Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

The few warriors who rushed outside the gate of the castle were also trampled into flesh by the Jurchen knights who rushed out of the castle, and there was no chance of setting fire to it.

After Wanyan Salihe was killed by artillery, Wanyan Ponuhuo was dumbfounded. He had never seen such a defensive weapon in his life.

However, Wanyan Po Nuhuo did not withdraw his troops immediately, but furiously ordered the Jin army to charge, trying to use the large number of people to kill the city, and burned down the Ximen Fort to avenge Wanyan Sali.

But on the next battlefield, it was almost a one-sided massacre. Wanyan Ponuhuo was brought from Taizhou, and the most heroic generals in the clan fell one by one on the way of charging. No one was able to kill Ximenbao.

After suffering huge casualties, Wanyan Ponuhuo had no choice but to withdraw his troops and accepted the fate of failing to attack the city.

"The enemy's weapons are too evil to attack by force! Our army retreated two miles to set up camp, and then ordered General Xiemao Ali to seal off the sea passage. Although our army could not enter, the defenders in the castle could not come out either. Trapped the enemy army right here! I will send someone to pick up the shaman master from the Tang Kuo tribe to destroy the evil weapons of the enemy army!"

Wanyan Ponu never gave up, but decided to switch to long-term siege tactics.

The general in the army took the order and led a group of knights around Simon Fort far away, intending to deliver military orders to the Jinjun navy at sea.

However, after riding to the shore, the general of the Golden Army and his dozens of knights were startled by the "rumbling" thunder coming from the sea.

When they boarded the cliffs on the bank and looked south, the complexions of these Jin soldiers changed drastically, and they almost fell to the ground.

I saw the shadows of sails on the sea, and the Jinjun navy was surrounded by a larger navy in the bay.

To the despair of the herald of the Golden Army, the mysterious weapons in the Simon Fort were all prepared on the enemy's naval warships!

Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Chapter 75 Destruction of the Golden Army Navy

Xiemao Ali is undoubtedly a brave and wise general. When he found many unknown warships in the south, he immediately commanded the Jin army navy to break through the siege westward, trying to leave the bay at the mouth of the Yalu River.

Not long after, hundreds of warships formed a geese formation on the sea, blocking the Jinjun navy in the bay.

Xiemao Ali raised his eyes and saw the flag of the enemy navy fleet, which seemed to be the flag of the Qi State Navy.

In the center of the geese formation, there is a huge flagship, with flags waving and drums beeping, commanding the warships to deploy.

Although the distance was too far to read clearly what was written on the enemy's flag, Xiemao Ali guessed that the head of the enemy's navy should be on that huge battleship.

"Send the order, the whole army turns to the south, and prepares to follow me to attack the enemy's general!"

After Xiemao Ali issued the military order, he took the lead in ordering his warship to turn the rudder to the south.

At this moment, a fast ship conveying information rushed out of the Qi army's fleet and sailed towards the Jin army navy at high speed.

This is an envoy sent by the navy of the Qi army. Xiemao Ali saw that the opponent was not carrying an offensive weapon, presumably to perform the etiquette of saluting first and then soldiers, so he put the fast boat of the Qi army in front of the formation.

The envoys of the Qi Army came to the ship of Xiemao Ali, the leader of the Jin Army, and told him the ultimatum to persuade Xu Wen, the commander of the Qi Army's navy capital.

The envoy told Xiemao Ali that His Majesty Ximenqing, the emperor of Qi, had a long-standing friendship with the Jurchen ministries of Jin, and that the purpose of this Northern Expedition was to attack Wanyan Wu, beg for his father and son, and avenge the Aguda family.

General Xu Wen, the commander of the navy of the Qi army, knows that Xiemao Ali was once a general under Wanyan Zongwang's tent, and is willing to give Xiemao Ali a chance to abandon the dark side and join the Aguda family.

Facing the persuasion of the envoys of the Qi army to surrender, Xiemao Ali resolutely refused.

Xiemao Ali declared that he was only loyal to the emperor of the Great Jin Kingdom.Back then, he served as a general under the command of Marshal Wanyan Zongwang, but he was only ordered by His Majesty the Emperor.Now that Wanyan Zongbi is the traitor of the Great Jin Kingdom, how could he betray the imperial court and seek refuge with that careerist?

The fast boat of the envoy of the Qi army quickly returned to the flagship of the Qi army and reported to the coach that the persuasion failed.

After Xiemao Ali expressed his position, the generals of the Jin and Qi armies no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered their subordinates to launch a full-scale attack.

The attack methods of the Jinjun navy are nothing more than the old tactics of the cold weapon era. They approach the enemy ship and use rockets to attack, and then jump off the ship. They rely on the personal bravery of the sailors to kill the enemy and capture or destroy the enemy warship.

Therefore, after the war between the two armies, the warships of the Jinjun navy headed to the southern sea together.

However, the navy of the Qi army not only formed a thin formation of geese, but also faced the fleet of the Jin army obliquely.

Such a formation is not conducive to hand-to-hand combat, but only conducive to the projectile of long-range weapons.On land, it is usually the formation that archers like to use.

When Xiemao Ali thought of this, his ground suddenly turned ashen, and he came to his senses.Could it be that the warships of the Qi army are equipped with the mysterious weapons in Simon Fort?

"Boom~boom~boom~" a series of thunderclaps gave a clear answer.

Under Xu Wen's command, the warships of the Qi Army fired at the same time, and hundreds of shells fell into the fleet of the Jin Army Navy.

In the eyes of Xu Wen's navy officers and men, the Jinjun navy in the north seems to be powerful, but their backward combat methods make them like those pirates, completely unbearable

After the first round of bombardment, half of the warships of the Jinjun Navy were sunk in the sea.Many of the remaining warships were also wounded, and a raging fire was ignited.

Many warships had to turn to give way because the sunken ships blocked the way forward.

In just a moment, the charge formation of the Jinjun Navy was completely disrupted, and they could only fight on their own.

The herald sent by Wanyan Ponuhuo saw exactly this horrible scene on the sea cliff.

"Go at full speed and kill the enemy general!"

Facing the predicament of defeat, the commander of the Jin Army's navy, Xiemao Ali, red-eyed, led more than ten warships out of the chaotic army like a gambler, and rushed towards Xu Wen's flagship.

It is a pity that Xiemao Ali's courage cannot change the situation of the battle when there is a huge gap in weapons.

As the saying goes, "Shoot the first bird", when Xiemao Ali led more than ten warships out of the main force and charged forward, he immediately attracted the attention of many warship commanders on the left and right wings of the Qi Army's geese formation.

"The golden dog still wants to attack Xu Shuai? Fire the master and sink him!"

On many Qi army warships within range, the officers almost unanimously gave the order to fire.

The sound of guns rumbled on the sea, and under the crossfire from the east and west, all Xiemao Ali's small fleets were hit by bombs, and none of them were spared and sunk in the sea.

From the beginning to the end, Xiemao Ali failed to see Xu Wen's true face, let alone hurt Xu Wen's hair.

The only result of this charge was that a lot of artillery shells on the Qi army's warships were wasted.

General Xiemao Ali of the Jin Army used a suicide charge to show his loyalty to his emperor, and also gave the remaining officers and soldiers of the Jin Army navy a chance to surrender.

The main general died in battle, most of the warships sank, and the remaining officers and soldiers of the Jin Army Navy no longer had the fighting spirit, so they dropped their weapons and lowered their flags to surrender.

Xu Wen did not kill them all, but accepted the surrender of the Jin army.

In this Northern Expedition, the Qi army was nominally helping Wanyan Zongbi and others to seek justice, not a war against the Kingdom of Jin.

In the Ximen Fort on the coast, there are Jurchen nobles and troops fighting side by side with the Ximen Qing Army!

Therefore, Xu Wen certainly would not take pleasure in slaughtering the Jurchens.Sending envoys to persuade them to surrender before was to give the Jinjun navy a chance to survive.

Now that a great victory in a naval battle is enough to deter the Kingdom of Jin, how could Xu Wen commit another crime?

……