Turbulent Times Chapter 1039: Baekling Island is lost

The four hundred people were led by Zhang Tiangang. Taking advantage of the hesitation of the Koguryo people who lined up in front of the prison city, he led a hundred master guards and three hundred elite soldiers and rushed up. The shield is a weapon, and it has its own battle formation. The other 300 elite soldiers lined up with long spears and crossbows in front, and 100 of them held short knives and light shields scattered behind the sides to cover the two wings.

Four hundred people rushed to the distance of thirty or fifty paces in one go, and the crossbowmen fired arrows and shot. The swordmen, bayonetmen and spearmen, under the cover of the high shield, rushed forward bravely to engage the enemy.

The Goguryeo people lined up in front of the stronghold confirmed at this time that the 400 people rushing over were indeed enemies in disguise. They watched the Goguryeo people approaching from both sides, and the Goguryeo people who were caught off guard shot arrows scatteredly, and then looked at the fleet approaching Bailing Island in the distance The menacing attack, coupled with the fighting strength shown by these four hundred people, startled them. They did not dare to fight in the wild, and hurriedly retreated into the prison city in a panic.

The generals who commanded the two thousand troops of Goguryeo retreated into the stronghold, saw the strength of the four hundred enemies, and disregarded that there were still more than a hundred people who failed to retreat, and shouted loudly: "Close the gate, quickly lock the gate death; everyone in the city climbed up the wall and shot arrows vigorously, and it was possible to save more than a hundred brothers from outside."

"Propagate the order to burn the wolf smoke. Several piles of wolf smoke are burned. The Sui people's fleet is so big that there may be more than 2,000 people. Tell the brothers that as long as they hold for two days, the prime minister will send reinforcements... ...Defend Bailing Island, and all the crimes you committed before will be wiped out, and you will be popular and hot, Japanese girls, playing whores, free and easy, if you can't keep it, wait for your head to fall!"

This Goguryeo general is a shrewd person. He would rather lose more than a hundred people, and decisively close the gate of the prison city first. It is difficult to capture the stronghold.

Seeing the rain of arrows on the wall of the stronghold gradually increasing, Wang Junlin couldn't wait to kill all the enemy soldiers outside the gate of the prison, so he made people blow the horn and ordered four hundred people to retreat to the place where the arrows were shot and lined up. Hiding behind the high shield, he shot and killed the enemy soldiers outside the prison gate, so that they would not have the opportunity to escape into the prison city.

At this time, the main force of the fleet anchored in the shallow sea at the northeast corner of Baekling Island, and the sentinel ships spread out their vigilance; King's Landing landed on the island.

"Damn it, the Goguryeo people are really ruthless. They left more than a hundred people outside and rushed to close the gate of the prison. They didn't take it all at once. This is really a hard fight. It's gone." Zhang Tiangang ran back and said bitterly.

Wang Junlin frowned slightly, turned to Liu Yidong next to him and said solemnly: "Liu Yidong, if you are fully responsible, how do you think this battle will be fought?"

"My lord, we also know the reality of the prison city. There are high grounds on both sides of the prison city. We can use high shields to cover it. We can build an earthen platform near the prison city and remove the pallets on the ship. Build a cloud bridge in between, and use the cloud bridge to forcefully attack the prison city..." Liu Yidong already had a plan for attacking the prison city in his mind.

Wang Junlin nodded, and said: "Dismantle five long-range crossbows from the ship and attack the prison gate and the front wall of the prison city to attract the bandits. Easier."

"My lord, it would be even better if we could just dismantle a few catapults and smash open the gate of the village..." Wang Junlin said.

"It's just this small prison city, the gates are so dilapidated that we can't use catapults." Wang Junlin shook his head and continued, "Besides, it is very troublesome to disassemble the catapults on the ship. It is possible to penetrate through the city gate, but the prison city is relatively close to the coast, and a ship with a thousand stones is approaching the port, so it is absolutely possible to attack the prison city with projectiles from the boat."

The catapults of this era all use manpower or heavy objects to pull the tip and tail violently, launch stone bullets, and throw them at the enemy's line. None of these types of catapults can be installed on ships.

Because the catapult launched by manpower needs space for people to run and yank the tip of the crossbow, which requires a distance of dozens of steps. The maximum length of the deck is only about 20 steps, and it is impossible to install a human-launched catapult, let alone other warships.

The reason why the catapult designed by Nie Xiaoyu can be used on warships is to use a heavy object to yank the tip of the crossbow to launch stone projectiles. At that moment, the heavy object slammed down, pulled the tip of the crossbow, and threw the stone bullet in the tip of the crossbow.

Moreover, the catapult designed by Nie Xiaoyu is small in size, and when launching the stone bomb, it will not produce a huge vertical drop force that destroys the deck, so it can be installed on the ship for water warfare. One of my secret weapons.

The beacon smoke ignited in the prison city went straight to Yunxiao, almost hundreds of feet high. But just now, the combat power shown by the 100 master guards leading the 300 spirits frightened the Goguryeo people in the prison city. In addition, the two thousand people were able to return to Baekling Island, which shows where Dami Island is. Their plan has failed. Originally, the two thousand of them were to ambush Wang Junlin and his party who fled here from Dami Island.

So while the Goguryeo people chose to defend the city, they hoped that Prime Minister Yuan Tae-joo would send reinforcements to arrive in time.

Soon, Liu Yidong was ready to forcibly attack the prison city.

On the high ground south of the Bailing Island stronghold, five long-range crossbows were erected.

In addition, Liu Yidong mobilized six one-thousand-stone warships, and the catapults on them contained loose stone bullets in their pouches, and they were also ready to throw the prison city.

After a burst of onslaught, the gate of the prison city began to shake, and the catapults on the six thousand-stone warships fired stone bullets. The heavy round stone bullet was thrown at a distance of four to five hundred steps, shaking the city wall of the prison city. The Goguryeo people on the city wall were hit by more than a dozen people, and their flesh was bleeding immediately. Seeing that their lives were in danger, others The Goguryeo people were so frightened that they had to retreat from the city wall.

The consciousness of controlling the sea has not been formed in the thoughts of the monarchs and ministers of various countries in this era, even in a pure island country like the Wa Kingdom.

Among the current emperors and military generals, although some people were aware of the existence of naval warfare as a form of warfare, the Sui Dynasty also had three navy divisions, and Goguryeo had 30,000 navy divisions in the south and 10,000 navy divisions in the north because it faced the sea on both sides. . Baekje and Silla also planned to build water battalion boats along the coast, but including the Sui Dynasty, the main purpose was to guard against pirates.