Chapter 289: Bold

Just as Yan Siqi led the fleet to rush out of Ukumachi Island, the drums suddenly shook the sky ahead. Strings of lanterns were lit on the originally dark sea, and countless warships were revealed under the illumination of the lights.

There are more than 30 large Ataka boats in the front row, and the rear generations are densely packed with Sekibune and Kozawa boats.

Seeing this, Yan Siqi's heart was cold, and he thought that he could quietly break through and was already in the eyes of the shogunate sailor.

They had already spread a wide net waiting for them to enter, and now it was too late to retreat.

Yan Siqi roared in his heart: "Light the torch and beat the drum to meet the enemy!" ”

When the pirates heard Yan Siqi's voice, they all cheered loudly. They had had enough of this month, and even if they died in battle, it was better than being killed by the enemy when they were hungry.

For a time, the sea shouted that the sky was shattered, and the fleets of the two sides were in a mess. The number of artillery on the Japanese warships was small, and few were equipped with artillery except for the large Ataka ships.

The artillery on the pirate ship is even less pitiful, and they rely more on jumping gangs to fight. The ship can have some Baizi guns and bowl guns, which is already a good artillery.

At the beginning of the battle, the artillery of the two sides barely opened fire, firing rockets at each other. If you get closer, throw fire bricks and fire barrels to burn the enemy ships, and get closer to engage in broadside battles.

As soon as the battle began, it became white-hot, and Yan Siqi even relied on a house boat and jumped on it to fight.

As soon as he dodged a shot from the Japanese ashigaru, he was slashed in the shoulder by another samurai. Yan Siqi slammed into the ashiki in front of him, and at the same time projected the steel knife in his hand at the samurai behind him.

The warrior raised the sword high above his head and wanted to slash downward, but Yan Siqi's knife pierced his chest.

The man shook a few times and fell on the deck, and Yan Siqi also knocked the ashigaru in front of him. Reaching out and picking up a Japanese knife from the ground, he slashed at Ashigaru who rushed over, and the continuous slashing made his physical strength drain quickly.

For the first time, he felt that he was old, and once again he cut off the head of a foot light, and Yan Siqi leaned on the board of the boat and gasped for breath.

Raising his eyes and looking around, the more than fifty warships that he had brought out were all caught in a white-knives battle. Although their brothers were experienced, they were already in a bitter battle when they were surrounded by several times the number of Japanese people.

Defeat is only a matter of time, and I don't know if Zheng Yiguan's kid can lead his brothers' families to escape and ascend to heaven.

Suddenly, a cannon shot interrupted his musings, and a cannonball from an Ataka ship hit a pirate ship that was about to escape. The pirates on board suffered heavy casualties, followed by a few cannon shots, and the pirate ship was reduced to pieces in Yan Siqi's eyes.

The sound of the cannon seemed to get better, and the Japanese houses and the larger ships fired cannonballs. They hit the pirate ship, which was still fighting, and the Japanese and pirates on board were shot at the same time.

Tokugawa Iemitsu grew more and more impatient from the top floor of an ironclad house, and what he thought would be an easy battle turned into a scorching state.

If you can't cleanly take down a pirate with dozens of ships of your own hundreds of warships, this is a failure. He is about to take over the post of general, and there must be no failure at this juncture.

In order to win as soon as possible, he didn't care about casualties. Ordering the ships to fire on the pirate ships that were being contested, his orders were almost equal to those of the Grand General.

The ships began to bombard the pirate ships round after round, and the pirates and widows who were still fighting for the ships became cannon fodder and were beaten to pieces.

Watching the pirate ships disappear one by one before his eyes, Tokugawa Iemitsu burst into laughter.

"Excellent! Just hit it like that! A few more times, and the damn pirates will be wiped out! He was smug when the whistling of a cannonball sounded around him.

The samurai guarding him knocked Tokugawa Iemitsu down, and the rest of the samurai also reacted and lay on Tokugawa Iemitsu's body.

The pampered Tokugawa Iemitsu nearly crushed the samurai to death, and he was about to curse when a cannonball hit the ship.

The defense of the ironclad Ataku ship was indeed very strong, and this 3-pounder shell only knocked the ironclad on it away, but did not damage the hull.

But a succession of shells hit, and no amount of strong defense could stop such an attack.

The shattering of the ship's planks, the flying wood chips, and the dead and wounded made this ironclad house ship a mess.

Tokugawa Iemitsu swallowed the curse back into his stomach, and for the first time he was so close to death that he trembled all over his body.

Zheng Yiguan looked at the broken shogunate flagship, and he ordered to evacuate with full sails immediately. There is only so much he can do for Yan Siqi, and now the widows are in a mess, and if they don't escape, there will be no chance.

As soon as Yan Siqi's fleet left the harbor, it was besieged by the shogunate's sailors, and Zheng Yiguan really saw it from the back.

There was nothing he could do about it, and there were hundreds of women and children on his ship, so he couldn't help at all.

Zheng Yiguan wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape from the shogunate sailors, but the port was already surrounded by the shogunate's warships, and there was no chance to slip away quietly. He could only order the banner of the Hirado clan to be hoisted, hoping that he could get through the way.

Zheng Yiguan's courage was really big, he took advantage of the fact that Yan Siqi's battle was in full swing, and quietly slipped out of the port and leaned in the direction of the battle.

There were many warships transferred from the Hirado Domain among the shogunate's sailors, and they did not pay attention to Zheng Yiguan's fleet.

The warships in the direction of the shogunate sailors were hiding and busy fighting with Yan Siqi, thinking that Zheng Yiguan's fleet was coming to participate in the battle, so they didn't pay attention to his existence.

The sky was getting brighter, and Zheng Yiguan's heart was very anxious. Now he is in the fleet of the Japanese people, and if he does not escape before dawn, he will be easily discovered by the other party.

At such a close distance, no matter how sharp the artillery is, it will have to be piled up to death. Just as he was looking for an opportunity to escape, he suddenly saw a huge ironclad house.

When he saw the flag hoisting on the ship, his heart beat a few times. At this time, the flagship of the Wajin and the important figures of the Tokugawa family must have been here.

Shelling this ship will definitely create chaos, not only to relieve Yan Siqi, but also to create an opportunity to escape.

As soon as he thought of it, Zheng Yiguan immediately ordered the shelling of the ironclad house. They can only play one round and leave, and if they escape slowly, they can easily be blocked by the Japanese people.

Zheng Yiguan's sneak attack was very successful, and the attack on the flagship of the shogunate sailor caused chaos in the entire sailor. Above is the next shogun's heir, Tokugawa Iemitsu, and once this adult is injured, they will all commit suicide.

The surrounding ships were all moving closer to this place, and a few of the Japanese who were on board saw that the ships that had attacked the flagship were about to flee for a few days.

They wanted to stop in front of Zheng Yiguan and block these bold pirate ships. The chaotic fleet helped Zheng Yiguan, and those Guan ships that wanted to intercept them were blocked by other ships, and they could only watch Zheng Yiguan escape.

Just as Zheng Yiguan was about to escape from the shogunate's fleet, a small morning boat rushed up. hit the side of the boat where Zheng Yiguan was sitting, and the spikes on the bow of the boat pierced deep into the side of the ship.