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Yamamoto Quan's ambition was stunned, and he hurriedly opened his eyes, only to see about fifteen or sixteen fast warships flying the flag of the Zhou army catching up, and they were already less than a mile away from his own ship.

He suddenly felt that his mind was buzzing, and the secret passage was broken. Looking at this situation, the Zhou army's warships moved fast, faster than their own warships, and they could catch up with them in an hour at most.

If his fleet was intact, he would not be afraid of a battle with them, but he first fought with Zhou Tao's main fleet, suffered heavy losses, and then was ambushed again. Now there are only five or six warships, except for the ship whose deck has been blown open with a big hole, the rest are all small warships, how can they fight these dozen or so wolf-like warships and chase after them!

"It's a me!" Yamamoto Quanye looked at the Zhou army warships that had surrounded him from all directions, and couldn't help but let out a desperate sigh......

This ambush naval battle took only more than two hours, and the last few ships of the Japanese naval division, the expedition to the Ryukyus, were also sent to the bottom of the sea, and Yamamoto Quan Ye was completely annihilated.

After the two fleets of sailors converged, Zhou Tao asked Dezhao: "Your Highness Dezhao, according to your high opinion, how should we attack the main island of the Ryukyus?" ”

Dezhao sighed: "I can't talk about high views, but I have some low views." At present, our army, both in terms of the strength of its naval warships and the strength of its landing forces, is far stronger than that of the Japanese army. If we can't beat Kosuke Yamamoto, then we won't have the face to see people. ”

"If I were to command the attack, I would divide the fleet into two armies, one hiding in the sea east of Ryukyu Island, and the other attacking from the west of the island. When the enemy saw that our troops were coming to attack the island, they must have guessed that we would land on the island. ”

"Under normal circumstances, Kosuke Yamamoto would have two reactions: one is to use the Rushima battleship to engage in a naval battle with our army. However, their main fleet has been completely annihilated, and the number of warships defending the island is not only small, but also some patrol boats, and it is impossible for them to go to sea to confront our army. So this situation can be basically ruled out. ”

"In the second case, Kosuke Yamamoto knew that he was invincible, and when he found out that we had landed, he immediately jumped into a boat and fled. This situation is a bit more troublesome, although our ships are faster than his. But if he scatters his troops into dozens of small boats and escapes, we will inevitably miss some ships, and maybe let Kosuke Yamamoto escape. ”

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Tao nodded and said, "Okay!" Do what you want, Your Highness! However, we also have to prepare a plan, in case of a situation where Yasuke Yamamoto can't shrink out, how to capture Ryukyu Island and annihilate the enemy! ”

He knew that he didn't have time to spend more here, and according to Yuming's request, the capture of Ryukyu Island was only the first step, and the surrender of Japan was the most important thing. Therefore, he had to conquer the Ryukyus as soon as possible and use the island as a springboard for an attack on Japan.

After half an hour of deliberation on the plan to attack the island, Zhou Tao and Dezhao finally finished discussing. Immediately, they laid out the battle plan. The whole fleet was divided into two parts, about one-part of the battleships led by Zhou Tao went to the east of Ryukyu Island to wait to intercept Yasuke Yamamoto, who might escape; The remaining two-tenths of the warships, led by Song Jingang and carrying tens of thousands of sailors and soldiers, began to attack from the west of Ryukyu Island.

At this time, Kosuke Yamamoto already knew that the main fleet was completely wiped out, and his younger brother was also killed in battle. So, he prepared to retreat.

Just as he was about to go out and see how preparations for the retreat were going. Suddenly, I heard a sharp flute from the island. It was the siren from the observation post he had set up at the top of the hill on the island

"What's going on? Is it the enemy who is attacking us? Kosuke Yamamoto was shocked.

At this time, one of his subordinates rushed in in a panic, bowed to him, and said, "Lord Yamamoto...... Oh no! There's a big fleet coming to attack. Look at the flag, it seems to be the fleet of the Zhou army! ”

"What? The fleet of the Zhou army came so soon? Kosuke Yamamoto was surprised.

"This ...... The villain doesn't know! ”

"Let's go! Let's go out and have a look! How many battleships they came! Kosuke Yamamoto pulled out his waist knife and rushed out.

He led a group of men to the top of the hill on the island and carefully examined the last large and medium-sized warship that had sailed from the sea on the west side of Ryukyu Island. The word "Chuan" suddenly frowned.

"Not good! The enemy has many warships and is menacing, but I am afraid that we will be difficult to defeat! Kosuke Yamamoto said in a deep voice.

At this time, the Japanese troops on the island saw those Central Plains warships gradually approaching the shore, and then a large number of Zhou troops wearing purple and gold helmets and black armor rowed towards the island in small boats.

Yasuke Yamamoto saw that the Zhou army had landed, but he was not afraid, he had pretended to be a pirate and fought against the Zhou army sailors in the Jiangnan area. I know that the naval combat ability of the Zhou army's naval division is passable, but the level of land combat is very poor.

"These Zhou troops actually abandoned the ship and landed? It's simple and silly. I really can't do anything about them if they stay on the ship all the time, but fighting on land is my forte! A smile appeared on the corner of Yasuke Yamamoto's mouth, in his opinion, among the soldiers under him, samurai and ninja accounted for half of them, and they were all people with some martial arts. The combat effectiveness should be far stronger than that of the officers and soldiers of the naval division in the Zhou army!

He immediately ordered: "Everyone gather and kill all those Zhou troops who went to the island!" ”

In a short time, in addition to the more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers who remained in Ryukyu Castle, the remaining more than 50,000 Japanese samurai were assembled.

They waved their katanas and bamboo spears in their hands, howling and rushing towards the Zhou army, who had just landed on the beachhead on the west coast of Ryukyu Island.

However, Kosuke Yamamoto didn't know that the soldiers of the Zhou army in front of him were no longer the officers and soldiers of the naval divisions in the coastal counties and counties south of the Yangtze River that he usually saw, but hoplites selected from the main force of the Zhou army. These elite land battles are no match for the scattered Japanese samurai.

Looking at the Japanese samurai who were swarming up, a cold light flashed in Song Jingang's eyes, he smiled slightly, and then ordered: "Archers prepare!" ”

I saw more than 10,000 soldiers of the Zhou army step forward, take off the longbow from their backs, and aim diagonally at the sky, and then took out a black wolf's tooth arrow from the quiver, put on the bowstring, and the movements were uniform, and the arrows reflected bursts of cold light under the illumination of the sun.

But the Japanese samurai under Kosuke Yamamoto were unaware of it, and still screamed and rushed up.

Song Jingang secretly thought, these Japanese really have the spirit of bushido, and they rushed over without even taking a shield. When he saw that Kosuke Yamamoto's men had entered the range of the bow and arrow, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Release the arrow!" ”

With a "buzz", more than 10,000 sharp arrows rose into the sky like dark clouds, and then roared from the air to the heads of the Japanese samurai running on the ground......

I only heard a series of screams of "ahh Although these wolf-tooth arrows are not as powerful as the crossbow arrows fired from hard crossbows, most of the Japanese samurai wore leather armor or even bamboo armor instead of fine iron armor. Their weak armor is powerless to stop the arrows from penetrating. After being shot by this wolf's tooth arrow, he is often shot to the heart, and he falls to the ground and dies at once......

After two rounds of sharp arrows, more than 50,000 Japanese samurai fell in one fell and more than 4,000 fell. However, they finally rushed in front of Zhou Jun...... They howled and brandished their long knives, ready to slaughter the Zhou archers who had inflicted heavy casualties on them.

However, when Song Jingang saw this, he only smiled slightly. With a wave of his hand, the archers standing in front of him quickly retreated, and behind them spears and shields rushed up.

These spear and shield soldiers slammed the black iron shields to the ground, like an iron wall, blocking the Japanese samurai who had rushed forward.

Kosuke Yamamoto was stunned for a moment, and then shouted, "Jump over!" This shield is not high, you can jump into the crowd of enemies and slaughter them! ”

His idea is actually right, these Japanese samurai are more or less proficient in martial arts, and if they fight one-on-one with the Zhou army, they should be able to win easily.

But how could Song Jingang give him this opportunity. Standing in front were spear and shield men, not just shield soldiers, and there was a gap at the edge of these shields, just enough to pierce a spear.

I only heard Song Jingang shouting: "Shoot!" Stab your enemies! Immediately, the spearmen raised their spears and stabbed their enemies through the gap......

The sound of spears entering the flesh continued, and the Japanese samurai huddled in front of their shields fell down in large numbers.

And those Japanese ninjas who obeyed Kosuke Yamamoto's orders, jumped high in front of the shield, and tried to jump into the crowd of the Zhou army, most of them were shot to death by the archers of the Zhou army, and a small number of ninjas who dodged the shooting of the Zhou archers were quickly stabbed by several spears after falling into the crowd, and their lives were lost.

In just two hours, most of Kosuke Yamamoto's 50,000 horses had been lost, and less than 20,000 were still alive.

"Not good! This is not a Zhou Jun sailor at all! Looking at their uniform movements and cold expressions of killing, they are completely elite land troops who have been baptized by countless bloody battles! I feel that the combat effectiveness of these people is even stronger than that of our Emperor's direct legions, and we are fooled! "Kosuke Yamamoto saw that his army had suffered heavy casualties, and Fang finally understood.

In this era, there were not many wars in Japan, and it would take several years for the shogunate to appear. Most of the battles that took place in Japan were between a number of lords and daimyo because of the unclear demarcation of their own districts. There were also riots because the peasants could not stand the oppression of the lords. A battle of the size of a man is considered a big war.

But in this way, the Japanese samurai were powerful alone, but for the ability to fight in large-scale clusters, not to mention that they were not compared with the Zhou army, they were much worse than the Nanyang countries.

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