The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 570 The Plan Does Not Change Fast

After Chen Yeqing occupied Busan, he began his reconnaissance activities against Seoul.

Afterwards, when attacking the southern region, special attention was also paid to collecting information about the city's defenses from the captives.

Based on information from all parties, the current military strength in Seoul totals more than [-].

These troops include the Huben Army, the Xiaoqi Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion with relatively strong combat effectiveness and better equipment.There are more than 1 people in these parts.

The rest are ordinary armies, most of which are local and garrison reinforcements from various places.The equipment is relatively poor, the combat effectiveness is not strong, and the training is lacking.

At present, Jia Min has two regiments of Chen Yeqing's third brigade. Although there are only [-] people, they are equipped with advanced equipment, well-trained, and have rich experience in fighting against powerful enemies such as Cossacks and Ross. Extremely strong.

The [-] cavalry in North Wendura, although they used the traditional method of fighting with cold weapons, their combat effectiveness was much higher than that of the opponent.

The 7000 people brought from Chang'an were originally trained by the Fubing Regiment. Although the equipment was not comparable to that of the Beihai Volunteer Army, they had also been baptized after the fierce battle with Han Qi in Juyongguan.The combat effectiveness is also stronger than the Goryeo army.

The weakest is the two thousand people who were originally stationed in Koryo led by Liu Fang, but their combat effectiveness is also much stronger than the average Koryo army.

Adding up these groups of people, there must be more than 4 people.Although they are a minority in number, it does not take much effort to capture Seoul.

Chen Yeqing's battle plan was not to be polite to the opponent, but simply and roughly blasted open the city gate with cannons, blocked the city wall with rifles, attacked the city gate and wall together, rushed into the city, and killed a lot.

According to his plan, within half a day, the defenders could be defeated and the entire city occupied.

After Chen Yeqing finished talking about his plan, he immediately became excited.This was especially the case with Xi Meirui, Shaq, and Wadagas, who all said that this time they could kill a lot.

Only Jia Min remained silent and made no statement.

"Officer Min, this is just my preliminary plan. What do you mean? If you think it is inappropriate, you can modify it."

Chen Yeqing felt a little lost.

"As a siege plan, this plan is good. It is simple and direct, and can reach the goal quickly."

Jia Min said slowly.

"However, we are not here to attack the city."

They're not attacking the city, they're coming all the way, what are you doing here?If they don't attack the city, will they surrender?

Xi Meirui felt a little slanderous.

The others also looked at each other, probably thinking the same way.

"The purpose of our coming here is to eliminate the threat of Korea to our rear, so that we will have no worries and have a stable rear when we operate in Middle-earth in the future."

"If all their troops are wiped out, and even the royal family of Goryeo is wiped out, there will be chaos here. All forces will take advantage of the opportunity. If there is chaos here, the stable rear we want will be gone. "

"So, there can't be chaos here, and the royal family needs to control the situation here."

"However, if you don't beat them, they will not accept it. So you have to beat them. Not only do you have to beat them, but you also have to beat them to convince them that they will obey us obediently."

"Our other goal is to obtain some strategic materials and money from here. If we completely turn against them and they fight to the death, it will be difficult for us to achieve this goal."

"Officer Min, what do you mean we have to act both hard and soft, and finally draw them to our side?"

"Yes, that's what it means. According to this goal, you should formulate a new battle plan and then discuss it. Wei Ruoshui is here, I think you can consider using his strengths."

"His Highness Chang'an is here. I think that members of the Goryeo royal family will be very happy to see His Highness. Liu Fang and the others are here. They may have been to the city and the palace, and they should be familiar with the terrain there."

"The Goryeo army was beaten so badly by Brigadier Chen's 3000 people. They may be very interested to see what your firearms look like? North Vendura iron cavalry, Tamara's Mamluk soldiers, they all I haven’t seen them before, so let them see what these people look like, that’s fine too.”

"Now that we have arrived here, we have all the winter clothes and enough food and grass. There is no need to rush back to Middle-earth. It doesn't matter if we stay here for a while."

"Let's discuss together and make a plan. Your Highness Chang'an, leave this matter to them. Let's go for a walk."

After saying that, Jia Min and Chang An left the yurt and walked not far away.

Gao Dazhuang, the captain of Jia Min's personal army, and Zuo Linliang and Lichun, the followers of Chang'an, followed not far away.

"You said this just now. Obviously, you already have a plan in your heart. Why don't you just say it and ask them to figure it out?"

Chang An saw the problem.

"There may be many battles to be fought in the future. I can't follow them in every battle. They must learn to solve problems by themselves. Only when they think carefully can they increase their knowledge and remember everything firmly."

"Did you know that Bachelor Ji and King Beijing Jing are going to Beihai to look for you?"

Chang'an is not very interested in Jia Min's words now, and she is more concerned about this issue now.

"I didn't know before, but this time I heard from Wei Ruoshui."

"Do you know why they came to you?"

"I don't know, do you know?"

"Well, I don't know. Maybe I can't stay in the imperial capital anymore, so I want to join you."

In fact, Chang An really wanted to speak out, but in the end he was too embarrassed.

"When we go back, they will probably come to find us. We'll know what's going on at that time. You're tired, go and have a rest."

"Alright."

Regarding the change of dynasty, neither of them mentioned it.In fact, both of them understand that there is no need to say too much at this time.This topic is a bit heavy, so there is no need to say too much.

Chang An walked a few steps, and Jia Min stopped her.

"Chang'an, don't be too anxious, we will return to the imperial capital in a short time."

Chang An didn't speak, nodded, turned around and left.After walking two steps, tears flowed again.

This time tears of joy.

She understood that this was Jia Min's promise to her.

Before dinner at night, a new battle plan was drawn up.Jia Min read it, made some minor revisions, and approved the plan.

Having dinner and wine together in the evening, everyone was very excited.

When Tamara saw Chang'an, she was very enthusiastic for some reason.

After drinking, he took Chang'an to her place and talked to Chang'an for a long time.

On Jia Min's side, he was a little worried.I am afraid that Tamara will speak freely and say anything to Chang'an.

Early the next morning, Chang'an saw Jia Min, and his expression was really weird.Jia Min knew something was wrong, so he turned around and asked Tamara.

Tamara admitted frankly that she had told everything about Jia Min in Beihai.She didn't even miss the matter of hanging the white silk in Nijiabao and showing the white silk to her ancestors.

"Okay, Tamara, count on you."

Jia Min wanted to cry but had no choice but to leave depressedly.

what happened?Did I say something wrong?What I said is true, right?
Seeing that Jia Min seemed unhappy, Tamara was puzzled.

According to the combat plan, the blockade of Seoul began at nine o'clock in the morning.

The blockade is not comprehensive. The three city gates in the north, south, and west are blocked, leaving one east gate, allowing entry and exit as usual.

Jia Min's corps reached the edge of the moat and confronted the defenders on the city wall.

This distance is beyond the range of the general defenders' bows and firecrackers.However, within the range of rifles and machine guns.

After only one round of shelling, the strong crossbows and Franc machine guns on the city wall were bombarded by the field artillery of the third brigade, and then the rifles fired precisely at the defenders on the city wall.Quickly kill all the defenders above,

After that, the defenders of the city wall tried to erect new crossbows and Frang machines, but they all failed under the blockade of rifle fire.

After several rounds of fighting, the opponent no longer dared to show his face on the city wall.

According to the general rules, it is time to attack the city at this time.However, no attack was launched.

Although there was no attack, the shelling of the city began.

The firepower of the shelling was not fierce, and two cannons were fired from time to time.They didn't aim carefully, and seemed to be firing at the city indiscriminately.

There was no large-scale attack outside the city, and the defenders made no attempt to launch a counterattack.

One day passed like this.

In the evening, when the defenders were about to close the east gate, they were attacked violently. Two thousand Ventura cavalry rushed into the city, charged and killed for a while, but withdrew within 10 minutes.

After coming out, Chen Yetong blew up the east gate.From then on, the east gate can only be opened, and can no longer be closed.

The shelling at night did not stop, and from time to time, a few shells would be fired into the city.In the silence of the night, the sound of the guns was particularly noticeable.

At midnight, another group of Vendura cavalry entered through the east gate, wandered around for a while, and then came out again.

If you are a careful person, you will find that the number of people when you come back is dozens less than when you went in.

These dozens of people quietly stayed in the city, carrying out what Jia Min called "special operations".

That night, the city remembered the sound of cannons from time to time. Residents in the city, many of them dared not sleep. They didn't know when the explosive shells would fall on their heads.

Two shells exploded, causing a fire.The firewood stacks of several other houses mysteriously caught fire even though no shells fell on them.

People spent the long night of early winter in panic and anxiety.

At Yinshi the next day, another group of more than 2000 Vendura cavalry entered the city, rushed after the defenders in the city for a while, and then withdrew.

Although we don't know when the shells will fall, people still have to get up at dawn to make a living for the day.

People who took to the streets found many notices on the walls and on the streets.

At this time, Goryeo used Chinese characters, and when they found someone who could read, they recognized the words on the notice, saying that if they did not surrender, the city would be massacred.

Then people discovered that there were yamen servants running on horseback in the street, and then there were rumors that the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Minister of the Ministry of Households were killed at home last night.

(End of this chapter)