The Koryo Navy fleet that entered the Hejin Strait from the northern foot of Baengnyeong Mountain was mainly composed of two Jinhae-class warships, as well as more than 20 medium-sized warships such as two-masted warships and large loach ships.
There are dozens of galley boats.
The person who commanded the interception naval battle was Kim Seung-jong, the second general of the Goryeo Pyong-Huai Navy.
The organization of the Goryeo King's army was modeled on that of the Yuanyue Town Army. Each town had a chief general and a number of deputy generals, who were divided into several battalions or dozens of battalions of soldiers and horses. This was known as "the number of generals in a certain army in a certain town."
The sails were in full swing, the wind was blowing loudly, and the waves were surging. Even if it was located in the inner waters of Kazu Island, the waves could still easily hit the deck.
Jin Chengzong stood on the deck and looked at the Huaidong warships at the mouth of the strait. In his field of vision, the Huaidong warships approaching the south entrance of the strait seemed to have no intention of rushing in.
On the Huaidong warship, except for the four warships on the two wings, which formed a triangular attack array, the six warships in the middle turned sideways and lined up, exposing the sides - Jin Chengzong looked at his deputy in confusion.
The Goryeo generals on the left and right also looked at each other. They all had a history of fighting with the Haidong Marching Army for several years. Although they were suppressed and unable to leave the sea, they were still very familiar with the tactics of the Huaidong Navy.
In previous naval battles, they had never seen Huaidong Navy warships lined up in such a strange formation.
The so-called long snake formation always faces the enemy from head to tail. How could it make sense to spread it sideways and expose its weak flanks to enemy attacks?
"Perhaps the six Huaidong warships are equipped with newly-made flame-throwing crossbows to lure our troops to approach and fight?" A captain with a serious temperament had seen today's firing of the flame-throwing crossbows and had this impression.
Deeply, watching the Huaidong Army's strange fleet, he hesitated and guessed, "If our army desperately joins the shipboard, its two-winged triangular ship formation will outflank our army from both sides..."
Jin Chengzong heard that what the captain said made sense, but he could not get rid of his doubts. Even though the Huaidong warship had eight warships on both wings in a triangular formation, making Huaidong's formation outside the mouth of the gorge both offensive and defensive.
Still inconsistent with Huaidong Navy's previous tactical style.
Furthermore, the Huaidong Navy's formation at the south entrance of the Hejin Strait looks both offensive and defensive. Although it occupies the upper wind, the horizontal formation greatly weakens the maneuverability of the entire ship formation to attack forward and retreat backward.
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The south entrance of the Hejin Sea Strait is located in the inner waters of the Hanjiang Bay. The island reefs and sandy terrain are complex. In this kind of sea area, the Koryo navy, which has a deeper understanding of human affairs, can forcefully break in, disrupt the Huaidong ship formation, and use the large number of ships to
The advantage has been severely damaged...
Based on his understanding of Huaidong's many naval generals in Haidong, no one would have put up such a clumsy ship formation? Or they were waiting for the tide to rise higher to adjust their formation and rush in, or they were leading troops
Is the general simply a young man who doesn't know how to fight at sea and is just a young man from a good family background who came to fight for success?
Jin Chengzong looked up at the Jinling Mountain enemy tower in confusion. The urging ministers and Ye Ji Baishi must have seen the Huaidong Navy's ship formation at the south entrance of the strait on Jinling Mountain, but I don't know what they thought of this?
Soon the enemy troops in Jinling Mountain issued a flag order, asking Jin Chengzong to hold his troops temporarily in the sea area at the western foot of Jinling Mountain. Soon, he urged his officials to send guardsmen to send clearer instructions in small boats, asking Jin Chengzong to wait for the second batch of warships to come out to sea to rendezvous.
Later, the troops were divided into three groups to attack the Huaidong Navy from the shallow waters of Qianyusha and Guangji Island...
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The Goryeo navy also had the skill of sailing against the wind. Although it was not moving very fast, it was slowly approaching. In addition to the more than fifty large and small warships rushing towards them, there were also more than twenty warships on the left and right flanks.
The power of clamping...
Yang Shi parked his flagship at Baisha Island outside Hejin Island, and led his fleet into the Hejin Strait. In charge of the first naval battle was Ge Yuan, the brigade general of the first task force fleet.
Lin Fu made the regulations for the new fleet half a level higher than that of the ordinary navy. Yang Shi served as the deputy commander and concurrently served as the commanding officer of the new special mixed town division. Ge Yuan, who had the opportunity to serve as commanding force, had to settle for the rank of brigade general.
One position.
However, there are countless senior generals competing for this brigade general position, including the Southeast Navy, Jingjiang Navy, Haidong Camping Army and the Jinghai Navy itself.
When Huaidong's artillery technology becomes relatively mature in the later period, everyone knows that the military's new warships will play an increasingly important role in naval battles. Although the old fleet will not suddenly be taken out of the main force position, it will gradually be eliminated and it is also the general trend.
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The newly established First Task Force Brigade has three Lin Zhengjun-class warships. The new warship serves as the flagship. Even if the other two old Lin Zhengjun-class warships were later modified with eight cannons, they would only be incorporated into the left and right wing escort fleets.
Not even being able to get into the main position, the sense of loss is too great.
The same goes for the generals of the Huaidong Navy. If they don't want to retire from active service and want to continue to stay at sea and travel across the seas, the general position is not the most important. They still have to compete for a position in the new fleet.
Ge Yuan held the command saber on his waist and stood on the command platform on the deck, using a telescope to look at the slowly approaching enemy ship.
The command cabin is just below the feet, and the staff working inside quickly calculate the distance to the enemy ship based on the charts and sight glass measurements, and constantly report the latest data loudly to the command podium.
At this time, the two soldiers are still six miles apart, and the enemy ship will not enter the shooting range until a quarter of an hour later.
Cao Wenlong, the son of Cao Ziang, was sent by the Haidong Camping Army to assist Ge Yuan in commanding the naval battle. Cao Wenlong was incorporated into the camp as a sentry general as early as the first year of Yongxing, and served successively as military commander, camp general, commanding the joining army, brigade general and other positions.
Lu 701 Town Division Chief of Military Staff.
At the age of twenty-six, he, like the Chongzhou boy, was already the backbone of the Huaidong Army's middle- and high-level generals. He was able to obtain the general position after many bloody battles.
Almost all the generals of the new fleet were personally selected by Lin Fu. Cao Wenlong wanted to lead the new fleet, but his father, Cao Ziang, was speechless. He could only compete with other generals. However, he participated in the planning of the attack on Shaowu on behalf of the Haidong Marching Army.
The battle plan, and assisting Ge Gen in directing the war from the side, to put it bluntly, is to accumulate some practical experience and gain an advantage in future competition.
"The ministers who urge power are known as cunning tigers in Goryeo." In the urgent pre-war atmosphere, Cao Wenlong looked relaxed and said, "Seeing that we only have fourteen warships, he will still use half of the navy in Shaocheng.
It was sent out to attack us like a tiger... The warships attacking from the left and right wings were its lures. When the tide rose, the water on the left side of the shallow feather sand was only three or four meters deep. If it were not
If we check the water conditions and send ships to intercept, we will most likely be lured into the shallow sandy waters and trapped. We overturned a large ship there, but we didn't expect that they would want to repeat the same trick."
They only have two Jinhae-class warships here, but the Koryo Navy dispatched four warships of the same specification at one time. The number of other small and medium-sized warships suitable for fighting in shallow waters is several times as many as here.
It is also appropriate for a tiger to pounce on its food.
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Although the Goryeo Navy was not as accurate as Huaidong, there were experienced personnel on board to visually estimate the distance between the two armies.
More than four miles away, Jin Chengzong took off his telescope from his waist and took a closer look at the Huaidong warship.
In the past three years, the army in Huaidong was promoting telescopes. In the past three years, the troops in Haidong camp experienced the most frequent battles near Asan. A few telescopes were left on the battlefield and were captured by the King of Goryeo's army.
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The telescope used by Jin Chengzong was copied by a Korean craftsman. It can only be said to be unsatisfactory. He could barely see the six warships lined up in the middle of the Huaidong Ship Array. A row of holes were opened on the sides, and black iron pipes were sticking out.
Looks like a heavy war crossbow.
Jin Chengzong was a veteran general of Goryeo. In the 11th year of Chongguan, he followed the powerful ministers to fight against the Huaidong Navy. He knew that the heavy crossbows built by the Huaidong Navy could even penetrate a three- to four-inch thick plate four to five hundred paces away.
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Did the Huaidong Navy arrange a strange ship formation with the sides exposed just to rely on the heavy crossbows equipped in the side cabins?
Jin Chengzong looked at the warships on both sides of his own side, and added a large herringbone shield in addition to the forward parapet. He thought that even if the large shield was at a close distance, it would be difficult to prevent the Huaidong heavy fire from penetrating, but at least the casualties could be suppressed to a minimum.
Due to restrictions, Huaidong Heavy Crossbow will not be used to shoot through several people in succession.
Jin Chengzong secretly estimated in his mind, thinking that although the six warships in the center of the Huaidong Navy had thirty or forty crossbow ports exposed on their sides, as long as they could withstand a wave of fire at a distance of three to four hundred steps, they could engage in close combat.
With the Huaidong warships in such a formation, traditional ramming tactics are difficult to use. We should take this opportunity to enter with a dense cone-shaped formation, hook the Huaidong warships from the sides, and engage in a boarding battle.
Jin Chengzong sent an order to extend the oar, lower the sail to half mast, and actively switch to using the oar to paddle the water, so that the warships gathered closer to each other, maintained a conical attack array, and accelerated towards the Huaidong ship array.
However, when the ship where Jin Chengzong was sitting stretched out its oars, visual observers reported that the two armies were within four miles of each other. From the looking glass, Jin Chengzong first saw six Huaidong warships lined up in the middle, which were almost the same.
Time suddenly shook, giving him a sense of time being stopped. Then he saw white smoke spouting out from the crossbow on the side of the Huaidong battleship, interspersed with fire, and then he heard a huge sound like spring thunder.
Jin Chengzong was so shocked that with the naked eye, he could almost see black spots as tiny as the tips of needles suddenly magnifying in his field of vision.
During his long military career, Jin Chengzong had an extraordinary alertness. He subconsciously fell down, and the iron bullets with the wind and roar almost grazed the top of his head, sending the soldiers around him flying away.
The bullet penetrated the human body and hit the mast of the ship at a later location.
Listening to the strange rattling sound of the ship's mast, Jin Chengzong almost suspected that the ship's mast made of giant sandalwood wood could not withstand this heavy blow.
Looking back, I saw that the soldier who was hit died almost instantly. There was no pain of struggle. His chest was completely penetrated. The bloody mouth was like a bowl of the ocean. The two layers of iron armor on his chest and back did not protect him at all.
The mud rolled out - only then did Jin Chengzong realize that if the guards had not used their flesh and blood to block it, the thick ship mast behind him would not be able to withstand a blow.
Since the Koryo Navy deployed a dense cone-shaped attack formation in the narrow water front, nearly sixty warships could hardly see any gaps in the bombardment field of view. When solid bullets hit a single target, the accuracy is limited, but it can be seen
Seeing such a dense formation of enemy ships is undoubtedly the most ideal target for bombardment.
Including the thirty-six broadside guns of the six frigates and the sixteen bow guns of the old warships on both wings, the forty-two solid iron bullets fired at a low and flat angle for the first time almost all missed the target. They all hit the enemy ship, or
If it hits the middle cabin, or the middle deck, or the middle side of the ship; if it hits a person, the flesh and blood will be bruised, and the tendons will be broken; if it hits the ship, the mast will be broken and the ship will be torn apart.
When Jin Chengzong heard that the thunder was about to die out, he stood up in panic.
The ship he was on was only hit by two iron bullets, so the damage was not serious. However, the psychological shock caused by the accurate attack on the Huaidong warship from such a long distance was much more serious than the damage to the warship.
, much stronger...
Jin Chengzong also subconsciously thought that this was Huaidong's Fuhuo Crossbow!