Chapter Sixty-Eight: Li Jing's Itchy Hands Sect's Night Attack

Liu Yun and Li Jing also heard the explosion in the direction of the estuary. After they woke up, they learned about the situation at the mouth of the river through the phone, and knew that the Dashun army's sneak attack at night was unsuccessful, but due to the carelessness of the defenders, more than 1,000 people were allowed to infiltrate. This startled Liu Yun, who felt that despite his caution, there were loopholes. I couldn't sleep all of a sudden.

Li Jing said, "Let's sleep for a while." The Dashun army failed to sneak attack, there was no other way, and it would step up the filling of the soil at dawn. ”

Liu Yun said: "According to the report of Tanma, it is estimated that there will be 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Dashun army this time, and if we let them fill in the soil like this, I don't know when they will fill it in." ”

Li Jing said: "When I was over there in Yaogang, I wanted to take someone to toss them, but Uncle Chen just wouldn't let them, saying that it was still useful to keep Li Zicheng." I don't think there is Li Zicheng here, can I toss them. ”

Liu Yun said: "That's right! You can take people out at night, preferably to burn their food and grass. Let them not eat, I think they still have the strength to fill the soil? ”

Li Jing said: "I want to give them a decapitation operation, how interesting it would be to capture their master general." ”

"Forget it! That's a bit too mysterious, you might as well find a way to burn their grain and grass. You take a few crossbow thundermen, discover their bars, and fire a few fierce oils. Liu Yun said.

Li Jing said: "When it is dawn, let your scouts tell me what they have learned, and we will try to go out for a walk tomorrow night." I'll think we'll sleep a little longer. ”

At dawn, the Dashun army changed a group of people to attack and fill the soil, and Liu Yun also changed a group of people to defend.

After Gao Yigong led the men and horses back to the camp, he was very disappointed, not to mention the loss of thousands of soldiers, and now the only hope is that this is not a way to fill the earth and attack the city. After Gao Yigong woke up from a sleep, he intensified his efforts to attack and fill the soil. Even under the cover of smoke, his cavalry learned the methods of the Mongols, quickly rushed to the city with earthen bags, and turned around and ran away after pouring the earth.

Liu Yun and Li Jing saw that the Dashun army had nothing new, and in the afternoon Li Jing took his people and the crossbow thundermen that Liu Yun had assigned to them to sleep, because they had to move at night.

Cold weapons are facing the best that is several generations behind, and they still use the tactics of the cold weapon era, how can it be possible to win. However, they only knew by feeling that this battle could not be fought, but they had not yet thoroughly seen the nature of this gap. In fact, Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance are all like this, but they are not willing to consider the most unfavorable direction with the support of their grand ambition to win the world. This is also a kind of profit and wisdom, but it is difficult for people to extricate themselves at this time.

Fan Chengkun's Lingshui Wharf that they defended did not have these favorable conditions on the side of the smelting field. They had neither a mountain to rely on nor a large number of highly qualified workers to back them up. Although the warships of those sailors are still frozen in the glacier, the steam engine on board can still be used, and searchlights are placed on the commanding heights of the entire Lingshui Wharf, and the density of artillery fire is still amazing after the mortars of the navy are put ashore. In addition, although the number of workers at Lingshui Wharf is not very large, they are all strong and very united, and they have been united with the water army in Yaogang. Since the kiln workers took over the wharf, the working and living conditions of these dock workers have changed a lot, which has connected them to the hearts of the kiln workers. So they're definitely a force you can trust.

In addition, the intensity of the training of Fan Chengkun's Marine Corps is also amazing, and the most important thing is that they have all seen blood in actual combat. Soldiers who have seen blood and soldiers who have not seen blood can be seen at a glance on the battlefield. A soldier who has never fought or seen blood, no matter how he pretends to be, can hardly hide the fear and panic.

Due to the insufficient number of personnel at Lingshui Wharf before the war, Yaogang sent them a reserve division with four regiments and 1,000 Liu Yun's elite infantry, as well as five heavy mortars. This made Fan Chengkun handy when he deployed his troops.

When the locks were built on the Lingshui Wharf, castle-like buildings were built on both sides of the locks. A huge castle was also built on the side of the Lingshui Wharf, and both of them were built with connecting passages as a support point for defense, and with the barbed wire trenches, the Lingshui Wharf could be designed as a complete defense system. One of the disadvantageous factors here is that the Fen River has not yet thawed, so in the face of this side of the Fen River, it is necessary to contain a lot of troops. However, if the ice surface of the Fen River is blown up, it is difficult for the Fen River to be frozen again, so Fan Chengkun also arranged a lot of ** on the Fen River, and if he finds that there is a situation on the ice, he can immediately blow up the ice surface.

This time, the machine gun that Li Jing risked to send made Fan Chengkun overjoyed. After listening to the introduction of the machine gunners, he was even more surprised and delighted when he heard their amazing performance in the kiln gang. He listened to the advice of the shooters, arranged a heavy machine gun on the lock side and the dock side, and built a machine gun bunker for them to keep their firing range open, and the muzzle position of the machine gun was more suitable for strafing.

The general Yuan Zongdi was also experienced in a hundred battles, and this time he was very depressed in the battle of Yaogang, and he didn't even know what his opponent was like, but tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded. This time, Li Zicheng ordered him to attack Lingshui Wharf, which made him very happy, because there was really no way to fight it on the Yaogang side. Although he also knew that since the Yaogang people were guarding a stronghold like Lingshui Wharf, they must be a hard walnut. However, Yuan Zongdi thought that Lingshui Wharf was a small place after all, so it should be easier to fight than Yaogang.

Although the detailed drawings of the Lingshui Wharf have been obtained by the old battalion's detailed work, it is still unclear how many people there are and what kind of weapons they have. However, Yuan Zongdi thought, no matter what, it was absolutely enough to deal with his own 60,000 people in such a small place. What is a little pressure on him is that Li Zicheng's expectations for him are too high. Li Zicheng needs to be able to win a battle against the kiln people as soon as possible.

However, Yuan Zongdi put his heart sideways, and said that he would not be affected by the life of the king outside, and I must decide how to fight according to the situation at Lingshui Wharf. The prime minister and the military adviser said a word in the old camp, and we must fight according to it, and we must defeat it. Thinking of this, Yuan Zongdi had doubts in his heart, and the military advisor and the prime minister were not much better than others when they encountered ** troubles. This time against the Yaogang people, they didn't have any rules at all. It seems that none of them are Kong Ming's reincarnation! You still have to fight your own battles.

After Yuan Zongdi led his troops to the periphery of Lingshui Wharf and set up camp, he also personally led people to inspect Lingshui Wharf on the spot.

After returning to the camp, Yuan Zongdi immediately ordered a bridge to be built over the Xiaoling River. It turned out that Yuan Zongdi found that at the lock of the Xiaoling River, there was a castle-like building on each bank, and the castle in Hebei was very isolated, so he wanted to start here first.

Yuan Zongdi's army was armed with a variety of craftsmen, and it took them only two days to erect a simple wooden bridge over the Xiaoling River. When Yuan Zongdi crossed the Xiaoling River and carefully inspected this isolated castle in Hebei, he found that this castle was not easy to attack. The castle is fronted by three barbed wire fences and is connected to the castle to the south by a on the locks. The biggest problem is that even if you get close, it is difficult to get into the castle, and you have to set up a ladder to enter the castle, or enter it from the embankment on the south side.

However, if you can capture this castle, you can threaten the castle to the south across the river. Therefore, Yuan Zongdi judged that it was worth spending some price to take this castle.

Fan Chengkun and the others found that Yuan Zongdi's Dashun army had begun to build bridges, and he judged that the opponent wanted to attack the castle on the north bank. So he also made appropriate adjustments. The main thing is that he rearranged the heavy machine gun that was originally placed under the castle in the south to the castle in the north.

Yuan Zongdi made full preparations and wanted to take this northern castle in one go and fight the first battle at the beginning. He himself felt that he was a little bit of a knife to kill chickens.

Due to the full preparation of both sides, the battle entered the ** from the very beginning.

Yuan Zongdi prepared a team of 10,000 people for this attack. It is impossible for these people to attack a small castle at all, but Yuan Zongdi is to increase the continuity of the attack, and his order is that if the attack in the front is not successful, the follow-up will be endless. In order to increase the suddenness of the attack, Yuan Zongdi ordered the team to cross the Xiaoling River only after it was too dark, and it was not until late in the evening that the team quietly advanced towards the castle. As the front team approached the barbed wire, they stepped on the **. Yuan Zongdi knew that it was exposed. Immediately the artillery was ordered to open artillery cover, and the infantry began to barbed wire with broadswords. But before they could finish cutting the serpentine barbed wire, the soldiers behind them swarmed up, and after they pushed onto the barbed wire, some stepped on their bodies and crossed the barbed wire, but the people who crossed the barbed wire would immediately step on the **. But a steady stream of soldiers from behind would rush into the barbed wire. On the side of the guard, after a moment of hesitation, the mortar began to fire. The shells fell in front of the northern castle as predetermined. The searchlights on the north castle and the other locations shone simultaneously on the attacking ranks. Every time a shell fell in the middle of those densely charging ranks, several or even a dozen soldiers of the Dashun Army would be blown away. At this time, the bullets fired from the windows on the upper floors of the castle knocked the soldiers who attacked to the ground one by one by means of searchlights. At this time, the machine gunner entered the battle. The dense bullets of heavy machine guns swept through the ranks of the charging Dashun army like a wind, and the soldiers of the Dashun army who rushed past the interception of the shells were knocked to the ground one by one.

Although the firing range of the castle on the south bank of the Xiaoling River is somewhat blocked by the castle to the north, there is a large range where support shooting can still be carried out. Their dense bullets also joined the life of the soldiers of the Great Shun Army.

Without any brewing, the war between the two sides went straight into **. The dense attack formation of the Dashun army wanted to flood the defenders' positions with a tidal wave and rush into the castle. However, the castle on the north side of the river is like a standing reef, shattering the waves that rush over at one time. After all, this is a confrontation between cold weapons and ***, just like an egg hitting a stone. It's just that Yuan Zongdi, who commanded the attack, was not willing to be completely sober, and still had a trace of illusions of victory. Because they have won too many battles, they don't believe that they have no chance of winning in front of the kiln people.

However, not only did the charge of the Dashun army have no effect, but even the cannonballs they fired, even if there were a pitiful few shots, hit the reinforced concrete cast castle of the kiln gang people had no effect. When such an attack hit until dawn, Yuan Zongdi looked at the mountains of corpses that were constantly stacked high around the castle, and his heart finally couldn't hold it anymore. He gave the order to stop the offensive. Collect the team and return to the camp.

This time, the attack on the Dashun army lasted one night, killing and wounding more than 6,000 people, and almost no one could break through the second barbed wire. This made Yuan Zongdi know thoroughly that if there is no good way to fight like this, there are not enough people to kill.

Yuan Zongdi was strange, there weren't many people in their castle. How can you kill people without mercy?

Although Fan Chengkun and the others won a big victory, he didn't understand why the commander of the Dashun army, when he saw such a dead man, still forced himself to fill in the dead people. It's obviously to die, why do you have to rush up without your life.

Yuan Zongdi, who returned to the camp, fell asleep and did not wake up until night. After asking about the casualties of the battle at night, he said to Liu Tichun: "It seems that the Lingshui Wharf in front of us is another kiln gang!" ”

Liu Tichun said: "If we still fight like this at night, there are not enough people to fight." We have to come up with a good solution. The elite soldiers we brought are all veterans who have been with us for many years, and we can't lose them all like this. ”

Yuan Zongdi said: "Yes! After so many years of fighting, I suddenly don't know how to fight. I don't know what to do, but if I don't fight quickly, I can't explain to the prince. He is still waiting for our letter in the old camp. Are we going to report yesterday's casualty figures to him? ”

Liu Tichun said: "It's better not to report it, and let's talk about it when we have some good news!" ”

"Let's go out again and see if there's any good way, it's not okay to nest here." Yuan Zongdi said.

Liu Tichun said: "When you were sleeping, I took people to the edge of the Fen River to take a look, and the river was about to be civilized. During the day, there are signs of civility in some places. A large part of their wharf is against the Fen River. Let's look into it, is it possible to think of a way there? ”

The Xiaoling River and the Fen River form a T-shape here at the wharf. Because the water potential of the Xiaoling River is much more relaxed, the berths of the wharf are on the side of the Xiaoling River, and the Fen River side is steeper because of the flow speed of the Fen River, and the castle-style office building and the wharf waiting room of the Lingshui Wharf are connected together on the river bank, and there are few other buildings, which seems to be very open. It is generally used as a road.

In fact, they also put a lot of thought into Binghe's defense of Fan Chengkun. They not only buried a lot of ** on the river surface, arranged some sirens, but also buried a large number of ** on the steep slope of the river bank, and also arranged a barbed wire. Relatively speaking, there are few defensive facilities here, also because after the ice is blown up, it is difficult to have a large number of enemies land from here without the forced landing of warships.

Yuan Zongdi said: "Let's go and see if it's possible to use the ice surface tonight." However, according to last night's battle, we can't underestimate the defenders, we think of it, they must think of it, so we must not look for a bargain, maybe it is a trap set by others. ”

The moon was shining brightly tonight. Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun quietly came to the edge of the Fen River with their people.

The snow melts the ice during the day and freezes at night, and the ice shines in the moonlight. Yuan Zongdi said: "It seems that there is no problem with the ice inheritor now. ”

Liu Tichun said: "I can't see what facilities are on the riverbank. ”

Yuan Zongdi said: "They will not lack things on the riverbank. However, the steep slope of the riverbank is a little wider, and we will soon pass it with people. And the riverbank is so long, we can spread out all the people and take advantage of our large number of people. ”

On this point, Yuan Zongdi and Gao Yigong both made a mistake, they didn't know that the ice surface could be exploded at the same time. This is where their tragedy lies.

Returning to the camp, Yuan Zongdi said to Liu Tichun: "Tomorrow we will conduct an attack on the main interview, and we are ready to attack from the direction of the river and the front at the same time tomorrow night. I personally led people to attack from the river, and you led people to directly attack with cavalry from the front. We should attack on both sides at the same time and strive for success in one fell swoop. ”

The next day, in the morning, the Dashun army lined up to light fireworks and performed an attack on the front of the kiln. When their offensive began, they were quickly hit by a dense artillery fire, and at the same time, two machine guns began firing at the same time. The Dashun army couldn't take advantage of it, and quickly retreated after leaving the corpse behind.

Fan Chengkun felt that something was wrong with the battle, but he didn't know what was wrong. Because this kind of attack is to send some people to death, but before the battle is fought, the opponent retreats, is it just to kill a few people to finish the job?

In fact, this daytime attack is just a cover for a larger action at night, playing a role in diverting the opponent's attention. The attack at night was the highlight of Yuan Zongdi's preparations.

It was also after dark that Yuan Zongdi commanded the sneak attack infantry team to quietly bypass the Lingshui Wharf and came to the edge of the Fen River, and then walked along the ice of the Fen River in the direction of the wharf.

Liu Tichun also quietly came to the starting position with the team that was preparing to attack in front. They all chewed their horses tightly, and the soldiers demanded something in their mouths in order not to speak.

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