Neither side could deliver a fatal blow to the enemy with long-range firepower, so naval warfare soon entered the most traditional and important part of naval warfare in this era - broadside warfare.

In naval battles, the victory or defeat basically depends on the size of the ships on both sides and the number of people on board.

In terms of boat performance, Li Jiajun has an advantage, and their medium-sized Fukufu boats are more than one meter higher than the board of the Banwu boats, not to mention the taller and larger Fukufu.

Once the board is connected, Li Jiajun is condescending to the Goryeo army and has a great advantage.

But in terms of personnel, the number of Li Jiajun is slightly smaller.

Because his ships carried a large number of prisoners and plundered goods, and each ship kept only the most basic sailors and fighters, the prepared Goryeo army naturally had some advantages.

The main force of both sides, the medium-sized and large Fubunes, leaned against the side of the board of the Itaya ship, and the sailors threw out the grappling hooks with ropes in order, hooked the side of the other ship, and then worked hard together, and finally the ship caught the side.

At the moment of relay, the archers of both sides simultaneously stuck their heads out from behind the guards and rained down arrows on the enemy's deck.

The Li army was condescending and could attack the enemy with heavy arrows, while the Goryeo people belonged to the back attack, and the heavy arrows could not exert their power, but fortunately, their favorite arrows could also be easily thrown up, and both sides had no armor, and light arrows could also cause effective damage.

The advantage of Li Jiajun's high superiority is that the weapons such as javelins and throwing axes in their hands can also exert combat effectiveness.

And those muskets and artillery that were scarcely numerous.

In broadside combat, it was almost impossible for muskets and cannons fired from a high position to miss, especially those shotguns, which fired a round of gravel at the enemy deck, with dazzling results in each round.

The Koreans who first joined the Li family's warship were swept away by the rain of shrapnels, and the flesh and blood on the Itanya boat were flying, and the Koreans actually failed to catch the gangplank at the first time.

This caused the Li pirates to delay for a moment, until the Goryeo sailors took advantage of the interval between the guns and artillery firing and had to reload to reload the springboard, and the pirates' geographical advantage was neutralized.

The moment the gangplank was set up, there was a whistle on the Fu ship, and several strong pirates brandished their swords and jumped on the gangplank first, and the slender swords made a graceful but deadly arc and cut straight into the necks of the Goryeo sailors.

Several heads flew into the air with expressions of disbelief.

The Goryeo Ring Sword was at a disadvantage in this kind of hand-to-hand combat, and the smaller number of Li pirates did not retreat, but advanced, and more pirates wielded swords and waist knives, following behind a few warriors to launch a counterattack against the Itaya ships.

At this time, the Goryeo boat also approached and boarded from the other side of the Banya boat to join the battlefield, and the superiority of the Goryeo army gradually became apparent, they had 91 ships full of soldiers, while the Li family army only had 35 at this time.

Moreover, after all, pirates are not Tartar armor soldiers or new army commanders, and melee combat is completely based on momentary bravery, since they cannot instantly overwhelm the enemy, their own morale will inevitably drop.

The Koreans gradually fought back, and the pirates who boarded the Itaya ship were pressed back into the Fukuku.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Goryeo people boarded the ship of the Li family army for the first time, and although the Goryeo warrior was quickly hit by a javelin, the battle had already begun to gradually shift to the Li family's ship.

It's just that the Koreans dragged on the battle for too long, and more of the Li family's ships appeared on the sea antenna - after learning that the convoy was intercepted, Li Feifeng immediately personally commanded the fleet to come to reinforce it.

The pirates cheered in unison at the sight of the reinforcements, and now, as long as they hold out for a little longer, they will have a chance to win the final victory.

Inevitably, the morale of the Koreans began to decline, after all, even if they were victorious, they would only eat the ships of a few invaders, and they would not even be a dime a dozen, and would not help much in the battle.

Li Yiqi, the commander of the Goryeo navy, stood on the tower in the middle of a board house, looking west with a sad face.

According to the original establishment, there should be more than 70,000 people in the Sandao Naval Division, but in fact, all the people and ships that can be dispatched by the Sandao are here, and there are only more than 5,000 soldiers in the whole army.

If they are held back by the enemy in front of them, and more enemy reinforcements arrive, the Goryeo army may even lose its strength advantage.

If the main force of the Samdo Water Division were to be destroyed here, Goryeo would not only lose a fighting force, but would even lose its deterrence against the Japanese invaders.

Li Yiqi didn't want to take this risk, so after thinking for a while, the commander of the Goryeo naval army raised the general flag and ordered the whole army to retreat.

However, this order was a great mistake, hundreds of ships on both sides had already been mixed up, and the handsome flag raised by Li Yiqi could be seen by the Koreans, and naturally it would also fall into the eyes of the pirates.

Realizing that the ship was the flagship of the Koreans, all the nearby pirate ships aimed their long-range fire at the tower of the board-house ship.

6 guns of various calibers and more than 20 muskets fired at the same time, and the one-tael-tael lead bullet fired from a raised gun was very accurate and ......, or very lucky to hit the chest of Li Yiqi, the commander of Goryeo, and instantly opened a big hole in his body!

This shot ultimately decided the outcome of the war, and the Koreans, who had lost their commander, began to try to retreat, but the high-morale pirates were naturally reluctant to let go.

In naval warfare in this era, it was difficult for the loser to escape, because the ships of both sides had been connected by various thick planks and ropes, and if they wanted to escape, they had to overturn the gangplank, cut the ropes, and break away before the opponent's grappling hook hooked them again.

In the heat of naval battles, it is usually the one who has the upper hand who can do this, and the one who has the upper hand naturally does not think about running away from .......

The two sides were still fighting together, and two quarters of an hour after Li Yiqi's death, Li Feifeng's fast ship arrived on the battlefield, and the pirate army gained a balance of forces and began to gradually overwhelm the Koreans.

After another half an hour, Li Feifeng personally led the main fleet of the Li family army to arrive, and at this point, the pirates even had an absolute advantage in the number of troops.

In the naval battle of Ganghwa Island, Li Jiajun successively invested 150 large and small ships, sank 3 Goryeo Navy Banwu ships, and captured 21 ships; 7 small ships of the Goryeo Army were sunk and 41 were captured.

More than 1,000 people were killed and missing, including commander Li Yiqi, and more than 3,000 were captured, and almost all of them were wiped out.

The Li pirates had 1 large Fu ship, 2 medium Fu boats and 7 small boats burned, losing more than 1,800 people.

The defeat of Li Yiqi was almost equivalent to the fact that all the sailors who could be dispatched by Goryeo had been completely wiped out at this time, and the extravagant hopes of the Goryeo people to recover Ganghwa Island from the sea were completely shattered.

Now, it is possible to relieve the siege of Wangjing only with the remnants of Pyongan Province, Hamgyong Province, and Hwanghae-do King Army, which is composed of more than 11,000 people under the command of Shin Ji, the military envoy of South Hamgyong Province.

The Dongro Gyeonwang Army, which was commanded by Marshal Kim Myeong-won of Gangwon Province and the remnants of Gyeonggi Province, totaled more than 5,000 people.

and the Namro-geonwang Army, which consisted of more than 40,000 troops of Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, and Gyeongsang-do under the command of Jeolla Provincial Inspector Yi Huan.