Three Kingdoms Eschatology

At this time, another soldier came to report that several enemy prisoners had been captured.Guo Jia and the other three were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly asked for the prisoners to be escorted up.After some torture, the three of them not only knew that they were indeed the coalition forces of Cao Pi's army and Gaya, but also that the general of Cao Pi's army in Gaya was Cao Chun, and other detailed information.

At this time, Cao Chong had sent someone to summon them to enter the account.The three of them immediately came to Cao Chong's big tent, and reported the news to Cao Chong in detail.Guo Jia kowtowed to Cao Chong and said: "This matter is my mistake. Gaya has become a future problem. If we don't eradicate it as soon as possible, it will cause disaster in the future. Therefore, I advised the king to dispatch the army in advance. Pacify Gaya and eradicate this trouble."

Cao Chong asked, "Is the plan to attack Cao Pi's camp in Yingzhou still in progress?"

Guo Jia pondered for a few breaths, and said decisively: "Go back to the king, as long as we ask the imperial army in Dongqingzhou and Xu Chu's troops who stay there to cooperate, we will be able to fight on two fronts."

Chapter 775 The 150-year-old King Gaya

Hundreds of warships carved out tracks on the mirror-like sea.When they were hundreds of battles away from the coast, Wei Wen and Zhang Xi standing on the warship could see the outline of Gaya Golden Official City from a distance.Billowing black smoke was evident in the city.

Zhang He said: "It seems that they have already heard that we are coming, so they abandoned the city and left."

Wei Wen smiled contemptuously and said, "It's okay, it won't be too late for us to go northward along the Luodong River after we take this Jinguan City. Now Bumi in the south of Mahan has been conquered by Zhang Liaoping, and our Daliang army is sweeping Chenhan and Mahan in the east. Remnants, they can go south and attack Gaya from north to south at any time. Gaya's territory is not large, and the combined area of ​​the eight Gaya cities is only two to three hundred miles, which is only the size of three or four Tsushima islands. Even in the deep mountains and old forests, we won't be able to deal with us for long."

Zhang Xi nodded slightly in agreement and said: "It's just that the sooner we can wipe them out, the better. So-and-so has sent a fast boat to send an urgent letter to Xu Zhu who is still stationed in Bumi, asking him to lead the headquarters." The Wei army marched eastward along the mountain road and arrived at the west of the Nakdong River, threatening the enemy's flank. I believe that we will be able to join forces in Gaya soon. But I don't know how the battle situation of General Zhang Liao will be. If he can quickly calm down the remnants of Mahan Chenhan, it will be If we can go down the Nakdong River, we will be able to advance in three directions and completely wipe out the enemy troops entrenched in Gaya."

While they were talking, the fleet approached a location not far from Gaya City.Sure enough, they could see clearly that the walls of Nagaya City had been completely destroyed, and they could even see the rising flames in the city.Wei Wen heard Zhang He muttering: "Strange!", and asked, "Brother Junyi, what's so strange?"

Zhang He immediately responded: "Look, although the Jinguan City is completely destroyed, the ruins of the city walls and towers and the ruins of the buildings in the city can still be seen clearly. This style seems to be similar to the style of our Fang Lelang County and even the style of Ma Hanbangguo." They are all very different, don’t they have the same family as Ma Han and Chen Han?”

Wei Wen squinted, and it was indeed as Zhang He said.It should be known that although Sanhan was far away from the Central Plains in a corner of the Haidong Peninsula, and had not been directly ruled by the Central Plains dynasty for a long time, it was deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture from Qingzhou and Daifang County to the west of the sea.Therefore, although most of their buildings are still in the era of Maoci adobe, their architectural style is similar to that of the Central Plains.

But now the buildings that Wei Wen and Zhang Yun saw, no matter whether they were city walls or towers or houses in the city, they had a foreign style in them.Wei Wen was familiar with this style, and couldn't help but said: "I have been to some foreign countries in the southeast of Myanmar, and I have also been to Ceylon and visited the poisonous countries. This style is somewhat similar to those there. "

At this time, behind them, a Mahan general who had defected to Liang Jun in the early days took the initiative to explain: "I want to report to the two generals, the last general knows a little about the reason."

"Oh? Talk about it."

After obtaining Wei Wen's permission, the Mahan general began to speak eloquently.It turns out that Kim Suro, the founding ancestor of Jinguan Gaya, was once just a tribal leader of the Bianhan tribe.At that time, the Bianhan tribe was still living on slash-and-burn farming, fishing and hunting.They don't know how to build a city, they don't know how to build decent boats, they can only cross the water with bamboo rafts, and they don't even know how to build houses, they can only build simple thatched huts.

Once, when Jin Shoulu led his tribe to fish on the seashore, he suddenly found dozens of big boats floating on the sea.Hundreds of foreign people came down from the fleet, but the leader was a woman who was extremely beautiful in Jin Shoulu's eyes.After the meeting between the two parties, the woman claimed to Jin Suro that she was the princess of Ayodhya who was poisoned by herself. Her surname was Xu and her name was Huang Yu. The boat is here.The two became husband and wife.

Afterwards, Xu Huangyu and his subordinates taught the tribal people the skills of farming, building houses and boats.Finally, Jinguan Gaya was established, and gradually conquered the other seven tribal city-states of Gaya over a period of more than 100 years.It is said that both Kim Suro and his wife lived to be more than 150 years old. Among them, Kim Suro died in the fourth year of Jian'an, that is, when there were many princes in the Han Dynasty, and they died in name only.At this time, Jin Suru had already consumed three generations of crown princes, sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.The current King of Gaya, Jin Lushan, is his great-great-great-grandson, and he ascended the throne of Gaya Kingdom in the fourth year of Jian'an.

Zhang He shook his head repeatedly after hearing this and said: "This story is unbelievable. I have never heard of anyone who can live so long. In our Central Plains, even the longest living emperor Zhao Tuo lived to be one hundred and three years old. And this golden head Not to mention Lu himself lived to be 150 years old, his wife Xu Huangyu also lived to be 150 years old. How could such a thing happen? If a person lives to be 150 years old, someone can still think about it. These two people...it is completely impossible! This must be It is a legend fabricated by people. They must not be born more than 100 years ago."

The Ma Han person said awkwardly: "But this Kim Su-sun is the great-great-grandson of Kim Sur-ro, this cannot be fake, he can't just be the grandson of Kim Sur-ro, and then say that he is the great-great-grandson of Kim Sur-ro, right?" If you don’t live to be 150 years old, how can you have a great-great-grandson? In addition, the three Koreas have very close contacts. We Mahan people have known since childhood that the king of Gaya is Kim Suro. The three Han ministries sent an obituary."

Wei Wen, who was next to him, burst out laughing, and said: "The date of birth is not faked, but when the person died can be faked. This is also common in the history of the Central Plains. It is impossible to know that he is dead, and it is possible that the funeral will be held after more than ten years or even decades of blockade. In addition, there are many unreasonable things in the story of the founding of the Gaya Kingdom. Some people think that it is mostly a fabricated myth. For example , the three characters of Xu Huangyu are not like the transliteration of the Sanskrit name of Shenduren. Secondly, in the story, after the two met, Jin Shoulu immediately knew the purpose of Xu Huangyu's visit, which is hard to believe. Because Ayu Tuo country is a state in the hinterland of the poisonous body, and it is more than ten thousand miles away from Gaya. The two languages ​​must not be understood, and it is impossible to find someone who is familiar with the other's language. Because both are small countries, they can speak both languages. It is a very small number of people. Then how could they be able to communicate such complicated meanings in words immediately after meeting?"

Zhang Xi nodded in agreement with Wei Wen's opinion, but still asked in doubt: "But General Wei said just now that the architectural style of Jinguan City is indeed similar to that of Shendu. How can this be explained?"

Chapter 776

Wei Wen listened to Zhang He's question, and smiled lightly: "Didn't someone just say that this architectural style is similar to Shendu and Fangguo in the southeast of Myanmar. These coastal states have a long history of sailing and oceangoing, so They were able to spread the terroir of the Shendu area to the southeast of Myanmar. It was the Zhuluo Empire, a powerful country in Nanshendu, that invaded Yizhou from Myanmar. So someone guessed that Xu Huangyu must have come from An island in the south came from the north. This island is [-] miles east of Myanmar, and it is also exactly south of Yizhou, which a certain person once visited. That island was marked as Luzon Island on the sea chart by the Holy Lord. The vassal state that unified the entire island, but there are many tribes that are deeply influenced by the poisonous climate and claim to be Brahmans. Some guesses that Xu Huangyu came from this Luzon Island. Because it is more than [-] miles from Luzon Island to Gaya, this It is the limit distance that can be sailed by the nautical skills of Shendu and even Zhufan in the southeast of Maine."

Speaking of this, Wei Wen paused, and Zhang Yun took the opportunity to ask: "But brother Wei, you just said that Xu Huangyu is not a transliteration of Sanskrit. Could it be that the native language of Luzon has this pronunciation? But this is obviously a typical case. In addition, if she is fleeing, why not go to the nearest Yizhou that Brother Wei said, but go to Gaya, which is thousands of miles away?"

Wei Wen laughed and said: "Brother Jun Yi's answers to the two questions can just confirm a certain reasoning. Brother Jun Yi doesn't know that although most of the indigenous tribes on Luzon Island are influenced by the poisonous customs and culture, they have nothing to do with it. The distance between China and China is less than 4000 miles, which is not very far for the sea route. And there is a Yizhou in the middle that can be used as a springboard, so in the past, some Chinese people went to Luzon by sea, and the natives there The marriage took root, so it is not surprising to have this Han surname. As for why Xu Huangyu fled, why did he seek far away, instead of going to Yizhou, which is close at hand, and instead of returning to Han soil, he went to Gaya at the southern tip of the Haidong Peninsula, which is more than [-] miles away. It just proves that she came here in a hurry, so the preparations for going to sea were not perfect. Maybe she was going to Yizhou or back to Hantu, but she deviated from the course and came to Gaya. After meeting Jin Suru, she simply She married him by mistake, and in order to increase her status, she claimed to be the Brahmin princess of the Ancient Fang Kingdom. However, her move may be unnecessary. Jin Suru may not know where the poison is. The reason why they can communicate with each other is that It is because the natives on Yizhou helped them communicate. This Yizhou is not only an island, but also a chain of islands in the northeast extending into the southwestern sea of ​​Haidong Peninsula, called Liuqiu, and there are also people living on it. Aborigines who share the same language as Yizhou aboriginals. These aborigines are adjacent to Luzon and Gaya in the north and south. It is not surprising that some people can learn the language of Luzon or Gaya after a long-term relationship. So they only need one Yizhou aborigine who can speak Korean and A Yizhou native who can speak Luzon can communicate smoothly."

Hearing this, Zhang He also laughed loudly and said, "Brother Wei, your thoughts are unconstrained, and you can say that they are really impeccable. I admire you, brother."

At this time, the Mahan general asked cautiously: "But two generals, if Jin Suru had died long ago, why did his great-great-grandson or his great-grandchildren not mourn until the 150th anniversary of his birth?" What about the obituary?"

Zhang He sneered and said: "There are many possible reasons for this, and I think the biggest possibility is that the Jinshoulu Xu Huangyu and his wife can strengthen the Jinguan Gaya, and integrate the eight Gayas into one of the Three Hans. Ilhan's self-contained system must have its own advantages, and it must have established a deep prestige in the process. His descendants wanted to rely on his prestige to consolidate their rule, so they kept secret for many years."

After he finished speaking, the other two nodded in conviction.At this time the ship had dropped anchor, Zhang He, Wei Wen and the two stopped chatting and prepared to disembark.The soldiers of the Liang Jun Navy are setting up the springboard.Before the two of them waited for the gangway to be placed on the shore, they jumped off the boat impatiently and waded ashore in the waist-deep sea.

When they entered Jinguan Gaya surrounded by their own soldiers, they found that the city had been completely destroyed.Except for the four corner towers that were burnt and only the stone skeleton remained, the other four walls were already four piles of rubble.The buildings in the city were almost completely burnt to the ground, leaving only ruins and walls that were emitting green smoke.

Wei Wen said loudly to Zhang Yun: "It seems that we can only set up camp here first, and then send more food and grass from Tsushima Island, and then go north along the Nakdong River to suppress the bandit army of Gaya and Cao Chun." Then he He shouted an order: "Pass on my military order, and the whole army will set up camp!"

At this moment, Zhang He raised his eyebrows and said, "No, we're not going to set up camp here." Wei Wen asked suspiciously, "What do you think, Brother Zhang?"

Zhang He didn't answer his question directly, but instead asked, "May I ask how many boats General Wei brought that can dive this time?"

Wei Wen responded: "After Zhang Liao pacified Bumi City, he sent back all the semi-submersible fleet that a certain left behind in Bumi. This time, a certain brought fifty semi-submersible boats here. Why, elder brother? It is impossible to use these semi-submersible boats to attack the Gaya army, but it is difficult for a certain semi-submersible boat to enter the Nakdong River, because the bottom of the inland river is quite complicated, and the semi-submersible boats are easy to run aground. What's more, Nagaya and Cao Chun thief The army is not necessarily stationed beside the Nakdong River or its branches. If we want to attack them along the waterway, it is best to use Viking ships. But in any case, we must set up a camp first."

Zhang He smiled slightly and said, "No, we are not attacking them, but ambushing them. When we came out, Guo Jia told someone that even if Gaya abandoned the city, they would come and harass Tsushima Island regularly. Because this is their So we pretended to make a fool of ourselves here, withdrew our troops, and actually used semi-submersible boats to lurk at the mouth of the Nakdong River. As long as their fleet leaves the mouth of the river, we can wipe them out in one fell swoop!"

After hearing this, Wei Wen's eyes lit up and he praised: "Good plan!".Half an hour later, Liang Jun and Wei Jun, who pretended to search the abandoned city of Jinguan, withdrew to the ship, re-raised anchor and sailed away.But after they walked south for more than ten miles, those semi-submersible boats submerged and turned back quietly, and the rest of the boats also sailed eastward, and then turned north after half an hour, towards a coast not far from Jinguancheng and the entrance of Nakdong River go.

At the same time, Cao Chun and Cao Chun are patiently waiting for the news of the scouts ahead, located in a small town in the dense forest on the banks of the Nakdong River---Gunning Gaya.

A Gaya soldier galloped barefoot on the wooden lobby floor, shouting loudly: "Report! Liang Jun has retreated!"

Chapter 777

Jin Lushan heard that Liang Jun had retreated, and said regretfully to Cao Chun who was sitting opposite him: "General Cao, this Liang Jun really just came to raid Jinguan City, and when they saw our troops retreating, they also retreated. Knowing this, this king will not order the destruction of Jinguan City."

Cao Chunying said: "Your Majesty should not regret it. If we hadn't destroyed Jinguancheng, they probably would not have retreated. Instead, they would occupy Jinguancheng first, and then use this city to march north along the Nakdong River to attack our hinterland."

Jin Lushan asked again: "Then what should we do now?"

Cao Chun blinked his eyes and said: "Of course, continue to attack the Liang army on Tsushima Island. If you don't drive them away, it will always be the trouble of the king's Gaya and our great Wei."

In fact, Cao Chun knew that it would be difficult for the Liang army on Tsushima to retreat just by continuously harassing Tsushima Island.Of course, this cannot be explained directly to Jin Lushan.

Jin Lu was embarrassed and said: "Are we going to return to Jinguan City again? But Jinguan City has been destroyed, and it will take half a year to repair the city wall. What's more, when we return to Jinguan City, the Liang army is attacking again. Do we want to go back to Jinguan City again?" Are you going to destroy Jinguan City and discard it?"

Cao Chun cupped his hands and said, "Of course not. Wouldn't it be too stupid to do so? Our warships can go directly down the Nakdong River to attack Tsushima Island and then return. It's just a longer journey than the original one. But it's just every attack. It will take seven or eight more hours."

Seeing that Cao Chun insisted, Jin Lushan had no choice but to murmur and agree.Cao Chun felt happy in his heart, secretly thinking that the King of Gaya is obviously a foolish and uninitiated mediocre king. He wonders why the other seven Gaya city lords continue to support him as the King of Gaya, maybe they are still blessed by the prestige of their masters.He thought about it again, that's fine, if he were a shrewd person, he wouldn't necessarily be at his mercy.

Unbeknownst to Cao Chun, this Gaya king, Jin Sushan, also sat on the throne of Gaya king amidst the ignorant buildings.The founder of the country, the first King of Gaya, Kim Suro, did not live to be 150 years old, just as Zhang He, Wei Wen and the two had guessed.Instead, he died when he was in his nineties.

The crown prince designated by Kim Suro, and his great-grandson, Kim Su-sun's father, inherited Gaya's throne.At that time, Jin Lushan's father was still a child of seven or eight years old, so he was naturally unable to take charge of the government.And if this news is revealed, it is impossible for the other seven Gaya city-states to accept a young child as their co-lord, that is, it is impossible to recognize the status of the golden official Gaya in the eight Gayas.

Therefore, several "Minister Guming" of Jinguan Gaya concealed the news of Kim Suro's death from the outside, and internally regarded Jin Lushan's father as the king, but the actual power was in the hands of the "Minister Guming".The government affairs of Jinguan and even the entire Gaya are actually released by these "Ministers of Guming" in the name of Kim Suro.

Kim Su-sun's father was supposed to be able to take charge of the government after he became an adult and publicize the news of Kim Suro's death.

Unexpectedly, when Jin Lushan's father was able to take charge of the government at the age of 20, his body collapsed and he died at a young age.Those "Ministers Guming" had no choice but to let the same young Kim Su-sun follow up and continue to conceal the news of Kim Suro's death.When Jin Sushan grew up, when he was supposed to be in power and announced the death of Kim Suro, some loyal people among these "Minister Gu Ming" were also killed by time.

The remaining "Ministers Gu Ming" became disobedient and tried to hold the weak and dull golden thread in their hands, so Kim Suro, who had been dead for decades, was still "alive".

But when Jin Lushan was nearly forty years old, the group of ministers who actually controlled the Gaya government started to fight among themselves.In addition, Kim Suro has not appeared in public for decades, and has not summoned the other city lords of Jigaya, which has already aroused everyone's suspicion.So they couldn't hide it anymore, and after some infighting, they had to announce the death of Kim Suro and Xu Huangyu, both at the age of 150.And let Jin Lushan openly ascend the throne of the golden official Gaya city lord and Gaya king.

But even so, the power of Jinguan Gaya is still not in the hands of Jinlushan. Except for Guning Gaya, the other seven Gaya cities only recognize Jinlushan as the co-lord of Gaya in name, but in fact there is no leadership and authority. dominated relationship.

The reason why Guning Gaya still obeys Jin Guan Gaya is because Cui Minggao, the lord of Gun Ning Gaya, is also the powerful minister of Jin Guan Gaya.So it can also be said conversely that Jinguan Gaya was controlled by the lord of Guning Gaya.

But when Cao Pi's army came, the situation changed again.After several meetings between Sima Yi and Cui Minggao, they did not know how to make the latter become Sima Yi's de facto retainer with all his heart.

Perhaps one of the reasons is that Sima Yi painted a big cake for Cui Minggao.Sima Yi told him that Cao Pi's Wei army would sooner or later unify all the Japanese in Yingzhou. At that time, Wei army not only supported Cui Ming's justifiable ascension to the throne of King Gaya to truly unify Gaya, but even supported him to unify Sanhan and even the entire Haidong Peninsula.

Therefore, with the cooperation of Cui Minggao, Sima Yi used a series of rhetorical means to easily get Jin Lushan to agree to the conditions of the alliance between the two parties, and even let Jin Lushan marry a younger sister of Cao Pi as the queen.When Sima Yi went south to Yingzhou, he also took Cui Minggao away, and before he left, he arranged for some of his own people to continue to control the key positions of Jinguan Gaya.In this way, Sima Yi can remotely control Gaya Kingdom in Yingzhou through Cui Minggao.This is also the reason why Jin Lushan obeyed Cao Chunyan.

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At dawn on the second day, in the Nakdong River west of Guning City, one after another Gaya warships sailed into the Nakdong River from a tributary passing around Guning City.In less than half an hour, the river was covered with ships of all sizes.

For this attack on Tsushima Island, Cao Chun personally led the army and took command.Cao Chun was sitting on the deck of a warship flagship at this time, thinking that after nearly a day and a night of sailing, he would arrive at Tsushima Island just before dawn the next day.As for Liang Jun on Tsushima Island, it just happened not long after he retreated at this time, and he would never have thought that his army would follow him immediately.This time, he summed up the previous experience, and the attack on Liang Jun's harbor was far more effective than the sneak attack on the camp on land.So this time he prepared enough ships, and almost all the warships came out in full force.He was determined to destroy all the warships of the Liang Army in the Gulf of Tsushima Island in one battle, so that the Liang Army on Tsushima Island would no longer have the ability to fight back.

Cao Chun's fleet went down the river very fast.Just as the sun was setting to the west, they saw the ruins of Jinguan Fortress and the mouth of the Nakdong River.At this time, several walking boats used for reconnaissance at the front station also returned...

Chapter 778 Anti-counterfeiting

The scouts boarded the deck of Cao Chun's flagship, cupped their hands and said, "General Qi, there is no trace of Liang Jun on the water or land within a radius of ten miles."

Cao Chun waved his hand and said: "The whole army sailed out of the Luodong River and marched towards Tsushima Island!" Following his order, he issued.Ships of all sizes covering the surface of the Nakdong River swarmed out and rushed to the surface of Tsushima Sea.At this time, the sun was setting and the sea was glowing red.

Neither Cao Chun nor the watchmen sitting on the mast noticed the small black spots on the sea surface that looked like they were not much bigger than the tip of a needle.That was the only lookout tube of the semi-submersible ship of the Wei Wen fleet exposed to the water.

Half an hour later, Cao Chun's fleet had sailed for more than [-] li, leaving the land of Haidong Peninsula far behind.Cao Chun was enjoying the dinner brought by his own soldiers in the cabin at this time, but suddenly he vaguely heard shouts on the deck outside.Immediately afterwards, the soldiers rushed into the cabin and shouted eagerly: "General! It's not good, an unknown ship was found on the sea!"

Cao Chun panicked when he heard this, and threw the porridge bowl he had just picked up on the table, spilling it all over the table.He ran to the deck as if flying, looked into the distance, and saw a large number of sailboats appearing on the skyline.If it wasn't the Liang Jun fleet, what else could it be, and it seemed that the number was very large.Cao Chun knew very well the strength of Liang Jun's sea fleet, which was a navy that spanned thousands of miles across the ocean and conquered countless countries.He secretly groaned in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Pass my military order, the whole army retreats the same way! Retreat to the Nakdong River! Hurry up!"

Following his order, the soldiers hurriedly raised flags on the mast.However, the fleet brought by Cao Chun this time is too large, so the entire fleet can turn around without a military order.

After half an hour, all the ships got the military order and turned around, heading north.Cao Chun's flagship was naturally the first to run at the forefront.But within half an hour, Liang Jun's warship also caught up.The fastest galley warship was within easy reach of several Cao Chunjun warships that fell behind.

With a loud bang, a galley with two wings and oars flying up and down directly cut Cao Chunjun's turtle ship from the tail, and the bow of the entire galley was almost embedded in the turtle ship.The pink bones of several soldiers in the turtle cabin were directly hit, and a large amount of sea water poured into the cabin.Some Gaya soldiers tried to jump onto the deck to escape, but the javelins from the Liang army's ship continued to attack and killed them all on the deck.

Another galley warship braved the wind and waves, and traveled side by side with another enemy warship. The ballista on the second deck of the rear side fired stone bullets, and the side of the warship splashed billowing waves.Some stone bullets pierced the sides of the ship below the waterline, allowing seawater to flood into the cabin.Cao Chunbing screamed and rushed to the deck, and some of them were holding hooks and sickles, trying to hook the opponent's warship, obviously wanting to join the ship.But the six ballistas on Liang Jun's ship fired another round of explosive shells, and the clay pots were smashed on the deck of the ship, and the naphtha instantly burst into flames, forming a sea of ​​flames.Cao Chunbing, who was on fire, jumped into the icy seawater crying and howling.The scorpion also tilted up and began to sink slowly.

Not long after, the wreckage of Cao Chun's warship was everywhere on the surface of Tsushima Sea, and the heads of Cao Jun's soldiers who fell into the water kept floating on the water.Cao Chun turned his head and saw that his slow and larger warships were being sunk one by one by Liang Jun's galley warships. Even if he could escape into the Nakdong River, he would lose more than half of them.He changed his mind and shouted: "Send a certain military order to let those loach boats go to attack those big ships of the Liang army. It is necessary to change one ship for another!"

With the sound of horns, the loach boats accompanying the mother ship turned around and rushed towards Liang Jun.Taking advantage of its flexibility and speed, a loach boat inserted into the flank of a galley warship of Liang Jun, preparing to hit the enemy ship directly, then ignite and jump off the ship to escape, and swim back to the mother ship.

Twenty or thirty soldiers had gathered on the deck of Liang Jun's galley warship, and they threw javelins and crossbow arrows at each other.The exposed bodies of the sailors on the loach boat were instantly pierced by these javelin arrows.Their bodies were hung upside down on the boat, and some fell directly into the sea.However, the ship still rammed into the galley warship under the action of inertia, and the paddlers of Liang Jun on this side tried their best to hold the loach boat with their oars.

Immediately afterwards, there was another loud bang, and the hull shook violently, and all the soldiers on the deck fell to the ground.It turned out that the side of the ship on the other side was also hit by another loach boat. The fire on the loach boat burst into flames, and the soldiers on the boat jumped into the sea to swim to the mother boat.

Fortunately, due to the direction of the wind, the flames on the loach boat did not reach the Liang Jun galley warship, but blew in the opposite direction.The oarsmen pushed the burning loach boat away with long oars.The row of holes and crevices left in the ship's sides is also above the waterline.

Just as the Gaya sailors who jumped into the sea were about to approach their mother ship, another galley warship of Liang Jun rushed towards them, and the fast-moving hull smashed these sailors into pieces in the water.The mother ship of the loach boat saw that the situation was not good, so it didn't care about the sailors, and it was about to run away when it raised its sails and oars.But the dense stone bombs had already struck it, and the sawdust of the ship's hull was scattered everywhere.Then it was directly hit in two by the galley warship from the side.

At this time, Liang Jun's Viking ships also rushed into the battlefield. They were the natural nemesis of those loach ships.The oarsmen of the loach boat can only be beaten passively, but they cannot fight back from a long distance.They fell under the opponent's javelins and crossbow arrows.Their mother ships fled and sank.

Seeing this situation, Cao Chun didn't care too much, and just ordered the sailors to flee north.So far, all Cao Chunjun's warships were fighting on their own, fleeing desperately, and no one cared about the other.

Finally, Cao Chun saw the mouth of the Luodong River, and he let out a sigh of relief.But then he discovered something was wrong. There were dozens of ships with strange shapes at the river mouth, and they were definitely not ships in his own fleet.These are Liang Jun's semi-submersible boats, which were lurking a few miles away from the river mouth. Soon after Cao Chun's fleet sailed out of the Luodong River, they surfaced and blocked the river mouth.Moreover, some soldiers boarded the bank, killed several guard posts left by Cao Chun, and set up iron chains to block the river on the waterway in the middle of the river.

Looking at these semi-submersible boats, Cao Chun realized that he had been designed by the other party. He gritted his teeth and said, "Rush over at full speed!".His flagship then filled the sails, and the oarsmen rowed hard, and the whole ship rushed forward like an arrow from the string.

Chapter 779

Cao Chun's flagship ship is the largest in his fleet, and those Liang Jun semi-submersible ships are not much larger than the loach boats, and because they need to dive, their hulls cannot be damaged in the slightest, and their anti-strike performance is lower than that of ordinary ships. Not a lot.So unless Liang Bing on the semi-submersible boat had the idea of ​​dying together, it would be impossible to intercept it with the hull abruptly.

However, two or three portable ballistas were placed on the decks of many semi-submersible ships.A round of stone bombs and explosive bombs fired at Cao Chun's warship from different angles.Although a small part of the ballista projectiles hit the scorpion, the sawdust splattered and the flames rose, but they could not sink it in a short time.

A moment later, Cao Chun's flagship rushed into the Nakdong River.Cao Chunzheng, who was extremely nervous, wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but felt the ship shake violently, and he lost his balance and fell to the deck.The soldiers on the rest of the deck were in the same situation as him. They staggered to and fro, and the ship stopped suddenly.

Cao Chun yelled and asked: "What's going on!?" After a while, a voice responded: "It may have hit a rock!"

"Strike the rocks? Impossible, where the river flows into the sea, there can be no rocks!"

"Report! There are iron cables at the bottom of the water, and someone has set up iron cables to block the river!"

Cao Chun was taken aback when he heard this. If so, his retreat would be cut off.He hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and send someone down to cut off the iron chain!"

As soon as Cao Chun's words fell, there was a crisp sound in his ear, and the head of a soldier in front of him suddenly disappeared, and then the headless body fell on the deck.Then there was another crisp sound of wood breaking.A huge stone bullet was rolling on the deck.

It turned out that Liang Jun had set up several ballistas on both sides of the strait. These were conventional ballistas capable of firing large stone bombs and explosive shells, and they were assembled on site with the ballista accessories carried by those semi-submersible ships.There are still many infantry around these ballistas, some of them are longbowmen.

The stone bullets came one after another, and soon Cao Chun's flagship was riddled with holes.Some Cao soldiers tried to land on the shore in small boats, but their bodies were pierced by the heavy arrows from Liang Junchang's archers, and the boats without living people drifted to the sea along the current.

The flagship soon sank gradually, and the deck was also on fire due to multiple incendiary bombs.The soldiers jumped into the water one after another to escape, and those who could not swim desperately scrambled to board a small sampan.Cao Chun held a saber in his hand and chopped off three or four pawns who were vying for the battle. He squeezed onto the sampan and shouted: "Start the boat." The oarsmen rowed vigorously and left the sinking flagship.There were still many Cao soldiers on the deck who could not swim, trying to hold the sampan to prevent them from leaving, but Cao Chun cut them all out of the water one by one.

But the sampan sailed to the shore in a short time, and Cao Chun and a few soldiers jumped off the boat, about to run away.However, more than ten soldiers from the Liang army had surrounded them, followed by throwing more than a dozen javelins. Cao Chun's steel knife danced like a flower in his hand, and just now he fended off these javelins.But those few of his personal soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

These Liang soldiers followed closely, raising their guns and stabbed at Cao Chun. After all, Cao Chun was a fierce general. Passed the large shield in the opponent's hand.Then the sword and shield danced together, causing Liang Bing to retreat one after another, unable to get close for a while.At this time, Cao Chun suddenly felt his head shake, and then his eyes went dark and he fell into infinite nothingness.Cao Chun's body, hit by an arrow in the head, fell to the ground.

At the same time, a large number of Cao Chun's warships poured into the Nakdong River one after another. Some of them were sunk by semi-submersible ships before entering the river mouth. The iron chain blocked it, so it was crowded there.After being bombarded by the large and small ballistas on both sides of the strait and the semi-submersible boat following behind, it either sank gradually or was burned into a sea of ​​flames. Both Cao Jun soldiers and Gaya soldiers on the boat rushed into the water.

Seeing that the situation was not good, some warships of Cao Chunjun in the rear tried to turn around and escape, but the chasing Liang Jun fleet had already outflanked them from three directions: left, middle and right.On Liang Jun's triangular brig warship, the ballistas, javelins and crossbows were fully fired.Stone bullets, fireballs, heavy arrows, and spears flew all over the sky.Their galleys rammed across the sea, smashing enemy warships one by one.

About an hour later, the sea at the mouth of the Nakdong River was full of sinking wreckage and burning ships.Most of them were ships of Cao Chun's fleet, and Liang Jun only lost a small number of warships.

On the deck of Liang Jun’s flagship, a general has already reported the results to Wei Wen: “General Qi, most of the enemy’s warships were sunk, and one of the people dressed as an enemy chieftain was shot and killed by our army’s bow. The few that slipped through the net The fish is escaping to the east and west to the open sea, please tell the general if you want to continue the pursuit?"

Wei Wen pondered for a while and said: "Don't chase after the poor, there is no need to waste our time because of a few enemy ships. Quickly bring the corpse and captives of the enemy chieftain, they will need to be interrogated in person."

After a while, Cao Chun's body and several captives were brought up. These captives were all mid-level generals, some under Cao Chun's command, and some from the Gaya Kingdom.Zhang Heweiwen learned about Gaya's recent situation through the mouths of the captives when he was in Tsushima Island, and then interrogated these captives to learn more details.

Zhang He recognized Cao Chun when he saw the corpse, and hurriedly said to Wei Wen: "Since Cao Chun is dead, and Nagaya King Jin Lushan is an incompetent and mediocre king, if we can attack with lightning speed If you attack Guning City, you will definitely be able to defeat it in one battle. It is better for someone to lead the headquarters and take a Viking ship to go straight to Guning."

Wei Wen nodded, and immediately asked people to quickly open the passage of the Luodong River, and then Zhang Xi took the Wei army soldiers and horses of his headquarters to board nearly a hundred Viking warships, sailed through the waves and went up the Luodong River.

When their fleet passed through a dense forest in the river, it was already late at night.Although the four gates of Guning City were closed and there were soldiers patrolling the city, but there were not many defenders, and they didn't seem vigilant.None of them noticed that the waterway beyond Baizhan was already full of Viking ships.

A large number of soldiers of Cao Chong's army quietly boarded the river bank under the leadership of Zhang He.In addition to infantry, there are also hundreds of tiger and leopard riders.Nearly a hundred elite scouts used the claws lent to them by Liang Jun to successfully climb up to the top of the city wall. When the defenders were startled, they cut their necks with sharp daggers.When the Gaya soldiers at the top of the wall screamed, more than a dozen scouts had already stepped onto the top of the wall, and they killed each other instantly before the other party shouted a second time.

Chapter 780

The scream of the fallen Gaya soldier eventually aroused the vigilance of the rest of the Gaya soldiers.They all ran towards this side, yelling and screaming.The soldiers of Zhang Yun's army took off a special hand crossbow carried on their backs. These hand crossbows were loaded with arrows in advance, and there were mechanisms to ensure that the arrows would not be accidentally triggered.

In addition, this hand crossbow also has a quiver with five rounds of arrows, and a lever that can semi-automatically open the string and fire the arrows, which is a kind of continuous crossbow.This unique bow and crossbow was also provided to Cao Chongjun by the Daliang court.However, Liang Jun himself generally doesn't use this thing, because Liang Jun's long-range individual soldiers are generally served by longbowmen, needless to say.Even the long-range weapons used by scouts are composite hornbows, which are greater than this kind of crossbow in terms of rate of fire and power.Compared with this kind of continuous crossbow, the only flaw is that it is not suitable for novices who do not know how to use archery.The scouts of Cao Chong's Wei army were all selected from ordinary soldiers, and naturally there was no time to train them in special archery skills, so it was perfect to configure this kind of continuous crossbow.

When these Gaya soldiers waved their swords and guns and rushed to less than eight feet in front of them, these elite scouts of Zhang He pulled the trigger and fired arrows.Although these continuous crossbows were not powerful, but at such a short distance, and because the armor of the Gaya soldiers were all thin leather armor, it was still easy for one arrow to pierce through the bodies of the Gaya soldiers.

When the Gaya soldiers rushing in the rear saw Paize in the front, dozens of them fell down screaming and screaming, and they felt a chill in their hearts, and their pace slowed down.Those with shields stood up their big shields, curled up, and tried to hide behind the shields as much as possible, while those without shields hurriedly threw away their torches and searched for the nearest cover.Taking advantage of this time, Zhang He's scouts opened and closed the levers of the crossbow and reloaded another arrow.

A Gaya soldier held up his shield and walked cautiously to a place less than a battle away from these Zhang Xi scouts, then shouted and rushed towards them.The scimitar he held in the air also swung down. When the blade was only two feet away from the opponent's head, his arm went limp, and the scimitar fell to the ground with a clang.The other party cared and pulled the hanging knife in an instant, and the arrow shot into his face at a very close distance just as it left the string.