Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 70

The black dots ejected from the white smoke mixed with the flames suddenly magnified in the field of vision – Su Tingzhan was completely shocked by the first shelling, and looked at the dense projectiles shot towards the crossbow platform in a dazed state. I don’t know how to react, but the guard beside him was loyal, and quickly pushed him behind the crossbow.

When Su Tingzhan stumbled and fell, he watched helplessly as the upper body of the guard who pushed him away in time was hit by a solid iron bullet. Fried in minced meat. Before Su Tingzhan fell to the ground, other projectiles came one after another, and the heavy crossbow standing in front of Su Tingzhan, nearly three feet high, was instantly hit by an iron bullet, with a loud bang. It fell apart, and countless pieces of iron wood smashed on Su Tingzhan’s body, telling Su Tingzhan to be buried in the rubble and unable to move.

The solid iron catapult slightly larger than the first grip shot through the heavy crossbow and landed on Su Tingzhan’s left hand, with burning marks. Su Tingzhan stretched out his fingers to touch it, but it was slightly cold.

Nanya Crossbow Terrace has a steep terrain and stands near the water. There are more than 20 heavy crossbows. It is one of the most core crossbow platforms on Huangcheng Island. In this salvo, more than 20 heavy crossbows directly destroyed six, nearly 20 severely mutilated generals corpses fell on the crossbow platform, and the crossbow platform with bricks and mortar also cracked vertically and horizontally. There are dozens of cracks, and as long as the wall is rubbed by the iron bullets, it will not break, and the southwest corner of the crossbow platform will collapse and a large piece will collapse…

This is Huaidong’s Fu Fire Crossbow!

Watching the warships outside Nankou being shelled, it is one thing to feel panic in my heart;

Some generals fled for their lives, but the loyal Huwei, regardless of the next bombardment, desperately tried to dig Su Tingzhan out of the ruins of the heavy crossbow rack.

At this time, Su Tingzhan can especially deeply feel why Duke Wenzhuang, who saw the collapse of Jingxiang, gave up the opportunity to escape alone and was captured and killed, why he wanted to go to the northwest and no longer participate in the Central Plains battle, why he wanted to stay in the north of Fujian. The clan gave up resisting and surrendered, it is true that Wenzhuang has seen an irreversible defeat since the battle of Jingxiang…

Su Tingzhan sat up from the heavy crossbow fragments and felt extremely cold.

Seeing the grief on the face of Huwei who rescued him, Su Tingzhan lowered his head and looked at his left waist. The half-broken crossbow bracket was as sharp as a giant spear. The armor was already dyed blood red – he felt some pain at this time, and felt that life was passing from his body.

Su Tingzhan propped himself up and looked around. The Huaidong warship in the sea area ahead gave him the feeling of being slumped in an instant. The third artillery bombardment unfolded under his gaze, and the iron bullets fell like giant hail. The southeast corner of the crossbow platform was knocked down again, and dozens of generals and two heavy crossbows rolled down the cliff. It seemed that there was a collision under the cliff. It seemed that a warship was parked under the cliff and smashed the collapsed crossbow platform. Got a right.

The Huaidong navy saw that Nanya Nutai was no longer a threat, and the gunboat in the center began to adjust its orientation. It seemed that more Dengzhou navy warships would be blocked inside for artillery fire on the south entrance of Shuizhai on Huangcheng Island. The Huaidong warships on the two wings left the main ship camp and sailed forward, trying to eliminate the Dengzhou warships that left the water village before the war or expel the war…

Su Tingzhan lowered his eyes weakly when he saw this, and could faintly hear helpless shouts like “General Admiral is dying”…

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After destroying Nanya Nutai, Sun Zhun, deputy brigade commander of the 2nd Task Force, was in charge of leading the 1st Squadron. He commanded two frigates to seal the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island from the flanks, and confirmed that the main force of the enemy naval force on Huangcheng Island was blocked in the water village, so he made the squadron also the only Lin Zhengjun class of the second task force. Battleship, first sent to support the naval battle of Miaoshan Island.

Sun Huai used a Jinhai-class warship as the main force, four frigates and more than 20 old warships, a total of 100 light and heavy artillery, from the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island, to the central waters between the north and south Huangcheng Island, The artillery bombardment lasted for two hours, and nearly 50 enemy ships trapped in the Huangcheng Island Water Village were destroyed and disabled with nearly 2,000 solid iron bullets.

After confirming that the Dengzhou navy’s navy on Huangcheng Island was no longer able to attack, Sun Zhun, a boy from Chongzhou, led the rest of the battleships of the Second Task Force and set sail to the east.

Luo Wenhu and Cui He went north with the first raiding fleet. At this time, they stayed temporarily with Zhao Huaidong of the Second Brigade of Jinghai Second Town Division.

From the mouths of the prisoners of war who fell into the water, I learned that the enemy navy admiral Su Tingzhan had shot the foot in the previous artillery attack, but the island’s main commander, Division Changzhi, was still there. Although the artillery bombardment dealt a devastating blow to the enemy’s crossbow platform and warships, it also killed a large number of people. There were still more than 5,000 enemy soldiers on Huangcheng Island who were still waiting to be annihilated.

The cliffs on the outside of Huangcheng Island are steep, and the inner waters between the two islands are all the wreckage of enemy ships, which cannot be entered immediately for the landing operation. , wait for the first task force Ge Yuan, who first attacked Jinzhou Tieshanzhai, to arrive, before considering clearing the wreckage of the warship in the inner waters and eliminating the remaining enemies on Huangcheng Island.

However, at dusk, the warships of the Haidong Camp Army escorted Li Baidao’s troops of the 1st Brigade of Denghai Town Division to Huangcheng Island, where they joined forces with Zhao Huaidong’s troops to attack Huangcheng Island.

The 1st Brigade of the Denghai Township Division has a crossbow battalion equipped with 60 light artillery pieces of 4-jin and 8-jin level. Before dark, it protruded from the steep bank on the west wing of Huangcheng Island.

After standing up, using the narrow and long Terry of the West Island, the light cannons were lined up from the flanks and extended forward inch by inch…

Dengzhou and Jinzhou, backed by the hinterland of the inland, are suddenly captured, and they may also face a crazy counterattack from the enemy’s horse infantry from the land. The Northern Expedition Army will jump to Jinhai and need to use Huangcheng Island and Miaoshan Island. As a springboard and as an interruption point, it is necessary to destroy the remaining enemies on the island at the fastest speed.

Later in the day, He Zongliang, who was ordered to transfer from the Haidong Camp Army to strengthen the combat power of the Northern Expedition Brigade, also arrived in the waters of Huangcheng Island. Between the wreckage of the enemy ship that had not been cleaned up, it broke into the inner waters between the east and west islands of Huangcheng, and attacked the east island of Dengtan.

This kind of night battle also occurred on Daqinshan Island, Heishan Island and Changshan Islands in the north and south between Dengzhou and Jinzhou. In particular, Nanchang Island, the main island of the Miaoshan Islands, is about 15 miles long from north to south due to its large depth. Moreover, the terrain of the mountain island is complex, and there are many dead spots that can not be attacked by boat guns. The Denghai Town Division invested two brigades and two The strength of a war crossbow battalion in order to clear the remaining enemy with the fastest force.

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Between Jinzhou and Dengzhou, there are more than 30 islands and reefs, including Huangcheng Island, Heishan Island, Daqinshan Island, and Changshan Island in the north and south, in the 200-mile sea area. In terms of terrain, it can be called “locking throat Zhenhai”. It’s just that the gap between the two sides’ weapons exceeds an era, and the advantage in terrain will be wiped out in an instant.

When the shelling of Swordfish Village stopped, it was already near the end of the year. Surrounded by the hustlers, He Xiongqi and Fan Wenlan climbed down the relatively complete west city wall of Swordfish Village and looked at the wreckage of warships in the inner lake of Swordfish Village. , All are generals floating dead, wanting to cry without tears.

The eastern section of the city wall extending into the sea, including the inner lake, collapsed in a large area. Except for a few warships that broke through to the north, the Dengzhou navy could not support it for even a day, and was almost destroyed. Even the admiral of the navy, Su Ting Zhan’s life and death is unknown…

That He Xiongqi had fantasized that Ye Jibaishi had exaggerated the power of Huaidong’s fire crossbow, but the cruel facts ruthlessly shattered his fantasy.

The Jinghai Division first hit the naval guns to attack the Dengzhou naval forces stationed in the water village on the island, and left the saury village unattended. At first, they only dispatched the main battleship of the second town division. From the outer waters, the Dengzhou naval division was forcibly placed in The warships in Swordfish Village blocked it, preventing it from breaking through.

At night, the main force of the first task force escaped from elsewhere, and the east city wall that separated the inner lake and the outer sea of ​​Swordfish Village collapsed, and then calmly shelled the inner lake of Swordfish Village; until the main force of the second task force escaped. , at most one salvo on the inner lake of Daoyu Village, as many as 300 artillery pieces.

Under the fire of up to 300 artillery pieces, the 400 large and small warships of the Dengzhou Navy parked in the inner lake of Daoyu Village were destroyed in this way, making the inner lake more than ten miles around Daoyu Village look like It’s the ship’s grave.

Looking at the Huaidong battleship under the starry sky, which was heading towards Xiaoqinshan Island, He Xiongqi was so cold that he was about to collapse to the ground, staring at the black ship that was like a sea beast in the night. Shadow, his hands and feet trembled, and the cold sweat could not stop running down his spine.

It is not that He Xiongqi has never suffered a defeat, and he has also fallen into a big somersault in the hands of the Huaidong Army, but he has become more and more courageous, and has never been so desperate and depressed at this time-Tong Hua’s face is ashes, and he can’t bear it anymore. Look at the tragic situation in the inner lake of Swordfish Village.

Fan Wenlan was also desperate and frustrated, but he was still able to hold on to his clenched teeth. He held Na He Xiongqi in his arms and said in a low voice, “General Na He, you need to send someone to Jinan immediately, and ask the three princes to co-sign for the performance…”

That He Xiongqi looked at Fan Wenlan suspiciously and sluggishly. From the time they received Ye Jibaishi’s letter, they would send fast horses to Jinan and Yanjing to report the latest battle situation almost every hour. The demise of the Dengzhou navy was a foregone conclusion. He wished he could go back to Yanjing to ask for suicide. What are they going to ask Ye Jiduo to jointly protect? What else is there to play?

“Yanjing can’t be defended!” Fan Wenlan saw that He Xiongqi didn’t understand~www.mtlnovel.com~ and then lowered his voice and whispered to He Xiongqi’s ear, as if a thunderstorm had exploded.

That He Xiongqi seemed to be struck by thunder, and his whole body trembled, staring at Fan Wenlan in a daze – Tong Huacheng understood it first, and responded in desperation: “Yanjing can’t be defended! Clan in peril!”

It was only then that He Xiongqi understood that the total number of troops stationed between Yanjing, Jinhai and Changli was only 50,000. They can organize a raid on Jinhai or Changli within three to five days, and they simply do not have the ability to organize more troops to defend Jinhai or Changli.

As long as one of the two important coastal towns of Jinhai and Changli is lost, the Huaidong Army will be able to obtain a land base to attack Yanjing – it seems that the entire southeastern Hebei region is a plain terrain suitable for cavalry operations, but these plain terrains It is also more suitable for the Huaidong Fu Fire Crossbow Brigade Field Battle.

Few of the Beiyan cavalry generals were familiar with the characteristics of the Huaidong Fire Crossbow. If they rashly organized a cavalry formation to attack the Huaidong Army Fire Crossbow Formation in the plains of southeastern Hebei, the heavy casualties would be unimaginable.

The Huaidong Army had more than a thousand fire crossbows, but it was actually doomed that Dayan had no chance of defending Yanjing. The only option left was to abandon Yanjing City and retreat westward to Jinzhong, where the mountains converge. , and maybe there is still a possibility of respite…

This decision must not be slow. Beiyan only has three or five days to turn around. Once Huaidong is called to land in Jinhai or Changli, even if you want to give up Yanjing and withdraw to the west, it will become extremely difficult – but, Yanjing It is the capital of Dayan, even if the Emperor of Destiny can understand his painstaking efforts and insist on going his own way, it is impossible to give up if he just gives up… My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter