The crossbow arrows in the hands of the soldiers were wrapped in strips of cloth soaked in fire oil, and after being lit, they bit fiercely at the enemy's ships or sails with a roar. From noon to dusk, at the cost of 17 ships sunk and more than 20 damaged, we sank and damaged more than 180 enemy ships, burned more than 180 large and small enemy ships, and captured 57 enemy ships. The remnants of the coalition sailors broke through the encirclement from the south, and the lost dog ships fled southward, but they could no longer pose a powerful threat to our Tang Dynasty's strategy of conquering the peninsula and the Japanese kingdom.

Before the remnants were dissipated, General Zhang didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield, so he immediately ordered the damaged warships and dozens of intact warships to temporarily watch over the prisoner ships here, salvage the soldiers and prisoners of war of our army who fell into the water, and then led the army back to the north to reinforce the division. However, at this time, the battle at the mouth of the Baijiang River had also ended, and the two sides fought fiercely for an afternoon, and the losses of the former military and naval divisions of the Tang Dynasty were not large, especially the gunboats were not damaged, but most of the arsonist ships attacked by the enemy were bombarded to pieces.

After getting on the command ship, the former commander of the naval division had already begun to report the battle situation to Zhang Liang: "...... Now, the total number of ships and ships left in the Baekje Naval Division will not exceed 200 at most, and all of them have already escaped into the mouth of the Baijiang River, and I am afraid that if I give them a hundred courages, I will not dare to fight against my Tang Naval Division again. However, on the coast, Baekjebu was strictly defended with heavy troops, and the general did not get the general order of the chief manager, and it was getting late, so the water division berthed here and waited for the chief manager. ”

General Zhang stood in front of the sand table with his eyebrows fluttering, and it could be seen that he was in a very good mood, and won a big victory in the first battle, and at a very small price, he wiped out more than half of the combat strength of the naval forces of Baekje and the Wa Kingdom, although this battle was not as good as the record of burning more than 400 enemy ships in the battle of Baijiangkou by Liu Renliang in later generations, but in general, it was already a remarkable record.

After all, the key to winning this battle was to see through the strategy of the alliance between Baekje and the Japanese naval division, so Liu Renliang's head work was not exaggerated.

This battle not only hit the arrogance of Baekje and the Wa Kingdom, but more importantly, destroyed nearly half of the ships of the coalition naval division, and one was forced into the mouth of the Baijiang River, and the other had fled southward, even if they joined together, they could not pose a greater threat to our Tang naval division, not to mention that they had no chance to unite, in this case, any single remnant naval division could no longer compete with our Tang naval division.

General Zhang Da immediately left hot iron, in addition to leaving the injured sailors and captured warships, another 30 warships were left, escorting them to the north into the Datang port for repairs, and General Zhang Da once again ordered the whole army of the sailors to go south, straight to Danluo Island, four days later, the Tang Navy Division arrived, under the threat of countless majestic warships on the sea, only more than 1,000 Baekje old and weak soldiers guarded the Danluo Island wharf defenders directly looked at the wind and surrendered, General Zhang Da took all the Baekje prisoners of war on the ship, and after a little supply, left a detachment of troops to garrison, Then pounce on Tsushima.

--------------------------------------------------- and at this time, in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty sailors from completely cutting off their connection with the peninsula, the remnants of the Wa State decided to throw it alone, and the Wa State gritted its teeth and sent almost all the warships in the country, even some fishing boats, to fight. On March 27, when the Tang Dynasty sailors arrived 30 miles west of Tsushima Island, they met the Japanese Navy again, and this time, it still ended with the complete victory of the elite Tang Navy Division, and the remnants of the Japanese Navy were defeated in the west of Tsushima Island, and less than 50 of the Japanese sailors fled to Honshu Island. Almost all the sailors, soldiers and ships were lost to the Wa Kingdom.

By this time, the Tang Navy Division had completed the first step of the Navy Division's battle plan, using Danra and Tsushima Island as a straight line to cut off the connection between the Wa Kingdom and Baekje. At this time, General Zhang was in the temporary Chinese army tent on the dock of Tsushima Island, discussing the next plan with everyone: landing on the Japanese state.

"Now, we should think about where to land and how to land, according to the information we have. This is Honshu Island, and Fujiwarakyo, the capital of the Wakoku Kingdom, is located here on Honshu Island, and the port of Shimonoseki, which is adjacent to Kyushu Island, and Matsue, the northern port closest to the Wakoku capital, are all heavily armed...... "The staff officers have clearly marked the enemy's military strength on the sand table.

In addition to the 60,000 soldiers and horses of the naval army headquarters, the Datang Navy Division also carries 50,000 Datang elites. Matsue Port had 70,000 Japanese troops, and Shimonoseki Port also had nearly 50,000 Japanese troops.

It was proposed that we land directly on Kyushu Island first, then cross the sea from Kyushu Island, detour from the south, and go straight to the port of Osaka, which is the port of Nambatatsu, which is closest to the capital of the Japanese country.

"No!" I was the first to stand up and veto this suggestion. Looking at the sailors and generals who needed to explain, I said in a deep voice: "First, the water situation south of Kyushu Island is unknown, and there is no guide; Second, if my Tang Dynasty sailor detours, can the Japanese people not know our intentions? Although there are few Japanese ships, it does not mean that they cannot find out the movements of our army, if at that time, our army arrives at the port of Nambatasu, and the Japanese have already mobilized a large army to wait for the battle, what should our army do? Is it impossible to find another landing site? ”

General Zhang touched his long beard and nodded: "Well, the words of the virtuous nephew are very reasonable, hmph, the army of the Japanese country, not to mention seventy or eighty thousand people, even if it is one hundred thousand, in the eyes of the old man, it is just a local chicken and a dog." ”

"In that case, we can only consider Shimonoseki Port, or Matsue Port, a few of you, where is the most suitable place to land?" On the side, the former military commander also spoke. The staff of the General Staff immediately brought the information obtained through the Gymnasium from the side. In the end, it was concluded that the superior surname of Matsue Port was higher than that of Shimonoseki Port.

"General, do you really want to storm the landing? Isn't that a little too risky? Although we have also stormed Beisha City, but there are only 30,000 soldiers in Beisha City, and in front of us, 70,000 or 80,000 people are on the edge of the beach, I am afraid that it will be ......", a sailor general couldn't help but speak. General Zhang crossed the sand table and sat for a long time, and we all looked at the commander-in-chief of the Tang Naval Division.

General Zhang walked to my side, raised his head, and narrowed his pair of triangular eyes into a slit: "Virtuous nephew, what do you think?" "Since you asked me, I had no choice but to speak, but I asked Liu Renliang, Liu Changshi, who is in charge of logistics." Lord Liu, dare to ask me how many small boats and fast boats there are in my sailors? ”

Liu Renliang replied with a slight groan: "There are seventy-five flat-bottomed boats, twenty-seven cars and boats, and nearly two hundred boats, yachts, and sea falcons. If it is used for beach grabbing, I am afraid that there are flat-bottomed boats, sea falcons, yachts and cars and boats available, and the waterline is about three feet. One trip can carry five or six thousand soldiers. You can send soldiers to the beach. ”

--------------------------------------------------- I nodded, and said to General Zhang, who was still waiting for my answer: "According to the last general, it is not impossible to force a landing, there are several tidal flats outside Songjiang Port for landing, as long as we find a larger one, the tidal flat with a harder texture." With the gunboats as cover, and let the boats and fighting ships approach with mortars, as long as the gunboats can reach within five miles of the beach, and the boats and fighting ships can enter within three miles, with the cover of more than 100 naval guns and 600 mortars on the ships of our Datang Naval Division, use naval guns to destroy the opponent's long-range weapons, and use mortars to force back the enemy's beach defenders. In the end, I thought that at least 90% of the time I was sure that I could succeed. ”

"Hmm! What you said coincides with what the old man thinks, what do you think? General Zhang raised his eyebrows and swept around the generals of the Navy. The former army commander also stood up and said respectfully: "The last general thinks that Lord Fang's strategy can be used, with the advantage of the firearms of my Tang Navy Division, it will inevitably make the Japanese people's inability to cause danger to the ships I landed, as long as I can get on the beach, who will my Tang elite be afraid of?" ”

The generals also nodded their heads frequently, and in this way, the landing plan was finally formulated for the time being. In the end, it was decided that the elite of the 50,000 Tang Army would land in ten batches, and the troops that landed in the first two groups would not only be equipped with steel crossbows and grenades, but also 30 mortars, so that they could quickly establish a beachhead after going ashore.

And the last two batches are the cavalry carried by the Tang Naval Army, a total of 5,000 horsemen, they will be the last group of landers, anyway, there is no need for them to defend the beachhead.

And the time of landing, is set in seven days, now the most important thing is to repair the damaged battleship first, although our Datang naval division is elite, the coalition naval division and my Datang comparison, the gap in strength is too big, the coalition army's battle, just like a meat bun beating a dog, but this time in the battle of Tsushima, the coalition naval division attacked with a dead fish and a broken net, although our warships did not lose a few, but there were not many wounded.

In these seven days, I, the head of the Datang Military Academy with the title of deputy director, finally had time to summon the academy's sailors, summarized and commented on these successive naval battles, and also put forward requirements for the deficiencies.

(To be continued)