Since the Battle of Fuyang, seven people under Lu Shizhen's command were killed, and dozens were injured. And the number of rebels who died under their hands was no less than one or two thousand.
This is a fundamentally asymmetrical battle.
The siege started today, and the Han army only had injured soldiers, but no one died yet.
For Lu Shizhen, who had participated in the tragic bloody battle of Shangluo, this battle was too boring. As soon as the Han army's musketeers moved forward, the enemy completely collapsed, causing the other generals to be very dissatisfied.
Everyone was very reluctant to retreat from the north to Jiangling to rest and change defenses. They thought that after being mobilized all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, they could finally show off their talents. However, it turned out that the enemy facing them was such an enemy who could not even be called a rookie.
What's good to fight?
After comforting the unlucky guy who was standing in the military formation and was shot in the arm by a blind arrow, almost all the offensive operations were rounded up by the generals below. Lu Shizhen was also happy to train these generals who lacked the experience of independent command operations, so
On the contrary, he himself was free and had nothing to do. Looking at the situation, Lu Shizhen decisively ordered:
"Prepare to attack the city!"
As the drums of the Chinese army sounded, the navy's flat-bottomed clippers on the Lanting water not far away had already turned their bows. The long-range trebuchets on the ship would be responsible for ejecting the cupping cans as the main strike weapon. This time, Lu Shizhen's troops
We also came lightly packed, and the trebuchets and other large equipment were left behind, so we had to rely on the navy.
When they went north to fight, the Army was comfortable eating meat, but the Navy was the most aggrieved. It couldn't let the Navy never find opportunities to make contributions. Lu Shizhen didn't dare to commit the crime of instigating relations between the troops and creating conflicts. And in the future.
If the land division wanted to attack northward along the Huai River and the Great River, or even directly across the sea, it would need the help of the naval division.
Lanting River is named after the Orchid Pavilion at the foot of Kuaiji Mountain. The water is clear and shallow. It was originally a place where literati and poets went to drink wine and meet friends with poems. However, at this time, the river was already full of navy warships. With the depth of Lanting River, the water
Naturally, the division's large ships cannot be squeezed in, let alone the five-toothed warships. Therefore, the main warships of the navy are still on the Fuchun River. Those entering the Lanting River are specially designed by the Ministry of Industry to deal with the rapid and rapid currents in the south.
A flat-bottomed speed boat designed for shallow water depths.
Of course, this is not the product of the Ministry of Industry's temporary preparation for the turmoil in the southern family. When Li Xun entered Lingnan, in order to deal with the water conditions in Lingqu, Li River and other places, this flat-bottomed clipper served as a detection and path forward.
And ships for fire support have already appeared.
There is a bed crossbow or trebuchet installed on the ship. Although it is far less powerful than the tower ship, the ship is also very small. With hundreds or thousands of these fast ships put together, it may be difficult to fight against the big ship, but the effect of fire support is
Naturally it's good.
So much so that Li Xingchen couldn't help but lament that the concepts of shallow-water heavy gunships and mosquito ships in later generations were actually born in this era.
As the drum beat rapidly, the trebuchets on the flat-bottomed speedboat roared at the same time.
The thrown fire pots drew red curves in the sky and landed heavily on the top of Kuaiji City. The flat-bottomed clipper equipped with a bed crossbow braved the arrows shot from the top of the city and landed directly on the city.
Rush towards the confluence of the moat and Lanting water, where you can shoot at the city head from a closer distance.
The navy, who had been frustrated for too long, used all his strength.
Cupping jars continued to explode on the top of the city, and in conjunction with the cupping jars, there were Han army musketeers and crossbowmen on the ground.
The musketeers suppressed the enemy crossbowmen at the top of the city, while the Han army's own crossbowmen were responsible for shooting the lit fire arrows into the city. There was originally a lot of kerosene in the cupping jars, but now they were all
The fire arrow was ignited, causing the fire on top of the city to burn blazingly.
Standing at the foot of the city, I didn’t know what kind of purgatory the city had turned into, but when I saw those burning people falling down from the city, I knew what kind of suffering they were facing. Maybe these Liu family members didn’t either.
Thinking about it, the family's revival and independence only lasted a few days, and everything was over.
"Bang!" The navy replaced the stone bullets.
The city gate tower, which was already very fragile due to the fire, was hit by several stone bullets at the same time and collapsed instantly. The screams coming from the city made the Han soldiers who were preparing to launch the attack tremble in their hearts.
You don't need to think about it to know that the Liu family, which has never had a direct confrontation with the Han army, has no idea how powerful the Han army is, so they still follow the original method of attacking and defending the city, using the city gate tower as a hidden soldier.
The city gate building had a large number of people placed inside it, but now the city gate building was first burned by fire, and then the whole building collapsed, and no one knew how many people were directly buried in it.
"Send the order and prepare to attack." Lu Shizhen ordered coldly.
These guys who don't know whether to live or die, don't deserve your mercy.
The Han army's crossbowmen moved forward again to complete the final covering fire.
The soldiers of the Han army poured out like a tide, and the navy's clippers also rushed into the moat and launched a direct attack on the water gate.
In front of this rolling crowd, the tall city walls of Kuaiji, known as the mighty city in the southeast, were as thin as a piece of white paper.
The destruction of Kuaiji City was not surprising.
Even Kuaiji City didn't last for half a day, which was not unexpected.
Everyone who has personally experienced this and watched the Han army launch an attack on Kuaiji City knows the strength gap between the two sides.
A pack of wolves attacked the sheep, but the sheep had no organized resistance at all and had no choice but to be captured.
It can even be said that the Han army and the Liu rebels have completely different war concepts. The two sides do not seem to be opponents of the same era at all.
The fighting soon turned into street fighting.
The Liu family knew very well what kind of fate they would face, so they shot the first bird. The Liu family was the first family to launch such a large-scale rebellion since the founding of the Han Dynasty. It was also the first family to kill court officials and gather people to rebel.
In comparison, those small families in Jiankang Mansion just incited the power within the family. Compared with the Liu family, they were "not even worthy of carrying shoes."
Therefore, Li Xingchen will never forgive the Liu family.
As long as it fails, it means killing the nine tribes.
This is inevitable.
Therefore, everyone in the Liu family was ready to die. They built strict barriers in the streets and alleys of Kuaiji City, just to prepare for a deadly battle with the Han army. They were out-and-out local snakes.
, naturally knew the city better than the Han army, so he did have the courage to fight in the streets and even "all the people became soldiers".
Reinforcements are destined to be impossible to exist, and the family is destined to be unable to survive, so it is better to die in a vigorous battle.
These big aristocratic families that have been passed down for hundreds of years still have a bloody spirit that would rather live in pieces than in pieces. What's more, even if they plan to turn into bricks and survive, Li Xingchen will not agree.