The Ming fleet set sail from Sagami Bay, ten giant ships in front of the wind and waves, the fleet was close to the Japanese sea, startled the Japanese fishing boats along the way to avoid, the fishermen looked at the giant ships in horror, and their hearts were shocked.

The seven ships of the Guangdong Navy Division were mostly named after the provinces of Guangdong, while the three gunboats of the East China Sea Division were called Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun. As for the ten lucky ships, the names are simpler, according to the different sources of the sailors, the back is more than the number of A, B, C, D, like the two ships of the Guangdong sailors, they are called Guangjia and Guangc.

Ten gunboats, breaking the waves in front, these giants, invincible and irresistible at sea, full of strength up and down, all revealing a horizontal energy.

"Mandu! With the Osumi Strait ahead, the fleet can rush directly into Kagoshima Bay and approach the Shimazu clan's Ijo Torajumaru! On the building of the Yan Yingyuan, a pilot who was familiar with the Japanese water pattern reported to Mandazhuang.

When Man Dazhuang heard this, he saw a big island appear on the sea, and a strait appeared between the big island and the land, so he took a clairvoyant mirror to observe the strait, and when the circular horizon swept across the sea, more than a hundred small black dots appeared on the sea level inside the strait.

Man Dazhuang was slightly stunned, then sneered, he put down the clairvoyant mirror, and then looked back, and saw that Yu Fangqi's ship, Guangzhou, had already hoisted the flag of "Enemy ship found" on the main mast, and began to approach his Yan Yingyuan.

"It's the Satsuma Army!" The soldier on the mainmast put down the clairvoyant mirror and began to shout as well.

Seeing this, Man Dazhuang scolded with a smile: "You actually came here to block us, it seems that our whereabouts have been reported to the Shimazu family by the shogunate!" ”

"It doesn't matter if you report it or not, the Shimazu clan doesn't know that our gunboats are powerful, and they rushed to stop it, but it's just a bid to sell the head!" Xu Junsheng said.

In the middle of speaking, the alarm bells sounded on the ships of the Ming army, and in an instant all the sailors ran out of the cabin to stand, the gun windows on both sides of the ship were opened by the gunners, the gunners quickly completed the filling, the cannons were pushed back to the gun positions, and the muzzles of the black holes stretched out of the ship's side.

Man Dazhuang deeply agreed with Xu Junsheng's words, not because he was arrogant, but because the equipment of the two armies was too far apart, "The Satsuma Domain also chose this place with great pains, but they are still too naïve to rely on the terrain to deal with us." ”

It is said that this Man Dazhuang picked up the clairvoyant mirror again and looked at the strait, more than a hundred warships, lined up in a line, like a wall, rowing oars, rowing towards them.

With one hundred and fifty warships, the navy of the Satsuma Domain can be said to be pouring out.

As the main figure of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Tadaro, coupled with his previous experience in intercepting missions, was assigned to command the Satsuma naval army to fight a decisive battle against the Ming fleet.

His boat was a huge Ataka ship, fifteen zhang long and three zhang wide, but it was still half smaller than the Ming gunboat, and the Shimazu family wrapped a layer of iron sheet on the board, borrowing from the ironclad ship of the Warring States Daimyo Kuki Yoshitaka, which was said to be invulnerable.

The ironclad ship is similar to the turtle ship of North Korea, and the part that leaks out of the water is all wrapped in iron sheets, so the center of gravity is very high, which is not conducive to long-distance sailing on the sea, and the ship of the Shimazu clan is only surrounded by the ship's board and is not capped, so the center of gravity is lower, and it can drive out of Kagoshima Bay and enter the sea.

This ship is called Toranomaru, Shimazu Tadaro wears gorgeous armor, sits on the deck, because there is no mast, so after the Ming army fleet discovered them, the Satsuma army discovered the Ming army.

"大對明軍が軍艦を発見!" A samurai with a cross-patterned flag of Shimazu Iemaru on his back reports to Shimazu Tadashiro, who is seated.

Hearing that the fleet of the Ming Kingdom had been discovered, it seemed that the news given by the shogunate was not wrong, Shimazu Tadaro's face became serious, and with a wave of the fan in his hand, he commanded: "Prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

On the ships of the Satsuma Navy, the iron cannons with hats on their heads immediately rushed to the side of the ships.

At this time, because of the war in China, a large number of craftsmen in the Tang and Song dynasties went to Japan, which not only brought Chinese forging technology to Japan, but also brought the spirit of excellence of craftsmen in the Tang and Song dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty's Mo knife, Ming Guangjia, the Song Dynasty's step armor, horizontal knife, and divine arm bow are all extremely sophisticated instruments, and it is rare to hear that there are quality problems, and to the Yuan Dynasty Mongolians will be craftsmen into the craftsman's register, generation after generation as a craftsman, reducing the enthusiasm of craftsmen, to the Ming Dynasty, did not learn a good one, because the Song Dynasty was broken for a hundred years, can only learn the system of the Yuan Dynasty, continue to compile craftsmen into the craftsman's register, resulting in craftsmen have no enthusiasm at all, quality problems occur frequently, this is a situation that rarely occurs in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Although Japan is poor in resources, the forged equipment, whether it is a katana or an iron cannon, is very sophisticated, this is because of the scarcity, which makes the Japanese cherish resources more, and the second is because the Japanese craftsmen inherited the spirit of the craftsmen of the Tang and Song dynasties.

The iron cannon forged by Japanese craftsmen caused great trouble to the Ming army during the battle of Korea.

However, although the Japanese arquebus was powerful, there were basically no artillery, and the artillery-making technology was far behind that of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Warring States period and the later confrontation between the Eastern and Western armies, few Japanese artillery appeared, and only the Otomo family used the "National Collapse" to deal with the Shimazu clan during the Warring States period, and then Tokugawa Ieyasu bombarded the Osaka castle tower with a "large barrel" in the Osaka Summer Battle.

Whether it is the "collapse of the country" or the "big barrel" is far from being compared with the artillery of the Ming Dynasty, most of the warships of the Shimazu family have no artillery, only some large house ships, generally equipped with two "big barrels", the smaller ones are three-pounder guns, and the larger ones can only barely be counted as six-pounder guns, while the Ming Dynasty gunboats are equipped with a large number of twelve-pounder guns, and the full and strong ships are even equipped with ten eighteen-pounder guns, the gap is too big.

In fact, arquebuses have been introduced to Japan for more than 200 years, and Japan will definitely be able to make cannons as long as they explore a little, but the resources of this country are too poor, and most of the samurai still use bamboo as armor, and it is difficult for arquebuses to popularize equipment, let alone make cannons, which burn money.

Between the Ming Dynasty and Japan, the huge gap in national strength was beyond Japan's reach.

There were almost no 150 warships in the Satsuma Domain, and there were almost no artillery on them that could pose a threat to the Ming army.

Shimazu Tadaro was able to dismantle the six 12-pounder red-coated cannons on the captured Fukuship, as well as more than 20 large and small guns, from the Fuku, and installed them on several larger warships, but artillery shooting requires training, especially sea attacks, and it requires gunners to have super gun skills.

The six heavy guns, the only ones that could pose a threat to the Ming army, were mounted on the ship, but they were only a façade.

"The Governor's fleet will soon enter the strait!" The Ming soldier on the mast shouted again.

Although it is a strait, but in fact the width is not narrow, Man Dazhuang looked at the black dots that could be seen with the naked eye, sneered, and shouted loudly: "Hang the flag, Guangzhou, Qiongzhou, Gaozhou, Zhaoqing, Huizhou turn the rudder to the right, Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun, Wenzhou, and Leizhou follow the ship of the governor to turn the rudder to the left, line up in a single horizontal formation, and the side guns are aimed at the enemy ship, ready to fire at any time." ”

Man Dazhuang paused, and then said: "The gunboats are outflanked on both wings, and ten lucky ships such as Guangjia and Guangyi are bait, and the whole army is ready to fight!" ”

Man Dazhuang's order was conveyed, and after receiving the flag, Yu Fangqi on the Guangzhou immediately led five gunboats and began to swing the rudder to the right, while Man Dazhuang's boat also sailed to the left with the other four gunboats, and the entire fleet was immediately divided into three parts.

Looking at the formation, the Ming army is weaving a pocket to pack all the Shimazu clan's sailors.

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