The Ming army at the head of Lushun City, taking advantage of the end of this wave of Tartar offensives, sat on the ground and leaned against the female wall. These days they are exhausted, and the Tartars are like crazy, and they don't care about casualties at all.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

A dull cannon sounded, and the general at the head of the city hurriedly shouted: "The cannon is fired, and they are all hiding......

This is the artillery position set up by the Dongjiang rebels on the Golden Mountain and other hills around Lushun, and they have started another round of crazy attacks. One by one, live ammunition roared and smashed on the head of the Lushun fortress, and the Ming troops on the head of the city curled up under the female wall with their heads in their hands.

In the past few days, the Ming army on the head of the city has suffered heavy casualties, which has never happened in the previous battles with the Tartars.

The dense artillery fire finally subsided, and Huang Long climbed up from under the female wall, and he looked at the city, where dozens of Ming soldiers had died in this round of shelling.

"My lord, I'm afraid Lushun won't be able to hold it, let's find a way to break through."

Huang Long turned his head and found that his generals Li Weiluan and Tan Yinghua had arrived at his side at some point. He shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Now even if you want to break through, you can't get out, we only have more than 2,000 people, what can we do if we kill them?" The sea route has been blocked by rebels, and the Golden State is full of Tartars. ”

Li Weiluan slammed his fist on the city wall and scolded: "I have long seen that Liu Xingzhi is not a good bird, and the adults should have killed him in the first place." ”

Tan Yinghua also scolded angrily: "Yes, this traitor should have been slaughtered a long time ago, otherwise there would be no today's situation." ”

They knew that Huanglong was right, and now they didn't even have a chance to break through, they were cut off by sea, and without the support of the sailors, Lushun was a dead place.

"The Tartars are coming up......"

With a shout from the city, Huang Long, Li Weiluan, and Tan Yinghua's faces sank. They hurriedly divided up and organized the Ming army at the head of the city to wait for them. With a dull cannon sound. On the hills around Lushun, the artillery of the Dongjiang rebels began to roar again.

The Tartars pushed dozens of chariots and cloud carts to the city and launched a general attack in an all-round way. The Tartars roared and rushed forward, frantically erecting a ladder to attack the city. The Ming army at the head of Arthur City. Shoot frantically at the city with firearms, and also throw fire cans and arrows to deal with the Houjin soldiers who attacked the city.

The Tartars organized archery teams. Hiding behind the cloud car, he constantly shot heavy arrows at the Ming army at the head of the city. The archers of the Tartar archery team are all excellent marksmanship, and their archery skills are extremely tricky, as long as the Ming army on the head of the city shows their heads slightly, they will die under the heavy arrows of the Tartars. There are also many Dongjiang rebels with three-eyed guns and bird guns to support under the city.

The battle was extremely fierce, the city was covered with the corpses of Tartars, and the city was full of dead and wounded Ming troops. Both sides were red-eyed. Although the Ming army at the head of the city occupies a condescending position. However, there were many Tartars, and there was also the firearm support of Liu Xingzhi's rebels, and the Ming army defending the city had already suffered more than half of the casualties.

On the Golden Mountain in the distance, a group of Tartar generals were gathering together, and they were clustered around a Houjin general. This person is none other than Yue Tuo, the Tartar coach this time. Yue Tuo, Aixinjue Luo, the grandson of Nurhachi, the eldest son of Prince Li Daishan, and a native of Manchuria with red flags.

"The firearms of the Han people are indeed sharp. After the capture of Lushun, I asked the Great Khan to build our own Jurchen firearms team. If we have artillery in the future. The city wall of the Ming Dynasty will no longer be able to stop our Jurchen iron horse, haha......"

A Tartar next to him said with a smile: "Baylor, I see that the Ming army in Lushun is a little unbearable, so if you work hard, maybe Ming'er will be able to break the city." ”

Yue Tuo nodded, turned to Leng Erli and Kakeduli and said, "The two generals should also go back and prepare immediately, and concentrate the elite to attack the north of Lushun City for me." The big guy will work hard again to break Lushun today. ”

"Whoop...... Chirp......"

The surrounding Tartars took the order one after another, and organized elite Tartars one after another. Prepare for a general offensive.

Just after noon, the artillery on the hills around Lushun began to roar again. Huang Long heard the density of this cannon sound. His eyes suddenly froze, and he turned around and shouted, "Li Weiluan, you go to Beicheng." The Tartars have gone mad, and they must defend the northern wall for me. ”

As soon as Li Weiluan received the order to leave, Tan Yinghua hurriedly walked over and said in a deep voice: "My lord, I'm afraid this Lushun City can't be defended, I'll find someone to protect the adult and kill it." ”

Huang Long shook his head and said: "The enemy is outnumbered, there is no follow-up, the city is broken in the past two days, you find something that can fight, and kill it while it is dark tonight." Take my official seal and rush to Dengzhou, and if you can't get there, throw it into the sea, and never fall into the hands of the Tartars. ”

Tan Yinghua said that he didn't agree to anything, but Huanglong had made up his mind and vowed to live and die with Lushun. also wrote a suicide note and handed it to Tan Yinghua, and wrote in the suicide note, "I don't love a five-foot body before I die, but I only have a three-foot sword after death."

In 1633 in history, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming led the Houjin military department Belle Yuetuo and Hubu Beledeg to lead 10,000 horse infantry to the south and attack Lushunkou. Huanglong took it as his mission to stick to Lushun and fought bloodily. In the end, because "the gunpowder and arrows were exhausted", there was no follow-up, and Lushun was attacked by the Tartars.

Huang Long killed himself, and his subordinate Li Weiluan knew that the destruction of Lushun City was inevitable, and his family members, together with Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, Shang Keyi, etc., were all killed in the bloody battle. On the day of the city's break, 5,302 men, women, and children in Lushun became prisoners of the Houjin army.

In order to commend Huanglong and others for their loyal and courageous behavior in defending Lushunkou, the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to "give the governor of Longzuo, give a funeral, and give Shiyin", "build an ancestral hall to show loyalty, but Luan and other postscripts".

Huanglong arranged the aftermath, on the head of the city to organize the Ming army to defend the city, in the face of the crazy attack of the Tartars, a few days of successive battles, the head of the Ming army has reached the limit, many places in the city were broken by the Tartars, fortunately Huanglong and the fierce general Li Weiluan organized a dead army, with huge casualties to drive the Tartars at the head of the city down. But Lushun's shape is already in jeopardy.

In the dense forest on the top of a hill southwest of Lushun, Song Tao and Zhang Yufei were wearing auspicious clothes, lying on a cluster of shrubs and observing the battle situation under Lushun City with high-powered binoculars.

The combined fleet had already arrived in the waters south of Arthur yesterday evening, and Song Tao led a reconnaissance team to land in the early morning. Under the leadership of a soldier of the overseas corps who was familiar with the terrain of Lushun, a careful reconnaissance was carried out around Lushun.

Song Tao had roughly figured out the situation on the battlefield and the deployment of the north and south roads of the Tartars, and found a hidden observation site on a hilltop in the north of the Lushun Fortress. An artillery observation group in the reconnaissance team will set up various observation equipment here, conduct ballistic calculations, provide accurate firing elements for the naval guns of the Combined Fleet, and observe the impact point.

After receiving the information of the reconnaissance team, Li Ming held an operational meeting overnight and formulated a combat plan for the total annihilation of the Tartars under Lushun City. Two reinforced battalions were formed, landed from the coast near Arthur, interspersed with the northern part of Arthur, and set up blocking positions on the two necessary routes for the Tartar retreat.

Song Tao picked up the microphone of the military radio and said in a deep voice: "Dude, we have to hurry, Lushun can't hold on." Although the Ming army defending the city was very brave, it was almost unbearable. Why haven't the blocking troops in the north been in place yet, don't wait for them to arrive, the Tartars have already broken the city, and we still have to fight a street battle with the Tartars. If you really let the Tartars break the city, this battle will not be easy to fight, and the city will be full of Han people. ”

"As soon as I spoke to them, the two blocking forces will soon arrive at the blocking position, and as soon as they are in place and set up a blocking position, we will launch a general attack."

Song Tao listened to Li Ming's words, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

He instructed again, "You tell the various gun positions of the fleet to be accurate, and don't shoot cannonballs into the city of Arthur." ”

In the southeast mountainous area of Lushun, a team of several hundred people is speeding north on a rugged mountain road. This is a reinforced battalion of the Combined Fleet Marine Brigade. The two reinforced battalions each formed a machine gun battery equipped with six water-cooled heavy machine guns, three 70-mm infantry guns and three 60-mm mortars.

A temporary company formed by personnel of the War Department and the Admiralty, all using modern weapons. And deliberately strengthened six PK general-purpose machine guns, three 82-mm mortars. In addition, there is a company of the Jeju Island Garrison Battalion, two companies of the Overseas Corps, and an engineer squad.

They had been walking in the mountains for most of the day. Although the heavy water-cooled heavy machine guns, infantry guns, and ammunition and materials were carried by more than 100 war horses using the battlefield carrying equipment system, the soldiers who had been running for most of the day were still tired and sweating profusely after running all the way.

Although the troops of the Far Eastern Company are heavily armed with cross-country on mountain roads as a subject of regular training, this time the distance they interspersed is indeed a little far, and the mountain road environment is very harsh.

Everyone gritted their teeth and persevered all the way, and finally rushed to their respective blocking positions within the specified time. Although the fighters were exhausted, everyone did not rest at all, so they immediately spread out on the spot and began to nervously arrange the blocking position.

This doesn't dare to be sloppy in the slightest, how can the Tartars have nearly 10,000 people, if this is pounced on in one go, if there is no strong fortification, the Tartars who are in a desperate situation are likely to fight back wildly.

The main attacking force was two battalions of the Overseas Corps and pirates, a garrison company, a guard platoon, and a machine gun company in the Jeju Island garrison area, and a company and a mortar platoon formed by the Navy Department of the War Department.

Equipped with 12 PK general-purpose machine guns and six 82mm mortars, the main attack force will be supported by the naval guns of the combined fleet, so it is only equipped with six mortars as mobile artillery for the main attack force, and provides flexible artillery support with the attacking force.

Because the Combined Fleet Marine Brigade was temporarily formed on Jeju Island, and the personnel were mixed. Although Wang Yaowu scooped up all the weapons on Jeju Island, they were still relatively insufficient. Li Ming had no choice but to mobilize the officers and men of the Admiralty of all ships, except for the gunners.

In order to completely annihilate the Tartars, Li Ming played all the cards in his hand, and did not even leave the reserves. He will also land ashore and personally serve as the commander of the main frontal attack, leading the troops to launch a fierce assault on the Tartars. (To be continued)

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