The battle for hegemony between the Southern Kyushu Business Alliance and the North Kyushu Business Alliance has finally begun.

Taking advantage of the strong autumn wind, Nagasaki thousands of sails raced down and went straight to Fangjin! The people of the Shimazu family also thought that Qing Huaxiang's sea power was strong, but when they really met, they realized that the gap between the two sides was much bigger than they expected! Wu Ping restrained Li Guangtou's subordinates, surrounded Fangjin in three directions, first approached with light warships, removed all sea obstacles, and then spread out with huge ships in the ground, as arrows in the water village, just like another sea fortified city outside the water village, two centipede ships were sandwiched between the giant ships, stretched out more than ten 'door' heavy guns, and aimed at the 'door' household of the Fangjin dock!

Kamada Masaneni originally wanted to test the 'sex' to send ships to fight, but where did he dare to come out when he saw such a might? Just the turtle cowered in the stockade for his subordinates to scold, and if a ship approached, he would fire 'fire' rockets to defend himself.

The sailors of the Shimazu family did not dare to fight, and Wu Ping was even more unceremonious, and ordered that except for the seven warships blocking the water village, the rest of the ships patrolled along the coast, but when they saw the stronghold close to the shore, they took it out unceremoniously! In particular, the high platforms that stood were all destroyed by artillery, and those who could not reach the range of the cannons even sent commandos ashore to burn them.

Kamada did not dare to resist on the shore, and ordered to retreat inland and retreat straight to a place where Keihuaxiang's naval army could not attack. At this point, the sea control along the Satsuma coast fell into the hands of the Kitakyushu Merchant Alliance. Outside the coastline, the ships of the Kitakyushu merchant alliance are seen cruising from time to time, because the sailors of Satsuma do not dare to leave the port, the spies of the Shimazu family can only look from the shore, and they don't know what actions Keikasho has outside the line of sight, and even within the line of sight, if they are far away, they can't see clearly, so Kamada Masannu doesn't know whether it is a merchant ship or a warship walking around the sea, in short, he thinks that there are fleets in Kitakyushu everywhere.

"How many of them are coming!"

Previously, it was reported that the troops of the Kitakyushu Business Alliance exceeded 10,000, but how much did it get? Looking at the number of ships coming, it is not surprising that there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Here Kamada Masenian was worried and fearful, and over there Wu Ping ordered an attack after controlling the sea control along the Satsuma coast!

Although Fangjin is a water village, but most of it depends on the land, when this water village was built, Shimazu Guijiu took into account that it may conflict with Chinese merchants or Fanshang in the future, Chinese merchants and Fanshang have artillery, so the design of the walled wall is also in response to it and is rammed with mud and gravel to be extremely solid, and two layers of dense bamboo walls are added outside the earthen wall, and there are animal skins and cowhides outside the bamboo wall, and the earthen wall is full of spare stones, Wu Ping ordered the centipede ship to approach and fire the cannon, and the direct attack of the artillery fire can not destroy the wall of Fangjin! As for the walled 'gate', it is even thicker, and although the centipede ship's artillery is strong, it can't help it.

At Andrew's suggestion, the centipede ship raised the muzzle of the cannon and aimed at the bombardment in the wall, in addition to building the thick wall on the periphery of the village in the past few months, Kamada Zhengnian erected two high walls with wood and bamboo on the second line of defense, although the high wall of wood and bamboo is average, but the height is enough for Qing Huaxiang's lookout to stand on the tower of the four-masted sailing ship and cannot see the situation in the village clearly, so the artillery can not aim at the target building in the wall, just blindly 'chaos' bombardment. Kamada also put soft mud soil on the roof of the village, and used seawater to wet the soft mud soil, and the impact caused by the falling shells was dissipated by the soft mud soil, but it could not cause a fire, and it hit people and houses without soft mud defense.

Dong 'Men' Qing counted the number of times the cannon fire sounded in the boat, secretly 'flesh' hurt, but he didn't say anything to interfere with Wu Ping's actions. Wu Ping's side saw that the shelling was ineffective, and secretly praised this water village for being firmly built, knowing that if it continued like this, unless the cannonballs were smashed as dirt and razed Zhengzafangjin, it would be difficult to work, but although he didn't care about the economy, he also knew that Qing Huaxiang did not have so many shells to consume on this small water village, so he changed his strategy after a round of bombardment was ineffective, and released the cannon, under the cover of the sound of cannons and arrows. More than 20 small boats carrying 500 assault teams rushed in in rows to seize the 'gate' of the village!

There are only 2,000 soldiers and horses in Fangjin Village, and there are only 200 people in the 'elite', but because the village is small and Kamada Masanian is a veteran, there are few flaws in defense. When the cannon roared, the soldiers of the Shimazu family hid in the 'holes' of the earthen fort and did not dare to take their heads, but there were still people who monitored the movement of the outside through the cracks in the holes in the wall and the 'doors', and immediately signaled when they saw the boat approaching. Two hundred archers hurried up and fired crossbow arrows from the holes in the wall to defend against the enemy.

More than half of the 500 men rushed up were Li Guangtou's subordinates, all of whom were sea bandits with rich experience in water warfare.

The "door" of this Fangjin water village is concave, the protruding ones on both sides are three thick walls, the "door" of the village is in the notch, to seize the "door" of the village, the ship has to enter the notch, the three small boats in front of it enter between the two high walls, before launching an attack, there are dozens of soldiers on the high walls on both sides of the high wall, or open a bow and arrow to shoot, or hold a boulder to smash down!

Li Guangtou was very strict, and the war drums behind him were urging tightly, and the forty-two sailors who were still alive on these three small boats looked at the 'gate' of the village in front of them, and the three small warships were actually advancing and retreating! An old pirate at the head shouted, "I can't go back!" Rush me! Don't lose the face of our Fujian people here! ”

During his roar, three more pirates were killed by arrows, and the remaining thirty-eight were infected by his roar, and they all screamed together, making a desperate sound when the lucky man faced the shark's 'kiss'! More than 30 people actually lit the firewood and grass on the boat and rushed straight over, but the village 'door' suddenly 'exposed' five round holes of more than one foot and less than two feet, and five huge trees stretched out of the round holes to hit out, and the three small boats that were on fire were desperately pressed against the 'gate' of the village, although the firewood and grass of the boat burned vigorously, and the hidden fire 'medicine' also crackled and vibrate, but they could not get close to the 'gate' of the village, so they had to wait on the water in front of the 'gate' of the village to be extinguished, and the warriors on the three small boats were in the village. The gate and the two walls were attacked on three sides, and all of them were sacrificed.

Wu Ping was furious, ordered to let go of an old three-masted sailing ship, adjusted the direction, pulled the sail and rushed into the notch, and crashed into the 'gate' of Shuizhai Village! The big ship did not rotate well, so it forced the water village to turn around once it changed, but Wu Ping's move was obviously to use the three-masted sailing ship as a rushing car, and he had no intention of taking it back.

Unexpectedly, when Shimazu Takahisa originally designed this village 'gate', he also left another powerful trap - more than a dozen large pits that could accommodate giant trees were dug under the water in front of the village 'gate', the pit was six or seven feet deep, and the inside could stand on the wood, and the part of the giant wood 'exposed' outside the pit became an underwater wooden pile. After Kamada Masaneni decided to give up control of the sea, he ordered the water ghost to sneak into the water, stuffed a dozen huge logs into it, and locked it with iron chains, so that it became a dozen underwater wooden stakes, the small boat had a shallow draft, and the large boat had a deep draft, although two of the wooden stakes were broken by the momentum, but after the inertia was dissipated, it was finally stuck by the remaining wooden stakes. This tilted three-masted sailing ship is tilted obliquely in front of the notch of the 'gate' of the village, and it is impossible to enter or retreat, as if it has set up an extra screen for the 'gate' of the village!

Wu Ping had a calm face, knowing that this village was difficult to take, and there was no good plan for a while, so he ordered a retreat to reduce unnecessary casualties.

After the sea returned to calm, the east 'gate' Qing sent a messenger, forcibly endured being humiliated by the group of widows in the village, and asked them to allow Qing Huaxiang to send people to the recess to salvage the sacrificed brothers, Kamada Zhengnian asked for two loads of raw silk in exchange, and the east 'gate' celebration price was not repaid, and the sea burial was held for these warriors on the big ship that night, Li Guangtou's subordinates were all silent, and the people of Qing Huaxiang were also extremely sad, and the east 'gate' Qing pointed to Fangjin Zhai and said angrily: "If you don't step on this village, I will write the three words of the east 'gate' celebration in reverse!" ”