Lord of the House - v12 Chapter 65

The first naval battle in the Kazu Strait seems to have ended without starting.

In addition to more than 20 warships that were paralyzed or maimed, most of the warships that Jin Chengzong led to the Haikouzi in the inner side of Bailing Mountain were also covered with bruises and bruises. There are many lying on the nest, or stranded or sinking slowly in the center, but it just blocks the opening of the Huaidong warships.

Countless navy generals struggled to swim to the shore, but the waves of the trench, the vortex brought by the sunken ship, and the heavy armor that couldn’t be easily taken off after being soaked in water caused nearly half of the navy generals to sink to the surface. …

With such a short period of time and such tragic casualties, Ye Jibaishi, Du Quanchen and others who watched the battle on the enemy platform in Bailing Mountain were all pale, as if no one had a face.

In this twilight spring, everyone was wearing robes, and the robes were soaked with sweat. The sea breeze was blowing, and the coldness of the sweat penetrated the heart, making people tremble from the bottom of their bones.

Huaidong’s fourteen warships had no more than 2,000 soldiers. Without hurting a single soldier or a single soldier, the Goryeo Naval Division, twice as large, was defeated and fled. At least one third of the warships were lost, killed and captured. The number of soldiers and generals is almost there; and the remaining warships that escaped are also mostly wounded, and there are not a few wounded soldiers – such a dismal defeat can be faced directly?

“No, the enemy ship is going to hit Bailing Mountain…” The famous general watched Huaidong’s warships advancing to Haigouzikou instead of continuing to shell the warships that escaped to the inside, but adjusted the bow and blocked Haigouzikou. On the inside, the broadsides all face the direction of the enemy station on Bailing Mountain.

They have seen the shelling of the Huaidong Army. The top of Bailing Mountain is only 40 feet high, and the enemy platform they are on is not even 30 feet away from the sea. should also be within its attack range.

Some people reminded that Beiyan and Gaoli’s generals suddenly realized it together, and they all panicked; Du Quanchen even saw the gun muzzle at the bow of the ship from the sight glass, like a beast with fangs pointing towards this direction – wait for everyone to be there. Surrounded by the hustlers, they hurriedly stepped down from the enemy platform and entered the shelter. They heard the sound of thunder one after another during the shelling, and then the strong fortress built halfway up the mountain shook on the spot.

The bricks and stones splashed down and splattered everyone. At this time, they understood again: the power of the Huaidong Army’s fire crossbow is like a heavy hurling crossbow. Much worse—but even the city walls couldn’t stand the constant pounding of catapults.

Locking the sea defense line – Ye Jibaishi can instantly imagine what kind of fate the sea locking defense line will face under the blow of Huaidong’s new heavy crossbow. Once the sea locking defense line is torn apart, the Huaidong Navy can drive straight in!

Ye Jibaishi stood there stunned as if struck by lightning. Those who didn’t see the scene of the fire crossbow salvo with their own eyes could not imagine how serious the threat of fire crossbow salvo would be!

Ye Jibaishi almost dragged the soldiers out of the falling fortress and fled to the back mountain where the Huaidong warships could not bombard it; but the back mountain was deserted, and there was no fortress that the generals and soldiers could stick to. .

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The water level of Haigouzikou on the north side of Bailing Mountain was shallower, and several enemy ships sank there obliquely, blocking the way of pursuit, but also blocked the enemy ships on the inside. Enemy base, bombard this enemy’s most important fortress outside Shaocheng.

However, the tragic situation of the Hejin Strait naval battle did not give enough lessons and lessons to the defenders of Hejin Island in time.

At the end of the first phase of the Hejin Strait naval battle, more than a thousand defenders of Hejin Island attacked the Huaidong Army who had just established a beachhead, intending to suppress the hundreds of Huaidong Army who landed first.

The first brigade of the Denghai Town Division, Li Baidao, was equipped with a war crossbow battalion, mainly 4 jin 8 jin light artillery, with a total of 60 marine artillery; The first shipment came ashore and was deployed on the beachhead.

The shooting range of the four-jin light artillery is one kilometer, but it is better than being lightweight. It is launched at a low angle, and it is very easy to form ricochet, which is more difficult to prevent secondary damage to the densely charged enemy array.

The defenders of Hejin Island, about 1,200 or so, were divided into two groups, one group was guarding on a low **** between the outpost and the beachhead, and the other group was in front with large shields and heavy armor, and the other group was in close proximity. The formation pressed toward the beachhead to test the strength of the Huaidong Army.

The four-round shooting of the eight light cannons is incomparably different from the lethality caused by the heavy crossbow at close range. The key is that the range is longer. When the enemy pawns are approaching, they can be fired more times, but the density is not large, and it is not enough to kill the enemy. The courage of the army was shattered at once.

Brigade commander Li Baidao personally landed on the shore to direct the first actual shelling battle. When he saw that the enemy soldiers were all large shields and heavily armored soldiers, Li Baidao and other enemy soldiers were within 150 meters, so he ordered the shotgun to be fired. , the jet of steel that spewed out suddenly opened a large gap in the enemy formation, and the remaining enemy soldiers no longer had the courage to attack, and fled in the direction of the sentry castle…

The outpost on the southwest wing of Hejin Island was built on the edge of the sea. The terrain was quite dangerous, but the scale was not large enough to accommodate too many generals. The defenders mainly formed formations at the sentinel fort, and blocked the dangerous and narrow paths that attacked the sentry fort from the southeast with simple obstacles such as refusing horses, as well as shallow trenches and earth fortresses.

The nearly 1,000 defenders who retreated near the fort did not expect that although the terrain of attacking the fort from the land was steep, the fort was within the range of the two main battleships of Jinhai class…

Li Baidao led his troops to land, detoured to the northeast wing of the sentry fort, and cut off the passage of the enemy troops fleeing to the main base of Feidaoshan. The next battle was without suspense. The two Jinhai-class main battleships exerted their force at the same time, and in less than half an hour, the stone barrier built on the Yashi was able to be destroyed as a whole.

Under the intensive shelling, the number of defenders killed by solid bullets was nearly three hundred, and the number of seriously injured persons was even more—whether it was a four-jin light cannon or not, if a solid iron bullet was lightly rubbed, the dead would also be seriously injured—in After the shelling ceased, the surviving defenders nearly disarmed and surrendered, thus ending the outpost of the Kazushima landing.

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The outpost battle for the beach on Hejin Island was over. Although there were still more than 2,000 defenders on the island, seeing the tragic battle of the Hejin Strait naval battle and the beach outpost battle on the southwest flank, they just stayed in the main base of Feidao Mountain in vain and despair. The Jin Strait was controlled by the Huaidong warships, and their warships could not meet the Bailing Mountain Pass and the sea, and could not meet them to break through, and they did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Huaidong Infantry Elite.

After the landing trestle was built, the landing speed of the first brigade of the Denghai Town Division suddenly accelerated.

The sun slanted, and there were three elite infantry battalions and a sentry crossbow battalion ashore. Li Baidao personally went ashore to lead the army and attacked in the depths of Hejin Island. , to contain the enemy and prevent it from fleeing Hezu Island when the tide ebbs at night.

A sentry crossbow battalion is equipped with twenty light and heavy artillery pieces, and the cannon frame is connected to a tractor. A total of 100 troops are dragged and dragged, and the army will attack Hejin Island in depth.

Before the dark and ebb tide, Ge Yuanyi led the left-wing fleet to withdraw from the Hejin Strait and stationed at the southeast flank of Hejin Island. In the main base of the mountain.

Due to the many warships of the Korean Navy sunk in the trench on the north side of Bailing Mountain, the Huaidong warships could not go deep into the hinterland of Shaocheng County to bombard military targets, but the warships of the Korean Navy were limited from the Bailing Mountain trench. The possibility of a surprise attack on the side village.

The next day, Yang Shi transferred two Jinhai-class main battleships into the left-wing fleet at the same time, and once again took advantage of the rising tide to enter the Hejin Strait to intensify the shelling of Bailing Mountain and Feidao Mountain on both sides of the strait.

The main force of the 1st and 3rd Town Divisions of the Haidong Camp Army arrived at Hejin Island at noon on April 4th, led by the commander Ma Yigong, to join with Yang Shi’s new 1st Task Force.

At this time, the defenders of Hejin Island were bombarded with heavy artillery by the frontal defenses, and suffered heavy casualties before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. They lost their will to resist. Almost when the Haidong camp arrived, they raised the white flag and chose to disarm and surrender. .

The fortress built by the defenders of Shaocheng on Bailing Mountain was beyond recognition after two days of bombardment.

Beneath the rubble tiles, there are hundreds of guard generals who stood firm and did not retreat, were under artillery fire or were directly hit by artillery shells, or were crushed to death by the collapsed stone wall.

Under the extended protection of naval guns, the elites of the first battalion of the Denghai Township Division landed directly from the south bank of the Haikou of Bailing Mountain on the evening of April 4th. Landing at the southern foot of the mountain, repelling the 2,000 enemy troops who rushed to help from Shaocheng, and occupying the heaviest military stronghold in the west wing of Shaocheng County.

The King of Korea’s army and the reinforcements of Yanhu, who built a fortress on Bailing Mountain, only considered building a fortress on the side facing the water, and did not consider the situation of being bombarded by ultra-long-range. There were no fortresses on the back and abdomen of Bailing Mountain to the landing site. When the fortress near the water was bombarded by artillery bombardment, there was no way to defend Bailing Mountain.

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Watching the heavy soldiers are laboriously transporting two 24-pound heavy artillery from the ship, dragging them up the halfway of Bailing Mountain to build a heavy artillery position, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com and Yang Shi, Chen Enze, Ge Changgen and other generals , boarded the enemy platform on the northeast mountainside of Bailing Mountain, which had been smashed into ruins for the naval guns in two days.

Ma Yigong breathed a sigh of relief, turned around with a smile and said to Yang Shi: “This battle is all for you to pay, this general is going to fight with me, I can’t explain it!”

Yang Shi laughed and said, “We can only be responsible for the superficial enemy and attack the enemy in depth, so as to threaten Hanyang City, the capital of Koryo, from the west wing, or we must rely on Haidong for the camp…”

Standing on Bailing Mountain, Luo Wenhu could see the terrain of Shaocheng more clearly, and he could understand more and more that the joint forces of Gaoli and Yanhu would easily lose the stronghold of Bailing Mountain, and would face a more bleak situation in the future.

The Bailing Mountain Trench is actually a small bay concave into the land. Influenced by the shape of the Bailing Mountain, the water inlet is narrow and the belly is large. The conditions of the harbour are abundant – the berthing pier and the water village of the Gaoliping Huaishui Division are located on the inner side of the Bailing Mountain Trench.

The Bailing Mountain Trench has deep and wide backwater, which is relatively traditional warfare equipment, but the innermost trench is only five miles away from the northeast cliff of Bailing Mountain, but the Huaidong Army dragged the heavy artillery to the northeast corner of Bailing Mountain and erected it on the half-mountain side of the mountain. , you can directly bombard the water village of the Goryeo navy.

The county seat of Shaocheng is only slightly south of the Bailing Mountain Trench, and the distance is no more than three miles. Once the battleship of the Korean Navy in the Bailing Mountain Trench is annihilated with heavy artillery, the Huaidong warship enters the Bailing Mountain Trench and can be bombarded directly. Shaocheng County…

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