Pyongyang is an important town in the central part of the Korean Peninsula, with mountains in the northwest, rivers in the southeast, and Peony Peak in the north. There are two gates of Daedong and Changqing in the east of Pyongyang, two gates of Lumen and Hanzhu in the south, two gates of ordinary and seven stars in the west, Mitai Gate in the north, and the towering Peony Peak, and the terrain is dangerous.

The Qing army set up artillery such as the Tiger Squat Cannon, the General Cannon, and the Franc Machine Gun for defense, most of which were captured by the Koreans.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no bridge on the Datong River, and the main way to cross the river was a boat ferry.

There are many large and small ferries outside Pyongyang, most of which are clustered near Wangseong Beach, where the river is the shallowest and can be waded through in many places. During the Wanli period, the Japanese army crossed the river from here to occupy Pyongyang.

The Qing ferries were all docked on the north shore, and as soon as the Tiance fleet arrived, they immediately approached these ferries and shot the Qing troops on board with heavy machine guns.

"All of them!" "All of them!" After the dense rain of bullets, there were not many Qing troops on these ferries.

"Li Guangheng, immediately erect a pontoon bridge!" Wang Yue ordered the commander of the engineer battalion, Li Guangheng.

The bridge truck, which came with the air-cushion landing craft, began to erect a bridge at Wangcheng Beach.

The armored vehicles and amphibious assault vehicles led by Wang Zhuo could directly cross the river from the water, and the pontoon bridge was erected to facilitate the passage of oil tankers, the Baoding army, and the North Korean army.

Two drones were released and began to conduct enemy reconnaissance near Pyongyang.

The first thing detected was the trenches outside Pyongyang. The trenches dug by the Qing army were very unprofessional, twisted and turned, thick and thin, deep and shallow, and they were not like the trenches of World War II.

The Qing army actually had the awareness of trench warfare, which made Wang Yue a little impressed. However, he still shook his head secretly, the Qing army's understanding of the Tiance Army was too shallow, because trench warfare was no longer feasible for the Tiance Army with armored strength, let alone the Qing Army equipped with bows and arrows.

The armored vehicles of the Tiance Army are six meters six meters long, and the tracks are more than four meters long, and they can ignore the trenches within three meters in width when they accelerate their driving, and most of the trenches of the Qing army have not reached this width for the sake of progress, maybe they do not understand the difference between wheeled and tracked types.

The main purpose of mortars was to be prepared to strike at the enemy in the trenches, and the Qing army did not understand it.

These trenches are absolutely dispensable for the air-cushion landing craft, and its huge body is like walking on the ground in such a place.

"Feng Yuanshan, arrange for your regiment to land. Send some more people to dismantle those ferries, and prepare some more planks, which will be used later! ”

These trenches had an effect on the movement of the infantry, and the wooden ferries were dismantled to serve as pads. Dismantling with a hand-held chainsaw is a matter of three or two clicks.

Feng Yuanshan rubbed his hands with a smile and said, "Commander, you give an order, let our regiment clean up the Jiannu outside the city first!" ”

The 5th Regiment arrived in Pyongyang first, and Feng Yuanshan wanted to grab the first battle before the arrival of the brother troops.

Wang Yue glanced at him and said, "Go, do what you are told!" Don't try to eat alone, maybe you'll have a battle to fight when you land. ”

Indeed, as Wang Yue expected, the Qing army would not watch the Tiance army land. The Qing army also understands the tactics of attacking halfway, and people have also seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Maritime surveillance warships are not specialized troop carriers, so each ship can only carry two or three hundred soldiers. The high-speed law enforcement boat carried by each maritime surveillance vessel can be used as a landing boat, but the carrying capacity is small, or the transfer capacity of the air-cushion landing craft is larger.

The scene of the air-cushion landing craft going ashore to unload personnel and vehicles was clearly seen by Huang Taiji and other Manchu princes and Baylors who were checking the enemy's situation on the southern wall of Pyongyang.

"This, can this ship still go ashore?" Huang Taiji's eyes widened in disbelief.

Dolgon and the others were equally incredulous, and without cattle and horses to drag them or sails, the strange ship came ashore.

Seeing the soldiers of the Tiance Army coming down from the ship, Huang Taiji immediately ordered: "King Gongshun, you lead five thousand Han army flags to attack the enemy troops who have come ashore. Remember, don't fall in love with the battle, just eat this enemy army! ”

"Huh!"

The landing of personnel is inevitably chaotic, and Huang Taiji will not let go of this opportunity. The Qing army was repeatedly defeated by the Tiance army, so he was very cautious and only sent a part of the Han army to make a tentative attack, and Huang Taiji wanted to witness with his own eyes how the Tiance army was.

Kong Youde's attack soon gave him a glimpse of the Tiance Army's combat methods.

When the 5,000 Qing troops were preparing for the attack, they were already detected by drones. As soon as they set off, the mortars on the battleship carried out dozens of rounds of baptism on them.

These Han and Qing troops marched under the bombardment of more than 60 mortars on the way to attack, and from the starting position to the range of heavy machine guns, in just three minutes, the mortars fired more than 1,000 shells.

After entering a kilometer, more than a dozen heavy machine guns began to speak, and the attacking Qing army became a rolling gourd, and the five thousand Qing troops were reduced by half in the blink of an eye.

"Blow the trumpet, retire!" Seeing this scene, Huang Taiji immediately ordered the Han army to retreat.

The Han army banner soldier of Kong Youde's department was already frightened, and when he heard the clarion call to retreat, he ran towards the road he came from. The artillery bombardment just now had already caused them heavy losses and lost all their morale, but they were the banner of the Han army, and they had to attack desperately, otherwise they would be greeted by the master's steel knife.

The 5,000 Qing troops had not yet touched the side of the Tiance army, and in the end less than 2,000 people ran back, and they just fought back and forth, and there were already dead bodies and wailing wounded along the way.

Huang Taiji frowned, he had never met such an enemy, nor had he seen such firepower. But from the short battle just now, he finally knew why the Qing army was repeatedly defeated as soon as it met the Tiance army, and such an enemy was indeed difficult for the Qing army to defeat.

It is said that the Tiance army that came to aid Korea this time has 5,000 troops, and the total strength of the Tiance army may have been tens of thousands.

Also worried are the princes and belles on the southern city wall, the enemy army has only gone ashore with less than 500 people, and it is the result of 5,000 Han army flags, how should this battle be fought?

"Dolgon, Hauge!" Huang Taiji put down the binoculars and said.

"The minister is here!" "Erchen is here!"

Huang Taiji pointed in the direction of Tiance Army and said solemnly: "You have seen it all, right?" This Tiance army is now our mortal enemy, do you have the confidence to inflict heavy damage on the enemy army and raise the prestige of our Qing army? ”

"The ministers must live up to the emperor's trust!"

Dolgon and Hauge were also shocked when they saw the way the Tiance Army fought just now. However, they were still very confident in killing and injuring a large number of Tiance troops in trench warfare and urban warfare, because the Qing warriors were good at hand-to-hand combat.

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "This is an opportunity to severely damage the Tiance Army, I hope you don't let me down." ”

(Thanks to Kiba Chabili for the tip)