"Fourth uncle, you can actually stay on Jeju Island, you don't have to come with us!" On the moving warship, Li Jie said to Zhu Di helplessly.

Behind Li Jie and them, there was a huge fleet, that is, the fleet that Li Jie brought from Zhoushan, and the 3,000 elite soldiers of Zhang Dingbian and Zou Pusheng and others were also hidden on the troop transport ships behind, but the merchant fleet at the back was missing, because they were here to fight this time, and the merchant ships were also cumbersome.

"I've always heard people say that the Japanese are very rampant, but unfortunately I haven't seen it, and now you want to clean up the Japanese invaders, it just so happens that I have nothing to do, of course I want to follow you to see it!" Zhu Di held the side of the boat and looked at the intersection of the sky and the sea, and he didn't know what he was thinking?

Li Jie was also a little speechless when he heard this, after Zhu Di led the army to Jeju Island, he discussed it with Zhang Dingbian, and also decided to send troops to Tsushima Island, after all, if it is delayed any longer, it may make the Japanese robbers on Tsushima Island hear some rumors, and if they let them escape, then don't think about finding them again.

However, what Li Jie didn't expect was that Zhu Di also wanted to go with them, anyway, there was no movement on the Goryeo side for the time being, so he had nothing to do on the island, and he seemed to be very interested in the Japanese Kou, so Zhu Di arranged his soldiers on the island and boarded the ship with Yao Guangxiao.

"By the way, it is said that the Japanese are closer to the north, but why has it always been the southern coastal trouble, but I rarely hear about the Japanese in the north?" Zhu Di suddenly asked again at this time.

"The Japanese did not have a large sea boat, so they could only use small boats to float along the current of the sea, and it happened that there was a current on Tsushima Island that reached the southern coast, so they followed the current south, and went directly to the southern coast." Li Jie opened his mouth to explain.

"What do you mean by ocean currents?" Zhu Di asked curiously again when he heard this, he had limited knowledge of navigation, and he had never heard of many basic navigation knowledge.

Li Jie briefly introduced the ocean currents, and then popularized the basic navigation knowledge to Zhu Di, and even talked about the earth as a ball and the division of the earth into seven continents and four oceans.

"I see, I heard that you gave my father a thing called a globe, can you give me one too?" After listening to this, Zhu Di said again with great interest.

"You don't need me to send it, Your Majesty has already asked people to imitate a batch of globes, and it is said that they will be given to all the princes, and then the fourth uncle, you will definitely have one." Li Jie replied again, Lao Zhu's love for his son is really nothing to say, he will think of his son if he has any good things, and of course there is nothing to keep secret about the globe.

As he spoke, the lookout on the mast above his head suddenly put down the telescope in his hand and shouted: "There are ships ahead, seven!" ”

Hearing that seven boats suddenly appeared in front of him, Li Jie also showed a surprised look, Fang Guan also commanded the fleet to outflank them at this time, and soon seven small boats appeared in front of Li Jie and them, and when he saw these boats, Li Jie's face sank, because he was too familiar with this kind of boat, and when the Japanese raided Jintang Island before, they took this kind of boat.

"It's a wolf!" Fang Guan held a telescope and observed at this time.

"All of them are sunk, but grab a few alive!" Li Jie ordered in a deep voice, this is still far from Tsushima Island, looking at the direction of these small boats, it is not like going to Goryeo, the only explanation is that they plan to drift along the ocean current to the southern coast of Daming.

When Fang Guan heard this, he immediately agreed, waved his flag and ordered the two warships to come forward, and the Japanese on the small boat had already seen the huge warships of the Daming Naval Division, but unfortunately they couldn't dodge if they wanted to, so they could only watch the two tall warships rush over, and then directly pressed their small boats underwater, and they were so frightened that they also jumped off ship to save their lives.

However, jumping into the water did not save their lives, because the soldiers on the boat began to shoot arrows and guns downward, and as long as they came out, they would be shot and killed immediately, but a few "lucky" Japanese were caught on the boat and handed over to people who knew the Japanese language for interrogation.

Half an hour later, the interrogators came back to report that these Japanese were indeed from Tsushima Island, and the purpose was the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty, and these Japanese also gave some explanations about the situation on Tsushima Island.

Tsushima Island is a small island, and there is no fertile land on the island, and the island is ruled by the clan of the clan loyal to the Wakoku, and the islanders usually make a living by fishing, but when the Somune clan gathers them to go to sea together, these islanders will become pirates, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, and these people are the root of the Wako.

However, with the confrontation between the north and the south of the Wa Kingdom, the Wa Kingdom was also in turmoil, and many samurai went bankrupt, and the Wa people who could not survive in the country began to venture out to sea, and Tsushima Island was the base camp of the pirates, which naturally attracted many bankrupt samurai.

However, Tsushima Island has a limited population to support, and the Zong clan also has to strictly control the number of people on the island, so every once in a while, the Zong clan will use a similar lottery method to draw out a group of Japanese pirates, and then send them on small boats to follow the ocean current south.

The ships of the Wako were too small, and they had to take a lot of risks when drifting at sea, and if they were lucky, the entire fleet might sink in the wind and waves, and of course, if they were lucky enough to reach the coast of Daming, which was countless times richer than Goryeo and Wa.

According to the confessed Wako, the Zong clan on Tsushima Island had 2,000 available soldiers, and the rest were old and weak women, and the Zong clan also had hundreds of warships, but most of them were small ships, and the largest warships were placed in the Ming Dynasty's sailors, which was only at the level of medium-sized warships. This is similar to what Li Jie expected before, after all, the shipbuilding technology of the Japanese State was backward, and it was completely crushed in the naval battle.

"General Fang, act according to the original plan!" After analyzing the information confessed by these Japanese robbers, Li Jie quickly made a decision that the strength of Tsushima was similar to what he expected, and there was no need to change the plan at all.

Fang Guan immediately agreed, and then ordered the fleet to move forward at full speed, and drove forward for more than an hour, Tsushima Island appeared in front of the fleet, and Fang Guan also immediately ordered that the warships in front of them and the moving ships in the rear should be separated, and then line up to kill Tsushima Island.

Li Jie stood at the bow of the flagship, looking at the Tsushima Island that was getting closer and closer, and his chest was also full of pride and ambition, Jeju Island was obtained by him before, and the Tsushima Island in front of him was the first step of the Ming Dynasty's military development to the outside world.

But at this moment, Yao Guangxiao, who had been spinning around on the boat, suddenly walked to the bow of the boat, looked at Li Jie and smiled slightly: "Li Banyu, there is a question that I have never been able to understand, I wonder if you can solve my confusion?" ”

"What's the problem?" Li Jie turned his head and looked at the second most famous monk in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and the first famous monk was, of course, Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Li Banyu asked His Royal Highness King Yan to send troops to control Goryeo, and you have to pass through the Wa Kingdom, such a big move should not just be for the sake of the Wako, right?" Yao Guangxiao smiled again.