Eight hundred and seventy-five Battle of Tsushima
The Tsushima Strait is a strait between the southwest side of the Korean Peninsula and the two islands of Honshu and Kyushu, and this strait has been visited many times by soldiers in its long history, such as at the end of the 13th century, when the Mongol Yuan navy crossed the sea twice to attack Japan; In the early 15th century, Joseon Taejong sent troops to attack Tsushima Island and expel the Japanese invaders; In the late 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi twice led his army to attack Korea, and the Japanese followed this path; The Russo-Japanese War between the Russian and Japanese navies was also fought here, and the Battle of the Tsushima Strait, which influenced the development of the world's navies in the following decades.
Every time the Tsushima Strait is recorded in the history books, it is always inseparable from the war, and it seems to be a sea cursed by war, and this time, as the general plan of the Tang Dynasty's conquest of the Japanese Dynasty, Suning also planned the battle of exterminating the Japanese after cleaning up the Korean Peninsula, first of all, to sort out the Korean Peninsula, leave a part of the troops stationed on the Korean Peninsula, and send all the Baekje royal family and the Silla royal family to Chang'an City, etc., and then spend the Tsushima Strait to attack the Japanese mainland.
And Suning's plan to conquer the Japanese was also approved by Li Er's majesty as early as possible, and was allowed to be implemented, and after the end of the peninsula campaign, uphold the concept of military nobility and speed, and launch a campaign against the Japanese as much as possible, and breathe a sigh of relief for Li Erma, this small island country has no respect for my Celestial Empire It is not once or twice, Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui can endure it, because the timing is not right, and now I have no need for the Tang Dynasty.
Just across a strait, can't the naval warships built by my Datang Dynasty spend a lot of money still be able to clean up the Japanese country? As far as the few small broken ships in my country are concerned, can they still be the opponents of Datang?
Li Erxi is full of confidence, and Suning is very cautious. Considering that in another time and space, the two expeditions of the Mongol Yuan were blocked by the typhoon of Tsushima seafood, so that they invisibly saved the life of the Wa Kingdom, so the climate here must be understood, if you can't understand the climate, in case you also encounter a typhoon, it will be over, the power of the sea storm brought by the typhoon is understood by everyone, this is a very strict problem, and it has to be considered strictly.
After consulting some local fishermen in detail, Suning was able to roughly figure out the climate, tides and even ocean currents. If only the generals who marched and fought would not have had a little astronomy. It is very easy to suffer, during the Battle of Wanli Korea, the Battle of Mingliang that took place in this sea area, it was the famous Korean naval general Yi Sunsin who used his knowledge of astronomy and geography to catch Japan by surprise. There were only a dozen warships against hundreds of warships of the Wa Kingdom. It is a miracle in the history of naval warfare in the world.
Sun's preference for not knowing astronomy and geography is to give credit and fame to a certain widow in vain. That's too unpleasant, the three navies that Datang has spent a lot of money to build, which navy is one of the strongest in the world now. One of the largest in size and tonnage, what about the navy of the Wa Kingdom? It is not unmentioned in the intelligence, it is estimated that there are more than 100 boats, which have been accumulated by the Japanese country for a long time, there is no way, the land is small, the resources are few, and the manpower and material resources are insufficient in all aspects.
Without the nutrients of the Tang Dynasty, our country is still in a relatively primitive political era, there is no systematic civilization, no systematic writing and language, no iron smelting, no advanced agricultural technology, the army wears leather armor, only generals can wear iron armor, use iron weapons, and the poor subway weapons are enough to make people laugh off their big teeth in terms of quality, and they are not worth mentioning at all.
This feeling is like the gap between the Japanese army and the Chinese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the Chinese national army at that time was the same, and the Japanese were armed to the teeth, which makes people have to sigh at the vicissitudes of life.
Suning doesn't want to toss the dead, and he won't let this happen again in this time and space more than a thousand years later, so at this time, when the Tang Dynasty is a giant and the Wa Kingdom is a little lame, this is the royal way, who cares what is fair or something, that is the Japanese bushido, and it has nothing to do with the army fighting! Datang does not have this kind of burden, there is no such burden.
Suning has sent a lot of small boats to check the news back and forth in the sea to see if there are any intelligence ships or suspicious people from the Japanese State, and then report to Suning related information, the intelligence does not show that anyone in the Japanese State knows that the Tang Dynasty is preparing to wage war against the Japanese State, and there is no corresponding preparation.
The preparations for war have been in place for a long time, and that is because of the theft of the Tang Dynasty's skills, the Japanese people were terrified, but the war preparations in front of them did not seem to be sufficient, or the Japanese people did not know whether the Tang Dynasty would start a war immediately, so they didn't know what to do, and they didn't know how the Tang Dynasty would attack them, where to attack them, etc., they didn't know, so for the Tang Army, this was a great advantage.
Not to mention the fifty guns mounted on five and ten large warships of the Beihai Navy and the East China Sea Navy, each of which has five guns, are the largest, most solid and strongest warships, so that they can install such a naval warfare artifact as artillery.
And at this time, the warships of the Wa Kingdom have not touched a single hair of the Datang warship, and they have been wiped out, even if there are no artillery ships, there are a large number of eight-bull crossbows and trebuchets on the ships, the same long-range killers, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom are just a pair of toys in front of the navy of the Tang Dynasty, in other words, in fact, the sailors of any country are a bunch of toys in front of the navy that has gradually matured in the Tang Dynasty!
Let's not talk about the Persians, there are no sailors, they are in the inland area, and it is not easy to use them, so do you still have to learn the Mongolian navy? The Arabs don't talk about it, in the grass stage, the poor jingle sounded, and even the iron armor of the soldiers couldn't be worn, so what could they talk about the sailors? The sailor is a thing to play in a rich country, and if you don't have money, don't toss; It is estimated that the only one who has a more mature and capable sailor is the sailor of the Eastern Roman Empire. When the Eastern Roman Empire and the Arab Empire were fighting, they relied on sailors to win many victories, which was the advantage of sailors.
However, their naval division obviously cannot be compared with the navy of the Tang Dynasty, if the Tang Navy is dispatched, the 100,000 army of the Goguryeo people will be finished, not to mention the Arabs, and the Roman naval division is powerless to reverse the entire war situation, the victory of the local war can not prevent the rout of the entire battle situation, and the Datang Navy, which already has experience in coordinating operations with the army, is no longer a naval division in the traditional sense, and the navy of the Tang Dynasty has completely become a warrior at sea and a hegemon on the sea. Instead of small fishing boats locked up in inland lakes.
The ships of the Wa Kingdom may not be as ineffective as the small fishing boats. But in front of a sea ship the size of a castle in the Tang Dynasty, no matter how powerful the ships of the Japanese Kingdom were, they were just a bunch of toys and had no deterrent effect. Even if he is allowed to collide closely, he is not Datang's opponent at all, right? As long as there are no typhoons. The eradication of the Wa Kingdom is a sure thing. At this time, the Japanese country had not even developed their northern land, and the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido had not yet been developed!
Today's Wa Kingdom is a primitive country, and there is no knowledge and culture sent to them by the Tang Dynasty, which makes them have such a thing as Dahua innovation. Where is the present day of the Wa Kingdom? Without the Tang Dynasty taking them with them, they pretend to fly with them, and they don't know when they will wait until they establish a mature political system by themselves!
However, today's Wa State is the Wa State before the Dahua Revolution, so they are still a barbarian with no maturity and no ability to resist.
Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui were very excited about a large-scale military operation that the navy was about to usher in, and they worked hard to deal with the upcoming war, personally inspecting the space conditions of the warships, the preparation of food reserves and water, and the preparation of various military materials, as well as those huge weapons of war, artillery and eight-ox crossbows used on land, and the trebuchet was not brought, compared to the eight-ox crossbow and artillery, the trebuchet was too big and not easy to transport.
All kinds of materials, all kinds of war equipment, all kinds of food, food and drink, Goguryeo and Silla Baekje are not able to eat at all, and the Tang Dynasty has to extract grain from the central warehouse and transport it, while the Wa country is far away from the plague outbreak place, there is no infection with the plague, the country should be normal, there should be food and drink, and the sea can fish seafood, so there is no problem with self-sufficiency, it is really not good, directly grow potatoes, and the vitality is very tenacious.
All kinds of preparations are ready, Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui presided over a sacrifice, the theme is to comfort the Sea Dragon King to make the whole sea calm, whether it is when you come or when you leave, don't touch the storm at sea, they are all people who have seen the storm at sea, so they are quite afraid of this natural force, and they definitely don't want to have a second time if they see it once.
Suning is naturally also, although he has not seen it, but he also does not want to have a storm at sea, according to the locals, there are generally not many sea storms at this time, but in summer the sea storms will be more frequent, be careful to avoid, now the weather is cold, there are not many storms at sea, as long as it is not an abnormal climate, then there is no problem.
Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui worshiped the Sea Dragon King, Zhang Liang, who was clamoring to eat the Sea Dragon King, was completely intimidated, it is estimated that he thought that the Sea Dragon King of this sea area was a very stubborn and unafraid of power, and then thought about it, thinking that he was probably not the opponent of the Sea Dragon King, so he decided to have a good relationship with the Sea Dragon King of the North Sea, and then bully the Dragon King of the East China Sea after returning to the East China Sea.
The next day after the sacrifice was completed, it was just a good day and auspicious day, the army was prepared step by step, and the warships were also prepared step by step, and the previous intelligence continued to show that the Japanese seemed to have been aware of it, and had noticed some signs that the Tang Dynasty was going to attack, and the front-line intelligence showed that there were unknown sea ships in this sea area in the past few days, and I don't know what the ships were, but according to the direction, it was very likely that it was the ships of the Japanese country, who came to listen to the intelligence.
All kinds of signs show that it is very likely that the Japanese people are ready to meet the Tang Dynasty, and may have prepared for the place where they think the Tang Dynasty is about to land, but Suning is not afraid at all, and intends to fight a more classic beach landing battle, and now the Tang Dynasty uses artillery to bombard the defenders of the Japanese State, which feels like the Japanese Navy bombarding the national defenders on the coast with naval guns during the Battle of Songhu in another time and space.
Boom, boom, boom, You bombarded my ancestors and bombarded them happily, Lao Tzu bombarded your ancestors here, more than 1,000 years before you, let you taste the taste of artillery, isn't it interesting? Don't you guys like giant ship cannons? Come on, this is, this is the meal for you, enjoy it slowly, don't thank me! (To be continued......)