Chapter 976: Maritime Hegemony (5)
Ataka Nobuyasu's expression is very relaxed, although he shoulders the heavy responsibility of guarding the Seto Inland Sea for the Takayama family, but because his opponent Maori Navy is too weak, such a task is really a little easy for him, but when he has such a feeling in his heart, he can't help but feel a little melancholy, easy is not a good word, in this troubled times, easy means that there is no chance of meritorious service, once the Takayama family takes over the world, then it may be difficult for him to get a reward, he doesn't want to be silent like this, Why don't you wait a few days to wipe out the Maori navy? Let Takayama-sama pay attention to the water army?
Thinking of this, Ataka Nobuyasu couldn't help but start to get excited, the more he thought about it, the more he felt reasonable, even the Nagazong family can play a role in containing the Kinoshita family for the Takayama family, then he can do the same, as long as the Maori naval army is eliminated, then once the decisive battle begins, he can lead hundreds of ships and two thousand naval troops to attack the Maori family, although it is not as great as the credit of the Changzong family attacking Himeji Castle at the time of the decisive battle, but if you can occupy the mountain castle of Yoshida County, then this credit is not small, He will definitely appear in Takayama-sama's field of vision again, and when he wins the world, what he can get will definitely not be as simple as Awaji Island.
After this decision, Ataka Nobuyasu has already made a decision to gather his subordinates and lead all the ships to destroy the Maori naval army first tomorrow, and clear the way for him to capture the mountain castle of Yoshida County in the future.
Since there is still something important to do tomorrow, Nobuyasu does not stop at the lookout, but turns around and goes back to the living room, ready to sleep well, and when he has enough spirits, he will go to destroy the Maori Navy tomorrow.
But as soon as he left the lookout, in the direction he was looking, countless ships sailed on the calm sea...
On a huge Ataku ship at the head, Kurajima always stood on the bow deck, and on the deck, in addition to him, there were five or six people dressed as samurai standing one step behind him, all of them were dressed in the best of the day, and if the torches were lit, then you would find that these people looked extremely serious, as if they were facing a choice between life and death.
This is not an exaggeration at all, although this time the ships of the Maori Shimazu coalition army are more than the other side, but this is only in the total amount, but in fact, the number of Ataka ships is still a little less than the Ataka Navy, and the Ataka ship is the strongest combat power, and the Ataka ship represents the strength of the Navy.
The fleet of hundreds of large and small ships traveled very slowly, and the small boats that were sent out in the miles ahead of them were probing the surroundings as fast as they could, which was also a matter of no choice, since it was a sneak attack, then the other party could not be prepared, and if you wanted to do this, you must destroy the ships that were on guard around Awaji Island first, and only in this way could you board Awaji unnoticed.
Mr. Kurishima originally thought that the other party would have sent a large number of ships around Awaji Island to guard even at night, but after the ships in front of him reported, he realized that it seemed that he was thinking too much, and it was obvious that the Ataka Navy did not take the Maori Navy in his eyes, and except for the discovery and elimination of the two Seki ships, there were no more ships encountered in this area.
After receiving this news, the serious expressions on the faces of the samurai who came to Tong and behind him were replaced by surprise, and it was no wonder that they were like this, and before leaving, Mori Terumoto had already informed him that once the Ataka Naval Army could be eliminated, then Kinoshita Daiden would reward him with this island, and also give him the status of a direct minister. This Awaji Island has more than 40,000 stones, doesn't this mean that as long as the task is completed, then he will become a daimyo, although it is only a small daimyo, but this is enough to make him feel happy, you must know that he is now only a retainer of the Maori family, although he is the commander of the navy, but he does not even have a stone of land under his rule, and now seeing that the defense of the Ataka navy is so lax, these 40,000 koku are simply the same as being given for nothing. Going out to sea to earn back 40,000 stone of land, this kind of good thing is really rare.
Just when he was feeling overjoyed, he saw a man dressed as a sailor trotting up to him and saluting and saying, "Report, Lord Laijima, there are still five miles away from Zhou Benqi, please prepare early." ”
When he heard that he had arrived five miles away from Zhouben so quickly, he couldn't help but be stunned at first, in his opinion, it was just that he didn't encounter too many vigilant ships in the periphery, but now he was still five miles away from the base camp of his navy, and there were still no less vigilant ships, it wouldn't be that the other party had received the news from nowhere, and wanted to lure himself in, and then attack it in a group. Although the location of water warfare and land warfare is different, if it is a large-scale operation, then the tactics are similar, so he must not be careless.
Mr. Kurishima, who had wanted to give the order to move at full speed, ordered the ship to be stopped, and sent a large number of ships to explore the surrounding sea, and after about half an hour, the ships he sent had already come to report one after another, and no ambush was found.
After hearing this, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile, and then said: "Today is the day of your destruction, give the order!" All the ships immediately headed for Chau Ben as fast as they could, and everything went according to plan when they arrived. ”
When the Maori and Shimazu coalition forces were still a mile away from the continent, the guard ships of the Ataka Navy began to increase, but when they saw such a huge fleet for the first time, they didn't expect that these ships were here to destroy them, but thought that at this time, the ships of the Kumano Navy Army, after all, this huge number can only be possessed by the Kumano Navy Army, and these Navy troops did not think that the Maori Navy would have the courage to attack Awaji, because they knew that their backer was the Kumano Navy Army.
Therefore, after discovering this huge fleet, these vigilant ships did not immediately return to Sumoto to report to Ataka Nobuyasu, but all approached it, and the idea of these sailors was very simple, if they could gain the favor of the Kumano Navy in this way, maybe they could be accepted by it, and follow the Kumano Navy Army, but it was much more majestic than now.
But when they got up, they were dumbfounded, through the boat, they couldn't tell which one belonged to, but they had seen the three-star pattern fluttering in the wind on the bow of the ship, and although they hadn't seen another family pattern, it was definitely not their own person, and now they also knew that this was the enemy's ship, but what could they do, the ship wanted to turn around at sea, but it didn't want to turn around on land and run so simple, it would take some time, and at this moment Maori and the Shimazu Navy were moving at full speed, They can't run even if they want to.
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