For these Korean navy warships, neither the five large fortune ships in Busan Port nor the other Western-style sailing ships can be dealt with. Among the warships mobilized by the Jeolla Province Navy Control this time, there are no turtle ships.
The Battle of Busan five years ago proved that the deck of the turtle ship could not stop the cannons of the Chinese Navy, and the human-rowed turtle ship was not as flexible and fast as the Chinese navy warships. Therefore, the turtle ship has since disappeared from the navy of the Kingdom of Korea.
Already.
However, North Korea has no way to deal with any ships of the Chinese navy. Therefore, this time the ships of the Jeolla Navy are all imitations of Japanese and Chinese small sailing ships. The naval battle tactics are the most traditional hand-to-hand combat.
The North Koreans took advantage of the heavy fog to break into Busan Port early that morning. The more than 100 sailing ships that participated in the sneak attack quickly became chaotic due to lack of training. The Chinese Navy's Busan task force withstood the North Koreans' first attack.
After a round of assault, they began to use land and sea firepower to contain the close attack of the North Korean navy in Jeolla Province. Knowing that they could not resist the Chinese army in terms of near- and long-range firepower, the North Koreans planned to swarm up to the five Daifuku ships and then jump aboard.
fight.
However, each of the five Dafu ships was much taller than the sloop of the North Korean navy, and the lowest ship side was more than ten feet higher than the Korean ship. The Koreans had to first pull the boat next to the Fu ship and throw it on
Grab the cable, then follow the cable to climb onto the Fortune Ship.
Once the Dafu ship can move freely, coupled with the Chinese sailors' grenades, gunpowder barrels, and close-range artillery bombardment, such tactics will be almost impossible to achieve.
After being attacked by a sneak attack, the Chinese Navy still lost a ship: after the Koreans jumped on board, the two sides fought fiercely on the ship. Somehow the gunpowder magazine below the deck was ignited, and after a loud noise, the great fortune ship turned into a huge
The torch burns and sinks at the same time.
The explosion and the subsequent fire also brought bad luck to four or five Korean navy sailing ships. Taking this opportunity, the remaining four Dafu ships and several Western schooners of the Tumen River Development Group sailed out of their berths and began to compete with numerous
The small North Korean sailboat circled on the sea.
The Daifuku ship loaded with bronze naval guns slowly sank the Korean ships one by one. When the "Happiness" that Barreto Jr., Yin Bin and others were riding appeared on the sea, the Korean navy could no longer withstand it.
The Fu Ship's bombardment started, and just when they were thinking of retreating, the Happy Ship appeared behind them.
The North Koreans thought that reinforcements from the Chinese Navy were coming and were cutting off their retreat. So, at first, five or six ships turned around and attacked the "Happiness", and soon more than a dozen sloops turned around and besieged the "Happiness"
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The hull of the "Happiness" was damaged and flooded, with only one canvas available and unable to make any maneuvers. However, the "Happiness" was a large three-masted schooner, and its hull was taller than the Dafu. There were also two hundred training personnel on board.
There are well-trained student soldiers, plus fifty or sixty experienced sailors. More importantly, there are many weapons and ammunition on board.
The Koreans did not take any advantage on the schooner "Happiness", and the Chinese army's Daifuku gunboats became more and more successful. Seeing that the sneak attack on Busan Port had failed, the Jeolla Province naval commander took the lead in turning the ship's bow and escaping.
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The Busan Port Chunghwa Commercial Center is located in the northeast of Busan City. At present, a warehouse in the commercial building is temporarily used as a barracks for the Chinese Military Academy student army. It was originally a warehouse for tung oil and kerosene, and the ground was greasy. Students
The soldiers spent three days and three nights in the bumpy wind and waves, and then fought a battle with the Koreans at noon that day. The exhausted young soldiers could not care about so much. As soon as they came in, they would lie down on the ground or rely on each other.
fell asleep.
When Zhao Yi woke up, he saw that the sky had just turned dark, probably around dusk.
He sat up and saw Yin Bin leaning at the door of the warehouse, his face pale and his eyes dull, staring at the sky in a daze.
"What's wrong with you? You look so ugly? Are you sick?" Zhao Yi walked over to Yin Bin and asked softly.
Yin Bin turned his head, glanced at Zhao Yi with confusion, and then said tremblingly: "Yizai, I killed someone!"
Zhao Yi frowned and said, "We are at war!"
"But I killed someone with my own hands!"
"Weren't you always thinking about participating in the battle? We just had a good fight and drove away the Korean barbarians. We won the battle! Don't think about useless things. When you shoot and kill the enemy, you are doing your best.
He has fulfilled his duty as a soldier." Zhao Yi somewhat understood Yin Bin's feelings after the first murder, but he could not understand why Yin Bin was still so depressed and uncomfortable now.
Zhao Yi had already had actual combat experience. The year before last, he had participated in an encirclement and suppression of the indigenous rebels in the high mountains of Taiwan Island and had killed people with his own hands. Zhao Yi, who was born in a family with a hereditary military family, had long been psychologically prepared for killing people in battle, although he had been there for a while.
It was uncomfortable, but he quickly adapted to it after shooting.
Yin Bin's background was different from his own. He had teachers invited by the Zeng family to teach him Confucian classics since he was a child, and his mother was a Buddhist. Many people in the Chinese Army and the Chinese Company treated him as their future lord...
..., in short, he was never really mentally prepared to shoot and kill.
Zhao Yi couldn't explain his mood. As the intern battalion commander, he still had a lot to do. The student soldiers held the side of the ship during the battle. Although there was a bit of confusion at the beginning, they quickly entered the state and were in order.
The shooting was carried out in sequence, and everyone performed to the highest level in their usual training.
More than twenty people were injured in the battle, all of which were not serious injuries. After Zhao Yi counted the number of his troops, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, thanking God for his blessing: none of the student soldiers died in the battle. On the contrary, ten of the crew members on the "Happiness" were killed.
People died in the battle and more than ten others were injured.
At this time, the director of the Busan Chinese Army Task Force and others came over led by Barreto Jr.
Zhao Yi hurried up to greet him, and then he eagerly asked the task force manager: "Captain Jin, do you have any carrier pigeons here? I have an urgent message to deliver."
Manager Jin of the task force said helplessly: "We originally only distributed three homing pigeons, and the two left by the Foreign Legion have been released in the past few days to seek help in Liaodong."
Zhao Yi frowned: "Why, is the situation in the Foreign Legion very bad?"
"They failed to attack Gyeongju and are now besieged in Ulsan."
"So, is there any ship in the port that can deliver letters?"
"Send a letter to the Liaodong Marching General Office?"
"Now, we still have to send a message to Taiwan Port to reassure the ship owner..." Zhao Yi was young after all, and he let it slip as he spoke.
Manager Jin of the Busan task force looked at Zhao Yi doubtfully, while Zhao Yi looked towards the door of the warehouse and saw Yin Bin still there in a daze.
Zhao Yi took a deep breath and glanced at Barreto. Little Captain Barreto understood and immediately said: "Director Jin is from Qiongzhou, Hainan. He joined the army ten years ago. He is one of his own." What he meant by this.
, actually hinting to Zhao Yi: Manager Jin in front of him is a reliable person. Barreto's other identity is the deputy director of the Overseas Bureau of the Chinese Army's Military Intelligence Department. Therefore, his judgment is credible.
Zhao Yi made up his mind and whispered to Manager Jin: "The eldest prince is in our student army."
Manager Jin’s eyes couldn’t be wider, and they might fall out of their sockets. Barreto patted him on the shoulder and said: “Don’t panic, think of a way quickly, and spread the news that... he is safe and sound as soon as possible.
Otherwise, His Majesty the King will be anxious."
"We, we have a schooner. It was not damaged in the naval battle and can go to sea immediately."
Zhao Yi nodded and said: "That's very good. Please take the trouble to send a ship to Liaodong as soon as possible..."
Director Jin nodded and said: "Let's do it this way. It's faster to get to Ryukyu from here, and it can be reached in two days with a favorable wind. At Ryukyu Naha Port, the Ryukyu Governor's Office will definitely have carrier pigeons, which can immediately spread the news about the young master... to Taiwan.
port."
"Then go to Ryukyu Island and spread the news as soon as possible..."
The shopkeeper of the Busan Zhonghua Commercial House entertained the student army trainee officers for a drink that night. Yin Bin was not in the mood to pay attention to things such as eating and drinking, and always looked like he was in a trance.
Zhao Yi had no choice but to sigh and go off to rest: after all, he was a seventeen-year-old young man with a vigorous spirit, and he didn't have much patience to deal with his friend's mood.
They are not out of danger yet. The North Korean official troops and various volunteers outside Busan City are still camped there, and may launch another attack on Busan City at any time: the foreign legion was captured in Ulsan, more than 120 miles to the north.
The Koreans were surrounded, and the Chinese in Busan Port were still besieged by dozens of times the enemy and were isolated and helpless.
The Happiness was moored at the dock and repairs had begun. The boatman told Barreto and Zhao Yi that it would take at least twenty days to repair the ship.
During the Goryeo Dynasty (10th century to the end of the 14th century), Busan was called busanpo. Busan means "cauldron-shaped mountain" which is named after the shape of the mountain behind the city. And po means "bay" or
It means "seaport". Starting from the early fifteenth century, Busan was designated as a trading port by the Lee Dynasty of Korea, and it carried out trade with Japan and allowed the Japanese to settle here. In 1592, during the Battle of Imjin, Busan was captured by the Japanese.
Later, it experienced a counterattack by the Ming army and most of it was destroyed. Busan was rebuilt after the 1607 war. Therefore, there were not many Korean residents in the city, and now there are only more than 5,000 people left.
Nowadays, the mountains, hills, plains and fields around Busan are all crowded with Korean volunteers, and the officers and soldiers camps of Jeolla Province and Gyeongsang Province. Although the Koreans were not able to climb the Busan city wall even once during the half-year siege, Goryeo
Bangzi's stubborn character made the Koreans refuse to retreat. Due to the smooth sea route and sufficient supplies in Busan City, the Chinese army had no scruples in using firepower. The Koreans' current plan is: even if they cannot capture the city, they can