Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 75

In the first year of Yongxing or Tiandi, Beiyan took 189 days to attack the city of Jinhai; in the battle, the defenders of Jinhai and the generals who died of serious injuries after the war totaled 14,000. There were less than 13,000 soldiers left, and Beiyan also paid the price of more than 40,000 casualties for this brutal and long offensive and defensive battle.

In the blink of an eye, eight years are like flowing water flowing from the gaps of the fingers——

On the 27th, Li Baidao of the 1st Brigade of the Denghai Township Division landed from the north trestle bridge of Jinhai Port. The elites of the 3rd Brigade of the Denghai Township Division were next to them, and together they stormed the Jinhai City Lord who built the foundation building in the Wukou Village in the early years. base.

The 32-pound heavy artillery was erected on the ruins of the sentinel pier that had collapsed at the mouth of the Eddy River, and the ground was shaken every time it was fired.

Although the city wall of the main fort is built with rammed earth as the core and covered with masonry as the surface, and the base of the wall is also standing on a block of large bluestone, such a solid city wall can give a 32-pound heavy artillery a distance of 800 meters. Under the bombardment from the left and right distances, each shot will directly open a large gap, and the branch-like cracks in the city wall seem to be hit by thunder, and the fragments of masonry and stone splash, the power is not lower than the arrow, called the defender of the city head. suffer.

The artillery cast by Huaidong, with a long barrel, and with no high obstacles in the middle, can hit the city wall with a low and flat angle of fire with a very high accuracy rate. Except for a few test shots, it is almost There are seven or eight hits out of ten, and the solid iron bullets that brushed past the city wall gave the buildings in the main base a huge destructive power that would collapse with one blow.

The solid iron bullets fired at a low and flat angle of fire are far more destructive to the city wall than the stone bullets thrown in a parabola in the throwing direction of the catapult.

For such a strong fortress as the main base of Jinhai City, if heavy-duty stone-throwing crossbows were used, dozens of heavy-duty crossbows might need to be lined up in a row, and the city walls could be smashed by continuous bombardment for several days.

Under the blow of four 32-pound heavy artillery, the east gate of the main base of Jinhai City was smashed by a cannon, and the broken bricks filled in the gate hole also smashed and flew; the east city wall was hit a dozen times in a row, It began to collapse in large sections – the defenders wanted to use wooden fences to block the gap, and several eight-jin light artillery guns deployed in front of the heavy artillery shot flat on the gap in the city wall, and immediately broke the wooden fence several feet wide into pieces, together with the wooden fence. The more than 100 enemy troops that followed were also torn apart, corpses crisscrossed, blood flowed into rivers, and mourning.

The enemy army dug a large cellar in the main base, covered the roof with thick wood, hid the soldiers in it to avoid the artillery fire, and then repaired the city wall after the artillery attack – this was indeed an effective strategy for the defenders in the base to avoid casualties during the artillery attack, but they Facing the elite soldiers of the Huaidong Army, who have both offensive and defensive capabilities and are proud of their offensive and combat capabilities.

After a break in the main base of Jinhai City that was enough to use soldiers, the artillery stopped, and hundreds of Denghai Town Division dared to die. Four catties of light artillery, dragged directly to the ruins of the collapsed city wall, and bombarded the enemy with artillery directly on the ruins.

The defending generals went to the cellar to avoid the artillery fire, and they were dealt with by the Huaidong Army’s traditional oil tank tactics.

The 1st and 3rd brigades of the Denghai Township Division are mainly composed of veterans of the original Tianjin Navy. They have their pride in Jinhai, and there are countless painful memories of Paoze’s death here. Facing the enemy soldiers who occupy the nest of the magpies, they are covered in flames. Screaming out of the hiding cellar, Denghai Town’s generals gave them only ruthless sharp knives and ruthless sharp arrows, and they never had the slightest reluctance to bear it…

On the 28th, the entire main base was captured. The 1st and 3rd brigades of the Denghai Township Division suffered 400 casualties and wiped out 3,000 enemy soldiers.

The generals Ge Cunxin, Zhang Gou, Chen Zhu and other generals in charge of the war at the Jinhai outpost clearly demanded that the siege generals be banned from killing Hu people, women and children before the war—a large number of defending generals who remained in Jinhai City did not withdraw in advance , the war is developing so rapidly, and there is not enough time for the defenders to evacuate the women and children-although there is a ban, but after there is a bad case of killing the wives and children of the Hu people, the ban is no longer strictly followed, as long as the body is found. The Hulu women and children who were hiding swords and weapons were shot dead on the spot, regardless of the 3721.

At this time, the fifth brigade of the Denghai Township Division, the first, second, and fourth brigades of Zhang Gou, the first township division of Fengli Division, and the first brigade of the third township division of the Haidong Marching Army, the first brigade of He Zongliang, have also been completed. Landing, the front quickly extended to the middle base and north base of Jinhai.

The south base, which is also at the mouth of the vortex, was directly bombarded by the sidearms of the task force. When the 2,000 defenders landed on the third brigade of the Haidong Marching Army, only 600 to 700 people were left on the stage. Mountain.

The center and north bases of Jinhai City were all within the range of the naval guns. Intensive artillery coverage and heavy artillery bombardment of the city combined with the elite step brigade’s strong attack tactics made the center base and the north base fall on the 29th before the enemy guards could come up with countermeasures.

Obviously, the defenders also realized that the number and firepower of the side guns of the Huaidong Navy’s naval divisions were much higher than the infantry guns carried by the infantry brigade.

Of the three brigades that Denghai Town Division has landed, only the first and third brigades have crossbow battalions, and they are mainly light artillery with high mobility.

The west base is five miles away from the coastline, and the coast of Jinhai controlled by the Huaidong Army has no high ground where heavy artillery can be erected to increase the range. Between the west base and the coast, the remnants of the main base and the middle base were broken, which blocked the firing angle of the artillery to a considerable extent. In addition, the center base, north base, and west base are too close together, with only three to five hundred paces between them. It is not suitable to directly erect artillery pieces, as it is easy for the defenders to counterattack and break through. The enemy clearly sees these characteristics, from twenty-nine Since then, it has focused on strengthening the defense of the West Base.

On the 29th, 30,000 cavalrymen set out from Jinan, 10,000 cavalrymen directly strengthened the defense of Yanjing, and 20,000 cavalrymen rushed to the periphery of Jinhai City with Ye Jiduodi.

The cavalry was not good at defending the city. The 20,000 cavalry were mainly deployed in the area to the west and north of Wangdengtai Mountain, which was far from the coast.

Ye Jiduodi did not expect to defeat the Huaidong Army, which was so strong at this time, on the battlefield, but only hoped to prolong the war as long as possible. Even if the capital is abandoned at this time, it is not something that can be done in a day or two to relocate the wives and children of the hundreds of thousands of clansmen in Yanjing City. Select 3,000 dead soldiers from the cavalry to strengthen the defense of the west base.

What Ye Jiduodi could not have imagined was that there were nearly a thousand workers in the Huaidong Army’s consignment camp, who were directly recruited from major mining areas.

In the past few years, Huaidong has made the output of iron materials in the South exceed 140 million kilograms, the output of coal has exceeded 60 million baskets, and the mining volume of iron ore has exceeded 8 million baskets. In addition, the technology of digging holes and tunnels is also unique in the world.

Before the war, the military had carefully considered sieging cities in the north, especially in mountain cities and cottages that were difficult to reach with heavy artillery, and digging tunnels and filling gunpowder directly blasted the city walls, which was a quite feasible tactic.

This tactic was first used on the west base of Jinhai City.

Eight hundred miners dug underground from Zhonglei, and in just three days, they dug the tunnel accurately under the east city wall of Xilei.

In Lin Bie’s opinion, several thousand kilograms of gunpowder, which was more powerful than the black powder in his memory, was buried directly at the top of the tunnel, and the drug was twisted out. Except for the gap left at the extraction point of the drug twist, everything else was filled as much as possible to enhance the explosion. power.

The traditional tunnel tactic is to dig directly through the city wall, and send the odd soldiers to attack the center of the enemy base by surprise. Even if a large hole is dug under the city wall and then the support is drawn to make the city wall collapse, it is necessary to dig enough underground holes under the city wall. Big enough and deep enough, these are obviously not tactics that can be implemented in a short period of time.

Filling the tunnel with gunpowder to blow up the city wall was something the defenders never thought of before. At the moment when the gunpowder was ignited, they saw the east city wall of Jinhai West Base was thrown into the sky like a jet in an instant. air.

The bricks, stones and mud fell one after another like rain; the explosion was so violent that the third brigade of the Denghai Township Division, which was leading the bombing of the city, was caught off guard, causing four generals in the battle to be smashed by the bricks and killed needlessly.

Chen Zhe, who rushed to the front to watch the battle, was not prepared to smash his left arm with a small half-cut brick, and became the general of the Huaidong Army with the highest level of injuries on the battlefield at this time of the Northern Expedition—

Before the explosion, the enemy defenders mainly gathered under the east city wall, and the number of people gathered at the explosion point was extremely dense. Falling, there are the following dumplings – after the war, it is impossible to count how many enemy troops were directly killed when they bombed the city, or fell to their death, or were buried alive in the ruins of the city wall that fell back to the ground.

Those enemy defenders, who would barely adapt to heavy artillery bombardment, were directly demoralized by such a strong explosion that suddenly rose from the ground, and they fled – the guards wanted to flee for their lives, but they were in the middle of the West Fortress. There is no way out for them to escape to heaven. When the generals of the Huaidong Army came in from the gap, they were just like helpless mice, fleeing disorderly with their heads in their arms, wanting to surrender, but the attacking Huaidong Army had no intention of stopping and killing just as the attack on the base city had just begun. With shield strikes, knife and spear stabbings, if you are soft, you will defend the front line, and switch to the brother battalion and brigades to relay forward to attack.

Ye Jiduodi assembled nearly 10,000 defenders at Xilu. Except for a few guards who escaped, the Huaidong Army finally counted less than 2,000 prisoners of war at Xilu. In the Battle of West Base, the third and fifth brigades of the Denghai Township Division and the second brigade of the First Township Division of the Fengli Army killed more than 7,800 guards. The Eastern Army suffered 800 casualties in this battle.

Except for the 2nd and 4th brigades of Denghai Township Division, Chu Zheng’s 3rd Township Division of Fengli Army, who boarded the ship from Haizhou, rushed directly to Jinhai to land in Jinhai. The foot brigades that landed in the sea, including the first and third town divisions of Fengli Army, and two super-organized brigades of Dengzhou town division and Haidong marching army, had 55,000 soldiers~www.mtlnovel.com~Water Removal Division Including the 1st and 2nd Special Mixed Ships and the 35,000-strong Jinghai First Town Division, there are also five brigades of nearly 15,000 workers and soldiers from the Worker Battalion that completed the landing in Jinhai.

At this time, in the west of Wang Dengtai, Ye Jiduodi still had only 20,000 remnants in his hands, and the total strength of the Yan enemy who was guarding Yanjing was only 50,000.

Although Ye Jiduodi’s remnants in the west of Wangdengtai Mountain were dominated by elite cavalry, but seeing such a sharp siege force of the Huaidong Army, seeing the nearly 20,000 Jinhai defenders barely had a chance to struggle. After being destroyed in the fortress, how can they keep their army unshakable?

Even the **** and brave soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles will be afraid at this moment, and there will be panic that the Huaidong Army can’t shake, not to mention that the number of elite infantry troops of the Huaidong Army landing in Jinhai has far exceeded them!

On May 5th, Lin Fu and the commanders headed to the land of Jinhai. Looking at the scorched ground of Jinhai, which had been reduced to ruins, Lin Fu, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others sighed: “Ten years is just a snap of your fingers!”

Gao Zongting thought: At this time, it has been less than ten years since Lin Fu Chongguan’s eleventh winter diving to Jinhai to determine the salt and silver to protect grain. Who would have thought that the changes in the mountains and rivers would be turned upside down in ten years?

Lin Bie saw that Koryo prisoner Cui He was also in the crowd, so he called him to him and asked, “How do you and your father want the Koryo war to end?”

He was captured from Hajin Island, escorted to Haeju, and accompanied by Luo Wenhu as a prisoner. He watched the Battle of Dengzhou, the Battle of Seizing the Island and the current Jinhai Landing Battle with the army. Yanhu’s elites, who are regarded as invincible in the world, are like babies, and they will destroy and annihilate the Huaidong Army. In the face of such a heaven-defying Huaidong Army, not to mention his Cui’s father and son, what choices can all Koreans have? My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter