Chapter 45: The Battle of the Liberation of Linqing
There is a modern high-definition satellite map that can clearly see even a hill, and the People's Liberation Army has taken a shortcut all the way to Linqing City, Linqing Prefecture.
Linqing Prefecture Linqing City can be described as a prosperous place at this time.
Because it is located in the north and south waterways, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Sui-Tang Grand Canal intersect here, north and Beijing, west to Luoyang, south to Hangzhou, Linqing Prefecture has the name of "prosperous pressure two Beijings, rich Jiaqi County", the population was once known as one million, known as the world's first wharf, the world's granary, is a collection of commercial metropolis, military town, storage land, handicraft center in one of the metropolis.
At this time, Linqing was still a famous handicraft city. There are 80 streets and alleys in the urban area, 31 of which are named after handicrafts, and 26 kinds of larger industries, among which Hada, Qianzhang Jacket, and Bamboo are the most.
Linqing City is also a famous cultural city, it is the background of the strange book story of "Golden Vase Plum" and the birthplace of Shandong Kuaishu, and it is also the birthplace of the material of the relics pagoda of Jinguang Temple in the sixty-second chapter of China's four famous novels "Journey to the West".
The literati and writers of the Ming and Qing dynasties praised it constantly.
The famous book "Words of the Golden Bottle Plum" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty described Linqing Prefecture as follows, "This Linqing Gate is a lively and prosperous place to go, a place for merchants to come and go, and a place where vehicles converge, there are 32 flower and willow lanes and 72 orchestra buildings. This is not far from the city, Linqing horse head, there is a Yangong temple. There is a land of fish and rice, a land of boats and boats, a wide range of money and food, quiet and chic. ’
Linqing Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty novel "Han Qi Leisure Commentary", but it is said that Linqing place, although it is a state rule, is a general road of thirteen provinces, and its name is 'Da Ma Tou'. Merchants gather, goods filled. is also a year of abundance, thirty-six brokers, competing for social fire, pretending to be a story. Even more to catch up with all kinds of trading to catch up with the market, it is really crowded with people, and it can't be crowded. ’
Li Dongyang, a scholar of Mingwen Yuange University, "Passing Aotouji", "Ten miles of people are divided on both sides of the strait, high-rise buildings enter the green clouds, official ships and boats pass one after another, and drums and gongs are heard everywhere. The bending shore is frightening to return here, and the sound of the waves resounded day and night with spring thunder. Thousands of fireworks in the city gathered, and thousands of sails on the river. ’
Chongzhen Nian's "The Chief's Eunuchs Gao Qiqian Inscription" said: "There are more than 30 miles around the city in total, and in a city, regardless of the goods and wealth of the north and south, that is, gentlemen and merchants, nearly one million people."
Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, Christianity and other religions are actively preaching in Linqing.
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the urban area of Linqing City has not been expanded and changed due to years of war, but after more than 40 years of recuperation and recuperation in Kangxi, most of the former prosperity has been restored.
At this time, the status of Linqing City in people's hearts can only be described by today's Shanghai.
Even though the severe drought in Shandong continues, there are still people coming and going, and it has not been greatly affected, but there are more refugees and victims selling their children.
Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang, who studied the history of Linqingzhou City along the way, shouted that they had picked up the treasure and captured Linqingzhou City, and they could directly cut off the luck.
Without Cao Yun, the Sijiu City, which is in a place of four difficulties, will immediately be in chaos. Moreover, from Kangxi to the Qianlong Dynasty, the sea has been strictly forbidden, and no shipping has been opened, and then the Qing Dynasty government in Sijiu City can be paralyzed by grain alone.
Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang glanced at each other, each other's eyes were full of battle intent and surprise, this battle must be fought and will be fought fiercely.
The Linqing Prefecture garrison has one chief officer, eight generals, and more than 2,400 soldiers.
There are four guerrillas and garrisons in the naval division battalion, with more than 300 soldiers.
However, Linqing is the key to river transportation, and once it is attacked, it will immediately attract support from all directions.
The governor of Shandong River, the pacesetter is divided into three battalions: center, left and right, with eight deputy generals or guerrilla generals, and 3,000 soldiers, specially used to protect river transportation.
The governor and admiral of Shandong, the pacesetter was divided into two battalions on the left and right, eight generals below the guerrilla level, and 2,000 soldiers.
There are four chief officers and generals of Yizhou Town, and more than 1,200 soldiers.
There are eight generals and garrison generals of the three battalions of Dezhou, Qingzhou, and Wuding in Shandong, with a total of more than 2,200 soldiers.
The Dengzhou Navy Division Battalion was garrisoned, with four battalions in Dengzhou, Laizhou, Linqing, and Jinan, and four guerrillas and garrisons in each battalion of the other three battalions, with a total of more than 1,200 soldiers.
In the face of more than 10,000 Qing Dynasty troops in Shandong, Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang were ready to continue to buy soldiers and heavy weapons, stick to Linqingzhou City, and stubbornly hold Caoyun to send reinforcements.
When the army under his command has battlefield experience and is familiar with the battle, he can even take the initiative to go out of the city to fight the Qing army that came to help in the later stage and directly destroy them.
At this time, the People's Liberation Army had arrived outside the city of Linqingzhou.
The city gates had long been closed, the ships on the nearby canals were forcibly moored, and the canals and canals were closed to death.
The 32 enemy platforms on the Linqing city wall, which were built by Wang Shizhen, the father of Wang Shizhen, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, presided over the construction during his tenure as governor of Shandong, and had long been full of vigilant and defensive Qing troops.
The general's cannon on the castle tower was all cleaned up and prepared, and the shells were piled up on the ground one by one.
All kinds of ancient weapons to defend the city were placed in place one by one.
Outside Linqing City, Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang had already completed the stationing of their People's Liberation Army.
An army of more than 20,000 directly surrounded Linqing City.
They immediately bought two 155-mm self-propelled guns, six 100-mm self-propelled guns, T-54/-55 medium main battle tanks, 20 PT-76 amphibious light tanks and the corresponding technical template soldiers and combat template soldiers from the weapons section of the forum.
At the same time, recoilless guns and rocket artillery were bought for dozens of rounds.
Two 155-mm self-propelled guns were placed directly in front of the gate of Linqing City and the banknote pass.
Six other self-propelled guns were also placed in front of the gates.
Several soldiers with loud voices were selected by Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang, and they began to shout at the city with loudspeakers.
"We are the People's Liberation Army, and we are here to liberate you! The People's Liberation Army enters the city, does not pay food, pays less taxes! Never be oppressed! ”
"Our People's Liberation Army is the people's team, and we don't take a stitch from the people! Do not be afraid! ”
"The PLA treats prisoners preferentially, lay down their arms, surrender and do not kill, repeat, lay down their arms, surrender and do not kill!"
Seeing the continuous placement of the cannons, and listening to the shouts that resounded throughout the city, the guards on the city wall immediately couldn't help but fire their cannons at the liberation army below.
Unfortunately, the proportion of gunpowder nitrate in the cannons of the Qing Dynasty was too high, more than 80%, while the charcoal was too low, and the proportion of charcoal in the baking medicine was even as low as 2.07%, and the power of the cannonballs was not great.
Moreover, the Qing Dynasty did not carry out effective technological innovation in the Hongyi cannon, but only blindly increased the weight in order to increase the firing range, and the manufacturing technology of the artillery was far behind, which made the number of people killed and injured by the shells pitifully small.
The technical template soldiers took the beginners of the artillery battalion and fired a few rounds at the wall of Linqing City, and corrected the Zhuyuan.
Then the shells of the self-propelled guns fell directly on the ramparts.
The shells exploded directly, and in the absolute killing radius of 15 meters, the Qing soldiers defending the city were either directly killed by shrapnel or died under the shock wave of the shell explosion, no matter where they were hidden, they were not spared.
The Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers within 50 meters also suffered heavy casualties, and most of these Qing soldiers were covered in dense shrapnel, even if they were hidden in the battlements, they were also inserted with a few flying shrapnel.
Even the Qing soldiers defending the city who were 150 meters away had their bodies blurred with blood and flesh by the shrapnel flying over.
Under this round of shells, all the Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers who saw it and the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army below were stunned.
How powerful!
The general's cannon on the city wall was immediately weakened by comparison.
Outside the canal banknote pass, the self-propelled guns had just fired a few shells at the banknote pass, and the banknote gate of the hard mountain building was directly blown to pieces by the huge power of the cannonballs.
The template soldiers didn't care at all about the canal banknote, which is the first of the country's eight major banknotes.
They continued to move from the canal to the west with precision and coldness, and successively fired at the Zhengguan of the estuary, the reading hall, the 'national economy and people's livelihood' square, the guanyuan, the Yimen, the main hall and other building complexes.
Recoilless guns and rocket artillery bombarded the past, and each shell was extremely accurate, falling directly into the building with the largest crowd.
The businessmen and officials of the Customs Administration inside were killed in countless explosions at once.
Seeing this, the rest of the crowd fled one after another, and there was chaos inside the banknote gate, horses trampling on people, and screaming endlessly.
But the template soldiers continued to fire shells, and they were ordered to wipe out the Qing soldiers inside, or make them all surrender.
A part of the battle template soldiers led their homeless soldiers to rush directly into the banknote pass, and with accurate shooting and a wide shared field of vision, they directly found and shot the Qing guards hiding everywhere one by one.
The template soldiers led their hands and advanced into the dwellings.
From the office area of the public office in the front yard, to the storage area in the backyard, and finally in the residential area in the south, every standing Qing soldier was directly shot in the head, and he was ruthless.
The homeless soldiers were still very flustered at first, but after firing more than a dozen shots, under the influence of the precise and ruthless style of the template soldiers, they all stabilized their minds and shot in a methodical manner.
After more than twenty minutes, after the template soldiers and their men walked through the blue and gray tile houses, all the resistance forces were cleared, and there were Qing soldiers with different dead appearances everywhere.
They didn't expect that hiding behind the pillars, hiding in the cellar, hiding behind the water tanks of the dwellings would be accurately found and killed.
At this time, the template soldiers driving the amphibious light tank directly blocked the entire canal, and several large and small boats on the canal that wanted to escape were slowly sinking with black smoke.
More than 500 soldiers of the sailor battalion went out on several wooden warships about 7 zhang long, 2.6 zhang wide, and 1.3 zhang deep, and as a result, these tall wooden warships and lucky ships were blown up under the fire of self-propelled guns, rocket artillery, and amphibious tanks, and wood chips flew everywhere, and nearly 100 officers and men of the sailors on board were directly killed by the blown wood chips and the first round of artillery fire.
Some of the officers and men of the naval division were frightened by the fierce artillery fire and jumped into the canal, but the wood chips and shnelseed that flew into the water directly spread the red blood in the water.
Some of the officers and men of the sailors fell into the water, and then the huge and heavy general cannon was pressed down from the broken deck, and the officers and soldiers who could not resist were forcelessly pressed into the bottom of the water.
All that remains of the water is a huge whirlpool and broken formwork.
And the artillery on these warships is far inferior to the main battle artillery of a country in the 21st century, whether it is range, lethality, or accuracy.
In less than half an hour, the entire canal was covered with smoke and mist, and the water was littered with broken planks and various items and pieces of clothing.
The tall walls of Linqing City have been shattered everywhere, and the wall bricks and slag are everywhere, and the Qing generals who defend the city can only find their stumps and clothes in the rubble pile.
But Xie Qiang and Ran Lingyang were still not careless, they ordered the template soldiers to open the way with several main battle tanks, and the infantry and Tan coordinated to attack the city of Linqing.
Elite clearing squads of battle template soldiers act as the vanguard, first storming the city to pull out traps and "nails".
The city avenues are already full of strange traps.
The ground was full of long pieces of bamboo that had been dug deep and sharpened inside.
On both sides of the dwellings, there are Qing soldiers holding fishing nets and cats waiting for the liberation army to enter the city.
There were also some Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers on the high ground next to them, carrying barrels of boiling "gold juice" and waiting for the PLA to pour on their heads when they entered the city.
The attic of the taller house was full of Qing soldiers with spears, waiting to throw their spears with all their might.
In some fortress-like buildings, some firearms battalion soldiers are holding out.
In the state capital teaching field, the sharp and brave Qing Dynasty cavalry horse team was holding on to the horse rope and preparing to charge.
But these preparations were ineffective one by one when they were fired upon by the soldiers who had scattered and occupied the high ground as soon as they entered the city.
Template soldiers who shared their vision, shot accurately, and reacted amazingly quickly formed a network and began to sweep the city one by one.
The Qing soldiers in the high places died the fastest. They barely noticed the approach of the combat template soldiers, and in the three-person battle formation where a template soldier was calibrated and a template soldier was shooting, they were hit by bullets from unknown places, and then they fell from a high place one after another.
After clearing a battle template for a stronghold, the squad soldiers immediately uploaded the information that was already secure to the link network.
Then quickly move forward to the next target.
When encountering a fortress with only a few small holes left, these template soldiers immediately called for tanks to come over, or self-propelled guns, rocket artillery, and recoilless guns to fire at them.
These fortresses, which were unusually strong in the eyes of the Qing generals, were then directly shattered into slag, and the Qing soldiers inside were directly buried in the rubble pile of the fortress, and blood continued to flow out of the rubble.
In the early 18th century, the Qing officers and soldiers were completely stunned by this cheating method of warfare, and they did not even have time to make a strong resistance or surrender, and more than 1,500 Qing officers and soldiers were directly wiped out.
More than 10,000 militia group recruits from the city were also killed, wounded, and more than half of the establishment was gone.
The rest fell into despair, and the militia recruits, without any command, immediately fell to their knees and surrendered after being met with gunfire, tanks, and cold shooting from the formwork soldiers, killed and wounded.
At this time, most of the merchants in the city had not yet reacted to such a rapid siege.
They were all still shivering in the cellar of their homes, waiting for the end of the battle in the underground chamber.
PS: A large chapter of more than 4,000 words, dismantling it will affect reading, so I won't open it. This is an update on the 2nd.,Sorry for keeping book friends waiting.,There's still 2 more during the day tomorrow.。