Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Hahaha~ Jin Jun is so brave!This sailor came too timely.

Jiang Jing was originally worried that Wanyan Ponuhuo would not come to attack Ximen Fort, but now that the Jin army dispatched naval forces to outflank it, he knew that the Jin army would definitely come to pull out the thorn in Ximen Fort.

On the sea, after Xiemao Ali, the navy general of the Jin Army, completed the sea encirclement of Ximen Fort, he immediately sent people ashore, bypassed Ximen Fort, and reported to Wanyan Ponuhuo.

Xiemao Ali is one of the few generals in the Jin Army who can fight in water.He joined the army when he was 17 years old and made many military exploits.

When the border conflict between the Jurchens and the Goryeo people occurred, Xiemao Ali once attacked Goryeo with his father.

Later, after the war between the Jin and Liao armies, the Khitan, Xi, and Bohai people from Su and Fu prefectures who had been conquered by the Jin army rebelled again, and gathered a crowd of [-] to besiege the Jurchens.

Xiemao Ali was ordered to lead the people to rescue and defeat the enemy on the water of Pili Mihan.He won more than ten battles with the rebels, and defeated the Khitan and Xiren navy in naval battles, and recovered Suzhou, Fuzhou and Posulu.

Because Xiemao Ali had experience in naval battles and was familiar with the waters near Posu Road, Emperor Wanyan Wu Qimai of the Jin Kingdom specially assigned him to command the navy to besiege the rebels on Posu Road from the sea.

At this moment, it seems that the battle of Poso Road planned by Shi Liai is progressing smoothly, and the city of Posofu is taken lightly by using internal forces.

How could Shi Liai know that Ximenqing has already been operating in Suzhou, Fuzhou and other places for many years, and that Tieshan Port and coastal fishing villages have secret agents of the Qi State Navy.

When Xie Mao Ali's navy assembled and set off from Tieshan Port, some spies had already passed the information back to the navy docks in Qingzhou and Dengzhou through fast boats.

Luan Tingyu was commanding the landing campaign at the Qingzhou Navy Wharf. After learning of the movements of the Jin Guo Navy, he immediately ordered Xu Wen, the commander of the navy, to lead the main battleship north to meet the battle.

After Xu Wen's fleet set off, Luan Tingyu also commanded the army to board the merchant ship, and under the escort of Wang Dingliu, Hu Yanqing and other generals, headed northward to the mouth of Liaohe River in Liaodong Bay.

From the mouth of the Liaohe River, Luan Tingyu's army was able to take a boat directly along the Liaohe River to surprise Liaoyang Mansion.

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When the morning sun fell on the bearskin flag of Ximen Fort again, Wanyan Ponuhuo had already brought 1 cavalry and more than [-] miscellaneous soldiers recruited by Po Sulu to the city, and sent people to carry out a raid on Ximen Fort. Persuade surrender.

Xie Mao Ali also sent several warships to attack the shore and occupied the unguarded port.

The battle is imminent.

Chapter 74 Bloody Simon Fort

Wanyan Ponuhuo, as a veteran who followed Wanyan Agu to fight against the Liao Dynasty, was not as famous as Wanyan Loushi and Wanyan Yinshu, but he was also a general who knew how to use troops.

Facing the fortified Ximen Fort, Wanyan Ponuhuo did not intend to use cavalry to attack by force, but to launch a fire attack with the army of more than 1 handymen.

Because it was a long-distance attack, the Wanyan Ponu Fire Army did not have time to build siege equipment such as crash carts, boxcars, ladders, goose carts, and oars. Firelighters such as turpentine and wood.

At the same time, after Xie Mao Ali's navy occupied the pier, they also unloaded many fire starters from the ship.

Obviously, Jin Jun had already planned the strategy of fire attack.

The reason why the Jin army did not launch a fire attack at night may be to prevent the defenders in the castle from killing out in the dark, destroying the fire attack or fleeing in the chaos!

The [-] cavalry brought by Wanyan Ponuhuo were obviously aimed at annihilating the defenders who had escaped from the castle.

In the dark night, the cavalry could not ride their horses to charge safely, and in this daytime, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Golden Army could be brought into full play.

Inside Ximen Fort, under the command of Shi Yong and Jiang Jing, thousands of defenders stick to their posts, ready to fight.

With the sound of the golden army's horn, the offensive and defensive battle around Ximen Fort began.

Wanyan Ponuhuo's cavalry approached the castle from the east, north, and west, trying to suppress the defenders on the city wall with their bows and arrows.

At the same time, tens of thousands of laborers rushed down the castle with firewood on their backs and simple wooden shields.

"It's a pity that the enemy general is too far away, and the artillery's hit rate is not high!"

Standing on the watchtower built with boulders and cement, Shi Yong sighed as he watched the Jin army formation in the north.

Wanyan Ponuhuo's Chinese army was standing on a small hill in the north, with the battle flag fluttering in the sea breeze.

Wanyan Ponuhuo and his reserve team were outside the range of Ximenbao muskets, and the accuracy of the artillery was also limited. Shi Yong could not effectively execute the beheading tactic.

"Let him be arrogant for a while, and order the artillerymen and the musket battalion to target the cavalry below the city!"

Jiang Jing gave the order as a military adviser.

After Jiang Jing gave the order, in the castle, an experienced artillery leader took the lead in firing artillery at a cavalry unit in the north of the city.

These gunners in Ximenbao were all sent here by Ling Zhen after training in Peach Blossom Mountain.

The leader who fired the cannon was named Liu Chao, who was from Liujiazhuang at the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain. He was a distant relative of Mrs. Liu, and Ximen Qing's wife, son and nephew.

Under Ling Zhen's careful teaching, this Liu Chao has become the leader of the artillerymen in Ximen Fort.

Liu Chao's first shot was aimed very accurately. A burly and armored general among the cavalry of the Golden Army was hit by his shot and was blown to pieces together with the general's flag behind him.

Liu Chao didn't know that the one he killed with this bombardment was the number one general in Wanyan Ponu's fire army, and also his clan's younger brother Wanyan Salihe.

Immediately after the first artillery blast, dozens of cannons in Ximen Fort opened fire at the same time, bombarding the generals of the cavalry outside the city who were holding the flag.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Firearms Battalion also fired violently from the shooting holes on the city wall, shooting and killing the cavalry of the Golden Army outside the city.

The three Golden Army warships that were unloading on the south side of the castle were also shot by the coastal defense guns, and a raging fire suddenly ignited.

A few shells were not so powerful, but Xie Mao Ali, the general of the Jinjun Navy, filled the ship with flammable firelighters, and it turned into a target ship that ignited at a single touch.

Xiemao Ali was not defenseless. His ships were all moored outside the range of the castle's bows and arrows, and he was not afraid of the defenders' rockets.However, Xiemao Ali, who has never seen a new type of artillery, how does he know that the harbor bay is within the shooting range of Ximenbao's coastal defense artillery?

After several ships on the pier caught fire, the coastal defense guns shelled other warships of the Xiemao Ali Navy.

Although the accuracy of the artillery is limited, there is no guarantee that every shot will hit every shot, but warships are still hit by shells from time to time, breaking the mast and flying sawdust.

Even if the shells did not hit the warship, columns of water exploded in the sea, frightening the officers and soldiers of the Jin Army Navy.

Xiemao Ali had never experienced such a battle when he fought against the Liao Navy, and he inevitably made mistakes in command.

Xiemao Ali tried to command the army to land forcibly several times, but more warships were destroyed, and troops were lost.

Seeing that he could only be beaten passively, Xiemao Ali had no choice but to give up his plan to support Wanyan Ponu's fire army, and withdrew the navy fleet beyond the range of Ximenbao's artillery, watching the battle on land from a distance on the sea.

On land, on the outskirts of Fort Simon, the Jin army who attacked the city suffered heavy casualties.

The entire Ximen Fort was originally set up by Ximenqing to exert the power of firearms, with a large number of artillery positions and musket shooting holes.

And these shooting positions also formed crossfire, ensuring that the defenders of the city could kill the siege troops outside the city to the greatest extent.

Therefore, before the cavalrymen of the Wanyan Ponu Fire Army came within the range of their bows and arrows, they were massacred by guns and guns.

Without the cover of the elite cavalry, how could the handymen of the Golden Army dare to approach the castle under the hail of bullets?

Fortunately, the Jin army rushed past the firepower of the muskets, but was sniped by the archers in the city.