Volume 5: Whose Great Cause, Chapter 38, The First Victory of the Water Army
Dozens of crossbow arrows fell, and the warship at the forefront of Goguryeo was immediately killed and wounded, and several crossbow arrows shot through several large holes in the side chords of the deck, although it did not shoot through the two-story battle, but the damage to the warship was certain.
"Shoot!" Seeing the battleship in front of him opening the record, the Sui army behind also became excited, "Hum." With a loud bang, the crossbow arrows were launched in the direction of Goguryeo, nailed to the ship, emitting a seizing color, and in an instant, the front ten Goguryeo ships fell densely packed with bed crossbows with the thickness of their arms, even the soldiers hiding in the warehouse could only be spared, and at least one-third of the people of these ten ships were effectively killed.
The warships of 300 materials can be regarded as medium-sized warships in the Goguryeo naval army, and the warships of the Goguryeo naval army of more than 300 materials are only 120 warships, which can carry more than 50 sailors, and more than 200 people can be carried on the 1,000 warships.
The main ships of Goguryeo that met the Sui army this time were mainly ships of 3 to 500 materials, and this time the navy was not a rookie, and they had rich combat experience, and they defeated the naval armies of Baekje, Silla, and the Japanese people many times, and even beat the naval armies of Baekje and Silla to a pulp.
However, whether it is Baekje, Silla, or the ships of the Japanese people, their warships are not much different, and the Goguryeo people have an absolute advantage in both number and size, but this time the Sui army faced is a behemoth, the smallest warships are more than 800 materials, and the total number of warships of the Goguryeo people with more than 1,000 materials is less than ten, and the strength of the other side is too unusual.
"Bump, bump." In the face of the enemy ships the size of their toys, the Sui sailors all had a trace of cruelty on their faces, and when they saw that the two sides were close, they simply pressed people with their boats.
"Boom" a 3,000-material Sui warship and a Goguryeo warship of about 300-materiality inevitably collided. ^^ ^^ face the impact of a battleship ten times its size, the Goguryeo ship fell apart without accident and floated on the sea like a pile of broken wood, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the warship fell into the sea like ants, and soon the sea water below was dyed red.
Although the Goguryeo people found the Sui army menacing like a battle, but the sea was extremely vast, but there was not much intuitive feeling in the distance, in order to win defense time for Pyongyang, especially to clear the outside wall. To prevent the enemy from being fed with food, Goguryeo had the courage to rush up, just looking at the huge ships of the other side. The closer they got, the more the Goguryeo navy saw that their scalps were numb, and the average height of the opponent's warships was several times that of their own warships.
After eating the first handful, the Goguryeo people reacted, and the Goguryeo ships in front of them hurriedly scattered to the left and right. wanted to escape from the encirclement of the Sui army, but now it was too late to react, the Sui army had formed a semi-encircled pocket in front of the Goguryeo battleship, and there were many warships in this era, so how could it be so easy to escape, and the ships on both sides came into contact one after another, just a collision. The Goguryeo warships were all torn apart.
Qin Qiong and the three of them were riding a medium-sized warship of about 2,000 materials, such a battleship was twice the largest warship of the Goguryeo people, and as soon as the two sides came into contact, their ships sank two small ships of Goguryeo in a row. All the soldiers who were standing staggered from side to side, and even more people simply fell on the deck with a thud, and fell with a blue nose and swollen face.
"Crazy, the people of the sailors are all *** madmen, aren't they afraid of the ship disintegrating if they collide like this?" A government soldier muttered.
Seeing the tragic situation of the Goguryeo ships being torn apart, the soldiers who did not know the details could not help but be afraid. ^^ ^^ although his own ship is ten times larger than the other party. He only killed a thousand enemies and lost eight hundred. If it hits like this, if your own boat also falls apart, won't you also fall into the sea and become a chicken in the soup?
They don't know that the collision itself is one of the ways of naval combat, and there is a layer of steel plate under the bow of each ship to protect the ship, as long as they take the initiative to collide, the damage to the ship is basically not large, but if the other party hits their weak point, even if it is several times smaller, it may lead to incalculable losses on their own side.
"Boom." There were several more collisions, but the big ship could not continue its indomitable stance, and was forced to stop, ramming several enemy warships in a row, and the ground power provided by the single * sail and pulp was no longer enough to knock the opponent's warship over.
"Click, click." Although the Goguryeo ship in front of them was flying with wood on the deck, in the end they escaped death, and the Goguryeo people on the ship finally had a chance to fight with the Sui army, but they were dumbfounded when they looked at the enemy warship that was close to them, how could they go up?
"Whew! Shout! Shout! When they were in a daze, arrows fell like raindrops from the Sui army's boats, and many Goguryeo soldiers who had just escaped suddenly fell in pools of blood.
"Fight back, fight back." The captain of the Goguryeo ship shouted loudly, and only the sparse arrows could be shot upward.
"Bang, bang, bang." When several Goguryeo warships saw the bargain, they took the initiative to collide with them, and they immediately took out ropes and threw them upwards, put them on the side of the Sui army's ship, bit their weapons in their mouths, and crawled along the rope like pirates to the top of the Sui warship.
"Cut their ropes." A cold order came, and the axes of the Sui army flew together, and the ropes hanging on them were suddenly cut off, and the Goguryeo people below fell from the air one after another, and their mouths let out a terrible scream.
"Porphyry, porphyria, porphyry." Goguryeo finally launched the most threatening attack, launching dozens of rockets onto the ship, but the deck was fireproofed, and the rockets could not burn for a while, and were quickly doused by the prepared sailors.
Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin looked nervously at the side of the ship, thinking that some Goguryeo people would be able to climb onto the ship to engage in the battle, but until the ship started again, no one from Goguryeo could jump up in the end.
On a large ship of thousands of materials in Goguryeo in the rear, Gao Jianwu, the commander of the Goguryeo sailors, watched his warships sink one by one with a gloomy face, and a middle-aged scribe next to him couldn't help but persuade: "Prince, quickly order a retreat, our strength is too weak compared to the Sui people." ”
"Retreat?" Gao Jianwu's face was even more gloomy: "If you retreat, who will stop the Sui army from landing on the shore, send a signal, concentrate as much as possible, and sink a few more ships on the other side." ”
This naval army is the only naval division of the Goguryeo people, seeing the sinking one by one, how not to make Gao Jianwu feel distressed, but their rear is Pyongyang, in order to support the front battle, at this moment the materials outside Pyongyang are piled up, how to think that the Sui army suddenly killed from the sea, if those materials fall into the hands of the Sui army, not to mention the previous plan to clear the wilderness, they are in danger of lack of food, in any case, even if this naval army is completely gone, Gao Jianwu has to delay a little longer, so that the people on the shore try to move the materials back to the city.
Gao Jianwu ordered, and the Goguryeo ships that wanted to disperse and retreat had to summon up the courage to fight the Sui army again, until they were sunk in the sea by the Sui army.
This water battle only lasted half a day, half of Goguryeo's ships had sunk, Gao Jianwu saw that the situation was not good, had to order the withdrawal of troops, the Sui army chased closely, and sank many Goguryeo ships one after another, until the Goguryeo navy hid in Beishui, in the face of the narrow channel, the Sui army had to stop the pursuit, so that the remnants of Goguryeo ships escaped.
In just half a day of fighting, the Goguryeo naval army can be said to have suffered heavy losses, two-thirds of the ships were sunk, more than 2,000 people were captured, and the naval army that died in the sea was no less than five or six thousand, and the results they achieved were insignificant, only sinking three small boats of 800 materials of the Sui army, and also wounding more than 10 ships, and the Sui army suffered less than 100 casualties.
In terms of the casualty ratio of the two sides, the Goguryeo people can be said to be defeated and returned, but in the face of absolute strength, it can be said that it is a crime of non-war, and their bravery is not completely unsuccessful, with this half a day, most of the materials stored by the Goguryeo people outside had to be rushed into the city, and the rest were too late to be transported away, and a fire was ignited, although the Sui army went ashore, it was only faced with a few flames that rushed to the sky.
After the Sui army went ashore, there was no intention of fighting the fire at all, allowing the materials of the Goguryeo people to turn into ashes in the fire, for food, the Sui army was not rare at all, the whole fleet carried 200,000 stone grain, enough for 200,000 troops for a month and a half, this voyage was successful, as long as the fleet returned to Zhuo County again, even if only half of the capacity was divided, it could also transport 500,000 stone grain at a time, and it was only more than ten days to go back and forth.
As for weapons, the Sui army looked down on the rags of Goguryeo, but fresh vegetables were inconvenient to transport over long distances, but in just half a day, the Goguryeo people did not have time to destroy the farmland, and the Sui army could requisition them on the spot.
As soon as they stepped ashore, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had put down a big stone in their hearts, became vigorous, and began to set up camp, although the navy fought fiercely for a long time, they also divided half of the people ashore to prevent the Goguryeo people from going out of the city to counterattack.
Of course, the caution of the Sui army is justified, more than 10,000 Goguryeo sailors dared to attack the 100,000 Sui army, although they failed, but they could not but admire the courage of the Goguryeo people, at this time the government soldiers had just come ashore, it was the weakest time, who knows if the Goguryeo people would be bold to go out of the city.