Chapter 1064: A naval battle without suspense
It wasn't until the Goguryeo fleet sailed out of the shallow waters of Xingjiao on a large scale that Shen Guo'er found an opportunity to send a warning to Wang Junlin with a white-bellied sea eagle.
Almost at the same time, the sentinel ships sent out by Wang Junlin also discovered the enemy's situation.
When the enemy is discovered, the beacon fire on the mother ship is lit to send out an alarm to separate the child ship from the mother ship, and scouts and sentry scouts can quickly escape from the mother ship.
After it was determined that Goguryeo really attacked the nearby Bailing Island first, Wang Junlin's side dispatched 2,000 sailors from the 3,000 sailors on Dami Island, led by Luo Chunlai from the port of Dami Island to the north, and then westward to intercept the Goguryeo sailors who crossed the sea.
The Goguryeo people were obviously prepared for this scene, and the 10,000 sailors rushed towards the 2,000 sailors in a frenzy, in order to cover the civilian ships transporting 20,000 infantry troops to Baekryeong Island.
Facts have proved that in sea warfare, the difference in the size and solidity of warships is too great, one side has a strong long-range attack capability, and the other side can only fight one after another, just like 10,000 rabbits meet 2,000 eagles, although occasionally rabbits desperately kick an eagle to death, but it cannot change the overall battlefield situation.
In just half an hour, the 10,000 sailors of Goguryeo collapsed, most of the ships were destroyed, and the remaining 3,000 sailors fled desperately to Bailing Island in warships.
But in this half an hour, most of the 20,000 Goguryeo infantry troops have landed on Bailing Island, and Wang Junlin considered that there were only 3,000 people on Bailing Island, so he did not think about guarding the beach and letting the Goguryeo people land on the island.
And Wang Junlin, who personally led the 2,000 sailors from Dami Island, decisively gave up the fearless 3,000-odd sailors, and instead led the remaining 1,700 sailors to rush to the last 5,000-odd civilian ships transporting infantry troops, and easily buried them on the sea.
In this battle, more than half an hour before and after, Goguryeo lost more than 7,000 sailors and more than 5,000 infantry troops, and finally landed about 3,000 sailors on Bailing Island, with nearly 15,000 infantry troops.
In this way, the Goguryeo people still have the upper hand in terms of strength, with 3,000 people on Bailing Island and less than 2,000 at sea, and the ratio of the strength of the two sides is about three to one.
Baeknyeong Island, the largest island in Korea in later generations, covers an area of 53 square kilometers, there are several peaks above 200 meters above sea level on the island, the highest is more than 400 meters, it is summer at this time, the vegetation on the mountain is dense, under the blowing of the sea breeze, there are bursts of green waves.
The coast in the north of the island is mostly rocky, and there is a large flat area in the northwest, which is not large, and it is planned to be farmed, but in fact tens of thousands of acres of land have been reclaimed.
Hundreds of Goguryeo craftsmen were cutting down trees on the side of the mountain, and there were many tents around it, and even Wang Junlin didn't know that it was actually Yuangai Suwen who led the 20,000 Goguryeo infantry troops.
Standing on a hill, Yuangai Suwen looked worriedly at a group of fishing boats that docked, some of them had a small sail, some of them were rowed by manpower, a group of infantry got down from the fishing boats with a curse, and some of them just got off the boat and lay on the ground and did not move, and they had to rely on other partners to help them up before they could walk.
The infantry is different from the sailor, most of the people faint as soon as they take the boat, and the combat power is greatly damaged after going ashore, when crossing the sea, the sailor loses two-thirds, the infantry loses one-quarter, and the other side loses very little, so although the 15,000 infantry and 3,000 sailors and soldiers of the sailor division successfully landed on Bailing Island, but Yuangai Suwen looked heavy, and did not dare to immediately order an attack on the city on Bailing Island based on the original prison city, the rebuilt city and the two castles on both sides.
However, in Yuangai Suwen's opinion, as long as they broke through the newly built city, they would win the battle.
Cui Shengjun beside him was also worried, he was given a heavy responsibility this time, commanding 10,000 sailors, and he failed miserably in just half an hour, and he is now very worried about being liquidated by Prime Minister Yuan Gai Suwen. Behind Cui Shengjun stood a handsome personal soldier, inseparable from Cui Shengjun.
At this time, they heard a burst of exclamations from the other side of the mountain, and then many armor soldiers ran to the high ground at the bottom of the mountain, the two looked at each other, and quickly ran back to the top of the mountain, where more than a dozen armor soldiers were pointing and shouting in the northwest, and Yuangai Suwen looked in the direction of their fingers and opened his mouth slightly.
In the distance, the sea was densely packed with sails, and it was the sailor who had defeated them, and when he saw the other party stop, he didn't want to rush directly now.
Cui Shengjun looked at this scene and was shocked, remembering the long-range attack ability of the opponent's naval division warship, and hurriedly shouted: "Quickly stay away from the beach and run inside." ”
The Goguryeo soldiers, who had just landed on the island and escaped death, were moving food, ordnance and other items down from the ship like a hive of a bombed nest, leaving everything behind and running in the direction of the center of the island.
On the great ship of ten thousand stones, Wang Junlin stood at the bow of the ship, including his ship, nearly fifty ships were lined up in a line, and the catapults on each ship had begun to be ejected at this time.
Countless stubborn stones the size of adult heads smashed out a cloud of stone chips on the coast of Bailing Island, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the shore fled farther away, and some of the slow ones were directly stoned to death, although this wave of projectiles only killed dozens of people, but the screams were a lot of frightens to the Goguryeo people, and they thought that they would be safe after landing on the island, and they didn't want the other party's stone throwing vehicles to attack so far.
At this time, Wang Junlin was on the Wanshi ship, and Du Haiwa, the best sailor general Nie Xiaoyu had trained in navigation technology, who had been promoted to the rank of captain, was using a measuring board to aim at the place where the crowd was most dense, estimating the distance.
The scale plate he used was also made by Nie Xiaoyu, the appearance was a square board, with twelve scales engraved on both sides, and there was a pendant at the opposite corner of the angle formed on both sides, this degree plate was used by no more than twenty people in Wang Junlin's department of sailors and generals, among which Du Haiwa was the most proficient in learning and the most accurate one.
Du Haiwa stood upright at the bow of the boat, put the degree plate in front of him, and followed the top side of the degree board with his eyes, aiming at the Goguryeo army on the beach of Bailing Island in the distance, the square degree plate had an inclined angle, and the pendant formed an angle with the side close to Du Haiwa, and separated a small triangle on this side, this triangle is the key to the distance measurement of the degree plate, Du Haiwa's own height and the distant target is a large triangle, and the small triangle formed by the degree plate is a similar triangle of this big triangle.
Du Haiwa quickly measured the length of the diagonal side, calculated the proportion according to her height, and then used the side length of her own scale plate to obtain the distance from the target in proportion.
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