: The sea and land outside are not the opponents of the big man

Taishi Ci and Tian Yu studied the simple but easy-to-use fortress left by the people of Fuyu for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder Sanhan, Fuyu's barbarian craftsmanship is so low in terms of skills, but he can build so many small fortresses without any money.

They have also brought the talent of the bitter and cold land in the north to the extreme. If it weren't for the attack on Gongsun Kang this time, we wouldn't have known that there was such an environment in the world and such a way of survival in the Central Plains.

As expected, the Prime Minister said it well. No matter what kind of barbarians deal with, they must learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians. Draw these barbarians' methods of building cities in the bitter and cold forest into pictures. After pacifying Gongsun Kang, they will take them back for the Prime Minister to take them to the Prime Minister for their reading. Maybe they can also learn from something."

Tian Yu also felt that this method was very good: "It is true. When General Cavalry attacked these beacon towers, he also inspected and watched them in depth, allowing people to study them carefully.

It is said that in the future, when Liaodong is pioneering northward, the Han people can also build such camps on the edge of the dense forests of mountains and forests to surround the Goguryeo people. When encountering those fishing and hunting men in the mountains and forests, they can also issue beacon warnings in advance.

Such a camp is not expensive. Didn’t the Zhuge Jun family invent saw machines? When they built Luoyang New City, many wood-cutting workshops were opened. General Zhao planned to ask Mi Jun to spend money to build sawmills in northeast Liaodong, and build more wood-filled fortresses to eat up the Goguryeo people."

Historically, the development of Liaodong and northward has always been a relatively poor place for the Han civilization. On the one hand, the lack of cotton jackets before the Ming Dynasty and insufficient clothes for keeping cold. On the other hand, the cost of building houses and hamlets in the northeast was relatively high, and heating fuel was also labor-intensive.

In the late Ming Dynasty, in order to fight against the Later Jin Jurchens, although they also wanted to build cities step by step, the construction technology used was from the Central Plains. Using the Central Plains method to build cities in the Northeast cannot be adapted to local conditions, and local materials can be used to flexibly reduce costs. Of course, the court's finances cannot withstand it.

But if you learn the "Kremlin-like fortresses" developed by the survival wisdom of fishing and hunting nations, and coupled with Zhuge Liang's hydraulic sawing technology, and then expanding the Northeast, the cost will be reduced by how many times.

More than ten days after that, Taishi Ci also figured it out. After all, he knew his purpose, just to restrain Gongsun Gong, and he didn't have to force the city to attack.

Since you can gain something even when you are stalemate and learn something new, then change your mindset and wait until Gan Ning is completely in place and finally make dumplings.

However, it’s true that after Taishi Ci was not in a hurry, Gongsun Gong became even more timid.

Because Taishi Ci took the stance of "a comprehensive siege, siege but not attack", changed the previous "three sieges and one siege", deliberately left a way for Gongsun Kang to go, and became a complete "focusing on all sides".

This change actually scared Gongsun Kang so much that he could not escape by then, and he could not even lure the enemy into depth.

On the contrary, on the third day after Taishi Ci changed the formation, before the encirclement was completely closed, he chose to abandon the city and break through, and directly gave up the strongest capital, Tunnan County.

Of course, when Gongsun Kang ran away, there were not many troops in the southern city. Because his main force was placed in the coastal areas further south, and he was ambushed in Danluo in advance. After all, as mentioned before, his plan was to bring in Taishici's living power, and then go around and eat the navy that left Taishici at the mouth of the Hanjiang River to stay behind the large ship.

When he woke up the next day, Taishici found out in a daze that he had failed to break through Tunnan. After joining all sides, he scared Gongsun Kang away and picked him up for nothing and took Tunnan down.

Who can I ask for reason?

"Are Gongsun Kang scared? What kind of strategy is this? If you guard but don't defend, and if you surrender, you will know how to run away? Could it be that there is a fraud? If you do this, why are he cheating?"

Taishici felt that the enemy was too weak and too lazy to think too much. Since there was a advantage, just take it. So he continued to advance step by step, gradually suppressing the main force, and closed the city for a few days, and pressed forward steadily.

A few days later, about the end of August, Taishici finally knew what Gongsun Kang was going to do - because he received the urgent report from the Han River Estuary in the rear, he left the fleet of sand ships who were transporting grain to the army by sea.

"General! The day before yesterday, Gongsun Kang's navy came around the sea from the south and attacked our army's fleet of sea ships at the anchorage of the Han River Estuary! There were about tens of thousands of enemy troops! There were actually more than the Tunnan defenders who broke through before!"

Taishici jumped up directly from the horse's letter: "What? Gongsun Kang actually has the courage? He put me in step by step, just to separate me from land and water, and wanted to eat my navy? What is the result of the battle!"

Taishici's tone was not afraid.

Although he left only a few thousand people to guard the ship and take charge of the food route in the rear, he was confident in the quality of his warships and weapons.

The Prime Minister has said that the Navy is a technical branch! It doesn’t depend on the number of people!

Those barbarians actually felt that they would fight a naval battle with the big men and cut off food. They were simply fantastic!

Unfortunately, Taishici himself was not on the Western Front on the land battlefield and was unable to catch up with the opportunity to kill the thieves himself. The contribution of this specific battle was to be taken away by his subordinates.

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Two days ago, the sea outside the Han River Estuary, which is roughly equivalent to the sea outside the Incheon Port in later generations.

The three-Shan Army of about 20,000 people was led by Gongsun Kang's son Gongsun Yuan, including thousands of servants, as well as some of the Evil-Matai fishermen who had just been conquered by Gongsun Kang and forced to join the army, were carried by hundreds of large and small ships and suddenly appeared on the ocean.

However, the fleet left by Taishici was not entirely on standby at the Han River Estuary, and they had to be responsible for transporting grain to the army. Therefore, they were transported back and forth on the route between Dashi County and Han River Estuary in Liaodong every ten days, transporting and cruising back and forth on the route between Dashi County and Han River Estuary in Liaodong.

When the Sanhan Navy arrived at the Han River Estuary, it did not directly run into Taishici's supply fleet, so it continued to search north along the coast, searching all the way to the most prominent part of the Wengjin Peninsula.

It was actually on this way that I ran into the Han army supply fleet carrying a lot of food and supplies from the Liaodong Peninsula.

The location of this naval battle is quite similar to the battlefield of the Battle of Dadonggou during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

This is not a coincidence. It can only be said that there may be several routes for transportation of supplies from Liaodong to the Korean Peninsula, but at the tip of the Wengjin Peninsula, all routes will pass through - unless you deliberately go to the far sea and take more detours.

Gongsun Yuan has been in Sanhan for many years with his father, and of course he is familiar with the geographical terrain. It is not surprising that he has strengthened his search at this location and encountered the enemy.

Strategically speaking, it is not wrong for the Gongsun family to pin their final hope of turning the tables on such a naval battle, because they will only lose more miserably and have greater disadvantages in other options.

The northern part of the Korean Peninsula is mountainous and difficult to supply by land. Since ancient times, the side defending the Korean Peninsula cannot win quickly in land wars, or even lose a crushing defeat, and will naturally think of intercepting enemy supplies by sea.

Needless to say, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, even in the early stages of the Korean War, when North Korea lost seven eight paths, wouldn’t it be expected that Lee Sun-sen would defend the last Jeolla path and rely on the navy to cut off the Japanese army’s retreat.

The attack base where Gongsun Yuan sent troops today is not to mention it, it also happens to be the Jeolla Domain territory of the eight-door Korean country in later generations, including Danluo Island (Jeju Island).

It can only be said that military strategists have similar cognitions about geography.

As the Han fleet opposite appeared on the sea level, Gongsun Yuan, who was just in his prime, also cheered up his courage and shouted loudly on the flagship to call on the soldiers to use their lives:

"Soldiers! Can you defend the three Hans? Let's fight here! All the generals must work hard! Otherwise, don't think that you are bullied and evil horses and Tais can stay out of trouble! Once the Han army comes, you will all be slaves to the Han people! Kill!"

Of course, Gongsun Yuan's speech could not be transmitted to other ships, but he could rely on the flagship to beat drums wildly to convey the coach's enthusiasm.

When the Gongsun Navy soldiers saw that there were only dozens of ships on the opposite side of the Han army, there were definitely less than one hundred ships anyway, and the number of ships on their own was at least five times that of the other party! There might be more! They were also motivated by morale.

Of course, the Han army's large sand ships were all managed by Mi Zhu over the years, and the size is definitely much larger than the offshore boats built by the Sanhan Barbarians.

After all, Mi Zhu's ships can cross the sea on the Yellow Sea, but the so-called sea ships like Sanhan can only sail against the shore, and it is impossible to directly travel from the Wengjin Peninsula to the Donglai Peninsula or the Liaodong Peninsula. If you leave the coast for more than 30 or 50 miles, you may be overturned by the wind and waves.

Unfortunately, because the two armies were too far apart when they first met and there was no rangefinder in this era, the soldiers of the three Koreans were not experienced enough, so they did not estimate that the Han military ships were much larger than them, just counting the number of black spots, and knowing that the number of Han military ships was very small.

...

Opposite Gongsun Yuan is Li Yan, the deputy general in charge of logistics work in Taishici's battle.

At this moment, seeing Gongsun Yuan gamble and claws to fight for his life, Li Yan was not afraid at all. He ignored only a few thousand people and dared to take Gongsun Yuan's attack head-on.

Li Yan is less than forty years old now. Compared with his state twenty years later in history, Li Yan is still very reliable now. He has never made any mistakes in managing logistics and guarding the backbone.

Almost ten years ago, when Li Su first fought against Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in Jingnan, Li Yan had been guarding Yiling for a long time, and initially worked under Zhao Yun's command. Later, Li Su launched a defensive counterattack against Sun Ce, and Li Yan defended the rear to ensure that the supply of grain channels on the Yangtze River was smooth and he did not make any mistakes.

At that time, Taishi Ci also led the navy under Li Su to fight against Zhou Yu, so Taishi Ci was quite familiar with Li Yan's logistics, and the two could cooperate.

This time, Taishi Ci was very relieved to leave all the sea ships that could not enter the Han River to Li Yan, responsible for transporting grain and protecting the retreat.

Moreover, Li Yan was equipped with a telescope. He actually observed the enemy situation on the other side earlier. He knew that Gongsun Yuan’s ship was not good, and the other party wanted to fight, but he couldn’t ask for it.

"The ships line up, turn east slightly, use the wind to maintain speed, and do not give the enemy a chance to stop the boarding. If an enemy ship is blocking the front, just hit it directly!"

...

Both sides approached each other with confidence, and the Han army's supply fleet was not timid at all, and they did not have the utmost fear of fighting just because they were "grain transport teams".

When they approached two or three miles, the Han army had formed a solid ship formation and pushed the light catapult and crossbow that threw the gravel rain to one side of the ship. All the Han crossbowmen carrying the divine arm crossbow also went to the female wall trunk and the cabin shooting holes to crouch and buckle the arrows.

The naval soldiers of Gongsun's family did not notice that the Han army's cabin was obviously a little higher than their own side until the two armies entered the range of crossbows, and the portholes were densely packed and the protection was very complete.

Unfortunately, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, so there was no way to go back at this time.

The Han army's powerful crossbow is far away, and the theoretical range of the Divine Arm crossbow can be close to 300 steps. However, considering the turbulent wind and waves at sea, even if you aim accurately, the ups and downs of the launching platform itself will bring huge errors, so the Han army's crossbowmen basically waited for the enemy ship to enter two hundred steps before they began to release the first wave of arrow rain.

The storm and waves also affect the Sanhan sailors. They hold ordinary crossbows, and they mainly hunt their bows. Under normal circumstances, the crossbows only have 150 steps, and the hunting bows are less than 100 steps. When they arrive at sea, they have to leave a margin of 30% range to offset the error. Therefore, they are shot by the Han army from a distance so that they cannot raise their heads.

The side of the Sanhan warship was not very high, and there was not much room for avoidance. The soldiers could only carry round shield arrows. As a result, they found that the simple wooden shield could only block ordinary arrows, but had no defensive effect in front of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

Many shield-holding sailors were pierced through the shield by crossbow arrows and pierced into their arms, screaming repeatedly. After a while, wailing on the sea surface continued.

"Let's go up! Fight melee with the Han army!" Gongsun Yuan was also anxious. The defense of the opponent's ship's on-board building was too tight, and it was impossible to shoot arrows into the shooting hole to kill the Han army's crossbowmen. Then he had to fight melee.

Unfortunately, although the Han army's fleet formed a formation, it always maintained a pretty good speed and moved forward firmly, without any intention of stopping. In late autumn, the wind direction gradually turned into a northwest wind, which was also beneficial to the Han army coming from the northwest. The large ship did not need to paddle no matter how to paddle the wind, and it was difficult for the small boat to stop.

Many Sanhan boats leaned up to try to jump to the gang to fight, but they were directly hit and sunk, and many people fell into the water.

The Han army's large sand ship is a sea ship, so of course it is impossible to install sticks like the Five-Tooth Warship. The center of gravity of the thing is too high and will be overturned by wind and waves when you go to the sea. However, a weapon like "corner collision" will not increase the center of gravity of the ship, and the Han army's large sand ship can also be used.

In the past, there was no collision angle in Chinese ships, because older ships were all square-headed ships. In the era without keel structure, it was difficult to make a large ship pointed, and there was no place to catch the collision angle.

More than ten years ago, after Li Su invented the keel structure, this structure can be used for both the Yellow Sea sand ship and the East China Sea Fu Ship. The top of the slender and sturdy keel is connected to a metal axe blade at a length of tenons, which is convenient for the sea ship to break through waves and can also be used for impact, and the structural burden is not large.

People from the Three Koreans have never seen these things before, so they are embarrassed to shoot at the same time and keep pressing on the side.

Li Yan led the fleet into a no-man's realm and rushed directly into Gongsun Yuan's fleet formation. If he couldn't hit, he would have a divine arm crossbow and crossbow that could be output on his face. When he hit him, he would cut it off directly. The screams on the Yellow Sea were like boiling. The Sanhan navy, which had an advantage of more than five times the number of people, was chased and killed by the Han people in a terrible way.

During the chaos, Gongsun Yuan's flagship was too eye-catching and was targeted by the soldiers under Li Yan. After a fierce attack, Gongsun Yuan did not get the opportunity to fight and was directly hit and drowned in the Yellow Sea.

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PS: I'm going out on Sunday... I'll take a day off tomorrow.
Chapter completed!