Chapter 105: Rushing to the beach on Daheng Island
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The bright moon was slightly slanted, and soon after midnight, Ge Cunxiong led the first sentry warship of the first water battalion to rush at full speed to seize the mouth of the Qingshiwan River, braving the dense arrows fired by the soldiers on the headland island, and broke into the inner harbor from the narrow mouth of the river with a width of less than 200 paces.
The generals who fall into the water, who are in the shallows, will land and gather on the beach nearby; The auxiliaries threw down the rope ladder to rescue the overboard pawns in the deep water. Such drills have gone through many times in the past six months, and although the big scene was chaotic, judging from the details, there was no great chaos among the vanguard troops seizing the beach.
In the complex terrain, the advantage of the military system based on the five pawns was fully brought into play. One or twenty people gathered in one place can resist the Kou soldiers rushing from the beachhead, and with the cover of the warship bows and crossbows behind them, they can even expand the front of the beachhead formation, gather more troops, and in turn suppress the Kou soldiers.
Ge Cunxiong's ship hit the reef before entering the port, the bow of the ship hit a big hole, and the bow was sandwiched between the two reefs.
Ge Cunxiong did not expect that there would be so many Kou soldiers rushing to repair the camp on the headland, which made the beach-grabbing and blockade of the vanguard an extremely difficult and dangerous task, but at the same time, these Kou soldiers were stranded on the south bank, so that they did not have time to withdraw from the camp of the main stronghold at the northern foot of the mountain, which would reduce the pressure for the follow-up attack.
Not to mention that the sentry water battalion led by him is disabled, even if the entire first water battalion is disabled, as long as it can successfully capture Daheng Island, a strategic island that can not only shelter Chongzhou in the inner line, but also directly threaten the base camp of the East China Sea Kou, it is also worth it.
Ge Cunxiong saw that there were a lot of Stranded Kou soldiers on the Cape Island, and they fought and retreated, wading through the shallows to the south shore, commanding two sea falcon ships to rush directly to the shoal between the Cape Island and the south shore to block the retreat of the Kou soldiers, and ordered the first sentry general to personally lead a group of elite troops to take the two sea falcon ships as a position, gather the fallen generals, block the shallows, and confront the Kou soldiers on the headland island.
At this time, many Kou soldiers had retreated to the south shore, and Ge Cunxiong led a Jiyun-class warship and two loach ships as the main force to rush to the inner harbor.
The trail on the south bank is rugged and narrow, there are four or five hundred Kou soldiers crowded to retreat to the southeast mountainside, no matter how bright the moon is, it can't be compared with the day, the chaos is complicated, and people keep falling, Ge Cunxiong commanded the side side to concentrate on the bow and crossbow shooting, delaying the pace of retreat, but the speed of the ship is not slowing, to seize the front, as many Kou soldiers as possible to intercept the west of the trail, to prevent them from retreating to the main camp.
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Su Tingzhan clenched his sword, his eyes were red, the slightest possibility turned out to be a cruel fact: Changshan Island had been secretly attached to the Jiangdong Left Army, and had become a secret chess and trap for Lin Tiebu in the East China Sea, so that Lin Tie could know the news in time when the main force here was attacking Changshan Island, and in turn lead the main force to attack Daheng Island.
Su Tingzhan had no time to take care of the possible situation on Changshan Island, he sent his cronies to bypass Jinji Mountain, go to the northeast beach to take a small boat to Changshan Island to find the second son to report, as far as the current situation is concerned, even if the second son can lead the troops back to help, it will be a day and night later.
Although only part of the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army's boat division appeared out of sight, Su Tingzhan could affirm that Lin Bin's intention was to seize Daheng Island.
It is impossible for Lin Jian to be greedy when he sneaked into a sneak attack on Daheng Island, and dared to divide his troops to sneak attack the flank of the main force led by the second son.
In that case, Lin Jian would be too stupid, one or two thousand elites of the Jiangdong Left Army was not enough to storm Daheng Island, and the troops assigned to Changshan Island might not be able to pose much threat to the main force of the northern front led by the second prince. Even if the main force of the northern front led by the second prince is defeated, it will not affect the overall situation, and the loss of three or five thousand troops will probably not take a month to replenish it.
In contrast, the location of Daheng Island is too critical and can directly affect the situation in eastern Zhejiang.
The main force of the Jiangdong Left Army will come a little later, and there is no doubt that the edge and pressure of the Jiangdong Left Army will be added to the side of Dahengdao.
The battle for the land of the bay mouth is meaningless, the battle for one place and one water is meaningless, and the most important thing is to defend Jinji Mountain; As long as the main stronghold at the northern foot of the country, which occupies the advantage of the steep terrain, is held, it will still be able to make the Jiangdong Left Army retreat again in vain, as it did in the last time.
It is not known how many soldiers and horses Lin Jian will lead to come later, but for the sake of today's plan, Su Tingzhan wants to withdraw as many troops as possible up the mountain, so that he can have a greater grasp of Daheng Island.
Obviously, the generals of the vanguard of the Jiangdong Left Army also knew this truth, and wanted to keep more defenders stranded in the gentle area under the mountain to divide and annihilate them, so as to reduce the pressure of the subsequent siege.
As soon as the trestle of the Jiangdong Left Army's warship reached the shallows, the armor rushed to the beachhead like a wolf, wedged directly into the south bank path, and cut the defenders in half - Su Tingzhan was shocked: Through the last strong attack, the Jiangdong Left Army had already figured out the terrain near Qingshi Bay, and every blow was at their vital point.
It was discovered that the warships of the Jiangdong Left Army were too late, and Su Tingzhan was in a hurry to repair the cape fortress and restore the defense of the inner harbor. In addition to the 400 elites who were actually tired during the day and were almost lying down, nearly 800 defenders rushed to the construction site on the headland at night. The shallows between the headland and the south shore were drowned in shallow water because of the high tide, and with a cup of tea, Su Tingzhan had time to withdraw less than 300 defenders, and more than 500 defenders were blocked on the headland and the south coast.
Su Tingzhan could not abandon the five hundred defenders, regardless of the wound on his shoulder, seeing that the number of soldiers rushing up from the Jiangdong Left Army was still small, he personally led the elite to counterattack over, and wanted to drive down the soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army rushing to the beachhead and open up the retreating sheep intestine path.
The complexity of the terrain made it impossible to give full play to the strength advantage of the Kou soldiers, and the warships of the Jiangdong Left Army rushed directly to the beachhead, constituting a bow and crossbow arrow array that directly threatened the flank of the Kou soldiers......
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In order to avoid the loss of the main warships, the terrain at the mouth of the bay has also become more narrow and complicated due to a large number of warships that have run into the reef and are shallow, and the timing of Zhao Qingshan's main force of the first water battalion entering the outer harbor is enough to delay the time of a stick of incense.
During this time of incense, in order to delay hundreds of soldiers on the south bank, Ge Cunxiong used more than 500 people from the first post of the reinforced first water battalion, and in just one stick of incense, he killed the south bank into a sea of blood.
The soldiers left behind on Daheng Island were unusually tenacious, and they did not give up the anger of the trapped trail and the headland soldiers because of the arrival of the main force of the first water battalion led by Zhao Qingshan, and the soldiers who were intercepted on the south coast trail and the headland and could not retreat eastward did not give up their efforts to break through, and the battle became more and more intense.
Zhao Qingshan arranged for more troops to be wedged between the shallows where the headland island and the south coast meet, and he personally led the elite to support the inner harbor, and saw that Ge Cunxiong had personally seized the beachhead and led the elite soldiers to firmly hold the beachhead, separating the soldiers on the south bank trail and making it impossible to communicate.
Ge Cunxiong had two arrows stuck in his shoulder armor, and his body was covered with blood, so he was guarding Jingwei behind at this time, but when he also knew that the situation was critical, he personally rushed forward to fight. I don't know if Ge Cunxiong's arrow wound on the shoulder is not deep, and the water camp still lacks generals, Ge Cunxiong alone will reach half of the elite of the battalion, and the loss will not be, Zhao Qingshan immediately arranged for the elite to land from the side beach to share the pressure borne by Ge Cunxiong in the front, and when the pressure is relieved, he ordered him to come on the boat to command, and he saw if there was a chance to go deeper into the inner side of Qingshi Bay to land on the beach......
Field battles with the Kou soldiers on rough terrain under the moonlit night are far conducive to storming the camp, and no matter how much pressure there is, the battle on the south bank will continue, and it will be further extended to drag more Kou soldiers in.
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The well-equipped Jin'an who does not fall into a desperate situation, never gives up easily, is a headache.
In addition to a small number of troops defending the ships and seizing the beach on the north shore, Zhao Qingshan almost threw nearly 1,000 troops of the First Water Battalion into battle. The crossbowmen shot their flanks at the bow of the ship, and the daylight was bright from dawn, but they could not give up the more than 200 Kou soldiers who were finally intercepted on the sheep intestine trail and the headland on the south coast to give up the siege and surrender, and the Kou soldiers who attacked from the main camp of the stronghold at the northern foot took advantage of the terrain in the upper reaches of Qingshi Bay to try to take the besieged Kou soldiers out.
When the red sun jumped out of the sea and sky, the golden light shone on the narrow long horizontal island that stretched for more than 20 miles from east to west, and the sunrise light from the northern foot of the forest shone on the metal hood, seeing the outpost fleet of the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army Boat Division entering the outer port, Su Tingzhan had to give up the efforts to reinforce the besieged defenders, and led the remnants to retreat into the northern foot camp, waiting to undertake the next fierce thunderous attack of the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army, but he could rely on less than six hundred soldiers, and it was not clear whether the Tudai Islands could still draw reinforcements in the current situation. It's not clear if the second son will come to help in time......
On a moonlit night, the warships of the first battalion of the Jinghai Battalion ran into the reef and were more than one-third shallow.
The bow of a Jiyun-class warship hit the reef, and a large hole was opened in the front cabin, and a Jiyun-class warship used as a bow and crossbow position to block the sheep intestine path in the inner harbor, and it was constantly attacking and attacking the Kou soldiers in the middle of the night, and the damage was serious. Compared with the loss of the warship, the collision of blood and flesh on the south bank was even more tragic, and the entire beachhead on the south bank was almost stained red with blood.
Such a stubborn enemy, nearly 500 killed in the middle of the night, when the main force of the Jiangdong Left Army arrived, there were still more than 100 soldiers who were sealed in the remnants of the fortress on the headland and refused to surrender, and the first water battalion was about to occupy a considerable advantage, but also paid a considerable price.
The casualties have not yet been counted, but after a fierce battle for half the night, there are almost no generals in the first water battalion who can still stand strongly, Lin Jian looked at the remnants of the cape island and there were more than 100 soldiers resisting stubbornly, and ordered Zhou Tong, Zhao Hu, Zhao Qingshan, Ge Cunxin, and Ge Cunxin generals: "Chongcheng Infantry Battalion Xiemin Yong immediately landed on the shore to take over the Nantan position, clear the peripheral obstacles before noon, and make preparations for attacking the village; The second water battalion annihilated the stubborn resistance and remnants of the headland, and they were annihilated and were not surrendered; The first water battalion withdrew to the mouth of the bay for rest and vigilance! ”