Lord of the House

Vol 7 Chapter 25: Yuntiguan

The Huai River flows out of Hongzepu and joins Sishui in the northwest of Huai'an City. The water is turbulent, heading east-north, and enters the sea in Yuntili in the north of Tinghu County.

In the south of Tinghu County, the water surface of Qingjiangpu between Sheyang County and Sheyang County is sparse. The opening is thirty or forty miles wide, but it is very shallow. Even ordinary fishing boats do not go out to sea from there. The waterway in the cloud ladder is the real Huaihe River. out of the sea.

As the East China Sea gradually flourished, the Huai'an government set up an inspection department on the north bank of Huaikou, built a military fortress, set up more than 100 swordsmen and archers, and built three or five warships all year round to guard against sea pirates, called Yunti Pass.

Ever since the Huai River became the waterway for grains, the Yunti Pass guarding Huaikou was suddenly in danger. The defending army also changed from the county sword archers to the regular town army, and the number of soldiers also increased from more than 100 to 600 soldiers in a battalion.

The refugee army won Suyu without a fight on the 15th, and it unfolded like a tide on the north bank of the Huaihe River.

Back then, Sun Ganzi, head of Lianzhai Jiu in Hongze Pu, and today's pioneer of the refugee army, Qu Shuai Sun Zhuang, led the outpost 4,000 elites to run east. He ignored that the officers and soldiers who retreated to Shuyang would threaten the flank, until the scouts reported seeing Huang Shuiyang, and Sun Zhuang ordered the generals to hold their feet, watching the sky darken without stopping, and ordered the generals to light torches and go to the cloud ladder. The ants attached to Guan, and the 4,000 elites scattered around and bit Yuntiguan and attacked.

Yunti Pass is the opening for grains to flow out of Huaihe River. Caoboats with a capacity of one or two hundred stones could not withstand the tossing of wind and waves, so they stopped at Tengcang at Yunti Pass. Jiangdong Inspector Sidu Cao Hall built a large-scale granary in Yunti Pass. So that Huaikou can be successfully connected with Jinhai food route. There is also a censor of the Imperial Court to supervise Ducao affairs here.

When the refugee army was short of food, it was forced to fight in four places, raising and grabbing food everywhere, and its reputation was not very good.

Although they did not waste their efforts to win Suyu, the officers and soldiers set fire to the granary before leaving. Haozhou and Sizhou were destroyed after the city last spring, and their vitality was not restored. After Yue Lengqiu arrived in Jiangning, they did not operate Haozhou and Sizhou at all. Si's mind, naturally there is not much food in the city - now the nearly 200,000 refugee troops on the north bank of the Huaihe River, the biggest problem is the lack of food.

Sun Zhuang led the elite outpost from Suyu and traveled more than 250 li in two days and one night, coming to grab the granary of Yunti Pass. If you can get 70,000 to 80,000 stone grains of rice from Yunti Pass, an army of hundreds of thousands can calmly encircle and destroy the Changhuai Army in Huaibei.

The officers and soldiers abandoned Suyu and did not know they would meet Huai'an Mansion. Sun Zhuang led the crowd to rush forward, and the movement was extremely fast. Yuntiguan was completely unprepared, and was caught by surprise.

During the siege, nearly half of the defenders of Yunti Pass were forced to go to sea with boats on the pier, and the Yunti Pass with only 300 defenders was attacked overnight and then collapsed.

Two of the nine large warehouses in Yunti Pass were completely burned down, and the other seven were also set on fire, causing a lot of damage.

Sun Ganzi got angry and cut off the heads of more than 200 officers and soldiers, as well as 17 officials sent by the Jiangdong Commissioner to Yuntiguan Ducao, as well as more than 300 boatmen and civilian husbands who were unable to escape to the ship in Yuntiguan. Building Beijing.

Sun Ganzi didn't close his eyes for four days and four nights before the war, he captured Yunti Pass, chopped off nearly a thousand heads and piled them up in front of the pier to build the Jingguan Temple. It doesn't matter that the delicate beauty almost gave him the body odor that he hadn't bathed for a few months and was splattered with countless blood, and he didn't care that he was so angry that the beauty's mouth cracked. Fortunately, he was standing and playing with the old man's cart. Otherwise, his two-hundred-pound body would be pressed against him, and most of the delicate beauties would not be able to save their lives. After venting, Sun Ganzi kicked the beauty out of the door and handed it over to others to continue to toss. Men need women to vent, but when they fight around, Sun Ganzi doesn't want to be burdened by female dependents. What a beautiful woman, he just throws it away once or twice, and is not greedy.

After he vented, he fell back to sleep; I don't know how long he slept, when Sun Ganzi was woken up by the sound of horns outside.

Sun Ganzi lifted his trousers and covered his black and stinky crotch. There were still some bloodstains on his trousers, as if a new place had opened. He picked up the Xuanhua axe on the table and walked out, shouting: "God Day. Yes, where did the officers and soldiers come from, Tinghu, Haizhou, Muyang or Huai'an City?" In his opinion, the officers and soldiers who could come to counterattack Yunti Pass at this time would not come from anywhere else.

"It's the sea boat that came to grab the opening to enter the river, I don't know which way the troops will go!" Chen Zhe was about to call him with his knife in hand.

Sun Ganzi had two generals under his command, and he was his right-hand man.

One of them is the city-dwelling tiger Chen Zui, who escaped from the Northern Army with Liu An'er back then. He was good at using swords and shields to attack the Yunti Pass. He led his brave soldiers to attach the wall and attacked. He personally killed more than ten officers and soldiers, and chopped up three of them. Knife, he didn't even have a wound the size of a copper coin eye all over his body.

Sun Ganzi spat secretly, and he had two couples on his body. How could Chen Zhu be so lucky? Could it be that he is a tiger in the city, and he is more reliable than anyone else when it comes to robbing the city and attacking the stronghold.

Sun Ganzi also had a strong general called Tiangou Zhang Gou, whose original name was indeed called "Gou'er", but it was only after he joined the army that he changed his "dog" to "Gou". The rushing reckless man, Zhang Gou still has some calculations.

Sun Ganzi climbed the wall of the village, and saw the warship that Huaikou snatched in by the wind, and the chill went down his spine.

The big ship at the head, the stern deck is almost as high as the wall here, and the stern ship is 20 feet long, so there are three such big ships. Sun Zhuang was a water bandit, and when he moved from Huai Shang to Hanzhong, he abandoned the ship and went ashore, and he still had some knowledge of war ships. The largest ship that I had seen in Hongzepu before was the ship that Qin Chengbo entered Hongzepu. These three warships were several points larger than Qin Chengbo's ship.

In order to keep Qin Chengbo behind, he only besieged his ship, so he recruited nearly half of the elites in front of the army. Sun Zhuang secretly said that these three ships entered Huai Shui, how to fight this water battle? Wu Shiyi was still in charge of building warships in Haozhou, so Sun Zhuang thought that it was more important to send someone to sink a few more ships at the eastern opening of Hongzepu!

Sun Ganzi and Chen Zuo were both illiterate and could not recognize the flag that was unfurled on the high mast of the leading ship. Thinking that Zhang Gou could read, but not seeing anyone else, they asked, "Where's Tiangu, where did this turtle go?"

"Zhang Gou went back to Suyu to see An Shuai. You slept soundly, Master Zhu, so you didn't disturb Shu Shuai," Chen Zui said, "These 60,000-70,000 stone meters have no carriages, horses or boats. With only our 6,000 hands, But I can’t move back to Suyu. Zhang Gou goes back to Suyu to see An Shuai and see if he can collect some trucks from Suyu…”

"Then find someone who can read, this dog/mother's, he can read the words with a big basin, but he doesn't know them..." Sun Zhuang said cursingly.

Chen Zhuo first sent someone to find someone who could read, but he called Qu Shuai's grandson Ganzi first, and then he pulled people over to ask.

The literate was a teacher who joined the gang. Chen Zhuo valued him very much. He replied, "Huaidong Jingkou System Shishi, Jiangdong Xuanfu Shizuo Shenzhenglin..."

Sun Zhuang frowned and said, "Jing Kou, is the imperial court treating us as robbers these days? Take my big bow..."

The refugee army moved to four places, and sent scouts to inquire about news before attacking cities and looting the land, but far from establishing an intelligence collection network that spread all over the counties.

Sun Zhuang knew the names of Jiangdong Zuojun and Lin Fu, but he didn't know that Lin Fu also had Jiangdong Zuo's political rank, let alone what Huaidong Jingkou system was.

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Lin Su and Zhang Yubo set out from Chongzhou, and on the 17th night, they left the river mouth and entered the sea, and took advantage of the southeast wind to head north. It was only two days and two nights in the past. It could be said that there was no delay at all. Unfortunately, Yuntiguan was closed the day before they rushed into Huaikou. report lost.

In addition to the loss of more than 100,000 shi of rice grains, the more important thing is that Huaikou fell, and the Jinhai grain route was forced to go to the Jiangkou to get grain. The temporary chaos will further aggravate the pressure on Gyeonggi and the Northern Army.

Seeing that the situation in Huaibei is so dangerous, Zhang Yubo realized how prescient Lin Fu's secret trip to Jinhai was at the beginning of the year.

The Heishuiyang waterway from Chongzhou to Jinhai was officially opened in early March. Although Caoliang did not gather in Chongzhou, a large number of commercial grains were gathered in Chongzhou. Now Huaikou has fallen, and a large number of grain ships that have hurriedly exited Huaikou were diverted from Chongzhou. The transportation of grain can restore the transportation capacity of Jinhai Grain Road in the shortest time, and keep the lifeline of the Northland constantly - but it also makes Lin Tie's position in Chongzhou more stable as Mount Tai.

Du Cao Yushi narrowly escaped, and when the bandits attacked, he happened to be on board. At this time, he stood beside Lin Fu, looking at the mountains of heads piled up on the pier, his feet were weak, his face was pale, and he didn't care what the beautiful concubine that he had thrown in the lock would be ruined. Tremblingly, he said to Lin Fu, "The rogue is really a heinous crime. More than 1,000 people in Yunti Pass have parents, wives and children. They were slaughtered and horribly slaughtered. Such evil robbers cannot be tolerated by heaven. Lord Lin, please slaughter them to avenge the blood and hatred of the dead!"

"Vengeance and blood and hatred?" Lin Bie held a saber in his hand, looked at the Imperial Censor Du Cao sent from Beijing, and asked with a smile that was not a smile, but didn't say anything else.

Today, 4,000 elite outposts of the refugee army are guarding Yunti Pass. Yunti Pass was not damaged much when it fell. It stands on the plain on the north bank of Huaikou, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The army was lingering about a hundred or two hundred miles away. The Jiangdong Zuo Army was not a **** of heaven. In addition to the first water battalion in charge of the operation, there were no more than 10,000 soldiers in the front and back, so they simply did not have the conditions to retake Yunti Pass from Hukou.

Lin Bie pursed his lips and said to the Censor of Ducao: "Jinhai's grain route can't be broken~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Please also ask Master Tao to go to Chongzhou Ducao immediately, I will order Chongzhou officials to cooperate with Master Tao to act, it is my duty It is guarding Huaidong, and the troops are very limited, and the situation in Huaibei seems to wait for Governor Yue to find a way..."

Du Cao Yushi couldn't stand up in front of Lin Fu at this time, he didn't say anything, but he thought that Huaikou was lost. Even if the Liang family occupied Shandong, the two ends of the Jinhai grain road would still be held by this fellow. , But speaking, the Liang family is also a kind person.

At this time, seeing the general of the refugee army standing on the wall holding a big bow and stepping on the crenel to pull the string, Tao Yushi subconsciously wanted to hide behind Lin Bie.

Lin Bie smiled slightly. He hadn't seen a strong bow that could even shoot 300 steps, but the arrow pointed straight to this side, but the broadside guards were nervously guarding with shields.

Lin Bie pointed to the man who was opening the bow on the wall of Yunti Pass, and said to Zhang Yubo who was standing side by side: "That man should be the leader of the rogue leader Qu Shuai Sun Zhuang, also known as Sun Ganzi, who is the number one rogue in Hongze except Liu Miaozhen. Brave general, Qin Xibo broke his halberd at Luoyang Lake, and it was he and Liu An'er who led the brave bandits to attack the ship..."

The arrow came through the air, and it was only twenty or thirty steps away from being able to fall into the water. Even so, the range of the bow held by Sun Ganzi was astonishing. It was comparable to the big crossbow on the ship. It can be known that his arms have at least four or five hundred pounds of strength.

The fact that Yuntiguan fell was difficult to reverse in a short period of time. Lin Fu waved his hand and said, "Continue westward, don't stay, let's go to Yikou..." The troops were not enough to besiege the city, and even suffered a big disadvantage. It is possible to annihilate and defeat the scattered refugee army in field battles and sports battles, but Lin Bie would not be so foolish as to attack Yunti Pass by storm, and in turn would swarm the refugee army to attack both inside and outside. To drag the enemy into stagnation, instead of actively stagnant itself. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter

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