After saying goodbye to Luo Shixin and the others, Liu Zhi and Fang Xingtian got on the ship they had arranged before and headed in the direction of the Central Plains. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Sir, are you going to find my senior brother and them?"

The three-year appointment has not yet arrived, Liu Zhi should not have returned in such a hurry, but he still chose to leave Jeju Island, originally in Liu Zhi's plan, he wanted to follow Qin Qiong to the sea to attack Baekje, to be honest, he also wanted to see the Baekje people's naval army.

Baekje's maritime trade was very developed, so their navy was also relatively elite, although the size of the warships could not be compared with the size of the Great Sui navy, but compared to their neighbor to the east, the Wa Kingdom, Baekje's ships were still much larger.

Historically, the Japanese have invaded Korea many times, and Japan and Korea are separated by a Tsushima Strait, this strait is not very wide, but it is also eighty or ninety miles wide, which is still a great challenge for the fleet's sea navigation, and the Japanese shipbuilding technology is actually not developed, in 663 A.D. occurred in the Korean Peninsula off the coast of the Baijiang Estuary Station is a good example.

At that time, the Tang army was attacking Goguryeo by land and water, and the weaker Baekje had been destroyed, but the Baekje people were unwilling to be destroyed, and they united with the 100,000 troops of the Japanese people with the remnants of the defeated army in an attempt to counterattack the Tang army, and as a result, fierce battles broke out between the two sides on both land and water.

The Battle of Baijiangkou was the most critical and important water battle in this battle.

This water battle that occurred in 663 was the first large-scale naval conflict between China and Japan, and the situation of the Tang army was actually very bad, the retreat of the Tang army that arrived in Baekje from the sea to the north was blocked by Goguryeo, and the number was not large, as long as the sea route to the west was also blocked, they did not want to say that they could get reinforcements, and even the food and materials were only afraid that they would not be able to eat, so whether it was the Baekje people or the Japanese people, they knew that as long as the Tang army's retreat route was cut off, then the Tang army on the peninsula would be in chaos without a fight.

Therefore, they will send a large number of sailors to the western part of the Korean Peninsula near the Baijiang estuary, which is an important transit point for the Tang army, from which a large number of supplies and sergeants have landed and loaded and unloaded, and continuously replenished the Tang army on the shore.

Therefore, the combined forces of Baekje and the Japanese sent more than 1,000 warships and more than 40,000 sailors to the area around the mouth of the Baekgang River, in an attempt to surround and annihilate the Tang army's naval army, so that they could blockade the Tang army and cooperate with the attack of the Japanese army on land to create good conditions for them.

However, at this time, the Japanese had not yet learned from the Chinese, their technology was very rough, among the water army of the Wei people, the number of large ships was very small, and basically all of them were the remaining water army warships left by the defeat of the Baekje people before, and most of their own war ships could only carry dozens of people or hundreds of people, the ships were too small, the ability to resist wind and waves was very poor, not to mention fighting at sea, people stood on it and swayed, standing unstable and how to talk about fighting.

So the Japanese people came up with a clever plan, called the Iron Cable, but if they had read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms at this time, Bacheng would not dare to use such a clever plan!

The number of the Tang army is relatively small, there are only more than 10,000 sailors, and the number of warships is not much, only more than 170, but compared with the Japanese navy, the warships of the Tang army are both tall and large, most of which are double-decker or even three-story ships.

The advantage of the building ship is that there are more archers on it, the tonnage is large, the field of vision is broad, and it is very advantageous to fight, and the Tang Army's naval warships are not used to watch the show, they are all serious naval warships, and the front of the warship will be equipped with a collision cone that has been seen, which is specially used to hit the enemy ship in the water battle, and in addition to this kind of thing, some warships even have one or even multiple rods on it, this thing is used to hit enemy ships from a long distance, and the size is smaller. A warship with a not very strong structure is very effective.

The commander of the Tang army was Liu Renliang, a veteran who was over 60 years old, who was free to read military books, and his understanding of naval warfare was far from being comparable to that of the uncivilized Japanese people.

In the Battle of Chibi, the reason why Cao's warships were defeated was that it was blowing easterly at that time, which put Cao's chain warships in an unfavorable wind direction, and they were burned to the ground!

At this time, it was also a southeast wind, but the wind direction was not very favorable for them, so if they wanted to carry out a fire attack, they had to break through the enemy's formation and seize the advantageous upper hand.

Due to the lack of long-range strike weapons in the naval warfare of the Japanese army, their ships were too small to fit trebuchets and stone cannons, and large bed crossbows were not good, as for the bow and crossbow technology, the gap between them and the Tang army was still quite obvious, so their tactics in the past were to rush forward in a swarm, take advantage of the large number of people, jump gang to fight, take down the opponent's ships, and kill all the opponent's crew, so that it can be.

However, the Tang army's combat methods are different, they don't care about seizing warships, but they want to sink warships, and there are thousands of warships densely packed like the Japanese naval army, even if they want to capture it, they are afraid that it is impossible, they simply do not have so many troops.

After seeing the Tang army fighting, the naval armies of Baekje and Wa swarmed up in an attempt to implement their gang-jumping tactics.

It's just that they didn't expect that the firepower of the Tang army was too fierce, and there was almost a mile away, and the fireballs shot from the Tang army's warships were plopped and smashed into the water, stirring up huge waves, making them scared enough, and then, when they got closer, the Tang army's bed crossbows and rockets were fired in a salvo, and the Japanese soldiers did not have decent armor, where could they resist the powerful bow and crossbow shots of the Tang army, and a large number of soldiers were shot and killed at once, and the remaining soldiers were frightened by this situation and did not dare to move forward for a while. Instead, it's going to go backwards.

The Tang warships were divided into two, forming two long snake formations, constantly pressing forward, not only causing heavy casualties to the Japanese navy, but also forcing them to keep approaching the middle, and the Tang army easily passed through the blockade of the Japanese navy at almost no cost, and then they came to the upper hand, Liu Renliang immediately made a decision, and immediately released the fireboats towards the Japanese navy, these fireships were getting faster and faster along the southeast wind, and the Japanese and Baekje sailors were terrified, But at this time, it was impossible to separate the iron cables that connected the warships, although there were still many small boats that escaped, but more of them were those who could not be dispersed and could only wait for death.

With a bang, dozens of small boats crashed into the warships of the Baekje and Wa coalition forces, and then the fire expanded rapidly, and soon swept the entire fleet, and the warships of the Tang Army also rushed over at this time, chasing and beating the sailors who were scattered from the fleet and trying to escape.

The Tang army ended in a great victory of the Tang army in the battle of Baijiangkou, and the Tang army, under the leadership of the veteran Liu Renliang, successfully taught the little Japan the truth of being a man at a very small cost, and with the defeat of the Baekje and the Japanese naval army, the more than 60,000 Japanese troops who fought on land also fell into an isolated and helpless situation at once, and were defeated under the joint attack of the Silla and the Tang army, with countless casualties and many surrenders, and the Japanese were completely frightened by this battle. Only then did the Japanese emperor realize that there was such a powerful country outside of Japan, so he no longer dared to fight the Tang army, let alone be an enemy, and they kept sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty to learn the advanced technology and production technology of the Tang Dynasty.

The kimono that Japan saw in later generations was the Japanese version of Hanfu at that time, and the katana was also learned from the forging technology of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang knife was made of learning, as for the warship technology, they naturally learned a lot, but this old technology they basically did not improve much in the next thousand years, and when Toyotomi Hideyoshi also wanted to invade Korea, he was once again taught a lesson by the Ming army's navy, although the Ming Dynasty was not very effective in dealing with the nomads in the north, There was even a Tumubao Incident, but their naval army was very powerful, otherwise there would not be the kind of oversized treasure ship that Zheng He had when he went to the West!

The culture of the Japanese sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty has lasted for many years, and the dynasties of the Central Plains have a particularly great influence on Japan, among which the greatest influence is the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the enlightenment of the Song Dynasty have had a great impact on Japan, so that after the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongol army, there was also a call in Japan, calling on the emperor to call on the daimyo from all over the country to jointly send troops to restore Chinese civilization from the hands of the Mongols, which shows that Japan at this time still has a good impression of China.

It's just that this initiative has brought a lot of trouble to Japan, after destroying the Goryeo Kingdom on the Korean Peninsula, the Mongols heard that the Japanese were trying to send troops to the west, and immediately vigorously built warships, preparing to take down the Japanese mainland first, and then say, see how you want to go west!

As a result, the Mongols who were not good at water chose a not very good time to send troops, the fleet encountered strong winds and waves at sea, most of the soldiers were killed and wounded, and the Mongol soldiers on the main island of Japan on the drifting island were also hungry and weak, and they were not the opponents of the Japanese army at all, and their opponents were prepared for a long time, with a large number of people, and they were familiar with the terrain.

At that time, the forging level of the katana used by the Japanese was actually very high, and the forging level of the Tang army, especially the level of 100 steel, was basically lost in the melee of the Jiedu envoy in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, firearms and all kinds of new equipment appeared, and the forging level was not weaker than that of the Tang Dynasty, so there was no restoration of the 100 steelmaking method at that time, but the stubborn Japanese preserved this technology, they forged it repeatedly, thousands of times, plus strict grade identification, The Japanese katana skills have been greatly improved, and the Mongolian scimitar is indeed good on horseback, but it is not so easy to use when encountering the Japanese harder katana, many times the Japanese cut over, and the Mongolian scimitar will appear a gap, and then cut a knife, maybe the whole knife will be broken.

Therefore, no matter how good the Mongol cavalry was, under the combination of various unfavorable factors, they failed to defeat the Japanese and conquer the whole of Japan, which was one of the few cases in which the Mongols were completely wiped out in foreign wars.

However, this war has brought about a great change in the mentality of the Japanese, who have always thought that they are no match for the Central Plains, but this time they do not think so.

In the eyes of the Japanese, since the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols, it must prove that the Southern Song Dynasty was not as good as the Mongols, and the Mongols poured out, but they could not defeat the powerful Japanese army, which shows that the Japanese army is more powerful than the Mongols, so the Japanese army must be stronger than the Southern Song Dynasty army.

Japan is a very realistic country, they worship the strong, discriminate against the weak, the Tang army defeated them before, so they bowed to the Tang Dynasty, in the eyes of the Japanese, this is a matter of course, the reason is that the Tang army is stronger than them, and after this they also think that the successor of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, is also stronger than themselves, so they continue to send Song envoys to the Song Dynasty, continue to learn technology from the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty people are indeed a lot of strange and ingenious skills, which also makes the Japanese feel very awe in their hearts.

But as soon as this war against the Mongols was fought, it completely adapted the ideas of the Japanese, they thought that they had stolen from China, and at this time they had completed the overtaking of their teachers, and they could already go out of school, and there was no need to learn the Chinese, anyway, they had been destroyed by the Mongols, so the awe in their hearts did not exist.

Although the Mongol rule did not last long in the Central Plains, and was soon driven away by the swarming rebel armies from all over the country, the Japanese mood has changed, they no longer regard the Central Plains as orthodox, and no longer send envoys to the Ming Dynasty, and even when the Ming Dynasty declined, they still wanted to take the Korean Peninsula from the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of Japanese samurai and soldiers ran to the southeast coast of China to plunder the coastal areas of China, which led to the situation of the Chinese pirates raging in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, It can be said that it was at this time that China and Japan completely broke up, and the hatred between the two countries began to accumulate rapidly, and finally broke out in the Wanli Korean War.

However, in this war, the Japanese still lost, and as a result, the Japanese began to reflect again, this time they simply closed the country and imposed a sea ban, and they didn't want to send people to learn the advanced firearms of the Central Plains, because they always believed that there was no China after Yashan!

What do the Japanese think, Liu Zhi doesn't care, but Liu Zhi is worried that Qin Qiong will suffer, he is not a professional navy, but an army background, if there is a water war, can he win? (To be continued.) )