Li Qing led the fleet to sail along the channel from the Great Song Dynasty to the Wa Kingdom, and along the way, Li Qing had already robbed seven or eight ships, and had already reached the destination, and the reason why he had been floating on the sea was because Li Qing had not yet found a suitable landing island as a stronghold; On the other hand, Li Liangzuo was waiting for the Japanese who were entrenched in this area, after all, the vigilance of the crew on the ship was relatively high, and the vigilance would drop once they landed.

Satsuma Prefecture and Guardian House.

A small samurai hurriedly came in and reported to a middle-aged man: "Guard, the group of pirates who attacked the merchant ships everywhere have been found, they are still cruising in the southwest sea with skull flags. ”

A fierce light flashed in the eyes of the middle-aged man and said, "Keep an eye on them closely and wait for the next order." ”

"Hello!" The little samurai took the order and left.

This middle-aged man's name is Shimazu Tadahisa, and he is the guardian of the three kingdoms of Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga, and the so-called country of the Japanese country is actually the local administrative agency 'order system' and not the vassal state.

However, by this period, due to the rise of the Wa State manor system and the samurai class, the control of the Wa Kingdom over various places was declining, and some new families were emerging in the local area, they controlled a large amount of land, population and resources, and the Wa Kingdom had begun to enter the situation before the division of the princes, and Shimazu Tadahisa was such a prince, after years of hard work, the Shimazu family finally gained the actual control of the three kingdoms of Satsuma Province, Osumi Province and Hyuga Province, and was canonized by the Wa Emperor as the guardian of the Three Kingdoms.

At this time, Shimazu Tadahisa was very annoyed in his heart, because Li Qing's appearance hindered Shimazu Tadahisa's interests, and the Japanese who were entrenched in the southwest waters of the Japanese country were actually the minions of the Shimazu family's captivity, and Li Qing's appearance on the way to rob merchant ships was equivalent to snatching food from the mouth of the Shimazu family! This is something that Tadahisa Shimazu absolutely does not allow.

On the same day, Shimazu Tadahisa issued a military order for the naval divisions of Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga to all go to Kagoshima to assemble, and the Japanese under the control of the Shimazu family had already begun to act, and a naval battle was inevitable; Li Qing led the fleet in the southwestern sea of the Japanese kingdom to the east, and the entire fleet was on the highest alert, ready to deal with the incoming enemy forces at any time.

"Lord Wang, the ship that was originally following us has withdrawn." Zheng Baolin walked to Li Qing's side and said.

Li Qing looked at the sea in the distance and said, "It seems that they are ready to make a move, tell the brothers to be ready to fight at any time." ”

"Lord Wang, we only have eight sea ships, and the enemy's situation is unknown, so we can only see whether to retreat first according to our humble duties." Zhou Hai suggested to Li Qing; "After all, we are fighting on someone's doorstep."

"It's not good to run away if you don't fight this battle!" Li Qing said: "Don't worry about those for now, since you are here, at least you have to find out, this sea area is a golden mountain!" Wouldn't it be a shame to just leave? ”

Li Qing has already made up his mind to fight this battle, Li Qing also knows that his forces are limited, and the enemy situation is unknown, the purpose of this Qing Qing is still mainly reconnaissance and temptation, and large-scale operations are still to come!

As soon as the sky dawned the next morning, a fleet of Japanese pirates came to kill them head-on, and Li Qingzheng was on the deck looking at the Japanese fleet rushing towards him, saying that they were a fleet that had lifted them, at most it was a fleet, and the types of the fleet were still very messy, there were merchant ships, fishing boats, flat-bottomed boats, and so on, and most of the ships were small boats, and the largest ships were about the same as the Exocet, only about a thousand materials.

"Lord Wang, although the enemy ships are not large, they are numerous, and it seems that there will be at least fifty or sixty ships." Zhou Hai said to Li Qing with some liver tremors; "As the saying goes, 'two fists are hard to beat four hands', or let's withdraw!"

"Why didn't this king find out that you were so timid before! If you are afraid, roll Lao Tzu back into the cabin, and Lao Tzu will personally command the battle. Li Qing put Zhou Hai down and said; Summoned a fierce fire and a rocket crossbow to prepare. ”

With Li Qing's order, all the soldiers began to pour the fierce fire from the cabin on the ground floor to move up, and the fire crossbow arrows were all ready to fire, after the Japanese ships entered the firing range, Li Qing decisively issued a military order: "Let go ......"

Fireballs rose into the air and flew towards the boats, which were instantly ablaze with fire. Li Qing ordered again: "Crossbowmen, aim at the Japanese ship in front of you, and give me arrows......"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

Although the Japanese also shot rockets to fight back, they helplessly found that the range of their bows and arrows was not so far at all, and they were completely in a situation of being passively beaten, but the arrows also had a time when they were consumed, and the arm strength of the archery crossbowmen who were in time could not stand it.

So after a few rounds of arrow rain, Li Qing ordered to stop firing arrows, but even so it has caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese invaders, but this is not the end, Li Qing relied on his own ship to hit the Japanese ships with high and mighty, which was basically a one-sided crushing, under the impact of the Beihai Gang ships, the Japanese ships broke one after another, and the Japanese invaders had no power to resist; Li Qing's tactics were completely aimed at the weakness of the Japanese Invaders, who in the past were mainly engaged in broadside battles, relying on bravery and sharp Japanese swords, but now all this has changed.

The fleets of the Beihai Gang collided in the fleet of the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese ships sank into the sea one after another; Within two hours, the Japanese lost two-thirds of their ships, and under such a blow, the leader of the Japanese invaders, Masao Yamashita, could no longer support it; Yamashita shouted at the top of his voice: "Retreat, retreat......"

"Lord Wang, you see that the Japanese have retreated......"

"Send an order to Lao Tzu to pursue, this battle is not something they can fight if they want to, Lao Tzu must annihilate this group of pirates today." Li Qing said confidently.

Although the North Sea Fleet was damaged, but the loss of the war force is still there, under the command of Li Qing, the Japanese are relentlessly pursued, and they have been pursued to the old nest of the Japanese Kou, Bamboo Island, the location of this island is really good, located on the only way from the Great Song Dynasty to our country, and then the Osumi Strait.

When he arrived at Takeshima, it was already dark, in order to prevent the night landing from being attacked by the Japanese invaders, Li Qing did not order the attack on the island, to say that Li Qing originally just wanted to test the combat power of the Japanese invaders, but he became addicted to playing Li Qing, and changed from the initial temptation to a heavy injury, but when he saw that the Japanese invaders did not cause much casualties to him at all, Li Qing's ambition swelled again and planned to annihilate this group of Japanese invaders.

Then led the army to attack Bamboo Island, the Japanese who fled to the island from the sea only had six sea ships, and the number of people added up was two or three hundred, plus the remaining personnel, Li Qing estimated that the remaining strength of the Japanese should not exceed four hundred, and Li Qing now had six hundred elites in his hands, and taking Bamboo Island was easy to capture in Li Qing's opinion.

Li Qing was waiting, waiting for the dawn to come, this naval battle was of great significance to Li Qing and the Great Xia Kingdom, which marked that the influence of the Great Xia Naval Division had reached the Wa Kingdom Islands.

The second is to continue to ask for support......

(End of chapter)