Zhang Haichuan is not yet fifty years old, for a military general, it is the prime of life, just went north, beat Lin Dan Khan severely, robbed 50,000 or 60,000 slaves, and plundered back more than 100,000 horses, finally out of a bad breath.

Just after resting in Yizhou for more than half a month, Zhang Ke's letter was delivered. Although they didn't get along for a long time, Zhang Ke felt his father's temper clearly.

In the letter, he wrote that sending troops to Japan, rescuing the Ryukyus, expanding overseas markets, and playing the prestige of the navy is the most important thing, if the father is willing to do it, it will naturally be presided over by the father, if he is unwilling, he will hand it over to Yu Weiliang, or Xie Chao and other young people, after all, the task is very hard, even if the father is next, as long as he is responsible for the general situation, everything will be handed over to the following......

After reading the letter, Zhang Haichuan was so angry that he wanted to tear it up, and when he was about to do it, his ears suddenly hurt. Shen snatched the letter and read it carefully.

"Old thing, you have to tear Ke'er's letter too, you are deliberately angry with me!"

I am not afraid of heaven and earth, but I am afraid of my wife, Zhang Haichuan touched his nose and suddenly lost his temper.

"You can't just protect the stinky boy, you look at what he wrote, it's clear that his father is a waste, am I old? Is it useless? If it's really useless, it's good that he doesn't write this letter! ”

"Don't make any noise, it's just that you're loud." Shen Shi glared at him and said, "I think Ke'er is afraid that you will be lonely, and I am afraid that you will be tired, so this arrangement is very good." ”

"What a fart!"

Zhang Haichuan clenched his fists and said angrily: "If it is something else, I will admit it, but I can't recognize the little widow!" At the beginning, Lao Tzu was killed by the Japanese Invaders, and North Korea has not killed enough, this time I will kill the Japanese Island, so that they know that Lao Tzu is powerful! ”

Not to mention, Zhang Haichuan is a fiery personality and got the letter. The next day, he hurried to Jinzhou with more than a dozen people, got on a fast boat, and came to Jinzhou.

After arriving in Jinzhou, he immediately called the civil and military capitals over.

"Not much to say, King Anton ordered to attack the Wa Kingdom, what do you think?"

Li Dan is now the chief of the navy, but he is still a pirate, and when he hears about the battle, the wrinkles on his face bloom.

"Old man. According to the opinion of the lower officials, the combat power of the Japanese soldiers is not worth mentioning, they used to have sharp swords and outstanding firearms, so they ran rampant along the coast without scruples. But now, our weapons are better than others, and our firearms are even more powerful. ”

Zhang Haichuan's eyes lit up. He was very confident in the troops that his son had pulled up, but after all, Wajima was lonely on the sea, and it was not easy to attack.

"How's the situation on the naval side?"

Ming Ruxin immediately stood up and said, "Qi Qi old prince." The shipyard has just launched its first giant ship, which has a displacement of 2,700 tons according to Western standards, which is an out-and-out big guy. Since Zheng He's fleet. No ship of this size has ever been built. We introduced Western technology, studied several warships that we had purchased earlier, and brought in the best craftsmen from Jiangnan. It took two years to build a ......."

He was going to continue, Zhang Haichuan smiled and waved his hand: "It's done, ask Zhang Ke for the matter of asking for merit, I just want to know, can the navy succeed in fighting the island?" ”

Ming Ruxin also smiled: "As far as I know, the ships of the Japanese Navy Division have few small cannons, and there is no need for such a huge ship, ordinary gunboats are enough." ”

"Okay, I'm going to take 8,000 men and horses across the sea, what do you think we should do?"

Ming Ruxin and Li Dan glanced at each other, calculated silently, and soon had an answer.

Ming Ruxin said: "Qi Yu Lao Guogong, I think that one hundred and fifty warships should be concentrated, plus five hundred troop carriers, to transport grain and grass supplies, and military artillery, before a war can be decided. ”

……

Since receiving Zhang Ke's order, in two months, the Yizhou soldiers worked overtime and made preparations before the war.

After sailing into the waters of Korea, the king of Joseon, Yi Liang, sent twenty ships to carry supplies for the three armies, and thanked the Ming Dynasty for sending troops to the Japanese country.

Speaking of Korea, the Japanese and the Japanese are really a pair of old enemies, more than 2,000 years, the Japanese invaded Korea more than 1,700 times, large and small, and the Renchen and Japanese rebellion, if it were not for the Ming Dynasty to send troops, North Korea would have perished.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to attack the Japanese state, North Korea did not say anything, it was full help, and when he heard that Jeju Island was going to be requisitioned, Li Liang gritted his teeth and agreed.

After a brief pause on Jeju Island, the army continued to advance, and the Ming army was familiar with the waters of this section because of the many trades, and the kamikaze did not patronize them, and in April, the vanguard successfully reached the south of Kyushu Island and entered Kagoshima Bay along the Osumi Peninsula.

No one knows the situation here better than Li Dan, when he fled to Japan, he took refuge here, and for more than ten years, even if he forgot his hometown, he couldn't forget here.

Li Dan stood on the top of the third deck, holding a telescope, looking at the tall volcano on Sakurajima Island in front of him, and there was thick smoke and hot gas coming out of the crater, which was said to erupt every few hundred years.

To the west of Sakurajima, less than ten miles away, is Kagoshima Castle, also known as Tsurumaru Castle, the old nest of the Satsuma Domain, and was the handiwork of Shimazu Tadatsune, the first head of the Satsuma Domain.

In the eyes of the Great Ming, Tsurumaru Castle was at best similar to an ordinary dungeon, far from being majestic. Zhang Haichuan stood at the bow of the boat, looked at it for a while, pouted slightly, and only said one sentence: "Use a knife to kill chickens", and then turned around and walked into the cabin.

The heavy responsibility of commanding the battle fell on the heads of Li Dan and Ming Ruxin, who were not in a hurry, but calmly mobilized the boats, with the boat as the center, and set up an oval formation, with patrol boats outside, waiting for the battle.

As early as the Ming army sailed into the southern tip of Kyushu Island, some Japanese fishermen reported to Shimazu Tadatsu, the lord of the Satsuma domain in Kagoshima.

This news frightened Shimazuke, it stands to reason that the Ming Dynasty sent troops, and has always paid attention to the righteousness, recently the Japanese State did not invade the Ming Dynasty, and there is no contradiction between the two sides, how did the Ming army suddenly fall from the sky, isn't this a joke!

However, as more and more people delivered the letter, Shimadzu had to accept the news.

He immediately became furious, and immediately ordered all the samurai of the Satsuma domain to be assembled, and the warships were mobilized in a posture of fighting to the death. At the same time, he sent an envoy to deliver a message to the Ming army.

"Japan and the Ming Dynasty do not invade each other, there is nothing to do with each other, our country has never disrespected the Ming Dynasty, so why did the Ming Dynasty disregard morality and send troops to Japan, is it bullying our country no one? Although our country is small, but the military fortune is prosperous, if the Ming insists on attacking, the consequences will be borne by yourself......"

Zhang Haichuan only glanced at this strongly-worded national letter, replied with a mouthful of thick phlegm, and asked the messenger of the Japanese State to send it back to Shimazu.

Fighting was inevitable, and it was impossible to know who fired the first shot. I saw that on the narrow sea, the Japanese ships were desperately rushing towards the Ming army, and the Japanese sailors on it were waving swords and screaming.

Obviously, for them, naval battles are still broadside battles, rushing to the front, jumping on ships, killing all the opposing sailors, even if the battle is won.

In comparison, although the Ming army ships were huge, the Japanese had a numerical advantage, and they were at the doorstep of their homes, and their morale was strong, so the chances of victory were not small.

But after the start of the war, the Japanese were very wrong.

In the face of the surging Japanese, the first to attack were the rocketeers, yes, rockets!

Since the Divine Fire Crow has been equipped with a large number of weapons and achieved results, the sailors have also equipped this powerful weapon on the ship.

The rocket weighing 50 pounds, under the high-speed propulsion of gunpowder, rushed towards the Japanese, and there was a tail stabilizing spiral plate, which made the trajectory of the rocket more stable, almost reaching the power of the Western Congreve rocket.

It was like a sharp arrow falling from the sky and falling on the top of the heads of the Japanese.

Boom!

The first boat hit by a rocket burst into flames, the wooden hull was shrouded in flames, the sailors and soldiers on board jumped into the sea in a hurry, some were blown to pieces, and lost their lives forever, and in less than a minute, the ship was silent in the bay.

With the first one, there is the second, hundreds of rockets frantically attacked, as long as they touched, the Japanese boat was either killed or wounded, through the thick smoke, the sea was full of scraps of wood, and the soldiers struggling to survive, the miserable scene was like hell.

All of a sudden, the boats lost the courage to charge forward, and the soldiers on them watched dumbfounded, not knowing when the tragic fate would befall them.

However, there were also brave Japanese, such as Jiro Kayama, a retainer of Shimazu who was very loyal to his master, and who commanded the only double-decker battleship in the Satsuma domain and rushed towards the Ming army. 、

"Fire!"

The hoarse roar, the muzzle of the cannon spewed flames, and fired towards the big ship of the Ming army, the solid shell passed through the side of the ship and flew into the sea, without causing much damage, but it doesn't matter, as long as it hits, there is a chance!

Wailing his katana, Jiro Kayama ordered his men to reload quickly, and at this moment, the cannons of the two warships of the Ming army were aimed at the disobedient Japanese coward.

"Shoot!"

The muzzle of the black hole spewed out huge cannonballs, cut through a graceful arc, and landed around the ship, setting off columns of water that were more than ten feet high.

Boom!

With a loud bang, a huge hole was smashed open in the stern of the ship, and the flying sawdust was like countless throwing knives, which were spared by the surrounding Japanese soldiers, and the huge shock made Jiro Kayama be slammed on the deck, click, and one arm was broken, and he snorted in pain.

What made him even more desperate came, the shells of the Ming army kept coming, and they were getting more and more accurate, and with a bang, the mast was hit by a hinge bullet and broke on the spot. Losing power, the ship immediately became a live target.

When the Ming army arrived, they used a lot of shotguns and rockets, and in a short time, the ships were drowned in the flames and became burning coffins.

The battle at sea lasted only about two hours, and the sailors of the Satsuma Domain were cleared, and the ships of the Ming army strutted forward, and the muzzles of the black hole were aimed at Tsurumaru Castle.

At this moment, a small boat with a white flag quickly sailed towards the Ming army, and the Japanese on it shouted in panic: "Heavenly Empire, we came to make peace, please don't open fire, don't open fire!" (To be continued......)