Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 869 Battle at Sea
After the drum beat three times, the sea was completely silent, only the big navy flag fluttering in the sea breeze.Liu Jinyuan had already dressed neatly, standing on the deck of the flagship, watching the Cochin approaching like a war.He squinted at the direction in which the flag was flying, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "We are in the upper hand."

"Who wants to ask them why they came?" Liu Jinyuan asked sharply without looking back at his subordinates behind him.

"The villain is willing to go." It was Jingquan Saburo who requested the order. He had come to Cochin Kingdom to run business before and had experience in dealing with Cochin people. He also wanted to perform well in front of Liu Jinyuan, make great contributions, and get rid of his status as a slave. , Really become a staff officer in the navy.

"Very good, then you can go!" Liu Jinyuan gave Jingquan Sanlang an approving glance, and with a wave of his hand, some soldiers put down the boat, hoisted Jingquan Saburo off, and sailed towards the Jiaozhi fleet.

"55 enemy ships, 25 fighting ships, and [-] walking ships!" Suddenly, the soldiers on the lookout shouted loudly.

"Are you going?!" Liu Jinyuan frowned.

"Legion Commander, our army is full of large sailing ships. It will be very disadvantageous if the enemy walks close to the collision." Su Zengshu said worriedly.

"I see." Liu Jinyuan raised his hand and shouted sharply: "Notify all ships, prepare to meet the enemy, and listen to my orders to attack!" Giving such an order obviously did not take the life and death of Jingquan Saburo to heart.

The Cochin people had obviously discovered the large-scale fleet that appeared in front of them. They stopped at the farthest point of sight, as if hesitating for something.Such a large and neat fleet is very rare on the seas of this era!No one dared to act recklessly and provoke powerful enemies for no reason. "Maybe they are going to give up." The same thought came to everyone's mind.However, after a short pause, the Jiaozhi people began to change their formation. Thirty ships advanced forward and lined up in a horizontal line, while 25 fighting ships stood behind and lined up in a column.

"The Jiaozhi people want to rush forward with walking boats, and the escort battleships will attack." Liu Jinyuan said, and as soon as the words fell, the Jiaozhi fleet began to approach again.

"It's not a good intention." Su Zengshu took a deep breath in his heart and said, "Commander, the Cochin people are still approaching, obviously they have bad intentions. It's a pity that Jingquan Sanlang still has some uses."

"It's just a Japanese. If you die, you will die. It's too late." Liu Jinyuan looked up at Jingquan Sanlang's boat, and said coldly: "I wanted to do business with them for a long time. Let's talk about the sailors who have disabled them!"

Su Zengshu thought for a while and said: "If the information we collected before is not wrong, Jiaozhi today is the Great Quyue Kingdom. It was built by the Ding Buling when the Song Dynasty destroyed the Southern Han Dynasty. It only took three or four years. Thinking about it, their national strength and military strength are not much stronger."

Liu Jinyuan nodded, expressing his deep understanding.

However, they didn't know that Li Huan, the commander of the ten generals of the Great Quyue Kingdom, was undergoing a mutiny, and now the Great Quyue Kingdom was undergoing civil strife.Ding Buling and Li Huan, the emperors of the Great Quyue Kingdom, each led an army to compete for the world.But the people Liu Jinyuan sent ashore encountered rebel soldiers as soon as they went up, and they were killed in a daze.

China has been known as the Jiaozhi Kingdom for many years in this era.This is because as early as the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom, and established the three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan in northern Vietnam to implement direct administrative management.For more than 1000 years after the original history, although there were repeated resistances in the Jiaozhi area, it has generally been under the direct jurisdiction of various dynasties of ancient Chinese regimes.From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the troubled times of the Five Dynasties, Wu Quan was split from the Southern Han regime at that time. Since then, the northern Jiaozhi area bid farewell to the rule of the Chinese Empire for more than 1000 years, but the country name and year name were not established.

Later, about ten years after the founding of the Song Dynasty, Ding Buling conquered the separatist forces in the territory by force and established the country name Da Quyue. Two years later, he proclaimed himself emperor and used Taiping as the year name. He set his capital in Hoa Lu. The beginning of China's independence.Later, after the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, he accepted the canonization of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin as the king of Jiaozhi County and officially listed as the vassal king.But it didn't take long for Li Huan to rebel and establish the former Li Dynasty.However, after the Li Dynasty existed for more than ten years, Li Gongyun established the Li Dynasty and moved the capital to Thang Long.

More than 100 years later, Chen Yu established the Chen Dynasty.The Jiaozhi Kingdom with Daluo City as its capital, during the Song Chunxi period, China canonized Li Rixiu as the King of Annan, and then renamed it the Annan Kingdom.Later, the male heirs of the Li Dynasty were cut off, and the daughter succeeded to the throne, giving birth to a son Chen Rixuan, and then turned into the Chen Dynasty. Except for China, they called themselves kings, and they were called emperors internally and to other countries.

However, when he established himself as a country, the emperor of Jiaozhi Kingdom called himself King of Dayue in front of his own people, and "King of Jiaozhi County" in front of Song State.And with the prestige of China, bullying Champa and other countries, to be a small overlord in the south.For the successive emperors of the Cochin Kingdom, whether it was the submission to the Song Dynasty or the bullying of Champa, it was nothing more than a strategy for the survival of a small country.

"Legion Commander, Saburo Izumi's boat has boarded the Cochin's big boat, but their fleet hasn't stopped yet."

A cold light flickered in Liu Jinyuan's eyes, looking at the Cochin fleet, his lips were tightly closed like iron.The Cochin fleet is getting closer and clearer...

"Legion Commander, the Cochin's fleet is within range of the giant crossbow guns and catapults!"

Liu Jinyuan's pupils suddenly narrowed, he stared fiercely at the fleet in front of him, gritted his teeth, pulled out his knife fiercely, and shouted: "Triangle wing array, attack!"

"Boom, boom, boom!" The sound of attacking drums broke the silence of the sea. Dozens of catapults shot gunpowder packages at the Jiaozhi fleet, but the sea was shaking from side to side, and Liu Jinyuan's sailors were operating far away. It is far from being able to compare with the army's trebuchet company far away in Xiangfu country. The accuracy is much worse. Only about one-fifth of it landed on the boat of Jiaozhi country. It was blown up, and the ship gradually sank amidst the screams of the sailors above.After the catapult, the giant crossbow gun immediately fired the muskets flying all over the sky at the Cochin fleet, and several Cochin walking boats immediately ignited raging fire!
The Cochin people did not expect that they would be suddenly attacked by the helpers they mistook for the enemy outside the range they understood. This was the first time in their lives that they encountered a column lined up on the sea for a naval battle. The enemy, the chief general of Cochin, who originally decided to attack because he laughed at the stupidity of the opponent's formation, was stunned by the firepower he had never "enjoyed" for a while, and he didn't remember how to command and deal with it.Some of the Jiaozhi walking warships rushed towards Liu Jinyuan's side more bravely, some retreated hurriedly, and some stopped in place, not knowing what to do.

Liu Jinyuan kept a sullen face and silently observed the situation on the battlefield. Seeing the success of the first wave of attack, the sailors under his command immediately boosted their morale and shouted loudly.

"Keep in formation, don't leave the team to attack, use the side of the ship to aim at the protruding enemy ships, and attack them!" Liu Jinyuan's order was accurately conveyed to each ship by the semaphore, and the navy of Xiangfu Kingdom who was far away overseas began Concentrate firepower on the three walking boats that rushed out, and under the attack of such intensive firepower, the three walking boats ignited raging flames in an instant.The soldiers screamed and jumped out of the boat to escape, but any sailors from the Cochin Kingdom who approached were mercilessly shot and killed in the water by the crossbowmen.

The sacrifice of these three ships was not meaningless. The leader of Jiaozhi finally came to his senses. Except for the severely injured ships in the first wave, there were [-] other walking ships that regrouped and divided into two teams to attack. Facing the two wings of Liu Jinyuan's side, the fifteen fighting ships bypassed from the farther wings, as if they wanted to attack from the flanks.As expected of the dominant fleet in the south, although the Jiaozhi Navy was surprised by Liu Jinyuan's long-range attack capabilities, especially the explosive gunpowder packs that were unheard of, they were not intimidated. They just wanted to avoid the most intensive firepower in the middle the sea area.The oarsmen desperately paddled their wooden oars and rushed towards Liu Jinyuan's side.

"Do you think you still have a numerical advantage? My fleet is much stronger than yours!" Liu Jinyuan sneered in his heart, and calmly issued an order: "One team becomes two teams, keep the column unchanged, and attack the enemy separately. Pay attention The movement of the enemy battleship!"

"Legion Commander, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to divide the troops!" Su Zengshu said.

"Execute." Liu Jinyuan sternly shouted.

"Follow the order!"

However, when Liu Jinyuan's side changed from one team to two teams, there were serious problems.The Dajiang gang was originally a gang on the Yangtze River, and most of the gang were sailors who were proficient in water warfare. Although there were differences between the river and the sea, the six months of sea training had already made up for this deficiency.

And Liu Jinyuan's own talent, especially his ability to master water warfare, is beyond doubt. He created the original tactic of delta double-wing column to take advantage of the long-range firepower of his own sailing ship. This is already a remarkable achievement.

However, the time it took for him to form a naval division was still too short, especially since this was the first time he had fought against an enemy of the same size, and the soldiers were also a little nervous, so the fleet had four or five ships in the process of turning into two teams to gain the upper hand. Made the lowest paper mistake and they turned in the wrong direction!Two other boats also had a minor collision.The first casualty on the side of Xiangfu Kingdom was accidentally injured by himself. A soldier happened to collide with the corner of the ship and was killed on the spot.

Taking advantage of the chaos of Liu Jinyuan's navy, the cochin-walking boat rushed up frantically, and the sharp horns of the ship slammed into the hulls of several naval ships. The ship immediately cracked, and the sea water rushed go in!If Liu Jinyuan's ship had not adopted the design of watertight compartments, it would have sunk long ago.

(End of this chapter)