In the winter wind and waves, the Flying Eagle and the five small early ships approached Jeju against the wind, and the small early ship awkwardly used its poor hard sails to borrow the wind power and sailed at a turtle speed of three knots, while the Flying Eagle easily accompanied the side. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Fang Mao was thinking about how to deal with the current problem, it was impossible for the other party to form a fleet of so many small early boats to investigate, then they must be separated from the sentinels, how could their own ships monitor them.

If it is an engagement, and there is no Tiago artillery on his own, I am afraid that the four naval guns will not be able to sink the opponent directly. was entangled by five Xiaozao, and his own warship was enough to choke.

"Cannon fire, twice every quarter of an hour." Now that it was all right, Fang Mao hoped that there would be his own flying clippers nearby who heard the cannon and came to converge.

Amid the roar of artillery, the Flying Eagle accompanied the Tsushima fleet for another half an hour, and finally a clipper ship, the Exocet, came to converge.

At this moment, the Tsushima fleet began to divide into two and three ships, moving separately to the east and north, and the Flying Eagle followed the three of the other side's ships to the north, and in this way, the two sides approached the northeast coast of Jeju.

At this time, another clipper passed by, and the Tsushima fleet began to return. Two clippers accompanied them eastward, and finally the three fat, slow shadows disappeared into the sky.

In a cat-and-mouse game for two consecutive days, Qi Wei reported to Zhao Lieyu that the Tsushima Domain's naval army continued to explore Jeju Island, and recently approached the coast of Ushido. The sailors' clippers could spot enemy ships after they were spread out in a dotted pattern, but often one against many, and the enemy ships could not be left, so they asked the Galen battleship to attack.

On the third day, the smallest 200-ton battleships, Peng Yue, Zhou Yafu, Feng Yi, Ma Yuan, and Huo Quai, sailed out of Jeju Port and headed east and north to guard the city.

Shinji Endo led five small hayamoes westward. A few days of probing each other. Most of them were intercepted back. Only a few times did they go deep into the Jeju coast, but when they approached the port of Jeju, they were intercepted by the Ming people's Nanban warships.

Now it is clear that the military port of the Ming people is in the port of Jeju, and this time the Tsushima clan dispatched fifteen small ships, hoping to get as close to the port of Jeju as possible, at least to force the Ming fleet out, and see the strength of the Ming people, which is strictly required by the shogunate.

Today's north wind is strong and the waves are not small. As Kozao struggled through the crests and troughs of the waves, the oarsmen on the lower deck began to paddle slowly to help stabilize and sail the boat, and it was said that the weather was not suitable for Kozai's long voyage, but Shinji Endo gambled that Akito's sentinel ship would reduce its patrols, and the Tsushima Kai ship was able to sneak into the vicinity of Jeju Port by chance.

However, most of their hopes were soon dashed, and when they approached more than 20 miles northeast of Seongsan in Jeju, a Ming fast sailing ship spotted them and began to accompany the voyage, trying to approach the enemy ship several times early in the morning. All of them were nimble dodges, and the ship followed not far away.

From time to time, they fired their cannons to summon other Ming ships. Shinji Endo thought it was no fun to go on like this, and ordered the ships to move separately, and the order had just been issued, and the fleet had not yet been launched.

A huge sail shadow appeared in the sky in the distance, this is not the sentinel ship of the Ming people, this is the Nanban warship, several Xiaozao hurriedly approached, the enemy's real battleship was forced out by them, of course, they also had to be prepared for cannonballs.

The Tsushima navy was no stranger to the Nanban warships, and the Tsushima people who often went in and out of Nagasaki always saw Nanban merchant ships, and there were always about ten large cylinders on the deck, however, according to the Nanban in Nagasaki, the large cylinders on board could destroy enemy ships, and rarely directly sank enemy ships.

Endo Shinji ordered the fleet to turn back, and when several Kozao turned their bows, the Aketo battleship took the opportunity to approach about three miles, Kozao was heading eastward with a tailwind, and the speed of the ship began to increase, and the enemy ships approached faster with full sails, even if nearly twenty oarsmen on the Kozao boat rowed with all their might, it was to no avail, and the enemy ships slowly approached to less than a mile.

Standing on the deck, Shinji Endo saw that the enemy ship was more than twice as large as his own, with the mast in front of him pointing to the sky, and a few soft sails on the mainmast bulging forward, but because his ship was low, he did not see the large barrel on the deck of the enemy ship.

Shinji Endo ordered the three large cylinders on the ship to be prepared, saying that they were large cylinders, but they were small cylinders, which were the smallest of the large cylinders cast by Japan, that is, an enlarged version of the iron cannon, which could be fired to a distance of more than 200 paces, and could kill the opponent's personnel, and had almost no effect on the enemy ship, but at this time, it was the only remaining long-range attack weapon on the ship.

Yang Ruicheng turned out to be the boatswain of the fur seals, and the large expansion of the sailors finally pushed him to the position of the captain of the Feng Yi, and he was no longer the rookie captain who was afraid of the original after many years, and after a year of running around, from Phi Island to Jeju and then to Beihua Island, Yang Ruicheng is now an old bird.

"Boatswain, rush into enemy formation, face the enemy on both sides, and keep the artillery decks ready for battle." Yang Ruicheng issued a series of orders, without stumbling in the middle, and his tone was firm and full of confidence.

Feng Yi slowly embedded in the five Xiaozao in the wind and waves, the gun windows on both sides opened, and the muzzles of the twenty guns poked out, aiming at the two Xiaozao, which were only half a mile.

"Boom." The two small morning big barrels were the first to open fire, but in the wind and waves, the two large cylinders on one of the two large cylinders all flew away, and the two large cylinders on the other hit the target, and the small projectile hit the side of Feng Yi's ship and fell into the sea, the power was too small, and the big barrel of the small morning was not even a three-pounder gun.

"Boom, boom," the sound of shelling continued to sound, and the firing charge from the smoke fired twelve or eighteen pound projectiles, and due to the wind and waves, less than half of the projectiles hit the small early boats on both sides, but it was enough.

In order to pursue speed flexibility, Xiao Zao's defensive oars are composed of two layers of bamboo, and several projectiles can easily break into and come out of the wall in a chic manner.

There were traces of walking, and six or seven iron cannon ashigaru were torn apart by the projectile, and flesh and blood were splashed everywhere, and the most terrible thing was that the bamboo rain sprayed by broken bamboo sprinkled on the iron cannon ashigaru.

Most of the dozens of iron cannon ashigaru and spear ashigaru were hit, some were shot through the hands and legs, some were pierced in the face, and the inside of the broken oar became a slaughterhouse, and flesh and blood flew everywhere, screaming again and again.

Endo Shinji's ship was not one of the two ships lucky, he saw with his own eyes two projectiles from his right side of the small haya-boat, falling into the sea, even if more than a hundred steps apart he still heard a terrible howl from the boat, Endo Shinji loudly ordered the sailors to speed up the paddle and leave immediately, and then not leave, waiting for the enemy ship to sink these two small early in his turn.

When dozens of breaths later, when Feng Yi's cannon was reloaded, it was found that the speed of Xiao Zao's boat on the right had dropped sharply, and Xiao Zao on the left was still paddle and galloping, so Feng Yi's artillery commander ordered the twelve-pounder cannon on the left and the eighteen-pounder Tiago cannon to open fire, and the ten guns spewed smoke and smoke, so that Feng Yi was once again hidden in the smoke, but it was instantly blown away by the strong wind.

This time, more than half of the oars collapsed, and the result of several projectiles raging was to turn the middle deck of Xiaozao into a dead place, and the oarsmen on the lower deck were still gritting their teeth and paddling forward under the accompaniment of blood dripping from the upper deck and howling, but due to the destruction of the sails on the upper deck, the speed of the ship dropped greatly, and the Feng Yi also lowered the speed of the ship, and the guns were reloaded.

After the cannon was fully loaded, the gun on the left side lowered its muzzle, and it was a small and strong cannon that could not be killed.

With a bang, the projectile killed and injured most of the oarsmen, and the small early was covered in holes and drifted with the waves in the wind and waves.

Feng Yi did not stop, and directly accelerated with full sails to chase one of the three escaped Xiao Zao, Xiao Zao's poor hard sail did not provide enough power, the oarsman was not a machine, five miles away, this Xiao Zao was overtaken, after four rounds of shelling, this Xiao Zao sank in the icy sea.

Endo Shinji's ship and the other Xiaozao took the opportunity to separate and escape, looming in the sky, Yang Ruicheng hesitated a little and ordered to turn around and return, the battleship could not leave the waters of Jeju Island too far, to prevent another way of robbers from taking advantage of the situation.

The accompanying clippers tried to beat the water dogs and fired at Xiao Zao, whose speed had dropped sharply, but the two nine-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns on the side only shelled one round, and Xiao Chen raised the white flag and surrendered to the horses.

When Feng Yi returned, he happened to see the obedient follower of Xiao Zao, heading towards Jeju Island crookedly behind the clipper.

Yang Ruicheng ordered Feng Yi to continue to wander in the nearby waters to be on guard.

After Shinji Endo escaped, he was sweating profusely in the cold winter, standing on the bow of the ship trembling slightly, glad that he had regained his life, and he looked at the ashigaru gunners around him, they were also relieved.

Shinji Endo ordered to return at full speed, and only by returning to Itahara as soon as possible could he truly rest assured.

At the same time, another group of small morning boats made a detour from the north near the waters of Jeju Island, and were attacked head-on by the Zhou Yafu, except for one Xiaozao, all the others were sunk, and the Zhou Yafu did not want to be captured.

There was also a group of Kozao fleets that all returned due to a leak in one Kozao, and when they arrived at Itsukuhara, they realized how lucky they were, and three of the other two groups of ten ships returned, and the sailors and families of Ashigaru who heard the news waited anxiously in the harbor, constantly looking into the distance.

The castle tower of Jinshi Castle, a group of Tsushima bigwigs reunited.

Endo Shinji cried on the ground, and reported the painful battle process to the elders of the family governor, of course, he exonerated himself by fighting hard.

"Lord Tsushima Shou, the exploration of the sea must be stopped, the Ming artillery is sharp, the naval warship is not an opponent, if the army is dispatched to the Anzhai ship and the Guan ship, it will be a decisive battle with the Mingren, even if the naval army is wiped out, it will be useless, and now I can only report to the general of Zhengyi to decide." Zong Yiming, a general of the various achigans, said.

The other elders on the side were also shocked by the power of the giant cannon of the Ming warship, and they all nodded in agreement, and even Yanagawa Choxing, who had always been at odds with the same sect, also agreed, no matter what, he was also on the ship of the Tsushima clan at the moment, and it was not good for him to suffer heavy losses from the Tsushima clan.

"Report to His Excellency the general of Zhengyi, my army's naval division is defeated and defeated, and I hope that the shogunate's naval army will help." Zong Yicheng gritted his teeth and said, his heart hurt a lot, the loss of seven ships and three hundred feet made him feel painful, as well as the bereavement of these people's families, this year will be a big loss year for Tsushima Domain. (To be continued.) )