As the second echelon to support the main force of the local operations in Goryeo, counting the two light artillery brigades strengthened, the ground combat strength reached 50,000, which was even larger than the last Yingzhou landing force. Five days later, the storm completely moved away from Bohai Bay, and the Mingzhou Navy Division escorted more than 400 ships loaded with grain and baggage to the sea off Dengju, where they joined the transport fleet carrying the tiger generals and set sail for Goryeo as the third echelon.

In support of Goryeo this time, the Great Song Dynasty dispatched a total of Dengzhou, Haizhou, and Mingzhou three towns of the navy, leopard generals, lion generals, tiger generals, and four naval army and marine brigades and two artillery brigades attached to it, if the total strength of the Midao task force is counted to the edge of 100,000 people, plus Goryeo's own more than 200,000 troops, in terms of troops, has far surpassed the Jin country, and the use of such troops to reinforce with great fanfare, the huge cost of the country seems to be a little too grand.

Zhao Ta didn't think so, in addition to sending out a large army to show strength and deter the small, he knew very well that an army that had not been tested in actual combat could not be called a real army, and no matter how old a soldier who had not been on the battlefield was a new soldier, it would not be possible to rely on training to maintain combat effectiveness.

Needless to say, the navy army was all engaged in the errand of suppressing bandits, escorting convoys, and patrolling the sea, and had never participated in a real war at all. In recent years, the navy has frequently changed its equipment, not only eliminating the old ships of the old naval army of the Great Song Dynasty that were suitable for cold weapon warfare, but also the armed gunboats that were transformed from merchant ships in the past have gradually withdrawn from active service and have been changed to auxiliary ships or handed over to the inland river fleet.

At present, all the large main warships of the Song Navy have been replaced with new sail warships equipped with artillery, and most of the medium-sized warships are three-masted sail or sail oars dual-powered clippers. The hardware has been strengthened. The software has also been made a lot of enhancements to new measuring equipment. The means of navigation have been put into use, and a large number of newcomers who have been trained by the naval academy have served as junior officers. The software and hardware can be said to be new, and the tactics and tactics have been trained, but they have not been tested on the battlefield, and even Zhao Ta, the initiator, has no bottom in his heart.

As the seed troops of Zhao Ta's army, they transferred experienced officers and backbones to other units again and again, and the veterans who completed their service every year also made fewer and fewer grassroots soldiers who had participated in actual combat, and the vacancies left could only be filled by newly recruited soldiers and military academy graduates.

Zhao Ta once inspected the leopard generals and found that the officers at the command level were all grassroots officers during the Xiangyi Army period, and most of the commanders were soldiers during the Loyal and Brave Army period. The first level of the capital is already the world of soldiers during the battle to recover Yanjing, and the team leader and the gang leader have rarely participated in actual combat, and even among the veterans who have actual combat experience, they are very rare and facing retirement, which cannot but arouse his vigilance.

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, the forbidden army was also an invincible and invincible force, but after two generations, there were fewer defeats and more defeats, and the most Lu had to rely on the border army and the archers of the vassal soldiers to support the scene, and a large number of forbidden troops stationed in Gyeonggi and the interior became invincible old soldiers, and they were defeated at the touch of a touch in the battle of attacking Liao and resisting the southward movement of the Jin army, so that the Jurchens had their nest. Fortunately, the generals have been cleaned up by the soldiers over the years, and there has been no mutiny, otherwise relying on them to defend the imperial power is only afraid that the sky will change early.

The situation of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army now is strikingly similar to that after Injong, although the forbidden armies of the various Zhenfu Divisions are newly formed. However, due to the constant conflicts between the border areas and neighboring countries and nomadic peoples, they often have rich experience in actual combat and their combat effectiveness is constantly improving. The Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, on the other hand, had few opportunities for actual combat except for major military operations. You can only rely on strict training to maintain combat effectiveness, but as a veteran, Zhao Ta knows that this is far from enough.

Therefore, Zhao Ta decided to send all the money to Goryeo this time to transfer the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army to participate in the war. Increase their actual combat experience and improve their command ability. Enhance combat effectiveness. How much money to spend is a small matter, but it is much better than one day in the future, you or that descendant will hold the gold and silver and watch the enemy soldiers crying under the city!

As the supreme commander of the aid to Goryeo, Zhao Yong was treated as a guinea pig by the emperor, and he looked a little worried. He knew that Emperor Lu Dao used him as a commander because he had led the Kryu army alone in a long-term campaign in a foreign country, and he had certain experience in campaign command, local construction, and coordination of relations between all parties, and he was a general who could be relieved to be in charge alone. This time, however, he not only had to assume the heavy responsibility of commanding the entire land campaign, but also had to coordinate the pace with the naval forces and command operations across arms......

Cheng Xushou, who had been setting off for several days, took advantage of the change in the angle of the sail to move along the zigzag course, and received a new operational deployment from the clipper ship and a battle report from the Weiyuan off the coast of the Korean Gulf. At this time, the patrol fleet, which had arrived first after the wind had stopped, came to rendezvous and reported to it the latest movements of the Golden Water Army. A few days ago, in order to avoid the wind, the Jin Navy army sailed into the strait of the islands around Shenmi Island, and the Great Song Dragon Flag was still flying on Shenmi Island, indicating that the base was still partially controlled by the Song army and had not been completely lost, because there was an enemy fleet stationed outside the harbor, and they did not take the initiative to attack for fear of startling the snakes.

"Tonight we will take advantage of the night to sail into the waters of the Korean Gulf and meet the enemy tomorrow. Tian Yang, you lead five Yongzi battleships, and twenty Weizi battleships to rush their formations after receiving the enemy as the vanguard; I led two flagship and Yongzi battleships, and 20 Wei battleships to break the enemy for the Chinese army; Zheng Hai, you lead three Yongzi battleships and twenty Weizi battleships, and after I break the enemy, escort the marines to land on Shenmi Island! "The emperor's will is a strategic deployment, what tactics are used to accomplish it, the emperor does not interfere, and the generals are free to play, Cheng Xishou listened to the report, and probably had the bottom in his heart, and ordered to set off overnight.

Now the water warships are in the name of ' Shen Yong and Wei Yang are named after the four characters, and the Shen Zi are the flagships of each fleet, which belong to extra-large warships, equipped with more than 60 artillery guns, and have at least two gun decks, which are equivalent to battleships of the modern navy; Yongzi belongs to large warships, equipped with naval guns between 40 and 60 guns, which is equivalent to a cruiser; Wei Zi belongs to medium-sized warships, and the naval forces are equipped with the most equipment, and the number of artillery equipped is different according to different tasks, basically more than 10 guns, and less than 40 are included in this column; Yangzi battleships are military transport and auxiliary ships, which belong to logistics, so they are only equipped with light artillery and machine guns for self-defense。

"Dutong, the enemy fleet is based on the salient of Linden Island, Minami Island, Dahe Island and Yanzhou to the sea, which is close to the mainland for supply, and can also avoid the storm, or this is a chain to resist the enemy, and now the south wind is prevailing, the enemy is in the upper hand, it is not conducive to our attack, is it not to wait for the wind direction to change before engagement!" Tian Yang, commander of the Dengzhou Navy Army, said that he thought that our army had come from afar and should avoid the enemy's edge and stand by to move.

"No, there is not much time left for us, most of the enemy warships are small warships, only equipped with bows and crossbows, and the big ships are only two more stone throwers, and they still use the broadside warfare that we abandoned many years ago, and it is difficult to pose a threat to us!" Cheng Xishou waved his hand and said, "Besides, although the Jurchens are numerous, they can be in the army for a short time, and they don't know how to be watery, so don't worry!" ”

"Dutong, I thought that our army should not rush to relieve the siege of Midao, but should meet the enemy from the northwest. First, it is conducive to our control of the formation and the rotation of the battleship; Second, they could first seize Linden Island, control the Jin army's retreat to the waterway of the Yalu River, suppress the enemy in the bay, and then completely annihilate the enemy army after the Haizhou Navy Division arrived. Zheng Haiyan, deputy commander of the Dengzhou Water Division, said.

"Well, that's right!" Cheng Xishou nodded approvingly, and after some discussion, everyone re-agreed on the plan, immediately hung up the canopy sails, rowed with all their might, and took advantage of the cover of night to rush towards the Korean Bay where the Jin fleet's fleet was anchored......

In the early morning, the Song naval fleet appeared in the Korean Gulf, and in that era of backward reconnaissance methods, it could only detect the other side with eyesight, and if it wanted to know the enemy situation in advance, it could only send a sentinel ship to reconnoitre. More than 100 Song warships appeared and were gradually discovered by the Jinshui Army sentry ships, and they quickly reported back.

After receiving the report, Ali immediately ordered to pull the anchor and set sail to meet the battle, and discharged several horizontal formations to intercept the Song army, hundreds of large and small ships can be described as a forest of masts, canopy sails cover the sun, stretching for several miles, the military appearance is strong, compared with the Song army with only more than 100 warships, it can be said that it occupies an overwhelming advantage in terms of strength and the number of ships dispatched, which makes the Jinshui army full of confidence, they have secretly developed for many years, but they are looking down at the road, sitting in the well and watching the sky, and they have not seen the changes in the Great Song Dynasty army, and they are arrogant and think that they will be wise and brave, and they only need to be pressed by the whole army. The Song army will automatically retreat, flee from the wind, and dare not engage in battle, but forget that it was beaten by two warships of the Song army that day, crying father and mother.

The mighty array of the Jin army pressed towards the Song army, and Cheng Xishou stood on the flagship to watch the battle, and saw that although the enemy army was strong, the army was not in order, and the battle line was unknown, so they swarmed in. He then commanded the fleet to change formation, and according to the plan, Tian Yang led the forward ships to attack first. The forward fleet was led by five large warships, and twenty-five battleships were facing each other in bow and stern, forming a line facing each other on the port side to meet the enemy ship group. The warships of the Jin fleet rushed towards the Song fleet according to traditional tactics, attempting to ram and get close to the enemy ships, and then the soldiers armed with swords climbed onto the enemy ships and began to fight.

However, the cannons on the Song warships did not give the Jin army a chance to approach at all, and when the enemy was about 200 paces away from him and the range of the bow and arrows was out of range, he lowered the muzzle of the guns and aimed at the waterline of the enemy ship, and then the gunners of each ship opened fire in turn. This is not comparable to the firepower formed by the two battleships of Weiyuan and Weizhen, which were only equipped with a dozen guns, they are Meng, this is a touch, and they fired a salvo, that is, five or six hundred guns fired, and the probability of hitting the enemy ship was greatly increased...... (To be continued......)