Chapter 1826 Navy

In just three one-minute bombardments, a total of 1,350 rounds of artillery shells fell in Nancheng, near the river mouth of Wuqing County.

Cao Nan and Li Chunyuan were both very calculating. The three bombardments were separated by three minutes each. The shells were also a combination of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. Ten minutes later, Wuqing Nancheng turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​fire.

This kind of war is something Monk Xiao has never experienced before. Even before the enemy is seen, our own side is already littered with casualties and the city is burning with fire.

There was chaos in the city. The North City guard first opened the city gate and fled, followed by the crying and rioting people. Even the slave monk Xiao was wrapped up and fled towards Xijin Mansion.

Ancient cities were particularly dependent on water sources, and waterways were great weapons for military operations.

The Song Army on the Eastern Route, which had fully grasped the advantage of the waterway, could only make progress in two words - flat push.

A thousand new troops were left to take over Wuqing, establish a logistics base, and receive a steady stream of supplies from the rear. Li Chunyuan and Cao Nan divided their forces here and went north along the Wuding River, taking Anci and Gu'an, and set off along the Sanggan River.

Take Miaoyin and Xianghe.

In the first month of the year, Wuyin, Li Chunyuan conquered Gu'an.

Gu'an was already on the flank and rear of Zhuozhou. Li Weihan, the prefect of Zhuozhou, was shocked when he heard the news. This was not only related to the critical issue of going to Beijing, but also related to the total of 50,000 troops on the front line of Yizhou and Taihang. There was a chance that their retreat would be cut off.

Dumpling problem!

The enemy has already arrived in Gu'an, so the key strategic points of Zijing, Taining, Baima, and Qigou in the Taihang Mountains that we and Yizhou are defending have completely lost their strategic significance.

This is similar to the way the German army bypassed the Maginot Line of Defense in World War II, catching the Western Liao Taihang Front by surprise.

While Li Weihan scolded Monk Xiao for being such a bastard who ignored his allies and didn't even give a briefing, he urgently sent someone to report the unfortunate news to Wang He, the prefect of Yizhou.

At the same time, he mobilized more than 20,000 troops and horses under his command to leave Zhuozhou and go to Gu'an to retreat from the enemy.

Wang He was dumbfounded when he received Li Weihan's urgent warning. What the hell did you say nicely? Just attack when you attack. Why did you give up and send out all the troops in Zhuozhou? Didn't you just plan to flee towards Xijin Mansion when you saw the situation was not going well?!

But here I am, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so it’s too late no matter what!

Ji Mao, Li Weihan's army and Li Chunyuan fought at Liuli River in the north of Gu'an.

At the beginning of the battle, Li Weihan once gained the upper hand and defeated the scout troops sent by Li Chunyuan to explore the direction of Zhuozhou.

The number of soldiers was several times that of the opponent, and with the victory in the first battle, Li Weihan immediately became more confident and led all the rear troops to cross the river and rush towards Gu'an.

Then there was nothing more. Li Chunyuan had only deliberately lured the enemy. Finally, relying on the hills around Gu'an, he lured Li Weihan into a trap. He attacked the Liao army from Tuoniu Town and Zhongshi Road in the west of the city and defeated the Liao army.

Li Chunyuan also had Tian Shouzhong and Fan Longshan under his command. Li Chunyuan wanted them to set up an ambush. Fan Longshan was deceived by Tian Shouzhong and chose the Ziquan River, the only way for the defeated army to retreat back to Zhuozhou. However, Tian Nihao himself chose to guard the road leading to Beijing.

Shiyang Terrace.

As a result, Fan Longshan caught a few small fish and shrimps in this battle, while Tian Shouzhong caught the big fish, captured most of the defeated army at Shiyangtai, and captured Li Weihan alive!

Only then did Fan Longshan realize that he had been tricked by Tian Nilu again. He was so angry that he led his army across the Liuli River and captured Zhuozhou, which had no troops to defend!

War is like this. Once an attack is launched, all kinds of moths will come one after another. Fan Longshan did not obey orders and ran far west.

But Zhuozhou is also an important town in Youyun. Once you get it, you can't throw it away.

So Li Chunyuan had no choice but to pinch his nose and ask for credit from Fan Longshan, while he readjusted his troops and ordered him and himself to split into two groups.

Fan Longshan took the land route along the Dafang Mountain to reach Liangxiang, but he still took the water route and reached Wanping along the Wuding River.

After sending away the messenger, Li Chunyuan and Zhong Shidao complained that Tian Shouzhong was cunning and cunning, which made Lao Fan lose his temper and failed to obey military orders.

Situ is not easy to fool. If he reported it like this, I don't know if his old man will absolve Lao Fan of his guilt.

Tian Shouzhong chuckled evilly: "Situ brought Lao Fan from his hometown. Anyway, conquering a large county is not a bad thing. Even if the merits and demerits are equal, Situ will not embarrass Lao Fan too much."

Zhong Shidao couldn't help but shake his head: "Mr. Tian, ​​you have made great achievements, but Situ has always had merits and demerits, so I'm afraid it's hard to excuse him."

Just when the conversation ended, the guard's voice sounded at the door: "Report! Urgent report from Zhuozhou!"

Li Chunyuan and Zhong Shidao looked at each other and saw the worry in each other's eyes. Li Chunyuan quickly shouted: "Come in!"

After reading the military report, Li Chunyuan couldn't help but smile and shake his head, and handed the general report to Tian Shouzhong: "Mr. Tian, ​​if you are as cunning as a loach, you still can't earn Mr. Fan's great fortune..."

General Tian Shouzhong took the report: "How can he be more powerful than me in capturing Li Weihan alive?"

When he finished reading, Tian Shouzhong was so angry that he threw the newspaper to the ground: "It's a thief! This old boy made a big mistake! After all, I made the wrong choice!"

When I picked it up and looked at it, I couldn't help laughing.

Fan Longshan said in his report that Wang He, the magistrate of Yizhou in the Liao Kingdom, marched northward with his army. When he arrived at Zhuozhou, he learned that the city had been captured. I didn't even have time to fire the cannons. He...he had surrendered!

Now we have to accept the surrender. There are more than 20,000 people! But what should we do?! Lao Fan, I can only kill people, but I can't accept them. You hurry up and send someone to take over!

Looking at Tian Shouzhong with an annoyed look on his face, Zhong Shidao couldn't help but smile and handed over to Li Chunyuan: "Lieutenant, how about I make a trip?"

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The timeline went back to December again, and Cao Nan also encountered something incredible on the Sanggan River.

The thing that Cao Nan was worried about all the way - the river was frozen, did not happen because the water flow was abundant and fast.

Although the reeds along the river are still frozen by ice, the open area in the middle of the river is not in danger of freezing.

When the fleet arrived at Miaoyin cautiously, Cao Nan's camera suddenly discovered that a navy was coming out of the big lake in the direction of Xijin Mansion!

Cao Nan suspected that there was something wrong with his telescope, so he took it off and looked at the lens, wiped it with the corner of his underwear and then lifted it up——

Yes, you read that right, Navy!

Analyzing Jinfu was the area around Beijing in later generations, and Miaoyin was probably located in Tongzhou.

Today's Xijin Prefecture is not as arid as Beijing in later generations, but a land with abundant water power and beautiful soil and lush grass.

Miaoyin, Yanfangdian, the spring hunting place of the Liao emperors, is a large water bank with a radius of hundreds of miles.

"The Emperor Shengzong visited here many times. Later, Yuanyangluo became even more popular, so he changed his mind to Yuanyangluo."

There is a large area of ​​water here and dense reed ponds. Every spring and autumn, migratory birds migrating north and south come here to rest and hunt. Yanfangdian becomes a paradise for swans, wild geese, and wild ducks.

Yanfangdian means "continuous youth", and the scenery is extremely spectacular and beautiful. The Khitan royal family's hunting activities of "spring water and autumn mountains, winter and summer Nabo" hunting activities, the earliest spring hunting, are usually carried out here.

During the period of Empress Dowager Xiao, a palace was built on the east side of Yanfangdian, a ridge in the southeast, and a flying berth and resting eagle platform for training Haidongqing.

Countless wooden boats were rowed out from the reed swamps. There were more than a dozen sergeants on each boat, holding bows and arrows, ready to fire arrows at the Song army.

Cao Nan even laughed angrily: "I'm a thirty-year-old woman, but I'm so embarrassed. The Marine Corps has surrounded the Liao Navy! What are you doing in the front to eat?!"

The adjutant pointed to the semaphore on an armored gunboat of the vanguard fleet: "Lieutenant, look!"

Cao Nan was very familiar with the flag language. It was the signal sent by the troops ahead: "Air burst bombs, close the ship!"

"What a fool!" Cao Nan immediately shouted to his adjutant: "Sound the alarm! Get on the board and fight for your own benefit!"

The black tooth flag was raised on the thin iron mast with the sharp sound of the whistle, and the iron-hulled ship towing the troop carrier behind also sounded its whistle. The two soldiers at the stern of the troop carrier each turned a rocker crazily, and then

On both sides of the troop transport ship, two rows of thin steel plates were slowly rotating.

This design is very clever. Normally, thin steel plates are like fish scales and are arranged on both sides of the troop carrier. When it needs to be started, they will be pulled by the hinge controlled by the rocker, and they will stand up to form effective protection.

When the steel plates are shaken up, they act like shields, with holes between them for easy shooting.

There is a springboard on the bow of the ship, which can usually be used to rush the boat to the shore. Now it is pulled up and locked on both sides, and the entire ship becomes a roofless iron turtle.

Because the troop transport ship is not wide and the bow and arrow are short parabolas, there is no need to consider arrows falling from above.

The last two sergeants were strong men. They wore heavy armor and drew two long poles from both sides of the cabin, which served as both power and human shields.

These bells and whistles were all proposed by Cao Nan. He just made requests, and the Ministry of War would turn them into issues and hand them over to the Capital University for resolution.

This kind of imagination and final "product" is something Su You has never seen before in history.

Both Zhong Shizhong and Cao Nan were clever. Zhong Shizhong had already discovered the ambush, but deliberately pretended not to know, leading the army into a long snake, and marched into the ambush circle with great arrogance.

When the enemy troops were coming from all directions, Cao Nan immediately made a bold decision to launch a chaotic battle and capture the enemy ships. This was the best strategy at the moment.

This method of warfare has been practiced several times in Wen'an Wa, and the sergeants are extremely skilled. The water conditions and landforms of Yanfangdian are surprisingly similar to Wen'an Wa.

Yelüfeng, the commander of the Jinfu Navy, felt a chill in his heart when he saw the fleet in front of them suddenly erecting their iron shields and scattering like a swarm of bees being stabbed into their nest.

Needless to say, there are many eccentricities, but this quick reaction ability alone makes him the elite of the Navy who have been trained for many years.

The enemy's front troops did not conduct reconnaissance or defense. Yelveng thought he had found a big advantage, so he fired cannons and launched an all-out assault. But now he knew something was wrong, but it was too late.

The Navy is like this. Once it launches an offensive, it cannot be stopped by the coach if he wants.
Chapter completed!