Late Tang Dynasty: I

One thousand steps was already within the range of the Eight Oxen Crossbow. The Eight Oxen Crossbow on the Japanese warship was ready to go. As soon as it entered the range, thousands of Eight Oxen Crossbows densely fired at the Tang Army fleet.

Poof... poof...

These eight-oxen crossbows brought a lot of trouble to the Tang army.

However, the warships of the Tang Dynasty were still prepared for this. The soldiers seized the protective wall beside the ship's side. It was reinforced with iron plates, and even the Eight Ox Crossbow could not penetrate it.

But many soldiers still died under the Japanese Eight Ox Crossbow.

It was just this round. The bow string of the Eight Ox Crossbow was very weak and needed a winch. The three strong men were wasting half a stick of incense, but the Japanese sailors were fully equipped.

Poof... poof...

The Tang Navy's counterattack also started with the Eight Ox Crossbow.

After a round of volleys, many little Baga were killed.

Five hundred steps later, the mortar gunner's hands were already sweating.

The shotguns needed to be closer. The copper tube for firing the solid cannon was already cold enough. Xu Yanshi put in eight kilograms of propellant, padded it with a thick layer of cotton on top of the gunpowder, and poured dozens more kilograms on top. Iron pieces, iron balls, stones, etc.

Three hundred steps.

The mortar was fired, facing the wind, only three hundred steps away.

Watanabe could clearly see the white medicine bag flying out of the muzzle of the mortar and floating towards their warship.

"It turns out to be this weapon!"

"Can this light thing kill someone?"

The mortar's charge pack came out of the chamber very slowly, and Watanabe could clearly see the trajectory of the charge pack.

He slowly fell from the highest point until he landed on a Japanese warship close to his flagship.

boom!
Thick smoke, fire, and the sound of thunder were intertwined together.

Watanabe Xiaobaga was in a trance, and his ears were full of buzzing sounds.

In an instant, the Cao Zhi warship was filled with soldiers, ready for battle, but now it was like a ghost prison.

The deck was already blood red, and countless Japanese soldiers rolled on the deck and howled. Their bodies were more or less covered with blood holes.

"The power of artillery is so terrifying!"

Wang Yanzhang said with emotion.

The same was true for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. They had never seen the imperial artillery with such power.

Compared with solid bullets, the explosion effect of mortar cannons is like a god.

"Get close to the Tang Army warship quickly!"

"They won't be able to release this weapon once they get close!"

"kill!"

Watanabe stood on the bow and jumped up and down, shouting constantly.

The warship carrying weapons he didn't know was right in front of him, getting closer and closer!

"Kill, seize this flagship, and the Tang people will be defeated!"

The helmsman on the Japanese ship kept adjusting the direction and sailed towards Wang Yanzhang's flagship.

Watanabe Xiaobaga called out to the dozen or so warships around to attack Datang's flagship. He had already seen the black muzzle exposed on the side of the ship. It must be this thing.

He will belong to the Japanese nation and become an artifact of the Japanese navy.

"kill!"

Dozens of claw hooks hooked Wang Yanzhang's flagship.

The archer points his torch at the lead.

In front of Watanabe.

"boom!"

Amidst the dull sound, thick smoke and fire, a storm of steel raged towards Watanabe's ship. More than 200 Japanese soldiers on the deck, connected to Watanabe, were riddled with holes in the steel.

The deck instantly turned blood red, and everyone was groaning in pain.

"This..." "General Watanabe!"

The Japanese soldiers on other ships were roaring!
Seeing that his ship was besieged by more than a dozen Japanese ships, Wang Yanzhang did not panic at all. He ordered the archers to shoot while commanding the ships.

He pushed aside the medicine bag that Xu Yanshi was playing with.

"You can throw it by hand, so what else can you do with a cannon?"

Wang Yanzhang personally demonstrated and lit the lead of a medicine bag.

"General, dangerous!"

This is no joke, if it explodes, everyone on the ship will have to feed the fish.

Wang Yanzhang took a vigorous step, threw his arms, and threw dozens of kilograms of medical bags onto the Japanese warship.

boom!
The Japanese armored soldiers who were preparing to board the ship for hand-to-hand combat were momentarily enveloped in a storm of steel and a huge roar.

Everyone who saw it was horrified.

All the soldiers followed suit, and all of the dozens of warships that surrounded Wang Yanzhang were destroyed.

The morale of the Tang army was high. On the other hand, Japan lost its general and dozens of warships. The warships that engaged the Tang warships all showed signs of decline.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty had experienced hundreds of years of war, and those who survived were mostly elite soldiers with excellent weapons and equipment. Even with the same equipment, they were not afraid of getting by.

"kill!"

The Tang army quickly eliminated the Japanese pirates who boarded the ship, and the army pursued the Japanese army. For a while, Japanese warships were destroyed by the Tang army.

Two hours later, the war slowly subsided. The Tang army captured 170 Japanese warships, destroyed more than [-], and only about [-] warships fled in panic.

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The battle at the mouth of the Hanjiang River soon reached the ears of His Majesty the Emperor, and with it, more than 5000 Japanese prisoners of war followed.

"What's the use of keeping these beasts? They're all trapped and killed!"

Liu Wei said: "Your Majesty, you must not do it. Killing prisoners has been unlucky since ancient times. Now is the critical moment to attack Silla. Your Majesty, please think twice."

"Then what do you say?"

"Your Majesty, you can make these Japanese pirates into slaves!"

Fu Cunjian said: "There are more than 1 Japanese pirates, and they need at least two to three thousand armored soldiers to escort them. Why don't Your Majesty save these Japanese pirates for assassination, and drive them to the front during the battle, so that they can face Silla's arrows and blades!"

Li Ye nodded and said, "It's just a bit of a waste of food! General Zhou, reorganize the Japanese army first and let you control it for the time being!"

"promise!"

Fu Cunshen came to the center of the Japanese state. In fact, among the Japanese people, many people knew the writing of the Tang Dynasty, and some could speak Chinese. After searching, Fu Cunshen found a few people who could speak the language of the Tang Dynasty. Japanese pirates.

"The official takes a step forward."

Fu Cunshen was merged according to the original organizational structure, with a team of 1000 people and a captain. These people's faces were branded on the spot.

Japanese team 001——999
Japanese Team 001——999
Japanese Team 003——999
More than 5000 people were divided into sixteen teams. Each team had a Japanese captain, a Tang commander and one hundred fully armored Tang troops.

Zuo Yongwu's army suddenly increased to 5000 people. Of course, the Japanese war slaves did not have military status, and these people were just cannon fodder.

On the first day of May in the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Da Zhi, the Tang army arrived at Pozhuoguan. More than 200 years ago, Emperor Taizong fought here with [-] Tang troops against the [-] Gaogouli army.

The Tang army was victorious and killed [-] people.

Li Ye was filled with emotions when he reached this level.

"Pozhuo Pass is built at the bottom of a valley between two mountains. There are thousands of walls standing on the side, making it impossible to pass through. There are [-] troops stationed in the pass. If we want to go around, we have to walk thirty miles further, but our food road I’m afraid there may be danger!”

"Build siege equipment and let these Japanese pirates attack first!"

"promise!"

The next day, Bozhuo Pass was closed

Groups of Japanese pirates were like ants, carrying siege ladders and rushing to Bozhuoguan.

The Silla army rained down arrows on the wall, and soon a large number of people were killed or wounded.

(End of this chapter)