After departing from Golden State, the average speed of the 68 ships in the mixed fleet reached about four knots.

Because the sea was calm, and the captains and sailors who led the voyage were all veterans who had run the route of the Japanese country at least three times, it was possible to travel day and night.

Of course, the 18 warships are the largest in displacement and equipped with the most artillery fire among the naval divisions of the "Red Banner Army," and they can definitely be regarded as strong ships in Asia, and nine of them are the latest old lock ships with oars, and the one with the largest displacement is, of course, the flagship with 880 tons.

The ship was equipped with 32 12-pounder guns on both sides of the Furlong machine, 16 on the port side and 16 on the port side, and 8 18-pounder front-loading Hongyi cannons on the lower deck, four on the port side and four on the port side.

Both the bow and stern guns were front-loading Hongyi cannons with an effective range twice as far as that of the Franc rear, with one thirty-two-pounder gun in the bow, two twenty-four-pounder guns, and two eighteen-pounder guns in the stern.

The muzzle of the gun can be rotated 90 degrees from side to side, which means that when the platoon line is shelled, the bow and stern guns can join the battle group.

The armament of warships with a displacement of four or five hundred tons differed, the caliber of the guns was doubled, the number was about twenty, and the guns of the warships of seven or eight hundred tons were configured with around forty.

The tonnage of the battleship used by Huang Han was close to 850 tons, which was the same as the number of guns of Huang Yong's flagship, but the 40 guns on both sides were all rear-loading 12-pounder guns with sub-guns, and the front-loading 18-pounder Hongyi cannons that needed to be pulled back to the gun compartment for loading after the guns were not fired.

At this time, there were only warships in Asia equipped with about 40 guns, and they were also one of the few first-class warships in Europe, after all, it was a story twenty years later that they lined up the battle line to strike the enemy ships with absolute firepower.

It was twenty years later, in the First Anglo-Dutch War, that the British issued the Maritime Combat Regulations, which stipulated that all ships of each detachment must make every effort to maintain a first-line line with their detachment commanders.

This is the origin of the "battle line", and the warships that were arranged in battleships to bombard enemy ships naturally had the name of battleships.

In later years, the British assigned a class of battleships to a crew of eight or nine hundred people, with three gun decks, more than 100 guns, and a displacement of about 3,000 tons.

The so-called naval warfare in Asia was still very primitive, and warships all adopted the tactics of ramming small ships with large ships and using fireships to burn the enemy's large ships.

Most of the warships on both sides took the approach and dispatched infantry to jump to the gang to engage in a broadside battle, and they had to test the individual strength and courage of the fighters at sea, and it was still a face-to-face hand-to-hand battle to determine the outcome of the battle.

Naval warfare in Europe was different, with firepower gradually becoming more and more important, with mutual shelling being the main part of the war, and finally approaching enemy ships and sending infantry to jump over the side to seize the spoils.

At this time, the Spaniards and the Dutch always had to carry a large number of infantry for the broadside battle of seizing ships in order to maximize their interests in naval warfare, and later this style of fighting suffered the losses of the British, and too many ships full of infantry were destroyed by the guns of British battleships that refused to take sides, resulting in terrible casualties.

Now the number one maritime power in Asia is naturally Zheng Yiguan's pirate group, and he has now changed his name to Zheng Zhilong, and his command is called Eighteen Zhi.

There are Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhiguan, Zheng Zhifeng and other Zheng family brothers as henchmen, commanding thousands of warships and armed merchant ships, and it is said that there are as many as 350,000 people.

Zheng Zhilong's pirate group accepted the Ming Zhao'an in the first year of Chongzhen and became the titular Ming Naval Division, and Zheng Zhilong got the official position of Haiphong guerrilla.

In addition to Zheng Zhilong, a sailor who also robbed the Ming Dynasty, there were also water battalions in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Denglai, Tianjin Wei, Shanhaiguan, etc., including Huang Yong's Lushun Koushui Battalion, which also belonged to the maritime forces of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty didn't pay attention to the development of the navy at all, in fact, there was no way to develop the navy when corruption was raging at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because it was even more uncontrollable.

Smuggling by sea was lucrative and convenient, and it was not uncommon for civilian and military generals who mastered the navy to use the state's warships to make private fortunes.

In the end, the navy invested by the state was not trained and reduced to a private convoy, and when it met powerful pirates, it was not able to fight at all, and the result was that the whole army was wiped out or captured by pirates, and the strength of the sea was enhanced.

At this time, the Wa Kingdom had not yet fully controlled the four major islands, and the main island, Kyushu, and Shikoku and three islands had basically completed the kingization, and they also came out of the Warring States Period to usher in peace, and Hokkaido was still in Ezo land, and the general was still conquering the barbarians and was not able to fully control the cold island.

The strength of the Wa Kingdom was limited, and the Battle of Munroku and the Battle of Gyeongcho were launched in the Wanli year, which is called the Imjin Patriotic War in the history books of the Lee family, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attempt to annex Korea was beaten all over the ground by the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, Toyotomi Hideyoshi fell into a slump and died soon after, and the general Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity to seize power and established the Tokugawa shogunate.

The current population of Wakoku is likely to be between 5 million and 8 million, but since the Tokugawa shogunate has lasted for three generations, the raids between the daimyo have stopped, the Warring States period of this country has passed, and the main island and Shikoku are relatively peaceful, and agriculture has been restored and productivity has developed.

The last thing that the country could not tolerate now was the infiltration and spread of Catholicism, and there were frequent clashes between Christians and the shogunate army on the island of Kyushu, so the Tokugawa shogunate hated trade with the West and was happy to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Wa Kingdom admired the Han civilization and hoped to obtain the Ming Dynasty's porcelain, silk, cloth, tea, books and other goods.

Hwanghan's fleet did not carry much food when it set out, and the first planned supply point was the largest seaport in Jeolla Province, which was part of the Korean state.

There was no accident, although Huang Han's force was enough to go ashore and loot the seaside city of Korea, but he also resisted the impulse, and under the terrifying gaze of the Korean soldiers and civilians, the ship was strong and the Ming fleet exchanged some porcelain for rice, bacon, poultry eggs, melons, fruits and vegetables.

It was not until the unbeatable fleet was gone away that the Goryeo sticks in the port cheered for joy, and they swarmed around the porcelain left behind by the fleet, and finally unanimously agreed that the exchange would not only make a lot of money.

Leaving Jeolla Province and heading east, you will find the waters of the Goto Islands, which are many natural harbors on the islands and are a traditional hiding place for pirates.

This is the characteristic of the activities of pirates and sea ships, it is really an endless sea, a sea area where there are no islands and continents within a few hundred nautical miles, and there are few sea ships in this era.

There are many merchant ships and cargo ships in the sea area with many islands, so there are also many pirates, which is similar to the prairie, where there are many sheep, there will be a large number of jackals, tigers and leopards.