Ye Qi Guanyin gave an order, and the seventy heavy cannons with loaded shells were pushed to a relatively gentle slope. The mountains covered the cannon bodies, and only the muzzles were pointed at the western bastion at the foot of the mountain. The gunners quickly turned the spiral adjustment
The muzzle of the gun was aimed at Fort Relanja, two miles away, with a musket gauge, musket ruler and caliper.
As soon as the Chinese military command flag was waved, seventy cannons fired in unison, spitting out tongues of fire towards the Westerners' fortress. The roar of the seventy cannons was deafening, scaring away countless birds on the mountain. Seventy bombs were fired at Relanzhe.
The Fort was shot away. The Fort of Geranje was not small, and almost all the artillery shells fell into the inner fort. After the bombs collided and bounced in the fort for a while, the fuse ignited the gunpowder in the cannonballs, and the cannonballs exploded one after another.
Sparks exploded one after another from the bastion.
Seventy shells fired shotgun pellets flying everywhere, killing the arquebusiers hiding behind the fort wall one by one. The Dutch bastion was bombed into a mess, and an unknown number of people died. Western soldiers did not dare to defend it any longer.
On the city wall, everyone hid in the buildings, and only the artillery was still firing in the fort. Twenty-seven heavy artillery pieces of the Westerners counterattacked. The Western artillerymen aimed at the location where the fire had just appeared on the high ground, and lit the twenty-seventh heavy artillery fire.
The matchlock of the heavy cannon. Twenty-seven shells were fired rapidly towards the high ground.
However, the artillery of Yeqi Guanyin fires from the top down on the mountain. When firing from the bottom, the artillery has a great advantage, because even if there is no artificial barrier such as a fort, the cannon can be placed behind a platform that cannot be seen at the foot of the mountain.
Just expose the muzzle. If the bomb is thrown from high ground, even the muzzle does not need to be exposed. The artilleryman only needs to expose his head and take aim.
The artillery firing from above can easily observe the target at the foot of the mountain, but the artillery firing from the bottom of the mountain cannot see where the cannon is on the mountain. The twenty-seven rounds of Western artillery shells fired at the mountain, but they could not reach Yeqi Guanyin on the mountain at all.
The cannon was shot empty.
After firing one round, the gunners of Yeqi Guanyin immediately cleaned the gun barrel with a brush dipped in water and loaded the gun barrel with bombs. Then the gunners pounded the gunpowder with wood, put in the bomb pellets, and then pounded it again. The loading was completed.
After firing, the gunner stood in front to observe the target at the foot of the mountain, took aim, and adjusted the pitch angle of the cannon. The gunner poured a small amount of gunpowder into the ignition point at the rear end of the cannon as ammunition, and then the gunners all stood on both sides, ready to fire.
Not long after the ineffective firing of the Westerners, the gunners of Yeqi Guanyin had completed loading. With a wave of the command flag, the gunner of the seventy cannons pulled the gun rope and ignited the cannon's flintlock ignition device.
The black powder in the tube was instantly ignited, turning into flames and air, and violently pushed the bomb out of the barrel. The bombs were like meteors, shooting toward the turret of twenty-seven heavy guns at the foot of the mountain.
Amidst the rumbling explosions, at least two turrets were hit by bombs and blown to pieces. After several rounds of shooting, the Westerners were desperate after losing seven turrets. If the battle continued like this, it would take a long time.
Before long, their heavy artillery would wipe out the whole army. They finally gave up the strategy of defending the fortress, gathered 1,400 soldiers, and attacked the Yeqi Guanyin troops on the high ground.
Although the Westerners know that their numbers are small, they hope that Ye Guanyin's troops will be vulnerable. Can Ye Guanyin's army be all elite soldiers? If the infantry sent by Ye Guanyin this time are as vulnerable as the ordinary Song army
, the Dutch's 1,400 men could drive the troops of Jehovah Guanyin into the sea.
Westerners poured out of the gate of Fort Jelanje. Half of them were arquebusiers with an ammunition pouch slung across their bodies; half were pikemen with a spear as their only weapon.
They formed a team outside the bastion and then attacked the high ground. Seventy artillery aimed at them and fired seventy bombs. Twenty shells hit the advancing red-haired team, killing two of them in the crowd.
In more than ten bloody alleys, six or seventy Western soldiers were killed.
However, the bomb was designed to attack forts and ships. The fuse was set relatively long and the explosion speed was slow. Western soldiers had enough time to escape after seeing the bomb stop. After the bomb exploded, not many people were killed.
The Western soldiers trotted all the way and withstood four rounds of artillery fire. After leaving behind two or three hundred corpses, they 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.
It is already the end of the war. That is to say, the ferocity of Yedi Guanyin's refusal to accept the surrender of the Westerners at Chikan Fort scared the Western soldiers, otherwise they would have collapsed and surrendered with the white flag.
On the high ground, the 3,000 riflemen of Yeqi Guanyin were waiting for work. They loaded their bullets and stood in several rows, waiting for the Western soldiers who came out with all their strength. The distance was 300 meters, 200 meters, 150 meters, and the distance to the Netherlands
When the effective range of the human matchlock gun was still fifty meters away, the riflemen on the mountain began to shoot. With a long trumpet sound, the first row of one thousand soldiers of Ye Qi Guanyin fired at the red-haired man one hundred and forty paces away.
Amidst the crisp crackling gunfire, flames and smoke suddenly enveloped the entire highland. A thousand bullets were fired like a storm, roaring towards the Dutch soldiers charging into the formation.
The bullets penetrated the jackets and military uniforms of Westerners and penetrated the equally fragile flesh and blood of white people. In an instant, they claimed the lives of these European soldiers and ended them on a small island in the Far East. The soldiers who were shot by the bullets had risks on their bodies.
Blood arrows shot out, spraying red blood everywhere.
A red-haired man who rushed forward was shot three times, fell back without saying a word, and lost his life. A Western officer who yelled loudly and waved his saber was hit in the nose by a bullet, and fell screaming.
He fell to the ground. He covered the wound and rolled on the ground. The blood sprayed from his nose spread all over the ground. His strength became weaker and weaker...
This was a massacre. With only one volley, half of the Westerners' soldiers fell in front of the formation. Screams rang out everywhere, and together with the shouts of the fallen, it was like the background music of this battle. Westerners
The man was shattered in an instant, turned around and fled in all directions, panicking and not choosing the right path.
However, the volleys on the mountain had not stopped yet. The Dutch ran a few tens of meters before the second row of riflemen started shooting again. Another hail of bullets hit the Dutch, and half of the Westerners who were still alive fell to the ground.
The remaining three men abandoned their weapons and ran as fast as they could, finally escaping from the range of the riflemen on the high ground before the third row fired a salvo.
However, these sailors actually cannot escape. The island is so big. Unless the Westerners rush into the sea, there will be no way to escape in the subsequent pursuit. The main force of the Westerners has been defeated, and the city of Relanja has already
Having lost the ability to resist, Yeqi Guanyin smiled, waved and said, "Enter Relanja City!"
At this time, there was no defensive force in Fort Relanje. As soon as the army of Ye Guanyin arrived, the gate of Fort Relanje was opened. The remaining more than a hundred Western artillerymen, women and children in the fort knelt on the ground, begging Ye Guanyin.
Can give them a way out.
Ye Qi Guanyin waved his hand and said: "These red-haired men are habitual pirates. 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 all the soldiers were shot." Two hundred soldiers from the trap group rushed forward and tied up the artilleryman.
He was taken outside the fort and shot. The remaining soldiers searched the fort to see what the Dutch had left behind.
Finally, Ye Qi Guanyin found 110,000 taels of silver in the fort. These silvers were probably earned from Japanese trade and were all Japanese-style silver. Ye Qi Guanyin waved his hand to the three thousand soldiers and two taels of silver who participated in the battle.
Each of the artillerymen of the Thousand Fleet was given five taels of silver, which made the soldiers raise their arms and shout with joy.
Only one soldier was injured in this battle, and the others had no casualties at all. I was really happy to get the bonus. After the Fort of Relanjia was captured, Ye Qi Guanyin was not prepared to occupy it. To occupy such a fortress, the defense would require at least several hundred people.
A heavy expense. Yang Peng has a stronghold in Hsinchu. Whether traveling south or north, there is Hsinchu as a transit station. There is no need to add a foothold like Relanzhe.
There were some residents in the town next to Chikan Fort. After liquidation, it was found that there were 2,400 Han Chinese who had become red-haired slaves, 300 Chinese traders and 1,100 Southeast Asians. Of course, the Han slaves were immediately restored to their freedom.
Those who are willing to go to Hsinchu can go to Hsinchu with Ye Qi Guanyin. Those who are not willing to go to Hsinchu can go to Hsinchu first and wait, and then take a boat back to Fujian. But it is expected that most of these people will stay in Hsinchu after seeing the prosperity of Hsinchu.
The Chinese traders were treated the same way. One thousand and one Southeast Asians stayed in Relanjia and were responsible for demolishing the Relanjia Fort and Chikan Fort. Although Ye Qi Guanyin was not prepared to occupy this stronghold, he did not want Westerners to do so either.
They came back to occupy this place again. The Southeast Asians were temporarily used as hard labor by Ye Guanyin, doing the physical work of demolishing the city. After demolishing the castle, Ye Guanyin would load these Southeast Asians to Hirado. There was a Dutch merchant in Hirado.
Pavilion, from where Southeast Asians could return to the Dutch colonies.
Ye Qi Guanyin dealt with the Westerners in Fort Relande and returned to Hsinchu with the fleet. He took Zhang Xingfang, Kou Zhun and a large group of students to continue inspecting Ryukyu.
His eyes turned to Prince Yan's Mansion in Tianjing New City.
It was late at night, the bright moon was washing, the breeze was blowing, and the leaves were rustling. Yang Peng stood under the moon, with his hands behind his back, looking up at the bright moon in the sky in trance. The sound of gentle footsteps came from behind, and Yang Peng took back his thoughts and turned around,
Seeing that the girls had already arrived in front of them, they couldn't help but smile, "Why haven't you slept?" Yang Jiumei said angrily: "You haven't slept yet, how can everyone sleep peacefully!" Yelu Hanyu on the side glanced at Yang Jiumei,
She joked: "Jiumei doesn't have a big brother, but she can't sleep!" Yang Peng laughed, but Yang Jiumei was embarrassed. She stared at Yelu Hanyu with red cheeks and said angrily: "Sister Yelu is so hateful, she always teases me.
!" Yelu Hanyu asked with a smile: "Isn't what I said the truth? Did I understand it wrong, Jiumei doesn't want the eldest brother to accompany her?"
Yang Jiumei couldn't answer this question at all. Admit it, she did miss her elder brother, and she would also make him unhappy for no reason. Don't admit it, wouldn't it be embarrassing in front of so many people! For a moment, Yang Jiumei
Not knowing what to do, she stood there with a blushing face.
Yelu Hanyu pursed her lips and smiled, rolling her eyes at Yang Jiumei, "You have a tough mouth. You clearly want your elder brother to death, but you just refuse to admit it!" Yang Jiumei's face turned red and she said angrily: "You are not the same!" Yelu Han!
Yu said with a bad smile: "This is an admission!" Yang Jiumei was stunned and couldn't help but look at Yang Peng. When she saw Yang Peng looking at her with a smile, she was so embarrassed that her neck turned red, and her heart was beating loudly.
He hurriedly looked away, feeling annoyed at Yang Peng.
Yang Erya asked Yang Peng: "Brother, what were you thinking about just now? So entranced!" Yelu Hanyu and Yang Jiumei couldn't help but look at Yang Peng.
Yang Peng smiled, turned to look at the bright moon in the sky, and said quietly: "It's nothing to think about some things in the past." All the girls felt that there was a secret hidden in the heart of the eldest brother. In fact, everyone had already
He already had this feeling, but since Yang Peng didn't say anything, the considerate girls never asked him. Yang Peng turned around, glanced at the girls, and said: "It's getting late, let's go back to bed."
Well, you will have to get up early tomorrow morning!" The girls nodded.
At this moment, Wang Kai ran over from a distance. When everyone saw him, Yelu Hanyu said: "There must be some military situation in this middle of the night!" Wang Kai ran to everyone and presented a letter with both hands.
Letter, report: "Letter from Liao Kingdom Zhongjing!"
Yang Peng's heart moved, he reached out to take the letter, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, unfolded it and read it again. There was no expression on Yang Peng's face, and the girls couldn't see any clues from Yang Peng's face. Yang Peng raised his head
At first, he said to the girls: "The war between the Khitan and the Japanese has finally begun! The 600,000 Khitan army and the 150,000 Korean army crossed the actual control line between the two sides and launched a counterattack against the Japanese!"
Yelu Hanyu asked: "Who is the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces?" Yang Peng glanced at the letter in his hand, "The commander-in-chief is Li Chonglong!"
The girls looked at each other in confusion. Yang Jiumei frowned and said: "Who is Li Chonglong?" Yang Peng said: "This Li Chonglong was originally unknown. When the Queen Mother of Goryeo came to power, she appointed him as the palace guard general. Not long ago, she appointed him as the general of the palace guard.
He jumped several levels and was promoted to the deputy marshal of the Liao Kingdom!" Yelu Hanyu frowned and said: "Is there something extraordinary about this person that is why the Empress Dowager of the Liao Kingdom re-employed him?"
Yang Peng laughed mockingly, "There is one special thing about him, that is, this man is half Korean. In the eyes of the Queen Mother of Korea, he is one of her own!" The girls suddenly realized, Yelu Hanyu frowned and said
: "If you put it this way, the Queen Mother of Goryeo made him the commander-in-chief, I'm afraid she had the intention of taking advantage of the opportunity to further control the military power! If this man is really a rare and good general, it would be fine, but if he is a silver-colored pewter spear head,
Useless trash, I'm afraid..."
Yang Peng thought: "We can't say for sure now. This Li Chonglong has never had the experience of leading an army, let alone any achievements. This person may be a shocking genius, or he may be a pustule of trash! I hope he is a
What a genius!"
Yang Erya said: "I don't think this has much to do with us!" Yelu Hanyu smiled and said: "Silly sister, since eldest brother cares so much about the outcome of this war, it has something to do with us!" Yang Erya said
Ya looked at Yang Peng in confusion. Yang Peng couldn't explain it to her, so he smiled and said: "Anyway, just trust the elder brother!" Yang Erya thought this was the truth. Anyway, she would always act in accordance with the elder brother's intentions.
Why think so much? Brother is always right!
Yang Peng fell into deep thought, then threw these thoughts behind him and said: "We can't take care of this matter now, it's better to concentrate on the matter in front of us! I wonder if Yang Yanzhao Gaohu has already launched an attack?"
Turning his attention to the other side, after receiving Yang Peng's letter, Yang Yanzhao immediately summoned Gao Hu to discuss the strategy of marching. Two days later, Yang Yanzhao led a hundred thousand main force to leave Changcheng Ridge and attack Hongzhou. At the same time, Gao Hu
He sent 50,000 troops out of Yinzhou, while Xiao Baochong, Xiao Gudu, and 20,000 cavalry under Xiao Hunu stayed behind in Yan'an Prefecture.
Initially, everyone thought there would be several fierce battles, but the actions of both armies were surprisingly smooth. Hongzhou, Mituodong, Shizhou, Xiazhou, Youzhou, etc. fell without a fight, and the enemy troops did not put up any resistance at all.
However, the enemy obviously did not flee in a hurry but deliberately abandoned these areas, because wherever Yanyun's army went, they saw neither Xixia people nor soldiers, nor a grain of grain. The Xixia people clearly adopted the tactic of strengthening the walls and clearing the field.
The two armies of Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu divided up and attacked according to the previously formulated plan, and met on the wasteland fifty miles northwest of Youzhou. The two discussed the situation at hand, and Yang Yanzhao said: "The enemy adopts the tactic of fortifying the wall and clearing the field, which makes it impossible for us to obtain nearby
They are likely to use cavalry to raid our supply line, which must be guarded against." Gao Hu nodded, "I am also worried about this matter. Now we are hundreds of miles away from Changcheng Ridge.
, further away from Yinzhou, the Xixia cavalry can easily attack our supply line! To ensure the safety of the supply line, heavy troops must be dispatched, but in this case, the frontal attack force will not be enough!"
Then he frowned, "The most troublesome thing now is that we still don't know whether the main Xixia army is fighting against Tibet or has been transferred back!" Yang Yanzhao thought: "According to detailed reports, there are Xixia troops in Tiemenguan and Yanzhou.
Heavily guarded, they obviously want to use the dangerous terrain of Tiemenguan and Yanzhou to block our army's attack and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. The situation today is completely different from the situation when the plan was made before. The enemy has been prepared, and we must respond
It changes from time to time.”
Gao Hu nodded, "I think we should retreat to Youzhou and wait for the Sixth Army to come up before taking action." Yang Peng's previous battle plan was for the Sixth Army to support Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu, and the Seventh Army to support Datong Prefecture.
Not long ago, Yang Peng ordered Yang Yanzhao and Gao Hu to launch an attack immediately through a letter, and the Sixth Army had not yet left the station at that time, so the Sixth Army had not yet arrived at the battlefield.
Yang Yanzhao looked at the map and frowned: "I'm afraid this is part of the enemy's plan. If we do this, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to us!"
Gao Hu looked at Yang Yanzhao, "What does General Yang mean...?" Yang Yanzhao said: "I estimate that even if the main force of the Xixia Army is still here, there must not be many to deal with the Tubo people. If we retreat to Youzhou,
Instead, it gives Xixia time to deal with the Tubo people first. Therefore, we should continue to attack, but we have to change and we can no longer act according to the original plan!"
At the same time, at the iron gate fifty miles away from Yanyun's army, Li Cunxiao was standing on the city wall looking to the east, frowning. This iron gate is located hundreds of miles east of Xingqing Mansion, among the high mountains and ridges.
Between the large deserts, there is the endless Mu Us Desert to the north and high mountains to the south. It is one of the main passages into Xingqing Mansion from the east. More than eighty miles behind Tiemenguan, there is also Baichi City, which is similar to Tiemenguan.
They are each other's horns and together guard the eastern gate of Xingqing Mansion.
A fast horse was galloping in the distance. The sound of horse hooves was originally very distant, but it soon became clear. I saw a knight galloping in front of the iron gate. The knight ran straight towards
When he reached the gate, he reined in his horse and shouted in Xixia: "Military emergency, open the city gate quickly!" The city gate opened with a creak, and the knight galloped in.
A moment later, the knight appeared in front of Li Cunxiao and reported: "General, the enemy is only more than fifty miles away from Iron Gate Pass!" Li Cunxiao narrowed his eyes and asked quickly: "Are all the enemy troops here, Yan?
Are there any enemies over there in Yanzhou?" The knight said: "There are no enemies over there in Yanzhou, the main force of the enemy is here!"
Li Cunxiao breathed a sigh of relief, clenched his fists, and murmured: "Great! Great! In this way, the raid plan can be implemented!" Then he ordered the warrior Li Chongshan beside him: "Lead the cavalry immediately
Go harass the enemy troops and lure them over!" Li Chongshan promised loudly and ran down. Then he saw the door open and Li Chongshan leading three thousand war horses galloping out.
Li Cunxiao watched Li Chongshan and the others go away, turned to a herald beside him and said: "Report the situation here to Your Majesty immediately!" The herald agreed and hurried away. An hour later, the herald galloped into Baichi City.
Seeing the emperor Li Qingxia and a group of ministers in military uniform, they knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, Yanyun's army is approaching Tiemenguan!" Li Qingxia and others were overjoyed, and Li Qingxia couldn't help but raise her hands, extremely moved.
Xiang Cangtian said: "Thank you Cangtian!" Then he ordered the messenger beside him: "Send Yeli to meet a beggar. Immediately leave Yanzhou and attack Changcheng Ridge with all your strength. Send Eupang to come out of Huangyangping and drive directly to Yinzhou. I
We must completely block Yan Yun’s army’s retreat!”
It turned out that after Li Qingxia learned that Yan Yun's army was about to invade in a large scale, she carefully planned a trap and abandoned Yuzhou, Shizhou and other counties. This was not a strategy to strengthen the wall and clear the country, but a huge pocket that she carefully constructed to bring wild benefits.
Qi Suo's troops retreated into Yanzhou, while Epan's troops retreated into an oasis called Huangyangping in the desert more than 200 miles north of Shizhou, waiting for Yanyun's army to enter the pocket.
The two armies attacked at the same time and captured Changcheng Ridge and Yinzhou to cut off Yanyun's retreat, forming a closed-door and dog-fighting trend. According to Li Qingxia's inference, after Yanyun's army came in, it was most likely to take the Tiemenguan route.
, because Tiemenguan is the closest to Xingqing Mansion, and as long as such a situation occurs, the pocket array will be 90% successful, so Li Qingxia will be so excited when she learns that all Yanyun's army is approaching Tiemenguan.
What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.