However, compared with Dantu City, which has solid city defense and sufficient military equipment, the situation in Jiangning City is a bit dangerous.

The small town of Jiangning County, which was completely destroyed by Emperor Yang of Sui, was rebuilt on the former site of Jinling, which was actually not very tall or wide, with neither deep trenches nor arrow towers, nor earthen walls of the urn city and gate tower, and temporary wooden fences.

It would be fine to deal with those large bandits or mobs, but after meeting the court's regular and orderly military commanders; and relatively calm and prepared generals, they would inevitably be suppressed everywhere and fall into a disadvantage.

Therefore, the two thousand Taiping defenders gathered in Jiangning City were broken down on three sides of the city wall in the sixth day after the siege of the city, and only more than a thousand people were left.

Then, in the short and fierce street fighting, they escorted the people to retreat to the only solid and historic stone city, and a nearby platform near the river. At this point, they were trapped here in disguise.

Even the Huainan navy, which had the advantage on the river, did not harass or attack their backs; in this narrow and limited space, it had stored seven or eight times the population of the remaining soldiers, and the small water reserves were exhausted, and it was just a stagnant wait for death.

An old Taiping officer, covered in blood, lay on the door panel and muttered in anger:

"It's all my mistakes. I should have given up long ago. Let you move closer to the Dantu... and you won't fall."

"No, it's all my persistence. I want to accept more people in, but I was set on fire by the spy who were infiltrated and destroyed the city defense agency."

Another officer who was in good spirits but could not hide his sadness, also his deputy captain Wang Wu, blamed himself.

"It's also a big blame for the bald donkey who killed thousands of swords in Qixia Mountain to secretly withdraw money with the Huainan Army, revealing the truth and reality of the city... I wouldn't have tolerated it if I had known it."

"Puxiang, I'm not talking about you, you are a good person..."

Then, he turned to a young monk with a shiny bald head not far away, who was chanting the mantra of rebirth to the deceased. The monk named Puxiang couldn't help but smile bitterly and closed the eyes of a corpse, wiped the blood on his hands and closed his mourning for a few words before echoing:

"If you really don't have to worry about it, this is also a misfortune of the Shu family. There are always some speculative people who are obsessed with profit, which is different from our ancestors from the Nanling Buddhist Temple. What's more, they have already suffered retribution."

As if it confirms his statement, on Qixia Mountain in the north corner of the county town, many forests including Jiming Temple have been burned, killed, killed, plundered, and covered the sky and sun. Here you can also smell the burning smell and the faint smell of blood sent from the wind.

Obviously, because during the period when Taiping occupied, a large amount of manpower and material resources of these temples were requisitioned, and almost all the versions of the Buddha's house (tenant) and monk's house (slaves), the local monks led by the seat Xingkong were inevitably secretly hated.

When Yiyi's official army arrived, they couldn't wait to greet each other, and secretly persuaded some believers to serve as guidance and guidance. When the Taiping Army tried to meet the large number of people who came to seek refuge, they were attacked by spies mixed with the officials and soldiers, and suffered a huge loss and suffered a lot of people.

Then, while defending the city, people secretly revealed the emptiness and weakness of the city defense, and persuaded believers not to deal with the Taiping Army too much, so as not to be implicated and liquidated in the future, so that they almost did not want to give up the city defense. It is not that they were working hard to do a lot of effort.

However, once the official army was able to enter the city, it turned back like the scorching summer sun. Not only did it not reward or protect it, but it also robbed the temples they held and believed in their claims and hid on the mountain to take refuge.

Therefore, the repeated shamelessness and cruelty of the government army have strengthened the determination and ambition of the common people in the city who are willing to follow the Taiping Army to resist to the death in order to protect their families and themselves.

That's why we have been able to stick to the present. After the water supply of several wells in Shitou City gradually insufficient, they even sent people to get river water from the rocky beaches on the cliffs behind them; and then simply built a cableway for circulating water extraction at high altitudes.

After digging all the leaves, bark and weeds, they tried their best to tear down several houses and build several floating rafts, and then slowly put them into the river water under the cliff, and used the remaining fishing gear to catch fish every day.

This is also true that even if the fish are not caught, they can catch a large amount of aquatic plants, and then they can bite them into pieces after a little drying. They deal with rounds of attacks by the government army in front of them.

Despite this, people still die one after another in weakness, fatigue and pain every day; therefore, as one of the few monks in the camp responsible for literacy and reading, Puxiang became the busiest person.

Not only did he have to participate in defending the city and transporting goods, and to produce and save himself, he also had to take time to preach to appease the soldiers, women and children, recite scriptures to the dead, and at night he had to take care of the injured, allocate food and sing to boost morale. Therefore, his sturdy appearance soon became thin and hoarse.

However, the next moment, Puxiang, a monk who started chanting scriptures again for the rebirth of the victims on Qixia Mountain, stopped reciting scriptures and was speechless during the opening period. Yongshou gestured to the river:

"Ship...ship..."

When everyone heard the sound, they gathered to the other side of the Stone City and saw a flat-panelled boat that was almost close to the bank of the river. They tried to maintain a steady and tortuous move forward in the tide of rolling up the river.

Then, during the several dangerous situations where the onlookers were almost worried about their throats, they tried their best to wield the pole and the boat, and avoided them dangerously and flexibly, and squirted up the sharp reefs under the river.

Finally, I watched the flat-panned boat fighting independently in the waves of the river smoothly rush into the depression under the cliff west of Shitou City, and quickly ran aground in the rocks as the river water recedes, and then breathe a sigh of relief.

A moment later, a non-commissioned officer was taken to the top of the city and saluted to the captain Wang Wu:

"The team Shiniu was ordered by Cao Zuolang to lead the twenty-five brothers who were escorting the ship from Dantu to support Jiangning; including the boat driver, there were actually thirty-two people..."

"There are five thousand arrows, one thousand sets of canned food and compressed rations, and twenty packs of wounded medicines and other substances; please collect and ship them quickly..."

——I am the dividing line of determination—

On the southern sea where sails were racing and chasing waves, Zhou Huaian was also listening to business representatives from the foreign region and the chubby and few neat returns and statements in the cabin full of salty and humid air.

After hearing and asking about the various customs and customs of the times and the outside world, he sighed again:

"That's what you have done...

"It's all about staying in the Ministry. It's not because of the power and support of the Grand Governor's Office. The villain just took advantage of the situation and achieved some subtle achievements."

Kong Liluo, who received praise and recognition, was secretly happy in his heart, but he said in a more humble and trepidated manner.

"Then what are your plans for the next step..."

Zhou Huaian was quite satisfied with his low attitude. Although this guy has many minor problems such as greed for money and lust, he is still able to control the big troubles and work hard.

For example, the Piao Kingdom, Zhunian, Poli, Shili Buddha Death, and even the exiled princes in Southern India, who have been in the Jiaozhou area, are one of his contributions.

However, the forces represented by the Taiping Grand Commander Office have almost reached a limit, or bottleneck, in terms of sea and external areas, especially after the discovery of the Spice Islands between the Nanyang Islands.

Therefore, it is necessary to appropriately shrink and consolidate, or even transform into gradual accumulation; in this case, these extraterritorial agent forces represented by Kong Liluo will be difficult to remotely control and maintain even if they are barely developed.

Therefore, Zhou Huaian didn't mind giving them a way out for success, whether they were going to settle down in Annan, or returning to China to continue to shine. For example, this time the operation to support Wenzhou at sea.

"But please give me instructions,"

However, Kong Liluo just had a little reverie and handed over the decision; after all, the path to Belisarius in his mind was only opened, and he was never willing to stop there.

"If that's the case... you have three choices."

Zhou Huaian followed the previous naive case.

"The first one is to follow the convention and organize the garrison and reclamation team together with those charity... or to leave an identity to consolidate the situation in Wenzhou;"

"In addition, I also need someone to lead a team north to Silla to open up the situation in Haidong. Whether it is trade or plunder, it will lay the foundation for my future strategy."

"This... the villain has a luxury. Whether it can be called out all of them is just a trip to Silla, which requires some preliminary preparations and"

After Kong Liluo pondered for a while, he said with some caution and expectation.

"Okay, then I will declare you as the deputy head of Wenzhou in the future, and also as the Liuqiu camp. I will give you another half a year to prepare."

Zhou Huaian couldn't help laughing, but after thinking about the possibility, he said.

Unlike those government troops or local powerhouses who only have chassis and population, which only have simple and crude concepts, the Taiping Army has a more detailed survey and planning for the newly occupied areas to complete a stable and long-term governance order.

For example, for the traditional industries that have been inherited from the previous generations, it is not a laissez-free or rough one-size-fits-all ban. Instead, it is adjusted and integrated after preliminary statistics; then it is unified with the production capacity of surrounding resources.

This can effectively avoid vain internal friction and waste between local and foreign new and old industries; and maintain a certain scale of competition to maintain innovation and improvement vitality.

Therefore, it is useful to have Kong Liluo, a candidate who is proficient in overseas trade and colonization, to participate in the layout and planning of the local accent.

At this time, the outside world reported again:

"Governor, you have arrived at the mouth of the river."

Between the vast intersection of rivers and seas, boats were already everywhere and sails were everywhere. The one who rushed to the forefront along the sea tide and wind was the large and small warships seized and collected from Mingzhou, Yuezhou, and Hangzhou, and dozens of newly formed naval troops.
Chapter completed!