The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 139 Login
The chapter name is wrong, this chapter is called "Siege"

"Very well, I will ask you again, do you know how the soldiers and horses in Liaoyang City are?"

"In the Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, there is His Majesty Nabo, and there are no less than 20 troops stationed in the palace with His Majesty in the city. I am heading towards Tokyo, surrounded by acres of land and a large population, and there are at least [-] local soldiers who can be recruited at any time." Yelu Debao replied neither humble nor overbearing.

For a while, Li Yu looked at Yelu Debao with a little appreciation.

Being loyal to one's duty is only the minimum requirement for being an official, but it is also very rare in this era. Li Yu has long been disappointed with the civil servants of this era. The Song Dynasty has kept scholars for a hundred years, and many literati are arrogant, especially since Shenzong Years later.Li Yu was also sent by the Liangzhe Road appeasement ambassador. He also visited various states and counties back then, and was very disappointed!Most of the civil officials are only focused on fighting against political opponents. If they want to ask about the amount of money and food in the government treasury and the people's cultivated land, they have to read the files on the spot or ask the master and other small officials to answer.

Therefore, the management officials appointed by Li Yu's overseas bases in private are basically not of scholar's background, they are either dug out of depressed officials, or they have been cultivated from orphans for several years.

"Your surname is Yelu, but the Khitan clan?" After thinking about it, Li Yu asked kindly.

Yelu Debao rolled his eyes. He is a smart man. Although he is greedy as an official, he is not lazy. A lazy official will not be greedy for money, but will only be fooled by the subordinates.Yelu Debao could naturally figure out the meaning of the other party from the change in Li Yu's tone, so he quickly replied: "Return to Your Highness, the foreign minister is from the Khitan Yelu Headquarters Palace Army, although the surname is Yelu, but it is not a clan. If you want to force it For nine generations, it may have been so alienated from the royal family, but as the foreign minister said, the foreign minister was born in the army of my royal majesty, and since your majesty is still alive, the foreign minister is naturally loyal to your majesty. Two."

"Very good, you can go down and draw pictures." Li Yu nodded and ordered: "Come here, take the two brothers down to rest, and submit them immediately after drawing the picture."

Of course Li Yu understood what he meant, His Majesty is still there, is he loyal?Nonsense!He promised to draw the city defense map, where did he get his loyalty?He clearly meant that he was testing to see if he could take down Liaoyang.

Li Yu can even guess what this guy's idea is, he just wants to bet on both ends!He said that he was willing to persuade the Chenzhou defenders to surrender, but he wanted to find an opportunity to let him go back to Chenzhou. The Chenzhou defenders would never surrender as soon as they came up, at least once; If he doesn't know the combat power of Liaoyang or Liaoyang, he will lead the army to vote. Otherwise, the defenders of Chenzhou will fight to the end and cooperate with the reinforcements from Liaoyang to annihilate him.

It's a pity that Li Yu didn't intend to give him a chance to show off at all. He just stayed in the prisoner-of-war camp honestly. When he broke into Liaoyang, captured the center of the Liao Kingdom, and cut off his thoughts, this guy might be useful.

"Order the whole army to prepare meals at five o'clock tomorrow. The prince will personally lead five battalions of soldiers and horses to stay at the port and stabilize the rear. He ordered Yang Ponu to lead a total of ten battalions of infantry soldiers to set off at dawn and head straight for the capital city of Chenzhou!"

The Shenji Battalion privately set up by Li Yu imitated the military system of the Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty. For artillery, all battalion-level organizational systems are organized in accordance with the sequence of departments, divisions, bureaus, banners, and teams. 24 people form a team, three teams form a banner, and three banners form a bureau. There are 12 generals, with a total of 112 people; four bureaus form a division , each division has a general manager; the two divisions form one department, and each department has a general manager, totaling 899 people.The three divisions form a battalion, with one general, one instructor, and one deputy general. The battalion has a total of 700 people.

There is no establishment above the battalion level, and every time an expedition is made, the temporary commander will dispatch troops according to the battalion level. The dispatch of the command envoy attached to the commander Yang Ponu is actually just a temporary appointment, that is, the appointment lasts for a long time, which is like a permanent appointment. up.

In this cross-sea battle, Li Yu used a total of seventeen battalions of infantry, three battalions of artillery, and one battalion of logistics auxiliary troops.The shipping capacity of the ship is limited, Li Yu plans to take down Liaoyang, and recruit the local Han people on the spot as auxiliary soldiers.

Di Yuan and Lu Qiusuo went out of Liaoyang and took away five battalions of soldiers, including one artillery battalion; they sent Yang Ponu to directly attack Chenzhou and used ten battalions, also including an artillery battalion. Li Yu only had five battalions in his hands. It's too late, but with more than [-] infantry artillery, it is more than enough to guard a port.

Chenzhou Fucheng.

Night had already fallen, but the government office was still brightly lit.The general judge of Chenzhou, Halezhuo, rubbed his forehead, and sat opposite Liu Jing, the lieutenant general of the tribal Han army, with a gloomy look on his face.

At this time, only a sound of hurried footsteps came, and the two turned their heads to look out at the same time, but saw another lieutenant general in the tribal army, Wu Hongyi, who was in command of the Bohai Navy, striding into the room wearing a suit of armor. Fuya picked up a cup of cold tea on the table and gulped it down, wiped the sweat from his forehead indiscriminately, took a few breaths, and said: "Everything is arranged! The soldiers are holding hands, the defense equipment is also being moved to the city wall, and the messenger sent to Liaoyang to report the news has already set off!"

Li Yu made such a big commotion by the seaside, the rumbling sound of the cannon was naturally audible to the Chenzhou government, which was ten miles away. After boarding the fast-running soldiers, they found out that the Acropolis and the port were occupied by the Song army who came across the sea. Even Yelu Debao, the Zhizhou who happened to be in the Acropolis, was captured by the Song army.

After hearing the news, Halle Zhuo hurriedly informed the two lieutenants of the tribal army that the chief general was not there. The three of them got together to discuss and decided not to move for the time being. Take extra precautions against the Song army attacking the city at night.

As for going out of the city to fight with the Song army in the wild, the two lieutenants had suggested it, but Halezhuo suppressed it on the grounds that they had to wait for Liaoyang's order.

Harlezo is a cautious person. The general is captured, and the soldiers are panicked. At this juncture, as long as he does not make mistakes and defends the city of Chenzhou, it will be a great achievement.

Moreover, the strength of the Song army on the pier is unknown. Even if the Song army has always given its combat power for nothing, since it dared to use the move of attacking across the sea, it must be an elite army carefully prepared by Song Dynasty, or it may have been against Xixia all year round. Elite Western Army.

Therefore, we must act cautiously for the time being, and it is inconvenient to go out of the city and fight the Song army in large-scale waves in the wild.

However, you can take a small group of troops to test the reality of the Song army. It just so happens that there are exactly [-] tribal cavalry in Chenzhou City!

"The arrangement is very good. We must strictly guard the city wall and guard against the night attack of the Song army." Halle Zhuo praised, and then suggested: "The four thousand cavalry in the city are useless to defend the city. My suggestion is to send a brave general , lead the cavalry to hide in the acropolis and docks outside the city. First, gather the surrounding town soldiers. Second, you can attack the Song army tentatively to find out the reality of the Song army. Third, you can harass the Song army on the periphery. Fourth, at the critical moment, these four thousand iron cavalry can also become a surprise soldier that decides the outcome! I wonder what the two generals think?"

Liu Jing and Wu Hongyi looked at each other, and immediately understood what the other meant.Wu Hongyi patted his chest and stood up: "Tongjue's plan is very clever, and the last general also feels that he should act accordingly. Let the last general lead the four thousand cavalry out of the city!"

"Very good, what does General Liu think?" Halle Zhuo echoed.

"The general has no opinion at the end."

Liu Jing is a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a calm personality. He has no interest in leading cavalry to test and attack. Fighting will kill people. How can you hide in the city to command safety when you go to the battlefield!Different from Liu Jing, Wu Hongyi is impatient and has a bad temper. He has long been looking forward to leading the army to the battlefield to show his strengths, so Liu Jing is also happy that he will be the first bird.

"General Nawu should immediately gather his troops and lead the troops out of the city?" Halezhuo ordered, "Perhaps tomorrow morning, the Song army will be under the city, and it will be difficult to hide their whereabouts by then."

Hallejo guessed right.

The next day, the first ray of sunlight fell on the world, outside the west gate of Chenzhou Prefecture, Yang Ponu had already led ten battalions of soldiers to appear here, and launched a battle.

Three hundred feet away from the top of the city, there is a row of heavy armored soldiers holding heavy shields in both hands. They are wearing plate armor, and they look particularly burly. The heavy shields in their hands are as high as seven feet. They are divided into three layers. The outermost layer is also covered with a layer of crocodile skin, which is taken from the saltwater crocodile in Australia. The spliced ​​heavy shield has a good defensive effect and can withstand direct shots from small bed crossbows.

Behind the heavy shield soldiers, there are two rows of artillery, a total of two hundred, with different calibers and different ranges. Unlike the iron guns on battleships, here are all Napoleon bronzes that Li Yu ordered to imitate and cast. Cannons, use two horses to drive the march, of course, donkeys can also be used to pull cannons in emergencies; the 12-pound cannon with a larger caliber has been filled with wood-barrel fuze explosive shells, and is aiming at the city, while the 6-pound gun with double the caliber The field guns are loaded with shotguns, and the muzzle points straight forward. This is called the bayonet on the cannon, which is to prevent the enemy from launching a desperate charge and threaten the survival of the artillery.

Behind the artillerymen are light infantrymen in leather armor, holding unified flintlock breech-loading muskets, and are methodically preparing for the battle.

When the defenders on the city wall saw the enemy appearing outside the city, they had already been waiting on the top of the city.

The Han soldiers under Liu Jing's command had already prepared for rolling wood and beating stones, boiling oil and gold juice until boiling, stringing the crossbow on the bed, and waiting for the Song army to attack the city.

Hallezhuo and Liu Jing hid behind the wall, poked out half of their heads, and carefully observed the Song army under the city, becoming more and more puzzled.

"This Song army is very weird and evil!" Liu Jing frowned, and murmured: "The queue is neatly lined up, but there are no swords, guns, halberds, archers and cavalry, but they are fiddling with sticks one by one. What kind of weapon is the big pipe on the cart? It looks like copper, the Song army is rich, and they use copper to make weapons!"

"I made a rough count. The Song army was less than 3 people, and they didn't carry any siege equipment. How dare they come to attack the city with this strength? It's not normal!" I have some doubts, this part of the Song Army came to encircle and fight for aid! But it doesn't make sense, their number is too small, less than 3 people, what do they use to besiege the city? Strange, so strange! General Liu, yesterday Have the spies released at night returned? Did they bring any news?"

"Only two or three came back, and the rest were all captured and killed by the masters of the Song Army." Liu Jing snorted depressedly, and continued: "There is indeed news brought back, and the Song Army who landed as mentioned is only 5 to [-] based on the camp. People, the Song army that sent troops early this morning is only the one under the city, it is really confusing!"

"Could it be..."

The two looked at each other at the same time, shook their heads at the same time, and put that absurd thought behind them.

Impossible, there are only more than [-] infantry in the city, how can it be possible to defeat the Chenzhou defenders and take the Fucheng!
"Whether it is true or not, let's see how the Song army will attack the city!"

Yang Ponu ordered the soldiers to cut down trees and build a high platform. At this time, he was standing on the high platform, holding a telescope to observe the city defense of Chenzhou, surrounded by a team of Jinyi guards holding shields; behind Yang Ponu, stood a group of There is a large flag with yellow characters on a red background and a big "Yang" character written on it.

Yang Ponu looked back at the flag fluttering in the cool morning breeze, feeling filled with emotion.

This is Yang of the Yang family general!It has been a hundred years, and finally a son of the Yang family has reached Liaodong!Even if he, Yang Ponu, is just a distant branch of the Yang family, there is no record of his existence in the genealogy!

"Target the defenders at the top of the city, load the bombs, and fire five rounds!"

With mixed feelings in Yang Ponu's mind, he turned his head lightly and issued an order. The semaphore soldiers waved the flags in their hands and conveyed the order to the general in charge of commanding the artillery. At the same time, there were bursts of battle drums behind the high platform.

Yu Daguang, a member of the Third Artillery Battalion, received the command from the general and shouted without hesitation: "Target city, fire, fire!"

When the gunners heard the order, they immediately pulled the gun rope quickly, and the gun rope pulled the flintlock device, generating sparks, which ignited the gunpowder in the gun chamber.

The gunpowder deflagrated rapidly in the narrow barrel, and there was a bang. The propelling force produced caused the shell to be shot out rapidly, splitting the sky instantly, leaping a distance of three hundred feet and nearly a thousand meters, and falling on the top of Chenzhou city.

boom!
As the fuze in the wooden tube on the cannonball burned to the end, it ignited the gunpowder loaded in the cannonball, and the cannonball exploded with a bang, and the shock wave generated unscrupulously destroyed everything around it.

Of course, it's just black powder with a limited range.

Moreover, in the first round of [-] shells, only a dozen or so accurately hit the top of the city. The rest either fell outside the city or entered the city. Halfway through, it exploded in the air and became a firework.

But these dozen or so shells are also "deadly" enough!
Unknown weapons bring unprecedented shock to the enemy.

Under the dull eyes of the soldiers defending the city, shells jumped off the bricks of the battlements, or pierced through the bodies of their colleagues, and fell on the top of the city without losing momentum. Exploding, bricks, stones, wood and the broken bodies of colleagues flew in all directions with the explosion, splashing blood all over the surrounding soldiers.

"Ghost!" A Han soldier wiped the flesh and blood on his face, howled suddenly, dropped his weapon and ran down the city.

(End of this chapter)