Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

[The fishing operations of Liu Renyuan and Sun Renshi were quite effective.

Because they were worried that Zhouliu City would be breached, the 40,000 Japanese troops came quickly and urgently.

The vanguard was very brave. The moment they saw the Tang army, they launched a charge with their boats and then smashed themselves into pieces.

The corpses and ship fragments floating on the river made the Japanese army instantly discouraged and retreated.

The Tang army did not pursue it, but continued to blockade the mouth of Baijiang River.

Liu Rengui understood clearly that this battle was the simplest tactic of encirclement and reinforcements, and he was not afraid that the Japanese army would not attack.

Moreover, the Japanese army numbered 40,000, while the Tang army in Baekje was less than 20,000. Now that the troops were divided, the Tang army at Baijiangkou was less than 10,000, so they were not numerically superior.

After the main force of the Japanese army arrived the next day, the Japanese army gathered together and became confident again:

In terms of numbers, we have 40,000 people, while the Tang army is less than 10,000.

In terms of warships, we have more than a thousand ships, and the Tang army has one hundred and seventeen.

The Japanese general even said boldly, If we all charge together, the Tang army will flee in fear!

The advantage lies in Japan!

So the Japanese army was not afraid and launched another charge, but this charge was quickly cut off by the immovable Tang army.

After the Japanese troops rowed the famous boat to get close, they discovered that the Tang army's warship was so big that even if it collided with it, it would not be able to hurt it at all.

Moreover, the Tang army's warships also had many weapons that they had never heard of, and they could easily destroy the Japanese warships.

The Japanese soldiers who fell into the water were also in despair. The Tang army's warships were too tall and they couldn't even climb on them and jump into gangs.

After the Japanese army's charge was cut off, more than 170 Tang army warships divided their forces and outflanked them from both sides. Instead, they surrounded a thousand Japanese ships.

The large ships of the Tang Army formed a complete encirclement network, forcing the Japanese warships to crowd together. Then the Tang Army, which was in the upper wind, began to fire rockets, kerosene bombs, etc.

The commander of the Japanese army, Pu Shitian Laijin, gritted his teeth with hatred and rushed to the front line to engage the small warships of the Tang army in an attempt to boost morale. However, he was cut into two pieces by a Tang warrior with his sword.

The ship was on 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 one after another and burn the ships.

Thick smoke rose into the sky, blazing fire reflected the waves, and more than 400 warships were turned into fuel on the sea. In this battle, the Japanese expeditionary force was completely wiped out.

Seeing that the reinforcements were in vain, the desperate Baekje Restoration Army in Zhouliucheng had no choice but to surrender, and the Baekje Kingdom was completely eliminated.

After four battles, four hundred of his boats were burned, smoke and flames rose to the sky, all the sea water turned red, and the thieves were routed.

This is the entire record of this battle in the Old Tang Book. It is only twenty-one words, concise and concise, and has always been the style of Chinese history:

Just another mediocre big win.

But if you raise your perspective, this battle has far-reaching significance.

In the short term, this war determined who had the final say in East Asia in a real sense and established the political structure of East Asia with the Tang Dynasty as the absolute core.

In the long run, this war reversed the development direction of Japan in an extremely violent manner, thus determining the direction of East Asian history within a thousand years.

Liu Rengui was also the first person in history to truly destroy the Japanese. 】

Blinking his eyes, Kong Ming felt that Pin had some tricks:

A naval battle is no better than a land battle.

Kong Ming considered it and said:

Compared to the number of people, what determines the direction of a naval battle is the combat power of the ship... No, it should be said to be the gap in engineering and learning.

Just like the giant boat used to defeat Jing Xiang, if there is a decisive battle on the river, thousands of boats can't beat one giant boat. There is no need for a giant crossbow. It can crush the small boat in a straight line.

The more he deduce, the more excited Kong Ming became:

And if the giant crossbow on the boat shoots not crossbow arrows, but iron cannons that use gunpowder...

Kong Ming could imagine that if it were true, it would only take one ship to wipe out all the naval forces in Jiangdong!

The promising future has been shown in front of Kong Ming. At this moment, Kong Ming's whole body became excited from the inside out.

In this life, as long as I can help the younger generations find a way to study engineering, it will be enough!

For this road to be successful, arithmetic is essential, but... this is destined to be a not easy process.

Even in terms of arithmetic, Kong Ming and Liu Ba studied and discussed it many times, and finally came to the conclusion that today's arithmetic is quite scattered and can hardly be called study. Instead, it is more like skills and is far from Tao. .

Just like a seed from falling into the soil to sprouting and bearing fruit, whether it is Jiu Zhang or Zhou Bi written by the sages, it is more like a description of the fruit of this seed.

He and Liu Ba were like blind men, tracing the fruit back and forth, and could only touch the leaves.

But judging from its connection with science and its subordinate status in later generations, arithmetic should have another most important rhizome. The problem now is that we don't know how to get to this rhizome.

Kong Ming and Liu Ba were not the ones who had this kind of trouble. For example, Zhang Song found for them a set of bamboo slips called The Book of Arithmetic that were left behind in Shu. It is said that they were passed down from Guanzhong before and after Emperor Wu, and were collected by the big surnames. It remains to this day.

After Kong Ming and Liu Ba worked together to transcribe it and correct the errors, they found out that this thing was born out of Nine Chapters. The anonymous author tried to summarize these fruits into a common root and form a world of its own. I can do arithmetic, but unfortunately I can’t do it the right way.

Later, two fragmentary copies were obtained, named Xu Shang's Arithmetic and Duzhong's Arithmetic respectively. In them, we can more or less see the same troubles of these writers who are good at arithmetic, but...

Seeing Kong Ming sighing over there, Pang Tong felt 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 but refused to surrender. Baekje and Silla were both snakes and rats. They were humble to Goguryeo, professed vassalage to me, the Tang Dynasty, and secretly colluded with the Japanese.

First, Akatsuki showed a heavy color, and then he chose the worst guess:

If left unchecked, Goguryeo may devour Silla and Baekje. When it unifies the Korean peninsula, it will surely be greedy and greedy and seek to conquer 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 only 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 really has talent in this area!

Li Shimin nodded happily and called it a day!

So he pulled Liu Rengui up with a smile:

I know Zheng Zhongjia's heart very well.

If one ignores Li Shi𪟝 who looks sad next to him, this is actually 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 knock 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. 】