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Chapter 364: Night Attack on the Naval Camp (2)

People in that era generally had night blindness, and the Koreans who were so poor that they could make a living by eating kimchi were naturally no exception. However, for Li Guodong's elite, night blindness did not exist. One hundred elites did not collect at night and lived on the edge of the grassland. Beef and mutton were common. Even the two thousand infantry from the south lived by the lake, and they had a lot of fish and shrimps, so they had excellent eyesight at night.

"Swoosh" two sharp arrows broke through the air. The two sleepy sentries of the Korean Navy who were sitting at the gate of the camp did not even snort. They had long arrows on their necks and their bodies tilted down.

Two more sharp arrows shot towards the two towers in the camp gate. Two Korean soldiers who were sleeping on the wooden tower went to see the King of Hell in their sleep.

Han Dashan flew out a claw hook, hooked the suspension bridge, pulled the rope and turned over beautifully, and then jumped onto the suspension bridge. He took off the axe from his back and chopped left and right. The rope of the suspension bridge broke, and with a loud "boom", the suspension bridge fell. Han Dashan rushed to the camp gate with a quick step, and the axe fell with his hand, and the village gate broke into a pile of wood chips.

"Kill!" Li Guodong pointed forward with a horse spear.

One hundred elite soldiers rushed into the camp of the Goryeo people without taking over at night. The infantry following behind opened the tinder pot, lit the torches, and rushed into the camp of the Goryeo Navy with shouts.

The charger crashed into the tent and stepped on the tent. The Goryeo who had no time to run out was trampled to death in the tent. Li Guodong took the lead and rushed to a tent. With a long spear, the tent was lifted open. Several Goryeo soldiers who had just gotten out of the quilt were stabbed to death by Li Guodong with one spear.

The infantry behind rushed in shouting and a fire broke out in a tent.

The officers and soldiers of the Goryeo Navy who rushed out of the tent in panic had no idea what was going on. They saw people wearing the armor of the Qing Dynasty soldiers from all directions, slashing themselves with swords. These Goryeo people didn't understand why they had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty soldiers had to wave their butcher swords at them?

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The Goryeo officer who was eating dog meat and drinking in the central army tent heard the noise outside, threw down half of the dog meat, threw down the wine bowl, hurriedly put on his armor, took off the weapons from the weapon stand, and rushed out of the tent.

The sound of killing in the Goryeo Navy camp was shocked by the sky, and blazing fires were lit everywhere. The untidy Goryeo soldiers ran around like a group of sheep chased by wolves. The Ming cavalry and infantry chasing behind were really tigers entering the flock, and the Goryeo soldiers who were chasing were chopped over one after another.

"Organize your personal soldiers and block the Qing army, don't mess up!" the officer of the Goryeo Navy Division shouted.

Seeing hundreds of personal soldiers from the Goryeo Navy formed a formation, Li Guodong ordered that the cavalry would no longer have to cut off the Goryeo people, but just drive them away and let the Goryeo people rush to their formation by themselves.

The Ming army cavalry surrounded the two wings and drove the Goryeo people into the middle. The infantry followed closely behind the butt to chase them. The large number of Goryeo soldiers were squeezed into a group. If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that the Ming army was like kneading dough, arbitrarily determining the size of the Goryeo formation. The black Goryeo soldiers were driven and collided with the formation formed by their own elite soldiers.

"Don't collide the formation, otherwise there will be no mercy!" The Goryeo officer shouted sternly.

However, the crowd was in chaos and the Goryeo officers couldn't hold on at all. The chaotic Goryeo soldiers still rushed towards their central army formation.

"Shoot the arrow!" The Goryeo officer roared.

Rows of arrows were shot out from the personal soldiers' formation, and the Korean sailors rushing over didn't even have armor. Many of them had only a thin cotton coat on their bodies. They were shot by arrows and shot through them. The large number of Korean soldiers were shot into hedgehogs and fell down, but the people behind them continued to rush over. The defeated soldiers didn't know where to escape to the safe place. When they saw the flag of the Central Army, they thought that as long as they escaped to the Central Army, they would be safe, but they didn't know that if they collided with the Central Army formation, they would disperse the last hope of turning defeat into victory.

Li Guodong personally led 100 cavalry and 1,500 infantry to drive away the Koreans, and he asked Wang Quan to lead 500 infantry to burn ships.

The warships of the Goryeo Navy stopped on the shore. The number of Goryeo Navy soldiers left on the boat was not large, and most of them were in the camp on the shore. They were attacked by the Ming army at night, and a few Goryeo soldiers who were panicked escaped on the big ship, but Wang Quan behind them quickly followed.

Arrows shot volleys and muskets roared, and the Goryeo soldiers who fled onto the ship fell one by one.

"Go on, burn the Goryeo boat!" Wang Quan shouted.

The infantry jumped onto the springboard and rushed onto the warship. The torch in his hand reached over the folded sails and ignited the sails. Some soldiers overturned the gunpowder barrel on the ship, scattered the gunpowder on the deck, then pulled a fuse and threw it on the gunpowder, finally ignited the fuse and quickly fled.

The fuse was shortened to gunpowder. The unsealed gunpowder in the open air would not explode, but when ignited by the fire, it would suddenly "sniff" and the flames soared into the sky. The ship covered with gunpowder was immediately lit into a burning fireboat.

Some of the Goryeo Navy officers and soldiers who were left on the boat resisted stubbornly, but they were not the elite Ming army rivals? Wang Quan and his men jumped onto the boat and slashed a group of Goryeo who dared to resist. The rest were all kneeling on the ground and surrendered, and some Goryeo jumped into the cold and bone-breathing river water desperately.

The camp on the shore had already burned into the sky, turning into a sea of ​​burning fire. The ships anchored by the river were ignited one by one, and the river was burning red, and the sky-sky fire illuminated the entire sky.

The ships in the river were burning, and a crackling sound was mixed with a violent explosion from time to time. The gunpowder barrel on the ship was ignited and an explosion occurred. A big turtle ship burned suddenly made a loud noise, and the entire ship was blown into two pieces, and was soon swallowed by the surging river water, leaving only broken masts on the river surface.

In contrast, small sampans are not easy to ignite. The sampans are short and the hull is too wet. It is difficult to ignite them unless there is enough tincture oil. However, Wang Quan did not deliberately take care of the small sampans, but just untied the cable and pushed the small sampans into the river. Soon after, the river water will send the small sampans into the sea. As for the small sampans that were not washed away by the river water, they are mixed between the large sampans that are caught in the fire. The wooden boards will be dried and will be burned sooner or later.

"Boat, our ship!" The Goryeo sailors on the shore knelt on the ground, crying bitterly facing the river where the flames were soaring into the sky.

Li Guodong led the Ming army to drive the Goryeo sailors and let them trample on each other. Many Goryeo soldiers were driven to the riverside where the fire was soaring, and many people jumped into the river regardless of everything. Many people were burned to death on the river surface, and some people tried their best to paddle the water and escaped from the fire. However, after leaving the fire, they were absorbed by the cold and bone-blazing river water and quickly frozen to death.

The undead Koreans had no fighting spirit and knelt on the ground to surrender.

"These Goryeo people will never surrender at both ends!" Li Guodong shouted in Manchu.

Several Ming army officers dressed in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty shouted in Chinese: "We will never accept surrender and kill them all!"

Even the Koreans who surrendered on the ground did not survive. The Ming army rushed into the Koreans and chopped the Koreans like wolves slaughtering sheep.

In the Qing army camp twenty miles away from the Goryeo Navy Camp, Huang Taiji was woken up from his sleep: "Emperor! Your Majesty, something is wrong! A fire broke out in the Goryeo Navy Camp!"

Huang Taiji hurriedly got up and walked out of the central army's tent. He saw a red light on the lower reaches of the Han River to the west, and the entire horizon was dyed red. It was obvious that something happened to the Goryeo Navy there.

"Tong Yangjia!" Huang Taiji turned his head and shouted.

"The slave is here!"

"You can quickly speed up the Han Eight Banners soldiers and go to the downstream Navy camp to see what's going on!"

"Zha!" Tong Yangjia retreated.

Tong Yangjia, with five thousand Han Eight Banners infantry and firearms, rushed to the Goryeo Navy Camp downstream of the Han River. The Qing soldiers ran downstream along the Han River. Halfway through the way, they saw the fire on the lower river surface soaring into the sky, and the fire shone the night into daylight.

"Someone attacked the Navy camp! Let's hurry up and rescue!" Tong Yangjia shouted.

Li Guodong, who was slaughtering the Goryeo Navy, received a report from him when he was put outside to watch: "A Qing army of the Han Eight Banners, which was about 5,000 people, is coming to us, and the banner he raised was Tong."

"Five thousand Han and Eight Banners?" Li Guodong didn't want to fight with the Five thousand Han and Eight Banners. The Han and Eight Banners were an army with half of hot and cold weapons. His two thousand infantrymen could not get any benefits against the Han and Eight Banners. So he ordered: "Retreat, retreat to the seaside to the west!"
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