Wanli Youming

Chapter 233 Battle against the Japanese Navy

Chapter 233 Battle against the Japanese Navy

On the third day after Wu Weizhong led the team to set off, Ma Gui, who was transferred to Busan for training, and Lou Nan, the deputy commander in chief, led the second batch of ships to Tsushima Island.

And Qi Jiguang set off by boat with [-] officers and soldiers on the second day after he set off in Maguilounan, and also came in the direction of Tsushima Island.

Although it is early spring, not the season when typhoons frequently occur in summer and autumn, the weather is often not so absolute. Historically, there have been typhoons in the first month of the year in this area. Therefore, Qi Jiguang still encountered typhoons in order to avoid bad luck for the army. That is to say, multiple batches of troops were recruited in multiple groups, instead of marching together.

The first batch led by Wu Weizhong, with more than [-] warships and a fleet composed of tens of thousands of people, arrived at Tsushima Island smoothly the next day.

Although there are many ships and many people, most of them are Korean mercenaries and Jurchen, Sauron and other barbarians recruited in Liaodong. The real regular main southern soldiers are only [-] troops.

And Tsushima Island is very close to Busan and Hepingdo, so basically it can be reached in one day.

Because of this, Tsushima Island has always been a strategic location for Japanese invasion or Japanese invasion of Korea.

In this era, the lord Zongshi on Tsushima Island was subject to both the Shao Er clan of the Wa Kingdom and the Joseon Dynasty, which is equivalent to being both the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom and the general of the Joseon Dynasty.

The reason for this is that the Zong family could neither offend the Wa country nor North Korea.

However, Ming had already asked North Korea to agree to make Busan, Jeju, and Tsushima three islands the places where Ming would garrison troops.

Therefore, Tsushima Island has been regarded as the place where the Ming Dynasty garrisoned.

It was only because Daming had been conducting sea crossing and landing training in Busan before that he did not directly send troops to Tsushima Island.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has only now begun to officially march on Tsushima Island.

The Zong family built a golden stone city on Tsushima Island, which belongs to the political and economic center of Tsushima Island.

But after Wu Weizhong and others arrived on Tsushima Island, the Golden Stone City on Tsushima Island had been emptied.

Because these big names in the Japanese kingdom had learned in advance that the Ming army was going to conquer the Japanese from North Korea, they adopted the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the field and shrinking the front line.

"The Japanese are really cunning, and know how to fight against my celestial dynasty."

Wu Weizhong also couldn't help but say something after learning that there was no food in Jinshi City on Tsushima Island, and that all the wood of the houses had been burned, and there were no vegetables.

"As long as there is no kamikaze, it's fine. This vast sea makes people dizzy after looking at it for a long time!"

Song Yingchang resisted the urge to vomit again, limp on the railing like an octopus, and started talking.

Now he regrets getting on the boat with some immortal Zhang.

Song Yingchang originally planned to take Zhang Shenxian on the boat together to make military achievements. In this way, if he wins the battle against the Japanese, he will not only have the merit of recommending Zhang Shenxian to fight off the evil wind, but also assist Wu Weizhong in landing.

Song Yingchang knew that at present, the Ming Dynasty was governed by a reformist faction, both civil and military, who valued merit, while morality and reputation came second. The example of Lu Kunchao, the former Shandong chief envoy who participated in politics and was promoted to governor of Fengyang for promoting the integration of officials and gentry to pay food and errands in the south, all shows that if you want to be promoted, you can't do it without merit.

Therefore, he resolutely decided to take a big gamble, risking the risk of being buried in the belly of a fish due to a monster wind, and went on board with Wu Weizhong to conquer the Japanese, hoping to let the court know that he was a civil servant who knew how to cooperate with soldiers and generals.

But Song Yingchang didn't expect that he would be the person who vomited the most in the whole boat not long after he boarded the boat.

But the military officers, soldiers and Zhang Shenxian in the whole ship didn't vomit much.

That's why Song Yingchang felt a little regretful.

Qi Jiguang was afraid that the officers and soldiers recruiting Japanese would get seasick, which would affect their combat effectiveness after landing, so he asked Wu Weizhong and others to conduct sea training for the officers and soldiers recruiting Japanese for a long time in Busan, in order to ensure that all officers and soldiers would not get seasick, or at least select those who did not.

Nowadays, those who can go out to sea with Wu Weizhong are not seasick, and they have long been accustomed to the vastness of the sea, so they are not like Song Yingchang.

Wu Weizhong saw that Song Yingchang was like this, so he suggested, "Why don't you just stay in Jinshi City and rest for a while?"

Song Yingchang thought for a while, then waved his hand and said: "No need, didn't you say that you can go to Hirado in one day after crossing Tsushima Island? The lower officials have to persevere, and strive for the opportunity to kill Japanese slaves by then!"

Seeing this, Wu Weizhong did not dissuade him any more, and only left [-] Ming soldiers, [-] court soldiers and some food and grass on Tsushima Island, and used it as a transfer station for increasing troops and increasing food and grass in the future.

Then, after Wu Weizhong asked the army to stay on Tsushima Island for one night, he set off on the second day, the 21st of the first lunar month, and went to Hirado.

There is still no strong wind along the way, only a small wind blowing on the face, and it is as cold as a knife.

After all, it was the early spring when the typhoon was not active. Daming also made sufficient preparations for the conquest of the Japanese. He also bought the Japanese who traded in Hirado, Tsushima Island, North Korea and other places as guides, so he also knew when the typhoon was not active. .

In addition, today's Ming Dynasty is no different from that at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. Because of the frequent trade with the Japanese, the sea conditions in this area have already been felt very clearly.

After Wu Weizhong and his party arrived at Hirado Port, they saw a large number of Japanese warships laying across the river.

These Japanese warships are mainly Guanchuan, a medium-sized warship, and the Shaoli Anzhai boat.

An house ship is a large warship that can fire cannons. Some of the house ships are also wrapped in iron armor, that is, the iron armored ship used by Oda Nobunaga's Kuki Yoshitaka in the battle against the Maori water army. However, because of the high cost, the number is not large. At this time, there are only about three ships, concentrated in the outermost part of the port.

Japan also attached great importance to the conquest of Japan by the Ming army. Not only did the three overlords of Kyushu, Shimadzu, Otomo, and Ryuzooji, have to stop the war and make peace, and deal with Daming unanimously, but also concentrated all the naval forces of the three parties, and took care of the family. All the warships were brought out, and even Yoshihiro Shimadzu, a famous general of the Shimadzu family who was good at water warfare in the Japanese country, personally led the Shimadzu navy to Hirado Port to assist the Matsuura navy of the Hizen kingdom and the Zongshi navy. The army fought against the Ming army.

Wu Weizhong squinted at the Japanese warships that were densely packed like a forest, and did not order an attack directly. Instead, he waited for the wave-opening ships from his side's sentinel to come back and explain the layout of the enemy's warships, and then said to the general boy:

"The Japanese put the big boats outside to use offense as defense, so that they can lure me into their trap, so that they can surround and attack us. You and I will switch and sit here in person, and wait for the enemy's big boats to come. , Only use artillery to attack it, don't need to fight to pursue it, otherwise it will be decisive! I will personally lead your fleet to cross and land."

Tong Ziming bowed his hands and said yes.

Therefore, Wu Weizhong switched with Tong Ziming and went to Tong Ziming's warship.

At this time, Yoshihiro Shimadzu of the Japanese Kingdom actually led more than [-] warships to rush towards the flagship of the Ming army.

For the Ming army, Tong Ziming gave the order to fire the guns as soon as the warships approached.

As a result, under the cloud sails, rows of muzzles in black spit out tongues of fire, and when the waves rolled, they fired these shells over.

The artillery range of the warships of the Ming army can reach thousands of meters, and when hundreds of warships fired at the same time, it naturally poured down like iron rain all over the sky. Splinters fly.

On the Japanese ship, because the maximum range of its artillery is only a few hundred meters, it is equivalent to an ordinary Flang machine iron cannon, and the hull itself cannot be equipped with multiple layers of artillery on the hull. Before the military warship is within a few hundred meters, it can only be passively beaten.

Shimadzu Yoshihiro's face was naturally very ugly when he saw this. Although he had seen the Ming army's double-layered ship with a length of fifteen or six feet, he guessed that the main battleship of the Ming army must be difficult to deal with, but he did not expect that the main force of the Ming army The warship is not only big, the key is that the artillery is also so powerful.

Bang!

Yoshihiro Shimadzu saw that the iron-clad Anzhai ship he was on was also hit by several shots, and the central pavilion was also hit once, so he had to order a retreat in advance and gave up the idea of ​​​​going to fight the Ming army.

Just when retreating, Shimadzu Yoshihiro still looked back, and when he saw that the Ming army warship did not catch up, he was shocked immediately.

(End of this chapter)