When the convoy of the security army crossed the Bohai Sea and sailed towards Lushun, Zhang Chu suddenly asked Xie Lian what would happen if the fleet turned to attack the Beijing division. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This frightened Xie Lian, Zhang Chu's fleet had four sail warships plus a large number of lucky ships, as well as transport ships full of soldiers, carrying 30,000 troops on board, such a powerful force in the Bohai Bay could not be stopped by a Ming army.

Xie Lian didn't go to the Dongjiang River with Zhang Chu, but he really saw the heads of thousands of Houjin people killed by the security army, and the strength of the security army was at least equal to the strength of the Houjin people. If 30,000 security troops had fought with the Ming army near the Beijing Division, the tragedy of the Jin people plundering the Beijing Division would have happened that year.

"Mr. Zhang can't do this, the emperor treats me well, and our shipbuilding is all silver taels given by the emperor, so we can't do this kind of disloyal thing. As long as we recover Lushun this time, the emperor's reward will not be less. Xie Lian knew that Zhang Chu didn't stop what he said, but he still hurriedly persuaded him, for fear that Zhang Chu would really do that.

"The emperor you said will give a reward, and when the time comes, you will fight with the emperor." Zhang Chu just wanted to joke with Xie Lian, but he knew the virtues of the Ming Dynasty, and it was very likely that the security army would work in vain this time.

"If we capture Lushun, I will definitely ask the emperor for a reward for you." Xie Lian wanted to appease Zhang Chu, and at the same time, he didn't believe that with the great merit of recovering Lushun, the imperial court would not give a reward.

The fleet drifted all the way to the open sea of Lushun, and Zhang Chu first sent a small boat to secretly approach the coast to contact the personnel sent in advance to see if there was any change in the situation.

Soon the news was summarized to Zhang Chu, and the Houjin people in Lushun were highly nervous after the victory on the Dongjiang River, and now they have strengthened their defenses everywhere.

Houjin people took advantage of the sneak attack on the Golden Mountain, of course, they would not let others come again, stationed a large number of soldiers in the Golden Mountain, built strong defensive facilities, and wanted to sneak attack the Golden Mountain There is little chance of success.

Seeing that the surprise attack was unlikely to win, Zhang Chu decided to fight steadily and ordered the fleet to find a pre-reconnoitred landing site far from Arthur City and start unloading the troops.

The news of the landing of a large number of Ming troops soon reached the city of Arthur, and the generals of the Houjin army defending the city felt tremendous pressure and fidgeted in their yamen. The current Ming army does not know what evil it has fallen into, and it has become more and more powerful, and I heard that the Ming army that defeated Belle Yuetuo at the Dongjiang River only has tens of thousands of horses. And this Ming army dared to cross the sea to attack, and the determination to fight alone was not available to the previous Ming army. According to the scale of the landing site, the Ming army also had 10,000 or 20,000 people, and I don't know if they had the combat strength of the Ming army fighting on the Dongjiang River.

Although there were more than 10,000 Houjin people in Lushun, the Houjin leaders did not dare to attack rashly, if the Ming army's landing with such fanfare was a trick to lure the enemy, then the Houjin people would have huge losses, and the leaders made excuses for not daring to fight. The Later Jin people lost more than 4,000 horses when they captured Lushun, and after the war, Huang Taiji not only sent reinforcements but also brought a large amount of grain and grass, plus Yue Tuo let the soldiers rob in the city, and the Han people in the city could not have a few left, and the Later Jin people gathered all the grain and grass in the city, and the city was besieged for half a year and the grain would not be eaten up. The Houjin leader finally decided to defend Lushun, relying on the city wall of Lushun to inflict huge casualties on the attacking Ming army, and the red-coated cannon above the city head will show its power. After a long time, the casualties of the Ming army increased, and they could only retreat in the end, if there were reinforcements to arrive, they might be able to encircle and annihilate the Ming army under the city, as long as they held Lushun, it was a great achievement. The Houjin leader decided to hold out and let the Ming army touch the nails themselves.

After Zhang Chu unloaded the army at the landing site, he saw that the Houjin people were hiding in the city of Arthur and a tiger did not come out of the hole, so he drove the fleet back to the bay outside Arthur.

The Houjin leader soon regretted his decision to hold on. Zhang Chu sent four giant ships in the fleet to attack the walls of Lushun with the large naval guns on the ships. The naval guns on these four giant ships were all newly cast by the security forces, and their weight far exceeded the red-coated cannons at the head of Lushun City, and the rate of fire was incomparable to the Houjin artillery. Therefore, they could attack Lushun outside the range of the Houjin artillery.

Huge cannonballs whistled and landed in the city of Arthur, and after several rounds of adjustments, some cannonballs had already landed on the city. smashed the walls of the city into the air and injured several soldiers defending the city.

Although the number of injured people is small, the feeling of being beaten and not being able to fight back is really bad.

The Houjin leader looked at the huge hull of the Ming warship in the bay and the hundreds of ships behind it, and gave up the idea of sending small boats to set fire to attack. I could only order most of the soldiers defending the city to withdraw to the city to hide, leaving only a small number of people to defend the city, and be more careful to quickly dodge when the shells attacked.

Zhang Chu made sufficient preparations for this attack on Lushun, and the gunpowder and artillery shells were very sufficient, so he ordered the naval guns to bombard the Houjin people during the day, and this bombardment was two days later. Although they did not kill many Houjin soldiers, they also beat the city wall of Lushun into a dilapidated state, and the Houjin people had to take advantage of the night to repair the city wall.

The morale of the Houjin people also suffered a huge blow, they did not know how many shells this Ming army had, and what day this artillery would end.

After being shelled for two days, the Houjin people saw that the Ming army ashore from the landing field had made a detour to the city of Lushun, and the Houjin people had an urge to open the door and rush out to defeat the Ming army. But looking at the number of Ming ships that had anchored in the bay and began to cruise back and forth and the Ming troops outside the city, they still couldn't help but not leave the city. They knew that as soon as they left the city, they would inevitably be hit by the ship's artillery, and the Ming army outside the city numbered twenty or thirty thousand men, and they were cautious when advancing, and it seemed that there was no chance of attack.

The attacking Ming army was indeed very careful, and slowly advanced to the outside of Lushun City, set up camp from a distance, and also sent men and horses in the direction of Golden Mountain. The Houjin people felt that it was possible for the Ming army to attack the Golden Mountain first, and then follow the example of the Houjin people to bombard Lushun City, but they were not very worried about this, there were 2,000 Houjin defenders on the Golden Mountain, coupled with the advantage of the terrain, it should not be a problem to hold the position.

The security army set up camp outside the city of Lushun, and carefully built all kinds of defense facilities very strongly, making it look like a long-term siege. Then they sent people to cut down trees in the nearby mountains and forests, apparently to prepare for the construction of siege equipment, but the Jin people had no good way to deal with this, so they could only demolish the houses in the city and transport more masonry and wood to the top of the city for the purpose of defending the city.

Two more days passed, and the siege equipment of the security army was almost finished. In the early morning, the horns in the security camp sounded, and thousands of security troops opened the camp, and the Houjin people understood that the real siege of the Ming army began. (To be continued.) )