Chapter 281: Land and Water Advance Together

The day after the Jin Naval Army embarked on the 'pursuit' of the Song Naval Army, the Haizhou Naval Division carried three brigades of marines into the mouth of the Yalu River and directly took Baozhou and Xuanzhou. The two cities are located on the east bank of the Yalu River, Baozhou was built by the Khitan in that year, they built a bridge on the Yalu River, and built the two cities of Bao and Ding, which can control the throat of the traffic between Goryeo and the lower reaches of the Yalu River, and the strategic position is very important, and it is also an important link in the defense line between Goryeo and Jin.

Because the Wushu led the army to attack smoothly, the Goryeo army retreated to the hinterland, there were sailors cruising near the mouth of the river, and the country across the river can be reinforced at any time, so only 3,000 soldiers were left to defend the two cities, and the Song army did not expect the Song army to dare to go deep into the mouth of the river to fight, seeing the sudden appearance of the Song army immediately caused a panic up and down, while going to the city to defend, while asking for help from the country, but the pontoon bridge on the river was destroyed by the Song army first, and had to send a message to the Wushu in Xijing for help.

However, after the arrival of the Song army, the city was bombarded with heavy artillery fire, and then the marines began to land on the east bank and attack the two cities respectively. The defenders of the city were soon drowned in the overwhelming artillery fire, the city was in flames, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, the rammed earth walls were torn apart, the marines broke through the gap into the city, the remnants of the Jin army were defeated, opened the south gate and abandoned the city and fled, and in less than two hours the two border towns had changed hands.

The Jin army in Dingzhou on the west bank of the Yalu River also tried to reinforce after the Song army attacked Bao and Xuan's two cities, but the pontoon bridge on both sides of the river had been destroyed, and they collected nearly 100 small boats to try to cross the river when there was no hope of repairing the pontoon bridge. But how are they the opponents of the Song Water Army's warships, a few Yongzi-class battleships have knocked and sunk most of the small boats carrying Jin Army reinforcements in a few back and forth, how dare others move again. I could only watch the two cities fall.

After capturing the two cities, the Haizhou sailors unloaded the supplies overnight and then set sail to leave the Yalu River. Go west to search for the Jinshui fleet that has entered the open sea, and cooperate with the Dengzhou Navy Division to gather and annihilate it. The Marine Brigade occupying the two cities was cleared of the remnants of the enemy under the unified command of Ma Wei, the deputy commander of the naval army. Repair the city defenses and take on the task of blocking the reinforcements of the Jin State. Almost at the same time that the Haizhou Naval Division cooperated with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Marine Brigades to capture Baozhou and Dingzhou, another landing battle was also fought in the waters of Shenmi Island.

Due to the withdrawal of the Jin Navy, the troops here were empty, and the Myeongju Naval Division took control of the strait with almost no effort, and then covered the 1st Marine Brigade to seize the Jin Army's water village, occupy the port, and land on the Goryeo mainland to establish a beachhead. Immediately after that, a large number of Tiger generals went ashore, and with them came 50,000 Goryeo troops. Because this side has to deal not only with the invading army of the Vultures. They also had to face the rescue army of the Jin State, and the defense line was long, and the Song army had only 30,000 troops, so the pressure was very high.

The Tiger General captured the strategically important Bochuan County with lightning speed, which was the intersection of the three roads to the Jin Kingdom, blocking the only way for the Wushu to retreat. Then, with three brigades as the vanguard, the Tiger and the Goryeo coalition army swept through the fourteen cities of Weiyuan, Xinghua, Jingzhou, Ninghai, Ningde, Ningshuo, Yunzhou, Anshui, Qingsai, Pingyu, Ningyuan, Dingrong, Mengzhou, and Shuozhou, as well as Yaodeok, Jingbian, and Hezhou, and restored the defense line of Jin and Goryeo bounded by the Great Wall. Behind the invading Jin army, a blocking line more than 100 miles deep was formed!

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Wuyan Puluhun suddenly found himself in the middle of the two Song naval fleets, and in the blink of an eye, the hunter became the prey of being rounded up, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly ordered the fleet to turn around and want to join the main fleet. Actually, this is really a stupid trick. If he is still far away, he may be able to get rid of the flanking attack if he accelerates forward, and if he is lucky, he can hold on until dark and escape. More importantly, it can lead away the Song Navy and sacrifice himself to protect the main fleet.

Human nature is to like to get together when they encounter danger. thought that there were many people and many people could strengthen each other's courage, and Wuyan Puluhun did not seem to have the consciousness of sacrificing himself for others at this time. No matter what he thought, in a hurry, the entire fleet began to turn around as ordered. It was already difficult for hundreds of warships to move in the narrow corridor formed by the two fleets of the Song army, and the warships in the middle became unable to move forward, with no way back, and collided with each other before the battle began......

After successfully luring the enemy, the Dengzhou Naval Division, which had evacuated the Korean Gulf with a false shot, stopped advancing, turned around and prepared to cut off the retreat of the Jin Navy Army from the Yalu River back to the Jin Kingdom, but unexpectedly it ran into the Jin Navy Army head-on. No matter when the enemy is expected to take the initiative in advance, the Song Shuijun has long been equipped with the telescope invented by the emperor, and they were discovered when the Jin army first appeared, and the Jin army was still thinking about whether to come to the sea to 'fight the grass valley'!

"Order the Haizhou Navy Division to turn north with the enemy army and draw them into the encirclement!" Cheng Xishou saw the Haizhou Navy Army rushing to the rendezvous and immediately ordered, and at the same time, the Dengzhou Navy began to go south, preemptively intercepting the enemy fleet in the U-turn.

The two fleets of the Song Navy Army were like the two fish of yin and yang that were constantly rotating in the Bagua diagram, gradually sandwiching the enemy fleet in the core, and divided into two teams to surround the Jin army. Desperate to flee for his life, Wuyan Puluhun ordered the five surviving fighting ships in the front army to line up and try to break through the encirclement and break out of a way out.

"Concentrate your fire and sink them!" Cheng Xishou ordered. Immediately, the three Yongzi-class battleships accelerated to keep up with the Jin Army fighting ships that burst out of the formation, parallel to them, and hundreds of gunwales opened fire fiercely.

The Jin army fighting ships that broke the formation were bitter at this time, they used bows and arrows and trebuchets to shoot at the Song army, but they couldn't touch the side of the other people at all, but were shot by the other party's shotgun to kill a lot of soldiers exposed on the deck. This battle is so aggrieved and aggrieved that a fighting ship can't stand it, and it hangs its sails and makes the oarsmen paddle with all their strength to accelerate and rush to a Song ship to collide with it.

However, the Jin Fighting Ship soon found that it was not easy to die with others, and the Song Ship, which found that it was attempting, adjusted its position, but did not assume the posture of preparing to slam with the bow facing each other, but exposed the weakest hull under its angle of attack, and began to adjust it like a cat and mouse.

A salvo from the second-tier guns of the Song ship fired more than a dozen chain bullets, and although only two hits, the mainsail was torn apart, and the lookout post sitting in the bucket was smashed by the falling mast and smashed into a meatloaf. The loss of the mainsail is equivalent to the loss of the engine, and the speed of the ship is greatly reduced. And the first layer of the Song ship's gunwales aimed at the enemy ship's waterline fired another salvo, and the unfortunate warship won the lottery again, two holes were opened in the side of the ship, and the sea water poured in instantly, and the oarsmen in the bilge panicked and fled one after another.

Completely lost power, the Jin Army warship tilted its arms and then inertia still moved forward, but the slow appearance was like sending people to the door to beat people can not make people happy, the Song ship calmly adjusted the battle position again, and fired a salvo again, one side of the ship's side turned into a sieve, and the already inclined hull instantly sank to the bottom of the sea under the pull of the seawater, and the sailors on the ship jumped into the water despite the cold sea, but were pulled into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool brought up by the sinking warship.

The five fighting ships that opened the way were destroyed one after another, but they also made a gap in the encirclement, and the Jin army warships behind followed closely behind and rushed out in no order. In the face of the swarming enemy ships, Cheng Xishou commanded the fleet to change its formation again, and ordered the Haizhou Navy Division to attack the Jin army fleet with large warships, and then the medium-sized warships that followed up were divided and annihilated. The entire formation of the Jin army was disrupted, and although Wuyan Puluhun tried his best to urge the army to rush and kill, he was unable to save the tide of the battle, and the building boat he was riding was bulky and slow, but it became an ideal target for attack.

Zhai Cheng received the order of the commander and immediately led the Haizhou Navy Division to rush into the enemy fleet, and he commanded the ships to rush to the flagship of Wuyan Puluhun, and the other warships of the Song Navy also followed. At this time, Jin Bing's warship hurriedly blocked the Song ship that attacked the commander Lou's ship, completely messing up the formation. Seeing that the Jin warships were still approaching to resist, he immediately ordered to strafe the approaching enemy ships with machine guns, and the Jin soldiers on the deck were killed and wounded countless times, and they all hid in the cabin, and were sunk and overturned by the Song ships that were rushing up.

At this moment, the Song army has rushed into the Jin army formation, Zhai Cheng does not dare to fire cannons at will to avoid accidental injury, and the enemy's flagship is not much smaller than his own ship, the possibility of sinking it is not great, even if it crashes into his own ship, it will be injured, in this situation of gaining the upper hand, it is obviously unwise, but the fat in his mouth can not be eaten, so he organized his personal guards and all the sailors who can be drawn on the ship to prepare to jump to seize the enemy ship.

Zhai Cheng commanded the battleship to engage from the stern of the enemy ship, first scattered the archers who posed the greatest threat to them on the enemy ship with a burst of fierce machine-gun fire, threw the hook and lowered the board at the moment when the two ships approached, and he personally led the soldiers to jump onto the enemy ship and meet the enemy's short soldiers.

Although gang jumping combat was not a combat method that Song Shuijun was good at, they were also trained in this area, and they were equipped with short-barreled bead guns and straight knives that were easy to use in the narrow cabin of the ship. The Song army, which lacked combat experience in this area, made up for it in weapons, and under the cover of machine guns, they got on board the ship in groups of three or five, formed a battle formation and cooperated with each other, first using gunners to shoot down the enemy who posed the greatest threat to them, and then the buddies who were good at white-knuckle combat came forward to slash and kill, and often unkindly released cold guns.

Zhai Cheng held a knife in one hand, carried a revolver in the other, slashed horizontally and vertically, unstoppable, led the army to fight, and the enemy fought layer by layer, in the chaos of the army, they killed the captain Wubanu, captured alive the former army commander Wuyan Puluhun and other enemy generals, captured the flagship, when the flag of the Jin Navy Army on the mast fell, the Great Song Dynasty battle flag was raised, and the besieged Jin Army warships saw that there was no hope of breaking through, and they lowered their military flags and gave up resistance, surrendering to the Song army...... (To be continued......)