Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Showdown
"This ..... This..... How is this possible? ”
Li Guan was stunned and watched his ship being blown up quickly, he hadn't fought with the Japanese Invaders, when did the Wolves have such a terrible cannon?
The North Korean sailors couldn't catch up with them, they couldn't hit and couldn't beat them, and in a short time three boats were already shot and caught fire. With two cannon shots in the other direction, shells also fell in the middle of the fleet that rushed to Xi Island. Columns of water rose into the sky, and the waves poured many people all over their heads.
Orr, suddenly someone shouted, "It's leaking!" ”
However, after the shell exploded in the water, it tore the underwater part of the nearby ship. Although there are already "tortoiseshell boats" in these years, it is just to nail some iron plates on the outside of the ship, and the transformed ships run slowly, except for being able to be used for defense, there is almost no actual combat value.
"My lord, what now?"
A general asked Li Guan, "Do you want the army to kill together?" ”
Li Guan was still hesitating, his courage had already been exhausted, but the enemy was just a little bit, and his own side rushed forward regardless of casualties, he would definitely be able to win, right? If the enemy was too strong, he must have run away, but now it looks like his own side still has the advantage? Although the cannon is powerful, when the battleship rushes up and enters the hand-to-hand combat, what use can the cannon be?
While he was hesitating, another boat was blown up on the side. The hull of the ship was blazing, some of the soldiers on board were shattered by high-explosive shells, and the rest were terrified, jumped off the ship, and then shouted and screamed.
"Help, help!"
"Ghost ship, that's a ghost ship, come and leave us!"
"Run!"
With a shout, the remaining two boats immediately turned their bows, and did not go to make peace with Li Huihui, but fled directly. Seeing this situation, Li Wan no longer hesitated, and ordered loudly: "Retreat!" ”
The sound of gold sounded from the flagship, and the sailors operated the ship to make an arc across the sea, and fled in the direction they came. There were also brave men among the Koreans, who successfully landed on the beach in the face of artillery fire on the island. As a result, as soon as he jumped into the knee-high seawater, the sound of Mingjin came from behind.
The Koreans, who were about to come forward to fight, couldn't help but be stunned, and when they looked back, they saw that the fleet that had been menacing a moment ago was scattering and fleeing. The "sudden" ghost ship rushed into the flotilla and opened fire again and again, defeating the Wang division to the ground. The people on these two boats have become lonely?
It's easy to land on the beach, but it's not so easy to get the ship back. While he was in shock, the island's cannons aimed at two immobile ships, and with just one round of fire, two large holes were blown open in the ships. Fragmented shrapnel and flying sawdust knocked down the North Korean soldiers around them.
In the wailing, the sea was dyed bright red.
"Surrender, surrender! Don't shoot! ”
The North Koreans, who had been regarded as outcasts, immediately made a decision, threw away their weapons, and surrendered to the pirates on the island. The people above have run away, what are they still fighting here? Even if you win, it's useless, if you don't have a ship, you can't run back at all, and it's still a dead end.
Chen Cheng didn't care about the affairs on the island, and began a pleasant pursuit operation. Lin Mengchu fired cannons one after another, sinking more than a dozen warships of the North Korean naval division, and upgraded several levels in a row, feeling better and better. Although the North Koreans have some shotguns, they have few artillery, and even if they have one or two cannons, they are all old-fashioned front-loading guns, that is, they are at the level of listening to a sound.
Li Wan fled all the way with the remnants of the defeated army, and when he came, he felt that this sea route was too long, and when he fled for his life, he hated why this vast sea existed. They couldn't run and run, they couldn't win the battle, and most of them were shattered, and only four or five boats were left to run back to the military port.
Chen Cheng came out to take a look, and after so many cannons, the ship was not damaged. Perhaps, there is any other truth in this? For example, this ship is now considered a "vehicle", so what kind of "buff" can you enjoy?
Since the ships were fine, Chen Cheng drove the boat to the edge of the Korean military port, sank the ships in the port one by one with cannons, and fired at the shore, bombing warehouses, barracks, wharves, government offices and other buildings to the ground. There are still 3,000 elites on the shore who have been cobbled together, but no matter how strong the elite is, in the face of this unreasonable artillery fire, it can only be dispersed.
In the rumbling sound of cannons, the buildings on the shore were blazing with fire, and they could be seen clearly for miles and miles. Once again, the face of the Joseon Dynasty was trampled on the ground. The 6,000 troops that attacked this time were the elite that Li Liang had managed to piece together, and they were the last reliance of the Korean state, but as a result, the entire naval division was wiped out, and even the commander Li Wan fell into the sea to feed the fish and shrimp. The army was killed and wounded by the explosion, hundreds of people were killed, and they ran all over the mountains.
After the establishment of slaves, there were already many bandits and soldiers on the 3,000-mile territory of Korea, and now that I heard that Wang Shi had suffered another defeat, the people's resistance suddenly became stronger, and there were people everywhere who wanted to make trouble. It was not even as easy to go to the countryside to grab food, and those untouchables did not know where to get their swords, guns, armor, and even muskets, and beat the troops who went down to conscript and collect food.
Chen Cheng operated the boat, Lin Mengchu fired cannons, and after flattening the military port of the Koreans, he swaggered back to Xidao. After going to the island, Chen Cheng called Shang Yangwu over and asked, "You are from Liao, do you know General Mao Wenlong?" ”
Shang Yang Wu said: "I know him, but he probably doesn't know me." ”
Chen Cheng said: "Just know me, I'll give you a boat, thirty people, you go and bring a message to Mao Shuai." It is said that now that Korea has become a vassal of Jiannu, it is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and it is time to send troops to fight it. If he wants, I will share the 3,000 miles of North Korea with him! ”
Shang Yangwu also looked down on the style of the Korean Kingdom, and said loudly when he heard this: "Don't worry, general, I will definitely inform Mao Dashuai!" ”
When Shang Yangwu drove the boat to Phi Dao, Lin Mengchu asked, "Are we going ashore?" ”
Chen Cheng said: "Originally, I just wanted to be a pirate king, but now the Koreans themselves come up to die, and their main forces have been defeated, so what is polite to them?" The emperor took turns to do it, and this year came to my house....... Chu Chu's body! ”
Lin Mengchu's eyes were bent when she smiled, she imagined the situation of being an emperor for a while, and felt that it was much more interesting than going to school.
After breaking the Joseon royal division, Chen Cheng took Choi Sung-so and others to the shore from Xi Island. When they first came ashore, the team consisted of only five or six hundred men, and when they entered Pyongyang again, the surrounding civilians spontaneously joined the army with rudimentary weapons, and the strength of the army swelled to nearly 2,000 at once.
Chen Cheng promoted the original subordinates to officers, and all of them became team leaders, at the level of commanders, and also reorganized the guards. Choi Mengliang, a North Korean who defected, suggested: "While the officers and soldiers are panicking, the king can just send troops south to capture more territory!" ”
"Don't worry, let's wait for Mao Wenlong first."
When waiting for the Dongjiang Army, you can't do nothing, so let's fight the local tyrants and divide the land. Soon, there was a crooked wind of "fighting two shifts and dividing the fields" in Ping'an Road. Chen Cheng seized the land occupied by the two classes of nobles and divided it equally among the people under his command.
Of course, land was not taken for free, and at least one member of the family had to serve in the army, or serve as a soldier in the Red Guards. So many scraps of copper and iron were seized, and they were sent to the village to form a militia. Isn't it good that those two classes of nobles occupy a large amount of land and have political and economic privileges, and take out their property to buy off the lower classes?
Of course, we know that all the old forces are unwilling to withdraw from the stage of history, and they always have to struggle to write down. Chen Cheng was not polite to them, and raised the butcher knife to slash indiscriminately. The "Criticism and Struggle Meeting" and the "Grievance Appeal Conference" were used one after another, and those two classes of wealthy families who had long been corrupted had no combat effectiveness at all, and were soon drowned in the ocean of the people's war.
A peasant association was formed in the village, and the slogan "All rights belong to the peasant council" was painted on the walls. After waiting for a month, Chen Cheng cleaned up the two classes of nobles in Ping'an Dao, and did not wait for Mao Wenlong's reply. Lin Mengchu likes to hold a "criticism meeting" very much, every time she kills someone, she is always excited, and then pesters Chen Cheng all night.
"Mao Wenlong won't kill my envoy, right?"
Chen Cheng muttered: "Just ignore him, without Mao Wenlong, won't we eat pork?" Let's do it ourselves! ”
Because of the perverse behavior of Ping'an Dao, the two classes of wealthy families were greatly frightened, and they realized that this group of Japanese robbers was different from the Jurchens, and this was to dig out their roots! The nobles, sensing the crisis, rarely united, and cobbled together an army of more than 10,000 people to go to conquer the Japanese invaders.
On the border of Pyongan Province and Huanghae Province, Chen Cheng took more than 4,000 people to set up a formation, set up more than a dozen cannons and bombarded them indiscriminately, and the North Korean soldiers on the opposite side had already collapsed, and then Lin Mengchu led the cavalry team to chase and kill, until they reached the edge of Gyeonggi Province, and then they withdrew their troops and retreated.
The battle has already been fought, so what else is there to be polite? Chen Cheng waved his army south and took down the left and right roads of Huanghai Road. He also made up some songs for North Koreans to sing everywhere. As a result, on the border between Hamgyong Province and Gangwon Province, there are songs everywhere that say, "Eat his mother, drink his mother, and the dragon king will not pay for food when he comes."
Seeing that the situation of the revolution was so good, Chen Cheng stopped pretending, he had a showdown, and shouted at the Koreans under his command: "I am the Kami Sama of the New World!" ”
There were a lot more soldiers and horses under his command, and Chen Cheng didn't care about the Hamgyong Province behind him, and directly rushed into Gyeonggi Province, captured Seoul, and penetrated Chungcheong-do and entered Gyeongsang-do. In front of the cannon, everything is a floating cloud. Even if you want to defend the fortified city, it will be impossible.
Under the Gyeongju Mansion, Chen Cheng took out the battleship "Shine with the Sun", and the 280mm caliber cannon roared only once, and the thick city wall of the Gyeongju Mansion collapsed. The rebels rushed into the city and arrested Li Liang and his civil and military ministers.