The black spots ejected from the white smoke mixed with fire suddenly enlarged in the field of vision - Su Tingzhan's mind was completely shocked by the first shelling, and he watched in despair as the dense projectiles were fired towards the crossbow platform, and
He didn't know how to react, but the loyal guards around him pushed him behind the crossbow rack with quick eyes and quick hands.
When Su Tingzhan staggered and fell, he watched helplessly as the upper body of the guard who pushed him away in time was hit by a solid iron bullet. His flesh and blood were splashed like rain when he was trampled by the hoof. Half of his body was destroyed in Su Tingzhan's field of vision.
Exploded into minced flesh. Before Su Tingzhan could fall to the ground, other projectiles came one after another. The heavy crossbow in front of Su Tingzhan, nearly three feet high, was also hit by an iron bullet in an instant.
It fell apart with a loud noise, and countless iron and wood fragments smashed into Su Tingzhan's body, leaving Su Tingzhan buried in the rubble and unable to move.[]
The solid iron projectile, which was slightly larger than one hand, shot through the heavy crossbow and landed on Su Tingzhan's left hand. There were traces of burning. Su Tingzhan stretched out his fingers to touch it, but it was slightly cold.
The Nanya Crossbow Platform has a steep terrain and stands near the water. It houses more than 20 heavy crossbows and is one of the core crossbow platforms on Huangcheng Island. In this salvo, six of the more than 20 heavy crossbows were directly destroyed.
, nearly twenty severely mutilated corpses of generals were lying on the crossbow platform. The brick-paved crossbow platform was also cracked with dozens of cracks vertically and horizontally. The entrance to the wall would not break if it was hit by an iron bullet.
, a large piece of the southwest corner of the crossbow platform collapsed...
This is Huaidong’s Fuhuo Crossbow!
Watching the warships outside the south entrance being bombarded is one thing, and feeling panic in your heart is one thing; being on a crossbow platform being bombarded, feeling the panic in your heart is another thing entirely.
Some generals fled for their lives, but the loyal guards desperately tried to dig Su Tingzhan out from the ruins of the heavy crossbow rack, regardless of the next bombardment coming at any time.
At this time, Su Tingzhan could especially deeply understand why Duke Wenzhuang, who had witnessed the collapse of the situation in Jingxiang, gave up the opportunity to escape alone and was captured and killed, why he wanted Sheyuan to go northwest and no longer participate in the Central Plains war, and why he wanted to stay in northern Fujian.
The tribe gave up resistance and surrendered. In fact, Wenzhuang had already seen an irreversible defeat from the battle of Jingxiang...
Su Tingzhan sat up from the fragments of the heavy crossbow and felt that his body was extremely cold.
Seeing the grief on the face of the guard who rescued him, Su Tingzhan lowered his head and looked at his left waist. He saw the half-broken heavy crossbow bracket, the fracture was as sharp as a giant spear, and it penetrated directly from his left waist and crotch, drawing blood.
The armor had been dyed blood red - only then did he feel some pain, as if life was draining from his body.
Su Tingzhan braced himself and looked around. The Huaidong warship in the sea ahead once again gave him the feeling of being knocked back instantly. The third bombardment was launched under his gaze, and the iron bullets fell like huge hail.
The southeast corner of the crossbow platform collapsed again. Ten generals and two heavy crossbows rolled down the cliff together. It sounded like there was an impact under the cliff. It seemed that a warship was parked under the cliff and was hit by the collapsed crossbow platform.
Got it right.
When the Huaidong Navy saw that the Nanya Crossbow Platform was no longer a threat, the gunboat in the center began to adjust its position. It seemed that it was going to block the larger number of Dengzhou Navy warships on the inside and bombard the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island.
The Huaidong warships on both wings separated from the main ship camp and sailed forward, hoping to eliminate or expel the Dengzhou warships that had left the water village before the war...
Su Tingzhan only lowered his eyes feebly when he saw this. In his ears, he could still faintly hear panicked and helpless shouts such as "The Admiral General is dead"...
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After destroying the Nanya Nut, Sun Zhun, deputy general of the Second Task Force Brigade, was responsible for leading the First Squadron. He commanded two frigates to seal the south entrance of the Huangcheng Island water village from the flanks and confirm the enemy water on Huangcheng Island.
The main force of the army was blocked in the water stronghold, and the Lin Zhengjun-class battleship, the only one in the squadron and the second task force, was sent first to support the naval battle on Miaoshan Island.
Sun Huai used one Jinhai-class battleship as the main force, four frigates and more than 20 old-style warships, with a total of one hundred light and heavy artillery pieces. From the south entrance of the water village on Huangcheng Island, he attacked the inner waters between the northern and southern Huangcheng Islands.
The bombardment lasted for two hours and nearly 2,000 solid iron bullets were used to destroy and cripple nearly 50 enemy ships trapped in the water village of Huangcheng Island.
After confirming that the Dengzhou Navy had no more attack power on Huangcheng Island, Sun Zhun, who was born as a boy in Chongzhou, led the remaining warships of the Second Task Force and set sail eastward.
Luo Wenhu and Cui He went north with the first batch of attacking fleets. At this time, they stayed temporarily with Zhao Huaidong's troops from the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Jinghai Division.
From the mouths of prisoners of war who fell into the water, they learned that the enemy's admiral Su Tingzhan had been hit in the shelling just now, but the commander of the island guard, Shi Changzhi, was still there. Although the shelling dealt a devastating blow to the enemy's crossbow platform and warships, it also killed a large number of people.
The enemy navy soldiers guarding the warships were preparing to go out for battle, but there were still more than 5,000 enemy soldiers on Huangcheng Island who had not yet been wiped out.
The cliffs on the outside of Huangcheng Island are steep, and the inner waters between the two islands are full of enemy shipwrecks. It is impossible to enter immediately for landing operations on the island. The second brigade of the Jinghai Second Town Division can only stop in the outer waters to blockade Huangcheng Island.
, waiting for the arrival of the Ge Yuan Station of the First Task Force, which attacked Jinzhou Tieshan Village first, before we can consider clearing the wreckage of the warships in the inner waters and clearing out the remaining enemies on Huangcheng Island.
However, at dusk, the warships of the Haidong Marching Army escorted Li Baidao's troops of the first brigade of the Denghai Town Division to Huangcheng Island, and joined Zhao Huaidong's troops to attack Huangcheng Island.
The first brigade of Denghai Town Division has a crossbow battalion, equipped with a total of sixty four-pound and eight-pound light cannons. They are mounted on the deck to bombard the west wing defenses of Huangcheng Island defended by the remaining soldiers.
Before it gets dark, rush up from the steep bank on the west side of Huangcheng Island.
After gaining a foothold, he took advantage of the long and narrow terrain of the West Island, and lined up the light artillery from the flanks, extending forward inch by inch...
Dengzhou and Jinzhou are backed by the hinterland. Even if they are suddenly captured, they may also face a crazy counterattack from the enemy's horse and infantry from the land. The Northern Expeditionary Army will next jump to the Tianjin Sea and need to use Huangcheng Island and Miaoshan Island.
As a springboard and a break point, we need to destroy the remaining enemies on the island as quickly as possible.
A little later, He Zongliang's troops, who were ordered to deploy troops from the Haidong Marching Army to strengthen the Northern Expedition Brigade's combat capabilities, also arrived at the waters of Huangcheng Island. With the cover of the stars and moon, they did not care whether the warships would be damaged, and went directly from
Among the enemy shipwrecks that had not been cleared away, they broke into the inner waters between the east and west islands of Huangcheng, stormed to the east island of Tantan, and cooperated with Li Baidao's troops to clear out the remaining troops on the island overnight.
Such night battles of suppression also took place on the Qinshan and Daqinshan Islands between Dengzhou and Jinzhou, Heishan Island and the North and South Changshan Islands. In particular, Nanchang Island, the main island of the Miaoshan Islands, has a large length from north to south.
Fifteen miles away, the terrain of the mountainous island was complex, and there were many blind spots that could not be attacked by broadside guns. The Denghai Zhendi deployed two brigades and two crossbow battalions at once in order to wipe out the remaining enemies as quickly and powerfully as possible.
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In the 200-mile sea area between Jinzhou and Dengzhou, there are more than 30 islands and reefs including Huangcheng Island, Heishan Island, Big and Small Qinshan Islands, and North and South Changshan Islands, guarding the gateway to the Bohai Bay.
From the terrain point of view, it can be called "locking the throat and suppressing the sea". However, the gap between the war equipment of the two sides exceeds an era, and the advantage in terrain will disappear in an instant.
When the bombardment of Daoyu Village stopped, it was already midnight. Na He Xiongqi and Fan Wenlan, surrounded by soldiers, climbed down the still intact west wall of Daoyu Village and looked at the inner lake of Daoyu Village full of wreckage of warships.
, all of them are soldiers floating corpses, wanting to cry but without tears.
Large parts of the city wall extending into the sea, including the eastern section of the inner lake, collapsed. Except for a few warships that broke through and headed north, the Dengzhou Navy was unable to hold on for even a day and was almost wiped out. Even Su Ting, the admiral of the Navy,
Zhan’s life and death are also unknown...
Na He Xiongqi once had an illusion that Ye Ji Baishi exaggerated the power of the Huaidong Fuhuo Crossbow, but the cruel facts ruthlessly shattered his illusions.
The Jinghai Division first fired naval guns to attack the naval forces stationed in Dengzhou Island Water Village, leaving Daoyu Village untouched. At first, it only dispatched the main warships of the Second Town Division to force the Dengzhou Navy from the outer waters.
The warships of Daoyu Village blocked it and prevented it from breaking through.
At nightfall, the main force of the First Task Force escaped from elsewhere, isolated the inner lake of Daoyu Village, and the east wall of the outer sea collapsed, and then leisurely bombarded the inner lake of Daoyu Village; when the main force of the Second Task Force escaped,
, the maximum number of salvos fired at the inner lake of Daoyu Village is as many as three hundred artillery pieces.
Under the fire of up to 300 artillery pieces, the 400 large and small warships of the Dengzhou Navy parked in the inner lake of Daoyu Village were destroyed into a piece of wreckage, making the inner lake more than ten miles around Daoyu Village look like
It's a ship's grave.
Looking at the Huaidong battleship heading towards Xiaoqinshan Island under the starry sky, Na He Xiongqi was so cold that he almost collapsed to the ground, holding a knife and staring at the black ships that looked like sea beasts in the night.
Shadow, hands and feet trembled, and cold sweat could not stop flowing down my spine.
It is not that Na He Xiongqi has never suffered defeats, he also suffered a big loss at the hands of the Huaidong Army. However, he became more and more courageous with every defeat. He had never been so desperate and depressed before - Tong Huacheng's face was ashen and he could no longer bear it.
Look again at the tragic situation in the inner lake of Daoyu Village.
Fan Wenlan was also desperate and depressed, but he could grit his teeth and hold on. He supported Na He Xiongqi and lowered his voice and said: "General Na He, you need to send someone to Jinan immediately to ask the three princes to jointly guarantee the performance..."
Na He Xiongqi looked at Fan Wenlan confused and dull. From the time they received the message from Ye Ji Baishi, they would send fast horses to Jinan almost every hour to report the latest war situation to Yanjing.
The destruction of the Zhou Navy was a foregone conclusion. He wished he could go back to Yanjing and ask for suicide. What kind of guarantees could they ask Ye Jiduo to co-sign? What kind of guarantees could there be?
"Yanjing cannot be defended!" Seeing that Na He Xiongqi didn't understand, Fan Wenlan lowered his voice and whispered in Na He Xiongqi's ear, as if he was thundering.
As if being struck by thunder, He Xiongqi trembled all over and stared at Fan Wenlan in a daze - Tong Huacheng understood it first and responded desperately: "Yanjing cannot be defended! If you defend, you will die.
The clan is in danger!”
Only then did Na He Xiongqi realize: At this time, the total number of troops stationed between Yanjing, Jinhai, and Changli was only 50,000. The main force of the Dengzhou Navy was defeated in one day, and the Huaidong Army would be defeated as soon as possible.
They could organize an attack on Jinhai or Changli within three to five days, but they simply did not have the ability to organize more troops to defend Jinhai or Changli.
As long as one of the two important coastal towns of Jinhai and Changli is lost, the Huaidong Army will be able to obtain a land base to attack Yanjing - it seems that the entire southeastern Hebei region is a flat plain, which is a plain terrain suitable for cavalry operations, but these plain terrains
It is also more suitable for Huaidong Fuhuo Crossbow accompanying brigade field operations.
Almost none of the Beiyan cavalry generals were familiar with the characteristics of Huaidong's Fire Crossbows. If they rashly organized a cavalry formation to attack the Huaidong Army's Fire Crossbows in the plains of southeastern Hebei, the casualties would be unimaginable.
The number of Fuhuo Crossbows possessed by the Huaidong Army is probably more than a thousand. In fact, it is doomed that Dayan will not be able to defend Yanjing. The only option is to abandon the city of Yanjing and withdraw to the west, to Jinzhong where the mountains gather.
, maybe there is still a chance of dying...
This decision must not be made slowly. Beiyan only has three to five days to turn around. Once Huaidong is asked to land at Jinhai or Changli, even if he wants to abandon Yanjing and withdraw to the west, it will become extremely difficult - but Yanjing
This is the capital of the Yan Kingdom. Even if Emperor Tianming understands his painstaking efforts and insists on going his own way, he can't just give up...