Chapter 634: The Dust Sweeping Plan to Sweep the Japanese Island (44)
Since there have been many deadly members who are like Asano Nagao who are not willing to abandon even a little jar or jar, and there is still plenty of time to prepare for a full war, the progress of the Korean army that has already poured into Muao Bay is not very smooth.
Although it was supported by the powerful artillery fire of more than ten warships, the attack on Muao Port, which began at noon on November 2, still made no progress after more than two hours of fighting. So anxious Yu Zaiyuan, who was on the Busan, repeatedly blushed and shouted heavily, asking Li Xuanyi to transfer all his fleet into Muao Bay, and directly razed all the Japanese defensive positions on the shore to the ground.
Although Li Xuanyi, who was also anxious to send his army brothers ashore, finally gritted his teeth and survived Yu Zaiyuan's endless entanglement. Not only did he not transfer his fleet into Muaowan, he also transferred Yu Zaiyuan and others from his flagship "Busan" to "Haiju". Then, Li Xuanyi and his "Busan" drove out of Muaowan and rushed towards his own fleet's main force that was parading at the east entrance of Jinqing Strait.
Because Li Xuanyi had just received a telegram from the Busan Base Camp, which required him to provide necessary artillery fire support to the Yu Zaiyuan Legion, and to use greater strength to effectively guard against the east entrance of the Jinqing Strait.
As a result, Yu Zaiyuan, who originally wanted to get more support from his naval brothers, made a fuss for a long time. Not only did he not get the support he wanted, he also watched Li Xuanyi, the most powerful gunfire "Busan", retreat from the hot battlefield.
This extremely fierce landing and anti-landing battle. It was defeated until dusk that the vanguard of the Korean army finally rushed to the coast and stabilized a landing ground about two miles wide and less than four miles deep.
However, as night fell, with the help of familiarity with geography, the Japanese army counterattacked the landing field controlled by the Korean army and began to unfold continuously, making the subsequent landing operations of the main force of the Korean army extremely slow.
At 3 a.m. on the third day, Yu Zaiyuan, who had already been frustrated on the "Haizhou", couldn't wait to climb the coast of Muao. Until this time, there were still a lot of supplies. Even nearly half of the troops of Li Lian's Second Division failed to complete the landing.
Just as Yu Zaiyuan was down-to-earth, he ordered Li Lian, who had already landed in advance with the second wave of attack troops, to strengthen his counterattack against various Japanese troops and continue to expand the landing field. While personally commanding the unloading of the transport fleet. While accelerating the landing speed of the sea, a galloping Korean express ship brought Yu Zaiyuan a piece of news that shocked him and was sweating in a cold sweat:
The main fleet of the North Korean Navy, which was responsible for his alert mission at the east entrance of the Jinqing Strait, had already exchanged fire with a powerful Spanish fleet and asked him to speed up the landing progress here. The unloaded ships could no longer return to the port of Hamkam as originally planned and sailed to Songqian for a temporary escape.
Broken, broken!
Although Yu Zaiyuan's face did not change much after receiving this amazing bad news, he kept complaining in his heart.
Even the main naval fleet with more than 30 warships actually said that it had encountered a powerful enemy. He even asked him not to put the unloaded ship back into the box hall, which obviously shows that the navy's brothers are not sure that they can stop this enemy fleet.
"The troops hurry up and get ashore as soon as possible!"
After giving this order loudly, Yu Zaiyuan hurriedly found the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom transport fleet.
"Good brother, thank you for your cooperation!" Yu Zaiyuan, who said this thank you, pondered for a moment, then he started to point in the east and said in an extremely friendly tone of negotiation, "Now... there is a big problem now. There is an enemy fleet there, and the situation may not be very optimistic. Once the matter is urgent, as long as I can unload all my men. As for other supplies that cannot be unloaded... Hahaha... Then you should continue to pull them and temporarily go to Songqian to avoid it. When the danger has completely passed, I will send someone to notify you to return."
After hearing Yu Zaiyuan's big words, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom leader of the transport fleet smiled at the North Korean general who had also been fierce with him, then nodded, and said briefly, "General Yu, please feel free to do your own big things."
Yu Zaiyuan was busy with his big business with satisfaction, but when he left and turned around, his heart couldn't help but suddenly move. The ship boss of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was very stable!
At this time, on the sea at the east entrance of the Jinqing Strait, General Nunez, who commanded the Pacific Fleet of the Spanish Empire, also seemed quite stable.
Nunez and his fleet sailed into the east of Muroyujiyazaki early on November 2.
Although I had learned from Pauling that there was a "sized" fleet of the Korean Navy with a warship of at least forty or fifty levels in Hamgan Port, and all of them were old warships, Nunez still did not dare to take it lightly. After all, this was the first battle after entering the Far East. After all, there was no real rational understanding of the strength of the opponent that was about to appear in front of him, so it was always necessary to be careful.
So Nunez sent a three-ship vanguard formation composed of the "Kovadonga" light ironclad ship, the steam brig ship "Vincentora" and the "Marquis Victoria" to continue to approach the Jinqing Strait at full speed, while the main force of his fleet slowed down and slowly followed behind and swam forward.
As a vanguard, the "Kovadonga" formation only traveled about twenty nautical miles, and soon met the four-ship formation of the Korean Navy, headed by the "Chuncheon", who also cruised outward as a vanguard.
According to Nunez's prior plan, when he saw that the opponent in front of him was only four old double-brigged wooden sail warships, the "Kovadonga" was naturally unstoppable and immediately rushed towards the Korean army formation at full speed, opening the prelude to the Battle of the Jinqing Strait.
Suddenly, when he found that not only was a battleship formation with Spanish naval flags hanging high in front of him, the other party was still coming towards him with great momentum, the captain of the "Chunchuan" who was walking in front of the formation was immediately shocked. As the arrival of the ship gradually approached, when he only saw the full picture of the ship, he was not only surprised, but also felt that the momentum was not good.
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