Chapter III The Battle of the Landing at the Mouth of the Xiongjin River

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Baekje is located in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula, with five original divisions, 37 counties, more than 200 cities, and more than 700,000 households. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Fourteen years ago, that is, in the fifth year of Tang Gaozong's reign (660 AD), the Tang Dynasty defeated Baekje with Sudingfang, and Tang Gaozong issued an edict to set up five prefectures in the former Baekje region of Xiongjin, Dongmyeong, Mahan, Jinlian, and De'an (the Tang Dynasty set up the Governor's Mansion in a military important place, and the governor was the governor, who was at the same level as the governor's assassination, but the governor was the joint supreme governor of the local military and government).

In October last year, Xu Qing sent two private armed forces by water into North Korea, including two women's barracks of the New Army, 2,700 men from the Longmen Dart Bureau stationed in Pyongyang, the former capital city of Goguryeo, and 20,000 people from the Datang Trading Company stationed in Xiongjinseong, an important town in the western part of Baekje (now Gongju, Chaoguo), Xu Qing's two groups of men and horses quickly cleared out the anti-Tang civil armed forces in the two places, but after the Tang Dynasty troops retreated from Goguryeo and Baekje to Liaodong, Silla took the opportunity to occupy the entire territory of the former Baekje and the surrounding area of Pyongyang, the former capital of Goguryeo. More and faster chapters are here.

Silla was unwilling to spit out the fat in his mouth, so he sent troops to Pyongyang and Xiongjin Fortress to confront Xu Qing's private armed forces, and often clashed with Xu Qing's subordinates on the pretext of protecting the Silla people. Be the first to update

The king of Silla, Kim Famin, learned from the Mei family who was an undercover agent in Fanyang that the Tang Dynasty had sent two armies to conquer Goguryeo, Baekje rebel areas and the Silla Kingdom, and did not want to be attacked by the enemy, so he stepped up the battle for Pyongyang and Xiongjin City, especially the battle for Xiongjin City quickly heated up, because according to the information he had, Kim Famin estimated that the Xujia army would land at the mouth of the Xiongjin River (now Jinjiang River in South Korea, on the western coast of Korea), and the samurai army might land at the mouth of the Xiongjin River, and it was also possible to land on the southeast and south coasts of Silla. Be the first to update

There are two best ways to win the victory against the Tang army, and the best way is to prevent the Tang army from landing, and the other is to increase the intensity of support for the anti-Tang activities of the former Goguryeo and the former Baekje people, and directly arm the anti-Tang civil armed forces in the two places, no longer caring about the feelings of the Tang Dynasty, and the conflict with the Tang Dynasty has turned from dark to light.

The Korean Peninsula is not very big, Silla is in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula, and the former Baekje is in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula, in less than three days, Silla increased the number of troops to Xiongjin by 100,000 and Pyongyang by 30,000, bringing the Silla forces besieging Xiongjin City to 200,000 and Pyongyang to 50,000, not counting the former Goguryeo and Baekje rebels who opposed the Tang Dynasty. More and faster chapters are here. The rebel forces against Tang in both regions rapidly grew to more than 100,000 men each under the direct armies of Silla.

In order to reduce casualties, the samurai of the Longmen Dart Bureau and the old Sui army stationed in Pyongyang were forced to move to the old Andong Metropolitan Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, which was transformed from the former new royal city of Goguryeo (the new Andong Metropolitan Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty has been forced to move to Liaodong Province), and the veterans of the Datang Trading Company stationed in Xiongjin City were stationed in the Datang Xiongjin Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which was like a battle fortress.

After nearly ten days of sea voyage, the front army of the Xu family army arrived at the mouth of the Xiongjin River, before the landing, Xu Qing habitually picked up the telescope and looked ahead, and did not usher in the expected warm welcome from the employees of the Datang Trading Company stationed in Xiongjin Castle, but ushered in the anti-landing operation of the 200,000-strong army composed of the Silla army and the Baekje rebels, and the enemy occupied favorable terrain and was condescending, waiting for the Tang army to take the bait. Be the first to update

Xu Qing, commander of the Xu family's army, and Xue Rengui, the deputy general of the Xu family, had analyzed this very unlikely situation in the war game deduction before the expedition, and made careful preparations for this, installing car crossbows (called car crossbows in the Tang Dynasty and bed crossbows in the Song Dynasty) on the battleships, 20 crossbows on large capital warships, 5 to 10 car crossbows on medium warships, and 1 to 5 car crossbows on small warships. More and faster chapters are here.

According to the military law of the Tang Dynasty, it is a violation of military law to kill the enemy ineffectively, to abscond in fear of the enemy, and to escape from the battle, and to be executed at the worst and removed from office to knight. Xu Qing and Xue Rengui led more than 20,000 elite troops of the Tang Army, and they came prepared, so naturally it was impossible to flee as soon as they encountered the enemy's ambush, which not only violated military law, but also ruined the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.

The crossbow was a powerful long-range weapon in ancient China, which may have existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and certainly in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in which one or several bows were mounted on a bed frame, and the bow was loaded with arrows by twisting the axle at the rear of the wheel, and was ready to be fired. The multi-bow crossbow can be used by multiple people to winch the shaft, and the combined force of several bows is used to shoot arrows, and its projectile power is far greater than that of a single person using a stretched, stretched or waist trigger crossbow.

The bed crossbow was greatly developed in the Song Dynasty. The bed crossbow contained in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" compiled by the Song Dynasty official has many types from 2 bows to 4 bows. The number of twisters when the multi-bow bed crossbow is tensioned, and the small one uses 5~7 people; Large ones such as "eight-cow crossbows" require more than 100 people, and there are also those that really use six cows or eight cows to pull the rope and tighten the string. More and faster chapters are here. Aiming and firing with hammer teeth are handled by special personnel. The arrows used are made of wood and the iron is a feather, which is known as "one gun and three swords and arrows".

This arrow is actually a spear (spear) with a feather, which is very destructive. The bed crossbow also fires "walking arrows", nailing them to rammed earth walls in rows, allowing siegers to climb the city. The bed crossbow can also be loaded with pockets on the string, and each pocket contains dozens of arrows, which are shot at the same time, called "jackdaw arrows".

The bed crossbow generally has a range of up to 300 paces (about 500 meters) and a maximum range of 700 paces (about 1,100 meters), which is the farthest shot among ancient Chinese crossbow weapons. According to the "Coral Hook Poems" written by Zhang Biaochen of the Song Dynasty, the bed crossbow played a great role in the battle of Lanyuan in the first year of Jingde (1004). However, the bed crossbow was bulky in construction and less maneuverable. With the development of firearms, bed crossbows were gradually discontinued.

After the crossbows of each ship fired a large number of "one gun and three swords and arrows" to penetrate the shield defense of the enemy's shield army, and then fired an overwhelming "jackdaw arrow" to successfully suppress the enemy's archers, the left and right forward armies rushed to land on the beach under the cover of the shield army, the archery army, and the (handed) crossbow army. After the vanguard army eliminated the enemy's archers, the main force of the 20,000 Don Army immediately launched a charge. The 20,000 Tang army was overwhelmed, and the combined army of the Silla army and the Baekje rebels was about to collapse at the first touch, and they scattered and fled.

When he saw Xue Rengui appear in the Tang army, the officers and soldiers of Silla and Baekje, who had seen Xue Rengui's brave and invincible Silla and Baekje, were all frightened, and the pace of fleeing accelerated even more.

In this battle, the Tang army won more with less, killed more than 10,000 enemies, captured 20,000, and the remaining coalition of more than 100,000 Silla troops and Baekje rebels fled. As soon as the Xu Jiajun set foot on the land of the former Baekje, they fought a beautiful victory. Xu Qing expected the enemy to be like a god, and equipped a large number of crossbows in the battleship in advance, and equipped a large number of shield troops and archers, crossbowmen, abandon the heavy armor and do not use, and use the body armor that has just been successfully tried, the body armor is lined with more than a dozen layers of silk fabric, and the composite ceramic pieces that are still in the development stage are hung in the shape of fish scales, which have preliminary bulletproof functions, and the bulletproof ability is not reliable, and it cannot be 100% bulletproof, and the performance of composite ceramics needs to be further improved, but there is no problem with swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows and arrows, and crossbow arrows.

Xu Qing's harem regiment, headquarters personnel, pro-guard and vanguard army, shield army and archery army, and crossbow army are all equipped with this epoch-making body armor (in order to avoid the spread of hot weapons, Xu Qing changed the body armor to an arrow armor), and at the same time equipped with a grimace iron mask that only exposes the eyes and nostrils, which not only increases the protection ability of the troops, but also increases the mobility of the troops.

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