Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 728 Manpower is invincible!
The Bohai Sea region has a temperate monsoon climate, with northerly winds (northwest, northeast) in winter and southerly winds (southeast, southwest) in summer.

At the turn of spring and summer, there is more west wind, or southwest wind.

But no matter how much westerly or southwesterly winds are, there are still easterly and southeasterly winds blowing.Although it is not extremely powerful, it is enough to cover the air for a large army.

The land of Lushun belonged to Dashi County in the Han Dynasty. It was called "Mashijin" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Duli Town" in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and "Shizikou" in the Khitan Dynasty.Subsequent Suzhou Pass, and later Suzhou where Jin County is located, can be said to be important places for Khitan's trade with the sea.

Of course, for the Khitan, the benefits of this sea trade are almost negligible. Although Suzhou Pass has the purpose of customs, it also has the purpose of defense.

That place is too close to Dengzhou.During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the army of the Central Plains fought several times in the Liaodong region to conquer the peninsula, all by sea and land, which made everyone realize the unreliability of the Bohai Sea.

Suzhou Pass is also called Hashan Pass in Khitan, which means fence in Khitan.The meaning of this is obvious.

In the official history, in the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Ma Yun to lead his troops across the sea from Shandong to guard Liaodong. Because of the smooth sailing on the sea, Shizikou was renamed Lushunkou. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was one of the receiving points for Dengzhou's marine military supplies. Later, after Zhu Ming established the garrison in Jinzhou, he set up the Jinzhou garrison Zuo Qianhu Station in Lushun.

After the Jurchens captured this place, they faced even greater pressure at sea.Lu Qi frequently communicated with him from the sea. Earlier, tens of thousands of troops floated to the sea and headed east to break Goryeo.Aguda felt deeply disturbed in Suzhou!

He ordered people to build a city at Shizikou, named Nancheng, with a perimeter of one mile and three hundred paces. The trench was one foot and two feet deep and two feet and five feet wide.Arrange five hundred soldiers and horses to garrison.

This small city with a circumference of only one mile is located next to the later Lushun Military Port, only two hundred steps away from the shore. On the west side is Xiguan Mountain, which is later known as Baiyu Mountain.In the late Qing Dynasty, when Li Hongzhang accompanied Guangxu's father, Prince Chun, to inspect Lushunkou, he said that if there is gold, there should be white jade.Since then, Xiguan Mountain has been renamed "Baiyu Mountain".

This place and Dengzhou control the Bohai Sea from the south to the north. Lushun is surrounded by mountains. The tiger tail extending from the iron mountain forms a natural breakwater. There is only one waterway leading to the port at Lushunkou. The unique geographical conditions make this place The land became a famous military port in later generations.This is not mentioned.

Let’s just say that at this moment, artillery is still the only weapon in the hands of the Qi army in the Central Plains, and neither the Khitan nor the Jurchens have large ships with a deep draft. The easy-to-attack and difficult-to-defend lion’s mouth is obviously not the focus of their defense place.The Khitan people in the past and the Jurchens now focused their defense on the plain in the north of Naqi, which is the later Jin County and Jinzhou District in Dalian.

Therefore, on the big and small hills of Shizikou, there are lush trees and green everywhere.

There is flat land around the southern city, which is fertile soil for cultivation, but the Jurchens only use it to graze horses.At this moment, a rapid alarm bell sounded suddenly on the watchtower in Nancheng.The sound of ringing gold spread far away, causing people inside and outside the city to stop their movements and stretch out their heads to look south.

After a day and night of sailing, the assembly and inventory of the entire fleet was completed at sea after dawn, and then they rushed towards the lion's mouth.

Li Jun was still very excited.

This battle was the first real battle he had encountered in these years.Emperor Lu equipped him with an experienced person like Hu Yanqing as his deputy, and he didn't want to go on stage so he ruined the situation.

Hundreds of warships, large and small, floated over the sea, and the Jurchens in Nancheng would naturally notice it.

Li Jun stood on the high poop of the ship, looked through the binoculars, and saw that many heads of people had appeared on the top of the small town.There was also chaos on the shore, some people rushed to the city, but some people were holding spears, bows and arrows and other cold weapons to peep at the sea.

At the same time, a horse army of [-] people also ran out of the small town!

"Hahaha, the fish are swimming in the bottom of the pot, and they don't know how to live or die." These Jurchen barbarians don't know the power of firearms. When the artillery is fired, they will know what to do.

Emperor Laozi has named Shizikou 'Lushun'.This journey, he must be smooth and smooth.

Hu Yanqing was on his own boat, and was also watching the performance of the Jurchens on the shore.To be honest, if you don't have firearms in hand, you really have to pay some casualties if you want to deal with those Jurchen soldiers on the shore.Because the opponent is on the shore!Has a natural defensive advantage.

But now they have firearms in their hands, such as cannons, tiger squatting cannons, and thunderbolts. With such means, the resistance of the Jurchen soldiers on the other side is also very despised.

Because the artillery on the ship can directly fire at the Jurchens' small town.

"Boom boom boom..."

The roar of the artillery sounded, and the hot iron balls hit the opposite side.

There are hundreds of warships on the sea, but the gunboats are only one out of ten.However, there are ten gunboats, including Li Jun's ship, a sea shark boat, with a total of [-] or [-] cannons, and only [-] or [-] cannons on one side, but the power of firing together is very spectacular.

I saw smoke and dust rising from more than one place in the small town opposite. People's heads were shaking on the rammed earth city wall, and the defenders were in panic.

Anyone who has not experienced artillery shooting will panic in the face of this scene.Mouke Wanyan Hudun, who was stationed here, looked at the collapsed crenel at the top of the city in astonishment, and then looked at the iron ball that rolled to his side. Such a big thing, so powerful?
He once captured Jinzhou with the army, saw the power of the stone cannon, and also saw the size of the cannon stone.In comparison, the iron ball is obviously much smaller.But now it has exerted a power not inferior to Pao Shi.

Continuous iron bullets fell on the small city, the crenellated walls collapsed one after another, cracks appeared in the city wall, and dust fell from the inside of the city wall.And as the shooting continues, the accuracy of the bombardment is getting higher and higher.

If in the past, only five out of ten cannonballs could hit the small town, and only one or two out of the five could hit the city wall or city head, then now ten cannonballs can completely hit the small town, and at least they can hit the town. Five rounds hit the wall or the top of the city.

Wanyan Hudun ran away with his head in his arms.Helpless, the city is too small, after a few rounds of shelling, the houses in the city collapsed, and the collapsed houses still ignited flames, and they couldn't control it. Looking at the small town, people couldn't stay any longer.

And when he fled, the Jurchen soldiers in the city ran away with their heads in their hands.These people couldn't stay longer at the top of the city, and those fellow robes who were beaten to a pulp were obviously wearing heavy armor, but they seemed useless at all.It's the pain of grinning the mouth of a person who can be hit by flying pieces of dirt.

There are dead and injured, stumped limbs and broken arms, mourning and howling, which makes people even more emboldened.

What's more, the iron balls are getting denser.They are not afraid of fighting with real swords and guns, but such a battle where they can't reach the enemy and they can't lift themselves is really depressing.

As for the cavalry and other soldiers on the shore outside the city, they had already fled and disappeared.

If the Jurchens' war horses could stay still all the time when they heard the sound of cannons exploding again and again, then the progress of the Jurchens is really a bug.

As for those Jurchen soldiers with swords, guns and bows, after seeing the appearance of the small town, they were even more frightened and weak. How dare they stay far away?If this is hit by a cannonball, they will be miserable.

And Wanyan Salumu, who sits in the city of Suzhou, has received the letter at this moment, but what can he do when he receives the news?
You must know that Suzhou Pass is in Suzhou, not at Shizikou.If the Han warships can get close to the lion's mouth, they can also approach Suzhou Pass and force them to the foot of Suzhou City.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of Jurchen troops. In the huge southeast of Liaodong, the number of Jin soldiers is only 7000, and there are many recruits among them.Now distributed in Suzhou, Fuzhou, Shunzhou, Ningzhou, Zhenhai and other places.

Even though Suzhou is the top priority, the soldiers and horses in his Wanyan Salumu's hands are less than 3000 in total.

If he sent troops to save Shizikou, and the Han people attacked Suzhou instead, it would be over. "I want Wanyan Hudun to withdraw quickly!" He made Suzhou his top priority.

Then, as expected, a fleet of Han Chinese ships appeared on the sea outside Suzhou that afternoon.

As a Jurchen with a relatively broad vision, Salumu has never seen a cannonball.

Standing at the head of Suzhou City, he saw several large Han ships floating on the sea suddenly thundering, and streams of white smoke rising from the sides of the ships.

Then, he saw some faint black dots falling on the pier, and then he saw a collapsed house on the pier.

But it was because an iron bullet happened to hit the wharf archway.

Salumu shuddered, her expression changed drastically.

Under the bright and sunny sky, the solid stone archway suddenly turned into a pile of waste rocks.So is the Suzhou city under his feet stronger than the stone archway?
Later, more and more hot iron bullets fell into the dwellings around the pier, and the fire burned unstoppably.

A quarter of an hour ago, the Suzhou Pass remained unchanged for a hundred years, but in the blink of an eye, it changed into the miserable state it is now...

Salumu and Hu Dun suddenly felt that the originally strong "city wall" in their hearts suddenly turned into a beach castle that could be destroyed by a wave, and turned into a pile of ruins with a bang. "Human power is invincible!" This was the only thought left in Salumu's mind.

The noise on the top of the city subsided, and everyone was dumbfounded and stunned by the sight in front of them.

Hesitation, fear, discouragement... and other emotions arose in the hearts of this group of people, "Can this city still be defended?"

In Jurchen's heart, Qi Jun was still unconvinced, and Aguda's defeat last year made Jurchen bloody and sad.But for the Jurchen soldiers in southeast Liaodong, they have never seen the Qi army in battle, they have never really experienced the battle outside Yanjing City, and they have always had contempt for Han'er in their hearts, how could they calmly accept that they are not as good as others? fact?But at this time, no amount of dissatisfaction has disappeared.

When many people ask themselves in their hearts: "Can this city still be defended?", the city of Suzhou will definitely not be defended.

(End of this chapter)