The gunshots and explosions that suddenly appeared in the area of Baoen Temple immediately frightened the nearby Yuan army soldiers. The Yuan army soldiers who could have used the terrain to resist stubbornly and were fighting and running were hit by the bursts of gunfire.
The sound completely shattered their confidence. For a moment, the Yuan army on the left and right sides of Baoen Temple thought that all the surrounding positions had been captured by the Song army, and that they were the only army attacked from the north and south by the Song army.
More than 10,000 Song troops who gradually came to the ground used Baoen Temple as their base and began to attack southward.
By noon, the main force of the Song Army from south to north crossed one defense line after another. Among them, the leading commandos successfully rushed to the front of Bao'en Temple and joined Wu Songhan and Wen Zhang's troops.
The Yuan army around Baoen Temple organized several counterattacks, hoping to recapture Baoen Temple, but under attacks from muskets and projectiles, they returned in vain each time, leaving only hundreds of corpses behind.
Half an hour later, the Song army in the south of the city completely opened the road from the south gate to Baoen Temple. According to the order of the headquarters, the army did not continue to attack north, but turned to the left and right and attacked horizontally. The Yuan army, which was flanked, became increasingly fierce.
became panicked, although most Mongolians
The soldiers were still struggling desperately, but they still could not block the attack of the Song army's firearms. In addition, many Han soldiers began to passively respond to the fight, and some of them, like the common people, took the opportunity to flee south. This also made the Yuan army
The pace of the defeat was much faster than the previous two days.
By this time, the front line of defense of the Yuan army had been rushed to pieces. Since it could not be connected into one piece, it was divided and surrounded by the Song army and then defeated one by one. Under this situation, the Yuan army five miles south of the palace was defeated.
You can only become a turtle in a urn, waiting to be captured.
When the third day of fighting ended, the Song Army's most forward position was less than five miles away from the Dadu Imperial Palace. If you look north from the roofs of some slightly higher buildings, you can see the outline of the imperial palace.
As before, I came to the command post where Lu Wenhuan was located only after the fighting stopped.
"See Your Majesty."
"Well, all generals are exempt from courtesy."
"Your Majesty, today's victory was brilliant. We advanced nearly five miles in one day. According to preliminary estimates, our army killed nearly 10,000 Yuan soldiers in one day and captured more than 3,000 prisoners, including more than 200
A Mongol soldier. In addition, he rebelled against the enemy today.
Shui's Yuan army has more than 800 people, and the casualties of our soldiers are about 5,000, but about 70% of the wounded are minor injuries. After simple rescue by health workers from each army, it will basically not affect tomorrow's situation.
Fighting." Lu Wenhuan reported excitedly.
"Well, according to today's progress, we can attack the vicinity of the Yuan Dynasty's imperial palace tomorrow evening."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Generals, how is the situation of the people in the city today?"
Lu Wenhuan subconsciously looked at Yi Yinglei and Zhao Huai and said: "Your Majesty, in today's battle, our army rescued at least more than 50,000 people, but the number of people who died also exceeded 20,000, and more than 10,000 were injured.
name."
"What?" I asked in shock, "30,000 casualties, so many?"
The number of people living in Dadu was far less than that of Beijing in later generations. There were only more than 300,000 people in total, and nearly one-tenth of them were killed or injured in just one day. This number is not small, and it is heartbreaking.
Lu Wenhuan and others saw the difference in my expression and nodded silently: "Yes."
"This is war." I thought for a moment and knew that this was not the time to be merciful, let alone to blame anyone. I just sighed secretly and said to the three of them: "Three generals, let our military hospital and health workers
We will do our best to rescue these people. In the past few days, if there are people in the city who are short of food, our army will provide them with no compensation.
The provision must be ensured so that no common people can starve to death. In addition, the homeless shall be arranged to live in military camps outside the city, and the troops outside the city shall do a good job of comforting them. The captured Yuan troops shall be detained first. As for the
The rebel team of several hundred people was handed over to Wu Jiu, who was under unified command and acted as the guide for the front army."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
I continued: "Judging from the battles in the past few days, most of the troops invested by the Yuan army in the south of the palace are Han and Jin soldiers. It is estimated that tomorrow will be similar. By the day after tomorrow, most of the remaining Yuan troops should be Mongolians.
It is elite, which means that the battle in the palace that starts the day after tomorrow will be more intense. Although our army has won consecutive battles, we must be mentally prepared and not take it lightly."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Tomorrow's battle will still be carried out according to the established policy. Use the commandos as arrows to capture the key points in the city. The army will then press on. At the same time, we must try to reduce the casualties of our soldiers and civilians. Now, let's make a total together. The day after tomorrow
How to attack the palace."
Seeing that I did not pursue the matter any further, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and began to discuss.
Early on the fourth day, the Song army, under the command of Lu Wenhuan and others, launched another attack to the north.
On the third night after the Song army broke through the south gate of Dadu City, Liu Zheng, the naval commander of the Yuan army located in the Bohai Bay, learned of the news.
After a night of hard thinking, Liu Zheng finally made the decision to break out of the encirclement. If Dadu fell, the navy's land base would soon be occupied by the Song army, and then both sides would be under pressure. It was better to go all out and break out of the encirclement as soon as possible.
Liu Zheng's proposal was supported by all the generals in the army. Even the Mongolian supervisors sent by Kublai Khan to the navy believed that this was the only feasible way. As for where to go after breaking out of the encirclement of the Southern Navy, then
We can only discuss it then.
Early the next morning, when the Song army in the capital city launched an attack, Liu Zheng led all the Yuan army warships to leave his naval base and sail toward the Bohai Bay. In the afternoon, the warships arrived at the Bohai Strait.
The commanders of each warship have already received orders to break out of the encirclement. If they can successfully break out of the Bohai Strait, they will sail northeast and meet at an island two days away from the Bohai Strait.
However, the Song Dynasty Navy naturally would not make things easier for the Yuan Army Navy.
Li Beiyang remembered clearly that I once said that Liu Zheng was a traitor, completely different from the Han generals Zhang Rou and Shi Tianze in the Mongolian army, and he would never be lenient. As for the personal grudge between Li Beiyang and Liu Zheng, it had already happened last time
It was concluded in a naval battle. Whether it was the tonnage or number of warships, whether it was the equipment of weapons or offensive and defensive methods, the navy of the Song Dynasty was ahead for more than a hundred years.
Although I did not give much direct guidance to the navy, the basic knowledge of the navy that everyone knew in later generations greatly expanded the thinking of Li Beiyang, Ouyang Jianqing and other naval generals, just relying on the improvement of semaphores.
, has brought great convenience to the Navy.
Of course, in Li Beiyang's view, the two most powerful ships are naturally the two Shenzhou ships, not to mention each of them has twenty artillery pieces.
One by one, the Song Dynasty warships were in full formation, surrounding the two giant ships, cutting off all sea routes in the Bohai Strait.
Following the attack order issued by Liu Zheng's flagship, the rest of the Yuan army's warships attacked without reservation. Everyone in the Yuan army knew that if they rushed out, they would have a chance of survival, otherwise everything would be a dead end for the Yuan army.
Most of the generals in the navy were Liu Zheng's former subordinates, colleagues or fellow villagers. They knew better that the Song Dynasty regarded them as mortal enemies, so everyone rushed to be the first, hoping to carve out a bloody path.
At first, the Yuan army's warships were still able to move forward in a certain formation. When they rushed near the Song army's warships, they suddenly changed their tactics. They seemed like a pirate team that had never been trained and had no formation at all.
Soon, Li Beiyang, who was standing on the Shenzhou Giant Ship, discovered that the Yuan army warship was not interested in fighting and only focused on charging forward.
"What? Are you trying to escape?" the experienced Li Beiyang immediately thought.
"Your Majesty, Commander, the Yuan army warship has entered the range of the artillery. Do you want to fire?" said the deputy general on the side.
"Well, pass on the order. There is no need to save ammunition and fire."
The commanders on board the two giant ships received the order and jointly issued the order to fire.
"Boom, boom, boom"
The sound of cannons was loud, and the artillery on the side of the giant ship began to bombard. The warships of the Yuan army were generally small, and some warships even suffered from water leakage after being hit by just one shot. The giant ship was located in the middle of the sea.
The warships of the Yuan army that rushed forward were immediately bombarded by artillery. In the sea areas on both sides that were not covered by the artillery fire, hundreds of warships of the Song army launched attacks at the same time.
Although there were some warships on both sides that overcame the Song army's encirclement, most of the Yuan army's warships were intercepted by the Song army. Especially the enemy ships in the center were completely trapped in a bitter battle.
As time passed, the Yuan army's warships decreased one by one.
About an hour later, Li Beiyang saw that the three main ships of the Yuan army were hit by artillery one after another. The wooden warships soon burst into flames. The Yuan army above saw that the fire was getting bigger and bigger and could not be extinguished, so they had to hug it.
He jumped into the sea with broken logs.
Li Beiyang ordered: "Turn the direction on the spot and prepare the artillery on the right to fire."
The speed of the giant ships was naturally not as fast as that of later warships. Taking advantage of the pause in artillery, many Yuan warships rushed forward. However, compared with the giant ships, these warships were not at all proportional. The Song army officers condescendingly approached
These warships threw missiles one after another. At such a close distance, the specially trained throwing hands were almost 100% accurate. Compared with artillery, it was a perfect shot.
Later, when the Yuan army's warships saw that the situation was not good, they turned around and tried to slip away from both sides of the giant ship. Li Beiyang would not let it succeed, so he used flags to order the warships behind the giant ship to attack.
Two quarters of an hour later, the two giant ships had adjusted their directions, and the artillery on the right roared again.
The Yuan army warships a hundred meters away were once again under artillery bombardment. In desperation, many warships chose to flee towards the base.
At this time, Liu Zheng, who had already changed into an ordinary naval uniform, was standing on a small warship. Looking at this one-sided situation, he could only sigh and immediately ordered the sailors to sail quickly to the left.