Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

"Okay, Brother Xie, you can send an additional telegram to Fan Shao later in the name of the Prince's Mansion."

"Let him use the empire's strategy for treating mature people to win over the people of Yizhou. Tell him to be patient and try not to conflict with those people."

"If possible, let them move out of the Yizhou Mountains and live in coastal areas. The empire can build towns for them."

Lin Yi thought for a while and said to Zhao He.

Zhao He nodded when he heard Lin Yi's words.

"Now that we've finished talking about Yizhou, let's talk about Dandong."

"Dingshan, have you made the plan to attack Dandong?" Lin Yi turned his head and looked at Xue Dingshan.

"Go back to your lord, the plan has been completed."

"The walls of Dandong City are thin, and the number of defenders is far smaller than that of our army. In terms of morale and equipment, our army has an absolute advantage."

"So, the staff's opinion is to use artillery directly. Attack the city wall, knock it down, and then send infantry into the city."

"Use armored vehicles as cover to clean streets one by one and completely eliminate the Miyamoto regiment of Sakura Country in the city."

"As for the Goryeo brigade, the staff's opinion is to recruit and surrender. After all, Goryeo was also a vassal state of Daxia before, and those Goryeo soldiers were also coerced by the Sakura Kingdom."

"However, one thing that is more troublesome about attacking Dandong is that there are still many Daxia people in Dandong City. We may have some scruples when fighting." Xue Dingshan said truthfully.

When Lin Yi heard Xue Dingshan's words, he nodded first and then continued.

"There is nothing we can do about it. After Sakura entered the city, the people in the city were prohibited from leaving the city."

"Let the soldiers try to avoid people's houses and reduce civilian casualties as much as possible."

"After this battle, we must treat the people as soon as possible. If there are casualties, we will compensate the people according to the regulations of the empire." Lin Yi also sighed.

Sakura does not follow martial ethics and confines the people to the city and does not allow them to leave the city.

And because of the importance of Dandong, Lin Yi had to send troops to capture it.

He could only temporarily sacrifice the interests of the people. He couldn't possibly stop attacking Dandong just because he was afraid of the casualties of the people, right?

Lin Yi felt that as long as he attacked quickly, defeated the Sakura Nation and ended the battle in the shorter time, the harm to the common people would be lower.

Upon hearing Lin Yi's order, Xue Dingshan saluted Lin Yi and made arrangements to attack Dandong.

Soon, all the artillery of the First Division had been set up and aimed at the outer positions outside Dandong City.

Because Dandong City is really small, it cannot accommodate so many people. You must know that a regiment, plus a brigade, has more than [-] people.

Therefore, Miyamoto Takeo, the captain of the Miyamoto Regiment, arranged half of the soldiers of the Koryo Brigade, about [-] people, on the outer defense line outside Dandong City.

In order to prevent the First Division from attacking, these Goryeo soldiers dug many trenches on the outer defense line.

Then the Korean hid in the trench and faced off with the soldiers of the First Division one kilometer away.

"Four guns corrected! One shot loaded!"

"put!"

After the artillery observers of the First Division aim their artillery at Dandong City, they will prepare to launch an artillery bombardment on Dandong City.

If we say that the two divisions of the Dongchuan Army were equipped with [-] artillery pieces, it would have caused the Sakura Nation soldiers on Yizhou Island to suffer a lot.

Then, the artillery of the First Division would be the end of the world for Sakura and the Goryeo soldiers in Dandong City.

As the first division established by Lin Yi, it has an artillery force of 75 people, preparing 500 Schneider 14-caliber artillery pieces and 20 VZ-[-] heavy howitzers.

Such a firepower configuration, let alone in the East, even the ace masters of the Western countries cannot have so many.

It can be said that Lin Yi has taken his phobia of insufficient firepower to the extreme.

Dedicated to arming his first division.

So, in the end, the First Division's artillery exceeded [-] guns, and its heavy machine guns were even armed to the platoon level.

A platoon of more than thirty people has one heavy machine gun and five light machine guns.

That firepower configuration is enough to beat Sakura to the point of calling her grandpa.

However, the consequence of this is that it also relies very heavily on logistics.

But now, let alone Lin Yi who is following the First Division, he can use the system to supply the team at any time. As for the railway from Dandong to Tongliao, I am now in the hands of Lin Yi.

A steady stream of blood transfusions can be given to the first division.

Since there is sufficient firepower and no shortage of ammunition, the Sakura on the opposite side must be taught a lesson and let them know what fire coverage is.

As the observer's flag was waved, the four artillery pieces used as correction coordinates fired at the outer positions at the same time.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

A second or two later, four streaks of black smoke rose from the Korean position opposite.

The observer watched these four missiles running towards the enemy. Although the accurate wheel entry position did not cause casualties to the Koreans on the opposite side, it was enough.

"All artillery ready to fire! Three rapid fire rounds!"

"put!"

"Boom boom boom~"

There was another series of cannon fire, and then I saw fires rising from the Goryeo position.

The shells were like rain, and they kept hitting the Korean army's position. People were constantly blown up into the air by the shells, and then fell back to the ground like rag bags.

Such constant bombardment will undoubtedly have a huge impact on morale.

At this time, Daxia's infantry had not yet attacked, and the artillery shells alone caused huge casualties to the opponent.

Some Goryeo soldiers with weak psychological defenses took advantage of the gap between artillery reloading and wanted to climb out of the trenches and escape back to the city.

The soldiers around him wanted to hold back the crazy soldiers, but how could they hold back the demon-sealed soldiers?

Finally, hundreds of Korean soldiers climbed out of the trenches and tried to escape back to the city.

But they had just run a few steps when they heard a scream behind them.

There was another round of shelling, and all the Goryeo soldiers who wanted to escape back to the city were wiped out by this round of shelling.

The blown corpses were scattered around like rain, and some unlucky Korean soldiers were even covered by this rain of blood.

At this time, not to mention that these Korean soldiers have not blocked the attack of the First Division, I am afraid that as long as the artillery fire stops, these people will run back in a swarm.

The morale of these Goryeo soldiers can no longer be described as freezing point. It can be said that it has directly become a negative number.

The artillery preparations this time lasted for half an hour.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past half hour, the first division fired as much artillery shells as a division of the Sakura Kingdom in a month.

With so many artillery fire fired in such a short period of time, you can imagine how spectacular the scene was.

"Attention, each artillery, extend the firepower and leave a position for the infantry brothers to attack!" Zhou Chuyun, commander of the [-]st Division Artillery Regiment, put down his telescope and ordered to his adjutant.

As Zhou Chuyun's order was issued, the artillery originally attacking the outer positions began to slowly extend towards the Dandong city wall.