Chapter 682: The Battle of the Guanmen Strait

Zhu Houhuang burned Nagasaki and established his reputation as a fire Shura. It's just that Zhu Houhuang himself doesn't know.

However, in the face of the fire in Nagasaki castle town, Zhu Houhuang decided to suspend the attack, at least for a day, and wait for the Nagasaki fire to be completely extinguished, and then attack before it was too late.

However, Zhu Houhuang paused, but Liu Laodao's side did not pause.

Liu Laodao faced a naval battle.

To cut off, there is one place where Kyushu has to control the connection between Kyushu and the Ouchi clan, and that is the Kanmon Strait.

The Kanmon Strait is the key to Honshu's connection with Kyushu. The strait is extremely slender and makes a big bend, between Kyushu and Honshu.

At its narrowest point, it is only a few hundred meters, not even as wide as some large rivers.

Such a terrain gives many people hope.

For example, Yoshitaka Ouchi.

The Ouchi family is deeply rooted in this area, and when Liu Laodao came to the Guanmen Strait, the Ouchi family immediately knew about it.

The basic information made by Jin Yiwei is still reliable, and Liu Laodao knows that it is extremely dangerous as soon as he looks at the Guanmen Strait, and it is not good for them to fight here.

So for the sake of prudence, Liu Laodao decided to wait for the next day to pass through the Guanmen Strait.

It's just that Liu Laodao didn't know that in this night, Yamaguchi City was extremely lively.

Yoshitaka Ouchi paced back and forth. Desperately thinking.

The Ouchi clan crisscrossed Japan as a veritable hegemon of the Western Kingdom. There is still arrogance within the Ouchi clan, and it is invaded as a Ming Kou. They admit that it is difficult to deal with big ships and that it is impossible to defeat them at sea. But the Yongjun sailors are going to go, and a place like the Guanmen Strait is simply sent to the door, how can it not be justified?

However, the order that Ouchi Yoshixing left him was to delay time, not to fight fiercely with Dongyong. It's just that Yoshitaka Ouchi himself doesn't want to do this.

In the end, Yoshitaka Ouchi finally made up his mind. Secretly said: "How can I see my father fighting alone. ”

He pushed open the door and walked out.

But seeing that countless retainers were kneeling outside the door, he said: "The prestige of my Ouchi clan cannot be desecrated, gather all the naval troops, and I will personally lead the troops to the Guanmen Strait." ”

"Hey."

The next day, it was just right.

Liu Laodao was about to rush through the Guanmen Strait. A small boat came to the side of Liu Laodao's fleet.

It was Jinyiwei's secret stake who told Liu Laodao about last night's situation.

Yesterday's movement was just too much. The ships at the disposal of the Ouchi clan, whether merchant ships or warships, gathered in the east of the Kanmon Strait.

After Liu Laodao got the news, he was not surprised.

He secretly said in his heart: "I thought that there was no credit to be made this time, but I never expected that they would actually send it to the door." Liu Laodao's eyebrows fluttered.

But happy to be happy, Liu Laodao still thought about it carefully.

He also decided to immediately enter the Strait such as Guanmen.

Why?

The essential gap between the naval army of the First Great Inner Clan and the Dongyong Naval Division is not known at all.

Second, he had been cultivating here for a day, but the Ouchi clan had been recruited overnight, and now was the time to be tired, and if he missed this time, this small advantage would be gone.

After all, the third Guanmen Strait is the other side's, and this time the battle broke out in a hurry, and neither side was prepared. But now he has leaked the purpose of wanting to rush through the Guanmen Strait and attack the perimeter area.

If the Ouchi clan does something in the Kanmon Strait, it will be bad for him.

So in this battle, the sooner you fight, the better.

After the decision, Liu Laodao was no longer a mother-in-law.

Immediately came the entry into the Kanmon Strait.

As soon as he entered the Guanmen Strait, Liu Laodao immediately felt that he still underestimated this place, where is a strait here, it is clearly a river, no, it is narrower than a river.

Liu Laodao's first order was for all ships to go in the middle and pay attention to running aground.

When entering the middle of the Kanmon Strait. The two sides finally met.

Because of the problem of the bending of the Guanmen Strait, the two sides could not see each other at all, and only when they were very close to each other did they discover each other.

When both sides saw each other, they were stunned.

The people of the Ouchi clan were stunned.

Before, they only knew that the warship of the Dongyong Sailor Division was a big ship, but they didn't know how big it was, and they didn't have a concept until this moment.

And Liu Laodao was also stunned.

He only knew that the Ouchi clan had gathered all the ships.

But he wanted to close the strait to such a big place, no matter how many ships they had, it would be useless, but at this moment he realized that the Ouchi clan really used all the ships. All kinds of ships are used, and almost the entire strait is blocked.

One person can almost cross the Kanmon Strait on a boat.

But amazement is amazement, but this battle still has to be fought.

Liu Laodao didn't say a word, and ordered the cannon to be fired.

But at this moment, Liu Laodao encountered a problem. There were not many cannons fired directly at the front of the ship, and most of the cannons were arranged on both sides.

And if you turn horizontally, you can exert firepower, but you can resist a large number of Ouchi sailors with two or three ships in front.

However, the Ouchi clan did not give Liu Laodao any time, and almost at the same time that Liu Laodao ordered the cannon to fire, the Ouchi clan also ordered to charge.

Countless ships rushed over like a tide.

Liu Laodao immediately found that he didn't have to think about the question of whether to fight horizontally or not, this sea surface that was at most a thousand meters wide could not allow the Fu Boat to maneuver at all.

Because the sea surface is 1,000 meters wide does not mean that the ship can move freely. You must know that the water depth is too shallow where it is too close to the coast, and in some places it is only one meter.

Fu Bune didn't dare to go either way at all.

For the Fu Boat, their channel is only a little in the middle.

Although there were many ships of the Ouchi clan, those that were too small were not of much use, and the larger ships did not have much shallow draft.

Both sides of the enemy and the enemy piled up on the main channel, almost an inch southward, and forcefully beat the naval battle to the scale of land warfare.

"Boom boom" artillery is endless.

The two sides rushed too close, and almost missed the target, and in an instant, on the Ouchi clan's ship, I don't know how many people fell to the ground screaming, and even many people were killed by the artillery before they could react.

However, the more this is the case, the more it stimulates their ferocity.

With a "bang", the ships were heavily loaded onto Liu Laodao's ship.

Liu Lao took the lead in the sword, so his ship was the first ship. After the two ships were connected, the Japanese discovered a big problem, that is, the height of the ships on both sides.

The side of the Fukubune is significantly higher than that of the Japanese ship, and Japan almost feels like it is facing a walled city.

At this time, Liu Laodao found that the artillery was not very good.

Because under the side of the ship is a dead spot for fire.

Liu Laodao's side did not allow the artillery to stop firing, because there were too many ships of the Ouchi clan. If you don't shoot, all the ships will pile up.

While commanding all the jump helpers to shoot downward.

Rows of muskets were fired downward, condescendingly, but in a matter of moments, many of the men on the deck below were killed.

However, Liu Laodao also found a big problem, that is, the draft of this strait is too shallow.

Why?

Many of the ships of the Ouchi clan are fishing boats and merchant ships, they can't resist the artillery bombardment, and after a while, these miscellaneous ships, under the bombardment of Liu Laodao, sank several ships, especially for the copper cannon, one cannon down, can make a big gap, three or five cannons down, the ship began to enter the water, more than a dozen cannons began to sink, this is a very normal problem.

After all, these ships did not think at all to withstand artillery bombardment, and the wood used was not much better.

But the problem is that they don't sink half of it, or the whole ship sinks, but the mast is out of the water, as if it were a dead man's hand not knowing it.

Liu Laodao's face suddenly darkened.

He found a problem.

Even if he wins this battle, he will not be able to pass through the Guanmen Strait.

These large wrecks will become reefs, and no one will want to pass through them until they are cleaned up. And most likely, if a ship sits on the west side of the Guanmen Strait, he will probably be trapped in this place.

Thinking about this, Liu Laodao couldn't sit still.

Immediately ordered: "The whole army will go west and withdraw from the Guanmen Strait." ”