Chapter 1361
Chapter 1361
Chapter 1361
After ending this short but extremely fierce battle, Takahashi Minami ordered the troops to suspend their advance, rest on the spot first, gather the troops to clean up the battlefield, and send the wounded and prisoners to the beachhead by the sea.
Although the Special Warfare Battalion defeated the Houjin Cavalry cleanly in the previous battle and caused great damage to them, but their own side inevitably suffered a small amount of battle damage.This is not because the post-golden cavalry broke through the firepower network formed by the infantry, but the enemy fired a round of arrows in the form of projectiles at a distance. The Haihan army did not have protective equipment such as armor. Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that several people will be injured by arrows.Fortunately, the opponent was shooting arrows while riding a horse, so there was not much accuracy at all. If they were charged to a relatively short distance, the number of casualties might be much greater.
In contrast, some post-golden cavalry equipped with armor were not much better.The safe distance for the Haihan infantry to fire is a standard formulated after precise calculations to ensure that the bullets are powerful enough to penetrate the armor that the Golden Cavalry can equip.Moreover, the Haihan army's almost non-stop intensive firepower output is completely different from the sparse cavalry and shooting attacks of the later golden cavalry.
The Houjin soldier who was directly concentrated by the bullets and fell off the horse, even if he didn't die, he only had half his life left.Only a few Houjin soldiers who fell out because their horses were shot and fell to the ground were able to survive, but these people believed that they still had the strength to fight, and they still tried to fight after falling off their horses, but what was waiting for them was not Haihan who rushed forward to fight Infantry, but several hot bullets.The soldiers of the special warfare battalion received instructions to kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible, so when they saw enemy soldiers trying to resist, they did not try to persuade them to surrender at all, but directly fired according to the instructions they received before the battle. Pour each other.
For the seriously injured enemy soldiers, the special warfare battalion did not intend to waste resources on treating them, and just made up for the prisoners who lost their mobility.In the end, there were not many people who were captured and taken away by Haihan, only a dozen or so people in total.However, this is not the biggest gain of this battle. The golden cavalry left almost half intact horses after rushing out hundreds of times. The cavalry hurriedly gathered these horses together, and then piled the bodies of the dead on the horses. Brought to the beachhead for resettlement.
And the logistics force also quickly brought in another batch of ammunition from the beachhead to supplement the consumption of the battle just now. At the same time, Qian Tiandun sent dozens of soldiers to fill the vacancies left by the casualties just now.During the battle just now, he never let go of his hands holding the binoculars, paying attention to the battle situation the whole time.Fortunately, this time the soldiers did not disappoint him as always, and they dealt with these hundreds of golden soldiers after riding cleanly.
The course of the battle was not much different from Qian Tiandun's prediction. Although the post-golden cavalry were brave, they still seemed incapable of responding to this new tactic they had never seen before.The consequence of blindly charging is just to give Haihan soldiers another chance to practice shooting with live ammunition and targets. If it weren't for some riding and shooting masters among the Houjin cavalry, this infantry confrontation might even result in zero casualties. record.For the special warfare battalion, it is the first time to apply this tactic to actual combat, and the current results are already qualified.
However, Qian Tiandun also noticed that the number of cavalry troops deployed by the Jin army outside the city this time was significantly larger than before. This may be one of the reasons why the opponents would come out of the forest where they were hiding. They probably thought that these cavalry troops were enough. Breaking down the marching Haihan infantry array, but did not expect that this in itself was a trick laid down by the Haihan military to lure the enemy.And the opponent dared to deploy so many cavalry outside the city, which means that the strength of Houjin troops stationed here should also have increased.
However, based on the city defense situation of this place, it is not practical for the Jin army to station too many troops here. After all, what they want is to defend the armed stronghold on the north side of Lushunkou, and if this fort is captured by Haihan, then Even if they have several times their strength here, they will not be able to take back the place from the Haihan people. When it comes to defending the city, the Hou Jin army knows that it is far behind the Haihan army equipped with a lot of firearms. , there is no chance of winning at all.
Winter is coming soon, even if the Hou Jin army is cold-resistant, they have to live in the fortress to shelter from the wind and rain in order to survive the severe winter test. Considering the scale of winter supplies that can be stored here, Qian Tiandun judges based on this, the Hou Jin army The troops deployed by the army at Lushunkou should not exceed 2000 people, and counting the logistics personnel and the family members of the army, the population of Houjin inside and outside the city of Zhongzuo is at most more than 2000.And this time Haihan has more than [-] combatants so far. It can be said that it is basically stable against the opponent, it just depends on how much effort it takes to achieve the goal.
However, Haihan did not carry many heavy artillery for this cross-sea battle, but mainly light field artillery, and only one company of artillery came.When Qian Tiandun was shooting tactics, he didn't intend to use heavy artillery to forcibly destroy this stronghold, because after he snatched it from Houjin, Haihan still had to rely on it for defense, so he couldn't completely destroy this stronghold. Too bad, otherwise it would have taken a lot of work to repair it afterwards.
Using infantry to attack the city has been the customary method of all dynasties, but Qian Tiandun did not intend to let his soldiers climb the ladder and climb the wall, and risk their lives to fight hand-to-hand with the Hou Jin army. He planned to use another method to attack this city. fortress.
After resting in the battle zone for about an hour, the Haihan army set off again and slowly continued to advance towards the center left city.At the same time, behind the infantry, several artillery carts also appeared in the sight of the Hou Jin army under the pull of the pack horse.Compared with the weird muskets that can be fired in bursts in the hands of Haihan soldiers, the shocking effect of artillery is more direct. Even Mutebu, who has always been calm, can't help but quickly change his face after seeing these artillery appear. gloomy.
Muteb doesn't have much experience in fighting the Haihan army, but the experience summed up by his predecessors who used the lives of many soldiers is that the artillery of the Haihan people is extremely powerful and must not be confronted head-on.This time, although the Haihan army took the initiative to leave the range of fire cover of the naval guns, they had already moved the artillery ashore and advanced with the infantry.
Originally, the Hou Jin army had no way of restraining this kind of routine. During the battle against Da Ming, the Hou Jin cavalry was almost invincible in the wild. Da Ming did not even think about letting the artillery advance so easily, and could only use a large number of armed forces to fight It's for protection.However, the Haihan infantry had just proved that they were not at a disadvantage in the face of the Golden Cavalry. It might not be so easy to break through their defenses to destroy these artillery vehicles.Moreover, Mutbu also suspected that the reason for the appearance of these artillery vehicles was to lure him to send out cavalry to take the initiative to attack, and let the Haihan infantry take the opportunity to harvest a wave of heads.
Of course Mutbu is not willing to be trapped in the city, but if he continues to send cavalry, it is easy to repeat the same mistakes and continue the tragedy just now.When he was hesitating, the Haihan army was getting closer and closer to the city, and entered the range of the artillery.Of course, this artillery range refers to the artillery of the Haihan Army. There are only two earthen artillery on the top of Zhongzuo City. It is hard to say whether they can be fired.
Mutbu didn't dare to try to use these two cannons. There were clearly visible cracks and gaps all over the cannons. If they were loaded with explosives, they might collapse their own people first.These two cannons were the equipment that his superiors transferred to him to stabilize the morale of the army when he came to the post, and he was also clearly explained to him that they should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary, so as to avoid accidents.
Seeing the gun carriages getting closer and closer outside the city, Mutbu couldn't help but burst out a series of swear words. Except for a group of archers, he had no other long-range attack methods available. How to deal with the Haihan army?Is it possible to block the mouth of the gun with flesh and blood?
Mutbu remembered that there were many guns and artillery in the Han army that surrendered, but those Han troops were transferred to Shanhaiguan to fight in the direction of Shanhaiguan, and the Liaodong Peninsula only relied on old weapons like him to fight. Defensive troops.This is enough to deal with the small-scale raids in Dongjiang Town, but to face an opponent of Haihan's level, Mutbu also understands that the situation of his troops is not enough.
The Haihan army had stopped advancing and began to set up positions a hundred feet outside the city.Even if Mutbu wanted to use archers at this distance, it was useless. Even if the bows and arrows in their hands were thrown, they would not be able to hit the opponent's position, and they would not be able to create any threat to the Haihan people.And the opponent's infantry has already begun to gather and assemble, and sending cavalry to charge at this time, I am afraid it will be more difficult than before.
Seeing that the opponent started to unload the gun carriage and set up the gun positions without haste, Mutbu felt even more anxious like a fire.Although he didn't quite understand Haihan's tactics, he also knew that as long as the shelling started, the fortress he was in charge of guarding would probably go cold.In desperation, he could only order another [-] cavalry and let them go out of the city to charge and kill.However, this time Mutbu specifically told the leading officer that if the situation is not good, they should not bite the bullet and attack the front, but try to go back and attack its flanks or rear.
But the ensuing battle situation once again poured a pot of cold water on Mutbu's body. This group of cavalry who charged into the formation encountered an extremely dense hail of bullets. Before they could figure out what was going on, they saw The dozens of riders in front seemed to be blown down by a hurricane, and none of them were spared.The cavalry who followed quickly turned around, trying to go around the flank of Haihan's position first.
There was nothing wrong with this way of handling it, but the post-Golden Cavalrymen's judgment of the range of the Haihan rifle was obviously not accurate enough, so they paid the price of dozens of cavalry for it when they swept over the flanks.But even so, there was no chance to outflank the rear of Haihan's position, because there were still hundreds of Haihan cavalry waiting for their arrival.
When Niu Luerzhen, who led the team into the battle, found that there was no hope of getting close to the Haihan soldiers, he decisively chose to leave the battlefield.Fortunately, this time the decision was made quickly enough, the more than [-] cavalry who went out to fight in the city only lost nearly [-]% of their troops, and did not fall in with more than half of them like the previous two cavalry.
Takahashi Minami observed the battle calmly, and gave some simple instructions to the orderly from time to time.He did not order the cavalry to pursue the fleeing enemy army. Dividing the troops is still a very dangerous move for Hai Han, not to mention that the opponent's city is only a hundred feet away, and another cavalry in the opponent's city may be waiting for him. Divide up to pursue, and then wait for the opportunity to go out of the city and come back to kill a wave.
Qian Tiandun gave him the instruction to consume the opponent's cavalry as much as possible. So far, this task has been completed quite well. After two battles, four or five hundred golden cavalry fell to Haihan's guns under.In all previous confrontations in the past year, the Haihan Army has never achieved such a large record.
The existence of the special warfare battalion outside the city can itself play a role in attracting firepower. The first attack of the latter cannot withstand the temptation, and the second attack cannot withstand the pressure.Gao Qiaonan really wanted to see how they would react if they continued to put pressure on the Hou Jin army in the city, and whether they would continue to send cavalry outside the city to carry out such a near-death charge.
Taking advantage of the time to clean up the battlefield, Gao Qiaonan came to the artillery position in the middle of the position and had a brief communication with the artillery company commander.Although these guns on the front line are all small-caliber artillery, if used properly, their power should not be underestimated.What Gao Qiaonan has to do is to use small cannons to make a big fuss.
The shooting accuracy of the Haihan artillery at this distance is quite good, so the artillerymen directly set the target of the calibration fire at the south gate of the middle left city facing the position.The artillerymen lived up to their expectations, and the first artillery shot directly hit the city gate. Although the shells were too small to tear the city gate apart, the muffled sound made by hitting the city gate made the rear of the city All of Jin Jun's hearts tightened.
They really didn't know how many shells this three-inch-thick wooden city gate could withstand, but everyone knew that this city gate could not withstand the continuous bombardment of the Haihan army. It is only a matter of time before the city gate is blasted open.At that time, it is difficult to decide whether to charge out together, or wait for the Haihan people to attack in the city and fight to the death.
Mutbu was standing in the square behind this city gate. Hundreds of horsemen and horses had gathered around him again, but now the south gate could not be opened. If you go out of the city from the north gate and make a detour, you have to run at least two or three miles longer, and you will lose the effect of surprise attack completely.If you don't go out of the city to fight, after the Haihan army blasts open the city gate, so many cavalry are crowded in the city, and they can't use it at all. They can only dismount and fight on foot. This is undoubtedly a way of breaking their arms.What to do, Mutbu couldn't help being caught in a dilemma again.
(End of this chapter)
After ending this short but extremely fierce battle, Takahashi Minami ordered the troops to suspend their advance, rest on the spot first, gather the troops to clean up the battlefield, and send the wounded and prisoners to the beachhead by the sea.
Although the Special Warfare Battalion defeated the Houjin Cavalry cleanly in the previous battle and caused great damage to them, but their own side inevitably suffered a small amount of battle damage.This is not because the post-golden cavalry broke through the firepower network formed by the infantry, but the enemy fired a round of arrows in the form of projectiles at a distance. The Haihan army did not have protective equipment such as armor. Under such circumstances, it is inevitable that several people will be injured by arrows.Fortunately, the opponent was shooting arrows while riding a horse, so there was not much accuracy at all. If they were charged to a relatively short distance, the number of casualties might be much greater.
In contrast, some post-golden cavalry equipped with armor were not much better.The safe distance for the Haihan infantry to fire is a standard formulated after precise calculations to ensure that the bullets are powerful enough to penetrate the armor that the Golden Cavalry can equip.Moreover, the Haihan army's almost non-stop intensive firepower output is completely different from the sparse cavalry and shooting attacks of the later golden cavalry.
The Houjin soldier who was directly concentrated by the bullets and fell off the horse, even if he didn't die, he only had half his life left.Only a few Houjin soldiers who fell out because their horses were shot and fell to the ground were able to survive, but these people believed that they still had the strength to fight, and they still tried to fight after falling off their horses, but what was waiting for them was not Haihan who rushed forward to fight Infantry, but several hot bullets.The soldiers of the special warfare battalion received instructions to kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible, so when they saw enemy soldiers trying to resist, they did not try to persuade them to surrender at all, but directly fired according to the instructions they received before the battle. Pour each other.
For the seriously injured enemy soldiers, the special warfare battalion did not intend to waste resources on treating them, and just made up for the prisoners who lost their mobility.In the end, there were not many people who were captured and taken away by Haihan, only a dozen or so people in total.However, this is not the biggest gain of this battle. The golden cavalry left almost half intact horses after rushing out hundreds of times. The cavalry hurriedly gathered these horses together, and then piled the bodies of the dead on the horses. Brought to the beachhead for resettlement.
And the logistics force also quickly brought in another batch of ammunition from the beachhead to supplement the consumption of the battle just now. At the same time, Qian Tiandun sent dozens of soldiers to fill the vacancies left by the casualties just now.During the battle just now, he never let go of his hands holding the binoculars, paying attention to the battle situation the whole time.Fortunately, this time the soldiers did not disappoint him as always, and they dealt with these hundreds of golden soldiers after riding cleanly.
The course of the battle was not much different from Qian Tiandun's prediction. Although the post-golden cavalry were brave, they still seemed incapable of responding to this new tactic they had never seen before.The consequence of blindly charging is just to give Haihan soldiers another chance to practice shooting with live ammunition and targets. If it weren't for some riding and shooting masters among the Houjin cavalry, this infantry confrontation might even result in zero casualties. record.For the special warfare battalion, it is the first time to apply this tactic to actual combat, and the current results are already qualified.
However, Qian Tiandun also noticed that the number of cavalry troops deployed by the Jin army outside the city this time was significantly larger than before. This may be one of the reasons why the opponents would come out of the forest where they were hiding. They probably thought that these cavalry troops were enough. Breaking down the marching Haihan infantry array, but did not expect that this in itself was a trick laid down by the Haihan military to lure the enemy.And the opponent dared to deploy so many cavalry outside the city, which means that the strength of Houjin troops stationed here should also have increased.
However, based on the city defense situation of this place, it is not practical for the Jin army to station too many troops here. After all, what they want is to defend the armed stronghold on the north side of Lushunkou, and if this fort is captured by Haihan, then Even if they have several times their strength here, they will not be able to take back the place from the Haihan people. When it comes to defending the city, the Hou Jin army knows that it is far behind the Haihan army equipped with a lot of firearms. , there is no chance of winning at all.
Winter is coming soon, even if the Hou Jin army is cold-resistant, they have to live in the fortress to shelter from the wind and rain in order to survive the severe winter test. Considering the scale of winter supplies that can be stored here, Qian Tiandun judges based on this, the Hou Jin army The troops deployed by the army at Lushunkou should not exceed 2000 people, and counting the logistics personnel and the family members of the army, the population of Houjin inside and outside the city of Zhongzuo is at most more than 2000.And this time Haihan has more than [-] combatants so far. It can be said that it is basically stable against the opponent, it just depends on how much effort it takes to achieve the goal.
However, Haihan did not carry many heavy artillery for this cross-sea battle, but mainly light field artillery, and only one company of artillery came.When Qian Tiandun was shooting tactics, he didn't intend to use heavy artillery to forcibly destroy this stronghold, because after he snatched it from Houjin, Haihan still had to rely on it for defense, so he couldn't completely destroy this stronghold. Too bad, otherwise it would have taken a lot of work to repair it afterwards.
Using infantry to attack the city has been the customary method of all dynasties, but Qian Tiandun did not intend to let his soldiers climb the ladder and climb the wall, and risk their lives to fight hand-to-hand with the Hou Jin army. He planned to use another method to attack this city. fortress.
After resting in the battle zone for about an hour, the Haihan army set off again and slowly continued to advance towards the center left city.At the same time, behind the infantry, several artillery carts also appeared in the sight of the Hou Jin army under the pull of the pack horse.Compared with the weird muskets that can be fired in bursts in the hands of Haihan soldiers, the shocking effect of artillery is more direct. Even Mutebu, who has always been calm, can't help but quickly change his face after seeing these artillery appear. gloomy.
Muteb doesn't have much experience in fighting the Haihan army, but the experience summed up by his predecessors who used the lives of many soldiers is that the artillery of the Haihan people is extremely powerful and must not be confronted head-on.This time, although the Haihan army took the initiative to leave the range of fire cover of the naval guns, they had already moved the artillery ashore and advanced with the infantry.
Originally, the Hou Jin army had no way of restraining this kind of routine. During the battle against Da Ming, the Hou Jin cavalry was almost invincible in the wild. Da Ming did not even think about letting the artillery advance so easily, and could only use a large number of armed forces to fight It's for protection.However, the Haihan infantry had just proved that they were not at a disadvantage in the face of the Golden Cavalry. It might not be so easy to break through their defenses to destroy these artillery vehicles.Moreover, Mutbu also suspected that the reason for the appearance of these artillery vehicles was to lure him to send out cavalry to take the initiative to attack, and let the Haihan infantry take the opportunity to harvest a wave of heads.
Of course Mutbu is not willing to be trapped in the city, but if he continues to send cavalry, it is easy to repeat the same mistakes and continue the tragedy just now.When he was hesitating, the Haihan army was getting closer and closer to the city, and entered the range of the artillery.Of course, this artillery range refers to the artillery of the Haihan Army. There are only two earthen artillery on the top of Zhongzuo City. It is hard to say whether they can be fired.
Mutbu didn't dare to try to use these two cannons. There were clearly visible cracks and gaps all over the cannons. If they were loaded with explosives, they might collapse their own people first.These two cannons were the equipment that his superiors transferred to him to stabilize the morale of the army when he came to the post, and he was also clearly explained to him that they should not be used unless it is absolutely necessary, so as to avoid accidents.
Seeing the gun carriages getting closer and closer outside the city, Mutbu couldn't help but burst out a series of swear words. Except for a group of archers, he had no other long-range attack methods available. How to deal with the Haihan army?Is it possible to block the mouth of the gun with flesh and blood?
Mutbu remembered that there were many guns and artillery in the Han army that surrendered, but those Han troops were transferred to Shanhaiguan to fight in the direction of Shanhaiguan, and the Liaodong Peninsula only relied on old weapons like him to fight. Defensive troops.This is enough to deal with the small-scale raids in Dongjiang Town, but to face an opponent of Haihan's level, Mutbu also understands that the situation of his troops is not enough.
The Haihan army had stopped advancing and began to set up positions a hundred feet outside the city.Even if Mutbu wanted to use archers at this distance, it was useless. Even if the bows and arrows in their hands were thrown, they would not be able to hit the opponent's position, and they would not be able to create any threat to the Haihan people.And the opponent's infantry has already begun to gather and assemble, and sending cavalry to charge at this time, I am afraid it will be more difficult than before.
Seeing that the opponent started to unload the gun carriage and set up the gun positions without haste, Mutbu felt even more anxious like a fire.Although he didn't quite understand Haihan's tactics, he also knew that as long as the shelling started, the fortress he was in charge of guarding would probably go cold.In desperation, he could only order another [-] cavalry and let them go out of the city to charge and kill.However, this time Mutbu specifically told the leading officer that if the situation is not good, they should not bite the bullet and attack the front, but try to go back and attack its flanks or rear.
But the ensuing battle situation once again poured a pot of cold water on Mutbu's body. This group of cavalry who charged into the formation encountered an extremely dense hail of bullets. Before they could figure out what was going on, they saw The dozens of riders in front seemed to be blown down by a hurricane, and none of them were spared.The cavalry who followed quickly turned around, trying to go around the flank of Haihan's position first.
There was nothing wrong with this way of handling it, but the post-Golden Cavalrymen's judgment of the range of the Haihan rifle was obviously not accurate enough, so they paid the price of dozens of cavalry for it when they swept over the flanks.But even so, there was no chance to outflank the rear of Haihan's position, because there were still hundreds of Haihan cavalry waiting for their arrival.
When Niu Luerzhen, who led the team into the battle, found that there was no hope of getting close to the Haihan soldiers, he decisively chose to leave the battlefield.Fortunately, this time the decision was made quickly enough, the more than [-] cavalry who went out to fight in the city only lost nearly [-]% of their troops, and did not fall in with more than half of them like the previous two cavalry.
Takahashi Minami observed the battle calmly, and gave some simple instructions to the orderly from time to time.He did not order the cavalry to pursue the fleeing enemy army. Dividing the troops is still a very dangerous move for Hai Han, not to mention that the opponent's city is only a hundred feet away, and another cavalry in the opponent's city may be waiting for him. Divide up to pursue, and then wait for the opportunity to go out of the city and come back to kill a wave.
Qian Tiandun gave him the instruction to consume the opponent's cavalry as much as possible. So far, this task has been completed quite well. After two battles, four or five hundred golden cavalry fell to Haihan's guns under.In all previous confrontations in the past year, the Haihan Army has never achieved such a large record.
The existence of the special warfare battalion outside the city can itself play a role in attracting firepower. The first attack of the latter cannot withstand the temptation, and the second attack cannot withstand the pressure.Gao Qiaonan really wanted to see how they would react if they continued to put pressure on the Hou Jin army in the city, and whether they would continue to send cavalry outside the city to carry out such a near-death charge.
Taking advantage of the time to clean up the battlefield, Gao Qiaonan came to the artillery position in the middle of the position and had a brief communication with the artillery company commander.Although these guns on the front line are all small-caliber artillery, if used properly, their power should not be underestimated.What Gao Qiaonan has to do is to use small cannons to make a big fuss.
The shooting accuracy of the Haihan artillery at this distance is quite good, so the artillerymen directly set the target of the calibration fire at the south gate of the middle left city facing the position.The artillerymen lived up to their expectations, and the first artillery shot directly hit the city gate. Although the shells were too small to tear the city gate apart, the muffled sound made by hitting the city gate made the rear of the city All of Jin Jun's hearts tightened.
They really didn't know how many shells this three-inch-thick wooden city gate could withstand, but everyone knew that this city gate could not withstand the continuous bombardment of the Haihan army. It is only a matter of time before the city gate is blasted open.At that time, it is difficult to decide whether to charge out together, or wait for the Haihan people to attack in the city and fight to the death.
Mutbu was standing in the square behind this city gate. Hundreds of horsemen and horses had gathered around him again, but now the south gate could not be opened. If you go out of the city from the north gate and make a detour, you have to run at least two or three miles longer, and you will lose the effect of surprise attack completely.If you don't go out of the city to fight, after the Haihan army blasts open the city gate, so many cavalry are crowded in the city, and they can't use it at all. They can only dismount and fight on foot. This is undoubtedly a way of breaking their arms.What to do, Mutbu couldn't help being caught in a dilemma again.
(End of this chapter)