Chapter 30: The Battle of Ganghwa Island

Wang Ying had already taken 120 10,000-stone ships to repair in Denglai.

In addition to the Shenji Battalion, among the other six battalions, the other five battalions are here. Immediately waiting to board the ship.

Wang Ying also hung up the official rank of chief officer of the Eastern Water Division. Temperance Liaodong, Shandong, Sailors. Wu Jin served as the deputy commander-in-chief, and controlled the fifth battalion as the chief general of the land war.

There is another person who is with him, and that is Xu Youzhen.

He has been appointed commander of the Eastern Army. Speaking of Cao Yi's staff, it is not.

Zhu Qizhen gave him the task of co-opting the local forces in Korea and establishing an effective rule. If this war is won, then it will be Xu Youzhen who controls the affairs of North Korea.

Xu Youzhen did not come alone, but transferred a lot of officials, familiar with government affairs, and some familiar with North Korea, such as Li Shi also transferred out of the Ministry of Rites and became Xu Youzhen's deputy.

After receiving Cao Yi's order, Wang Ying immediately ordered to board the ship.

This group had 120 large ships, more than 100 other large and small ships, organized a fleet, with a total strength of nearly 50,000 troops, and sailed from Denglai to Ganghwa Island.

Cao Yi had three axes, and the third axe was chopped down.

Ganghwa Island is an island at the mouth of the Han River. It was also the residence of the lords of the previous dynasties, and during the Goryeo period, the Yuan Dynasty attacked Goryeo five or six times, and the lords of Goryeo also took refuge in Ganghwa Island many times.

It's just that Ganghwa Island is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack for the army that invades Korea from land, but when it comes to attacking from the sea, Ganghwa Island is the first line of defense.

If Han Huiming didn't notice the possibility of the Ming army coming from the sea, it would be wrong.

Since the opening of the Ming Dynasty in the early years of orthodoxy, the foreign trade volume of the Ming Dynasty has increased greatly, and North Korea, as a loyal vassal of the Ming Dynasty, will affect the direction of the Ming Dynasty's domestic policy.

So North Korea also opened its port.

However, his opening of the port was only for the Ming Dynasty, and allowing the Ming people to trade was already closed to other countries.

The Ming Dynasty tasted the cheapness of the customs tariff silver, from the beginning of the implementation, everyone has criticized, to this day, the court will regard the customs system as ordinary, as if it has become a part of the Ming ancestral system.

And Korea also ate a lot of sweetness in this kind of maritime trade, plus the Korean sailors, in the reign of King Sejong, it was the eastward expedition to Japan and the fight against Tsushima Island.

Even if Han Huiming is a Chinese man, he knows that it is not impossible for the Ming army to come across the sea.

It's just that Cao Yi's method is a righteous and bright plan, and he is put on a dignified and upright way, so that North Korea knows that North Korea can have a way?

Cao Yi opened up several battlefields, which is the purpose, as if two martial arts masters were competing for internal strength. There is no need to use any other tricks.

Therefore, when the Ming army fleet came to the waters near Ganghwa Road, Han Huiming already knew.

It's just that he saw the ships of the Ming army from a distance on Jianghua Island, and he gasped.

The current carrying capacity of the Wanshi ship is only about seven or eight hundred tons. But in this era, it was already a behemoth, the whole East, before the Westerners came. Except for the ship built by Da Ming himself, no one can surpass it.

Even after the arrival of the Westerners, for a long time, such large ships were rare in the Far East.

At this moment, North Korea only felt that the mountains were pressing down. Go straight to Ganghwa Island.

To be honest, as far as the generals of the North Korean naval division are concerned, they don't want to fight at all, because the victory or defeat can be seen before the battle.

There is nothing else to do in naval warfare, big ships are better than small ships, and big cannons are better than small cannons.

It is true that the ships of the Ming army were not specialized warships, but large fortune ships, which were used to transport grain.

Therefore, there were no more than ten cannons on each ship, and the rest were small cannons, or even a swarm of bees, and so on. It is not at all possible to destroy the other side's ships with artillery, even if the North Korean ships are relatively small, this is the limitation of artillery technology, but the problem is that in terms of artillery fire, the North Korea is worse than the Ming army.

The reason why Liu Dingzhi was able to jump from the Shaofu to the cabinet, and there was no objection between China and foreign countries, was because Liu Dingzhi did too well in the position of the Shaofu.

Shaofu did not have much financial revenue contributed by the inner court, but it contributed a lot of weapons and equipment to the army, and the Beijing camp, the sailors, and the border army all received huge benefits.

In other words, all the surpluses of the Shaofu were converted into military spending.

That's why there is so much artillery equipment.

From the beginning of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy to the present, Shaofu has produced a total of nearly 3,000 cannons. But where is the DPRK with such production capacity.

It's just that Ganghwa Island is too important.

It is important to have a bearing on the confidence of all North Koreans

All Koreans know that once Seoul fell, the lord of the country fled to Ganghwa Island, but now Seoul has not fallen, Ganghwa Island has fallen first, can the danger of Seoul be better than Ganghwa-do?

The situation of unstable people's hearts can no longer be maintained.

Therefore, no matter what, Ganghwa Island must always be guarded, and this battle will be fought if it is not fought.

Therefore, Han Huiming gathered a large number of ships and recruited a large number of people, whether it was fishing boats, merchant ships, or ships that seemed to be able to float on the sea.

On Jianghua Road, above the southeast sea, fight to the death with the Daming Water Division.

Wang Ying stood on top of the flagship, looking far away, and smiled contemptuously.

I saw that I don't know how many North Korean ships were pressed by the black pressure, and they surged over with the waves, covering almost all the sea.

Although it is a strong outsider, this momentum is really scary.

This water war, since the Poyang Lake water battle, is the largest water war in East Asia. It's just the progress of technology, which can't be offset by personal blood.

Therefore, Wang Ying did not hesitate to break into the North Korean fleet with his headquarters.

The battle of more than 1,000 ships began at this point.

At the beginning, the Ming army still had formations, while the North Korean army did not have formations at all, many of them were conscripted, and it was impossible to arrange a neat formation.

Just with the first move of the North Korean sailors, after the fireboat. The North Korean ships found the direction of the wind and released a large number of fireboats, many of which were still piloted, like dead soldiers.

Wang Ying had no choice but to spread out the formation and avoid the fireboats.

The sea was too wide, and most of the fireships were of little use, and even if a few fireships crashed into the ships of the Ming army, there was not much loss in shipbuilding.

It's just that it gets caught in the middle of a scuffle.

Ships on both sides were mixed together, bombarded with artillery arrows, muskets, javelins, and so on, all kinds of long-range weapons. The whole sea is bustling with activity.

At this moment, Wu Jin was also on the warship.

In addition to dozens of horse ships, loaded with a large number of horses left behind, the rest of the transport ships are also on the battlefield, and even the soldiers loaded on the ships have become part of their combat effectiveness.

Although some of these soldiers were seasick, not all of them were seasick after all.

Moreover, firearms are becoming more and more important in naval warfare, but hand-to-hand combat is already the key to determining the outcome of naval warfare.

Wu Jin was standing on the bow of the ship at the moment, allowing the sea breeze to rush into his chest with the smell of gunsmoke. Holding a longbow in hand, his gaze swept over his surroundings.

He couldn't see the entire battlefield.

Without him, the battlefield that accommodated so many ships, covering the sea surface for several miles, and even as the melee intensified, the smoke of countless firearms, the black smoke from the burning of ships, rose into the sky one by one, even though there was a sea breeze blowing, but on the whole, the visibility was still slowly getting lower.

And it's useless to look too far. Because I can't take care of it, it's already all kinds of battles.

Wu Jin bent his bow and arrow, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the long arrow disappeared from his hand in an instant, nailed to the head of a North Korean general, and was in the middle of the door, and was instantly planted from the ship and swallowed by the sea.

Immediately, the ships under Wu Jin's seat leaned up, and several cannons condescendingly aimed at these ships, and a large number of scattered bullets sprayed over, and the whole ship seemed to be washed by lead bullets.

Countless people have already suffered a large number of casualties before they know what is happening.

The ship was visibly stunned, and then drifted away along the water, and it was clear that the man at the helm was dead, and the ship had lost control.

Coupled with the fact that there are several large holes in the hull, if it is not disposed of properly, the ship will probably sink to the bottom of the sea tonight.