Since Zheng Zhilong entered the bay, he had not encountered any decent resistance, but he still did not get carried away and still sent a small boat to explore the way ahead. After Longshui grabbed a vote, the front came to report that a large number of Shimazu warships were in front, and the two armies were about to meet.

After Zheng Zhilong asked about the basic situation of the enemy army, he muttered in his heart, he is still young, and now he can become a member of the Ming Navy, which is already very good in the eyes of ordinary people. But he himself is not satisfied, because since the war in Japan, he has not won anything, but there was a big defeat, the last time Zhang Qianfang attacked the city, he could only do transportation, he has been cheating in his heart, he wants to win a battle, let everyone see, I Zheng Zhilong is a good example.

So he estimated that the strength of the two sides was actually about the same, although the Satsuma Domain was the most powerful with the naval army, but his two lucky ships could be said to have no strength to compete with at all, so if you calculate, your winning chance is still larger, so let's bet once, in case you lose, start all over again.

So he ordered to prepare for battle, the Fu ship in front, the other ships were divided into two parts, a part of the twenty Haicang ships and the Fu ship to meet the enemy together, and a part of the sixteen Haicang ships to retreat first, and then enter the battlefield after the battle began, and take the enemy by surprise.

The ships adjusted their ships according to the direction of the wind and lined up to wait for the warships of the Satsuma Domain to come. An hour later, the Satsuma Domain's six front ships appeared in front of him, and when they were about five hundred paces away, the Fukubune began to move, and the chain bullets fired from the bow guns whistled past, sweeping away the sailors on the deck of a ship, and then wrapping around the mast.

Another chain bullet hit another ship, directly knocking two large holes in the deck and knocking down the sailors above.

At this time, the Haicang ships have also begun to fire cannons, they are firing solid bullets, falling on the boat, jumping a few times, sweeping down the nearby soldiers, if it hits the side of the ship, there will generally be a big hole, the hole is in a relatively low position, and it will soon enter the water and turn over.

In a total of only ten minutes, Satsuma's six front ships have all been wiped out, and the Ming army is unscathed, Zheng Zhilong ordered to re-lead the formation, because the rear ships of Satsuma have already arrived.

The Satsuma ship pounced violently, a total of more than 50 ships, began to shell the Ming warships, and some small boats, which were full of ignitions, after getting close to the Ming ships, they ignited the ignitions, and then pushed the arson boats towards the Ming ships.

There were a lot of hooks on the Ming boat, and the arson boats were held against them to prevent them from approaching, but there were many small boats, and there was always a time when they couldn't resist, and the people who arrived at the boat were attacked by arquebuses or bows and arrows from the nearby Satsuma boats, and the Ming boats were a little scrambling for a while.

Zheng Zhilong ordered the Haicang ship to retreat and avoid the enemy's arsonist ship, but there were still two Ming ships nailed by the iron nails on the arsonist ship, although it was not burning for a while, but it was only a matter of time before it was ignited.

The Ming ships fought and retreated, attacking the Satsuma ships with artillery, focusing on the arsonist ships, but the arsonist ships were small, and there was no way to aim accurately. Zheng Zhilong ordered: "Attack the people on the arson ship with a fire gun." ”

Satsuma's arson ship was manned and would not jump until it was set on fire, so attacking the ship's operator was the cure. So the artillery no longer attacked the arson ship in vain, but attacked the Satsuma ship, and the sailors attacked the people on the arson ship with their guns.

The two Ming boats nailed by the arsonist ship first sailed the boat out of the battlefield, then used a bucket of water to extinguish the flames of the arsonist ship, then pushed the boat away, and after it was put in order, it sailed towards the battlefield again.

At this time, sixteen warships as reserves also sailed into the battlefield, and the Ming army had found a way to deal with the arsonist ships, and the two sides could only rely on artillery battles to decide the victory.

The Satsuma ships did not deal with the Fukubune at all, perhaps knowing that they could not deal with it for a while, they concentrated their fire on the Haicang ship. Although their artillery was inferior to that of the Ming army, it was more numerous, so the Ming army soon had three ships hit, and although they did not hit the mast, they also killed several soldiers.

The two sides came and went, and there were ships that were injured and withdrew from the battlefield, and there were also ships whose masts were broken, and they had to be there to accept the fire of other ships. The overboard soldiers struggled to swim to their boats, dodging stray bullets from time to time.

Zheng Zhilong's eyes were red, like a high-level gambler, issuing various orders in an orderly manner. And the situation is still very unclear, if the Satsuma ship destroys all the sea ships, then the two lucky ships will not be able to return to the sky, he can only pray to the heavens, can defeat the enemy's ships first.

After more than half an hour, the Haicang ships had lost twelve and left twenty-four, while the Satsuma ships had lost twenty-five and thirty-three remaining, and proportionally, the Ming army had the advantage.

Zheng Zhilong put down the big stone in his heart and commanded the ships to cooperate in the battle, and the balance of forces between the two sides changed, making the battle behind the Ming army easier.

The Satsuma ship gave up the artillery attack, and tried to get as close as possible to the Ming army's Haicang ship, and then mounted a plank and jumped onto the enemy ship from the plank in order to make a close attack.

But he didn't admit that the Haicang ships brought by Zheng Zhilong were all original pirates, and the pirates were the most familiar with gang jumping, so when he saw that the Satsuma soldiers began to use gang jumping operations to deal with the Ming army, Zheng Zhilong couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

The pirates on the ship almost fainted with laughter when they saw the tactics of the Satsuma, and the gang jumping and dealing with the gang jumping gang were compulsory lessons for the pirates, the people in front of them held a shield in their left hand, raised their spears in their right hands, and the people behind them aimed at the people who jumped over with their firearms and began to shoot.

The Satsuma people had no way to jump into the opposite boat, and they had already been shot into the sea by firecrackers or spears, and their firecrackers were of poor quality, and the Ming army had shields to cover them, so they were unable to shoot and wound a few Ming soldiers at all.

The Satsuma people wanted to rely on the gang jumping tactics to save their defeat, but unexpectedly ran into the ancestor of the gang jumper, but the defeat came faster and more violently, and soon the Satsuma boats and combat capabilities were left only a dozen or so, and a large number of Satsuma people fell into the water, and were used as targets by the Ming soldiers to practice shooting.

The leader of the Satsuma Navy is the Kayama Hisadaka who participated in the Battle of the Ryukyus, and he led the Satsuma Navy to have a great advantage in comparison with other feudal states and Ryukyu, but this time he encountered the Ming army with stronger equipment than them, and he was beaten to the point that he had no power to fight back.

Seeing that defeat was a foregone conclusion, he no longer entangled with the Ming army, and ordered the remaining ships to speed up the breakout and return to Kirishima. But how could Zheng Zhilong let him go in this situation, and ordered a number of intact Haicang ships to chase him down.

All kinds of requests, thank you for your support! One might suspect that the naval battle was such an easy victory, and at that time the shogunate restricted Western daimyo and stipulated that they could not have large ships of 500 koku, so it was only natural that the Ming army would win.