Chapter 303: The Third King of Jin, First Arrival on the Battlefield

Pyongyang, the capital of the Goguryeo Dynasty, is located in the middle and west of the Goguryeo Peninsula, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side. Its geographical location is extremely advantageous.

Nampo Port on the west coast of the peninsula is the headquarters of the Goguryeo Dynasty's naval fleet and the estuary of the Taedong River.

One hundred miles east of Nampo Port is the location of Pyongyang, the capital of the Goguryeo Dynasty.

After bypassing the Changshan Islands, the Tang Dynasty's naval fleet is marching towards Nampo Port.

At dawn on March 21, the Goguryeo Navy Camp in Nampo Port.

The Goguryeo Navy soldier who was on duty on the watchtower of the Navy Camp was yawning and leaning on the guardrail of the watchtower, half-closed his eyes and drowsy.

Suddenly, a biting sea breeze blew, causing the drowsy guard to shiver and wake up instantly. He instinctively wrapped his clothes to keep warm.

Then, he yawned and subconsciously looked up at the sea.

Just this glance almost frightened the Goguryeo navy soldier so much that he stumbled and fell off the watchtower.

The weather in Nampo Port today was very good, and the visibility on the sea was so high that the Goguryeo navy soldier standing on the watchtower more than ten meters high could see more than ten nautical miles away with his naked eyes.

It seemed that a mighty navy fleet appeared out of thin air on the sea outside Nampo Port, and hundreds of warships were marching in an orderly manner on the sea, approaching Nampo Port.

"Ah!"

The Goguryeo navy soldier cursed and spat, thinking that he was seeing things too hard, and rubbed his eyes hard with both hands;

Looking again, the navy fleet that appeared out of thin air on the sea did not disappear, but was getting closer and closer.

"Enemy attack--"

Almost subconsciously, the Goguryeo soldier who first discovered the Tang navy fleet had a sharp voice with trembling and crying.

Wow!

After a moment of silence, several Goguryeo navy soldiers on duty on the watchtowers discovered the Tang navy fleet coming through the waves on the sea.

"Enemy attack--"

For a moment, the sound of the enemy attack resounded over the early morning sky of Nampo Port.

Next, the Goguryeo navy officers and soldiers on the watchtowers quickly took action, beating the war drums and blowing the horns. The shrill warnings awakened countless Goguryeo navy officers and soldiers who were sleeping.

In the central army tent, Gao Wu, the admiral of the Goguryeo navy and the half-brother of the current treasure king Gao Zang, who was sleeping soundly, was also awakened from his sweet dream by the shrill warnings in the camp.

"Ah Xi!"

Gao Wu, whose sweet dream was disturbed, was impatient, but he had to get up with a belly full of anger.

"Report--"

"Report to the Grand Admiral, unidentified naval ships have been found at sea, there are hundreds of them, and they are attacking our naval camp in Nampo Port at full speed!"

At this time, the panicked voice of the messenger came from outside the big tent.

Jump!

The next moment, Gao Wu, the admiral of the Goguryeo Navy, who had originally stood up from the bed cursing, jumped up as if he had been electrocuted.

He didn't care whether his disheveled image would affect his majesty in the hearts of the soldiers, and rushed to the door of the big tent in two steps;

After lifting the heavy door curtain, he grabbed the messenger's collar, stared with a pair of bull eyes, and roared angrily: "Did you see clearly, which country's naval fleet is coming?"

The messenger replied tremblingly: "Reply, report to the Grand Admiral, the enemy's naval fleet is still more than ten nautical miles away from the port, and the soldiers on duty can't judge yet. Which country's navy is it!"

"Ahhh!"

Gao Wu yelled and pushed the messenger away, angrily saying: "A bunch of good-for-nothings, the enemy has already hit the doorstep, but you haven't even figured out the identity of the enemy;"

"Who is the captain responsible for the coastal patrol? This governor must chop off his head..."

"What are you still standing there for? Help this governor put on armor and meet the enemy!"

Gao Wu kept yelling, and at the same time, he did not forget to change his clothes and put on armor with the help of the messenger.

Soon, Gao Wu, who had finished putting on his armor, grabbed his sword and rushed out of the central army tent without even washing his face, and did not forget to order: "Come here——"

"Send this general's order, the front army will immediately board the ship and set sail to the sea to fight, and the central army will stay in the camp and be ready to reinforce at any time;"

"Send a messenger back to Pyongyang City immediately to report the news of the enemy fleet's attack and request the king to send troops to reinforce;"

"Quick, quick, quick——"

In fact, there was no need for the admiral Gao Wu to give orders. The deputy generals and lieutenants in the Goguryeo Navy Camp took action as soon as they heard the warning from the watchtower.

Teams of Goguryeo Navy officers and soldiers were rushing out of the camp and boarding the warships in an orderly manner, and then they were making orderly preparations to set sail and set sail.

After all preparations were ready, under the command of the warship captain, the warships were driven out of the port one by one and headed towards the aggressive Tang Navy fleet.

However, because of the hasty response, the warships of the Goguryeo Navy fleet in Nampo Port were unable to gather into a battle formation to cover each other and launch a counterattack against the Tang Navy fleet.

It was somewhat like a "refueling tactic", with three or five ships rushing up.

The warships of the Goguryeo Navy were similar to those equipped by the Daxin Dynasty Navy. They were all the most popular wooden warships at the time, with iron sheets and copper nails wrapped around the bow and sides to increase the protection of the warships.

In terms of weapons, crossbows and crossbow cannons were the main weapons, and the soldiers' melee weapons were cold weapons such as swords, spears, and halberds.

Except for officers above the rank of 100 households, as well as the personal soldiers of the naval governor and a number of deputy generals and lieutenant generals, other soldiers were only qualified to wear armor, and other soldiers only had cloth armor and cotton armor.

In contrast, the Tang Navy Fleet was far superior to the Goguryeo Navy Fleet in terms of the size of the warships, the equipment of weapons and equipment, and the equipment of the grassroots naval officers and soldiers.

The warships of the Tang Navy Fleet, regardless of any model, were equipped with red cannons; the 180,000 naval officers and soldiers, except for technical arms such as sailors, even the baggage soldiers were equipped with black armor;

In addition, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian also specially approved the Shenjiying musket team to board the ship, with a full 10,000 three-eyed magic guns for the naval officers and soldiers to use.

From the generation gap of weapons alone, the Tang Navy Fleet was enough to crush the Goguryeo Navy.

In terms of the total number of troops, the Tang Navy fleet that went to Goguryeo this time had a total of 18000 officers and soldiers, while the Goguryeo Navy had only 50000.

Therefore, this naval battle between the Tang Navy fleet and the Goguryeo Navy was a one-sided crushing battle, both in terms of weapons and equipment and the number of troops.

Let's get back to the story.

On March 21st of the first year of the Tang Dynasty's Zhaowu reign, the battle between the Tang Navy fleet and the Goguryeo Navy officially started at 3:30 in the morning.

This naval confrontation between the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo was one-sided from the beginning.

Rather than a battle, it was a one-sided massacre at sea.

Swish, swish, swish, swish--

Boom, boom, boom!

On the sea outside Nampo Port, the sound of the red cannon shells breaking through the air and the explosion of the shells hitting the Goguryeo Navy warships came one after another, continuously.

Some of them failed to hit the warships of the Goguryeo Navy, but fell into the shrapnel on the sea surface. The water splashed after the explosion was like a column, which was particularly dazzling under the morning light.

Facing the red cannons equipped on the warships of the Tang Navy fleet, the officers and soldiers of the Goguryeo Navy, who were only equipped with crossbows and crossbows, were beaten to the point that they could only defend themselves and had no power to fight back.

The few arrows and stone cannons shot at the warships of the Tang Navy fleet could hardly cause effective damage to the officers and soldiers of the Tang Navy who were armed to the teeth.

On the deck of the Tang Navy's super warship "Miewo", Chen Longxiang, the third King of Jin, wearing golden armor and carrying two drum-shaped golden hammers on his shoulders, watched coldly as the Goguryeo warships on the sea were sunk to the bottom of the sea by the powerful firepower of the red cannon;

Then, he issued his first order as the vanguard commander of the Tang Navy fleet: "Come here——"

"Pass on this general's order, the Miewo advances at full speed, tears a hole in the enemy's navy warships, and directly hits the Goguryeo Navy camp in Nampo Port;"

"Use flag signals to command the warships of the front army to follow the route opened by the Miewo and prepare to land on the beach. There must be no mistakes!"

"I have received the order!"