1735, the cruiser sailed into the Liaohe River to intercept
Yang Fan and his wife were sitting in the RV and followed behind in a hurry.
At this time, everyone had changed into relaxed pajamas and sat cross-legged on the floor drinking tea and eating some refreshments.
Huang Taiji gave up gathering the remaining troops and headed directly towards Jizhou with two yellow flags. Now Jizhou is still in their hands. Because of the series of victories in the previous battles, Zunhua, Yongping, and Qian'an in history
, Luanzhou is in their hands, and they control many channels in and out of the Great Wall.
It's just that at this time, Zunhua is not in their hands.
After the Two Yellow Banners arrived in Jizhou, he issued an order to withdraw the entire army at the same time. After he issued an order for all the Eight Banners and Mongolians to withdraw from the Ming Border Wall and meet at Chifeng City, he led the army with the Two Yellow Banners and abandoned the other Eight Banners and Mongols.
, exit the customs directly from Hongshan Pass.
At this time, Chongzhen also saw that Jiannu was really defeated.
He immediately ordered that Qin Liangyu be responsible for recovering Qian'an and Luanzhou, Zhang Shize be responsible for recovering Yongping, Jiang Bingzhong be responsible for recovering Jizhou, and Zu Dashou be responsible for going out to pursue.
Seeing that the Eight Banners had dispersed and retreated from various mountain passes of the Great Wall. The army of King Qin who had arrived in the capital also reacted at this time. Everyone wanted the opportunity to beat up the drowned dog.
They swarmed and started to grab the credit. At this time, they were as excited as if they had been given a shot of chicken blood. They didn't look like they were timid at first.
After Yang Fan got the two red flags and killed more than 3,000 people and escaped from the Jinshanling Great Wall, he ordered the troops to withdraw. Because at this time, countless local troops from King Qin came forward. Yang Fan was too lazy to fight with them.
Yang Fan's tank also needs maintenance. After all, it has been used intensively during this period and has been severely worn.
Tanks are used temporarily during critical battles to determine the outcome.
It's not something that can be used all the time. Even if it is later generations, the reliability of this thing is not very good. It has a motorcycle hour. Once the life is exhausted, it is just a pile of scrap metal. In order to save precious life, it is usually transported on a flatbed truck.
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Yang Fan and his wife sat in the RV and began to return to the capital with a brigade of armored cars and tanks. On the way back, outside the window were groups of Ming troops rushing to pursue the slave-building Ming army.
When the slaves were raging, these people were not seen. Now, I don’t know where they came from, but there are so many people.
Xiao Niangpi looked out the window and curled her lips and said: "Master, why don't we pursue it? Are we giving all the credit to these wastes in vain?"
Yang Fan said with a smile: "Just lift the siege of the capital. These specific pursuit battles are not very interesting. No matter how many heads you chop off, your majesty will not promote me. Why waste military funds?"
This time, Jiannu suffered a huge setback, and suffered a huge collapse in the battle in the southern suburbs. It is estimated that less than 100,000 of the 150,000-strong army could escape from the fortress. It would be good if only half of the 60,000 soldiers that Jiannu entered the border could return.
The Mongols also lost more than half. They lost all their underwear this time.
"Sir, Huang Taiji has already escorted all the captured people and materials back to Shenyang in advance. It is estimated that they will have to cross the Liao River by this time, and we may not be able to catch up." Lin Yueru handed the compiled information to Yang Fan and said.
"Don't worry, they won't even try to take away a hair." Yang Fan said contemptuously. "It just so happens that we don't have enough people on the grassland. There are three million hectares of newly harvested coats and suits, and we are short of manpower.
Development. I have already sent a telegram to the entire city of Duolun to mobilize to pursue the team escorted by Jiannu."
Tu Shanyue said with some worry: "At this time, I don't know if it's too late. If we cross the Liao River, it will be difficult to fight."
Yang Fan said: "After we landed in Tianjin, I ordered three cruisers and thirteen clippers to go upstream along the Liao River. It is summer now, and the Liao River is in the flood season. The Liao River is boundless and very wide.
There is no problem at all for sea ships to enter."
Xiao Niangpi said happily: "It turns out that the master has made arrangements for a long time. Now I feel relieved. The people who were robbed this time can finally be rescued. The supplies they snatched will also be snatched back by Duolun's militia. Let these
Damn the establishment of slaves, which caused them heavy losses, and having no gain is the biggest blow to them."
Liaodong was completely managed by them. Agriculture collapsed and handicraft industry collapsed. If they didn't come out to rob, the economy would be completely unsustainable. This time, they didn't get anything, and they lost less than half of their troops. I'm afraid they won't be able to survive.
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Moreover, Yang Fan had already arranged for a pair of enemies, Amin and Mang Gurtai, to wait for Huang Taiji.
There is something good to watch this time.
At this time, Ye Bilong was riding on his horse, looking at the Liaohe River in front of him, his eyes widened.
He has arrived here with 10,000 bannermen and Mongolian cavalry, escorting 500,000 prisoners and a large amount of supplies. As long as he crosses the Liao River, he will reach the boundary of Shenyang not far away.
At this time, it was the flood season. There was heavy rain in summer, and the other side of the Liao River could not be seen at a glance. The water surface was more than ten kilometers long. The turbid river water, with huge waves rolling, looked very scary.
But what really shocked him was the sight of sixteen snow-white clipper gunboats lined up on the river.
Three of these ships were very huge. People of this era had never seen such huge warships before. They were all dumbfounded.
The snow-white sails and the snow-white hull are indescribably beautiful.
As Ye Bilong watched, the gun windows on the side opened one after another, and huge golden cannons stretched out from the gun windows.
He suddenly realized that the ships he had prepared these days might not be safe.
Before he could give the order to drag all the small wooden boats ashore, the fleet of large white boats opened fire.
Boom boom boom! The huge cannon sound was deafening, much louder than the red cannon at the top of Shenyang City. Even though it was at least half a mile away, it still made my ears buzz.
Heavy artillery shells flew in one after another. The densely packed boats on the riverside were already ready and looked at being bombarded by fifty-pound spherical solid bullets and turned into a pile of broken wood.
Some fell on the shore, driving the cavalry of E Bilong out of a bloody alley. A round of volleys and ricocheting bombs caused hundreds of casualties to them.
The cannons on these ships were all heavy cannons, and one shell could shatter seven or eight boats connected together. Some of them smashed the boats, ricocheted in the shallow water on the shore, and flew up and landed again into the Jiannu brigade.
These boats are small rowing and fishing boats that can carry more than a dozen people. There are no big boats here in Jiannu. They are just small boats used for ferrying. Fortunately, there are many of them. It is enough to ferry them all across the river in a few days.
Lin Yuan is the captain of Yang Fan's ship, the Royal Clipper. He is also the commander of the remaining cruiser fleet. Now he is ordered to take the three remaining cruisers to carry out the Liaohe River blockade mission.
The Royal Clippers cruise ship is temporarily managed by deputy captain Xu Xiu. The ship is now moored at a dedicated pier in Beitangkou. When the cruise ship is not in use, it is maintained at the pier.
Lin Yuan looked at it with a telescope for a while and said: "The effect of using solid bullets is average, let's use grape bullets."
For the 203mm main gun, a spherical solid bullet weighs fifty pounds and can only shatter a few adjacent ships. The effect is really not good. After all, it is difficult for bullets to ricochet on the water surface.
As the first mate gave the order to change ammunition, the gunners in the gun bunker immediately started busy.
They used a crowbar to open the box marked with a grape pattern, loaded the fixed grape bullets wrapped in silk into the barrel, and then aimed at the densely packed ferry boats on the shore.
"Free fire until all the ferry boats are destroyed. Fire!"
Following Lin Yuan's order, all the artillery on the sides of the sixteen clipper ships opened fire.
Except for the three cruisers with 203mm guns, other clipper ships of different sizes have 155mm guns on the sides. Now the naval guns of the Yang Fan Navy have unified calibers. They are six inches and eight inches.
A grapeshot contained thirty small two-pound lead balls. These small balls shattered as soon as they came out of the barrel and quickly turned into a cloud-shaped barrage similar to shotguns and flew toward the shore.
The dense rain of bullets quickly hit the densely packed boats on the shore. A two-pound lead ball was more than enough to smash these wooden boats.
Ye Bilong watched as the boats he had prepared for several days were smashed into piles by the heavy lead bullets like a storm. The fragments floating on the surface of the Liao River flowed down the river.
He looked at the big ships and felt his hands and feet go numb for a while, because after shooting the ships, the cannons were aimed at their infantry formations.
