Chapter 242: It's True!

As soon as Takeuchi looked up, he felt the official ship under his feet tremble, and the sound of wooden planks shattering reached his ears. Then the ship jumped on the surface of the sea all day, and the sawdust rain swept the ship all day.

Takeuchi felt as if he was flying, and as he flew in mid-air, he could see his ship clearly.

The cannonballs fired by Akito hit the deck directly, and the heavy projectiles not only pierced the deck, but also the bottom compartment of the closed ship.

The huge force made the entire official ship jump on the sea, and when it fell again, the official ship could no longer bear it, and broke into two sections from the middle.

What kind of artillery is this? If you can destroy a ship with one shot, will your Satsuma clan still have a chance to win?

Takeuchi had almost forgotten to breathe, he had forgotten to paddle, and if it hadn't been for the ashigaru dragging him onto a board, he might have drowned in the sea.

Takeuchi, who was rescued by a small morning, slowly pulled out his sword, and he swung it at the Flying Fish clipper.

"The main family is prosperous! The time has come to be faithful to the Lord's house, move forward! At his shout, the small hayaboat rushed towards the Flying Fish clipper like a chicken blood.

Zhang Huan hit another round without hitting, and when he saw that the Japanese boat was only more than 200 steps away from him, he ordered loudly: "Raise the full sail!" The right full rudder, pull away a little distance and hit again! ”

The soldiers on the Exocet clipper were ordered to get busy quickly, and in a short time, the Exocet clipper completed the steering and acceleration. He galloped away into the distance, leaving only a stunned Takeuchi.

Looking at the back of the Flying Fish Clipper leaving in style, Takeuchi smiled wryly. He desperately closed the distance, paid the price of three sunk and one seriously injured to approach the enemy ship, but as a result, they just turned around and fled easily, how can this battle be fought?

Not only was he shocked, but Takehisa Matsumoto was also very surprised. He watched the whole battle just now, and in a short period of time he sent five warships to be disabled, if the Ming people were all such clippers, the victory or defeat was really unpredictable.

Just when all the Japanese thought that the Ming people were going to escape, the Flying Fish Clipper under the command of Zhang Huan stopped again two miles away, and the hull of the ship was aimed at the remaining two small mornings in Takeuchi with a cannon.

After a burst of smoke, there were no more Japanese ships on the sea in the distance, except for floating corpses and broken shipboards.

Takehisa Matsumoto looked at the Akito warship that was swaggering away, and the muscles on his face twitched for a while.

How long has it been? Telling himself to forget the humiliation of Hideyoshi's army against their Satsuma clan during the last defeat, the Akito's clipper ship undoubtedly slapped his old face hard again.

Takehisa Matsumoto gritted his teeth and said, "The target Ryukyu main island remains the same, go all the way at full speed!" Don't pay attention to the harassment of Ming warships, as long as you take the main island of the Ryukyus, these Ming fast ships are useless. ”

Although Takehisa Matsumoto is old, he is well aware of the gap between his sea ship and the Akito clipper. With a style of play like this, his fleet would be depleted without going to the Ryukyus.

The feeling of not being able to catch up made him extremely depressed, but Takehisamatsumoto knew that the Akito and their purpose was the same as the main island of the Ryukyus.

As long as he can reach the main island of Ryukyu quickly, he will not hesitate to pay some price in the face of the attack of the Ming clipper.

If Akito wants to prevent himself from landing on the island, he will have to fight a decisive battle with himself, and at that time, the large Ataka ships with sufficient firepower in his fleet, which are slow and have sufficient firepower, can be effective.

The five ironclad houses were able to give the Akito a big surprise, so he went straight to the main island of Ryukyu to force the Akito to fight a decisive battle.

If the Akito avoids the war, he can just recover the Ryukyus first and then wait for the arrival of the Akito. Takehisa Matsumoto believed that without the supply of the main island of the Ryukyus, the Akito would not be able to hold on at all, and there was only one way to escape except for a decisive battle.

Attacking the main island of the Ryukyus, the dozens of sneak attack fleets he sent last night can still be a big help, and the key to thinking about things clearly Takehisa Matsumoto is in a much better mood.

He believed that as long as the Satsuma clan won the war, the difference was that the price to be paid might be greater.

As long as the Aketo fleet is defeated, it will only take a few years to control the Ryukyus and make up for these losses. At that time, he might be able to build a larger fleet and unify the Wa Kingdom and become a great shogun like the Tokugawa shogunate.

The next day, a touch of fish belly white gradually appeared in the distant sky, and a glimmer of light appeared in the originally dark night. A red sun slowly rose in the sky, and the distant sky was half red.

Wu Jiusong got up early, and he didn't sleep much when he was old. Every time the sun rises, Takehisa Matsumoto has to watch carefully, and cherishing every day is a good habit he has developed over the years.

Just as Takehisa Matsumoto squinted his eyes to watch the sunrise carefully, a sail shadow appeared discordantly in the sunrise.

Takehisa Matsumoto rubbed his eyes with his hands and looked carefully, only to see a sail shadow sailing towards his fleet facing the rising sun.

Looking at the ever-enlarging shadow of the sail, Takehisa Matsumoto shouted loudly: "Enemy attack! Raise the sails! Enemy attack! ”

His shout immediately kept the samurai on board busy, and a desolate howl rang out over the sea. Then one by one, the sea ships blew their horns one after another, and they passed a message to each other~ Mingren is here!

Wu Jiu Matsumoto didn't care about eating, and his flexible body didn't look like an old man in the twilight at all. He jumped up to the tail tower quickly, took out a clairvoyant mirror and looked into the distance.

After looking at it for a while, Wu Jiumatsu opened his mouth wide, and the clairspace in his hand also fell on the deck, allowing the valuable clairvoyant mirror to roll aside.

It took a while for Takehisa Matsumoto to react, and his mouth kept chattering: "It's true!" It turned out to be true! ……”

The others also saw the Ming people's warships clearly at this time, and the ten Galen galleons at the head were particularly conspicuous. Towering masts, huge soft sails puffed up in the sea breeze.

The dense gun windows on the side made all the Japanese people feel cold, and the most important thing is that the speed of these ships was much faster than theirs.

Behind these ships were a dozen or so clippers of yesterday's, and it was only then that the widows realized how wrong they were.

Originally, they thought that the kind of clipper was the main force of the Ming people, but now it seems that the kind of clipper that caused them heavy losses was just a patrol boat for others.

Yesterday it was such a clipper patrolling the sea that made them suffer, can their own fleet still bargain today?

Behind these clippers there are hundreds of sea coats and bird boats, although these boats are in the style of the Ming Dynasty, but the sails have also been replaced with soft sails. Not slowing to follow behind the fleet.

When Takehisa Matsumoto saw this, he knew that it would not work hard today, so he quickly made a decision.

The Ataka ship was in front, and the Ataku ironclad ship was close behind. If you have the opportunity, you will use the characteristics of thick skin to break into the Ming fleet and create chaos, and all the ships will wander on both wings to protect the main decisive battle.

Temporarily transform fifty small morning boats into fire ships, hide behind the Ataka ironclad ships, and attack suicide as soon as they enter the attack distance.