The Imperial Fleet entered the Seto Inland Sea at 7 a.m. on 15 October, with 11 cruisers under the command of Colonel Li Feihuang, followed by a transport fleet covered by battleships commanded by Rear Admiral Luo Haitao, and finally another 11 cruisers under Rear Admiral Li Feihu.

A total of 88 ships formed two columns in turn from Shimonoseki, which was controlled by the Mori family, and entered the Seto Inland Sea.

The Murakami Naval Division of the Mori family had been destroyed when the Chinese army had swept across the Seto Inland Sea a few years earlier (the operation itself cleared a major obstacle to the rise of the Oda family, allowing him to easily block the sea passage of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, thus capturing one of the anti-Oda stronghold cities and changing it to Osaka Castle), so this time it was only a symbolic dispatch of twenty small boats, and the five hundred naval forces should be sent together.

At noon on the same day, Li Feihuang ordered the Maori navy to resume occupation of Naoshima, Toshima, and Men and Men in the Seto Inland Sea, and she herself led 200 sailors to Ashoshima, the second largest island in the Seto Inland Sea.

The Oda Army was defended by only a few soldiers on Shodoshima, and was essentially just a lookout post controlling a narrow mouth in the Inland Sea, and after the defenders tried to launch a counter-assault on Li Feihuang during the landing, they were shot back by a round of naval guns from the forward fleet, set fire to the beacon, and then committed suicide by cutting their stomachs.

At 12:15 p.m., the Chinese army completely occupied Xiaodou Island.

Li Feihuang killed and captured almost 300 Japanese here, which can barely be regarded as a small victory, but the battle of Shodoshima was passed to the main force of the Oda Navy through wolf smoke, and Shodoshima played a certain role.

After receiving the warning from Shodoshima, Oda Naval Commander General Kuki Yoshitaka knew that the time had come for a decisive battle, and he himself immediately set out from Sakai and Osaka with more than 600 ships, including six Daiyataku, to meet on the water near Awaji Island, and then to the west to meet the Kaka fleet.

At fourteen:30 p.m., the two opposing fleets could already look at each other from a distance, and a battle of 88 against 600 was about to begin.

On the Feiyun, the No. 3 ship of the First Patrol Fleet under Li Feihuang, Marine Sergeant No. Masakawa held a gun in one hand and held the side railing with the other, and stretched out his head to look at the opposite side.

After a while, he retracted with a complicated expression and said to his comrade-in-arms Hei San behind him: "That's right, it's the fleet of the Nine Ghost Family." ”

Nomasagawa's original name was Nojiri Masakawa, born in Fuso, as a Japanese coward, thirteen years ago in the vicinity of Rizhao was captured by the Chinese army, as a slave soldier for ten years, five years of militia, two years ago to accumulate credit (when the rise of China, it is particularly easy to accumulate credit, after all, every year to fight and win the war) became a civilian, spent money to ask the middle school teacher to check the surname of the hundred families, learned that there is a wild surname in China, so he directly changed his name to Ye Zhengchuan.

"You're from the Nine Ghost Family, I'm not." Hei San said in a very indifferent tone: "I was born in the Murakami family, and now my family is following us to join in the fun." ”

Hei San's original name was Hei Teng Guisan, who was also born in the Japanese people, and when Xu Shiyang went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he snatched the Zhuyin boat he was on the way, and he was also captured.

Unlike Nomasagawa, Hei San because he knows Chinese characters, so he has been staying on the ship of Huaxia to do some paperwork, until the establishment of the navy before he transferred to serve in the fleet, he was much more comfortable than Nomasagawa in life, but the speed of earning credit is far less than the former, so this year he has just accumulated enough merit to become an ordinary civilian, and he is just an ordinary first-class soldier, and his status and treatment are lower than Nomasakawa, who has become a sergeant.

"What, what loyalty do you still have to the Nine Ghost Family? Can't do it now in the face of my family? ”

Hei San is forty taels in Murakami's family (one is equal to three buckets and five liters), barely a low-level samurai, and his status is much higher than that of Nomasagawa in the Nine Ghost Family, but now he is riding on the head by the latter, and he is naturally a little unhappy, so he will taunt him a few words when he gets the opportunity.

"I'm only a fourteen-year-old ashigaru in the Nine Ghost Family." The chubby Ye Zhengchuan scratched his head, smiled stupidly and said, "I am a sergeant in Huaxia who leads the three two and five months, do you think I will miss the days of gnawing stinky fish in the Nine Ghosts' house?" ”

Fourteen Yu didn't even have five stones, barely enough for Ye Zhengchuan to eat himself, he couldn't afford to support his wife and children, and naturally no one wanted to marry him.

After deducting insurance, the Chinese sergeant has an annual salary of 42 taels, and can buy about 105 stone of brown rice (the usual price for civilians to buy grain is 0.4 taels and one stone of third-class rice).

After Nojiri became Nomasagawa, he bought a Fuso slave girl as his wife at a lower price (the first slave of the commoners was free, and then the slave needed to pay slave tax), and now he has both children and daughters, and he has a beautiful life, so he naturally does not have any sense of identity with the old club.

Nomasakawa's excitement now is that after defeating his old club today, can he, a two-person supporter, show off in front of those big guys who were too lazy to look at him before?

"I'm going to get those samurai lords to kneel for me."

Nomasagawa said wistfully:

"If I can meet my lord who looked down on me before, I will snatch his daughter! It's a big deal to pay the slave tax every year! ”

"Those women should be sold by officials, and we are civilians, so we do have the right to buy them."

Speaking of the women of the aristocratic family, Hei San didn't care about sarcastically mocking this lower riba man - he also had some dirty thoughts about those women who used to be high:

"The younger and more beautiful the female slaves, the more expensive they are, but unless they are the daughters of famous families, no one cares about their status, we can pick a side room to buy, those women have been used, and the price will definitely not be high."

"I don't want a side room." Nomasagawa replied, "If I want to buy it, I'll buy the main room of a samurai's house." ”

"The side room is younger and more beautiful, and it is cost-effective." Kuro-san reminded.

"I just bought that identity, let the samurai's wife serve me, what is it to buy a side room?"

Nomasagawa insisted on his opinion, and he even began to think about how much it would cost to buy a high-end flag book.

As a result, it didn't cost a few dollars, and most of the wives of those flag-book samurai families were already in their thirties, and they were in full swing in modern society, but in this era, they were all overripe "old women".

Except for a few particularly outstanding ones, the others, who train thin horses, will not like it, and those who buy and raise must like the yellow flower girl, and the market for these women is usually very poor old widowers, and guys with special needs like Nomasagawa.

"Your tastes are so peculiar."

Hei San couldn't help but start sarcastically sarcastic Nomasagawa:

"I'm not afraid of other people's jokes, I'd rather spend more money to buy a young lady than this, anyway, I'm already a commoner, and I can participate in the auction."

Ye Zhengchuan suddenly asked obscenely: "Hey, Lao Hei, do you think the imperial court will sell the women of the famous family?" ”

"How is it possible, no matter how small a daimyo is, it is still a daimyo ......"

"But the court has sold all the pseudo-gold noblewomen, and the noblewomen of the widows can be nobler than the Jurchen noblewomen?"

The two men looked at each other.

Soon, they had a new purpose in mind.