Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 205 Battle against the Korean Navy
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For these, Guo An, Zhu Di and others who were far away on the big ship did not know.

Anyway, they approached the Koryo coastline all the way.

Without them chasing them away, those small fishing boats in the Goryeo Sea saw their fleet approaching from a distance, as if seeing a demon coming from hell, they were frightened and frightened, and fled to the shore like crazy.

In this way, they have been successfully bypassing Yan'an County, directly entering the Inner Sea of ​​Korea, and heading straight for the King of Korea.

Guo An and the generals had no objection to Zhu Di's bold behavior.

There are hundreds of fishing nets, more than 200 incendiary bombs, old-fashioned firearms such as bowl mouthpieces and fire caltrops on each ship. They are confident that even if they are surrounded by the Korean army, they can fight back and defeat them.

Moreover, soldiers are expensive and fast, and they also want to take advantage of the fact that the generals of Goryeo can't find out, and rush into the capital of King Goryeo in one go.

If the king of Goryeo, Wang Xuan, was allowed to escape, it would be meaningless whether or not the King of Goryeo could be captured.

Just, wait until they have advanced for half a day again.

The flames of war finally ignited on both sides of Koryo. At the same time, nearly a hundred warships finally appeared in front of the fleet.

Goryeo has sailors!
More than 100 years ago, when the Yuan Dynasty Empire was at its most powerful, in order to conquer Japan, Annan, Java and other overseas countries, the Yuan Dynasty Empire formed an ocean-going navy.

However, the Yuan Dynasty were all men on horseback, and they were all strangers to the navy.

Moreover, the Southern Song Dynasty had not yet been attacked at that time.

Therefore, the task of forming a navy fell to the Yuan Empire's henchman, Goryeo.

Under the order of the Yuan Empire, Goryeo directly built more than 900 large and small sea-going ships, with 2 Yuan troops and more than 1 Goryeo troops and sailors, and directly crossed the sea to conquer Japan.

However, the naval alliance formed by the Yuan Empire ended in failure under the influence of weather conditions such as unacceptable water and soil and storms.

The Yuan Empire withdrew, but the hatred of the Wa Kingdom fell on Goryeo.

Fortunately, the Yuan Empire still left some warships and some shipbuilding technology to Goryeo.

But despite this, after so many years of looting by the Japanese kingdom, as well as the internal fighting and corruption of the major powers in the Koryo country, the Koryo navy is also declining day by day.

After hearing the invasion of a navy composed of more than 50 warships, the navy defending [-] miles away from Wangjing and the navy stationed on Ganghwa Island finally reacted and intercepted Zhu Di's fleet at the mouth of the Licheng River.

"Your Highness, there are more than 60 large ships in the Koryo Navy,"

Xu Xiang reported to Zhu Di with a relaxed face.

Zhu Di ordered: "Don't let them approach, burn all their warships!"

Although Cui Maoxuan, the judge of Goryeo, secretly learned the art of gunpowder from Chinese craftsmen, he also set up a fire capital prison in Goryeo.

Even, some firearms were manufactured, and Japanese pirates were defeated with firearms.

However, compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Koryo navy still belonged to the period of cold weapons, and even the warships were equipped with some firearms and other firearms.

The bows of their warships, according to the previous combat thinking, have a huge metal object, which can be used to directly destroy enemy ships with this object and gravity.

It's a pity that after Daming had mature firearms, he didn't need this bulky object, and Zhu Di naturally wouldn't let the Goryeo warship have the opportunity to use this object.

With one order!
The drums are beating!

The Ming warship quickly lined up. Fortunately, this piece of sea area is very wide and can be deployed.

Some small trebuchets installed on the Ming warship directly threw some fishing nets full of incendiary bombs towards the opposite Korean navy warship.

At the same time, there were bursts of roars on the battleship of King Yan's Mansion.

A piece of bowl and mouthpiece, like setting off firecrackers, was thrown directly at the Korean warship coming from the opposite side.

In an instant.

The bows of more than a dozen Goryeo warships coming up from the opposite river were directly blown to pieces, and at the same time, the hulls were also on fire. No matter how the Goryeo soldiers poured water, they could not be extinguished.

Immediately, the incendiary bomb also ignited some bombs, and the Koryo warship directly burst into flames.

More than half of the Koryo soldiers also turned into burning men because of the incendiary bombs, and they all jumped into the water crying and shouting.

After the fire on his body was extinguished, he climbed up again, only to find that his body was on fire again.

Immediately, these Korean soldiers jumped into the water again and dared not come up.

As a result, half of the soldiers and sailors on the Goryeo warship were lost in an instant.

The warship ran out of power, like a child stumbling, and the several warships behind couldn't dodge it for a while, and rammed into it directly.

The stern was also damaged.

Then, taking advantage of the water force, these Goryeo warships rushed to more than ten steps in front of the Daming ship before slowly stopping and slowly sinking into the sea.

However, with the obstruction of these warships, the Koryo warships in the back could not speed up, and they could only be living targets for the Ming warships.

As for the commanders Chen Tao, Chen Zhi, and Zhang Xing, although they had never fought any water battles, they were all qualified generals who knew how to beat a dog in the water.

Moreover, although there are more than 60 warships in Goryeo, a few more than Zhu Di's warships, the warships are not as large as Zhu Di's warships, and the soldiers are not as large as the Yanshan Guards.

After several rounds, the Koryo Navy directly fell into a disadvantage.

The guards of Yanshan Mountain were still filled with anger.

Therefore, no one showed mercy.

After half an hour.

Puffs of black smoke billowed from the entire wide river, and on the water surface, except for the remnants of some warships and corpses of Goryeo soldiers, some moving Goryeo warships disappeared without a trace.

"His Royal Highness, of the sixty Goryeo warships, more than 30 were sunk by my Yanshan Guards, and more than 30 escaped!
As for the more than 9000 people in the Koryo Navy, more than 4000 were killed by my Yanshan Guard, and more than [-] people ran away!

Only a few of the warships of my Yan Palace were damaged, but all of them can sail. In addition, more than 200 soldiers were killed and [-] were injured! "

After the war, a soldier reported to Zhu Di.

"good!"

Zhu Di nodded in satisfaction, "Order all the ships to shoot and kill all the Koryo soldiers in the water, and quickly march towards the Koryo capital!"

"promise!"

The soldiers received the order with a serious face, and then sent the order again.

Immediately, the entire fleet headed straight for Wang Jing.

Kaesong, the capital of King Goryeo, is only more than 30 miles away from the mouth of the Yeeseong River.

But at the mouth of the Licheng River, there is no city that can resist the landing of Zhu Di and other Yanshan Guards.

Even the nearest city is Jinyan City, twenty miles away.

However, a small city with not even a population of 6 was conscripted by the King of Korea with thousands of soldiers.

After hearing that tens of thousands of Japanese pirates were looting, they closed the city gates in fright and did not dare to send troops out to check.

Therefore, Zhu Di left 1 soldiers to guard the fleet, and directly led [-] soldiers to march towards Kaijing.

Fortunately, with the Koryo map left by the Koryo envoy Cao Minxiu, the army will not go in the wrong direction.

Along the way, wherever the army passed by, the people in the villages of Gaoli were frightened, either shutting their doors and windows tightly, hiding in their homes shivering, or carrying some valuables, desperately running to the distance.

When Zhu Di and other troops were still 1 miles away from the Koryo capital, a few terrified Koryo soldiers finally rushed into the Koryo capital and looted more than [-] Japanese pirates in Ganghwa Mansion, Yan'an County, and Haifeng County. The matter, informed the King of Korea.

Hearing this, the King of Koryo, Wang Yu, hurriedly summoned a group of ministers to discuss how to recruit soldiers and join the navy to defeat the more than 1 Japanese pirates.

As for whether these Japanese pirates were the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, and they still wanted to attack their Koryo capital directly, the king of Koryo, Wang Yu, and all the ministers, didn't think about it.

However, Li Chenggui, the most valiant general in the Koryo capital, has already led a group of generals, as well as the generals of the Eighth Route Army in the north, to attack Liaodong.

The Koryo capital is empty, and there are no soldiers available except for the army guarding the capital.

It's too late to recruit soldiers from the south!

However, they all understand the cruelty of the Japanese pirates.

The king of Korea, Wang Xuan, discussed with a group of ministers for an hour, but no result was reached.

At this moment, I heard that the sailors will come to report.

The king of Koryo, Wang Xuan, was overjoyed, and hurriedly announced the generals of the water division.

However, what surprised them was that the navy general who came in was extremely miserable, and his face was full of fear, obviously he had suffered a defeat.

"Your Majesty, King Yan of the Great Ming Dynasty brought an army to fight! I waited for ten thousand sailors to resist for an hour, and then I was defeated by King Yan's army..."

Following the words of the navy general, the faces of the King of Koryo, Wang Xuan, and all the ministers of Korea changed drastically, especially the King of Korea, Wang Xuan, who immediately panicked.

"Ming dynasty?"

"King Yan?"

"how can that be?"

"Are you sure you read it correctly? Why did Daming send troops to attack Korea for no reason?..."

The general of the navy hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the last general can see clearly that those warships are hung with the battle flag of Ming Dynasty, with Yan written on it!
Also, there are all kinds of firearms on those warships, which are much more powerful than my Koryo firearms. In less than an hour, more than 30 warships of my Koryo navy were blown up..."

Now, the king of Koryo, Wang Xuan, and all the ministers of Koryo had to believe that the Yan king of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, really came to attack.

A Koryo minister thought of something, and quickly said to the king of Koryo, Wang Xuan: "My lord, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is obviously coming for the king. I implore the king to leave Wangjing quickly and avoid the sharp edge!"

Around, all the Korean ministers also reacted and said quickly.

"Your Majesty, Zhu Di, the King of Yan of the Ming Dynasty, will definitely bring an army to besiege our Koryo capital. Now that the capital is empty, I implore the king to avoid the attack for now!"

"I implore your Majesty to put state affairs first and avoid the sharp edge for now..."

Hearing this, the king of Goryeo, Wang Xuan, was also a little moved.

"Where do you think the king should hide?"

"Yuanzhou Prefecture!"

"Zhongzhou Prefecture..."

All the Korean ministers spoke quickly one by one.

"Report!"

At this time, another soldier ran in from outside the palace.

"My Majesty, I found a large army fifteen miles away from the capital, which seems to be the army of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty. It should be ten miles away from my capital..."

There was a dead silence in the palace hall.

After a long while, the king of Goryeo, Wang Yu, was furious, "Everyone, that Yan Wang Zhu Di is so bold that he attacked my Goryeo Wangjing in this way, everyone quickly summoned soldiers, this king wants the Great Ming Yan King Zhu Di to know that I am Goryeo!" The soldiers are amazing!"

"Here!"

"In addition, you and others quickly dispatched messengers, ordering Songlin County, Baizhou County, Haizhou County, and Deshui County to send troops to surround and attack the Daming Yan King's army together with me!"

"Here!"

A group of Koryo generals and ministers quickly took orders.

The Ming Yan King Zhu Di's army had already reached more than ten miles outside the city, and it was already dark, so they couldn't run even if they wanted to, so they could only rely on Wang Jing's tall city wall to resist!

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(End of this chapter)