Chapter 318: Destroy the Japanese
【Liu Renyuan and Sun Renshi's fishing operation was quite effective.
Because they were worried that Zhouliu City would be broken, the 40,000 Japanese troops came quickly and urgently.
The vanguard was very brave. The moment they saw the Tang army, they drove the boat to charge, and then smashed themselves.
The floating corpses and ship fragments on the river made the Japanese army instantly deflated and retreated.
The Tang army did not pursue, but continued to block the Baekgang River.
Liu Rengui thought clearly that this battle was the simplest tactic of besieging and attacking reinforcements, and he was not afraid that the Japanese army would not attack.
Moreover, the Japanese army had 40,000 troops, while the Tang army in Baekje had less than 20,000 troops, and now that they had divided their troops, the Tang army in Baekgang River had less than 10,000 troops, and they were not superior in terms of numbers.
When the main force of the Japanese army arrived the next day, the Japanese army, which had gathered together, was full of confidence again:
In terms of numbers, we have 40,000 people, and the Tang army has less than 10,000.
In terms of warships, we have more than 1,000 ships, and the Tang army has 170.
The Japanese generals even boasted that if we charge together, the Tang army will flee in fear!
The advantage is on the Japanese!
So the Japanese army launched another charge without fear, but this wave of charge was quickly cut off by the Tang army, which was as immovable as a mountain.
After the Japanese army rowed their famous boats hard to get close, they found that the Tang warships were so big that they could not be hurt even if they collided with them.
Moreover, there were many weapons on the Tang warships that they had never heard of, which could easily smash the Japanese warships.
The Japanese army that fell into the water was also desperate. The Tang warships were too tall and large, and they couldn't even climb on board.
After the Japanese army's charge was cut off, more than 170 Tang warships divided their troops and encircled from both sides, but surrounded thousands of Japanese ships instead.
The Tang army's large ships formed a complete encirclement network, forcing the Japanese warships to squeeze together, and then the Tang army, which was in the upwind position, began to launch rockets, kerosene bombs, etc.
The Japanese commander Park Ichida Laijin gnashed his teeth in hatred and rushed to the front line to engage in a boarding battle with the Tang army's small warships to boost morale, but was chopped into two by the Tang warriors with his sword.
The ship caught fire, the commander died in battle, and countless Japanese soldiers fell into the water and drowned in panic. The warships were connected and squeezed each other, making it difficult to withdraw from the battlefield. They could only watch the fire spread and burn the ships one after another.
Thick smoke rushed to the sky, and the blazing fire reflected the waves. More than 400 warships turned into fuel on the sea. In this battle alone, the Japanese expeditionary force was completely written off.
Seeing that the reinforcements also turned into a bubble, Zhou Liucheng's desperate Baekje Restoration Army could only choose to surrender. Only then was Baekje completely eliminated from the list.
After four victories, 400 of their ships were burned, smoke and flames rose to the sky, the sea water was all red, and the bandits were defeated.
This is all the records of this battle in the Old Book of Tang. It is only 21 words, concise and to the point, which has always been the style of Chinese history:
It was just another mediocre victory.
But if we look at it from a higher perspective, the significance of this battle is extremely far-reaching.
In the short term, this battle truly determined who had the final say in East Asia and laid the foundation for the political structure of East Asia with the Tang Dynasty as the absolute core.
In the long term, this battle reversed the development direction of Japan with an extremely violent attitude, thus determining the direction of East Asian history for a thousand years.
Liu Rengui is also the first person in history to truly destroy Japan. 】
Blinking his eyes, Kong Ming felt that he had tasted some tricks:
"Naval warfare is not like land warfare."
Kong Ming said carefully:
"Compared to the number of people, the ship's combat power can determine the direction of the naval battle... No, it should be said that the gap in engineering."
"Just like the giant boat used to win Jingxiang, if a decisive battle is fought on the river, thousands of boats can't do anything to a giant boat, and there is no need for a giant crossbow. It can crush the small boat straight back and forth."
The more he deduced, the more excited Kong Ming became:
"And if the giant crossbow on the boat shoots not crossbow arrows, but iron cannons with the help of gunpowder..."
Kong Ming could imagine that if it really existed, it would probably take only one ship to destroy all the navy in Jiangdong!
The future that is within reach has been presented to Kong Ming, and at this moment Kong Ming's whole body is excited from the inside out.
In this life, as long as I can help the younger generation to find a way in engineering, it will be enough!
And if this road is to be successful, mathematics is indispensable, but... this is destined to be a difficult process.
Even from the perspective of science, Kong Ming and Liu Ba have studied and discussed many times, and finally concluded that today's mathematics is quite scattered, and it is difficult to call it "science". Instead, it is more like "art", far from "Tao".
Just like a seed from falling into the soil to germination to fruiting, whether it is Jiuzhang or Zhoubi, the works written by the ancient sages are more like descriptions of the fruit of this seed.
He and Liu Ba are like blind people, following the fruit and touching back, they can only touch the leaves.
But through the connection between it and science in later generations, and its subordinate status, mathematics should have another most important "root stem", and now the problem is that we don't know how to touch this root stem.
Kong Ming and Liu Ba are not the only ones who have this problem. For example, Zhang Song found a set of bamboo slips called "Arithmetic Book" lost in Shu for them. It is said that it was passed from Guanzhong before and after Emperor Wu, and it has been collected and preserved by the big family to this day.
After Kong Ming and Liu Ba copied it together and corrected the errors, they realized that this book was derived from the Nine Chapters. The anonymous author tried to summarize these "fruits" into a common root and make a book of mathematics, but unfortunately he did not do it.
Later, two fragments were obtained, named "Xu Shang Suan Shu" and "Du Zhong Suan Shu", which more or less showed the same troubles of these mathematical authors, but...
Seeing Kong Ming sighing over there, Pang Tong was a little anxious.
He could see that Kong Ming seemed to be a little more diligent in studying the knowledge of later generations, but now he couldn't even keep up with Kong Ming's ideas.
So Pang Tongyi was a little angry for a while, wasn't it just arithmetic? When I left this time, I borrowed a set and read it a few times. If you don’t believe me, I’ll give it a try!
He wants to fight for the name of Feng Chu!
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In the Manna Palace.
Li Shi𪟝 saw Liu Rengui's record and thought to himself:
My position as chief naval officer... and it turned out to be true.
Li Shimin's reaction was quite direct. He patted Liu Rengui on the shoulder:
"Zhengze, do you want to try joining the navy?"
Li Shimin is very familiar with this kind of problem. In the words of later generations, he has money in hand and a set of combo punches:
"Goguryeo had the heart of a jackal and a fox, and repeatedly violated borders and refused to surrender. Baekje and Silla were both snakes and rats. They were humble to Goguryeo, professed vassalage to us, Tang, and secretly colluded with the Japanese."
First, Akatsuki showed a heavy color, and then he chose the worst guess:
"If left unchecked, Goguryeo might devour Silla and Baekje. When it unifies the Korean peninsula, it will surely be greedy and greedy for the Central Plains."
"If they gain the old territory of Baekje, they can attack Hebei from the north and Jiangsu and Zhejiang from the south with just sampans. The danger of pirates will gradually arise, and the soldiers will have to run for their lives."
Liu Rengui's face also became heavy. At this time, he could probably understand the map. After suppressing his surprise and curiosity about future generations, looking at the map, he had to admit that the speculation mentioned by His Majesty was indeed very likely to happen.
"Of course!" Li Shimin said with high spirits:
"Now there is a navy training troops in Yizhou. Once the navy is successful, it will be able to dominate Jinghai. It is a pity that our Tang Dynasty does not lack generals on horseback."
"The Duke of Du Shao on the Du Shao naval ship."
The meaning of the words was too obvious, so Liu Rengui was so excited that he almost asked for orders on the spot:
"I invite you to go to Yizhou to quell the invaders and open up the frontiers. I am willing to go to the sea to quell the invaders of Jinghai!"
After all, no matter how you think about it, if what this light screen said is true, it would have been a waste of half your life. In the end, you still offended the traitor and was sent to the Korean Peninsula to become famous in the first battle. However, there are too many accidents in it, and one cannot really make it happen. It's like burying your bones in a foreign land.
If that's the case, then he might as well take the initiative to become a sea master. Maybe he is really talented in this area!
Li Shimin nodded happily and called it a day!
So he immediately pulled Liu Rengui up with a smile:
"I know Zheng Zhongjia's heart very well."
If one ignores the sad-looking Li Shi𪟝 next to him, this would be a beautiful picture of a monarch and his ministers getting along well with each other.
[If we look back again, the suppression of the four parties by the Tang Dynasty in the early Tang Dynasty largely opened up the technological generation gap with the surrounding small countries.
Mingguang Armor and Tang Dao are already among the best, and the same is true for battleships. First of all, the gap is widened in terms of ship size and safety.
According to the wreckage of Tang Dynasty ships unearthed today, the length is generally close to 20 meters, the width is basically maintained at about five or six meters, and they generally have watertight compartments.
Even if the Japanese warship carried broken jade on board, it would only break open one or two watertight compartments, which would pose little threat to the overall safety of the ship.
In addition, there is a huge disparity in firepower. The best among them is the supreme masterpiece of the Tang Dynasty building ship:
Wuyalou ship battleship. 】