The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1281 Landing on the Beach (Continued)

Yan Xun and Sun Xiu have a clear division of labor. Sun Xiu is in charge of commanding the ships crossing the sea, while Yan Xun is in charge of commanding the landing operations.

The biggest difficulty in landing operations is that the entire beach is completely open. Japanese people can hide behind stone walls and shoot with bows and arrows. This area is almost unobstructed.

The stone wall of the Japanese people is built on a slightly higher position on the beach. This position can basically ensure that the stone wall will not be submerged by sea water even if the tide rises.

If the Han army chooses the timing to attack, it must be at high tide, when the landing point is relatively close to the stone wall. If it is at low tide, the landing point will be moved back several miles. The distance undoubtedly makes people feel like a nightmare.

Therefore, the timing of landing operations is relatively strict. It must be chosen when the sea tide is high, but the interval between high tide and low tide is usually only one or two hours. When the tide ebbs, those warships must retreat with the tide. , otherwise there is a danger of being stranded.

Whether they can break through the Japanese defense and seize a beachhead within one or two hours is the key to the success of the landing operation. Otherwise, when the sea water ebbs and the warships withdraw, the Han army stranded on the beach will fall into a trap. The point of being alone and helpless.

Therefore, after Yan Xun's fleet arrived at Tsushima Island, they did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, they sent scouting boats to conduct on-the-spot surveys of the situation around Chikushi Island, and to understand the changes in the tide in detail. In the specific situation, a relatively complete attack plan has been formulated.

Yan Xun is shrewd and capable, rigorous and meticulous, and has a good reputation for strategy. Although Yan Xun has never experienced this kind of sea crossing and landing operation, after he was ordered, he devoted himself to collecting as much information as possible around Chikushi Island, so as to achieve Know ourselves and know each other.

As for the attack plan, Yan Xun tried his best to make every detail as detailed as possible. He even went over the weapons used by the soldiers one by one to ensure that they were all equipped with excellent equipment, the ratio of troops and types, and the estimation of the attack time. Made it to the point of precision.

In the end, Yan Xun set the time for the attack at five o'clock in the morning when the sea tide was high, and all the warships sailed towards Chikushi Island at this time.

When the sky was twilight, all the sails of the Han army advanced together and approached Chikushi Island together.

At this time, the sea was so high that the tide was approaching the stone wall on the beach.

Since the big ships cannot get too close, they still rely on those small warships during the attack.In addition to the sailors, each small warship can carry thirty or forty infantrymen, and more than eighty small warships can transport two to three thousand people into the attack at a time.

Because of the first experience of crossing the sea and landing operations, the soldiers of the Han army had an inexplicable sense of excitement. When they jumped into the water from the warship, they were all alive and fighting, and the whole beach was full of people shouting and killing The sound was deafening.

The Japanese soldiers hiding behind the stone wall had just woken up from their sleep when they realized that the Han army was close in front of them. They were extremely nervous and took up weapons one after another, preparing to resist the Han army's attack.

The envoys from Yamatai made several missions to the Central Plains, and after they returned, they reported to the queen one by one the vastness of the Central Plains, the richness of the country, and the strength of the country, so the Japanese from Yamatai also knew the Central Plains dynasty quite well.

The Japanese of this era obviously cannot be compared with the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of national strength. Although the long-term wars have made the Japanese develop the tradition of being a tough folk and all the people are soldiers, crude weapons are undoubtedly their biggest shortcoming.The bows and arrows used by the Japanese are just the most common primitive bows and arrows. Most of the arrowheads are not made of iron, but bone. This kind of bow and arrow not only has a short range, but also has insufficient killing power, and cannot penetrate the Han Dynasty at all. Army armor.

The Japanese only wore ordinary sackcloth, not even iron armor, and the only iron weapons were some swords and guns, and this kind of swords and guns were limited by the level of forging, and their sharpness was greatly reduced.

The current weapons and equipment of the Han army, whether it is knives, guns, swords, halberds or crossbows, represent the highest level in the world today. Even the Roman Empire army, which is tens of thousands of miles away, cannot be compared with the Han army. .

This war was destined not to be a close contest from the very beginning. Even if the Japanese built stone walls, it would be difficult to stop the Han army's offensive.

The Han army rushed down from the warship, quickly formed several rows of columns, and launched an assault forward.The ones in the front are the shield soldiers, and the archers are the ones who cover the advance of the shield soldiers.

When the tide is high, the beach in front of the stone wall is very short. As soon as you step out of the water, you are already within the range of the archers. The archers of the Han army immediately fired a salvo. The local shot hit the stone wall.

The Japanese soldiers hid behind the stone wall, and the bows and arrows of the Han army could hardly hurt them. Of course, the Han army did not expect to be able to shoot and kill the Japanese soldiers. The main purpose was to suppress them. You can't easily use bows and arrows to block the offensive of the Han infantry.

However, what surprised the Han army was that even if the suppression effect of the Han army's archers was obvious, it was impossible to suppress the Japanese soldiers so that they couldn't even shoot an arrow. Seeing that the Han army's infantry had already advanced within the range of the bow and arrow However, the Japanese soldiers didn't shoot a single arrow, and they couldn't figure out what their intentions were.

However, since the Japanese soldiers held back, the Han army naturally accelerated their pace of attack. All the columns trotted all the way, and quickly moved towards the stone wall.

Only when the Han army advanced about fifty steps forward did the Japanese soldiers behind the stone wall shoot their first arrows. Then, sparse arrows shot out from behind the stone wall. The hard crossbow was suppressed so badly that it was difficult for the Japanese soldiers to shoot arrows on a large scale.

Most of these sporadic arrows were blocked by shields, and only a small part of them hit the soldiers of the Han army. Originally, these arrows would cause some casualties to the Han army, but it was unexpected that these arrows could not even be armored. Can't shoot through.

Many Han soldiers picked up those arrows from the ground, and they suddenly realized that these arrows were not made of iron, but made of sharpened animal bones. If the Han soldiers were wearing ordinary civilian clothes, these bone arrows might be It is possible to penetrate, but most of the soldiers of the Han army are wearing armor. How can these bone arrows penetrate these iron armors?

Seeing that the Japanese people couldn't hurt him at all, the Han army was invigorated, and rushed forward like a dragon out of water.

(End of this chapter)