Chapter 189: The Siege of Seoul
Guan Shanyue originally thought that the people of the Goryeo Peninsula would welcome Wang Shi ashore, but unexpectedly, they were willing to be the minions of the Japanese slaves, helping the Japanese occupation army to attack the Ming army with their lives, and finally played with them to resist the city and hold on. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Cao Bingzhang's lungs were about to explode, and the distance from the west coast of the Goryeo Peninsula to the city of Seoul was less than 60 miles, and the marines had encountered more than 30 resistances, large and small.
The defender of Seoul was none other than Tokugawa Iemitsu, the commander-in-chief of the invasion of the Goryeo Peninsula, and Guan Shanyue couldn't understand how he trained the Goryeo stick, a three-surnamed domestic slave, to be obedient like a dog in such a short period of time, and actually helped him attack the army of the Ming Dynasty, the suzerain, a few years ago.
Guan Shanyue's heart was as disgusting as eating a fly, standing on a hill outside the moat of Seoul, pointing to the arrogant Japanese soldiers on the city wall and saying: "Spicy next door, they dare to scold us, Cao Bingzhang, what about my mortar, fuck it!" ”
Cao Bingzhang looked at the Japanese and Goryeo sticks in the city, his eyes were on fire, and he had long wanted to eat them alive, he was waiting for Guan Shanyue's order to start attacking, and shouted at the herald behind him with his throat: "Order the artillery battalion to set up cannons, bombard the city, and kill the scum in this city!" ”
The officers and men of the artillery battalion of the East China Sea Division immediately set up more than 300 mortars and five Hongyi cannons, and after a round of corrective volleys, under the guidance of observers, launched a fierce artillery bombardment against the Japanese and Goryeo sticks at the head of Seoul.
For a while, the flames covered the air, the cannon sound shook the sky, and the people who defended the city and the Goryeo sticks were blown up, and it was unbearable to see, and even the shogun of Tokugawa Iemitsu, who was defending the city, was blown to pieces by a cannonball.
Tokugawa Iemitsu quickly ordered his troops to replace the wounded at the head of the castle, and they were replenished by groups of able-bodied soldiers, who seemed to have prepared for the onslaught of the siege of the Ming artillery.
Guan Shanyue observed the situation at the head of Seoul through a telescope, and he found that the little devil was not idle after occupying the Goryeo Peninsula, and even repaired and strengthened the entire Seoul. What surprised him even more was that the Japanese robbers in the city just now were crying and calling their mothers in Goryeo, and he immediately noticed that there was a fraud in it.
"His grandmother's, the devil's army is in the city, Cao Bingzhang ordered the artillery battalion to change to a new type of shell, and after two rounds of salvo fire at the head of the city, the artillery fire began to extend and kill these sons of bitches!"
Cao Bingzhang licked his dry lips, and sneered as he heard the ghosts crying wolves in the city, "I can't ask for it!" The brothers of the artillery battalion listened, replaced with the newly produced high-explosive shells of the Daning Ordnance Factory, and fired two salvos at the head of the target city! ”
Boxes of golden-yellow slender shells were carried in front of the gunner, filled with steel balls, if it were not for the limited production capacity of machine tools, Guan Shanyue would have liked to use this new type of shells throughout the battle.
"Put!"
"Put!"
Cao Bingzhang couldn't raise a trace of sympathy when he looked at the blazing Seoul, Tokugawa Iemitsu killed the king of the Goryeo stick, and the Goryeo stick didn't take revenge, but even recognized the thief as his father, which was really.
It's like picking up a child from the side of the road, and after you have worked hard to raise it, he doesn't say anything about other people's fathers, and spits on you, not to mention how disgusting it is.
"Extend the shelling, put! Put! Put ......"
The thunderous cannon sound seemed to not deafen people's ears, and they swore not to give up, and smashed down on Seoul like raindrops.
Seoul almost turned into a sea of fire, Guan Shanyue turned around and shouted at the artillerymen behind him: "Hurry up and cross the river, transport the conscienceless cannon to me, and bombard it closely, blast the wall open the gap and launch a general attack!" ”
The gunners of the conscienceless cannon in a group of five took advantage of the chaos to plunge into the moat of Seoul and quickly swam in the direction of Seoul.
As soon as the gunners stepped on the riverbank, they were spotted by the Japanese who were defending the city, and with a strange cry, the Japanese and Goryeo sticks withstood the artillery fire and condescendingly launched a fierce attack on the Ming gunners who landed on the shore with bows and arrows and arquebuses in their hands.
The more than 100 gunners who landed in the artillery battalion were all killed in the blink of an eye by the indiscriminate guns and arrows, and their blood stained the ground beneath them.
Just when Guan Shanyue was adjusting the offensive strategy, an officer at the head of the city looked like a wolf and screamed, and the group of Japanese and Goryeo sticks were like births, and they shot wildly at the corpses of hundreds of Ming soldiers under the city.
Guan Shanyue saw that the blue tendons on her forehead were exposed, her teeth were clenched, and she scolded angrily: "Brute, brute!" Stop attacking, stop attacking! ”
Cao Bingzhang's anger went straight to the spot, the dead are the biggest, this group of bitches actually insulted the martyrs in front of the Ming soldiers, this is not only the face of the artillery battalion, not only the face of the East China Sea Division, this is the face of the Ming Dynasty.
After Guan Shanyue was angry, she said in an extremely cold tone: "Don't accept surrender, bloody Seoul!" ”
Cao Bingzhang panted like a cow, forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest, drew a big knife and pointed at Seoul and said: "My lord, the cannonballs are almost half-fired, you see that the city has been replenished with new troops, it seems that at least a quarter of the Japanese troops are concentrated in the city, and the final general will judge that there are at least 50,000 Japanese and 50,000 Goryeo sticks." If you get close to the city, you will be damaged, and if you don't get close to the city, you may not be able to take Seoul.
Our reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, even if Sebuteng abandons the city along the road and marches directly towards Seoul, I'm afraid it will take a day or two, how can this be good? ”
Guan Shanyue's eyebrows were tightly locked, her eyes swept towards Seoul like a sharp sword, and she said categorically: "If you are exhausted in one go, you can't give the enemy in the city a chance to breathe. Outside the city, five earthen platforms as high as Seoul were built across the moat, and Seoul was burned to make them pay for their bloody debts! ”
Cao Bingzhang suddenly realized, he immediately understood Guan Shanyue's intentions, he wanted to change the siege of the city to the defense of the city. As long as the marines held the gates of Seoul and did not allow the Japanese and Goryeo sticks in the city to break through, they could not be trapped under the fire, and they could not be attacked.
"The last general obeys!"
The Chinese people had their own talent for civil engineering, and tens of thousands of people with scarlet eyes only took an hour and a half to build five pyramid-shaped rammed earth platforms outside Seoul.
The brethren of the artillery battalion ignored the shouts of the Japanese and Goryeo sticks at the head of the city, and made mountains of incendiary bombs using oil and flammable materials such as looted rags and firewood.
Guan Shanyue was not idle, he and his soldiers cut down suitable trees in the distant woods, and then made ten improvised wooden projectiles.
Two mortars and three small projectiles were also erected on top of the five earthen platforms that rose from the ground, and the enemy forces in the city were seen at a glance.
Tokugawa Iemitsu and the Japanese who were still laughing at the Ming army just now were all dumbfounded, they had seen such a siege for the first time.