The night is deep, and people are getting more and more sleepy, and even the soldiers who patrol the night in the camp of Tao Qingxian's army are no longer wandering around, and the entire Itsukushima is as quiet as if there are no people, only the sound of waves crashing on the shore is still echoing in the distance.

It was at this time that a large fleet of ships suddenly appeared on the sea northwest of Itsukushima.

This fleet is really huge, and there are more than 300 large and small ships, which are densely packed and make people's scalps tingle when they look at it.

In other words, Hong Tiezhu's fleet has less than 200 ships of all sizes, why did this fleet suddenly reach the scale of 300 ships?

Of course, this is the "credit" of Maori Yuan, Maori does not have a water army, but the Yoshikawa clan and the Kobayakawa clan have, or rather, Maori Yuan deliberately dispersed his own water army to the Yoshikawa clan and the Kobayakawa clan, so the Maori clan will strangely not have any water army.

Of course, whether it is the naval army of the Yoshikawa clan and the Kobayakawa clan or the naval army of the Maori clan, their "warships" cannot be compared with the warships under Hong Tiezhu, their "warships" are just modified fishing boats, the largest is only a few zhang long, and there is no artillery at all, the warships under Hong Tiezhu, the smallest are several zhang long, and the number of artillery is even more frightening to death.

Mao Liyuan stood on the bow of Hong Tiezhu's flagship, seemingly expressionless, but in fact, his heart was already shocked, because Hong Tiezhu's fleet was really terrifying.

Last time, he only took a cursory look at it from a distance, and did not board the ship to take a closer look, so he didn't know how many guns the warships under Hong Tiezhu were equipped with.

This time, he personally boarded Hong Tiezhu's flagship, and secretly saw it clearly.

This guy, the two sides of the flagship are almost covered with cannons about the same size as the iron cannons he bought, and the guns in the bow and stern are even bigger and amazing, on this flagship alone, the number of cannons is probably no less than thirty, how many guns are there on these nearly two hundred warships?

He didn't ask this question, he stood there and pretended to ponder for a while, and then cautiously tentatively said: "General Hong, I want to ask you for a favor, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

When Hong Tiezhu heard this, he politely bowed his hand and said: "Your Excellency the family master has anything to help with, just say that our family master has explained, and I will try my best to help you wipe out the Tao Qingxian army on Itsuku Island." ”

Is that really the case?

Mao Liyuan simply said directly: "General Hong, we have already investigated the layout of Tao Qingxian's army, their camp is near the fishing port south of Itsukushima, less than a hundred steps from the coast, that is to say, firing artillery on the sea can completely bombard Tao Qingxian's army's camp." I wanted to bother Your Excellency the General, and after sending us ashore, I would go around to the south of Itsukushima and bombard the camp of Tao Qingxian's army for a few rounds. ”

Yang Cong really told Hong Tiezhu about this, if Tao Qingxian's army camp is close to the coast, it is okay to help them bombard, anyway, it is just a waste of shells.

Hong Tiezhu nodded without hesitation and said, "No problem, when the time comes, Your Excellency the head of the family will arrange a guide for me." ”

When Mao Liyuan heard this, his face couldn't help but show excitement.

He wasn't pretending, he was really excited.

Because the number of artillery under Hong Tiezhu's command is at least thousands, as long as he helps him to bombard a few rounds, Tao Qingxian's army will have at least thousands of casualties, so he is not sure to win!

He was a surprise attack, as long as Tao Qingxian's army was in chaos, he would basically have victory in sight, Hong Tiezhu's thousands of shells bombarded down, could Tao Qingxian's army not be chaotic?

When the time comes, I'm afraid it won't be a word "chaos" that can be described.

He hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Then thank you, Your Excellency, General." ”

Soon, the vanguard of the fleet was close to the beach, and at the sound of Maori Yuan's order, countless soldiers jumped into the water like dumplings.

Mao Liyuan is indeed worthy of the name of the first wise general of the Warring States, although his corporal is no different from Tao Qingxian's sergeant in terms of physical fitness, but there is a world of difference in execution, and the speed of action is more than a star and a half faster.

These soldiers jumped into the water without any command, and they were all like clockwork, and their movements were extremely fast, and those who were far from the beach swam to the beach with all their might, and those who were close to the beach stood in the water, lined up in rows and rows, and delivered the iron cannons and other baggage to the shore quickly.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the landing was miraculously completed!

Here, it is not a port, and there is no wharf, and it is really not easy for tens of thousands of troops to land so quickly.

Hong Tiezhu looked at the back of Mao Liyuan who was far away, and couldn't help but admire it in his heart.

At this time, he finally understood why Yang Cong chose such a nameless local wealthy family, this guy really has a few brushes.

However, it's not a good thing that this guy is too powerful, because the more powerful he is, the more troublesome it will be to clean up later.

Why do you go out of your way to support this guy?

If this guy develops, how will he clean it up?

His mind was filled with questions.

Of course, even if there were more doubts in his heart, he would not question Yang Cong's orders.

He only shook his head slightly, and then motioned for the fleet to turn around and go all the way around the southern part of Itsukushima.

Hong Tiezhu had just left with the fleet, and Mao Liyuan had already personally led more than 10,000 men and horses to Tao Qingxian's army camp silently.

This Itsukushima was originally the territory of the Maori clan, and they were naturally familiar with the road, even at night, they moved quite quickly, and in less than two quarters of an hour, they had already touched less than a mile away from Tao Qingxian's army camp.

At this time, Tao Qingxian's army camp was still not moving at all, and the people inside probably never dreamed that they were about to suffer a catastrophe.

Mao Liyuan looked at the situation in the camp coldly, and then whispered: "Set up an iron cannon, prepare to bombard, Yuan Chun, Longjing, take your people, scatter left and right, and when the sound of the sea artillery stops, we will launch at the same time and rush into the camp together." ”

When Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kobayakawa Takashi heard this, they shouted "Haiyi" together, and then led their men to the left and right.

It wasn't long before a signal came from both sides that everything was ready, and a hundred iron cannons were all in place and reloaded.

Seeing this, Mao Liyuan waved his hand without hesitation and shouted: "Ignition, fire!" ”

This shout suddenly appeared in the night sky, which really frightened the soldiers patrolling the night in Tao Qingxian's camp, and before they could react to what was going on, a loud sound of "boom boom" broke the silence of the night like thunder, and many camp tents were smashed by shells, and the sleeping soldiers inside were even more smashed and howled.

And that's just the beginning.

Immediately afterward, another continuous loud noise came from the sea, and countless shells rained down on the camp for a long time.

Mao Liyuan originally thought that even if Hong Tiezhu had thousands of artillery pieces under his hands, he would be able to continue to bombard a tea time at most, but he never thought that a quarter of an hour had passed, and the roar of artillery on the sea still showed no sign of stopping.

How many artillery pieces does this guy have under his hands?