263 Bombardment with firearms
When Goryeo sent reinforcements, it was already the end of September, and more than 30 ships of all sizes came at once, including warships and requisitioned civilian ships. However, it is obvious that the Goryeo people were very taboo about fighting naval battles, and did not directly seek out the Song fleet, but unloaded the transported infantry first.
But now the Korean people are facing a serious problem, that is, there is no food.
After the war, whether it was the new grain or the original grain, the Song people bought it again. Only the Tamna people were left with little rich rations. Yan Xiushi sent troops out to fight twice, but they were both beaten back, and they could only watch in the future.
There are only more than 20,000 aborigines on Tamna Island, and even if they do, they can't find much surplus food. Now that more than 3,000 infantry troops and more than 2,000 sailors have poured in, everyone will be hungry in a few days.
If you don't want to go hungry, the only way to do that is to defeat the Song people as soon as possible. A group of Goryeo generals decided to send troops as soon as possible after a brief discussion, desperately losing more losses, and using the tactics of a sea of people to drown the Song people.
But before the Goryeo people could act, the Song people's fleet came to the door that night. For a whole night, thousands of Goryeo officers and soldiers and Tamna people stood on the seashore and watched as the Goryeo ships were burned into torches one by one.
The Song fleet still gave full play to its fast speed and strong long-range output, not with the hard steel of the Goryeo navy, but dragged the Goryeo people around the water. The small ships of the Goryeo people could catch up with the ships of the Song people, but the long-range output was not strong enough, and as long as they were hit by the ballista fire, they would soon either burn down or withdraw from the battle with all the casualties. The big ships of Goryeo can't catch up with the Song boats, not to mention the slap poles, even the bow and arrow are difficult to use, and the gang attack is even more difficult.
Moreover, the naval army of the Goryeo people was obviously negligent in training, and the ships were fast and slow, and they could not be compared with the Song naval army commanded by lights in terms of coordination. Eventually, more than two dozen ships were burned, and the others fled northeast. Although there are three ships damaged in the fleet on the Song people's side, they can still be used if they are repaired.
Early the next morning, nearly 10,000 Goryeo troops opened the front of more than a mile wide and marched towards the area controlled by the Song people. No one dared to wait, because there were too many people, and if they stayed for a while, they would be hungry.
But this time when I went out, it wasn't as simple as harassment. The cavalry of the Song people appeared in front of the Goryeo team from the beginning, and the Goryeo people brought some cavalry this time, but the problem was that the horses of Tamna were originally short, and they were all horses that pulled carts and cultivated fields, and the scouts of the Goryeo people riding such small horses were quickly lost under the repeated raids of the Song cavalry on Mongolian horses. General Sha, who came from the army this time, had to strengthen the vanguard and ordered a hundred-man team to stand guard at the front. In order to prevent the Song from attacking from both sides of the marching ranks, he also chose to march on the road near the sea.
Just in front of the Goryeo procession, Shi Feng rode on a group of Mongolian horses and put up a pergola to look around, and said to the cavalry next to him: "Okay, the number of Goryeo strikers is full of hundreds, let's eat him according to the earlier plan." You take them and drive them to the middle, so that the Koreans don't find out about the ambush. ”
The Koreans had learned the lesson of the last time this time, and the forwards were all dressed in armor, and most of them were archers, and they were tightly packed together for fear of scattering the cavalry, and unknowingly they were actually walking towards the route that Shi Feng wanted them to take.
In this way, the Goryeo people followed the Song cavalry and walked two miles, and suddenly, without warning, a dense number of arrows suddenly flew out from less than thirty meters away from this group of Goryeos, and many Goryeo soldiers were shot into hedgehogs before they could shout.
The Goryeo team was very clever, and hurriedly asked a few people to hold shields to cover themselves, but suddenly there was a piercing pain in their backs, and then the strength of their whole body was withdrawn.
He glanced back before he fell to the ground, but a crossbow arrow flew from behind his back and immediately pierced his head.
In less than five minutes, under the blow of 300 bows and crossbows, more than 100 Koreans were either killed or wounded, and those who could run back with all their beards and tails were full of character.
Seeing that the avant-garde was in ambush, the Goryeo officers in the back hurriedly ordered several hundred people to rush to the bushes where bows and crossbows were being fired. But before they could get close to the bushes, a line of people suddenly rose up from under the ground, and then a flash of fire flashed, and immediately some of the Koreans were knocked to the ground before they even had time to react.
The rest of the Koreans subconsciously raised their shields, but in the ensuing roar, the shields were also pierced, and the people holding the shields fell to the ground with wails.
The Song people's weapons also released a large amount of white smoke when they roared, so that the Goryeo people could not see the situation in front clearly, but in the smoke, the roar continued, and the people who rushed in front were constantly knocked down.
The Koreans, frightened by the sudden blow, stopped their tracks, giving the bows and crossbows lying in ambush in the bushes time to shift their firing boundaries. At this moment, in a half-man-deep trench in front of the bushes, someone was shouting loudly to remind everyone to charge the gunpowder again: "Hurry up, pound the gunpowder!" Don't forget to pack the 'send', don't forget to load the lead! "Pack the bombardment!"
Under the operation of skilled shooters, 200 guns were loaded into the gunpowder wrapped in wax paper in advance with only a dozen breaths, tamped with wooden sticks, and then loaded into wooden "senders", then put in two lead pellets, pounded them with wooden sticks, and then sprinkled bombardment on the fire door.
The wind had blown away the smoke from the first round of firebolts, and the captain of the firecrackers was about to command the firecrackers to fight again, but he saw that the Koreans who had just been hit had begun to retreat under the blows of the crossbows, and more Koreans were pouring over. Some of the gunners found it unpleasant, so they used the fire rope to light the explosives and shoot at the Koreans who were running away.
It's hard to hit this distance. The captain was a veteran of the rebel army, and he was more experienced than these gunners who were purely peasant boys before, and knew that this was just a waste of gunpowder and lead, so he hurriedly stopped it loudly. Fortunately, many of the members of the fire gun team were from the rebel army, and they were very disciplined when they were in Chunze Prison, and immediately stopped the people around them from chaotically letting go of their guns.
A herald on a pony came out of the woods and shouted, "Stone commands, you must retreat to the next position!" ”
The Song people on Tamna Island were training on weekdays to emphasize the prohibition of orders, and the team was immediately ordering a retreat, so the young gunners ran down the trench into the woods unwillingly.
At this time, the Goryeo people had already outflanked them from both wings, but the crossbow arrows that kept flying in the distance kept causing casualties to them, so that they did not dare to let go of their hands and feet to chase after them, and watched the Song people retreat to the sea.
General Xie and Yan Xiushi, who brought the troops over this time, couldn't help but be shocked when they got the report: "What kind of weapon is this Song people?" ”
The herald continued: "On the other side of the sea, another large group of Song people did not run! ”
Yan Xiushi had been helpless by the harassment and fighting style of the Song people, and when he heard that the Song people were arrayed, he was immediately overjoyed, and said to General Xie: "The Song people are too good here, there are many of us, and if we fight around them, we will definitely be able to annihilate them in one fell swoop." ”
General Xie also had a headache about harassment, and he wanted to fight a good battle very much, so he immediately ordered the formation to be rectified and approached those Song people.
The two rode short horses and ran to the front of the battle after the heralds, and saw hundreds of Song people gathered in the distance. General Xie was annoyed that he was defeated in a naval battle, and the forward was beaten into a dog, so he immediately ordered to send 2,500 men to attack the Song people.
Guo Huo saw the Goryeo army slowly surrounding from three directions, and ordered: "Retreat to the sea!" ”
Yan Xiushi asked strangely: "Why did the Song people retreat?" What are they doing here? ”
General Xie said with a grin: "It doesn't matter what they do!" Originally, there were at least four to fight one, as long as they rushed closer, the Song people's methods would be useless! As soon as the Song people retreated, people's hearts were in turmoil, and it was easier to fight. ”
Yan Xiushi was a little worried: "The Song people's team is still very strict!" You and my men can't do that, can they? ”
General Xie said, "Is there an ambush? We have a lot of people, how can the Song people ambush? ”
Having said that, he ordered another thousand soldiers to join the attack, while the others lined up to closely monitor the situation.
The Song and Goryeo retreated one and pursued the other, gradually approaching the coast. However, the Koreans were in pursuit, and there were many people, so the pace gradually accelerated.
Guo Huo estimated that the Koreans had entered a distance of 200 paces and ordered: "Crossbowman!" Shoot alternately! ”
The officers of each team gave the order, and immediately a row of crossbowmen spread out their formations, mounted their arrows, raised their crossbows and aimed. After the commander gave the order, he shot a row of crossbow arrows, and then, without looking at the landing point, he carried the crossbow backwards to another row of crossbowmen five paces away, and put his feet on the iron pedals, hooked the crossbow strings with the iron hooks on his belt, straightened his waist, hung the crossbow strings on his teeth, and then loaded the crossbow arrows.
By this time, the second row of crossbowmen had already fired their crossbow arrows, and then took five steps backwards. These veterans of the Xuanyi Army bought from Salmon Island have been trained for many years, and they have long since penetrated the technique of queue combat into their bones, and they can be regarded as people who have died once, so they are naturally more calm than soldiers who have just entered the battlefield.
The screams of the arrows immediately slowed down the footsteps of the Goryeo who were pursuing head-on, but the Goryeo people on both wings still ran fast, and seeing that the sea was in front of them, they would soon surround the Song people.