Chapter 120: Two Ways of Attacking
No one thought that this time in the battle to recover Liaodong, the first city recaptured was not done by the Yu family's army, but the first contribution of the Guanning army, which also made the Guanning army raise their eyebrows and sigh for it.
However, the generals of the Guanning army who participated in the war this time actually knew in their hearts that if it weren't for Yu Xiaotian leading the troops to surround Dalinghe Fort, contain the main force of Jiannu in this area, and also attract the defenders of Yizhou, with their combat strength, it would be a dream to capture Yizhou so easily.
But in any case, they still won a battle and recovered the city of Yizhou, which made the Guanning army, which had been suppressed by Jiannu all along, also greatly boosted the morale of the army and restored some confidence.
After Zu Dashou led the troops to conquer Yizhou City, he quickly began to divide his troops to clear the surrounding area, and at this time, there were not many slave soldiers left in the tunbao between Yizhou and Dalinghe Fort, so in just a few days, this area was cleaned by the Guanning army.
The military discipline of the Guanning army is far inferior to that of the Yu family army, and the means are also very cruel, and after many years of conquest, every Guanning soldier will have some blood feuds with Jiannu, and now Jiannu has lost power, and they are no softer than Jiannu when they kill people, and for a time they almost killed the Jiannu banner people who could be seen, which is really a bloodbath.
Here, the city of Yizhou was broken, Dalinghe Fort was besieged, and the slave chieftain Taiji was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately ordered the Jiannu who was guarding Guangning to send troops to help, but Yu Xiaotian continued to lead the troops to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and the Jiannu reinforcements from Guangning also came to a round, and more than 2,000 Jiannu soldiers and horses were also cleaned up by the Yu family's army.
After defeating these two reinforcements, Yu Xiaotian ordered a strong attack on Dalinghe Fort, and more than 10,000 infantry, under the cover of artillery, began to launch the final onslaught on Dalinghe City.
Although Jiannu was also equipped with a batch of cannons and muskets at this time, compared with the resources of the entire Ming Dynasty occupied by the family army and the unique mechanized assembly line operation of the sea wolf and the more advanced production technology, these cannons and guns produced by Jiannu could not compete with those cannons and guns equipped by the Yu army in terms of quality and quantity.
Yu Jiajun also discovered the changes in Jiannu's equipment and tactics in the past two years, but Yu Jiajun simply disdained the firearms they had on hand.
Therefore, although Huang Taiji has exhausted his national strength and built hundreds of cannons and thousands of bird guns in the past two years, he still has no power to fight back against the Yu army.
Under the intensive artillery fire of the home army, the Jiannu army defending the city was beaten and could not raise their heads at all, and their defensive facilities became as if they were useless in front of the cannons and wolf tooth rifles.
The Jiannu generals who defended the city often just showed their heads on the city wall, and were knocked to the ground by the bullets that came from the split face, and a large number of Yujia soldiers rushed to the foot of the city wall under the cover of artillery fire.
The sappers were once again engaged in the battle, and like groundhogs, they quickly dug a deep pit under a section of the city wall in the west of the city, and then dug it to the foot of the wall.
A large amount of gunpowder was quickly filled into the foot of the city wall, and after a loud bang, the west section of the city wall suddenly jumped up, and then collapsed with a hula la, and a huge gap appeared in the originally neat city wall in an instant.
A large number of Yujia soldiers immediately poured into the city like a tide from this gap, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Jiannu defenders in the city.
He was absolutely unlucky after the city of Jilharang, who defended the city, so he led his army in the city and fought to the death with the Yu family army that invaded the city, and both sides paid a heavy price in the street fighting.
Among the Jiannu, especially those veterans who have been in battle for a long time, they are all brave and unmatched, wearing heavy armor and blocking the streets and alleys and fighting to the death with the Yu family's army.
In hand-to-hand combat, Yu Jiajun obviously couldn't take much advantage, so the losses were large, but Yu Jiajun's momentum was like a rainbow, and they kept launching onslaughts one after another, but they couldn't attack it, so they simply used hand-grenades-bombs to solve the problem, and threw hand-grenades-bullets at the Jiannu army hiding behind the barricades, until they all collapsed and pulled them down.
The street fighting lasted for a whole day and a night, and the entire Dalinghe City was basically controlled by the Yu family's army, and finally Jierharang retreated to a warehouse in the city with less than 100 slave soldiers to continue to resist stubbornly.
Yu Xiaotian didn't bother to persuade them to surrender, so he directly sent troops to block the warehouse, and then got a large amount of firewood, piled it around the warehouse, poured fire oil on it, and burned it like a rat to roast the Jiannu soldiers hiding inside.
In the end, the Jiannu soldiers in the entire warehouse, including Zilharang, were roasted alive, and when the fire was extinguished, Yu Jiajun cleaned up the fire, and finally found a pile of roasted human flesh in the warehouse, and even Zilharang himself couldn't figure out what kind of cooked meat it was, so he had to pull it out and make a big pit and bury it together.
The destruction of Dalinghe City and Yizhou City also announced that the first line of defense of Jiannu had been completely conquered, and the passage to the hinterland of Liaodong had also been completely opened.
This is not the most terrible thing, because Xiaotian personally led his troops out of Shanhaiguan to start the crusade against Jiannu at the same time, on the Liaodong Peninsula, there was also a raging war.
The other two Yujia armies, under the leadership of Kong Youde and Mao Chenglu and other former generals of the Dongjiang Army, set off from Dengzhou one way and went straight to Zhenjiang Fort, and the other set off from Qingdao to land at Fort Arthur.
The Yu family army, which arrived at Fort Arthur first, rested a little after landing, and began to attack all the way north under the leadership of Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and other old generals of Dongjiang Town, and went straight to Jinzhouwei under the control of Jiannu.
Kong Youde led a brigade of troops, easily beat the Jiannu who blocked their way into scum, and then led his troops directly under the Acropolis of Jinzhou, and randomly began to launch a fierce attack on Jinzhou.
Jinzhou has a Jiannu army of about 3,000 soldiers and horses, although they are also known to be quite fierce, but it depends on who is right, Jiannu controlled the Liaodong Peninsula and completely wiped out the Dongjiang Army, these Jiannu soldiers were indeed very fierce, but in the past two years, they have repeatedly tried to conquer Fort Arthur, but in front of the soldiers of the Yujia Army stationed in Fort Arthur, they have been repeatedly beaten all over the ground.
Today's Jinzhou defenders, basically the remnants of the defeated generals who have been defeated in recent years, in the face of the sudden onslaught of the Yujia army, they can't stop it at all, Jinzhou City under the leadership of Kong Youde, it took only four days, it was announced that it was broken, thousands of Jiannu defenders in Jinzhou City, were killed by Kong Youde, but all the banner people in the city, almost were slaughtered by Kong Youde.
Among the Yujia army led by Kong Youde this time, most of them were the army formed on Jeju Island, many of them were the old Dongjiang Army or the Han people from Dongjiang Town, these people had a deep blood feud between them and the Jiannu Army in the early years, and when they finally set foot on their homeland this time, they saw Jiannu's red eyes, so they were extremely brave when they went into battle to kill the enemy, and when they captured Jinzhou City, Kong Youde deliberately indulged the generals and did not care much about military discipline, and as a result, these former Dongjiang Army and Liaodong Han soldiers and generals, each of them shows the darkest side of human nature.
This time Jiannu is considered to be a big bad luck, when encountering these red-eyed Yu family generals, basically they will not escape death, after the entire Jinzhou City was broken, only the Jiannu who was slaughtered, after statistics, there are almost nearly 10,000 people.
Kong Youde did not issue a sword seal order until the third day after breaking through Jinzhou City, and stopped the massacre of Jiannu in the Jinzhou area, but it was already too late at this time, and the Jiannu in this area were almost slaughtered by the Yu family's army, leaving only those who were captured by Jiannu and later subjugated to Jiannu, either as a clothed slave, or forcibly incorporated into the banners and became the bannermen.
All of these clothed slaves were rescued by Yu Jiajun, who first temporarily pacified them, gave them some food and clothing, and made them temporarily stay in Jinzhou on their own to make a living.
As for those Han people who were incorporated into the banners and became bannermen, a group was arrested and punished, a group was killed, and the rest were incorporated into the army of servants, which were used as labor envoys by the Yu family army, and followed the Yu family army with the army for the next military operations.
After Kong Youde took control of Jinzhou, he began to point his troops at Fuzhou, and the whole army began to march towards Fuzhou again.
On the other hand, the Yujia army was led by General Zhenshan of the Jiajia Army, led by Mao Chenglu and other old departments of the Dongjiang River, and directly attacked Zhenjiang Fort on the west bank of the Yalu River estuary by sea.
Zhenjiang Fort used to be the headquarters of Dongjiang Town, but in fact, it was not long in the hands of Mao Wenlong, although Dongjiang Town was named after Zhenjiang Fort, but in fact it was somewhat unworthy of the name, and most of the time when Dongjiang Town was stored in ZĂ i, Zhenjiang Fort was actually controlled by Jiannu.
Mao Wenlong's real headquarters is actually on Phi Island, but this time, under the leadership of Mao Chenglu and other old departments of the Dongjiang River, this way the Yu family army under the leadership of Yu Zhenshan, went straight to Zhenjiang Fort, and the warship went straight into the river from the mouth of the Yalu River, and advanced upstream to the shore of Zhenjiang Fort.
Dozens of warships and troop transports assembled on the shore, and the Zhenjiang Fort was bombarded with bricks and stones, although Zhenjiang Fort also had several Hongyi cannons from Jiannu, but as soon as the battle began, it was dumbfounded by the naval artillery of the Yujia Army, and then the naval artillery concentrated its fire on the city wall, and an hour or so passed, and the city wall near the river bank was completely bombed into slag.
One or two thousand Jiannu defenders in Zhenjiang Fort were killed on the spot, and the rest were frightened and fled from the fort.