Valley Emperor

It was not beyond Kang Gaozhi's expectation that Liujing could be conquered in just a few days.

In the face of absolute strength crushing, any conspiracy and tricks are useless. Let the previous remnants of King Hui build a large number of defense facilities in Liujing City, but what is the use of this, under the bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces, Not useful at all.

When the artillery completely suppressed the counterattack of the remnants of King Hui, and then exploded, the infantry rushed to the head of the city, and then thousands of soldiers rushed in, quickly taking control of the city walls on all sides.

After controlling the city wall, they did not rush into the hinterland of the city, but began to advance gradually, occupying the main roads and important buildings.

At this time, in fact, the remnants of King Hui had already collapsed.

Facing the inevitable defeat, the remnants of King Hui only used their last breath to resist, but when the city was broken, everyone knew that it was pointless to continue to resist, even the generals. It is the escape that flees, the surrender that surrenders, and there is no one who continues to resist.

Kang Gaozhi told the troops not to rush into the city, but only worried about unnecessary trouble. Anyway, this Liujing city is a big place. As long as the four walls are occupied, the remaining Ming army in the city will be the turtle in the urn. Can't resist.

Therefore, on the first day of the siege force, they only controlled the four sides of the city wall, and did not penetrate into the city at all.

On this day, there were also many defeated soldiers of the Ming Army who came out and surrendered by themselves. For these surrendering soldiers, the soldiers of the Datang Army did not give any embarrassment. As long as they put down their weapons and obeyed the arrangements, basically there is no need to worry about life , this is the same whether it is a senior general of the Ming army, an official or an ordinary soldier.

The Tang Army treats them equally, because in Kang Gaozhi's view, these are already prisoners of war, and they will all be incorporated into the reclamation camps regardless of their status, so it doesn't matter what their status is.

Not only the soldiers and soldiers of King Hui's remnants, but even the young natives of Goryeo who had been recruited by the remnants of King Hui also ran out and surrendered, and they were all taken in, but they were not treated with the Ming army. The prisoners of Wang's remnants were put together.

Because according to the plan, the prisoners of the Ming army will stay in the Korean peninsula to reclaim, but the Korean prisoners will be sent to the northeast border wild areas to reclaim or other places. In short, they will not be allowed to stay in the Korean peninsula, so Ming army captives and Goryeo captives were placed separately.

The wave of surrender of the collapsed soldiers in the city had been going on since the city was broken at noon that day, and it reached a climax in the evening of the same day. After one night, the 15th Infantry Division officially entered the city the next day. When he started to control the important streets and buildings in the city, he basically did not encounter much resistance.

Because before they officially entered the city, they had basically taken in more than 15,000 prisoners, tens of thousands of them were the remnants of King Hye, and the remaining 4,000 or 5,000 people were natives of Korea.

In addition, in the battle that lasted for several days, the defenders in the city also lost thousands of people successively, so there are not many remnants left in the city at this time.

And most of them hide. Basically, these people are neither willing to surrender and be prisoners, but also unwilling to take it to the end. They just want to hide and recover their freedom after the war is over. Well, to put it bluntly, in fact, they are When a deserter.

When entering the city, there was no large-scale resistance, but some small-scale resistance continued to occur, so the sound of guns continued to sound. How to follow the normal combat mode.

They often attacked a certain important connection node with heavy troops first, usually the main street, and then stationed, divided the urban area, and then cleaned them one by one.

When confronted with resistance, they will not foolishly play close hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. They will directly call the nearby friendly forces for support, and will also pull out shotguns and even field guns.

As for grenades, not to mention, now grenades have become an important melee fire support weapon for the Datang Army.

It can be used when defending, and it can also be used when attacking at close range. Not only the grenadiers will be equipped, in fact, the ordinary line infantry will also be equipped with grenades, but the number is not as many as the grenadiers. The distance is also incomparable.

Nowadays, the grenade of the Datang Army has been improved many times in terms of the projectile body, and the weight has dropped a lot and can be carried more. It also adopts the wooden handle projectile body to make it easier to throw, and the fragmentation layout on the projectile body is also specially designed. The power after the explosion is even more impressive, but its firing method still uses the traditional matchlock fuze.

No way, these days the technology is slag, and there are only a few ignition methods. For example, the arquebus is directly ignited with arquebus, and the flintlock guns equipped by the Datang Army are ignited with flint, and now the latest model has not been equipped in large quantities, only in the near future. The grenade of the guard's test equipment uses the high temperature generated by the propellant to ignite.

The other half will not be able to come out.

The hand grenade uses the ancient and traditional matchlock ignition. In order to make the grenade ignite smoothly, even though the Datang Army is currently eliminating matchlock guns on a large scale, it will still give soldiers a fire book.

The power of the grenade was once again reflected in the Liujingcheng Battle. Now the Datang Army is fighting, especially in the urban area, if they encounter an enemy hiding in the building to fight stubbornly, they will not be foolish to rush directly, but Will you throw a grenade in first, then rush up after it explodes?

Just kidding, courting death!

After the explosion, I pulled out a two-pound shotgun and fired a few shots at the building. The defense of these civil buildings is not good. Although the shotgun is not powerful, it can still penetrate thin walls and those wooden walls. Kill those inside.

Then the flintlock took aim, observed the situation, and saw that someone was firing!

Until there is no movement inside, then I will carefully go in to see the situation. What if there is still a situation? Throw another grenade and fire a few more shots, it's really not good, set fire!

Today's buildings in East Asia are generally made of wood, and masonry is relatively rare. To deal with such buildings, artillery and grenades are very useful, and fire attack is a super killer!

In the several city offensive and defensive battles between the Datang Army and the Ming Army, the local cities were basically smashed into pieces, not bombed by artillery, but burned!

The Tang army would set fire to attack, and the Ming army would set fire to stop the attack of the Tang army!

In the original Yangzhou Battle, most of Yangzhou City was covered with thick smoke. After the battle, most of Yangzhou City was turned into ruins. Well, they were all set on fire.

Since there are so many ways to deal with people in the building, naturally no one will rush in stupidly!

Of course, this is only the general situation. There are always some small accidents. Therefore, some casualties occurred when entering the city to clear the city, but they were not large, only a few dozen people were killed and injured. There are far fewer people.

And war, how can there be undead!

They killed an enemy army of more than 20,000 people, and their casualties were only more than 300 people, which is already very good.

On the other hand, when the Fourth Infantry Division entered Burma to pursue the remnants of the Ming army, there was no far-fetched result. Instead, it killed and injured thousands of people.

Therefore, the few casualties did not affect Kang Gaozhi's good mood at all!

After the troops had completely cleaned up the city, Kang Gaozhi safely rode into the city with a large number of generals under his command. If he was so ostentatious and didn't worry about being assassinated, it was useless.

The Datang Army's clean-up work in the urban area, when skilled, first controls the main roads, then clears the large-scale remnants, and then comes to the door of a street and a building, raises guns when they see men, and arrests young men when they see them.

There is no need to worry about catching too many mistakes, because the resident population of the city these days is very small, and the resident population before Liujing City is at most ten or twenty thousand people. Three to five thousand people broke the sky.

But after the Datang Army was cleaned up, more than 5,000 young men were caught on the first day!

In the end, a total of 8,000 people were caught, in other words, at least half of them were defeated soldiers!

Arrest first, ask questions first, not to mention those who do not speak native languages, they are all the remnants of King Hui.

Even if they can say it, it is possible that the young men recruited by King Hui are young men, but these people say that they are recruited young men, but they are actually part of the remnants of King Hui. After all, they also participated in resisting the attack of the Tang army before. What about the city.

Therefore, for the selection of the natives, those who do not live in Liujing City, and who have no acquaintances to lead them, needless to say, must be the native soldiers of the remnants of King Hui.

Even if he lived in Liujing, he might have joined the remnants of King Hui, even if he was forced.

But at that time, it was basically not very easy to distinguish. Later, the simplest method was used. The young and old natives of the city were released. As for those who were just the right age, their physical fitness was not bad, and they could be pulled at a glance. There is no distinction between cannon fodder soldiers, and they are all taken as prisoners.

Anyway, Kang Gaozhi didn't plan to do anything to these native captives, he just sent them to the Northeast Wilderness for reclamation, and he wouldn't kill them.

After this clean-up work, basically there are almost no young men in the city, all the old and weak women and children, Kang Gaozhi feels very relieved about this!

Such Liujingcheng is a good Liujingcheng, so he can ride in with confidence!

After capturing Liujingcheng, it basically means that the Korean Peninsula can no longer be stopped militarily from the sweep of the Datang Army. Next, Kang Gaozhi directly sits in Liujingcheng, and sends troops to divide into three directions to sweep other small areas on the peninsula. city.

At this time, he also got in touch with the landing troops over there in Seoul!

Through the messenger, Kang Gaozhi learned that the landing operation on the navy's side was earlier than when he launched the attack, but the place where they first landed was not Seoul, but Jianghua Island. This island, which is only one kilometer away from the land, is a transit station, and finally a large-scale landing operation is launched.

And their combat operations were even smoother than Kang Gaozhi's. On the day of the large-scale landing, they took Seoul.

There is no way, because there are not many troops to defend in the current Seoul, there are only a few hundred remnants of King Hui and a thousand indigenous soldiers, and the landing force has more than two thousand soldiers.

This is nothing, and more importantly, the first batch of troops to land is the Marine Corps of the Navy. The generals of the Navy are very concerned about the safety of their own troops after landing.

When they landed, they took a risk and drove a frigate to shore to provide fire support.

Afterwards, they drove two armed merchant ships converted from merchant ships into the Han River. These small merchant ships of more than 300 tons were temporarily modified by the Navy for this landing operation. many!

Since there are a lot of artillery pieces on the top, it is comparable to the firepower of a cruiser, and the artillery equipped inside is even more than the first 450-ton cruiser in the Navy. There are as many as 36 guns. .

There are several forty-eight-pound howitzers, the long-barreled naval guns are mainly nine-jin naval guns, and there are also fourteen-jin naval guns.

Just talking about firepower, this is the firepower configuration of a serious cruiser.

It's just that there is only the advantage of strong firepower. Because of the center of gravity, during the sailing process, the artillery on the upper deck must be strictly fixed, otherwise it will overturn due to the unstable center of gravity in a slightly larger storm.

To put it bluntly, this thing is actually a temporary modification, a one-time use. After the battle, the two merchant ships will be restored to their original state, and the artillery on them will be removed again.

In addition to the two specially modified armed merchant ships, two 150-ton offshore patrol ships also entered the Han River along with them.

The offshore patrol ships of the Datang Imperial Navy, because of their shallow draught and small ships~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are relatively flexible, so they can not only sail offshore, but also sail on some big rivers.

In addition to using offshore patrol ships for offshore patrol tasks, in fact, such patrol ships can also be seen in the Yangtze River and Pearl River basins.

Well, when necessary, they can also reluctantly go on long voyages. For example, the offshore patrol ships currently stationed in Luzon or Ryukyu Prefecture are basically from the mainland.

Although the firepower is not good, the low cost and wide range of uses also make the Datang Navy have a soft spot for this type of ship, and orders are added every year!

At present, there are more than 30 patrol ships in the fleets of the navy that have already been in service or have been completed and launched. There are more than 20 patrol ships on the slipway that are under construction or are preparing to be built. .

According to the plan of the Datang Navy, they will need at least fifty patrol ships to serve within three years!

But this is not the end. In the long-term plan of the Navy, it is planned to have 100 or 80 of them. Therefore, the number of such patrol ships exceeds 100, and it will not take much. It is estimated that it will be a matter of three or five years.

Of course, although this kind of ship is easy to build, it can be built by a private shipyard according to the design drawings, and it has a wide range of uses. It can patrol the offshore waters, enter the rivers and lakes to patrol, and can reluctantly go to the far sea when necessary, and can perform a variety of tasks. Mission, but too weak firepower is still an Achilles heel.

If it is a medium and large warship that encounters the enemy, it will be beaten into slag!

But then again, this thing is not used for fleet battles at all. If the enemy needs to use medium and large warships to deal with them, then it means that the Datang Navy has made a lot of money!

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