Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 74

On April 26, the weather in Jinhai suddenly became hot, making people remember that it was the beginning of summer.

Fan Wenlan, who urgently summoned Jinhai from Dengzhou, was known as a Confucian official, but at this time he was not at all elegant. He rode fast all the way, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. They were all worn out, and they screamed in pain when they moved. They could only have a few guards take turns to help them climb the Wang Dengtai Mountain with green grass and trees.

Ye Jiduo’s eye sockets were deeply sunken, his cheeks were thin, he had a short mustache on his upper lip, and he had no time to take care of the stubble under his chin.

Fan Wenlan bumped past on horseback for three days and three nights, and when he reached Ye Jiduodi, he could barely stand, he sat down on the grass, crouched in front of Ye Jiduodi’s knees, and cried, “Three princes, Jin Hai can’t keep it! Can’t keep it!”

Ye Jiduo looked coldly at Fan Wenlan, who was almost collapsed on the ground, raised his lame foot and kicked: “The worthless coward!” , But the princes and ministers of Yanjing made the decision to stick to Yanjing. If he didn’t lead troops to help, if he didn’t stay in Jinhai for ten days and a half months, Dayan would really be destroyed!

Ye Jiduodi can understand Fan Wenlan’s painstaking efforts, but he can’t help scolding him, otherwise the army will be shaken, and this battle will be even more impossible.

Ye Jiduo waved his hand, causing the left and right guards to retreat, and then he stretched out his hand to lift Fan Wenlan from the grass, and said in a low voice, “If you don’t fight this battle, you have to fight it! If you and I are buried here, it may be called Yanjingcheng. Those elms in here want to understand something…”

Fan Wenlan raised his head to look at Ye Jiduodi, and seeing the resolute look on his face, he sighed lonely: The destruction of the Dengzhou Navy failed to wake up the princes and ministers in Yanjing City. There is simply no room for discussion, let alone implementation.

Ye Jiduo led troops and horses to aid Jinhai. It is good to be able to win, but if he loses, it can also wake up the princes and ministers in Yanjing City. After all, Ye Jiduo was unwilling and wanted to give it a shot. what.

Fan Wenlan struggled to stand up, supported her tired body, and looked up to the east. Ye Jiduodi handed Fan Wenlan the single-barrel bronze telescope in his hand. He had never seen Huaidong’s fire crossbow volley, although he received the sketches that Ye Jibaishi urgently sent back from Hanyang and that Hexiong Qiduo Ye Jiduodi still lacked an intuitive impression of the situation of Huaidong’s volley of fireballs, so he urgently summoned Fan Wenlan from Dengzhou.

The monocular scope in Ye Jiduo’s hand is one of the two telescopes captured by the Haedong camp army in the Goryeo battlefield. Although the general made a copy, he has never been able to imitate anything he likes. Only the originals can be retrieved so that the battlefield can be observed more clearly – the form of war has quietly changed.

… On the 21st, the Huaidong Navy’s outpost fleet with two frigates as the main force appeared in the outer waters of the Jinhai Sea and attacked Jinwei Island. Ships—The nearly 100 warships are mostly the traditional fast sailing ships of the Huaidong Navy. There are only a few frigates. The few super warships that appeared in the sea off Dengzhou and were equipped with hundreds of ambulances did not appear. within sight.

Maybe it was anchored farther from the coast, maybe it was still at the mouth of the Bohai Sea, and it didn’t come in…

Jinhai is the Yanjing vassal screen, and there is a navy stationed there. However, the defender of Jinhai, Wutu Ezang, did not heed the urgent warning to “avoid war inland rivers” from Dengzhou and Ye Jiduodi from Jinan. , and when the Huaidong Navy’s outpost fleet was approaching the Jinhai Sea, seeing the few soldiers of the Huaidong Army before the sentry, they hurriedly went to battle and fought decisively in the waters of Jinwei Island.

The Jinhai Division, with 3,000 soldiers and more than 50 warships, annihilated the Huaidong outpost fleet, which was accompanied by only four **** gunboats, on the day of the battle. Nearly 2,600 soldiers died in the sea. The Huaidong Army lost only two brig patrol ships.

“To guard against fire crossbows, dig deep trenches, place wooden rows on top, and bury the soldiers in the trenches to avoid crossbow strikes. When the enemy approaches, swarm out from the trenches, or they may be able to overcome them,” Fan Wenlan knew of Ye Ji. I have already made up my mind, and I deeply feel that I cannot convince the princes and ministers of Yanjing to abandon their capital and flee to the west. No matter how difficult or tragic this battle will be, they must fight hard. Fan Wenlan can only struggle to get his spirits up. , to plan the war for Ye Jiduodi, “The lower mouths of the Guoshui River and Chaobai River should be sealed with sunken ships, and more pontoon bridges should be built upstream to facilitate the cavalry to enter and leave the battlefield quickly; but more important than the above, It is to ensure that all the generals and officers of the army can clearly understand the characteristics of the Huaidong Fire Crossbow, and not as a last resort, not to attack the Fire Fire Crossbow formation of the Huaidong Army…”

Ye Jiduo smiled sadly, Fan Wenlan said it easily, the Huaidong Army outpost fleet has cleared the obstacles in the outer waters of the Jinhai Sea, and the main force of the navy will transport the elites of the Huaidong Army infantry brigade at any time. How much time is there for him to take it easy? deploy?

Another, two hundred miles northwest from Jinhai to Pingchuan is Yanjing City. If they can’t take advantage of the cavalry’s advantages in the plain area and intercept them firmly, how can they stop the Huaidong Army from approaching Yanjing City?

Two hundred miles of flat river, divided into pieces by several large rivers, actually did not provide too many opportunities for the cavalry to fight in a roundabout way.

Fan Wenlan saw that Ye Jiduodi didn’t seem to have listened to his words, and was even more pessimistic about the upcoming war. This emotion was choked in his heart for a while, and he didn’t know 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 figured out the situation outside the Jinhai Sea, Yang Shi led the main force of the first and second task forces to arrive at the outer waters of the Jinhai Sea in the early morning on the 27th, and launched an artillery attack on Jinhai City.

Jinhai City was destroyed by Yan Hu after the Battle of Yannan, and Lin Fu was rebuilt on the basis of Wukou Village.

At that time, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain from Jianghuai to the north by sea, and to solve the danger of grain shortage in Yanjing, Jinhai City was built as a seaport and a river port, and a port city and a warehouse city were built together. It was only repaired and reinforced on the original basis, without relocation and reconstruction.

The entire Jinhai City is divided into two parts by the Eddy River, the north and the south. The east wall of Jinhai City is less than two miles away from the harbor.

At that time, in order to transport millions of stones of rice grain from Jianghuai, it was berthed in Jinhai and transferred to Yanjing City. At that time, Jinhai Port could be said to be the largest berthing port in the world, with a length of nearly seven or eight miles and several A boulder-laden trestle pier and breakwater extend into the sea, which can directly dock super-large sailboats of more than 3,000 tons.

In addition, on the inner side of the vortex estuary, there was also the largest transfer canal port at that time. Due to the huge size of the transfer canal port, part of the port was inside Jinhai city, called the inner port, and part was outside Jinhai city, called the west port .

After Yanhu won Jinhai City, he regarded Jinhai as his own territory, and naturally he would not destroy these ports. Although these ports have not been of much use in recent years, after all, Yanjing does not need to transport millions of stone grains by sea every year, but it does not destroy it deliberately, and wants to annihilate it in time. It’s not just seven or eight years to be able to compete…

The news of the demise of the Dengzhou navy reached Jinhai on the 18th. At that time, He Xiongqi and others were able to understand the threat of the fire crossbow, but they had no right to directly order the Jinhai guard to destroy it. port. However, the princes and ministers of Beiyan in Yanjing City and the generals of the defending army in Jinhai did not realize the seriousness of the problem. Even when the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Navy arrived, they made the stupid decision to go to the outer sea to meet them. Naturally, there would be no Determination and decisiveness to destroy the port and the pier-in fact, the situation is developing so fast, even if the Jinhai defender has enough sobriety to recognize it, there is not enough time.

After the Huaidong Navy’s outpost fleet arrived in Jinhai, it not only severely damaged the Jinhai Navy, but also severely restrained the ground defenders of Jinhai City, so that in the next five or six days, even if they wanted to destroy it. One of the trestle piers is also impossible.

In addition to the complete river and sea wharf facilities, the water and land transportation system from Jinhai to Yanjing is also extremely complete, far better than landing operations from other areas – these were all in order to transport millions of stone. The foundation laid by the transportation of rice grains to Yanjing.

In the tenth and eleventh year of Chongguan, a large amount of manpower and materials were used to dredged the Guoshui River, the Chaobai River and the Wei River. These are the three main voyages on the Yanji Plain that can directly navigate the thousands of stones. The river, from Jinhai to Yanjing, has two lines, the new city and the old city, and the system is much more complete than others.

With all these conditions in front of us, even if we know that the defense force of the Yans in Jinhai is obviously stronger than that of Cangzhou and Changli on the two flanks, the military still firmly chooses Jinhai as a breakthrough point – which is similar to Zhang Xie in Yanjing City. Assumed to be correct.

Headed by two 2,000-ton main battleships, the first and second task forces were respectively responsible for approaching Jinhai Port from the north and south flanks with a force of pincer attack~www.mtlnovel.com~ to drive back the enemy forces in the port defenses. In the city, the bulging troop carrier, almost unhindered, docked directly on the trestle of the Jinhai Port Wharf, and was the first to send Li Baishi’s department of the First Brigade of the Denghai Town Division to the wharf.

Li Baishi’s troops landed on the north side of the vortex estuary, and as soon as they landed, they expanded southward. Under the cover of naval artillery, they stormed the main points of the vortex estuary.

Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen presided over the construction of Jinhai City in the early years, and strengthened their defense capabilities. They actually built five strong fortresses on both sides of the Guoshui River, and then used the city walls to connect the five fortresses to form an overall Jinhai City.

Yanhu spent a great deal of effort to storm Jinhai City. Although Jinhai City was already half-abandoned at that time, Yanhu did not plan to have such a perfect defense system, and strengthened the original foundation, but the center of defense was from To the inland, turn to the sea.

The key point of landing from Jinhai is the mouth of the Eddy River.

The mouth of the Eddy River was only 300 meters wide at first, and after it was widened, it was only 400 paces. The estuary was rectified. Even if Yanhu scuttled ships and blocked it, it would be easy to clean up.

The water depth of the vortex river is enough to allow the frigate to enter. As long as the river is cleared inward inch by inch, the artillery fire of the frigate can extend to the hinterland of Jinhai inch by inch.

No matter how tight the defense system of Jinhai City is, it also has the fatal flaw of being too close to the sea. Not to mention the 24-pound heavy artillery, the north and south bases of the Jiazhi River Estuary are even within the striking range of the frigate’s guns. The north base is the main base of Jinhai City, and its predecessor is also the remnant of the Jinzhong Army. The guarded Wukou Village was bombarded by the artillery fire of the 1st Task Force and the 1st Brigade Battle Crossbow Battalion of the Denghai Town Division, and could not support too much time, and the city wall collapsed in a large part… My QT room is open ! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter