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When the Donglu entered Yangxin, Bincheng, and Bohai, there were as many as five or six hundred outpost cavalrymen. There were dozens of cavalry, and groups of dozens of cavalry were scattered everywhere. The soldiers in the city gathered together to fight out, and they fled away on horseback.
, Yangxin withdrew his troops, and they gathered again and surrounded Yangxin City.
The scouts in the city could not be let out, and the scouts outside the city could not come in. Except for the lookout post at the top of the city to observe the surrounding enemy situation, detailed information outside the city could no longer be obtained. It was not until the dusk of the 21st that the agreed-upon light was fired in the direction of Zhulong Bay.
In the smoke of war, Lin Fu knew that Zhou Pu was leading the Jiangdong left army infantry to arrive at Zhulong Bay by sea ship.
In the battle of Jinhai, nearly 1,400 heads were obtained. The seriously injured did not receive timely and effective treatment. It was difficult to survive in the cold wilderness. The final number of enemies killed should be about double the number of owl heads. The Ministry of War also
Will admit that this kind of military merit calculation, even if it is exaggerated, there is no problem at all; similarly, the Jiangdong Left Army and the Jinzhong Army also suffered heavy casualties.
The left army in Jiangdong did not die many people directly in the battle, only about 130 people, which was even less than those who died directly in the victory of Cangnan.
This is the case. If you really go into battle without fear of life and death, you will not be fatally injured. Most of the Donglu cavalry are light cavalry. In addition to riding bows, they mainly attack with swords. Jiangdong Left Army Mo Dao soldiers formed a group
Armor, most other infantry wear combined armor. In addition to defending against the shooting of cavalry bows, it can also effectively resist the slashing of the curved spine sword.
Even if it is an ordinary serious injury, given the current medical rescue conditions of Jiangdong Zuojun, his life can basically be saved.
However, the wounded needed time to recuperate. Counting the wounded who could not immediately go into battle, the victory at Jinhai also reduced the Jiangdong Left Army's combat strength by nearly 30%.
A large number of wounded were transferred to the ship for treatment. After receiving news of the fall of Jinan and rushing to rescue Yangxin from the Tianjin Sea, the Jiangdong Left Army could only mobilize slightly more than 2,200 troops.
Lin Fu withdrew all the more than 600 cavalrymen from Jiangdong's left army, and was followed by Zhou Tong's Jinzhong cavalry. He managed to gather a thousand cavalry and rushed to Yangxin by land.
The subsequent rest period of the Jiangdong Left Army can be slightly more sufficient, and additional troops can be urgently transferred from the rural soldiers. In order not to greatly affect the combat capabilities of the Jiangdong Left Army, it is only a four-to-one ratio, from Cangnan, Tianjin
The Haixiang soldiers selected more than 400 Jianyong to add them. After deducting the troops who stayed with Cao Ziang to help guard Jinhai, Zhou Pu could only bring out 1400 to 500 troops.
Lin Fu only had 2,400 to 500 elite people he could call upon in Yangxin.
In comparison, after Donglu captured Jinan, taking into account the two factors of the joining of rebels and the casualties in the storming of Jinan, the number of troops that could be mobilized on the southern front would also exceed 40,000. In Shandong, in addition to the two that Lin Fu could mobilize,
Apart from the fourteen to five hundred elites and the more than ten thousand troops in Dengzhou, there was no army that looked even remotely impressive.
The situation is really extremely bad. In addition to time being a favorable factor, we hope that the envoys sent by the Ministry of War to Zhongzhou can effectively restrain the various Qinwang divisions gathered in Zhongzhou to put pressure on the main force of the Eastern Lu's southern front.
Lin Fu held his saber in his hand and climbed onto the gate tower of the west city. From his critical point of view, the defensive capabilities of Yangxin City's walls and gate towers were not particularly strong, but they were more than enough to deal with the Donglu cavalry, which had even weaker siege capabilities.
.Maybe the Donglu will disperse the rebels and attack the city, Lin Fu thought.
Lin Fu now knew more details about the fall of Jinan City. After the Linqing garrison was defeated in Dezhou City, he did not dare to fight. He fled and was afraid of settling the accounts with the Autumn Queen, so he simply led more than 9,000 Linqing garrison troops to surrender to the Donglu. When Jinan was attacked
, the Donglu led the Linqing rebels to attack the city. These rebels did not have the courage to resist the Donglu cavalry when they were defending the city, but they worked very hard when they attacked Jinan.
At this time, Lin Fu was worried that Zhao Jinlong, the deputy general of the Liangzhe Qin Wang Division, would choose to surrender to the Donglu after he figured it out, so he provided the Donglu with another 6,000 siege troops.
Lin Fu held the handle of the knife with his hand, his knuckles turned blue, and the hatred in his heart was hard to calm down. This great river and mountain had been turned into a quagmire by these snakes and rats.
A closer look shows that the Chu Party must bear most of the responsibility for this corrupt situation. It strongly advocated peace in the early stage, causing the imperial court to delay sending envoys and governor Tianxia Qin Wangshi to unified command to fight against the invading Donglu, and allowed Hao Zongcheng to bury the Jinzhong soldiers.
Twenty thousand elites made the situation completely corrupt.
Although the Chu Party could use the Jiangdong Left Army as a fig leaf, it could not be hidden from the eyes of truly knowledgeable people. Although Lin Fu was a member of the Chu Party, he was indescribably fed up with the actions of the Chu Party.
Lin Fu looked far into the distance, and his field of vision was filled with Donglu sentries wandering around in the fields outside the city.
However, after the elite Jiangdong Left Army was incorporated into the city garrison, the prisoners at the outpost no longer dared to play the trick of using shields to cover the archers approaching the city and shooting the defenders from the crenellations. This trick would not work on the Jiangdong Left Army.
, the powerful crossbows on the top of the wall can shoot through light shields at close range, and the provocation of the prisoner outposts who dare to come down the city wall is nothing more than a free moving target for Jiangdong left army soldiers to practice archery.
The Jiangdong Left Army did not have much experience in defending the city. Lin Fu would take time in the past two days to summon the sentry generals and captains to urgently train the tactics of defending the city. At this time, the captains returned to the city.
The leader summoned the flag leaders below and the fighting backbones of the squad to explain the key points of the city defense battle.
Most of the soldiers were illiterate, and the methods of defending the city were very crude, but it was better than nothing. Lin Fu asked Ao Canghai and Zhou Tong to teach the generals how to defend the city as carefully as possible when they visited the cities.
points to note.
Ao Canghai was used to this method, but Zhou Tong was surprised. How could the generals talk so much nonsense to the flag leaders and ordinary soldiers below? However, the victory at Jinhai also made Zhou Tong see the powerful combat power of Jiangdong's left army. Lin
As long as Fu's request was not too confusing, Zhou Tong would do as he asked without questioning it.
There are more than 2,000 Yangxin defenders. Lin Fu does not need so many people to defend the city. He only selects 800 people to cooperate with the Jiangdong Left Army to defend the city. This is the Jiangdong Left Army. Lin Fu also sent Ao Canghai to guard the city with elite armor.
After he died, Zhou Tong led 300 Jinzhong elite cavalry in the city to prepare for maneuver. When they actually went up to the city wall to strengthen defense, they only had eight people, which was not enough to make up the capital team.
Most of the Yangxin garrison was organized into auxiliary troops. If it was necessary to move up to the city, for the time being, according to Lin Fu's request, they demolished the houses in the city, collected as many bricks and stones as possible, and transported the beams and columns to the city wall for later use.
The defense of Yangxin City is relatively simple. Except for the brick wall in the gate tower section, the rest are rammed earth walls.
At this time, Lin Fu and Ao Canghai were walking around the city wall, carefully checking whether there were any weak spots in the city wall that needed to be strengthened.
At this time, there is no way to strengthen the defense outside the city wall, so we can only use more brains inside the city wall.
Seeing the county captain Cheng Weiyuan approaching, Lin Fu called him over and said: "The four city gates are relatively thin and can be easily knocked open..."
"I have also thought about this issue," Cheng Weiyuan said, "Should the city gate be completely sealed from the inside by filling it with soil?"
"This is not the best way," Lin Fu said, sealing himself in the city, which is quite beneficial for simply defending the city with weak soldiers, but when he came here, in addition to guarding Yangxin, he also hoped to do his best to protect the city.
In order to contain the main force of Donglu's southern line and move towards eastern Shandong, naturally he could not completely seal himself in the city and lose the ability to take the initiative to attack. Lin Fu picked up a broken piece of blue brick and drew a pattern on the city wall brick for Cheng Weiyuan to see.
, "Look at this, can you organize people to build a thick brick wall parallel to the city gate on the inside of each of the four city gates to seal the streets entering the city, but leave narrow openings on both sides for soldiers and horses to pass through?
, limited to two horses passing in parallel. In this case, even if the city gate is broken down from the outside, with this wall blocking it, the enemy soldiers will not be able to rush in quickly, providing us with conditions for a counterattack. Of course, both sides will also
The space must be cleared to pile up the bricks, stones and soil that block the city gate..."
Lin Xu and Cheng Weiyuan talked about many places in the city that could be strengthened to improve defense. At this moment, the whistle bell in the southwest corner rang three times. He, Ao Canghai, and Cheng Weiyuan walked to the crenellations of the city wall. There was no movement among the prisoners approaching the city wall.
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There is a low slope about three or four miles away on the west side. The low slope is not high, but it is enough to block the view from the top of the city and form a blind spot. This is the most disadvantageous place for Yang Xin to defend the city. Standing at the top of the city, it is impossible to see the enemy clearly.
What is the deployment of the soldiers behind the low slope?
Lin Fu also asked Zhou Tong to lead 300 Jinzhong elite cavalry to conduct reconnaissance twice to confirm that the main force of the Donglu had not come yet.
There were four or five groups of cavalry scattered on the low slope, and there were more than a hundred people. They were only responsible for monitoring Yang Xin. If Yang Xin did not send troops, they dismounted and let their horses push away the snow and eat the green wheat seedlings on the slope. This
At that moment, I saw them riding their horses together and gathering at the top of the slope. It seemed that something was happening on the other side of the short slope, but Lin Fu and the others could not see it from the top of the city.
Lin Fu frowned and stared over there. A large number of enemy cavalry came out on both sides of the short slope that could not be blocked. Cheng Weiyuan said: "Could it be that the main siege force of the Japanese troops has come?"
"No," Lin Fu shook his head, "Donglu should no longer have the idea of attacking Yangxin. Its main force has not been integrated and will not rush here in a hurry——"
"The cavalry will not be marching over. The formation formed is still to defend the back side of the hillside..." Ao Canghai judged.
"They are the defenders from Jinan who have broken out." Lin Fu vaguely heard the sound of fighting in the wind at this time, and immediately ordered Ao Canghai, "Send someone to call Captain Zhou over quickly and ask for Jinzhong soldiers."
Be prepared to attack, and you also go down and be prepared to go out of the city to support..."
Cheng Weiyuan was a little worried. Looking at the sentries outside the city, they were all gathering towards the west city at this time, obviously to prepare for the defenders in the city to come out of the city to meet them. Besides, it was not clear how many soldiers and horses broke out from Jinan, how many chasing horsemen were there, and how many soldiers and horses were in pursuit.
The only mobile troops that could be mobilized were three hundred cavalry led by Zhou Tong and two hundred armored soldiers led by Ao Canghai. If these five hundred men were accidentally lost outside the city, it would be difficult to defend the city.
Cheng Weiyuan wanted to persuade Lin Fu to be more cautious, but when he saw his brows gazing resolutely at the hillside, he thought that if Lin Fu was cautious, someone who only thinks about himself would not rush to defend Yangxin from Jinhai, more than 300 miles away.