Knock knock knock! ”

The muddy water enters the sea, and the unique loud sound of war drums rages on everyone's eardrums. The surging momentum peculiar to the battlefield permeates the river.

Zhang Zhenzhou raised his sword high and shouted: "Great Sui soldiers, kill!" ”

"Killing" the elite soldiers on each warship shouted hysterically, one by one.

The warships of the Sui army, the hull is strong and tall, several times that of the Goguryeo warships, and the weapons are also very rich, in addition to bows and arrows and strong crossbows, the bow can sink the enemy ship, and there are three major water war weapons such as trebuchet, fire oil and slap rod.

Amid the suffocating sound of war drums, the fifty Great Sui warships were arranged in a diamond shape, getting closer and closer to the warships of Goryeo.

Time flew quickly, and the warships of the two sides finally collided together, and at this time, the slap pole erected high on the Wuya boat of the Sui army fell violently in the shouts of the Sui soldiers and smashed towards the opponent's warship.

All I heard was 'Boom!' With a loud bang, a Goguryeo warship was hit by two poles at the same time, the hull of the ship broke, and the river rushed into the ......

The clapper was widely used in the Sui army's battle of Pingnan Chen, when Yang Su led the naval army to fight fiercely with the Nanchen naval army on the Yangtze River, the clapper played a huge power, and was the first contributor of the Sui army's victory over the Nanchen naval division.

This kind of water warfare weapon has not yet been introduced to Goguryeo, so when the Sui army used a huge slapstick to smash the Goguryeo warship, the Goguryeo soldiers thought that the mast of the Sui warship fell.

The Goguryeo naval army was defenseless, and their weapons were single, and they were ready to approach the Sui warships at close range, and then attack with bows and arrows, but their proximity was just for the clap pole to play, and in a short period of time, the clap rod gave the Goguryeo naval division a heavy blow.

More than 50 warships were smashed and sunk one after another, and Goguryeo soldiers were floating everywhere on the water holding broken wood and calling for help, but they were greeted by the Great Sui warships that ran over.

The water battle between the two sides entered a white-hot heat, the war drums on the river were like thunder, the sound of killing shook the sky, arrows and artillery stones flew all over the sky, and the huge slapping rods were like huge arms, repeatedly slapping at the Goguryeo warships, and the ships continued to make a piercing sound of hull breaking.

On the Goguryeo warship, the crossbowmen arrayed in front, ignoring the palms that were blown red by the river wind, one by one they struggled to open the bowstring, visually measuring the distance, and the bow body was raised up at a certain angle, but before the bow and arrow could be sent out, the entire warship was smashed on the river.

"That's not a mast, it's their weapon!" After losing dozens of warships, Goguryeo finally realized the role of the slap stick.

The first confrontation was declared defeated, which would have somewhat damaged morale, and the ordinary army might have no courage and the formation was in chaos, but the Goguryeo naval army was also well-trained, and it actually suppressed the formation and quickly dispersed. and organize a crossbow counterattack, with shields in front and crossbowmen behind, both sides firing at each other at the same time.

But the Sui warship is tall and sturdy, the hull on the waterline is covered with a layer of iron sheet, and then covered with two layers of cooked cowhide on the surface of the bag, and the arrows fluttering above the river breeze are shot on it, but they are not bounced away, and there are bamboo rows made of bamboo pieces on the female wall, and the arrows are shot on it, all of which are stuck in the gaps, and there is almost no damage to the Sui soldiers.

On the other hand, the Sui warships!

On the vast surface of the river, like a giant beast slicing through the waves, the river on both sides was broken, and the white waves surged, rushing straight towards the Goguryeo warship!

Naval forces generally lower the sails to prevent being shot by enemy rockets and igniting the sails, so the role of rockets in actual combat is not large, and the wind on the river is strong, so there is not much difference between rockets and ordinary arrows.

At this time, the Goguryeo soldiers who had suffered a big loss also realized that they had suffered a big loss in a head-on collision, and they no longer approached the Sui warships. Take advantage of the agility of the boat and launch arrows to attack the Sui warship.

"General, the enemy ship is as small and agile as the stick, and it is difficult to hurt the enemy!" A soldier shouted at Zhang Zhenzhou.

Zhang Zhenzhou saw that the enemy ship was flexible, and immediately said angrily: "Pass my order, launch the rope hook"

When the order was issued, the Sui army's five-tooth boat immediately rained arrows and flew sideways, and one by one the flying hooks swept into the air, nailed deep into the side of the Goguryeo ship, and the Great Sui soldiers let out an angry cry, twisted the winch hard, and after approaching the distance between the two ships, the slap rod smashed down again.

At this time, the Goguryeo soldiers had already realized the tactics of the Sui army, and the warships broke through separately, trying to break out of the gap in the Sui army's big ships, but the tacit cooperation of the Great Sui naval army, the nimble warships biting the enemy ships that were about to flee and firing the rope hooks, with the weight of two boats, towing the enemy warships on the battlefield.

Zhang Zhenzhou watched coldly as the ship slowly closed, and when he saw that the enemy ship could no longer escape, he resolutely ordered: "Fire attack!" ”

Fire attack is one of the traditional tactics of water warfare in the Central Plains, which makes the fire warfare of the naval army like a tiger with wings.

Each warship of the Sui army had several small trebuchets that could throw 30 pounds of stones at a distance of 200 paces, but at this time, the Great Sui soldiers used oil tanks.

As the trebuchet's long arm was thrown, clay pots filled with fire oil were thrown out and smashed on the Goguryeo warship.

The clay pots shattered, and the fire oil flowed all over the deck or side of the ship, and it was soon ignited by Sui rockets, and in a matter of moments, the Goguryeo warships were ablaze.

The situation in Goguryeo took a sharp turn for the worse, falling from the peak to the abyss, and they were all in a desperate situation, and at the same time, the Great Sui warships rushed towards the warships on both sides, completely locking their retreat.

The Great Sui sailors were well-trained, and with the sound of drums, flying hooks swept through the air and were nailed deep into the side of the Goguryeo ship.

After closing the distance, a piece of wooden plank with a nail and a hook smashed into the enemy ship, and the heavy armor soldiers of the Great Sui in strong armor followed the pontoon bridge, holding horizontal knives and killing the enemy ship. That fierce momentum like a tiger made the Goguryeo army tremble with a hard fight.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

At this time, the other Great Sui soldiers who rushed the warship also followed the pattern and rushed onto the enemy ship, and the Goguryeo soldiers, who were already panicked, were immediately killed and retreated in defeat at this time.

A bloody and brutal relentless war began to play out on the river.

Hundreds of warships were entangled to death, nearly 10,000 soldiers fought fiercely, swords flashed, blood splashed, and a corpse with severed limbs fell into the river, and the red blood had already stained the surface of the river.

At the same time, the Great Sui cooperated with each other, and the other Goguryeo warships on the river were hit and sunk in turn, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the Great Sui was already empty in front of him.

This fierce naval battle came to an end in less than an hour, and more than 100 Goryeo warships participated in the battle, except for the 30 or so ships upstream that did not dare to fight again and fled northward, and the remaining more than 200 ships were smashed or burned.

On the Sui side, one of the Wuya boats was not damaged, and only eight of them were smashed through a large hole by the stone cannons of the Goguryeo army, and they sank due to the fierce flooding of the river.

This surface battle, which had a disparity in results, soon ended in a crushing defeat for the Goryeo naval army, which was almost completely wiped out.

Only a few unsunken ships remained on the river, the flames were not extinguished, and the smoke of gunpowder rose into the sky.

……

But at this time, the warning from the beacon fire had reached Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and the three-pillar beacon smoke meant that a large army was coming, and the beacon smoke came from the side of the Beishui River, either an unknown fleet attacked, or the Silla army hit the south bank of the Beishui.

Although the defenders of Pyongyang did not know where the enemy troops were coming from, they could not stop the panic in Pyongyang, and the gates of Pyongyang City were closed one after another, and the soldiers rushed to the head of the city to prepare for battle, and the whole city of Pyongyang fell into complete chaos.

At this time, a sergeant had already rushed to the palace to report to the king of Goryeo, Gao Jianwu.

Speaking of which, Gao Jianwu is also an aspiring monarch, and he is also very capable, when the Sui Dynasty army attacked Pyongyang, Gao Jianwu led thousands of soldiers and horses, and defeated the 100,000 naval army of the Great Sui led by the general Lai Hu'er, and achieved the first result, followed by the Yizhi Wende to break 300,000 Sui soldiers. There is no doubt that the 400,000 land and water army of the Sui Dynasty died at the hands of Gao Jianwu and Yizhi Wende.

Gao Yuan, the king of the Goguryeo Plain, died early, and Gao Jianwu ascended the throne and was known as the king of Rongliu, but he was not free as a king. Yuan Ziyou, a powerful minister, dominates all state affairs, and Gao Jianwu has ambitions and ambitions, but he has completed the overthrow.

For the sake of the survival of the Yuan family, Yuan Ziyou used his influence to make Mo Lizhi (Prime Minister), the position of controlling military and political power, become the private property of the Yuan family, and smoothly passed on to his son Yuan Taizuo.

As a famous minister and powerful minister of Goguryeo, Yuan Ziyou's status in Goguryeo is like Xiao He Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang of Shu, and Gao Gong of the Great Sui.

But fortunately, Yuan Taizuo is more ambitious, and his strength is far less than that of Yuan Ziyou, so although he sits on the Mo Lizhi seat and controls the military and political power of Goguryeo, he can't limit the rise of Gao Jianwu, the king.

Gao Jianwu, with the support of Yizhi Wende and others, continued to gather strength and was eager to weaken the military power of the Yuan clan.

It can also be said that most of Gao Jianwu's ascension to the throne was thinking about how to regain power from the Yuan family.

Goguryeo is also in a rather bad situation today.

From the beginning of the Yang Jian period, Goguryeo and the Great Sui launched a number of large-scale battles, although each time with the help of geographical advantages, dragged down the Sui army, but also the entire Liaodong into the territory, but Goguryeo is small and outnumbered, the Sui army in the eyes of the small victory, for Goguryeo is a big loss that Goguryeo can not afford, after the end of the war, Goguryeo entered the war with Silla, the whole country thought that the Sui Dynasty was divided and unable to attack Goguryeo, so the main force was transferred to the south, but who would have thought that the Sui army unexpectedly attacked again, With lightning speed, it took away the entire Liaodong.

The loss of Liaodong was not only the loss of one-third of Goguryeo's territory, but also the loss of the Liaodong Plain, which was a major grain producing land, and the source of war horses. In the days that followed, Goguryeo's vitality not only did not recover, but was also tragically destroyed by the Sui cavalry out of the city to harass it, and the entire west of Yalushui hardly produced a single grain anymore, and the defenders of the city there almost all depended on the output of the Pei Pingyuan for supplies.

At this critical time, Silla cooperated with the Sui army in the north in the south to harass Goguryeo, and Gao Jianwu naturally did not dare to rashly launch a war against the Sui army. Now that he had finally united with Baekje to defeat Silla, the military led by the Yuan clan immediately asked him to raise troops to recover Liaodong.

Gao Jianwu didn't want to open up a battlefield in the north at all, because if he couldn't win the Sui army, his position would be even more unstable, and more importantly, even if Liaodong was really recovered, it was the Yuan clan that would ultimately benefit, not the royal family.

But the Yuan clan was quite smart, and when he saw that the military could not impress Gao Jianwu, he launched public opinion among the people, and under the boiling, Gao Jianwu, who was already lacking in prestige and lost Liaodong, was very passive, and the throne became precarious, so he had no choice but to send the first general loyal to the royal family - Yizhi Wende to lead the army north.

For this battle, Gao Jianwu also had a somewhat fluke heart.

Because—

Goguryeo's enemies were mainly from the Sui dynasty in the north and the Silla kingdom in the south of the peninsula, but Gao Jianwu knew that the civil war in the Central Plains was raging, so he also believed that the Sui army was temporarily unable to support Liaodong. As for the southern Silla, which suffered a crushing defeat last month, after defending Baekje, they were more than capable of defending themselves and lacked enterprising spirit, and there was no threat to Goguryeo for the time being. Therefore, he handed over most of his troops to Eulji Moondeo, leaving only 30,000 to sit in Pyongyang City.

So when the news of the enemy's attack came, it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, which made Gao Jianwu stunned all of a sudden.

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