On April 26th, the weather in Tianjin and Hainan suddenly became hot, reminding people that it was already the beginning of summer. ◤:◤Piao Tianwen Net◤网◤
Fan Wenlan, who was urgently summoned from Dengzhou to Jinhai, was known as a Confucian scholar, but at this time he did not look at all elegant. He was riding fast and his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. His inner thighs were also bruised and bloody, and his egg skin was also bruised.
It was all worn out and it hurt when I moved, so I could only let several guards take turns to help me climb the lush Wangdengtai Mountain.
Ye Jiduo's eye sockets were sunken, his cheeks were thin, and he had a short mustache on his upper lip. He had no time to take care of the stubble on his chin, which grew out in a mess. He was very haggard and had a feeling of exhaustion.
Fan Wenlan rode bumpyly on horseback for three days and nights. When he arrived in front of Ye Jiduo Dy, he could barely stand. He sat down on the grass, fell on Ye Ji Duo Dy's knees, and cried: "Third Prince,
Jinhai can’t be defended! It can’t be defended!”
Ye Jiduo looked coldly at Fan Wenlan who was almost collapsed on the ground, raised his lame leg and kicked him: "You worthless coward!" After all, he didn't use force. He believed in Fan Wenlan and Na He Xiongqi's judgment.
, but the princes and ministers of Yanjing have made the decision to stick to Yanjing. If he does not lead his troops to help, if he does not hold on for ten more days and a half in Jinhai, the country of Yanjing will really perish!
Ye Jiduodi could understand Fan Wenlan's painstaking efforts, but he had to reprimand him harshly, otherwise the morale of the army would be shaken and the battle would be impossible to fight.
Ye Jiduodi waved his hand to make the left and right guards retreat, then stretched out his hand to lift Fan Wenlan up from the grass, and said in a low voice: "This battle must be fought even if it is not fought! If you and I are buried here, maybe it can be called Yanjing City
Those elm brains in there want to understand something..."
Fan Wenlan looked up at Ye Jiduo Dy and saw a look of determination on his face. He sighed forlornly: The destruction of Dengzhou Navy failed to wake up the princes and ministers in Yanjing City. The emperor did not know whether he was alive or dead. After abandoning the capital,
There is no room for discussion at all, let alone implementation.
Ye Jiduo Dy led troops and horses to aid Jinhai. It would be good to win, but if he lost, it would also wake up the princes and ministers in Yanjing City. After all, Ye Ji Duo Dy was unwilling to give up and wanted to give it a try.
ah.
Fan Wenlan struggled to stand up, supporting his tired body, and raised his eyes to look east. Ye Jiduo Dy handed the single-cylinder copper telescope to Fan Wenlan. He had never seen the volley of fire crossbows in Huaidong.
, Although Ye Ji Baishi's drawings were urgently sent back from Hanyang and Nahe Xiongqi's hundreds of war communications, Ye Jiduodi still lacked an intuitive impression of the situation of Huaidong's volley of fire and crossbows, so
He urgently summoned Fan Wenlan from Dengzhou.
The monocular telescope in Ye Jiduo's hand was one of the two telescopes captured by the Haedong Marching Army in the Goryeo battlefield. Although the general tried to imitate it, he never made a satisfactory one. Ye Jiduo
The original document can only be retrieved in order to observe the battlefield more clearly - the shape of the war has quietly changed.
...On the 21st, the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Navy, with two frigates as the main force, appeared in the outer waters of the Tianjin Sea and stormed Jinwei Island. At this time, nearly a hundred Huaidong warships had gathered in the outer waters of Jinwei Island.
Ships - the nearly one hundred warships are mostly the traditional fast sailing ships of the Huaidong Navy. There are only a few frigates. Those few that appeared off the coast of Dengzhou and a super warship equipped with hundreds of fire crossbows did not appear here.
Within sight.
Maybe they were stationed further away from the coast, maybe they were still at the mouth of the Bohai Sea, and they didn't fight in...
Jinhai is a vassal of Yanjing and has a naval force stationed there. However, Wutu Ezhen, the defender of Jinhai, did not heed the urgent warnings of "Avoid fighting in the inland rivers" sent by Nahe Xiongqi from Dengzhou and Ye Jiduodi from Jinan.
, and when the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Navy was approaching the Jinhai Sea, they saw that the Huaidong Navy ships in front of the sentinel were outnumbered, so they rashly went out to fight and fought decisively in the waters of Jinwei Island.
On the day of the battle, the Tianjin Haihai Division, which had 3,000 soldiers and more than 50 warships, was annihilated by the Huaidong outpost fleet accompanied by only four escort gunboats. Nearly 2,600 soldiers were killed in the sea.
The Huaidong Army only lost two two-masted patrol warships.
"To guard against ambush with fire crossbows, dig deep trenches, place logs on top, and bury the soldiers in the trenches to avoid crossbow strikes. When the enemy approaches, swarm out of the trenches to defeat them," Fan Wenlan knew about Ye Ji.
Duo Dy had made up his mind, and he also felt deeply that he could not persuade the princes and ministers of Yanjing to abandon the capital and flee west. No matter how difficult and miserable the battle would be, they had to fight it bravely. Fan Wenlan could only struggle to regain his energy.
, planning the war for Yeji Duodi, "The lower mouths of the Woishui River and Chaobai River must be sealed with sunken ships, and more pontoon bridges must be built upstream to facilitate the cavalry to quickly enter and exit the battlefield; but more important than the above,
It is to make all the generals understand the properties of the Huaidong Army's Fire Crossbows, and not to attack the Huaidong Army's Fire Crossbow Formation as a last resort..."
Ye Jiduo smiled sadly, and Fan Wenlan said it easily. The Huaidong Army's outpost fleet has cleared the obstacles in the outer waters of the Tianjin Sea. The main force of the navy will transport the elite infantry brigade of the Huaidong Army at any time. How much time will there be for him to calm down?
deploy?
Another point is that two hundred miles northwest from Jinhai, Pingchuan is the city of Yanjing. If they cannot take advantage of the cavalry in the plain area to intercept them firmly, how can they stop the Huaidong Army from approaching the city of Yanjing?
Two hundred miles of plains, divided into strips by several large rivers, did not actually provide the cavalry with many opportunities for roundabout operations.
Fan Wenlan saw that Ye Jiduodi didn't seem to listen to his words, and was even more pessimistic about the upcoming war. This emotion was choked in his heart for a while, and he didn't know what to do?
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Although Ye Jiduodi and Fan Wenlan still want to make more remedial arrangements, time no longer belongs to them.
After the outpost fleet figured out the situation outside the Jinhai Sea, Yang Shi led the main force of the First and Second Task Forces to arrive in the outer waters of the Jinhai Sea on the late morning of the 27th, and immediately launched a bombardment of Jinhai City.
Jinhai City was destroyed by Yan Hu after the Yannan War, and Lin Fu rebuilt it on the basis of Wokou Village.
At that time, in order to facilitate the transportation of grain from the Jianghuai River to the north and relieve the crisis of grain shortage in Yanjing, Jinhai City was a seaport, the river port was built together, and the port city and the warehouse city were built together. After the Tianjin-Hai War, Yanhu captured Jinhai City and also
Only repairs and reinforcements were carried out on the original basis, without relocation and reconstruction.
The entire Jinhai City is divided into north and south parts by the Wushui River. The east wall of Jinhai City is less than two miles away from the harbor terminal.
At that time, in order to transport millions of stones worth of rice from the Jianghuai River, it was parked in Jinhai and transferred to Yanjing City. Jinhai Port could be said to be the largest port in the world at that time, with a length of nearly seven or eight miles and several seaports.
It is a trestle pier built with huge rocks, and the breakwater extends into the sea water, which can directly accommodate super large sailing ships of more than 3,000 tons.
In addition, there was also the largest transfer canal port at the time on the inner side of the Wushui River mouth. Because the transfer canal port was too large, part of it was within the city of Jinhai and was called the inner port, and part of it was outside the city of Jinhai and was called the West Port.
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After Yanhu captured Jinhai City, he regarded Jinhai as his own territory, so naturally he would not destroy these ports and terminals. Although these ports have not been put to any great use in recent years, after all, Yanjing does not need to use sea transportation every year
Millions of stones worth of rice grains, but if you don't destroy them deliberately and want them to be annihilated by time, it will take more than just seven or eight years to compete...
It was already the 18th when news of the destruction of the Dengzhou Navy reached Jinhai. At that time, only He Xiongqi and others were able to fully understand the threat of the Fuhuo Crossbow, but they did not have the authority to directly order the Jinhai defender to destroy it.
Port. However, the princes and ministers of Beiyan in Yanjing City and the generals of the Jinhai garrison did not realize the seriousness of the problem. They even made the stupid decision to go to the outer sea to attack when the Huaidong Navy outpost fleet arrived. Naturally, it was not
There will be determination and decisiveness to destroy the port and trestle pier - in fact, the situation is developing so fast that even if the Jinhai defender has enough clear understanding, he will not have enough time.
After the outpost fleet of the Huaidong Navy arrived at Jinhai, it not only severely damaged the Jinhai Division, but also severely restricted the land defenders of Jinhai City, allowing them to destroy the Jinhai City in just five or six days.
One of the trestle piers is also impossible.
In addition to the complete facilities at the Hehai Wharf, the water and land transportation system from Tianjin to Yanjing is also extremely complete, which is far better than landing operations from other areas - these were all done in order to move millions of stones back then.
The foundation laid by the transportation of rice grains to Yanjing.
In the tenth and eleventh years of Chongguan, a large amount of manpower and materials were used to dredge the Woshui River, Chaobai River, and Weihe River. They are the three main navigation channels on the Yanji Plain that can directly navigate thousands of stone ships.
The river course, from Jinhai to Yanjing, has two lines, the new city and the old city. The system is much more complete than others.
With all these conditions in front of us, even though we know that Yanlu's defense force in Jinhai is obviously stronger than that of Cangzhou and Changli on both wings, the military still firmly chooses Jinhai as a breakthrough point - this is exactly the same as Zhang Xie's in Yanjing City.
There is no difference in the speculation.
Led by two 2,000-ton main battleships, the first and second task forces were respectively responsible for approaching Tianjin Port from the north and south wings in a pincer attack, driving the enemy troops in the port defenses directly back to the city.
The troop transport ship docked directly on the trestle of the Jinhai Port pier with almost no obstruction, and was the first to send Li Baishi's troops of the 1st Brigade of Denghai Town Division to the pier.
Li Baishi's troops landed slightly north of the mouth of the Wushui River. As soon as they landed, they launched to the south. Under the cover of naval artillery, they stormed the key points of the mouth of the Wushui River.
Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen presided over the construction of Jinhai City in the early years, and strengthened its defense capabilities. They actually built five strong fortifications on both sides of the Wushui River, and then used city walls to connect the five fortifications to form the overall Jinhai City.
Yan Hu spent a lot of effort to storm Jinhai City. Although Jinhai City was already half abandoned at that time, Yan Hu did not plan to build such a complete defense system and reinforced it on the original basis. Only the focus of defense was changed.
To the inland, turn to the open sea.
The key point for landing from Jinhai is still the mouth of the Tuoshui River.
The mouth of the Guoshui River was only 300 meters wide at first, and later widened to only 400 steps. The mouth of the river was well organized, and even if Yanhu sank ships at the mouth of the river and blocked it, it would be easy to clean.
The water depth of the Wishui River is enough to accommodate the entry of frigates. As long as the river channel is cleared inward inch by inch, the frigates' artillery fire can extend inch by inch into the hinterland of the Tianjin Sea.
No matter how tight the defense system of Jinhai City is, it still has the fatal flaw of being too close to the sea. Not to mention the 24-pound heavy artillery, the north and south bases flanking the river mouth are even within the range of the frigate's broadsides.
Among them, the North Base is the main base of Jinhai City, and its predecessor was also the Wokou Village where the remnants of the Jinzhong Army defended. Under the bombardment of the First Task Force and the First Brigade Crossbow Battalion of the Denghai Division, it was not destroyed.
If it can be sustained for too long, a large section of the city wall will collapse... @ya