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Chapter 775 Chapter 794: Landing on the Beach
After going down the mountain, the captain who stayed in the camp immediately reported their harvest to Fan Lihua, and got [-] shi of food and grass. [-] shi of grain is a huge number, enough for them to fight from here to Silla and come back, but the problem is that they In a hurry, how could it be possible to march with so much food? This time they didn't even bring the luggage, in order to take advantage of the fast speed of the heavy cavalry. If they brought so much food, it would seriously slow down the journey. For these food, Fan Lihua had to discuss with Xue Rengui.

The result of the discussion between the two was that each soldier brought two months' food and grass, and the rest of the food and grass were kept, and the governor of Chongzhou sent someone to move it back and hand it over to the court as a spoil of war. This is also a great achievement.

It is impossible for ordinary soldiers to take away two months' food and grass, but the soldiers of Tiance Mansion can, because the soldiers of Tiance Mansion are all heavy cavalry. , There is also a horse to carry armor and weapons, there is no way, their equipment is too complete and excellent, if they don't get a horse alone, they really can't take it away.

Since each person has three horses, it is no problem for the spare horses to be used to transport their own rations, but the marching speed will be a little slower, otherwise the horses will be very tired. Even so, they can travel eighty miles a day. It was nearly twice as fast as the normal marching speed. According to their calculations, if they did not encounter enemy forces on the road, they would be able to reach the capital of Silla in a little over a month.

Another day was delayed here, Xue Rengui sent someone to inform the governor of Chongzhou to transport grain and grass, and Fan Lihua sent a fast horse to deliver the good news to Li Hao, and then they were counting the days to march.

Despite the small territory of Silla, they actually divided it into ten states, probably imitating the ten-way system of the Tang Dynasty. Fan Lihua and the others led the army to the east and then to the south. They were delayed for seven days. After all, they were all heavy cavalry, and they would sink when they encountered water. They had to build rafts to cross the river. This made their schedule even more urgent.

A month later, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui led the army into Shuozhou and marched close to the east coast, because they could avoid many rivers and rivers. They were not afraid of climbing mountains, but they were afraid of crossing rivers.

As soon as they entered Mingzhou, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui encountered the resistance of the Silla army, and it was not a small army, but an army of 12. Datang only knew that Silla had 15 troops, but in fact, what is the real strength of Silla? Maybe let Datang know that last year, they had an army of 18, and in the past year, the Prime Minister Park Zhiyong encouraged the king of Silla to conscription, and the national strength has reached [-]. It is a heavy burden for Wan's Silla. It takes a lot of money and food to raise soldiers. Fortunately, in the past few years, the sea trade has developed, and merchant ships from the Tang Dynasty often come here to do business with them. They also sent out that they can still support so many soldiers for the time being. In fact, most of the merchant ships that come to trade with them are Li Hao's merchant ships. It has been lowered several times, and it can make a lot of money by selling it to Silla at a high price. By the way, it can also fuel their ambitions and let them kill themselves. Why not do it.

Mingzhou is mountainous and the roads are rough, so it is not suitable for cavalry combat. The heavy cavalry of Tiance Mansion are difficult to exert their power. Although they defeated the Xinluo army several times, they were all escaped by the opponent. The Xinluo army seemed to have discovered that they were not the Tang army at all. The opponents, after losing 2 horses, they began to deal with Fan Lihua and the others, taking advantage of the geographical advantages to harass and ambush the Tang army.

Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui encountered a problem for a while. If they were on the plains, their iron cavalry would be able to crush all the offal in a single charge, but now the opponent doesn't confront them head-on. It's annoying.

After studying the map, Fan Lihua decided to continue marching and send a small group of troops to cover the main army. If the enemy dared to attack and harass them, they would strike back with bows and crossbows. They would never pursue and ensure that the large troops would not be disturbed. They will enter a plain, and then they will be kings.

According to Fan Lihua's plan, the march continued, but the enemy continued to send out small groups of troops to harass them in turn. The Tang army specially dispatched thousands of troops to defend on the edge. The normal rest of the large troops, just like this, marched southward step by step, and the journey was severely delayed. It had been 55 days since they set off from Chongzhou, and they only reached the central part of Mingzhou. After [-] days, they finally reached the last piece of southern Mingzhou. In the mountainous area, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui felt a little anxious. The time Li Hao had agreed with them was [-] days, now there are only five days left, and they must arrive at Jincheng within these five days.

At this moment, another [-] reinforcements were sent from Jincheng, together with the remaining [-] troops, they attacked Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui back and forth, and launched an attack.

It is not a good thing to fight in such an unfavorable terrain before going out of the mountains. Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui made a decision to set fire to the mountain, use the fire to block the enemy from behind, and then attack the enemy who just came from Jincheng to support The reinforcements rushed into the plains.

The soldiers of Tiance Mansion engaged in a bloody battle with the enemy in the mountainous area. The forest fire in the rear covered dozens of miles, but it didn't have much effect. The Silla army in the rear also arrived.

Looking at the Silla army chasing behind, Fan Lihua said solemnly: "General Xue, we don't take advantage of the right time, favorable location, and harmonious people. We can only rely on ourselves."

Xue Rengui said: "I heard Li Shikuang once said that when we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. Now we can only rely on our own courage."

Fan Lihua nodded, and said: "You can attack the front without worry, and the enemy in the rear will be handed over to me."

"it is good!"

Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui divided into two groups, one in front and the other in the back to meet the two armies of Silla. In the vast forest, the battle was raging, the sound of fighting was loud, blood stained every piece of land, just like a slaughterhouse of Shura.

When Fan Lihua and the others were fighting fiercely with the Silla army, Li Hao had already brought his fleet to the east coast of Silla, which was only a few tens of miles away from Jincheng, and arrived within a day.

This time Li Hao brought 35 Weihaiwei Navy, and used [-] Galen warships, [-] troop carriers, and [-] supplies. The supplies they brought this time are enough for them to fight here for the first half of the year. Galen Ships can be said to exist beyond this era. They are basically equivalent to aircraft carriers in the future world. A fleet of ships parked on the coast of a country is a military base. invincible position.

Naturally, the landing will not be smooth sailing. There is also a military defense line on the coast of Silla. Although it is very weak, when they found a large fleet of ships arriving, they immediately reported to Jincheng. It is only a few dozen miles away from Jincheng. It is a merchant ship, and they will send troops to expel it, not to mention such a huge fleet.

When Li Hao's fleet was a few miles away from the sea, there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses everywhere on the coast. Obviously, these soldiers and horses were definitely not here to welcome him.

Standing on the side of the boat, Li Hao looked at the densely packed army on the shore with binoculars, and said with a sneer, "A group of barbarian monkeys, wanting to use their arms as a chariot, pass on my military order, prepare for battle! Dock!"

The chess commander next to Li Hao immediately began to play the semaphore, and the person standing on the top of the mast repeated the semaphore. After receiving the order, the other ships immediately began to get busy. The small windows on both sides of the ship's side were pushed open. Lean on.Although there are no cannons on these ships, there are twenty bed crossbows on each ship, and these small windows are the shooting ports of the bed crossbows.

Seeing the Tang army's ships approaching, the Silla soldiers on the shore immediately knew that the visitors were not good, and they all moved forward with bows and arrows. As long as the ships came within range, they were ready to rain arrows.

Less than two miles away from the shore, the crew came to ask: "Sir, do you want to move forward?"

Li Hao asked: "Did you measure the depth of the water?"

The man replied: "Not yet tested!"

Li Hao said coldly: "Measure the water depth, go forward ten feet and measure again."

"Yes!"

The people on the main boat immediately began to measure the water depth. Li Hao looked at the enemy on the table indifferently. Although he had already entered the range of the bed crossbow, he was not in a hurry. Kill more enemies, these wild monkeys probably haven't seen the power of oil yet.

Soon, the soldier came to report again: "General Manager, the first measurement is ten feet and eight feet, and the second measurement is nine feet and nine feet!"

Li Haodao: "Pass my military order, go forward a hundred feet, first throw the oil tank, and then shoot the fire arrow!"

"Yes!"

Li Hao's words immediately turned into semaphore and conveyed to every ship. Li Hao silently calculated the data in his heart. Of course, what he calculated was the draft of the ship and the water depth on the coast, in case of grounding.

Galen ships are so huge, the draft is naturally larger than that of ordinary ships. If these Galen ships are empty, the draft is five meters. In order to reduce the draft of the ship, he specially used ten more ships. The ship transported [-] soldiers, and did not carry any supplies, and the draft would not exceed six meters. According to his calculations, it would be no problem for their ship to be within [-] meters of the coast, but they would not be so stupid, because that It is within the range of the bow and arrow.

Another hundred feet forward, only one mile away from the coast, the Silla army has already shot arrows at them, countless arrows across a beautiful arc, and finally fell into the sea, a little distance away from their boat.

At the same time, all the warships turned and turned sideways, aiming at the shore, and countless earthen jars shot out from the small dark windows, and smashed into pieces after landing, black oil flowed all over the ground.

"What is this?" Silla people looked at the black liquid on the ground and asked in amazement.

"Could it be oil?" Someone asked in surprise.

"Whatever it is, get out of the way!"

……

Twenty warships had more than 200 bed crossbows shooting earthen pots out, and these earthen pots were very large, like small wine jars, and a pot of oil weighed at least four or five catties. In just a moment, the coast was pitch black, almost covered in oil.

"Light it up!" Li Hao ordered, and the flag bearer played the flag.

Countless huge arrows shot out from the twenty warships, and the tops of the arrows all carried blazing flames. Even though the firing rate was so fast, the flames were not extinguished.

More than 200 fire arrows fell to the ground one after another, and the sky suddenly burst into flames on the coast. The burning Silla army was crying and howling, running around wildly. Looking from a distance, it looked like a fire dragon growing to devour the enemy.

"Send our military order to stop the ship thirty feet from the coast and land!"

(End of this chapter)