On April 26, the weather in Jinhai suddenly became hot, and people remembered that it was already the beginning of summer.

Fan Wenlan, who urgently summoned Jinhai from Dengzhou, although he was known as a Confucian minister, but at this time he did not look elegant, all the way fast, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, his inner thighs were also ground to the flesh and blood, and the egg skin was also worn out.

Ye Jiduodi's eye sockets were sunken, his cheeks were thin, his upper lip was short, and the stubble on his lower chin had no time to take care of it.

Fan Wenlan tossed on horseback for three days and three nights, and when he came to Ye Ji Duodi, he could barely stand on his feet, sat down on the grass, fell on Ye Ji Duodi's knees, and cried: "Third prince, Jinhai can't be guarded!" I can't hold it! ”

Ye Ji Duodi looked coldly at Fan Wenlan, who was almost collapsed on the ground, and raised his lame kick: "Unproductive cowardice!" "After all, it is useless, he believes in the judgment of Fan Wenlan and Nahe Xiongqi, but the princes and ministers of Yanjing have made the decision to stick to Yanjing, if he does not lead troops to help, if he does not hold out in Jinhai for ten more days and half a month, Da Yan will really lose the country and the family!

Ye Ji Duodi can understand Fan Wenlan's hard work, but he can't help but scold him, otherwise the army's heart will be shaken, and this battle will be even more impossible to fight.

Ye Jiduodi waved his hand to make the left and right guards retreat, and then he reached out and picked up Fan Wenlan from the grass, and said in a suppressed voice: "If you don't fight, you have to fight this battle!" You and I are buried here, maybe we can make those elm brains in Yanjing City understand something......"

Fan Wenlan looked up at Ye Jiduodi, and saw that there was a determined look on his face, and sighed sadly: The fall of the Dengzhou Navy Division failed to make the princes and ministers in Yanjing City sober up, and the emperor did not know whether he was alive or dead, and there was no room for discussion of abandoning the capital, let alone implementing it.

Ye Ji Duodi led his troops and horses to aid Jinhai, it is good to be able to win, but if he is defeated, he can also make the princes and ministers in Yanjing City sober up - in the final analysis, Ye Ji Duodi is also unwilling in his heart and wants to give it a go.

Fan Wenlan struggled to his feet, propped up his tired body, and raised his eyes to look east. Ye Ji Duodi handed the monocular copper telescope in his hand to Fan Wenlan, he had never seen the situation of the Huaidong fire crossbow salvo, although Ye Ji Baishi urgently sent back the draft from Hanyang and Nahe Xiongqi's battle situation as many as 100 letters, Ye Ji Duodi still lacked an intuitive impression of the situation of the Huaidong fire crossbow salvo, so he urgently summoned Fan Wenlan from Dengzhou.

The monocular in Ye Ji Duodi's hand was one of the two telescopes captured by the Haidong Xingying Army in the Goryeo battlefield, although the general was copied, but he never copied what he wanted, Ye Ji Duodi could only retrieve the original, so as to observe the battlefield more clearly - the form of war has quietly changed.

…… On the 21st, the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Naval Division with two frigates as the main force appeared in the surrounding waters of Jinwei and stormed Jinwei Island.

Maybe it's stationed farther away from the coast, or maybe it's still at the mouth of Bohai Sea, and it didn't come in......

Jinhai is the Yanjing Domain, and there is a naval army stationed, but the Jinhai garrison general Utu Ezhen did not heed the warning of Nahe Xiongqi from Dengzhou and Yeji Duodi from Jinan to "avoid the war on the inland river", and when the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Naval Division entered Jinhai, he saw that the Huaidong military ships in front of the outpost were few and outnumbered, so he rashly went out to fight and fought a decisive battle in the waters of Jinwei Island.

On the day of the battle, the Tianjin Sea Division, which had 3,000 soldiers and more than 50 warships, annihilated the Huaidong outpost flotilla, which was accompanied by only four escort gunboats at that time, and nearly 2,600 soldiers died at sea, while the Huaidong Army lost only two two-masted patrol ships.

"To prevent ambushes and crossbows, when digging deep trenches, placing rows of wood on them, burying soldiers in trenches to avoid crossbow attacks, when the enemy approaches, swarming out of the trenches, or being able to overcome them," Fan Wenlan knew that Ye Ji Duodi had made up his mind, and he also felt that he could not persuade the princes and ministers of Yanjing to abandon the capital and flee westward, no matter how difficult and miserable this battle would be, he had to fight hard, Fan Wenlan could only struggle to get up and plan the war for Ye Ji Duodi, "The lower mouth of the Whirlpool River and the Chaobai River must be sealed with sunken ships, and more pontoon bridges should be built upstream to facilitate the cavalry to quickly enter and exit the battlefield; But compared to the above, what is more important is that all the generals of the army can know the characteristics of the Huaidong fire crossbow, and do not have to attack the Huaidong army's fire crossbow formation......"

Ye Jiduodi smiled sadly, Fan Wenlan said easily, the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Army has cleared the obstacles in the surrounding waters of Tianjin, and the main force of the naval division will transport the elite of the Huaidong Army Infantry Brigade at any time, where is how much time for him to deploy calmly?

Again, two hundred miles northwest from Jinhai to Pingchuan is Yanjing City, if they can't take advantage of the cavalry in the plain area to intercept it, how can they stop the Huaidong Army from approaching Yanjing City?

Two hundred miles of Pingchuan, which divided several large rivers into blocks, actually could not provide the cavalry with too many opportunities for roundabout battles.

Fan Wenlan didn't seem to listen to Ye Jiduodi's words when he saw that Ye Jiduodi was even more pessimistic about the upcoming war, and this emotion choked in his heart for a while, and he didn't know what to do?

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Although Ye Ji Duodi and Fan Wenlan still want to make more remedial deployments, time no longer belongs to them.

After the outpost fleet found out the situation outside Tianjin, Yang Shi led the main forces of the 1st and 2nd task forces to arrive in the waters around Tianjin on the morning of 27 July, and immediately launched an artillery bombardment of Jinhai City.

Jinhai City was destroyed by Yanhu after the Yannan War, and Lin Tie was rebuilt on the basis of Wukou Village.

At that time, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain from Jianghuai to the north by sea to solve the danger of grain shortage in Yanjing, Jinhai City was built together with a seaport and a river port, and a port city and a warehouse city were built together; After the Battle of Jinhai, Yanhu captured Jinhai City, but it was only repaired and strengthened on the original foundation, and it was not relocated and rebuilt.

The whole Jinhai City is divided into two parts, north and south, and the east wall of Jinhai City is less than two miles away from the harbor wharf.

At that time, in order to transport millions of stone of rice and grain from Jianghuai, stationed in Jinhai and transferred to Yanjing City, Tianjin Port could be said to be the largest berthing seaport in the world at that time, with a seaport nearly seven or eight miles long and several huge stone piers and breakwaters extending into the sea, which can be used for super-large sailing ships of more than 3,000 tons to dock directly.

In addition, on the inner side of the mouth of the Whirlpool River, there was also the largest canal port at that time, because the canal port was too large, part of it was called the inner harbor within the Jinhai city area, and part of it was called the west port outside the Jinhai city.

After Yan Hu captured Jinhai City, he regarded Jinhai as his own territory, and naturally would not destroy these ports and docks. Although these ports have not come in handy in recent years, after all, Yanjing does not need to transport millions of stone of rice and grain by sea every year, but it is not deliberately destroyed, and it is not possible to compete in just seven or eight years if it wants to be annihilated in time......

When the news of the destruction of the Dengzhou Navy Division reached Jinhai, it was already the eighteenth, and at that time, Na He Xiongqi and others could realize the threat of the fire crossbow a little deeply, but they had no right to directly order the Jinhai guards to destroy the port. However, the ministers of the Northern Yan Princes of Yanjing City and the generals of the Jinhai garrison did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and even when the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Naval Division arrived, they made the stupid decision to go to the open sea to meet the attack, and naturally they would not have the determination and decisiveness to destroy the port and the pier - in fact, the situation was developing so quickly that even if the Jinhai garrison had enough sober understanding, he would not have enough time.

After the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Naval Division arrived in Jinhai, it not only inflicted heavy losses on the Jinhai Division, but also formed a serious containment on the land defenders of Jinhai City, making it impossible for them to destroy one of the trestle piers in the following five or six days.

In addition to the complete facilities of the river and sea wharves, the water and land transportation system from Jinhai to Yanjing is also exceptionally complete, far better than landing operations from other regions - these are the foundations laid in order to transport millions of stones of rice and grain to Yanjing in those years.

In Chongguan 10 years, 11 years, all use a large number of manpower and materials, to the vortex river, Chaobai River, Wei River dredging and beach rectification, is the Yanji Plain is rare can directly navigate the three main navigation rivers of the thousand stone boats, from Jinhai to Yanjing, there are two lines of the new city and the old city respectively, the system is much more complete than others.

With these conditions in front of them, even if they knew that Yanyu's defensive strength in Jinhai was significantly stronger than that of Cangzhou and Changli on both wings, the military department still firmly chose Jinhai as a breakthrough point - this is exactly what Zhang Xie speculated in Yanjing City.

Led by two 2,000-ton capital warships, the 1st and 2nd task forces were respectively responsible for approaching the port of Tianjin from the north and south flanks in a flanking attack, and directly driving the enemy troops in the harbor fortifications back to the city.

Li Baishi's headquarters landed on the north side of the mouth of the Whirlpool River, and as soon as it landed, it spread out to the south, and under the cover of the artillery of the naval division, it attacked the key points of the Whirlpool estuary.

Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen presided over the construction of Jinhai City in the early years, added to strengthen the defense capability, and actually built five strong fortifications on both sides of the Vortex River, and then connected the five fortifications with the city wall to form the overall Jinhai City.

Although Jinhai City was half abandoned at that time, Yanhu did not intend to improve the defense system, and strengthened it on the original foundation, but the focus of defense shifted from the inland to the open sea.

The key point of landing from the Jinhai Sea is still the mouth of the Vortex River.

The mouth of the whirlpool was only 300 meters wide at first, and after it was widened, it was only 400 steps, and the mouth was tidy, even if Yanhu scuttled the boat blockade at the estuary, it was easy to clean up.

The water depth of the vortex river is enough to accommodate the frigate to enter, as long as the river is cleared inch by inch, the frigate's artillery fire can extend inch by inch to the hinterland of the Jinhai Sea.

No matter how tight the defense system of Jinhai City is, it also has the fatal flaw of being too close to the sea. Not to mention the 24-pound heavy artillery, the north and south bases of the estuary are even within the strike range of the frigate's gunwales, of which the north base is the main base of Jinhai City, and the predecessor is also the vortex village guarded by the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, under the artillery bombardment of the first task force and the first brigade of the Denghai Town Division, it did not support too much time, and the city wall collapsed in a large section......