Butterfly Transformation (2)

In the warm sunlight of early summer, the bare hills and endless fields of Busan are like open arms in the ocean, holding the peaceful harbor in its arms.

In the harbor, hundreds of newly built warships slept quietly, and the tired Dayuan and Goryeo sailors had not yet recovered from yesterday's hard training, and they would rather not wake up in the sunset. On the shore, there are vague pedestrians moving, that is, Han craftsmen who build ships, they have low status and are not qualified to sleep in. A few long neighing of warhorses came from afar, sighing, drifting away into the distance by the morning wind. The bells of the ancient temple, the chanting of the scholars, and the trumpets of the wood carriers were awakened by the sound of horses, intertwined and overlapped, and began a noisy morning song.

Choi Dezhi, a thousand households of the navy, sat on the top of the watchtower, squinted his eyes stinged by the sun, and looked at the huge battleship in the water tired and worried. Such a big ship, he had seen it for the first time in his life. For the first time in the history of Goryeo, such a large fleet appeared. More than 400 warships, whether they have been completed, or have just been launched without sails and rudders, just pull out one for more than 2,000 materials, in order to build this fleet, half of the Goryeo trees have been cut down, and now the mountain is full of mounds, which are the graves of the Han craftsmen who were exhausted to death.

But can this fleet defeat Song? Cui Dezhi didn't dare to think deeply. For most of the Goryeo soldiers and craftsmen, the purpose of the fleet was a secret, and it was announced that they were going to attack Japan a second time, so the shipbuilding site was chosen in Busan. But Cui Dezhi clearly heard from his wife's handkerchief and Mrs. Ru of the county guard that this fleet was used to cut down the Song Dynasty. In recent years, the Mongolian naval division encountered the Great Song Dynasty warships, and every time they suffered losses, even the fleet hidden in Dengzhou made the family block and burn in the nest, so they had to choose such a port far away from the Central Plains to build ships. When the ship is built, what kind of artillery and other sharp weapons will be equipped, and the Great Song Dynasty will be caught off guard.

However, Cui Dezhi did not think that the plan of the Great Yuan Dynasty was proper, and now that Fujian was rich in goods, there were few Goryeo merchants in which port secretly interacted with the Great Song Dynasty. I'm afraid that the matter of a large fleet hidden in the port of Busan has long been heard by the Great Song spies. If the distance is far away, won't the Great Song Fleet dare to come? Then Nanyang is farther than Goryeo and the Great Song Dynasty, how can the Great Song fleet still kill the door violently.

As a loyal Goryeo general, Choi once raised his concerns to his superiors. But the boss Lin Kewang said mysteriously: "Mo is nosy!" I didn't give him the following words. Cui Dezhi felt very bored, what kind of teaching, "Mo is nosy, when the war is fought, it wasn't Lao Tzu who led people to rush up to death?" After scolding in private for a few days, Cui Dezhi also felt cold, and made an appointment with several generals of the same level that he would never go to sea on this kind of ship to fight.

It's no wonder that Cui Dezhi and others are greedy for life and afraid of death, and those who have fought in water wars know that most of the ships in the harbor are like goods. Although it looks big and beautiful, you should never sail this kind of ship to the sea.

Craftsmen in Korea specialize in making things look beautiful and delicate, and they can make everything from castles and palaces to clothes and handkerchiefs, and they will make them so gorgeous that they can't bear to play with them. Whether the things that can be made are strong and durable, Goryeo craftsmen have always been too lazy to care. Therefore, since ancient times, Korean goods have been synonymous with flashiness. The Goryeo themselves knew this, so they asked Kublai Khan to forcibly recruit 50,000 Han craftsmen from the Central Plains. But after the arrival of the Han craftsmen, as slaves, they were not qualified to dictate, and the warships were still made according to the ideas of the Goryeo.

The idea of the Koreans is that they must save wood. There is not much timber in the country, and if you cut down one, you will lose one. Under the guidance of this line of thinking, the key components that would have required a whole piece of wood to build have been turned into several pieces of wood splicing. The outboard of the ship, which was originally a few feet long and several feet wide, was bent into a multi-section plank mortise and tenon. In this way, the materials are indeed saved a lot, but what about wave resistance? The old Han craftsmen who had seen the battleship quietly shook their heads. (The official history records: Yuan's second expedition to Japan, the battleship was destroyed by the wind.) According to later research, the warships built in Goryeo used splicing technology, which made it impossible to resist the wind and waves at all)

Cui Dezhi, who had fought in water battles, knew that the battleship was not strong, but there was no way for the Mongols to know. His boss Lin Kewang knew that the battleship was a good thing, but he deliberately concealed it and did not report it, or a bigger person behind the scenes was covering up the matter. The whole of Goryeo was fooled around like this, keeping the Mongol princess and the ministers he brought in the dark. As for what to do when the battleship is finished, and when to go to war, everyone doesn't think about it.

The sun rises in the scent of pickles, and the sea glows golden. The sailors who got up began to move around the deck, and some squatted on the side of the ship and rinsed their mouths with water. Someone took the laundry they had washed last night away from the cable. Others carried half a plate of salted fish and a few green onions, found a wide place on the deck and began to eat breakfast.

Flocks of seagulls smell the scent of things, hula and hula fly over and wait around the deck for people to eat the leftovers. Cui Dezhi, who was standing on the watchtower, shook his head helplessly, these newly recruited farmers still retain the habits at home. Let them be warriors, it is simply to drive sheep and tigers and send them to death.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a golden light shining in the depths of the ocean. With years of experience guarding the harbor, he knew that a big ship was approaching. Whose merchant ship sailed so fast, wasn't it a smuggling ship in the name of the wife and brother of the county keeper, and it came out early in the morning to carry out activities, wasn't it afraid that the Mongols would see it?

Cui Dezhi rubbed his eyes and looked into the distance. This time, he could see more clearly, it was the top mast of several sail clippers, and looking at the sea distance, it should be more than five miles away. In the whole of Goryeo, only smuggling ships going to and from Fujian would use this kind of cloth sail. Cui Dezhi shook his head, he didn't plan to send a boat to chase after him. The speed of the opponent's ship is too fast, and a battleship with a big belly and a round waist like the sailor can't catch up with others at all. Second, those who dare to sail during the day with such a swagger must be the relatives of dignitaries and dignitaries, and the sailors will catch up with them, and they will have to carry gifts to the door the next day to compensate others.

Half a year ago, Cui Dezhi did such an embarrassing thing, driving a boat to chase more than 100 miles to bring a smuggling ship to justice. As a result, after returning to Hong Kong, I realized that I couldn't afford to provoke the backers behind the people, so I was beaten down by my boss, and I took it to make up for the loss of the smuggler for half a year. Since then, the officers and men of the Navy Division have wanted to hide when they see the smuggling boat.

Who knows who is standing behind him, and what Lao Tzu is doing with these things. Cui Dezhi thought sullenly. But if you don't chase it, these smugglers are too arrogant, and they actually swagger in front of the sailor, isn't this a deliberate bully?

As he hesitated, the battleship quickly approached the harbor. One, two, three, more, more than twenty, and there were sail shadows behind one after another. "No, it's not a smuggling boat!" Choi Teh-chi keenly sensed the proximity of the danger, and the smuggling ships usually traveled alone, at most two or three in groups, and no smuggling fleet in Goryeo could reach such a large scale.

"Enemy attack"! Cui Dezhi shouted at the top of his voice, "Enemy attack, quickly get weapons, prepare ballistas, enemy attack!" The Great Song Fleet is coming! ”

No one believed his words, and under the watchtower, the soldiers looked blankly out to sea, their view blocked by dense masts, and they could not see anything at all. The sailors in the port were even more leisurely, and someone actually asked in a loud voice: "Where are you, Song people, Song people are far away!" ”

"Lao Cui, aren't you sleeping in a daze, enemy, where will there be enemies in our Dayuan!" Some Goryeo soldiers "consciously" divided themselves into a part of the Daewon Empire, laughing and joking. Following behind Da Yuan, although the king is a puppet of others, in front of the weak, he can shake his majesty proudly. As for whether this majesty is Goryeo or Dayuan, why do you know so clearly? Can you do it?

"Enemy attack! Everyone is in place, and those who do not listen to orders will be killed! Cui Dezhi shouted again, poked his head out of the watchtower, and shot an arrow at the bow of the ship closest to the watchtower. Shui Yong on the deck was taken aback by General Cui's actions, threw down his breakfast and clothes in a panic, and ran to his usual training post.

Reluctantly, several ships untied their cables, hoisted their sails, and swayed out of the harbor. Most of the warships were in a mess, and after yesterday's training, many of the warship's commanders went ashore to sleep, they were not there, and the soldiers did not know how to act.

The enemy ships could already be clearly seen by the Daewon and Goryeo sailors. It was the Song people, the legendary Song people, who could tell the difference from the Goryeo sailors from their neat ship criminals and mighty battle flags. A lot of people are moving, messing around with what they think is the most correct reaction. Some people quickly got on their horses and sent the news to the supreme governor, while others looked around looking for a place to hide.

Several Han craftsmen looked at the familiar and unfamiliar character "Song" in the distance, lowered their heads, and quickly ran to the nearest hiding place. The Great Song Sailor came, and many people spread the news in a low voice.

The Great Song Sailor has come to save us, and the craftsmen are hiding, with some expectations faintly emerging in their hearts.

On the shore, several Mongol generals in the shape of thousands of households urged the soldiers to run towards the mounds on both sides of the port, the defense facilities were on high ground, and everyone had to rush to the door before the enemy could kill them. A few relatively agile soldiers ran up to the battery, untied their armor with all their hands and feet, and pushed the never-used bronze cannon onto the gun position. Pick up a stone and smash open the powder box, and hold it in your hand and put a handful of black powder into the muzzle of the gun.

"How much is the right fit?" Someone asked with a crying voice. Black gunpowder fell like quicksand down the fingers.

"Isn't there a word on the box, it depends on how far away the enemy is!" Someone who understands answers.

"I don't know, it's not kanji!" The charger continued to cry. In order to show the wisdom of the Mongols, the gunpowder secretly made by the court was written on the packaging box with the Mongolian character square, which is not known to ordinary people.

"According to the mantra during training, the charge is six and a half pounds! You damned fools! Finally, a clear general came, and he ordered angrily.

"How far away is the enemy, so fast, is it two thousand steps or a thousand steps!" The charger was scolded and continued to shout anxiously.

The artillery was modeled after the standard of the Great Song Dynasty shore defense artillery, and the usage was also copied by the spies at the cost of their lives. In order to keep this shipbuilding base, the officials of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the capital city gave priority to transporting more than 20 guns to Busan when most of the important towns in the country did not have artillery.

However, one thing they overlook is that weapons need to be used by people. The backward manufacturing methods of the Baigongfang and the primitive management system of the military department of the Great Yuan Dynasty led to the extremely high cost of artillery and ammunition. The average price of 30 taels of silver made the Mongolian generals who defended the shore dare not give the soldiers a chance to practice. Running into position, pushing artillery and other combat postures, the soldiers practiced with all their hearts, but they became familiar with each passing day. How to aim and how to fight to threaten the opposing warship, whether it is for soldiers or officers, it is completely up to luck.

"Ping!" Under the coercion, encouragement and urging of the commander-in-chief, the first shell finally flew out of the fort, drew a crooked arc in mid-air, and plunged into the harbor.

"Ping Pong", "Ping Pong", more than a dozen pieces with insufficient power flew out more than 300 steps and fell into the sea. The high splash of water frightened several surrounding Goryeo warships to dodge. Behind the fort, the officer who supervised the battle scolded and ordered the guards to rush forward and drag down the daredevil, who had almost beaten his own battleship, and whipped him. This time, the maneuvering speed on the turret was even slower, until the enemy ships pushed open the long-range windows on the side and were not ready for a second strike.

"Tianxuan, Tianji, clean up the fort. Other detachments, blockade the port! Du Hu put down the binoculars and ordered confidently. The herald ran quickly towards the mainmast, and in a moment, the signal flag was raised from the tip of the mast.

In this battle, Du Hu is bound to win.

More than four months ago, when Du Gui extracted information from two Goryeo regents that the Northern Yuan was preparing warships in Goryeo, the whole army was surprised. Nowadays, the stable control of the metropolitan government depends on the sea, and if it cannot maintain its superiority at sea, all the achievements of the bloody war in recent years will be destroyed in one fell swoop. Therefore, the intelligence department quickly increased its manpower, mixed in with the ranks of smugglers, and found out the scale of several major shipyards in Goryeo and the surrounding situation.

On the one hand, Wen Tianxiang sent people to comprehensively analyze this information, and on the other hand, he sent the sailors to Nanyang to "suppress bandits". When Du Hu and the others returned to Quanzhou from Nanyang the day after that, the latest battle plan of the Dadu Governor's Mansion was delivered.

Wen Tianxiang ordered the sailors to give up rest and immediately go to Fuzhou Port to replenish ammunition and supplies. After the supplies were replenished, they immediately set off to attack Busan and other Goryeo military ports. Strive to eliminate the Goryeo Navy before it becomes large.

Under the leadership of Lin Sheng, the restorer of Goryeo, Du Hu arrived in the starry night. At the beginning, the officers and men of the Great Song Navy Division were really taken aback by the size of the Busan fleet, especially after seeing the enemy batteries through the binoculars, and they were even more hesitant to adjust the battle plan. However, after seeing the panicked performance of the Goryeo and Mongolian water warriors, as well as the trajectory of the enemy's first wave of shells, everyone's confidence was all puffed up.

"Kill them, let them know what a real sailor is," someone shouted presumptuously. His shouts were responded to in a great way, and in the cheers, Fang Sheng and Su Gang each led a detachment and circled around the port at high speed. The fire flickered on the side of the port, and one shell after another flew out of the muzzle and smashed on the high ground on both sides of the harbor. Most of the shells did not focus on the target, and clouds of smoke exploded on the high ground, and individual shells fell near the gun emplacement, lifting the Korean artillery and gunners together and flipped into the air.

The Goryeo and Mongol armies counterattacked, and shells were fired out one after another and smashed into the sea near the fleet. The size of the coastal defense guns is much larger than that of the naval guns, and the shells are powerful, and the water column lifted up is more than a zhang high, which looks very terrifying. But as if they didn't see these threats, the two fleets of Tianxuan and Tianji approached, soared far, soared far, approached, drew a broken line, and sent a ** projectile to the opponent.

Several other detachments also began to attack, scattered into columns, ** in the Goryeo battleship group. Since the establishment of the Great Song Naval Division, the most battles have taken place inside the enemy's harbors. The captains of each ship are very experienced in fighting such ships nested in the harbor. Under their control, the Great Song warship and the Goryeo warship have always maintained a distance of about 500 paces, this distance, the opponent's bows and arrows, bed crossbows can not danger the Great Song warship, but the artillery equipped on the Great Song warship can use a horizontal angle to bombard the opponent.

"Boom!" A volley of shells flew out of the side of the Heunghwa, smashing the Goryeo battleship on the opposite side into several sections. Xu Jieming, the captain of the Xinghua, opened his mouth in surprise and watched as the Goryeo giant ship, which had been reduced to wood chips, turned into a ball of fire. He was stunned, he had never expected his own artillery to be so powerful.

"Save a little, just fire a salvo of ten guns at a time, no, a salvo of five guns, other artillery charges, rest, shoot in turns from bow to stern!" Next to the Xinghua battleship, the captain of the Xianyou, Zheng Cong, shouted at the herald. He saw that the Goryeo warships were decorations, not for war. A battleship that can be sunk with a single shell has never been seen by the Great Song Naval Division.

The herald ran down the gun bay, and after a few moments, the Xianyou's fire weakened. But the speed of the ship did not slow, and several other warships swam back and forth between the panicked Goryeo warships, and almost every shelling could send a Goryeo warship underwater.

Most of the warships consciously reduced the number of guns fired in a salvo, and the experienced captains could see that the strength of the Goryeo ships was too far from that of the Song ships, that is, the rags in the hands of those pirates in the South Seas were stronger than the giant ships of the Koreans.

Obviously did not have the strength to challenge the Great Song Dynasty, why did the Goryeo people be thugs for Mongolia? Du Hu was on the ship, looking at the battlefield like child's play, and thought silently.

There was no answer to the shore, and on the shore, the sound of artillery was fierce one after another, and the smoke of gunpowder obscured the color of the morning sun.

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