I want to be emperor

Chapter 512 Lushun, Line Column (seven thousand two in one)

In the evening of September [-]th, the sixth year of Chengshun, it was a few miles southwest of the left office of Weizhong in Jinzhou, Liaodong Peninsula, which was the due west direction of Lushun Port.

Most of the land here is flat, but there are also rolling low hills. To the south is the Laotie Mountain near the sea, to the north is the slightly gentler Dading Mountain, and to the east is the low mountain on the shore of Lushun Port.

On the west side is the sea, where there is a relatively gentle semi-bay. The huge landing fleet of the Great Chu Empire is in this bay at this time, and a large number of small boats are constantly carrying soldiers between the sea ships in the bay and the shore. .

At the same time, many large sea-going ships were docking beside the temporary floating trestle, and a large number of soldiers, artillery, ammunition, food and other supplies were quickly leading to land through two temporary trestles, one large and one small.

At this time, the landing site was crowded and chaotic, with engineers and ordinary infantrymen who were busy continuing to build trestles, roads and docks, and among the crowd, there were still a large number of ammunition and food that had not yet been used. and many other materials.

Because the landing site is relatively small and the transfer capacity of the temporary trestle is limited, the current landing site is extremely crowded.

If at this time, the Dongbang people directly killed the landing site, it would be a complete disaster for the Chu army's landing troops.

"We must keep them out of the landing field, and at least ensure the safety of the strategic depth above 1000 meters, otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous!"

Colonel Ning Yiming, commander of the No.90 Infantry Regiment, said this to the chief of staff of the regiment next to him.

But these words are for others to hear, let alone for yourself.

As the first batch of troops to land in the army, the No.90 Infantry Regiment has a very heavy task.

They want to send the first batch of troops to land directly on the beach to capture the condescending lookout fortress on the coast, so as to prevent the enemy from using the condescending terrain of the lookout fortress to attack the landing fleet.

Because of the short distance, the opponent directly throws bows and arrows from above, which can threaten the landing field below.

To this end, they sent the fist unit of the regiment, the [-]th Grenadier Post of the [-]st Battalion,
After capturing the Fortress, they immediately increased the scale of the landing. Some continued to land directly on the beach, and some used small boats to transfer the remaining infantry of the first battalion.

At the same time, it took a lot of effort to forcefully pull the four nine-pound light howitzers and two-and-a-half-pound field guns that were temporarily reinforced to the first battalion ashore.

This process is very troublesome. The nine-pound light howitzer is okay. It is very light and can be carried down by a few people, but the two-and-a-half-pound field gun is not easy to handle.

Although this thing is said to be a small artillery with a caliber of only 65 mm, it is still a serious field gun anyway. The barrel, gun mount, wheels and leading vehicle weigh more than 300 kilograms.

It is very troublesome to disembark such a heavy thing, and it is also troublesome when disembarking and want to go ashore, because there is sand or even silt in the ashore, and it is difficult to directly pull the artillery away before the emergency road construction is completed.

In order to get the two two-and-a-half catties field guns and ammunition carts ashore and onto the hard ground above, the artillery crew members and dozens of infantrymen from the first battalion went up and carried them hard. go!
Fortunately, the area of ​​the beach and silt is not too large, and the thick ground can be reached by about tens of meters.

At this time, just pull forward and push back, and take these two two-and-a-half catty field guns away...

As for the draft horse for pulling the cannon...it will still be on board.

The first battalion must go ashore as soon as possible, expand the strategic depth, make room for the rear landing troops, and ensure safety.

You know, the place where the Chu army landed is just behind Lushun, and the straight-line distance is only more than six kilometers. And Lushun Port has two cities, the north and the south. The main resident of the Naval Division.

And the Dongyao people must have known the news of the Great Chu Empire's navy in advance... After all, the fleet of the Great Chu Empire's navy is too large, and today is calm, there is no wind and waves on the sea, and there is no fog at the same time. it is good.

Standing on the top of Laotie Mountain, you can see the sea surface more than ten kilometers away.

And the speed of the sailing ships was the same. If the Dongyao people had been paying attention to the situation on the sea surface, they would have discovered the movement of the Chu army two or three hours before the Chu army landed.

It's just that the Dongyao people were unable to determine the specific landing target of the Chu army for a while.

After all, the Chu army's fleet is very large, with hundreds of ships. Apart from the ships that landed here, there are two other fleets.

One was composed of the main force of the Beiyang Fleet, and went directly to the outside of Lushun Port, and the other ran to the east coast north of Lushun Port. It was another landing force. Although this landing force was a feint attack force, it was also A No.90 Infantry Regiment.

Even the fleet that landed on the west coast is actually divided into two. The No.90 Infantry Regiment and the No.80 Ninth Infantry Regiment landed on the south side, near the coast of the peninsula on the west side of Laotie Mountain, while the Second Marine Regiment was Landed on the northern coast, separated by 3000 meters.

That is to say, there are actually three landing sites for the Chu army, and they are launched at the same time.

This is mainly to confuse the enemy, so that the enemy cannot immediately judge the location of the main landing place of the Chu army, and at the same time disperse their forces to avoid being hit by them at the very beginning of the landing.

At the same time, the most important thing is that the multiple landings make it difficult for the enemy to choose. They will not send the main force to a certain landing site immediately. It is best to stick to the north city and the south city...

The Chu army's multiple landings did indeed make it difficult for the defenders in Lushun's mouth to judge. They were worried that the Chu army would play tricks.

At the same time, the fleet sent by the Chu army to Lushun Port was the main fleet of the navy, with more than a dozen cruisers and frigates, which put more pressure on the defenders of the Eastern Captives in the port.

I am afraid that they will rush into the port at any time, then shell and land.

It is also known that the Chu thief not only sent a fleet to the north to go to the north to land, but also that the Chu thief had already landed on the west coast.

In the end, the Dongyao people still sent troops westward, preparing to drive back the Chu army on the west side first.

As for the Chu thieves who went north and landed, they could only report to Jinzhou Wei on an emergency Pegasus, so that Jinzhou Wei City sent troops to the south for reinforcements.

However, the Dongbang people struggled for some time, and the follow-up assembly and march took more than an hour. By the time they arrived at the west landing site, the troops of the No.90 infantry regiment of the Chu army had already rushed ashore.

The engineers at the back continued to build trestles, piers and roads in an emergency, while the heavy soldiers and artillery units seized the time to urgently unload light howitzers, two-and-a-half catty field artillery artillery and ammunition.

At the same time, the soldiers of the No.80 Nine Infantry Regiment also began to land on a small scale.

At the same time, the cavalry of the No. 20 Three Cavalry Regiment also led their horses and disembarked urgently from the temporary trestle.

The rear is a chaotic and busy landing field. The No.90 Infantry Regiment must ensure the safety of the rear landing field, and Ning Yiming also knows that just ensuring the safety of the landing field is only the initial task.

If he can take advantage of the situation to defeat this Dongyao force, then he will attack the south city where the Dongyao people are captured, and then cooperate with the second marine regiment to capture the north city.

As long as the two cities in the north and the south are captured, it is basically equivalent to taking down Lushunkou. At that time, artillery will be set up on the top of the hill and the muzzle will be aimed at the port.

In addition to death, the Eastern Captive Navy in the port had no choice but to surrender.

In this way, this crucial port can be captured, thereby ensuring the smooth disembarkation of subsequent heavy artillery and a large amount of ammunition.

How about hundreds of ships...It is not enough to rely on small boats for transshipment and temporary floating trestles, especially those one or two tons of nine-pound field guns and 24-pound howitzers, which are simply not what those temporary trestles can bear.

As for the 48-pound howitzer and the [-]-pound cannon for siege, let alone those things require a really large dock and large-scale hoisting equipment to be able to get them down.

Seizing Lushun Port is the most important combat mission of the landing force in the early stage, and it is also the main mission of the No.90 Infantry Regiment.

Considering the capture of Lushun Port, in fact, the Dongyao people on the opposite side took the initiative to come out to fight, and they were in the arms of Colonel Ning Yiming.

If the enemy didn't take the initiative to run out, the follow-up siege would be quite troublesome. After all, he didn't have any heavy artillery. He only had a few two-and-a-half-pound field guns and a small number of nine-pound and eighteen-pound light howitzers on hand.

In Ning Yiming's view, this artillery force is not enough if we want to fight a tough battle, and we will inevitably have to pay relatively large casualties.

If the opponent takes the initiative to run out to fight, then it will be even better!
Although the Dongyao people are known for being good at field battles, their heavy armored infantry assault is quite good. After getting the guns of the Han people, they also organized a large number of guns and equipped them with new arquebus guns in batches to fight with traditional armored soldiers. , and with a large number of horses from Mongolia, their cavalry can also effectively cover their flanks and even charge into battle.

From the perspective of traditional cold weapons, the Dongyao people's field strength is very strong, and their tactical system is somewhat similar to the Qin army created by Hong Chengchou before.

They all use new guns with a tactical thinking of cold weapons, not to mention, people from the east play this trick, which is more slippery than Hong Chengchou.

But... Ning Yiming couldn't help but smile when he looked at the lukewarm army formation opposite him!
It is said that the Dongyao people are good at field battles, and many people outside also say that their Chu army has sharp guns and is good at attacking fortifications. When fighting, they use hundreds of cannons to bombard the strong city.

But now not many people still remember that their Great Chu Empire Army started out by fighting in the field!

Outsiders will not even pay attention to the formation and tactical system of the two generations of the Great Chu Empire Army, whether it is the previous mixed combat system of spears and matchlock guns, or the current line tactics of flintlock guns as the main weapon. .

They are all born for large-scale field battles!
Especially the line tactics... The combat effectiveness of this thing is not obvious in ordinary offensive and defensive battles. This is why the Chu army often uses grenadiers to carry out assault missions. Because grenadiers wear heavy armor, for some Good for enemies without a lot of guns.

However, in field battles, especially in battles where the two sides are in open positions, the line tactics of flintlock guns will be able to bring out their greatest advantages!

Intensive firepower far surpassing the matchlock era!

And this point has once again been fully proved by the combat effectiveness of the No.90 Infantry Regiment of the Chu Army and the Shunkou garrison of the Dongyao Brigade on the opposite side.

When the two sides lined up one after another, and the Dongbang people took the lead in attacking, the battle was fully under the control of the No.90 Infantry Regiment.

Amidst the constant rumble of light artillery fire on both sides, the left wing of the Dongbow people took the lead in attacking. A large number of spearmen in armor, armed with spears, covered the arquebus gunners on both sides, and the archers stepped forward.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the No.90 Infantry Regiment's First Battalion on the opposite side stepped forward steadily in three rows to the sound of military musicians' drums. The battalion commander of the first battalion ordered the whole team to stop.

Five infantry posts, five posts lined up, the frontal width of each post is about eighteen or nine meters, and the distance between each post is very close, thus forming a frontal width of about [-] meters.

Behind them is the grenadier company serving as the reserve team. These grenadiers are now serving as the most elite line infantry soldiers.

The Grenadier Company in the Chu Army actually didn't play grenades much in official field battles except for special battles such as certain fortified battles.

That thing is very unreliable and easy to accidentally injure your own people, not to mention, and the grenadiers can only go forward within 30 meters to throw bombs. At this time, if the enemy is a long-range troop such as arquebus or archers, a volley will come over. You have to die... If the opponent is a spearman, you have to die even if you charge...

Therefore, the grenadiers of the Chu army basically only use grenades in fortified operations, especially assault operations. In order to deal with trenches, the enemy behind the parapet will use grenades, and they basically don't use them at other times.

After the formation of the first battalion, we are waiting for the Dongyao people to come...

As for the Dongyao people who stepped forward step by step, the leading general looked at the extremely thin Chu army array in front, and always felt that something was wrong!

Because this kind of formation is too thin, it will probably collapse if you rush casually.

Why are they doing this?
Has Chu Manzi on the opposite side lost his mind?Or is it that the command ability is not good?
impossible!
The Chu army also conquered the world all the way from the south to the north. Speaking of being able to conquer and fight well, they are more powerful than their captives...

It took only a few years for the Chu army to unify the Central Plains in the pass. It has been decades since the Eastern Captives rebelled, and now they can only nest outside the pass...

Therefore, if you regard the generals of the Chu army as fools, it can only show that you are fools yourself!

The Dongyao general in front of him was not a fool, so he frowned. He had a hunch that the seemingly thin formation of the Dongyao people on the opposite side was definitely not simple.

It's just that he doesn't know why!
The formation of the Chu army looks weird everywhere, which makes people incomprehensible.

Although the Chu army and the Dongyao people had fought many times in Jiliao and even Xuanda, they had never really fought a battle in the wild. Basically, it was mainly cavalry battles or offensive and defensive battles.

Especially after the Battle of Shanhaiguan, the battles in the west of Liaoning were basically small-scale raid operations. Today you send troops to attack my small fortress, and tomorrow I send troops to attack your small fortress. The raid operations are mainly elite infantry, and some interception operations It is mainly cavalry.

Ordinary line infantry rarely go up to play such small-scale raids.

This is the case in the west of Liaoning, not to mention places such as Jizhen, Miyun and Xuanda. When the Dongyao people and the Mongols they controlled took the initiative to move south, the Chu army fought defensively.

When the Chu army took the initiative to run out to attack or counterattack, they only dispatched cavalry troops.

In this way, the Chu army and the Dongyao people have been fighting for nearly a year. In fact, the two sides have not yet had a serious large-scale infantry battle in the wild.

Under such circumstances, many generals of the Dongcap people have seen the Chu army's line tactics, so naturally they don't understand its true power.

But soon, these Dongbang people saw the power of line tactics!

The Dongyao people quickly approached a range of about 150 meters. After entering this range, their arquebus gunners had already fired sporadically.

But the line of the first battalion did not move at all, and the hit rate of the muskets at this distance was extremely limited, not to mention that although there were more than 200 arquebus gunners on the opposite side, after being divided into six rows, there were actually more than 30 people who were scheduled to fire at the front people only.

With such sporadic firepower at a distance of [-] meters, Bai Haoming, the commander of the first battalion, didn't even bat an eyelid!
He is waiting!
Waiting for the enemy to continue to approach!

When the enemy army entered about 120 meters, Major Bai Haoming, who was riding on the horse, drew out his command saber decisively: "The first row is ready!"

When the Dongyao people entered the [-] meters, Major Bai Haoming pointed forward with the command saber: "Aim!"

Bai Haoming gave the order to open fire when Dongyao entered 80 meters!
As his voice fell, more than 200 fusiliers in the first battalion pulled the triggers on the opposite enemy. There were intensive gunshots and smoke rose in the line.

Just after the gunfire, dozens of people fell down in the queue of Dongyao people on the opposite side, and the voice of young hero Bai Haoming continued: "The second row fires!"

"Third row fire!"

In a short period of time, a total of 600 line infantry from the five infantry posts were divided into three rows and fired in turn, and the bullets fired by these more than [-] two-year-style flintlock guns were all scattered towards the left-wing troops of the Dongyao people in front. go!

In just 1 minute, the first battalion fired at least [-] rounds of ammunition!

Because there was no wind, the smoke generated during the intensive shooting filled the queue of the first battalion with a burst of white smoke, like a white mist, and one could smell the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke in it.

In some small areas where the smoke is particularly thick, some soldiers can't even see their comrades around them, let alone the enemies in front of them.

They can only follow the officer's orders mechanically and rigidly, fire, clear the chamber, load, fire, and so on and on and on!
Amidst the gunshots, there were bursts of screams in front of them. Some soldiers of the Chu army in the thick smoke actually didn't know whether their bullets hit the enemy, or even how many people were on the other side. fallen!
The only one who can see the whole situation at a close distance is Major Bai Haoming who rides on a horse and looks down at both the enemy and us!
At this time, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth!
And in front of him were the dead and wounded Dong captives all over the mountain!
After the large number of dead and wounded, there were two or three hundred remnants of the Eastern Captives fleeing in embarrassment towards the rear!

More than [-] people from the left wing of Dongcap, known for their toughness in field battles, went out to fight, but they were blocked by the fierce line fire of the Chu army. More than half of them were killed and injured on the spot, and they fled!
Dozens of them were brave and white-armored elites in heavy armor, and because they rushed to the front, together with their generals, they were severely injured in the first time, and after a few rounds of volleys, almost all of them Casualties!
The leading generals and the elite white-armored soldiers suffered heavy casualties at the first time, which directly shook the left-wing troops of the Eastern Captives. The remaining ordinary soldiers and small officers could not hold their formation at all, and they didn't even know whether to continue to charge forward or retreat. .

And a large number of ordinary soldiers were even stunned. Just before they rushed forward confidently, thinking of killing all the enemies and looting their property, but they suffered heavy casualties as soon as they rushed...

For a moment, they didn't know what to do.

When facing the people from the Central Plains in Guannei, the Dongbao people are confident and even proud. This kind of self-confidence has been gradually built up in the past few decades of fighting with the Ming army, and it has penetrated into their bones.

And this kind of arrogance, when they were hit by the devastating infantry firepower of the Chu army, became the main reason for increasing their casualties.

If they turned around and ran immediately, the casualties would definitely not be so heavy.

But they struggled repeatedly and hesitated for tens of seconds, and within these tens of seconds they suffered a devastating blow.

In the end, under the heavy casualties, all the staff finally collapsed. Without any order, the remaining soldiers fled to the rear empty-headed...

At this moment, they only want to escape from this place, and they don't care about anything else.

Not only the commander of the first battalion, Major Bai Haoming, could see this scene clearly, but Colonel Ning Yiming, the commander of the No.90 Infantry Regiment not far away, could also see it clearly, but the distance was a little farther away, and the details were not so clear. Details only.

Similarly, the Dongcap generals on the opposite side could also see clearly!

Under his command, the left-wing troops first stepped forward, and then approached a distance of about fifty feet, and then gradually advanced and fired with matchlock guns until they reached about thirty feet.

The arquebus shooting at this distance did not cause too much damage to Chu Manzi as expected, but it effectively improved his morale, allowing other friendly troops to raise their heads, stabilize their formation, and move forward.

However, from this time on, the situation changed drastically.

After Chu Manzi on the opposite side continued to fire, the intensity of infantry firepower that erupted far exceeded his imagination!

Then the left wing troops under his command fell in pieces amidst the opponent's intensive gunshots. The general in front wanted to forcefully rush over to initiate close combat, so he stared at the casualties and continued to charge forward. The closer you are, the greater the casualties!

It didn't take long for more than half of them to be killed or injured. Such a heavy casualty directly caused the left wing troops to completely collapse.

The most important thing is that during the whole process, our side has almost no counterattack ability!
The attempt of the left wing to rush directly to start a hand-to-hand combat was not successful. When it was about ten feet away from the Chu Manzi array, it couldn't hold on and collapsed.

After watching this left-wing attack from beginning to end, the leader of the Dongyao general knew that it was impossible to drive the opposite Chu Manzi into the sea, and the only solution now was to return to Beicheng and wait Reinforcements from Golden State and beyond.

So he ordered without hesitation: "Retreat!"

Watching the opponent retreat, Bai Yiming did not order to pursue, because the opponent still has some cavalry, although there are not many cavalry, only about a hundred.

But once one's own side launches a chase and the formation is scattered, there is a high probability that the opponent's cavalry will rush over, and it will be difficult to handle at that time.

Anyway, Lushun is ahead, so it can't run away.

Moreover, hundreds of enemy troops have been killed and wounded in the first battle just now, and the morale of the enemy troops has been greatly damaged. It will be much easier to attack Beicheng next.

Now, it is better to continue to deploy defenses and cover the troops in the rear, especially the landing of cavalry and artillery troops.

As long as one's own cavalry and artillery successfully landed, then the landing would be more than half a success, and if the North City and South City were taken later, then this landing operation would be considered a complete success.

As for being able to win the North City and the South City, there is no need to worry too much about it.

That place was just a small castle, not a big city, and these Donghuo people were not like the Ming army before. The caliber of the artillery was made larger and larger, and even painstaking efforts were made to develop new howitzer shells to attack the city.

When the Dongbao people defended the city, they were basically the same old way. Let alone the Liaodong Peninsula, even on the front line in the west of Liaodong, the artillery on many castles was deployed directly on the open-air artillery positions at the top of the city, and there were no sandbags. circular fortifications.

Ordinary infantry can only defend and fight on the top of the open-air city wall behind the battlements, and there are no artillery fortifications for artillery defense.

And there are no trenches, parapets or forts outside the city.

From the point of view of city defenses alone, the Ming army, especially the Ming army in the Central Plains who has been fighting against the Chu army for a long time, can basically beat the Dongren... well, or it can beat any army in the world, including the Chu army...

No way, they couldn't fight in the field, and they were bombed while defending the city, so they could only try their best to build various artillery fortifications.

As for the Dongyao people, they still have a lot of confidence in field battles, and if they defend the city and fight, the Chu army has not actually attacked the big city where the Dongyao people are stationed, so the Dongyao people have not yet defeated the Chu army. The loss of the siege, I have never seen the grand scene of hundreds of artillery shells from the Great Chu Empire Army.

On the contrary, they felt that the reason why the Ming army was beaten so badly by the Chu army was because the Ming army's combat effectiveness was too weak...

If they had come to defend the city, they would have killed every Chu barbarian, and killed every pair...as many as they came.

No, the Dongbao people didn't think much about relying on defending the city to win the war. Their focus is still on field battles!

Because they have the heavy armored infantry that they are proud of, and at the same time they have a large number of cavalry from the Eight Banners!

Large-scale field battles are what they are good at!
Naturally, such Dongbang people don't pay much attention to city defense, and it's useless even if they pay attention to it. Even the small broken city in the north city of Zhongzuo doesn't use medium and large-caliber cannons and 48-jin howitzers.

Only the 24-pound howitzer, the [-]-pound light howitzer, and the [-]-pound light howitzer can effectively cover one's own siege.

These howitzers newly equipped by the Chu Army are especially useful in battles because of their curved trajectory!
This point was fully proved in the Battle of Beicheng and Nancheng on the second day!
The No.90 Infantry Regiment and the No.80 Ninth Infantry Regiment of the Chu Army that have already landed, as well as the Second Marine Regiment, have a total of three regiment-level troops, plus more than 20 two-and-a-half-jin field artillery, and eight 24-jin Howitzers, eighteen 20-pound light howitzers, and more than [-] nine-pound light howitzers.

It took only two hours to take Beicheng. In these few hours, most of the time was spent preparing artillery positions. It didn’t take long for the real fight to take place. Under the intensive bombardment of a large number of howitzers, more than 1000 Dongren who defended the city There were heavy casualties in the first half hour.

Then the cookie-cutter commando, well, that is, after the grenadier troops attacked, they basically took it down.

After taking the northern city, the Chu army turned around and attacked the southern city. Because the southern city had the Dongyao people's navy and could get artillery support from their warships, the Chu army was more cautious. They found several hills and set up a large number of artillery. Medium and long-range continuous shelling.

After several hours of shelling, it was taken in the evening of the same day.

Immediately, the Chu army began to deploy artillery to bombard the navy in the port. The Dongluo navy in the port tried to break through, but unfortunately it was blocked by the Chu army fleet outside the port.

In the end, among the dozens of large and small ships of the Dongyao Navy, a few sank, and the rest surrendered!

Lushunkou was completely captured by the Chu army!
(End of this chapter)