Being able to capture Liujing City in just a few days was not beyond Kang Gaozhi's expectations.
In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless. Even the remnants of King Hui built a large number of defense facilities in Liujing City, but what's the use? Under the bombardment of dozens of artillery,
It's of no use at all.
When the artillery completely suppressed the counterattack of the remnants of King Hui's troops, and then exploded, the infantry rushed to the top of the city, and then thousands of soldiers swarmed in and quickly controlled the walls on all sides.
After taking control of the city wall, they did not rush into the hinterland of the city, but began to advance gradually, occupying the main roads and important buildings.
At this time, the remnants of King Hui's army had actually collapsed.
Facing a situation of inevitable defeat, the remnants of King Hui's army had only resisted with their last breath, but after the city was broken, everyone knew that it was meaningless to continue to resist, even the generals.
Some were running away, some were surrendering, and no one continued to resist.
Kang Gaozhi told the troops not to rush into the city. He was just worried about unnecessary trouble. Anyway, Liujing City was a bigger place. As long as the four walls were occupied, the remaining Ming army defeated troops in the city would be a turtle in the urn.
I can't resist or resist.
Therefore, on the first day, the siege troops only controlled the four walls of the city and did not go deep into the city at all.
On this day, many defeated troops of the Ming army came out and surrendered one after another. The soldiers of the Tang Army did not give any difficulties to these surrendered soldiers. As long as they put down their weapons and obeyed the arrangements, there was basically no need to worry about their lives.
, this is the same regardless of whether they are senior generals, officials or ordinary soldiers of the Ming army.
The Army of the Tang Dynasty treated them equally, because in the eyes of Kang Gaozhi and others, these were all prisoners of war. Regardless of their status, they would all be incorporated into the reclamation camp, so it did not matter what their status was.
Not only the soldiers of King Hui's remnant army, but also the young Korean natives who had been recruited by King Hui's remnant army came out to surrender. They were all well accommodated, but they were not included with the Ming army Hui.
The remaining prisoners of the king's army were put together.
Because according to the plan, the prisoners of the Ming army will stay in the Koryo Peninsula for farming, but the Korean prisoners will be sent to the wild areas on the northeastern border for farming or other places. In short, they will not be allowed to stay on the Koryo Peninsula. Therefore,
Ming army prisoners and Goryeo prisoners were housed separately.
The wave of surrender in the city had been going on since the city was breached at noon that day, and reached a climax in the evening of that day. After a night, the 15th Infantry Division officially entered the city the next day, and
When they began to control important streets and buildings in the city, they basically did not encounter much resistance.
Because before they officially entered the city, they had basically taken in more than 15,000 prisoners. Tens of thousands of them were the remnants of King Hui, and the remaining 4,000 to 5,000 were native Goryeo people.
In addition, during the fighting that lasted for several days, the city's defenders also suffered thousands of casualties, so there were not many remaining soldiers left in the city at this time.
And most of them are hiding. These people are basically unwilling to surrender and become prisoners, but they are also unwilling to fight to the end. They just want to hide and wait until the war is over to regain their freedom. Well, to put it bluntly, it is actually
Become a deserter.
When entering the city, we did not encounter any large-scale resistance, but some minor resistance continued to occur, so the sound of gunfire also continued. When the Tang Army carried out purge operations in the city, it was basically useless.
How to follow the conventional combat mode?
They usually first attack a certain important connecting node with heavy troops, usually the main streets, and then station themselves there to divide the urban area, and then clear them one by one.
When encountering resistance, they will not foolishly engage in evenly matched hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. They will directly call nearby friendly forces to support the operation, and will also pull out shotguns and even field artillery.
Not to mention things like grenades. Nowadays, grenades have become an important close combat fire support weapon for the Tang Army.
It can be used when defending, and it can also be used when attacking at close range. Not only grenades can equip it, but also ordinary line infantry can actually equip grenades, but the number is not as many as those carried by grenadiers.
The distance is just not comparable.
Today's grenades of the Tang Army have undergone many improvements in terms of the projectile body. The weight has dropped a lot and can be carried more. They also use a wooden-handled projectile body to make it easier to throw. The fragment layout on the projectile body is also specially designed.
The power after the explosion is more impressive, but its firing method still uses the traditional match rope fuse.
There is no way, the technology these days is sluggish, and there are only a few ignition methods. For example, the matchlock gun is ignited directly with a match rope, and the flintlock gun equipped by the Tang Dynasty Army is ignited with flint. However, the latest model has not yet been equipped in large quantities and has only been used recently.
The grenades tested by the Guards Army use the high temperature generated by the propellant to ignite.
Others won't be figured out for a while.
Hand grenades use the ancient and traditional matchlock to ignite. In order to ensure smooth ignition of grenades, even though the Tang Army is phasing out matchlocks on a large scale, it still issues firelocks to soldiers.
The power of grenades was once again demonstrated in the Battle of Liujing City. Now the Tang Army is fighting, especially when fighting in urban areas. If they encounter an enemy hiding in a building to resist, they will not rush forward stupidly, but
Will you throw a grenade in first and then rush forward after it explodes?
Just kidding, I’m looking for death!
After the explosion, pull out a two-pound shotgun and fire a few shots at the building. The defense of these civilian buildings is not very good. Although the shotgun has no attack power, it can still penetrate thin walls and those wooden walls.
Kill and injure those inside.
Then the fusilier took aim, observed the situation, and saw someone firing!
It wasn't until there was no movement inside that I cautiously went in to see what was going on. What if there was still something going on? Throw another grenade and fire a few more shots. If that doesn't work, set fire!
Nowadays, buildings in East Asia generally use wood, with relatively little masonry. To deal with such buildings, artillery and grenades are very useful, and fire attacks are even more powerful weapons!
Several urban offensive and defensive battles between the Tang Army and the Ming Army basically destroyed the local city to pieces, not by artillery bombardment, but by fire!
The Tang Army would set fire to attack, and the Ming Army would also set fire to stop the Tang Army from attacking!
During the original Battle of Yangzhou, most of Yangzhou City was filled with thick smoke. After the battle, most of Yangzhou City was in ruins. Well, it was all burned down.
Since there are so many ways to deal with people in the building, naturally no one will rush in stupidly!
Of course, this is just a general situation. There are always some small accidents. Therefore, there were some casualties when we entered the city to clear the city, but they were not big. There were only dozens of people. This was two hundred casualties compared to yesterday's attack on the city.
There are far fewer people.
And in war, there are no undead people!
They killed an enemy force of more than 20,000 people and suffered only more than 300 casualties, which is already considered very good.
On the other hand, when the 4th Infantry Division entered Burma to pursue the remnants of the Ming army, it achieved absolutely no results. Instead, it suffered thousands of casualties.
Therefore, the few casualties did not affect Kang Gaozhi's good mood at all!
After the troops had completely cleared the city, Kang Gaozhi was relieved and rode into the city with a large number of his generals. There was no need to be so arrogant without worrying about being assassinated.
The Army of the Tang Dynasty was very skilled in cleaning up urban areas. They first controlled the main roads, then cleared out the remnant soldiers in large numbers, and then came to each building in one street, raising their guns when they saw men, and arresting young men when they saw them.
There is no need to worry about catching too many mistakes, because the permanent population of cities these days is very small. The permanent population of Liujing City before was only ten or twenty thousand at most. Excluding the old, weak, women and children, how many young people can there be here? Three to five
Thousands of people broke the sky.
But after the Tang Army cleaned up, more than 5,000 young men were arrested on the first day!
In the end, a total of 8,000 people were captured. In other words, at least half of them were defeated troops!
Arrest them first and question them first. Needless to say, those who cannot speak the indigenous language are all the remnants of King Hui's army.
Even if they can tell, it is possible that they were young men recruited by King Hui. However, these people said they were young men recruited by King Hui, but in fact they were part of King Hui's remnants. After all, they had previously participated in resisting the Tang army's attack.
Where is the city?
Therefore, during the selection of local commanders, those who do not live in Liujing City and have no acquaintances to lead them, needless to say, must be the remaining local soldiers of King Hui.
Even those who live in Liujing may have joined the remnants of King Hui's army, even if they were forced to do so.
But at that time, it was basically not easy to distinguish. Later, the simplest method was used. The younger and older natives of the city were released. As for those who were just the right age and had reasonably good physical fitness, they could be pulled in at a glance.
Those who serve as cannon fodder soldiers are also treated as prisoners.
Anyway, Kang Gaozhi didn't plan to do anything to these indigenous captives. He just sent them to the wilderness of the Northeast for farming and would not kill them.
After this cleanup work, there were basically no young and strong men left in the city. They were all old, weak, women and children. Kang Gaozhi felt very relieved about this!
This kind of Ryugyong City is a good Ryugyong City, and only then can he ride in with confidence!
After capturing Ryugyong City, it basically declared that the Koryo Peninsula was militarily unable to stop the Tang Army from sweeping across. Kang Gaozhi then directly took command of Ryugyong City and sent troops in three groups to sweep across other small towns on the peninsula.
city.
At this time, he also made contact with the landing troops in Seoul!
Through the messenger, Kang Gaozhi learned that the navy's landing operation was earlier than when he launched the attack. However, the place where they first landed was not Seoul, but Ganghwa Island. After landing on Ganghwa Island, they
This island, which is only one kilometer away from the mainland, serves as a transit point before launching a large-scale landing operation.
And their combat operations were even smoother than Kang Gaozhi's, and they captured Seoul on the day of the large-scale landing.
There is no way, because there are not many troops to defend Seoul now, there are only a few hundred remnants of King Hui and thousands of indigenous soldiers, and the landing force has more than 2,000 soldiers.
This is nothing. What's more important is that the first batch of troops to land are the Marine Corps. The generals of the Navy are very concerned about the safety of their own troops after landing.
When landing, they directly took the risk and sailed a frigate to the shore to provide fire support.
Then, they sailed two armed merchant ships into the Han River. These small merchant ships of more than 300 tons were temporarily modified by the navy specifically for this landing operation. Everything else was not good, except for the artillery.
many!
Since there are so many artillery pieces packed on top, the firepower is comparable to that of a cruiser, and the number of artillery pieces equipped inside is even more than that of the Navy's first 450-ton cruiser, a total of thirty-six.
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There are several forty-eight-pound howitzers, and the long-barreled naval guns are mainly nine-pound naval guns. In addition, there are also fourteen-pound naval guns.
Speaking of firepower alone, this is the firepower configuration of a serious cruiser.
However, the only advantage left is the powerful firepower. Due to the center of gravity problem, the artillery on the upper deck must be strictly fixed during the voyage, otherwise it will capsize due to the unstable center of gravity in the slightly larger wind and waves.
To put it bluntly, this thing is actually a temporary modification, a one-time use. After the battle, the two merchant ships will be restored to their original state, and the cannons on them will be removed again.
In addition to these two specially modified armed merchant ships, two 150-ton offshore patrol ships also broke into the Han River.
The offshore patrol ships of the Imperial Navy of the Tang Dynasty have shallow drafts, small ships, and are relatively flexible, so they can not only sail in coastal waters, but can also sail on some large rivers.
In addition to using offshore patrol ships to carry out offshore patrol missions locally, such patrol ships can also be seen in river basins such as the Yangtze River and the Pearl River.
Well, when necessary, they can also reluctantly carry out long voyages. For example, the offshore patrol ships currently stationed in Luzon or Ryukyu Prefecture basically go from the mainland.
Although the firepower is not very good, its low cost and wide range of uses also make the Datang Navy have a special liking for this type of ship, and orders are added every year!
At present, there are more than 30 patrol ships in various fleets of the Navy that have been put into service, or have been completed and launched. There are more than 30 patrol ships that are about to be put into service, and there are more than 20 patrol ships on the slipway that are under construction or are being prepared for construction.
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According to the plan of the Tang Navy, they will need at least fifty patrol ships to serve within three years!
But this is not the end. The Navy's long-term plan is to build a hundred and eighty patrol ships. Therefore, it will not take long for the number of such patrol ships to exceed one hundred. It is estimated that it will only be three to five years.
Of course, although this kind of ship is easy to build, even a private shipyard can build it according to the design drawings. It has a wide range of uses. It can patrol offshore, patrol rivers and lakes, and can even go to distant seas when necessary. It can also perform a variety of tasks.
mission, but weak firepower is still a fatal weakness.
If it encounters an enemy's medium or large warship, it will be beaten into pieces!
But then again, this thing is not used for fleet battles at all. If the enemy needs to use medium and large warships to deal with them, it means that the Tang Navy will make a lot of money!