The territory of Toei was the same size as a medium-sized province in China, but the population was very dense, and with this convenience, Mikasa Castle was able to form a complete fleet of sailors, the Toei Fleet.

The Admiral of the Toei Fleet is the pirate Daimyo Kuki Yoshitaka, and the general army includes well-known pirates including Murakami Takeyoshi. The two still intersected during the Warring States period, to be precise, Murakami Takeshi was the defeated general of the Nine Demons Yoshitaka.

Nine Ghost Yoshitaka was the retainer of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the daimyo of the Azuchi Momoyama period of the Warring States of Toei, and the eighth generation of the Nine Ghost Family's naval army. In 1574, in the midst of the suppression of Ise Nagashima, Kuki Yoshitaka, shot at sea to support the Oda army, and made great contributions.

Later, in the Second Battle of the Kizu Kawaguchi, Kuki Yoshitaka built an ironclad ship and crushed the naval army of Murakami Buyoshi, a subordinate of the Mori clan, and because of this work, he was given a 35,000-stone territory and was called a pirate daimyo.

In addition to the Toei Division, Mikasa Castle also had a full-fledged army with the main generals including the Toei Sengoku Three Heroes, namely Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Oda Nobunaga served as commander, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and several other Warring States generals served as commanders. (Note: For the sake of understanding, the military establishment of all territories in the game world is based on Great Xia.) ）

The three of them are in the same period, and they still have a deep intersection with each other.

The most legendary is of course Oda Nobunaga.

Militarily, Oda Nobunaga made extensive use of musket tactics; In terms of governance, the implementation of innovative policies such as separating soldiers and peasants, encouraging free trade, and reorganizing transportation routes opened up the road to modern times.

Eventually, Oda Nobunaga overthrew the Muromachi shogunate, which had nominally ruled Toei for more than 200 years, and brought an end to the Warring States Rebellion, which had lasted for more than 100 years since the Onin War.

This also made the Oda clan the most powerful daimyo in the mid-to-late Warring States period.

However, on the eve of the imminent unification of Toei, Oda Nobunaga committed suicide by his confidant Akechi Mitsuhide in Kyoto's Honnoji Temple, ending his glorious life.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born into a peasant family, originally a footlight (i.e., a low-ranking infantryman), but later rose to prominence by serving Oda Nobunaga, and gradually became talented. After Oda Nobunaga's death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi won the internal struggle and became Oda Nobunaga's de facto successor.

As a teenager, Tokugawa Ieyasu was sent hostage to the Oda family, where he developed a friendship with the young Oda Nobunaga, which later helped the two to forge the Kiyoshu Alliance.

After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu led the Eastern Army to defeat the Western Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, established hegemony, and since then has gradually destroyed the Toyotomi family power and established the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Toei in the game is in the Warring States Period, and Mikasa Castle's historical talents are also based on this period, because one family is dominant, Mikasa Castle almost includes Toei's top historical talents.

The only thing that is special is that it was not any daimyo of the Warring States period who became the ruler of the imperial castle Edo, but the Meiji Emperor, who was also legendary in the history of Toei.

Such a combination is indeed a bit of a headache.

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According to the enemy situation detected by the Pacific Fleet in Bactria before, the first formation of the Toei Fleet was stationed in the waters near Kyushu Island, the second formation was stationed on Shikoku Island, and the third and fourth formations were stationed on Honshu Island.

There should be only the fifth formation of the Toei Fleet near Hokkaido.

Since the beginning of the year, Dongying has been actively preparing for the National War Month, and since then, the Dongying fleet has strengthened the blockade of the nearby seas, and it is difficult for outsiders to find out detailed information.

Even the Black Snake Guard could only find out basic information such as Toei's geography and population, and knew very little about Mikasa Castle's military deployment and other high-level intelligence, which shows that Mikasa Castle's secrecy work was very well done.

This time, the Dongying fleet played a trick.

In this attack on Hokkaido, Admiral Shi Lang of the Pacific Fleet arranged the five formations in a swallow shape, with the first formation where the flagship streamer was located in the center, and the second, third, fourth, and fifth formations arranged in front and back, left and right.

In this way, the fleet's cruising horizons can be broadened, and they can also cooperate with each other.

If five formations were gathered together, it would be like a group of blind men sailing in the vast ocean, which is very dangerous and very stupid.

Shi Lang originally set up the correct formation, but this time he encountered challenges.

When Zhou Tai, the commander-in-chief of the naval division, led the second formation of the Pacific Fleet into Hokkaido, he immediately entered the encirclement of the Toei Fleet, and five formations of the Toei Fleet appeared in the waters here at the same time.

"It can't be!"

Zhou Tai was dumbfounded.

Just yesterday, when the Pacific Fleet passed through the Goryeo Strait and entered the Dongying Sea, the Red Horse Boat sent by the fleet also detected the first and third formations of the Dongying Fleet, and there was nothing abnormal.

How come in a blink of an eye, five formations of the Toei fleet appeared in Hokkaido at the same time?!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Naturally, the Dongying fleet would not explain to Zhou Tai, and under the command of Nine Ghost Jialong, they immediately launched an intensive artillery bombardment on Zhou Tai's troops, in an attempt to annihilate this formation in one fell swoop.

Thanks to the "generosity" and "partiality" of the previous Free City, Mikasa Castle started the process of firearms at the beginning of the formation of the Toei fleet. Mikasa Castle, whether it is artillery or firearms, is not inferior to Bactria in the slightest.

Since the technology used to make the firebolt comes from Liberty City, it is even better than that of Great Xia.

I saw that in the vast sea, the Dongying fleet formed a huge encirclement, and more than 200 main warships were arranged in a fan-shape, frantically tilting artillery fire on the Zhou Taibu trapped in the center.

Huge cannonballs were like meteorites falling from the sky, under the hood of Zhou Taibu, or piercing the deck, or breaking the mast, or shattering the hull, or falling into the air, splashing huge waves on the sea.

As soon as the hapless deep-sea beast surfaced and was about to breathe fresh air, it was hit by a cannonball, and a huge crater was blown out of its thick back, and its flesh flew everywhere, and it seemed that it was not alive.

This is called the disaster of pond fish!

Seeing this, the nearby deep-sea beasts scrambled to flee to the outer seas, unable to avoid them.

Zhou Taibu was dizzy by the bombing, and suffered heavy losses in an instant.

"Quick, call for help from the flagship!"

Zhou Tai gave an order, and a signal flare was immediately lifted into the air. Then, a mimic aircraft docked on the flagship of the second formation rose vertically into the air, until it reached a safe airspace, and then turned to fly towards the periphery.

After giving the order, Zhou Tai began to adjust the fleet formation and set up a defensive formation, the overall strength of the Dongying fleet was comparable to that of the Pacific Fleet.

The safest way at the moment is to stay out until the arrival of the large army.

"Damn it!"

The teacher was not good, and Zhou Tai, who was already a little irritable, had a blue face and gritted his teeth.

The Nine Ghosts, the flagship of the Dongying fleet.

On the top deck, the fleet admiral Nine Ghost Jialong observed the battle situation in the distance with a telescope, with a satisfied look on his face, and said with a smile: "Very good, continue the shelling, don't give the enemy a chance to breathe." ”

"Hey!"

The Nine Ghosts Jialong noticed the enemy's flying machine in the air, and knew that the enemy reinforcements were about to arrive soon. As a pirate daimyo, Nine Ghost Jialong was not very afraid of the Great Xia fleet.

On the contrary, he was confident.

According to the cognition of Jiugui Jialong, in history, the Dongying pirates often attacked the southeast coastal area of China, and they were naturally not afraid of Great Xia because they lost few and won more.

The appetite of the Nine Ghosts Jialong is not only the vanguard of the enemy, but also to use it as bait to completely defeat the Pacific Fleet of Great Xia and defend the sea power of Dongying.

"Come on!" Nine Ghost Jialong smiled at the corner of his mouth.

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With the help of mimic aircraft, communication conchs and signal flares, Admiral Shi Lang of the Pacific Fleet soon received Zhou Tai's distress signal and frowned.

"Order, send a red horse boat and a mimic aircraft to reconnoiter the enemy."

Shi Lang did not panic, let alone directly order reinforcements, and it was taboo for soldiers to rashly attack when the enemy situation was unknown. As a mature general, Shi Lang naturally would not make such a low-level mistake.

Soon, the four formations released hundreds of red horse boats, which were scattered like fish in the sea ahead, responsible for reconnaissance first-hand intelligence, and the commander made decisions.

At the same time, five mimic aircraft took to the skies.

"Command the left and right flanks to accelerate forward in battle formation." Shi Lang followed and ordered.

"No!"

During the march of the fleet, there were constant intelligence reports, and Shi Lang's surprise was no less than Zhou Tai's when he learned that the entire Dongying fleet appeared here.

"I'm in trouble!"

Shi Lang's expression was solemn, even if he pressed the entire fleet, because it was an away battle, he would lose one move first. To be honest, Shi Lang was not confident that he could easily win this naval battle.

"There's no choice but to use a secret weapon!"

Shi Lang was unwilling to fight with the Dongying fleet at this time, after all, the naval battle was only the first stage of the national war, and the landing battle behind it was the main event.

If it is crippled now, then this national war will be very difficult to fight.

Before the war, Ouyang Shuo specially equipped the Pacific Fleet with a secret weapon, and Shi Lang didn't expect to use this hole card so soon.

In the fifth year of Gaia, Dongying was actively preparing for the war, and Ouyang Shuo was not unprepared.

Just two months ago, taking the opportunity to purchase magic crystals from Lemuria, Ouyang Shuo spent one million gold coins to purchase four magic power submarines from Rimalia City at one time.

Before the start of the war, three ships were assigned to the Pacific Fleet and one to the Yashan Fleet.

Under Shi Lang's command, the three demon-powered submarines instantly accelerated like ghosts, and followed the location information detected by the aircraft to dive towards the battlefield ahead.

The whole process was silent. 10