When Zhou Qing arrived in Tamna, he inquired about the situation of the Goryeo people in Luotong. Rotong told him that he was still the same as before. At the beginning of last month, the Goryeo court sent an official to tell them that the Song people must move to the Goryeo land and obey the arrangements of the Goryeo court to disperse and live. This Luo Tong naturally couldn't agree, and directly scolded the official back. The official left after the harsh words, and no Koreans have been here since.

Shi Feng said: "Probably the wind has been in the wrong direction recently. When the wind changes, the Koreans may come. ”

In this era, the wind direction of cross-sea operations was a big problem, and even if Goryeo and Tamna were close, the unsuitable wind direction could make the journey of only one day into four or five days, so there is no problem with such speculation.

Zhou Qing asked worriedly, "Can you defeat the Koreans?" ”

Shi Feng laughed: "Daguan Li is right, sometimes it is not about the number of people who fight, or whether the armor is sharp. Luo Xiucai and I have been pondering for so long, and we have used cloth, iron, spices and other goods to exchange the grain in the hands of the Tamna people into our hands as much as possible, and now we have many powerful weapons, if we can't defeat the Koreans again, won't we fall into the prestige of my Han family? This has sent more than 400 soldiers, what are you afraid of? Just rest assured! ”

Luo Tong was also full of confidence, and Zhou Qing led the fleet to the Japanese coast.

Later historians often wondered about the causes of the war between the Song and Goryeo wars. Because Goryeo at that time was also a civil official, and the emperor and civil officials generally longed for the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty and hoped to repair relations with the Great Song Dynasty. Moreover, Goryeo has always set aside a place for the naturalized Balhae, Jurchen, Baekje, Goguryeo and Han people to live in, so it is obviously unreasonable to only conquer the Han people on Tamna Island.

Most historians believe that the war was entirely accidental. The reason was just that a local official of Goryeo found that the trade with Tamna Island under his control was being plundered by the Song people, and this official obviously thought that admiring the Great Song did not mean treating the people from the Great Song Dynasty well, so he sent a group of people to try to take back the profits of the trade, but the powerful armed forces of the Song people not only prevented the official from succeeding, but also frightened the lords of Tamna and the Goryeo court. Since there had never been such a large-scale open fire rod in this direction before for the Song people, the Goryeo court, fearing that something would happen, instinctively decided to send troops to expel the Song people from Tamna Island.

Of course, there are also those who suggest that the war was deliberately provoked by the Song people, because it seems that the Song people were well prepared at the beginning of the war, more than the Goryeo people. But this view was generally questioned, because the other wars fought by the Song people in this wave of exploration were all seriously provoked before they were started, and only this war seemed to be fought inexplicably.

How could later researchers have thought that Lee Buqi had to fight this war because later generations had a bad impression of the South Koreans? It was precisely because of his poor impression of the South Koreans that Lee would never allow the Koreans to have any possibility of controlling the Tsushima Strait.

Luo Tong and Shi Feng were on guard against the attack of the Goryeo army, and it was not until August 20 that the fierce southwest trade winds were no longer blowing, and the cavalry scouts came back to report that ten large ships and several small boats were anchored on the shore near the city of the Star Lord, and that a large number of Goryeo troops were now landing in small boats.

Shi Feng asked Luo Tong: "Is it according to our previous plan?" ”

Luo Tong said: "Last time, the Goryeo official said that he would send a large army to destroy us. Let's also make it clear that as long as the Koreans send troops again, it will be a war. Now that the Koreans have sent a large army, we must not hesitate. Preemptively, then dealt with others. And there are few of us ......"

Shi Feng slapped his thigh: "Hey, Xiucai, don't throw the bookbag at this time." When he came out of the room, he shouted, "Beat the drums!" Trumpet! Gather troops! Then he shouted to the heralds: "Go and give an order to the leader of the navy, there is no need to light it, and immediately lead the navy to destroy the fleet of the Goryeo." Tell him not to let a boat go! ”

The herald mounted a pony and galloped to the port of Wengpu to give orders to Wang Wanshun, the leader of the navy. Wang Wanshun, who has been impatient these days, laughed strangely: "Sons! These days, I don't even feel at ease when I go out to sea to fish, but I'm sad! Finally waited for the Koreans. Now follow me and destroy the Koreans! If you don't work hard, you won't be raised by your father! ”

Most of the sailors under his command were poor fishermen from Dengzhou, Mizhou, and Cangzhou in Shandong, and they were already fierce and aggressive, and they all applauded loudly when they heard Wang Wanshun's agitation, copied their weapons and got on the boat, pulled up the sails, and rowed twice with their oars before leaving the coast and rushing eastward.

Wang Wanshun boarded a 200-material ship at the beginning, hung the flag on the mast, and soon the ships behind were lined up in a column according to the usual practice.

As far as the eye can see, there are two 200-material ships, seven 100-material ships and eleven 50-material clippers, all of which are used for sail and oars. Leaving the shore at this time, the boats put away their oars and sailed in the crosswind. The tarpaulins at the bow of several large ships were removed, revealing the ballistas underneath, and the gunners began to wind the ballistas with a winch. Others carried bundles of javelins and canisters of oil to the ballistas, and some wrapped rags and vines around the front of the javelins, ready for battle.

The wind was still a little westerly today, and Wang Wanshun wanted to be upwind when he attacked, so he ordered the helmsman to turn the rudder slightly and stay away from the coast. Looking back at the ships behind, they also turned to the left almost at the same time as the flag changed, which made Wang Wanshun very satisfied, and it seemed that the usual training was not in vain.

The distance of more than sixty miles was quickly crossed. The weather was fine today, and in the bright sunshine, the lookout post immediately spotted several large ships moored on the shore. The people on the boat behind waved the flag and asked if they would attack, and Wang Wanshun ordered the reply to just follow the voyage.

The people on the Goryeo ship also spotted the ship passing fast at sea and immediately raised the alarm. This time, Yan Xiushi, the general of Goryeo Zhonglang who led an army of 3,000 to the island, heard the whining horn on the sea and hurriedly returned to the shore and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The subordinate hurriedly pointed to the sea and reported: "There is a boat in the distance, and the locals say that it is the boat of the Song people!" ”

The Tamluo Shizi who followed him put his hand on the pergola and looked at it for a while, and said, "It is the boat of the Song people." The shape of their ships is completely different from that of my Goryeo. Where are they going? ”

Yan Xiushi smiled: "This is probably trying to steal the limelight." We are the elite naval army of Goryeo, do the Song people think that they can attack us with a few fishing boats? Overestimate one's strength or oneself. ”

Then he commanded: "Command! Fleet to meet the enemy! ”

Immediately, the heralds waved the command flag, the drums and horns sounded, and the order was issued. When the fleet received the signal, it immediately began to pull anchor and raise its sails, and the sergeants on board were also lined up on the side of the ship with weapons in hand to prepare for battle.

At this time, Wang Wanshun also led the fleet to draw an arc on the sea, turned the direction and pounced on the Goryeo fleet, and the first naval battle of Tamna broke out.

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