The Goryeo royal army first made Choi Quanchen supervise Shaocheng, and the water division used Baekryeong Mountain and Hejin Island as a fence, which was to consider the threat to the western flank of Hanyang, the capital of Goryeo, from the sea.

Ye Ji Baishi led his troops to aid Goryeo, stationed 20,000 horse infantry troops mainly near Shaocheng, and supervised the soldiers and horses of Goryeo's left flank, and also attached great importance to the defense of the sea frontier.

The islands and reefs around Shaocheng are all shallow water shoals, and only the middle section of the Hejin Strait, where Asuka Mountain and Bailing Mountain face each other, is a rare deep-water area in the surrounding waters. Cui Quanchen and Ye Ji Baishi regarded this sea area as the outer harbor of the Goryeo sailors in Shaocheng, and took Bailing Mountain and Asuka Mountain as the core, dug trenches along the coast, built fortresses and long walls, and operated them as solid as gold.

Before the Battle of Hejin, Cui Quanchen and Ye Ji Baishi's defensive strategy against Baekryeong Mountain-Hejin Strait-Hejin Island was undoubtedly correct.

The Haidong Camp had organized warships to attack the Hejin Strait three times before, but they were ruthlessly repulsed, and there were not a few warships and generals who were damaged in this sea area where the islands and reefs were crisscrossed and the water conditions were complicated.

The Goryeo royal court also regarded Baeyeongsan as the "sea lock defense line" of the Goryeo people, and Yeji Baishi even planned to extend the defense line to Gimpo and completely protect the mouth of the Han River.

When Bailing Mountain was bombarded, Ye Ji Baishi, Cui Quanchen and others were all hesitant and fled in embarrassment; On April 2 and April 3, Huaidong used a total of eight warships to carry out continuous artillery bombardment of the Bailing Mountain and Flying Bird Mountain fortifications, and Ye Ji Baishi failed to resolutely send reinforcements to Bailing Mountain, until the Huaidong Army tried to land, and only then did he send 2,000 soldiers and horses from Shaocheng to intercept it in a panic.

It wasn't until the Huaidong Army occupied Bailing Mountain and built a heavy artillery position on the northeast side of Bailing Mountain that Ye Ji Baishi knew that this was the biggest mistake he had made.

The garrison of the Goryeo Naval Division, located on the inner side of the Bailingshan Trench, was within the range of the heavy artillery position in the northeast corner of the Bailing Mountain, and because Haikouzi sealed the sunken shipwreck, and the outer side was blocked by Huaidong gunboats, more than 250 warships of the Goryeo Naval Division on the inner side of the Bailingshan Trench became the live targets of the Huaidong heavy artillery.

Ye Ji Baishi organized three times to organize soldiers and horses to counterattack Bailing Mountain, all of which were defeated, and more than 2,000 corpses were abandoned at the foot of the eastern foothills of Bailing Mountain.

If Bailing Mountain cannot be recaptured, it cannot be interrupted by the Huaidong Army's attack on the naval division's garrison at the heavy artillery position of Bailing Mountain—after two days of continuous shelling, there is no longer a single Goryeo warship still intact on the inner side of the Bailing Trench.

From April 6, the Huaidong Army organized manpower and began to clean up the sunken ships on Haikouzi.

Seeing that the Huaidong battleship was about to sail into the inner side of the Bailing Trench, Cui Quanchen could only reluctantly scuttle all the remaining warships, and took the Goryeo naval division who abandoned the ship ashore, and abandoned the ship to abandon the Goryeo naval division and abandon the county seat of Shaocheng with Ye Ji Baishi, and retreated east into Guiyang Mountain and Mani Mountain.

The county seat of Shaocheng was too close to the Bailing Trench and was within the attack range of the gunners of the Huaidong battleships, which had more intensive firepower, and the only rugged hills and dense forests around Guiyang Mountain and Mani Mountain on the east side could prevent the Huaidong Army from continuing to advance.

Ye Ji Baishi's eye sockets were deep, his hair was messy, and his pupils were bloodshot.

Ye Ji Baishi stood on the top of the peak of Mani Mountain, looking at Shaocheng County, which was more than ten miles away, and Cui Quanchen, who was also haggard and tired, stood beside Ye Ji Baishi, and saw the Huaidong Army that landed digging a trench on the east side of the county, and said: "It seems that the Huaidong Army has no intention of going east, breaking through, and attacking Hanyang in a short period of time......

Shaocheng is the western gateway of Hanyang, the capital of Goryeo, only 120 miles away from Hanyang City in the east, and Shaocheng, which is garrisoned with 30,000 heavy troops, was easily lost, and the naval army in Shaocheng accounted for more than half of all the naval forces of Goryeo, and the whole army was wiped out so easily - the shock to the Goryeo royal court and the dignitaries of Hanyang City can be imagined.

Minister Zuo Jing urgently transferred 10,000 reinforcements from Hanyang to strengthen the defense of Guiyang Mountain and Mani Mountain, and scuttled ships on the Han River to prevent Huaidong warships from directly attacking Hanyang from the Han River——

Cui Quanchen knew that it was just a futile struggle, even if they could barely hold the line of Guiyang Mountain and Mani Mountain, the elite main force of the Huaidong Army advanced to a place less than a hundred miles away from the country - hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on the defense line of Yashan hundreds of miles away, and when they heard this news, what morale did they have to fight to the death with Zhen's Haiyang rebels?

Once the Asan defense line was defeated and penetrated by the Haiyang rebels, and the old thief Zhen Feng led 100,000 Haiyang troops to attack Hanyang from the south and form a flanking attack with the Huaidong army, how much room for struggle did they have?

Cui Quanchen looked at the Goryeo soldiers behind him tiredly, and he didn't have time to think about whether his second son Cui He was alive or dead on Hejin Island, many people regarded the Huaidong Army's fire crossbow as a divine weapon given by the gods, and they lost the courage to confront it from the bottom of their hearts - at this time, the Huaidong Army stopped at Shaocheng and no longer marched eastward, which would undoubtedly allow them to breathe a sigh of relief at the key head.

Even in the future, even in the future - Cui Quanchen can't care so much.

The Huaidong army stopped at Shaocheng and no longer advanced eastward, which could make Cui Quanchen and other Goryeo generals breathe a sigh of relief, but it made the clouds in Ye Ji Baishi's heart more dense.

After the Huaidong Army took Shaocheng, it had no intention of attacking Hanyang immediately, which means that the Huaidong Army is likely to concentrate all its efforts on attacking the Suohai defense line next-the Huaidong Army rushed to Shaocheng, to put it bluntly, it was to defeat the Goryeo naval division in Shaocheng in order to cut off the threat of the flank; Although this threat seems to be so insignificant, it cannot be reversed in the order of use.

In the past few days, Ye Ji Baishi has sent dead soldiers to infiltrate Hejin Island several times, only to see that the Huaidong Army occupying Hejin Island is stepping up its efforts to drive the prisoners of war to build a temporary anchorage dock at the northern foot of Asuka Mountain, which may be used as a temporary garrison that can be used to garrison the forces of the Haidong Battalion and the naval division, so as to increase the attack capability of the Suhai defense line.

Ye Ji Baishi really didn't know how many days he thought that the impregnable sea-locking defense line could last under the attack of the new Huaidong warships?

Ye Ji Baishi dragged his tired body and walked back to the handsome tent temporarily set up behind the cliff.

Inside the tent, several painters are using charcoal to faithfully draw the situation of the fire crossbow and the fire crossbow on white paper, and there are several solid iron bullets that burn black gunpowder and lead pellets that can cause great damage at close range.

Ye Ji Baishi would not believe in the theory of gods and ghosts, there was no difference between the fire crossbow and the flame crossbow in essence, but the range of the Huaidong fire crossbow was terrifying and terrifying.

If there are only one or two such weapons, it will not be able to change the situation on the battlefield, but a new warship in Huaidong will be equipped with up to 100 of this kind of weapons, and the tactical superiority formed on the local battlefield will not be reversed by manpower.

The annihilation of Goryeo's naval division in Shaocheng and the fact that it could not damage the new warships of Huaidong in the slightest is proof of this.

Ye Ji Baishi couldn't think of such a restrained fire crossbow in Huaidong for a while, but he also wanted to record as much detail and reality as possible the fire crossbow he had seen in the past few days, and send it to Yanjing, so that the clansmen could be on guard and not be too caught off guard.

It's just that the biggest headache for Ye Ji Baishi at the moment is that the sea route has been completely blocked by the Huaidong battleship.

Hanyang did not agree, and was reluctant to send only a few large warships to break through Huaidong to blockade Hanjiang Bay; It is difficult for small fishing boats to even confirm their direction on the vast sea, and even if there is a chance to leak out of the blockade line, it is impossible to send information to Dengzhou and Yanjing in time - and by land, it will take half a month at the earliest before it is possible to deliver the news to Yanjing.

Half a month, is it too late?

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The fundamental purpose of the Shaocheng Rush Battle was to remove the flank threat of the Goryeo Navy Division in one fell swoop.

Occupying Hejin Island, Baekling Mountain and Shaocheng, completely annihilating all the naval forces of Goryeo in Shaocheng, destroying and capturing 10,000 enemy soldiers before and after, forcing the Goryeo royal army to sink the ship and self-proclaim the Han River, the campaign goal of the Shaocheng Rush Battle was completed perfectly.

Ma Yigonghai's eastward battalion took over the garrisons of Hejin Island, Bailing Mountain, and Shaocheng, and was responsible for expanding to the northern flank, controlling Gimpo and Ganghwa and other islands outside Gimpo, completely blockading Hangang Bay, and threatening Hanyang from the western flank.

Luo Wenhu stood on the temporary garrison at the foot of Flying Bird Mountain, looking at the Lin Zhengjun-class battleship temporarily stationed in the sea outside the port, the hull was painted with white paint with the words "301" to show that it was the first sequence of the new three-class main warship, the battleship was majestic, and the thick iron chain was connected with an iron anchor weighing thousands of catties to hang into the sea, and the ship was anchored - Huaidong's military potential was perfectly reflected on this giant battleship.

Not to mention the other technologies on this battleship, it is an iron anchor weighing four or five thousand catties, which cannot be easily forged by other forces.

"It's a pity, but I didn't see this supership ...... powerful"

Luo Wenhu turned around, and saw that it was the brigade commander He Zongliang who was about to come over, and he also looked at the Lin Zhengjun-class sea ship stationed outside the port and sighed.

Only a very narrow channel in the Hejin Strait could accommodate Lin Zhengjun-class warships with a draft of up to six meters to enter, but when the waterway was measured, the Battle of Hejin ended with the annihilation of Goryeo's naval division in Shaocheng; However, the power of the twenty-four-pound cannon has been reflected in the shelling of the Bailing Trench by Bailing Mountain.

"Ma Shuai summoned you over, did you ask for war to get a reply from the military department?" Luo Wenhu asked He Zongliang.

He Zongliang's troops, as the main force to defend Bailing Mountain and thwart the enemy's counterattack, suffered certain casualties, and after the main force of the Haidong Xingying Army completely controlled Shaocheng, He Zongliang's troops withdrew to Hejin Island to rest - but it was obvious that He Zongliang and other generals had no intention of resting, and the Bailing Mountain attack could not be made too hidden at all.

At present, the military department instructed the Haidong Camp Army to consolidate the defense of Shaocheng, and did not intend to make the Haidong Camp Army expand its troops to the east and attack Hanyang - the generals who did not want to miss the Northern Expedition naturally asked for war one after another, asking to fight across the sea with the task force, and did not want to wait on the Goryeo battlefield to miss the fighters.

"It's not that simple," He Zongliang, who was born in Huaisi Liushuai, was quite close to Luo Wenhu and said, "The military department requires this side to formulate a more detailed plan, worried that excessive extraction of the troops of the Haidong camp army will cause the defense of Shaocheng to be empty, and give the Goryeo Wang Army and Ye Ji Baishi a chance to counterattack - grandma's, Goryeo Wang Jun and Ye Ji Baishi have been paralyzed, how can they have the ability to fight back?" I think it's the people over there in Haizhou who are not authentic, and they want to swallow the credit of the Northern Expedition alone......"

"Yeji Baishi has 20,000 elite horse infantry troops trapped in Goryeo, is it not enough for you to eat?" Chen Enze walked over, listened to He Zongliang's grumbling words about the frustration of the battle, retorted with a smile, and said to Luo Wenhu, "The military department asked that Cui He be escorted to Haizhou, and also asked this side to send a staff officer to Haizhou to explain the division plan of the Haidong marching army; You are ready to prepare, and a ship will be sent to Haizhou before dark......"

"You shit," He Zongliang punched Luo Wenhu enviously, and said, "If you go to Haizhou, find a way not to rush back, maybe you have the opportunity to go directly to Jinhai - recover Yanjing, how many men in the world want to experience that moment, so you have a chance to catch up!" ”

"Escort Xianghe to Haizhou, doesn't the military department plan to fight a big battle in Goryeo?" Luo Wenhu asked suspiciously.

"Well," Chen Enze nodded and said, "It's possible......

Cui He is the second son of Cui Quanchen and the defender of Hejin Island, and two days after the shelling of the Asuka Mountain fortification, seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, he led the remnants to surrender - the military headquarters asked Cui He to be sent to Haizhou at this time, and probably he would not be arrested and tortured or anything.