"Well, eighty miles south of Hukou Bay is Iwa, since the name is 'Pan', its topography can be seen in general. The underground depths of this place are mostly marble in granite, seven zhang higher than the river surface, the only rocky landform along the coast of Dekang County, three zhang to five zhang higher than the river surface within twenty miles from north to south, because it is difficult to go ashore, so Iwaki can not implement large-scale landing, it is only outside the east gate of the city, a stone step with a width of three zhang is chiseled out by manpower, and a slide road is one zhang wide.

The stone steps allow people to go down and down immediately, and the slide allows the grain from the Taiqin Warehouse to be transported to Iwaki via the Iwagawa River, and the grain bags are rolled into the riverside wharf through this slide, so it is very convenient.

The stone steps and slipway have been cultivated along the river's flush waterfront wharf, which can accommodate ships below 3,000 koku to dock, so Iwaki is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the guards have stationed more than 20,000 defenders, but at the end of the Pan River, thirty miles southwest of Iwaki, another 20,000 guards are stationed here.

Along the Pan River to the west, it is Langcheng and Taiqin granary in turn, and it can reach Xuandi granary to the northwest, and it joins the Huangchang River and Mutao River to the southwest.

One hundred and twenty miles further south of Iwaki is Dayandang, and across the river is China's pig iron factory south of Tongxiang, where the guards have arranged 240 artillery pieces of various types, stationed about 50,000 people, in an attempt to threaten our pig iron factory, and there are 30,000 guards stationed in 70 miles west of Dayandang, which is not far from the Panhe River in the north.

So far, the garrison has deployed a total of more than 462,000 troops along the two lines of the river, and about 110,000 people are scattered in various cities to garrison. After preliminary exploration and reconnaissance, this commander decided to choose the landing site of our army twenty miles north of Hukou Bay. ”

Bailiyan drew a circle on the area, and there was a lot of discussion under the tent, and the governor of the capital, Chen Qu, stood up and said

"Twenty miles north of Hukou Bay, the coastal tidal flats are as wide as one mile, and our big ships cannot dock, so they can only be transported to the shore by small boats, and it will be very inconvenient to land. Moreover, it is less than two days' walk from Swordfish Beach, and the forced march should be there for a day and night, and the guards have horses, and the infantry can reach it in less than a day on horseback.

When our army lands here, it will be surrounded by Hukou Bay, Huwei River, Swordfish Beach, and highland forests, and garrisons in the north and south; even if our army is well-armed and artillery, it will be extremely difficult to transport tens of thousands of people ashore within two days. ”

"General Chen's concerns, this commander will explain them one by one soon, which other generals have objections to landing here?"

"There would have been an objection." Mo Yunfeng got up and said, and then said, "The battle across the river and across the river is to attack from multiple places at the same time, and our army will attack and defend with millions of people, and only choose one place to land, is it a little conservative?" ”

However, this is the first time that our army has crossed the river to land on the battlefield, and millions of people have attacked at the same time for thousands of miles, and we are not sure of how to coordinate and how to dispatch them, and mistakes in the rush or even improper scheduling may injure our army.

At the same time, the landing was guided by firearms, so as to avoid casualties among our troops as much as possible, so although a multi-point landing is conducive to the deployment of various armies, it will only increase the casualties of our troops and is not conducive to the concentrated use of firearms.

In addition, the big ships that rushed to the beach and landed could not dock, so they could only paddle in small boats, so the stalls were too large, and the ships that the town army could get were very limited, and if they only transported a few thousand people or tens of thousands of people every day, the guards were very likely to quickly organize a counterattack.

At that time, the guards and our army will be mixed together, and our army's artillery across the river will lose its usefulness, so concentrating our army's sophisticated weapons to make a breakthrough at one point is conducive to attracting the defenders to counterattack, and at the same time, it can also give full play to the power of our army's guns and artillery, and annihilate its counterattack army on the spot.

It seems that all the generals have doubts about the landing, and now the commander will first talk about the first phase of the combat mission.

Before our infantry army officially crossed the river, the artillery of each town army entered the preset artillery position, and carried out artillery bombardment on the fortifications and ground exposed targets of the guards in Tingshan, Jiangquan, Jianyutan, Hukouwan, Pancheng, Dayandang and other places, and gave priority to eliminating the guards' artillery positions in bed crossbows, stone artillery vehicles, trebuchets and other long-range equipment, and then fortresses, city walls, and personnel. The shelling lasted two days, and how the shelling was carried out was at the discretion of the artillery of each town, but it was important to focus on the maximum damage to the guards.

To eliminate the long-range equipment of the guards, General Chen Qu led the main force of the navy and the first part of the inland water army to go out to Jiangquan to eliminate all the guards and the navy. Speaking of this, Bai Liyan said emphatically, "Generals, you must pay attention, but whenever our ships sail past our artillery positions, please be sure to adjust the muzzles of our guns or even stop firing, so as not to accidentally damage our ships, you all understand." ”

"I'll understand!"

Everyone spoke in unison, and Bai Liyan waved his hand stick and pointed to Jiang Quan

"To be eliminated by the Guards Navy, General Chen Qu left the main force of the Navy, which continued to patrol the river and eliminate the remnants of the Guards. At the same time, he led the main force back to Quanhe, together with the remaining warships and ships, rushed to the port of Yangdu, General Zhou Kong's Eighth Town Army, General Xue Sheng's Seventh Town Army, a total of 50,000 people will board the ship first, and the commander himself will lead them to the landing site to go ashore.

After the successful landing and gaining a firm foothold, Jiang Jie, the governor of the capital, led the logistics section of the armed battalion and the baggage battalion to Feixiaqi, that is, the opposite bank of our army's landing place, to erect a pontoon bridge over the river. ”

At this time, Ye Xin said worriedly

"The Sishui River is turbulent, and it is probably not permissible to erect a pontoon bridge on the river."

"It's not easy, so this time it is assumed that the pontoon bridge will adopt a new law, and the bridge has been secretly built four times on the bank of the Wangqin River, and it is foolproof. After the pontoon bridge is assumed, our troops will be able to cross the river without ferrying. ”

The reason why the landing site was chosen 20 miles north of Hukou Bay was that Bailiyan valued that this place was less than two miles away from Feixiaqi on the Xianjun side of the east coast, although it was not the narrowest in Ganfu County, but it was also the landing site with the least cost of technical conditions at present.

Although there were tidal flats that were a mile long, not suitable for infantry landings, the guards also did not fortify them.

First of all, it is impossible to land in the mud by rushing to the beach, let alone landing in the mud that is as long as a mile, which is undoubtedly a disaster for the infantry, so it is not a landing site by nature.

Second, landing on the beach requires a port wharf, without which it is impossible to carry out a large-scale landing, and personnel and equipment cannot be quickly landed, and the supply after landing is also a problem.

Hukou Bay and Swordfish Beach do not have port wharves, but they have the convenience of going ashore on the ground, so there is no wharf and geographical advantages, and the follow-up landing and assembly and even material transfer after the Xian army goes ashore are all problems, Du Ruixun understands this truth, and Bailiyan certainly knows better.

Third, the existing technical conditions do not support the landing, at least in Du Ruixun's thinking, it is impossible for the Xian army to land in a slow and endless mud without landing in the village and behind the store. What's more, it is only twenty miles away from Hukou Bay, and if you land here, you will be wiped out by the guards in a short time.

The above three reasons have restricted the choice of most landing sites at present, but they have not prevented the Xian army, which has mastered "high and new technology," from turning decay into magic.

"The pontoon bridge will be erected in three or four places, during which General Chen Qu will continue to travel to and from Yangdu to transfer troops and horses to the landing site for supplies, and at the same time, all units of the Third Army will assemble to Feixiaqi, and the Second Group Army will begin to assemble and cross the river after the Third Army has crossed the river more than halfway through, and the defense of Ganfu County will be transferred to Zhao Shuai's First Group Army.

After the Third Group Army crossed the river, it first annihilated the defenders of our army, and if the guards retreated, General Ye Xin led the cavalry headquarters and the infantry army of the headquarters to ride horses, carrying 2,000 baggage carriages to the west, giving priority to cutting off the land retreat route of the guards to Yuanshan County, and not allowing the guards to flee westward.

At the same time, General Zhou Kong's Eighth Town Army and Guangxin Army were the front army, Xue Sheng's Seventh Town and Xu Jin's First Town were the Chinese Army, and Fang Liang and Tian Peng's Sixth Town carried heavy wagons and horses to the west, and joined forces in General Ye Xin's Third Town as soon as possible. ”

"Our army has crossed all the way, and the cities in Dekang are not fighting?" Ye Xin asked.

"No, the first-line garrisons of the guards are arranged along the river, and the casualties are bound to be heavy under the cover of our artillery, and after our army lands, the guards located west of Swordfish Beach and Hukou Bay will counterattack our landing Xian army, so the main force of the guards will lose more than half of them within three to five days after the start of the battle, and they will be unable to continue to resist in panic, so they will collapse westward like cities everywhere.

When our army's pontoon bridge is completed, your General Ye's third town army will all ride across the river and attack westward, unless it encounters enemy cavalry, if it can be bypassed, it will be bypassed, and if it can't be bypassed, it will be run over, but do not attack the city.

After that, the fighting in various parts of Dekang will be handed over to the Second Army and the First Army, and the first phase of our army's combat mission is to cross the river to prevent the westward spread of the Guards into Yuanshan County, so as to clear the way for our army to continue its westward offensive.

After the annihilation of the Dekang Guard, the armies will begin the second phase of their tasks on their own, and until then, you will conscientiously complete the tasks of the armies, and you will not ask or divulge all the contents of today's meeting. You still have any objections to this cross-river operation. ”

As soon as the words fell, the generals who sat down looked at each other in a noisy manner, from time to time someone nodded or shook their heads, and after discussing for a long time, no one got up to speak, Bai Liyan took out his pocket watch at this time and looked at the time, and before he knew it, it was past noon, and his stomach was already a little hungry.

"That's it, after listening to the lecture for a long time, you are all hungry, and now the generals are in the company of each group army, eating separately, and asking General Zhao Shuai Yu Lu and Guan Long's military division on their own if they don't know what is going on."

"We will obey ......"

Everyone spoke in unison, and then they got up and dispersed.

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