The castle was under siege, and everything was as Mado had expected, and the mountain castle was so easy to defend and difficult to attack that it was so encircled that not even a single fly could fly out.

As mentioned earlier, the city of Youzhishan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and its entire castle is built on the top of the mountain, and the infantry artillery of the Xia army deployed at the foot of the mountain cannot directly bombard the city wall because of the problem of shooting angle, and the only way to attack the city is to open the way with the flesh and blood of the infantry and force it into the city.

Ma Du obviously would not do this, he stood in the original Japanese camp and looked up at the mountain city hidden in the mountains and forests, looked at the Japanese army flag flying high at the head of the city, and thought in his heart what reward this battle function would give him.

Not only Mado's side, but the battle in the Nagoya area has finally been decided after a few days of evolution.

The Xia army defeated the Japanese army in the field battle, killing and wounding more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers before and after, and taking more than 8,000 prisoners.

The news of the Xia army's victory in the two battles in Kitakyushu quickly swept the entire Kyushu Island and the surrounding areas, which shocked and panicked the feudal lords and daimyo everywhere.

After the Imjin War a year ago, the hatred of Japan was deeply rooted in the hearts of the Korean people and did not dissipate with the end of the war, but after several more indiscriminate battles, the target of popular hatred was shifted to the Manchus in the north.

In any case, this victory really made the whole of Korea happy, and for a time it also inspired the Korean naval divisions who were fighting against the Japanese naval forces in the Korean Strait, and in mid-March, a few days after the good news was transmitted back to the Korean mainland, the inspired Korean naval divisions, under the leadership of the naval commander Ang Lee, defeated the Japanese naval forces more than 100 nautical miles north of the Guanmun Strait.

The Japanese naval army general Wakisaka Yasutada was seriously wounded in the fierce battle, and was almost captured by the Korean naval division, after this news was transmitted back to Korea, it once again caused a burst of cheers, Gyeongsang-do naval commander Li An is the grandson of the famous Korean general Yi Sunsin, he was awarded by the Korean monarch Yi Hao after the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Guanmen, and named him the commander of the three naval forces, which is also the official position of Yi Sunsin during his lifetime.

After several great victories, the Japanese naval forces at sea were also greatly hit, and Su Fu, who was worried that he would be blocked by the Japanese naval forces and postponed the increase of troops on Kyushu Island, finally made up his mind.

On 18 March, Su Fu, the governor of Xia Joseon and the general of Zhendong, formally ordered the whole army to cross the Korean Strait and land in Kitakyushu.

"How can this governor disappoint this governor today, before the first birthday of the first month of June, the whole army must take the entire island of Kyushu, and use Kyushu Island as a tribute to the army of our expedition to the east!"

"Take the whole island of Kyushu to repay the emperor's kindness!"

The generals shouted in unison.

Immediately, the Xia army requisitioned thousands of ships and ships from all over Korea, escorted by the Beiyang Navy Division and the Korean Navy Division, and crossed the Korean Strait and sailed towards Kitakyushu.

After the Japanese navy received the information, it could not care about preserving its strength, and the general of the naval division, Akitomo Kato, desperately organized the naval warships to attack the transportation line of the Xia army's warships, and the warships of the two sides immediately broke out in the not spacious sea area of the Korean Strait.

The Korean naval division used the banya ship as the main warship of the navy, and the small clippers such as the sword ship and the fierce ship were used as escorts, and the famous turtle ships also served in the army.

Although the Korean naval divisions were also backward, their level was higher than that of the Japanese warships, and if the naval divisions and warships of the three participating parties were arranged, it was obvious that the Xia army was higher than the Korean army and then higher than the Japanese army.

On March 21, 100 nautical miles east of Tsushima, the battle was the first to fought.

Li An, the commander of the three naval forces of the DPRK, personally led the Korean naval division to escort the Xia army's warships, and he had more than 180 warships under his command, and not far away, eight warships of the Beiyang naval division were also cruising.

Knowing that the Japanese would not sit idly by and watch them cross the Korean Strait, Ang Lee vigilantly sent clippers to patrol around the convoy until the sent clippers waved their flags at him

According to the report, the Japanese army gathered more than 200 warships at one time and sailed towards this side.

After learning the news, Li An immediately sent the news to the nearby Beiyang Naval Division, hoping to cooperate with the Beiyang Naval Division to eat the main force of the Japanese Naval Army together.

When the news was sent to Chen Zhaojun, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, he was almost jumping up with excitement, since China and Japan to the present, he has never had the opportunity to start a war with the main force of the Japanese army, at most he can only attack and bombard the Japanese coastal ports, this is not a war achievement at all, if they can't make great achievements until the army is sent to the Japanese mainland, then his wish to be promoted to the prince of the country will not be realized.

Chen Zhaojun quickly calmed down, he began to estimate the strength of the enemy and us, the warships of the Korean naval division were not all concentrated in this sea area, before the arrival of the Japanese army, Li An was able to gather only a hundred warships, and the warships of the Beiyang naval division were scattered, and they could not all be assembled in a short time.

Therefore, the only ones who could participate in the battle were the third-level flagship he was riding on, as well as the other seven warships cruising around, but although the number of Xia warships was small, the firepower they provided was not comparable to that of the North Korean sailors.

Although the Itaya ship was a flat-bottomed ship, it was an offshore warship like the main ship of the Japanese army, but compared with the Seki, the ship was fully loaded with 24 to 26 guns......

In contrast, the advantage of the Japanese army, which was only equipped with artillery on the Ataka ships, in naval warfare was only a pitiful numerical advantage.

However, although the main warship of the Korean naval division, the Itanya ship, was loaded with so many guns, the number of itaya ships was not much, for example, among the more than 180 warships under the command of Li An, the Itaya ship was only more than 40, and there were 12 turtle ships, and the rest were light clippers such as sword ships and fierce ships, which had no advantage compared with the Japanese warships.

After some thought, Chen Zhaojun still decided to join forces with Li An to meet the main force of the invading Japanese army and further attack the Japanese army's power at sea.

It didn't take long for Ang Lee's general ship to lean on the side of Chen Zhaojun's third-level flagship, and this one was close together, making it seem that the general's boat was like a child's toy, and it was pitifully small.

Such a big difference made it a little difficult to communicate between the two ships, Xia Jun could only throw the basket off the deck, and then let the three naval commanders sit in the basket and be pulled to the deck by the sailors.

Perhaps accustomed to the majesty of the Celestial Empire, Li An did not resist this, he respectfully walked up to Chen Zhaojun and saluted Chen Zhaojun in skilled Chinese - as a high-ranking North Korean general, he is naturally proficient in Chinese, after all, military documents and books are also written in Chinese characters.

Facing the respectful general of the Korean Navy in front of him, Chen Zhaojun did not hold the frame of being the commander of the Celestial Empire, he said in a deep voice: "Commander Li, although the Japanese army is menacing this time, but you and my warships have a firepower advantage, I want to use the Korean Navy to confront the Japanese army head-on, so that the Japanese warships are crowded with each other, and when the war breaks out, I will enter from both sides with eight warships of the Beiyang Navy Division and bombard the crowded places of the Japanese warships with intensive firepower, how about it?"

"Listen to the commanders of the kingdom." Li An clenched his fists and said, "The last general has already ordered the warships in the surrounding sea to come and converge, and it will be assembled in less than two hours, and it will take at least three hours for the Japanese army to get here.

Chen Zhaojun nodded, then shook his head again, he said: "You don't have to wait for the Japanese army to arrive, after the battleships are assembled, you can lead the sailors to take the initiative to meet the Japanese army, and after the battle, pretend to be a mistake in command, so that some of the warships break into the Japanese encirclement and drag the Japanese into close combat.

Li An listened to his words, his face showed a little embarrassment, and he said, "But if the Japanese army is engaged in hand-to-hand combat, our army will pay even greater casualties."

"Don't worry, I know that." Chen Zhaojun said soothingly.

In this way, the tactics were temporarily formulated, and then the naval divisions of the two armies began to gather their respective warships and enter a state of combat readiness.

The warships full of army soldiers also stopped their march towards Kyushu after receiving the situation, and sailed to Tsushima Island to temporarily escape the fighting.

Two hours later, the warships of the Korean naval divisions guarding the surrounding waters were all assembled, and after the general's ship of Ang Lee greeted the flagship of the Xia army with the order flag, it blew the marching horn and headed in the direction of the main Japanese attack.

After the departure of the huge Korean naval division, Chen Zhaojun solemnly looked at the other seven warships guarding around the third-class flagship, which contained two fourth-class battleships, three fifth-class ships, and two short-and-heavy artillery frigates, which could be described as fierce firepower.

Chen Zhaojun divided the eight battleships into two groups, with a fourth-class battleship, a fifth-class ship, and a short-and-heavy artillery frigate acting with his third-class flagship, while the other group operated with the fourth-class battleship "Huai'an" as the flagship, together with the remaining battleships.

After completing the grouping, the battleships set sail, but instead of following behind the Korean sailors, they followed far from the sides of the Korean sailors to prevent them from being detected by the Japanese in advance.

In an hour, whether it is long or not, it is not short to say that it is not short, in the rapid advance of the naval divisions of the Xia and North Korea, the huge military strength of the Japanese naval army slowly appeared in the sight of Li An, the general of the Korean naval army.