Kai Fu Han

Chapter 361 Seize the opportunity
(The ones who came to Goryeo were the Second and Third Fleets, Ye Chuan, and Li Cang. There were errors and omissions in the first five chapters, which have been corrected.)
"The opportunity has come." Jiao Rui whispered when he saw the changes in the battlefield situation, and then called the special operations company behind him to follow him and rush towards the left side of the battle formation.

Bypassing the chaotic battlefield, they attacked the Chinese army where the Goryeo coach was located from the side.

They are all soldiers, and there is no special company carrying supplies or other burdens. The marching speed is very fast, which is comparable to the sprint speed of the light cavalry.

By the time the Goryeo coach discovered this small group of enemy troops, it was already too late to mobilize the troops that were suppressing the rebels to retreat and defend themselves.

Fortunately, the dozen or so personal guards were still loyal. Two guards drove the commander towards the camp, and the rest of them drew their weapons and rushed towards the special company, looking as if they were ready to die.

crackling.

More than a dozen Korean guards were easily put away, without even a slight negative impact on the charging speed of the special company. The special company continued to approach the Korean coach at high speed.

After another two breaths, the coach of the Korean Army had a knife held to his neck by Jiao Rui.

"Let them surrender." A soldier in the special company who spoke Korean spoke ordered the commander at Jiao Rui's signal.

Jiao Rui is not Cui Wu. He just knows many Chinese dialects, but no foreign languages.

"I will never obey you group of invaders." The coach of Goryeo is very tough. Like his guards, he regards death as his own.

Seeing that he could not persuade him to surrender quickly, Jiao Rui did not continue to talk nonsense, so as not to waste too much time with the coach.He turned around and ordered to the Special Forces Company soldier next to him:
"You attack from behind and shout loudly that the coach is dead. Surrender to avoid death!"

"Yes!"

More than 90 soldiers entered the battle formation from behind the Goryeo army.

The Goryeo military formation, which had already shown signs of stability, could no longer hold back after being attacked from both sides.

"The coach is dead, surrender to avoid death!"

...

Chinese, mixed with Korean, sounded one after another on the battlefield.

The Korean soldiers looked at the Chinese army. From a distance, they could see that the commander's flag had fallen to the ground; from a close distance, they could see that their commander had been held captive by a Han sergeant with a knife.

The morale of the army was immediately in chaos.

The soldiers began to flee in all directions, even the main force of the defeated soldiers was no exception.

Liu Xinqi saw this situation standing on the top of the city and knew that he had won a battle today, so he quickly dispatched a thousand marines and marines to go out of the city to help Liu Xinyuan expand his victory and gather prisoners of war.

At this time, Liu Xinyuan had already reached the gate of the Goryeo army camp.

No one organized a defense in the camp. Instead, there were soldiers fleeing everywhere. It is understandable when you think about the fact that most of the people left in the camp are logistics soldiers.

Liu Xinyuan calmly commanded the soldiers to enter the camp, collect the spoils of war, and prevent the defeated troops from taking advantage of the chaos to destroy the tents and burn the food and grass.

Liu Xinqi walked out of Zhenzhou City after gradually calming down outside the city. When he found Liu Xinyuan, he was commanding the Marines to rectify the prisoners.

There were too many Goryeo soldiers captured this time, and most of the logistics troops were blocked in the camp. A small number of the defeated soldiers outside the city were also captured. Only the cavalry battalion was able to escape due to the fast speed of its horses. .

"Preliminary statistics show that the number of prisoners has exceeded 2. Just guarding these prisoners is already too stretched for us. If Goryeo sends troops again in the future, we will definitely not be able to deal with it with ease." Liu Xinyuan reported to Liu Xinqihui, who was walking over. "Let these people clean up the battlefield, put away the camp, gather all the food and grass into Zhenzhou City, and then select some young people to come out, and let the others go." Liu Xinqi said.

The age range of the soldiers recruited by Goryeo is very wide, some are younger than 16 years old, and some are over 50 years old. Many of them can only help with the simplest hard work. Keeping them is just a waste of food. It is better to let them go back to drag Goryeo. The imperial court, by the way, promoted the "power" of the Xinghan League.

"How many people are appropriate to keep?" Liu Xinyuan asked.

"Three to 4000 people. I think among these people, this is the number of young and strong people." Liu Xinqi replied, and then asked: "I wonder how the battle situation is in the navy?"

During this battle at sea, Liu Xinyuan was in charge of the Military Intelligence Department, including the gold coins and other golden eagles in Goryeo, which were all managed by his men.

"No news has come back yet."

No news is good news.

……

There are three large islands outside the mouth of the Yeseong River, the southernmost Ganghwa Island, the westernmost Qiaodong Island and the island between the two islands.

The three islands, together with the east and west banks of the Licheng River, circled a medium-sized sea area.

The Second Fleet and the Third Fleet of the Xinghan League were anchored on the south side of the sea area, and a hundred ships of all sizes from Goryeo were anchored on the north side of the sea area, at the mouth of the Yecheng River.

"Finally, I can really try the paper kite tactics." Gao Yuan said excitedly.

"Yeah, I've been training, but I haven't tried the real combat effectiveness of this tactic." Ye Chuan was also a little impatient, but he still expressed his worries: "Is the battlefield we chose too small? Their There are more than a hundred ships to search, and if we use ship-to-sea tactics, we will still be surrounded before we can sink them all. When the time comes to join forces to fight, even if we can win, we will still suffer a lot of losses."

This sea area is fifteen miles wide from north to south and thirty miles wide from east to west. It is indeed a bit narrow for large-scale naval battles.

"Except for the ship-based artillery on the two mountain-class ships, the other artillery are squatting cannons with a very short effective shooting range, so I chose this sea area to allow us to get closer to the Goryeo warships more easily. This A small sea area is enough for us to move around. If we are in the open sea, if the enemy discovers the power of our artillery and flees in all directions, it will be difficult for us to expand the results. It is different here. The three straits are very narrow and there are reefs. If we enter Li Chengjiang, sailing against the current, the speed is slower. In this way, we can easily expand the results of the battle and beat up and cripple the Korean Navy in one go."

Gao Yuan did not explain the problem of close combat.

When the muskets of later generations could fire continuously, soldiers still had to be trained in their melee combat ability, let alone now.Although there are artillery, close combat will be the main training subject and combat method of the warships of the Xinghan League for a long time to come.

Navy officers and soldiers must be given the courage to dare and be willing to engage in close combat, and the courage to engage in close combat with the enemy.

"They moved!" Ye Chuan reminded.

Gao Yuan also saw it and ordered loudly:

"Set sail! Prepare for battle!"

The fleets of the two armies began to approach slowly. When they were five miles apart, the warships of the Xinghan League began to move to the left to seize the upper wind.

After the advent of artillery, seizing the upper hand began to become particularly important during naval battles.

It is difficult for a sailboat to move forward against the wind. Sailing against the wind requires constant adjustment of the course and constant "zigs" on the sea surface, so that the total course of the ship can be maintained forward against the wind.

(End of this chapter)