Hong Chengchou nodded, "Let others do things for us, we don't have to come out, when the Huaxia Kingdom pushes Japan into our arms, in order to deal with the strong Huaxia Army, the Japanese will definitely find us to unite, those Japanese dwarfs are more flexible than anyone else, they have always been hostile to the Huaxia Army, but they have never resisted the Huaxia Army head-on, because they know that they can't fight, but if they unite us, they will be rampant, I mean let them come out first, and then we will support them in the back." ”

Hong Chengchou meant that he was ready to use the Japanese to trap the merchant ships of the Huaxia Army, and then indirectly provoked a war between Japan and the Huaxia Army, which had not been preparing to fight with the Huaxia Army for more than ten years.

So on a sunny morning, a team had just finished delivering the goods on the Ryukyu Island, and carried with them Japanese silver, wine from the Dutch, wood from the Spaniards, some scientific texts of Christianity, and the catch of the Ryukyu Islands, loaded with enough fresh water and food, and enough shells and gunpowder from the merchant ships to meet the support of the Chinese warships, swords, guns, halberds, and axes for melee combat, as well as sails for the ships themselves, and timber for repairing the ships.

The 200 escort sailors were from a Shanxi merchant who had been trading with the Huaxia Army since the establishment of the Huaxia Army, and finally moved his family from Shanxi Prefecture to Jinhua Mansion, the original center of Huaxia, and had great expectations for this transaction to return to Dengzhou Port in Shandong Prefecture.

As a result, there were a total of nine ships, two 60-ton sailors of the Huaxia Army who had been escorted from the port from the beginning of the port, and seven merchant ships of the merchants, one of which was used to house the owners, treasurers, accounts, and escorts of the fleet, and the 800-ton Daifuku ships that could also carry goods, three sailing ships that were also loaded with goods, and three 300-ton ships that were used by the caravans' own escorts, and ships that also loaded goods.

On the route out of the Ryukyu Islands to Japan, it was intercepted by eighteen Dutch-like armed ships of only one hundred and eighty tons.

If you want to talk about Japan's shipbuilding industry, then it is simply miserable, their ships have actually been banned from building, and ordinary cargo ships are similar to flat bottoms, pointed bottoms and not sharp bottoms, as if they are called Ataka ships.

In the face of the strength of the Taixi people, in recent hundreds of years, Japan has been in a state of seclusion, not allowing private shipbuilding, and at the same time the military ships also use Ataka ships, but some Japanese merchants, as well as the Han people and southerners along the Fujian coast who yearn for Japan, have immigrated to Japan like flies and rotten eggs, and then where they have become merchants attached to various Japanese daimyos, and have become more powerful than the Japanese navy, and the pirates who defend the Japanese coastline are generally Japanese navy.

The Tessies, the Dutch, the British, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards also provided similar protection to Japan, or in order to protect their commercial interests, Japan had many foreign ships, but there were no powerful warships of its own, and there were no powerful merchant ships of Japan, only ordinary inshore Ataka ships.

Of course, Hong Chengchou would not have the garbage house that he looked down on in Japan like a box, which could be tossed by a wave on the sea, but he had merchants from all over the world and all kinds of merchant ships and civilian ships that he brought from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as Dutch and Portuguese ships, so he gave eighteen armed merchant ships of the smallest number that the Dutch had sold to him before, this kind of ships of the last century for more than 15 years, to Japanese samurai and Japanese fishermen, so that they could sneak attack the caravans of the Chinese Kingdom.

In any case, there are pirates in Japan, and the Japanese daimyo also has foreign ships bought from merchants from various countries, and he cannot be held accountable.

The caravan was initially panicked when the Japanese attacked the caravan using the seemingly powerful and powerful merchant ships of the 180-ton deceit, which had been used in the early days of the Dutch.

Because this situation has not appeared for a long time, the strength of the Huaxia Kingdom, everyone in this world understands, even the Great Qing Kingdom has not easily provoked the Huaxia Kingdom for a long time, of course, the confrontation on the border, small friction does not count, they know that even if the Qing army reacts, the people on the opposite side will not attack for the time being, but cross the river to attack the Great Qing Kingdom.

Although the Great Qing Kingdom does not understand why this is, some old people of the Great Qing Dynasty who have experienced ups and downs and rich experience know that the Great Qing Dynasty is now struggling to survive, and the other side does not fight them just because the Huaxia Kingdom does not want to destroy the Great Qing Kingdom so early, they have other considerations, once the Huaxia Army is ready to attack, with the manufacturing technology of the Jingai-1 arquebus that they have only mastered now, as well as some scattered knowledge of the organization of the Huaxia Army, they will not be able to resist.

There were only two warships in the caravan that had been eliminated by the Huaxia Army and could only be used to protect merchant ships and pretend to be warships, which were miniature versions of warships similar to Portuguese armed merchant ships developed by the Huaxia Army itself at the beginning of the beginning.

This kind of battleship only has two six-pounder guns on the left and right, or the artillery modified from the land artillery produced in the third phase of the Huaxia Army, the firing range is only a meagre 450 meters, to accurately hit the enemy ship, the enemy ship needs to reach the 50-meter line, in that case, it is almost the same as the previous gang jumping operation, a careless, the enemy is likely to come to a savage charge, directly to the side, ramming, or gang jumping.

In addition to these four six-pounder guns, there was one of the earliest nine-pounder guns and a ten-pounder gun in the bow and stern.

In the early days, in order to cope with the powerful Qing Dynasty, these artillery pieces were manufactured in large quantities, from weight, to propellant, to loading speed, easy to operate, and the material was not very qualified, and they were equipped to the bow of the ship, just to scare those pirates.

The range of 700 meters for a nine-pounder gun and 780 meters for a 10-pounder gun can hit the enemy at a distance of 150 meters and deal a devastating blow to the enemy's boat.

No matter how far you go, you can only try your luck, because this is the case in this era, often the fleets of the great powers can only form a battle line on the three-hundred-meter line, grab the T-shaped prefix and concentrate on shooting the enemy's ships, otherwise there is no way to guarantee the accuracy, no matter how far your range is, it is not as stable as on land, and often after a hundred shells, you may not necessarily hit a moving enemy ship.

Only at a distance of 150 meters, 50 meters, and 30 meters, the enemy's ships, no matter how small, are multiplied and magnified within the range of the shelling, can they be accurate.

These cannons because of the early stage of Zhang Qiang to control the development of the enemy's firepower, to maintain their own crushing situation, even if scrapped, can only be returned to the furnace to make iron, and later in order to subvert the Qing Dynasty, subvert the Southern Ming Kingdom, subvert the Lu State, subvert Li Dingguo, Yongli Daming, exported some to these regions and countries, and later these countries were eliminated one by one, were subverted, and a lot of them were left in the warehouse in the later period, which happened to open up commercial development.

So many of these old cannons were sold to caravans that cooperated with the Huaxia Kingdom, mainly caravans at sea, so that they could equip them on their own ships to resist the attack of ordinary pirates, or the harassment of pirate groups such as Zheng Chenggong, or to resist the robbery of the caravans by the sea ships of the Taixi people.

In the early conflicts between such caravans and the Japanese, there were even caravans that rushed to the shores of the Japanese and overturned how many Japanese boats, the kind of ridiculous ships with a bungalow on land on their heads.

The kind of battleship that can only be used for archery, the artillery of the early Ming Dynasty, and the smallest artillery of the Qing Dynasty, is scum in front of the inferior artillery of the Huaxia Army.

Now the problem is that the enemy uses armed merchant ships of the Dutch, which are twice as numerous as the caravans, and the caravans are not professional naval fleets, and their naval combat skills are inferior to those of pirates.

Their total number of warships was no more than five, only two of which were sixty tons smaller, and the other three seemed to be of higher tonnage than the enemy, and perhaps a quarter higher than the enemy in terms of speed, but they had never fought such a large-scale naval battle.

Yes, for the caravan, the attack of eighteen Dutch armed merchant ships of one hundred and eighty tons would be a large-scale naval battle.

Sad urging, the family gang daimyo shogunate.

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