Chapter Sixty-Seven: Soil Attack on the Metallurgical Field Ice River Night Attack

After Li Jing and the others said goodbye to Fan Chengkun, they went directly to the south, crossed Xiurong and then went east, and then went straight to the smelting field. Along the way, Li Jing and the others avoided the Dashun army as much as possible, spared a long distance, and finally arrived at the smelting field in the afternoon.

Liu Yun was sent to the smelting field to take charge of all the defense matters here, and Li Dong of the smelting field provided him with full help. Li Dong told Liu Yun, "As long as the defense is needed, you can use people and materials as you command." All the personnel of the smelting field are all subject to dispatch. ”

Liu Yun was very moved when he heard Li Dong's words, and said: "As long as we work together, we will definitely be able to hold the smelter." Please rest assured, as long as I Liu Yun is here, I will never let the thief army enter the smelting field for half a step. ”

Liu Yun is still very familiar with the situation of the smelter, when the kiln gang people took over the smelter, it was Liu Yun who brought the team to take charge of the safety guard of the smelter. There are more than 1,000 soldiers in charge of security and security work here. There are also more than 30,000 people standing in reserve, as well as tens of thousands of workers in various factories. Before Liu Yun officially came over, he had been to the smelting plant many times. Many defensive facilities were studied by him and Li Dong and supervised by Li Dong.

The smelter's defensive area is not small, but it is surrounded by large and small hills, and the only access to enter and exit is a land passage and a river that runs through the mountains. Liu Yun: They have built defensive positions in all the places they can climb on the mountain, and some weak places have been specially rebuilt. A large number of rolling wood and stones have been prepared on the mountain for a long time. At the same time, a serpentine barbed wire fence was laid, and there was a power grid.

Liu Yun spent a lot of effort on the defense of that river. He arranged three barbed wire fences from the bottom of the mountain to the shallow water in the river, and the barbed wire was covered with ** arrays. On the ice in the middle of the river, there is also a ** that can be electrically detonated. In addition to the infantry, mortar positions were arranged on the hill packs on both sides of the river.

The largest amount of work was the overland access wall, which was a kilometer long wall that connected the two hills. In the middle of the city wall was set aside an urn city, which had two gates. The entire wall is made of two thick stone walls made of stone cement, and the middle of the thick stone wall is made of earth and stone. In front of the city walls, a ten-meter-wide blockade ditch was dug. In front of the city gate, there is a drawbridge connecting the two sides of the ditch.

Another advantage on the side of the smelting plant is that telephones are also installed here, and they can not only use telephones for production command, but also connect telephones to various front-line command posts.

Although Liu Yun is on the side of the smelting field, he, like Li Dong and the others, is also worried about the war on the side of Yaogang every day. Fortunately, the telephone and telegram of the kiln are connected every day, and you can learn about the situation of the kiln every day. The Yaogang command center also informed Liu Yun and them of Li Zicheng's Dashun army's offensive routines and the countermeasures adopted by Yaogang every day. Let Liu Yun have some understanding of the situation of the Dashun army.

When the Yaogang command center informed Liu Yun that he was going to send them new weapons, Liu Yun didn't know that he had sent them machine guns. He knew that what Li Jing personally led people to bring out and send to them would definitely be extraordinary.

When Li Jing arrived at the smelting field, he also brought them the news that the Dashun army would soon return to attack.

When the machine gun shooter introduced the power of the machine gun to Liu Yun, Liu Yun said: "Okay, the machine guns are on both sides of the city gate tower." ”

The shooter said: "It is better to mount the machine gun at the same level as the attacker, so that you can maximize the firepower of the machine gun." ”

Liu Yun said: "Then put you outside the city wall, I don't dare to do this, if you make any mistakes, it will be a big trouble." ”

Liu Yun said to Li Jing: "Since you are here, don't go back yet." Come with me here to play with the Dashun Army! ”

Li Jing said: "Okay! We watched others fight in the kiln, and we couldn't do it. Let's open foreign meat here! ”

After Gao Yigong led his troops to camp five miles outside the city wall of the smelting field, he personally led his generals to the front to observe the terrain. At the same time, a large number of people were sent to conduct a detailed reconnaissance around the smelter. After summarizing the situation he personally observed and the situation of other horse scouts coming back, Gao Yigong knew that the smelting yard was prepared as early as the kiln gang. The walls of the smelter were clearly newly built and were built entirely for them. It seems that if you want to lay a smelting field, it will definitely not be as simple as the prime minister and the military adviser said. Gao Yigong was a sober-minded man, although he knew that Li Zicheng urgently needed a victory over the Yaogang people to revive his military prestige. But he was not prepared and would never attack blindly. He knew that there was no point in doing so other than to kill more people. He continued to order the scouts to go out and reconnoiter the surrounding area, looking for weak links in the smelting field, and at the same time sent people to Li Zicheng's old camp about the situation.

However, Li Zicheng, who was a little impetuous, replied that he would solve the smelting field as soon as possible and at any cost.

Gao Yigong knew that if he didn't start the attack on the smelting field as soon as possible, he wouldn't be able to. However, he knew that it would not be possible to fight hard, and he wanted to learn the methods of the Mongols to attack the city, so he first used the night to send people to fill the city with earth. Each soldier carried a bag full of earth, rushed to the ditch and poured it into the ditch, filling the ditch before piling it down the city, day after day on the wall. Moreover, this attack could not allow the soldiers to hold up the bullets of the people, and they had to prepare thick wooden planks covered with quilts, and use carts to push against bullets to cover the soldiers and fill the soil. But when you encounter someone's shell, you have to admit it, and there is no way to deal with them now.

The attacking team of Gao Yigong used a tactic that had a certain effect in the kiln gang when attacking during the day, that is, using fireworks to cover, and with fireworks cover, the opponent's shooting accuracy was worse.

This time, Gao Yigong organized an attack on the city wall with three ways: left, center, and right. And there was no need for the dense formation of the attack on the kiln gang, the first group of soldiers who followed behind the shield cart threw firewood and grass into the ditch when they attacked the front of the separation ditch. This time, the soldiers who were a senior soldier added a lot of damp firewood and grass to the dry firewood and grass, and the firewood and grass burned incompletely in the ditch, and soon a thick smoke came out. The soldiers in the city choked on the thick smoke coughed, which made it difficult for the soldiers guarding the city wall to aim and shoot downward.

When Gao Yigong's attack began, it was chosen to start at night.

Liu Yun did not expect that the attack of the Dashun army would start at night. When he and Li Jing got dressed and came to the city wall, they looked down, under the searchlight, the soldiers of the Dashun army ignored the artillery fire interception of the kiln gang, rushed through the barrage, and were not afraid of the bullets fired from the city wall, and poured the bags of soil they were carrying into the isolation ditch, and they didn't figure out what the Dashun army was doing for a while.

Li Jing looked at it and smiled and said, "It seems that Da Shunjun has slowly learned smarter." They don't do it anymore, they want to fill in the ditch. Look, after filling the ditch, they will continue to pile up earth under the city walls. Don't you remember when the military advisor was lecturing, when the Mongol soldiers attacked the city, they used cavalry with sheepskin bags to load soil, rushed to the city to pour the earth, and then ran away with horses? ”

Liu Yun said: "I didn't expect the Dashun Army to use this trick here. We can't wait for them to fill it out, right? ”

Li Jing said: "It's okay, wait for them to fill in the city early." At this time, let the soldiers practice their guns well. I have to change shifts every morning and afternoon. When they finish filling in the soil, we'll see how many people they have left. However, their shield cart is pushed too close, so that the bombs are accurate, just blow them up with your hands, don't waste the shells. If they are densely crowded, we will open fire. ”

Liu Yun said: "You kid, I didn't expect to be able to command a war?" ”

Li Jing said: "Of course, I gave you all the things that were in the limelight." ”

The soldiers of the Dashun army stubbornly filled the ditch with soil, and many soldiers died on the way to deliver the soil, and some fell on the edge of the ditch. Gao Yigong ordered the bodies of the dead brothers to be pushed into the ditch.

The soldiers were not killed by bullets after delivering the earth, and then pushed the bodies of their brave brothers into a ditch.

After a night and a day of hard work, the Dashun army insisted on filling in the three sections of the isolation ditch with earth, stones and corpses. At this time, the Dashun army stopped attacking, and Liu Yun and his brothers in the city were all tired even though they were changing the defense of the class. They also need a good rest.

Liu Yun said to Li Jing: "Don't say it, we really met a master who can fight." In this case, they have no other way. If they come from the ditch with a ladder, they won't be able to pass many people, and those who come over will also be killed by the hand **. Although many people died in this way, three passages were eventually filled in that could lead to the city wall. ”

Li Jing said: "I guess they found that our city is full of stones, otherwise they would dig tunnels to attack." ”

Liu Yun said: "Yes, when we dug this isolation ditch, we used a lot of ** and took a lot of effort. It's impossible for them to dig tunnels. ”

"Look! After a day's rest, they will continue to fill in the earth and pile it up on the city. Li Jing said.

"We can't watch them fill in the walls," Liu said. But the closer they get, the more difficult it becomes, because the accuracy of our soldiers' shots will get higher and higher. ”

Li Jing said: "We don't have to worry, they are using human lives to pile up soil, so we are not welcome to see how many lives they have to pile up." But tell the soldiers not to be soft. If that doesn't work, change the soldiers from elsewhere and everyone take turns shooting, so that the soldiers don't get weak. ”

They took a day off for high school, but the rest was not just because they were tired. Because he also found that his soldiers were too badly wounded by this way of fighting, he began to worry whether his own soldiers would be lost when they filled the city with earth. So on the day he rested, he organized the soldiers to prepare a lot of shield vehicles.

When they attacked again, his musketeers, archers, and tiger squat gunners, taking advantage of the smoke and under the cover of shield carts, also came to the city and fired suppressively at the city, covering the soldiers to continue to fill in the earth.

Gao Yigong's tactics played a certain role at the beginning. With the cover of firecrackers, archers, and tiger squat gunners, the soldiers were much more efficient at filling the earth.

Liu Yun and Li Jing were drinking tea in the headquarters when an officer guarding the city came to report: "Oh no, today's Dashun army is different from before, you can take a look!" ”

Liu Yun said: "Don't panic and say it slowly, why don't you change the law?" ”

The officer said: "Today, the Dashun army sent a lot of archers to shoot arrows at us as soon as they came up, and then their artillery and muskets continued to fire. It was so overwhelming that we didn't dare to look up. We had to throw our hands down to blow them up, but there were more and more of them, and they kept coming to fill in the soil. ”

Liu Yun said to Li Jing: "There is still such a battle in this battle, let's take a look?" ”

Liu Yun and Li Jing came to the city to observe and found that Gao Yigong had changed his playing style a little this time, they basically didn't fight back before, but today they fought back to suppress the defenders and cover the soldiers to fill in the soil. After discovering this problem, Liu Yun smiled and said: "Order the artillery to blow up these shield cars that came to the front." ”

The artillerymen, who had not fired their guns for a long time, spoke, and after the explosion of the bombardments, the shield carts under the city flew into the sky together with the musketeers, archers, and tiger squat gunners who were hiding behind them.

The Dashun Army's landfillers did not stop the filling operations, although their casualties soon increased.

Gao Yigong, who watched the battle from behind, understood at this time that as long as the defenders used a little means to fill the city by themselves, it would be difficult to win. But if the battle is not fought like this, is there any other way? The emperor is still waiting for his good news.

At this time, the scout who had gone out to reconnoiter came back and reported: "We can use the river in the smelting field. They laid out only a barbed wire fence on the ice. ”

Gao Yigong seemed to have received a life-saving straw, and hurriedly took people to watch it in person.

They came to the mouth of the river, crept down behind the bushes, and looked out over the river. Gao Yigong found that there were three barbed wire fences on both sides of the river, but there were some serpentine barbed wire fences piled on the ice in the middle of the river. Maybe it was the defenders who felt that the ice was about to be civilized, and no one dared to attack from the ice, so they were careless.

This discovery made Gao Yigong, who had been through the storm for a long time, his heart beat faster. He quietly took a closer look at the place.

The river is crossed by the smelter, and there is a cement bridge in the small river, which is connected by two banks, and the river is 30 meters wide. A short distance from this estuary is the bridge over the river, where it is convenient to attack both sides.

Gao Yigong quietly ordered everyone to retreat with him. Returning to the camp, Gao Yigong gathered his generals together and said, "I just went to check the estuary that entered the smelter. I found out that the defense they had set up on the river was very simple, and we went quietly through the ice at the mouth of the river this evening. If the sneak attack of the people in front is successful, the team behind will follow, which is a great opportunity.

Someone asked: "General Gao, can you bear our brigade on the river now, it's spring after all." ”

"It's okay, I saw that the river here is in a mountain pass, and the river is completely civilized early." Gao Yigong said.

Someone else asked: "Wouldn't the people in the smelting field focus on such a place?" ”

Gao Yigong said: "They set up three barbed wire fences on both sides of the river, and they still attach great importance to this place, but they neglect the middle of the river. We are taking advantage of their negligence today. ”

In front of the smelter, the offensive of filling the earth continued.

At night, Gao Yigong led 20,000 people and went straight to the mouth of the river. They came to the front of the estuary, and for fear of alarming the defenders, the brigade quietly laid an ambush. Gao Yigong himself commanded a thousand people to quietly crawl forward and climb to the river. Then he ordered the officer who led the team to say, "When you go in, if you are discovered, rush inside and disturb them, and we will be able to do it later." ”

The officer nodded: "Okay! So he took the lead and climbed on the ice of the river to the middle of the river. When the searchlight swept over them, they all lay motionless on the ice of the river. Since they were all draped in white cloths, and the snow on the river ice had not melted, the sentinels did not look closely and did not notice them. They climbed up to the barbed wire fence in the middle of the river, quietly cut a section of the barbed wire with pliers, and climbed over one by one. Those who climbed over the iron fence climbed in the direction of the riverbank. They knew it was not safe on the ice in the center of the river.

Gao Yigong watched a thousand people climb in, and immediately commanded the team behind him to continue crawling towards the center of the river. Because the opening in the middle of the river was so small, the surface of the river was soon crowded with people waiting to cross the gap. This made Gao Yigong very anxious and regretted it very much, so he didn't tell the people in front of him to cut the opening a little bigger.

But just when Gao Yigong was anxious about this, there was an explosion from the barbed wire, which made Gao Yigong's sweat soaking all over his body. It turned out that the person who went in first had been crawling along the riverbank, but unfortunately the person in front of him bumped into a **. This section of the river bank of the smelting yard is covered with **, because it is impossible for them not to focus on the defense here.

**As soon as it sounded, the searchlights on both sides of the river shone on the surface of the river, and the sneak attackers on the river were immediately exposed. These brave soldiers began to desperately pull the barbed wire on the river.

The defenders have fully understood that someone has sneaked up. The officer in charge of the kiln guard at the mouth of the river was also frightened into a cold sweat, and after he woke up, he immediately ordered: "Detonate, detonate quickly!" ”

The soldier in charge of the detonation shook the detonator desperately, then pressed down the handle with a twist. There was an earth-shattering bang on the ice, and the ice on the river was shattered. The thousands of soldiers of the Dashun Army who attacked on the river, and those who were not blown up also fell into the icy water.

At this time, the officer led by the Dashun Army, who had already touched it, remembered Gao Yigong's words, and he led the soldiers to rush inside desperately. But the road of their charge sounded a string of **, and many people were killed. The remaining soldiers may have been frightened by the explosion. Allowing the soldier to kick and beat desperately, the soldiers did not rush forward any longer.

After Gao Yigong saw that the ice was blown up, the soldiers who rushed in kept detonating **, and he understood that a loophole he saw had been plugged, and today's sneak attack failed. In order to reduce the losses, he led the team to retreat.

When all the searchlights shone on the soldiers of the Dashun Army, who had entered the barbed wire, the soldiers laid down their weapons. The officer who led the team committed suicide with a sword.

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Paragliding, rubber model airplanes, piano making, and building an air force. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".