Small country and widowed people.

The countries around China are all small countries and widows.

This is true even for the nomads who dominate the steppes.

Whether a country is strong or not is not only the number of troops, but also the population and national strength.

Except for China, no country behind can afford a painful defeat. The Eastern Turks were strong enough, and the Tang Dynasty wiped them out as soon as they sent troops, Tuyuhun is not small, it is also a battle, and Tubo is about the same, a local conflict they thought was almost fought by the Tang Dynasty into a war to destroy Tubo, even if the Tang Dynasty stopped later, Tubo also lost most of the country, and the newly flourishing Tubo Empire was beaten to the deathbed, and could only hold on to the remaining territory to survive.

Except for the glory of China, any neighboring country is a small thing that can be destroyed by a war.

Because the country is small and the people are small, they can't afford a fiasco.

In the future, the entire peninsula of Korea is the size of a small province in the Celestial Empire. Not to mention that the Tang Dynasty did not occupy all the peninsula at this time, only half of the south.

And this southern half is still divided between the two countries of Baekje and Silla.

Not to mention the people, the country is still small and has no strategic depth at all.

Wu Yuanqing went from the Han River to Hanyang City, and the winding river was only three hundred miles deep.

The length of the Xiongjin River is not as long as the Han River, and there is a short section in Silla, which of course has been occupied by Baekje.

However, the momentum of Silla's counteroffensive is quite fierce, and a large part of the lost territory has been regained. Moreover, the Tang army also occupied the first line of the Han River, and was advancing towards the line of the Xiongjin River from north to south.

The attack on both sides made it difficult for Baekje to take care of the left and right, and at this time, Wu Yuanqing also appeared at the mouth of the Xiongjin River with a fleet.

This place is also called Baijiangkou, the first battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese slaves in the original time and space took place here, and finally ended with the complete victory of the Tang Dynasty, more than 400 ships of the little devils were burned, and tens of thousands of corpses sank into the sea.

At that time, it was also the Tang Dynasty that attacked Baekje, and now this time and space is also the Tang Dynasty's attack on Baekje.

It's just that, looking at the empty estuary, Wu Yuanqing was very disappointed, why didn't the little devil come.

Otherwise, Lao Tzu would have let them all sink into the sea.

"Let's start, didn't the clipper ship sent just now report that more than 100 ships of Baekje are waiting for us on the river more than ten miles away? Let's hurry over and don't let people wait in a hurry." Wu Yuanqing said to Liu Renyuan, who was waiting for orders.

"Yes, Archstaunge." Liu Ren was willing to give the order loudly, and then rushed to command the sailors to attack.

Wu Yuanqing has seen a lot of naval battles, and when he was in the South Seas, he passed by those small countries that were not in the climate, and there were also those who dared to make a move against their fleet.

But the small sampan ship was completely unsightly, and although the samurai were merchant ships, they were crushed by the huge hull alone.

Therefore, the real water battle, Wu Yuanqing only saw it this time, but when he attacked the Han River before, he sank the fishing boats along the line and the few merchant ships in Baekje that he was completely unaware of in advance, and the warships did not react. Strictly speaking, Wu Yuanqing still didn't see the water battle.

Because of water wars, water wars, water battles, you come and go is called fighting, one side presses and the other side fights, that is called killing.

Therefore, Wu Yuanqing especially wanted to see what kind of wonderful battle Baekje would have in the end with hundreds of warships.

Looking into the wider estuary, it is really the sea and the sky. White, black, white, red, gray, and seabirds of all colors hovered and chirped overhead the fleet.

Just looking at this situation is really a good scenery for a relaxing vacation, but what happens after a while will inevitably be a tragic battle.

Standing at the bow of the ship, Wu Yuanqing held the telescope to check, the distance of more than ten miles was still too far, the telescope magnification was not enough, the vision was very blurry, and he could only see the unclear sails.

It can also give people a dense feeling, but I don't know if it will be more shocking when I really see it clearly.

Being in the fleet, Wu Yuanqing was really not shocked by the hundreds of big ships of the Tang Dynasty. Because looking around, all he could see was a few ships.

Going up the Shuo River, there is only a group of kung fu things for more than ten miles, and if you look up through the telescope, you can already clearly see the appearance of the Baekje ship and the figures running back and forth on the ship to prepare for war.

Ay.

Still disappointed.

It is quite scary to look at the more than a hundred boats lined up on the river, there are so many of them. However, the number is not useful, because the number is not enough to bite the dragon, and I don't know how much.

The quantity is not enough, the quality must keep up, but the quality has not kept up.

It's too far away.

According to Wu Yuanqing's visual inspection, the largest ship was no more than five zhang, that is, the size of the leader of the ships of the Tang Naval Division. The attack machinery on the ship does not seem to even have catapults, only a few ballistas, and a ship has only two or three in the bow. There is also a long clap stick.

The clapper is used to smash enemy ships, but it is generally used to face ships of about the same size as oneself, or even smaller.

It has no effect on the giant ship of the Tang Dynasty at all. That length can't even reach the side of a Datang ship.

This Nima still wants to resist the Tang fleet, I really think you are the first power in the universe.

"Liu Renyuan, hurry up, smash this garbage, don't let this waste delay our time." Wu Yuanqing was disappointed, urged casually, turned around and returned to the cabin, too lazy to look at it, and couldn't arouse interest.

"Artillery preparation, first test firing..... Open fire."

Boom Boom Boom Boom .....

Although it was a test launch, the Baekje fleet on the opposite side was lined up, and the target was too big to fight.

In the first round of test firing, more than two dozen ships were hit by shells.

Two of the smaller ones were directly knocked through the deck, and then penetrated the bottom of the ship and sank.

Although the others did not sink, there were many that entered the water, and more were partially damaged to the hull, mast, etc.

Quite a few shells that smashed the ship's planks and went castrated and smashed on the ship's soldiers.

Ah, ah, all kinds of miserable howls and pains come and go.

Anyone who gets hit is either a broken hand or a leg, or a sternum, rib, or abdominal cavity is smashed, and blood splatters everywhere.

"Adjust the angle, launch for the second time, prepare .... put."

The second artillery fire soon covered the sky and rained down on the Baekje fleet. After the test firing adjustment, the second round of fire is far more accurate than the first.

Even on the rough river, nearly half of them were smashed into the lined up Goryeo fleet.

Boom Boom Boom .....

When the smoke cleared, I saw that the hundreds of small ships on the opposite side were missing by nearly a third.

The mantis arm was used as a car and crushed away.