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Chapter 452 Capture Ninghai City

boom!
A cannon shot.

The south gate of Ninghai City was hit by a cannon, and the power of the huge explosion instantly blew open the wooden iron gate.

It exploded unexpectedly.

Accompanied by the sound of cannons, two thousand Qilin troops disembarked from Daxi and appeared outside the south gate of Ninghai City.

The Qilin Army was divided into three stepped teams. The first team quickly rushed to the outside of the city and lined up 150 steps away. They aimed the crossbow arrows of the compound crossbow at the top of the city and fired a volley. Bows and arrows at this distance from the top of the city could not attack the Qilin. However, the crossbows of the Qilin Army can easily hit the city top, suppressing the rebels on the city head and unable to take the lead.

The second and third echelon teams rushed towards the city gate quickly. In Ninghai City without the gate, the Qilin Army rushed in directly.

After entering the city, the Qilin army immediately divided into dozens or even hundreds of small teams to fight on their own scales. Under the salvo of crossbow arrows, the entire south gate was invincible.

The second-tier team controlled the south gate, leaving a small number of soldiers to control the south gate. The rest continued to attack the north gate of Ninghai City. They were responsible for covering the attack, while the third-tier team was responsible for attacking the north gate. The main force, after the first-tier team covered the soldiers entering the city, also entered the city immediately, following the third-tier team.

On Yehe Mountain outside the south gate of Ninghai, soldiers of the East China Sea Fleet pulled two Armstrong 40-pound secondary guns to Yehe Mountain. The two guns were dismantled from the Yangwei.Due to the geographical environment of Ninghai City, the East China Sea Fleet cannot get close to Ninghai City. It can only take a sand boat to go up the Daxi River, which can lead directly to the south gate of Ninghai City.

Even Li Tianrun never thought that the Qilin Army could sail the ship behind Ninghai City in a short period of time.

You must know that today is ancient times, but there are no nautical charts, let alone satellite maps.

To the east of Ninghai City is an inner bay called Sanmen Bay. This inner bay is very deep. Coupled with the islands around Xiangshan and Zhoushan, some commercial ships will not come here, but will enter Fuzhou along the waterway. , and there is an island chain composed of a small number of small islands on the outermost edge of the inner bay. If you are not a fisherman who is familiar with this terrain, it will be difficult to reach Ninghai City directly from Sanmen Bay.

Not to mention that it is simply impossible to go directly from the Zhoushan area to Ninghai City.

No one would have thought that it would be possible to come here by boat.

However, Li Tianrun didn't know that Li Chu had a satellite. There was a satellite in the sky monitoring him. The terrain was under the surveillance of the satellite. He also naturally discovered that this place allows fleet ships to enter the bay, and sand ships can enter the inland river to appear in the south of Ninghai City. Door.

When Li Tianrun heard that the south gate was breached by the Qilin Army, and a large number of Qilin Army poured into Ninghai City, his mind was completely confused.

"This is impossible!"

Li Tianrun didn't believe it.

I don't want to believe it either.

Now, the outflanking of the Qilin Army outside the north gate is already underway. A large number of Jihad troops rushed out from the mountains on both sides, forming pockets to surround Lu Junyi's Qilin Army, while Lu Junyi's Qilin Army lined up in place and fought back from all sides.

Li Tianrun still underestimated the power of the weapons and equipment of the Qilin Army, especially this composite crossbow. It has fast loading speed, long-range penetration, and very powerful power. The most important thing is the number. There are too many. The entire Qilin Army They are all equipped with compound crossbows. Once these numbers are added up, it is not as simple as one plus one equals two. The power and damage caused by them are doubled.

In addition, the jihad army armor that Li Chu sold to Fang La at the beginning was a planned selection of its defensive performance.

This armor may have a certain effect against the ordinary weapons of the Song Dynasty, but when faced with the composite crossbow fire of the Qilin Army, it has no effect at all. What should be pierced will still be pierced, and what should be shot in will still be shot in. Well, damn it, you have to die.

At the same time, Li Tianrun also underestimated the military quality of the Qilin Army.

This kind of pocket encirclement formation, if it is facing the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, seeing the jihadists surrounded by mountains and plains, they would have been scared to death, and the formation of the army would have been disorganized, how can it be organized effectively? defense and resistance?

However, facing the Qilin Army in front of them, these Qilin Army did not seem to be afraid at all. Not only did they not collapse, they did not even lose their formation. Everything was carried out in an orderly manner. Everyone performed their duties, and each Standing in his own position, he kept shooting forward with the compound crossbow, shooting, shooting.

On the side of the Jihad army, under the shooting of the compound crossbow, the casualties were also scattered.

The more you rush ahead and the more fiercely you rush, the faster you will die.

On the top of the north gate of Ninghai City, the archery team that Li Tianrun was planning to use was useless at the top of the city. Although the number of these archery teams was only 400, Li Tianrun trained in secret for more than half a month, and they were all formed separately. At the training place, the archers who specialize in giving birth to supporters wanted them to suppress the Qilin Army with long-range shooting on the top of Ninghai City, but instead of shooting a few arrows, they were suppressed by the Qilin Army on the top of the city and did not dare to show their heads.

This time, even if he jumped out half of his body, he was hit by at least three crossbow arrows when he came back.

In just a short time, half of the four hundred archers were killed or injured, but not even a single Qilin soldier was killed.

Li Tianrun's encirclement plan almost failed.

Before the results could be announced, a large number of Qilin troops appeared at the south gate and invaded the city.

"Tell me, how did these Qilin troops appear here? Who can tell me?"

Li Tianrun grabbed his thieves and kept asking questions, but no one could give him an answer.

Not only Li Tianrun, but all the bandit generals in Ninghai City are full of doubts. Due to the terrain of Ninghai City, there is almost no other way to get around. If you want to continue going south, you must pass through Ninghai City, Ninghai City It is also known as Ninghai Customs. Although it is not said that entering the Hulao Pass is generally one man’s gate, ten thousand men cannot open it, but in this Taizhou, it can be regarded as the northern gateway of Taizhou. If you don’t pass through Ninghai City, you don’t even want to enter Taizhou.

Of course, the word " enter" refers to entering Taizhou from Mingzhou.

If you take other roads, that road will go directly to Taizhou Linhai City, and Linhai City and Ninghai City are two different counties. The pronunciation of the word is the same, but the difference between the two is The distance is a bit far. If the Qilin Army came around from Shaoxing, then the bend would be too big and impossible.

No one could answer Li Tianrun's question.

The answer the Qilin Army gave them was the bombardment of two Armstrong 40-pound secondary guns.

Two shells exploded inside the north gate of Ninghai City.

Two small golden flowers were blown out, and some bandit soldiers hiding in the north gate were immediately separated and torn apart by the bombed corpses.

Li Tianrun was also dazzled by the sound of the cannon.

He was blinded again.

(End of this chapter)