Xu Jun's fleet sailed along the coast of Japan, crossed the eastern Ichiki Island of Tsushima Island in early September and entered the Kitakyushu waters.Han Tong, commander of the Jiaolong Army, served as the leader of the fleet.
This is the first large-scale maritime expedition of the Central Plains dynasty!The court made a lot of preparations over the past few months, but obviously lacked experience.
Some Han people, Goryeo and several Japanese businessmen who are familiar with the East China Sea all say that there may be a typhoon here in summer and autumn!
It is late autumn now, and Han Tong can only rely on his luck. The typhoon season has ended... Because the court can't wait for winter, Xu Jun from Shijianbao is unknown, and if there is no reinforcement, he can only sit still and die!
The fleet consists of more than 100 ships of all sizes and sizes, carrying about 6,000 new soldiers from the Jiaolong Army. Most of the troops came from the former Southern Tang Navy (the surrendered soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were first under Liu Renzhan's troops. In the past two years, the military power of the generals was gradually recovered, and the Southern Tang Army had been organized into a guard).
The experience of these naval armies was limited to combating rivers such as the Yangtze River and Huai River, but compared with most soldiers from the Central Plains, they were water-friendly and adapted to shaking ships. Therefore, the court gave up the establishment of the imperial guards into the Jiaolong Army and organized the guards of the Southern Tang Dynasty into the imperial guards (the Jiaolong Army was organized as the imperial guards).
The composition of ships is relatively complex. Half of the ships are just light boats (the combination of the big food ship and the Central Plains sting boat), and nearly half are Korean ships and sting boats that are purchased and requisitioned as much as possible.
Among them, there are only three large ships of Mulan!
Since last year, the imperial court has built a large number of warships in the Jiangning Shipbuilding Shop, but due to the scale of the dock and the scarcity of craftsmen, the construction speed is slow.
The work day and night has only been rushing to build dozens of light boats and three Mulan ships... The Mulan ship is mainly restricted by the lack of large docks.
Hantong's ship is a large Mulan ship with a displacement of more than 3,000 yuan (displacement is about 3,400 tons), with a crew of nearly 200 people, 24 thousand kilograms of copper cannons, divided into two sides and one layer of naval cannons.
The three large ships are the main warships of the fleet, and dozens of other light boats are also warships; Goryeo and pointed merchant ships are difficult to serve as the main warships, mainly transporting supplies and soldiers, and can also engage in close combat on the sidelines.
The shipboard crew of the light boat is thirty to fifty people, and one team of ten people. The highest military general on the ship is the military envoy (the number of naval troops is changing from the ordinary army). The hull is too thin to use the main copper cannon... But there are always methods. Guo Shao and the officials and craftsmen in Zaojiafang have developed a small cannon that can be used in small boats: mother-child cannons.
The cannon body is iron, and the inner liner is cast in copper. After the cannon is fired, you can change the inner liner and fire it again immediately.
Therefore, the rate of fire is far higher than that of the copper cannon...but the technology is limited, and the fit and sealing is not very good, so the range is very close and the power is far inferior to that of the copper cannon.
The mother-child cannon is light in weight, with only more than 100 kilograms per cannon, so there is no problem put on a light boat.
On the flagship, Lu Duosun, the envoy of the Guest Province, also serves as the supervisor of the Jiaolong Army, who is in the central army cabin.
There were wind and waves on the sea, and even the big ship was swaying. Lu Duosun was a little uncomfortable with the sea route, especially when he read the words and felt dizzy and vomiting.
He calmed down and quickly wrote a line of words on the paper: On the sixth day of the September 19th, the dark tide was facing north and the southeast wind was windy.
Black tide is a kind of warm current, the flow of water in the ocean, because the ocean current is dark in color, it is called Black tide.
Lu Duoxun felt that writing was difficult, so he immediately put the brush down and opened the bamboo curtain on the window. He immediately saw Han, who was wearing Rong armor, standing on the bow deck with his legs spread apart, and his body was very steadily as the ship swayed.
The sea breeze blew Han Tong's red cloak, and it rustled in the wind like a banner. He had been standing there motionless for a long time.
Han was stunned by the fact that this person was not good at making friends and talking to others, but Lu Duosun could feel that his heart was like the bumps of the waves... This was an unknown pioneering. Sometimes Lu Duosun was very crazy and radical when he thought about it. Thousands of soldiers and fleets that consumed huge treasury were traveling for the first time, and the risks were difficult to describe.
On the vast ocean here, all the rules are different from the familiar land.
Perhaps, only Guo Shao can have the courage to make such a decision, and only the founding king has such power and prestige.
Lu Duosun's last visit before leaving Beijing appeared in his mind. Guo Shao's passionate and anticipated eyes said it would be feasible. People in the world always dare not take the first step from the road that no one has walked!
There is also a compass on the table next to Lu Duosun, which is similar to a tool for watching Feng Shui. This thing can point the direction... but it is easy to make mistakes with this thing alone.
The East Navy Office has two other methods to assist the route:
First, try to rely on the land coast as a reference. The method is to bring a few Koreans and Japanese as guides to the same language and send people to the shore to inquire about the place to find out the general location.
Second, it depends on a civil servant from Si Tianjian.
Just as Lu Duosun thought of this, a civil servant with gray temples walked in. Lu Duosun clasped his fists and greeted politely: Can the senior supervisor still withstand the storm on the sea?
Still good, still good.The official position is Gao Shouzhen, the supervisor, said calmly.
From the Tang Dynasty to the Xu Dynasty, civil officials were basically all vacant officials, but one kind of official is the exception, that is, the official in Sitianjian.
Once a person like Gao Shouzhen enters Sitianjian, he will never be able to work in other yamen or resign at will; most of the sources of officials are hereditary... This kind of civil servant who can observe the phenomena of the sky makes the royal family feel mysterious. After all, everyone still believes in God a little, so stricter control should be taken to prevent the soldiers from becoming wild.
Gao Shouzhen has a skill. In addition to being able to revise the calendar and observe the celestial phenomena at night, he is very familiar with the stars.You can observe the direction and height of various stars through your eyes to estimate the location.
Xu Jun used several methods and tried his best to drive near the sea on the land to ensure the course.
At this time, Han Tong, outside the cabin, also walked in, and the three civil and military men greeted each other and sat down in different places.
Ludoson took the lead: The dark tide is heading north and the southerly wind blows. If the Japanese army intercepts the fleet in front, it will be very beneficial to us.
After hearing this, Han Tong nodded with a stern face: Lu Jianjun’s words are reasonable.
Lu Duosun's title of military supervisor was just a dispatch. In fact, his main official position was the cabinet assistant, the envoy of the provincial capital... and the military supervisor was polite, as if he was a person who monitored and complained at any time, and he suddenly became dissatisfied.
Han Tong is annoying, and that's true. Any random sentence is always inexplicably unpleasant!
Han Tong said casually: The march is just like this. Before the war begins, try to make the right time, place, people and people, and then attack the weak with strong force.
Gao Shouzhen said little, but at this moment he touched his beard calmly and said: No wonder General Han is not as famous as Shi Qianfeng.
Han Tong disagreed and said: However, this general is worried that the Japanese army will not be willing to face me against the wind and the current.They have at least two ways, one is to hide the main force in the Kitakyushu Xiaguan Waterway (the strait between Kitakyushu and Honshu); when our main force goes north, then exits the waterway and pursues it in the direction of Fengshangshui.The second is to circumnavigate by circling Jiuzhou Island and chasing our fleet from the south, and you can also master the benefits of the wind.
Although the sea is vast, the fleet does not sail at will. Generally, there are relatively fixed offshore routes, otherwise there may be more risks such as reefs, lost directions, unknown weather changes, etc.
Therefore, we need to intercept and find large fleets in the Sea of Japan, and there are traces to follow.
Lu Duosun said: If the Japanese army makes way for the channel, they can only sit and watch our troops approach the reinforcement Ishimi Fort.
Han Tong shook his head and said: No!At this time, naval battles are the place to decide the outcome, not the length of time.If the Japanese army can defeat our fleet, the fall of Ishimi Fortress will be just a matter of time; otherwise no one can stop Da Xu from punishing Japan!
After hearing this, Lu Duosun pondered: What General Han meant is that the Japanese army would not bother with the long road and not worry about the rush of warplanes?
Han Tong frowned and said: In my opinion, this is indeed the case with wise actions.If you want to defeat your opponent, how can you act impatiently?You must try your best to your advantage!
...However, Han Tong is just a military general and often makes people inaccurate guesses about other things.I guessed wrong again this time.
A few days later, someone suddenly entered the cabin near the sea of Japan to report: An enemy ship was found in the north!
Han Tong had just gotten up, and when he heard the news, he immediately asked: How many ships are there?
The person who came to the scene said: I don’t know very well, there is fog on the sea!
Han Tong immediately said: Hurry up, the entire army prepares for war!
Get order!
Soon, a rapid drum sound came from outside. Soon, the drum sound of this rhythm seemed to be contagious. The drum sounded all over the warships. For a moment, the drum sounded and the atmosphere suddenly became stronger.
Han Tong took the helmet from his personal soldiers and put it on, tied up the leather buttons, walked onto the deck, and then climbed up the stern along the wooden ladder.The soldiers on the deck moved faster and shouted loudly.
Han Tong held his palm on the carved wooden railing, looking at the scene ahead.The vast undulating sea was shrouded in the wind, and there were indeed black shadows of ships looming in the distance.
The ships were ordered to slow down and sail, with the warships in front and the baggage behind, and the formation was rectified!Han Tong gave another order.
The triangular red flag on the flagship changed its quantitative characteristics, and the messenger blew a horn to remind other ships.
This is the first time that Daxu has formed a large military battle formation at sea. He has absorbed some of the original military orders from the Hu Ben Army to convey rules and regulations, and flag words are one of them; however, for the time being, simple military orders such as attack, retreat, and waiting for the battle.
Military orders are not needed, and ships will keep a good distance from the flagship. Hantong's flagship is very eye-catching. One is the hull is large, and the other is the dragon army flag hanging on it. The yellow dragon pattern is written with the words "Daxiu".
While waiting for the troops to prepare for war, Han Tong was always paying attention to the movements of the enemy ships ahead.
He was really a little puzzled: Could it be that it is really the main force of the Japanese navy?
The opponent's main general was so happy that he simply came up to fight hard. Such an opponent really made Han Tong worry even more. Anyway, he was harder than his fist!
This is the first large-scale maritime expedition of the Central Plains dynasty!The court made a lot of preparations over the past few months, but obviously lacked experience.
Some Han people, Goryeo and several Japanese businessmen who are familiar with the East China Sea all say that there may be a typhoon here in summer and autumn!
It is late autumn now, and Han Tong can only rely on his luck. The typhoon season has ended... Because the court can't wait for winter, Xu Jun from Shijianbao is unknown, and if there is no reinforcement, he can only sit still and die!
The fleet consists of more than 100 ships of all sizes and sizes, carrying about 6,000 new soldiers from the Jiaolong Army. Most of the troops came from the former Southern Tang Navy (the surrendered soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty were first under Liu Renzhan's troops. In the past two years, the military power of the generals was gradually recovered, and the Southern Tang Army had been organized into a guard).
The experience of these naval armies was limited to combating rivers such as the Yangtze River and Huai River, but compared with most soldiers from the Central Plains, they were water-friendly and adapted to shaking ships. Therefore, the court gave up the establishment of the imperial guards into the Jiaolong Army and organized the guards of the Southern Tang Dynasty into the imperial guards (the Jiaolong Army was organized as the imperial guards).
The composition of ships is relatively complex. Half of the ships are just light boats (the combination of the big food ship and the Central Plains sting boat), and nearly half are Korean ships and sting boats that are purchased and requisitioned as much as possible.
Among them, there are only three large ships of Mulan!
Since last year, the imperial court has built a large number of warships in the Jiangning Shipbuilding Shop, but due to the scale of the dock and the scarcity of craftsmen, the construction speed is slow.
The work day and night has only been rushing to build dozens of light boats and three Mulan ships... The Mulan ship is mainly restricted by the lack of large docks.
Hantong's ship is a large Mulan ship with a displacement of more than 3,000 yuan (displacement is about 3,400 tons), with a crew of nearly 200 people, 24 thousand kilograms of copper cannons, divided into two sides and one layer of naval cannons.
The three large ships are the main warships of the fleet, and dozens of other light boats are also warships; Goryeo and pointed merchant ships are difficult to serve as the main warships, mainly transporting supplies and soldiers, and can also engage in close combat on the sidelines.
The shipboard crew of the light boat is thirty to fifty people, and one team of ten people. The highest military general on the ship is the military envoy (the number of naval troops is changing from the ordinary army). The hull is too thin to use the main copper cannon... But there are always methods. Guo Shao and the officials and craftsmen in Zaojiafang have developed a small cannon that can be used in small boats: mother-child cannons.
The cannon body is iron, and the inner liner is cast in copper. After the cannon is fired, you can change the inner liner and fire it again immediately.
Therefore, the rate of fire is far higher than that of the copper cannon...but the technology is limited, and the fit and sealing is not very good, so the range is very close and the power is far inferior to that of the copper cannon.
The mother-child cannon is light in weight, with only more than 100 kilograms per cannon, so there is no problem put on a light boat.
On the flagship, Lu Duosun, the envoy of the Guest Province, also serves as the supervisor of the Jiaolong Army, who is in the central army cabin.
There were wind and waves on the sea, and even the big ship was swaying. Lu Duosun was a little uncomfortable with the sea route, especially when he read the words and felt dizzy and vomiting.
He calmed down and quickly wrote a line of words on the paper: On the sixth day of the September 19th, the dark tide was facing north and the southeast wind was windy.
Black tide is a kind of warm current, the flow of water in the ocean, because the ocean current is dark in color, it is called Black tide.
Lu Duoxun felt that writing was difficult, so he immediately put the brush down and opened the bamboo curtain on the window. He immediately saw Han, who was wearing Rong armor, standing on the bow deck with his legs spread apart, and his body was very steadily as the ship swayed.
The sea breeze blew Han Tong's red cloak, and it rustled in the wind like a banner. He had been standing there motionless for a long time.
Han was stunned by the fact that this person was not good at making friends and talking to others, but Lu Duosun could feel that his heart was like the bumps of the waves... This was an unknown pioneering. Sometimes Lu Duosun was very crazy and radical when he thought about it. Thousands of soldiers and fleets that consumed huge treasury were traveling for the first time, and the risks were difficult to describe.
On the vast ocean here, all the rules are different from the familiar land.
Perhaps, only Guo Shao can have the courage to make such a decision, and only the founding king has such power and prestige.
Lu Duosun's last visit before leaving Beijing appeared in his mind. Guo Shao's passionate and anticipated eyes said it would be feasible. People in the world always dare not take the first step from the road that no one has walked!
There is also a compass on the table next to Lu Duosun, which is similar to a tool for watching Feng Shui. This thing can point the direction... but it is easy to make mistakes with this thing alone.
The East Navy Office has two other methods to assist the route:
First, try to rely on the land coast as a reference. The method is to bring a few Koreans and Japanese as guides to the same language and send people to the shore to inquire about the place to find out the general location.
Second, it depends on a civil servant from Si Tianjian.
Just as Lu Duosun thought of this, a civil servant with gray temples walked in. Lu Duosun clasped his fists and greeted politely: Can the senior supervisor still withstand the storm on the sea?
Still good, still good.The official position is Gao Shouzhen, the supervisor, said calmly.
From the Tang Dynasty to the Xu Dynasty, civil officials were basically all vacant officials, but one kind of official is the exception, that is, the official in Sitianjian.
Once a person like Gao Shouzhen enters Sitianjian, he will never be able to work in other yamen or resign at will; most of the sources of officials are hereditary... This kind of civil servant who can observe the phenomena of the sky makes the royal family feel mysterious. After all, everyone still believes in God a little, so stricter control should be taken to prevent the soldiers from becoming wild.
Gao Shouzhen has a skill. In addition to being able to revise the calendar and observe the celestial phenomena at night, he is very familiar with the stars.You can observe the direction and height of various stars through your eyes to estimate the location.
Xu Jun used several methods and tried his best to drive near the sea on the land to ensure the course.
At this time, Han Tong, outside the cabin, also walked in, and the three civil and military men greeted each other and sat down in different places.
Ludoson took the lead: The dark tide is heading north and the southerly wind blows. If the Japanese army intercepts the fleet in front, it will be very beneficial to us.
After hearing this, Han Tong nodded with a stern face: Lu Jianjun’s words are reasonable.
Lu Duosun's title of military supervisor was just a dispatch. In fact, his main official position was the cabinet assistant, the envoy of the provincial capital... and the military supervisor was polite, as if he was a person who monitored and complained at any time, and he suddenly became dissatisfied.
Han Tong is annoying, and that's true. Any random sentence is always inexplicably unpleasant!
Han Tong said casually: The march is just like this. Before the war begins, try to make the right time, place, people and people, and then attack the weak with strong force.
Gao Shouzhen said little, but at this moment he touched his beard calmly and said: No wonder General Han is not as famous as Shi Qianfeng.
Han Tong disagreed and said: However, this general is worried that the Japanese army will not be willing to face me against the wind and the current.They have at least two ways, one is to hide the main force in the Kitakyushu Xiaguan Waterway (the strait between Kitakyushu and Honshu); when our main force goes north, then exits the waterway and pursues it in the direction of Fengshangshui.The second is to circumnavigate by circling Jiuzhou Island and chasing our fleet from the south, and you can also master the benefits of the wind.
Although the sea is vast, the fleet does not sail at will. Generally, there are relatively fixed offshore routes, otherwise there may be more risks such as reefs, lost directions, unknown weather changes, etc.
Therefore, we need to intercept and find large fleets in the Sea of Japan, and there are traces to follow.
Lu Duosun said: If the Japanese army makes way for the channel, they can only sit and watch our troops approach the reinforcement Ishimi Fort.
Han Tong shook his head and said: No!At this time, naval battles are the place to decide the outcome, not the length of time.If the Japanese army can defeat our fleet, the fall of Ishimi Fortress will be just a matter of time; otherwise no one can stop Da Xu from punishing Japan!
After hearing this, Lu Duosun pondered: What General Han meant is that the Japanese army would not bother with the long road and not worry about the rush of warplanes?
Han Tong frowned and said: In my opinion, this is indeed the case with wise actions.If you want to defeat your opponent, how can you act impatiently?You must try your best to your advantage!
...However, Han Tong is just a military general and often makes people inaccurate guesses about other things.I guessed wrong again this time.
A few days later, someone suddenly entered the cabin near the sea of Japan to report: An enemy ship was found in the north!
Han Tong had just gotten up, and when he heard the news, he immediately asked: How many ships are there?
The person who came to the scene said: I don’t know very well, there is fog on the sea!
Han Tong immediately said: Hurry up, the entire army prepares for war!
Get order!
Soon, a rapid drum sound came from outside. Soon, the drum sound of this rhythm seemed to be contagious. The drum sounded all over the warships. For a moment, the drum sounded and the atmosphere suddenly became stronger.
Han Tong took the helmet from his personal soldiers and put it on, tied up the leather buttons, walked onto the deck, and then climbed up the stern along the wooden ladder.The soldiers on the deck moved faster and shouted loudly.
Han Tong held his palm on the carved wooden railing, looking at the scene ahead.The vast undulating sea was shrouded in the wind, and there were indeed black shadows of ships looming in the distance.
The ships were ordered to slow down and sail, with the warships in front and the baggage behind, and the formation was rectified!Han Tong gave another order.
The triangular red flag on the flagship changed its quantitative characteristics, and the messenger blew a horn to remind other ships.
This is the first time that Daxu has formed a large military battle formation at sea. He has absorbed some of the original military orders from the Hu Ben Army to convey rules and regulations, and flag words are one of them; however, for the time being, simple military orders such as attack, retreat, and waiting for the battle.
Military orders are not needed, and ships will keep a good distance from the flagship. Hantong's flagship is very eye-catching. One is the hull is large, and the other is the dragon army flag hanging on it. The yellow dragon pattern is written with the words "Daxiu".
While waiting for the troops to prepare for war, Han Tong was always paying attention to the movements of the enemy ships ahead.
He was really a little puzzled: Could it be that it is really the main force of the Japanese navy?
The opponent's main general was so happy that he simply came up to fight hard. Such an opponent really made Han Tong worry even more. Anyway, he was harder than his fist!
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