The fleet of the Goryeo Naval Division, which entered the Hejin Strait from the exit at the northern foot of Bailing Mountain, was dominated by two Jinhai-class warships, as well as more than 20 medium-sized warships such as two-masted warships and loach ships, and more than a dozen galleys and clippers on both wings.

Commanding the naval battle was Kim Seung-jong, the second general of the Goryeo Pyonghuai Water Division.

The establishment of the Goryeo royal army imitated the Yuanyue town army, with a town setting up a chief general, a number of deputy generals, and several battalions or more than a dozen battalions of soldiers and horses, that is, "the first generals of a certain town and a certain army".

The sails were furious, the wind was blowing, and the waves were so rough that even in the inner waters of Kazu Island, the foam could easily hit the deck.

Jin Chengzong stood on the deck, looking at the Huaidong warship at the mouth of the strait, and in his field of vision, the Huaidong warship approaching the southern mouth of the strait did not seem to have the intention of rushing in.

The Huaidong warships, except for the four battleships on the two wings posed a triangular attack array, and the six warships in the middle came sideways, lined up, exposing the side sides - Jin Chengzong looked at his deputy suspiciously, and the Goryeo generals standing on the left and right of Jin Chengzong also looked at each other, they all had a history of fighting with the Haidong Xingying Army for several years, although they were suppressed in the coastal sea and could not get out, but they were still extremely familiar with the tactics of the Huaidong Naval Division.

In previous naval battles, they had never seen such a strange formation of Huaidong Navy Division warships lining up.

The so-called long snake formation has always faced the enemy head to tail, where is the reason to swing horizontally and expose the weak flanks to the enemy's attack?

"Xu is that six of the Huaidong warships are equipped with newly built ambush crossbows to lure our army to come close to the side to fight?" A lieutenant with a serious temperament, who had seen today's flame-spraying crossbow drill, was deeply impressed by this, and looked at the strange fleet of the Huaidong Army, and hesitated to guess, "If our army is desperate to take overboard, its two wings of the triangular ship formation will be outflanked from both sides and clamp down on our army's ......."

Jin Chengzong listened to what this captain said, but he couldn't get rid of the doubts in his heart, even if the Huaidong warship had eight warships on both flanks in a triangular formation, so that Huaidong's formation outside the gorge mouth was both offensive and defensive, but it still did not fit the previous tactical style of the Huaidong Naval Division.

In addition, the formation of the Huaidong Naval Division at the southern entrance of the Hejin Strait seemed to be both offensive and defensive, and although it had the upper hand, the formation that swung sideways greatly weakened the mobility of the entire ship formation to attack forward and retreat.

The southern mouth of the Hejinhai Strait is located in the inner sea area of Hangang Bay, and the sandy terrain of the islands and reefs is complex......

As far as he knows about Huaidong's many sailors and generals in Haidong, no one will put up such a clumsy ship formation? Or are they waiting for the tide to rise higher and adjust the formation to rush in, or is the general who leads the troops simply a chick who doesn't know naval warfare and is just from a good background to fight for military exploits?

Jin Chengzong looked up at the enemy platform of Jinling Mountain suspiciously, urging the ministers and Ye Ji Baishi to see the ship formation of the Huaidong Navy Division at the south entrance of the strait on Jinling Mountain, but they didn't know what they thought of this?

Soon the enemy army in Jinling Mountain issued a flag order, asking Jin Chengzong to temporarily hold his troops in the sea area at the western foot of Jinling Mountain, and soon urged Quanchen to send troops to send troops in small boats to send more clear instructions, asking Jin Chengzong to wait for the second batch of warships to go to sea to converge, and then divide the troops into three routes from the shallow waters of Qianyusha and Guangji Island to attack the Huaidong Naval Division......

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In addition to the more than 50 large and small warships that swooped in front of him, there were also more than 20 warships from the left and right flanks to make a roundabout clamping trend......

Yang Shi parked his flagship at Baishayu outside Hejin Island, and led the fleet into the Hejin Strait to be responsible for the first naval battle.

Lin Lian set the rules of the new fleet half a level higher than that of ordinary naval divisions, and Yang Shi served as the deputy commander of the new special mixed town division army, and Ge Yuan, who had the opportunity to serve as the commander of the army, could only be relegated to the position of brigade general.

However, there are countless high-ranking generals competing for the position of this brigade general, from the Southeast Naval Division, the Jingjiang Naval Division, the Haidong Xingying Army, and the Jinghai Marine Division itself.

In the later period, after the Huaidong artillery technology was relatively mature, everyone knew that the new warships of the military department would play an increasingly important role in naval warfare. Although the old fleet will not jump out of the main force all at once, it is also the general trend that it will gradually be eliminated.

The first brigade of the new special mix, there are three Lin Zhengjun-class warships, the new warships serve as the flagship, and the other two old-style Lin Zhengjun-class warships are only incorporated into the left and right wing escort fleets even if they are modified with eight guns in the later stage, and they can't even mix the main seats, so this sense of loss is too great.

The same is true for the generals of the Huaidong Naval Division, if they don't want to retire from active service, and want to continue to stay at sea and crisscross the seas, the general position is not the most important, and they still have to compete for a position in the new fleet.

Ge Yuan pressed the command saber on his waist and stood on the command platform on the deck, holding a goggle to look at the slowly approaching enemy ships.

The command cabin was at the foot of the command, and the staff officers working inside quickly calculated the distance of the enemy ship according to the actual measurements of the nautical charts and telescopes, and constantly reported the latest data to the command platform loudly.

At this time, the two men were still six miles apart, and the enemy ships would not be in range until a quarter of an hour later.

Cao Wenlong, the son of Cao Ziang, who was sent by the Haidong Camp Army to assist Ge Yuan in commanding the naval battle, Cao Wenlong was incorporated into the battalion as early as the first year of Yongxing with the rank of sentry general, and successively served as a military commander, battalion general, commander of the army, brigade general, etc., and was the staff officer of the Lu 701 Town Division.

At the age of twenty-six, like the Chongzhou boy, he was already the backbone of the middle and high-level generals of the Huaidong Army.

The generals of the new fleet are almost all personally selected by Lin Lian, Cao Wenlong wants to lead the new fleet, but his son Cao Ziang can't speak, he can only compete with other generals. However, on behalf of the Haidong Xingying Army, he participated in the formulation of the battle plan for the attack on Shaowu in advance, and assisted Ge Gen in directing the war from the side, to put it bluntly, he wanted to accumulate some actual combat experience and seize the advantage for future competition.

"The minister is known as a cunning tiger in Goryeo," Cao Wenlong said with a relaxed face in the emergency pre-war atmosphere, "Seeing that we only have fourteen warships, he will still send half of the naval forces in Shaocheng to fight against us...... The warship from the left and right wings is its lure part, and when the tide rises, the sea water on the left side of the shallow feather sand is only three or four meters deep, if you do not observe the water situation, the separate ships go over to intercept it, it is very likely to be lured into the shallow feather sand waters and trapped. We had a big ship there, and we didn't expect them to do it again. ”

They only have two Jinhai-class warships on their side, while the Goryeo Navy Division sent four warships with the same regulations at a time, and the number of other small and medium-sized warships suitable for fighting in shallow waters is several times that of this side, so it is appropriate to say that it is a fierce tiger pounced.

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Although the Goryeo naval division was not as accurate as Huaidong, there were also experienced personnel on board to visually estimate the distance between the two armies.

More than four miles away, Jin Chengzong took off the scope from his waist and looked at the Huaidong warship.

In the past three years, the Huaidong army has been promoting the telescope, and in the past three years, the Haidong marching army has experienced the most frequent battles near Asan, and a small number of telescopes have been left on the battlefield for the Goryeo royal army to capture.

The telescope used by Kim Seung-jong was copied by a Goryeo craftsman, and it can only be said that it is unsatisfactory, and he can barely see the six battleships lined up in the center of the Huaidong ship formation open a row of openings, and the black iron pipes stick out, which seems to be heavy crossbows.

Jin Chengzong was a Goryeo general, and since the eleventh year of Chongguan, he had been fighting with the Huaidong Sailors with the Urging Ministers, and knew that the heavy bed crossbows made by the Huaidong Sailors could even shoot through the thick plates three or four inches thick four or five hundred steps away.

Huaidong sailors put on a strange ship formation and exposed the side of the ship, did they just want to rely on this kind of heavy crossbow equipped in the side cabin?

Jin Chengzong looked at the warships on both sides of his side, and added a herringbone shield outside the front female wall, thinking that even if the big shield was close, it would be difficult to prevent Huaidong from shooting through, but at least it could suppress the casualties to a minimum, and he would not ask Huaidong heavy crossbow to shoot through several people in a row.

Jin Chengzong secretly estimated in his heart, thinking that although the six warships in the center of the Huaidong Navy Division had thirty or forty crossbow ports exposed on the sideboards, as long as they resisted a wave of shots at a distance of three or four hundred paces, they would be able to engage in melee combat. The Huaidong warship put on such a formation, and the traditional ramming tactics were also difficult to use, so we should take this opportunity to enter with a dense conical ship formation, hook the Huaidong warship from the side side, and fight the broadside battle.

Jin Chengzong ordered the oars to be stretched out, the sails to be lowered by half the masts, and he took the initiative to use the oars to row the water, so that the warships were more concentrated with each other, maintained a cone-shaped attack array, and accelerated to rush towards the Huaidong ship formation.

It was only when Jin Chengzong's ship stretched out the oars and the visual inspectors told the two armies to enter within four miles of each other, Jin Chengzong first saw six Huaidong warships lined up in the center of the line from the side almost at the same time, giving him a sense of time frustration, and then he saw the crossbow mouth of the Huaidong battleship spewing out white smoke in turn, mixed with firelight, and then heard the huge sound like spring thunder.

Jin Chengzong was so shocked that he could almost see the black dots as small as the tip of a needle magnifying in his field of vision.

After a long military career, Jin Chengzong had an unusual alertness, and subconsciously fell down, and the iron bullet with a strong wind almost grazed the top of his head, beating the soldiers around him sideways, and the iron bullet pierced the human body and hit the mast of the ship in the later position.

Listening to the strange clatter of the ship's mast, Kim Seungjong almost suspected that the mast made of sandalwood giant wood would not be able to withstand the heavy blow.

Looking back, the soldier who was hit died almost instantly, without the pain of struggle, the chest was pierced through, the blood of the paste mold was like a bowl of the sea, the two layers of iron armor on the chest and back did not play a protective role in the slightest, and the flesh and mortar turned out - Jin Chengzong knew that if it wasn't for the soldier to block it with his flesh and blood, the thick ship mast behind him would not be able to withstand a blow.

Due to the dense cone-shaped attack formation of the Goryeo naval division in the narrow water area on the front, the nearly sixty warships could hardly see the gap in the shelling field of vision. The accuracy of solid shells is limited when hitting a single target, but seeing such a dense formation of enemy ships is undoubtedly the most ideal target for shelling.

For the first time, 42 solid iron bullets, including 36 side guns of six frigates and 16 bow guns of old warships on both wings, were fired at a low flat angle, and almost none of them missed the target. all enemy ships, or medium cabins, or middle decks, or medium ships; If you hit someone, the flesh and blood will be blurred, the tendons will be broken and fractured; If you hit the ship, the mast will break and the ship will break.

Jin Chengzong heard that the thunder was about to go out, and then he stood up in fright.

His ship only hit two iron bullets, and the damage was not great, but the psychological shock brought by the accurate attack of the Huaidong warship at such a long distance was much more serious and intense than the damage of the warship......

Jin Chengzong also subconsciously thought that this was Huaidong's fire crossbow!