Chapter 115: You Come and I Come

All the cavalry of the three Niu Lu sent by Amin was called, plus the reconnaissance company and most of the flintlock smoothbore gunners, under the leadership of the Laksin reconnaissance platoon, with an absolute superiority of forces, each broke through. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although there are falcons tracking and reconnaissance in the sky, and there are large forces on the ground to encircle and suppress, these people are all very brave, and they are surrounded and suppressed by a large army several times their own, and they actually dare to counterattack.

Although they were defeated without any suspense due to the large gap in numbers, a few guys who looked like important people fled under the desperate cover of the enemy.

The captured captives were either hard-mouthed and couldn't ask anything at all, or their positions were too small to know what the escapees were doing, and they didn't even know why they were desperately protecting those people.

There is no way to know what the use of those people is, but just because everyone is covering them, Chen Xin knows that these people are not simple, and he has no intention of letting go of these people who have escaped.

After destroying most of the enemy forces, the encirclement and suppression troops sent by Chen Xin withdrew to the Yalu River and continued to confront the Huangtaiji army on the opposite bank.

The reconnaissance platoon and the reconnaissance company joined forces and led a company of soldiers to search for those who had escaped.

In order to guard against the Houjin army, Chen Xin had already carried out a fortified clearing in the Uiju area of North Korea, and the boundary outside the city was now a no-man's land, and there was nowhere to hide.

Without food and clean water, it is impossible for those people to survive in the area.

Further inland into Korea is Pyongan Province, where order has now been restored.

At the earliest, under the deliberate guidance of Chen Xin, the families who stayed in the Jin Kingdom with the blue flag were the first to come to the army of the dynasty.

In line with the strategy of resettlement nearby, the entire northern area of Ping'an Province was surrounded by blue flags.

They stook their land together with Niulu as a unit and a city as the center, capturing and suppressing opponents to consolidate their dominance.

After more than a month of liquidation and suppression, there has been no large-scale revolt in North Pyongan Province.

As a result, all the cattle began to be divided into parts, with every 20 households as a basic unit, and went down to various towns and villages to carry out more detailed management of land and population.

Although the strong men with blue flags were all pulled by Amin who was in dire need of population to form a standing army, only the old and weak women and children were left.

But the women of the Jurchen tribe can also shoot arrows with bows, and the children have been practicing military martial arts since they were 13 years old.

With these people, there was no problem in suppressing the Korean countryside, and occasionally there were some riots, which were almost immediately swept away by the Jurchens, old and weak women and children.

Coupled with Chen Xin's idea, let each Niu Lu form a Korean puppet army, it can be said that at this time, the North Pyongan Province was completely controlled by the blue flag.

Chen Xin had already informed the officers who had stayed behind in Niulu, asking them to search for the remnants of the enemy together, so as to slow down the enemy's escape.

If the enemy wants to pass safely through the North Pyongan Province, he will have to go out by day and night.

With the tracking of the falcons and military dogs of the reconnaissance company, and with the assistance of many old and young women and children with blue flags, they finally arrested them one by one.

In the process of arrest, a large number of letters were found from them, all of which were written by the personnel of various banners of the Jin State to officers at all levels in the DPRK.

Several civilian staff officers looked at it and said with some hesitation: "Commander-in-chief, what do these letters mean?" Is there a problem with the recipient? ”

Chen Xin smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, there is Amin on the side of the camp, and our task is to prevent the enemy from crossing the river." ”

Then he ordered his men to burn all the letters.

In this way, time passed in the confrontation.

It may be from some special channel that he learned the news that all the people who were sent across the river were arrested, and Huang Taiji finally couldn't help it, and started a big move on March 15.

They cut down a lot of trees, sawed them into planks, and craftsmen made sampans and other objects.

After Chen Xin got the information, he wondered very much, if the wood was built directly without drying treatment, it would not take a few days to leak, what was Huang Taiji doing? Was it stupid to be beaten by the cannon that day? If you really want to use a sampan to cross the Yalu River, then you are welcome.

Two days later, Chen Xin knew the answer. There is no problem with Huang Taiji's IQ.

Later, the Jin army began to build pontoon bridges, and a series of shoddy sampans of various sizes were concentrated, extending side by side from the north bank of the river, and connected by thick ropes, on which thick wooden planks were nailed.

Then the enemy used the pontoon bridge as a fulcrum and nailed logs into the river water on both sides of the bridge to prevent the river from breaking the pontoon bridge.

The enemy built pontoon bridges every 3 miles on the north bank, and a total of three pontoon bridges were started together.

In just 4 days, 3 pontoon bridges have been built in the middle of the river, less than 300 steps from the south bank.

Chen Xin has not been idle in the past few days, and at the same time as discovering that the enemy was building pontoon bridges, he set up nine earthen forts on the south bank of the three pontoon bridges.

The fort was 1 zhang high, made of rammed earth, and directly in front of it was a protective wall made of sacks filled with sand to protect the gunners and artillery.

When the enemy's pontoon bridge was repaired to a distance of 200 steps, Chen Xin installed artillery on the battery to bombard the enemy's bridge repair personnel.

An infantry gun, temporarily supported by a wooden frame, was the first to fire, hitting the dense crowd on the pontoon bridge with a "bang", and the 40mm single-head projectile used for long-range shooting pierced through the crowd and swept a blood line in it.

The small Furlong cannon on one side also followed, but the Franc loaded from the rear with a sub-gun had a major air leak, and at a distance of 200 paces, it could not penetrate a column of enemies in a row like an infantry gun.

After the cannon had pierced two enemies and dented the chest of the third enemy, it was unable to advance.

Although it is not as powerful as an infantry gun, in terms of firing speed, the Franc cannon can throw an infantry cannon a few streets.

By the time the infantry gun fired the second shell, the Trumpet had already fired 6 times.

The enemy suffered a sudden blow, leaving behind some entities and retreating in a hurry.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a large number of soldiers of the Houjin Han Army carrying small Francophone cannons and guns came over on the other side of the pontoon bridge.

Under the supervision of the Jurchen Bayala, they immediately opened artillery and counterattacked, and began to bombard the batteries on the south bank.

If there is no protection between artillery and batteries, and there is no range advantage, it is to seek death, which has been proven countless times by history.

This time is no exception, and it has become one of the strong bases for this assertion. After a heavy artillery battle, the enemy retreated again after losing 23 Petit Fran cannons and hundreds of guns.

In the middle battery, Chen Xinjun's gunners continued to bombard the pontoon bridge with infantry artillery in extreme excitement.

"Stop shooting." Today's officer on duty gave the order, but the gunners did not hear it because their ears were a little difficult after firing for a long time.

The officers on duty went up and gave each a kick "stop shooting." ”

Only then did the gunners come to their senses and stood up in salute.

"Bombarding wood with solid bullets, you can figure it out, cannonballs don't cost money, or gunpowder doesn't cost money?"

Seeing that the gunners were dejected, the officer slowed down his tone again, "The last time I blew up the ice, the gunpowder in the stock was almost used, everyone saved some money, remember?" ”

"Remembered." The gunners answered in unison.

The officer nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, I won't pursue it this time, report their respective names and numbers, and I'm going to take credit." ”

The gunners were excited again, and they were rewarded for their merits, which was everyone's favorite thing.

"Pick up the good work tomorrow."