Fenghou

Chapter 1547 Sneak Attack
After a while, the soldiers dragged up the corpse from the cliff. The corpse was wearing a black water tank. At first glance, it was not an ordinary fisherman. The tiger's mouth was covered with calluses, and there was a sharp water thorn stuck in the water tank. This person should be a Goryeo soldiers.

"General, found this!"

The soldiers found an oiled paper bag from him and tied it tightly with cloth strips.

Tang Tingan opened the oiled paper bag, which contained flint and flint, a few charcoal pens in the bamboo tube, and a folded piece of paper. When he opened the paper, Tang Tingan looked carefully and was stunned. It turned out to be a map with harbors, Ships and their barracks.

It turned out that this person was a spy, so he asked the farmer who first discovered the corpse, "When did you find it?"

"About five o'clock, we heard the dog barking fiercely. The dog found something and chased it out. It was not yet dawn, so we didn't dare to go out. After dawn, we came to check and found the body below."

Tang Ting'an said again: "See if there are any ships around?"

"Reporting to the general, we looked at it just now. The patrolling soldiers searched around, but found nothing abnormal, and there was no sign of rope climbing. It must have accidentally slipped last night."

Tang Ting'an nodded and said: "This kind of spy can't be alone. Such an important map has not been taken away, which means that his accomplice is on the island. Send an order to search the entire island, and investigate any suspicious clues!"

Yong Jun immediately dispatched two thousand soldiers and began to search the whole island.

Tang Tingan nodded, "We have to be prepared. If the sneak attack fails, we will fight the enemy at sea. We must never let the Koryo army land on Tamna Island."

The soldiers of the Yong army carefully inspected the ships. All the ships were chained to each other so that they would not leave with the rising and falling tides. This saved a lot of effort. Maybe they never thought that the Yong army would come quietly .

The interrogating soldier questioned him again, and said to Tang Ting'an, "They made an appointment in three days to meet up later, that is tonight, and the place to pick up is in the fjord where the man fell to his death."

"What if we use a sneak attack?" Another general said.

"I remember when Li Dutong came to inspect last time, he said that the Koreans wanted to return tens of thousands of miners. They would probably attack us on Tamna Island and capture us as prisoners of war in exchange for miners. They should be making this wishful thinking now. Very soon. Obviously, the other side is planning to seize Tamna Island."

In the barracks, Tang Ting'an discussed countermeasures with several commanders.

Each of them carried a kerosene bag weighing twenty kilograms, so a sheepskin bag was tied in front of them, so that they could sneak into the bay silently.

A commander suggested: "General, the opponent has 5000 people, but we only have 3000 people. Even if we keep the big island, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses. I feel that the best way is to take the initiative and kill the enemy directly." Military ships destroyed in the harbour."

They went to the island the day before yesterday and wanted to go to the village to kidnap a farmer last night, but they were chased by a few hounds raised by the people, and a companion fell off the cliff. They were afraid of being discovered, so they hid on the side of the harbor without caring about collecting the corpse of their companion , but also to detect the situation of ships and garrisons in the harbor.

The 300 stone ship was a military ship, and it came to pick up the three spies on the island. These were not important. The important thing was that the Koryo army had assembled more than [-] ships and [-] soldiers on the other side.

The information from the interrogation is correct, all of them are ships of [-] to [-] shi, and they are all new ships. There are hundreds of them. Looking at the shore, there are torches on the shore in the distance, and there is a patrolling soldier back and forth patrol.

Yong Jun continued to interrogate overnight, and soon got detailed information.

Tang Ting'an pondered for a moment and said: "From the interrogation information, the opponent's ships are almost between [-] shi and [-] shi, which are a bit small and can easily hide in narrow waterways. Our ships are large and easy to be found , vulnerable to enemy attack from the shore."

Tang Ting'an nodded, "We're going to arrest the respondent again tonight!"

A general whispered: "The ships that respond to them should know the situation on the other side!"

The patrolling soldiers on the shore found the fire and immediately sounded the alarm, 'Dang!when!when!when! The sleeping soldiers were awakened one after another, put on their clothes in a hurry, and rushed to the pier.

Three small sampans set off. On the small sampans, fifteen water ghosts in black water tanks and oil bags on their backs were staring at the bay with serious expressions.

In the middle of the night, under the cover of night, a five-hundred-stone ship sailed into the fjord silently. This fjord is very long, and it looks like a fish when viewed from the sky.

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw two people squatting on the cliff. They hid behind a stone, but the stone was too small to cover their figures, so they were discovered by the soldiers.

Tang Ting'an immediately interrogated the two spies. Under the intimidation of the Yong army, they had to confess honestly. They were all Koryo army spies, and they were ordered to investigate the situation of the Yong army and the warship.

Everyone turned around and ran up immediately. They also panicked and grabbed the rope to climb up. One climbed to the top of the cliff, but was thrown to the ground by the soldiers who rushed to him and tied him up. The other climbed halfway, scared He had to yell, and the soldiers directly pulled the rope up with the people.

Tang Ting'an stared at the shore with clairvoyant eyes for a moment, and he saw the two watchtowers mentioned in the interrogation statement, which entered from the fjord in the middle of the watchtowers.

But as soon as the ship entered the fjord, more than a dozen warships immediately blocked the exit, blocking the ship in the fjord. Soon, several warships came forward and forced the five hundred stone ship into the fjord. The soldiers jumped on board one after another.

The entrance to the bay was only one mile away, and three small sampans passed by, which were still easy to spot. Three miles from the mouth of the bay, fifteen soldiers launched into the water.

Tang Ting'an thought for a while and said, "There are still six days before the New Year, and I think the other party will most likely cross the strait and go to the island on New Year's Eve."

The soldiers took out the barrels of fireboxes, ignited them one by one, and threw them at the ships, saying, 'Boom! 'A dozen ships were ablaze at the same time.

The soldiers immediately dived into the water and dived out of the bay.

In the middle of the next night, the Yong Army's two Wanshi ships and ten Three Thousand Stone ships appeared on the sea more than ten miles away. If it was daytime, they might be seen, but at night, the sentry towers on the shore could not see them.

Fifteen soldiers of the Yong army worked together and sprayed the fierce oil on the ships. In just a moment, all fifteen bags of fierce oil were sprayed.

There were three people in the boat, one resisted and was killed on the spot, the other two dared not resist and were arrested obediently.

The soldiers continued to interrogate, but the three of them couldn't say anything about the other cases. They were just spies and knew nothing about the army's mobilization.

"When does the general think the opponent will attack?"

"The target is confirmed, let the water ghost go!"

The pier near the harbor is the key search target. Dozens of ships are moored in a natural bay. There is only one way to go down the bay. There are soldiers standing guard below this road, but if you are just collecting information, you don’t have to go down to the bay. You can also learn about the number and types of ships nearby.

The 15 people dived into the shallow sea and continued to swim forward. After diving for about seven or eight miles, a large number of ships appeared in front of them, moored densely by the pier.

"Ask them, where is the receiving ship?"

A search team was walking down the cliff, at this moment, a soldier suddenly pointed at the cliff and shouted: "What is that?"

Thousands of soldiers yelled and tried desperately to put out the fire, but where they could not be saved, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and gradually engulfed all the ships.

Fifteen soldiers dived out of the bay and climbed onto the sampan in a short time, and the sampan then sailed towards the big ship more than ten miles away.

Although the Yong army defeated the opponent's plan to attack Tamna Island, the Korean people's plan to attack Tamna Island was a major event in itself, and the Goryeo State was planning to use war to provoke the Yong Dynasty.

In the morning of the next day, the flying eagle left Tanluo Island and flew to Penglai County, Dengzhou. Ten days later, this eagle letter would appear on the desk of Emperor Chen Qing.

(End of this chapter)