At the command of Ya Yin Guanyin, seventy heavy guns loaded with cannonballs were pushed to a relatively gentle slope, leaning against the mountain to cover the cannon body, and only aiming the muzzle of the cannon at the western fortress under the mountain. The gunners quickly turned the spiral to adjust the muzzle of the gun, and aimed at Fort Geranza, two miles away, with a gun gauge, a gun ruler, and a moment gauge.

As soon as the Chinese army ordered the flag to dance, seventy cannons opened fire in unison, spewing tongues of fire at the fortress of the Westerners. The roar of seventy cannons was deafening, scaring the countless birds on the mountain. Seventy bombs were fired at Fort Geranza. The Fort of Geranza was not small, and almost all the shells fell into the inner fort. After the bombs bounced off the fort for a while, the fuse ignited the gunpowder in the shells, and the shells exploded one after another, exploding one spark after another in the fort.

Seventy shells sent out shotgun projectiles that flew in all directions, killing the arquebusiers who were hiding behind the fort walls. The Dutchman's fortress was blown to pieces, and I don't know how many people died. The Western soldiers did not dare to hold on to the city walls anymore, and all hid in the buildings, only the artillery was still operating in the batteries. Twenty-seven heavy artillery pieces of the Westerners counterattacked. The Western artillerymen aimed at the position where the fire was rising from the high ground just now, and lit the arquebuses of twenty-seven heavy guns. Twenty-seven shells were fired at high speed.

However, the artillery of Ya Kannon was a low fire on the mountain. When firing downward, the cannon has a great advantage, because even if there is no artificial obstacle such as a turret, the cannon can be placed behind a platform that cannot be seen at the foot of the mountain, and only the muzzle of the cannon needs to be exposed. If a bomb is thrown from high ground, even the muzzle of the gun can not be exposed, only the artilleryman needs to show his head and aim.

The downward-firing artillery could easily observe the target at the foot of the mountain, while the up-fired artillery at the foot of the hill could not see where the artillery on the hill was at all. Twenty-seven shells from the Westerners shot at the mountain, but they couldn't hit the cannon of Ya Yin on the mountain at all, and they missed.

After firing a round, the gunners of Ya Lai Kannon immediately cleared the chamber with a brush dipped in water and loaded the chamber with bombs. Then the gunner used a wooden gunpowder to solidify the gunpowder, put in the bomb projectile, and then scooped it again. After completing the loading, the gun commander stands in front to observe the target under the mountain, aim, and adjust the pitch angle of the cannon. The gunners poured a small amount of gunpowder into the ignition at the tail end of the cannon as ammunition, and then the gunners stood on both sides, ready to fire.

Not long after the Westerners' ineffective firing was over, the gunners of Ya Lai Kannon had already finished loading. With a wave of the flag, the commander of the seventy cannons pulled the cannon rope and ignited the flintlock ignition device of the cannon. The black powder in the barrel of the cannon was ignited instantly, turning into flames and air, and the bomb was fiercely pushed out of the chamber. The bombs were like meteors, firing into the battery of twenty-seven heavy guns at the foot of the mountain.

In the midst of a rumbling explosion, at least two of the batteries were hit by bombs and blown to pieces. After firing a few rounds like this, the Westerners were desperate after being disposed of seven batteries. It won't be long before their heavy artillery will be wiped out. They finally gave up their strategy of holding the fortress and gathered 1,400 soldiers to attack the Yayo Guanyin troops on the high ground.

Although the Westerners knew that they were small in number, they wanted Ya Kannon's troops to be vulnerable. Yari Kannon's army can't be all elite soldiers, right? If the infantry sent by Ya Lai Guanyin this time was as vulnerable as the ordinary Song army, the 1,400 Dutch men would have been able to drive Ye Gang Guanyin's troops into the sea.

Westerners poured out of the gates of Fort Geranza. Half of them were arquebusiers, with an ammunition bag diagonally over them; Half are pikemen, and the only weapon is a spear.

They formed a little outside the fortress and attacked the high ground. Seventy artillery pieces were aimed at them, and seventy bombs were fired. Twenty shells hit the advancing red-haired team, cutting through more than twenty alleys of flesh and blood in the crowd, killing sixty or seventy Western soldiers.

However, the bombs were designed for strike batteries and ships, and the fuses were set relatively long and exploded slowly, so that Western soldiers had ample time to flee when they saw the bombs stopped. After the bomb exploded, it didn't kill many people.

The Western soldiers trotted all the way, withstood four rounds of shelling, and after dropping two or three hundred corpses, finally rushed to the bottom of the high ground out of breath. In fact, by this time, the morale of the Westerners had been crippled by the artillery on the high ground, and it was now the end of the crossbow. That is, the ferocity of Ya Kannon who refused to accept the surrender of the Westerners at Chikan Fort just now frightened the Western soldiers, otherwise they would have collapsed long ago and surrendered with a white flag.

On the high ground, the 3,000 riflemen of Yahu Guanyin waited for their work, loaded with bullets and stood in several rows, waiting for the desperate Western soldiers to come out. At a distance of three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, and fifty meters from the effective range of the Dutch arquebus, the riflemen on the hill began to shoot. With a long trumpet sound, the first row of a thousand soldiers fired at the red-haired man one hundred and forty paces away. In the crisp sound of crackling gunfire, flames and smoke suddenly enveloped the entire high ground. A thousand bullets roared like a storm towards the charging Dutch soldiers.

The bullet pierced the jackets and uniforms of Westerners, into the equally fragile flesh and blood of whites, and in an instant it took the lives of these European soldiers and ended them on small islands in the Far East. Blood arrows erupted from the bullet-struck soldiers, spurting red blood everywhere.

A red-haired body that rushed in front was shot three times, fell backwards without saying a word, and lost his life. A shouting Western officer, still brandishing a saber, was hit in the nose by a bullet and fell to the ground screaming. He rolled on the ground with his wounds covered, and the blood spurting from his nose spilled all over the ground, and his strength became smaller and smaller...

It was a massacre, with only one salvo, and the Westerners fell half of their soldiers in front of the formation. Screams rang out everywhere, along with the shouts of those who had fallen to the ground, like the background music of the battle. The Westerners were crushed in an instant, turned around and fled in all directions, panicking.

But the salvo from the hill did not stop, the Dutch ran a few tens of meters, and the second row of riflemen began to shoot again. Another rain of bullets came at the Dutch, and the half of the Westerners who were still alive fell by seventy percent. The remaining three adults discarded their weapons and ran as hard as they could, finally escaping the range of the riflemen on the high ground before the third volley was fired.

However, these sailors can't actually escape, the island is so big, unless the Westerners rush into the sea, there is no way to escape in the next pursuit. The main forces of the Westerners were routed, and the city of Geranza had lost its ability to resist. Ya Yin Guanyin smiled, waved his hand and said, "Enter the city of Relanza!" ”

At this time, there was no defense in the fort of Geranza, and as soon as the army of Yalan Guanyin arrived, the gates of the fort were opened. The remaining 100 or so Western artillerymen, women and children in the fort knelt on the ground and begged Yayo Kannon to let them live.

Ya Yu Guanyin waved his hand and said: "These red-haired people are habitual pirates, and I don't know how many places they have robbed and how many Han people they have killed. The women and children were left behind, and the soldiers were all shot. "Two hundred soldiers of the trapped regiment rushed forward to tie up the artillerymen and take them outside the fort to be shot. The rest of the soldiers searched the fort to see what the Dutch had left behind in the fort.

In the end, Ya Yin found 110,000 taels of silver in the fort. The silver was probably earned from the Japanese trade, and it was all Japanese-style dingyin. With a wave of his hand, he gave five taels of silver to each of the 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 artillerymen of the fleet who participated in the battle, and cheered the soldiers happily.

Only one soldier was wounded in this battle, and the others were not injured at all, so it was a joy to have a bonus. Having conquered the Fort of Geranza, Yaren Guanyin was not ready to occupy him. Capturing such a fortress, which requires at least a few hundred people to defend, is a heavy expense. Yang Peng has a stronghold in Hsinchu, whether it is southbound or northbound, there is a transfer station in Hsinchu, and there is no need to add a foothold like Relansha.

Some of the inhabitants of the town next to Chikan Fort were found to be 2,400 Han Chinese, 300 Chinese traders, and 1,100 Southeast Asians who had been reduced to red-haired slaves. Of course, the Han slaves were immediately freed, and those who were willing to go to Hsinchu could go to Hsinchu with Ya Yu Guanyin, and those who did not want to go to Hsinchu also went to Hsinchu to wait, and then took a boat back to Fujian. But it is expected that after these people see the richness of Hsinchu, the vast majority of them will stay in Hsinchu.

The same is true for Chinese traders. One thousand and one thousand Southeast Asians remained in Geranza and were responsible for the demolition of the forts of Geranza and Chikan. Although Ya Kannon was not prepared to occupy this stronghold, he did not want the Westerners to make a comeback and occupy it again. Southeast Asians were temporarily used as drudgery by Yayah Guanyin, doing the manual work of demolishing cities. After demolishing the castle, Yaren Kannon would load these Southeast Asians into Hirado. Hirado had a Dutch trading house there, from where Southeast Asians could return to their Dutch colonies.

After dealing with the Westerners at Fort Geranza, Yaren returned to Hsinchu with the fleet, taking Zhang Xingfang and Kou Zhun and a large group of students with him to continue to inspect the Ryukyus.

The gaze turned to the Yanwang Mansion in Tianjing New Town.

In the dead of night, the moon is like a wash, the breeze is blowing, and the leaves are rustling. Yang Peng stood under the moon, with his hands behind his back, looking up at the bright moon in the sky. Gentle footsteps came from behind him, Yang Peng retracted his thoughts, turned around, and saw that the women had come to the front, and couldn't help but smile, "Why haven't you slept?" Yang Jiumei said angrily: "You haven't slept, how can everyone sleep peacefully!" Yelu Hanyu on the side glanced at Yang Jiumei and teased: "Jiumei doesn't have a big brother, but she can't sleep!" Yang Peng smiled, but Yang Jiumei was embarrassed, staring at Yelu Hanyu with red cheeks, and said angrily: "Sister Yelu is so hateful, she always teases me!" Yelu Hanyu smiled and asked, "Isn't what I said telling the truth?" Did I misunderstand that the ninth sister doesn't want the eldest brother to accompany me? ”

Yang Jiumei can't answer this question at all, admit it, she really wants her eldest brother, and she will make her eldest brother unhappy for no reason, don't admit it, wouldn't it be shameful to die in front of so many people! For a while, Yang Jiumei didn't know what to do, and stood there with a red face.

Yelu Hanyu pursed her lips and smiled, and glanced at Yang Jiumei, "You, you just have a hard mouth, you obviously want to kill the eldest brother, but you just refuse to admit it!" Yang Jiumei blushed and said angrily: "You are not the same!" Yelu Hanyu smiled evilly: "This is admitted!" Yang Jiumei was stunned, and couldn't help but look at Yang Peng, seeing that Yang Peng was looking at herself with a smile, she was so ashamed that her neck was red, her heart was pounding, and she hurriedly looked away, and she couldn't help but annoy Yang Peng in her heart.

Yang Erya asked Yang Peng, "Big brother, what were you thinking just now?" So get into it! Yelu Hanyu and Yang Jiumei couldn't help but look at Yang Peng.

Yang Peng smiled, turned his head to look at the bright moon in the sky, and said faintly: "Thinking of some things from the past, it's nothing." A feeling rose in the hearts of all the women, feeling that the eldest brother seemed to have a secret hidden in his heart, in fact, everyone had this feeling for a long time, but since Yang Peng didn't say it, the empathetic women never asked him. Yang Peng turned around, glanced at the women, and said, "It's not early, let's go back to sleep, and we will get up early tomorrow morning!" The women nodded.

At this moment, Wang Kai rushed over from a distance. When everyone saw him, Yelu Hanyu said: "In the middle of the night, there must be some military intelligence!" Wang Kai ran to everyone, presented a letter with both hands, and reported: "Letter from Zhongjing of Liaoguo!" ”

Yang Peng's heart moved, he reached out to take the letter, opened the envelope, took out the stationery, and unfolded it to read it. There was no expression fluctuation on Yang Peng's face, and the women couldn't see the clue from Yang Peng's face. Yang Peng raised his head and said to the women: "The war between the Khitans and the Japanese has finally begun!" The 600,000 Khitan army and the 150,000 Goryeo army crossed the Line of Actual Control between the two sides and launched a counterattack against the Japanese people! ”

Yelu Hanyu asked, "Who is the commander of the coalition forces?" Yang Peng glanced at the letter in his hand, "The commander is Li Chonglong!" ”

The women looked at each other very blankly, and Yang Jiumei frowned and said, "Who is Li Chonglong?" Yang Peng said: "This Li Chonglong, originally unknown, at the beginning of the Empress Dowager of Goryeo, he was appointed as the general of the palace guard, not long ago he jumped several levels and was promoted to the deputy marshal of the Great Liao State!" Yelu Hanyu frowned and said: "Could it be that there is something outstanding about this person, so the empress dowager of the Liao State will reuse him?" ”

Yang Peng laughed mockingly, "There is an outstanding point, that is, this person has half Korean blood, and in the eyes of the Goryeo Queen Mother, he is his own person!" The women suddenly realized, Yelu Hanyu frowned and said: "If you say so, the Empress Dowager of Goryeo made him the commander-in-chief, but I am afraid that there is still an intention to take the opportunity to further grasp the military power!" If this person is really a rare good general, he will pay it back, but if he is a useless waste in the head of a silver-like pewter gun, I am afraid that he will ......"

Yang Peng pondered: "This point can be said now, this Li Chonglong has never had the experience of leading a large army, let alone any achievements. This man may be a genius, or he may be a pus-filled waste! Let's hope he's a genius! ”

Yang Erya said: "I don't think this has much to do with us!" Yelu Hanyu smiled: "Silly sister, since the eldest brother cares so much about the outcome of this battle, it has something to do with us!" Yang Erya looked at Yang Peng puzzled. Yang Peng couldn't explain to her, and said with a smile: "Anyway, you just believe in the eldest brother!" Yang Erya thinks it's such a truth, anyway, he always acts according to the intentions of the eldest brother, why think so much, the eldest brother will never be wrong!

Yang Peng fell into deep thought, then put these thoughts behind him, and said: "We can't manage this matter now, it's better to concentrate on the things in front of us!" I don't know if Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu have already launched an attack? ”

Turning his gaze to the other side, after Yang Yanzhao received Yang Peng's letter, he immediately summoned Gao Hu to discuss the strategy of entering the army. Two days later, Yang Yanzhao led 100,000 main forces to leave the Great Wall Ridge to attack Hongzhou, while Gao Hu commanded 50,000 soldiers and horses out of Yinzhou, and 20,000 cavalry under Xiao Baochong, Xiao Gudu, and Xiao Hunu stayed in Yan'an Mansion.

Originally, everyone thought that there would be a few fierce battles, but the actions of the two armies were surprisingly smooth, Hongzhou, Midadong, Shizhou, Xiazhou, Youzhou, etc. did not fight without a fight, and the enemy army did not put up any resistance at all. However, the enemy obviously did not flee in a hurry but deliberately abandoned these areas, because Yan Yunjun did not see a single Tangut civilian, not a single Tangut soldier, nor a grain of grain everywhere he went, and the Tangut people clearly adopted the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness.

The armies of Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu attacked together according to the plan formulated before, and converged on the wasteland fifty miles northwest of Youzhou. The two discussed the situation in front of them, and Yang Yanzhao said: "The enemy's tactics of clearing the field with strong walls make it impossible for us to obtain supplies nearby to lengthen our supply line, and it is very likely that they will raid our supply line with cavalry, which must be guarded against. Gao Hu nodded, "I'm also worried about this matter." Now that we are hundreds of miles away from the Great Wall Ridge and even farther away from Yinzhou, the Western Xia cavalry can easily attack our supply lines! In order to secure the supply lines, it is necessary to send heavy troops, but in this case, the frontal attack force is not enough! ”

Then he frowned, "The most troublesome thing now is that I don't know if the main army of Western Xia is dealing with Tubo, or if it has been transferred back!" Yang Yanzhao pondered: "According to the detailed report, there are heavy Western Xia troops guarding Tiemen Pass and Yanzhou, and they obviously want to rely on the dangerous terrain of Tiemen Pass and Yanzhou to block our army's attack, and at the same time wait for an opportunity to counterattack. The situation today is completely different from the previous situation when the plan was made, the enemy is ready, and we must adapt to the times. ”

Gao Hu nodded, "I think we should retreat to Youzhou and wait for the Sixth Legion to come up before we start the operation." "The battle plan formulated by Yang Peng before was that the Sixth Army would support Yang Yanzhao Gaohu, and the Seventh Army would support the direction of Datongfu, because not long ago, Yang Peng ordered Yang Yanzhao Gaohu to attack immediately with a messenger, and at that time the Sixth Army had not left the station, so the Sixth Army had not yet arrived at the battlefield.

Yang Yanzhao looked at the map and frowned: "I'm afraid this is in the enemy's calculations, if we do this, I'm afraid it's not good for us!" ”

Gao Hu looked at Yang Yanzhao, "Then what does General Yang mean ......?" Yang Yanzhao said: "I estimate that even if the main force of the Western Xia army is still here, but to deal with the Tubo people, there must not be many of them, if we retreat to Youzhou, it will give the Western Xia time to deal with the Tubo people first." So we should go on the offensive, but we have to change and we can't go as planned! ”

At the same time, when the iron gate was closed more than fifty miles away from Yanyun's army, Li Cunxiao was standing on the city wall looking at the east, his brows furrowed. This iron gate pass is located hundreds of miles east of Xingqing Mansion, between the mountains and the great desert, the north is the endless Mu Us Desert, the south is the mountains and mountains, is one of the main passages into Xingqing Mansion from the east. More than 80 miles behind the Iron Gate Pass, there is also a White Pond City, which is a horn with the Iron Gate Pass to jointly defend the eastern gateway of Xingqing Mansion.

In the distance, a fast horse was galloping, and the sound of horses' hooves had been very distant, but it didn't take long for it to become clear, and I saw that a knight had galloped to the iron gate. The knight rushed straight to the gate, reined in his horse, and shouted in the Tangut language: "Urgent military situation, open the city gate quickly!" The gates creaked open, and the knight galloped in.

A moment later, the knight appeared in front of Li Cunxiao and reported: "General, the enemy army is only more than fifty miles away from the Iron Gate Pass!" Li Cunxiao's eyes narrowed, and he hurriedly asked: "Are the enemy troops all here, is there an enemy on the Yanzhou side?" The knight said: "There is no enemy on the Yanzhou side, the main force of the enemy is here!" ”

Li Cunxiao breathed a sigh of relief, clenched his fists, and muttered, "Great! That's great! In this way, the raid plan can be carried out! Then he ordered Li Chongshan, a fierce general beside him: "Immediately lead the cavalry to harass the enemy and lure them over!" Li Chongshan promised loudly and ran down, and then saw the door open, and Li Chongshan led three thousand war horses to gallop out.

Li Cunxiao watched Li Chongshan and them go away, turned his head and said to a herald beside him: "Immediately report the situation here to Your Majesty!" The herald said yes and hurried away. An hour later, the herald rode into Baichi City, saw Emperor Li Qingxia and a group of ministers in military uniform, and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Yanyun's army is all approaching the Iron Gate Pass!" Li Qingxia was overjoyed, Li Qingxia couldn't help but raise her hands, and said to Cangtian with great emotion: "Thank you!" Then he ordered the herald beside him: "The herald Yeli meets the beggar, immediately leave Yanzhou, make an all-out assault on the Great Wall Ridge, herald Epong, go out of Huangyangping, and drive directly to Yinzhou, I want to completely block the retreat of Yan Yunjun!" ”

It turned out that after Li Qingxia learned that Yan Yunjun was about to attack on a large scale, she carefully planned a trap, abandoning Youzhou, Shizhou and other prefectures and counties, not a strategy to clear the wilderness, but a huge pocket that she carefully constructed. According to Li Qingxia's inference, after the Yanyun army came in, it was most likely to take the road of Tiemen Pass, because Tiemen Pass was the closest to Xingqing Mansion, as long as such a situation occurred, this pocket array would be successful, so Li Qingxia and the others would be so excited when they learned that Yanyun's army was all approaching Tiemen Pass.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.