On this night, the moon and stars were scarce, and the Seto Inland Sea was calm, and everything seemed to fall into a deep sleep.

However, in the sea southwest of Itsukushima, there was a huge fleet of ships marching forward in the night, and the shadow of the ship like a castle tower was simply terrifying.

Obviously, this can't be the fleet under a certain vassal state of Dongying, because Dongying can't build such a big ship at all, and only the Ming Dynasty has this kind of huge ship.

This fleet is the maritime fleet under Hong Tiezhu, and he was ordered by Yang Cong to come to help Mao Liyuan raid Itsukushima.

Why did Yang Cong help the Maori clan, a little-known local wealthy clan in Dongying, to fight against the Ouchi clan, the overlord of the Western Kingdom, who had a large number of them?

This point, not only Hong Tiezhu can't understand this, but even Hou Zhitan, who has always been full of wisdom, can't understand it.

The two stood at the bow of the flagship, facing the moonlit sea, discussing with great interest.

Hong Tiezhu said a little naïvely: "Monkey, what do you say the adults like about this Maori clan?" ”

Hou Zhitan smiled slightly: "How do I know, this Maori clan can be said to have money or not, no one wants people, Dongying can pull a prince out at will, it is better than them, maybe the adults just want to hoe the strong and help the weak." ”

As he said, hoe the strong and help the weak, and I will do the right thing for heaven.

Although Hong Tiezhu is simple on the outside, his brain is not stupid at all, he couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "You are really a pirate, and you still hoe the strong and help the weak, didn't the adults tell you about the Dongying strategy or something?" ”

Hou Zhitan secretly glanced at Gui Yuancheng, who was even more humble than Hong Tiezhu on the side, and said carefully: "What strategy, don't talk nonsense." ”

Gui Yuancheng didn't know Chinese, they had already confirmed this, and Wang Zhi also arranged a special interpreter for them.

However, who knows if this guy is pretending to be or not, after all, this guy just played a trick not long ago, and led all the main forces under Tao Qingxian's command to Yan Island.

Hong Tiezhu also glanced at Gui Yuancheng secretly, and then said with a straight face to the interpreter: "Boy, don't translate all what we said to him in private." ”

The interpreter hurriedly explained: "How dare you, little one, if the general doesn't ask me to translate, I will never tell him a word." ”

Hong Tiezhu nodded slightly and said: "This guy, he looks simple, but in fact, he is a ghost, you kid can be smart, we are not really allied with others, you don't want to say anything to others." ”

The interpreter hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The little one understands, the little one understands." ”

At this time, Gui Yuancheng finally couldn't help but ask, "Does Your Excellency the General have any orders?" ”

The interpreter said angrily: "Your Excellency the general asked how far it is, this has been floating on the sea for most of the night, why haven't you arrived yet?" ”

When Gui Yuancheng heard this, he hurriedly explained: "It's almost soon, it's only dozens of miles, and it will be half an hour at most." ”

The place they went to was not Itsukushima or Hiroshima, but a small fishing port a few dozen miles west of Hiroshima.

Mao Liyuan is also bold, Tao Qingxian's main force is stationed in Itsukushima, less than thirty miles away from Hiroshima, he dares to pull out all the main forces, if Tao Qingxian gets the news, he doesn't need twenty or thirty thousand horses, as long as he sends two or three thousand people, he can easily take Hiroshima City.

It's a pity that Tao Qingxian didn't know that the main force of Maori Motosho had left Hiroshima Castle, and he was still desperately trying to mobilize grain and grass to Itsukushima.

After all, the consumption of 20,000 or 30,000 horses is not ordinary, although he ignores "knowing himself and knowing that the enemy will not be defeated in a hundred battles", he still understands the importance of grain and grass.

This is also the reason why he took Itsukushima in advance, because the naval army under his command can transport two or three thousand men and horses at a time, and it will take at least half a day for Zhou Fangguo to take the water route to An Yi Country, that is to say, it will take him ten days to transport twenty or thirty thousand horses to An Yi Country alone.

If he dared to transport two or three thousand men and horses in batches to land near Hiroshima, Maori Yuan would definitely lead his army to surround and fight, and at that time, the men and horses who landed in advance would be in danger.

This occupies Itsukushima is different, because Itsukushima is less than thirty miles away from Hiroshima, and he can fight back and forth in about half an hour, and within half a day, he can transport all the 20,000 or 30,000 troops to the outside of Hiroshima City.

His abacus is crackling, but it's a pity that from the very beginning he fell into Maori Yuan's plan, Itsukushima is such an important springboard, will Maori Yuan let a malicious general garrison?

If he thought about it carefully, he would find that it was boring, but unfortunately, he didn't think about it at all.

At this time, the army of 20,000 or 30,000 was already in place, and when all the grain, grass and baggage were transported, he would be able to launch an attack on Hiroshima, and he did not think that Maori Yuan would launch a surprise attack at night, because he had occupied Itsukushima for almost half a month, and Maori Yuan still had no movement at all.

It's a very simple reason, Mao Liyuan has two or three thousand men under his hands, and he will definitely not dare to harden his army of twenty or thirty thousand, if he can raid, he will naturally launch a surprise attack before others have arrived, and two or three thousand people will raid three or four thousand or even five or six thousand people, and if it is a raid of twenty or thirty thousand people, it is absolutely impossible to succeed.

How did he know that the reason why Mao Li Yuan didn't launch a surprise attack when the other horses didn't arrive was because there was no way to land on Itsukushima, and Mao Li Yuan just wanted to annihilate all his main forces in one fell swoop!

This kind of thing, he didn't think about it at all, so he didn't arrange people to guard it strictly at night, especially after the arrival of the main army of twenty or thirty thousand people, he was even more down-to-earth in his heart, and at night, he slept comfortably, as for the duty or something, he had his own subordinates to arrange.

After all, this is another landing with the army, and it is also the mobilization of grain and grass, and it is quite tiring to work for more than half a month, and the next step is to attack Hiroshima City, which is a big battle, how many days it will take, and he has no bottom in his heart, and he will not rest well at this time, and there will be no time to rest when he really attacks the city.

He is so careless as the commander, and his generals are naturally even more careless, maybe, everyone thinks that twenty or thirty thousand horses are placed here, even if they ask for Maori Yuan to come to raid, no one dares to come, what is there to worry about?

Therefore, at night, the entire Itsukushima is also quiet, except for a few teams of people in the camp who occasionally wander back and forth lazily, everyone else has already fallen asleep.