The tactics of the Japanese navy are exactly the same as those of the army. It is also a samurai group warfare method. In plain language, it means rushing up in a swarm and then fighting independently.
There is not much difference in the number of warships between the two naval armies. The Tang army has 314 warships and 20,000 navy troops, while the Japanese army has 200 warships and 12,000 troops.
But the quality is completely different. The Tang army has twenty-four thousand-stone warships, two hundred three-thousand-stone warships, and ninety five-thousand-stone warships, while the opponent's turtle ships are all two thousand-stone warships. The two armies
There is a huge gap in the quality of warships.
This was the first time Li Chengshi had seen this kind of turtle ship with his own eyes, but Gao Hongyuan had already described it to him in detail and made drawings for him. The generals had discussed how to deal with this kind of ship.
The collision is not appropriate. The opponent's chassis is stable and not easy to tip over. However, some generals also pointed out that the opponent's ship may not be strong, so it needs to be tested in actual combat.
Secondly, the shape of the turtle ship is not suitable for direct explosion and sinking with explosive arrows. It is like two large bowls clasped up and down, with a circle exposed in the middle, and the bottom is curved, making it difficult to hit with explosive arrows.
But the general still thought of a way to deal with it, and shot it with gunpowder arrows. The gunpowder arrows filled the air with thick smoke.
Someone suggested using exploding arrows to blow a hole in the top and throw the fire oil can into it, and that was it. Everyone unanimously agreed with the last plan, which was indeed the simplest and most effective method.
The plan has been proposed, and the next step is to put it into practice.
Among the twenty-four thousand-stone ships, five were equipped with pig iron ramming heads, in order to hit the enemy ship hard when it was already tilting, giving the enemy ship a fatal blow.
On the sea, a large ship of 10,000 stones accelerated and hit a turtle ship with great force. At this time, the turtle ship was already at a standstill, and the soldiers fired arrows at another war ship of 5,000 stones.
But he completely failed to notice that the danger was coming from behind.
"Boom!" With a loud noise, the turtle ship was suddenly smashed into pieces, and Japanese soldiers on board fell into the water one after another.
On the other side, a 5,000-kou warship was sandwiched between two turtle ships on the left and right. More than a dozen Japanese water ghosts jumped into the sea in an attempt to penetrate the ship. At this time, three explosive arrows were shot at the top of the turtle ship at the same time.
, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" There was a violent explosion, and a large hole six feet wide was blown out of the top of the turtle ship.
Several thin-skinned clay pots filled with kerosene were then thrown into the large hole on the top, and torches were also thrown in. The inside of the turtle ship burst into flames, and the inside of the turtle ship was filled with flames and thick smoke. The Japanese soldiers were so frightened that they jumped off the ship and ran for their lives.
But jumping off the ship was a dead end, and they were shot dead one by one by the Tang troops on the ship with crossbow arrows.
The turtle ship on the other side did it even more simply. Three exploding arrows were shot out at the same time, but the third arrow was launched a little slower. It shot directly into the big hole that exploded and exploded at the bottom.
Unlike the ships of the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese ships had double-layer walls. They did not have this kind of shipbuilding technology. They were all single-layer ships. Not only could they not withstand the impact of the Wanshi warship, they could not withstand the explosion impact of the explosive arrow.
A big hole was blown into the ship from the inside, and sea water poured in. Soon it was like a big bowl filled with water, floating on the water. The soldiers were forced to climb to the top, but they were shot one by one by the Tang army's random arrows without mercy.
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The turtle ships of the Japanese army are very lethal to the ships of Bohae Kingdom or Silla, because they are two to three thousand stone in size. The turtle ships have to hook the opponent's ships with rope hooks, and the navy soldiers holding tachi in their hands will jump.
Get on the opponent's ship and kill them all.
In the Battle of Baijiangkou, the Japanese warships defeated the Silla fleet in this way, and Silla had to ask Datang for urgent help.
But when the Japanese turtle ships faced the tall and sturdy warships of the Tang army, this move failed. The sea was full of burning turtle ships and parts of the turtle ships that had been smashed into pieces.
Instinctively, the navy of the Tang Dynasty was more than one level stronger than the Japanese navy. In addition, the Tang army was now equipped with the most powerful firearms in the world. It was simply a battle between civet cats and little mice who were good at fighting.
This dimensionality-reducing attack was almost a one-sided crushing attack. The turtle ships could not escape even if they wanted to. The fifty warships that originally carried out the tail-cutting tactic waited lonely in front of Longwankou, and not a single turtle ship could escape.
Escape back.
An hour later, all the Japanese turtle boats disappeared on the sea. The sea was covered with debris and floating corpses. All the Japanese soldiers were shot and killed, and not a single prisoner of war was taken.
This army also participated in the massacre of Shangjing in the Bohai Kingdom, and they deserved the fate they ended up with.
The Tang military fleet sailed into Longwan in a mighty manner, and almost all the people in Longyuan County were killed. Japan needed manpower to transport shipping supplies, so it concentrated all the people in Longyuan Prefecture to live in Longhe County by the harbor.
There are more than ten thousand people,
When they heard that the Tang Dynasty army had arrived, the people in the city rushed to the dock with their young and old. Gao Hongyuan came ashore. Many people recognized him and shouted, "Gao Jishi is back! Gao Jishi is back!"
Thousands of people knelt on the ground and cried loudly. Gao Hongyuan also shed tears. He wiped away his tears and shouted to the people: "The brutal Japanese army will never succeed. Although they destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, there is still Datang."
By upholding justice, the Tang Dynasty will accept everyone, protect everyone, and allow everyone to live and work in peace and contentment. We will no longer be massacred by brutal aliens, and we will all become the subjects of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."
I don't know who shouted, "Long live the Tang Dynasty!"
Thousands of people raised their arms and shouted, "Long live the Tang Dynasty! Long live the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!"
The soldiers of the Tang Army immediately set up large tents on the pier to provide porridge. Long queues lined up in front of several greenhouses. The people of Longyuan Prefecture, who had been suffering from hunger and cold for several months, finally had a full meal.
The Japanese army did not build warehouses. They directly used hundreds of merchant ships in the bay as warehouses, which were filled with looted grain, cloth, oil, salt, wine, frozen meat and various daily necessities.
Li Chengshi immediately ordered that food be distributed to the people. Each family had one stone of wheat, one piece of cloth, one barrel of oil, and two pounds of salt. Tens of thousands of people cheered.
Both Li Ye and the imperial court attached great importance to the population of the Bohai Kingdom. The main reason was that the Bohai Kingdom fully imitated the Tang Dynasty and learned the lifestyle, clothing, language, etc. of the Tang Dynasty. After decades of study, most of the people in the Bohai Kingdom were very close to the Han people.
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They have become the easiest people to reform in Liaodong. As long as they are allowed to live and work in peace and contentment and are treated generously, in at most ten years, these people will forget about the Bohai Kingdom and identify themselves as people of the Tang Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts.
The same goes for the Goguryeo people, except that the Tang Dynasty retained the Goguryeo nobles and nobles and allowed them to live together. Of course, they would not identify with the Tang Dynasty.
The method Li Ye adopted was to eradicate all the nobles, leaving only common people, and then 'organize the people into households and return home in ten years.'
Now that the Japanese army had killed all the nobles of the Bohai Kingdom in advance, it was a great convenience to the Tang Dynasty.
This means that the Tang Dynasty gained hundreds of thousands of people for nothing, which would play a key role in the Tang Dynasty's strategy of Liaodong.
On the big ship, Gao Hongyuan brought a man in his thirties and introduced to Li Chengshi: "This is my old subordinate, Bo Wangyuan, the lord of Longyuan County, who is also a Han."
Wang Yuan quickly bowed to Li Chengshi and Li Chengshi saw that he was quite stout and had dark skin. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Is Wang Lord Bo really a scholar?"
Wang Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "I am a native of Hejian County. I have been strong since I was a child. After finishing the county school, I started farming. The year before last, a relative who was an official in the Bohai Kingdom wrote a letter asking me to go, so I ran there and passed the Bohai Sea.
After taking the national examination, I was appointed as the head of Longyuan County. Fortunately, I was strong and dark because of my humble position, so the Japanese army did not kill me and I was recruited as a strong man to carry goods."
Li Chengshi asked Wang Yuan to sit down and let the soldiers serve tea. He asked: "I found that there were basically no old people. Were they killed by them?"
Wang Yuan's eyes were full of resentment, "This is where the Japanese army lost its conscience. They killed all the old people over fifty years old because they thought they were occupying food. It is said that this is also the case in their own country. When their parents get old, they carry them to the mountains.
Starve to death or feed the beasts, calling them beasts and insulting the beasts, at least the beasts will not kill their own parents."
Li Chengshi nodded, "The emperor has issued a killing order to all our generals. Kill all the Japanese who invaded the Bohai Kingdom. No prisoners of war will be left. Let them go to the underworld to reincarnate!"
"It's time to kill them all. Their crimes are countless and none of them are unjust."
Li Chengshi added: "The emperor attaches great importance to the people of the Bohai Kingdom and hopes that they can safely transform into common people of the Tang Dynasty. I don't know how many people there are in Bohai now. Can you estimate them?"
Wang Yuan thought for a while and said: "Bohai country originally had a population of one million, but now it is estimated to have been reduced by half. I personally think there are still five to six million people. Fortunately, the Tang army arrived in time. If it had arrived half a year later, they would have killed them all.
The people of the Bohai country will then transfer the people from their country to occupy the magpie's nest, and the Bohai country will truly become a part of Japan."
At this time, Gao Hongyuan said: "Wang Zhubo gave me a suggestion, suggesting that more than 10,000 people be transferred to the Bin Mansion three hundred miles away. He was afraid that the Japanese army would retreat and massacre more than 10,000 people again.
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Li Chengshi nodded, "This plan is okay. From now on, the royal lord Bo will be promoted to the county magistrate, and he will publicize it to the people, and then we will slowly transfer the people there."
Wang Yuan clasped his fists and said: "Thank you General Li for your trust. I suggest using boats to transfer the people. Huazhou County in Binfu is also on the seaside. Although it is frozen in winter, you can anchor in spring."
"Okay! Let's publicize it well and we'll move all the ships and people there."