Chapter 436 True Face
"But Your Highness, this is not exposed. Read М" Zhou Yi said.
He was worried that if the news was passed back, Beidi would cancel the plan to go south by sea.
Zhao Xu sneered, "Be braver, since we have fought, will we give them the opportunity to go back and inform them?"
Before today, the King of Yan strictly prohibited them from clashing with the Goryeo warships.
Now that the King of Yan said so, he was just looking forward to it. Just now, he was just testing.
Now with the order of the King of Yan, his eyes flashed with cold light as he looked at the Goryeo warships.
At this time, the six warships from Goryeo seemed to have seen Zhao Xu and his party, but these Goryeo warships not only did not retreat, but rushed over here.
"Your Highness, it's dangerous here, you should hide in the cabin for a while." Zhou Yi said to Zhao Xu.
"This king has fought so many battles, and I have seen all kinds of battles. Don't worry." Zhao Xu said.
He had been on the battlefield several times, and his courage had been sharpened.
Now, even if there are thousands of troops, he will remain calm.
Zhou Yi and Gong Ying couldn't help but admire him when they heard this.
In the royal army, the admiration of the King of Yan from the generals to the soldiers was indeed not out of thin air.
In a dangerous moment, he can live and die with the soldiers. This is the wise master they deserve to serve.
Ignoring the two, Zhao Xu looked at the Goryeo warship across the way through the telescope.
This is a typical Goryeo building ship, which was learned from Dasong.
This building ship is huge in size and can carry nearly a hundred people. It has a slow sailing speed, but only dozens of sailors can operate it flexibly in battle. The Goryeo navy often uses the building ship as the main warship.
Continuing to observe, Zhao Xu saw more than a hundred Goryeo soldiers on the deck of the building ship. Some of these soldiers were holding bows and arrows, some were holding swords, and some archers were shooting at fishing boats.
The building ship is not a sailing warship. The main power comes from the wood pulp in the lower cabin and the large hard sails on it.
At this time, the oars under the tower ship were being shaken by the boatmen inside the ship to chase the fishing boats.
"Your Highness, are we going to attack now?" Zhou Yi said.
Zhao Xu was a little surprised, and he said: "These Goryeo soldiers are interesting? Didn't they see our warships? Why are they so arrogant?"
"Your Highness, these Goryeo soldiers probably thought we were merchant ships, because there have never been warships in Yanzhou, and there are not many soldiers on our deck, neither wearing armor nor holding swords." Zhou Yi said.
Zhao Xu nodded, and he said: "In this case, let's play with these Goryeo warships. Now we will disguise ourselves as merchant ships and wait for the king's orders."
"Yes, Your Highness." Zhou Yi said.
The fishing boat in front quickly approached Zhao Xu's warship under the pursuit of the Goryeo warship, and the Goryeo warship was still chasing closely. At this time, Zhao Xu ordered all the gunners on the warship to be ready, and at the same time asked the crew on the deck to take the flintlocks and load them and hide under the side of the ship waiting for orders.
On the ship, a general wearing scale armor and a helmet was examining the oversized Dasong ship.
They had never seen such a ship before, with a tall hull and too many sails, neither in Japan nor in Dasong.
"General Jin, we came to drive away the fishing boats this time, but we didn't expect to encounter a bigger fat sheep." A deputy general said with a smile: "This Dasong merchant ship is so big, it would be a pity if it was burned this time. Just take it back, and the king will definitely reward us."
Kim Tae-hee frowned.
Although the war was about to start, their Goryeo pearl harvesting affairs had to proceed normally.
This time, they were ordered to come here to supervise the Goryeo fishing boats to pick pearls and present them to the king.
Originally, their boat was collecting pearls on the side of Pearl Island.
At this time, a Goryeo fisherman who was collecting pearls in the sea told them that there were Dasong fishing boats secretly collecting pearls in the south, so they rushed over immediately.
But they didn't expect to find this huge merchant ship of Dasong in addition to some fishing boats.
For them, Pearl Island is now the place where the special pearls for the King of Goryeo are produced. They absolutely do not allow fishermen from Daesong to fish here, even though Pearl Island is more than 200 miles away from Goryeo and only 60 miles away from Daesong.
"Something is wrong. This merchant ship is a little too big, and the fishing boats in front have all run away, why don't they run away?" Jin Taixi refuted the deputy general's statement.
Beidi has repeatedly suffered losses at the hands of Daesong, and all this is caused by the prince called the King of Yan.
And this area is exactly the jurisdiction of this King of Yan, which made him a little suspicious.
After all, it is rumored that this King of Yan is not someone who can be easily provoked.
"General Jin, when did you become so timid? Who doesn't know what Daesong looks like? Don't think too much. You see that none of the people on it are wearing armor and holding weapons. It must be a fishing boat or a merchant ship. If General Park does not launch an attack again, I can only command the soldiers myself." The deputy general said strangely.
Jin Taixi's face suddenly became extremely ugly. This deputy general came from the royal city and had a deep background. Although his position was lower than his own, he always disobeyed the transfer order.
"Lieutenant General Li, for safety's sake, it's better to send out a vanguard to test the waters." Although she was very unhappy with the deputy general, Kim Tae-hee still didn't want to risk the lives of her soldiers.
Lieutenant General Li snorted and said, "Okay, let's send four warships forward to capture them."
Then he ordered the warships to attack.
At this time, the four warships slid their oars, and the building ship approached the ship of Dasong. When they approached, they found that the people on the ship hid in fear, which made them relax their vigilance again.
Seeing that they were getting closer and closer, with an order from the ship, the soldiers on the building ship immediately threw out hooks to hook the ship of Dasong.
"Kill!"
The ship was hooked, and the Goryeo soldiers immediately became excited, because this was basically equivalent to capturing this huge ship.
But their excitement immediately turned into fear.
"Boom boom..."
A deafening sound rang out, and the building ship tilted from the side of the Dasong ship as a whole, as if the ship was about to fall.
The huge sound almost deafened the Goryeo soldiers on the building ship.
And when they were standing unsteadily, a row of people suddenly stood up on the side of the ship, and the Goryeo soldiers on the building ship fell down in groups with flames and loud noises.
"Hit me, hit hard, these dogs, I have tolerated you for too long." Zhou Yi shouted.
Under the bombardment of artillery, the four Goryeo warships raised countless wood chips.
These wood chips flew into the sky and then fell into the sea.
Under the shooting of flintlock rifles, Goryeo soldiers continued to fall in pools of blood.
The soldiers of the Goryeo warships were immediately in chaos after being hit by two firearms at the same time.
But this was just the beginning. After the first round of artillery fire, the second round of artillery fire was coming soon.
There were 136 guns on the third-level sailing warship.
There were 68 guns on each side.
At such a close distance, the shells easily penetrated the hull of the Goryeo warship.
The Goryeo warship began to sink.
"Chase the remaining two." The movement here obviously scared the other two Goryeo warships.
The two warships immediately fled north.
But how could Zhao Xu let them go back safely to report the news.
Seeing that the sinking of the four Goryeo warships was a foregone conclusion, he ordered a chase.