Chapter 264: Feathers
The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the tide receded, countless corpses and the wreckage of the boat were swept into the sea with the ups and downs of the waves, only a few fighting ships were left in front of the port of Mi Island, and the city left bullet marks that were smashed by stone bullets, but the dragon flag of the Great Song Dynasty was still fluttering from the mountain, and after three days of fierce fighting, the island was still in the hands of the Song army, and the Jin Dynasty naval army was never able to break through the blockade line woven by artillery fire.
"Dutong, the tide has receded, let's fight again tomorrow!" Wuyan Pu Luhun looked at the face of the oblique Ali Yin who could squeeze out two catties of water, and said carefully.
"With hundreds of warships in my Dajin Navy, can't tens of thousands of soldiers capture this small island?" Pointing to the city in front of him, Ali shouted.
"Dutong, the Song army's artillery is sharp, and our big ships can't get close to the port at all!" The corners of Wuyan Puluhun's mouth twitched a few times and said, he was beaten with twenty lashes because of the loss of three fighting ships on the first day, and three big ships were destroyed by the artillery on the battery again in yesterday's attack, and he was beaten with thirty lashes.
"Stupid, the target of the fighting ship is big, how can you blindly send a big ship in front of you not to be hit, why don't you attack with a small boat!" Diagonal Ali rebuked sharply, due to the limitations of technology and financial resources, most of the boats built by the Jin army are 'small boats', and the maneuverability is good, but it is difficult to confront giant warships or large sea ships head-on, so every large warship is a treasure, and nine of the ten big ships of the former army were destroyed at once, can it not make him feel distressed?
"Dutong, we used to take the lead with big ships, covering the landing of small ships or boarding enemy ships to seize ships, who would have expected the Song army to be so powerful. In particular, the two huge cannons on the batteries at both ends of the port can hit two miles away, and even if a big ship is hit by a bullet, the ship will be destroyed in an instant. Our trebuchets and crossbows could not be hit at all, and it was difficult to dodge by barely getting into the harbor. Instead, they became their target! Uyan Puluhun hurriedly defended that he didn't want to add new injuries to old injuries that had not healed.
"This..."Diagonal Ali was surprised, Wuyan Puluhun said well, according to their previous combat experience, they arranged tactics in this way, and it was really no wonder that he was really surprised, "You have fought in vain for so many years, and you can't attack by force, so you can take a detour." You can assault in multiple ways! ”
"Dutong ......" Wuyan Puluhun was choked, the harbor is so big, the artillery fire of the Song army can completely cover the entire sea surface, and it is not so easy to make a detour, he does not know the sea conditions around Shenmi Island at all, and if he does not get the ship right, he will run aground and run aground, and then it will be his own sin.
The dispute between the two leaders was helpless in the face of changes in the hostile situation, as Zhao Tan expected, because of their 'superficiality'. The Vultures spent a lot of money and years of hard work to build a naval army. From the establishment to the style of the warships, they were all copied and improved from the Song army, but no matter how hard they worked, it was only a strengthened version of the old naval army of the Song Dynasty, but it was a earth-shaking change for the Jin naval army that only had small boats and rafts in the past, thinking that it was not weaker than the naval army of the Song Dynasty in terms of the number of warships and troop allocation. Let them think that they can compete with the Song army with this, and they have a kind of arrogance mentality.
But this kind of power is in vain, and it is not worthy of the name. The Golden Navy is only equipped with new ships, which have reached the level of being able to operate. Tactics are dull and lack variety. At the beginning of the battle, it was disrupted by a Song warship, not only lost several warships and hundreds of people, but also was disrupted and had to re-array, not to mention the delay of time, but also exposed the attempt. After that, the experience of the battle was not learned, and he still attacked Minmi Island according to the original tactics, and after suffering huge losses, he still insisted on going his own way, so that all the most valuable resources were wasted in a senseless war of attrition. But such an army was also impatiently pushed to the front line to participate in the war by Wushu as a trump card......
Wuyan Puluhun listened to the advice of the Dutong, and took the lead with large ships to disperse the assault with small warships to avoid the bombardment of the Song army's artillery. This trick really worked, the Song army's siege cannon had a long range and great power, but because it was a breech charge, the rate of fire was low and cumbersome, and the Jin army's target was small, flexible in operation, and the tactics of dispersed assault were adopted, so that its hit rate was reduced.
But the excitement of the Jin Shui Army only lasted for a moment, because the tide had receded, the water level of the port had decreased, and the shoal in front of the city wall had become a muddy tidal flat. The muddy tidal flats made it difficult for the landing soldiers to move and move.
The rapid-fire guns and machine guns of the Song army began to shoot at the head of the city, and in an instant the beachhead was covered with the shotguns and machine gun projectiles fired from the rapid-fire guns, and the soldiers of the Jin army who staggered forward in the open tidal flats were like slowly wriggling reptiles, they began to brave the fierce rain of bullets and counterattacked with the bows and arrows in their hands, trying to rush to the city to avoid the ubiquitous hot projectiles, but soon found that this was in vain, they could not break through this fire net at all, even the bows and arrows in the hands of the best archers could not shoot into the city at all.
The huge casualties and the disadvantageous situation soon collapsed the attacking soldiers, and fear brought them together, but this only caused more casualties, and some of the soldiers who had nothing to do were lying on the ground trying to dodge the blow, and some simply turned around and climbed onto the boat to escape back to the sea, but the siege guns on the battery began to fire again, and the boats stranded on the beach became fixed targets at this moment, and they were destroyed one after another, cutting off their retreat......
Half an hour later, the battlefield fell silent again, the beachhead was covered with the corpses of the soldiers of the Jin Army, the salty sea breeze was full of the smell of blood, and Wuyan Pulu, who was far away on the boat outside the port, watched the lucky escape back to a few ships, his face was full of horror, is this the power of firearms in the legend? There were more than 100 soldiers on each ship, and 2,000 people launched an attack, and less than 200 people were left alive.
He also realized that with their abilities, they could not capture the port from the front, so he ordered a fleet to be left to monitor the movements of the Song army in the port, and most of them turned to attack several small islands around Mido as a foothold, and then turned to Mido to control the strait to the mainland of Goryeo, and detoured back to Baozhou to assist the commander in breaking the city. At the sound of an order, the Jin army outside the port came like a tide, and then retreated like a tide.
That night, taking advantage of the rising tide again, the Jinshui army attacked several nameless islands near Shangmi Island, slaughtered the unsuspecting Goryeo residents on the island, and then sent the Chinese army to launch a surprise attack from the north of Shenmi Island at dawn. When the frightened Jin army came to the island under the command of Atuhan, they were pleasantly surprised to find that they had met no resistance, and the residents of the northern part of the island had been evacuated.
Subsequently, the Jin army on the island launched an attack on the port south of the island, but was resolutely blocked by the Song army in front of Yuncong Mountain, and a defensive line composed of pillboxes was still an insurmountable obstacle for them, and after paying heavy casualties, the Jin army had to abandon the attack again. Seeing that it was difficult to capture Shenmi Island for a while, Ali ordered to set up a village in front of the mountain to confront the Song army, and the rear army sent warships to block the port in the south of the island, intending to trap the Song army on the island to death.
The Wushu troops attacking Baoju had been fighting hard with the Goryeo defenders for many days, and had not been able to break through the defensive line, and on the fifth day of the outbreak of the battle, the Jinshui army landed on Goryeo proper. When tens of thousands of Jin troops crossed the strait and suddenly appeared in the hinterland, the Goryeo army on the front line collapsed immediately when they learned that the back road was cut off, and in order to prevent the city from being surrounded and abandoned, the three passes of Dingzhou, Xuande and Yuanxing were lost, and the defenders fled to Xijing.
Wang Kai, the king of Goryeo, learned that the Jin soldiers crossed the river to the east and marched eastward, and the news of the loss of the three passes, he was terrified, and urgently summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures, some ministers proposed to send the prince and the concubine overseas to avoid the war, some people said that the lord of the country was asked to issue an edict to re-appeal to the Jin ministers to temporarily avoid the edge, and some people proposed to issue an edict as soon as possible to order all provinces to send troops to the king and recruit troops to resist the invasion, but the quarrel was fruitless for a long time, because Goryeo was under the pressure of the Jurchens, the national strength declined, and there was almost no strength to fight again.
By September 1, the Jin army advanced on the victory, crossed the Qingchuan River and camped, and the vanguard army led by the superintendent army had reached the city of Anzhou. After the Jin army shot a book to the Anzhou army and people to surrender the city was refused, the next day they launched a siege of the city, the two sides launched a fierce battle, Anzhou held on to three days without reinforcements and then fell, Wushu hated its resistance, slaughtered the city after the plunder, burned the city to the ground, and raised troops after two days of rest.
On September 3, Wushu led a large army to advance to Xijing, and at the same time ordered the naval army to garrison Dingzhou and attack Phi Island, Dahua Island, and Tieshan to prevent and cut off the possible assistance of the Song army to Goryeo. At this time, after the fall of Goryeo in Anzhou, the government and the opposition were in a panic, the defenders from all walks of life were scattered, Huangzhou, Fengshan, Ruixing, Pingshan and other towns were frightened and frightened, and the wind was the first to collapse, all the soldiers fled, no one was its front, and the Jin army was like entering a no-man's land, only a hundred miles away from Xijing.
Seogyong is the gateway to the national capital of Kaegyong and an important town in the northern part of Goryeo, and if it is lost, it will threaten the security of Gyeonggi. The lord of the country Wang Kai convened the ministers several times to discuss the matter but no one dared to go to reject the enemy, just persuaded the lord of the country to ask Jin for guilt, and re-pay tribute to the minister, at this time the old minister Jin Fushi stepped forward to resist the main resistance, and offered advice to the lord of the country said that Goryeo suffered from the Jurchen for many years, and then turned to the Song Dynasty, if the gold was lowered again, it was despised by the world, and now the enemy should be rejected on the one hand, and the envoy should be sent to the Song for help on the other hand, and jointly fight the enemy.
Jin Fushi once put down the biggest rebellion since the founding of Goryeo - the 'Xijing Rebellion', so he was deeply respected by Wang Kai, and was named the Taishi of the Jiajian School, the Scholar of Jixian Palace, and the Prince and the Taishi", Jin Fushi became a veteran of the DPRK and China, and was in charge of the government for many years, and was known for his prestige, although he has retreated to the second line, his prestige is still there, and no one dares to raise objections. The lord of the country, Wang Kai, immediately agreed and ordered him to preside over the anti-Jin ...... (To be continued......)