Chapter 1041: Annihilation (II)
The Goguryeo people, who had not yet given up their defense, immediately rushed to the gap with large shields, trying to prevent Wang Junlin's side from attacking the prison city from the gap.
It's a pity that Wang Junlin didn't even think of sending people to rush over for melee combat immediately, let alone snatch the prison city now. The twelve long-range crossbows that had been prepared for a long time fired at the gap at the first time.
The screams suddenly rang out, the penetration of the strong crossbow was too strong, and the big shield in the hands of the Goguryeo people was directly shattered, not to mention, the crossbow arrows as thick as short spears continued to shoot backwards before the two stopped.
Without a shield to block it, after the next wave of crossbow arrows was fired, less than a third of the 200 Goguryeo people at the gap were still alive, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly ran to the side.
At this time, the gap was opened, and the city gate was wide open, but Wang Junlin still did not let his subordinate officers and soldiers attack the city, and continued to smash the wall with catapults.
After almost the entire southern wall was smashed, the Goguryeo lost another four or five hundred people, and now there are only about a thousand left, the most important thing is that they have been pressed and beaten, and they can't shoot their opponents, and their morale has already dropped to the bottom.
And even to this extent, Wang Junlin still did not let people attack, and continued to attack from a distance, forcing all the Goguryeo people who were still alive to retreat into the only remaining house in the middle of the prison city.
Next, under the cover of long-range attacks, Wang Junlin finally ordered an attack, continuously entering the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division into the prison city for street fighting, and in order to reduce casualties as much as possible, a hundred guards were also sent out.
The battle went smoothly, and after half an hour, most of the remaining 1,000 people had been killed, leaving only a small group of Goguryeo people entrenched in the stone prison in the prison city to resist stubbornly and resist to the death.
In this battle, more than 1,500 Goguryeo people were eliminated and more than 400 were captured. In addition to the 100 people who stayed on Bailing Island before, Wang Junlin's side killed more than 100 people in battle.
The accumulated salary is a raft, and the more than 200 people who sacrificed are wrapped in white and arranged on the raft, pushed into the sea, and cremated it, in the slightly white morning light of the sky, drifting with the wind and drifting into the distance, like a bright light on the sea.
After the burial ceremony was over, Wang Junlin ordered everyone to rest on the ship and go to the island tomorrow, and ordered all ships to be vigilant to prevent the enemy from hiding on the island and igniting or scuttling the warship.
Wang Junlin put on his scarf, fastened the leather cord under his chin, and stared at the distant raft as the corpse would eventually burn to ashes and sprinkle into the sea.
Today's two major battles, whether it is the naval battle of Dami Island or the battle of Bailing Island to attack the prison city, anyone may regard it as a great victory, but Wang Junlin feels that such casualties are a bit heavy.
The reason why they think this way is mainly because their losses of naval division officers and soldiers are not easy to replenish, and now that they occupy the two islands of the other side under the nose of Goguryeo, Yuan Taizuo's father and son have formed a life-and-death enmity with him, and they will never give up.
It is conceivable that in the future, it will be the norm for the sailors to send sentry ships and patrol ships on Dami Island and Baekryeong Island, and most of the conflicts and battles with the officers and men of the Goguryeo naval divisions will occur frequently, and if there are more than 100 casualties at every turn, how long can his 4,000 men hold out, and although Goguryeo is a small country, it also has more than 2 million people.
At this time, a sea eagle suddenly flew from Dami Island and landed directly on Wang Junlin's big ship, and Wang Junlin suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, the new news of Dami Island brought by the sea eagle, Yuan Taizuo rescued the 5,000 Goguryeo officers and soldiers trapped on Dami Island very quickly, and sent another 5,000 sailors, and at this time they were about to arrive on Dami Island.
Wang Junlin immediately ordered all the warships and officers and soldiers to go to Dami Island, and there was no one left on Bailing Island.
Because there is no point in keeping people at this time, there are too many people left, there are not enough people to rescue Dami Island, and there are too few people left, and the Goguryeo people send sailors over again, which is simply to deliver food to the other party.
After sailing with all his might, more than half an hour later, Wang Junlin saw the outline and firelight of the west coast of Dami Island.
At this time, a raging fire ignited on Dami Island, burning the eastern sky to a dark red......
Wang Junlin actually didn't expect Yuan Taizuo to send 5,000 sailors to come over so quickly, he guessed that these 5,000 people were originally prepared, even in the nearby seas, and even in Yuan Yuan Taizuo's plan, these 5,000 people were used to deliberately rob and kill him after the 10,000 people he sent before defeated Wang Junlin's side.
That's why these 5,000 people were able to get the news so quickly and rush to the rescue, and looking at the scale of the fire, the battle on Dami Island was very fierce at this time.
With more than ten miles to go, Wang Junlin was already able to clearly observe the battle situation on Dami Island.
To the east and south of Dami Island, there were Goguryeo troops besieging it, and the dock port on the west side of Dami Island had been occupied by the Goguryeo naval army, and several warships were set on fire, but I don't know if it was their warship or Goguryeo's warship.
The newly arrived Goguryeo naval army began to attack from the other side of the dock port, and in the depths of Dami Island, Li Chengkun led the remnants of Goguryeo to run in the direction of the port......
In addition, Wang Junlin found that the new reinforcements from Goguryeo were less than ten ships with more than 1,000 stones, and the sea battle was still not their opponent, and the other party probably did not expect the reinforcements from Bailing Island to come in such a timely manner.
Wang Junlin led fifty warships to slowly unfold on the clear blue sea, divided into three tiered attack formations, with the 10,000-stone ship he was riding on and the four 5,000-stone warships as the main ones, forming a cone-shaped formation, and swooping down on the Goguryeo naval army gathered inside and outside Dami Island; The second array is dominated by two 5,000-stone warships and ten 3,000-stone warships, forming two wings.
The Goguryeo navy was concentrating its forces, wanting to land from the inside of the dock harbor and form a flank attack with the Goguryeo people in the depths of Dami Island against the 2,000 people belonging to Luo Chunlai in Dami Island, and they did not expect that a naval army would suddenly come out and attack behind it, and the speed was so fast that they did not become alert until they were less than three miles away.
All kinds of warships of Wang Junlin's sailors are prepared with large oars, and sails are used to borrow wind power for long voyages.
Three miles of water, less than half a stick of incense time arrived, the Goguryeo navy crowded in the port of Dami Island did not have time to adjust the formation, directly caught off guard, and even before Wang Junlin brought people to kill, they were even more chaotic, forming a narrow waterway in the inner and outer harbors on the headland, and several of their own ships collided together, making a mess.