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Guo An, Zhu Di and others who were far away on the ship did not know about this.
Anyway, they approached the Goryeo coastline all the way.
They didn't need to drive them away. When the fishing boats in the Goryeo sea saw their fleet coming from a distance, they were like seeing demons coming from hell. Their faces were frightened and they ran away like crazy to the shore.
In this way, they have been successfully bypassing Yan'an County, directly entering the Goryeo Inland Sea, and heading towards the King of Goryeo.
Guo An and other generals had no objection to Zhu Di's bold behavior.
Each ship had hundreds of fishing nets, more than 200 incendiary bombs, bowl-mouth tubes and fire caltrops and other old-fashioned firearms on board. They were confident that even if they were surrounded by the Goryeo army, they could fight back and defeat them.
Moreover, the soldiers were very fast, and they also wanted to rush into the palace of the King of Goryeo without being noticed by the soldiers of the Goryeo Kingdom.
If the King of Goryeo, Wang Jing, is allowed to run away, no matter whether he can capture the King of Goryeo, Wang Jing will be meaningless.
However, they waited until they had advanced again for half a day.
The beacon fire was finally lit on both sides of Goryeo. At the same time, nearly a hundred warships finally appeared in front of the fleet.
Goryeo had naval forces!
More than a hundred years ago, when the Yuan Dynasty Empire was at its most powerful, the Yuan Dynasty Empire established an ocean-going navy in order to conquer overseas countries such as Japan, Annan, and Java.
However, the Yuan Dynasty were all men on horseback, and they were completely unfamiliar with the navy.
Moreover, the Southern Song Dynasty had not yet conquered it.
Therefore, the task of forming a navy fell on the Goryeo Kingdom, the weakling of the Yuan Empire.
Under the orders of the Yuan Empire, Goryeo directly built more than 900 large and small ships. The Yuan army sent 20,000 people, and the Goryeo army and sailors sent more than 10,000 people to directly cross the sea to conquer the Japanese country.
However, the naval coalition formed by the Yuan Empire conducted two consecutive eastward expeditions to the Japanese countries, but both ended in failure due to the unsuitable climate and the influence of storms and other weather conditions.
The Yuan Empire withdrew, but the hatred of the Japanese fell on Goryeo.
Fortunately, the Yuan Empire still left some warships and some shipbuilding technology to Korea.
But despite this, after so many years of plunder by the Japanese country, as well as internal strife and corruption among the powerful people in the Koryo Kingdom, the Koryo Navy also gradually declined.
After hearing that a navy consisting of more than fifty warships was invading, the navy defending Wangjing thirty miles away, as well as the navy stationed on Ganghwa Island, finally reacted and intercepted Zhu Di's fleet at the mouth of the Yecheng River. .
"Your Highness, the Goryeo Navy has more than sixty ships in total,"
Xu Xiang reported to Zhu Di with a relaxed look.
Zhu Di ordered: "Don't let them get close, burn all their warships!"
Although Choi Mo-seon, the judge of Goryeo, secretly learned the art of gunpowder from Chinese craftsmen, he also set up a fire capital prison in Goryeo.
They even made some firearms and used them to defeat Japanese pirates.
However, compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Goryeo Navy still belonged to the cold weapon period, and even some fire weapons and other firearms were installed on the warships.
The bows of their warships were built with a huge metal object in accordance with their previous combat thinking. They could use this object and gravity to directly crash into enemy ships.
It is a pity that after the Ming Dynasty had mature firearms, it no longer needed this bulky object, and Zhu Di naturally would not allow the Goryeo warships to use this object.
With an order!
The war drums are beating!
The warships of the Ming Dynasty quickly formed a formation. Fortunately, the sea area was very wide and they could move out.
Some small trebuchets placed on the Ming Dynasty warships directly threw some fish nets filled with incendiary bombs towards the Koryo Navy warships opposite.
At the same time, there were also roars from the warship of Prince Yan's Mansion.
One by one, bowls and tubes were thrown directly at the Goryeo warship coming from the opposite side, like setting off firecrackers.
In an instant.
The bows of more than a dozen Goryeo warships that came up from the opposite river were blown to pieces. At the same time, the hulls of the ships were also on fire. No matter how much the Goryeo soldiers poured water, they could not be extinguished.
Immediately, the incendiary bombs also ignited some bombs, and the Goryeo warship burst into flames.
More than half of the Korean soldiers also turned into burning men because of the incendiary bombs, and they all jumped into the water crying and screaming.
When the fire on his body was extinguished, he climbed up again, only to find that his body was on fire again.
Suddenly, these Korean soldiers jumped into the water again and did not dare to come up.
As a result, half of the soldiers and sailors on the Goryeo warship were instantly missing.
The warship had no power, and it was like a child stumbling around. The warships behind it couldn't avoid it for a while, and directly hit it.
The stern was also damaged.
Then, with the help of the water, these Goryeo warships rushed more than ten steps in front of the Ming Dynasty ship, then slowly stopped and slowly sank into the sea.
However, with the obstruction of these warships, the Goryeo warships behind could not increase their speed and could only be targets for the Ming warships.
Although commanders like Chen Tao, Chen Zhi, and Zhang Xing have never fought in water battles, they are all qualified generals and know how to beat up a drowned dog.
Moreover, although there were more than 60 Goryeo warships, several more than Zhu Di's warships, the warships were not as big as Zhu Di's warships, and their soldiers were not as many as the Yanshan Guards.
After several rounds, the Goryeo Navy was directly at a disadvantage.
The Yanshan Guard soldiers were still filled with anger.
Therefore, no one shows mercy.
Half an hour later.
There were clouds of black smoke rising from the entire broad river. On the water, except for some remnants of warships and the corpses of Korean soldiers, some moving Goryeo warships disappeared without a trace.
"Your Majesty, of the sixty Goryeo warships, we, the Yanshan Guards, sank more than thirty of them, and lost more than thirty of them!
As for the more than 9,000 Goryeo naval forces, more than 4,000 were killed by our Yanshan Guards, and more than 5,000 escaped!
Only a few of our Prince Yan's warships were damaged, but they were all sailable. In addition, more than fifty soldiers were killed and two hundred wounded! "
After the war, a soldier reported to Zhu Di.
"good!"
Zhu Di nodded with satisfaction, "Instruct all ships to shoot all Goryeo soldiers and generals in the water and quickly march towards Goryeo Wangjing!"
"promise!"
The soldier received the order with a solemn face, and then issued the order again.
Immediately, the entire fleet headed straight towards Wang Jing.
Kaesong, the capital of King Goryeo, is only more than thirty miles away from the mouth of Yeseong River.
But at the mouth of the Licheng River, there was no city that could resist the landing of Zhu Di and other Yanshan Guard troops.
Even the nearest city is Jinyan City, which is twenty miles away.
However, for a small city with a population of less than 60,000, the King of Goryeo recruited thousands of soldiers.
After hearing that tens of thousands of Japanese pirates were coming to plunder, they were so frightened that they closed the city gate tightly and did not dare to send troops out to check.
Therefore, Zhu Di left 3,000 soldiers to guard the fleet, and directly led 12,000 soldiers to march towards Kaijing.
Fortunately, there was a map of Goryeo left by Goryeo envoy Cao Minxiu, which prevented the army from going in the wrong direction.
Along the way, wherever the army passed, the people in the Korean villages were so frightened that they either closed their doors and windows, hid in their homes and shivered, or ran away with their lives carrying some valuable items.
When Zhu Di and other armies were still twenty miles away from the King of Goryeo, several terrified Goryeo soldiers finally rushed into the King of Goryeo and plundered more than 10,000 Japanese pirates in Jianghua Prefecture, Yan'an County, and Haifeng County. The matter was reported to the King of Goryeo.
After hearing this, King Wang You of Goryeo quickly summoned a group of ministers to discuss how to recruit soldiers and generals to unite the navy to defeat the more than 10,000 Japanese pirates.
As for whether these Japanese pirates were the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, and they directly wanted to attack Wang Jing of Goryeo, no one from Goryeo King Wang You or any of his ministers thought about it.
However, Li Chenggui, the most courageous general in the King of Goryeo, had already led a group of generals and eight northern soldiers to attack Liaodong.
King Jing of Goryeo was empty. Apart from the army guarding Wang Jing, there were no soldiers available.
I want to recruit soldiers and generals from the south, but it's too late!
However, they all understand the cruelty of Japanese pirates.
King Wang You of Goryeo discussed with the ministers for an hour, but no result was reached.
At this moment, I heard another naval soldier coming to report.
The King of Goryeo, Wang You, looked happy and quickly announced his naval division and generals.
However, what shocked and angered them was that the navy general who came in was extremely miserable, and his face was filled with fear, and he was obviously defeated.
"Your Majesty, King Yan of the Ming Dynasty is coming with his army! We and the ten thousand navy only resisted for an hour before being defeated by the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty..."
Following the words of the navy general, the expressions of King Wang You of Goryeo and all the ministers of Goryeo changed drastically, especially King Goryeo Wang You, who was immediately panicked.
"Ming dynasty?"
"King Yan?"
"How can this be?"
"Are you sure you read it correctly? How could the Ming Dynasty send troops to attack Goryeo for no reason?..."
The navy general said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, I can see clearly that the war flags of the Ming Dynasty are hung on those warships, and it says Yan!
Also, there are various kinds of firearms on those warships, which are much more powerful than our Goryeo weapons. In less than an hour, more than thirty warships of our Goryeo Navy were blown up..."
At this time, King Wang Yu of Goryeo and all the ministers of Goryeo had to believe that Zhu Di, King of Yan of the Ming Dynasty, had really attacked.
A Goryeo minister thought of something and hurriedly said to Goryeo King Wang You: "Your Majesty, King Yan Zhu Di is obviously coming for Your Majesty. I beg Your Majesty to leave Wang Jing quickly to avoid the danger for the time being!"
All around, all the Goryeo ministers also reacted and said quickly.
"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty Yan King Zhu Di will definitely come with a large army to besiege my king's capital in Goryeo. Now that the king's capital is empty, I beg you, your Majesty, to stay out of the way for the time being!"
"I beg you, Your Majesty, to put national affairs first and avoid the spotlight for the time being..."
Hearing this, King Wang Yu of Goryeo was also a little moved.
"My dear friends, where do you think this king should go?"
"Yuanzhou capital!"
"Chungju Prefecture..."
All the Goryeo ministers spoke quickly one by one.
"Report!"
At this time, another soldier ran in from outside the palace.
"Reporting to your Majesty, a large army was found fifteen miles outside Wangjing City. It seems to be the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty. It should be ten miles away from Wangjing..."
There was dead silence in the palace hall.
After a while, King Wang You of Goryeo was furious, "Everyone, that King of Yan, Zhu Di, was so audacious that he attacked King Jing of Goryeo like this. You all must gather your troops quickly. I want to let Zhu Di, King of Yan of Ming Dynasty, know that I, Goryeo The soldiers and generals are awesome!"
"Here!"
"In addition, you will quickly send out messengers and order Songlin County, Baizhou County, Haizhou County, and Deshui County to send troops to surround the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty with me!"
"Here!"
All the Goryeo generals and ministers quickly took orders.
The army of Zhu Di, King of Yan of the Ming Dynasty, has arrived more than ten miles outside the city, and it is already dark. They can't run away even if they want to, so they can only rely on Wang Jing's tall city wall to resist!
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(End of chapter)
