asked Amakusa Feng to take the initiative, but Zheng Zhilong was noncommittal. One is that he doesn't fully believe in Amakusa Kaede, and the other is that the matter involves Li Guozhu.

Since it was Li Guozhu who lured the Tsushima Japanese invaders, and Li Guozhu was on Hirado Island, which is a stone's throw away from Nagasaki, he may have already learned the news of the total destruction of the Japanese spies, and he would definitely report to the Tsushima Japanese invaders.

Amakusa Kaede told Zheng Zhilong that Li Guo was still on Tsushima Island. Zheng Zhilong also interrogated the other captured Japanese pirates, and Fang found that these Japanese had no connection with Li Guosuke's subordinates on Hirado Island, mainly because he did not fully believe Li Guozhu and was worried that what he said was not true, so he sent spies to investigate the situation.

Zheng Zhilong decided to believe Amakusa Kaede once, and coerced and lured a Japanese captive with a lot of money, promising to take him to Daming and let him report back to Tsushima with Amakusa Kaede.

These Japanese were all declining samurai who were not taken in by the feudal lord, and they did not want to farm as coolies, so they went to Tsushima Island to become pirates, and did not dare to go to the Ming Dynasty to plunder, and lived by plundering the Korean coast, and their lives were really not good. If you can be a hired samurai in the Ming fleet, life is definitely better than being a pirate, plus Zheng Zhilong promised a hundred taels of silver, then the Japanese captives of Sakai happily returned to Tsushima Island.

After returning to Tsushima Island, Sakai and Amakusa Kaede sang and harmonized, and told the "information" of the Ming fleet, Zong Harukawa, the leader of the Japanese Bandits, that there were fifteen ships in the Ming fleet, with more than 1,000 seamen, and also told Zong Harukawa that the Ming fleet had indeed made a fortune this time, and that there were ships that transported a large amount of silver back to Fukue Island every day.

The information reported by Sakai and Amakusa Kaede is very similar to that of Li Guosuke, who did not dare to explain that he had 30 large ships and 2,000 troops in order to induce the Japanese to send troops, just for fear of scaring Zong Qingchuan.

After hearing the report of Amakusa Kaede and Sakai, Zong Qingchuan finally made up his mind and sent troops to Fukue Island to attack the Ming fleet!

In the past, Zong Qingchuan did not dare to fight the idea of the Ming maritime merchants, mainly because there were hundreds of Ming ships that went to Japan every year, with more than 10,000 crew members. Moreover, the looting of the Ming Sea ships around Nagasaki reached the ears of the shogunate, and the shogun would definitely not spare himself.

And this time, because of the hurricane, the number of Ming ships that arrived in Nagasaki was only about 20, far less than in previous years, and with the strength in the hands of Zong Qingchuan, he was able to deal with these Ming people.

Moreover, he decided that all his subordinates would pretend to be Ming and Koreans to attack the Ming fleet, so that they could get rid of their involvement afterwards and disguise themselves as infighting between Ming and maritime merchants.

Zong Qingchuan then decided to do it in three days! For this reason, he ordered someone to bring Li Guozhu, who was under house arrest, to tell him his decision, and let Li Guozhu also go back to prepare, and take all his subordinates to join him two days later. Li Guozhu was overjoyed and bowed away again and again.

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Three days later, in the early morning, a mist covered the bay, and forty or fifty Japanese ships appeared off Fukue Island.

When he saw more than a dozen large sea ships quietly moored in the bay, Zong Qingchuan's eyes flashed with a scorching light, and he immediately ordered the whole army to raid.

Forty or fifty sea boats, carrying more than 2,000 Japanese pirates, swooped down on the Ming sea ships like wolves.

In order to make the attack sudden, more than 2,000 Japanese invaders arrived in the waters of the five islands yesterday evening and have been hiding on an uninhabited island. It's early in the morning, and the Ming people are all asleep, and they haven't even raised their sails, even if the Ming people's sea ships are much taller than their own ships, they don't have to be afraid! As long as you rush to the side of the Ming army's sea ship, you can throw your flying claws and climb up, killing the sleeping Ming seamen!

Thinking about the complete capture of more than a dozen big ships, thinking about the millions of taels of silver in the sea ships, about to fall into his own hands, Zong Qingchuan almost laughed.

The Japanese boats quickly sailed into the bay, and in groups of four or five, they leaned towards the Ming boat, and just waited to get up, and then threw their flying claws onto the side of the Ming boat, and then climbed up.

Suddenly.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" ......

Deafening cannon sounds rang out continuously, and huge cannon sounds echoed in the bay.

Zong Qingchuan looked ahead in shock, and saw white gunpowder smoke appearing on the Ming ship one after another, and then one after another cannonballs shot out of the Ming ship and shot at his own fleet.

At a close distance, although the hit rate of the guns fired on the sea ship is not high, it is also as high as 30%, which means that one out of every three guns can hit, and this hit rate in naval battles can be called terrifying.

The sea ships of Zong Qingchuan are all single-slooped Japanese boats, and they are like toys in front of the high-flying fortune boats, and they can't withstand the bombardment of Hongyi cannons at all.

The ships of the Royal Sea Trading House had two Hongyi cannons on each ship, and each of the two Galen ships had as many as thirty or forty cannons.

Of course, not all Hongyi cannons can fire at the same time, but even so, after one round, there are also seven or eight Japanese ships that have been hit by Hongyi cannons, or are falling apart, or sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing this situation, Zong Qingchuan was shocked and angry, Ming people were prepared!

Sure enough, with the sound of cannons, I saw that all the Ming ships were rapidly raising their sails.

"Rush over and take the ship!" Zong Qingchuan shouted angrily.

If the Ming people are allowed to raise the sails to gain power, with the huge hull of the Ming ship, their own Japanese ships are not their opponents, and the Ming ships are very fast, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to escape, even if they can escape, what if the matter is leaked, how to face the accountability of the shogunate?

The only way to win is to take advantage of the fact that the Ming ship is still unable to move, avoid the past and start a broadside battle, and seize the Ming ship with strong force. There are 2,000 samurai under his command, and the total number of Ming people is only more than 1,000 people, and the strength of the Japanese samurai is twice that of them, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese samurai is not comparable to the weak Ming people, Zong Qingchuan has absolute confidence that he can defeat the Ming people by relying on the side battle!

With Zong Qingchuan's order, one by one the Japanese ships approached the Ming ship like flying, and after approaching the Ming boat, one by one the flying claws with ropes were thrown out, and their ships and Ming ships were closely connected, and then one by one the Japanese were about to climb up with the ropes.

Suddenly, dozens of black dots were thrown from the Ming boat, and after landing on the Japanese boat, they suddenly exploded, and the Japanese on the ship were killed and injured heavily. The Ming army's sharp weapon to defend the city, "10,000 enemies", was used in naval battles.

The ships of the Royal Sea Trade Company are all three-masted ships, the tall side of the ship is like a city wall, and the power of the ship is not as good as that of the Japanese ship, but the Japanese ship uses its flying claws to fix itself and the Ming ship together, so it can only endure being ravaged by the Ming ship.

One by one, 10,000 enemies were thrown down and exploded on the Japanese ships, killing countless Japanese warriors, and many Japanese ships were almost empty on their decks.

When the explosion of 10,000 enemies finally stopped, and the remnants of the Japanese warriors had no time to catch their breath, hundreds of musketeers appeared on the side of the Ming ship, firing condescendingly.

Fiasco, real fiasco! In the face of the powerful firepower of the three-masted ships of the Royal Sea Trading House, the Japanese ships of Tsushima were simply not enough, and the powerful combat power that the Japanese samurai were proud of had no room to play at all.

Watching the samurai being killed and shot to death, and watching the sea ships sink in the explosion, Zong Qingchuan knew that he couldn't escape today, so he could only order a retreat.

Following his order, the remaining twenty or so ships immediately turned around and tried to escape from Fukue Island.

At this moment, in the morning light, more than a dozen bright ships appeared outside the bay, blocking the way of the boats.

Several more Japanese ships were sunk in the sound of artillery, and the remaining Japanese ships desperately fled, and the Ming ships unceremoniously rammed and intercepted. In front of the tall Ming boats, the Japanese ships were not opponents at all like bathtubs, and after some interception, more than a dozen Japanese ships were hit and capsized and sank, leaving only more than a dozen Japanese ships to escape from Fukue Island.

Zheng Zhilong left ten ships to clean up the mess and personally led twenty ships to chase Tsushima Island.

In ocean voyages, the dhow is naturally far inferior to the Ming ship, but the offshore navigation, especially the offshore navigation with complex sea conditions on many islands, the Ming ship is not as fast as the Japanese boat, not to mention that the Japanese ship is dual-purpose and sail, and the escape speed is far beyond the speed of the Ming ship.

However, since you know that the Japanese are from Tsushima Island, you can sail directly to Tsushima without worrying about losing them.

The more than 100-mile sea journey departed in the morning, and in the afternoon it had already arrived in the Tsushima Sea, and from a distance, the two islands faced each other, and the Tsushima Island, where the Japanese and Japanese were officially gathered.

And this time, the Japanese who attacked Fukue Island had just escaped back, and Zong Qingchuan ordered someone to bring Li Guosuke, who was being tortured to vent his anger.

In this attack on the Ming fleet, more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers lost three-quarters, and only more than 500 people from more than a dozen ships escaped, which can be described as a heavy loss. Zong Qingchuan blamed all this on Li Guozhu, if it weren't for Li Guozhu to trick himself into robbing the Ming boat, how could there be such a miserable situation now.

During the attack on the Royal Maritime Trade Fleet, Li Guozhu also led his men to participate in the battle, and after the defeat, he was afraid of being detected by Zheng Zhilong, so he did not dare to return to Hirado Island, but fled back to Tsushima with the defeated Japanese army. I thought that I would continue to deceive Zong Qingchuan by rhetoric, but I didn't expect to be arrested by Zong Qingchuan's order as soon as I came back.

Li Guozhu screamed and desperately shouted that he was wronged, and told Zong Qingchuan that the Ming army had set up an ambush, and someone must have leaked the news, and he and his subordinates had been under house arrest on Tsushima Island, and it was impossible for him to leak the news.

Although what Li Guozhu said was reasonable, Zong Qingchuan's anger still did not subside, and he ordered to continue beating Li Guozhu. At this moment, suddenly some of his subordinates ran over in horror, saying that the Ming army fleet had killed them.

Zong Qingchuan hurriedly ran out to look, and sure enough, he saw more than 20 high-sea ships appearing on the sea in the distance.

"Retreat, retreat to the inland mountains!" Zong Qingchuan immediately ordered.

The 500 Japanese who fled back, plus the men and horses left behind on the island, and the dependents of the Zong clan, 2,000 or 3,000 people, abandoned their dwellings near the sea and withdrew to the interior of the island.

The strength of the Ming people is too strong, and the remaining forces on the island are definitely not the opponents of the Ming people, so they can only avoid the edge for the time being. Fortunately, Tsushima Island is six or seven hundred square kilometers, and the island is full of mountains and forests.

In Zong Qingchuan's opinion, the Ming people chased after him to vent their anger at being attacked, and they would not stay on the island for a long time, and they would naturally leave after they couldn't find anyone.

Zong Qingchuan was right, Zheng Zhilong naturally would not stay on Tsushima Island for a long time. However, this does not mean that Zheng Zhilong has no way to take him.

Zheng Zhilong had captives in his hands, and these captives were all from Tsushima Island, and he was very familiar with the situation here. After coming to Tsushima Island, Zheng Zhilong did not give up when he saw the Japanese invaders fleeing inland, but first rested on the ship for one night, and the next morning he led a team to land, and began to search the island under the leadership of the Japanese prisoners.

Although Tsushima Island is large, most of the area is mountainous and densely forested, and there are not many suitable places for people to live, especially the three or four thousand Japanese and their families who have fled inland, and there are really only a few places for hiding for so many people.

Under the leadership of the traitors, the Ming army soon found the hiding place of the widows.

"Damn Mingren, you actually chased them here, follow me to kill them all!" Zong Qingchuan said angrily.

At this moment, Zong Qingchuan still has seven or eight hundred Japanese soldiers around him, and Zheng Zhilong brought 1,500 soldiers to the island. It shouldn't be much of a problem to defeat Akito on your own.

Zong Qingchuan personally led more than 700 Japanese robbers, holding their weapons high and attacking the Ming army, but what was waiting for him was rows of volleys of firearms.

The Royal Maritime Trade fleet of more than 3,000 people, half of whom were Janissary soldiers trained by Li Yanzhi and equipped with new firearms brought from Beijing. And these more than 1,000 Praetorian Guard soldiers are standing in front of the Japanese at this moment.

The Praetorian Guard soldiers did not panic in the face of the rushing Japanese pirates, but held their fire guns steadily, and when the Japanese rushed thirty steps, they steadily pulled the trigger and opened fire. The first platoon immediately retreated after firing, and the second platoon continued to fire. After three rounds of shooting, Zong Qingchuan, who led the charge, was killed on the spot, and most of the six or seven hundred Japanese had already fallen, and the remaining Japanese fled in a hurry.

Zheng Zhilong led the army to pursue the victory, attacked the hiding place of the Japanese invaders, killed all the remaining Japanese invaders, and captured more than 2,000 Japanese family members. Zheng Zhilong ordered that all men, young and old, should be shot, and the young women of the Japanese people were caught in the fleet as prostitutes to comfort the officers and soldiers of the fleet.

For this reason, the soldiers in the army had an argument with Zheng Zhilong and refused to carry out Zheng Zhilong's order. Killing people is allowed, but arresting people for prostitutes is against Praetorian Guard regulations.

Although these overseers were not responsible for directing the battle, they had great power in other aspects, and seeing that they insisted on opposition, Zheng Zhilong had no choice but to order these young widows to be temporarily imprisoned on the ship and dealt with later.

For the next two days, Zheng Zhilong led a team to stay on Tsushima Island, clearing the remnants of the island and carrying the island's wealth while clearing the island's remnants. The Zong clan has been operating in Tsushima for many years, and the Tsushima Waiko have been plundering the Korean coast all the year round, and the Koreans hate them to the core, and the wealth accumulated on the island is still quite a lot.

Gold, silver and all kinds of property add up to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, if it weren't for Zheng Zhilong and the fleet, these things might not be able to be loaded.

PS: This chapter is 4,000 words, I'll continue to write, and try to finish explaining the plot of Japan tonight, and then return to the main line tomorrow.