Chapter 656: Pyongyang Beacon Fire

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The name of the water had different meanings in ancient times.

The water in the former Qin Dynasty was today's Yalu River, which was the division between the Yan Kingdom and the Jizi Joseon Dynasty. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up four counties of the Han Dynasty in Korea, and the water was pushed to the Qingchuan River today. Hunshui County became one of the nine counties of Lelang.

Today, the river refers to the Taedong River basin, which has been the political center of the peninsula since the beginning of the Korean regime. Today, a certain leader on the peninsula has put forward the advanced concept that the Datong River is the fifth largest civilization in the world.

After a night of violent storms, the sea is now a drizzly landscape. At present, on the estuary of the Datong River, almost all of them are battleships, and the Zhao warships are like moving castles, with crossbow beds on both sides of the ship, and countless ships and light ships in front of the fleet.

Because of the infusion of seawater from the estuary, the blue-black sea has turned white, and the river water and sea water are distinct, and the heavy rain that has been raging all night has just stopped at this time, and the sea surface is foggy and hazy. Because of the heavy rain before, it was calm on the river, and there were no ships in sight, and it was clear that the Goguryeo ships were sheltering from the wind in the harbor. There was silence all around, and the Goguryeo people were unaware of the Zhao fleet that suddenly came to the door.

Li Chongjiu stood on the deck, his robe being beaten by the wind. He looked at the mouth of the sea in the river from afar, and said to Cheng Mingzhen, the general of the navy: "Goguryeo knows nothing about the arrival of our army, this is our opportunity, and now I order you to go straight upstream, enter the river to find the Goguryeo navy, attack the port by surprise, and not allow a ship to be released." ”

"No, Your Majesty." Cheng Mingzhen agreed loudly.

Looking at the muddy water, Li Chongjiu said with a majestic gaze: "The battle of snow shame is today!" Avenge the 300,000 robes trapped in Liaodong that year! ”

"Revenge!"

Cheng Mingzhen led hundreds of flat-bottomed warships. Leave Li Chongjiu's main fleet, enter the muddy water and trace the river. The waves crash at the mouth of the Hunshui River. Looking at the Zhao warships one after another from a distance, they were like moving city walls, and the masts and hedgehogs on the ships were like a forest.

At this moment, the fleet of the Zhao army landed on the territory of Goguryeo.

Soon after, the lead ship in front of it appeared in the port of Goguryeo. Cheng Mingzhen immediately ordered the Zhao fleet to form a crane wing formation. Cheng Mingzhen's intention in setting up the crane wing array was to completely annihilate the Goguryeo fleet in the port, and not let go of Li Chongjiu's order.

The outpost on the port was in the rain and fog, and the Zhao army battleship appeared. They sounded the alarm at the first moment, and the first reaction of the Goguryeo people was that the Silla warships were attacking. In fact, there were indeed quite a few Silla warships in the Zhao fleet.

Bang Bang!

The sentry post sounded a hasty warning of an enemy attack. Immediately, there was a loud whistling sound, and the sentry post instantly slammed down, and it was collapsed by the stone thrower on the Zhao army's battleship.

Zhao Jun took the lead and gave the Goguryeo people a slap in the face.

Hundreds of Goguryeo fishing boats and warships were moored in one place in the harbor, and now they are seeing an enemy attack, and the harbor is like a hornet's nest being blown up. All kinds of ships were crowded together, and warships and civilian ships were crowded in one place, and they could not advance or retreat.

Cheng Mingzhen laughed when he saw this scene, and immediately ordered the fleet to attack.

After Zhao Jun's big ship entered the port, the huge hull suddenly blocked the entry and exit of the port. The warships of the Goguryeo naval army were very low, and they were not at all comparable to the large ships of the Zhao army. But they knew that if the port was blocked by the Zhao army's big ships, they would only be completely annihilated in the harbor.

Therefore, the naval army of Goguryeo saw the warships of the Zhao army like a hill. Blocking the port, he reacted, and all the warships rushed towards the Zhao warship like crazy.

The Goguryeo warships were like arrows from their bows, and the Goguryeo sailors struggled to row a small pulp. The elongated warships of the Goguryeo people flew swiftly across the water like centipedes with countless legs. Syllable! Syllable! Everywhere the oars slapped the water and splashed high.

The Goguryeo water soldiers hurriedly met the battle. Rushing to the bow of the ship, bundles of arrows were piled up on the deck. The Goguryeo people are good at shooting. In water warfare, they also took the bow and arrow first. On both sides of the deck of the Goguryeo battleship, there were Goguryeo sailors wearing white turbans and trousers.

After getting closer, they picked up their bows and crossbows, raised them at a forty-five degree angle, and shot desperately at the Zhao army's battleship. At this time, the drum beat of the rear burst sounded, and with the rapid drum sound, the Goguryeo people flew arrows. The ballistae on the larger battleship also opened fire and fired at the Zhao battleship. The offensive of the Goguryeo naval army was still very rapid, and in an instant, small stones and crossbow arrows rushed down like rain on the ten large ships of the Zhao army that entered the port.

The arrows did not stop, and the sound of breaking through the air was mixed with the scolding of Goguryeo slang.

However, in addition to the ballistas, Goguryeo's bows and arrows hit the triple covering plate covered with cowhide on the outside of the big ship, but it was like an itch, and the throwing stones hit the covering plate, mostly sliding into the water. Even if the ballista pierces the cladding at a distance, they can't penetrate the cabin made of solid wood by the Zhao army.

What's more, the Zhao Jun's big ships have a closed-water tank design, even if part of the hull is damaged, the ship will not sink. In fact, Goguryeo did not attach much importance to the navy, after all, the small ballistas and stone throwers carried on small ships were simply different from those on large ships.

However, it is strange that the Zhao army ships endured Goguryeo's bow and crossbow blows, but did not return fire. Standing on both sides of the ship, the stone throwers, the soldiers next to the crossbow machines were like decorations. There were only oars sticking out on both sides of the deck on the entire Zhao battleship, paddling rapidly.

The big ship stubbornly withstood the attack of the Goguryeo people, but it rushed into the harbor and killed the Goguryeo people.

Although the Goguryeo fleet did not know the intentions of the Zhao army, it would not let the other party get so close to its own ship array. But seeing the approaching Goguryeo battleships, they approached the Zhao warships one after another, obviously planning to prepare for a gang fight.

Seeing this scene, a sneer appeared on Cheng Mingzhen's face, and he scolded for death. Sure enough, I saw that the Zhao army's battleships were smashed down together, and the approaching Goguryeo battleships were destroyed several in a row.

In an instant, the Zhao warships had already penetrated deep into the formation of the Goguryeo warships, and at this time, the crossbows on both sides of the ten Zhao warships were shooting at the Goguryeo fleet under the ships!

The narrow battleship with two strings and more than a dozen crossbow machines were arranged to shoot at the Goguryeo ships on both sides unscrupulously.

This was an all-fire strike, and the Zhao warship relied on its sturdy hull to penetrate into the heart of the Goguryeo fleet, and then unleashed an all-out blow and fully blossomed. All Goguryeo battleships were almost covered by the range of the Zhao army's crossbow machines, and the crossbow arrows easily pierced through the thin hull of the Goguryeo battleship.

The Goguryeo soldiers standing on the deck were suppressed by the crossbowmen of the Zhao army above the bow of the ship, and were shot into the water one after another like dumplings. On the mast, on the ship's board, and on the deck, Zhao Jun's crossbow arrows were covered with arrows in waves, and the Goguryeo soldiers were either nailed to the ship. Or was shot under the ship.

Several Goguryeo ships close to the Zhao army's battleships were even directly pierced by the crossbow machine with more than a dozen big holes, flipped on the sea surface, and sank to the bottom.

At this time, the stone throwers on the Zhao army's battleship began to name the Goguryeo warships one by one, and one by one the boulders flew by in the late foot, smashing the Goguryeo warships into the water.

A puddle of blood mist stirred up on the surface of the water, and the muddy water was instantly stained red with blood.

"Kill it, you can't float a Goguryeo boat on the water!"

After Cheng Mingzhen gave the order, the Zhao fleet sailed into the harbor, intercepting the fish that slipped through the net, and the Goguryeo fleet, which was trying to break out of the encirclement, was sunk on the river.

The Zhao army not only intercepted the battleship, but also further expanded the results of the battle, and after approaching the shore, the throwing stones and bed crossbows on the bow of the ship swept the buildings of the Goguryeo army on the shore. The houses were collapsed one by one by the throwing stones, and the arrows of the bed crossbow cut the shore and tried to use bows and arrows to counterattack the Goguryeo soldiers of the Zhao army.

Seeing that most of the Goguryeo warships were sunk, the Zhao army's warships began to sail into the harbor. The fast boat full of Zhao soldiers' soldiers cleared the Goguryeo soldiers who had fallen into the water on one side and boarded 6 on the other. In just half an hour, the port called Nanpu at the mouth of the river was captured.

On the port of Nanpu, the beacon fires on the five or six beacon towers have been extinguished, but the beacon towers in the distance are still lit with beacon smoke.

A large stream of smoke burned and pointed in the direction of Pyongyang City.

At this moment, the whole city of Pyongyang had already learned the news of the Zhao army's attack, and now the Zhao army was only fifty miles away from Pyongyang.