Chapter 140: A Song of Fury
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"Quick, quick!"
Gyeongbokgung Palace, like a landlord's mansion, was full of chickens and dogs, and those eunuchs and palace maids were jumping around like headless flies, and the screams of horror made people feel like the end was coming.
Poor Li Zhuo is now called to sit at home with nothing to do, and the disaster comes from the sky, he is full of ambition in front of the map, fantasizing that his army has killed the Yalu River, leveled the entire Manchurian in one fell swoop, and even opened the Shanhai Pass from north to south like a Tartar, and competed with Yang Feng. Then, in the cheers of all the people, he achieved the immortal cause of opening up the territory, carrying the crown of the emperor on his head for thousands of years, and was suddenly woken up, and then he saw his Jianghua Mansion guard wearing a tattered and bloodstained official uniform lying there and telling him......
"Your Majesty, the army of the Celestial Empire has come here!"
Suddenly, a shout outside that was the same as when Jiang Hua stayed behind sounded.
Almost at the same time, a series of gunshots rang out on the western mountain, and he subconsciously opened the curtain and looked there, and saw countless fires shining on the mountain behind Gyeongbokgung Palace, and countless silver figures in the green mountain forest swayed and advanced at a very fast speed, and in front of this figure, those brave Goryeo soldiers were constantly falling.
Well, that's the Ming Army.
Of course, Yang Wang Ye will not do any Inchon landing, saying that even if he completes the landing in that ghost place, if he wants to enter Seoul, he will have to face the natural danger of the Han River! Therefore, the route of the Americans could not be taken, but the route of the French was more reliable when Bingyin was disturbed. Therefore, the huge fleet he led went straight to Ganghwa Island at the mouth of the Han River, and after a salvo of hundreds of naval guns, the defenders on the island completely collapsed, and as for the forts or something, it is not worth mentioning, after all, more than a hundred years later, the Ganghwa Island incident, the Japanese have said that their cannons have a range of 700 meters.
After opening the gate of the Han River, Yang Feng left the battleships with too deep draft, and then led the cruiser fleet to cross the shallow area of the mouth of the Han River at high tide, and after the landing was completed in Paju, the cruiser fleet stayed, leaving the shallow escort fleet and the landing infantry to attack Seoul by land and water, and in less than a day, the forward of the Ming army who forced the march had already arrived in Seoul.
"Quick, let's go, go to Suwon!"
Li Zhuo shouted anxiously.
He got a report from Jiang Hua this morning that the army called, and then before lunch, the Gaoyang envoy ran to tell him crying that the Ming army had landed, the minister was incompetent, and the minister deserved death, and then before dinner, the Ming army appeared in his field of vision in the fiery sunset, and this series of good things is also hundreds of miles away, why can't you let me take a breath?
Li Zhuo cursed Yang Feng and his incompetent subordinates angrily, and ran out of the city in the swaying of the sedan chair.
At this time, less than three miles behind him, Cui Mian, the commander of the first battalion of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, was holding a pistol and pulling the trigger, and a Goryeo soldier who was raising an arquebus fell down more than a dozen feet away from him. Opposite them, the Goryeo soldiers who rushed up with arquebuses, bows and arrows, and swords and spears fell one by one, and the dead bodies covered the way down the mountain.
In fact, the defense of Seoul was empty at this time, Li Zhuo cobbled together 30,000 troops in Pyongyang, preparing to go north to Yizhou to fight the Yalu River, and only a few thousand imperial camps remained in Seoul, he never thought that Yang Feng still had the ability to run to beat him in the current situation, it was obvious that he did not know much about the situation on the battlefield in China, and he did not know what Kang Mazi was bullied by Yang Feng at all.
Soon, the Goryeo royal camp, which could not bear this kind of casualties, finally couldn't hold it anymore, turned around and fled in a hurry like a weak girl who had been injured.
"Get on the bayonet!"
Looking at their backs, Cui Mian shouted loudly.
The Ming soldiers who were shooting finished loading their bullets, and then pulled out their bayonets on their waists and put them on the muzzle of their guns, and chased after them like a group of fierce tigers pounced on their prey. Although the explosion of the black powder grenade did not blow up a few Goryeo soldiers, it became the last straw that crushed them, and they encountered this weapon for the first time, they were frightened by the loud sound like thunder, and the rout instantly turned into a complete collapse, and even the Ming soldiers rushed behind them and began to stab with bayonets, and none of those Goryeo people dared to turn back.
Fortunately, it soon reached the range of the artillery on the walls of Seoul, although the range of their cannons was only a little more than a mile, but in order to cover the escape of His Majesty the King, the Goryeo soldiers were still very brave to aim at the Ming army and open fire.
The pursuing Ming army quickly took cover.
"Rockets!"
Cui Miao, who was hiding behind a large rock, shouted.
The soldiers of the rocket artillery team of the battalion in the rear quickly stopped outside the range of the Koreans, untied a steel pipe with a tripod from the camel horse accompanying them, and at the same time the bombardier carried a long wooden box from several other horses, opened one and then took out a forty-pound light rocket from it and loaded it into the steel pipe, the gunner immediately ignited after some aiming, and the flaming rocket suddenly flew out with gunpowder and white phosphorus, and then smashed on the wall of Seoul under the dumbfounded gaze of the Koreans.
"Go on!"
Looking at the bright fireworks that exploded on the city wall, Cui Mian said with satisfaction.
The white phosphorus rockets continued to fly out at a rate of one shot per minute, and the defenders on the opposite city wall collapsed after less than five minutes, saying that this thing was the most elite troops of the Qing army could not withstand it, not to mention the scum of the Goryeo army, the first rocket exploded, and after being burned by the terrifying phosphorus fire, the Goryeo army had already begun to collapse, and then the powder keg on the city wall was detonated, and the entire city gate building was blown down.
Looking at the city gate building that had been reduced to pieces, Cui Mo gave the order to attack again.
"Tama's, can this broken wall prevent rabbits?"
After giving the order, the guy was still speechless and looked ahead, and said the legendary majestic walls of Seoul.
"Don't say it, my lord, the rabbit won't be able to jump over!"
A soldier next to him said with a smile.
The Goryeo army, which had been burned into slag by white phosphorus rockets, of course, had no ability to stop the charge of the Ming army, and soon the Ming army forwarded to Dunyi Gate, and those soldiers looked at the city wall above their heads, which was not as good as the county town in China, and one by one they wordlessly untied the ropes and grappling hooks on their waists, and then threw them up and began to climb the city wall directly, and after crossing the city wall without hindrance, the Ming army quickly entered the city, and also opened the city gate with only a simple one without hindrance, and the army outside rushed directly into Seoul, like a flood raging on the narrow streets.
At this time, Li Zhuo had just left Chongli Gate, under the protection of hundreds of guards, and then boarded a ferry to cross the Han River, standing on the south bank and looking at the Dunyi Gate flooded by the firelight, the king of Goryeo was like being poured a basin of ice water in winter, and he couldn't help but tremble, as for the ambition to dominate the world, it disappeared almost instantly.
This time he was really frightened.
He really didn't expect the Ming army to be so violent, he said that he would fight, he didn't hesitate at all, he didn't give in after two warnings, and then the third warning was replaced by a cannon, that is, it really had to be replaced with a cannon, and it was so terrifying as soon as he started it, it was like a thunderstorm and arrived in front of him in an instant, is this still the style of the Ming Dynasty? Even when Ding Mao was in chaos, the iron horses of the Tartars were not so ferocious.
"Where is the benevolent and righteous gentleman of the Heavenly Empire!"
He looked up to the sky with grief and indignation.
As soon as he finished saying this, suddenly a series of strange whistling swept overhead, and then more than a dozen terrifying flames exploded not far away, and the Goryeo soldiers, who had seen the power of the flower bomb for the first time, were stunned all of a sudden, seeing those explosions tearing apart the bodies of their companions, only then did they react one by one, screaming in horror and running away, and even the palanquin man carrying Li Yu threw him down and ran away.
Soon more than a dozen battleships on the Han River in the distance spread their sails and slowly came against the current, and on the decks of these battleships, the firelight continued to shine one after another, and a whistling like that just now swept by, and more than a dozen cannonballs exploded near Li Yan again, the nearest one was not even five zhang away from him, and the two guards there were blown apart at once, and a bloody arm flew up and was smashing on Li Yan's body.
His Royal Highness the King of Goryeo collapsed on the ground with his legs so weak, and he even clearly felt a burst of heat gushing out of his crotch.
And at the same time, a thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and more than a hundred cavalrymen in red robes and silver armor rushed over like the wind, the sabers in the hands of these cavalrymen kept chopping, and the heads of the Goryeo soldiers who were scattered by the cannonballs continued to fly up under the light of their swords, and the blood rushed straight to the sky, and Li Yong, who was paralyzed on the ground, held his head and screamed in horror, and those cavalry continued to rush around him one after another, and even the dirt trampled by the horses' hooves fell on his face.
I don't know how long it took for those cavalry to finally pass.
Li Yan looked up tremblingly.
In the blood-red glow of the setting sun, what appeared in his field of vision was a giant dragging the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife with one hand, riding a huge silver monster high on the ground, and the monster also depicted a golden dragon with teeth and claws, slowly moving forward among the corpses everywhere with heavy steps, each step made his heart tremble, and the giant was looking at him faintly, dressed in scarlet robes, silver armor, with cold arrogance on his face, looking like a demon god.
Well, after that, Li Zhuo will spend his whole life fearing this figure.
Because this is Lord Yang. (To be continued.) )