(The fourth update is here, it’s a new day, how powerful can a red ticket be?)
A red sun jumps out from the sea level, as if it has been washed by the clear sea water. It is bright red and reflects the sea water and floating clouds between the sea and the sky in a magnificent and colorful manner.
She Feihu was wearing bright light armor and standing on the cliff of the southwestern beach of Changshan Island with a knife in his hand. The north wall of the Cape Fort guarding the entrance of Nantan Bay behind him collapsed, revealing mottled bloodstains and broken limbs that had not been cleaned up.
The arm makes people think of the bloodshed and cruelty of the war at dusk yesterday.
She Feihu led the main force of the northern line to the southwest beach of Changshan Island yesterday when the sun was falling. While pretending to surrender, he bypassed the blockade of the Cape Fort, sent a small boat to clear the obstacles on the southwest beach, and detoured to the southwest beach to land with an absolute advantage.
The troops cut off the connection between the headland camp and the main island.
It was originally thought that the enemy on Changshan Island would withdraw the warships, and the remnants of the enemy who stayed on the island would not be too determined. However, the previous attempts to surrender were fruitless, so She Feihu had no intention of trying to persuade him to surrender. Besides, based on the past,
The reconnaissance of Changshan Island revealed that although the enemy on Changshan Island was unruly, they only had five or six hundred capable soldiers. After clearing the obstacles on the southwest beach, She Feihu directly mobilized two thousand elites ashore and launched
Capture of the Cape Camp on the Southwest Beach.
Changshan Island has two forts built on the south cliff and the southwest beach promontory.
Nanya Yingbao faces the sea on one side and cliffs on both sides. Although the cliffs are not steep, they are surrounded by dense virgin forests. There is only a trail connected to the southwest beach, and She Feihu does not dare to send troops in for trade.
While sending scouts to search the entire island, She Feihu sent a team of soldiers to form a formation outside the forest to guard against the surprise attack on the island. In addition, he concentrated his forces to attack the Cape Fort on the southwest beach first.
She Feihu landed with an overwhelming force, and the island soldiers in the Nanya Camp Fortress did not dare to fight. However, the strength of the Southwest Beach Cape Fort made the island invaders suffer enough.
The Cape of Southwest Beach is a long and narrow peninsula that extends into the shallow sea about 400 steps deep. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides. Except for the beach on the west side, which is deep enough for warships to directly approach it, the other two sides are shallow beaches lined with rocks. Only the
The northeast side connects with the island and the mainland, forming a long and narrow channel.
The land passage is about 3670 steps deep, but only 300 to 50 paces wide. It also creates artificial obstacles such as pits and trenches, which brings great trouble to the troops sent to attack from the land passage.
She Feihu also brought several catapults to the sea, but the lever-type catapult crossbow made by the She family required twenty or thirty people to pull up the leather rope and exert force together to hit the target three to four hundred steps away.
No matter how big a sea ship is, it cannot set up this kind of catapult. It can only set up the position in the northeast corner of the head fort to fire stone projectiles.
The northeast wall of the Cape Fort was hit by dozens of stone bullets in two hours. All six catapults were useless, and only some branch-like cracks appeared on the wall.
She Feihu did not have the patience and time to cut down trees and rebuild the sling crossbow. He sent soldiers to carry arrows, forcibly charged in, filled up traps, protected trenches, crashed huge trees and pushed them under the fort. With huge casualties, he continuously attacked the fort at close range.
wall.
After nearly 300 casualties, the north wall of the Cape Fort was collapsed just after midnight, forcing the remaining soldiers to abandon the fort and borrow a rope ladder from the east end to go down to the sea and flee eastward on the reef beach.
Although the casualties were greater than expected, and they were not able to wipe out all the troops on the Cape Fort island, it was still smooth. The next step was to clear the peripheral obstacles and strive to advance to the Nanya Camp Fort before dark.
Standing in the morning light, She Feihu silently estimated in his heart that the war here could be ended before sunset tomorrow, and it would not be too late in terms of time.
After all, the defense of Daheng Island is somewhat empty. It is uncertain when the Jiangdong Left Army will go out to sea to peep at the reality of Daheng Island. It is also necessary to mobilize troops to prevent Jiangdong Left Army from intervening in the war in eastern Zhejiang.
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Qin Zitan walked to the broken wall of the Cape Castle and stopped.
Half of the north wall of the Cape Fort was collapsed, but the whole was still intact. Thinking of the hard work of attacking the fort last night, Qin Zitan also felt that the fort was too strong, so he casually picked up a broken wall fragment on the ground and twisted it.
He was guarding She Feihu last night. However, She Feihu was very forward when commanding the battle. Qin Zitan accidentally scratched his cheek with a sharp arrow, which missed his face by half an inch. He was frightened at that time.
Breaking out in a cold sweat.
After losing a lot of blood and feeling very tired, Qin Zitan went to rest after capturing Cape Fort late at night. Only then did he wake up and rush over to She Feihu to discuss the details of the attack on Nanya Camp during the day.
"What are you looking at?" She Feihu asked in a loud voice when he saw Qin Zitan looking at the broken wall in a daze.
"There are trees, rocky mountains, and sand on Changshan Island, but it does not produce lime or coal." Qin Zitan spread out the fragments of the Cape Fort to She Feihu and said, "When we came over, we took a rough look at the Cape.
Shiying Fort is made of rammed earth, but we suffered enough during the attack. Look at this, our suffering was not in vain!"
"..." She Feihu also frowned. He was famous for being good at fighting when he was young, and he was by no means an idiot.
Although there was some confusion last night, Qin Zitan reminded me that there are many doubts about this Cape Fort.
"Look at the slag, look at the color. It's not fine sand, it's coal slag, as well as lime, walnut vine juice and glutinous rice juice..." Qin Zitan felt a chill running down his spine, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.
, "Fortunately, the space on this promontory is limited, so the rammed earth wall is not thick enough. If the wall were twice as thick, it would take us three or four times more time to collapse the wall!"
"Second Young Master, Changshan Island is probably a trap!" Qin Zitan said.
"Do you suspect that Changshan Island has secretly attached itself to the Jiangdong Left Army?" She Feihu asked.
"Before I came here, I thought this possibility was very slim," Qin Zitan said, "but this explanation doesn't make sense!"
For ordinary pirates, when they occupy an island as a stronghold and build a lair, most of them will adapt to local conditions, use local materials, and build as solidly as possible. How can it be possible to go through a lot of trouble to transport a large amount of lime, carboniferous slag, etc. from the land and mix it in
Building a fort in rammed earth?
Why was the headland fort at Qingshi Bay on Daheng Island so easily destroyed by the Jiangdong Left Army? The main reason was that although it was convenient to build a fort using local materials, it was not strong enough and could withstand crossbows, but not stone crossbows.
It would not be surprising if the Changshan Islanders built forts with rammed earth or stones - it is easier to get lime, coal slag, and glutinous rice, but it is difficult to collect walnut vines. Usually only walnut vines can be found in Jiangdong.
Bridges are used for building palaces and temples, but they are not easily obtained by ordinary pirates.
In addition, how can ordinary pirates know the proportions of materials that are only used in building bridges, mausoleums, and palaces?
Even though it has not been confirmed yet, the thought of this possibility makes She Feihu's heart sting and his whole body shivers. He is never willing to admit that he is weaker than the swineherd.
Qin Zitan was still calm and ordered the guards around him: "Go and inform General Cheng quickly and tell him to be careful of enemies coming from the west!"
She Feihu stood there like a statue without moving for dozens of breaths, and then fiercely inserted the sheath of the knife in his palm into the wall, stirring up pieces like gravel. With his huge strength, he could only
He smashed out a shallow pit, which showed the strength of the headland fort. She Feihu said angrily: "Even if it is a trap set by a swineherd, I will blast this trap into dust! Tell the generals to come over and discuss the matter!"
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Seeing the look on She Feihu's face, as if he still insisted on attacking Changshan Island, Qin Zitan turned pale with horror and advised: "We haven't seen the Jiangdong Zuojun boat division coming from the west. They will definitely attack Daheng Island with no defense. The top priority is
Go back to Normal University Hengdao!"
"If it's a trap, there was a north wind last night, and the Jiangdong Left Army's naval division should also rush to Daheng Island before dawn. At this time, the wind direction is not favorable to our division, and it will take day and night to reach it," She Feihu gritted his teeth and said, "Su Tingzhan can
If we hold on for one day and night, we can survive for another three to five days. If we cannot hold on, if we rush back, we will give the Jiangdong Left Army's boat division a head-on attack!"
"Daheng Island is related to the overall situation of eastern Zhejiang, and there is no room for failure," Qin Zitan advised. "Daheng Island is more than 20 miles away. Jiangdong's left army rushed to attack the island, and it was impossible to deploy defenders on the entire island in time.
, as long as our army can land and establish a foothold in one place, we can drag the Jiangdong Left Army on Daheng Island, and wait for the eldest son to withdraw from the battle situation in eastern Zhejiang and march north to fight a decisive battle with the Jiangdong Left Army..."
"Then there are only three or two days before I can seize Changshan Island!" She Feihu said decisively.
"Since the Second Young Master can't let go of the northern front, then please lead the Second Young Master to attack Hecheng, join the Hecheng defenders, and go straight to the base of the Jiangdong Left Army!" Qin Zitan suggested. Join the Hecheng defenders and there will be seven
Eight thousand elite troops were enough to sweep through Chongzhou, forcing Lin Fu to lead his main force back to defend the base camp.
"Lin Fu built a fortification outside Hecheng, stationed elite infantry camps, and had a cavalry camp peeking on one side. Can he suddenly get it?" She Feihu asked, "Do you suspect that Lin Fu has hidden elites on Changshan Island?
If this is the case, if Lin Fu leads the main force to attack our flank and rear, and joins forces with the ambushes on Changshan Island to attack our division, we can achieve a great victory without risking any losses in Chongzhou. Wouldn't it be better than attacking Daheng Island?"
With the strength of the Jiangdong Left Army, it is simply impossible to deploy solid troops in all three places: the attack on Daheng Island must be real, and one place on Chongzhou and Changshan Island must be false. Which one is false?
Qin Zitan asked She Feihu and was stunned, unable to answer for a while.
If there was really an ambush on Changshan Island, and Lin Fu led the main force of Jiangdong Zuojun's boat division to attack them last night, and at the same time all the ambush troops on the island were released, they would definitely be defeated!
Although Qin Zitan had an intuition that Lin Fu might have a large number of elites hiding on Changshan Island, but who would give up the victory of defeating five or six thousand enemies and at the same time expose the defenseless base camp to the eyes and noses of the enemy? He suddenly
I feel like I have never seen through Lin Bie!
Although She Feihu advocated continuing to attack Changshan Island, Qin Zitan still had lingering fears and insisted that She Feihu summon all the generals to discuss together and fulfill the duty of a counselor to advise the leader. If the attack on the island is unfavorable and he changes his strategy, the situation will become dire.
In an even more unfavorable situation, even if it is delayed for just one day, all the initiative may be taken away by the Jiangdong Left Army.