After Liu Pei pointed out the battle plan, he explained the specific tasks and handed them over to the officers below. They will come up with a more detailed plan. When the time comes, Liu Pei only needs to make choices and modifications.

Just as Liu Pei guessed, in the port of Yokohama City, Miura Shoji gathered a huge sailor. There were more than 350 German ships of all sizes in this sailor, and the sea surface of the harbor was full. And counting.

Miura Masaji looked at the dense masts in the port, and he felt full of confidence! He felt that with these ships, he would definitely be able to defeat the other party this time! When the time comes, the other side must be forced to hand over the methods of shipbuilding and cannon casting.

However, what disturbed Miura Masaji was that when the scheduled time came, the enemy seemed to be missing, and there was no trace of him at all. So Miura had to send a large number of ships to patrol the waterway. In particular, the area between the port of Yokohama and the land on the other side of the sea is filled with alert ships. As soon as they spotted Liu Pei's fleet, they would warn Yokohama Castle.

At the same time, Edo Castle also received a notice from Masaji Miura. They also have a lot of speculation about the enemy who has not shown up for a long time. However, everyone was inclined to the opponent to detect the assembly of the Japanese naval division, and felt that they were invincible and retreated. So Edo Castle is filled with a happy atmosphere.

But Tokugawa Iemitsu didn't think so. He felt that if Liu Pei retreated so easily, then everything he had done in the early stage would become a joke, which would cause great anger and hatred from the whole of the Japanese kingdom. It's a thing that doesn't outweigh the cost. Therefore, Tokugawa Iemitsu sent a special message to Masaji Miura, telling him to be strict and beware of the sneak attack of the enemy fleet.

Miura Masaji and his ideas coincided with Tokugawa Iemitsu, so he immediately stepped up his investigation after receiving Tokugawa Iemitsu's letter.

On the 29th day, Massaji Miura, who was waiting for news from the Yokohama castle tower, received an alert from the fleet that a fleet was approaching rapidly.

Miura was overjoyed and immediately ordered all the ships to leave the harbor to meet the enemy. It took a lot of time for more than 200 ships to leave port. By the time they had assembled in the open sea, a fleet of more than 20 ships had approached them. It was the fleet led by Wu Yizhou who came.

Miura was a little hesitant when he was sure that the other party really only had more than 20 ships. Because the number of ships obviously does not match the intelligence. However, he couldn't help but hesitate, and the other party's fleet had already puffed up its sails and rushed over!

Masaji Miura was furious at this contemptuous provocation. He immediately commanded the fleet to spread out in a half-moon formation and won. However, the opponent's fleet was very cunning, and when it was about to enter the Half Moon Formation, it turned directly, and with the advantage of the upper wind, it cut to the right tip of Half Moon Town. Far away from the sea, out of the encirclement of Half Moon Town. At the same time, they also bombarded the fleet at the tip of the right side, causing a lot of damage.

In this short firefight, the Japanese fleet lost three ships. And the enemy fled unscathed. Miura Masaji was furious and immediately ordered the fleet to pursue! He left more than eighty ships behind as his main formation, and slowly followed behind. The other more than two hundred ships divided into two groups to pursue the enemy.

But the other party looked clearly teasing them. Taking advantage of the speed of their ships, they repeatedly escaped from roundups and inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese army. In several encounters, the Japanese fleet has already lost more than a dozen ships!

Massaji Miura didn't care about the number of ships he lost in battle, as he had enough ships as a backup. He was most concerned about fighting at sea. He recorded the trajectory of the enemy's fleet on charts, and found that the enemy felt that it was obvious that he was luring them to the open sea.

Miura Masaji felt that the other party might have a back hand hiding not far away, so he was already preparing to withdraw the fleet and hold the bay. Moreover, the speed of the opposing fleet is very fast, and it is not good for him to chase on the wide sea, and can only lose ships and personnel in vain.

But just then, a samurai reported to him, "My lord, there is a fleet approaching at high speed on the flank of this formation!" ”

Miura Masaki immediately said nervously, "What kind of ship?" How many are there? ”

The samurai said, "The ships on the east side report the appearance of about two dozen ships. And all of them are Western-style big ships! ”

Masaji Miura waved his fist happily! It seems that this time the opponent has all the hole cards! In this way, the number of enemy ships will be completely matched, and there will be no more worries about ambushes. However, Miura Masaji was still very careful to play the flag and ordered the fleet in front to gradually retreat.

The two fleets in front received the signal and withdrew in cover for each other. However, what he didn't expect was that Wu Yizhou's fleet did not take advantage of the victory to chase after him, but stayed in place and turned slowly, distancing himself from them. This surprised Masahji Miura.

By this time the fleet from the east had approached his home formation. This fleet is very brave, because this fleet is led by Liu Pei, so the morale is very strong. They got close to a distance of more than a hundred paces and bombarded the ships coming towards the town with their naval guns! At a distance of less than two hundred meters, the opponent's naval guns were extremely powerful! Ships hit by shells can easily be pierced!

What's even more terrifying is that the opposing ship also has a very thick short-barreled cannon that can fire huge cannonballs that can explode! The losses and casualties caused by such shells are several times greater than those of ordinary shells. Especially this kind of shell has absolute lethality for the ship!

Since the ship's building covered the entire hull, the target was large and easy to hit. At the same time, Seki's defense was reduced in pursuit of speed. This makes its thin planks easy to penetrate at close range by flowering bullets.

And the flowering bullet that penetrates through one layer of planks will not have the power to penetrate the second plank, and will only be blocked and explode in the cabin! In this way, the sailors in the cabin suffered heavy casualties, not to mention the heavy casualties, and often caused a fire, or even an explosion of gunpowder! And the ships of the Wa Kingdom are often very poor in terms of firmness, and once they are hit by the flowering shells, they will lose their combat effectiveness even if they cannot sink!

A ship is often completely finished after one or two shells. Either all the sailors died in the explosion and lay motionless on the surface of the sea, or a raging fire ignited! More than half of the ships that have been sunk, destroyed, and burned are the result of flowering shells!

In the short period of time when Liu Pei's fleet and the main formation fought, more than a dozen ships in the formation sank or caught fire. This made Masaki Miura both panic and angry! So he desperately urged the other two fleets to turn back and block the back of this fleet.

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