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Jiaozhou Bay is a natural deep-water harbor, the outermost green and yellow peninsulas face each other in the distance, like a pair of arms, holding the water surface in a radius of nearly 50 miles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoGuantao Village, which is on the right side of the center of the harbor and peeks into the sea, is like a sleeping baby, lying quietly in the clear blue sea.

Chen Hangyan and Du Hu spent more than half a year building a large fortress complex in Jiaozhou Bay. With Guantao Fort as the center, Qingdao and Huangdao Fort as the auxiliary, there are more than a dozen small fortresses facing each other from afar, forming a complete semi-arc water and land defense system. More than 20 large warships of the Fujian Navy Division shuttled back and forth on the water, providing timely troop support and strong fire support for the fortress group.

This time to the south, the Great Yuan Empire concentrated its strength. There are more than 200 heavy artillery pieces with a range of more than five miles alone, and other rapid-fire guns, light artillery, and tiger squat cannons can already be used in thousands. It can be said that all the copper mines of the Great Yuan Empire for several years in a row have been consumed in artillery casting. The addition of Li Guida made the casting process of Dayuan break through a level, and the cannon cast in bronze of the Yuan Empire was not inferior to the copper-tired iron core cannon originally developed on Baizhang Ridge regardless of range and rate of fire. (Note: cast bronze, French patent of the Napoleonic era)

In order to delay Kublai Khan's southward movement and create a strategic initiative for the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the defenders also exhausted all their resources. First of all, he deliberately showed weakness, exchanging the vast space of Shandong East Road for the time of the Northern Yuan and Southern Expeditions. Then he counterattacked, and suddenly shot behind Kublai Khan and killed He Wei, the general of the Han army. then created rumors and constantly hit Kublai Khan's bottom line. Therefore, both sides were red-eyed when they met, and there was almost no temptation between each other.

When Chen Hangyan went north, he only brought more than 7,000 elite soldiers to break the captivity, counting the Minzhuang and Lu Yong, the sailors under Du Hu's command that he temporarily recruited in the first half of the year, the total number of defenders in Jiaozhou Bay would not exceed 20,000. And these 20,000 people were deployed in more than 20 fortresses, large and small. Therefore, according to the information in his hands, Kublai Khan judged that the defenders in each fortress would not exceed 2,000 people, and with the strength of the Great Yuan at this time, even if each person threw a stone, he could also completely bury a fortress. Moreover, at this moment, the Yuan army has such a large number of artillery in its hands, and when it is concentrated, it can use half a day to bombard any obstacles. In this way, one fortress after another gnawed down, and within twenty days, he would see Chen Hangyan sitting in his prisoner car.

His patience could not wait twenty days, so he divided his troops into three routes, each attacking a defensive point. The east road was dominated by Yue Chi Che'er, supplemented by the veteran Ali Hague with an artillery team, leading 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Qingdao. The western road was headed by the Han general Li Feng, and Arakhan led the artillery team to help, leading 100,000 troops to attack Huangdao. Kublai Khan himself personally led 100,000 Mongol-Han troops to storm Guantao Fort, which was hanging the banner of Chen Hangyan. For the small fortresses scattered between the three main forts, Kublai Khan ordered all kinds of troops and horses to capture the main fort and cut them off.

An army of 300,000 and more than 100,000 people rushed straight and gnawed on the iron hedgehog of Jiaozhou Bay.

The so-called Guantao Fort is actually an isolated island isolated on land by barbed wire, moats and city walls. Guantao Village is flanked by bays on the east and west sides, and a four-mile-wide wall just separates Guantao Village and Wangyang Village (Atlantic Village), which are about ten miles away, from the land.

Chen Hangyan never paid attention to fairness and fairness, and if Kublai Khan wanted to capture him alive, he first had to wave his army to break through the barbed wire and trenches around the fortress. And these barbed wire and trenches, however, were exactly within the range of the muskets.

The first wave of the Yuan army in the middle lasted only half an hour before it ended hastily. Although through Boyan's messenger in advance, the Northern Yuan soldiers were already aware of the existence of the musket. But watching their brethren fall one after another on the edge of the barbed wire, and the defenders did not even poke their heads out of the walls, the morale of the Yuan army suffered a serious blow.

Kublai Khan quickly adjusted his tactics and ordered Li Guida to push the heavy artillery to the front line. More than sixty heavy artillery pieces blasted the defenders' positions into a sea of fire. Half an hour later, when the smoke cleared, Kublai Khan was surprised to find that the walls of Guantao Fort were still in front of the army.

Before the advent of artillery, almost all the outer walls of cities were made of earth, except for the walls of important military towns such as Xiangyang and Lin'an, which were built of stone. Including Kublai Khan's capital, it was just a layer of stones pasted on the outside of the earthen wall. The city wall that Chen Hangyan hastily built in half a year is brick and stone for the surface and loess for the inside. The height is less than two feet, but the thickness can run two carriages side by side. The outer surface of the city wall is also contrary to the smoothness of the traditional city wall of the Great Song Dynasty, but is connected by countless triangular rows of protrusions.

The Huaxia Academy of Sciences was the first to develop heavy artillery, and after seeing the destructive power of heavy artillery, they built their own shields to defend against their spears. Under the guidance of the "Book from Heaven", such a defense facility was designed.

This is similar to the structure of the walls of the fortifications in another time and space, and for a short time, the heavy artillery is helpless.

Seeing that the effect of the heavy artillery strike was not significant, Kublai Khan waved the command flag and began the second round of strong attack. Two Han troops of 10,000 people, led by a Mongol general, lined up in a loose attack array and pounced on the barbed wire, which had been blown up in all directions. The outermost stakes, which were smearing with green smoke, were quickly blocked by the soldiers.

At this moment, the city wall flashed with fire, and dozens of rapid-fire cannons roared at the same time. The black-pressed shells pierced through the smoke and landed precisely at the junction of the two waves of soldiers.

"Boom!" The bursting shrenchnel rolled up a high wall of smoke, and the 20,000-strong team was cut into two sections by the wall of smoke. Without waiting for the Yuan General to react, rows of bullets fell down on the city wall like hailstones. Immediately after, under the noses of the Yuan army's forwards, dozens of tiger squatting cannons poked their heads out of the trench.

"Poof!" The tiger squat cannon filled with iron sand spewed flames. The range was less than five hundred paces, but it smashed all the living creatures in front of it into a sieve. The Tiger Squat cannon was not equipped with uncustomized shells, and the muzzle was filled with lead, sand, gravel and other objects. At a distance of more than five hundred paces, the lead sand spewed out of the muzzle of the cannon was not enough to tickle the soldiers, but within two hundred and fifty paces, there were dozens of large patches.

The wounded Yuan army rolled all over the ground, his whole body blackened by gunpowder, but the dark red blood penetrated layer by layer from the charred leather armor.

Death is terrible, and what is even more terrible than death is the long process of waiting for death. The wounded Beiyuan soldiers rolled and wailed. The flames on the ground beside him could no longer cause him any more pain.

"Brother, give me a knife, give me a knife!" On the potholed ground, a man in his thirties hugged his companion and pleaded bitterly. The companion who was lucky enough to escape from the muzzle was already frightened, and the steel knife was raised high, but he did not know whether to slash first at the other remaining barbed wire fence in front of him, or at the companion holding his feet.

"Smack!" A crisp sound of muskets ended his hesitation. In the trench more than a hundred paces away, the newly attached soldiers probed their heads, and then quickly retracted their bodies.

The Northern Yuan soldier holding a steel knife slowly fell, and the blade fell on his companion's neck a moment before he died.

The second round of strong attacks ended faster than the first. The Northern Yuan generals, who returned in a hurry, exchanged the lives of more than 1,000 brothers for three conclusions.

First, the barbed wire can also play a role in hindering the soldiers' progress after they fall to the ground.

Second, the defenders hid not only behind the walls, but also in the cobwebbed trenches.

Third, the Chen thief hid artillery in Guantao Pavilion, and there were quite a few of them.

Kublai Khan passed through the telescope in the back and saw what was happening in front of him. By this time, he had finally understood why Ali Hague and Arkhan had brought up the Broken Army, and there was always fear in their voices. Such an opponent is indeed something that has never been seen in his life, fighting with Naiyan in Liaodong, and the other party is also equipped with artillery, but his understanding of firearms warfare is not at the same level as that of the Broken Army.

"Li Guida!" Kublai Khan shouted angrily.

Before he could give the order, Li Guida had already assigned all the artillery that could reach the city wall at a suitable range. For the enemy's artillery, either cavalry was charged, or more superior artillery fire was suppressed. This principle of firearms warfare, he heard Wen Tianxiang talk about it more than once when he was reorganizing the army in Baizhangling. The situation in front of us clearly conformed to the latter situation, the enemy was hiding behind the fortress, and the cavalry could not storm the fortress, but could only use artillery to concoct it.

Hundreds of artillery pieces were pushed into different positions, and a fierce artillery battle ensued with the defenders. Countless flames came and went in the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder blackened the air in an instant, as if the entire heaven had been on fire.

The defenders had a small number of artillery, and most of them were rapid-fire guns against soldiers' assaults, and the range was far less than that of the heavy artillery equipped by the Yuan army. However, compared to the flying fire on the Northern Yuan side, the defenders' shells were like eyes, and they fell specifically on the positions of rapid-fire guns with the same range as themselves.

"Boom!" "Boom!" Ammunition boxes with sub-cannons were hit by defenders' shells somewhere in the left front, and the sharp weapons of war that Li Guida personally supervised flew into the sky one after another.

Fearing that Kublai Khan would accuse him of being unfavorable in the war, Li Guida risked his life and ran to the rapid-fire artillery position. But I saw a Mongolian Qianhu in heavy armor forcing the artillery with a scimitar and advancing the rapid-fire gun step by step.

"Stop, let me go back behind the ramparts!" Li Guida shouted angrily. In the case of equal range, fighting against the enemy army hiding behind the fortress, his own side has already suffered a lot of losses. If the artillery is ordered to break away from the protection of the earth barriers, it is tantamount to letting the soldiers go to the enemy gunners as targets.

"Push closer, push closer!" Mongolian Qianhu saw that Li Guida came to supervise the battle by himself, and said teasingly. In the direction of his finger, there was a noticeable dent in the wall two miles away. That's what he got with two guns and more than two dozen soldiers.

"Go back behind the ramparts, set up the muzzle, and aim and shoot!" Li Guida ordered angrily. The reckless Qianhu in front of him was much lower than him, and on the charge of interfering with the command of the artillery team, Li Guida could have cut off his head.

"Who dare!" The Mongolian military commander raised his hand and raised his scimitar. "Forward, backward, slash. Lao Tzu's soldiers and horses are behind you! ”

After speaking, he straightened his chest and glared angrily at Li Guida.

The artillerymen cowered and pushed the rapid-fire gun a few steps forward, looked at Li Guida as if they were in distress, and stopped where they were. Their daily training was commanded by Li Guida, and although this cold-faced tens of thousands of households were annoying, they were very fond of soldiers and weapons.

"Stand back, there are those who interfere with artillery fighters for no reason, kill!" Li Guida's hand suddenly pressed on the hilt of the sword. He is the chief officer of the artillery team personally sealed by Kublai Khan, tens of thousands of households, and a squire of the Ministry of Works. The Mongolian thousand households in front of him, whether in military or civilian positions, are not enough to carry his shoes.

"Lao Tzu sees that you are eating inside and out!" Mongolian Qianhu held a knife and jumped in front of Li Guida. "You Han people are just dogs raised by the Great Khan, if you provoke Lao Tzu and chop it with a knife, it's a big deal to pay Your Majesty a donkey!"

Blood surged onto Li Guida's face, and the violent explosions around him fell silent for a moment. He felt his body tremble, as if a cannonball had exploded. When he was in the Broken Army, it was because he felt that he was despised by Wen Tianxiang, so he was angry and surrendered to the enemy after the defeat. And after running for Kublai Khan for so many years and holding a high position, there are still people who remind him, 'You are just a dog raised by the Great Khan, and any Mongol who kills you only needs to compensate a donkey!'" ’

The sword in Li Guida's hand was raised high, and then it hung down weakly. Suddenly, he heard a strange whistling in mid-air, and with years of experience in dealing with artillery, Li Guida jumped into the crater next to him.

"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded around him. Dirt fell from the sky, obscuring people's vision. In an instant, half of the clothes of a Mongolian military general were exposed behind the smoke of gunpowder, and Li Guida raised his hand and stabbed the sword out without hesitation.

The sensation from his hand told Li Guida that he had stabbed someone. The screams in the smoke proved that this person was the general who had quarreled with him just now. Li Guida twisted his wrist, pushed the sword forward, and then pulled it out suddenly.

"The blade of the sword is narrow and narrow, and if it pierces into a person's body on the battlefield, it may not be able to kill you. But if you twist it hard, you can break the other party's intestines, and the gods will not save him from life. "When he was learning martial arts in the Broken Army, the cold-blooded Du Hu once instructed him like this.

In an instant, all that occupied Li Guida's heart was hatred.

The fierce artillery battle lasted for more than half an hour, and the attacking side suffered huge losses because the rapid-fire artillery positions were too far forward. One middle thousand, two thousand-thousand-owned, and more than a dozen rapid-fire guns were killed on the spot, and the result of the martyrdom of more than a dozen rapid-fire guns forced Li Guida to withdraw all light artillery with a range of less than three miles.

When it was discovered that the range of its rapid-fire guns could not reach the positions of the Yuan army's heavy artillery, the defenders' rapid-fire guns also stopped firing. The battlefield entered a relatively dull phase, and every half moment, a wave of projectiles fired by heavy artillery flew towards the city walls, kicking up billowing smoke and dust on the defenders' positions. At other moments, there was no action from the attacking and defending sides.

"General Li, what do you have a good idea?" Kublai Khan summoned all his generals to his side to ask for advice. It was obviously not a feasible strategy for the Han army to cross the barbed wire fence and cross the trenches step by step, risking the enemy's artillery fire. In that way, after the end of the Shandong Campaign, absolutely no one was willing to follow Kublai Khan to attack Wen Tianxiang's Yangtze River defense line.

"In the opinion of the ministers, instead of attacking the main formation of the Chen thief, it is better to take the Qing and Huang Islands first!" Li Guida carefully studied the map around Jiaozhou Bay that he had just drawn, and said in a low voice.

The two islands of Qinghuang are far away from each other, and taking these two islands is equivalent to blocking the entire harbor inside. As long as we make full use of the terrain on the edge of the two peninsulas, with the heavy artillery in the hands of the current army, and some small civilian ships, we can completely block the water surface at the entrance of Jiaozhou Bay.

Blocking the entrance to Jiaozhou Bay, Du Hu could not provide any supplies to the main array of Guantao Fort, where Chen Hangyan was located. No matter how powerful the defenders' muskets are, there will be a moment when they run out of medicine. Moreover, without the support behind them, the defenders will also lose morale.

All of you here are long-fought generals, and Li Guida has just made a start, and they have already guessed what is going on. The generals who were apprehensive about Chen's hedgehog defense nods their heads and suggested that Kublai Khan adopt Li Guida's suggestion.

"It's good! Order the army to retreat, and the heavy artillery take turns to rest, but it is not allowed to stop firing! Ah Hutai, take my golden knife to the left and right armies to urge the battle, and order them to hurry up and take down the two projectile lands for me! Kublai Khan nodded and commanded loudly.

Ahutai agreed, took Kublai Khan's golden sword, and rode away.

The terrain of Qingdao is too wide, and it is difficult to isolate itself from the land with a city wall. The terrain of Huangdao was too narrow, and after being isolated, the defenders had little room for manoeuvre. Neither of the two peninsulas could have built such a well-established defense line by the sea as Guantao Fort.

Therefore, the rising star of the Great Yuan Dynasty, who was deeply trusted by Kublai Khan, believed that the progress of the two wings would be better than that of the Chinese army. When he approached Huangdao, the contrast between ideal and reality shocked him to close his mouth.

The central offensive was thwarted mainly because the army underestimated the ability of the new city wall to resist the attack of Chen Hangyan's defensive determination. And the people of the West Road were on the seaside, but they suffered a big loss because they underestimated the firepower density of the naval division's battleships.

Huangdao has a narrow terrain and a rugged coast, so the defensive position here is not as perfect as Guantao Fort. However, the rugged coastline allowed the naval warships to give full play to their might.

When Da Yuan unfolded the attack formation, it was immediately suppressed by the fire of the surface fleet. Each battleship is a moving artillery group, and with each launch, the damage caused is beyond people's imagination.

"Boom!" Not far from Ahutai's side in Jiaozhou Bay, more than 30 broadside guns spewed out anger at the same time. The huge recoil pushed the battleship to the other side, and then quickly flattened its body. Without waiting for the Northern Yuan artillery to launch a counterattack, the battleship captain drew an arc on the water like a whale, turned the bow of the ship, and moved away from the coast.

Where the shells fell, a huge blank space immediately appeared among the infantry soldiers of the Yuan army who were retreating in a panic, and more than 100 soldiers flew up, separated from their flesh and bones.

"Yikes!" It wasn't until the mutilated limbs of their teammates smashed into their faces that the soldiers around the shell landing site woke up from their blank state, screamed, and fled backwards.

"Law Enforcement Team!" Li Feng, the general of the Mongol Han army who organized the attack, did not hesitate to give the order. Hundreds of archers gathered around and shot the fugitives on the spot.

The soldiers stopped screaming, looking at the monsters spitting smoke and fire on the sea, and then at Li Feng, whose face was more hideous than the monsters, and retreated in an orderly manner trembling.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Arakhan hastened to order the artillery to counterattack to the sea. The heavy artillery with the longest range was the first to fire, and a dozen shells swept through the sky and smashed heavily on the sea.

Huge columns of water splashed on the sea, and in the midst of the stormy waves, another battleship came at high speed, and the side side was aimed at the Yuan army's artillery array.

"Boom!" The battleship was stunned and fled quickly. Dozens of shells flew towards the heavy artillery of the Yuan army, most of which missed the target and smashed into the surrounding crowd, splashing a mist of blood.

"Quickly build an earthen rampart!" Ah Hutai has a strong learning ability, and in the battle in the middle lane, he saw with his own eyes that Li Guida used simple earthen fortresses to provide very effective protection for his artillery.

"Lord Ahutai retreats quickly!" The Han general Wang Sansheng ran forward, grabbed the reins of Ahutai's horse and fled backwards. This person is currently red and purple in the eyes of Kublai Khan and Zhenjin, and Wang Sansheng does not dare to let such a big man die in his own army.

"Escape from what! Your Majesty has an order! Ah Hutai scolded loudly, preparing to summon Li Feng over to convey Kublai Khan's holy decree on the spot. But he didn't expect the Han army to lower the ten thousand households Wang Sansheng suddenly turned his face, jumped up and threw him directly under the horse's belly.

"Boom!" A wave of heat hit Ahutai's face, burning half of his beard. Raising his head in shock, he saw that his mount, Qianli Xue, had been blown into several pieces, and not far away, more than two dozen bomb craters were lined up, and countless Han soldiers fell around the craters.

"Where are the shells, where are the shells?" Ah Hutai, who was frightened, shook Wang Sansheng's body desperately. Just now he clearly saw that the huge ship after the end of a round of shooting was quickly fleeing, and it was impossible to shoot cannonballs from the stern.

"Over there, on the sea!" Wang Sansheng shook his heavy head and pointed to his back. Ah Hutai looked in the direction of his finger, his eyes passed through the smoke of gunpowder, and he found that there was still the sea behind him, the sea was bluer, the sky was cleaner, and the figure of the giant ship under the blue sky and white clouds was also lighter.

"The sea on the left and right!" Ahutai, who came to his senses, shouted, and suddenly found that his eyes were full of tears.

"Chen Hangyan, you thief with a thousand cuts!" Ah Hutai scolded with a crying voice, he finally found that if there was no water power, it would be a fool's dream to take Huangdao. Even if the defenders did not set up any defenses in Huangdao, if they wanted to break through the narrow bridge-like land around them, the blood of the Dayuan soldiers would have to stain the entire Jiaozhou Bay.

"We've been fooled!" At the last moment of his life, Ah Hutai soberly thought that next, he saw another warship cut through the water like a dragon, and countless cannonballs swept across the sky, spreading its beautiful wings like the legendary phoenix bathed in fire.

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