It has been more than half a month since Tokugawa Iemitsu retreated to Osaka, during this time, Tokugawa Iemitsu naturally did not have idle, and began to deploy troops in Osaka Bay, and now Osaka Bay has once again gathered 100,000 troops, and deployed heavy troops in the area of Awaji Island, Oki Island, Jijima and the southeast of Honshu Island, in an attempt to prevent the Ming army from entering Osaka Bay.

In addition to the artillery alone, there were as many as 30 or 40 guns deployed in the two places, and in addition, the assembled troops were tens of thousands, plus the more than 20,000 troops of the Kishu Domain and the Awaji Domain, all of which were assembled at both ends of the strait, and even on Oki Island, there were more than 10 artillery pieces.

In the narrow sea area, only two battleships are allowed to go side by side, the water depth of the sea area on both sides is too shallow, the giant ship will definitely run aground when it arrives here, the two battleships pass, facing the artillery attack at both ends, that is a live target, even if the Ming fleet can pass through this isthmus, I am afraid that it will suffer heavy casualties, especially the troop carriers that transport the army, it will suffer a catastrophe!

Tokugawa Iemitsu's deployment has to be said to be very effective, holding these two isthmuses is equivalent to holding Osaka Bay!

However, Tokugawa Iemitsu is very strategic, and Qin Mufeng and Cha Bolt are not in vain, so they naturally know the dangers of this sea area, and if they want to enter Osaka Bay, they must first pull out the nails on Okishima Island and Jijijima, no matter how sharp these two nails are, they must be eradicated first.

In the middle of the night, the main force of the Ming fleet was still thirty or forty miles away, and the vanguard, the amphibious battalion, had already driven to the edge of the island.

In order to prevent the Japanese troops on Jijima and Okishima from discovering it, the amphibious battalion chose to land directly from the east side of Okishima.

When there was still a distance of more than 10 miles between Okishima and Jijijima, the amphibious battalion had already stopped advancing, and one by one the soldiers of the amphibious battalion packed up their bodies neatly, wrapped their flintlock muskets and ammunition in oiled paper, placed them on the sampan, and rushed towards Jijima and Okishima.

More than ten miles away, for the amphibious battalion soldiers who are proficient in swimming, it is nothing at all, when they train, almost every day is twenty miles of swimming, once in the morning, once in the evening, and occasionally once in the evening, they have long been accustomed to such an environment, in less than an hour, an amphibious battalion soldiers, divided into two teams, landed on Chongdao and Jidao.

This time, the main goal of the amphibious battalion officers was to eliminate the lighthouse and artillery positions on the two islands.

These are two uninhabited islands, only guarded by soldiers, each lighthouse has twenty sentinels, and now there is an artillery position on the island, almost a hundred or so people, guarding more than a dozen artillery, although there are not so many red-coated cannons, but in Dongying, there are still a lot of Franco's machine guns, if you don't get rid of the lighthouse and artillery position, then the Ming fleet wants to enter Osaka Bay, it is too difficult.

Soon, the two troops, having touched Okishima and Jijiji, extended in the direction of the lighthouse.

At this time, the Dongying soldiers were still monitoring the distant sea area on the lighthouse, and now the Ming army soldiers were pressing, and the entire Dongying people were panicking, even if the soldiers of Dongying were in waste, they also knew that at this fateful moment, they must not relax, once the Ming fleet rushed into Osaka Bay, then Osaka Bay would be dangerous.

However, even if there were soldiers monitoring the sea area, they could not stop the footsteps of the soldiers of the amphibious battalion, and the soldiers of the amphibious battalion came straight from behind, and this time it was He Bingfeng who led the team, and the brothers with twenty or thirty people around him came straight to the bottom of the lighthouse and broke into the lighthouse directly.

The soldiers on the lighthouse were staring intently at the sea, where did they think that an armed force would swim across the island from behind, and they had already killed in front of the lighthouse, and it was completely dark under the lights.

Entering the lighthouse, inside the lighthouse, more than a dozen Dongying samurai are resting, taking turns day and night, naturally it is extremely hard, who doesn't hurry up and sleep?

With a wave of He Bingfeng's big hand, more than a dozen brothers had already lifted the military hard crossbow, aiming at the sleeping Dongying soldiers in the room is a guy, more than a dozen crossbow arrows, one for each person, all nailed to the throat or the center of the eyebrows, these Dongying soldiers went directly to see their Amaterasu God in their sleep.

Above the lighthouse, someone heard some movement.

"Chrysanthemum Sang, is there anything down there?"

A sentry asked, suspiciously.

He Bingfeng didn't answer, with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen people climbed towards the top of the lighthouse, holding a long Pu knife in their hands, and went straight to the top floor.

The person above obviously heard the movement, and said in a loud voice: "Chrysanthemum Sang, Ono Sang, what's the situation below?" ”

As he spoke, more than a dozen brothers had already climbed the lighthouse.

A few sentries saw more than a dozen people, and their expressions were stunned, no, this is not the costume of the Dongying samurai! It's the enemy!

The sentries reacted, and before they had time to shout, the hard crossbow in the hands of the soldiers of the amphibious battalion had already been raised again!

"Squeak ......"

With a few soft sounds, one by one the crossbow arrows had come out of the string, and the Dongying soldiers went to the end, but only one escaped because of the distance!

This Dongying soldier was already trembling with fright, everyone was dead, and he was the only one left, how many Ming troops came?

As soon as the Dongying soldier picked up the lantern and wanted to warn, He Bingfeng had already jumped over with an arrow step, the Pu knife in his hand was rounded, the blood light appeared, and the head of the Dongying soldier was cut off!

"Quick, move quickly, control the lighthouse, see if there is any living mouth, not one left, Ji Xian, lead twenty people to control the lighthouse, and the rest of the people follow me to the artillery position!"

He Bingfeng shouted.

Twenty people controlled the lighthouse, still holding lanterns to patrol around, and the rest followed He Bingfeng in the direction of the artillery position.

The artillery position was two or three miles away from the lighthouse, and the Dongying soldiers on the position did not notice the abnormality on the lighthouse at all, and were completely kept in the dark.

It was now past two o'clock in the middle of the night, and most of the soldiers were asleep, and the artillery positions were no exception, leaving only a small squad to patrol back and forth around the artillery positions.

He Bingfeng and the others soon arrived around the artillery position, as pirates, on the island, only this flat area was used to deploy artillery, and the rest of the area was full of mountains and rocks, which was extremely steep.

Dozens of brothers hid behind the rocks, waiting for the patrol team in the distance to come, and after a short time, Dongying's patrol team approached.

"Squeak!"

He Bingfeng took the lead in making a move, and the crossbow arrow in his hand stabbed at the patrol team like lightning, and the rest of the brothers around him also shot at the same time, forty or fifty people laid an ambush here, just waiting for these Japanese people to come up, two people against one person, almost no arrows, all nailed to the Japanese people's body!

(End of chapter)