Kai Fu Han

Chapter 351 Take Huacheng lightly
"I read the report on the attack on Yangxin City, and it was done very well. This attack on Huacheng was commanded by Liu Xinyuan, and you were there to help." Liu Xinqi praised.

The navy made a name for itself in land sieges, which made Gao Yuan very proud. Regardless of Liu Xinyuan's dark face, he loudly responded: "No problem!"

After speaking, he raised his head and winked at Liu Xinyuan.

"Dese!" Liu Xinyuan muttered, "I don't need your help."

"To attack this Xiaocheng, don't use your special warfare. Take the opportunity to practice your troops." Liu Xinqi stopped Liu Xinyuan's retort.

After handing over the special operations company to Jiao Rui, Liu Xinyuan actually transferred soldiers from the Fourth Field Regiment and formed a 30-man reconnaissance platoon of his own.

Liu Xinqi was speechless when he found out. Liu Xinyuan's thoughts on special operations were really integrated into his bones.

Liu Xinqi has always asked the Xinghan League army to pay attention to ordinary warfare methods and the training of ordinary soldiers, because he does not want to train the army of this organization into deformities.

Liu Xinqi has noticed that his body is still growing and developing, which means that although his body is of high quality, it may still age and die.By then, without the warriors supported by the system, the military strength of the Xinghan Alliance will be greatly reduced immediately.

If we had relied on warriors for special operations from the beginning, the Xinghan League's army would be useless by then.

The world is very big. There are not only the Han people, but also many other great races. Liu Xinqi doesn't want the army he worked so hard to build to be like having its limbs cut off after his death, and then have to face foreign races.

People without thought, he must worry about.

The death of Qin II was a warning. Liu Xinqi must build an invincible iron army for the Xinghan Alliance, even without the soldiers.

"Master, get ready."

Liu Xinyuan came over to report to Liu Xinqihui.

"Today you will command the battle to attack Huacheng. The main force will be your fourth field regiment. Gaoyuan's navy will only serve as a reserve force." Liu Xinqi ordered.

"Can the artillery brought ashore by the navy be handed over to us for use?" Liu Xinyuan asked.

"Okay, the gunners will be under your command for the time being." Liu Xinqi replied.

In the past, in Denglai, one battalion could attack a county town. Now Liu Xinyuan has more than two battalions. Even if Huacheng is a Jin Kingdom city and a fortress-type city, it can be said that it is a sure thing.

After listening to Liu Xinqi's arrangements, Liu Xinyuan said something like "guaranteed to capture the city", then performed a military salute and returned to the front line to command operations.

Gao Yuan also followed.

The two infantry phalanxes arrayed at the south gate of the city began to advance forward, while the naval officers who stayed behind did not move to prevent the Jin army from turning into the pass in the south from coming out, and being flanked by the Jin army from both sides.

It should be that Liu Xinqi's previous warning had an effect. In this siege, Liu Xinyuan did not use the special operations he was good at.

According to Liu Xinyang's report to himself, the scouts trained by Liu Xinyuan knew a method of climbing the city with poles.

For a city wall less than three feet high, the scout soldiers would use wooden poles or bamboo poles to jump up to the city tower in an orderly manner, then use high-end force to storm down the city tower, put down the rope ladder or open the city gate, allowing subsequent troops to easily enter the city.

It is said that Liu Xinyuan has practiced many times in Penglai. If he had not set up a dense array of spears on the city gate tower in advance, he would have been unable to defend against this tactic.In this world, no city-defending general would set up a dense array of spears on the city gate tower.

For city walls higher than three feet, auxiliary poles will be used to climb the city. In other words, the wooden poles will be lengthened and there will be help at the bottom of the wooden poles, but the essence of the tactics will not change, fully embodying the core strategy of "raid". Legal thinking.

This method of warfare has only one shortcoming that is not a shortcoming, and that is its absolute reliance on warriors. Without the high-end force of warriors, ordinary soldiers who climb up the city with poles will just kill the enemy.

After Liu Xinqi heard about this tactic at the time, he was also amazed by Liu Xinyuan's talent.

Finally, Liu Xinang was ordered to promote this method of warfare to the entire army, but it should only be used when the difficulty of siege is high and the siege tasks are tight. Ordinary soldiers should still be used as the main force in normal operations.At that time, Liu Xinang did not understand Liu Xinqi's order to "abolish martial arts", but because of Liu Xinqi's prestige, he had no choice but to comply.

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The south gate of Huacheng.

The military formation of the Fourth Field Regiment advanced to a position one mile outside the city wall.

Artillery (old-fashioned) unloaded from naval ships was placed between the two military formations.

First, a messenger was sent to persuade them to surrender. As the hinterland city of the Jin Kingdom, of course the generals guarding the city would not surrender. Then the battle officially started.

Siege tactics according to Gaoyuan's standards.

The artillery broke through the city gate first.

Huacheng is located on a peninsula, there is no big river, and there is no moat outside the city.

The city gate was easily breached.

Then the artillery began to turn towards the gate tower and bombard it.

Two infantry phalanxes began to advance.

When the march was only close to half a mile, the ten squatting tiger cannons in the infantry square began to fire.

On a first come first served basis, the Fourth Field Regiment based in Penglai was the first to be equipped with the Crouching Tiger Artillery. From the moment the Crouching Tiger Artillery entered the camp, the army of the Xinghan League officially had an artillery unit.

The artillery gunners were drawn from some musketeers and warriors, and their skills were still a bit rusty.

In the first wave of explosive shells, only two shells were fired at the top of the city. The other shells either entered the city or were shot on the outside of the city wall.

But as time went by, the hit rate of the second and third waves of shells became higher and higher.

The high parabolic trajectory of the Tiger Crouching Cannon shells turned the parabolic wall on the city wall into a decoration.

The blooming shells flew high, fell in the female wall, and then exploded twice. After the blooming shells that had been improved many times exploded, hundreds of pieces of shrapnel were sputtered in all directions. Any golden soldier who was hit or swept by the shrapnel would He immediately lost his combat effectiveness.

Even if they were lucky enough not to be hit by shrapnel, the huge sound and light effects produced by the shell explosion would frighten the Jin soldiers and destroy their morale.

The infantry formation continued to advance under the cover of artillery fire. At the [-]th step, a company of musketeers began to fire suppressively towards the city head, while a company of sharp soldiers took the lead in attacking the city gate.

There are already golden soldiers arrayed inside the city gate to defend it.

But what dealt with the Jin soldiers was not the close combat of the sharp warriors, but the close range shotgun fire of the Crouching Tiger Cannon.

The Jin soldiers' defensive formation was disrupted by a cannon, and most of the archers in front of the formation were killed or injured. Then the sharp soldiers continued to approach, and when they were twenty steps away, the grenadiers threw grenades and carried out another wave of harvest.

At this point in the war, there is no other possibility for the outcome.

The fourth field regiment of the Xinghan League relied on firearms that were far ahead of this era and easily won.

According to the final statistics, our casualties were only in single digits, and they were all caused by sporadic street fighting after entering the city. It can be said that not one person died in the battle to capture the city wall.

(End of this chapter)