern bandit, and Fan Wenlan was not from our tribe, so their hearts must be different – if a small setback will abandon the capital and run away, what’s the face? Facing the last decrees of the late emperor, ‘building a nation through warfare’ and ‘building a nation through warfare’?” Na Hewugu climbed to the temple with an axe and hammered the ebony to the paving stones of the Dazheng Palace. The relocation of the capital together with Ye Jiduodi and Fan Wenlan was scolded with blood.

Hearing that He Wugu denounced Fan Wenlan, who was trusted and trusted by the Emperor of Heaven, as an “alien”, Zhang Xie was even more afraid to say anything about abandoning the capital – he just hoped that the Emperor of Heaven would wake up and perhaps save Beiyan. The last chance of a doomed fate.

The sea-locking line of defense, which once served as a barrier for Yanji, was so devastating that the Huaidong Army was defeated. The main force of Beiyan’s troops were all pressed on the defense lines of Henan and Shandong. The Huaidong Army’s 100,000 troops in Haizhou The elites can land from Jinhai, Changli and other places in three to five days at the earliest. How can they defend Yanjing?

The Queen Mother Beiyan also had no idea. She wondered if the emperor could wake up. She looked at the princes and ministers in the palace with a sad face. No one agreed to abandon the capital. Then it’s not that their words are not at all desirable, and they can only say in compromise: “Quickly send a fast horse to Luoyang, and ask the lord to return to Yanjing to preside over state affairs…”

Zhang Xie was terrified and sent a fast horse to Luoyang. When Ye Jiluorong returned, he was afraid that it would be ten days later. After ten days, he was afraid that the Huaidong Army had already attacked the city of Yanjing, right?

Zhang Xie said daringly: “When the southern thieves rose to Huaidong, they had been operating Jinhai for several years. The southern thieves were very familiar with the situation and terrain of the Jinhai Sea, and their navy had captured the sea-locked defense line. Jinhai, and then attacking Yanjing, the old minister implores the queen mother and all the princes and ministers to gather all the forces of Zhou Zuo to reinforce Jinhai, and do not let the southern thieves plan…”

At the moment, we can only hope that Jinhai can defend for two more days. In that case, even if they are defending Yanjing, they can send more troops and horses back from the periphery, and maybe they can use the advantage of troops to protect Yanjing.

Zhang Xie is not good at the military, and still hopes that the advantages of the number of troops and horses and the advantages of the cavalry in the plain area will be able to defend Yanjing – even if the lock sea defense line falls, how badly will it affect the entire Henan and Shandong defense lines. He didn’t even want to think about whether it would induce a collapse, and only hoped that he could survive this calamity.

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In Yezier’s bedroom, there was a row of imperial physicians sitting in the outer hall, grimacing and anxious.

In the inner hall, Concubine Yu sat on the bed with a sad face, looking at the Emperor of Heaven, who was lying still like a corpse. The Emperor’s cheeks and eye sockets were deeply sunk, and his complexion was like dead ashes—for the past few months, his mind has been swept away. Hanging on the southern defense line, his energy will be exhausted. When the oil is dry, he can no longer withstand the blow of the collapse of the Dengzhou navy, and he vomited blood and fainted.

No one can be sure when he will wake up, and no one can be sure if he will wake up?

Concubine Yu sat with a sad face. In her mind, King Khan was her heaven and her land. She had never seen anything that could knock King Khan down. It’s such a miracle, can it be called a shattering earth?

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April 21, the fifth day after the Dengzhou naval battle.

Nanmiaoshan Island, which was attacked by the elites of the two brigades of Denghai Town and Division, was like a busy wharf port in the early morning sun. Large sea ships continued to enter the sea from the south and enter the surrounding area of ​​Nanmiaoshan Island. Long-sided crescent-shaped bay.

Huangcheng Island is the most dangerous gorge in terrain, and it is also the only place to pass through the traditional old iron mountain and sea route. However, Huangcheng Island is too small. Nanmiaoshan Island is fifteen miles long from north to south, and four miles deep from east to west. The crescent-shaped bay is a large natural harbor.

Nanmiaoshan Island is only fourteen miles away from Daoyu Village, and only two miles away from Beimiaoshan Island in the north. The narrow waterway formed by Miaoshan Island in the north and south and the northwest coast of Dengzhou City is called Miaoshan Strait by locals, also known as Dengzhou. Waterway – After the entire Dengzhou Navy was destroyed, Miaoshan Island was the best springboard for the Northern Expedition to attack Jinhai and Yanjing.

The Northern Command was in addition to Liu Miaozhen, the commander of the Fengli Army, Sun Jingtang, the admiral of the military preparations of the various counties, and Zhao Qingshan, the commander of the Southeast Navy, Yang Yihang, the military staff member of the military staff, and Zhou Pu and Haizhou, the first jockey commander. The prefect and others were sitting outside the town, and other members of the command, including Cao Zi’ang, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Ge Cunxin, Yue Zhi, and others, all temporarily moved their tents with Lin Fu to Nanmiaoshan Island in order to direct the battle of Benjinhai nearby.

The military victory of the Northern Expedition can already be expected, and the recovery of Yanjing is also within sight, but there is still a lot of work to be done after the recovery of Yanjing. An came to Miaoshan Island by boat…

When Zuo Chengmu set off by boat from Jiangning, the news of the Dengzhou victory had not yet reached Jiangning. He was called to Haizhou to meet with Lin Fu. He received a temporary notice on the way and came directly to Miaoshan Island.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Zuo Chengmu, dressed in purple, looked at the masts in the Crescent Bay harbour like weaving, and stood there in a daze, his heart was blocked by an inexplicable emotion…

During the battle of Jingxiang, Zuo Chengmu could imagine that the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains would one day be in Lin Fu’s hands, but he didn’t expect it would come so quickly, so quickly, so unexpected – in fact Zuo Chengmu was the one who eliminated Huai In addition to the core figures in the east, he was one of the first few people who clearly announced the route of the northern expedition in late March, but even in late March, Zuo Chengmu still could not guess what means Lin Fu would have to lock up before the storm season. The sea defense line is torn apart.

Who would have guessed that the sea-locking line of defense that both the enemy and us once thought was impregnable would be so fragile?

Huang Jinnian, who arrived one step earlier than Zuo Chengmu, greeted him on the shore, watching Zuo Chengmu’s boat squeeze in through the narrow waterway between countless merchant ships, strode up to meet him, and said with a smile, “The South Island is reserved for the army. Department of Qin, for the logistics ships to berth and unload, the high command has just moved the bank account to the North Island, and the Privy Council asked me to wait here for the left minister, and then go together…”

Zuo Chengmu did not complain that he had to walk a few more steps. He first landed on the South Island, then drove north by car to the Beiyawan Pier on Nanmiaoshan Island, and took a boat to the North Island. When passing through Nanmiaoshan Island, the road On both sides are tents for temporary garrisoned troops.

The Denghai Town Division, the Third Town Division of the Haixing Battalion, He Zongliang, Wang Shou’er, and the Fengli Army’s First Town Division have assembled completely on Miaoshan Island in the north and south, waiting to rest on Qinshan Island and Huangcheng Island. The Jinghai Division’s 1st and 2nd Task Forces replenished their ammunition and immediately marched north to attack Jinhai.

Nanmiaoshan Island is the main interruption base. In order to ensure that the buildings of Nanmiaoshan Island are relatively complete, the remaining soldiers on the island were forcibly attacked by Denghai Town Division and Fengli No. 1 Town Division. Miaoshan Island is clearly organized and orderly.

Beimiaoshan Island is full of broken walls left by shelling – Lin Fu’s tent is temporarily stationed in the ruins.

Zuo Chengmu and Huang Jinnian entered the curtain, and Lin Fuzheng and Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin, Zhang Gou, Yang Shi, Chen Zhu and other generals finally deduced the battle plan to attack Jinhai.

Seeing Zuo Chengmu come in, Lin Fu put down the charcoal pen in his hand, stood up straight, and greeted him with a smile: “Zuo Xiang has worked hard all the way through the waves. Is there any discomfort in this boat ride?”

“This journey has been calm. My old bones can barely bear it. On the way, I was a little worried about the war in Dengzhou. I didn’t expect the privy envoy to kick the back door of Yanlu so easily. I was really overjoyed.” Zuo. Cheng Mu laughed.

“It’s not easy to win, and it’s dangerous to win,” Lin Bie said, raising his hips. “These prodigals, with the ammunition accumulated by the military for two years, they will lose 60% of the two battles. If the enemy can be tougher. Some, it’s not so smooth – even now, we have to stop here for two days to revise the battle plan for storming Jinhai.”

Zuo Chengmu was also about to arrive at Miaoshan Island when he saw the actual samples of the Fuhuo crossbow and Huaidong’s new battleship. Insufficient, that is, in just a few days, the consumption of materials is very amazing – but seeing that Lin Fu didn’t seem too worried, Zuo Chengmu thought that the problem would not be too big.

The sea-locking defense line has been torn apart. Although there are tens of thousands of elite enemy troops gathered in Dengzhou across the strait of more than ten miles~www.mtlnovel.com~, but it is separated by the strait of more than ten miles, not afraid of the enemy army If he can fly over with his wings, Lin Fu naturally has nothing to worry about.

However, in the two naval battles, it seemed that there were no casualties, but the consumption was extremely terrifying.

The Hejin naval battle was average, and the First Special Forces Fleet invested half of its combat power, but the consumption of the Dengzhou naval battle was staggering, and 40,000 solid iron bullets were fired on the first day alone.

40,000 solid iron bullets are only 40,000 to 500,000 jins of iron, which is really nothing, but it is necessary to cast 40,000 to 500,000 jin of iron materials into four, eight, twelve, and eighteen catties. And the standard spherical solid iron bullets of 24 pounds or even 32 pounds, but it is definitely not a simple matter.

The casting cost of these solid projectiles is actually no cheaper than casting a thousand guns.

In addition, the amount of gunpowder consumed in the two wars was as high as 156,000 to 60,000 catties, of which 60,000 catties of bitter ointment were consumed – chiseling really consumed nearly 60% of the military’s ammunition reserves in the past two years.

That is to say, if the Dengzhou navy were a little tougher, the Northern Expedition Army would have no problem even if they tore the sea defense line, and then went to Jinhai and Yanjing, and then they would be somewhat helpless.

Fortunately, there is still 40% of the ammunition reserve. Fortunately, the cannonball and gunpowder workshops of the Ordnance Supervision are operating continuously, reaching the level of 400 solid cannonballs, 100 shotguns, and 1,200 catties of gunpowder per day. …

At this time, a staff officer sent in the latest information collected, Gao Zongting read it briefly and applauded: “The enemy of Yanjing has already sent reinforcements to Jinhai, and there is no intention of abandoning the capital and fleeing west.”

When Lin Fu heard the sound, he turned around and said, “That’s good, it seems that Wei Zhonglong and Wu Jingze can relieve the pressure and send a letter asking them to stay put and eliminate as many swallows as possible on the Yanji Plain… …” My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter