Chapter 804: The Battle of the Seto Inland Sea (1)
Takeshi Murakami was very annoying, very annoying, very annoying, and the pleasure he had originally gained from becoming the general of the Maori Navy had all been canceled out in the past few days. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Leader, the Oda Army is here again!" An indignant voice came, and then a big man was seen walking briskly in.
"Those bastards......" Murakami Takeyoshi heard this, kicked the desk next to him violently, and looked at the visitor angrily and shouted, "Go!" We must kill all these despicable and shameless bastards today! ”
"Yes!" The big man replied loudly, and the anger in his tone indicated his feelings towards the Oda Army at this time.
Just as Oda Yoshinobu and Takeda Shingen were heading to the tripartite to prepare for a decisive battle, Ozuru rushed to Shikoku from Enoe and told Oda Yoshinobu of his order to Shigeharu Takenaka. Subsequently, under the order of Shigeharu Takenaka, Saeki Yukai gave full play to his excellent style as a pirate in the waters of Southeast Asia, and at the same time told Murakami Bukitchi and other Maori navies what is called naval warfare in the new era.
Harassment, constant harassment, relying on the improved Galen ship and the experienced sailors it brought, plus a cannon with fierce firepower, Saeki Yukai no matter day or night, as long as he thinks of it, he will lead his men to the territory of Murakami Mishima to harass it.
In this regard, at first, Murakami Bukichi thought that the other party had received support, and he dared to try to challenge the Mishima Naval Army...... It was the enemy of the Maori naval supremacy that was eliminated, but after seeing that the other party was still so many ships, he realized that the other party was really bold.
It's just that after several days of fighting, he reluctantly found that he really had nothing to do with the navy in front of him.
If he sent out more ships, the Oda navy would only come from a safe distance to fire a few rounds, and if the Maori navy did not pursue, they would keep attacking, and if they did, they would retreat.
And if there are fewer boats to go, well, not many people will be able to come back.
Of course, if it's just like that, Murakami Takeshi can handle it, but the key is that Saeki Yukai doesn't attack routinely at all, otherwise he will come every two days, otherwise he will come during the day today and tomorrow night. Something happened Murakami Takeyoshi had just led the fleet back, and the Oda Navy turned around and came back.
This kind of tactic of not guessing the time of the attack and harassing purely for the sake of harassment made Murakami Takeyoshi gray in his hair, after all, he was just a simple pirate, and he was good at operating ships and fighting, but this tactic or something, unfortunately, he hadn't learned it, otherwise, he would have run away to be a samurai a long time ago, so why should he still be the leader of a navy here? Although it sounds very good, the general of the Maori Navy, how could Murakami Takeshi not know that this era is the era of the great samurai!
It's just that he can't help but attack, you must know that the Mishima where Murakami Buyoshi is located is not as inland as the mainland, and the Mishima itself has already explained the terrain here, coupled with the long-range artillery of the Oda Navy, Murakami Buyoshi believes that if he really doesn't pursue, they will definitely not mind bombing all the ships on Innoshima. If this is the case, the attitude of the Maori family is the same thing, and if they don't have ships, won't they have to be slaughtered?
What's the use of just attacking?
Half an hour later.
"Are these bastards really just going through this kind of shameless tactics?!" Murakami's roar resounded throughout Innoshima. This time, he deliberately brought as many ships as the Oda navy in order to lure them over for close combat, but the other party was not fooled at all.
Not only did he still not touch a single hair of the other party, but he lost 3 Kohaya and 2 ships on his side, and the angry Murakami Takeshi wanted to rush to Shodoshima and the general of the Oda Army desperately. Yes, after fighting for so long, Murakami Bukichi didn't even know who led the Oda Navy.
"Murakami-sama, why don't you report this to your lord." It was Murakami Yoshimitsu who spoke, the head of the Innoshima Murakami family.
"This ......" Murakami Takeshi hesitated when he heard this, he naturally didn't know that he had no way to solve the enemy in front of him at this time, in fact, he had already tried many methods, even using the surrounding islands to ambush, or directly attacking Shodoshima.
And the reason for all this failure is only because of artillery. For the distant and powerful artillery, Murakami Takeshi really has no way. In fact, this harassment war was unfair from the beginning, and how could they possibly win against the Oda navy, which only fought long battles, with the weapons of the Murakami naval army, which were nothing more than bows and arrows, muskets, and baked jade?
"Murakami-sama! We can't hesitate, otherwise if we go on like this, our ships will be consumed by the Oda Navy sooner or later, and when the main force of the Oda Navy comes, how can we resist it?! Seeing this, Murakami Yoshimitsu persuaded loudly.
Takeshi Murakami didn't want to ask the Maori family, whether it was reinforcements or advice, and not only him, but also Murakami Yoshimitsu. Because they all know that Maori Yuan has long had the idea of annexation of the highly independent Murakami Water Army.
Although it is called subordinate, in all naval battles in the past, the Mori family has asked the Mishima naval army to participate in the war. Before the previous attack on Kyushu, the reason why Mori Moto appointed Murakami Buyoshi as the general leader of the Mishima Navy was also to win over the Mishima Navy Army. Because he knew that the separation of the Murakami Navy from the Mishima Navy had already caused their dissatisfaction.
But even so, Mori Moto had no intention of returning to Mishima. On the contrary, while wooing Murakami's water army, he accelerated the integration of Kurishima and Kono's family.
It's usually like this, so if he took the initiative to ask Maori Yuan for help this time because of his own incompetence, what would that wise old immortal ask for? Murakami Bukitshi couldn't guess, but he knew it would definitely be bad for him.
It's just that......
"Alas, that's all it can be!" Takeshi Murakami replied helplessly. If he didn't ask for help and eventually led to Mishima being breached, then Murakami Takeshi had almost no choice but to submit to the Oda family, because Mori Moto would never let him go.
But the submission of the Oda family is something that Murakami Takeyoshi does not want to see, after all, if he submits to the Oda family, he will completely lose his existing rights. The lesser of the two, Murakami Takeshi chose to compromise with the Maori family.
"I'll go to Yoshida Koriyama in person, and during this time, Innoshima will be handed over to you. Remember, no matter how tired you are, you can't give up! We can't let the other side unscrupulously reduce our ships! Takeshi Murakami admonished.
"Don't worry!" Murakami Yoshimitsu replied in a deep voice.