Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 519 Victory in the First Battle
"These lifeless things are just asking for their own death; send a signal to the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, so that they are ready to intercept and pursue this defeated golden army~"

After putting down a monocular in his hand, Hu Biao said so.

There was a bit of high spirits in his expression and tone of voice.

And beside him, there were several netizens including imperial concubines and singers, and a group of Song military officers and generals including Yue Fei.

At this moment, although they didn't say anything, the look of anticipation on their faces showed that they also agreed with Hu Biao's statement.

Today's time is already the fifth day of February in the second year of Promote, just before nine o'clock in the morning.

That is to say, it was the fifth day after they set off from Kaifeng City to swear.

The reason why Hu Biao and others are so high-spirited is because the Northern Expedition started, at least so far, everything has been quite smooth.

Not to mention anything else, just because they have increased the daily marching distance of the army to seventy miles from the next day, it is you who made them happy.

The reason for this is all due to the beauty of the heavens, and the weather suddenly warmed up rapidly.

On the morning of the day of departure, the temperature was still below zero; but by noon, the temperature rose to fifteen or sixteen degrees.

And in the next few days, the temperature is getting higher and higher day by day.

During the day yesterday, the highest temperature reached 21 degrees.

As a result, the ice layer on the originally frozen thick river became thinner day by day, and it was about to melt completely.

This means that in the current marching team, there is no need to carry a lot of food, grass and supplies on the large number of carts.

It can be used to improve the efficiency of the army marching.

Based on such an idea, Hu Biao and the others took a lot of empty seats on these big cars.

These vacancies not only allow the soldiers to throw a [-]-pound backpack behind them onto the cart to reduce the burden when marching.

There are even some extra vacant positions, allowing the soldiers to take turns to rest and recover some energy.

But when it comes to these new carts, one of the biggest functions currently played is that they can reduce the time and energy of the soldiers to build camps every night when they camp.

And building camps every day is one of the key factors affecting the speed of marching.

In order to prevent the opponent from stealing the camp in the middle of the night and the possible roar of the camp, the army of the Central Plains has been quite particular about camping since ancient times.

As for the effect, if the camp is set up strictly according to the book of war, it will naturally be quite good.

But this also means that there are many requirements in the choice of campsites; you need to pack up for a while when you set off in the morning, and there is still a long time before dark in the afternoon, so you have to stop and build a camp.

Putting it all together, in plain sight, a lot of time and energy were wasted.

Otherwise, why would Mao's ancient army have to travel only thirty miles in one day?That is to say, the legendary "retreat three houses", one house in this allusion.

You know, modern people can usually walk ten miles in an hour by walking.

A three-hour journey takes a whole day.

It's not that during the march, there are too many other things that involve too much energy; in order to ensure the basic combat effectiveness, you can only walk such a small distance in a day.

But with these new big cars, everything is different.

Just like the cowboys during the Western Gold Rush, they did the same thing when they camped out at night.

When the soldiers camped every night, as long as they gathered together in regiments, mounted the carts on boards and formed a circle, a solid formation of chariots immediately appeared.

The whole process only takes about [-] minutes at most, and there is no need to bother building a camp at all.

Even on top of these carts, a wooden roof can be added.

This all means that even if it rains, it will not affect the use of muskets and artillery by the defenders, and they will continue to fire and fight.

In this way, Hu Biao and others found that the soldiers marched sixty miles a day, and it was still relatively easy, so they increased their daily marching distance by ten miles.

Although the number is not large, the accumulation is still considerable. This can arrive in Yanjing a few days earlier, which can be said to make their plan more abundant at once...

As for the battle that happened at the beginning, what was it all about?

To be precise, the first battle of the Great Song and Northern Expeditionary Army was still an encounter.

According to the information sent back by the Xichang Fanzi who was active in the Northland, the Jinren's army has begun to gather in the Yanjing area.

Even Wanyan Wu's begging and buying were all conscripted by Yujia himself. It seems that there should be the final main battlefield for both sides.

But this does not mean that they can let the Northern Expeditionary Army of Song Dynasty reach Yanjing so easily.

Wanyan's mother, this is the half-brother of Wanyan Aguda and Wanyan Wu Qimai who were the two emperors of the Jin Kingdom before and after, and one of the few famous veterans left in the Jin Kingdom.

As early as a few days ago, they led a total of [-] cavalry to meet the Northern Expeditionary Army.

So, when they left the Xiangzhou territory controlled by the Yue Family Army yesterday, and arrived at the Fucheng which is far away from the Daming Mansion today, but only thirty or forty miles away, the battle between the two sides began.

To be more specific, a golden cavalry of about 3000 people.

After breaking through the sentry cavalry of the Song army cruising around the army, they suddenly launched an attack.

It's a pity that these golden cavalry were discovered by sentry cavalry placed by the army cruising outside eleven or twelve miles away, and an early warning was given in time.

The sentry rider was holding a special sky-piercing monkey, and after pulling the fuse, that thing could rush up to Lao Gao in no time.

After the explosion, even during the daytime, such a huge movement can be seen clearly from a long distance away.

So, wait until the three thousand golden cavalry rush to the vicinity.

Immediately, I saw that all the Song troops stopped advancing and connected the carts to each other, forming strange cart formations one after another.

After a little hesitation, the Jurchen acted as Commander Meng'an.

Still commanding the cavalry under his command, he chose a slightly smaller chariot formation with only two or three thousand chariots to give away, and launched an attack directly.

It seems that they are going to rush up, take advantage of it, and leave before the cavalry of the new army surrounds them.

And then, just like the comment Hu Biao gave: these lifeless things are just asking for their own death.

In the process of these golden soldiers rushing over, first of all, the car formations in front of them and on the left and right were all using Napoleon field guns with a longer range.

Adoption continuously fired solid shells, giving them a severe blow.

Even these golden men, obviously because their comrades had suffered a lot in Zhuxian Town, knew the power of this kind of artillery.

During the charge, they tried to keep the distance between each other as wide as possible, but they were still hit by lumps of huge shells, smashing alleys of flesh and blood in the charging team.

But compared to the scene where the muskets in the car formation and the shotguns fired by the small Frang machine gun greeted them one by one, this kind of bombardment was nothing.

Especially these golden cavalry, after rushing to the position of fifty steps in front of the formation.

The position in front of them seems to have added an invisible barrier, making them want to pay an astonishing price for every step forward.

After paying a huge price, they rushed to the front thirty steps.

When the pull-fire grenades were thrown out one after another, the casualties reached the Jurchen Commander Meng'an, and the heartache was so painful that they trembled.

Eventually the fight started, but three to four minutes later.

With thousands of casualties on the Jinren's side, they couldn't bear it at all; suddenly a soldier blew the horn frantically, preparing to let the rest of the personnel evacuate in a hurry.

It was only after they turned around that they ran out of the sky for two days.

A Song cavalry unit of two thousand two or three had already arrived diagonally; this was the fifth cavalry regiment of the second cavalry division, and had rushed over after receiving the flag.

All the knights above are all controlling the horse with one hand, and holding a short gun with the hammer raised high in the other.

That said, it doesn't seem to be entirely correct.

Because Gao Chong, who was riding at the forefront of the horse, was riding a green horse with only a chiseled golden tiger's head in his hand.

However, such an operation does not affect the performance of the former "Number One Warrior in the Southern Song Dynasty" at all.

Against the background of bursts of short gunfire, he rushed straight towards the Jurchen Commander Meng'an with the shadow of guns all over the sky.

No matter who blocked them along the way, they would be stabbed, picked, or knocked off their horses after one shot. There was no single enemy at all.

After a short cavalry fight, only 800 of the original [-] Jinren cavalry escaped.

When they frantically beat their horses and fled, everyone's face was full of fear.

Not only is the power of the Song people's firearms far more powerful than the legends; there is also one point, that Song people's young general Duan is too powerful.

Because their Commander Meng'an is already held in his hand like a highly favored chick at this moment.

After mentioning Hu Biao and others all the way, he threw it on the ground like garbage; this is the military salute of a new army on horseback, and he said loudly:
"I have seen you all..."

At this moment, this little brother Gao Chong is really the most beautiful boy in the audience.

*******
Although in such an encounter, the number of Jin people killed and captured by the new army was only more than 2000.

However, under the good omen of victory in the first battle, the Northern Expeditionary Army naturally burst into cheers, and the morale suddenly skyrocketed again.

Even the pace of rushing under the feet was several points faster; if such a marching speed is followed, it is not too much to increase the distance to eighty miles a day.

When the time came towards the evening of the day, another piece of good news came, and the morale of the Northern Expeditionary Army skyrocketed again.

why?Because after some marching, the vanguard of the army arrived outside the capital city of Daming Mansion around noon.

By the early [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the First Army and the First Artillery Division, who were walking ahead, basically all arrived outside this famous city.

For such an outer city, the circumference is 48 miles and [-] steps, with [-] gates and three gates on the south side, and the city wall is as high as three and a half feet.

Although the wall is still built with soil, but it is covered with a layer of bricks, it can be said that it is quite a strong city, and the Jin people naturally have no reason to give up on this.

The defenders in the city consisted of a thousand Jurchens and [-] miscellaneous soldiers, and had already prepared a large number of catapults, ballistas and other equipment.

There are also a lot of defensive materials such as wood, rolling stones, and gold juice, and even forcibly mobilized the people in the city, forming more than 2 civilian husbands, who can always go up to the city wall.

Wanyan, Wu Qimai and others naturally knew that it would be impossible to use such a famous city to stop the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Song Dynasty.

However, based on their rich war experience, they reached a consensus:
There is sufficient food and grass in the city, and with the tall city walls and [-] cavalry cruising outside the city; at least it can hold the Song people for a month before they can take this place.

Although those new soldiers from the Song Dynasty were formidable, they should have suffered [-] to [-] casualties.

If it was replaced by other Song troops, it would be impossible to defeat them.

However, they soon knew that times were completely different.

Since the new army of the Song Dynasty completed the complete weaponization of gunpowder, it is not the field battle mode that has changed, and the same is true for such siege warfare.

After the first army arrived outside the city, in the concept of the army commander, Old Snake, there was no such thing as saying that the whole army should rest for a night and attack the city tomorrow morning.

Immediately, he commanded a group of troops under his command and launched an attack on Daming City.

This is also the first time for the Northern Expeditionary Army to carry out a siege battle. It can be regarded as a preliminary rehearsal for the future Yanjing City siege battle...

After the battle began, the first attack by the new army was of course the First Artillery Division.

A total of 6 24-pounder guns, 24 12-pounder guns, 36 8-pounder guns, and 66 6-pounder guns were lined up just outside the south gate of Daming City, under the eyes of the defenders in the city,

no way!Whether it's the catapults or ballistas in the hands of the defenders on the top of the city, they can't beat these Song people at all.

And near the artillery, there are still many Song people's musket phalanx guards. They dare not go out of the city, what else can they do except watch helplessly?
After these artillery fired, the dense shells smashed the walls and piled debris,
The doomsday scene of smashing trebuchets, ballistas, and human bodies into pieces, as if the earth was shaking, made many Jurchens who were supervising the battle at the top of the city so scared that they peed their pants.

Not to mention the main force of the defenders composed of the Song army who surrendered and the civilians captured by Zhuoding.

When many unlucky ones running around in great panic were knocked down by shells, splashed masonry, and wood.

The surviving personnel all held their heads and crouched under the wall, praying that all this would end soon.

Only when the war has begun, morale has dropped to freezing point.

Of course, these people don't have to be so afraid, because even the field artillery of the devils during World War II would take a certain amount of time to blast through the walls of this level.

What's more, the current new army of the Song Dynasty uses such an old-fashioned artillery that still uses black powder.

If you really want to bomb the city wall in this way, you need at least three to five days of continuous bombing.

The problem is, Old Snake never thought of relying on artillery to blow away such a mighty city; time is tight and the task is heavy, how can they have this leisure time.

When all the defenders at the top of the city were suppressed by artillery fire.

The suspension bridge at the south gate, under the special bombardment of ten cannons, the iron chains that had been thrown up suddenly loosened, causing the heavy suspension bridge to fall down on the spot.

Then, the artillery, including three 3-pound guns, continued to greet the city gate.

Under the power of these shells, even the iron-clad city gate could not resist for 10 minutes, and finally fell down with dense holes.

Even at this moment, the defenders at the top of the city have not completely collapsed.

Because Daming City is a majestic city, but the city gate has that kind of "urn city" structure.

Specifically, even if you pass through the first city gate, you have to pass through an open area with a back-shaped structure and open another city gate before you can officially enter the city.

During this process, the attackers were attacked by the defenders from four directions, including front, rear, left, and right, condescendingly.

Fundamentally speaking, this place is actually a trap.

But after blasting the first city gate, Old Snake didn't send a large army to rush in; instead, under his signal, hundreds of soldiers from the guard company were dispatched.

Wearing large shields, they carried two oversized 'coffins', and rushed into the city gate with sparse arrows.

The next second later, these people escaped desperately; they only hated their parents, for giving themselves a pair of missing feet.

In fact, it is absolutely normal for them to have such a reaction.

Because the two so-called oversized 'coffins' are basically two wooden boxes containing thousands of catties of black powder in each of them.

How powerful this thing is, these people don't know.

But they knew that the power of a ten-jin explosive pack alone was already terrifying.

Then such a box with a charge of more than two or three hundred times, once it explodes, its power can only be described as outrageous.

And before they act, they are told a little bit.

After the fuze is ignited, it will detonate in about 2 minutes.

So if they don't run now, as far as they can, are they living enough, and they are still waiting to be blown to pieces by these things?
In fact, only 115 seconds later, an explosion scene that even a modern person like Lao Snake would be quite speechless appeared at the south gate of Daming City.

In short, after a huge burst of smoke and loud noise.

When everyone looked over in the calmed smoke and dust, they found that the entire city gate was a section of the long field that had collapsed, revealing a huge gap.

"Immediately, blow the charge horn" Immediately, the old snake shouted such a sentence,

In the end, with the trumpet of "Di Di Da Di ~", the troops of the First Army swarmed in from the breach.

The resistance they encountered after entering the city can only be described as weak; it is because of such a dimensionality-reducing blow that the defenders in the city have almost lost all their will to fight.

In the evening, the whole city of Daming City was captured.

Old Snake rode a war horse and swaggered into the city in the afterglow of the landing, before his eyes were all kneeling soldiers begging for mercy...

(End of this chapter)