Chapter 260: Landing in Liaodong
The fleet is a total of seven or eight transport ships and a few warships, and the soldiers that the battleships can bring are limited, so it is good to use civilian ships to transport soldiers, and to transport a total of 7,000 to 8,000 soldiers to the Lushun base, at least nearly 20 ships are needed, which is not a complicated logistical burden, because this is the first wave of personnel arranged by Xiao Ming, and the second wave of personnel is still being prepared at the Weihai base.
According to the plan, after transporting all the fighters of the "Wolf Division" to the Lushun base, and transporting three regiments of Tiger Guards to the port and wharf of Yingkou in Jinzhou, a large number of baggage and all the personnel of the former Liaodong Dongdan were landing in Lushun one after another, waiting for Xiao Ming to launch the first phase of military operations.
In June, the Yellow Sea and Bohai Bay basically did not have big waves, the fleet successfully arrived at Port Arthur, Yelusha and Ma Haishu and others greeted Wu Yong, Xiao Gan and others on the wharf, Xiao Ming's Jiaolong battleship, after refitting, has become the most advanced hybrid ship at present, and it is also the flagship of the entire fleet.
In the current era, in terms of the strength of the entire sea, there may be no country that can compare with Xiao Ming, he has the most advanced warships in the world, and the power and navigation distance are the strongest, Xiao Ming has always had the idea of testing the strength of the entire fleet, but he can't spare time.
The troops of the Wolf Division of the Guards cooperated with the Leopard Division army that arrived at the Lushun base first, joined forces, and went north out of the Lushun base to occupy Suzhou Pass, waiting for the next military deployment.
There are too many materials on the big ship, in order to seize Liaodong, it is also necessary to restore the economic and industrial base of the entire region, the original production and development, steel, cement and a series of factories, just the equipment transported away from the last retreat from Jinzhou must be transported back, and there are some new equipment, and the logistics materials of this campaign are not a few, after the capture of Jinzhou, it is necessary to quickly seize the coal and iron needs there Mountain, so there are many craftsmen in the second batch of personnel.
After a few days of rest, Xiao Ming ordered the Leopard Division and the Wolf Division to send several regiments to seize several important locations, and the Guards who marched through the road were very fast, scooping down many prefectures and counties in one day, and the three regiments of the Leopard Division seized Fuzhou, Ningzhou, and Suzhou Pass. The wolf division occupied Desheng and Pingnan Zhenhaifu, and occupied Muzhou.
The next day, the main forces of the two divisions marched to Chenju and Kaizhou at the same time. This is the Jurchen Gesuguan tribe, stationed 2,000 Jin soldiers, two battalions of a regiment of the Leopard Division Guards assaulted Chenzhou, and captured all the more than 2,000 Jin soldiers, and the captives were soon taken to Port Arthur, where they were transported to Weihai City as laborers.
After the troops seized Yaozhou, Xiao Ming took the Jiaolong to the sea, waiting for the arrival of the second fleet, which contained three warships like the Jiaolong, but larger, and happened to bring in three soldiers of the Tiger Guard Regiment, most of the craftsmen and machinery and equipment went to Port Arthur, and Xiao Ming took the battleships of the Tiger Guards to Jinzhou Port.
Jinzhou was grabbed by the Jin soldiers at a great cost, and the port base, although Xiao Ming was basically destroyed when he retreated last time, but because this place is close to Liaoxi Prefecture, less than a few dozen kilometers away from Tokyo Liaoyang, plus after the guards scooped Yaozhou, Dayingkou fell directly into his hands, and Xiao Ming could approach Tokyo Liaoyang in two ways.
The time of the attack was in the morning, and there were 5,000 people stationed in Jinzhou, but these people were basically the Liao people who surrendered at the beginning, and the fishermen of the Liaodong Peninsula still relied on Jinzhou to go to sea to fish, so there are many large and small dilapidated fishing boats in Jinzhou Port now!
Four battleships lined up on the sea, aiming one side of the ship at the port, each warship has four guns with six guns, this kind of naval guns are more than two hundred calibers, designed and manufactured by the arsenal specifically for battleships, and use the same high-explosive shells as shore defense guns!
Suddenly, "Boom! The loud bang broke the quiet dawn of the harbor, and the explosion of the cannonballs and the light of the fire directly flooded the golden barracks in the harbor guard! The harbor burst into flames and smoke billowed up.
There is no need to waste more ammunition in such artillery preparations, after two shells per cannon, four battleships rushed into the port, but now there are too many fishing boats in the harbor, and the waterway left is very narrow, it is difficult to get close to the pier, and the warships are too lazy to turn around, and they directly rampage over!
The huge steel keel and iron skin crushed all the fishing boats in front of it like crushing tofu, and after approaching the pier, the boat was lowered first, and a company of tiger guards was transported to board the trestle near the water, because yesterday, the hot air balloon had been used to observe the port's defense facilities, because of the fear that the golden soldiers would place cannons here, so they came up to prepare for artillery fire first, even if there were cannons, they would be blown up at the first time!
The tiger guards who landed first immediately occupied several key points on the dock, did a good job of defense, and then the warship docked, and drove down the large group of men and horses from the dock, the tiger guards were very nervous, but seeing that Xiao Ming was leisurely and leisurely, and the landing was going very smoothly, they also relaxed their tense nerves.
There are only a few hundred golden soldiers stationed in the port guard, and most of them were killed in their sleep during the first round of artillery preparation, and the rest put on pants, rode on horses and fled quickly, there is a barracks of golden soldiers three miles away from the port, where are most of the five thousand men and horses, according to the time they prepare, about a meal will be killed.
But this little time is enough for Xiao Ming's three Tiger Guard regiments to land, after the landing, the first battalion of the Tiger Guard Regiment quickly deployed, clearing out the remnants of the enemy and looking for horses, if you want to quickly assault Liaoyang, you can't do it without horses, so the goal of the Tiger Guard Army is the horses of the five thousand gold soldiers in the gold camp at the first time.
Things went well, and the Jin soldiers, under the leadership of a commander of the Thousand Commanders, sent two thousand cavalry to rush over in less than a meal, only to collide with the oncoming Tiger Guards, and this encounter ended quickly, and after a burst of ping-pong gunfire, the Jin soldiers were almost completely annihilated.
The captives were temporarily imprisoned, while the maintenance army quickly rode on the captured horses and rushed straight to the gold camp three miles away, and when Xiao Ming caught up from behind, the battle was basically over, and more than 3,700 horses were captured, 1,000 loads of grain and grass, as well as a batch of Jin soldiers' clothing and battle armor.
Xiao Ming was very happy when he saw this batch of armor, and decided to change the original deployment, and use the armor of this batch of golden soldiers to earn Liaoyang, Tokyo, he sent someone to ride a fast horse to quickly get in touch with the leopard division that occupied Yingkou, and then let the tiger guards change into the clothes and armor of the golden soldiers, ride the captured war horses, and kill Liaoyang directly on the same day.
In the afternoon, the Tiger Guards arrived in Liaoyang, because they were wearing the costumes and armor of the Jin soldiers, the defenders of Liaoyang did not suspect it at all, and put the Tiger Guards into the city, and the defenders were directly killed, and then the Tiger Guards quickly attacked and controlled the four cities with battalions as units, and there were 12,000 Jin soldiers in the barracks in the east of the city were also captured, and the defender Su Luhai, the former Dongdan guard, was killed, and several stubborn Jurchen Mouke officials were also killed.
By the time Yerusha led the Leopard Division's guards to Liaoyang, the entire original Great Liao Tokyo had been occupied by Xiao Ming, and it took less than four days from the launch of the Leopard Division and the Wolf Division to the capture of Liaoyang, and Liaodong had basically been recovered by Xiao Ming.
According to the plan, the Leopard Division's Guards continued to march to Shenzhou and Yinzhou, while Zhang Fenbo's Wolf Division directly captured Kaizhou, and the troops came out of Yuancheng, captured Dingzhou, Xuanzhou and Baozhou, and went north to capture Luzhou and Hengzhou, and then outflanked more than 20,000 cavalry of the Jin soldiers in Zhengzhou, while Yelusha's Leopard Division was to occupy Guide Prefecture and advance to Yinzhou.
The war is going so well! Xiao Ming didn't expect this, but in fact, the absolute main force of the Jin soldiers and girls was completely deployed on the front line of the Yellow River in the Great Song Dynasty, and their hometown base camp was guarded by those Liao troops who surrendered and the Bohai people who knew it, and these people did not have much combat effectiveness, and they were almost unable to make any resistance when they encountered Xiao Ming's army.
In less than three days, the attacking teams from all walks of life sent back the news that on the ninth day of Xiao Ming's return to the Port Arthur base, the entire Liaodong had been recovered, and the Guards even went out of Xianping Prefecture to directly threaten Tongzhou, but at this time Xiao Ming gave an order, that is: "Arrest the laborers!" ”
At present, due to the spread of the Jurchen tribes in the whole Liaodong, there are now tribes such as the Yidian Department, the Hui Lame Department, and the Pulu Maoduo Department, with a population of no less than hundreds of thousands, and there are still many young and middle-aged people.
Xiao Ming's move is also called drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle, he wants to cut off the replenishment of the soldiers of the entire Jurchen Jin Kingdom, and see if the soldiers they lost on the battlefield in the Central Plains can be replenished from there, so the entire Jurchen tribe in Liaodong has fallen into blood mold! All young people and men over the age of 18 were taken and transported to Port Arthur for loading and transporting to the railway construction site in the southeast.
Xiao Ming counterattacked in less than ten days and conquered the entire Liaodong, which shocked the Jin Imperial Court! After they reacted, they hurriedly transferred troops from the Central Plains battlefield, and at this time, Xiao Ming had basically consolidated the first line of defense in Shenzhou in the entire Liaodong, and then continued to grasp the laborers with peace of mind, causing the Jurchen tribes in the entire Liaodong to begin to flee and migrate northward.
Wanyan Zonghan was the first general of the Jin Kingdom to be notified, he was in Yanjing Mansion at the time, he had exactly 60,000 elite soldiers under him, and after receiving the notice of the Jin Imperial Court, he quickly returned to help, and if he went back late, Xiao Ming might wave his troops to take Huanglong Mansion directly!
Jin Guo wanted to transfer troops back, but Xiao Ming didn't want them to go so easily, he sent a letter directly to Han Shizhong, asking him to lead the tiger division, and the troops marched north from the front line of Dezhou, and approached Hejian Mansion, and at the same time, the Hebei Righteous Army entrenched in Shandong and other places also began to cooperate with the action, and for a while, Jin Guo's troops immediately began to be insufficient.
Xiao Ming's side did not continue to march to Huanglong Mansion, but seized the time to digest and absorb the entire Liaodong, but such a thing was too cumbersome, and fortunately, Xiao Ming brought Xiao Gan and Wu Yong back! With these two administrative experts, Xiao Ming's workload has been greatly reduced, and he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
But God doesn't seem destined to let him be too idle, because the next time he angered him again and forced him to start a war again, that is, Su Caier was actually kidnapped by pirates!