Daming Military Empire

Chapter 333 Soldiers Approach Rising Dragon
On the third day after Fan Mendi led the Second Fleet of the Far East of the Dutch Navy to leave Fangcheng Xingang, the Tianxiong Army and Guan Ning Army gathered in Fangcheng Xingang. The Ming army is about to attack Annan!The battleships of the Beiyang Navy and the Beihai Fleet entered the dock in turn. Teams of soldiers boarded the warships in an orderly manner. Grain, supplies, and artillery were slowly transferred to the deck, and even the horses were all on board. Boat.

Half a day later, everything was finally ready, and the huge fleet began to sail slowly to Annan's Haiphong Port.

The commander-in-chief of this battle is Lu Xiangsheng, the five-star general of the Tianxiong Army. When he led the army to charge, he was a fierce general who could not be more fierce, but this time it was not just a simple charge. Why did Zhu Cijiong let him take command? What about this war?
The reason is simple, he is not only a fierce general, but also a Confucian general!
This seems to be a bit contradictory. No matter how you look at it, the fierce general and the Confucian general are a bit inconsistent, but he is really a Confucian general. You must know that he was born as a Jinshi, and he was not born as a Jinshi with the top three, but with the same background as a Jinshi.There are no less than a few million students in the Ming Dynasty, and only three hundred or so Jinshi are selected in three years, and the number of first-class and second-class Jinshi is less than 100. So he is a Confucian general first, and then a fierce general.

The reason why Zhu Cijiong asked him to command this battle was because he was an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs. He was not a pure general like Zu Dabi, who was the second stupid Zu Dabi. He was equally proficient in military tactics.

At this time, he was calling the other three generals to hold a battle meeting, and the four of them stood in the same cabin and discussed around a simple sand table model.

Although Cao Wenzhao is also a five-star general, he was a deputy under Lu Xiangsheng, and he admired Lu Xiangsheng's bravery and strategy, so he respected Lu Xiangsheng, and he asked for advice at the beginning of the discussion: " My lord, look at how we fight this time."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the sand table, pondered for a while, and then said: "This battle is mainly about stability. According to our strength and equipment, if Zheng's [-] men confront us head-on, they will be vulnerable. The hope of a comeback lies in using the terrain to carry out sneak attacks, so we must be steady. Fortunately, the Dutch fleet has slipped away, so we basically don’t have to worry about naval battles.”

Indeed, although Annan also has a navy, they are all small warships, not even Fuchuan warships. They are nothing compared to the Beiyang Navy and Beihai Fleet. The only thing to worry about is the Dutch Second Far East Fleet. They have fifty super battleships, but now that the Dutch have slipped away, there is no suspense in this naval battle, so there is no need to think about it at all.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw Cao Wenzhao, Huang Long, and Yang Geng, he just nodded his head and didn't intend to express his opinion at all. He simply pointed to the sand table model and said, "Annan's Haiphong Port is a small port, which is not suitable for large troops to land, and there are still a few Earth artillery is a little troublesome to attack, so I think we should simply land on the small peninsula below Haiphong Port, and then turn around and surround Haiphong City, so that no damage will be caused."

Cao Wenzhao and the other three all nodded in appreciation, Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the sand table and continued: "There is also a Haiyang City between Shenglong City and Haiphong City. Take it down, so there will be no worries. In addition, there is no threat at sea anyway. Please ask the two generals Huang Long and Yang Geng to support [-] musketeers each, and help us guard Haiphong City and Haiyang City, so that we can concentrate our forces to attack Thang Long City."

Huang Long and Yang Geng quickly nodded in response, Lu Xiangsheng continued: "Although the road from Haiphong City to Shenglong City is a plain, there are many forests, so we must arrange enough scouts when we move forward to prevent ambushes and sneak attacks. , I think so, anyway, the cavalry can't play a big role in the siege battle, so we simply spread them on the left and right wings of the army, divide them into ten groups for every [-] people, search and advance from the left and right, and the Tianxiong Army is in charge. On the left wing, the Guan Ning army is in charge of the right wing. As long as the communication is kept open, it doesn’t matter if Annan’s [-] troops are all in ambush in one place. On the plain, [-] cavalry are enough to defeat their [-] troops.”

When Cao Wenzhao heard the words, he hurriedly nodded and said yes. Lu Xiangsheng pointed to Shenglong City on the sand table and continued: "The last is to attack Shenglong City. There are not many tactics for attacking the city. It depends on who has more artillery. Whose soldiers are fierce!"

When Cao Wenzhao, Huang Long and Yang Geng heard the words, they couldn't help but looked at each other with smiles, and they competed fiercely with "Lu Yan Wang", I'm afraid there is no one in this world!

The strategy is certain, the Beiyang Navy and the Beihai Fleet went straight to the small peninsula south of Haiphong City. At this time, Annan's hundred or so small warships were hiding under the earthen fortress in Haiphong Port and trembling. So the landing process was very smooth, without any casualties, but it was more difficult when the artillery went ashore, but there were so many soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and it didn't take much time to carry 20 horses and horses. It only took one day. The Guan Ning army completed the landing.

At this time, the Annan army in the direction of Haiphong City has long been in chaos. The Annan Zheng family did not expect that the Ming army would attack from the sea, and Fan Mendi did not realize that the Ming army would use warships to transport the army. There are hundreds of thousands of troops in the army, and they are transported by warships. He thinks it is impossible to transport them until when, so he didn't remind Zheng Bing at all.

Zheng Bing believed that the Ming army had to cross the 5000 mountains and attack Shenglong City from the north. Because it was like this in history, he concentrated all the main forces in Shenglong City. Haiphong City did not have many troops stationed at all. In addition to the defenders of the navy and the local fort, the total number of defenders is less than 20. How can they resist the 20 army and [-] navy of the Ming army?
Early the next morning, when Lu Xiangsheng organized an army to attack Haiphong City, spies came to report that the defenders of Haiphong City, including the defenders on the fort and the navy at sea, had all escaped!Cao Wenzhao immediately proposed to lead the cavalry to pursue and suppress, but Lu Xiangsheng rejected it without even thinking about it. Ambush, the cavalry will suffer heavy losses, it is better to fight steadily and advance with the whole army.

Lu Xiangsheng was not in a hurry to rush to Haiyang City. He first led the Tianxiong Army into Haiphong City, searched carefully, and confirmed that there were no Annan Army soldiers in the city except civilians, so Huang Long arranged for five thousand naval musketeers to take over Haiphong City, and the fort on the shore, and then led Tianxiong Army, Guan Ning Army, and [-] musketeers from the Beihai Fleet to line up and slowly rush towards Haiyang City.

Haiyang City is only a hundred miles away from Haiphong City. At noon the next day, before the 20 troops led by Lu Xiangsheng arrived at Haiyang City, spies came to report, and the defenders of Haiyang City also ran away!
Lu Xiangsheng still led the army to Haiyang City, searched carefully, and only left the five thousand musketeers of the North Sea Fleet, and then lined up and slowly rushed to Shenglong City.

They didn't encounter any enemies along the way, and Annan's army seemed to have retreated into Thang Long City, ready to defend the city and fight the Ming army to the death.

Lu Xiangsheng led his army to walk unhurriedly for two days, and finally arrived outside Shenglong City at about noon on the third day. .

Shenglong City is completely imitated of the city plan of Ming Dynasty. It has a city wall and a moat, but the city wall is only five meters high and the moat is only 20 meters wide. Lu Xiangsheng observed it carefully with a telescope and immediately ordered: "Tianxiong Army is ten miles east of the city The infantry was stationed in the direction of the city wall, the cavalry was three miles to the north, and the Guan Ning army was stationed ten miles to the south of the city, the infantry was in the direction of the city wall, and the cavalry was ten miles to the west."

Although he did not encircle Shenglong City in this way, he was able to control all four directions. If the Annan army wanted to escape, they would naturally have trouble getting through the east and south of the city. Even if they went west and north of the city, the cavalry could quickly catch up Go up, when he gets here, he won't care about any poor people. Almost all the troops of Annan Zheng's family are gathered here. As long as they are all wiped out here, Annan will be settled, so there is no Annan army in Shenglong City. run!
(End of this chapter)