Chapter 417 Two-pronged attack
At four o'clock in the morning on May 17, 1789, at the 24th hour of May 24th, the 54th year of Qianlong, as Zhao Xin issued an attack order at the Jurgen City Command, the Northern Navy units, which had been preparing for two months, finally began to launch after arriving at the attack position.
Zhao Xin’s idea of this battle was to “tempt the enemy on the Western Front, attack on the Eastern Front, advance by sea and land, and take direct to Hunchun.”
The specific combat deployment was: Hu Ji led two regiments of 5,000 troops on the western front to launch an attack on the Qing army entrenched in Xiaobai Mountain. After conquering the Qing army camp on Xiaobai Mountain, he approached Dasaiwula City on the east bank of Songhua River, and cut off the connection between the Qing army and Jilin from Bodune and Alechuka. At the same time, after capturing Guijiao Station, Hu Ji's troops divided their troops to capture Eryinchu Station 60 miles southeast of Jilin, and formed an east and north attack with the troops who beat Saiwula against Jilin, forcing the Qing army in Hunchun camp to reinforce westwards.
The eastern front consists of the Third Regiment of Jiuzang and the Second Regiment of Lushoushan plus a new recruit. The troops of Lushoushan and the New Regiment of Lushoushan launched an attack from the north bank of the Mongolian River, annihilated the enemy troops on the south bank of the Mongolian River, and followed the post road to capture three forts, Saqi City, Gangouzi City and Yingchengzi City; the Jiuzang Group went west along the Mongolian River and captured Tongkenshan Fortress, and then crossed Malehuliwoji and took straight to Edoli, and implemented a siege and attack on the Qing army in Hunchun, so that it could stop east of the Burhatu River.
On the Navy, Deng Fei and Ding Guofeng led the Thunder, the No. 1 and 2 of the Beihai and ten inland river ships, led a battalion of the Marine Corps and 500 Ainu soldiers to cross west across Rulingji Island, and flowed upstream from the entrance of the Hunchun River south of Hunchun to the intersection of Hunchun River and Tumen River, seized the docks and ferries on the Hunchun River, and seized Shuiliufeng City and Shitouhezi City to prevent the enemy from fleeing south.
In his order to Deng Fei and Ding Guofeng, Zhao Xin mentioned that if the Li Dynasty army had abnormal movements, he could take advantage of the situation to capture Qingyuan Prefecture and Qianyuanpu on the west bank of the river estuary, so as to find a foothold for the later recovery of the entire southern foot of Jiangyuan.
With Hu Ji's order, the 12 mortars and six 75mm field guns of the two regiments launched artillery bombardment at the two Qing army fortresses located on the east side of Xiaobai Mountain.
The whistling shells woke the Qing army from their sleep, both of which were the leaders of the troops and the armored soldiers were panicked.
"The North Sea soldiers are here! Run, ah!"
Xieling, who was only wearing a single piece of clothing, kicked his foot and pulled out the steel knife from the deserter. He shouted to the Qing army who were avoiding shelling everywhere in front of him: "If anyone escapes or disrupts the morale of the army, he will be killed without mercy!"
After saying that, he pointed to the Qing army gunner who was huddled under the wall with a knife and ordered: "Hurry up, go to the turret and fire!"
The Qing army gunner stammered: "Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, where are you going to fight? This is so dark that you can't see the enemy."
The assistant leader came up and beat him up and scolded: "What are you talking about? Just beat him down the mountain!"
As soon as the words were finished, the Qing soldiers heard a shrill roar above their heads. Boom! The Xieling, who was still showing off his might, was immediately blown to pieces. The steel knife in his hand was blown into pieces. As the shock wave splashed around, it instantly hit several Qing soldiers running around.
The North Navy's reconnaissance team had already conducted detailed reconnaissance on the coordinates of various facilities in the fortress. At this moment, the artillery behind the attacking troops only needed to name the inside of the Qing army's fortress according to the data provided by the reconnaissance team.
During the continuous explosion, several Qing army gunners pushed and pulled a sky-rushing cannon into the firing position. The gunner responsible for loading put the gunpowder in the gunpowder and stuffed a wooden board into the muzzle; while the other gunner carefully ignited the bomb and then quickly stuffed it into the barrel; the third gunner quickly stabbed the fire fork in his hand into the fire door at the tail of the gun.
With a loud "bang", a twenty-pound flowering bullet flew out from the muzzle that was shaped like a big bell, falling to the darkness at the foot of the mountain in the light and dark light. As soon as the bomb landed, it heard a bomb, and then a two or three meters high fire light rose, and then a thick white smoke.
In fact, it was fine if the Qing army did not fire the artillery. When this artillery was fired, it immediately caused overwhelming artillery fire. Dozens of mortar shells and 75mm grenades launched a carpet-style bombardment at the Qing army fortress with three rapid fires. When the North Navy's offensive troops rushed forward, more than a dozen of fortresses that were refused to defend by 500 people survived.
The same offensive was launched one after another on the north bank of the Mongolian River and at the foot of Tongken Mountain. The Northern Navy caught the Qing army off guard with lightning speed.
In the early morning light, a thousand vassals from the Sendai vassal, under the cover of hundreds of artillery attacks of the North Navy, were divided into ten people, dragged their invigorating rubber boats into the Mongolian River, and then rowed their oars desperately and began to cross.
On the Qing army's defense line on the other side, hundreds of Qing soldiers on duty shot long arrows and set off muskets. Behind them, thousands of Qing troops were sobbing and howling by artillery fire from the Northern Navy, and fled aimlessly.
When Na Qitai, who was wearing a helmet and was not dressed in a mess, rushed out of the tent with a knife, except for the raging fire after the shelling and the smoke and dust that kept exploding, he was the soldiers who were not dressed and cried and shouting for help.
Seeing such a scene, I heard the constant explosions and gunfire in my ears, Na Qitai couldn't help but curse: "Damn Zhao Xin, I'm sorry for you! I want gold, I'll give you gold, and I want Ningguta, I'll leave it to you too! Why don't you say it in advance..."
Just when Qitai was at a loss and jumped to scold Zhao Xin for being despicable and shameless, his personal soldiers ran over and said loudly: "Sir! We have found the horse, let's run away quickly! It's too late!"
As the two were talking, the soldiers of the Sendai vassal who had forced to cross the Mongolian River had already landed one after another, and then threw grenades into the walls of the Qing army's camp; on the artillery positions of the North Navy, mortars, 75mm howitzers and three D30 howitzers began to extend and fire. At the same time, the North Navy of the two battalions also began to row across the river.
How dare Qitai return to Hunchun? The Mongolian River Camp was lost so quickly, Guan Baoneng asked his head. After a moment of thinking, he ordered a few generals who were surrounding him: "Turn the right-wing musket camp to the middle road, you must withstand it!"
"Yeah!"
“Is Talehulan here?”
"The last one will be here!"
"I ordered you to lead five hundred cavalry to cross the river ten miles upstream of the Mongolian River. You must take down Zhao's artillery position!"
"Yeah!"
After giving the counterattack order, Naqitai said to his subordinates: "You go to Tulamukaren to report the message quickly and let them inform Lord Guan quickly. Zhao Zhe launched a sneak attack in the early morning, and the Mongolian River Camp may not be protected!"
The personal soldier had no time to kneel down, then bowed and clasped his fists and said, "Yeah!"
A general from the artillery battalion asked anxiously: "Sir, what should I do with the artillery?"
Naqitai shouted, "Call the gunners and fire me! Kill Zhao's men back!"
In addition to hundreds of mountain-slashing cannons and sky-storming cannons, there are also ten general Weiyuan cannons with seven or eight thousand pounds. If they are not fired, they will be lost. If the official guarantee does not kill him, Qianlong will have to kill him.
The Qing army gunners who were fleeing in all directions saw the flag raised by the commander in the flames and immediately gathered toward them. To the north of them, hundreds of Qing army musketeers who were temporarily gathered were hiding behind sandbags and set guns at the attacking North Navy.
However, Zhao Xin had been preparing for this "Huanchun Battle" for a long time. The arsenal produced a large number of grenades day and night. Each of the soldiers of the Sendai vassal rushed in front was carrying six. Whenever the Qing army resisted, seven or eight grenades would be thrown over immediately.
The Qing army, which was rushing to resist, was blown by a grenade and cried to her parents. Many people were fainted by the bomb and rushed towards the attacking North Hai army.
After only one stick of incense, as the musket camp in the middle was broken through, the attacking Northern Navy immediately divided into three routes and began to encircle left and right. The Qing gunners on both wings were also anxious. They turned their muzzles and used mountain-splitting cannons to shoot at the attacking Northern Navy.
Although the Qing army's artillery killed and injured more than a dozen soldiers from the Xiantai vassals with shotguns, they could not resist the slow shooting speed. Other soldiers from the Xiantai vassals rushed to one or two hundred meters and launched fire-raising fire, which killed and injured the Qing army's artillery team.
Naqitai was so angry that he saw the Qing army in the middle that he was constantly defeated. He led his subordinate Goshha to form a supervision team and saw that the fleeing defeated soldiers either shot or killed them.
However, with the loss of the two wing camps, the Qing army could no longer withstand the overwhelming grenade attack of the North Navy, and threw down their weapons and turned to flee. More and more defeated soldiers broke through the obstacles of the supervising team and fled towards the mountains and fields in the south.
Na Qitai stomped his feet angrily, raised his knife and pointed at the north side and cursed: "Zhao Xin, I'll fuck your grandma!"
In the South China Sea in May, the spring breeze blows. Several whales float to the sea and spit out water. Dozens of dolphins without dorsal fins follow the big ships on the sea, jumping out of the sea from time to time, bringing out shining waves.
The North Navy's Thor ship, Beihai No. 1 and Beihai No. 2, dragged more than a dozen inland wooden boats, had already crossed Lulingji Island and headed towards Sishe Island in southeastern Hunchun.
In the cockpit of Thunder God, Ding Guofeng asked Deng Fei: "I said, if we really conquer Qingyuan Mansion, will the Li Dynasty mobilize the whole country?"
Deng Fei showed a smile on his lips and said, "It's really not sure. How did Zhao Xin choose a place? He has to start from Qingyuan Town."
Qingyuan Town, formerly known as Kongzhou, was one of the six northern towns established by the Li Dynasty and the earliest towns established among the six northern towns. In addition, it also includes Huining Town, Zhongcheng Town, Qingxing Town, Wencheng Town and Funing Town located south of the Tumen River.
"Qingyuan", literally speaking, includes two levels of "celebration" and "original". In history, this place is closely related to the rise of the Joseon Dynasty. Speaking of which, the "land of dragon rise" of the Lee Dynasty was Hamkyung Dok, which was the foundation of its royal career. The Qingyuan Prefecture was the source of the foundation of the Lee Dynasty, just like the Hetuara of the Qing Dynasty.
I remember that when Li Chenggui, the Taizu of the Li Dynasty, he respected his father and grandfather for four generations as kings at the beginning of his ascension, the early Qingyuan Town was the cemetery of "King Mu Zurenwen" and "Queen Xiaogong Li's clan". Speaking of this Mu Zu, he was the "first thousand houses and Daluhuachi" of the Thousand House of the Odong Qianhu House during the Yuan Dynasty.
From the end of the 14th century to the fifteenth century, the Li Dynasty completed its unscrupulous advancement and expansion of borders through fifty years of efforts, and pushed the northern border to the south bank of the Tumen River. However, the Ming Dynasty at that time had never made any clear statement.
Therefore, it shows that the border management of the dynasty was really a mess. Except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the descendants were all confused. Compared to Zhu Di who sent people to the mouth of Heilongjiang River to build a monument to erect a monument as evidence, the descendants of the descendants did not even understand the situation in the Tumen River Basin area and did not pay any attention to the border territory.
I understand why the Li Dynasty had to play tricks with the Qing Dynasty to invade the southern foot of Jiangyuan? The northern invasion was the established national policy of the Li Dynasty. If he did not occupy this area, the six northern towns of the Li Dynasty would be like a bubble squeezed out from the peninsula. If the Qing Dynasty turned against each other one day, the cavalry would drive eastward from Changbai Mountain, and the connection between the six northern towns and the peninsula would be completely interrupted.
But the problem is that Zhao Xin is here. Since he knows this history, he will definitely not let the Li Dynasty go. Since Beihai Town has become the co-lord of the border people of all ethnic groups in the northeast, not only the southern foot of Jiangyuan, but also Maoshan, which was lived in by the old tribes of Jurchens for generations, must be brought back.
When the Northern Navy fleet suddenly appeared near the entrance of the Tumen River, it was immediately discovered by the Li Chao defenders on the beacon tower near Li Fengpo. Seeing the mountain-like big white ships approaching, the panicked Li Chao soldiers first ignited the beacon tower in a hurry, and then sent troops to report the emergency to Qingxing Mansion.
As the beacon towers on Li Fengpo rolled, the defenders of Qingxing Prefecture dozens of miles away quickly got the news. Since the Battle of Fuerjaha River, Li Chao has paid attention to the large ships in Beihai Town.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Last year, when Cai Jigong went to Beihai Town to negotiate, he also saw several large ships on the wharf of Whale Port.
In order to prevent Beihai Town from plaguing coastal villages and towns, Li Chao had long sent the appearance characteristics of several large ships to the coastal prefectures.
When the soldiers from the beacon tower rushed to Qingxing Prefecture and saw the prefect of the prefect, the prefect was shocked, thinking that what were these "demons" coming here? Is they going to attack our country?
That's right, in the eyes of the scholars and officials of the Li Dynasty, Beihai Town is a group of demons who disrespect the ways of Confucius and Mencius. As for Zhao Xin's guise of descendants of King Zhao in the late Ming Dynasty, it is not easy for him to work with Li Dynasty now.
After seeing Cai Jigong who came back from Beihai Town to report, Li Xu was so angry that he was trembling by Zhao Xin's attitude. After reporting that the Qing Dynasty had permission, he began to mobilize troops to the southern foot of Jiangyuan to build a line of defense.
Who knew that today the Northern Navy did not come from land or the upstream of Tumen River at all, but came directly from the sea!
"Please order the soldiers in the city to be summoned and prepare to resist!"
When he heard the request from his battalion officials, the prefect thought of the weak soldiers in the city, and his hands and feet were cold. He beat the ghost!
After some hard thinking, he ordered people to kill pigs and sheep, and then asked someone to go to the cloth shop in the city to collect white cloth, and made such arrangements.
Thor and Beihai No. 1 and No. 2 anchored three miles away from the mouth of the Tumen River. Deng Fei first sent several small boats to enter the Tumen River measurement channel. After the land battle camp, he would take more than a dozen inland river wooden sailboats. These inland river machine sailboats were equipped with diesel motors and homemade propellers, and the speed was very fast. According to Deng Fei's estimate, if there was no resistance along the way and the water depth was appropriate, he would drive to the city of Hunchun in three hours.
Although the defenders on Li Fengpo had cannons, Li Chao's cannon... Forget it, don't mention it, it hurts too much self-esteem.
So the guards of dozens of times could only huddle beside the beacon tower, staring at the North Navy's speedboat swinging into the Tumen River in a daze.
"Oh my God! What kind of ship is this?! How can it run so fast?"
"Look at it, what are they doing?"
"It seems to be measuring the water depth."
"Hmph, a group of demons!"
"Hey? You understand this too?"
"Last month, the prefect posted a notice saying that coastal fishermen must not associate with the North Sea demons. You don't even know this?"
"I, I don't recognize words. Then what do you mean by this small boat?"
"If I knew, wouldn't I have become a demon?"
"Hey, hey, have you seen it? Their ship has crossed the middle line of the river!"
"Damn!" The defender leader looked angry and thought that this was too arrogant! He immediately said to a soldier holding a medron gun: "Go, shoot a warning and let them go back!"
The stupid musket soldier said "Oh", then charged the musket, and waited for the fuse to start aiming. The guy shot down the hillside.
"Bastard!" The defender kicked the musketeer in the thigh, kicked him to the ground, and cursed: "Who asked you to shoot at them? Wouldn't you hit the sky?!"
This time, I really poked the hornet's nest. I saw three Northern Navy soldiers on the rubber boat shooting together. The whistling bullets made the beacon tower splash.
Chapter completed!