Gao Kan stood on the high watchtower to observe the landing situation. Based on the situation he observed, it was estimated that the number of Japanese troops on the shore was only 10,000 or 20,000, less than half of our army. The Japanese troops guarding the coast were so few that Gao Kan was also very excited. The enemy's strength was weak and there were signs of fleeing under the attack of our army's artillery and crossbows. If this Japanese army was defeated, the progress of the war would be relatively easier.

Another thing that made Gao Kan miraculous is that the Japanese army on the shore that rushed towards me was very strange in uniform. Many people were wearing armor, some of them looked ragged and broken. Less than half of them were holding bows and arrows, and there were not many people holding shields. Some shields seemed to be made of wooden boards or vines, and some people had no weapons at all, with bare hands and bare hands. There were also some who were obviously old and some were half-aged children. Judging from these signs, this Japanese army was obviously a temporary piece of miscellaneous army. Some people might have been forced to be pulled from their homes. The combat power of such an army can be imagined. If this battle cannot be won, Gao Kan felt that he and his soldiers could also jump into the sea to commit suicide.

Although Gao Kan knew that the Japanese army on the shore was not strong in combat, he did not dare to be careless. Landing war was the most important battle to conquer Japan. There was no mistake. He had to defeat the Japanese army in one go. He immediately ordered more than ten battleships equipped with powerful weapons to approach the nearest coast. He turned around near the beach area of ​​the warship and faced the river bank near the coast. At this time, more small warships had already begun to rush to the beach.

The soldiers who were like ants in their naked eyes were descending from various warships and running towards the shore. Thousands of infantry and hundreds of cavalry gathered earlier were already entangled with the Japanese army's blocking troops. Although the number of our army gathered was obviously less than that of the Japanese army, its combat effectiveness was far from comparable to the miscellaneous men of the Japanese army. We can see our soldiers chopping and killing short Japanese people there, and the effective resistance of the Japanese army was not strong. Although many Japanese commanders were yelling there, they ordered the soldiers to fight to the death, but the Japanese army soldiers who were frightened by the continuous shelling and terrifying bed crossbows were also facing the rush of our elite infantry cavalry. How can they effectively resist? Many Japanese soldiers threw down their weapons and ran away.

In addition to more than a dozen fighting ships supporting the landing soldiers with artillery and bed crossbows, there were nearly twenty fighting ships. Tower ships and other warships had entered the estuary of the river near the Ori River. The estuary of the river looked quite wide. The Japanese army's continuous counterattacks came from that direction. Dozens of warships from our army arrived there and could attack Japan in half. The warship sailed less than five hundred steps away from the shore. Whether it was artillery or bed crossbow, they could effectively attack the coast.

The commander of the warship standing on the high watchtower saw that the Japanese troops on the shore were concentrated in several places and were preparing to attack the warships on my landing. The Japanese also knew that the stragglers could not cause any impact on the army on my landing. They also wanted to attack the soldiers who landed on me on the scale of a cluster, and wanted to destroy our army on the beach. Seeing this situation, the general surnamed Wu, who temporarily came to command the squadron, showed a hideous smile in his eyes and ordered all the artillery, crossbows and catapults of the warships to open fire on the Japanese troops on the shore.

As the sergeant sent this order, the cannons, crossbows and catapults on each ship were constantly raised in the hands of the commander, and they waved them down and launched an attack.

The naval guns made a huge roar. In the black smoke, shells roared and flew towards the place where the Japanese army were concentrated. The explosive packs and grenades threw by the catapults continued to fly up to the heads of the Japanese. With the sparks generated when the shells exploded, the Japanese's broken limbs and arms continued to fly into the sky. Some weapons such as the Japanese trenchers slightly farther away also turned into a pile of fragments under the bombardment of our army's "artillery fire". The four flew randomly, and the greatest effect of several rounds of attacks was not to effectively kill the Japanese, but to completely destroy the Japanese's strength.

The artillery continued to bombard, and the crossbows and catapults carried out violence. The shells continued to explode in the Japanese crowd. The crossbow arrows penetrated the chests of many Japanese people. The explosion sound of the artillery, the thick smoke produced by the explosion, and the explosion shock waves. They all strongly tear the nerves of the Japanese people. The broken arms and limbs that were exploded kept flying up and falling down. Such a tragic scene formed a strong psychological strike effect. The Japanese people rushing forward were already in chaos, and the remaining Japanese people had already run back in groups, squeezing and colliding with each other. When our army's shells fell again, piles of Japanese bodies were blown away.

The shells made of black gunpowder are not very powerful, and the performance of the cannons is poor at this time. They are not high in their initial speed or flight speed, their firing rate is even lower, their range is not far, and their shooting accuracy is even worse. However, the Japanese are gathering in piles. Those lucky shells can often kill and injure a bunch of Japanese people. However, such lethality, how did the Japanese who usually rely on simple weapons to fight have experienced it? They destroyed their psychological defense line at once and could not organize effective resistance. These miscellaneous troops that were temporarily pieced together became defeated soldiers in a short time.

At this time, the small warships that followed the twenty or so warships into the river had rushed to the beach. The paddling naval soldiers directly rowed the ships and boats to the beach. After the warships rushed to the river and could not move, the soldiers in groups rushed down from the boat, waved their weapons, shouted, and rushed to the shore. After only a few hundred soldiers rushed to the river bank, they quickly chased and killed the chaotic Japanese people, while some of the subsequent warships continued to sail upstream of the river, preparing to choose to land in another place.

At this time, the waterlines of the warships were not deep, and they could dock very close to the coast. This was more convenient than the modern warships in later generations. Those warships in later generations could not have rushed so close, and they had already been stranded and would not move. Large tower ships were the main warships for transporting soldiers. Each tower ship could transport at least 500 soldiers, and the soldiers on these tower ships also began to land one after another!

When we saw that many of our soldiers had already landed on the shore in different places, the scale had already reached thousands. The Japanese generals who were commanding the battle were also a little panicked and ordered all the Japanese troops on the shore to rush over.

Under the order of the chief general of the Japanese army, thousands of Japanese troops rushed towards the direction of my landing soldiers. This should be the main force to counterattack my landing fleet. However, after being attacked by the remnants of the fleeing side, their formation was already a little messy. When they rushed to our soldiers dozens of steps away, the small and medium-sized stone throwers on the warships that our army had already rushed to the beach threw dense grenades and some explosive packs. These things that the Japanese had never seen before exploded in the charge of the Japanese army formation.

Open. Although the power of the grenade is far less than that of the artillery shells, the densely dropped grenades still give the Japanese great lethality, let alone the explosive pack, if it unfortunately lands beside any Japanese, the Japanese may be covered in blood and blood. Even if they are not injured, they will be scared to death. Countless black Japanese soldiers who were smoked after the bombing waved their hands and screamed and ran away. Some of them threw their weapons and knelt on the ground, thinking that the great god Amaterasu had arrived to punish them.

Most of the Japanese who were severely injured turned around and fled. Only a small number of Japanese soldiers continued to rush forward. What greeted these Japanese soldiers were grenades thrown by Tang soldiers, as well as bows, arrows, swords. The attack effect of artillery and grenades was very obvious. Most Japanese soldiers had never seen the power of this explosive. This weapon with huge lethality fell head-on, basically destroying the morale of the Japanese army.

The landing area chosen by the intelligence personnel can be regarded as a flat beach in the sandy river. There are no silt or so, and there are not many reefs. It can be regarded as an excellent beach. On this beach, which can be described as beautiful scenery, you can see the scene of Japan turning to the shore everywhere. Behind it is the small number of soldiers of our side who are chasing. The small number of cavalry are also rushing back and forth there, disrupting the formation of the Japanese army as much as possible.

A group of Tang soldiers who rushed to the shore had occupied several commanding heights and formed formations to prevent the Japanese counterattack and uploaded signals to the command ships. The Japanese soldiers encountered near Xiongjin River were so poor in combat power, and they were no match for our army at all. The Japanese soldiers encountered in the Japanese mainland were even worse in combat power, and they were completely a group of vulnerable mobs. Some Tang army generals felt that they were a little overwhelmed. Many shells and grenades were wasted. There was no shooting of artillery and grenade throwing, and they were relying on the attack of the soldiers. The Japanese army was not the opponent of our elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course this is the fact!

Gao Kan, who was commanding the full landing battle, had personally seen the landing situation everywhere and received the report of the situation sent back by various warships, and he had already let go of his heart. The success of the landing battle was something he had never thought of. Of course, some generals had thought that the Japanese did not discover them when they landed, and there was no Japanese on the beach, and they could land on a swagger. But the commanders never had such an idea. They dared not think about such a large scale, and the landing of more than a thousand warships did not alarm the Japanese. They only hoped to be discovered by the Japanese as late as possible, so that the Japanese could not make effective responses and stop them.
Chapter completed!