On the first day of March in the second year of Wuding, the flags on the Bohai Sea covered the sky. Twelve warships of the Qi fleet escorted 300 large and small fortune ships, setting sail from Dengzhou port and sailing into the Bohai Sea.
In March, the weather got warmer and the ice on the sea melted. The fleet was filled with sails and sailed rapidly northward under the control of thousands of sailors. The next day, they crossed the junction of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, passed through Changdao, Penglai, Nanhuangcheng Island, and Miaodao Islands, followed the Laotieshan Channel, and approached Lushun in southern Liaoning.
The ships were all loaded with soldiers and supplies. The first batch of soldiers who participated in the beach landing were elites drawn from the fourteen Guards. Many of them participated in last year's battle against thieves, among which the most elite five hundred People (mostly bosses). These Kaiyuan veterans who have experienced eight years of war are the most elite troops that Emperor Wu Ding can now produce. Whether it is combat literacy or loyalty, they can satisfy the harsh and cruel emperor.
The five thousand veterans serve as sharp knives. Their mission is to tear a hole near the landing point so that subsequent troops can land continuously and enter the Liaodong battlefield.
The fleet's initial landing point was Huayuankou, a small fishing village forty miles away from Fuzhou.
Meng Jinbao sent a bird boat to conduct reconnaissance and reported to the emperor that the terrain in the Huayuankou area was flat and the tidal flats on the shore were bare. There was no shelter at all. Not only was there no harbor cover, but it was also easy to fall into the mud, making it a living target for the Fuzhou defenders. .
Liu Zhaosun asked several more Liaodong sailors. After confirming that what Meng Yingguan said was correct, he immediately ordered the landing site to be changed from Huayuankou to Piziwo, which was located twelve miles south of Lushun. The terrain is more steep, but it is surrounded by deep-water ports, so there will be no problem of running aground.
The emperor ordered the two Guards staff officers who had originally formulated the battle plan to be beheaded in public to serve as a warning to others.
At this time, the number of Korean and Qing garrison troops stationed in Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Lushun was about 6,000, most of whom were Baoyi Aha, and the Xianglan Banner Zhenyi were transferred to the Shenyang battlefield. The total of the three places was There were less than 2,000 people. What is unbelievable is that the Qing troops in Lushun and the surrounding areas were not only sparse in number, but also mostly new recruits. Many of the Baoyi Aha had not received any training at all.
At this time, the defense in the Lushun and Jinzhou areas was mainly responsible for the Xianglan Banner. The flag owner, Airli, was Amin's eldest son. After occupying southern Liaoning, in order to reinforce the Shenyang Campaign, most of the Qing troops in the Lushun, Jinzhou, and Fuzhou areas After being transferred away, several of Airli's most elite Niu Lu also went to Shenyang to serve as cannon fodder, leaving only a small number of troops stationed in southern Liaoning.
Due to the lack of troops, the owner of the Xianglan Banner had to ask Emperor Du Du many times to send troops for reinforcements. Du Du considered that there was no war in southern Liaoning, so he just sent Airli away with coated Aha and Korean soldiers.
Before the Qing Dynasty's Lushun landing battle broke out, the Qing and Korean troops stationed in southern Liaoning mainly included:
There are 1,583 people stationed in the 5 Niulu camps in Jinzhou, of which 582 are Zhenyi soldiers and the other 1,001 are newly recruited Baoyi Aha.
There are 3 battalions of the Korean Royal Army stationed in Fuzhou, including 1 battalion of cavalry and 1 battalion of gun soldiers, with a total of 2,250 people. Among them, only the cavalry battalion was made up of veterans with less than 500 soldiers, while the infantry battalion and artillery posts were all new recruits.
The 7 Xianglan Banners stationed in Lushun have 3,500 troops, including 300 Uzhenhachao gunners and 1,500 coated infantry. Only 700 Zhenyi infantry are veterans, and the rest are recruits.
Therefore, although the total strength of the Qing army in southern Liaoning reached more than 7,000, in fact, only 2,000 could actually fight. In order to attack Shenyang with all his strength, Du Du had already mobilized all the main forces of Xianglan Banner, and many Niulu were just empty shells.
Piziwo is a hilly area in the mountains south of Lushun Port. The terrain is dangerous and it guards the land route between Lushun and Jinzhou.
Xianglan Banner set up a fort here and pulled the two red cannons reinforced by the red-haired barbarians to the top of the mountain to serve as the commanding heights of the port fort group.
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Because of the important geographical location of Piziwo, Xianglan Banner spent a lot of money and concentrated their few artillery in this area.
Because Airli knew very well that once Piziwo Fort was captured by the Qi army, the entire southern Liaoning defense system would face disintegration.
The forts here have serious flaws due to their hasty construction. There are no defense facilities on the land-facing side, and the distance between the forts is long, making it difficult to respond.
Of course, considering the accuracy of artillery in this era, it would be too optimistic to think that a few cannons could control the entire battlefield.
After learning about the Qi army's massive attack, Airli, the leader of the Xianglan Banner, immediately began to remedy the shortcomings of the Piziwo Fort.
He asked Berg Taylor, an observer of the East India Company who accompanied the army to inspect, to organize the troops to intensify gunnery training. At the same time, he stepped up emergency repairs and built rammed breastworks to protect the gunners as much as possible.
Airli was well aware of the power of the Kaiyuan Navy's naval artillery. When Liu Zhaosun launched his campaign against Japan, some of Xianglan Banner's cavalrymen also participated. That was only three or four years ago, and God knows what new naval guns the Qi Army has come up with now.
Seeing that the Qi army was pressing down on the border, Airli summoned a few Niulu Erzhen from Xianglan Banner. Following Huang Taiji's design in the Battle of Hetuala, he had the Baoyi soldiers and the nearby Nikan people dig day and night, using Stone rams were used to build breastworks around the fort, trenches were dug outside the chests, and trees were piled up to serve as Luzhai garrison... The entire defense system was completely in accordance with the Kaiyuan Army's city defense style.
It's a pity that the incident happened in a hurry, and it was impossible for the Qi fleet to fully prepare Xianglan Banner before launching a landing operation. After all, the two sides were old enemies.
On the fifth day of March in the second year of Wuding, the Dingyuan, Pingyuan, and Weiyuan, which arrived at the battlefield early, formed the first wave of attack fleets and took the lead in launching an attack on Piziwo.
The Qi Army's newly formed 23,000-strong Second Guards Army, First Army, and Fourth Army were divided into three groups: left, middle, and right under the cover of warships. Pu Gang, Liu Zhaosun, and Chen Xin followed Long Xu. Dao Laotieshan landed and entered the battlefield in southern Liaoning.
On the sixth day of the lunar month, at Chen time, the Qi Army's Middle Route Army, under the personal command of Emperor Wuding, first launched an attack on the Nanbangshan Fort.
Three battalions of 1,500 soldiers, plus cavalry and artillery units, were divided into several teams to attack the Qing army's fort from the side;
At the same time, eight warships of the Daqi Navy, including the Weiyuan, Dingyuan, and Pingyuan, docked at the southern foot of Laotieshan and began to launch fierce bombardments at the Nanbang fort. The naval guns of astonishing caliber tore into the sky of southern Liaoning, like thunder gods. When it came, the entire Laotieshan Mountains shook, and explosive shells exploded in the Qing artillery, causing numerous casualties in Wuzhenchaoha.
Three lines of cavalry were dispatched at the same time to cut off the roads between Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Lushun, blocking the cities in southern Liaoning from assisting the Qing army in Lushun.
The right column approached the Qing Nanbang fort at the same time, and formed an encirclement with the left column.
The Central Route Army immediately launched an attack on the Nanbang Fort, and groups of soldiers began to climb up the foothills with bare hands. The tragic and tragic battle for the Nanbang Fort began.
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