On April 26, the weather in Jinhai suddenly became hotter, making people remember that it was already summer. ◤:◤Piao Tianwen.com◤

Fan Wenlan, who was urgently summoned to Jinhai from Dengzhou, was known as a Confucian minister, but at this time he looked less elegant. He was quick to his horse, and his nose was blue and swollen, his inner thighs were ground to pieces, and his egg skin was worn out. He felt a lot of pain when he moved. He could only let a few guards take turns to support him and climb the green king to Mount Tai.

Ye Jidodi's eye sockets were deep, his cheeks were thin, his upper lip had short moustaches, and his chin had no time to take care of them. The messy wool grew, very haggard and exhausted.

Fan Wenlan rushes past the horse's back for three days and three nights. When he arrives in front of Ye Jiduodi, he almost never stands. He sits on the grass and leans on Ye Jiduodi's knees and cries: "Three Prince, Jinhai cannot be guarded! Can't be guarded!"

Ye Ji Duodi looked at Fan Wenlan who was almost lying on the ground coldly, lifted up his lame and kicked him: "A timid guy!" After all, he didn't use any great force. He believed in Fan Wenlan and He Xiongqi's judgment, but the princes and ministers of Yanjing made the decision to stick to Yanjing. If he did not lead his troops to support, if he did not stay in Jinhai for another ten days and half a month, the Da Yan would really destroy his country and tribe!

Ye Jiduodi could understand Fan Wenlan's painstaking efforts, but he had to scold him Li Yan, otherwise the morale of the army would be shaken and the battle would be even more impossible.

Ye Jiduodi waved his hand and asked the left and right guards to retreat, then reached out and helped Fan Wenlan up from the grass, and said in a voice: "If you don't fight this battle, you have to fight! You and I will be buried here, maybe those elm trees in Yanjing City can understand some things..."

Fan Wenlan looked up at Ye Jiduodi, and saw a decisive expression on his face, and sighed lonely: The destruction of the Dengzhou Navy failed to awaken the princes and ministers in Yanjing City. The emperor did not know the life and death of the emperor, and there was no room for discussion on the abandonment of the capital, let alone implement it.

Ye Jiduodi led his troops to support Jinhai. It is good to win, but if he loses, he can wake up all the princes and ministers in Yanjing City. After all, Ye Jiduodi was also unwilling to give in and wanted to give it a try.

Fan Wenlan struggled to stand up, support his tired body, and looked east. Ye Jiduodi handed the monocopper sight glass in his hand to Fan Wenlan. He had never seen the volley of the fire crossbow in Huaidong. Although he had obtained the draft of Ye Ji Baishi's urgently sent back from Hanyang and the letter of war from Nahexiongqi, Ye Jiduodi still lacked an intuitive impression of the volley of the fire crossbow in Huaidong, so he urgently summoned Fan Wenlan from Dengzhou.

The monocular lens in Ye Jiduodi's hand was one of the two sight glasses obtained by the Haidong Camp Army on the Goryeo battlefield. Although Jiang Zushi imitated it, he had never copied anything that was suitable. Ye Jiduodi could only get the original back so that he could observe the battlefield more clearly - the form of war has quietly changed.

...On the 21st, the Huaidong Navy Outpost Fleet, which was mainly composed of two frigates, appeared in the waters outside the Tianjin Sea and captured Jinwei Island. At this time, nearly 100 warships in Huaidong had gathered in the waters outside the Tianjin Sea. Most of the nearly 100 warships were traditional fast sailing ships of the Huaidong Navy. There were only a few frigates. Those super warships that appeared outside the Dengzhou Sea and equipped with hundreds of fire crossbows did not appear in their field of vision.

Maybe I was stationed further from the coast, or maybe I was still at the mouth of the Bohai Sea and didn't break in...

Jinhai was a vassal screen in Yanjing, and there was a naval army stationed. However, Wutu'er, the governor of Jinhai, did not listen to the warning of "avoiding the inland rivers" that Nahexiongqi came from Dengzhou and Ye Jiduodi from Jinan. When the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Navy entered the Jinhai, he saw that there were few ships and few soldiers in the Huaidong army before the outpost, and rashly went out to fight and fought decisively in the waters of Jinwei Island.

On the day of the battle, the Jinhai Navy, which had three thousand soldiers and more than fifty warships, annihilated the Huaidong Outpost fleet, which had only four guard gunboats at that time. Nearly 2,600 soldiers were buried in the sea, while the Huaidong Army lost only two double-brigged patrol warships.

"To prevent the fire crossbow, you should dig deep trenches, place wood on top, and bury the soldiers in the trenches to avoid crossbow attacks. When the enemy approaches, flock out of the trenches, or defeat them." Fan Wenlan knew that Ye Ji Duodi had decided, and he felt deeply unable to convince the princes and ministers of Yanjing to abandon the capital and flee west. No matter how difficult or miserable the battle would be, they would have to bite the bullet and fight. Fan Wenlan could only struggle and plan the war for Ye Ji Duodi. "The Woshui River and Chaobai River must be sealed with a sunken ship at the bottom, and more floating bridges should be built up in the upper reaches to facilitate the cavalry to enter and exit the battlefield quickly; but compared with the above, it is more important that all the generals and soldiers of the army can understand the characteristics of the fire crossbow in the east of Huai. It is absolutely necessary to not attack the fire crossbow formation of the Huaidong Army..."

Ye Jiduodi smiled sadly, Fan Wenlan said it easily. The outpost fleet of the Huaidong Army had cleared obstacles to the seas outside the Tianjin Sea. The main force of the navy would transport the elite soldiers of the Huaidong Army to come at any time. Where can I have much time for him to deploy calmly?

Another thing is that the Pingchuan from Jinhai to the northwest is Yanjing City. If they cannot take advantage of the cavalry's advantages in the plains and intercept them firmly, how can they prevent the Huaidong Army from approaching the city of Yanjing?

Two hundred miles of plain rivers are divided into pieces, but actually it cannot provide the cavalry with too many opportunities for roundabout combat.

Seeing that Ye Ji Duodi didn't seem to listen to his words, Fan Wenlan was even more pessimistic about the upcoming war. This feeling was choked in his heart. I wonder what to do?

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Although Ye Jiduodi and Fan Wenlan wanted to make more remedial arrangements, time no longer belonged to them.

After the outpost fleet understood the situation outside the Jinhai Sea, Yang Shi led the first and second main force of the special mixed fleet to arrive in the surrounding waters outside the Jinhai Sea on the 27th, and launched a shelling attack on the Jinhai City.

Jinhai City was destroyed by Yanhu after the war in Yannan, and Linzi rebuilt on the basis of Wokou Village.

At that time, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain from the Jianghuai River and the Yangtze River to the north to relieve the danger of grain shortage in Yanjing, Jinhai City was a seaport, river port, port city, and warehouse city. After the Tianjin Sea Battle, Yanhu won Jinhai City, and only repaired and reinforced it on the original basis, and did not relocate and rebuilt it.

The entire Jinhai City divides the Woshui River into two parts, north and south. The east wall of Jinhai City is less than two miles away from the Harbour Pier.

At that time, in order to transport millions of stones of rice and grain from the Jianghuai River, it was stationed in the Jinhai Sea to Yanjing City. At that time, the Jinhai Port could be said to be the largest stationed port in the world, a sea port that was nearly seven or eight miles long, and several trestle pier built with huge stones, and the breakwater extends into the seawater, allowing super-large sailboats above 3,000 tons to dock directly.

In addition, on the inside of the Woshui River estuary, there was also the largest transit port at that time. Because the transit port was too large, partly within the Jinhai urban area, it was called the inner port, and partly outside the Jinhai city, it was called the Xigang.

After Yan Hu captured Jinhai City, he regarded Jinhai as his territory and naturally would not destroy these ports and terminals. Although these ports have not been of great use in recent years, Yanjing does not need to transport millions of stones of rice and grain every year by sea, but it is not deliberately destroyed. If it is to destroy it in time, it is not possible to compete for me in just seven or eight years...

It was already eighteen days since the news of the destruction of the Dengzhou Navy reached Jinhai. At that time, only He Xiongqi and others could have a deep understanding of the threat of the Fire Crossbow, but they had no right to directly order the Jinhai Guard to destroy the port. The princes and ministers of the Northern Yan City and the generals of the Jinhai Guard to the City did not recognize the seriousness of the problem. Even when the Huaidong Navy's outpost fleet arrived, they made a stupid decision to fight the outside seas. Naturally, they would not have the determination and decisiveness to destroy the port and the pier. In fact, the situation was developing so fast that even if the Jinhai Guard to the City had enough clarity, they did not have enough time.

After the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Navy arrived in the Jinhai Sea, it not only severely damaged the Jinhai Navy, but also severely restrained the land defenders in Jinhai City, making it impossible for it to destroy one of the trestle piers in just five or six days.

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

During the ten and eleven years of Chongguan, a large amount of manpower and materials were used to clear the Woshui River, Chaobai River and Wei River. It is the three main navigational rivers on the Yanji Plain that can directly navigate the Thousand Stones of Shibo. From Jinhai to Yanjing, there are two routes of New City and Old City, and the system is much more complete than others.

These conditions are in front of you. Even though you know that the Yan Lu’s defense in the Jinhai Sea is significantly stronger than that of Cangzhou and Changli on both sides, the military headquarters still firmly chose the Jinhai Sea as a breakthrough point - this is exactly the same as what Zhang Xie speculated in Yanjing City.

Leading with two 2,000-ton main warships, the first and second special mixed fleets were responsible for approaching Jinhai Port from the north and south wings with clamping force, and directly bombarding the enemy troops in the port's barriers back to the city. The troop transport ships with big belly were almost unhindered, and directly docked on the pier at the Jinhai Port wharf, and first sent Li Baishi's troops to the dock.

Li Baishi's troops landed on the north side of the Woshui River estuary, and once they landed on the shore, they unfolded southward. Under the cover of naval artillery, they attacked the key points of the Woshui River estuary.

Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen presided over the construction of Jinhai City in his early years and strengthened their defense capabilities. In fact, five solid defense barriers were built on both sides of the Woshui River. Then, the five defense barriers were connected with the city walls to form an overall Jinhai City.

Yan Hu spent a lot of effort to capture Jinhai City. Although Jinhai City was half-destroyed at that time, Yan Hu did not intend to have such a complete defense system, and strengthened it on the original foundation, but the focus of defense shifted from inland to external seas.

The key to landing from Jinhai is the estuary of the Woshui River.

The estuary of the Woshui River was initially only 300 meters wide, and after it was widened, it was only 400 steps. The estuary was rectified, and even if Yanhu sank ships at the estuary, it would be easy to clean up.

The water depth of the WoShui River is enough to accommodate frigates. As long as you clear the river channel inch by inch, the frigate's artillery can extend to the hinterland of Jinhai inch.
Chapter completed!