The first naval battle in the Kazu Strait seems to have ended before it began.

In addition to the more than 20 warships that were paralyzed or disabled, most of the warships that followed Jin Chengzong to the trench on the inner side of Bailing Mountain were also covered with bruises, and the serious ones barely escaped to Haikou on the inner side of Bailing Mountain because of too much water, and lay on their stomachs, or ran aground or slowly sank in the center, but they just blocked the pursuit of Huaidong warships.

Countless sailors struggled to swim to the shore, but the waves of the trench, the whirlpools brought up by the wreck, and the heavy armor that could not be taken off after being wetted all caused nearly half of the sailors to sink to the water......

With such a short period of time and such tragic casualties, the faces of Ye Ji Baishi, Urging Quanchen and others who were watching the battle on the enemy platform of Bailing Mountain were all pale and seemed to have no face.

In this late spring weather, everyone is wearing robes in their armor, and the robes are soaked with sweat, and the sea breeze blows, and the cold of sweat penetrates through the heart, making people tremble from the bones.

The fourteen warships in Huaidong had no more than 2,000 soldiers, and without wounding a single soldier, the Goryeo naval division, twice as large as it, fled in defeat, losing at least one-third of the warships, and the number of soldiers killed and captured in battle was almost the same; And most of the remaining ships that escaped were wounded, and there were not a few wounded - such a dismal defeat allowed people to face it head-on?

"It's not good, the enemy ship wants to attack Bailing Mountain...... a clever general watched the Huaidong warship advance to the mouth of the trench and did not continue to shell the warship that they fled to the inside, but adjusted the bow of the ship to block the mouth of the trench on the inside, and the side sides were facing the direction of the enemy platform in Bailing Mountain.

They had seen the shelling of the Huaidong Army, and the Bailing Mountain was only 40 zhang high, and the enemy platform they were on was even less than 30 zhang above the sea.

Someone reminded that the generals of Beiyan and Goryeo suddenly realized it together, and they all panicked; The minister even saw through the scope that the muzzle of the bow of the ship, like a beast with its fangs open, pointed this way - when everyone hurriedly walked down the enemy platform and entered the shelter surrounded by the soldiers, they heard the thunder of the shelling one after another, and then the strong fortification built on the mountainside shook on the spot.

The masonry splashed down and sprinkled everyone's heads, and then I understood: the power of the Huaidong Army's fire crossbow was like a heavy stone-throwing crossbow, and the wall made of bricks and stones of the fortification seemed to be solid, but after all, it was much worse than the city wall - but even the city wall could not withstand the continuous bombardment of the stone-throwing crossbow.

Lock the sea defense line - Ye Ji Baishi can instantly think of what kind of fate the lock sea defense line will face under the blow of Huaidong's new heavy crossbow, once the lock sea defense line is torn apart, and the Huaidong Navy Division can drive straight in!

Ye Ji Baishi stood there as if he had been hit by thunder, and he couldn't imagine how serious the threat that the volley of the fire crossbow could be if he hadn't seen the scene of the volley of the fire crossbow with his own eyes!

Ye Ji Baishi almost dragged the soldiers out of the drooping fortification, and fled to the back mountain that the Huaidong warships could not bombard; But the back mountain is barren, and there is no fortification for the generals to hold onto.

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The water level at the mouth of the trench on the north side of Bailing Mountain was even shallower, and several enemy ships sank there diagonally, blocking the road of pursuit, but also blocking the enemy ships inside.

However, the tragic battle of the Battle of the Kazu Strait failed to give the defenders of Kazu Island enough lessons to learn from in time.

At the end of the first phase of the naval battle in the Hejin Strait, more than 1,000 defenders of Hejin Island attacked the Huaidong Army, which had just established a beachhead, intending to suppress the hundreds of Huaidong troops who landed first.

The Li Baidao Division of the 1st Brigade of the Denghai Town Division is equipped with a crossbow battalion, mainly 4 catties and 8 catties of light artillery, with a total of 60 marine guns; At this time, eight four-pound light guns were transported ashore for the first batch and deployed on the beachhead.

The shooting range of the four-kilogram light gun is 1,000 meters, but it is better than being light, and when fired at a low flat angle, it is very easy to form ricochet, and it is more difficult to prevent secondary damage against the densely charging enemy array.

The defenders of Hejin Island, about 1,200, were divided into two groups, one group held on a low slope between the sentry fort and the beachhead, and the other group of defenders were in front with large shields and heavy armor, and pressed towards the beachhead in a dense formation to test the reality of the Huaidong army.

The four-round fire of eight light guns is incomparably different from the lethality caused by the close-range heavy crossbow, the key is that the range is longer, and the enemy can fire more times when the enemy is approaching, but the density is not large, and it will not knock out the enemy's courage at once.

Brigade General Li Baidao personally landed on the shore to direct the first artillery bombardment, and saw that the enemy soldiers in front of him were all large shields and heavily armored soldiers, and Li Baidao and other enemy soldiers approached within 150 meters, so he ordered the scatter bombs to be fired, and the steel jets that were sprayed out immediately opened a big gap in the enemy formation, and the remaining enemy soldiers no longer had the courage to attack and fled in the direction of the sentry fort......

The sentry fort on the southwest wing of Hezu Island is built near the sea, and the terrain is quite dangerous, but the scale is not large, and it cannot accommodate too many soldiers. The defenders mainly formed a formation according to the sentry fort, and used obstacles such as simple horses to resist horses, shallow trenches and earthen ramparts to block the dangerous and narrow paths for attacking the sentry fort from the southeast side.

The nearly 1,000 defenders who retreated to the vicinity of the outpost did not expect that although the terrain of attacking the sentry fort from land was steep, the sentry fort was within the range of the two Jinhai-class main warships......

After Li Baidao led his troops to land, detoured back to the northeast flank of the outpost fort, and cut off the passage for the enemy army to flee to the main fortress of Feidao Mountain, the next battle was without suspense. The two Jinhai-class main warships exerted their strength at the same time, and it only took less than half an hour to destroy the stone barrier built on the Yashi as a whole.

Under the intensive shelling, nearly 300 defenders were killed by solid bullets, and the number of seriously wounded was even more - whether it was a four-pound light cannon or not, if it was lightly rubbed with solid iron bullets, it would be not dead or seriously wounded.

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Although there were still more than 2,000 defenders on the island, seeing the tragic battle of the naval battle in the Hejin Strait and the outpost battle on the southwest flank, they just futilously and desperately guarded in the main fortress of Feidao Mountain, and controlled the Huaidong warships in the Hejin Strait.

After the landing trestle was erected, the landing speed of the 1st Brigade of the Denghai Town Division was sharply accelerated.

Li Baidao personally went ashore to lead the army, attacked in the depths of Hezu Island, approached the defenders' main base at Asuka Mountain, and intended to rush to the foot of Asuka Mountain overnight to contain this enemy army and prevent it from escaping from Hejin Island when the tide was falling at night.

A sentry crossbow battalion was equipped with 20 light and heavy artillery, and the gun racks were connected to the tractor, and a total of 100 military horses were dragged and dragged with the army to the depth of Hejin Island.

Before the tide receded after dark, Ge Yuan also led the left flank fleet to withdraw from the Katsu Strait and anchored on the southeast flank of Kazu Island; His Li Baidao command had taken control of most of Kazu Island and suppressed 2,000 enemy troops in the main fortress of Asuka Mountain.

Because the Goryeo naval division had many warships sunk on the mouth of the trench on the north side of Bailing Mountain, the Huaidong warships could not penetrate deep into the hinterland of Shaocheng County to shell military targets for a while, but it limited the possibility of the Goryeo naval division's warships attacking and attacking from the side of the Bailingshan trench.

The next day, Yang Shi simultaneously transferred two Jinhai-class main warships into the left flank fleet, and once again took advantage of the rising tide to enter the Hejin Strait and intensify the artillery bombardment of the Bailing Mountain and Feidao Mountain fortifications on both sides of the strait.

At noon on 4 April, the main forces of the 1st and 3rd Town Divisions of the Haidong Xingying Army rushed to Hejin Island under the leadership of Ma Yigong to mix with Yang Shi's newly formed 1st Task Force.

At this time, the defenders of Hezu Island lost the will to resist when the frontal fortifications were bombarded by heavy artillery and suffered heavy casualties before the white-knuckle engagement, and almost when the Haidong marching army arrived, they raised the white flag and chose to disarm and surrender.

The fortifications built by the defenders of Shaocheng at Bailing Mountain have been unrecognizable after two days of bombardment.

Under the rubble tiles, there were hundreds of defenders who held their fortifications and did not retreat, under the shelling or by direct shells, or crushed and crushed by the collapsed stone walls.

Under the extended protection of naval artillery, the elite of the 1st Battalion of the Denghai Town Division landed directly on the south bank of the Haikou of Bailing Mountain on the evening of 4 April, and at the same time, the headquarters of He Zongliang of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Town Division of the Haidong Xingying Army also landed at the southwest foot of Bailing Mountain, repelled the 2,000 enemy troops rushing to help from Shaocheng, and occupied this heaviest military stronghold on the western flank of Shaocheng County.

However, the Goryeo royal army and the Yanhu reinforcements built a fortification at Baekryeong Mountain, and only considered building a fortification on the waterfront side, and did not consider the situation of ultra-long-range artillery bombardment at all. There are no fortifications on the back and abdomen of Bailing Mountain towards the land, and when the waterfront fortifications are bombarded by artillery bombardment, there is no way to defend Bailing Mountain.

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Seeing that the baggage soldiers were laboriously transporting two 24-pound heavy guns from the ship, dragging them up halfway up the Bailing Mountain, building a heavy artillery position, and Yang Shi, Chen Enze, and Ge Changgen and other generals, boarding the enemy platform on the northeast mountainside of Bailing Mountain, which had been in ruins for two days for the naval artillery, Ma Yigong looked at the garrison of the Goryeo Naval Division in the east and the Shaocheng County slightly south.

Ma Yigong breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and turned back to Yang Shi and said: "This battle has been asked for you to be rounded, and the generals below are begging me to fight, I can't explain it!" ”

Yang Shi laughed and said: "We can only be responsible for the superficial enemy, attacking the enemy army in depth, so as to threaten Hanyang City, the capital of Goryeo from the western flank, or we still have to rely on the Haidong camp army......"

Luo Wenhu stood on Bailing Mountain and could see the terrain of Shaocheng more clearly, and he could understand more and more that the joint soldiers and horses of Goryeo and Yanhu would easily lose the stronghold of Bailing Mountain, and they would face a more bleak situation next.

The Bailing Mountain Trench is actually a small bay recessed into the land, affected by the shape of the Bailing Mountain, the water mouth is narrow, and the belly is large, which is a natural sailor stationed in the port - the draft of the warships in the world is limited, and all the conditions for choosing a natural harbor are abundant - the berthing wharf and water village of the Goryeo Pinghuai Sailor are located on the inner side of the Bailingshan Trench.

The deep water of the Bailing Mountain trench is relatively traditional warfare, but the innermost side of the trench is only five miles away from the northeast cliff of Bailing Mountain, but the Huaidong Army dragged the heavy artillery to the northeast corner of the Bailing Mountain halfway up the mountainside and erected it, so that it could directly bombard the water village of the Goryeo Naval Army.

The county seat of Shaocheng is only a little south of the Bailingshan trench, and the distance is only three miles away, once the Goryeo naval division warships in the Bailingshan trench are annihilated with heavy artillery, and the Huaidong warships enter the Bailingshan trench, they can directly shell the county seat of Shaocheng......

It is no wonder that Ma Yigong climbed Bailing Mountain and saw the terrain around Shaocheng County with his own eyes, and he would feel that this battle called the First Task Force round.