Mirpur was not a large city for Sassanid, and due to its coastal location and not a strategic location, it has never had a major war since its founding, and it is usually when the rest of the region falls that the city changes its flag and becomes one of the many cities under the territory of the next ruling family.
Mirpur, who had not experienced war for 227 years, faced his first challenge after the founding of the city today, and it came from the sea.
The lord of the city, Busha'aberdeen, stood on top of the city, looking at the dense ships on the sea in the distance, and then looked at the city that had been completely chaotic after a round of shelling.
Mirpur has a population of about 30,000 people, and after the chaos, you can see scurrying everywhere, and many people actually follow others when they see them running around, without a clear destination at all.
"Is the Han army going to land?"
Bushaabdeen thought that he was still a very courageous person, knowing that the upper city wall might be hit by a cannonball from the Han gunboat, he still went to the city: "We have no port here, and the Han army can only use small boats to land." ” The round of gunboat fire just now was random and indiscriminate, and the purpose was of course to make Mirbul chaotic.
At the same time as the shelling was carried out, the landing force began its own preparations for the beaching.
The first to storm the beach were only a dozen or so warboats, and they were tasked with surveying the depth of the beach and setting up an outpost for the friendly forces that were about to land behind.
Huan Wen, who was on top of the flagship of the Linzi, used a telescope to pay attention to the situation on land, and could see that a large group of people poured out of the city gate first, and it didn't take long for the city gate to be closed.
Wang Meng had just caught up with the troops two days ago, and he knew that when the fleet was going to attack Mirpur, the battle plan had already been implemented, otherwise it was not actually recommended that Huan Wen attack Mirpur, even if it was to carry out an attack, and then sail north to about 130 nautical miles, a coastal city called Ji Ni would have a higher attack value than Mirpur.
"One more round of naval guns."
Of course, Huan Wen didn't speak to Wang Meng, but ordered Yuan Qiao, the deputy general of the fleet: "Let the artillery bombard the city gate as much as possible." ” Yuan Qiao has been the chief of Huan Wen for a long time, but this time the chief of the army is Wang Meng, who was arranged to be the vice general of the expeditionary fleet.
The gunners of the Linzi gave orders with microphones, and the rest of the gunboats relied on flags.
After about five minutes, the nine gunboats resumed their sounds, and in the midst of a roar, smoke suddenly appeared in the distance in the Mirbul, especially in the direction of the city gate.
The smoke ranged from gunpowder from artillery shells, and more from the dust and smoke that was smashed down and put on with full force.
There is almost no accuracy to say about the bronze cannon, whether it can hit the target depends on luck, and when there is a special target, it relies on putting more bronze cannons, and using a dense enough drop point to blind the cat to meet the dead mouse.
For Boucha Aberdeen, what was happening in front of him was a nightmare, and he curled up behind the walls, feeling the walls under his feet tremble constantly, and his ears heard one violent crash after another, and his mind went blank with fright.
"The drop points are very dense."
Yuan Qiao stared at the smoke area, his eyes swept over the warships cruising nearby waiting to form a stormtroop formation, and said, "There are about eight hundred enemy troops on the city wall, and it is impossible to confirm how many defenders there are in this city. ” "In Sasanian cities, the garrison generally exceeds a thousand men."
Wang Meng didn't want to be a transparent person: "The fleet invaded the two Satraps first, and landed in Luck before.
With the importance that the Persians attached to the Han Dynasty, the city lord of Mirpur would inevitably desperately expand his army, and then the garrison of the surrounding villages would be concentrated in the city, and the garrison should not be less than 3,000. ” Huan Wen is still willing to believe Wang Meng's judgment.
It was difficult to tell for a moment how the gates were covered in smoke in the place where they were under constant bombardment, but after a wail that seemed to be like a sore tooth, there was a loud sound of collapse.
The area that was already covered in smoke was suspected to have collapsed, and the thicker smoke covered the larger area, and the area that was not thick smoke was filled with bursts of screams and howls.
Lu Bing, who was paddling hard, paused, and then rowed even harder, shouting: "The city wall has collapsed."
A warship can accommodate up to fifteen people, and usually carries thirteen crew members, which happens to be a full number.
Lü Bing was the commander of this warboat, and he was given the order to explore the beach, and according to his own judgment, he decided to move freely after exploring the beach.
The soldiers on the same boat immediately understood when they heard Lu Bing's roar, and everyone's eyes widened, and their expressions became full of anticipation.
They are authentic pioneers, as pioneers, they have no merit in not receiving the enemy, and the greatest merit of the pioneer is to become the first.
The battle boat bottomed out one hundred and twenty meters away from the coastline, and Lu Bing looked down for a moment, and his brows immediately furrowed.
The inclination of some seabeds is so strange that people only step on the calf, but they are located in the seawater.
What they encountered was the worst of the landing war, and it was impossible to determine that the entire beach was in the same situation, and if it were all like this, it would be very difficult for the landing.
The surrounding warships bottomed out on the same line, and then stopped, and the soldiers on the warships jumped into the knee-deep sea, stepping on the soft mud under their feet.
"Flag Wave."
Lu Bing's face was very bad: "You need to build a ferry crossing of at least 100 meters or more, and inform the follow-up troops to carry wooden planks." ” It is not a thing to give up the landing when the situation is bad, and as the army is carrying out its mission, not to mention encountering an environment that is not suitable for landing, even if there are swords, mountains and fires ahead, it must be overcome.
Not all beaches will be sand, more beaches will be dirt.
Lu Bing and the others advanced more than ten meters and had to stop, every time they took a step was to fight with the mud under their feet, I don't know what the situation was to walk a distance into the unknown depth of the area, there was a soldier who fell into it and was directly flooded by the sea, or the robe behind him quickly pulled a handful before re-fishing.
You don't have to go to the sea, it's just a small pool, and if you get stuck in the mud, it's really not so easy to move.
If there is mud under your feet and the water level is high enough, once your head is under the water, you can't swim even if you want to, and the more you struggle, the more serious the sinking will be, and the air in your lungs will be quickly consumed by the activity, and then you will drown.
"Retreat" Lu Bing's face was not only bad: "Retreat to the battle boat" No wonder there was no Persian army to stop the beach, and no wonder there was no port on the side of Mirpur, not even a small fishing village by the sea, so it turned out that the beach was not suitable for activity at all Huan Wen on the Linzi was quickly reported, and he was stunned for a second or two and immediately reacted: "Only during the high tide is suitable for landing" At high tide, the water level on the beach rises, and the height of the load on the surface of the water naturally rises.
Looking at the coast of Mirpur, the water level was low but a large area was seawater, and the water level could not be seen far away, and some pioneers went to explore to confirm the slope of the seabed.
Huan Wen was unfamiliar with this sea area, and it was the first time he had encountered such a beach on the seabed, so he hesitated for less than two seconds and ordered: "Set up a ferry" "Wang Meng actually wanted to suggest giving up the landing, but Huan Wen made a decision first.
Since it is a fleet, and it is always ready to invade, the preparations that need to be made must be carried out, such as a large number of planks, and the necessary stakes.
When encountering a new situation, the fleet commander is also a move, and the executors below are busy.
There was a scene on the surface of the sea, where the group of war boats that had been cruising in formation stopped paddling, and there were some people who looked at the ships that were putting down their war boats for some unknown reason.
The ships were open on both sides of the hull, and the sailors were busy carrying numerous planks and stakes, and the soldiers belonging to the engineering branch put their things away and began to paddle towards the beach in groups of four.
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When they bottomed out in the warboat, they began to erect piles in groups of two.
The size of the stakes is not consistent, with the longest being more than three meters and the shortest being no more than one meter.
When an engineer lifts the stake and inserts it downward, he can feel that the bottom of the stake seems to be caught by something, and even sucks downward, and if he does not hold the stake firmly, the suction force that sucks down will cause the stake to fall out.
Lu Bing is standing on the top of the war boat and watching the engineers busy, two people in a group of piles, three meters long wooden piles can be inserted into at least one meter eight or more, the height of the deep depression in each place is inconsistent, high you need to saw off too high wooden piles, low is the need to nail to make up the height.
At the same time as the piles were erected, the engineers would drop planks to the sea, and the planks that were thrown into the sea would sink, and the name of the project would have a stable focus.
After the wooden stakes of the pole are erected, it is necessary to nail the fixing frame between the wooden stakes to fix each other, and finally nail the planks on them.
"Brother."
Lu Bing asked an engineer commander: "Can you give me some planks?"
Chen Hao nodded and pointed to the war boat next to him: "You have to go ashore first."
Lu Bing saw that the engineer could safely move around at will after dropping the plank, and thought that if he laid the plank all the way to the land, even if the plank was under the water, it would still make the road under his feet not sink, but the difference was not that the passage of the ferry was above the water.
The rest of the people, who also received the landing order, saw that Lu Bing's actions began to follow suit.
The smoke at the Mirbul Gate had cleared, and it could be seen that the section of the city wall on this side had collapsed, not only at the location of the gate, but also into a mound of earth, with a gap of about 20 meters or more.
The lord of the city, Bushaabdeen, was in the collapsed section of the city wall just now, and if he hadn't been killed by a cannonball, he would have been buried after the collapse.
Looking at the appearance of this area, and then thinking about the fact that more than ten minutes have passed since the collapse, there is no need to save it, it is definitely dead.
After the smoke cleared, the people of the city began to pour out from the gap, during which it was indispensable to push and trample, and some people felt their bodies being diaphragmized after they fell, and reached out to touch their hands or feet, but they could not see their bodies, and it was obvious that there were people buried underneath.
After the collapse of the city walls and towers, the relevant personnel of Mirpur did not go to the rescue of the city lord who might still be alive, and they all thought of leaving the city as soon as possible.
The high-ranking officials will definitely be followed by the middle-level officials, and after the lower-level officials find out that the high-ranking officials and middle-level officials have begun to flee, they must have joined in the flight, and then the city is basically out of control.
Once all the officials start running, even the most stupid people will know that the city will be doomed, and then a big wave of flight is basically doomed.
"More than 100 people have begun to land on their own."
Wang Meng looked at Huan Wen, who was full of determination, and asked, "Do you want the follow-up troops to follow?"
Wang Meng is talking about Lu Bing and others, this group of people have built their own channels that can wade and land, although there will be some twists and turns in the process, but it is definitely much faster than building a ferry.
Huan Wen knew that Wang Meng had gone to the sea of Luck before coming over to rendezvous, and he also knew that Wang Meng had specially learned about Liu Ming's condition, and he was displeased with this: "Yes" Huan Wen had no opinion on Wang Meng himself, but he thought that Wang Meng had no experience in participating in the battle of a large corps, and he did not dare to show rejection to the commander of the expeditionary fleet who arranged for Wang Meng to come over by the central emperor to serve as the commander of the expeditionary fleet, but it was absolutely false to say that there were no other opinions.
Lu Bing and the others, who were constantly laying wooden planks and had been close to the beach, took about half an hour to set foot on relatively thick land.
When they came ashore, they did not rush to the city of Mirbul immediately, but explored the beachhead and reported the situation on the beachhead to the rear with flags.
The seabed was full of silt, the beachhead was also full of mud, and if anything else, it was rotten wood and dead grass, and there was no sand or stones in sight.
Confirming that there was a landing force behind them, they began to advance towards the city, and when they reached a place with a wide view, they saw the shadows of fleeing people in the wilderness.
"There is no resistance."
Lu Bing looked at Zhou Zhuang, the leader of the team, with a shy face, and encouraged: "It seems that there is no counterattack, let's attack the city."
Zhou Zhuang was not Lu Bing's direct superior, but according to the battlefield rules of the Han army, a local area was either a person with a high rank or a person with a high title, and they were generally the commander of the battlefield.
Hundreds of people were slowly approaching the city under the leadership of Zhou Zhuang, they met the fleeing crowd on the periphery and did not chase, and when they approached the edge of the city, they quickly found the gap in the city wall, and saw that their aliens seemed to hesitate in fleeing and kneeling to surrender, some of them continued to escape, and more knelt on the ground.
They are divided into two squads, one entering and the other outside in case of unforeseen circumstances.
Lü Bing was assigned to the team that entered the city, and they entered the city and went up to the city wall, choosing to erect the Han flag on the wall that had not collapsed on the edge of the gap.
At the moment when the Han flag fluttered at the head of the city, the Han army on the sea cheered, and whether the city was Persian or not, as long as it was not Han, they knelt on their knees: