Blood from Daming

Chapter 843 Battle of Lushun
On February 26, the tenth year of Chongzhen, the Jianlu army, which withdrew from North Korea, attacked Lvshun controlled by Xue's army by water and land. Left and right, the difference in strength between the two sides reached more than six times.

The battle started on the afternoon of February 26. Fifty warships of the North Korean Navy, as the vanguard of attacking the Xue family army, took the lead in launching an attack on the North Sea Fleet of the Xue family army. Tao Yaofu and Wen Lao Er took the "Taishan" and "Lushun "The three-masted warship commanded the battle. In the first round of bombardment of the 3000 warships of the Korean navy, eight were sunk and twelve were injured, and [-] sailors and soldiers were lost. The Korean navy withdrew from the battle with the consent of the Qing army.

The confrontation between the Xue family's navy and the North Korean navy made Lu Yaojin very angry. This North Korean is a cheap bone. After the war, please ask the mistress to teach the North Korean monarchs and ministers a good lesson.

The real battle started on February 27. The Qing army was supplemented by a feint attack by the water army, and the Qing army and the Korean army attacked on land. They attacked Lushun City and Lushun Port at the same time. Nearly [-] Korean troops attacked first. The city of Lushun became a victim of the consumption of Xue's army's grenades and ammunition.

After an hour of confrontation, after the North Korean army paid half of the casualties, the Mongolian and Han armies of the Qing army entered the battle. The Beihai Fleet was in charge, and the battle lasted until Shenshi in the afternoon. The Qing army suffered nearly [-] casualties. Facing the inexhaustible grenades, explosives, and muskets of the Xue family army, Huang Taiji finally did not allow Jurchen Niulu to attack the city after preparing for the battle for a long time, and ended the battle against Lushun ahead of schedule. city ​​attack.

On the 27th, the Qing army lost 8000 people. In addition to attacking Lushun City and killing 5000 people, the Qing army attacking from the sea lost more than 100 small boats and more than 3000 soldiers. The Molotov cocktails burned, plus the 100 soldiers killed by the North Korean army, the Qing army's death toll on the first day of the battle was already tens of thousands.

However, the losses of the Xue family army were not small. The army defending Lushun City had more than 2000 casualties, of which about 800 were killed. The biggest hidden danger is that in order to severely hit Jianlu's fighting spirit, 20.00% of grenades, explosives and bullets were consumed on the first day.

On the 28th and 29th, the Qing army continued to attack the Xue family army, but the attack slowed down significantly. It seemed that the Qing army gave up the idea of ​​taking Lushun City in one fell swoop, and started a war of attrition with the Xue family army. However, after two days of fighting, the Qing army Thousands of soldiers were still lost every day. Since March, the Qing army stopped attacking Xue's army.

On the tenth day of March, the Qing army began to build an earthen platform outside Lushun City. Lu Yaojin knew that the real war was coming. Sure enough, on the fifteenth day of March, the Qing army came from the north, causing Qing The army camp burst into cheers, and when the Qing army set up artillery on the earth platform the next day, Xue Jiajun realized that it was the artillery unit of the Qing army that had arrived yesterday.

The artillery unit of the Qing army was composed of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and other Ming army rebels who knew about firearms. Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi were ordered by Huang Taiji to bring more than 1 Han troops on the first day of March the next day 38 red-clothed cannons came straight from Shengjing to Lushun. Along the way, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi changed horses and did not stop. They walked for fifteen days and arrived at the city of Lushun.

When Lu Yaojin was building the earthen platform of the Qing army, he knew that the Qing army was likely to set up artillery, but the artillery in Lushun City could not reach the earthen platform of the Qing army. Seeing the prototype of nearly a hundred earthen platforms built by the Qing army, Lu Yaojin knew the situation was not good Alright, I discussed with Tao Yaofu, the captain of the navy overnight, and transported ten Dafolang cannons from the three-masted warships "Taishan" and "Lushun" at night.

On the 8000th, facing the Qing army setting up cannons on the earthen platform, the Xue family army transported the big Franco cannons to the city wall in broad daylight. When they arrived at the artillery position on the city wall, Lu Yaojin did not delay, and immediately ordered ten large Francois cannons to fire at the earth platform outside the city.

The gunners transferred from the navy were really skilled in firing artillery. After only two test shots of the first big Franco machine gun, the third shot blew up an earthen platform of the Qing army. Dozens of people on the earthen platform were firing The Qing army, together with the red cannons that had not yet been set up, were thrown off the earthen platform. The Qing army under the earthen platform suffered a lot of casualties.

In the next half an hour, the Xue family army bombarded more than a dozen earthen platforms, hundreds of people were killed and injured by the Qing army, and several red cannons were reimbursed. The Qing army artillery led by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi couldn't stand it anymore and fled Out of the range of Xue Jiajun's artillery, until dark, Xue Jiajun's artillery bombed and collapsed more than 30 earth forts.

Just after dawn the next day, the artillerymen of the Xue family army began to bombard the earthen forts with red cannons of the Qing army under the sunlight of dawn. There is no problem in hitting live targets in the sea, not to mention the motionless earth forts on land.

Huang Taiji has worked so hard to manage the artillery for several years. He was beaten to death by the artillery of the Xue family army before he was pulled out to fight the first battle. In the end, the imitation red cannons of the Qing Dynasty did not have enough range to fight against the authentic Fu Lang of the Xue family army. Machine cannons, the Qing artillery that has been waiting for more than ten days will not be of much use.

After Huang Taiji's artillery-to-cannon strategy failed, he had no choice but to take a long-term siege of Lushun City. However, this plan did not last long. On April [-], the First and Third Fleets of the Xue Family Navy arrived at the sea off Lushun Port. With the cooperation of the Beihai Fleet In the next step, more than [-] warships of the Manchu and Qing water divisions were annihilated, and Huang Taiji's plan to encircle the Xue family army in Lushun completely failed.

The Xue family army added 8000 soldiers from Taiwan to Lushun, including [-] musketeers. This doubled the strength of the Xue family army in Lushun. More than [-] people.

Huang Taiji, who was plagued by illness, completely gave up the idea of ​​destroying the Xue family army in Lushun. On the third day of May in the tenth year of Chongzhen, he set fire to more than 600 navy warships, and led an army of [-] Manchu, Han and Mongolian troops back north to Shengjing. At the end of the war, the North Korean army hastily retreated to the east bank of the Yalu River, entrenched in Yizhou and confronted Xue's army across the river.

On the second day of June in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the first and third fleets of the Xue family army arrived at the port of Incheon, condemning the North Korean state for assisting the emperor in attacking the Xue family army in Lushun, and demanding that the king of North Korea Li Ji sever his relationship with Jianlu, and send envoys to Hangzhou to pay tribute to plead guilty. Acting like an ostrich, refusing to pay attention to the ultimatum from the Xue Jiajun Navy, the Xue Jiajun First and Third Fleet waited for three days in Incheon Port without receiving any reply.

Angrily, Liu Ben ordered the Incheon Port to be set on fire. More than 3000 ships in the Incheon Port were burned. The fire burned for three days and three nights before it was extinguished. In the next few years, North Korea basically lost control of the North Korean sea and became an out-and-out land country.

The head of Taiwan's inner government (Xuezhuang Wang Xiucai) suggested that Yan Sanniang should restore North Korea's Gwanghae Lord Li Hun, and split North Korea into two countries at worst. It's a corner dispute. As long as the overall situation in the Central Plains is stable, North Korea can settle it with just a piece of imperial edict.

Yan Sanniang also felt that the matter of Daming was more difficult, and she had no time to support Lord Guanghai and Li Hun to send troops to North Korea, so that Hangzhou maritime merchants could adjust their direction and strengthen trade in emerging regions such as Annan and Japan. This would greatly affect the profits of Hangzhou maritime merchants, but This is the case with maritime trade. Only the money earned in the pocket is your own money.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the customs and broke through more than ten cities in Gyeonggi. Emperor Zhu Youjian of Chongzhen urgently dispatched Lu Xiangsheng to lead the army to help, and the pressure on the peasant army in the Central Plains was relieved.Zhang Xianzhong, who was struggling to support, took the opportunity to recover, and joined forces with more than [-] people from Luo Rucai and other troops, marched eastward along the river, and scattered activities in the Qizhou and Huoshan areas. , the entire Hubei, Henan, and Anhui civil revolts became active again...

In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen appointed Xiong Wencan as the prime minister of the five provinces, and sent additional imperial troops to assist in the war. Zhang Xianzhong's team suffered great difficulties.Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu's tribe in the battle of attacking Nanyang, and he himself was injured. Fortunately, he was rescued by his righteous son and grandson Kewang, so he led his troops back to Gucheng. In order to preserve his strength, Zhang Xianzhong sent troops to the five provinces in Gucheng Prime Minister Xiong Wencan.

Zhang Xianzhong paid a lot of money to buy Xiong Wencan and the people around him. After being recruited, Zhang Xianzhong did not accept adaptation and dispatch, did not accept official titles, and maintained his independence.He distributed 4 troops in the outskirts of Gucheng, the headquarters, into four battalions, each led by a general.During the rest period, collect grass and store food, build weapons, recruit troops, train soldiers, and wait for the opportunity to prepare for a comeback. [
Liu Guoneng, Zhang Tianlin, Luo Rucai and other leaders of the peasant army were caressed first and last, making the little-known elder Wang’s troops the focus of care by the officials and troops in Hubei and Shaanxi. Protector Yang, who defeated Elder Wang's Mingjiao army, was killed when he broke through to the north.

Elder Wang’s 2-strong army and civilians left less than 8000 people. Taking care of the Shangluoshan base area was destroyed, it was impossible to go north to Mizhi’s Gaojia army village. Elder Wang led his troops to forcibly cross the Yellow River, entered Henan Province in Henan, and got rid of the army in Hubei and Shaanxi. However, Zuo Liangyu was hit head-on, and there were less than 3000 of the [-] troops left. The old camp's luggage, women and children were all lost.

With Lang Tiezhu as the vanguard, Elder Wang went all the way to Beizhili, planning to go there to find the power of Mingjiao, but he was intercepted by the government and army in Kaifeng mansion, and the team was severely reduced. Chongzhen fled to Beizhili in August of the tenth year At the border of Daming Mansion, there were less than 1000 people under Elder Wang's department.

At this time, Pioneer Lang Tiezhu contacted Xue Wubu. Beizhili had been invaded by the Qing army three times, and the local forces had changed beyond recognition. Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to find the big forces of Mingjiao. Xue Wu learned that it was Elder Wang who met the three stones in Nanpi in the past, and strongly invited Elder Wang to stay in Zhangde Mansion, Henan. , after thousands of miles of fighting, the elder Wang's department, which had almost collapsed, now desires a foothold to rest, so elder Wang decided to stay in Xue Wu's territory for the time being.

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