Chapter 538: The Dilemma of Eastern Liaoning
"Commander, we won, we won... all fourteen lucky ships were buried at the bottom of the sea... I could see clearly that all these lucky ships were destroyed by the flowering bullets we fired..." The deputy general of the fleet, who came hurriedly with all the artillery units of the two field divisions, directly shone with his eyes and shouted with excitement.
Li Xinlong nodded and affirmed: "It's true that he won... But the strength of this navy fleet is there after all... Although more than a dozen large lucky ships were lost, the remaining ninety warships are still not something that our fleet can compete with..."
"So, the situation we are facing now is still very serious and we still cannot relax..."
The deputy general nodded and affirmed: "Commander, you are right... I don't know what your plans are next?"
Li Xinlong answered without hesitation: "From the battle situation just now, the navy fleet sent by the court obviously did not expect that we would arrange so many heavy artillery in the port, and then in the attack just now, he lost more than ten large lucky ships at once..."
"But what I didn't expect was that this imperial navy was so afraid of death... I just got bombarded and retreated in a hurry... Otherwise, in this artillery battle, the navy fleet would suffer even greater losses..."
"However, the reaction of the imperial fleet just told us that they did not have the determination to fight us in a decisive battle. After the losses just now, at least in the next few days, this imperial navy dared not attack us again..."
"As for what we need to do, we are making good use of this period of time to allow more naval soldiers to board warships for training. Only in this way can our fleet become stronger and stronger. In the end, we will protect the reinforcements of several divisions, break through the interception of the imperial naval division, and reinforce Liaodong..."
In the next few days, the imperial navy, who retreated to the cannon shooting range of the Tiger and Leopard Army, was as Li Xinlong judged. There were no other actions.
More than 90 warships lined up in a row. Outside the Dengzhou Harbour, a airtight maritime defense line was formed.
It is obvious that when he knew that the red-clothed cannon was not the opponent of the cannon of the Tiger and Leopard Army, the chief general of the imperial naval division directly captured the weakness of the Tiger and Leopard Army without a real naval fleet. Using the maritime defense line that he thought was impossible for the Tiger and Leopard Army to block the Tiger and Leopard Army reinforcements in Dengzhou...
When both the enemy and us work hard for their own goals and ideas.
The 30,000 Tiger and Leopard Army stationed in Liaodong, because of the dispersed forces, the enemy's attack was too sudden. At this moment, the 30,000 Tiger and Leopard Army had been reduced to less than 20,000 people.
More importantly, the 20,000 Tiger and Leopard Army has been surrounded by the imperial government army, the Later Jin army, and the Korean army, respectively, in the three counties of Chaoyang, Liaoyang and Andong.
When the imperial court invaded Liaodong, the remaining 25,000 soldiers directly surrounded the First Cavalry Division, the former Chaoyang Garrison regiment, in Chaoyang City, with a total of 6,000 soldiers, and could not move.
Not only that, more than 20,000 imperial soldiers with dozens of heavy artillery were like crazy, constantly attacking Chaoyang, employed human lives, and continuously consuming the vitality of Chaoyang Tiger and Leopard Army.
Liaoyang City, as the garrison of the Governor of Liaodong and as a first-tier city between Liaodong and the Later Jin Kingdom, has no doubt become the first target of attack by tens of thousands of elite troops in the Later Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, a field infantry division stationed in Liaodong, a heavy artillery regiment, and its own garrison regiment, an infantry regiment that rushed to reinforce was surrounded by the Later Jin army in Liaoyang City and began to be attacked by tens of thousands of Han Eight Banners soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty.
More than 12,000 soldiers, after ten days of bloody battle, only more than 9,000 people were left to continue fighting.
As for the Anton County, which was besieged by the Korean army, because the combat effectiveness of the Korean army was far inferior to that of the official army and the later army. Although it was attacked for more than ten days in a row, there were two field infantry regiments besieged in Anton, one garrison regiment, with less than 6,000 soldiers, and there were almost more than 5,000 people left at this moment, and there were almost no big losses.
Liaoyang City, which was attacked violently by the Later Jin army, was because the Later Jin army equipped a large number of heavy artillery. Even though the heavy artillery regiment of the First Army of the Tiger and Leopard Army tried their best to counterattack and destroyed almost half of the heavy artillery of the Later Jin army. However, under the continuous attack of the Later Jin army's heavy artillery troops, the houses near the front line of the city walls were almost blown into ruins.
Not only that, the solid walls of Liaoyang City were also bombarded with holes everywhere by solid artillery shells.
Especially the battlements used to protect the body of the defenders, there were gaps everywhere at first glance.
It was such a broken city wall. The Tiger and Leopard Army relied on the muskets in their hands to repel the attacks of the Eight Banners of the Later Jinhan again and again, leaving a thick layer of corpses outside the city of Liaoyang...
In the Liaoyang General Office, Wang Feng, the commander of the First Army of the Tiger and Leopard Army, was looking at several regiment-level and above officers who were tired due to continuous combat.
After seeing all the worries on their faces, Wang Feng suddenly cursed: "What's wrong... are you afraid... Isn't it just tens of thousands of Later Jin Tartars and the traitors who followed the Tartars... So far, more than 10,000 Chinese Tartars and Tartars who died at our hands... I believe that as long as we continue to persevere, the final victory will definitely belong to us..."
If Wang Feng is so motivated, it seems that it will not work at this time.
After saying this, the fatigue and worry expressions on his subordinates' faces did not change because of this.
Wang Bo, the commander of the First Infantry Division, who was standing in the front, reminded with a worried look: "Commander, although we have eliminated many enemies... However, those enemies are basically Han traitors used by the Tartars to die. The real cavalry of the Later Jin Dynasty remained in the rear without moving."
"And we will lose more than 3,000 Han traitor troops to eliminate more than 10,000 Han traitor troops... We will not know how many people we can still leave after we eliminate all Han traitor troops outside the city."
"You know, in the battle to defend the city for more than ten consecutive days, because Liaoyang City is too big, almost all the soldiers under our command took turns to defend the city..."
"And the Tartars and Han traitors outside the city, because their troops are far greater than us, they can attack us one by one, so that their siege troops will always maintain high morale and fighting spirit, and will continue to attack us without giving us a chance to stop."
"I don't know if the battle under the city with such a high intensity will collapse directly due to fatigue after persisting for five days, ten days, or even half a month."
Wang Feng frowned as soon as he said such words to suppress morale.
However, he did not feel dissatisfied with these words from Team 2. Because the words Wang Bo said were all the words the team leaders in front of him wanted to say but dared not say, and they were all facts that everyone could see, and they were not allowed to defend themselves at all.
Just as Wang Feng frowned and thought about how to answer this question, an excited exclaim rang out of the lobby.
"The commander... good news... the Governor's Office has sent someone... the Governor's Office has sent us news..."
Before Wang Feng could react, the battalion commander of the guard battalion walked in with a man.
After seeing Wang Feng wearing a lieutenant general's uniform, he was dressed in a businessman's messenger, subconsciously saluted Wang Feng. Then, he replied loudly: "I have seen the general in the intelligence and staff of the General Office of the Governor's Office, and I have seen the general..."
"I am under the command of the general, come to meet the general, and convey the general the latest orders..."
At this time, Wang Feng finally reacted and said with a look of surprise: "Master, I finally received the news from the Governor's Office and received the order from the Master..."
"Hurry up, Staff Hua, tell me immediately what command the general has given us..."
South China answered without any hesitation: "General, General Wang ordered: General Wang must command all the tiger and leopard troops in Liaodong for half a month... After half a month, the general will personally command 30,000 elite tiger and leopard troops, reinforce Liaodong, and eliminate all enemies that invade Liaodong."
"Half a month..." After hearing this, Wang Feng's expression of joy just revealed on his face was directly replaced by solemnity, and he asked incredible.
Because Wang Feng was not sure whether the Tiger and Leopard Army, which had less than 20,000 people under his command, could continue to hold on for half a month under his attack several times that of his enemies?
At this moment, a sentence from South China once again pulled his heart to the abyss back.
"General Wang misunderstood. The half month that Bei Zhi just mentioned was not calculated from now on... but when Bei Zhi left Datong..."
"It took a total of ten days on the road from the capital to Liaodong... In other words, General Wang only needs to command the Liaodong garrison and persist for about five days. The 30,000 elite Tiger and Leopard Army soldiers under the command of the Grand Commander himself will reinforce Liaodong and lift the siege of General Wang."
"Okay... so good... With the command of the Grand Marshal, I believe that it is possible to let the Liaodong garrison hold on for another ten days. Because the command of the Grand Marshal made the desperate Liaodong garrison finally see hope, survive, defeat the enemy, and avenge the death of comrades..."
After saying that, Wang Feng directly turned his gaze to his subordinates who had already started to shine with his eyes and asked with joy: "Everyone has heard it... The general's military order is said gently everywhere. In another five days, the general's personal reinforcements will arrive in Liaodong..."
"Tell me if you have confidence, continue to follow me and stay in Liaoyang for five days."
Chapter completed!