The Japanese army actually knew that the Tang Dynasty had naval forces stationed at sea.
But they really didn't expect that the opponent's more than one hundred warships would dare to attack their formation of more than three hundred warships.
But since the other party is here, they must fight.
The Japanese general did not panic, and straightened up his entire army to prepare for a tit-for-tat confrontation with the opponent.
And I saw them getting into a posture.
Li Xiaogong was also very excited. ??
He said bluntly: "Damn it, I've been impatient for a long time."
"Today, I will eat up all you little dwarfs!"
I heard that Li Chengqian always called these people dwarfs, and Li Xiaogong and others followed suit and continued to call them dwarfs.
At this moment, the two parties were also at odds with each other.
Li Xiaogong's command of the navy was indeed unique.
At this moment, he directly ordered the entire army to divide all ships into two combat units.
Each combat unit was led by two gunboats and charged straight towards the Japanese army.
Seeing the fierceness of the Tang Dynasty's ships, the Japanese army took the lead to stop sailing and turned all the warships sideways, preparing to engage the opponent.
This is basically the earliest ship battle.
After all, this is the age of cold weapons, and the main weapons are bows, arrows, swords and guns.
Fighting on the water also relies on using rockets to burn the opponent's ships, thereby causing damage to the enemy.
And the sooner the warship is turned sideways, the sooner it will definitely gain an advantage.
And in order to end the battle as soon as possible, these guys moved the ships very close.
It was obvious that they just wanted to use a fierce rocket offensive to give the opponent a head-on blow.
If they encountered an ordinary naval force, their offensive would indeed be correct.
It's a pity that what they encountered was the navy of Tang Dynasty, and they really made the wrong calculation.
Just when they turned the ship sideways, Datang's The gunboats nearby had already opened fire.
After hearing the thunderous sound of cannons, the cannonballs fell straight into the array of Japanese ships.
These Japanese soldiers had never seen an artillery attack.
After the cannonball fell, the deck was instantly blasted through, and the surrounding soldiers who had no time to escape were blown to pieces.
Even if it was lucky enough to be far away, the aftershock of the explosion would still be blown far away.
Those who were lucky enough to fall into the sea were fine, but those who were unlucky enough to hit the mast directly broke their bones and tendons.
On the Tang Dynasty's side, four warships and one hundred and sixty artillery pieces kept firing at the enemy under Li Xiaogong's shouts.
At that moment, the sea surface exploded and boiled like boiling water.
Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Xiaogong laughed out loud.
"You little dwarfs, have you ever eaten this?"
"Let you see how powerful our Tang navy is."
The four artillery warships continued to fire at each other, while the remaining warships began to outflank the opponent from the left and right.
Li Xiaogong's purpose is very clear, which is to annihilate all these guys in this sea area.
Either don't fight, or if you want to fight, you have to win a big victory to be worthy of your long wait.
These Japanese soldiers were quite unlucky.
No one else happened to run into him, but he ran into Li Xiaogong who was going crazy from holding back.
The Japanese troops were basically blown away by artillery.
A group of soldiers held bows and arrows in their hands and were stunned when they looked at the artillery released by the opponent.
Is this girl going to fight or die?
In just an instant, more than ten warships on the Japanese side were blown to pieces and sunk, while the Tang navy was stunned.
There is no loss at all.
Technology crushes us.
This is completely technological crushing.
At this time, Li Xiaogong finally understood what Li Chengqian meant when he said, "Technology can crush everything."
To be fair, if he led the navy to encounter such an army, he would have no choice but to flee for his life.
It's a pity that these Japanese soldiers didn't even have a chance to escape.
Just look at those Tang Dynasty ships that surrounded them from left to right, then launched the trebuchets on the ships.
Special stone bullets containing sky fire thunder were continuously ejected into the sky.
These stone bullets are made up of fist-sized stones, and then skyfire thunder is sandwiched in the middle, and then fixed with ropes.
After these things were ejected into the sky, they were exploded by sky fire thunder while still in mid-air. ??
Those fist-sized stones were like a goddess scattering flowers, and then fell into the enemy's ship array.
Although these stone bullets are not as powerful as artillery, they are also simplified versions of artillery, and their power is not much less.
This time, the Japanese navy suffered a lot.
There was overwhelming artillery fire in front of them, and rocks on the left and right were thrown towards them like a goddess scattering flowers. There was no way they could hide or escape.
What's even more annoying is that Datang's offensive was carried out three to five hundred steps away.
This means that the weapons of the Tang Dynasty Navy can hit them, but they cannot even touch the Datang Navy.
I'm afraid they have never fought such a frustrating battle in their entire lives.
Datang, on the other hand, was very happy.
They have never fought such an easy battle before.
The Tang Dynasty's fleet also continued to move forward under the command of Li Xiaogong.
The current war has basically turned into a one-sided crushing war. > On the sea, there are Japanese soldiers who fell into the water and Japanese warships that were blown to pieces everywhere.
When the Japanese army's leading general saw this posture, he did not dare to continue to fight to the death, and quickly ordered the withdrawal of the troops.
As a result, the Japanese fleets turned around and fled southward.
But, can they escape?
You know, the warships of the Tang Dynasty were equipped with propellers.
Comparing speed with the warships of the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to comparing the speed of a tortoise with a rabbit.
Li Xiaogong almost hesitated and directly ordered the pursuit.
The Tang fleet chased and beat the Japanese fleet all the way up.
Then a magical scene appeared on the sea.
More than a hundred Tang Dynasty fleets chased more than two hundred Japanese fleets.
Moreover, the Tang Dynasty was still in hot pursuit. From time to time, Japanese warships could not hold on and fell apart at sea.
The Japanese soldiers on the warship jumped overboard and fled.
This is completely a crushing war like an adult beating a child.
The Japanese general felt like crying.
What kind of monster did I provoke?
Where did these warships come from?
For a moment, the Japanese general hated Soga Ishikawa from the bottom of his heart.
This deceitful guy not only destroyed his own troops, but also deceived himself and sent him to his death.
This naval battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Japanese army started in the morning and continued until the evening, and it did not end until Li Xiaogong ordered to stop the pursuit.
When counted afterward, the Japanese army lost nearly 200 warships and more than 10,000 soldiers.
The Tang Dynasty simply failed to pay attention to the situation at sea because three warships hit the rocks and sank.
The first naval battle between Datang and Japanese pirates also ended with Datang's victory and the loss of more than half of the Japanese warships...