Late Tang

(Thanks to Nanyingyu, Moer Tudou, Supporting Yueguan, Gas Stove, Mengmengmengmeng for their support, book friend Xiao Feilong ぜ Sword's character Lin Song, Dafeng Baozi's character Deng Huan officially debuted! )——

Hu Douzhou, the later generation of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, is just a huge sandbar at the mouth of the Yangtze River.After Li Jing sent a fleet south to occupy the island, he renamed it Jianghai Town, and at most there were 3 horses from the Sixth Army stationed in Mabushui.

There are pea seedlings all over the island, so it is called Hudouzhou.In the west of the island, there are five steep and beautiful peaks with an altitude of more than [-] meters. Langshan lives in it, and Ma'anshan, Huangnishan, Jianshan and Junshan are surrounded by four mountains like stars and moons.

Langshan is known as the first mountain in Jianghai, and Hudouzhou is also known as the gateway to Jianghai.

During the Wangying Rebellion that swept across the southeast a few years ago, Wangying was originally the Zhexi Town of the Tang Dynasty, which was also the envoy of the Langshan Township set up on Hudouzhou by the Zhenhai Jiedu Envoy.Not being rewarded for meritorious service, Wang Ying led dozens of his subordinates to revolt and swept through more than ten states in eastern and western Zhejiang, but died in the hands of the navy fleet that Li Jing sent south that year.

This Hudou Island was left unused for a period of time, and when Li Jing and Gao Pian finally clashed, Li Jing sent a large army to the south, and [-] horses marched into the island.

The island is a river-sea plain, with five unique peaks.

There are heavy soldiers from Dengzhou stationed here, and it has also become the base of the Lingbo Army of the Fourth Navy Army. At the same time, it has also become a transit point for Dengzhou to go south from Liaonan, Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Quanzhou and other places to go north.

Most of the sea caravans from Dengzhou went south, and most of them stopped their transit here. Some goods were transferred to riverboats on the Yangtze River, entered the Yangtze River, and were transported to Yangzhou, Runzhou, Jiangning, Yuzhang, Jiangzhou, Liyang, Dangtu, Xiangyang, Wuhan, Jiangling and other inland areas, and others continue to go south to Hangzhou Bay or even further south to Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Annan Jiaozhou and other places after resupply.

With the protection of Li Jing's navy, this trade transfer station on Hudouzhou became more and more prosperous in a short period of time, with hundreds of merchant ships arriving and leaving every day.

There are special military docks and commercial docks on the island, and there are a large number of warehouses and restaurants, etc. Even on the original sandy land, many people began to dry salt for the military camps on the island.

To the northwest of Jianghai Town, across the narrow river, is Hai'an County in Yangzhou.

In the mist of the morning light, along the coast of the sea, an army of soldiers and horses arrived quietly, with a total of 2 horses. Behind this army, there were more civilian men.

Liang Zuan stood on the hill by the sea, frowning as he watched the peasants carry the fishing boats to the sea.Many of these fishing boats have only one small sail, and most of them are small boats that need to be rowed by manpower.There are also some larger boats, which are pulled by horse-drawn carriages. These larger boats are Bianchuan, which are pulled up from the canal in Yangzhou.For the suddenness and concealment of the attack on Hu Douzhou this time, these ships did not go down the sea from Yangzhou, but pulled them from land with several times of effort.

According to reliable sources, 2 of the [-] Qin troops on Hudou Island have been transferred away, and now only [-] soldiers and horses are left on the island.Among them, there are [-] navy troops, and the remaining one is a newly-defended Laizhou township army.Even the navy, according to the information sent back by the spies on the island, only one of the four squadrons of the whole army was there, and the other three squadrons went to the Huaihe River.The other thousands of soldiers are actually the township army transferred from Qingzhou, temporarily under the command of this fleet of Lingbo Army, which can be regarded as the Marine Corps.

There are only 1 people, and 9000 of them are new town soldiers. The squadron of [-] people has only a few hundred ships, and only two buildings and four fighting ships can be called battleships. , plus eight sea falcons and eight boats, the rest are yachts and boats like boats.

For more than a year, Li Jing has inserted such a nail in the river and sea, which can be said to have made the Huainan army very embarrassed. Not only has it lost face, but such a force stationed here has made the Huainan army feel like The awn is on the back, and it is difficult to sleep or eat.

Today, it's finally time for them to make a move.

The three generals Bi Shiduo, Qin Yan, and Li Han all volunteered to be forwards, and all three were surrendered generals.Bi Shiduo was Wang Xianzhi's old general, he was sent down to Huang Chao, and then Gao Pian.Qin Yan was also an old general of Huang Chao, and Li Hanzhi was an old general of Zhuge Shuang under Li Zhuo, the Jiedu envoy of Heyang, but later surrendered Huang Chao, and was finally defeated by Zhang Lin, and Gao Pian was demoted again.

During this period of time, Huang Chao has flourished in Henan, and even occupied Luoyang to become the emperor. This made the Huainan army very wary of those generals who surrendered when Huang Chao was defeated.

The three Bi Shiduo were sent as Gao Jie's lieutenants this time, and they all fought bravely to fight first, in fact they just wanted to prove their loyalty.

Liang Yan turned to the direction of Hu Douzhou. The sea there was very quiet, and a group of seabirds were flying in the sea. If the patrol boats of the fleet on the island did not show up before dawn, their plan would be half successful.

In Liang Yan's view, no matter how strong Lingbo's army is, there is only a squadron of 1000 people here. As long as he can cross the sea and land on the island, with the [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers he brought, he will not believe it. , will not be able to beat the [-] local soldiers on the island.He is very clear about the division of soldiers and horses under Li Jing. The strongest are soldiers, the best of the best.Under the fighting soldiers, there are united soldiers and rural soldiers. This rural soldier is actually just the weakest soldier, almost similar to their auxiliary soldiers.

Standing behind him were Li Hanzhi and Bi Shiduo with calm faces. They were all earning their living with their heads up, and they voted for more than one master.But these two people are not ordinary bandit generals.Bi Shiduo was one of Wang Xianzhi's ten voters at the beginning. After Wang Xianzhi died, he followed Shang Junchang to fight. Later, Shang Jun died and he was forced to follow Huang Chao.But he didn't have a good opinion of Huang Chao, and he didn't take it seriously in Huang Chao's army. When he was defeated by Gao Pian's troops, he surrendered immediately.Although Huang Chao is now in glory again, he has become the emperor, and Shang Rang has become the prime minister. Even Zhu Wen, Ge Congzhou and others who had just joined the army when he was one of the top ten voters and generals of the first army were all state officials. Duke and General, but he never thought of returning to Huang Chao's subordinates.He has always thought of himself as Wang Dutong's confidant, and he is not on the same side as Huang Chao.

Li Hanzhi held the Jiedao with his head bare, but he was a little worried.When he was still in the Heyang Army, he followed Li Jing and beat Li Keyong side by side.Li Jing's army may not be the strongest, but their equipment is definitely the best. Don't hear that the soldiers on the island are all local soldiers, and there are not many of them, but these soldiers are not bad at the bottom of Li Jing's army , does not mean that they are equivalent to the auxiliary soldiers in their army.

The auxiliary soldiers in the Huainan Army were a real group of civilian husbands, while Li Jing's rural soldiers were definitely not a group of civilian husbands.

It's just that at this time, he will never openly say these words to Gao Jie to make him unhappy.

Li Hanzhi, who moved to the world and changed so many bosses, knows very well that whether he can win the battle is the second thing. The key lies in whether he can make the boss feel that you are of one mind with him, which is the safest way.

However, this time when Marshal Gao took action, he sent his number one general, Liang Zuan, to rob Haozhou and Xuzhou, and at the same time sent them to capture Hu Douzhou with the same force. You can know that in the eyes of Marshal Gao, this Hu Douzhou is really A thorn in the side.

Fifty thousand against ten thousand, even if Li Jing's local soldiers are really extraordinary, they may still be able to win.

Liang Yan and Zhang Lin are both known as Gao Pian's two men, but now that Zhang Lin died early, Liang Yan thought that the task of attacking Haozhou would be entrusted to him, but Gao Pian entrusted this task to 45 Lang Gao Jie, instead send him to attack this island.Although he also got a governor of Chuzhou, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

In his opinion, Hu Douzhou was still an opponent with [-] soldiers, but now there are only [-] rural soldiers. It really feels like killing a chicken with a bull's knife.

"Pass down the order, do it!" Liang Yan said in a deep voice with a dark face, thinking of a quick solution, if he solves this problem earlier, maybe he can send troops to the north to grab a piece of fat to eat.

On Wolf Mountain, Wu Qian, the leader of the Lingbo Army, led the first squadron to stay at Hu Douzhou. Before dawn, he was awakened by the soldiers on duty.

"General, the patrol boats in the northwest have spotted the enemy, and there is a large fleet of ships in the direction of Hai'an, hundreds of ships are sailing towards the island with the wind."

Wu Qian woke up from sleep when he heard the news. Now the island is empty of troops. At this time, a large number of ships are coming, and they are almost certainly the Huainan Army from Yangzhou.

"Send the alarm immediately, assemble the team, and prepare for defense!"

After finishing speaking, he called another guard, "Go and invite the two generals Lin Mianzhi and Deng Ziming to come here immediately."

Lin Yizi's name is Lin Song, and Deng Ziming's name is Deng Huan. They are the commanders of the township soldiers of the other two armies besides the first squadron on the island.Although these two men are the leaders of the township army, they are not ordinary township generals.In fact, these two people are somewhat peculiar generals. Lin Song is thirty years old and has not yet married. He doesn't like all kinds of women who are introduced to him, but he is very cute.He was originally a compartment owner of the Shengjie Army, but because he was too seductive and couldn't care about the thing in his crotch, he repeatedly violated military regulations. When he was in the Northeast, he raped several Khitan women. He raped the wife of General Lu Long in Hebei.It turned out that the officer was not an ordinary person, he was an officer Lu Long who was attached to the Qin army. As a result, the matter became a big deal, and Li Jing finally drove him out of the Jinjiasheng Jie army, and drove him to the leader of any army in the Qingzhou Township Army.This is not enough, and finally rushed to Hu Douzhou.Although it is said that he has changed from the master of the Xiang to the master of the army, anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is a very severe punishment for the imperial guards like the Shengjie army to rush to the village soldiers, and they are stationed as far away as Huduzhou.

And Deng Ziming is not a fuel-efficient lamp. His family originally lived in Guangzhou for generations.He has great curiosity about new things and likes to find out the truth.After joining the Ordnance Division, he was actually the one who took the lead in creating the latest Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt in the army.However, this guy was too curious about new affairs, so he wanted to develop more powerful firearms. As a result, he presided over the construction of an 100-jin brass cannon. The bombardment was detonated, and finally caused a very disastrous accident, killing more than [-] people on the spot.

That project was finally stopped by Li Jing. In order to let him stop for a while, Li Jing arranged for him to go to the lecture hall for further training.This time the Qin army was short of troops, so they transferred a large number of officers from the lecture hall to the township armies. As a result, Deng Ziming's rank was not low, so he became the deputy commander of a township army by accident. Arrived at Hu Douzhou.

However, Wu Qian, as the veteran who was the first to fight against Li Jing at the beginning, and then he was defeated and surrendered, has been following him until now. After getting in touch with him during this period of time, he has discovered that apart from their superficial shortcomings or specialties, these two guys are actually very important to Li Jing. War is no stranger.

"They are high-ranking soldiers of the Huainan Army, at least [-] men and horses." On the lighthouse on the northwest bank, Lin Song held a binoculars and quickly saw the densely packed sails.

Lin Song was not afraid. Although his subordinates were no longer the elite of the Shengjie Army, those local soldiers were not bad either.However, he was still a little worried. Gao Pian's sudden attack could only show that this old guy was already planning to tear his face apart.Hu Douzhou's biggest weakness is that he is far away from the base camp, and it is difficult to get reinforcements for a while.And here is Gao Pian's territory, he can call in more soldiers and horses at any time.

Wu Qian looked at the two generals and said, "The enemy is outnumbered. Shall we temporarily retreat to the south and retreat to Zhenhaijun's territory? Zhou Bao and Gao Pian are at odds, maybe we can use his territory to avoid it."

Deng Ziming chuckled, "Jianghai Town is a big island, and we have an advantage in fighting at sea. Even if there is only one squadron, Lord Wu will not be afraid, right?"

Seeing the two people not only not surprised, but very excited, Wu Qian couldn't help but chuckled. Neither of them were afraid. Could it be that he, the veteran of the Qin army, would be afraid?Since they don't want to go, it's okay.

Soldiers come to block, water comes and soil floods!

"You guys get ready first, I'll go get some good things and let the bastards in Huainan see it!" Deng Ziming chuckled, licked his lower lip with his tongue, turned around and ran back to the barracks.

Wu Qian and Lin Song trembled in the wind at the same time. The look in Deng Huan's eyes when he left made them vaguely guess that the good things he was going to get must be those rumbling things.This guy, on this island, didn't let this experiment go unnoticed.

Wu Qian couldn't help but burst out with pride for a while, even the two juniors dared to fight so much, why would he dare not be a veteran of the navy.Immediately clenched his fists, he turned to Lin Song and said, "Brother Mianzi is setting up defenses on the shore and leading the battle for me. The old man will take the First Fleet to meet the Huainan Army at sea."

With an order, the sailors of the First Squadron quickly boarded the warships, and Wu Qian boarded his flagship, a huge five-story ship, Jianghai.

Wu Qian stood vigorously on the fifth deck of the Jianghai, surrounded by nearly a hundred ships of different sizes, including another building ship, four fighting ships, eight warships, and eight armored sea falcons. Yu officers and soldiers, Deng Ziming and his army were still on board.