The real naval battle lasted less than an hour from the two sides encountering the collapse of the Nine Ghost Water Army, but the pursuit of the Chinese army continued until dark.

On this day, Li Feihuang's fleet blockaded Sakai Port, while Li Feihu blockaded Osaka.

A cruiser of Li Feihuang's fleet even chased into the port of Sakai Port, sank several ships and carried out two rounds of shelling of the port area, causing a large fire in Sakai Port, which is dominated by wooden buildings.

In the afternoon of the same day, the transport fleet transported the marines to land on Awaji Island, and the Oda Army on the island put up a desperate and powerless resistance.

After dark, Mamoru Awaji tried to break through to Honshu and was shot by the Marines at the beach.

At this point, the naval battle of the Seto Inland Sea was completely over, and the Chinese army occupied most of the islands in the Seto Inland Sea, cutting off the connection between Honshu and Shikoku, and at the same time completely annihilating the Nine Ghost Naval Army.

After the war, Luo Haitao's report to the Imperial General Staff claimed that nearly 500 large and small ships had been sunk, but in fact, there has never been an accurate count of how many Fusang ships the Chinese army sank on this day.

Because there were too many small early ships in the Nine Ghost Water Army, some of them had already been sunk without anyone even noticing.

The only thing that can be roughly accurately counted is that the Chinese army sank 5 ironclad mansions, all ordinary mansions and more than ninety percent of the ships.

Captured the flagship of the Nine Ghost Water Army, the ironclad mansion "Fusang Maru".

It is conservatively estimated that more than 5,000 people were killed or missing in the Oda army, and about 600 were captured (most of them were fished out of the sea).

The wounded were not counted, because the Chinese army would not keep the wounded prisoners, and it was almost impossible for the wounded who fell into the water to swim to shore.

One of the Chinese transport ships received minor damage (it was hit several times by a rifle), 175 people were killed and 430 were wounded.

The strategic significance of the naval battle in the Seto Inland Sea lies in the fact that the local daimyo of Fuso, who organized the Nobunaga siege network three times and was defeated three times, realized for the first time that the foreign household of Huaxia was a powerful existence beyond imagination.

As a result, these forces, which had already died down, jumped out again, and some people re-clamoured Nobunaga to encircle the network, while others directly prepared to kill Oda Nobunaga completely.

Shikoku's Nagamune Ibu Yuanqin, Echigo Uesugi Keikatsu, and even the Hojo clan, who had been friends with Nobunaga, agreed to send troops against Nobunaga.

However, Feng Sanhu didn't care if the local daimyo of Fuso was willing to participate in the battle, in his opinion, Oda Nobunaga himself was a guy who "has no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are kings", and it didn't matter what those weak chickens who were subdued by the monkeys thought in their hearts.

Two days after the end of the naval battle, Feng Sanhu personally commanded his troops to attack Beizhong.

In this battle, he led only 1,500 field troops and 30,000 soldiers cobbled together by local allies such as Maori and Ryuzoji.

And his opponent is Oda Nobunaga between the promotion and the micro end of the Hashiba Hideyoshi.

Before the war, Feng Sanhu formulated a plan to use Fusang as the vanguard and the Chinese army to provide fire support to minimize his own casualties.

In order to let the Maori and Ryuzoji armies exert their due combat effectiveness, Feng Sanhu ordered the Maolong coalition army to build two hundred taels of shield carts, and the militia pushed the shield carts to attack the Oda army array.

The shield carts of the Wool Dragons had a step behind them, and the shield car baffle had two design openings, so that the allied arquebusiers could stand on the steps and shoot as they marched.

The shield wagon itself proved to be sufficient to withstand the fire of small-caliber arquebuses (bird guns and iron cannons native to Fuso), but it could not stop large-caliber muskets (the standard Type 1 of the Chinese army and the Fuso people called the large iron cannon).

Fortunately, the Oda army did not have so many large-caliber muskets, and the Maolong coalition army would not even be able to afford this casualty.

Like Luo Haitao, Feng Sanhu's shield car tactics are also very old-fashioned tactics, in the past, Jurchen and Pseudo Jin especially liked to use this thing to resist the Zhou army's bow and crossbow, which was essentially bullying the enemy's lack of effective strike firepower, increasing protection on the premise of sacrificing mobility, and bringing the opponent closer to a fairer white-knuckle battle.

Feng Sanhu believes that the Fusang people in the coalition army are undoubtedly old-style armies, so it should be more appropriate to use old-style tactics.

And so it was.

On the morning of 17 October, a great battle broke out between the coalition forces and the Oda army under Takamatsu Castle, which was in preparation, and as soon as the battle began, the coalition forces dispatched 220 shield wagons to advance slowly but firmly towards the Oda army.

Oda Army General Hashiba Hideyoshi ordered the iron cannon Ashigaru to block the attack, and at the same time concentrated a small number of Kunikai guns (large god machine guns) to fire.

According to the standard tactics of the Chinese army, at this time, elite cavalry should be sent to roam in front of the enemy formation, harass and shoot the enemy with horse pistols, contain the enemy's firepower, and cover the advance of the formation.

However, Feng Sanhu did not intend to protect the friendly forces of Fuso with his own lives, so he only ordered the only two field artillery companies under his command (one each of 6 jin and 10 jin) to provide long-range cover and suppress the Oda army.

Fortunately, the Oda army did not have a strong cavalry, so naturally it could not pose a threat to the positions of the Chinese army.

Although the Chinese artillery was powerful, after all, the number was too small to pose a mortal threat to the tens of thousands of Oda troops, so the Oda army was able to withstand the suppression of the Chinese artillery and continuously attack the vehicle array.

Soon, several shield carts were hit by shells, and almost all the Fusang soldiers behind the shield carts were swept down by the collapsed debris. Several survivors escaped from behind the shield cart and were immediately killed by a dense barrage of arquebus bullets.

Such a loss was a drop in the bucket for more than 200 shield cars, and after approaching the effective distance, the iron gunners behind the shield cars began to return fire, and the bamboo bundles that the Oda army framed in front of the position as protection were splashed with fragments, but the small-caliber muskets of the coalition forces could not penetrate either, and the fights on both sides came and went, but the casualties were not large.

"This is really ......, what did the handsome say?"

Feng Sanhu, who watched the "fierce" battle scene, shook his head:

"Rookies pecking at each other?"

Ahead, the samurai brandished their katana swords and shouted loudly for the shield cart formation to keep a straight line as much as possible, and occasionally the shield cart was hit by a national collapse or a large iron cannon, and immediately a group of people fell screaming.

The samurai paid no attention to this, and when they got closer, some people began to shoot bows with surprisingly large bows and bows in the opposite direction, and the Oda army immediately returned the color, feathered arrows and lead bullets intertwined between the two armies, and the casualties finally began to increase.

The Fuso soldiers showed good resilience, and more and more shield vehicles were hit, but the other vehicles were still very determined.

Finally, the tipping point came, and the national collapse of the Oda army had to stop firing in order to dissipate heat due to the excessive number of firings, which made the losses of the coalition forces drop sharply, and the Chinese artillery in the rear still threw shells into the stationary Oda army array again and again.

"It's our turn."

Feng Sanhu smiled with satisfaction:

"Assault!"

The drums of the attack sounded, the hooves sounded, and the only two hundred musketeers of the expeditionary force rode out, trotted around their own shield formation, and attacked the flank of the Oda army.

And the 1,000 infantry of the Chinese army also lined up in a neat battle line and began to advance slowly.