Kai Fu Han

Chapter 518 Bohai Rim Strategy 1
The Second Fleet has more experience with this kind of thing than the First Fleet.

Faced with Zhao's trade blockade, the First Fleet would only do resale trade at sea with the bold Nan Zhao merchants, but the Second Fleet was different. The experience in Korea and Japan taught Ye Chuan that no blockade is as big as artillery bombardment. Not open.

"Hangzhou? Zhao Guo can pull up hundreds of ships to fight against us at any time!" the deputy captain reminded.

"But none of their ships can be faster than the Huashan and Lushan." Ye Chuan said proudly.

"Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say." Seeing that Ye Chuan had made up his mind, others stopped trying to persuade him.

Anyway, if you can't fight, you can still run. Your side takes the initiative and doesn't worry about any losses.

……

In 3828, on the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

Sun Li and Wu Nan defeated the puppet Qi's [-] main force in Yanggu County, and captured more than [-] people, including auxiliary troops and civilian husbands.

After Liu Xinqi received the victory report, he ordered the two brigades of Sun Li and Wu Nan to go west to Hebei East Road, capture Yuancheng, the capital of the puppet Qi Dynasty, recover Daming Mansion, and then divide the troops into two groups:
After recapturing Bozhou all the way, continue northward to defend Hebei East Road.

Go all the way south to recapture Kaide Prefecture, then return to recapture all the state capitals on the east and west roads of Jingjing, and at the same time reorganize the rebels in Xingren Prefecture.

The Xinghan League has developed so far that it no longer needs any affiliated or side forces to cover it.

All the previous solid plans had to be scrapped because the Xinghan League was developing too fast.

Liu Xinqi's current policy towards Southern Zhao is: If Southern Zhao cannot cross the Yellow River, the Xinghan Alliance will concentrate on dealing with the Jin Kingdom until all the territory in the north is recovered.If Southern Zhao crosses the Yellow River, the Xinghan Alliance will first defeat Southern Zhao, and then concentrate on dealing with the Jin Kingdom until they regain all the territory in the north.

As for how to treat Southern Zhao after regaining all the northern territories, Liu Xinqi believes that there will be a natural solution for him at that time.

……

On February [-], the [-]th, [-]th, [-]th and [-]th field brigades gathered in the Xin'an Army.

The boundary river has thawed, and the spring floods have made the boundary river very wide, barely allowing state-level sand boats to sail on the river.

The Zizhou and Yizhou, plus sixteen county-level sand ships, each were equipped with artillery.

The Jin river boats that came down from the upper reaches of the boundary river were easily destroyed by these eighteen ships, and fire attacks were useless.

The Ministry of Industry designed a small gun for seagoing ships, the caliber of which was smaller than that of the Crouching Tiger gun. Liu Xinqi named this type of close-range defense gun.

This type of artillery has a half-inch caliber and can also use three types of shells, but generally they are solid shells and shotgun shells. The effective armor-piercing range is fifty feet, which is the same as the effective range of the "Xinghan Type [-] Flintlock Gun" without armor.

This kind of artillery is directly fixed on the bottom deck, and there is no problem of the barrel moving backward due to recoil, so the shooting accuracy within the effective range is very high, close to that of a flintlock gun.

Before the fire attack ship approaches the Xinghan Alliance warship, it must first go through a wave of close-in defense cannons.

Since the recoil of this type of artillery is very small and only three people are required to operate and fire normally, ten guns are installed on county-level sand ships (five on the left and right sides), and there are more on state-level sand ships, with twenty guns. There are even forty levels.

With this kind of small cannon, the warships of the Xinghan League will no longer be afraid of the enemy using small boats for ship-to-sea tactics.

On the north bank of the boundary river where Xin'an City is located, there is no Jin army gathered to defend. I wonder if the Jin Kingdom was blinded and unable to react.But if you do the math, it has been almost a month since they defeated the 10,000+ Jin army on the twelfth day of the first lunar month. It is impossible for the Jin army to fail to react.

"Cross the river!" Liu Xinqi ordered.

there is always a solution to a problem.

No matter what Jin Guo's plan is, it is useless in the face of absolute strength.

With more than 4 main field troops, [-] garrison auxiliary troops, and [-] troops, it took a day to cross the boundary river and enter the Zhongdu Road of the Jin Kingdom.The rivers on Zhongdu Road are very dense. This situation is rare in the north. The dense rivers are an advantage for Xinghan League. The navigability of county-level sand ships is very strong. As long as it is not a very narrow stream, it can basically are able to navigate.

This greatly reduced the logistical pressure on the Xinghan League's march.

There is a tributary of the boundary river to the north of Xin'an City, called the Lugou River. There are two cities, Yongqing and Gu'an, in the upper reaches of the Lugou River. There is also Anci City in the northeast corner of the triangle formed by these two cities.

The three cities are very close to each other and are at the horns of each other.

"This month, Jin Guo recalled the Chinese Army and the West Route Army, and the Chinese Army has already arrived in Gu'an." Xu Zhong's intelligence finally caught up.

Entering Zhongdu Road, the intelligence system of the Xinghan League was already very poor, so the intelligence on the Jin Army was not timely.

"Who is the commander of the Central Route Army? How many troops are there?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"The commander-in-chief is Nianhan, with [-] main troops and [-] servants." Xu Zhong replied.

Nianhan was the Jurchen name of Wanyan Zonghan. He was brave and strategic. He supported Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda to proclaim himself emperor and was highly trusted.

Since the founding of the Jin Kingdom, his achievements have been shining brightly. He has successively created the Jingkang Revolution and captured the two emperors of Northern Zhao Huiqin; he destroyed the Liao Kingdom and captured Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Dynasty.

A big shot like a god of war.

"Where is the commander of the West Route Army? Where did the West Route Army march to?"

"Losuo, the commander-in-chief of the West Route Army, marched to Datong Prefecture in Xijing with [-] main troops and [-] servants." Xu Zhong replied.

Liu Xinqi didn't know much about Luosuo. At present, he only knew that the West Route Army had occupied Chang'an City.

In this era, information transmission is too slow. The intelligence department of the Xinghan League is located north of Luoyang. Except for the big city, the other small cities are all blank.

It was also because there was an intelligence point in Chang'an City that we were able to know that the West Route Army Luosuo had occupied Chang'an.

"Is there any movement in Jin Kingdom's visit to Beijing?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"Yes, at present, we are only mobilizing troops from various places, and have not gone south yet." Xu Zhong replied.

"It seems that we still need to defeat Wanyan Zonghan and Luo Suo before we can convince the Kingdom of Jin." Liu Xinqi said.

After marching more than ten miles across the river, the army began to set up camp. The exploration horses began to spread towards the north, hoping to control the exploration rights around the three cities in the north.

At the very least, we must be able to grasp the enemy's first-hand intelligence and not be caught off guard by the enemy.

At noon the next day, spies came to report that Wanyan Zonghan had transferred his main force to Yongqing County.

Zhongdu Road is already outside the inherent territory of Northern Zhao. Although Han people account for more than half of the people here, these Han people no longer recognize themselves as belonging to the Zhao people after hundreds of years of rule by the foreigners of the Jin Kingdom.

Fortunately, the Jin Kingdom had just snatched this land from the Liao Kingdom. It had not been under governance for a long time, and the people on Zhongdu Road did not really approve of the Zhao Kingdom.

Xinghan League and Zhao State were on the Zhongdu Road, and there was no difference in human relations.

Wanyan Zonghan took the first step to occupy Yongqing County, which was slightly better in terms of geographical location.

Finally, at the right time, needless to say, the Xinghan League won a great victory.

(End of this chapter)