It was past noon, and the once calm and clear sea was filled with shouts of killing, screams and explosions, and thick smoke hung over the sky, and people kept falling into the water in the smoke. Most of the people who fell into the water never surfaced again, and only a few people who were good at the water struggled to call for help from their ships and struggled to get closer. However, the two sides in the fierce battle had no time to pay attention to the people who fell into the water, and even if they were close to each other, they could not hear each other's shouts, so very few people were rescued, and they were either run directly into the bottom of the sea by the ship or swallowed by the whirlpool near the ship.

Seeing that his fleet was gradually surrounded by enemy forces, more than 50 fortune ships were entangled by twice as many enemy ships, unable to advance or retreat, and fell into brutal hand-to-hand combat, if it were not for the support of firearms, most of the fortune ships would have been captured. Although fighting head-on, the Wa were far from being the opponents of the Ming army, but on the swinging ships by relying on personal martial arts to slash and kill, the Wa warriors had a great advantage, their long knives were longer and sharper, and most of the casualties of the Ming army were caused by the Wa samurai.

What to do? The commander made Qi Pingyuan's nails sink deep into the flesh, and he regretted it, he regretted that he had held it up, when Luo Kening asked about the defense of Jeju Island, he patted his chest and said that there was no problem, he thought that with the tall Fu boat, it would be easy to destroy the Japanese sailors who were all small boats, but he didn't expect the Japanese sailors to be equipped with large warships, although the weapons were very poor, but they had the qualifications to fight hand-to-hand with the Fu boats.

Fortunately, Lord Luo didn't listen to his words and insisted on sending reinforcements, and he was still a little unhappy at the time, but now he can only hope that the reinforcements will arrive in time, otherwise it won't be dark before the Jeju Island Naval Division will be wiped out.

At that time, the Korean naval division will inevitably go straight to Ganghwa Bay, fight a decisive battle with the main force of the naval division, and even block the sea surface and block the supply line of the Eastern Army, then the situation of the Korean war is likely to be reversed.

Thinking of this, Qi Pingyuan slowly put on his helmet, and when the deputy general Wu Kun saw this, he hurriedly stopped him: "General, no, you should be in charge of commanding!" ”

"No!" Qi Pingyuan pushed Wu Kun's hand away: "Now there is no need to command, the enemy is outnumbered, and our army will be defeated, but this general wants to let the Japanese dog see how the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty fought to the end, raise the blood-colored battle flag, order the whole army, and the time has come to kill the Japanese and serve the country, the Ming soldiers, fight to the death!" ”

Wu Kun was stunned and laughed: "Okay, then let the last general accompany the general." ”

"Good brother," Qi Pingyuan patted Wu Kun's shoulder and laughed, "Let's kill the enemy side by side!" ”

With Qi Pingyuan's signal, the blood-colored battle flags were raised on the Fu boats, and seeing the blood-colored battle flags fluttering in the sea breeze, the Ming army let out a sky-shattering shout: "Kill the Japanese and serve the country!" Fight to the death! Fight to the death! "Kill the widow and repay the country!" Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

Seeing the regained momentum of the Ming army, Jin Chongen's face froze, and he immediately said: "Order the whole army, don't take a step back." The soldiers of the Korean Empire, the time has come to annihilate the Ming army and defend the country! ”

And the commander of the Wa Kingdom, Akamatsu Yoshina, sneered: "This is just a battle of trapped beasts, there is nothing to be afraid of, the so-called one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, as long as you resist the onslaught of the Ming people." Order the whole army, fight to the death and not retreat, Elder Ben personally beat the drum to inspire the officers and soldiers of the three armies! ”

On the battlefield, the drums rumbled, the three armies fought to the death, the shouts of killing shook the sky, they forgot to die, there was only the enemy in their eyes, and there was only one thought in their hearts: kill the enemy in front of them, kill them all!

But under the attack of the two armies, the Ming army gradually could not support, they fought from morning to noon, the water and rice did not enter, the physical consumption plus the battle damage, the Ming army was slowly compressed back to the cabin to hold, and after a while, Qi Pingyuan saw that the battle flag of a certain lucky boat was taken off, replaced by the Taiji flag of South Korea or the plaster flag of the Japanese country, Qi Pingyuan's eyes were cracked, and he could only roar: "Fight to the death, fight to the death!" ”

The captured ships also turned around and participated in the siege, and Kim Chong-eun and Akamatsu Yoshishi were overjoyed and beat the drums vigorously to ensure the total annihilation of the Ming army.

......

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

As if someone was pushing behind him, Kim Chong-eun hit his head on the wall of the cabin, dizzy for a while, and blood flowed.

"My lord! My lord! ”

Someone next to him shouted hurriedly, and Jin Chongen shook his head: "What's the matter, Jin Wen, what's wrong?" ”

"My lord, it seems that reinforcements from the Ming army have arrived!"

"Reinforcements?"

Kim Joong-eun struggled to stand up, and with the support of his attendants, he walked out of the cabin and saw a scene that he would never forget.

Dozens of warships appeared around the coalition forces, and there were dozens of guns on the side of each battleship tilting the gunpowder to their heart's content, and a cannon in the small ships on the periphery was immediately destroyed and killed, even if it was a big ship, as long as a shell fell on the deck, there would be no living people within a radius of two feet on the deck, and if it fell on the ship's tower, the ship's building would be blown up immediately, and the people inside would not survive at all.

"Yaga! What kind of ship is this? Why didn't you report it earlier? ”

"Elder, these ships are too fast, and everyone is besieging the Ming fleet, and when they find out, they are very close to us, but in the blink of an eye, these terrible sailing ships surround us."

"Signal immediately, the Japanese fleet will withdraw from the attack and return to Tsushima Island immediately!"

"However, we are entangled with the Ming army and can't get out."

"If you can't get out, you have to get out, or you'll die!"

Seeing the panicked appearance of the Korean and Japanese coalition forces, Tan Yaowu, the commander of the Royal First Fleet, laughed: "Order, according to the five ships grouped, concentrate firepower, and sink the enemy's big ship first." ”

"Yes!"

With the signal from the mast, the First Fleet began to fire on the large ships of the DPRK and the Japanese, and after several salvos, the large warships of the DPRK and Japanese coalition broke out one after another, and the soldiers on board jumped into the water to flee for their lives.

Seeing his own support coming, Qi Pingyuan was overjoyed: "Haha, we are saved, it is the first fleet, and the emperor sent the first fleet to save us!" ”

"Long live the emperor!" "Hooray!" "Hooray!"

The surviving soldiers shouted long live at the same time to vent the ecstasy in their hearts, and then, under the command of Qi Pingyuan, occupied the deck and attacked the enemy ships that tried to escape with muskets and grenades. But soon, the soldiers on the ship withdrew to the cabin.

"Damn! How did the guns of the First Fleet hit? They all hit the fortune boat. ”

"Okay, okay, don't complain, we're too close to the enemy, and the First Fleet can't do anything!"

"Yes, if there is no First Fleet, we are dead!"

"yes, yes, we survived anyway."

Idle, the Ming soldiers chatted about their daily routines amid the rumbling cannons; However, the Navy's division was in dire straits.

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After the invention of artillery, Zhu Yunwen immediately asked the Ministry of Engineering to design a new type of warship to meet the requirements of artillery warfare. Zhu Yunwen deliberately put forward his requirements, that is, fast, flexible, and more gun positions. Zhu Yunwen combined the knowledge of later generations to make the warship narrow and long, the portholes were full of gun emplacements, and at the same time reduced the height of the bow tower (the tall building in the bow of the ship) to reduce resistance, and at the same time used a triangular soft sail to facilitate the flexible use of wind power, and it can also be used in a zigzag shape against the wind.

With a general idea, coupled with Daming's superb shipbuilding technology, he quickly built the new warship that Zhu Yunwen wanted. But the sailors were a little resistant to this kind of warship, they felt that this kind of ship was ugly, and compared to the lucky ship, it was not high-end and high-grade at all.

However, after they personally controlled it for a period of time, they praised it, although this kind of warship is not as fast as the Fuchuan downwind, but it is much more flexible, and the speed against the wind is far greater than that of the Fufu, which is very suitable for naval warfare. Zhu Yunwen finally named this kind of battleship the "Qin"-class cruiser.

From the fifth year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen ordered the formation of the First Fleet of the Royal Navy, appointed Tan Yaowu as the commander, and commanded 50 Qin-class cruisers to conduct training near Taiwan. When it was decided to start a war with Korea, Zhu Yunwen ordered the First Fleet to go north to support, and Tan Yaowu immediately received the order to go north.

As soon as the First Fleet arrived at Ganghwa Bay, it received an order to reinforce Jeju Island, and Rokning knew that the Qin-class cruisers were suitable for headwind, and the reinforcement of Jeju Island happened to catch up with the headwind, so they let them come at the same time, and Rokning's army came later.

When the army of Rokning arrived, it was already the night of the same day, the naval battle of Jeju Island had already been fought, the Korean naval division was defeated, the Korean commander Kim Chong-eun was killed in battle, and the Japanese naval division Akamatsu Yoshinori disguised himself and fled to Tsushima Island in a small boat; The Japanese lost all their large ships, countless small boats, and less than 300 small ships that fled back to Tsushima.

Yoshinori Akamatsu rested on Tsushima Island and immediately returned to Kyoto to tell Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. His first words were: "General, please quickly order the construction of a stone wall by the sea to prevent the Ming army from landing." ”

"What's wrong? Our army is defeated? ”

"Yes, our army was defeated, and the Ming army's naval division was invincible!"

After listening to Akamatsu Yoshinori's description, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who had already become a monk, sighed: "Okay, Akamatsu, you go and do this, this shogun will let the local daimyo cooperate with you." ”

"Yes!"

Looking at the back of Akamatsu Yoshinori who had not diminished his fighting spirit after the fiasco, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sighed and said softly: "Shimoda, summon Elder Matsumoto over." ”

"Yes!"

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After receiving the news of the fiasco of the sailors, Li Fangyuan and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu made the same choice. Li Fangyuan sent peace envoys to the Ming Dynasty, and the division carried a large number of treasures and beauties selected from all over Korea, which were originally used by Li Fangyuan to enrich the harem after ascending the throne, but at this moment they had to endure the pain, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would forgive; And declared that he would go to the emperor's name, and he would always be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty and never betray. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's envoys to sue for peace also had the same purpose, claiming that they were instigated by Joseon, believing that the Ming Dynasty intended to attack the Japanese state, and now they have come to their senses and are willing to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty army to destroy Korea in order to demonstrate the prestige of the Great Tomorrow.

Although Sheng Yong did not stop the envoys, he continued to march into Seoul on the grounds that there was no emperor's edict.

On August 11, the sixth year of Jianwen, the Eastern Army arrived under the city of Seoul and surrounded Seoul, the capital of South Korea.