I don’t know that the iron pole is as big as a rafter.
——Excerpt from "Guo Lun" by Su Shi
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Just as Silla counselor Park Young-hwan had previously judged, when part of the navy led by Kim Bo-hwi arrived in the waters near Jincheng, the Balhae County Navy mistakenly thought that all the Silla navy was returning to support.
The Bohai Commandery Navy immediately gave up attacking Jincheng and quickly evacuated from the land.
When Jin Buhui saw the Bohai Commandery Navy fleeing in panic, he was eager to achieve success and launched an attack rashly, regardless of the fact that he only had half of his usual strength.
As soon as the two armies fought, the Bohai Commandery immediately became aware of the strength of the Silla Navy.
Da Songlin, the youngest son of Da Qinmao, Prince of Bohai County, was the commander-in-chief of this operation. Seeing that the strength of "Beihai Jiaosha" was inferior to before, he immediately turned to flee and attack.
The navies of Silla and Balhae fought in the waters of Ulleungdo. After a day and night of fierce fighting, the warships of both sides were seriously damaged, and both sides suffered losses.
Da Songlin led the remnants of the Bohai Navy to leave in anger and returned to the mouth of the Tumen River to rest. At the same time, he joined forces with the land cavalry to defend Longyuan Prefecture in Tokyo, the Bohai Commandery, to prevent Fuso or Silla from taking advantage of chaos to attack.
The Silla Jincheng Navy suffered heavy losses, with only one-tenth of its strength at its peak.
Silla's national strength was greatly reduced, and Fuso saw the profit, and immediately mobilized two Fuso naval forces to cross the Korean Strait and head north to Jincheng.
These two Fusang navy were originally the navy that invaded Suzhou and Hangzhou in the Tang Dynasty and had been stationed in Xiaguan and Kitakyushu.
The clams in the river fight, and the fisherman wins.
When the Silla and Bohai navy were fighting, the two Fuso navy were eyeing each other to see who would lose first, and then take the opportunity to add insult to injury.
After the Jincheng garrison and navy were exhausted by the Bohai Navy, the Fuso Navy finally got its chance.
After Fuso's army landed, their frontline was directed towards Jincheng, the capital of Silla.
After the capture of Jincheng, the Fusang people spread like locusts in the city.
The Fuso sailors from Xiaguan were the first to invade the Silla Palace, cut off the Silla King's head, and hung it on the palace gate tower. The Fuso sailors indulged themselves all night long, humiliating the queen and all the concubines.
Not to be outdone, the Fuso sailors from Kitakyushu invaded the mansion of the Silla officials, killed all the men, and raped all the women.
The Fusang people were like beasts. They massacred the city in Jincheng for three days, burning, killing, looting, raping, and plundering, and committed all kinds of evil.
A few days later, Jincheng was looted, the streets were stained with blood, corpses lay everywhere, and the people were slaughtered. The city was full of male corpses, with hollows and bloody necks, and no one had a head on his head; the city was full of female corpses, naked, and no one was wearing any clothes.
An inch...
When the Fusang people withdrew their troops, in order to cover up their brutal behavior, they set fire to the city. The fire caused Jincheng to fall into a sea of flames.
Jincheng was filled with thick smoke and blazing flames. The fire devoured everything and was extinguished in five days. The most prosperous capital city of Silla instantly turned into a ghost on earth.
From then on, Silla regarded Fusang as its main enemy, and they had a blood feud that would last for thousands of years.
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After the massacre of the city, thousands of Fuso warships set sail and returned home loaded with captured loot.
The Fuso sailors were so proud that they took off their battle armor, exposed their breasts, and wore loincloths. They were partying in groups on the deck, drinking Silla soju and singing dragnet tunes. They were all ugly and did not notice it at all.
Death is approaching...
When the Fuso Navy sailed to the middle of the Korean Strait and was about to arrive at Tsushima Island, tens of thousands of large and small warships appeared silently on the sea.
The flags are fluttering, the sails cover the sea, the sails are like snow barriers, and the cannons are like reeds. There are swords and halberds on the deck, swords are sharp, and rows of Tang army soldiers wearing yellow crowns are majestic. On the main mast, the Tang army flag flutters in the wind.
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On the Tang Junshuai's ship, the commander's banner had a huge word "white" written on it! It was majestic and murderous!
It is the Baifu Armada that crosses the Yellow Sea and fights in the ocean!
The general, Bai Fu, was wearing a silver lion helmet and looked heroic. When he saw the Fuso warship entering the shooting range, Bai Fu's eyes burst with murderous intent. He waved his command flag and shouted: "Kill!"
On the main mast of the flagship, the command flag sent out a semaphore signal, and thousands of ships and stern ships opened fire at the same time.
The Tang army's warships carried a winch crossbow that shocked the seven seas!
This kind of crossbow is no less powerful than the Eight-Niu Crossbow of the Tang Army infantry. When the trigger is pulled down, seven huge iron arrows can be fired at the same time. The effect of a salvo of two or three winch crossbows is comparable to a storm.
Thousands of Tang army warships opened fire in unison, and the sound of the winch crossbows shook the sky. It was like a strong wind on the sea. The iron arrows of the winch crossbows were like a dark hurricane, sweeping across the Fuso fleet.
The Fuso sailor looked up and saw several black clouds flying over in the distance. The black clouds destroyed the city and blocked the sky. The Fuso sailor suddenly felt that something was not good, and hurriedly dropped the food and wine, looking for leather armor and weapons. He panicked and became a mess.
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Black clouds soon flew over Fusang Navy. When he looked closely, he saw thousands of crossbow arrows falling from the sky.
"Swish swish"
The crossbow arrows swooped down with a sharp whistling sound and headed straight for the Fuso warship.
The Fuso sailors hurriedly raised their wooden shields and formed a defensive formation on the deck.
The crossbow arrows fired by the winch crossbow are like a pig iron javelin, and with the blessing of the falling momentum, it is extremely sharp.
The wooden shields and leather armor of the Fuso sailors were like paper lanterns in front of the winch crossbow, fragile and vulnerable.
The crossbow arrows smashed the wooden shields into powder, penetrated the leather armor, and nailed the Fuso sailors to the deck with both men and armor.
The Fuso sailors were so frightened that they dropped their wooden shields, and the rats ran away with their heads shot.
Some took a quick step and rolled into the cabin; some leaned on the side of the ship, hiding behind the parapet and shivering...
However, the sailors hiding behind the parapet of the ship's side were not spared. The iron arrows raining down left no blind spots on the deck. The crossbow arrows penetrated the parapet and penetrated the sailors' heads, chests and abdomens.
Several rounds of arrows rained down, and the deck of the escort warship outside the Fuso fleet was a pool of blood. Fuso sailors hid in the cabin and did not dare to show their heads.
The Fuso escort warships without sailors were in a chaotic formation, floating in the wind like headless flies on the sea.
Bai Fu continued to issue orders, thousands of oarsmen (oarsmen) worked together to paddle, and dozens of painted fangs and tiger-headed boats surrounded the Fuso fleet.
At the command, the throwing carts on the building boats fired in unison. Under the action of the throwing poles, the huge rocks drew perfect arcs and swooped down from the sky.
If the winch crossbow arrows are like a storm, the throwing stones are like meteor showers.
"Rumble"
The angular rocks rolled down and hit the hull, immediately opening a large hole in the cabin. Cold seawater poured in, sending the Fuso sailors hiding in the cabin into hell.
After several rounds of attacks, the Fuso Navy was completely defeated and had no power to fight back.
Bai Fu issued the order again, and dozens of ships covered with rawhide quickly sailed out from the Tang army's fleet.
These dozens of ships have hulls as long and slender as shuttles, with iron horns protruding from the bows, shaped like large steel cones, like rams or battering rams used in sieges. They are the "warship killers" - rushers.
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Under the control of an experienced boat operator, the ship came down the wind and took advantage of its speed to wait for an opportunity to hit the side of the Fuso escort ship and knock a big hole out of the Fuso warship's hull.
The hole opened by the ship was too huge and the hull could not be repaired. A large amount of seawater poured in instantly, overwhelming the hull. The hull slowly poured to one side. From a distance, it looked like a sea monster stretching out huge tentacles, slowly Slowly drag the warship into the endless deep sea.
Without the peripheral defense of the escort warships, the Fuso Navy's formation was in chaos, like a shark with its dorsal fin cut off, and could only be slaughtered!
The Tang Dynasty Navy rushed into the enemy's position in three groups, divided the Fusang Navy into several areas, and hunted and strangled them one by one.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
Mengshi in Hexi are unknown,
I read the boat at Jinting at the end of the day.
Passers-by think the horse is thin,
I don’t know that the iron pole is as big as a rafter.
Because it is said that there will be no war in the West for a long time,
Cut off your hair and wish to be the first to ride a horse.