In the first year of Yongxing or Emperor Tiandi, Beiyan attacked Jinhaicheng, which took 189 days. In the battle, the defenders of Jinhai were killed in the battle, and the generals who died of serious injuries after the battle totaled 14,000
With less than 13,000 generals left, Beiyan retreated south, and Beiyan also paid the price of more than 40,000 casualties for this brutal and long offensive and defensive battle.
Time flies, eight years are like running water flowing through the fingers——
On the 27th, Li Baidao's troops from the first brigade of Denghai Town Division landed from the north trestle of Jinhai Port, followed closely by the elite of the third brigade of Denghai Town Division.
base.
The thirty-two-pound heavy artillery was set up on the ruins of a collapsed sentry pier at the mouth of the Uishui River. Every time it was fired, the ground shook.
Although the city wall of the main fortress is made of rammed earth as the core and covered with bricks and stones, and the wall base is also built on large bluestones, such a strong city wall cannot be protected by a thirty-two kilogram-class heavy artillery at 800 meters.
Under the bombardment from left and right distances, every time a shot was fired, a large gap was opened directly. The branch-like cracks in the city wall seemed to be struck by thunder, and the masonry fragments flew with the power of arrows, which shocked the defenders at the top of the city.
Suffer all the hardships.
The artillery made in Huaidong has a long barrel, and under the condition that there are no high obstacles in the middle, it can hit the three or four-foot-high city wall at a low horizontal shooting angle. It has a very high accuracy. Excluding a few test shots, it is almost
Seventy-eight out of ten hits were successful, and the solid iron bullets that grazed the city wall gave the buildings in the main fort a huge destructive force that could collapse with one hit.
The destructive power of solid iron bullets fired at a low horizontal angle to the city wall is much higher than the stone bullets fired in a parabola from a sling crossbow.
For a city wall as strong as the main fortress of Jinhai City, if heavy catapult crossbows were used, it might take dozens of heavy crossbows lined up in a row and bombarded continuously for several days to possibly collapse the city wall.
Under the blow of four 32-pound heavy artillery pieces, the east gate of Jinhai City's main fortress was shattered by one cannon, and the broken bricks and stones filled in the doorway also flew away; the east city wall was hit by ten times in a row.
A large section of the city wall began to collapse - the defenders blocked the gap with a wooden palisade. Several eight-pound light cannons deployed in front of the heavy artillery fired flatly at the gap in the city wall, immediately smashing the wooden palisade several feet wide into pieces, and together with the wooden palisade
After that, more than a hundred enemy troops were also beaten to pieces, with corpses lying on the ground, blood flowing in rivers, and people wailing.
The enemy dug a large cellar in the main fort, covered it with thick wood, hid the soldiers in it to avoid the shelling, and then repaired the city wall after the shelling. This was indeed an effective strategy for the defenders in the fort to avoid casualties during the shelling, but they
They were facing the elite soldiers of the Huaidong Army who were capable of both offense and defense, and whose offensive combat effectiveness was the highest in the world.
After the main base of Jinhai City had a gap that could be used for troops, as soon as the bombardment stopped, Denghai defended the city with hundreds of soldiers who dared to die. They stormed the gap in the city wall and suppressed the enemy troops who came to defend.
The four-pound light artillery was dragged directly onto the ruins of the collapsed city wall, and the artillery was used directly on the ruins to bombard the fortifications and defend the enemy.
The defenders then hid in cellars to avoid the bombardment, and the Huaidong Army's traditional fire and oil tank tactics were used to deal with them.
The first and third brigades of the Denghai Division are mainly composed of veterans from the Jinhai Navy. They have their pride in Jinhai, and they also have the painful memories of countless robes dying here. Facing the enemy soldiers who occupied the magpie nest, they were all on fire.
Strutting out of the hiding cellar wailing, Denghai Zhenshi's generals only gave them ruthless sharp knives and ruthless sharp arrows, and there was absolutely no trace of reluctance...
On the 28th, the entire main base was captured, and the first and third brigade of the Cenghai Division suffered 400 casualties and annihilated 3,000 enemy defenders; there were even unnecessary casualties in order to completely annihilate the enemy's soldiers.
Generals such as Ge Cunxin, Zhang Gou, and Chen Zhi, who were in charge of the Jinhai outpost war, clearly requested the siege generals before the war to ban the killing of barbarians and children. The large number of defenders and generals left in Jinhai City did not withdraw in advance.
Go, the war is developing so quickly, and there is not enough time for the defenders to evacuate the children. Although there is a ban, after the bad example of the generals being assassinated by the wives and children of barbarians, the ban is no longer strictly followed.
The Hulu furu who were born with knives and weapons on their bodies were shot to death on the spot, no matter what.
At this time, the 5th Brigade of Denghai Town Division, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Brigade of Zhang Gou's 1st Town Division of Fengli Division, and the 1st Brigade of He Zongliang's 3rd Town Division of Haidong Camping Army have also been completed.
After landing, the battle line quickly extended to the middle and north base of Tianjin Sea.
The South Fort, which is also located at the mouth of the Wushui River, was directly bombarded by the task force's broadsides and was reduced to rubble. When the 2,000 defenders landed at the third brigade of the Haidong Marching Camp Army, only 600 to 700 people were left who fled westward.
Mountain.
The middle and north bases of Jinhai City are both within the range of the navy's broadside guns. The dense artillery fire coverage and the heavy artillery bombardment of the city combined with the elite infantry brigade's strong breakthrough tactics made the enemy defenders unable to come up with countermeasures.
The fortress and the North Base were captured on the 29th.
Obviously, the defenders also realized that the number and firepower of the Huaidong Army's naval guns were far greater than the infantry battle guns carried by the infantry brigades.
Of the three brigades that Denghai Town Division has landed, only the 1st and 3rd brigades have crossbow battalions, and they are mainly based on highly maneuverable light artillery. The destructive power of light artillery on solid city walls is far less impressive than that of heavy artillery.
The west base is five miles away from the coastline, and the coast of Jinhai controlled by the Huaidong Army has no high ground where heavy artillery can be set up to increase the range. Between the west base and the coast are the remaining walls of the main and middle bases.
The broken wall blocked the firing angle of the artillery to a considerable extent. In addition, the middle base, north base and west base were too close to each other, with only three to five hundred steps in depth between them. It was not suitable to set up artillery directly, as it would be easy for the defenders to counterattack and break through -
-The enemy obviously recognized these characteristics, and from the 29th, they focused on strengthening the defense of the west base.
By the 29th, 30,000 cavalry troops set out from Jinan for reinforcements, 10,000 cavalry troops directly strengthened Yanjing's defense, and 20,000 cavalry troops followed Ye Jiduo Dy to the outskirts of Jinhai City.
The cavalry is not good at defending the city. The 20,000 cavalry are mainly deployed in the area west and north of Wangdengtai Mountain, which is far away from the coast. Yu uses the sharpness of the cavalry to suppress the Huaidong Army and land on the north and south wings of Jinhai City to encircle Jinhai City.
Ye Jiduo did not expect to defeat the Huaidong Army, which was so powerful at this time, on the battlefield. He only hoped to delay the war as much as possible. Even if he abandoned the capital at this time, he would have to destroy the hundreds of thousands of people, wives and children of Yanjing City.
Moving with the army was not something that could be accomplished in a day or two - after seeing that the west base could be defended, Ye Jiduo Dy even selected 3,000 dead soldiers from the incoming cavalry to strengthen the defense of the west base.
To Ye Jiduo's surprise, there were nearly a thousand craftsmen drawn directly from major mining areas in the labor camps accompanying the Huaidong Army.
In the past few years, Huaidong has made the southern iron production exceed 140 million kilograms, the coal output has exceeded 60 million baskets, and the iron ore mining volume has exceeded 8 million baskets. In addition to the rapid advancement of smelting technology
In addition, the technology of digging holes and tunnels was also unique in the world.
Before the war, the military had carefully considered seizing cities and territories in the north, especially in mountain cities and cottages where heavy artillery was difficult to transport. Digging tunnels and filling them with gunpowder to directly blow up the city walls was a very feasible tactic.
This tactic was first used on the west base of Jinhai City.
Eight hundred miners dug underground from the middle base, and it took only three days to dig the tunnel exactly to the east wall of the west base.
Thousands of kilograms of gunpowder, which Lin Fu thought was more powerful than the black gunpowder in his memory, was buried directly at the top of the tunnel and twisted with medicine. Except for the gap left at the point where the medicine was twisted, the rest was filled as much as possible to enhance the explosion.
power.
The traditional tunnel tactic is to dig directly through the city wall and send surprise troops to sneak through the tunnel to attack the heart of the enemy's fort. Even if the tactic is to dig a large hole under the city wall and then remove the supports to cause the wall to collapse, it still requires digging enough holes under the city wall.
It needs to be large and deep enough. This is obviously not a tactic that can be implemented in a short time.
Filling the tunnel with gunpowder to blow up the city wall was something the defenders had never thought of before. The moment the gunpowder was ignited, they saw the east wall of the west fortress of Jinhai being thrown like a jet in an instant by the earth-shattering explosion.
in the air.
Bricks, stones and mud fell one after another like rain; the explosion was so violent that the third brigade of Denghai Town Division, which was leading the bombing of the city, was caught off guard. As a result, four generals on the battlefield were hit by bricks and rocks and died needlessly.
Chen Zhi, who rushed to the battle to watch the battle, was not prepared to smash his left arm with a small piece of city brick, becoming the most injured general of the Huaidong Army on the battlefield at this point in the Northern Expedition——
The enemy defenders mainly gathered under the east city wall before the explosion, and the number of people gathered at the explosion point was extremely dense. Those enemy defenders who were thrown into the air were either dead, fainted or injured in mid-air, and as the masonry and mud blocks fell one after another,
Falling, there are the following dumplings - After the war, it was impossible to count how many enemy soldiers were killed directly during the bombing of the city, or fell to death, or were buried alive in the ruins of the city wall that fell back to the ground.
Those enemy defenders who would barely adapt to the heavy artillery bombardment were directly demoralized by such a strong explosion from the ground and fled - the defenders wanted to escape for their lives, but they were unable to escape in the west base.
There was no way for them to escape to heaven. When the Huaidong Army soldiers came in through the gap, they were just like helpless mice, fleeing in disorder, wanting to surrender, but the attacking Huaidong Army had no intention of attacking the fortress city.
Stop and kill as soon as you start, strike with bows and shields, chop with swords and stab with spears, hold the battle line until your hands are weak, switch to the brothers' battalion and attack forward in relays.
Ye Jiduo Di gathered nearly 10,000 defenders in West Base. Except for a few guards who escaped, the Huaidong Army finally counted less than 2,000 prisoners of war in West Base. In the Battle of West Base, the third brigade of Denghai Town Division,
The 5th Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the Fengli Army's 1st Town Division killed more than 7,800 defenders. However, they overkilled the enemy and did not take prisoners, which also caused the Huaidong Army's casualties in this battle to reach 800.
In addition to the 2nd and 4th brigades of the Denghai Division, the Chuzheng Division of the Fengli Army's 3rd Division, which boarded the ship from Haizhou, rushed directly to Jinhai to land in Tianjin without stopping.
The infantry brigades that landed at sea included the 1st and 3rd Fengli Army's 1st and 3rd Town Divisions, as well as two super-strength brigades of Dengzhou Town Division and Haidong Camping Army, with a total of 55,000 soldiers.
In addition to the 35,000-strong naval division including the 1st and 2nd task force ships and the 35,000-strong Jinghai First Town Division, there are also five brigades of nearly 15,000 engineering and supply troops that have landed in Jinhai.
At this time, west of Wang Deng's stage, Ye Jiduo still only had 20,000 remnant troops in his hands, and the total strength of the Yan enemy's troops guarding Yanjing was only 50,000.
Although the remaining troops under Ye Jiduo's control west of Wangdengtai Mountain were mainly elite cavalry, seeing the sharp siege force of the Huaidong Army and the nearly 20,000 Jinhai defenders had almost no chance of struggling.
How can they keep their military morale unshaken when they are destroyed in the fortress?
Even the brave soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles will be frightened at this moment, and they will also be panicked that the Huaidong Army cannot defeat them. What's more, the number of elite infantry brigade of the Huaidong Army that landed in Jinhai far exceeds them!
On May 5th, Lin Fu and the commander's headquarters boarded the land of Jinhai. Looking at the scorched earth of Jinhai that had been reduced to ruins, Lin Fu, Gao Zongting, Song Fu and others sighed: "Ten years are just a snap of the fingers!"
Gao Zongting thought to himself: It had been less than ten years since Lin Fu Chongguan's eleventh winter dive to Jinhai to confirm that salt and silver were enough to protect food. Who could have imagined that the changes in the mountains and rivers would be so earth-shaking in ten years?
Lin Fu saw the Goryeo prisoner Cui He among the crowd, summoned him and asked: "How do you and your father want the Goryeo war to end?"
He was captured from Hejin Island and escorted to Haeju. As a prisoner general, he was closely accompanied by Luo Wenhu. He accompanied the army to observe the Battle of Toengju, the Battle of Seizing the Island, and the current landing battle of Jinhai - Choi Hyuk only saw what he had done to Goryeo.
The Yanhu elite, who were regarded as invincible in the world, were crushed and annihilated by the Huaidong Army like a baby. Facing such a defiant Huaidong Army, not to mention the Cui family and his son, what choice did the entire Korean people have?