In the sky, lead clouds hung low, rain and snow flew, and the north wind in the Guanmen Strait blew strongly, and the sound of artillery shook the sky.

Daming's fleet, under the leadership of Wan Hu's blacktail boat, has been savagely ramming more than 300 meters, sinking and smashing hundreds of ships before slowly stopping...... Because the Maori army's large and small warships had been crushed into a ball, and they were blocked by pontoons, and they could not move.

From the perspective of the petrel flying in the sky, the Ming Dynasty warship, painted all black, resembles a thick and long iron rod that has stabbed deeply into the Maori coalition army.

This gave the Ming warships the opportunity to fully exert their firepower, and their Yongle cannons, Hongxi cannons, and Xuande cannons roared wantonly, reaping the lives of the naval army.

There are enemy ships densely packed on all sides, and every shot will not miss!

Grapeballs and shotguns erupted like a torrential rain, and soon the enemy ships were cleared within two hundred meters.

Two hundred meters away, in the early morning of the closed boat, the sailors rowed desperately to step forward to reinforce, but they were blocked by the boat in front. Their bows and arrows and iron cannons can't go so far.

As Wang predicted, the long and narrow bay severely limited the numerical superiority of the Maori navy, leaving most of their forces staring at each other from a distance.

On Moji Castle, Kobayakawa looked at the fjord with cold hands and feet, and the expected drama of being surrounded on all sides turned into a tragedy of a tiger entering the flock, and he felt that the blood on his body was about to coagulate.

Takakei Kobayakawa admits that he has an element of gambling. What he gambled on was that the Ming army would only rely on the power of firearms to establish such a big advantage. But when he saw that the Ming army took the initiative to attack his side, he knew that he was likely to lose the bet.

But now we can't afford to be discouraged, and we must turn the unfavorable situation around. Again, ten times the strength and superiority are in me, and the Ming army has no way to retreat. Even if you turn the Guanmen Strait into a flesh and blood grinding plate, you will also consume the Ming Dynasty fleet here!

"The people of the Ming Dynasty launched a decisive pig attack, which is worthy of admiration." He said in a deep voice: "Now, it's time for the million-minded Maori army to show our courage!" ”

"Blessed by the god of eight million bows and arrows, the whole army is assaulting!" After that, he played the taiko drum with his own hands under the banner of the Maori family's one-character three-star.

"Blessed by the god of eight million bows and arrows, the whole army is assaulting!" The left and right also shouted, and then the entire city of Mensi followed suit.

In the fjord, the sailors of the Maori coalition army shouted along.

Morale was back in the air. Since the ships are all huddled together, let's learn the 'eight ships flying' of Gen Yoshijing!

The samurai led the sailors, frantically jumping from one boat to another, and launched a desperate charge towards the Ming Dynasty fleet!

"What are they shouting?" Seeing the Japanese who were suddenly beaten with chicken blood, Zhao Shizhen was a little incomprehensible.

"His Majesty the Emperor is loading it or something......" Zhao Gongzi's Japanese was learned from teaching films, so naturally he couldn't understand the other party's slogans. However, it is true that the second secondary nation is particularly easy to be agitated.

It's a pity that the bonus of courage can't erase the huge gap caused by the generation gap, not to mention that the courage of the coast guard members is not inferior to the other party!

The enemy poured in front of the soldiers in an endless stream, but they were not afraid, and they still reloaded and fired their cannons step by step!

The sailors also took up arms and shot at the pirates who climbed aboard the boat, behind the sandbags and on the stern.

Some of the fish that slipped through the net climbed onto the deck, and before they could gain a firm foothold, they were stabbed off the ship with bayonets by the powerful marines.

The disparity in strength between the two sides was so great that several sailors could not parry a single marine.

In the past two years, the abundant supply of meat and eggs, combined with rigorous training, has completely improved the physical fitness of the police officers. Their muscles gradually bulged, and both endurance and explosiveness increased significantly, and many young people even pulled their heads up. When faced with the dwarf-like navy army who are vegetarians all year round and can't even eat enough, the advantage of individual combat effectiveness is particularly obvious.

What's even more excessive is that they also strictly follow the smallest variant of the Mandarin Duck Formation, the Sancai Formation, the three soldiers advance and retreat together, and cooperate to attack and defend, and the Japanese, who are accustomed to scattered formations and self-fighting, are not opponents at all!

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Unknowingly, the fierce battle lasted for two whole hours, and the Guanmen Strait had been stained red with blood in Dolphin Bay.

The rain became more and more dense, causing great inconvenience to the sailors who climbed the enemy ships. To make matters worse, the rain made the Maori family's bows and arrows and cannons less effective. Even the roasting fire arrows that Murakami's navy is good at have lost their effect.

However, the musket artillery of the Ming Dynasty was almost unaffected, and the flintlock pistol played well in the rain. The fixed shells are combined with the waterproof fuse developed by Zhao Shizhen - in fact, the lead is inserted into the wheat straw, so that the cannon can still fire in the rain.

If it doesn't sound, you only need to change the fuse, and it won't delay too much. Moreover, the rain and snow played a role in continuously cooling the gun barrel, and the artillery fire of the coast guard fleet was even more fierce than usual!

This scene hit Takakei Kobayakawa on Monji Castle hard, and the drums became messy.

However, even bigger blows followed.

First of all, he ambushed the Injima naval army on Ganzhu Island in advance, and he did not appear behind the Ming Dynasty fleet for a long time...... Later, I learned that they were stopped outside Tanoura by the combined efforts of Sakai City and the Otomo family's water army.

Then, due to the absence of the island water army, the Noh Island water army, which already had a ghost in his heart, also retreated. They even ignored Kobayakawa's orders and refused to support Kobayakawa and the Kurishima family navy in the fierce battle. Retreating westward on his own......

This successive blows demoralized the Maori sailors. Of course, the main reason is that those Ming Dynasty people who are stationed on the high war ships are like tireless and greedy monsters, constantly devouring their lives.

The Coast Guard members fought fiercely from noon to afternoon, but they did not show any fatigue, and they fought selflessly on every ship. The cannon exploded, and the Oda City rocket was fired at the enemy ship. When the rockets ran out, he picked up his Longqing rifle and used the fort as a cover to shoot at the Japanese who kept climbing up.

The valiant marines fought even more bloodily, and when the bayonet was inserted into the enemy's body and could not be pulled out, they threw away their rifles and pulled out the sailor knife behind their backs to slash. When the knife is curled, he directly picks up the sandbag and smashes the enemy off the boat!

In fact, the Maori army's sailors were already very heroic. When the iron cannons, bows, and roasting were all out of order, they could only engage in white-knuckle combat. And he also has to learn from Niu Ruomaru's 'eight ships', and use the ships in front of him as a springboard. Braving the dense rain of bullets and jumping, you can get close to the warships of the Ming Dynasty. A large number of sailors fell into the sea halfway and died.

After approaching the enemy ship, they had to find a way to climb the high-rise Ming Dynasty warship. In order to prevent them from climbing the ship, the hateful Ming Dynasty also smeared oil on the hull of the ship, which was a dedication from 'Filth' and 'Inhuman'. The rain mixed with grease made the tall hull slippery, and even the most adept old pirates could not kick the hull of the Ming Dynasty with their feet, so they could only fall like dumplings......

However, even in such a passive situation, even if the island family missed the appointment and the island family slipped away, the Maori family's sailors still fought to the death and did not retreat, and launched attacks on the Ming Dynasty again and again.

This will to fight is the only one seen since the punitive war. Not to mention the Hirado Navy who surrendered directly on their knees.

This made Zhao Gongzi give birth to a kind of "million hearts" of the Maori family, which was really not an illusion blown out.

However, he soon discovered, where is there any 'million hearts'? They just don't have a big picture, and they just stick to the top of their heads.

The eventual collapse of the Maori Navy came from the sound of artillery behind them.

A task force consisting of two Western galleons and ten Daifuku ships appeared on the west side of the Kanmon Strait, where the Noh Island Navy was supposed to be guarding.

The two Western galleons did not fly the blue and white Portuguese royal flag. Instead, 'the sun and the moon shine together on the blue sea'

Tamna garrison banner The covered Karak galleon also flies the junior police flag with a gold star on a blue background!

Twelve boats lined up in battle lines and launched a broadside salvo across the pontoon. In particular, the two Western galleons, the larger one with three-tier guns and the smaller one with two-tier guns, blew up dozens of Maori naval ships in a few salvos.

The desperation of the enemy on the back of the abdomen extinguished the last fighting spirit of the Maori army, which was already on the verge of collapse......

They tried to escape, but the ships were all crowded, and only a few small boats at the outermost point were lucky enough to turn around and row towards Tanoura and escape back to the Seto Inland Sea.

Most of the warships could not escape if they wanted to, and they had no fighting spirit to continue the futile attack, so they could only shrink into a ball and wait to be slaughtered.

Seeing this, the head of the Lai Dao family simply ordered surrender. Only then did he remember that the island family was just a guest of the Maori family, and he couldn't be buried with death.

In the sound of the horn, the warships that came to the island family hung up white flags one after another. This made the Kobayakawa Navy completely lose their fighting spirit, and they hung the white flag together and surrendered.

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On Moji Castle, the retainers tried desperately to stop Kobayakawa Takakei from pulling out his sword and killing himself. Tears persuaded:

"Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and the lord is the body of gold and jade, don't talk about life and death lightly!"

"The governor of the Longyuan family died early, the old lord is old, and the Maori family will have to rely on adults to support him in the future!"

"Yoshikawa-sama hasn't come back yet!"

Kobayakawa Takakei stopped struggling at this time, and said with blood-red eyes: "That's it, let's take care of it first and then apologize." ”

He hurriedly ordered someone to lead troops to pick up his brother, but fortunately, before the soldiers and horses drove out of Kajicheng, Yoshikawa Motoharu retreated back with the remnants of the defeated generals.

Motoharu blocked the 10,000 pursuers led by Tachibana Michiyuki with 5,000 men and horses for half a day, until Takahashi Tonghu led his troops out of the mountains and forests, and the Yoshikawa army could not support it and was defeated.

Tachibana Michiyuki joined forces with Takahashi Tonghu and chased them all the way. In the end, only more than 300 people of the 5,000 Yoshikawa army fled into the city with Yuanchun.

In order to buy time for the army to retreat, the Yoshikawa army was killed and captured more than 4,700 people. In addition to today's battle of the Guanmen Strait, more than 8,000 people were killed and surrendered. The loss of the Mori family on this day exceeded the previous offensive and defensive battle with the Otomo family for more than half a year.

Ps. This weekend, I took my children to the beach for a hike, just one chapter. I owe a chapter, and I'll make it up tomorrow.