After learning that Iwami had a Tang army, Banyi Chao was a little surprised, how could the Tang army appear in the Wa Kingdom? Doesn't it mean that the Tang people fell into civil strife and their national strength declined?

As for the silver mine, the Banyi Dynasty was not very clear, after all, he had never heard of a silver mine in Iwami before.

So he guessed that it might be the Tang civil strife, which led to some soldiers becoming pirates along with the Silla.

He thought about it and thought it was more likely.

After recovering Izumo Province, he saw the direction of Oki Province on the other side of the sea, and the people below told him that it was the base camp of the pirates.

I know what I know, but at this time, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom have not yet arrived.

If you want to recover the country of Oki and completely eliminate the pirates entrenched on it, you must wait for the arrival of the sailor.

However, the sailor is not strong, only more than 200 ships and more than 5,000 people, but with the troops in his hands, he still has an absolute advantage in the face of pirates.

But what he didn't know was that the sailor he was waiting for was being beaten up by the Tang Navy and the Silla pirates.

To be precise, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom were mainly in the Seto Inland Sea and the Kyushu Island in later generations, and if they wanted to reach Oki, they had to pass through the narrow strait south of Nagato Province.

The ships of the Silla pirates gathered on the coast of Iki Province, and as soon as the sailors of the Japanese Kingdom came out, they rushed up to make dumplings.

However, after all, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom were regular sailors, and the Silla pirates were not necessarily opponents, so the Tang Navy Division waited for the opportunity to dispatch, and then a few Ning ships beat the Wa Navy Division to the north, and then the pirates began to harvest.

"General Qingyuan, how is my Datang sailor?"

In the distance, Xie Xu was watching the naval battle in the distance.

Of course, his Nyeongship was not a war-fighting ship, and was mainly responsible for transporting gold and silver from Sado Island to Seongju.

Because of the importance of gold and silver, if you use ordinary ships, it is easy to be plundered by pirates who are not long-sighted, so the Yangtze River Naval Division is responsible for sending Ning ships to transport them.

Xie Xu was just a passenger on the ship.

"It's powerful!" Kiyohara muttered.

Just now, when he saw that those Tang warships had defeated the Japanese naval division, the shock in his heart was quite great.

He also remembered that the ship under his feet seemed to be the same as the one that had just fired.

He also wanted to see what was inside the ship under his feet, but the cabins below didn't let them in, and they had to stay in the cabins above deck.

After seeing that the Japanese sailors were so vulnerable, Xie Xu had no desire to continue to watch the excitement, there was nothing to see.

"Let's go, when we get to Tamna, we can take a rest."

With that, Xie Xu asked the warship to speed up and leave the battlefield.

On the battlefield, the pirates are massacring the Japanese Naval Division, which has been torn apart and collapsed, and now has little power to fight back.

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Far away in Iwami Province, the Banyi Dynasty did not know that the sailors he was waiting for were almost completely wiped out by the joint encirclement and suppression of the Tang Dynasty sailors and Silla pirates in the waters near Tsushima, and even if someone escaped, it was not an overnight thing to bring the news to the Banyi Dynasty.

Although the pirates of Izumo Province retreated on their own, Yoshitomo still took the credit for it and made up a fictional victory.

When the news reached Heiankyo, Sugawara was still genuinely happy, and even Emperor Daigo praised him.

In such a situation, it is natural that Fujiwara Tokihei is in a hurry, and Sugawara Michizane's prestige has increased dramatically, which is not good news for him.

But he wasn't out of it, so he let people start walking in Heiankyo Some rumors about Sugawara Michi's self-respect.

Although this is just the beginning, as long as you give enough time, it will definitely ferment slowly.

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"Run, the Japanese army is catching up!"

Iwami Country, less than twenty miles from Omori Castle, a team of thousands of people was fleeing in confusion, and behind them were more people pursuing.

Compared to the latter, the former is more like a rabble, although the weapons may be better, but the clothes are varied, and the retreat has no formation to speak of, like a rabble.

The fleeing team was none other than the pirates who had retreated from Izumo Province, because according to the previous agreement, the pirates of Izumo Province were to retreat to Iwami Province and cooperate with the Tang army and pirates there to defend Omori Castle and the mining area.

It's just that because these pirates in Izumo Province are a little greedy for money, they don't forget to loot the village when they retreat, and they are caught up by the Japanese army.

They had just over 1,000 men, while the Japanese army numbered as many as 2,000.

Unlike these pirates, who were regular armies, the pirates were undisciplined, and even if they were equal in number, they were not necessarily opponents of the Japanese army.

"What about those who were sent to ask for help? Haven't come back yet? One of the pirate leaders at the head of the group asked as he gasped as he took a short break.

"No... No! The person next to him hesitated.

He didn't finish speaking, maybe the people who asked for help ran away, it was not impossible, after all, they were a group of pirates.

"Phew, the dog must have run away!" The pirate leader scolded, he looked at the surrounding terrain, gasped and said, "Omori Castle is not far from here, if you want to live, you can run over to me, as long as you get there, you can live." ”

Thinking of the strength of the Tang Army, the pirate leader still had hope in his heart.

Not long before they could run after them, the pirates who fled slowly were cut down by the pirates.

At this time, the weapons of the Japanese army were still much better than hundreds of years ago, after all, the Japanese swords in later generations were inherited and improved by the Tang Dynasty.

However, the iron ore of the Wa Kingdom is relatively scarce, and it is destined that the fine Wa sword will not be popularized, except for the samurai of some local lords and the swords of those officers, the weapons of ordinary people are not good, and they are not even as good as pirates.

But at this time, the pirates had no fighting spirit, and they were killed for a while.

Just as the pirate leader was running away in fright, he suddenly heard a voice behind him, like the sound of a sharp arrow cutting through the air.

"Whoosh!"

A dense scream of sharp arrows sounded, hundreds of arrows came out of the string, cut through the air, and flew directly to the top of the heads of the Japanese army, the sharp arrows easily cut through the thin clothes of the Japanese army, and pierced into the flesh and blood, and in an instant, a large number of Japanese soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the screams also sounded.

Moreover, in the mountains and forests on both sides, sharp arrows kept flying out and shot at the pursuing Japanese army, and many Japanese soldiers did not know what was going on, so they were nailed to the ground by sharp arrows.

The pursuing Japanese army was taken aback, the Japanese country was barren, although they had studied the Tang Dynasty for more than two hundred years, but the natural conditions determined that their weapons were not very advanced, especially the bow and crossbow.

"Kill!"

Soon, many ambushes were killed in the mountains and forests on both sides, including Tang troops and pirates, of course, most of them were pirates.

The sudden ambush of the Japanese army shocked the Japanese army, especially when they saw those soldiers in full armor and armed with sophisticated weapons slaughtering in all directions, one by one they were even more shocked, and even those officers or samurai in the Japanese army, many of them were not the opponents of this armored army.

Seeing that it was reinforcements from their side, the pirates who were still fleeing were overjoyed.

Looking at his subordinates who were still watching the play, the pirate leader shouted, "What are you doing in a daze? Kill me, kill these Japanese soldiers! ”

"Kill!"

With the order of the pirate leader, and the encouragement of the Tang army's slaughter, the pirates who were still fleeing took up arms one after another and began a counterattack.