Xue Ziliang's original plan did not intend to enter Jeju City, but such a crude city defense made him couldn't help but modify the plan. He decided to go deeper and sneak into the city to find out the specific conditions inside, and then make a decision based on the situation.
Since there are no enemy towers on the entire city wall and the city towers are very small, a few patrol soldiers cannot monitor the entire city wall - the entire perimeter of Jeju City is 3,900 paces long - much larger than many people in the Ming Dynasty.
The county and state capitals are much larger, and many city walls are simply empty.
Xue Ziliang left the support team outside the city and led the assault team to quickly scale the city wall using simple poles.
If climbing up the city wall in broad daylight under the eyes of the guards was not surprising enough, then as soon as he climbed up the city wall, Xue Ziliang was shocked again: It turned out that the fortifications of the city wall were unorganized and looked like a child's play, and the city wall itself was also very strange.
The strange thing about the city wall is that there is no horse path up and down the city wall - the inner side is directly piled with earth slopes. From the defensive side, once the enemy attacks the city, it is very convenient for the defender to climb up and down the city wall, and they can go up and down the city wall anytime and anywhere.
However, conversely, once the enemy climbs the city wall, they can immediately rush into the city and penetrate deep into the city - in other words, the battle that originally required the troops to climb the city to fight bloody battles to seize the horse road in the lower city is no longer necessary. More
What's more, if the attacker adopts the tactic of ascending the city from a platform to attack, the internal slope of the city wall will completely eliminate the battle to seize the city gate. As long as the attacker controls a section of the city wall, subsequent troops can continuously pass through the city.
The outer slope easily crosses the city wall.
This measure is not so much convenient for the defenders as it is more convenient for the attackers. Although Xue Ziliang has no research on ancient Chinese city walls, the tactics for attacking fortifications are the same. After seeing this real thing, I understood the veteran
Where did the extremely contemptuous attitude among them towards the combat effectiveness of Li Chao's army come from.
After entering the city, the assault team found themselves entering the fields surrounded by city walls from the open fields: the city was still filled with fields, vegetable gardens, and groves, with some small thatched huts scattered throughout. Xue Ziliang felt very uncomfortable: This really doesn't look like this.
a city.
Xue Ziliang observed with a telescope in the woods for a long time, and marked the school grounds, prison camps, warehouses, wells and roads in the city one by one.
He opened fire to destroy the local ordnance warehouse, and then carried out assassinations and arson, completely disrupting the opponent's defense measures. But now it seems that this was a bit unnecessary, and instead reduced the number of loot and prisoners - he even led the team into the city.
Reconnaissance is unnecessary.
He is now fully confident of taking Jeju City. However, there are too few people in the detachment, and even if he takes it, he will not be able to control the whole city. If it causes a riot, the gain outweighs the gain - Xue Ziliang knows very well how much the Senate attaches importance to population and supplies.
Taking an empty city means nothing to the Senate.
The two Park brothers knelt on the ground nervously, still covered in cold sweat in the dead of winter: standing next to them was a short-haired Japanese pirate in huā clothes holding a Japanese sword and making gestures. They were afraid that if they answered a question accidentally, they would be scratched - Jeju Island
They were deeply harmed by the Japanese rebellion. No matter they were officials, common people, soldiers or servants, they were all devastated when they heard the word "Japanese pirates".
Although the Korean of the intelligence agent was not bad, it was different from the local dialect of Jeju. The Park brothers were afraid of being nervous and couldn't speak clearly. It took them a while to figure out their identity as Jeju prison camp.
The officials and slaves came here to pay homage to their ancestors.
The food and tablets they brought showed that they were not lying. Xue Ziliang originally did not want to waste time on them. But after hearing that they were official slaves and thinking of Feng Zongze's spirit of finding the "proletarian road-leading party", he decided to take them away - enter
After Jeju City, they need help from local people.
"Take the prisoners and let's go." He ordered.
The accompanying soldiers immediately took out gags and black hoods. Before the Pu brothers could react, they had things in their mouths, hoods on their heads, and their wrists were tied behind their backs.
Because we were carrying prisoners, it took a little longer to leave the city than to enter the city. But the whole process went smoothly. The special recon team then took the prisoners all the way to Feiyang Island. The special reconnaissance team set up a temporary forward reconnaissance base here.
Biyangdo is a volcanic island formed by an eruption in 1002. It is the youngest of the Jeju volcanic islands. It is very close to Jeju Port and only takes fifteen minutes by using a large boat. It is an ideal base to launch an attack from here. The island
There is a beacon on top, which has been controlled by the special reconnaissance team - five Taiwanese soldiers continue to act as a "zombie beacon" in accordance with the orders of the special reconnaissance team.
The Pu brothers were brought here in the dark. A dozen prisoners captured by the special reconnaissance team along the way were already being held in a secret camp in the crater woods. Most of the prisoners were local farmers who could not squeeze much money out of them. They were just for
They were temporarily detained to keep it secret.
The Pu brothers confessed more things here: including the approximate population in the city and the number of soldiers. But for Xue Ziliang, the most valuable information was: the county supervisors of Jingyi and Dajing counties were originally in the city, and they got
After hearing the news about the "Japanese pirate attack", I have now rushed back to the county.
Xue Ziliang immediately sent two teams to pursue them along the road, and ordered that the two county supervisors must be intercepted and captured alive - if they could not be captured alive, they could be shot on the spot.
Although his team members are on foot, while the county supervisor and servants are on horseback, it is impossible for a person to ride a horse continuously for a long time: even if a person can tolerate it, the horse cannot bear it. However, the special reconnaissance team can continue a forced march without any problem. Besides, they can still
You can use a small boat to maneuver for a certain distance: the official road of Jeju Island, like Hainan Island, is spread out along the coastline.
The Park brothers, who had provided important information, were shocked when they were caught on a boat and transported to Seongsan. They were residents of Jeju City and were obviously very suitable candidates for the leading party. Feng Zongze requested that a number of prisoners captured around Jeju be selected and sent to Seongsan.
Conduct a surprise attack to instigate rebellion.
When the special reconnaissance team arrived at Feiyang Island and launched a reconnaissance of Jeju City, Nangong Wudi organized a task force composed of regular infantry, security forces and laborers to launch an attack on Jeongui County.
Jingyi County is located on a plain by the sea, very close to Chengshan. As the troops marched, except for a fishing village near Chengshan, there was not even a single village along the way. There were only a few beacon towers, some of which had long been abandoned.
There are also large areas of coastal plain on the roadside where Taiwanese soldiers have fled. Although the terrain is flat, there are no signs of land reclamation. They are large areas of dense coastal grassland, with dead grass swaying in the strong sea breeze.
The sea breeze carried the salty smell of sea water, blowing unusually sharply on his face. Nangong Wudi heard from Feng Zongze that the grass and trees in the seaside pasture are rich in salt and minerals, which are very beneficial to the raising of horses and cattle. Hokkaido
The reason why it has become a world-famous ranch is related to its special geographical conditions.
Although Jeju Island is not as blessed as Hokkaido, it has many similar favorable conditions - it is a large ranch made in heaven.
It wasn't until Jingyi County came into view that there were some fields on the roadside. The fields had been harvested and scattered with straw. These were obviously dry lands.
"This county is so dilapidated!" Nangong Wudi observed the county through the telescope. Although the several counties in southern Hainan he had visited had surprised him in terms of dilapidation, the state of Jingyi County was obviously worse.
The so-called city wall is nothing more than a wall made of volcanic stones, only three meters high at most. And many places have collapsed - North Korea's city walls are built in a rectangular shape with stones built straight up and down, so the foundation is not good.
It is stable and cannot be built very high, and it is not strong at the same time.
The city gate is guarded by a urn, but the gate and tower are too low, and like Jeju City, there are no battlements or parapets here.
Although the city wall is dilapidated, there are still more than a thousand steps in the circuit. It is not small even among ancient cities at the county level in China.
The characteristic of the city building in the Li Dynasty was that they were greedy for expansion and always wanted to enclose as much land as possible into the city. In fact, there were not so many residents and buildings in the city. Therefore, most of the area in the city was often farmland and wasteland.
The result is a thin city wall surrounding an overly large city, often with insufficient defenders. On weekdays, it is okay to resist small groups of bandits and mobs, but when it encounters a large-scale army, it is immediately unstoppable: when the Japanese army invaded North Korea, it was as if they were defenseless.
In the land of humans, no Korean city can hold on.
Nangong Wudi had the same thought as Xue Ziliang: Damn it, for a city like this, it's better to call the labor squadron to train the militia.
Even so, he still very cautiously sent out advanced soldiers to conduct reconnaissance. There was a small village outside the city. Apart from that, there were no other residential areas.
The gates of Jingyi County have been closed, and all the soldiers in the city have boarded the city. However, the people and officials in the city have no intention of defending: firstly, the county supervisor has gone to Jeju, and there is no one in charge in the city, and people's hearts are floating. Secondly, there are people in Jingyi County.
There is a fatal flaw: there is no water in the city, and the water source is five miles outside the city. On weekdays, drinking water in the city relies on people and cattle to fetch water from springs. The water used daily is "Fengtian water"-the ground is dug for
If you use a bamboo tube to collect the water, it can be eaten after a period of time. Autumn and winter are the seasons with little rain, and the stock of Chengtian water is also insufficient, so the whole city can use it.
The amount of fresh water is no more than the water stored in the water tank of every household, which is only enough for three or four days at best.
Without food, you can still hold on for a long time, but without water, you can't survive even three days. So the soldiers and officials in the city were very panicked and didn't know what to do. They just hoped that the "Japanese pirates" would retreat quickly. (To be continued.
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