The fifty-two-year-old Manchu veteran Aixinjueluo Bahana has already dressed up neatly and climbed to the castle on the small Black Mountain behind the Black Mountain long fortress. The castle here was built in the Goguryeo era and is a stone city. During the years when Duduo was running Manchuria, more and more buildings were added to it, until it was almost like a mountain city in Japan.
The Little Montenegro Castle is certainly very strong! As long as there are two to three thousand elite soldiers guarding it, it will be difficult for the opponent to break through in a short time even if there are tens of thousands of them - the castle is on a mountain! Moreover, Xiaoheishan is not too small, so it is difficult for the cannon placed at the foot of the mountain to reach the castle on the mountain. It would be too laborious to transport the cannon up the mountain and find a suitable place to place it...
However, the cannons mounted on Xiaoheishan Castle also have a limited range, which is not enough to block the coastal plains to the west of Xiaoheishan - there are 17 miles from the Xiaoheishan Fortress to the west, and no cannon in this era can reach it. .
In addition, there is another passable flat land to the southeast of Xiaoheishan - it is 12 miles southeast from Xiaoheishan Fortress to the sea. Likewise, no artillery can shoot that far.
In order to block these two seaside passages, Duduo had two long forts built to the west and southeast of Xiaohei Mountain, which are the so-called Black Mountain Long Fortresses.
Both long fortresses were built by Bahana. Of course, this Manchu veteran general and elder of the Aixinjueluo family (a contemporary of Nurhaci) did not want to see the ruins of the country that Taizu and Taizong worked so hard to conquer. This is completely ruined.
So I paid special attention when supervising the construction of the Black Mountain fortress! First, he ordered people to dig two long trenches with a length of 17 miles and 12 miles respectively, a width of three feet, and a depth of two feet.
Then he asked people to use the soil obtained from digging trenches to pile up two long bases of the same length.
Finally, people were asked to build an additional fort every three miles, six in the west and three in the east, for a total of nine forts.
The Montenegrin long fortress defense system, which is complete with mountain cities, trenches, long fortresses, and fortresses, can definitely be described as impregnable. But no matter how strong the defense line is, it cannot be defended without enough troops...
Holding the binoculars and seeing the artillery positions of the Ming army concentrated in the southwest of Xiaoheishan, Bahana's heart sank.
The Ming army at least placed more than 100 cannons - real cannons - in front of the Black Mountain West Long Barrier! They all look big... definitely not 3-pounders or 6-pounders, at least 12-pounders, and some are even 24-pounders!
Bahana knows the general situation of the Ming Army's artillery system - the Ming Army's artillery system is based on the ancient Swedish master, and consists of 3-pound (jin) guns, 12-pound (jin) guns, and 24-pound (jin) guns. 3 pounds (jin) is responsible for hitting people, 12 pounds (jin) is responsible for artillery (suppressing artillery), and 24 pounds (jin) is responsible for attacking cities. Moreover, the Ming army also "independently developed" wooden support shells, and the artillery's damage capability is world-class!
The presence of more than a hundred siege and attack artillery pieces at the front of the Black Mountain Barrier undoubtedly means that the main force of the Ming Army is also heading in this direction.
If the Ming Army did not deploy an independent artillery regiment in front of the Black Mountain Long Barrier, then these field heavy artillery belonged to at least six to eight Ming Army divisions...
With the 3,000 men in Bahana's hands, it was impossible to hold the long base.
Just when Bahana felt waves of despair, streaks of fire suddenly appeared on the artillery position of the Ming army opposite!
The Ming army's artillery has opened fire!
Bahana quickly turned his head and looked towards the west base of Montenegro, only to see clouds of smoke pillars rising into the sky in various shapes. At the same time, he also heard a series of roars.
"It's a blooming bomb... How much gunpowder does it cost! How much silver does it cost..." Bahana's heart almost broke when he saw the clouds of smoke from the blooming bombs.
This is not a war, but a waste of money!
The Ming army destroyed more gunpowder in one day at the long base in Heishan than the Qing army in Anton had used in a year! How come they have so much gunpowder? Does their gunpowder cost nothing?
This battle...how to fight!
Just as he was thinking of this, someone beside him shouted, "Angbang Zhangjing, there are so many people in the Ming army..."
Bahana quickly looked behind the Ming army's artillery position, and saw a bright area in his eyes - this was formed by the sunlight reflected from the bayonet inserted into the muzzle of the musket! Looking at this large area of bayonets, the number of people is probably less than 10,000!
This is the first wave of offensive!
The old man sighed and said to his left and right: "If we can't defend it...let the brothers retreat to the mountain city!"
"Retreat to the mountain city? What next?"
"Then..." Bahana sighed, "Then we can go to the Yalu River to take shelter..."
"Go to the Yalu River?" A Manchu man in his twenties muttered, "We don't want the Jinzhou Commercial Port either?"
The Jinzhou Commercial Port is located behind the Black Mountain Barrier. It is a commercial city carefully built by Steve Jobs. It is certainly not comparable to Nanjing and Shanghai. But outside the customs, it is definitely the first-class prosperous place. Vladivostok, known as the "Capital of the Pacific", does not even have one percent of the Jinzhou Commercial City in terms of prosperity and business taxes!
The fathers of this Manchurian were the first batch of old people to follow Duduo out of seclusion, and he himself grew up in the prosperous commercial port of Jinzhou, and often went to Lushun Prefecture over there in the Ming Dynasty to play.
Now I suddenly have to abandon my prosperous hometown and go to stay by the Yalu River. I feel a little reluctant to leave!
Bahana sighed: "Let's go... let's go. If you want to survive, you have to go far!"
...
"Haha! I'm rushing forward! Haha, I'm already rushing forward..."
On a high ground behind the Ming army's artillery position, Li Yuanyin danced and said to Zhu Chunchen beside him: "Governor, our people have already rushed up... We won the first wave. It's really good!"
Zhu Chunchen didn't even look ahead, because he was looking down at the military report he had just received. The military newspaper reported that the Young Guards Division had successfully landed at the mouth of the Liaohe River, and had discovered a large camp that had just been abandoned by the Qing army near the nearby Liangfangkou Pass. The scale of this large camp was astonishing, and it was enough to For eight to one hundred thousand people to be stationed!
"Admiral Li, look at this..." Zhu Chunchen stuffed the military report in his hand, "Qin Mingtao has discovered the main force of the Qing army. There are eight to one hundred thousand people at Liangfangkou Pass!"
"What?" Li Yuanyin was startled and had no intention of looking at the great victory ahead. "The landing failed? The Young Guards Division suffered little loss, right?"
The Youth Guards Division is an infantry division with Jiubian teenagers as the main force - the original plan was to divide the six regiments of teenagers into six Ming Army infantry divisions. However, the Battle of Pingliao started in advance, which disrupted the Ming army's formation plan, so the six infantry regiments of the Youth Army simply formed a division. Because this division had a very large number of people, very good equipment (all flintlock guns), and a very high level of training, it was used for the landing at Liaohekou.
But no matter how elite the troops are, if they encounter an enemy several times their size in a landing battle, it is estimated that it will be difficult to defeat them.
"The landing was successful..." Zhu Chunchen said, "The Qing army somehow took the initiative to retreat and abandoned Liangfangkou Pass."
"Then where did they retreat to?"
"I don't know," Zhu Chunchen said, "Doni must want to put the Guards Division ashore before fighting..."
"Then let's..."
"We have to hurry up! With 100,000 people, the Young Guards Division won't be able to withstand it for long. They don't even have cavalry!"
Li Yuanyin also became nervous, "My subordinates immediately mobilized six black cavalry battalions and three heavy cavalry regiments to form a cavalry group. After breaking through the black mountain fortress, they will lead them to rush to Liangfangkou."
His six black cavalry battalions are division-affiliated, while the three heavy cavalry regiments are independent units temporarily attached to the Liaodong Army. If these cavalry are squeezed together, they will form a cavalry group of more than 10,000 people, and the 6,000 heavy cavalry are equipped with Indian folding horses and Arabian horses. Their impact capabilities are completely beyond the imagination of the Qing army.
"Okay, okay... you go there in person," Zhu Chunchen said, "Leave the large army to Deputy Admiral Wang Zhou!"
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