The horse's hooves step on the leaves, and the hooves break the leaves.

Horses entered the city from the Shengtai Gate like a hurry, and almost a third of the messengers could not support the last moment to enter the palace, and fell into the streets. Although the messengers would soon be taken away by the forbidden army, such frequent urgent letters and the desperate and crazy faces of the messengers made the onlookers understand that the upheaval in the south had taken place that was extremely unfavorable to the Yanjing......

The Northern Yan Imperial Palace, which is also the Imperial City of Yuanyue, after knowing that the Dengzhou Naval Division could not support the news that the entire army would be wiped out in one day, the blood gushed for a long time, and he fainted, and he did not wake up for two days.

The eldest prince Ye Ji Baishi is trapped in Gao Li, the eldest prince Ye Ji Luo Rong is in Luoyang, the third prince Ye Ji Duodi is in Jinan, and the princes and ministers such as Wugu, Mengye and Zhang Xie can only invite the queen mother, who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, to come out and preside over the state affairs.

"Ridiculous, as seen by the old minister, the third prince and Na He Xiongqi are afraid of the southern thief, and Fan Wenlan is not from my clan, his heart must be different - a small frustration will abandon the capital and flee, what face to face the will of the first emperor to 'establish a clan by war' and 'establish a country by war'?" Nahewu climbed the hall with an axe alone, hammered the ebony to the paving stone floor of the Dazheng Palace, and scolded Nahe Xiongqi, Ye Jiduodi, and Fan Wenlan for moving the capital together.

Hearing that Nahe Wugu denounced Fan Wenlan, who was trusted by the Emperor of Heaven, as a "foreign race", 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 maybe there would be the last chance to save the fate of Beiyan's defeat.

The Suohai defense line, which had been regarded as a barrier for Yan Ji iron, was so devastating that the Huaidong Army was defeated, and the main force of the Northern Yan army was pressed on the defense line of Henan and Shandong, and the 100,000 elites of the Huaidong Army in Haizhou could land from Jinhai, Changli and other places in three or five days at the earliest.

The Empress Dowager Beiyan also had no idea at all, she didn't know 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, thinking that the emperor could trust the third child and Nahe Xiongqi and Fan Wenlan before, then their words were not without any merit, so they could only compromise: "Quickly send a fast horse to Luoyang, and ask the eldest prince to return to Yanjing to preside over the state affairs......"

Zhang Xie was terrified, and sent a fast horse to Luoyang, and when Ye Ji Luorong returned, he was afraid that it would be ten days later, and after ten days, he was afraid that the Huaidong Army had already hit Yanjing City, right?

Zhang Xie said stubbornly: "When the southern thief rose in Huaidong, he had operated Jinhai for several years, and the southern thief was very familiar with the topography of Jinhai water, and his sailors captured the sea defense line, and they wanted to take the sea route and drive straight in, and they must also forcibly take Jinhai, and then attack Yanjing, the old minister implored the queen mother and the princes and ministers to gather all the troops of Zhou Zuo to reinforce Jinhai, and do not make the southern thief plan to ......"

At present, we can only hope that Jinhai can hold for two more days, in that case, even if it is to defend Yanjing, we can transfer more troops and horses back from the periphery, and maybe we can use the advantage of troops to protect Yanjing without losing.

Zhang Xie is not good at military affairs, and still hopes that the advantage in the number of soldiers and horses and the advantage of cavalry in the plain area can hold Yanjing - even if the loss of the Suohai defense line will have a bad impact on the entire Henan and Shandong defense lines, and whether it will induce collapse, he is not willing to think about it, and only hopes that he can survive this catastrophe.

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In Yezier's dormitory, the outer hall was sitting with a sad face and a worried face.

In the inner hall, Concubine Yu sat on the bed with a sad face, looking at the Emperor of Heavenly Destiny lying quietly like a corpse, the cheeks and eye sockets of the Emperor of Heavenly Mandate were deeply thin, and her face was like ashes - her mind had been hanging on the southern defense line for several months, and her energy was about to be exhausted.

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, the Khan King is her sky, is her earth, she has never seen anything that can knock the Khan King down, Huaidong's fire crossbow is really so magical, can make the sky fall apart?

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April 21, five days after the Battle of Dengju.

Nanmiaoshan Island, which was captured by the elite of the two brigades of Denghai Town Division, was like a busy wharf port in the early morning sun, and large sea ships were constantly sailing in from the southern sea area and entering the long crescent-shaped bay surrounding Nanmiaoshan Island.

The topography of Huangcheng Island is the most dangerous gorge, and it is the necessary place of the traditional old Tieshan Seaway, but Huangcheng Island is too small, Nanmiaoshan Island is 15 miles long from north to south, and there are four miles of depth from east to west, and the crescent-shaped bay held out to the east is a natural large harbor.

Nanmiaoshan Island is only 14 miles away from Daoyu Village, 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, the locals call it Miaoshan Strait, also known as Dengzhou Waterway - after the destruction of the Dengzhou Naval Division, Miaoshan Island is the best springboard for the Northern Expeditionary Army to attack Jinhai and Yanjing.

In addition to Liu Miaozhen, the commander of the Fengli Army, Sun Jingtang, the commander of the commanders of the counties, and Zhao Qingshan, the commander of the Southeast Naval Division, Yang Yihang, the staff officer of the Military Staff, and Zhou Pu, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, and the Haizhou prefect, other members of the Northern Command, including Cao Ziang, Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Ge Cunxin, Yue Zhi and others, were temporarily moved to Nanmiaoshan Island with Lin Tie, so as to command the Battle of Benjin Sea nearby.

The military victory of the Northern Expedition can already be expected, and the recovery of Yanjing is also just around the corner, but there is still a lot of work to be done after the recovery of Yanjing......

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

Standing at the bow of the ship, Zuo Chengmu, dressed in purple, looked at the mast of the ship in the seaport of Crescent Bay, and stood there in a daze, and his heart was blocked by inexplicable emotions for a while......

During the Battle of Jingxiang, Zuo Chengmu could imagine that the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains would one day be carried out in the hands of Lin Tie, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, so quickly, so unexpectedly - in fact, Zuo Chengmu was one of the first few people to give a clear notice of the Northern Expedition route in late March, except for the core figures in Huaidong, but even by late March, Zuo Chengmu still couldn't guess that Lin Jian would have any means to tear apart the sea defense line before the storm season.

Who would have thought that both sides would think that the impregnable line of defense against the sea would be so fragile?

Huang Jinnian, who arrived one step earlier than Zuo Chengmu, greeted him on the shore, watched Zuo Chengmu's ship squeeze in from the narrow waterway between countless merchant ships, strode up to meet him, and said with a smile: "The South Island is assigned to the Military Service Department for logistics ships to berth and unload, the Command has just moved the tent to the North Island, and the Privy Council has asked me to wait for Zuo Xiang here, and then go over together......

Zuo Chengmu did not complain about walking a few more steps, he first landed on the South Island, took a car north to the Beiyawan Wharf on Nanmiaoshan Island, and took a small boat to the North Island—when passing through Nanmiaoshan Island, there were temporary garrison tents on both sides of the road.

The Denghai Town Division, the Third Town Division of the Haixing Battalion Army, the Two Brigades of He Zongliang and Wang Shou'er, and the First Town Division of the Fengli Army have been completely assembled on Miaoshan Island in the north and south of Chengcheng, and the First and Second Task Forces of the Jinghai Division, which are stationed on the side of Xiaoqinshan Island and Huangcheng Island for rest, will immediately move their troops north and attack Jinhai.

In order to ensure the relative integrity of the buildings on Nanmiaoshan Island, the remnants of the island were forcibly attacked by the Denghai Town Division and the Fengli First Town Division, and the remnants of the enemy were removed, and Nanmiaoshan Island was obviously neat and orderly.

Beimiaoshan Island is littered with broken walls left behind by shelling, and Lin Bin's tent is temporarily stationed in ruins.

Zuo Chengmu and Huang Jinnian entered the curtain, and Lin Lianzheng and Song Fu, Gao Zongting, Wu Qi, Ge Cunxin, Zhang Gou, Yang Shi, Chen Yan and other generals finally deduced the battle plan for attacking Jinhai.

Seeing Zuo Chengmu come in, Lin Jian put down the charcoal in his hand, stood up straight, and said with a smile: "Zuo Xiang has worked hard all the way, is there any discomfort on this sea boat?" ”

"The road is still calm, my old bones can barely bear it, on the way I was a little worried about the war in Dengzhou, but I didn't expect the privy envoy to kick open Yan Yu's back door so easily, I was really a little overjoyed." Zuo Chengmu said with a smile.

"It's not easy to win, and it's dangerous to win," Lin Jian crossed his waist and said, "These losers, the ammunition accumulated by the military department in two years, they will lose sixty percent of them in two battles." If the enemy had been more resilient, it wouldn't have gone so smoothly - even now, we would have had to stop here for two days to revise our battle plan for storming the Tsuhai. ”

Zuo Chengmu was also about to arrive at Miaoshan Island, only to see the real appearance of the Fuhuo crossbow and the new Huaidong warship, the Battle of Hejin and the Battle of Dengzhou did not last long, if it was not for the fact that the military department was not fully prepared in the past two years, that is, in just a few days, the consumption of materials was very amazing - but seeing that Lin Jian did not look worried, Zuo Chengmu thought that the problem would not be too big.

The sea defense line has been torn apart, although there are tens of thousands of elite enemy troops in Dengzhou across the strait for more than ten miles, but it is across these ten miles of strait, not afraid that the enemy army can fly over, Lin Jian 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 Battle of Hejin was also average, and the First Fleet of the Special Task Force invested half of its combat strength, but the consumption of the Battle of Dengzhou was amazing, with 40,000 solid iron bullets fired on the first day alone.

40,000 solid iron bullets are only 450,000 catties of iron, which is really nothing, but it is definitely not a simple matter to cast 450,000 catties of iron into a standard spherical solid iron bullet of 4 catties, 8 catties, 12 catties, 18 catties, and 24 catties or even 32 catties.

The cost of casting these solid projectiles is, in fact, no cheaper than casting a thousand guns.

In addition, the gunpowder consumed in the two wars was as high as 1560,000 catties, of which 60,000 catties of bitter paste were consumed -- it really consumed nearly 60 percent of the ammunition reserves of the military department in the past two years.

In other words, if the Dengzhou Naval Division can be a little more tenacious, even if the Northern Expeditionary Army has no problem tearing through the defense line of the sea lock, it will be somewhat powerless to fight Jinhai and Yanjing next.

Fortunately, there is still 40 percent of the ammunition reserves, and fortunately, the artillery shell and gunpowder workshop of the Ordnance Supervision is operating non-stop, and it has reached the level of 400 solid cannon pellets cast per day, 100 scattered shells, and 1,200 catties of gunpowder per day......

At this time, a staff officer sent in the latest collected information, and Gao Zongting first read it roughly, and exclaimed: "The enemy of Yanjing has gone to Jinhai to reinforce it, and it is not intended to abandon the capital and flee west." ”

Lin Jian turned his head when he heard the sound and said: "That's good, it seems that Wei Zhonglong and Wu Jingze's side can relieve the pressure, and send a message to them, asking them to stay still, and eliminate as many Yan Yu as possible on the Yan Ji Plain......"