Being able to conquer Liujing City in just a few days was not unexpected by Kang Gaozhi.

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is useless, let the remnants of the previous 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, it is useless 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 swarmed in, quickly taking control of the walls on all sides.

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

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

Facing the situation of inevitable defeat, the remnants of King Hui only resisted with their last breath, but when the city was broken, everyone knew that it was pointless to continue to resist, even those generals fled and surrendered, and no one continued to resist at all.

Kang Gaozhi asked the troops not to rush into the city, just worried about unnecessary trouble, anyway, this Liujing City is a bigger place, as long as the four city walls are occupied, the remaining Ming army in the city is a turtle in the urn, and they can't escape or resist.

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

And on this day, there are also many Ming army routs who have come out to surrender one after another, for these surrenderers, the soldiers of the Tang Army did not give any embarrassment, as long as they put down their weapons and obediently obey the arrangement, basically do not have to worry about their lives, whether it is the senior generals of the Ming army, officials or ordinary soldiers.

The Tang Army treats everyone equally, because in Kang Gaozhi's opinion, these are already prisoners of war, and they will all be assigned to the cantonment camp regardless of their status, so it doesn't matter what their identity is.

Not only the soldiers of King Hui's remnants, but even the indigenous young men of Goryeo who were recruited by the remnants of King Hui before also ran out to surrender, and they were all well accommodated, but they were not put together with the captives of the remnants of King Hui of the Ming army.

Because according to the plan, the Ming prisoners would stay on the Goryeo Peninsula for reclamation, but the Goryeo prisoners would be sent to the wilderness areas on the northeast border to be reclaimed or somewhere, in short, they would not be allowed to stay on the Goryeo Peninsula, so the Ming prisoners and the Goryeo prisoners were placed separately.

The wave of surrender of the rout in the city continued from the noon of the same day after the breach of the city, and reached a climax in the evening of the same day, and after a night, the 15th Infantry Division officially entered the city the next day and began to control the important streets and buildings in the city, basically without much resistance.

Because before they officially entered the city, they had basically taken in more than 15,000 captives, of which tens of thousands were the remnants of King Hui, and the remaining 4,500 were natives of Goryeo.

In addition, in the battle that lasted for several days, the defenders of the city also suffered thousands of casualties, so there were not many remnants left in the city at this time.

And most of them are hiding, these people are basically unwilling to surrender as prisoners, but they are not willing to carry to the end, they just want to hide, and when the war is over, they will return to their freedom, well, to put it bluntly, they are actually deserters.

When entering the city, there was no large-scale resistance, but some small resistance still continued to occur, so the sound of guns and cannons continued to sound, and when the Tang Army carried out a clean-up operation in the city, it was basically not in accordance with the conventional combat mode.

They tend to attack an important section of the road first, usually the main street, and then station, cut the urban area, and then clear it one by one.

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

As for the grenade, not to mention, now the grenade has become an important melee fire support weapon of the Tang Army.

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

Nowadays, the grenade of the Datang Army, although the body of the projectile has also undergone many improvements, the weight has dropped a lot and can carry more, and the wooden handle of the projectile body is more convenient to throw, and the fragmentation layout on the bullet body is also specially designed, and the power after the explosion is more considerable, but its firing method still uses the traditional arquebus fuse.

There is no way, this year's technical scum, there are only a few ways to ignite, for example, the arquebus is directly ignited with the arquebus, and the flintlock pistol equipped by the Datang Army is ignited with flint, and now the latest style, which has not yet been equipped in large quantities, and the grenade that is only tested in the Guards is ignited by using the high temperature generated by the propellant.

The rest won't be able to be done for a while.

The grenade is used in the ancient and traditional arquebus ignition, in order to make the grenade ignite smoothly, now the Tang Army is now eliminating arquebuses on a large scale, but it will still distribute fire folds to soldiers.

The power of the grenade has once again been reflected in the battle of Liujingcheng, and now the Tang Army is fighting, especially when fighting in the urban area, if there is an enemy hiding in the building to resist stubbornly, they will not stupidly rush directly, but will first throw a grenade into it, and then rush up after the explosion?

Just kidding, looking for death!

After the explosion, pull out a two-pound shotgun, aimed at the building to fire a few shots, the defense of these civilian buildings is not good, although the shotgun has no offensive power, but it can still penetrate the thin wall and those wooden walls to kill and injure the people inside.

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

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

Nowadays, the buildings in East Asia generally use wood, and there are relatively few bricks and stones, and it is very easy to deal with this kind of building, artillery and grenades, and fire attack, it is a super killer!

Several urban offensive and defensive battles between the Tang Army and the Ming Army basically smashed the local cities, not bombarded by artillery, but burned!

The Tang Army will set fire to the attack, and the Ming Army will also set fire to the Tang Army in order to block the attack!

In the original battle of Yangzhou, most of the city of Yangzhou City was full of smoke, and after the battle, most of the city of Yangzhou was turned into ruins, well, they were all burned.

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

Of course, this is only the general situation, and there will always be some small accidents, so there were also some casualties when entering the city to clear the city, but it was not big, only a few dozen people, which was much less than the more than 200 dead and wounded during the siege of the city yesterday.

And war, how can there be immortals!

They killed an enemy army of more than 20,000 people, and their own 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, it did not achieve any results, but it suffered thousands of casualties.

Therefore, a small number of casualties did not affect Kang Gaozhi's good mood at all!

When the troops completely cleaned up the city, Kang Gaozhi was relieved to take a large number of generals under his command to ride into the city, so swaggering and not worrying about being assassinated or anything, it was useless.

The Tang Army's clean-up work in the urban area, that is when it is skilled, first control the main roads, then clean up the remnants of the scale, and then the door of a street and a building, when they see a man, they will raise their guns, and when they see a young man, they will arrest them.

Don't worry about making too many mistakes, because the permanent population of the city in these years is very small, and the permanent population before this Liujing City is at most 10,000 or 20,000. Three or five thousand people broke through the sky.

But after the Datang Army cleaned up, more than 5,000 young people were arrested on the first day!

In the end, a full 8,000 men were captured, in other words, at least half of them were routed!

Catch it first, ask questions first, needless to say, those who can't speak indigenous languages are all remnants of King Hui.

Even if they can say it, it is possible that King Hui recruited the young Zhuang, but these people say that they are recruited young Zhuang, but in fact they are part of the remnants of King Hui, after all, they also participated in resisting the siege of the Tang Army before.

Therefore, if the natives are selected for handsome, those who do not live in Liujing City and have no acquaintances to lead them, needless to say, they must be the indigenous soldiers of the remnants of King Hui.

Even if he lives in Liujing, it is possible that he has joined the remnants of King Hui, even if he was forced.

But at that time, it was basically not easy to distinguish, and then it was simply the simplest method, the young and the older natives of the city were released, as for those who were just the right age, their physical fitness was okay, and they could be pulled as cannon fodder soldiers at a glance, and they were all taken prisoners.

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

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

Such a Liujing City is a good Liujing City, and he can ride in with confidence!

After capturing Liujingcheng, it was basically announced that the Goryeo Peninsula was militarily unable to stop the sweep of the Tang Army, and then Kang Gaozhi directly sat in Liujingcheng, and sent troops to divide into three routes to sweep other small cities on the peninsula.

At this time, he also got in touch with the landing force on the Seoul side!

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 Ganghwa Island, and after landing on Ganghwa Island, they used this island only one kilometer away from the land as a transit point, and finally launched a large-scale landing operation.

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

There is no way, because there are not many troops to defend Seoul now, only a few hundred remnants of King Hui and a thousand indigenous soldiers, and the soldiers of the landing force are more than 2,000 people.

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

When they landed, they directly risked driving a frigate to the shore to provide fire support.

Subsequently, they sailed into the Han River two armed merchant ships converted into merchant ships, which were small merchant ships of more than 300 tons, which were temporarily modified by the navy for this landing operation.

Since there were many guns crowded on it, it was comparable to the firepower of a cruiser, and the guns in it were even a few more than the first 450-ton cruiser in the navy, a full 36 guns.

There are several 48-pound howitzers, and the long-barreled naval guns are mainly 9-pound naval guns, in addition to 14-pound naval guns.

Speaking of firepower alone, this is the firepower configuration of a serious cruiser.

It's just that there is only one advantage left of strong firepower, because of the center of gravity, in the process of sailing, the guns on the upper deck must be strictly fixed, otherwise they will capsize due to the unstable center of gravity in the slightest wind and waves.

To put it bluntly, this thing is actually a temporary modification, a one-off, and after the battle, the two merchant ships will be restored to their original state, and the guns on them will be dismantled again.

In addition to these two specially converted armed merchant ships, two 150-ton offshore patrol ships also broke into the Han River.

The coastal patrol ships of the Tang Imperial Navy, because of their shallow draft and small ships, are relatively flexible, so they are not only able to sail in the near sea, but also can sail on some large rivers.

In addition to using offshore patrol ships to carry out offshore patrol missions, the local side can actually see such patrol ships in the Yangtze River and Pearl River basins.

Well, when necessary, they can also reluctantly make long voyages, such as the offshore patrol ships currently stationed in Luzon or Ryukyu Prefecture, which are basically from the mainland.

Although the firepower is not good, the cost is low and the use is extensive, which also makes the Datang Navy have a soft spot for this type of ship, and the order is added again and again every year!

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

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

However, this is not the end, the navy's long-term plan is to build 180 ships, so the number of such patrol ships will not exceed 100, it will not take much, it is estimated that it will be a matter of three to five years.

Of course, although this kind of ship is easy to build, it can be built according to the design drawings of a civilian shipyard, and it has a wide range of uses, such as patrolling near the sea, patrolling the rivers and lakes, and being able to reluctantly go to the far sea when necessary, and can perform a variety of tasks, but the firepower is still a fatal weakness.

If it encounters an enemy's medium and large warship, it will be beaten to slag!

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