Kai Fu Han

Chapter 345 Attacking Yangxin City
Liu Xinqi took the telescope and looked at it.

It was found that two miles behind Wanyan Zongbi's army stood a very tall flag, nearly three feet high.

This flag is to guide the golden eagle. The golden eagle will land when it sees the flag in the sky.

At present, the Jin Army does not know that the Xinghan League is using the golden eagle to communicate, nor does it know that the golden eagle sends messages to mobile targets by identifying flags, so this method can still be used at present.If the enemy knows this information in the future, the method of flag positioning cannot be used, and it is easy to be confused by the enemy, so that the golden eagle will send the information to the enemy.

Jiao Rui led the special company and did not hide. Instead, he swaggered and wandered not far from the Jinjun, so that the Jinjun sent people to chase them. If they couldn't catch up, they couldn't let them go. Very uncomfortable.

"Give Gao Yuan the order to take action." Liu Xinqi ordered.

"Yes" Liu Xinbao responded.

……

At noon on the 26th, the north gate of Yangxin City.

Gao Yuan, with a logistics force composed of [-] marines and [-] sailors, set up camp ten miles away from the city gate, waiting for Liu Xinqi's order.

"Colonel, we are so swaggering, why don't we let the Jin army prepare to defend the city in advance." A general under his command asked Gao Yuan.

"We just want them to prepare, and then we will defeat them in an upright manner, so that when they see our Xinghan League troops in the future, they will become timid and want to turn around and run away." Gao Yuan replied.

It would be a pity if they didn't fight tough battles after pulling six cannons from the coast with great effort.

And only hard battles can truly train the troops.

Unlike the army of the Ministry of the Army, the Navy Marine Corps has not had a major battle recently and lacks actual combat training. The overall military quality has widened the gap with the Army Field Army.

"Report!" The communications soldier ran over with a small bamboo tube in his hand.

"Read it!" Gao Yuan knew at a glance that it was the golden eagle who had sent the message.

"When receiving the order, start attacking the city as planned, destroying food first, and the rest second." The communications soldier opened the bamboo tube, took out the paper roll inside, unfolded it and read loudly.

"Prepare to attack the city." Gao Yuan immediately ordered.

The generals under his command began to make preparations for the siege according to the content of previous training.

There was a musket formation in the front and an artillery formation in the back. After forming the formation, they began to advance towards Yangxin City and did not stop until they were one mile away from the city wall.

"Send the artillery forward." Gao Yuan ordered again.

The sailors operating the artillery pushed the artillery cart out from the gap in the middle of the marine formation to the front of the formation.

After receiving Gao Yuan's permission, the general in charge of commanding the artillery began to take over command of the artillery.

First, the cannon in the middle was tested.

"boom!"

Shells flew over the walls and into the city.

Then came the second test firing. The shell hit a few feet in front of the city gate. After bouncing, it hit the retracted suspension bridge and was embedded in the thick wooden planks of the suspension bridge.

"Prepare for the first salvo!"

"The elevation angle is 25 degrees!"

...

Orders came one after another, and the other artillery corrected their shooting angles according to the artillery in the middle. Finally, a loud roar came:
"emission!"

"Boom! Boom!..."

The six cannons roared at the same time. Although they were the first generation of cannons, they were not as powerful as the ship-borne two-inch cannons, but they were enough for the gate of Yangxin City.

With a shooting distance of less than one mile, the accuracy of the artillery array that has been calibrated is very high, and four artillery pieces are accurately fired on the suspension bridge.

It can be clearly seen that the suspension bridge was immediately blown to pieces.

Then another volley was fired, and the city gate inside the city gate cave was also smashed, and the city gate was opened. "Musketeers step forward to suppress the city!" Gao Yuan ordered immediately when he saw that the city gate was broken.

The three-stage shooting formation composed of 600 people began to advance until it was a hundred steps away from the city wall. Then, under the command of the officer, it began to shoot at the city wall.

"Boom! Boom!" Continuous gunshots rang out, and the screams of the Jinjun who were hit by bullets could be heard from time to time on the city wall.

After three rounds of gunfire, no Jin soldiers dared to show their heads outside on the city wall within a hundred feet to the left and right of the city gate tower. They all hid behind the female wall.

"Grenadiers step forward!"

More than 20 soldiers with grenades hanging from their waists formed a long snake formation, crossed the musket formation, and walked under the city wall.

The moat of Yangxin is very narrow, only more than two feet, and the city wall is not high, also two feet high.

The twenty grenadiers were all tall and well built, and it was obvious at first glance that they were all warriors.

"ignition!"

The grenade gun in the grenadier's hand was quickly blown out, and then he unloaded a grenade from his waist with one hand.

"Throw!"

The match rope hanging from the grenade's wooden handle was ignited by the fire break, and quickly burned into the wooden handle to ensure that the fuse would not be blown out by the airflow when the grenade was thrown. Then the grenadier used all his strength to remove the ignited fuse in his hand. The grenade was thrown on the gate tower of Yangxin City.

"Boom!" "Boom!"...

Unlike the solid bullets fired by the artillery, the grenades caused huge damage on the city gate tower. Smoke and dust were everywhere. Many Jin Army soldiers were blown off the city wall and fell into the moat.

"Throw!"

Another wave of grenades was thrown up the wall.

The soldiers on the top of the city had been suppressed by muskets, allowing the grenadiers to throw calmly, and the golden soldiers in Yangxin City were completely suppressed and beaten.

"The Jin Army cavalry has assembled!"

Gao Yuan looked into the city through the open city gate, and sure enough he saw the Jin Army cavalry gathering inside.

"They can't rush out without the suspension bridge. They probably plan to wait for us to cross the river into the city and rush into the formation while our footing is not stable." Gao Yuan predicted.

However, for safety reasons, Gao Yuan once again sent reconnaissance cavalry to the east and west sides of the North Gate to prevent Jin Army cavalry from attacking his flanks or rear after coming out of other gates.

"Build a floating bridge!"

The assembled wooden bridge at the rear was carried towards the moat by the engineers. Then some soldiers jumped over the river and pulled the rope to build the wooden bridge over the moat.

It took two floors to be erected before it was finished.

"Load the artillery shells and lead the charge!"

After the six artillery pieces were loaded, they were pushed forward, followed by infantry, and some musketeers were still suppressing the city.

However, there should be no resistance on the city top that has been swept by grenades several times, because no rolling stone has ever fallen from the city top.

"￥%...#￥%#" After the cavalry in the city saw part of the Xinghan League's troops entering the city, a general shouted loudly, which should be to boost morale, and then the Jin Army's cavalry formation began to charge into the formation.

"Ah! Oh!" Various ghosts cried and wolves howled, and the Jin Army's cavalry arranged in dense formation and quickly approached the Xinghan Allied Forces formation.

In front of the Xinghan Alliance formation, six artillery pieces were lined up at a time.

"Third left, shoot!" the artillery commander shouted.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

In the dense environment of the streets in the city, the shotguns gathered and fired towards the cavalry formation at the other end of the street.

(End of this chapter)