Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 63

The Goryeo naval fleet entering the Hajin Strait from the northern foot of Baekling Mountain is mainly composed of two Jinhai-class warships, as well as more than 20 medium-sized warships such as brigs and loach ships. There are dozens of galley clippers.

The commander of the interception naval battle was Kim Seung-jong, the second general of the Goryeopyeong Huaishui Division.

The establishment of the Goryeo King’s Army was modeled after the Yuanyue Town Army. One town had a chief general and several deputy generals, who were divided into several battalions or ten battalions of soldiers and horses.

The sails were furious, the wind was blowing loudly, and the waves were surging. Even if it was located in the inner waters of Hezu Island, the foam 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 southern mouth of the strait did not seem to have any intention of coming in.

The Huaidong warships, except for the four warships on the two wings formed a triangular attack array, the six warships in the middle came sideways, lined up in a row, exposing the broadsides – Jin Chengzong looked at his deputy in confusion, standing in Jin Chengzong The Koryo generals on the left and right also looked at each other in dismay. They all had a history of fighting with the Haidong army for several years. Although they were suppressed in the offshore waters and could not get out, they were still very familiar with the tactics of the Huaidong Navy.

In the previous naval battles, they had never seen such a strange formation of Huaidong naval ships lining up.

The so-called one-word long snake formation has always faced the enemy head-to-tail. How can there be a reason to swing it sideways and expose the weak flanks to the enemy’s attack?

“Perhaps six of the Huaidong warships are equipped with newly built fire crossbows, to lure our army to approach the front and fight?” A prudent colonel had seen today’s demonstration of fire crossbows, and had this impression. Profoundly, watching Huaidong’s strange fleet, he guessed hesitantly, “If our army is desperate to get on the side, its two-wing triangular fleet will flank over from both sides and restrain our army…”

Jin Chengzong listened to the captain’s words, but he could not dispel 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 had both offense and defense. It is still inconsistent with the previous tactical style of the Huaidong Navy.

Furthermore, the formation of the Huaidong Navy at the south entrance of the Hejin Strait seemed to have both offensive and defensive capabilities. Although it had the upper hand, the swaying formation greatly weakened the mobility of the entire fleet to attack and retreat. .

The south entrance of the Hejinhai Strait is located in the inner waters of the Hanjiang Bay, and the islands and reefs are complex in sand and silt. In this kind of waters, the Goryeo navy, who has a better understanding of human relations, can forcefully enter, disrupt the Huaidong fleet, and use the crowds of ships. The advantages are reinvented…

As far as he knew about Huaidong’s many navy generals in Haidong, who would have put up such a clumsy ship formation? Or are they waiting for the tide to rise higher and adjust their formation to rush in, or is the general who leads the army a young boy who doesn’t know naval warfare at all and just came from a good background to fight for military exploits?

Jin Chengzong looked up at the enemy station on Jinling Mountain in doubt, and urged Quanchen and Ye Jibaishi on Jinling Mountain to see the formation of the Huaidong Navy at the southern mouth of the strait.

Soon the enemy army of Jinling Mountain issued a flag order, requesting Jin Chengzong to temporarily hold his troops in the waters at the western foot of Jinling Mountain, and soon urged the ministers of power to send his soldiers in small boats to send a clearer order, requesting Jin Chengzong to wait for the second batch of warships to go out to sea to meet up. After that, the troops were divided into three groups to attack the Huaidong Navy from the shallow waters of Asanha and Guangji Island…

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The Goryeo navy also had the skill of sailing against the wind. Although the speed was not fast, it was slowly approaching. In addition to the fifty or so large and small warships that rushed towards the face, there were also more than twenty warships from the left and right flanks to make roundabout clamps. Clamping potential…

Yang Shi parked his flagship at Baishayu outside Hejin Island, and led his fleet into the Hejin Strait to take charge of the first naval battle. Ge Yuan was the brigade commander of the First Fleet.

General Lin Fu made the rules for the new fleet by half a level higher than that of the ordinary navy. a post.

However, for the position of the brigade commander, there are numerous high-ranking generals competing for the position of the Southeast Navy, the Jingjiang Navy, the Haidong Camp Army, and the Jinghai Navy itself.

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

There are three Lin Zhengjun-class warships in the newly-formed Special Mixed First Brigade. The new-style warships serve as flagships. Even if the other two old-style Linzhengjun-class warships are retrofitted with eight artillery pieces later, they will only be incorporated into the left and right wing **** fleets. Not even being able to get in the main position, this feeling of loss is too great.

The same is true for the generals of the Huaidong Navy. If they do not want to retire from active service and want to continue to remain at sea, the position of general is not the most important thing, and they still have to compete for a position in the newly formed fleet.

Ge Yuan held the command saber on his waist, stood on the command platform on the deck, and looked at the slowly approaching enemy ship with the sight glass.

The command cabin is at the foot, and the staff working in it quickly calculates the distance of the enemy ship according to the actual measurement of the chart and the telescope, and continuously reports the latest data to the command platform in a loud voice.

At this point, the two soldiers were still six miles apart, and the enemy ship would not be within 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, was enlisted in the battalion as early as the first year of Yongxing with the rank of sentinel general. Lu 701 Township Division Staff Officer.

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

The generals of the new fleet were almost all selected by Lin Fu himself. Cao Wenlong wanted to lead the new fleet, but his father, Cao Ziang, was speechless, so he could only compete with other generals. However, on behalf of the Haidong Camp Army, he participated in the formulation of the combat plan for the attack on Shaowu in the early stage, and assisted Ge Gen in commanding the battle from the side. To put it bluntly, he wanted to accumulate some actual combat experience and seize the advantage for future competition.

“Chu Quanchen is known as a cunning tiger in Korea,” Cao Wenlong said with a relaxed expression in the urgent pre-war atmosphere, “Seeing that we only have fourteen warships, he will still be in Shaocheng with half of the naval forces. It was dispatched to attack us like a tiger… The warship that came from the left and right wings was its lure. When the tide was rising, the sea water on the left side of the shallow feather sand was only three or four meters deep. If we check the water conditions and intercept them, we will most likely be lured into the shallow Yusha waters and trapped. We lost a big boat there, but I didn’t expect them to try again.”

There are only two Jinhai-class warships on their side, and the Goryeo Navy dispatched four warships of the same regulation at one time, and the number of other small and medium-sized warships suitable for fighting in shallow waters is several times more than here, said It is also appropriate to be a tiger feeding.

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

After a distance of more than four miles, Jin Chengzong took off the sight glass from his waist and looked closely at the Huaidong warship.

In the past three years, Huaidong’s army has been promoting sight glasses. In the past three years, the Haedong camp army has experienced the most frequent battles near Asan. A few sight glasses were left on the battlefield and captured by the King of Goryeo’s army. .

The sight glass used by Jin Chengzong was imitated by a Goryeo craftsman. It can only be said that it was not satisfactory. It was barely possible to see the six battleships lined up in the center of the Huaidong fleet. A row of flanks were opened, and the black iron pipes were sticking out. It looks like a heavy crossbow.

Jin Chengzong was a veteran general of Goryeo. From the eleventh year of Chongguan, he accompanied his officials to fight with the Huaidong Navy. He knew that the heavy crossbow made by the Huaidong Navy could even shoot through thick plates three or four inches thick at a distance of four or five hundred paces. .

The Huaidong navy set up a strange ship formation and exposed the broadside, just wanted to rely on the heavy crossbow equipped in the broadside cabin?

Jin Chengzong looked at the warships on both sides of his side, and added a large herringbone shield outside the front parapet. He thought that even if the large shield was close, it would be difficult to prevent Huaidong from being shot through, but at least the casualties could be suppressed to a minimum. Restrictions, Huaidong heavy crossbow will not shoot through several people in a row.

Jin Chengzong secretly estimated in his heart that although the six warships in the center of the Huaidong Navy had thirty or forty crossbow ports exposed on the broadsides, as long as they resisted a wave of fire at a distance of three or four hundred paces, they would be able to engage in close combat. And the Huaidong warships are in such a formation, and the traditional collision tactics are difficult to use. We should take this opportunity to enter in a dense conical formation, hook the Huaidong warships from the broadside, and engage in a side battle.

Jin Chengzong ordered the oars to stretch out, the sails were lowered half mast, and he took the initiative to switch to the oars to row the water, so that the warships gathered closer to each other, maintained a conical attack array, and accelerated towards the Huaidong boat formation.

It was only when the ship that Jin Chengzong was on stretched out the oars, and the visual observers reported that the two armies were within a distance of four miles. From the sight glass, Jin Chengzong first saw that the six Huaidong warships lined up in the middle were almost the same. The sudden shock of time gave him a sense of time stagnation, and then he saw white smoke spewing out from the broadside crossbow of the Huaidong battleship in turn, and then there was a spark of fire, and then he heard the huge sound like spring thunder.

Jin Chengzong was so shocked that he could almost see tiny black dots like the tip of a needle suddenly magnifying in his field of vision~www.mtlnovel.com~ After a long military career, Jin Chengzong has a vigilance that is different from ordinary people. Li Xiao’s iron bullet almost rubbed the top of his head, knocking the soldiers beside him flying horizontally. The iron bullet pierced through the body and hit the mast at a later position.

Hearing the abnormal sound of the ship’s mast cracking, Jin Chengzong almost suspected that the ship’s mast made of the giant sandalwood tree would not be able to withstand this heavy blow.

Looking back, the soldier who was hit died almost instantly. There was no pain in the struggle. The whole chest was pierced. The **** mouth was like a bowl in the ocean. The mud was dug out – Jin Chengzong knew then that if the hustlers hadn’t blocked it with their flesh and blood, the thick mast behind him would not have been able to withstand a blow.

As the Korean Navy formed a dense conical attack formation in the narrow frontal waters, the nearly 60 warships could hardly see any gaps in the sight of the shelling. When a solid bullet hits a single target, the accuracy is limited, but seeing such a dense formation of enemy ships is undoubtedly the most ideal target for shelling.

Including the thirty-six broadside guns of the six frigates and the sixteen bow guns of the two-wing old warships, the forty-two solid iron bullets fired at a low angle for the first time, almost none of them missed the target. All of them hit the enemy ship, or the middle cabin, or the middle deck, or the middle of the ship;

Jin Chengzong stood up in panic when he heard that the thunder was about to go out.

The ship he was in was only hit by two iron bullets, and the damage was not great, but 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…

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