When Le Quan'an arrived outside Chengdu with the first forty warships, the Mongolian army defending the city only felt that the shapes of these ships were rather strange, but did not think there was much of a problem.
After all, although the Mongolian army and navy all came from the surrendered Song army, there were many factions within the Song army, and the shapes of the ships were also different. In addition, the food collected by the Mongolian army from various places was also transported by water, and the food that was forcibly conquered was Private ships are even more diverse.
At a glance, there are densely packed boats of all kinds filling the wide water surface near the pier, which is quite impressive.
The grand scene of "The Dongwu Wanli Ship is parked at the gate". The Mongolian guards guarding the dock saw the Lequan'an fleet flying the Mongolian flag and had no doubts. They knew that these ships coming from the south were also grain transport ships, so they waved flags to signal them to pull over and berth.
This group of strange ships ignored the flags and continued to move forward, sailing directly to half a mile away from the dock before stopping in a long snake formation.
The Mongolian general in charge of guarding the dock was Shi Mojianzhi, a Khitan. At this moment, he was standing on the city wall overlooking the dock below the city.
As one of the few generals in the Mongolian army who was proficient in water warfare, Shi Moyi only knew the importance of keeping ship formations and rivers open.
Although Jinjiang is very wide at the dock section, due to the large number of grain transport ships berthed, if the ships are allowed to park in an disorderly manner, it will inevitably cause chaos or even collision and sinking. These new ships do not listen to the flags and park indiscriminately, which makes him Extremely annoyed.
Immediately, he sent people to punish these ships that did not follow the rules, as a warning to others. Before the sent guards reached the dock, Shi Mojian realized that something was wrong.
The newly arrived ships were all facing the city walls and docks at the moment, and opened the windows on the ship's side. A hollow black tube protruded from each window, which reminded him of the legendary artillery, and the Mongolian army The ship had no such tubes and no cannons.
To be sure, this Shimojiu has a very strong war acumen. At this moment, he has judged that these incoming ships are enemies rather than friends, and immediately ordered the trebuchets and crossbows to be fired.
But at the same time he gave the order, the warships of the Perak Army had already fired their cannons. After a series of loud noises, the city walls near the dock were shrouded in smoke, and the trebuchets and ballistas on the walls were destroyed.
Shi Mojian was knocked to the ground by the blast of air, and two of the soldiers around him were also injured. The fact that Shi Mo Aian only escaped one disaster was not because of his good luck or because the Pili Army's artillery was not accurate enough, but because the artillery was not aimed at him.
The attack on Ouyang Xuan in Chengdu was mainly based on political considerations. The goal was to exert political pressure on the Mongolian army in Chengdu and force them to attack the stronghold of the Perak Army.
There are many factions within the Mongols. As a non-Mongolian, Liu Heima ranks among the 10,000 households. Many people within the Mongolian army are quite unconvinced, such as the Mongolian nobles Huoli and Baiyan Badulu who were stationed in Chengdu at the same time.
These two people have always been quite dissatisfied with Liu Heima's opposition to attacking the Perak Army. The Pili Army hid in the mountains and refused to surrender. If Chengdu, the core of the Mongolian army's rule in western Sichuan, was attacked, Liu Heima would have to make a strong response.
He didn't even fight back against this kind of insulting behavior. Not to mention Liu Heima's dissatisfaction with the proud soldiers of the Mongolian army, even Niu Lin, the highest officer of the Mongolian army in Sichuan, couldn't suppress him.
Although Ouyang Xuan did not give Huang Dagen any military goals and only asked him to bombard the city of Chengdu. The effect of the bombardment was secondary, but Huang Dagen was obviously not satisfied with just bombing and running away.
The task he assigned to Le Quan'an, who was acting as the vanguard, was to destroy the naval docks and kill as many Mongolian personnel and city defense facilities as possible. To this end, he put all the artillery warships on the trip under the command of Le Quan'an, while he led the troops The troops followed five miles behind.
The naval camp now only has ten heavy artillery warships and twenty light artillery warships. In addition to the ten light artillery ships left in Xinjin City and to contain the Mongolian army in Pengshan City, the remaining ten heavy artillery ships and ten light artillery warships The ships were now shelling the city walls.
Although Ouyang Xuan requested to give priority to the production of warship artillery, due to limited production capacity, industrial company manager Li Saner tried his best to produce only thirty warships' artillery.
Thirty ships may not seem like a lot, but judging from the fact that the heavy gun ships are equipped with four heavy mother and child cannons, and the light gun ships are equipped with eight small mother and child cannons, a total of 200 artillery pieces are needed.
These guns are enough to equip thirty companies of field battalions. Not to mention the manufacturing cost, the amount of iron used is also an astonishing figure. Fortunately, the Pili Army has a lot of iron ore to ensure the demand. No wonder Cao Ergou complained everywhere that the navy was The gold-swallowing beast occupied the artillery equipment of the field camp.
In order to ensure the safety of the gunboats, the navy battalion equipped them with escort ships and required them to fire outside the enemy's long-range firepower.
However, Lequan'an saw that the Mongolian army did not see through his disguise, so he ordered to approach and shoot. He took the risk to do this, not only to improve the accuracy of the bombardment and save ammunition, but more importantly, he discovered that there were a large number of ships docked neatly around the dock - they were all grain ships, and there were several warehouses on the nearby shore.
He wanted to send people to occupy the dock to seize food, so of course the ships should be as close to the dock as possible. The first round of firing from the twenty gunboats destroyed the long-range weapons deployed by the Mongolian army on the wall without any counterattack.
In fact, the gunboat was less than a mile away from the city wall. Although the trebuchet could not reach this distance, the heavy crossbow could reach it.
Under Pu Ze, many elites carried crossbows and surrendered to the Mongolian army. The arrows fired by this crossbow were shaped like spears and as thick as a child's arm. They were a great threat to ships and artillery, but they were also extremely harmful to personnel. The lethality is such that even if it is grazed by this arrow, it will cause death or injury.
After suppressing the Mongolian army, Le Quan'an ordered people to seize the ship. When Huang Dagen arrived with subsequent ships, Le Quan'an had already seized the grain ship.
Because the river water has surged in the past few days, many places near the dock shore have been submerged. There is also a shortage of warehouses in the city due to the long-term war. In addition, the grain transported from various states and counties must be transferred immediately for the use of the New Lin tribe fighting in eastern Sichuan. Therefore, Liu Heima then ordered that the food should be left on the ship, and ordered Shi Mo's navy to guard it closely.
However, most of the Mongolian navy soldiers stayed on the shore. There were less than a hundred people on the grain transport ship. Most of these people had been frightened by the huge power of the gunboats and fled. The rest could not stop the attack of Le Quan'an's twenty escort ships. attack.
It's just that the grain ship is easy to grab, but it's not easy to transport the materials in the warehouse on the shore. The reason is that Le Quan'an leads too few people.
They not only had to bombard the Mongolian cavalry and new auxiliary troops who came after hearing the news, but also prevent Shi Mo's water ghosts from attacking the gunboat. They could only send more than a hundred people ashore to fight against the new auxiliary troops who rushed to the shore. , while moving things in the warehouse, it is really difficult.
The Mongolian navy was basically useless after the ships were taken away. They could only send people to dive into the water to try to scuttle the ships, but they suffered heavy casualties from grenades and spears.
In addition to the navy, the Mongolian army also stationed a thousand cavalry and two thousand new auxiliary troops in the city. The first to rush to the dock for reinforcements were the cavalry under Mi Zhe Huoli.
Relying on their superb riding skills, these cavalrymen drove their horses towards the gunboats in the mud. When they reached the shore, they found that they could do nothing.
The range of the Mongolian cavalry bow was obviously not as good as the bed crossbow, and it could not reach the boat in the center of the river. Instead, a large number of them were killed and injured under the intensive artillery fire.
The Chinese-owned Perak soldiers in the cargo warehouse retreated to the boat when they saw the Mongolian cavalry rushing towards them. The cavalry retreated and went to move things again.
After repeating this several times, the Mongolian cavalry lost dozens of people and had to retreat far away from the artillery range to wait for the arrival of new auxiliary troops.
They really couldn't bear this kind of casualties.
