The Struggle of the Reborn Prince
Chapter 261 Outpost
In the past few years, the Jin Kingdom has been deeply angry with the Song Dynasty navy. Their boats were so small that they dared not go out of the harbor because of the beatings. They did not even dare to go fishing overseas with their fishing boats, let alone merchant ships. Therefore, Wu Shu began to develop after taking control of the military.
Navy, I hope one day I can
After defeating the navy of the Song Dynasty, they began to form a professional navy and separated it from the horse infantry. They appointed Xie Mao Ali, a Jurchen general who was good at water warfare, as commander, and recruited people of all ethnic groups who were proficient in boating and oars as commanders.
Army, expand naval force.
In order to avoid being detected by the Song Dynasty, a naval force was developed secretly, training in inland rivers and offshore, and no one knew the details. After several years of preparation, the Jin Navy already had more than 700 ships.
There are 50,000 warships, sailors and soldiers of all kinds. It can be said that even compared with the navy of previous dynasties, it is an unprecedented fleet. This is Wushu's attempt to break the military strength gap between the Jin and Song Dynasties. It is also
In order to break through the Song Dynasty's blockade of the maritime trade routes between Jin and Jin, it was an inevitable choice.
After deciding to attack Goryeo, Wu Shu ordered the navy to mobilize to cooperate with the battle. While launching the attack on land, he also used the navy to go down the Yalu River and detour from the sea to land behind Goryeo to cope with the land army. This is because
Because after the founding of the country, Goryeo was constantly facing invasions from powerful countries that appeared one after another. It deployed heavy troops on the border and built fortified cities. If it could not be captured quickly, the arrival of Goryeo reinforcements or the Song army's reinforcements would lead to failure.
After the Liao conquered Goryeo for the first time, Goryeo was defeated and forced to pay tribute to the Liao and break off diplomatic relations with the Song Dynasty. The Liao gave Goryeo "hundreds of miles east of the Yalu River". Goryeo led troops to expel the Jurchens and built Xinghua, Tiezhou, and Tongzhou.
, Yongzhou, Guzhou, and Guozhou six cities, the territory of Goryeo has expanded to the Yalu River area. And south of Hamhung,
The Great Wall was built between the north of Yongxing and Dulianpu. The three passes of Dingzhou, Xuande and Yuanxing were built. After that, the Liao Kingdom and the northeastern part of Goryeo were bounded by this line of the Great Wall and the three passes. The boundary between Goryeo and Liao Kingdom
Pushed from the Datong River to the Qingchuan River; at the same time, they actively attacked the Jurchens living along the Yalu River and encroached on the Jurchens' hometown.
In order to defend against the Liao Kingdom, Goryeo established the Guangjun Division and organized the Guangjun Army into a force of 300,000. At the same time, the king's leader Wang Jian adopted the strategy of immigrating to the border and moved a large number of people from the southern part of the peninsula to the north. These measures strengthened the
The border defense force in northern Goryeo greatly expanded the country's territory. Wang Jian's pace of planning the north never stopped. By the end of his rule, Goryeo's northern border had reached as far as Yongheung in present-day South Hamjing Province and the south bank of the Cheongcheon River.
Much more than Silla.
After that, Goryeo took advantage of the endless war between Jin and Liao and had no time to pay attention to it. It twice invaded the Jurchen's Haolandian of the Liao Kingdom and forcibly built nine cities. Later, the Jurchen defeated and recovered Haolandian, but Goryeo did not
gave up expansion, and then used the Jin and Song Dynasties to fight
, when the Jin regime changed, they occupied Baozhou, a former Liao town on the east bank of the Yalu River. After Goryeo surrendered to the Song Dynasty, it was of course more wary of the Jin's punishment, so it sent heavy troops to defend it. Allowing the Song Dynasty to lease Mi Island was also to strengthen the relationship between the two countries.
, with the intention of deterring the Kingdom of Jin.
Wushu sent his navy to bypass Goryeo's heavily fortified Baozhou and land on its back, which would surely cause them to panic and withdraw their troops in order to avoid being completely annihilated. The land army could then take advantage of the situation and attack Goryeo's Xijing. At the same time, the navy could still
Pulling out the Song Army's base on Shenmi Island along the way is a plan that kills two birds with one stone, so all the Jin Army and Navy troops came out in this battle to ensure victory...
After Xie Mao Ali was ordered, he mobilized the navy to disperse down the Yalu River to hide his whereabouts, and sent advance personnel to disguise themselves and go out to Korea for reconnaissance. One was to survey the waterways and grasp the tidal conditions; the other was to observe the situation.
He knew the terrain of Mi Island and the Song army's defense situation on the island. He planned to
Entering the Korean Bay at the mouth of the Yalu River, they then marched along the Goryeo coastline to avoid the Song Dynasty naval fleet cruising in the outer sea. They used a heavy-force surprise attack to capture Shenmi Island in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of its favorable conditions close to the Goryeo mainland to quickly land.
Complete the planned combat plan of detouring behind enemy lines.
Xie Mao Ali learned that there were less than a thousand Song troops on the island and only two warships. Moreover, the Dengzhou navy patrol fleet had just completed the replenishment and repairs and left the island, and went to the outer sea to perform blockade missions. There were a large number of merchant ships from various countries anchored at the island's ports.
Later, he
Feeling that the time has come, Chu Mingwu dispatched troops first. Not only would he be able to gain military exploits, but the merchant ships would also become his trophies. For the navy, which had never had the chance to plunder the front, this would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
On August 22, the Jin army took advantage of the high tide to enter the sea from the Yalu River. After sailing for a day and night, they entered a small island fifty miles away from Shenmi Island and waited in hiding. They avoided the attack of the naval cruiser of Shenmi Island.
Reconnaissance. The navy of the Jin Dynasty was transformed from the infantry and cavalry. The organization is roughly the same. The official names of the generals are quite similar to those of the Song Dynasty. There are the names of navy commander and commander, and the bottom ones are Meng'an, Mouke, Puliyan and so on.
of official rank.
After dark, the commander of the capital, Xiemao Ali, ordered the commander of the former army, Wuyan Puluhun, to lead ten warships worth 10,000 Hu and a hundred warships with thousands of Hu to set off first to serve as the main attack. The commander of the Chinese army, Atuhan, led 30 warships.
The Chinese army and boarding force consisted of two large ships and more than two hundred small and medium-sized warships.
Army troops, Xie Mao Ali commanded the entire army from the flagship of the Chinese army. Chi Zhanhui, the commander of the rear army, led ten large ships and hundreds of medium-sized warships to guard the sea to prevent the Song Dynasty Navy patrol fleet from learning the news and reinforced Shenmi Island.
Intercept the Song army and merchant ships that slipped through the net.
The former troops of the Jinshui Army took advantage of the moonless night before and sailed to Shemi Island by starlight navigation. The waning moon rising after approaching the island the next night cast a few clear shadows on the sea. The fleet disappeared and appeared in the waves, making the island move westward.
It was difficult to spot the observation posts. When they saw the lights on the high observation tower on the top of Yuncong Mountain on the island that had been kept on for navigation for many years, they began to speed up. It can be seen that the Jin Army had made a lot of efforts for this raid.
Kung fu...
However, the Song Dynasty had detected in advance that the Jin army would take action. Although they did not know the details, they still made arrangements. The Weiyuan ship, which was anchored outside the harbor and served as an early warning post, was floating quietly on the sea with all its lights turned off, far away in the dark night.
Looks like a sea
They spotted the common reefs and the Jin Army warships approaching the port as soon as they emerged from the sea level. Because merchant ships often sailed here at night at the port, they did not dare to conclude at this moment that it was the Jin Army warships, but they were on alert.
The sailors got into fighting position.
The Weiyuan is a three-mast and twenty-saddle medium-sized battleship equipped by the Song Dynasty Navy. It has a crew of 210 people. It can be propelled by wind power or rely on manpower to paddle forward. It is an offshore combat ship. However, its combat effectiveness is not weak.
Each side is equipped with a ten-pound speed
There are six artillery guns, a twenty-pound forward-loading cannon at the bow, and a ten-pound mortar at the stern. There are fourteen artillery pieces in total. In addition, five ten-barreled large-caliber machine guns are equipped for close combat.
It has an iron charging angle that can be used to ram enemy ships.
When the Jin fleet gradually appeared in front of the Weiyuan, Captain Song Yi had already concluded that the enemy was coming for a sneak attack. However, he did not order to fire at this moment, but wanted to wait for them to enter the range of the naval gun.
To counter a sneak attack, the Weiyuan quietly adjusted its position and
The port gun, which was most convenient for exerting firepower, was aimed at the enemy's direction. Song Yi found that the incoming enemy fleet did not have many large ships, but mostly small boats. With the big ship as the leader, the small boats formed a small formation with geese's wings behind. Then ten
The remaining large ships lined up in a row and then formed a large formation in small formations, forming a momentum of advancing hand in hand.
"Solid bombs, concentrate your firepower to bombard the third enemy ship on the north side of the enemy's formation, then turn the bow to insert into the enemy's formation, fire the artillery on both sides and then ram the enemy's small warship, disrupt its formation and quickly turn away!" Song Yi could already see clearly!
The flying flags on the enemy ships carried orders, and orders were delivered to various battle positions through sound-transmitting bamboo tubes.
"Raise the warning lights and fire the first warning shot!" Song Yi ordered as the two ships were about five hundred steps apart. The enemy ship had already entered the range and the Weiyuan could not hide its traces.
"Raise fire, enemy attack, highest alert!" Following the call, three red lanterns were raised on the mast, lights were lit at each battle station, and the bow cannon fired in the air to give a warning.
The enemy fleet whose whereabouts were leaked did not stop. A battleship in the formation broke away from the fleet and instead accelerated towards the Weiyuan. This was a tall battleship. In the light, you could already see the monster painted on the bow of the enemy ship. On the side of the ship
Behind the parapet, there were many crossbowmen standing ready to fire, the ship's racket poles had been raised high, and the people under the gun carriages stood still holding the cables, entering the battle state.
"There are really people who are not afraid of death, shoot!" Although Song Yi's Weiyuan was much smaller than his opponent, he didn't realize it at all and gave the order to shoot.
In order to prevent the powerful recoil generated by the artillery from damaging the ship, the artillery rarely fired in salvos. The Weiyuan's port cannon began to fire in sequence. Although the artillery at this time did not have a gun sighting radar or even an optical sight, it was
On a rocking warship, one can imagine the hit rate of primitive artillery even at such a short distance.
But today God seems to have favored the Weiyuan. Five of the shells fired from the six guns missed, and several water columns exploded on the left and right of the enemy ship. However, one shell hit the main mast of the enemy ship like a divine help, and the sails followed.
The mast tipped and slid down suddenly, causing a chaos immediately. The enemy troops on the ship took cover and fled in all directions, and the ship's speed also slowed down.
"Get close to it immediately, fire the starboard cannon, and sink it!" The first round of shooting was successful. Song Yi was overjoyed and immediately ordered the Weiyuan to move and speed up to meet it.
Amidst the chants of the oarsmen, the Weiyuan quickly turned its hull and pointed its bow at the enemy ship to meet them. The Jin Army warships that had not yet dissipated their momentum also wanted to rush towards them, and the two ships quickly approached.
, Song Yi was not a fool and could not have given the Jin army a chance to use the shooting stick. When the two ships were crossing each other at a distance of fifty steps, he braved the rain of flying arrows and the falling artillery stones and ordered to shoot... (To be completed
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