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Chapter 616 Imjin Japanese Invasion (5.2) Battle of Boryeong and Jindo Water Battle (Yi Sun-shin’s first defeat) ([-]K)

In the early morning of April 20th in the 1592th year of Tiancheng (4), the Fourth Army, which had been resting for a day in Gongju, pulled out from Gongju. Arrive in 18st effort.

The time from Gongju to Boryeong is definitely much faster than from Onyang to Boryeong. Therefore, even though they spent 1 day in Gongju, Hanfang Zhengxing's troops still arrived in Boryeong half a day earlier than Li Wei, but they still Slow by half.

Do you still remember the sailor Wanhu who killed his colleague Tongdongmen when Wenyang opened the city on the morning of the 16th?

He led his navy out from the east gate, and ran straight to Boryeong, where he would join the navy with 3000 soldiers and drive the boat northward to seek the king's frame.

He dared not go back to Jeolla Province. His superior was Yi Shun-shin, the right-hand governor of the Jeolla-do navy.

He was already at odds with Li Sunshin. When he and Li Sunshin were both generals under Li's command, conflicts broke out between the two many times.

My own Gunsanpo is the Wanhu with the most shortage of naval forces in the entire Jeolla Right Province. Later, Yi Sunshin became my boss, and I was targeted by him many times.

This time Li Kuang enlisted the navy to join the army, he just wanted to try his luck, if he made military exploits, he might be able to be independent from Li sun-shin's command.

Who would have imagined that the battle situation in the north would be so critical, and the Kung Fu Wang Jing would be lost in less than a month.

He planned to go north to find Wang Jia to try his luck. He heard from the officials from Wang Jing that there was a shortage of soldiers on Wang Jia's side, and now he would join the Chungcheongdo Navy with a total of 4000 people, which is not a small military force.

Therefore, when Huafang arrived in Boryeong, the ships that could move here had already been driven away by Wanhu and the Boryeong navy, and Xiujia's previous plan to snatch the North Korean navy's ships fell through.

Fortunately, more than a dozen ships were snatched from the Shuchuanpu and Maliangpu water camps in the south, but they were all small and medium-sized ships and could only be used for river patrols.

It was too late, so Huafang was fortunate enough to have the whole army rest here for a day, and sent someone south to inform the fleet waiting on Jeju Island to go north to receive the prisoners.

It is impossible for them to stay in Boryeong for too long. After a day of rest, some troops will be left to guard the prisoners, and most of the troops will still go north to Gangwon-do.

However, in the early morning of the next day, spies came to report that a pair of North Korean troops had gone south from the north. The equipment looked like the team that fled north from Gongju a few days ago.

"It's really a narrow road to Yuanjia." Toyotomi Xiuzhen thought after hearing the news.

Immediately after discussing with Masayuki Hanafo, I felt that our troops are superior now, and we can completely defeat the enemy in field battles.

Immediately, more than 9000 people from Iwaki Lilong were left to cooperate with the Oyu daimyo, and the other [-] people went out of the city to form an array at the mountain pass in the east of the city.

The movement of Baoning City could not be concealed from Li Wei, who had settled down in the army. He quickly got the news from his spies that Baoning City was occupied by Japanese invaders.

At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind, "Is Jeolla-do still owned by North Korea?"

But there was not much time left for him to think. In the blink of an eye, he saw the flags and flags around the corner, and the Japanese army marched towards him in mighty strength.

Jin Yihao, the commander of the Chungcheongdo Supervisory Battalion who was born in the Forbidden Army, saw Li Wei's hesitation, and suggested to Li Wei, "The bandits are so powerful that we may not be able to defeat them, but if we retreat at this moment, we may not be able to survive. Now When a brave man has nowhere to go, he faces death and lives."

Encouraged by this, Li Kai immediately ordered all the troops to line up and prepare to fight the Japanese army.

But how could the North Korean army win when the quality and number of soldiers are not superior?
Like the Battle of Zhongzhou, under the call of the iron cannon and arrow feathers, the government soldiers and auxiliary corps on the two wings were defeated first.

As the main attacker in the middle, Okano Toshi's Department gathered all the iron cannons in the hands of Hanabou Masayuki, a total of more than 500 guns, and fired at the battalion guards in the opposite center.

It is difficult for ordinary craftsmen and iron cannons to penetrate the cotton armor, but the cotton armor worn by the battalion guards is different.

It's a fringe corps that was released to the outside world. It's pretty good to give you a set of armor. You have the nerve to ask Gongcao why the quality of this armor is so poor?
Do you still want to serve as a soldier and eat imperial food?
The bureaucrats in the Confucian cultural circle in Northeast Asia are all stuck in the arms project. Thousands of years of armaments have been slack, and everything looks good. Are you really using it to fight?

Therefore, even though the soldiers in the battalion were wearing cotton armor, many soldiers still fell to the ground after being shot.

But no matter how brave this group of superintendents is, what's the point of fighting if the comrades on both wings run away?

In the Battle of Zhongzhou a few days ago, the 8000 imperial troops actually died in the battle, but a few hundred people, most of them were because they broke up from left to right and ran away together.

The situation of the Battle of Boryeong today is completely a reenactment of the Battle of Chungju. The two sides had just fought hand-to-hand, and the left wing was about to collapse at the touch of a finger.

The right wing resisted for a while, and fled back after leaving behind a hundred corpses. After all, the soldiers lost their courage, and it would be difficult to win this battle.

If there is the courage of the Korean volunteer soldiers later, coupled with the armament of the forbidden army, then how can the Japanese army easily deal with it?

Hanafang Masako thought it would be a hearty battle, but who would have imagined that it would be so anticlimactic, and after the enemy army fled, the game of catching rabbits all over the mountains and plains began again.

The difference is that the battalion supervisors of the Chinese army still maintained a certain combat effectiveness, and some battalion supervisors dared to fight back after being overtaken.

Fortunately, Huafang chased for 20 miles from Baoning to the north, and captured more than 1600 people, including more than 300 prison camp soldiers.

According to the statistics of the battlefield corpses, there were more than 300 decapitations in total, half of which were contributed by the supervising battalion soldiers of the Chinese army, and the left and right government soldiers almost collapsed at the touch of a touch.

Hanabang Masako and Toyotomi Xiuzhen retreated back to Boryeong, planning to leave 1500 people from Xiangxi Jiaqing's department to guard the 6000 prisoners here, and the rest continued northward via Hongju and Deshan to Pyeongtaek, where they spent their time. Anseongcheon enters Gyeonggi-do.

But not long after the sky darkened, someone called outside. It turned out to be Tsui Sarabei and Yuasa Kurobei, the commanders of the Toyoharu family's navy.

Both of them had smoke and blood on their faces, but there was also a hint of excitement.

These two men served as the bows of the only two karaoke sailboats in the hands of Fengchun's family, and they were used as ships for Ryukyu trade on a daily basis.

Few people in Fengchun's family knew about the two ships, and Hanafang was one of them, but seeing the two of them coming, he still expressed curiosity, "Why are you two here?"

Tsui Zoro Bingwei Bingwei replied, "My lord is afraid that the Jeju navy will be short of ships and may be destroyed by the North Korean navy. Therefore, I have specially ordered us to abandon the Ryukyu trade and gather Jeju Island to guard. When necessary, it can also be used as a ship for transshipment of goods."

"According to our master's plan, we expect to block Boryeong Port in mid-to-late April to prevent the Chungcheong Navy from going out to sea.

However, when going north to Jindo, they encountered a North Korean fleet with dozens of warships in total.We only have 2 Karak ships, 4 Fuchuan ships, 6 Anzhai ships, and 15 Guan ships. The rest are merchant ships that have been temporarily coordinated. "

"Lord Nose Matagoro ordered 10 ships to continue to lead the merchant ships to the north, and other warships lined up to meet the enemy. We fought a battle near Jindo, sank 8 Korean warships, captured 1, and repelled the enemy. More than a dozen ships were damaged."

"Have you fought in Jindo?" Huafang Zhengxing said in shock when he heard the news.

Jindo is right next to Yousuying in Jeolla-do. This is the site of the famous North Korean general Yi Sun-shin that Xiujia said before. If the prediction is correct, what Nose Raiji and the others encountered should be Yi Sun-shin's navy army up.

At this time, a question arose in Hanafang Zhengxing's mind, "Is this the famous North Korean general?" He couldn't help doubting Yi Sunshin's true ability.

He asked the two for proof, "So you started an artillery battle with the North Korean Navy?"

"What? Artillery battle?" After hearing this, the two looked at each other and laughed loudly, "There are two ships with guns on their bows, but the range and speed of fire are not in a hurry."

Yuasa Kurobei said: "Besides, there are so many warships, what's the use of the cannons on the two ships? My Bizen Maru has two layers of large, medium and small cannons on one side, hahaha~!"

Hearing that the North Korean fleet on the opposite side did have artillery, Hanafang Masayuki felt much more at ease. It seemed that Yi Sun-shin was indeed under his command.

The Korean and Japanese navies of this era did not pay much attention to the role of artillery, and it was Yi sun-shin who put the artillery on the ship.

It was later discovered that putting the cannon on the ship was not perfect, so the first turtle ship was designed in March 1592.

More historical records show that during the Battle of Okpo, Yi Sun-shin Society and Lee Yi-ki's troops assembled 24 plank boats, 15 plywood boats (clamp boats), 46 abalone boats, and 1 turtle boat to defeat the Japanese navy. The 16 warships of the army achieved the first great victory of the Korean navy.

The so-called Panokjak is the main large military ship of North Korea, and it was also the first time that Yi sun-shin put artillery on the panokjak, which enabled the Korean navy to have the ability to shoot artillery.

The plywood ship is a medium-sized general-purpose ship whose main task is to transport troops.Plywood boats (or clamp boats) get their name from the structure held together by boards.

Bao Zuo boat is a small boat used as a fishing boat in peacetime. It has no special combat ability, but it is very fast. It is used for reconnaissance and communication in wartime.

Hanafang Zhengxing tried hard to think about what the Xiu family said to him before going out, but he couldn't remember it when he was too old. Anyway, it is right that his fleet has defeated the North Korean navy now.

In fact, as he thought, history has shifted here. Yi Sunshin originally planned to go out of Jindo to reconcile with Li Yiqi, the Zuosui envoy of Jeolla Province, and go to Gyeongsangdo to support Won Kyun.

However, the Japanese army conscripted North Korea more than half a month earlier. Historically, the turtle ship faced many problems after it was launched. Yi sun-shin spent two months repairing the ship so that it could go to war in May.

In this life, the turtle boats could not go to battle, and the ships they brought were just regular Korean ships. Among them, there were 8 plywood boats, 2 plywood boats, and 15 Baozuo boats.

Two of the plywood ships were equipped with cannon, which was his winning weapon in this battle.

But who knows that when the fleet just left the water camp and passed by Jindo, it unexpectedly collided head-on with the Fengchun navy army led by Nose Raikichi.

If it is an ordinary Japanese navy, it will be nothing more than a dozen iron cannons and dozens of bows and arrows to shoot at most.

However, the Xiu family is notoriously profit-oriented, so it is not convenient to install cannons when the ship is closed. The four Fuchuan each have 4 cannons, 9 on the left and right, and one right in front.

The bottom of the Japanese ship is not stable, and it was originally a small ship that resisted tall buildings, so only one cannon was placed in front of the Ataka ship.

The Anzhai boat at Xiujia is the configuration of the wooden houseboat equipped with artillery in the hands of Yi sun-sin, not to mention the Fuchuan and Karak sailboats.

The battle was almost one-sided, and under one round of artillery salvo, most of the wooden houseboats on the opposite side were destroyed.Some Bao Zuochuan wanted to use their flexible bodies to penetrate the big boat approaching Fengchun's house, but they were all stopped by the Guanchuan swimming around.

Under the bombardment of the iron cannon and arrow feathers on the Guan boat, Bao Zuozhou, which was originally a small boat, couldn't support it at all, and the big boat suffered heavy casualties before it got close to the Xiu family.

Arrows may not be able to penetrate the wooden planks of the ship, but iron cannon balls will not be polite to you, no matter where you hide, Bao Zuo's boat is such a big place, and the wooden plank is only a thin layer. Washed with blood.

Yi sun-shin suffered his first defeat since the Imjin Japanese Invasion, and it was such a miserable defeat.That is to say, Nose Raiji didn't have the time to manage them, otherwise he would have entered Mokpo and wiped out the right battalion of the Jeolla Navy.

And this also allowed Yi sun-shin to escape successfully.

After returning home, Yi Sun-shin learned from the painful experience and was firm in his idea of ​​building a large turtle ship. In his opinion, only the turtle ship could deal with the Japanese gunboats.

And right now the Turtle Ship's gun positions are not enough, he has to find a way to overcome the stability of the ship when firing from the flanks, and then set up gun positions on the left and right sides of the Turtle Ship, and increase the gun positions by firing from the flanks like the Japanese ship.

And there is a bolder idea brewing in his mind, he is like wrapping an iron sheet on the wooden shell of a turtle ship, so that it may be able to resist the Japanese artillery shells.

None of Xiujia and Zhengxing, who were far away in Kyoto, knew about these ideas, and they didn't even know that this battle directly challenged Yi Sun-shin's prestige in Yousuying, Jeolla-do.

Prior to the Japanese invasion, the Gyeongsang-do navy came to ask for help. The generals of the Jeolla-do navy believed that the Jeolla-do navy and Gyeongsang-do were not under each other’s control. Where is the time to take care of others.

It was he who overcame all opinions and thought that Jeolla Province could be preserved only when the enemy's vigor was defeated by defeating some of the Japanese army's original and heretical ways.

And the most favorable reason he used to convince his subordinates was that the news from Gyeongsang-do said that the Japanese navy did not have artillery, and that the three barracks equipped with artillery on his side were secret weapons, and the effect of artillery bombarding ships had been verified.

Who would have thought that his side hit the iron plate as soon as he went out, and there were only a dozen ships on the other side, but they fired dozens of cannons with the momentum, so that his side had no chance to fight back.

Defeat in the first battle is a blow to one's morale, and even more to one's prestige.

However, he was more ruthless and the information provided by Yuan Jun was wrong. How dare you say that the Japanese invaders did not have gunboats?

This is almost catching up with the shore defense fort!

It's too disrespectful of martial arts!
The conscience of heaven and earth, Xiujia really didn't want to defeat Yi Sun-shin, he just wanted to ensure the smooth shipping trade on the left side of North Korea, and when the Chungcheong Province, Gyeonggi Province, and Hwanghae Province were all transported, he immediately withdrew the fleet.

The Xiu family still counted on Hideyoshi to stumble in North Korea, which required Yi Sun-shin to find a way to cut off the Japanese sea logistics line.

But who knew that the two sides were so nonsensical, they ran into each other on the outskirts of Jindo, and even beat Yi Sun-shin back.

What the Xiu family didn't expect was that after returning home, Li Sunchen wrote a letter to Yuan Junben, saying that he lied about the military situation, which led to his defeat.

In the letter, he said bluntly, "The pirate ships have strong guns, please build big ships and cast heavy guns to counter them, and ask the heavenly kingdom to send more sailors to participate in the war" and so on.

In short, by mistake, the navy of the Ming Dynasty, which had not participated in the war in history, also participated in the war. This is not comparable to the three melons and two dates of the Korean navy.

The navy of the Ming Dynasty has taken the initiative to put firecrackers and cannons on warships since Zhu Yuanzhang, and there is a record of the use of firearms in the victory of Chen Youliang in the Poyang Lake water battle.

Later, due to the sea ban policy, the Navy’s ship equipment was slack, and the government-run shipyard could not even build a medium-sized Fuchuan of 400 materials. It was necessary to recruit civilian Fuchuan to refit to deal with Japanese pirates.

However, it was later discovered that Fuchuan and Guangzhou Ships for civilian use are often built stronger than official ships because they need to go to ocean trade.

Since Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general, put forward in due course that "Naval battles are nothing more than defeating small boats with big ships, and defeating small guns with large guns; defeating few ships with many ships, and defeating few guns with many guns." Since then, naval warfare in the Ming Dynasty has entered the modern era very early. model.

During the Jiajing period, half of the combatants of the warships of the Ming army used firearms, and the caliber of the artillery became bigger and bigger.

By the Wanli period, there was even a record of a 24-jin heavy gun cast in red copper on board, and later generations estimated that it was roughly equivalent to a European [-]-pound heavy gun.

After a series of conflicts with the outside world (mainly with Portugal and the Netherlands) from 1520 to 1580, the Daming navy imitated the practice of European galleys and placed heavy artillery on the bow; at first heavy artillery was placed on centipede ships (gallons) Later, even the capitals of medium and large warships were equipped with heavy artillery.

Take the No. 1 Dafu Ship in "Xiao Ji Xin Shu" as an example, there will be a big door on the bow.

So far, the Daming Navy has obtained a more effective method of destroying enemy ships, and its naval warfare tactics have also changed; when encountering the enemy, it first seizes the upper hand, attacks the enemy ship with heavy bow artillery, and then sails to the right side of the enemy to launch the big Buddha wolf machine and Baizi on the port side. Wait for the small guns to shoot the crew on the ship; then fire the stern gun, then turn to the enemy's left side and fire the starboard Big Buddha Wolf Machine and Baizi Cannon, and then do it again from the leeward side.

Note: The gun was introduced in 1548. It is made of copper or iron. Most of them weigh 300-500 jin, and a few weigh 5000 jin. It was the naval gun with the strongest firepower in the southeast coast at that time.

In many literary and good film and television works, the description of the navy of the Ming Dynasty is taken for granted because of the ban on the sea. In fact, if the navy of the Ming Dynasty was really so weak, how could it be possible to recover Taiwan at the end of the Ming Dynasty? ?
The last thing the Xiu family wants to see is for the navy of the Ming Dynasty to participate in the war. With the power of the Japanese navy, historically they were incapable of dealing with the turtle boats of North Korea. How could they face the famous navy that had fought with Portugal and other Western powers? Gap?

Even if Xiujia's two strongest Clarke sailing ships are not unsinkable by the navy of the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch East India Company is equipped with a few 2-pound guns anyway.

The largest caliber artillery on Xiujia's Karak sailboat is 3 18-pound bronze cannons on the left and right, and the other 15 are 12-pound cannons.

As for Fuchuan, let alone, the 4-pound guns on the bows of the four Fuchuan were removed from the two Karak ships and pressed on. The left and right are Meiji cannons, and the caliber is about 18-pounders and 6-pounders. lower level.

If it's just this pair of navy masters from the Ming Dynasty, even if the Xiu family pays all their wealth, it won't be enough!
(End of this chapter)