469 went north to attack Jinzhou and captured Qingniwa

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Liu Chong trembled his hands and took the 'Zhenliao' legion flag.

This means that from today onwards, the 8,000 soldiers who landed in Lushun will form the second army added by the White Dragon Army, which will all belong to him and take on the important tasks assigned by Li Zixiao.

Previously, in the White Dragon Army, the only peripheral legion was the 'Western Expeditionary Legion' commanded by Qi Wei stationed in Ruzhou at this time.

Before Qi Wei was able to command the 'Western Expeditionary Army', I don't know how many White Dragon Army generals were envied.

Since then, Li Zixiao has let Liu Chong take charge alone, lead an army alone, and defend a place alone, giving Liu Chong a lot of power and giving him the opportunity to make contributions, no wonder Liu Chong is so excited.

The big strategy, Li Zixiao has already formulated it for Liu Chong, for Liu Chong in Jinzhou, mainly to defend, how to fight, it is up to him.

And this time, taking advantage of the fact that the Tartars were in the Liaodong Peninsula and the troops were empty, Li Zixiao would boldly let Liu Chong attack north.

The specific situation of where Liu Chong can go north this time depends on Liu Chong's own grasp, depending on the specific situation.

Maybe it will hit Fuzhou, maybe it will hit Yongning, or even hit Gaizhou, even if it hits these cities, Liu Chong will soon return to the area of Hongzui Fort.

After receiving the banner of the 'Zhenliao' legion, Liu Chong immediately led 6,000 men and horses north.

Li Zixiao used the 2,000 soldiers and horses left behind to build additional forts and repair the city wall in Port Arthur.

In particular, he requested that a new castle be built in Port Arthur in the style of a European fortress, which had many edges and corners, each of which was also a fort, and there were no dead ends in firepower.

Once the construction of this Western-style castle is completed, Li Zixiao will place artillery in the castle, and the enemy will have to pay a heavy price if he wants to capture such a fortress.

The fortress and Arthur City echo each other, which greatly guarantees the safety of Arthur City.

Then, Li Zixiao gave Li Sheng 800 men and horses, and asked Le Yu and Li Ping to follow him, and assigned them an artillery team, and asked them to set off from Lushun to the north, and clear those traitor troops along the way.

Li Zixiao wanted to stabilize the situation in Lushun, and he sent a group of scribes who came with the army to take over the management of Lushun City.

In the future, although Liu Chong was awarded the 'Zhenliao' legion by Li Zixiao, it was difficult for him to have time to meddle in the governance of Lushun and need these scribes to manage.

Li Zixiao asked the scribes to send a notice to Lushun and the surrounding people.

Li Zixiao announced in the announcement that Lushun had recovered and returned to the Ming Dynasty.

After the recovery of Lushun, they will protect the property of the merchants and people in the city.

But for those in the city who have previously submitted to the Tartars, oppressed the people, and acted as the legs of the Tartars, they will not be tolerated.

Whether you are a ruffian hooligan or a wealthy gentry in the city, they will all be directly arrested and imprisoned, and their homes will be confiscated.

And those ownerless, as well as the Tartars, or those previously judged to be occupied by traitors and others, were all owned by the imperial court.

These fields were changed to military tuns, and the landless people could apply to the Lushun Yamen, and each ding could be granted 50 acres of land.

The White Dragon Army also rented cattle, seeds, farm tools, etc., from them, and after they harvested, half of the harvest was rented.

Lushun fell into the hands of the Tartars for many years, during which time it was repeated several times, resulting in a great decline in the population, and many of the landowners either fled or were killed.

Nowadays, most of the fields are occupied by the Tartars or the traitorous generals.

Now, after Li Zixiao cleaned up all these measurements, they were all collected into the military tun of the White Dragon Army.

The people were very happy with this kind of notice and went to sign up for Tuntian.

And the shop wharf in Lushun also became popular immediately, because Li Zixiao announced that after the beginning of spring next year, Lushun Port will be reopened.

This means that there will definitely be merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty in the future, and many merchants have already planned in advance.

It's just that these merchants are worried that the Tartars will fight back and the White Dragon Army will not be able to hold it, and they are still in a wait-and-see state.

Two days later, a scout returned to Lushun City to report that Liu Chong's raid on Jinzhou was successful, and Jinzhou fell into the hands of the White Dragon Army, while Geng Zhongming led 2,000 remnants of the army and fled to Yongning overnight.

And Geng Zhongming, who had just captured Jinzhou and fled to Yongning, also received a secret letter sent by Huang Taiji.

When Geng Zhongming opened the secret letter and saw that it was Huang Taiji who reminded Geng Zhongming to be careful and guard against the landing attack of the White Dragon Army.

"Hindsight. At this time, people sent information, what's the use! Geng Zhongming was very dissatisfied and said.

There is no way, because the Tartars previously transferred troops, Geng Zhongming guarded in Jinzhou City, a total of less than 3,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, how can they stop Liu Chong's army of tigers and wolves.

Geng Zhongming was not stupid, seeing that the White Dragon Army was unstoppable, he decisively gave up Jinzhou City and fled north to Yongning, he didn't want to fall into the hands of the White Dragon Army.

"Okay, okay, after Jinzhou was taken by Liu Chong, the gate north of Lushun was closed." Li Zixiao said with a smile.

And immediately afterwards, Li Zixiao received information that Li Sheng sent it back.

In the past two days, they swept most of the traitor soldiers to the north, and finally went to attack Qingniwa, which was also Li Zixiao's order.

But when they attacked Qingniwa, they didn't expect that in the small city of Qingniwa, there were not only 600 traitor soldiers, but also more than 200 real Tartars.

In this way, their attack was blocked, and the Tartar defenders in Qingniwa City held on, and Li Sheng failed to capture it.

had to send a message to Li Zixiao, hoping to use Lu Yuan's First Fleet to capture Qingniwa.

Qingniwa is the second best port that Li Zixiao values, although it is not as big as Lushun for the time being.

In the future, as long as Liu Chong can hold here, Qingniwa will soon be able to develop to the point where it is on a par with Lushun.

So, after receiving Li Sheng's news, Li Zixiao left 500 soldiers and horses in Lushun, and Li Zixiao led the remaining 500 men and horses to Qingniwa.

At the same time, Lu Yuan also led his First Fleet to the Qingniwa by sea.

Lushun was less than 100 miles from Dalian, and before noon, Lu Yuan's First Fleet had already appeared outside Qingniwa Port.

In the small Qingniwa City, there were only 500 traitor soldiers and 200 Tartars stationed at this time, and the only advantage was that the Qingniwa City was built very small, which was conducive to defense.

It's not so much a green mud valley city, but a fortress.

Li Sheng's artillery was limited and could not break through the solid stone wall, and Li Sheng was unwilling to give the order for the soldiers to attack, because the casualties would be too great.

When a white sail appeared outside the Qingni port, looking at the black holes of artillery on the fleet, the Tartars in the city were dumbfounded.

Tartar Zien frantically sounded the alarm bell, and hundreds of soldiers stood at the head of the city, watching the Ming army's fleet enter the port without hurry, under the guidance of the pilot ship.

Li Zixiao had already joined Li Sheng at this time, and he was also amazed when he looked at the green mud puddle fortress.

If there were no cannons and a sufficient number of soldiers and horses, and hundreds of soldiers guarding the fortress, they would probably lose a lot of men and horses if they wanted to take it down.

But now, with the arrival of the First Fleet led by Lu Yuan, Qingniwa Li Zixiao is at his fingertips, but a fleet with hundreds of cannons is added up.

In the green mud valley city, there are only a few old earthen cannons in the castle, if it can still be defended, it will be really magical.

It's just that, even so, the two hundred Tartars in the castle did not lose their courage, and still decided to defend the castle to the death, and did not flee or surrender.

It was the five hundred traitor soldiers in the castle, all of whom were pale and frightened at this time.

"It's really not interesting to fight such a small fortress, the other party doesn't even have a cannon, it's really boring to bully such an opponent."

Lu Yuan stood on the bow of the ship, and at this time, he had already seen the situation of the fortress in Qingniwa, shook his head and said.

"Such a small fortress, with only a few hundred defenders, is still very fierce, and it still doesn't surrender."

Seeing that the city gate was closed, and the Tartars inside had not surrendered until now, an adjutant next to him smiled at Lu Yuan and said.

"It's just a battle of trapped beasts, just come and bombard the city wall directly, and it will be useless to have more tartars inside." Lu Yuan said coldly.

"Let all the gunboats all sides face the green mud puddle, and the gunners are ready, as long as they wait for the general's order to open fire, they will all open fire and blast open their tortoise shells."

A small city like Qingniwa was first in the hands of the Ming army in these years, and then it was attacked several times by the Tartars.

The back and forth battles made the city walls have different colors from the old and the new, and the entire city wall is like many patches.

The Wyvern is one of the White Dragon's three three-masted gunboats and the flagship of the First Fleet.

After receiving the command flag's instructions, the three-masted gunboat did not need to turn its angle to the side of the city, and directly faced the castle with its bow facing the castle.

The 64-pound cannon on the bow of the three-masted gunboat 'Wyvern' would weigh 578 pounds in the future.

"Report, the general has an order, let's blast open the city wall of the green mud puddle."

"Okay, let the general see, let's open this turtle shell in a few rounds." Lu Yuan said with a smile.

Then, the sixty-four-pounder gun in the bow of the three-masted gunboat, with the busy work of a dozen artillerymen, was best calibrated for the best.

On the three-masted gunboat, this sixty-four-pound heavy gun was originally used to deal with the close combat of the board, and it was used to shoot shotguns, and the power was very terrifying.

The commander of the heavy artillery, after carefully observing the distance between the city gates, took the cannon and measured and calculated for a while, and finally completed the calibration and ordered his artillery to start loading.

At this time, the White Dragon Army had actually reached the level of a Western military power in terms of the use of firearms.

And against their enemies, the Tartars have just learned to forge the Red Cannon, and it has only been a few years.

Moreover, the Hongyi cannons of the Tartars, only when the army is dispatched, will carry the Hongyi cannons, and those Hongyi cannons are very heavy and not convenient to carry.

A small city such as Qingniwa has neither artillery defense nor experience in dealing with artillery sieges.

If you want to say that the Tartar field battle is powerful, but when it comes to defending the city, it is even far less than the level of the Ming army more than ten years ago.

"Let's shoot!"

Lu Yuan saw that the artillery was ready, so he ordered.

After some preparations, the heavy artillery roared, and the entire 'Flying Dragon' trembled violently, and the fifty-eight-pound cannonball flew out of the barrel with a roar, like a meteor, smashing into the green mud valley city.

At the head of the green mud valley city, a group of Tartar soldiers dragging pigs' tails listened to the sharp whistling sound and looked at the huge cannonballs that came straight forward, all trembling and frightened.

"Oh my God, help us!" Someone exclaimed.

They had never seen such a large ship, nor had they seen such a terrible cannon, and their hearts were in awe and fear.

Huge cannonballs exploded less than a kilometer from the city gate, and countless lead bullets exploded in all directions.

In the first round of shelling, they fired explosive shells.

Many bricks were blown off the city walls, and even one battlement was blown down, and the gate was blown out of several fist-sized holes.

At the same time, other gunboats also opened fire, and for a while, as these shells fell, the city wall of the green mud pool basically collapsed.

Not only because of the terrible power of the First Fleet's artillery bombardment, but also mainly because of this small castle with muddy puddles, the city walls have long been dilapidated, and they can be knocked down with a single shot.

Soon, the battleships in the harbor opened fire again, this time with solid shells, a salvo of hundreds of 32-pounder guns.

After shaking the mountain for a while, I only heard a rumbling sound in the smoke in the sky, and a wall of the small city in the green mud valley almost completely collapsed.

"Li Sheng, take your people in."

At this time, Li Zixiao said to Li Sheng.

At the same time, a flag soldier next to Li Zixiao immediately sent a message to Lu Yuan in the port, asking them to stop the shelling, and these two rounds of shelling were enough.

Li Zixiao was worried that if Lu Yuan fired two more volleys, the entire small city would really be bombarded into ruins.

At this time, in the green mud pool, in addition to the Tartar soldiers and traitor soldiers, there are also many people, if this city is really bombarded, those people will suffer.

As the shelling stopped, the soldiers led by Li Sheng had already begun to charge towards the green mud puddle, and the distance from the gap that had been blown out was only a few hundred paces.

On the battleship, many of the sailors of the White Dragon Army were extremely shocked by the power of the shelling just now.

Although they also carried out several shelling at sea, it was completely different from this kind of shelling of land targets.

Just looked, the strong youth wall wall before, in just two volleys, was bombed into ruins by them.

"It's just a small test!" Lu Yuan said with a smile.

"Facts have proved that in the future, at sea, it will be the era of giant ships and artillery, and the traditional way of warfare has become outdated!" Lu Yuan said with emotion.

"That's right, the future cannon is invincible!" Someone shouted feverishly.

In fact, with gunpowder, the role of the city wall, a defensive weapon, has become more and more limited.

Not to mention bombardment with artillery, you can break the city without artillery.

You don't even need to make any large shells, just find a random box, fill it with gunpowder, and then dig a hole under the city wall, stuff it and ignite it, and you can still break the city.

It's just that if you blow up the city like this, you will need more gunpowder, and second, you will have to dig a hole to get close to the city wall, which will be a little troublesome.

And the cannon can bombard the city wall from a distance of several miles.

Although bombing a city is more dangerous than bombing a city, and the casualties are large, the technical content is low, and it is troublesome to build artillery and transport, but no one can make this gunpowder.

Therefore, in the case of the White Dragon Army, of course, it is suitable to attack the city with artillery, and in the case of the rogues like Li Zicheng, it is more suitable to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall.

It's a pity that so far, Li Zicheng doesn't know this method, and he can't get so much gunpowder, otherwise he won't have to work so hard when he attacks Luoyang.

In the future, if you want the city wall to continue to function, you will have to defend it with artillery.

Artillery can break through walls, but it can also be used to defend walls.

Forts had to be built on the city, and there were a certain number of them, so that it would be difficult for the attacking side to attack.

When the city is defended with artillery, it is an impregnable fortress.

(End of chapter)