Donghai County is where the old Nanqing Prefecture is located, and the county is governed in Qishan County. At the beginning, in order to dominate the Central Plains, Goujian, the king of Yue, built a capital near Qishan.

After Qin unified the world, Qishan County was bounded by a standing stone, which was the east gate of Great Qin, that is, the extreme east of the Qin Dynasty. Qishan Port outside Qishan County is a natural harbor, and there is a large island in the sea outside the harbor Yuzhou, so there is no need to be afraid of being attacked by wind and waves at sea.

Qishan County is located between the two major ports of Dengzhou and Jiangdu, which is an excellent geographical location, but it is sparsely populated in Donghai County, and there are only 27,000 households in the whole county in the seventh year of the Great Cause, which is located in the lower county in the country.

So Qishan County hung lonely on the edge of the East China Sea, almost forgotten. But because of this, he avoided the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and hundreds of people flocked here to take refuge. Haidong Haojie Zang Junxiang recruited strong people from the homeless people and took advantage of the situation.

At present, Du Fuwei's 50,000 Jianghuai army is approaching Donghai County, and Qishan County has been encircled.

After Du Fuwei's army went north, the Zhao army stationed in Donghai County gave up most of the cities in Donghai County in order to shrink the battle line. Song Jingang led the main force of the imperial guard, which had already retreated to Langya County, while Donghai County governed Qushan County, and the subordinate general Huyalang who was handed over to him was stationed in Gao Tao.

Gao Tao was the former Sui army general who helped Li Chongjiu capture Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, last time. Because of his achievements in breaking Pyongyang, Gao Tao has been promoted by Li Chongjiu to the rank of tiger tooth general. Because of the new establishment of the Imperial Guard, Li Chongjiu selected 2,000 soldiers who were willing to join the Zhao Army among the captured Sui Army soldiers to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Guard.

These captured Sui soldiers are all veterans who have been in the army for a long time and have a lot of combat experience. It is a valuable asset for the newly formed Imperial Guard. As soon as they arrived at the Imperial Guard. Many of them were immediately promoted to low-ranking generals.

Gao Tao was stationed in this mountain city with 3,000 soldiers, including 500 veterans of the Sui army. Many of them have already served as the deputy captains of the team, and as for the other soldiers, most of them are local soldiers in Donghai County. After Zang Junxiang was killed, most of his 50,000 subordinates surrendered to the Zhao army.

Xu Shiji eliminated most of Zang Junxiang's 50,000 horses and horses and let them go to plow the fields, but he only selected 5,000 of them. The 5,000 men were strong, and the Tun Guards took half of them, and the remaining half was given to Song Jingang's imperial guards. Song Jingang directly put 1,500 of them into the army. It was transferred to Gao Tao.

Therefore, in the current Qishan City, although the 3,000 men and horses of the Zhao army are newly formed, they are not inferior to the ordinary battle-hardened divisions in terms of combat effectiveness.

Three days ago, when Du Fuwei hit the city of Qishan, he heard that there were only 3,000 men and horses in the city, so he did not think about it, and immediately sent people to persuade him to surrender. But Du Fuwei's persuasion was rejected by Gao Tao. Among the generals sent by Du Fuwei in anger, Wang Xiongyi, the most brave and good at fighting, led the Danyang elite soldiers to attack the city.

As a result, Wang Xiongli attacked for two days, but there was no way to take the mountain city.

Du Fuwei was furious when he heard the news, but he could not lead these 50,000 horses. has been besieging this mountain city.

In Du Fuwei's plan, after capturing Linyi County, Langya County is at your fingertips, whether it is to the west at this time. Collect Jibei, Qi, Lu two counties. The army pressed the Yellow River, or looked east to the North Sea. Gaomi, Donglai counties. The seizure of Shandong and the sight of the sea are all things that come naturally.

After receiving Shandong, Jianghuai Yangzhou became a piece. The Jianghuai army can use Jiang Yang's rich grain and rice to raise Shandong's warlike division, and with Shandong's Gongwei, no matter if he turns his face with Li Tang and any side of Zhao in the future, he Du Fuwei has the confidence to fight.

Therefore, Du Fuwei took the big and let go of the small, he felt that the two or three thousand men and horses in Qishan City were just shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and his righteous son Wang Xiongzao could be cleaned up in a few days, so there was no need for him to delay his efforts here and delay the opportunity to go north. So Du Fuwei ordered Wang Xiongli to lead 8,000 men and horses, stationed under the siege of Qishan City, and led the main force of the Jianghuai Army to continue north, enter Langya County, besiege Linyi County, where Langya County is located, and at the same time seek the opportunity to fight the main force of the Song King Kong Imperial Guard.

Now Wang Xiongli's men and horses have captured the wharf in the east of the city last night and blockaded the port of Qishan.

The fishing boats on the sea were all collected by the Jianghuai army and ordered to dock on the shore. Door-to-door searches were carried out in the fishing village of the port. The local fishermen and people were blasted out of their houses, and then detained by the Jianghuai army in one place, after which every grain of grain, rice and salt were confiscated by the Jianghuai soldiers, and even the salted fish drying outside the house were not spared.

Immediately, the Jianghuai sergeant wearing a cyan battle jacket built two small forts with simple civil forts here in the port to seal the exit from the sea.

Gao Tao naturally knew the intention of the Jianghuai army to do this, and the blockade of Qishan Port was cut off, and the defenders in the city came to help. It will not take a few days for the food in the city to be exhausted, and at this time, the Jianghuai army can break through the city without spending a single soldier.

At the beginning, Gao Tao thought that Qishan City was a dead city, and sooner or later it would be captured by the Jianghuai army that occupied superior forces, so it was better to give him up and retreat to Qingzhou for defense.

The more territory the Jianghuai army occupied, the more troops had to be divided into defense, and although the Zhao army gave up a few counties, the shrinkage of the troops was strengthened, which was Gao Tao's advice to Song Jingang, and he did not fight for the gains and losses of one city and one place. But he didn't expect Song Jingang, so he refused without thinking about it, and directly issued a military order for him to lead 3,000 men and horses from his headquarters to defend Qushan Port, and told him that reinforcements would arrive in five days.

Gao Tao didn't understand why Song Jingang made such a decision, but after seeing that his statement was invalid, he still decided to carry out the order. Soldiers are loyal to obeying the decision, even if the decision is wrong, this is the case in Gao Tao's mind, just like when he conquered Liaodong, he knew that Goguryeo was dead, but the 300,000 Sui soldiers still did not hesitate.

Now Gao Tao and his soldiers, after two days of fierce fighting, are still holding on to the city.

Although the current situation is very difficult, it will not be worse than when it was the first time of the expedition to Liao.

Gao Tao comforted his subordinates so much, and at the same time went to visit the wounded soldiers. There are two or three hundred soldiers gathered in the wounded barracks, Gao Tao usually loves soldiers like children, and now that he is injured, he also wants to condole. There was a shortage of medicine in the wounded barracks, and many of them were the robes that he had returned from birth and death from Goguryeo, but this time he did not fold in Liaodong, but several people died in the city of Qushan.

When Gao Tao saw this scene, tears fell. At the beginning, the Great Sui soldiers who came back from Liaodong died one less than one.

After walking out of the wounded barracks, Gao Tao inspected the garrison on the city wall, and the Zhao soldiers were all mentally exhausted on the side of the city wall, while outside the city were the fierce and brave Jianghuai elite soldiers. The lack of food in the city at the moment was the most difficult for him, but fortunately there was no turmoil in the army's heart at the moment, but he did not know that he could hold out until the fifth day.

Gao Tao is thinking about what to do.

"It's high tide, Lang General!"

Listening to the words of the soldier, Gao Tao turned his head to look at the sea, but saw the undulating waves, the sea was dotted with silver stars, and there was a lush scenery on Yuzhou Island in the distance.

At the beginning, the Southern Dynasties lost the land of Huaibei, and Emperor Song Ming and Emperor Song Ming placed Qing and Ji Erzhou in Yuzhou on the sea, and was ready to use this island as a base to counterattack Huaibei, but Emperor Song Ming, who was ambitious and talented, did not realize this day in the end, but left a lot of Jiangnan expatriates on Yuzhou Island, and now there are many fishermen living on the island.

Just as Gao Tao was thinking about this, he suddenly saw a black boat near Yuzhou Island, rowing away from the shore, and this black boat seemed to be not just one or two, but as many as ten hundred. And there seem to be countless soldiers on the shore waiting to board the ship.

Gao Tao's heart was shocked, but his subordinates asked with more concern: "What is this Lang Jiang?" ”

Gao Tao didn't dare to be sure if this was a reinforcement, so he said: "I can't see it clearly here, I will go up to the watchtower with this general and look at it, don't make noise, as usual, don't let the Jianghuai army see the abnormality." ”

"No!"

The place where the Jianghuai army is stationed under the city is very low-lying, and it is impossible to see the situation on Yuzhou Island, so this scene can only be seen on the city.

Gao Tao climbed the watchtower in the east of the city, wanting to see more clearly, if this angle can clearly see the panoramic view of the bay, it is indeed countless ships are heading towards the north of Qishan Port. Each ship carried eight to ten men, all of whom wore red armor.

Gao Tao was excited in his heart, the fist in his hand was clenched tightly, and he was already ninety percent sure that this was Zhao Jun's people. But he wondered where the reinforcements came from. With the strength of Song Jingang's hand, it is not enough to defend Langya County, where can he send reinforcements to climb here.

However, Gao Tao is sure that this soldier who ascended to 6 is indeed Zhao Jun.

The soldiers of Zhao took advantage of the momentum of the rising tide to land on the top of the hill on the north side of the cape, which was two or three miles away from the city, and the Jianghuai army thought that there would be no reinforcements from the Zhao army at all, not to mention that the only port that could land 6 was blocked by them, so they did not send soldiers at all, but they defended the mountain, and there was not even a lookout post. This is giving the reinforcements in the city a chance to land.

Hundreds of warships took advantage of the high tide to avoid the reef rapids on the shore, mostly landing on the cape.6

"It worked!" Seeing this scene, Gao Tao couldn't help waving his fist excitedly, and immediately went down to the city tower and said to his subordinates: "Immediately select the dead soldiers and attack the camp with me!" ”

The subordinates took the order and left.

Gao Tao didn't know that at this moment, in the waters north of Yuzhou Island, hundreds of sea-crossing ships were moored on the sea.

The fleet floated in the sea, looking like a dark cloud, shrouded in the sea, and the masts on the ships were as dense as a forest, looking up to the sky.

This is the sea fleet of the Zhao army, and the 300 river boats that appeared in Liyangdu were 10,000 Zhao army sailors led by Cheng Mingzhen.

And the real main force of the Zhao army led by Li Chongjiu is here, including 30,000 Wu Guards, Yi Wei soldiers, as well as 5,000 court guards and 3,000 sailors.

The sea is calm, but there are undercurrents surging under the sea, just like the bay that is about to fall at night, and it is about to usher in a fight. (To be continued!)

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