On May 14, the news that Dong Hu changed his country's name to "Dayan" and his era name to "Tianming" reached Jinhai. In the official Tangchao Post of the Yue Dynasty, Dong Hu was also called "Pseudo Yan" or "Pseudo Yan".
"Yan Hu" was used to reveal his ambition to succeed the former Yan Zhengshuo.
At the same time, the Donghu people's vanguard, Jingqi, pushed into Wangdentai Mountain from the south bank of the Wushui River, and began to compete with the Jinhai defenders for Wangdentai Mountain, the only high ground outside Jinhai.
There are more than a thousand elite riders on the left and right sides of the Donghu people, all of whom are skilled in bows and horses. They have scimitars and bows, and are astride horses and armor. Suddenly they gather together, like big arrows that pierce the sky and split the earth; suddenly they spread out and spread out for several miles, like dark clouds covering the water, like dragonflies touching the water.
Come and challenge the flanks of the Jinhai garrison's infantry and cavalry array.
The infantry of the Jinhai garrison had strong bows, but the inner line was retracted and could not be deployed. The cavalry on both wings were also lightly armored.
The Donghu cavalry avoided the front and only made tentative contact with the flanks. At first, both sides used bows and crossbows to shoot at each other. The flying arrows were like a torrential rain, and they seemed to be flying through the air like a swarm of locusts, making dense and sharp sounds.
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The cavalrymen on horseback were all wearing armor to protect their vital points. Occasionally, those who fell off their horses were often rescued by Pao Ze. However, the horses were hit by arrows and their blood gushed out. No one knows how many horses were damaged in every battle... The empty arrows stuck on the ground again,
Just like the wheat stubble has just been cut.
Both sides are brave and brave. They can't stand their temper. They rein in their horses and draw their swords to fight. They often hit each other with one blow. The swords collide with each other and flashes of lightning. If you slow down your hands slightly, you may be able to see the moment when your head is separated from the body.
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The battle for Wangdengtai Mountain was a tentative contact battle for both sides, but from the beginning they were unwilling to admit defeat and it went on quite fiercely. In the wild fields with green grass growing
, stained with blood, trampled by horse hooves, and accidentally kicked out a broken arm and limb. In every battle, almost a hundred old soldiers on both sides died, were injured or disabled.
The Donghu people intercepted the Wushui River in the upper reaches. The water depth of the Wushui River on the north side of Wangdengtai Mountain was less than three feet. The warships stationed in Jinhai were forced to withdraw from the Wushui River, and the defenders could only rely on foot and cavalry to fight in depth.
Seeing that the Donghu soldiers and horses were fighting more and more, the defenders could not withstand such consumption, especially the horses. In just two days, more than 400 horses were lost - Donghu had many people and horses, so the loss of 4,000 horses might be distressing, but
The defenders in Jinhai only had 3,000 horses, and lost more than 400 horses. The cavalry could not even reach the level of one man and one horse. How could such a war of attrition continue without restrictions on the production of the defenders?
On the 16th, the defenders were forced to abandon Wangdentai Mountain and retreat to the inner defense.
While the Tianjin Navy was shrinking to the inner line, Wu Qi and Zhou Pu led the Huaidong Cavalry Battalion to jump out of the encirclement and walk south along the coastline. If the cavalry is blocked on the inner line, the role it can play will be very limited, and it is far less effective than freeing.
On the periphery, it can more firmly prevent the enemy from attacking the city... As long as the Donghu people cannot completely block the coastline, the cavalry and Jinhai City can maintain contact at any time through sentry ships and coordinate operations.
After the elite vanguards of the Donghu people captured Wangdentai Mountain on the 16th, they began to repair the half-destroyed sentry fort. With the sentry fort as the core, they built large-scale camps along Wangdentai Mountain. The Donghu people then followed up with troops one by one.
Moving forward one after another, the total number of Donghu soldiers and horses in Wang Dengtai Mountain camp soon exceeded that of the Jinhai defenders.
The troops and horses gathered by the Donghu people on the outskirts of Jinhai were mainly composed of newly attached Han troops, but there were more than 10,000 elite cavalry among them. Zhou Pu and Wu Ji led the Huaidong cavalry battalion to jump out of the outskirts, and the defenders of Jinhai moved with infantry.
As a pawn, he was naturally suppressed and unable to get ahead in the paint.
The Donghu people obviously learned from the failure of the Yangxin siege battle. This time when they came to Jinhai, they did not rush to attack the city, but adopted a layer-by-layer strategy of advancing.
After a large number of soldiers and horses filled the Wangdentai Mountain camp, the Donghu people did not immediately attack the cities outside Jinhai. Instead, they calmly drove a large number of people captured from Yanji and other places to take soil and fill the river on the northeast side of Wangdentai Mountain.
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In just one day, the second water interception dam across the Woshui River was built ten miles away from the river mouth, and the enemy tower walled city outside Wangdengtai Mountain Camp was built along both sides of the water interception dam.
The water mill strategy completely blocked the Jinhai defenders on the inside.
Although the Donghu people built a water interception dam slightly upstream, because the terrain of the river mouth is slightly lower than the sea level, there is still about two feet of water in the waterway at the mouth of the river at low tide. This water depth is not enough for warships to enter, but it is
It also forms natural obstacles on the north and south banks of the Uishui River.
The Jinhai defense system consists of seven fortresses, six of which are located on the north bank of the Wushui River. There is only a small town with a height of three hundred feet on the south bank. This has caused an imbalance in the deployment of troops by the Jinhai defenders on the north and south sides. The Donghu people
The siege camp was built on the south bank. In addition to taking advantage of the terrain of Wangdengtai Mountain, it was more about creating a tit-for-tat deployment of actual and actual troops.
After the Donghu soldiers and horses established their position at Wangdengtai Mountain, it was difficult for the Jinhai defenders to carry out an effective counterattack and fell into passive defense from the beginning.
The Donghu people built the nearest enemy tower three or four miles away from Nanzhai, and then drove their soldiers to attack Nanzhai. The soldiers and horses were spread out, and black banners were like a forest. Simple and simple horses were hurriedly put together, and they were thrown to block the gates and roads.
Horns, gongs, drums and war horses kept neighing.
Although there was some bluffing, they relied on the strength of their numbers to defeat the counterattacks of the Nanzhai defenders time and time again. Behind the scenes, there were groups of civilians who had been captured and enlisted in the army, digging trenches and fortifications, and digging and surrounding the village.
A long trench was built, and earth and timber were piled outside the trench to build a parapet for archery and conflict prevention.
An ordinary offensive and defensive battle involves the attacker filling trenches and the defender digging trenches.
The Donghu people who attacked this time wanted to give up their plan to attack the city hastily. From the beginning, they wanted to dig long trenches and build parapets to block the Nanzhai inside, and then plan to attack the city. The Tianjin Navy was deeply influenced by Huaidong, and Huaidong
The idea of defending a city is to defend within a flanking attack, and to defend within a hidden attack. Unless it is absolutely necessary, we will not give up our efforts to counterattack and fall into a passive defense of the city.
In this offensive and defensive battle, the attackers dug trenches, while the defenders went out to fill trenches and level trenches in order to maintain channels for external counterattacks.
Both the attacking and defending sides were brave soldiers who were not afraid of death. The battle of filling and digging trenches was carried out fiercely and fiercely from the beginning. When the fighting started, the brave generals on both sides wore armor and held swords.
The battlefield was fierce and stalemate for two days. After the Donghu people set up more than ten stone-throwing giant crossbows behind the formation, the defenders were forced to give up their efforts to counterattack from Nanzhai.
After leaving Nanzhai City, on a battlefield more than two miles wide, there were broken limbs and arms, countless scattered horses and chariots, broken swords and broken halberds, and arrows like insect corpses - Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian and others who were watching the battle at the top of the city could see this.
They were dazzled and frightened; Gao Zongting, Sun Shangwang, Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang, Geng Quanshan and others, who knew the depth of the war, secretly complained in their hearts when they saw it.
In order to compete for the initiative in the attack, the casualties increased by more than a thousand in the first three or four days of the war. The 20,000 defenders of the Tianjin Navy could not withstand the consumption for a long time. However, they gave up the competition for the initiative and allowed the Donghu people to calmly deploy on the periphery.
In the later stage, the Jinhai defenders will fall into a more fierce offensive and defensive tug-of-war.
When the Donghu people fought for control of Wangdengtai Mountain in the early stage, they still used the Hu cavalry as the main force. However, in the later stage when the troops came to the stronghold, they used the newly attached Han army as the main force.
Those newly surrendered troops were easily killed when they attacked a Donghu pustule. Now they were ordered to turn their guns and attack Jinhai. They were actually very hardworking and fearless of death - they didn't know how to eat.
What medicine.
"Continuing to fight like this is not an option," Sun Shangwang said to Lin Xuwen, "Even if we passively defend the city, we must protect Jinhai's strength from serious damage!"
Ma Yigong and Yang Yihang are not afraid of tough battles, but there are tens of thousands of vassal troops outside the city. If they continue to fight like this, they will not be able to consume the elite of the Donghu people, but the Tianjin Navy will soon be the first to be able to support them.
Gao Zongting frowned and accompanied Lin Xuwen to stand at the top of Nanzhai City, looking at the enemy troops on the outside. This meant that he had underestimated the Donghu people's determination and methods to attack Jinhai before. He really didn't know who the Donghu people's leader this time was, and what the methods were.
So seasoned and steady.
Seeing that Nanzhai was about to be completely blocked, Yang Yihang, who was in charge of the defense of Wushui Henanzhai, looked unhappy.
Although even if we give up the effort of leaving the city to fight back and allow the enemy troops to blockade and deploy on the periphery, according to the actions of the Donghu people, it will take almost a month until they are fully deployed before organizing an siege, but a complete blockade will be carried out.
Doing nothing inside made him feel very useless.
"Looking at their movements, it seems that they are similar to the Battle of Hecheng the year before last. The Donghu people are also imitating Huaidong!" Sun Shangwang sighed slightly.
After the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels captured Hecheng, Huaidong organized a counterattack and adopted a strategy of first completely blocking and then focusing on breakthroughs. No one from Jinhai participated in the Battle of Hecheng that year, but they studied the Battle of Hecheng in detail
examples of battles.
Those who are able can see the whole picture at a glance. Looking at the deployment of the Donghu people in the first few days, it is not difficult to guess their overall strategy for besieging Jinhai.
The more urgent and hasty the Donghu people attack, the more opportunities the Jinhai defenders have to counterattack; the more conservative the Donghu people attack, although the most cruel and fierce offensive and defensive battle will be delayed, but it also means that they can only take advantage of the attack.
The city is trapped and nothing else can be done. The longer the delay, the more prepared the attackers will be, and the defenders will become more passive, the war will be more brutal, and the city will be more difficult to defend.
The Donghu people have used large-scale equipment such as sling crossbows on a large scale in the siege, which is not even good news. From the Donghu people's accurate use of the terrain of the Woshui River from the beginning, we can know that the Donghu people are responsible for attacking Tianjin this time.
Hai's coach is a very capable, thoughtful, and knowledgeable man in military affairs. People are worried that he will use more vicious methods in the future to catch people off guard.
Sun Shangwang and others did not realize that the Khan King Yejier of the Donghu people would personally come to supervise the battle. This may be an important factor in the extraordinarily fierce fighting of the newly attached Han army.
"The Donghu people may have the intention to consolidate and surrender their vassal troops by besieging Jinhai..." Gao Zongting looked at the dense jungle-like flags of the Donghu people under the clear sky in the distance. Over the past few days, the number of troops and horses gathered by the Donghu people on the periphery has only increased.
The strength of the troops has far exceeded that of the defenders, and there are strong signs that all surrendered troops and horses will be transferred to Jinhai to participate in the siege.
Before the war, the number of newly attached Han troops compiled by the Donghu people was sixty to seventy thousand. The winter war has continued until now, and the total number of troops surrendered by Jizhen and Datong is at least one hundred thousand.
If it is true as Gao Zongting said, the Donghu people completely blocked Jinhai on the inner line, and then transferred all the newly attached Han troops and surrendered troops to the outside of Jinhai for integration... Lin Xuwen frowned, and then he realized that he originally wanted to defend
Jinhai is more or less a fantasy.
Judging from the ability and means of the Donghu people's commander to mobilize the newly attached Han troops to participate in the battle in the past three or four days, the Donghu people, in addition to mobilizing elite cavalry to sit in the center, are likely to eventually mobilize hundreds of thousands of newly attached Han troops to continue the battle.
Attack Jinhai City.
Obviously, the Donghu people have controlled Yanji, Jinjun and other prefectures and counties, and they cannot easily withdraw from the pass. If the Donghu people do not retreat, Jinhai will be the nail that they must pull out - even if there are thirty or forty
With tens of thousands of people participating in the defense of Jinhai, how sure are they of being able to defend it?
Thinking of this, Lin Xuwen had completely given up on holding on to Jinhai, and thought to himself: As long as the 300,000 to 400,000 refugees in the city are evacuated, he has fulfilled his duty.
Of course, if they can drag Jinhai until Yanjing falls before giving up, no one in the world can blame them for not fulfilling their duties as courtiers.
Sun Shangwang asked: "Should we send someone to contact Master Wu and Master Baozi, and send someone to sneak into the capital to report the situation here?"
Gao Zongting looked at Lin Xuwen and said: "Please arrange it with Mr. Lin - no matter what the cost, we must let Beijing know about the situation here. Jinhai is no longer a good direction for Yanjing to break out. According to the Donghu people in Tianjin
The deployment outside the sea is probably to use Jinhai as a trap to lure Yanjing to break out here."
The Donghu people mobilized the newly attached Han troops and the captured troops here to participate in the attack on Jinhai, which means that there will be no infantry to encircle Yanjing - Yanjing will definitely try to break out before the food is exhausted.
Although Gyeonggi is close to the Jinhai Sea, when the outer perimeter is blocked and the enemy's situation cannot be accurately judged, the breakout troops are most likely to head towards the Jinhai Sea.
When the breakout troops march day and night to the outskirts of Jinhai and find that the Donghu people have an unexpected number of intercepting troops on the outskirts of Jinhai, they will fall into a desperate situation with no way forward and no way to retreat. Then the Donghu will be left in the wild.
The cavalry was routed and then strangled.
After being reminded by Gao Zongting, Ma Yigong, Yang Yihang and others all realized something and secretly thought: The Donghu people's methods are really ruthless, and they will definitely try their best to lure the Yanjing soldiers and horses to break out in the direction of Jinhai and annihilate them in the wild. The only way is
Only by sending someone to sneak into the capital to report the situation here can Yanjing's troops be prepared for a breakout.
Lin Xuwen frowned and asked, "Even if we spread the news at all costs, will Yanjing accept it?"
Once upon a time, Yanjing was extremely looking forward to the Huaidong Army landing from the Tianjin Sea and supporting Yanjing from the east to support King Qin. However, Huaidong pretended to be King Qin in order to attack the east and attack the west. Jiangning was forced to acquiesce due to the situation, but after Yanjing knew
After the truth of the matter came to light, everyone from the palace and the temple to the traders and footmen in the streets denounced Lin Fu and the people in Huaidong as traitors and traitors.
Even if Yanjing finally chose to remain silent on this matter and did not send out an imperial edict to accuse him - perhaps knowing that the edict to accuse him would be withheld once it reached Jinhai - Yanjing's attitude towards Jinhai would never be the same.
The high hopes before have turned into hatred and wariness.
Although Yanjing may eventually be forced to break out in the direction of Jinhai due to the situation, it is difficult for Yanjing to accept the news from Tianjin without reservation.