Goryeo, Ganghwa, off the coast of Yuechuandunbao.
The Nassau Elite Pirate Billy Experience Card has expired. The sailors on the sloop "Farmer Merchant" with their new soft sails bid farewell to the yellow-haired horse monkey instructor and Kang with mixed looks of regret and excitement. The porcelain and silk given by Lin disappeared from sight. Next, everyone calmed down and focused their attention on the sloop at their feet again. After the assessment by Kang Lin, the supreme commander of the fleet, it was decided that Gu Wen, the second most experienced sailor, would be the sailor of the "Distant Merchant". General manager, in addition, in order to strengthen the firepower of this sloop, Master Baihu also ordered his army craftsmen to use four Ye Gong Shen blunderbuss, two Ye Gong Shen blunderbuss, Xuanzi blunderbuss, and four large Fo Lang Machine, two Weiyuan guns, a total of twelve artillery pieces were hoisted onto the ship! With these, the sloop can rely on its high speed and rapid firepower to become the force of the entire expedition fleet; with it charging forward, Chiyang's lucky ship and bird ship can hide behind, Calmly fire at the Goryeo panel house ship, damaging it and sinking it!
At this moment, what Gu Wenlai, Lin Wu, Qin Lin, Luo Meng, Liu Bin and other Chiyang-Navy Chiefs still need to do is to train the sloop under their feet to cooperate with the Chinese sailboat. In addition to being able to advance and retreat in unison, they also need to They must be able to form a tight battle formation and attack the thick-skinned and slow-moving Korean wooden house boats with volleys of artillery. Therefore, under the unified command of Lin A-Shui, chief steward of the flagship ship "Adventure", the eight large and small ships of the Chiyang Expedition Fleet began mixed training, accompanied by the red and black signals in the hands of the signalmen on the stern of the sentry ship. With the flags waving one after another, Fuchuan, Haicang, the eight-foot-long centipede boat, and the sloop used sails and oars to push through the white waves, advancing towards the distant Ganghwa Strait, while the smaller bird boats relied on sails and oars to push. It has the characteristics of agile movement and fast speed, cruising near the main force of the fleet! Soon, seven or eight warships arrived on the other side of the strait. Next, under the command of the signal soldiers, all the navy flag soldiers loaded various artillery and lit the fuse at the fire gate! The next moment, as the "chichichi" sound of burning medicine lines stopped, the large and small artillery on the Chiyang ship opened fire one after another!
"Boom, boom, boom..." Thick smoke, orange flames, and deafening explosions! Hundreds of splashing lead bullets swept across the opposite coastal rocks like a sweep, blowing up the rocks and shrubs on them and sending them flying in all directions, making them crumbling! Immediately afterwards, the waving flag continued to wave, and Chiyang's navy flag soldiers fired another round of artillery salvo at the poor seaside hill. This time, I don’t know if there was something wrong with everyone’s eyesight. Everyone, including Kang Lin, Zheng Nansheng, Wang Tang and others who were watching the exercise on the stern of the flagship, felt vaguely that the whole seaside trembled! Then, before the shocked people could react, the signal soldiers on the flagship longship waved the red and black flags in their hands. According to the previously designated drill procedures, after two rounds of shelling, it was time for Chiyang to The infantry stepped forward to land on the beach! So, after a burst of shouting and cursing, the more than a hundred Chiyang Banner troops on board began to put down their sampans and rowboats one after another, carrying their companions loaded with guns and live ammunition, and rushed towards the rocky beach not far away! Today, their drill was to land on the beach, so when they stepped on the sampan and rowed the beach, they stepped on the knee-deep water and launched a fierce attack on the imaginary enemy that did not exist on the shore!
The spearmen and sword and shield men came ashore first, followed by the musketeers, and finally the sentry artillerymen carrying the tiger squatting cannon followed closely behind! The infantry soldiers under Fan Beard's command landed on solid ground in an orderly manner. Then, under the command of their armor commanders and sentinel commanders, the landing troops of about a hundred people continued to gather closer to each other! Soon, a horizontal and vertical military formation with murderous intent was formed to the accompaniment of bamboo whistles and drums. They lined up in a neat formation, holding high flags and flags, and continued to advance deeper into the land. He stopped to repair for a while, pretended to put in a round of lead bullets and arrows, and then reorganized the team and moved forward. In just half an hour, the team advanced for more than two miles until they saw someone not far away. Only after a few Goryeo seaside houses made of stones and thatched roofs, as well as Bangzi civilians who fled in all directions, did they end the exercise and retreat to the beach.
"Quick, throw down the rope ladder. There are people coming from the Dunbao. There must be an emergency military situation. We must not delay..." However, when the exercise headquarters issued an end signal and recalled all beach landing personnel, Something unexpected happened! A large sampan carrying three or four people suddenly crossed the Ganghwa Strait, bringing urgent military information to Kang Lin and others. It turned out that at the same time that the expedition fleet was gathering and conducting exercises, the long-lost Korean reinforcements also arrived. New news! On the 13th day of the lunar month in the ninth year of Jingyan's reign of Emperor Ming Dynasty, Ganghwa Island sent the first wave of messengers to cross the Ganghwa Strait by boat. After more than ten hours of trekking, they conveyed the news of the Japanese invaders to the Gimpo County Sheriff's Office. After the governor of Gimpo County heard the news, he was afraid that a huge Japanese rebellion like the Imjin era would happen, so he sent a fast horse to deliver the news to the Uijeongbu in Hanyang, the capital, within a few hours. Regardless of his slight health condition, he immediately summoned Zuo Yizheng Hong Ruifeng, Li Cao judge Cui Mingji, Li Cao judge Jin Shangxian, marshals Shen Qiyuan, Jin Zidian and other civil and military officials to discuss the matter, and the result was not beyond everyone's expectations. How could the Goryeo court, which regarded itself as "Little China", tolerate small Japanese pirates occupying the land of the capital? Although the Eight Banners troops and horses under the Jurchen Khan King Shu'erhaqi were only sent out as a gift in the first half of the year, the former, who thought he had enough troops and food, did not take the Chiyang Fleet's scabies disease to heart at all. The meeting ended with Ten votes outweighed eight votes to pass the resolution of sending troops to expel them. Marshal Jin Zidian, who had made great achievements in supervising the construction of the mountain city, personally took command and commanded three thousand land divisions and one thousand naval divisions, a total of four thousand troops to attack the newly emerged Matsuura family Japanese pirates.
After that, Marshal Jin Zidian of Goryeo spent several days mobilizing troops and horses and raising food and grass. However, under the constant urging of the Uijeongbu government, he still fired artillery and sent out troops on the 20th of the ninth month of the lunar calendar! Therefore, when the time came to September 23, after three days of marching, the Goryeo reinforcements finally arrived in the Mangsu Mountain area in the northwest of Tongjin. There was only a narrow Ganghwa Strait from Wolchodun Castle. You can attack Chiyang's main force across the sea! Therefore, Yan Si, the left-behind officer who received the urgent military intelligence report at night, immediately sent out a sampan to carry the messenger to find the main force of the Chiyang Expedition Fleet, which was having fun in the fields north of Jianghua, and asked them to return to the army to defend the castle and welcome the Goryeo Crusade Army. attack.
"What, the Goryeo army is attacking? Isn't it that the Goryeo court is corrupt and officials are used to prevaricating? How could they gather thousands of soldiers and horses to attack us so quickly?" Although Kang Lin faced the report of the messenger who was frothing at the mouth, Kang Lin There were doubts in his heart, but he was afraid that his escape route would be cut off, so he still issued an emergency evacuation order! Under the urging of the drums and bamboo whistles, everyone, whether they were spearmen, sword and shield men, musketeers, or gunners, returned to the ship in just a short cup of tea. Then, the sailors ascended to the ship. With hard sails and soft sails set up, the big ship, towed by small boats and rowing boats, turned around with difficulty and began to rush towards the place where it came from!
"Chief, according to the news from the Ye Bu Shou team, the Goryeo army has arrived in the northwest of the Mangsu Mountains this morning. At this time, it is setting up a fort on a flat area by the sea. It is estimated that it will launch a cross-sea attack on us tomorrow morning at the latest. Attack!" In just half an hour, Kang Lin climbed onto the wall of Yuechuan Dunbao again, and then hurriedly took the telescope handed to him by his personal attendant. After adjusting the angle, he looked across the strait. past! Sure enough, the place there has changed a lot. The originally deserted Chaos Beach has tall flags, wooden fences, and white tents of various sizes erected next to the barren hills, among which there are a large number of people wearing black cloth robes. Korean sergeants were coming in and out, making it seem like a huge military camp with great hustle and bustle. On the sea, there were also cabin boats and large flat-bottomed boats of the Korean Navy swimming around. The Koreans even erected wooden piles in the shallow water to prepare for construction. A trestle for berthing ships!
"The navy of the Goryeo Crusade Army has about eight wooden house ships, flat-bottomed service ships, and nineteen auxiliary ships. The strength should be more than a thousand people. It is not clear who the commander is, but it is certain. It's definitely not mediocre! Chief, what should I do next? Please tell me..." Beside Kang Lin, the fleet painting officer Yan Si also held up a single-tube telescope made of brass to observe the enemy's situation, and through Based on his report, Conlin quickly figured out the approximate strength of the enemy and the number of naval vessels. It seems that this time the Goryeo court was extremely efficient. Facing its own seven or eight ships and three or four hundred troops, not only did it not shirk and procrastinate, it actually assembled 3,000 land and naval forces in just a few days. Thousands of people came to attack, probably because they wanted to defeat themselves from the front with ten times the number of troops, recreating the story of Yi Sunchen's victory over the weak in the battle of Lianghai thirty years ago!
"Han Sheng, come down with me. The sloop and the eight-foot centipede ship took advantage of the enemy's unsteady footing to leave the port and hide in advance. Tomorrow the fleet will consist of the sentinel ship and the Haicang ship as the main force against the enemy's wooden house ship. The bird ship will wait for opportunities outside. Attack the enemy's service ships and auxiliary ships. Remember, wait until they send the Korean army to Ganghwa Island. Then send a signal and order the sloop and the eight-foot centipede ship to attack and completely defeat the Korean navy!" After thinking again and again, Kang Lin supported the stone wall of the Dunbao and issued the first battle order to Yan Si, Lin Ashui, Gu Wenlai and others!
"Old Fan, you personally assemble the troops, replenish ammunition, and prepare to face the enemy's land division tomorrow! Remember, it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten of them. All infantry soldiers must be determined to succeed or not and attack those Goryeo soldiers hard. Army, if my predictions are correct this time, as long as we can defeat the invading enemy head-on, the Goryeo court will not be able to organize a decent army in a short time to stop us from plundering Gimpo County and even the Incheon Protectorate!"
