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Chapter 853 Breaking the King City (seventh update)

boom!boom! !

The 36-pound artillery was roaring, and the guns along the coast of Ganghwa Island were roaring. The defenders of Ganghwa Island were huddled outside the range of the artillery, and did not dare to fight.

On the other side of Ganghwa Island is Seoul, the King's City of Goryeo.

The Beiyang Fleet bombarded Ganghwa Island, shaking the entire city of Seoul!
Standing on top of the Daqi battleship, Li Yan, the son of the prince, was in a complicated mood when he saw the defenders of Jianghua Island being beaten.He could feel the shaking of the battleship's hull when it fired its guns.

"Ganghwa Island is just an accompanying capital. If the Goryeo court doesn't send someone out to contact us, we will start attacking Seoul." Zheng Zhilong looked at the outline of Ganghwa Island with a telescope and said.

"General Zheng, please don't attack Seoul. Unlike Ganghwa Island, it has a large population. If it is bombarded like this, it will probably cause a lot of civilian casualties." Li Yan pleaded with Zheng Zhilong.

"Reform requires bloodshed. The conservatives cannot be wiped out by peaceful means. They must be intimidated by artillery to make them feel fear. If our Beiyang Fleet hadn't landed to bring down the coalition forces, the shogunate would not have been so afraid of us." Zheng Zhilong Said.

"But Seoul is our homeland after all, and I don't want civilians to suffer casualties from the artillery," Li Yan said.

"Bombarding Ganghwa Island is just our warning. I have already sent a message that Wang Ting should welcome us to Seoul as soon as possible, otherwise we will first capture Ganghwa Island and then attack Seoul." Zheng Zhilong said.

The Beiyang Fleet bombarded Ganghwa Island for three days. The King of Korea and the civil servants in Seoul were in dispute over whether to support Ganghwa Island in the royal court, and they did not send a support army.

On the fourth day, the Beiyang Fleet landed on Ganghwa Island and made an emergency landing on the [-] Koryo defenders on Ganghwa Island.

On the fifth day, the Beiyang Fleet began to land on the Koryo Peninsula and attack the outer defenders of Seoul.

The landing force of the Beiyang Fleet has only 1000 people, while there are tens of thousands of defenders on the outskirts of Seoul!

"The artillery of the fleet is bombarding the enemy. The whole army is ready. Once the enemy's formation is in chaos, we will immediately step forward and defeat the enemy." Zheng Zhilong personally went ashore to command.

This landing force was supported by warships along the river. The artillery on the warships took the lead in bombarding the phalanx of the Koryo defenders, and Zheng Zhilong led the landing troops to launch an attack afterwards.

"Li Yan, why don't you stay on the battleship, come down, this is a battlefield, you will die!" Zheng Zhilong pulled out his command saber, and found that Li Yan came to land with the landing troops.

"I want to experience my courage and courage, and I will show you the way!" Li Yan stepped on the battlefield for the first time, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably due to nervousness.

Zheng Zhilong was a little surprised: "No matter what your identity is, you are a soldier on the battlefield. Swords have no eyes, and no one can blame you if you die!"

"Yes!" Li Yan shouted hysterically, stimulated by the bloodiness on the battlefield.

The tens of thousands of Koryo defenders on the outskirts of Seoul were bombarded by battleships along the river, and when they were in disarray, the skirmishers led by Zheng Zhilong began to attack the positions of the Goryeo defenders.

"Cannon cover!!" Zheng Zhilong ordered the skirmish line to attack forward, and at the same time ordered the two smoothbore guns ashore to protect the skirmish line behind it.

Soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet wearing new military uniforms were holding Dreiser rifles, shooting while using the terrain to leap forward.

The Koryo defenders still used the backward line-up shooting formation and the long-gun phalanx. The poor hit rate of the arquebus itself was weak in front of the skirmish line, while the soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet who used the new rifles gradually eliminated the resistance during the movement. Korea Ministry.

The [-] Koryo defenders on the outskirts were defeated steadily by the soldiers of the Beiyang Fleet with only [-] soldiers, until they shrank into Seoul and never dared to go out of the city to fight.

As the son of the king of Koryo, but on the side of the Kyushu Army, Li Yan witnessed this battle of disparity in strength with his own eyes.The total number of killed and injured on the Beiyang Fleet was only a dozen people, while the total number of killed and injured by the King of Koryo alone exceeded 200, and many more were injured.

He began to understand that Zheng Zhilong told him that the battlefield was dangerous because Zheng Zhilong regarded this war as an evenly matched confrontation, but in fact the combat power of the two sides was very different, and Li Yi hardly had any real danger on Zheng Zhilong's side.

"Let the civil servants in the royal court see the gap." Li Yan picked up the musket dropped by the Goryeo soldiers on the ground. It was a French 1777 muzzle-loading musket, or a small musket he bought from the Kyushu Army at a high price. One of the batch of muskets.

Although the Kyushu Army only sold a small amount of the 1777 Sui muskets to Koryo, Koryo completely regarded these muskets as treasures, and they were equipped by the elite troops guarding the capital.

However, the 1777 rifle, which they regarded as a treasure, has gradually ceased production in the arsenal of the Kyushu Army.The mass-produced Dreiser rifles, Gatling hand-cranked machine guns and even better rifles are being developed in the Kyushu Army Arsenal.

On the seventh day, the Beiyang Fleet carried picric acid explosives from the supply ship and began to blast the gate of the royal capital of Koryo City!

The Koryo defenders, who had never seen explosives used to explode, were frightened by the explosion caused by the explosives, and people in Seoul panicked for a while.

On the ninth day, a thousand soldiers from the Beiyang Fleet broke through the city gate, and fought with the Koryo royal army with bayonets in street fighting.The Koryo royal division occupied half of the city where the palace was located, while the Beiyang Fleet occupied the other half of the city, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.The Beiyang Fleet was unable to control the entire city due to lack of troops, and the Koryo King Division could only be forced to defend. Once they tried to retake the other half of the city controlled by the Beiyang Fleet, they would be defeated by the Beiyang Fleet.

"The crown prince is here, disarm and don't kill!" Zheng Zhilong played Li Yi's banner to recruit the Koryo army in the city, so that even if the Koryo army surrendered to the Beiyang Fleet, there would be no psychological burden.

Although Seoul can be easily conquered, Zheng Zhilong has too few troops, and the local troops outside the city to support the capital are still arriving continuously. 1000 people can capture it, but it is not easy to hold it.

Li Yan's flag was displayed, and many of the troops still resisting in the city surrendered to the Beiyang Fleet, and were recruited by Li Yan.

"Do we have our own army now..." Jin Zidian and others gathered some remnants of the city, about 3000 to [-] people.

With Li Yi's banner of being attractive to the generals of Koryo, the reinforcements who came to increase the number of Wangcheng had to consider the issue of standing in line.

Obviously, with the help of the Kyushu Army, Li Yan was about to break with the king. When they came to reinforce, they had to choose who to support. If they were in the wrong team, life would be difficult in the future!
Li Yi's army, supported by the Kyushu Army, was favored by many Koryo generals, and some reinforcements even turned their flags to help Li Yi.

"His Majesty the King wants to have peace talks with you!" Ren Zu Li Yan finally couldn't hold back, and sent envoys to ask for peace with Zheng Zhilong and the others.

(End of this chapter)