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Xue Ziliang's original plan did not intend to enter Jeju City, but such a crude city defense forced him to modify the plan. [No pop-up novel website] decided to go deeper and sneak into the city to find out the details 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 once on the city wall, Xue Ziliang was shocked again: It turned out that the fortifications of the city wall were disorganized 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 leading up and down the city wall - the inner side is directly piled up to form an earth slope. 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 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 to the lower city is no longer necessary. What's more, if the attacker adopts the tactic of ascending the city from an earth platform to attack, the internal slope of the city wall will completely eliminate the need to fight to capture the city gate. As long as the attacker controls a section of the city wall, subsequent troops can easily cross the city wall through the slopes outside the city.
This measure is not so much a convenience for the defenders as it is a convenience for the attackers. Although Xue Ziliang has not studied the ancient city walls of China, the tactics for attacking fortifications are the same. After seeing this physical object, I understood where the extremely contemptuous attitude among the elders towards the combat effectiveness of the Li Dynasty's army came from.
After entering the city, the assault team found themselves entering the fields surrounded by city walls from 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 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. "Open fire" to destroy the local ordnance warehouse, and then carry 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 - even leading a team into the city for reconnaissance was unnecessary.
He is now fully confident of winning Jeju City. However, there were too few people in the detachment, and even if they were taken down, they would not be able to control the whole city. If it caused riots, the gains would outweigh the losses - Xue Ziliang knew very well how much the Senate valued population and supplies. Taking an empty city meant nothing to the Senate.
The two Pu 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. I am deeply afraid that a reply will be deleted accidentally - Jeju Island was deeply affected by the Japanese invasion. No matter they are officials, common people, soldiers or servants, they are all devastated when they hear "Japanese pirates".
Although the Korean of the Intelligence Bureau 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 official slaves came here to pay homage to their ancestors.
Bringing food and tablets shows that they are not lying. Xue Ziliang originally didn't want to waste time on them. But I heard that they were official slaves, and thinking of the spirit conveyed by Feng Zongze to find the "proletarian road-leading party", I decided to take them away - after entering Jeju City, they needed the help of 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 journey went smoothly. The special reconnaissance team then took the prisoners all the way to Feiyang Island. The special reconnaissance team set up a temporary forward reconnaissance base here.
Feiyang Island is a volcanic island formed by the eruption in 1002. It is the youngest among the volcanic islands of Jeju. The distance to Jeju Port is very close, and it only takes 15 minutes by using a Dafa boat. This is an ideal base from which to launch an attack. There is a beacon on the island, 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 darkness. 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 get much out of them, so they were only temporarily detained for the sake of confidentiality.
The Park 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 that the county supervisors of Jingyi and Dajing counties were originally in the city. After receiving the news of the "Japanese pirate attack", they have now rushed back to their respective counties.
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 were on foot and the county supervisor and servants were on horseback, it was impossible for a person to ride a horse continuously for a long time: even if he could bear it. Even the horses couldn't stand it. The special reconnaissance team's continuous forced march is not a problem. Besides, they can also use small boats to maneuver a certain distance: the official road of Jeju Island, like Hainan Island, is along the coastline.
The Park brothers who provided important information were caught on the ship and transported to Seongsan while still in shock. 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 for 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. Started to launch an attack on Jingyi County.
Jingyi County is located on a plain by the sea, very close to Chengshan. The troops marched all the way. Except for a fishing village near Chengshan, there was not even a village along the way. There were only a few beacon towers, some of which had been abandoned long ago, and some of which the Taiwanese soldiers had fled. There was a large coastal plain on the roadside. Although The terrain is flat, but there are no signs of cultivated fields. They are all dense and large seaside grasslands, with dead grass swaying in the strong sea breeze.
The sea breeze carries the salty smell of sea water and feels unusually cold on your face. Nangong Wudi heard from Feng Zongze that the grass and trees on this seaside pasture are rich in salt and minerals and are very beneficial to raising horses and cattle. The reason why Hokkaido has become a world-famous ranch is related to its special geographical conditions.
Although Jeju Island is not as unique 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 were strewn with straw. These are clearly dry lands.
"This county is really broken!" Nangong Wudi observed the county through the telescope. Although the several counties in southern Hainan he visited had surprised him in terms of their dilapidation, the state of Jingyi County was obviously worse.
The so-called city wall is just a wall made of volcanic stones, only three meters high at best. Moreover, many places have collapsed - North Korea's city walls are built using stones to form a rectangular shape that goes straight up and down. Therefore, the foundation is unstable 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 to go around. Even among the ancient cities at the county level in China, it is not small.
The characteristic of the Li Dynasty's city building was that it was 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 within the city is often farmland and wasteland.
The result was a thin wall surrounding an oversized city, often with insufficient defenders. On weekdays, it was okay to resist a small bandit mob, but when it encountered a large-scale army, it was immediately unstoppable: when the Japanese army invaded North Korea, it was like entering a deserted land, and no North Korean city could hold on.
Nangong Wudi had the same thought as Xue Ziliang: Damn it, it's better to call the labor squadron to train the militia in a city like this.
Even so, he still very cautiously sent out his soldiers to conduct reconnaissance. There was a small village outside the city. Apart from this there are no other settlements.
The city gates of Jingyi County have been closed, and all the soldiers in the city have boarded the city. But the people and officials in the city have no intention of clinging to it: 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, Jingyi County has a fatal flaw: there is no water in the city, and the water source is five miles outside the city. place. On weekdays, drinking water in the city relies on people and cattle to fetch water from springs. The water used daily is "Fengtian water" - dig the ground into a pit and put buckets into it to catch the rainwater. This Fengtian water can be used to wash clothes. If you use a bamboo tube to collect water, you can eat it after leaving it for a while. Autumn and winter are the seasons of little rain, and the stock of Chengtian water is also insufficient. The fresh water that can be used in the city is no more than the water stored in the water tanks of each household, which is only enough for three or four days at best.
Without food, you can still survive for a long time, but without water, you can't survive even three days. Therefore, the soldiers and officials in the city were very panicked and did not know what to do. They only hoped that the "Japanese pirates" would retreat quickly. .
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