Torches lit up and down Moji Castle and the Akama Pass on the other side, reflecting the golden sparkle in the narrow strait.

Snowflakes mixed with rain hit Kobayakawa Takakei's gorgeous armor, and his face was already covered with a layer of hoarfrost but he didn't notice it, only staring intently at the inside and outside of the strait.

The current in the Guanmen Strait is turbulent, and the difficulty of building a pontoon bridge is much more difficult than expected. But within three days, he still used the 300 small boats he had looted to build a pontoon bridge on the sea.

He had planned to take a three-seater, but there weren't so many boats, and second, it was too late.

Fortunately, there are large armies on both sides of the strait, so there is no need to worry about security. It's just that the speed of crossing the sea is a little slower, but it is also several times faster than using a boat to travel back and forth.

Of course, the main purpose of his pontoon bridge was to liberate the sailors under his command from the ferry task, so as to concentrate on dealing with the invading Ming Dynasty fleet!

In the past three days, Kobayakawa sent people to search for wooden boats everywhere and blocked the Kanmon Strait, I believe that the news has long been detected by the ninjas of the Otomo family, and it should have reached the ears of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that Kobayakawa waited for them for three days, and he didn't see any trace of the Ming Dynasty, which made him feel a little anxious.

"Could it be that the people of the Ming Dynasty retreated because of the difficulties?" The commander of the navy under his command, Ichikawa Jinghao, said: "There are 800 of our warships and more than 10,000 sailors in the strait, and it is normal for them to dare not come in. ”

"If the people of the Ming Dynasty were so timid, we would have nothing to regret." Kobayakawa reached out to catch the snowflake and sneered, "Maybe they're ready to attack again when we cross the sea." ”

"But now that it's raining, they're not going to come." Ichikawa is a good way.

"There's no way, I'm super strong but extremely cautious," Kobayakawa sighed, "I have to wait until it rains to open it." ”

Saying that, he sighed and said, "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow morning." ”

After speaking, he felt that this was too inappropriate, so he added: "Of course, it is also excellent to continue to rain, and send the soldiers back safely, and there will be a chance to fight in the future." ”

~~

At that time, although Yoshikawa Motoharu was very careful in his series of arrangements, when the sky was dark, he heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves.

"Report, lord, the big friendly army is catching up!"

"Ah, so fast?" Yoshikawa Motoharu couldn't help but be shocked, it seemed that he left the camp with his front foot, and his back foot was known in advance by the intelligence network of the Otomo family!

He thought that he would be able to wait until dawn to show his stuff, so that the other party would gather his troops and horses to catch up, and he would have already withdrawn to Mensi City.

"Do you know who led the troops and how many there were?"

"I saw the military flag of Tachibana Michiyuki! More than 10,000 pursuers! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, stop, we will meet the Kyushu Military God!" Hearing this name, Yoshikawa Motoharu sighed, pulled out his sword, and shouted: "Formation!" Don't let an enemy go unturned! ”

"Hey!" The 8,000 Yoshikawa troops responded in unison, startling the birds in the mountains and forests.

By the time the big friendly forces caught up, it was already daylight. The Yoshikawa army is divided into three teams, and the central fish scales of the wild geese on the left and right are on guard, and they are ready to fight!

Under the banner of the Tachibana family army with a double snake pattern, six sturdy servants carry a top, and on it sits the incarnation of the god of thunder, the god of the Kyushu army, the undefeated god of war, and the soul of Otomo - Tachibana Michiyuki.

It was not that Daoxue intended to break away from the samurai class and learn from the nobles to sit in a sedan chair, but that he had suffered a leg injury since that sword and lightning strike. Before, you could also have people tie themselves to their horses to fight. However, as he got older, he could no longer ride horses in the autumn and winter, so he had to sit on a soft sedan chair instead.

But the Japanese, who have been in the second soul for generations, not only do they think he is stupid, but they think that he can't even be killed, which is really too good. Coupled with his unrivalled combat bravery, he regarded him as the embodiment of Thor. The enemy against him was timid before he was engaged. He also renamed his thunder-splitting sword 'Chidori' to 'Rachel', apparently liking the name.

Even if you sit on a sedan chair, Tachibana Michiyuki is still in the forefront. When he was at a disadvantage, he would say, 'Whoever cherishes my life will leave me in the enemy and run for my life!' and so on, arousing the soul of the middle two of his subordinates, thus boosting morale, so that the Tachibana army turned defeat into victory several times.

Only with such a lifeless military god in charge, Otomo Sorin's ability to resist the attack of the 'Maori Liangchuan'.

After a little respite from his subordinates, Daoxue ordered to re-form the formation, and he took himself as the first formation, also known as Takahashi Tonghu as the second formation, and outflanked the Yoshikawa army from the mountains and forests to the flank.

At this time, the rain and snow gradually stopped, the sky cleared, and Dao Xue was overjoyed, because it meant that his beloved iron artillery unit could open fire. He immediately sounded the drum himself and ordered his subordinates to advance in three teams in a crane wing formation.

The well-trained iron artillery corps began to reload as they advanced. The Otomo family was one of the first daimyo to possess arquebus, so Tachibana Michiyuki established a special iron artillery unit early on and strictly trained iron cannon group shooting tactics.

And the vision of military geniuses is the same, and he, like Qi Jiguang, invented the original fixed ammunition for the too cumbersome preparation steps for iron cannon shooting - he mixed the ammunition fired at one time with the projectile and loaded it into a special thin bamboo barrel. Have the soldiers make many of these thin bamboo tubes in advance, and hang them on their shoulders in a string of straw ropes.

And gave the name of Secondary 2 'Triple Speed Thunderbolt'! This increases the rate of fire by a factor of three.

Seeing that it was actually sunny, Yoshikawa Motoharu on the opposite side secretly complained. In order to preserve supplies, his troops did not bring a precious iron cannon, so they could only respond to the enemy with bows and arrows.

"Duck give!" He hurriedly drew his sword and ordered his troops to charge immediately. The range of the bow and arrow is far inferior to that of the iron cannon, and the distance must be narrowed, otherwise the iron cannon will be shot to the heart.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and they soon entered the range of the arquebus.

"Shoot!" As soon as the order sounded, the iron artillery team immediately pulled the trigger.

White smoke rose from the rumbling sound of iron cannons, and the shield-bearers led by the Maori army fell to the ground.

~~

At the same time, the Guanmen Strait also resounded with the rumbling sound of artillery. It's not an iron cannon in the mouth of Japan, but a genuine 117-caliber Yongle cannon that is fake!

The Ming Dynasty fleet is still here after all!

Thirty Ming warships had actually arrived outside Tanzhipu a long time ago, and they launched an attack as soon as dawn.

At this time, the Maori family had withdrawn and the former army had already gone on the pontoon bridge, and Kobayakawa naturally could not let the Ming Dynasty warships reach the gate castle. He had already learned the range of the Ming army's artillery through the remnants of the Yashiro Island naval army, which could reach up to 400 zhang. Therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty people were not allowed to enter Tanzhipukou, their terrible artillery would not threaten the Maori family who were crossing the strait.

Ichikawa Nobuyo had already boarded the ship and personally led a hundred warships of the Kobayakawa family into battle.

Tannoura is a trumpet-shaped fjord that is wide in the east and narrow in the west, and the westernmost port is the headland where Moji Castle is located, and the sea is only 200 zhang wide. The easternmost part of Urao is four miles wide. People who are not familiar with the terrain will suffer before they know it.

Now, of course, his task is to stop the enemy ships in Urachu and prevent them from approaching Moji Castle, so as to buy time for the sea-crossing troops.

The Kobayakawa family has always been famous for its naval army, and now that the Maori family is in the western country, it is natural that its strength has increased greatly, and it has 300 large and small warships. But Kobayakawa did not allow them to fight together, but met the enemy in three batches.

Because Kobayakawa also understood the characteristics of the firearms of the Ming Dynasty warships - the Ming Dynasty's long-range artillery, which fired solid shells, had limited accuracy and limited damage to personnel and warships.

What can really cause great damage is the close-range shotgun.

As for the kind of rocket that can burn the ship, as long as you are quick and throw it into the sea as soon as it falls, it won't cause much trouble, right?

Therefore, in Kobayakawa's view, as long as he did not rush forward and spread out the formation, there would not be much loss, and it would not be a problem to stop the enemy army for a morning.

In one morning, there was enough time for the Maori army to drive through. As for the men and servants who are behind, it depends on their creation. What's more, Kobayakawa didn't plan to let them all pass, otherwise what would he use to lure the Ming Dynasty fleet to penetrate his mouth?

But as soon as the Ming Dynasty opened fire, he found that he was thinking simply. Sure enough, hearing is better than seeing, just hearing people will still despise the power of the Ming Dynasty!

He stood on a high place and saw clearly, only to see a cannonball fired from a mile away, which pierced through the guard of a closed ship, and smashed the eight or nine samurai behind the guard to the point of flesh and blood, looking like they had been skewered with sugar gourds.

"Lie down!" Ichikawa Jinghao strictly executed the order, and he was not in a hurry to order a rowing attack, and he could delay it for a while.

~~

On the deck of the stern of the 101st ship, Wang Rulong saw the Japanese fleet for the first time, not 'rabbits'.

He once thought that the Japanese would have a pig tactic...... Oda Nobunaga felt offended.

"Damn, the mustache has been beaten by our artillery experience, and I found out that we can't hit accurately if we are far away." Wang Rulong took a sip, and he also felt offended.

"It seems that the kite flying style is not invincible." Zhao Hao smiled: "After all, fighting is not a monster farming." ”

"Hey, hey." Wang Rulong was not in a hurry to change the formation, but only scolded the herald and said: "Beat the flag, tell those gunners, damn it, they are despised by Little Japan, let them watch it!" ”

Zhao Gongzi has been with the ship for a month and a half, and he can't do nothing, in addition to training police cadres and helping his eldest nephew to give advice, he also did a serious job, that is, to train the heralds in flags. If you don't know how to play the flag, how can you be embarrassed to call it a flagship?

In fact, the flag language is not difficult to learn, the difficult thing is to teach them pinyin. Out of a narrow nationalist mind unwilling to dwarf themselves, Zhao Gongzi taught them Chinese phonetic symbols instead of the Latin alphabet......

Anyway, the two can basically be converted to each other, and according to the experience of Taiwan, it is a first-grade elementary school student, and ten weeks of study can master this thing. Therefore, Zhao Gongzi decided to promote this set of Chinese character phonetic scheme in the primary schools of Jiangnan Education Group from next year.

Fortunately, the heralds are all smart and clever people, and pinyin is not too difficult to learn, and you can master it in a month.

So on the adjacent warships, the heralds read the following message from the constantly changing flags of the flagship heralds:

"Cannon... Hand...... Guys, little... Day... I'm looking at you! ”

The gunners were red-faced when they landed, and they were cautious with every shot, and they came up with the highest level!