Lord of the House

Luo Wenhu, along with the governor of Jeju and the military staff officer of the Haidong battalion, Chen Enze, boarded the flagship of the 1st Special Mixed Brigade of the Jinghai Division. The newly built battleship faintly smelled of tung oil.

After the Battle of Jingxiang, it took nearly two and a half years to officially open the prelude to the Northern Expedition. Luo Wenhu was also curious about what a new battleship that could cost a brigade-level battleship formation would look like.

Although Luo Wenhu went to Haizhou for training in late January, he saw the fire crossbow and the new warships training, but the Lin Zhengjun-class warships had not been parked in the dry dock of the Chongzhou Shipyard. At this time, when he boarded the ship, Luo Wenhu felt the majesty of the third-level warship.

The five sets of masts towered into the clouds, and the sails were all lowered. Although there is no overall armor, the weak and permeable parts are covered with armor. For new warships, deck leakage prevention is more important than fire prevention. The muzzles were covered with fenders full of copper nails, and the fenders were nearly three feet above the water.

If you want to compare the stern compartment of the old Lin Zhengjun-class warships up to seven or eight feet high, the new ship is not high, but the overall size is unusually broad. After all, in addition to hundreds of light and heavy artillery pieces, it has to accommodate up to 600 people. of the full staff.

In the early years of Huaidong's development of sailing, many sea-going ships of different standards and shapes were built. In recent years, standardized production has begun. Warships are classified by net weight. The old Lin Zhengjun-class warship has a net weight of 1,000 tons, while the new Linzhengjun-class warship has the same width and length as its size, and its net weight has doubled to 2,000 tons.

However, even so, the Lin Zhengjun-class battleship is still only designated as the third-class main battleship for Lin Bing.

On the deck, looking at the huge warship that serves as the flagship of the first task force, Luo Wenhu really doesn't know, what kind of shocking will it be when the ship administration department builds the second and first-class main battleships?

Yang Shi watched Chen Enze and others board the ship and invited them into the command cabin.

The portholes of the command cabin are equipped with glass baffles, but the glass is fragile, the portholes look small and thick, and the view is not wide, but it is much better than the traditional observation window that can only be seen after the guard deck is opened.

Before Chen Enze and Luo Wenhu, the Haidong Camp Army dispatched a large number of officers and pilots to be temporarily incorporated into the first task force. When Chen Enze and Luo Wenhu came over, they officially represented the Haidong Camp Army and cooperated with the first task force. The Goryeo navy of Shaocheng.

In the command room, Yang Shi personally introduced the military situation before the war to Chen Enze, Luo Wenhu and others: "The Koryo army in Hejin Island has already raised the beacon to warn, and in half an hour, when the tide is rising, the first battle, the main battleship If we don't go in, we will send half of the frigates and the left wing **** fleet to kill the waters between Hejin Island and Shaocheng from the south wing; the main ship will cooperate with the first brigade of the Denghai Town Division to land in Nanjipu, the southwest wing of Hejin Island. , to establish a beachhead. There is a six-hour interval from the high tide to the low tide, and the frigates and the left-wing **** fleet must retreat to the south before dark. Conditions permitting, the first brigade of the Denghai Town Division can wear before dark tomorrow. After passing Hejin Island to the east wing, after tomorrow, for the second attack on Shaocheng, the fourth-tier battleship can cooperate to enter the sea area between Hejin Island and Shaocheng, bombard the southwest city of Shaocheng, and wait for the Haidong camp. The main force is coming..."

In the early days, Goryeo warships were weak and insufficient in number. Especially after the defeat of Seogwipo, almost the entire navy was destroyed. There are nearly 600 warships; there are as many as eight large naval warships comparable to the old Huaidong Jinhai-class warships.

Although the Goryeo navy has not left the offshore area for these years, and has fought with the Huaidong navy in more open waters, its strength is not to be underestimated. In particular, there are veteran generals like Du Quanchen, who have repeatedly asked the Haidong army to suffer losses in his hands.

Although the Huaidong Army decided to use the Beiyan Locked Sea Defense Line as the breakthrough point for the Northern Expedition, but to tear off the locked sea defense line, it must first solve the threat of the Goryeo Naval Division on the southeast flank. Therefore, Lin Fu will attack Shaocheng and attack the Goryeo navy, which will be the first battle of the Northern Expedition.

In order to prevent Ye Jibaishi, Du Quanchen and other enemy generals in Shaocheng from being alerted in advance, Lin Fu directly ordered Yang Shi to lead the newly-formed Special Mixed First Fleet to attack across the sea to open the prelude to the attack and kill in Shaocheng. The Haidong Camp Army would delay the general mobilization, and it was even delayed until the day before yesterday to formally inform the Haiyang Army and the Zhen Clan—the main force of the Haidong Camp's Shui Army would come to Shaocheng by sea to participate in the battle, and the earliest Wait until two days later.

From the command cabin, you can clearly see the situation on Kazu Island with the telescope.

Hajin Island is the second largest island in Goryeo, covering the entire city of Shaocheng. In the early years, only three or five thousand fishermen and farmers lived there.

After the outbreak of the Goryeo Civil War, the King of Goryeo increasingly felt the threat from the sea. Shaocheng was the west gate of Hanyang, the capital of the country, and Hajin Island was the west gate of Shaocheng. At the same time, the fortification construction of Hejin Island was also strengthened; by the time Yeji Baishi settled in Shaocheng, the garrison on Hejin Island had increased to 3,000.

From the map, you can see the eggplant shape of Hejin Island in the east and west. The east wing of the island and Shaocheng are across the sea, forming a long and narrow strait. On the east wing of the strait, on the north side of Shaocheng County, there is a trench that sags into the land, where the main business of the Korean Navy is stationed.

In addition to Hejin Island, there are nearly 100 islands and reefs in the Hejin waters. The ebb and flow of the offshore seas brings silt, which makes the water level in this area quite shallow, and the water conditions are extraordinarily complicated.

In order to find out the water conditions in this sea area, the Haidong Camp Army lost several warships before and after, and nearly 200 generals were sacrificed in this sea area, which is not a small price. It's not during the high tide, let alone the main battleships of the Jinhai and Lin Zhengjun classes, even the 200-ton frigates must be extra careful when entering.

Yang Shi anchored the fleet at the northwest flank of Hejin Island, located in the sea between Hejin Island and Changfu Island, and the flagship was anchored directly on Baisha Islet in the outer waters of the Hejin Sea area. At this time, more than a hundred workers and soldiers had already landed on Baishayu, and they had set up a pre-war command post on this small island, which was more than three miles long and no more than one mile in length and width.

In addition to a Jinhai-class warship and a right-wing **** fleet guarding the flagship on the two wings of Baishayu, two Jinhai-class warships and six frigates have already covered several large-bellied troop transports into the waters of the southwest wing of Hejinhai, which can be seen from the telescope To the battleship's muzzles are all opened, in a linear line, aiming at the coast.

Although the enemy had 3,000 defenders on Hejin Island, Hejinhai itself is a large island with a circumference of nearly 150 miles. Beacon Fire Post.

There were only more than 100 troops stationed at the beacon post; the enemy only discovered the police an hour ago. The more than 1,000 soldiers and horses rushed from Feidao Mountain to the Southwest Beach Fortress for reinforcements, and they were still running wildly on the road, and they were still twenty small from the Southwest Fortress. distance in .

In the face of four landing ships and seven or eight hundred elite infantrymen rushing to land from the southwest wing under the cover of two-wing frigates, more than a hundred soldiers of the enemy dared to honestly guard the sentry fort, waiting for reinforcements...

With the 1st task force across the sea, Li Baidao, the 1st Brigade of the Denghai Town Division, was under the command of Li Baidao. In the mirror, you can see the armored soldiers of the Denghai Town Division, wading in the waist-high sea water, carrying black artillery and rushing directly to the beach.

The body of the four-jin cannon weighed less than 400 jin, and even the cannon frame was only more than 600 jin. A group of six or seven people naturally carried the cannon and left. The seven or eight hundred people who finally landed quickly established a beachhead at the southwest corner of Hejin Island, and prepared to meet the enemy's reinforcements, so as to cover the rear wing and continue to land. Although the enemy's Linhai Sentinel Fort was within the range of the 12-jin naval guns, in order not to scare away more than a thousand enemy aid, the two Jinhai-class warships remained silent for the time being, and just kept a close eye on the development of the beachhead position.

In the waters further south, six frigates were mixed with the left-wing **** fleet, and they were trying to enter the Hezu Strait from the waters south of Hezu Island.

There are no main battleships, and the six frigates only have 72-barrel 8-jin naval guns. The eight warships of the left-wing **** fleet are all old-fashioned, with no guns on the sides, so there are several 8-jin and 4-jin naval guns on the front and rear of the top deck. The long-range attack capability is weaker than that of frigates, but it mainly focuses on close-board engagement.

In the Shaocheng Water Village on the inner side of the Hajin Strait, there are nearly 6,000 people of the Goryeo Navy and more than 300 warships, including six or seven Jinhai-class warships; Luo Wenhu is worried about the warships going deep into the Hajin Strait. Is it less?

However, there is no way. The old Jinhai-class warships can sail in, but even if the new warships are the same in width and length, due to the different internal structures, the net weight is usually nearly doubled, and the draft is deeper.

A deeper draft means a smaller range of activities in shallow waters and greater restrictions. Without further understanding the situation, it would be a bit risky to send the main battleship that cost hundreds of thousands of silver dollars.

Luo Wenhu thought again, the narrow waters of the Hajin Strait are actually not conducive to the expansion of the Korean Navy. If the navy of Goryeo moved a little slower and blocked the naval guns in the trench, the suspense of this battle would be even smaller - Luo Wenhu regretted that Chen Enze and Chen Enze had come a little slower, otherwise he could follow the past to see it for himself. What would it be like for the Fire Crossbow to be used in actual combat for the first time.

However, the frigates and the old Jinhai-class warships are both galleys and sails. In complex waters, they are obviously much more flexible than pure sail warships.

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King Goryeo's army used Shaocheng as the western gateway to Hanyang, the capital of the country, and focused on guarding against the enemy from the sea, and established a complete set of enemy Taiwanese and sentry forts along the coast. After Ye Jibaishi settled in Shaocheng, he dug a deep trench more than 100 miles long on the west coast of Shaocheng.

Hearing that the police had a large group of enemy ships attacking from the waters on the west wing, Ye Jibaishi, Qi Quanchen and other generals quickly rushed to the enemy platform of Bailing Mountain in the northwest corner of Shaocheng.

Bailing Mountain and Feidao Mountain in Hejin Island face each other across the sea. On the north side of Bailing Mountain is a narrow seagouzi that is deeply recessed into the land. The Gaoli Navy paddles water on the inside of the seagouzi as the main village; there is a lock. The Bailing Mountain, which has a heavy responsibility of words, is particularly important.

The enemy towers on Baekling Mountain are divided into three layers from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. There are three large crossbow towers, but unfortunately it is not a fort~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Ye Jibaishi and urged Quanchen came to Bailing Mountain and saw fourteen Huaidong Army warships approaching Hejin Strait from the south.

Seeing this situation, Ye Jibaishi and Du Quanchen both looked puzzled: although there were still enemy ships berthing in the outer waters, there were only fourteen enemy ships approaching the Hejin Strait, among which the Jinhai-class warships were only Two ships, the others are Jiyun-class or smaller warships - what kind of medicine did this general Huaidong, who led his troops, take the wrong medicine, and sent these fourteen ships as targets for them to fight?

It was also said that the early warning was a little late, and at this time the main generals of the Navy were watching the fire-throwing crossbow on the school grounds. They rushed to the water village to lead the troops and wasted some time.

At this time, our warships went out of the village and traveled to the northeast side of Bailing Mountain, which is located on the inner side of Haigouzi. It has not had time to enter the Hejin Strait to set up the battlefield, but what makes Chen Quanchen puzzled is that they are only Jinhai-class in Shaocheng. There are seven warships, and nearly three hundred other warships of various sizes. Even if the fourteen enemy ships that come over are all iron-boned ships, the ant colonies swarm up, and they can kill an elephant even if they bite!

"If the enemy ship has a flame-throwing crossbow, it may not be afraid to engage in close-to-board combat..." an old general reminded.

Chen Quan shook his head, and the warships engaged, first with bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows, bow crossbows, and throwing spears on the near side. At a distance of twenty or thirty paces, the flame-throwing crossbow only had a chance to fire once, and the absolute number of them could not be changed. The difference; unless the flame-throwing crossbow made by Huaidong is much better than that of Beiyan.

Thinking of this, he urged Quanchen to call in his confidants and sent the order: "Go down the mountain quickly to see Jin Chengzong, and ask him to be careful that the enemy ships have better flame-throwing crossbows. ..." He said to Ye Ji Baishi again, "More enemy ships are parked outside Hejin Island, and it is possible to storm Hejin Island, and the commander should be prepared to send troops to reinforce Hejin Island." My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter