Chen Keju and Wang Aoke led their troops to attack the Silla Naval Division on Ganghwa Island according to the predetermined plan, and the 150 warships of the two fleets were divided into two routes to cut through the waves and approach Ganghwa Island. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the Tang warship was ten nautical miles away from Ganghwa Island, it was discovered by Silla standing tall watchtowers and sea sentinel ships at the north and south ends of the island. The improvised beacon erected next to the watchtower ignited wolf smoke that reached into the sky, and the sentinel ships hurried back to report on the enemy situation they had discovered.

"Commander, take a look, wolf smoke is burning on the small island on the west side of the harbor where the Silla Navy Division is stationed."

Wang Aoke boarded the bow of the ship and looked out, the wolf smoke that alerted the police rose from the sky from the island like a black dragon, and it was estimated that it could be seen clearly dozens of miles away.

"It seems that the Silla sailors have been prepared for a long time, and the sneak attack will not be successful."

Wang Aoke didn't care, ordered the fleet to spread out the battle formation, and said energetically: "Since the beginning of the war, our army has always been successful in sneak attacks, and today let us fight a naval battle with Silla Yi in a dignified manner, and promote the prestige of our Tang Dynasty." ”

The soldiers standing on the deck raised their weapons and responded to their commanders with high fighting spirits. Under the command of the officer, the soldiers prepared their equipment in an orderly manner, and one after another fierce oil tanks were pushed onto the bow and side of the ship. Several soldiers in charge of the operation stood next to the fierce fire oil tank with red-hot cones and holding the cylinder, and only waited for the enemy ship to enter the firing range, and the soldiers with the soldering cones did not hesitate to ignite the gunpowder contained in the front of the cylinder of the fierce fire oil tank. The other two soldiers quickly pumped the pump to put pressure on the air in the oil tank, which in turn caused the fierce fire oil to burn into flames when it erupted from the "fire tower", so as to burn the enemy and their equipment.

In addition to the fierce fire oil tank, the Tang Junlou ship was also equipped with naval weapons of this era, six 50 feet (about 14.76 meters) high, which were used to smash the smashing rods on the deck of enemy ships.

Sitting on the most powerful ship of this era, and two naval battle weapons, Wang Aoke did not take the small warship Silla sailor in his eyes. In his opinion, even if there was no black technology that Li Yu had developed three hundred years in advance, with only the six slapping rods on the building ship, when the building ship rushed into the Silla sailor array, it could smash three enemy ships in one shot.

Chen Keju, who blocked the northern exit of the Silla Naval Division from north to south, also discovered the wolf smoke on the island, and he did not have Wang Aoke's rich experience in actual combat at sea. Seeing that the raid was ineffective, he ordered the whole fleet to rush towards the garrison of the Silla Naval Division, intending to defeat it in a battle before the Silla Naval Division could react.

Knowing that the Tang army's warships were approaching from north to south, Kim Dae-chung, the commander of the Silla Naval Division, smiled faintly in the face of his generals who came in a hurry: "We fought with the Baekje people and the Goguryeo people back then, and the Eastern and Southern Naval Divisions that have been destroyed do not have this glory as us. At the moment, I almost haven't fought with the Tang people, and now that this long-cherished wish has finally come true, you should be happy, why panic? ”

The generals' faces were full of sorrow, and they did not relax their nervous hearts for the general's calm self-promise.

"General, the Tang army is very powerful, the ship is tall and sturdy, and it has fire-breathing equipment, which is beyond the reach of our army. The collapse of the powerful Eastern and Southern Water Divisions is proof of this. ”

"What about the proof? What if you lose the enemy? Jin Dazhong asked rhetorically: "The Tang army is advancing from north to south, and it is clear that they don't want us to run away." This battle was inevitable, and our army fought bravely and fought a good battle with the Tang people. Moreover, the destruction of the Eastern and Southern Water Divisions was all due to a surprise attack by the Tang people, and improper command in panic led to a fiasco. Now that the Tang people have lost the opportunity to raid, can they recreate the glory of the previous two wars? As for the fire-breathing equipment of the Tang people, I have long thought that you should be prepared, and you are not afraid of the weapons of the Tang people. ”

"What the general said is reasonable, please show it to the general."

The generals asked for their orders one after another, and the gray-bearded Jin Dazhong calmly ordered: "There are only dozens of Tang troops coming from the north, and the strength is weak. ”

"Honor!"

In the harbor, the Silla warships that were only the size of the Tang Army and Mengchong were divided into two groups in the north and south and slowly left the port, and each warship except for a simple sail, the exposed parts of the whole ship were covered with wet mud for fire attack, which was the method that Kim Dae-chung came up with by borrowing from the destruction of the eastern and southern naval divisions, and it was also the confidence that he dared to fight.

Jin Dazhong had 300 large and small warships in his hands, which were divided into two fleets of the Tang Army, which were advancing from the north and the south, and each of them happened to be twice the size of the Tang Army.

When Wang Aoke and Chen Keju were still a few miles away from the harbor where the Silla Naval Division was stationed, a dense crowd of Silla Naval Division's warships slowly appeared at the exit of the harbor, and the soldiers of the two sides looked at each other from a distance, sounded the horn of the charge, and beat the war drums on the warship.

Suddenly, the deafening drums of war at the north and south exits of the harbor filled the sky, and the two armies had not yet engaged in battle, and the shouts of killing filled the entire sea area.

The people of Ganghwa Island stood boldly on the coast with full curiosity to watch this once-in-a-lifetime sea battle, and the experienced people packed up their belongings early and fled Ganghwa Island in small boats with their wives and children.

The warships of the two armies entered the range of the bows and crossbows, and the arrows of both sides flew all over the sky like locusts.

When the two armies were still far away, the Tang army used the bed crossbow on the bow to shoot heavy arrows at the Silla warship, and when the Silla warship approached, the two slapsticks on the bow of the ship slammed down, instantly shattering the deck of the oncoming Silla warship, followed by the tongue of fire from the fierce oil tank and burning the Silla warship.

What made the Silla army even more frightened was that the warships of the two armies rushed into the opponent's formation, and in the face of the all-round attack of the Tang army's high-rise ship, which had a five-story building carrying 800 troops, two slapsticks and a fierce oil tank on the front and rear, and a fierce oil tank, also known as the five-tooth ship, the small Silla warship was as vulnerable as paper paste.

Although Kim Dae-jung coated his warship with wet mud to defend against the Tang army's fierce fire tank, when faced with the powerful slapping rod of the ship's equipment, the deck of the Silla warship was instantly shattered, and the flames that followed rushed into the cabin from the broken deck, igniting the warship from the inside.

The Tang Army's Meng Chong was not equipped with a slapping rod because of the small size of the ship, but a fierce fire oil tank also made it difficult for the Silla warship to get close, although the ship was covered with wet mud and was not afraid of the Tang Army's warship spitting fire, but the soldiers fighting on the deck were burned by the fierce fire oil tank and hid in the cabin and did not dare to raise their heads.

Although the Silla warships were two parts of the Tang Army, the inferiority of equipment was undoubtedly exposed at the beginning of the battle. Wang Aoke commanded the fleet to penetrate the huge fleet of Silla's sailors, and the sea behind him was in shambles, one by one the Silla warships were smashed by the slapping rods, and the Silla warships that were ignited by the fierce fire oil tanks floated on the sea and burned.

The remnants of the Silla sailors were frightened, and many warships no longer obeyed Kim Dae-jung's command, but rowed to the shore to escape the battlefield.

The gray-haired Kim Dae-jung stood dejectedly on the deck of the second floor of the ship, and on the first deck were two huge holes, and the oarsmen in the cabin were killed and wounded.

Several generals came behind Jin Dazhong and said with hatred: "General, our army is invincible. ”

"Retreat, it's only a few miles from the shore, and the soldiers who go ashore can still survive a lot, since we can't win the water battle, let's fight on land."

When he went out into battle, he was full of pride, thinking that he had found a magic weapon to defeat the enemy, and sighed in the face of the defeated bureau chief in front of him, lamenting that he still had too little knowledge, and he didn't know that in addition to a fire-breathing weapon, the Tang Dynasty warship also had another naval weapon.