The decapitation of the Japanese Navy division generals by the water ghost team is just the first plan. If the decapitation operation fails, there are second, third, and fourth options.

The first option is the least costly, but it is a "conspiracy". The second plan is to attack the Songpu Peninsula, the old nest of the pirate coalition, and attack it to save it, and force it to fight a decisive battle, which is a conspiracy.

The third plan is that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers, no matter how the opponent's fleet is scattered, just pursue and encircle the flagship where Zhuqi Jichang is located, destroy the opponent's Chinese military detachment, and force Zhuqi Jichang to gather the fleet for a decisive battle.

The fourth plan is the worst plan, if the first three plans don't work, they will directly attack the Satsuma sailors in Ivan Port, and attract Takeki Ji Chang to come to the rescue, with one and two.

This plan is very risky and costly, but if successful, it can solve the pirate coalition and the Satsuma Marines in one fell swoop.

In short, there is only one purpose, to deceive, induce, and force the pirate coalition to fight a decisive battle.

Without fighting a hard-fought decisive battle, it is impossible to solve the Japanese naval division. Li Luo's strategy was very simple, first ignore the Japanese army, and kill all the pirate coalition forces, Satsuma sailors, and sailors.

The forces of the Japanese naval divisions were mainly in Kyushu, and the naval divisions of Honshu and Shikoku were insufficient. As long as the more than 20,000 national naval divisions in Kyushu are eliminated, the Honshu naval divisions are not to be worried.

After killing the Japanese naval division and gaining sea control, he used the fleet to block the Kanmon Strait and cut off the connection between Honshu and Kyushu, so that the follow-up reinforcements from Honshu could not rescue Kyushu at all.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning have long analyzed that if they want to conquer Japan, they must first conquer Kyushu, and if they want to conquer Kyushu, they must first destroy the Japanese sailors. It is difficult for Japan to swallow in the short term, so it can only be eaten slowly one by one.

Now, because of the black paralysis under the lamp, Takeki Ji Chang made Li Luo's first plan successfully completed, not only successfully beheaded, but also successfully gathered the pirate detachments together.

After the "kamikaze", is it that the good luck of the Japanese country has run out, and it is Li Luo's turn to be lucky?

On the morning of 11 August, the Crusade fleet suddenly turned around and approached the pirate coalition fleet behind it.

And the assembled pirate coalition army, because they had already received the order to "prepare for a decisive battle" issued on the flagship, not only did not flinch, but their morale was high.

After two months of dealing with the Yuan army at sea, each time he was ordered to disperse and harass, but he never gathered to fight a good battle with the Yuan army's sailors, which made the always warlike pirate warriors extremely depressed.

Now, Lord Takeki has finally ordered a decisive battle.

There are more than 12,000 pirate warriors, and everyone is boiling with fighting spirit. There was no need to give an order, so they began to take their places and prepare to face the Yuankou Shui Master in a dignified manner.

But the pirates are strange that the Yuankou Sailor is about to come, why haven't the shipowners (generals) returned yet? The decisive battle is imminent, why are the shipowners still discussing on the flagship? Shouldn't we return to command the war?

"Yaga ......"

"Dosidie......

The pirates couldn't help but complain.

Seeing that the Yuankou Naval Division was already within two miles, and the ship generals had not yet returned to their flagship, the pirate coalition finally realized that something was wrong.

What the hell is going on?

Hundreds of pirates on the ship looked at the most magnificent first flagship, which was the flagship of Takeki Kicho. But even the closest ship could not see the scene in the flagship's cabin.

Finally, the nearest ship approached, and a group of pirates dared to board Takeki Kicho's flagship without permission.

But as soon as they got on board, they smelled a strong smell of blood, and then they saw corpses scattered all over the place.

"Takeki Sama! Kono Sama ...... "Takeki Kicho, Kono Tongyou, and the major ship owners were all killed!"

"Nani?!"

"Wokasina!!"

The pirates on board were shocked and rushed to the deck with the slogan: "The flagship has been attacked!" ”

Soon, the pirates learned that the flagship had been attacked, and that Takeki Jicho and Kono had all been killed.

If the pirates were confused and didn't know the bad news, it wouldn't be the worst outcome. Even if they lose their command, even if they fight on their own, they can fight hard, after all, the morale of more than 10,000 people has not collapsed.

But what is good about not dying is that when he was about to meet the enemy, he was shocked to hear that a general such as Takeki Ji Chang was attacked and killed in the flagship.

This bad news, like a big basin of biting ice water, suddenly poured on the fiery fighting spirit of the pirate warriors, causing their military morale to fall in an instant.

As soon as morale collapsed, the drawbacks of losing the command system were immediately exposed.

Hundreds of pirate ships were in chaos at this time, and it was too late to deal with Li Luo's fleet.

In fact, the best response for the Japanese fleet at this time was to evacuate as soon as possible, break it into pieces, and escape as little as possible.

But what is speechless is that the shame and the honor of the samurai make it impossible for them to flee on their own without orders, no one dares to flee first, and no one dares to come forward to be cowards.

As a result, more and more ships are in a mess and completely out of order. No fleet left the fleet and fled, and no fleet took the initiative to attack, but circled in place, as if waiting for a decisive battle.

It is an extremely dangerous thing for the army to lose its command structure. Especially at the moment of the enemy, it is neither possible to organize effective resistance, nor to implement any strategy and tactics. It's okay to fight on their own, it's more about being slaughtered by others.

At this time, Luo Yu, the temporary commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet, was standing on the Chang'an, looking at the Japanese fleet not far away.

The general is really like a god. He said that as long as the generals of the Japanese naval division were assassinated, the Japanese naval division would not disperse in a hurry, but would simply wait for the decisive battle, and there would be few changes.

The general said that this was due to the temperament of the Japanese people. Isn't that what is happening today?

After the water ghost team returned to the fleet, they reported that they had attacked and killed a group of Japanese generals, and the Japanese naval division had lost its command.

But they were really stunned and ready for a decisive battle. It's good that way, it saves yourself a lot of trouble.

Luo Yu was absolutely sure that he would annihilate the Japanese sailors in one fell swoop. His confidence not only comes from the fact that his side has many soldiers and advanced combat equipment, but also comes from his self-confidence.

"Commander Luo, at this time, the Japanese army is like a sheep to the death, even if it has no claws, it also has sharp angles. Should our army outflank the two flanks of the horn array, and then turn it into a square circle array? Or with an eagle? Deputy Commander Zheng He asked.

Luo Yu shook his head and smiled: "No." There are more than 10,000 enemies, and the number of ships is huge, and the difference in number is limited compared to our army. If the two flanks of the horn array are outflanked, the formation of our fleet will inevitably become thinner, and even if it can be turned into a square circle, it is not desirable. Now that the south wind is blowing, the enemy still has the possibility of breaking through, and the eagle array is not conducive to quickly engaging the enemy, and it is not advisable. ”

Zheng He said: "I understand, it's like making dumplings, if there is too much filling, and the dumpling skin is not thick enough, it will break." Our army is headwinded, and the eagle formation is easy to prompt the enemy to quickly break through to both sides, which is not conducive to division and encirclement. ”

"Not bad. It's not easy for you to think of this at a young age. Luo Yu smiled and nodded, "That's exactly the reason." Therefore, our army should first be divided into two, outflanking the left and right with the north and south horn formations, and then turning into the east and west horn formations to intersperse the enemy formations, and then turning into the east and west four columns, dividing and encircling the enemy fleet. ”

"In this way, we will be able to give full play to the strength of our army's large number of ships and leading combat equipment. Wait until more than half of the enemy ships are damaged, and finally turn into a square circle formation, surrounded by ironclad, and then they can be completely annihilated. At this time it is a southerly wind. After becoming a four-column column in the east and west, the feather arrows of our army can also reduce headwinds and become more powerful. ”

Zheng He was very perceptive, and immediately understood, and had to admire his hand and said: "The commander is smart, and he has been taught below." ”

Although Zheng He is very talented in naval warfare, he is only twenty years old after all, don't look at him as Li Luo's fleet commander, but he has always been engaged in transportation and escort, and has never really fought a naval battle.

He is too inexperienced in naval warfare, and small naval battles are definitely fine, but large naval battles, he will be difficult to deal with.

If he followed his style of play, he could only defeat the Japanese naval division, but if he wanted to annihilate them all, it was impossible.

However, Luo Yu was promoted to the Yuan Army's naval division of thousands of households, and went to sea many times to kill pirates, and he has rich experience in naval warfare.

This is why he is obviously not Li Luo's henchman, but Li Luo has to hand over the fleet to him to command. The large fleet of 10,000 or 20,000 people was handed over to the command of Zheng He, who had no experience in naval warfare, how could Li Luo do such a stupid thing?

Of course, Luo Yu is a general that Li Luo has long been in love with, and he can't escape Li Luo's clutches. His family has all been sent to Haidong. It's just that Luo Yu is still in the dark. After the end of the expedition, it was impossible for him to return to the Yuan Dynasty to continue to be an official.

If there was no backhand, Li Luo would not dare to let him board the new sail battleship Chang'an, wouldn't that be a leak?

At this time, it was only one mile away from the Japanese fleet, and Luo Yu immediately ordered the fleet to be divided into two, turning into a north-south horn to face the Japanese army.

And the Japanese army did not retreat, and without one command, they rushed over in their own boats, seemingly fearless.

The so-called bravery of the Japanese samurai often seems a bit arrogant and stupid. They have a mysterious confidence in their own bravery, and they believe too much in spiritual power.

Of course, once you have a good commander and good equipment, this spirit can play a great role in combat.

Luo Yu saw that the Japanese army still rushed up without fear without command, and he was also a little admired. No matter how you say it, the Japanese people's courage to fight should not be underestimated.

The two sides hedged like this, and the distance was closer, and Luo Yu could already hear the roar of the opponent's warship.

However, before it could really make contact, the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet was split into two, and it seemed that it had been divided into two by the Japanese army.

Luo Yu rushed not too early or too late, and it was of course carefully calculated to divide the fleet into two at this juncture. The purpose was to confuse the Japanese army.

Sure enough, when the Japanese saw that they were about to make contact with the Yuankou fleet, the Yuankou fleet separated from the middle to avoid it, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.

This is the sorrow of losing command. If Takeki Jichang is still alive, how can he be confused?

As a result, the Crusade fleet was soon divided into two armies, east and west, sandwiching the Japanese fleet in the middle.

And the Japanese army was also preparing to move from north to south to east and west, and contact the Yuan fleet.

"Woo-woo!"

At this time, the horn on the Chang'an sounded, and at the same time, the big flag on the Chang'an also issued a flag message: interspersed with changing formations!

Soon, the two detachments each began to turn into two columns. Before the formation change was completed, it had already made contact with the Japanese ships.

The ships of the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet, all equipped with long-range combat equipment, began to attack first. However, the Japanese warships had very few long-range attack equipment, and bows and arrows were the main weapons, which could only be used to attack at close range.

"Ready—"

"Put!"

The stone cannons, bed crossbows, and rocket launchers on the battleships of the Eastern Expedition were fired one after another, blasting at the closest Japanese warships. The Japanese warships were relatively small, with only a few stone throwers, which could not fight at medium and long distances, and could only keep a distance, constantly assault, and then retreat, with the aim of consuming the enemy's stone bullets and crossbow arrows.

This trick often works, after all, there is a limit to the number of stone bullets and crossbow arrows on each ship.

They are more interested in and more confident in the battle of the sideboard. Their "Bow Xiaozao" warship is not only very flexible, but also can output feather arrow attacks very well, and the grass armor on the "Bow Xiaozao" can also protect the enemy's bow and arrow well.

At this time, it can be clearly seen that the Japanese army is completely fighting on its own, and its tactics are very simple, and there is no discipline, let alone a water array.

While the Eastern Army was symbolically attacking, it was changing formations in an orderly manner.

The naval battle was not fierce, and the two sides still kept their distance. The Japanese army is to consume the enemy's stone bullets and crossbow arrows, while the Eastern Fleet is to change formations.

Half an hour later, the Eastern Fleet finally completed the change, and the Japanese lost the last patience.

"Pick the block!"

"Kill the chicken and give it!"

The captains of the Japanese warships, brandishing their swords and shouting hysterically, led their warships to rush up regardless of it.

The Japanese army was not completely without command, but each commander often only had one or a few ships in charge, and could only complete their own small tactics, and could not implement major tactics.

Seeing that the Japanese ships began to charge one after another, the Eastern Fleet increased the frequency of attacks.

Stone bullets, iron pellets fired from primitive artillery, crossbow arrows fired from bed crossbows, and bombarded Japanese ships without money. As long as one hits, either the ship will be broken or people will die.

But the hit rate is really low. Only the hit rate of the bed crossbow can barely reach thirty percent. This is why, before the maturity of artillery, naval warfare was dominated by broadside battles and bow and arrow fire.

Although the hit rate was low, because the Chang'an was equipped with a large number of stone cannons and bed crossbows, it still connected and hit several Japanese "closed ships", and immediately suffered casualties, one of which was sunk.

In this era, it was difficult to sink enemy ships with naval warfare equipment, even stone bullets, and it was difficult to smash enemy ships through them, so that seawater poured into them and then sank. The main thing is to kill and injure the enemy's living forces.

Therefore, often a naval battle is fought, and the opponent's army is completely annihilated, but there are still a large number of ships that are not sunk.

This is not the same as in the days of sail battleships. In the era of Western sail battleships, artillery was already very powerful, and sail battleships of thousands of tons would also be sunk by artillery.

Finally, after receiving huge medium and long-range blows, with more than 1,000 dead and wounded, the Japanese ships finally approached the Eastern Fleet and began to throw feathered arrows. Even a dozen warships rushed towards the Chang'an, but they were immediately blocked by a large number of warships to conquer the east.

The sailors of the Eastern Fleet also began to suffer casualties. However, because the Japanese army only fired feather arrows, while the stone cannons, bed crossbows, slapsticks, and feather arrows of the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet were all fired, the casualties of the Japanese army were several times that of the Eastern Fleet.

For every soldier killed or wounded in the Eastern Expedition, four or five Japanese soldiers were killed in battle.

At this time, the greatest threat to the Japanese army was the bed crossbow and the batter. All the Japanese ships that came up close with the intention of engaging in broadside battle were taken care of by the shooting poles. The ships of the Eastern Expedition Fleet were tall, and the seven or eight zhang long slap rod was violently slapped, and the Japanese ships that were often hit were in a mess, and the sailors were beaten to the bones and tendons, and even a few bows were knocked over and sunk by the slap rod.

The gap in equipment put the Japanese army at a disadvantage from the beginning.

The warships and combat equipment of the Eastern Fleet were perfected by Li Luo with great effort, and they were obviously stronger than the Yuan army. If it were a decisive battle between the Yuan Army's naval division and the Japanese army's naval division, they would never be able to play such a disparity in exchange, and they would even lose.

The firing of war equipment, screams, and shouts of killing resounded, and the fighting became more and more intense. A Japanese captain had just shot a feathered arrow when he was shot in the head by a crossbow arrow, and his brain burst out.

The Japanese army made a big mistake because it did not have a commander in command. They intended to engage in broadside warfare, but when they approached the ships of the Eastern Expedition, they found that they could not get up at all.

It's too high.

Take the Chang'an as an example, it is one or two feet higher than the Japanese ship, how can it get up? Every Japanese ship that approached the Chang'an had no chance to connect to the side battle, and was hit by the battle equipment on the Chang'an.

Half an hour after the start of the war, the flagship Chang'an alone destroyed four or five Japanese ships and sank two.

Suddenly, dozens of Japanese ships began to sink, and there was chaos on board.

"Not good! A water ghost has scuttled the bottom of the boat! ”

"Yaga!"

It turned out that as soon as the battle began, more than 200 water ghost warbands dived into the sea, and began to scuttle the bottom of the Japanese ship while the Japanese sailors had no time to care about anything else in the melee.

After half an hour, dozens of ships were finally chiseled.

At this time, what was even more unfavorable to the Japanese army was that the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet completely completed the change of formation, and the Japanese fleet was completely divided and surrounded.

Unable to engage in broadside battles, and suffering heavy casualties, the Japanese finally began to fear, intending to break through and flee the battlefield.

But they were suddenly surprised to find that there were Yuankou's ships everywhere in the south, east, west, and north.

It turned out to be surrounded.

Breaking through, the Japanese army hadn't thought about it before, but when they wanted to break through, they found that they couldn't do it.

The banner of the Chang'an once again issued the flag slogan: Attack with all your might!

Finally, the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet, which had been attacking at a steady pace, finally began to open its firepower with confidence and boldness after the division and encirclement were completed.

"Put!"

"Shoot!"

Every warship of the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet was able to fully contact the Japanese ships at this time, giving full play to the superiority of troops.

Again, the Japanese found that the feathered arrows fired from each Yuankou ship were more dense, and it seemed that there were many more archers at once. The Japanese suffered even heavier casualties and were completely pressed and beaten.

As more and more Japanese ships were destroyed, the situation on the battlefield was completely one-sided.

"Kill the chicken and give it!"

"Breakout!"

Some of the Japanese troops who were fighting separately wanted to fight hard, but more wanted to break through, but it was too late at this time.

Every Japanese ship left was almost in the midst of a saturation strike. At all times, a large number of Japanese troops were killed and wounded, and the ships were crippled or even sunk.

A captain-level samurai, with a few feathered arrows stuck in his armor, roared hysterically. But then a slap stick on the Chang'an fell, and with a "bang", his head burst like a watermelon.

Even two Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded by this slap stick.

"Pick the block!" A samurai pounced on the lever before it could bounce, and tried to climb up the lever with a knife in his hand.

But he had just climbed a few feet with the lever in his arms, and a few arrows shot into his leather armor, how could his leather armor resist the strong bow at such a close distance? Suddenly there was a scream, and as soon as he let go, he fell into the sea.

This scene is just a picture in the great battlefield.

If you stand high in the sky, you can see that the sea is several miles in a radius of black and oppressive ships, full of arrows and rocks, and everywhere there is splashing blood and wood chips.

The shouts and howls of twenty or thirty thousand people were extremely fierce, and the sound moved the sea and the sky, overpowering the sound of the waves, and only changing the color of the wind and clouds.

Slowly, the shouts and howls became smaller and smaller, and the huge picture of naval battles became calmer and calmer.

After two hours of fighting, the Japanese fleet, which was divided and surrounded and could not escape after losing its command, was all strangled.

The Japanese naval division, which numbered more than 12,000 people, was completely annihilated, and not a single boat or person escaped.

The Eastern Expedition Fleet only lost more than 1,000 killed and more than 2,000 wounded. At the cost of less than 4,000 casualties, the annihilation of 12,000 Japanese troops was a great victory.

Moreover, more than 100 working Japanese ships were also captured, as well as a large number of ordnance.

However, Luo Yu did not order the fleet to return to Eagle Island, but only attacked the Ivan Military Port where the Satsuma Naval Division was stationed!

This is also Li Luo's plan.

If they can successfully encircle and annihilate the Takeki Jichang Naval Division, then before the Japanese battalion knows the news, they will attack the Satsuma Naval Division non-stop.

The strength of the Satsuma Naval Division is only 10,000, and its combat strength is not as good as that of the Takeki Kicho Naval Division. Once the sneak attack is successful, it can be easily destroyed.

Luo Yu ordered 2,000 of his subordinates to change into captured Japanese armor and drive the Japanese warship in front. The warships of the Eastern Fleet followed not far behind.

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