Yun Lan and Ning Wanting's guess was correct. Just when they got the news, Yun Zheng had not only sent troops, but had already penetrated hundreds of miles into the Liao border.
Unlike the Wei Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom did not have the so-called "national defense", or to put it this way: the Liao Kingdom did not have a fixed defensive national defense theory to support their fixed-point defense. They still maintained the military characteristics of the nomadic period: focusing on offense and neglecting defense.
In addition, there are almost no combat-effective troops guarding the southern part of the Liao Kingdom. Even if it is to intercept the march of the Yun family army, it is impossible. Therefore, since Yunzheng sent troops for three days, from the perspective of "siege the city and seize the territory", the results of the battle have been great.
That's extremely brilliant
Yunzheng divided the army from the left, center and right into three groups but did not attack completely together. Among them, the two groups from the left and the middle went northeast across the Luanhe River. The military flag pointed to the Dading Prefecture in the capital of the Liao Dynasty.
The left group is led by Zhen Dingwei Deputy Duzhi Yunxi, who attacks with a left hook. The right group is led by Yan Yunwei Deputy Duzhi Yunkun. The circle is slightly larger. Jizhou starts to contribute to Laizhou, and then the army continues
Attack and capture the important city of Jinzhou
And Yunzheng led the Chinese army himself, accompanied by almost all the senior generals of the General Staff, and directly attacked Dading Prefecture in Zhongjing.
The central route army in this battle consisted of the four Yanyun Guards concentrated by Yunzheng, and the six Yingyang Guards, a total of ten guards, 56,000 people, all equipped with a repeating hand crossbow, and also carrying various new research
Two hundred and nine infantry artillery pieces were manufactured and marched to Beijing in a mighty manner. It is also worth mentioning that these 56,000 people are only combat troops. There are also a group of people in the rear who ride bicycles invented by Marshal Yun to act as transport teams for the army.
Junhu
Yunxi's left army seems to be preparing to encircle Zhongjing with Yunzheng, but in fact it is just a chess move to deceive others. His real purpose is to set up an ambush in the northwest or north of Zhongjing to intercept the southward movement from Shangjing to Linhuang or Yikunzhou.
Rescue the reinforcements from Beijing and complete Marshal Yun's strategy of "encircling the point to provide reinforcements"
The Liao Kingdom was completely unprepared for the Yun Family's troops, and its main force was fighting the Jurchens in the east. Wherever there were opponents of the Yun Family Army, almost all the cities along the way were undefended, and almost all of them were easily taken over by the Yun Family Army.
In the occasional battle, the Yun family's army also easily won. Yun Zheng then took advantage of Ying Yang Wei's attack. In just three days, he had fought all the way to the outside of Zhongjing City, and then lined up all the troops outside the west gate, pulling
Open up your posture and make a great noise
Yunzheng's method was to only attack one side and give up three gates.
He said that he was planning to encircle the central capital for reinforcements, but he actually did not intend to encircle the Liao army in Zhongjing, because if the Liao army suffered too many casualties and could not hold the Jurchens in the future, it would be great fun. So what he wanted was to seize Zhongjing and give the Liao army
He is not afraid of you running away now. He is afraid that you will not come out even if you die in the city. Moreover, now that the new artillery has been brought out, he must concentrate his strength to show his great military power and defeat the Yelu family in one fell swoop.
Diehard
More than two hundred artillery pieces were aimed at Zhongjing. Looking at it, they were quite powerful. The person commanding the artillery at this time was the commander of the first Yingyang Guard, Yun Song, and the commander of the third guard, Qin Chong, as his deputy. The two of them had already been killed.
Yunzheng explained carefully that once the bombardment started, there was no need to worry about the gunpowder at all. He could just concentrate the artillery fire and blast it in one direction because the sulfur needed to make gunpowder had been shipped in large quantities from Japan, and now Yunzheng had no shortage of it.
Yunzheng's camp had just arrived in Zhongjing, and immediately ordered his subordinate Yunying to spread his wings and raise the flag high. It looked particularly dazzling and made the Liao soldiers in Zhongjing gnash their teeth.
The Liao army sent troops to harass several times, but the generals of Yingyangwei and Yanyunwei were battle-hardened and extremely well-prepared. Even the Liao army failed to succeed several times in a row.
On the 15th day of October in the eighteenth year of Wanchang, Yunzheng launched a fierce attack on Dading Prefecture in Zhongjing, Daliao!
More than two hundred artillery pieces fired at the same time, making a huge roar. Under the command of Yun Song and Qin Chong, there was a burst of bombardment in the direction of the west gate.
The Liao Kingdom did not pay much attention to city defense, and the west gate was the most dilapidated side of the entire capital. The defense was already in disrepair. At this time, it was bombarded by the Yun Family Army's artillery fire, and the whole west gate seemed to be bombed in an instant.
It sucks
Among the entire Yunjia Army artillery, there are more than 20 so-called spiral rifled guns that were recently manufactured. They fire cone-headed cylindrical long explosive shells. The spiral rifling can make the projectiles rotate and fly stably, greatly improving the power of the artillery and shooting accuracy, and increasing the
Compared with other old Wei-style artillery, the power has been increased many times.
The artillery instructor of the Yun Family Army was temporarily served by Li Mo. Although he was not the best at firearms in the Wuhan Institute, the spiral artillery shell was his invention, and he was the one who knew how to use it best, so Yun
Zheng asked him to temporarily serve as an artillery instructor
Looking at the world, what can really be regarded as land warfare artillery, in Yunzheng's opinion, is nothing more than this new type of artillery. As for the other old artillery, they are more like toys than artillery, the kind that packs paper bullets and
The power of solid bullets is really too small.
Although he himself came from another era, he does not know everything. He knows some things that happened in history and some famous ministers and generals, but they are not used in this world now. When it comes to muskets,
The artillery itself is not that good, but ever since he got this spiral cannon, Yun Zheng always felt that a more advanced artillery would be available soon.
But there is another point. At present, these muskets and artillery are all made by myself with a lot of money. It is still difficult to equip them in large quantities, so this musket and artillery arsenal must be set up as soon as possible.
The bombardment lasted for a full hour. Rubbles flew everywhere in the direction of the west gate of Zhongjing. Gunpowder smoke filled the air. The entire sky was covered with thick smoke and the earth seemed to be shaking. The west gate wall seemed to be blown down at any time.
Not only the Liao army in Zhongjing City, but also the soldiers in the Yun family army were covering their ears, squatting, and hiding from all these things. The thunder was not that loud.
There was a buzzing in the ears, and he had to raise his voice to hear clearly. Some of the soldiers who had just joined the army had never seen such a posture before, and all of them turned pale with fright.
Even the two artillery commanders, Yun Song and Qin Chong, were shocked by such concentrated and violent artillery fire. They kept whispering about something, as if they were studying the power of concentrated artillery fire.
Yun Zheng looked at him with pride from behind. What does this mean? When my artillery force is truly formed in the future, only then will you know what it means to be powerful.
By noon, the artillery fire gradually became less frequent.
Those Liao troops who had been tortured by artillery fire for more than an hour quickly ran out of their hiding places. According to what the defeated generals who lost the city said before, after a burst of artillery fire, the Yun family army's attack on the city will definitely begin. Although these people are defeated generals,
But to be honest, if these people hadn't sent the information, once the Yun Family Army's artillery fired, many Liao soldiers would have been frightened into fighting, thinking that the God of Thunder was angry. Now after many reminders, the situation is better.
But who would have thought that there was no movement at all from the Yun Family Army, as if their purpose was to use artillery to torture the defenders in Zhongjing City?
This kind of battle lasted for more than two days. It was not until Yunzheng received information from Beishan Wuxue that the Liao Kingdom had come to Beijing to know that Zhongjing was attacked.
We have worked very hard, but compared to Beige, it is naturally far behind, so the main intelligence resources for this dispatch came from Beige.
On the battlefield, Yunzheng took a telescope made of crystal and looked at it. After handing it back to his subordinates, he realized that everything was under his own design. The defeat of the Liao army was a matter of time. He twitched the corner of his mouth and seemed to smile.
The Liao army in the city was busy filling the gap. It had been two days. The fierce artillery fire had torn the gap in the Ximen city defense and it was already irreparable.
"Young Marshal, there are not many shells left!"
"Blast them all out, don't leave any behind, the whole army is assembled and ready to attack the city!"
"The whole army is assembled and ready to attack the city!"
Military orders were passed one after another, and the entire military camp became busy.
The sound of cannons rang over Zhongjing City again
The officers and soldiers of the Yun Family Army began to gather together, their halberds and daggers dancing, sending out bursts of chill under the sun and gunpowder smoke.
This bombardment did not last long. Soon, when the battlefield showed a rare silence, everyone in the city and outside knew that the decisive battle was about to begin!
"The last general Yun Yi invites you to fight!"
"The last general Yunsong invites you to fight!"
"The last general Qin Chong invites you to fight!"
"The last general Guo Zhengbei asks for a battle!"
One after another, calls for battle reached Yunzheng's ears.
Yunzheng looked back at the big flag and said loudly: "Break through Zhongjing and go straight to Linhuang!"
He pulled out the Qiu Shui Sword from his waist and dropped it heavily on the table in front of him. His voice mixed with inner strength sounded particularly majestic and solemn, and each word was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears: "Everyone, this is the time to break the Liao Dynasty.
Yes! The first person to break the city will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver. If you step back, everyone will be killed without mercy!"
The war drums rumbled, and the generals of the Yun Family Army were riding on their horses one by one. The war horses occasionally roared, and their hooves seemed a little uncontrollable and kept digging on the ground.
Behind them are large groups of soldiers holding weapons. Everyone's face is a little nervous.
The red flag waved clearly, the generals took out their halberds one after another, and the quivers on their horses were also full.
The team started to move forward slowly, but in an orderly manner
Liao soldiers began to appear on the opposite side, carrying crossbows one by one, and pulling bows and arrows one by one.
When both sides came within shooting range, the decisive battle finally broke out!
"kill!"
"kill!"
The roar instantly tore apart the heart-stopping tranquility, and an elite Yun family army roared up in the strong wind.
"kill!"
"kill!"
The defenders also shouted like this, and defense force points composed of crossbows and bows and arrows were thrown out.
Hot weapons and cold weapons coexist here, and advanced and backward maintain a wonderful balance here.
