Chapter 54: The Prologue to Li Huamei's Actions
As soon as the two red-haired ghosts left, Ma Xianglan hurriedly took out a silk handkerchief to wipe Zhao Hao's hands, wiped the back of his hand several times, and then threw the handkerchief directly into the sea to feed the fish...... The handkerchief of pure natural silk can be eaten by soaking in the seawater.
Ma Yinglong also asked in a low voice from the side: "Childe, aren't you very disgusted with the Laoshizi Chezhidan Sect?" ”
"Not only the Chezhi Dan Sect, but also the Monotheism I am disgusted with." Zhao Gongzi smiled faintly, looked at the sky at 45 degrees and said: "Only science is the unchanging belief of this son's life." ”
"Then why do you want to teach Chezhi Dan and be a patron of Raushzi in the Far East?" Wang Rulong asked.
"Because our strength is inferior, we are not the opponent of the Malacca fleet, let alone the Spanish fleet. But if you really want to make money, you have to trade with the Portuguese and Spaniards. As he spoke, he looked at the two of them earnestly and said, "Before we can drive Portugal and Spain out of Asia with our fleet, we have to make peace with the Church first, and let them be used as lubricant between us and the red-haired ghosts." ”
"Lubricants?" The two of them didn't quite understand the word.
"It's that the relationship between the two parties is very jerky, and it is easy to cause friction, so let them lubricate it, and it will be smooth and silky." Zhao Gongzi explained, and then Zhengse ordered the two of them: "But you remember, be vigilant, don't let people brainwash you!" ”
"Yes!" The two hurriedly responded, this was obviously Ma Yinglong's business scope, and he hurriedly asked: "Is it forbidden to proselytize in the police force?" ”
"Yes, all police officers and police officers can't be trusted, let alone transmitted, once discovered, they will be severely punished!" Zhao Hao was not at all debatable: "If there are missionaries who question you in the future, ask them back, do the police force listen to the Lord or the son?" If they dare to talk nonsense, just blast it out. ”
"Yes!" Military personnel love clear instructions the most, and police officers are no exception.
"But it can't be so simple and rude elsewhere, otherwise no matter how stupid people are, they can see that I'm playing tricks on them." Zhao Hao touched his chin and thought: "It's okay in China, you said that I am a little son of a magistrate, who can I shelter, who can listen to me?" ”
"Haha......" Erlong only dared to laugh and did not dare to echo.
"The only trouble now is Tamna, and if they want to go on a mission, I can't stop them." Zhao Hao said with a smile: "But fortunately, Tang Fat Man is there, let him worry about this matter." Anyway, it will drag on for a few years, and when our new warships are built, they will all rush back to Europe! ”
Secretary Ma hurriedly wrote down the matter, and turned around to remind Gongzi to explain it to Tang Youde, otherwise he would definitely forget.
"That's pretty much it......" Zhao Gongzi thought about it, and felt that it could only be like this, so he straightened his clothes and said: "Let's go, let's have a meeting!"
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"Stand up!"
The officer on duty gave the order, and the police officers in the large conference room stood up together.
"Take a break." Zhao Gongzi, accompanied by Wang Rulong and Ma Yinglong, walked quickly to the front of the stage.
There was a loud bang, and everyone took a break.
"I declare that the strategic objectives of the second phase of this punishment operation have all been achieved, and the 'dog fighting operation' has been successfully concluded!" After Zhao Gongzi finished speaking, he took the lead in applauding, and all the police officers hurriedly applauded together.
After the applause subsided, Zhao Hao then said in a deep voice: "Next, we will conduct the final stage of the battle. The strategic goal is simple - to eliminate the main forces of the Maori Navy and the Murakami Navy and completely control the Kanmon Strait! ”
As he spoke, he looked around at the crowd and said in a deep voice: "I named this operation 'Operation Li Huamei'!" ”
"Yes!" The officers replied in high-pitched voices, apparently preferring the act of the boy naming a combat operation after a girl.
Sister Ma felt a little panicked, I don't know where this Li Huamei came from?
Childe is really the species of the old Zhao family, and he can't prevent it......
Alas, I looked forward to growing up when I didn't grow up. When I grow up, I don't think it's good.
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Then it was Ma Yinglong who made an intelligence summary.
"Don't be paralyzed by our previous victories, this time we will face an enemy that is stronger than ever. Speaking of military strength alone, the Maori naval army can dispatch more than 400 warships, and among the Murakami naval army, there are more than 300 Noh Island families, more than 200 Lai Island families, and more than 200 Injima families. So our enemy can gather more than a thousand warships and more than 20,000 sailors at most! ”
The officers couldn't help but look serious. Their firepower is not enough to withstand so many enemy ships at the same time, and they will definitely encounter a broadside battle!
"Besides, the Guanmen Strait is also very unfriendly to us." Ma Yinglong pointed to the map on the wall and said, "It is located between Shimonoseki in Honshu and Moji Port in Kyushu, and is the western gateway of the Seto Inland Sea, and the key point of the Sea of Japan. Its central channel is 15-20 meters deep, and the narrowest sea area is only about 600 meters wide. Moreover, according to the Tang, the ocean currents in the Guanmen Strait are still very fast, which is very unsuitable for our battle line tactics......"
The officers listened and took notes, and the relaxed look on their faces was completely gone. Such a narrow 'V' shaped strait is too unfriendly to their bulky galleons. Not to mention fighting, even if you are sailing, you will sweat.
"In addition, the combat level of the Mishima Navy is also among the best in Japan. They are especially good at the two tactics of 'Roasting Fire Arrow' and 'Butterfly Formation'. Ma Yinglong said, asked people to bring a watermelon-sized clay pot tied with a long hemp rope, and explained to everyone: "Actually, this thing is the 'iron soldering cone' that we used against the Japanese when we were in the Qi family's army, but I didn't expect it to let Little Japan learn it back." ”
In fact, the Japanese really didn't learn from the Qi family, but came to Japan during the Song Dynasty. The so-called 'baking' is actually a Japanese-style pottery decoction pot, which the Japanese use as a substitute for porcelain tribulus terrestris, which should have been specially fired. The roast is filled with gunpowder and all kinds of flammable materials, and after lighting the fuse, it is rounded and thrown out, and the powerful can be thrown fifty meters away.
Most of the police officers here are from Qi Jiajun, naturally they are not strangers at all, and they know that this thing is different from the Lei Gong rocket that specializes in arson, its main role is to use fragments and explosions to kill, on the contrary, the effect of burning is very little. However, the Daifuku ship is not made of oak, and if you eat dozens or hundreds of notes, you can burn it.
"The 'Butterfly Array' is a tactic that Murakami's naval army is good at - they don't have bulky Ataka ships, and they don't even have many ships, they mainly rely on the brisk Kozao, relying on the maneuverability of ships superior to the enemy, scattering and approaching the enemy like butterflies wearing flowers, and then suddenly surrounding, besieging an enemy ship with several or even a dozen ships, supplemented by the above-mentioned burning fire arrows, which is enough to inflict a devastating blow on the enemy ship."
Ma Yinglong said in a deep voice: "These two things are the magic weapons that the Murakami Navy relies on to dominate the Seto Sea, I think we will all taste it this time." ”
After the information was summarized, it was Wang Rulong who arranged a specific battle plan.
"In this battle, we should concentrate our forces, prevent the enemy from gathering forces, take the initiative to seek opportunities to destroy the enemy, divide and attack, and break each one!" He was still as concise as ever, and said word by word: "So Childe has ordered Otomo Sorin, and spread the news that he is going to escort Ouchi Teruhiro back to the Minister of Defense." I believe that the Maori navy will not remain indifferent......"
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Ten days later, Akihoura, Yoshishiki County, Zhou Defense Country.
There was a lookout every few miles by the sea, and there were barracks under the watchtower, and each camp was garrisoned by a garrison samurai led by 500 ashigaru. Once the enemy situation is discovered, the lookout will immediately release wolf smoke, and the nearby barracks will also come to the rescue, and join forces to prevent the enemy from landing.
This is the hinterland of the Maori family, but it is across the sea from the territory of the Ouchi family, and the Maori family naturally has to be heavily guarded to prevent the Bungo Navy from attacking it.
There is also a water village in Akihoura, where the elite of the Maori navy, the Yashiro Island naval force of the Shirai clan, is stationed.
In fact, the Yashiro Island Navy originally patrolled the Kanmon Strait to protect the supply lines and retreat routes of the Maori Kyushu Raiders. But seven days ago, Takakei Kobayakawa, the lord of the front line of Tachibanayama Castle, sent a secret order that Otomo Sorin's order was to send a naval army to escort Ouchi Teruhiro back to Zhoufang. The Yashiro Island Navy returned to Akihoura as soon as possible, and it was necessary to prevent the landing of Teruhiro Ouchi.
As soon as he received the secret order, Xianyin, the head of the Shirai family, was shocked, he was actually a retainer of the Ouchi family, but later followed Tao Qingxian to go down and kill Ouchi Yoshitaka. Therefore, if Teruhiro Ouchi comes back, the first one who can't be spared is the Shirai family.
He hurriedly mobilized all the warships and returned to Akihoura to wait for the battle. After waiting for three days and no movement, Xianyin was discussing with his retainers, did Ouchi Teruhiro dare not come, or was he directly destroyed by the Ming Dynasty fleet in Oita Bay?
At this moment, a samurai suddenly ran in to report that the wolf smoke was rising!
"Nani?" Xianyin, who was wantonly belittling Huihong, suddenly stood up: "Which section of wolf smoke?" ”
"That's what we're here!"
"Yaga!" Xianyin hurriedly rushed to the bow of the boat, put his hand on the pergola and looked at the sea, and sure enough, he saw dozens of closed boats densely packed with them, slowly sailing from the direction of Kyushu.
"Go out of the village to meet the enemy!"
In the rumbling sound of the drums, the sailors who had been on standby on the boat hurriedly took their places, shouted the trumpet and rowed together, and sailed out of the water village at the fastest speed.
By the time Xianyin's house ship slowly took place, the ships had already sailed within two miles.
"Huh?" Xianyin, who was about to order an assault, was suddenly stunned, and he found that behind those closed ships, there were dozens of Chinese-style galleons!
First, the distance was far away, and secondly, those sailboats did not raise their sails, so Xianyin did not notice. At this time, those Chinese sailing ships have raised their distinctive sails, which is naturally clear at a glance.
"Family master, I'm afraid this is the legendary Ming Dynasty fleet!" Xianyin's retainer lost his voice and said: "Otomo Zonglin, this old fox, actually paralyzed us with fake news!" ”
Lao Wang, who was far away in Oita, sneezed, no, it's not me, I didn't!
It's useless to say all this now, turn around and withdraw at this time, don't you become a laughing stock? Disappoint your dear lord Kobayakawa?
What's more, Xianyin, who has the ancestral head iron of the Japanese, does not believe that the Ming Dynasty fleet is really as evil as the legend says.
He gritted his teeth and pulled out the small knife, pointed forward viciously and said, "Rabbit give!" ”
ps. Continue to write for a while, but I guess I won't finish a chapter, so I'll send it tomorrow morning.