On the third day after Wu Weizhong led the team to set off, Ma Gui, who was transferred to Busan for training, and Lou Nan, deputy commander-in-chief, led the second fleet to set off in the direction of Tsushima Island.

And Qi Jiguang set off by boat with 5,000 officers and soldiers the day after Magui Lounan's departure, and also came in the direction of Tsushima Island.

Although it is the early spring, not the season of frequent typhoons in summer and autumn, but the weather is not so absolute many times, and historically, there are also typhoons in this area in the first month, so Qi Jiguang in order to avoid bad luck for the army, or encounter typhoons, so he will divide the army into multiple batches to recruit the Japanese, instead of marching together.

The first batch led by Wu Weizhong, with more than 500 warships and a fleet of tens of thousands of people, successfully arrived at Tsushima Island the next day.

Although there were many ships and many people, most of them were Korean mercenaries and Jurchen, Sauron and other Yiding recruited in Liaodong, and the real regular main force of southern soldiers was only 6,000 troops.

Tsushima Island is close to Busan and Heido, so you can almost reach it in one day.

Because of this, Tsushima Island has always been a strategic location for the Japanese invasion of Korea.

In this era, the lord of Tsushima was subordinate to both the Japanese and Korean clans, which was equivalent to being both a daimyo and a Korean general.

The reason for this is that the Jong clan could not offend either the Wa Kingdom or the Joseon Dynasty.

However, the Ming Dynasty had already made North Korea agree to use Busan, Jeju, and Tsushima as the places where the Ming garrison would be.

Therefore, Tsushima Island has been regarded as the garrison of the Ming Dynasty.

It was only because the Ming Dynasty had been conducting sea crossing and landing training in Busan before that he did not directly send troops to Tsushima Island.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has only now begun to officially attack Tsushima Island.

The clan built a golden stone castle on Tsushima Island, which was the political and economic center of Tsushima Island.

However, after Wu Weizhong and others arrived on Tsushima Island, the Golden Stone City on Tsushima Island had already been emptied.

Because the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom had learned in advance that the Ming army was going to set out from Korea to conquer the Wa, they adopted the strategy of clearing the field with strong walls and shrinking the battle line, and did not intend to fight a decisive battle with the Ming officers and troops on Tsushima Island, which had no rear support.

"The Japanese are really cunning and know how to fight against my Celestial Empire."

Wu Weizhong also couldn't help but say a word after learning that there was no grain in Jinshi City on Tsushima Island, and all the timber of the houses had been burned, and there were no vegetables.

"As long as there is no kamikaze, this vast sea, it makes people really dizzy after watching it for a long time!"

Song Yingchang resisted the urge to vomit again, and lay on the railing weakly on all fours, like an octopus, and spoke.

He now regrets following what kind of fairy Zhang got on the boat.

And Song Yingchang originally planned to take Zhang Shenxian on the ship and mix up military merits, in this way, if he wins the battle against the Japanese, he will not only recommend Zhang Shenxian to retreat from the demon wind, but also assist Wu Weizhong to land.

Song Yingchang knew that the Ming Dynasty was now a reformist in power, and all of them valued merit, while moral fame was secondary, whether it was Jin Xuezeng, who was promoted to the governor of Jiangsu by introducing a sudden rise in grain, or because of the example of Lu Kunchao, the former political envoy of Shandong who had made a meritorious contribution to the implementation of the integration of officials and gentry to the south with Hai Rui, to participate in politics and participate in politics as the governor of Fengyang, all show that if you want to be promoted, you can't do it without the merits of taking a shot.

Therefore, he resolutely decided to take a big gamble, fighting the risk of encountering the demon wind and dying in the belly of the fish, and followed Wu Weizhong on the ship to conquer the Japanese, in order to let the court know that he was a civil servant who knew how to cooperate with the generals.

But Song Yingchang didn't expect that not long after he got on the boat, he was the most powerful person in the whole ship.

And the military attaché soldiers and Zhang Shenxian of the whole ship didn't vomit much.

Therefore, Song Yingchang was a little remorseful.

Qi Jiguang was afraid that the officers and men of the conscripts would get seasick, which would affect their combat effectiveness after landing, so he asked Wu Weizhong and others to conduct a long period of sea training for the officers and men of the conscripts in Busan, so that all the officers and men would not get seasick, and at least they could screen out the officers and men who did not get seasick.

Now those who can go to sea with Wu Weizhong are not seasick, and they have long been accustomed to the vastness of the sea, so they are not like Song Yingchang.

Wu Weizhong saw that Song Yingchang was like this, so he suggested: "Why don't you stay in Jinshi City to rest for a while?" ”

Song Yingchang thought about it and waved his hand and said: "No need, didn't the prince say that after Tsushima Island, you will be able to go to Hirado in one day, and the lower officials have to insist on it, and strive for the opportunity to have a hand at the time when the time comes!" ”

Seeing this, Wu Weizhong did not dissuade him anymore, and only left 500 Ming soldiers and 2,000 soldiers and some grain and grass on Tsushima Island, which were used as a transit point for increasing troops and grain and grass in the future.

Then, after letting the army stay on Tsushima Island for the night, Wu Weizhong set out on the second day, the 21st day of the first month, and went to Hirado.

There was still no strong wind along the way, only a light breeze, and it was as cold as a knife.

After all, it was in the early spring when the typhoon was inactive, and the Ming Dynasty also made sufficient preparations for the conquest of the Japanese, and also bought the Japanese people who traded between Hirado and Tsushima Island, North Korea and other places as guides, so they also knew when the typhoon was not active.

In addition, today's Ming Dynasty is not as good as the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, because the trade with the Japanese is very frequent, and the sea conditions in this area have long been very clear.

After Wu Weizhong and his entourage arrived at Hirado Port, they saw a large number of Japanese warships spread across the river.

These warships of the Wa Kingdom were mainly based on the Seki ship, a medium-sized warship, and the Shaoli Anzhai ship.

Ataka ships are a kind of large warships that can fire cannons, and some Ataka ships are also wrapped in iron armor, that is, the kind of ironclad warships used by Oda Nobunaga's subordinate Kuki Yoshitaka in the battle against the Maori naval army, but because of the high cost, there are not many of them, and at this time there are only about three, concentrated in the outermost part of the port.

Not only did the three overlords of Shimazu, Otomo, and Ryuzoji in Kyushu have to stop fighting and make peace and unanimously deal with the Ming Dynasty, but also from the concentration of all the sailors of the three parties, and took out all the warships that watched the family, and even at this time, the famous general of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was good at water warfare in the Wa Kingdom, also personally led the Shimazu naval army to Hirado Port to assist the Matsuura clan Matsuura naval army and the Zong naval army of Hizen Province to fight against the Ming army.

Wu Weizhong squinted at these dense warships of the Japanese Kingdom, and did not directly order an attack, but waited for the wave boat of his own sentinel to come back and explain the layout of the enemy warships, and then said to the general Tong Ziming:

"The Japanese put the big ship out because they wanted to attack and defend, and then lead me into their trap, so that they could besiege and attack us. I personally led your fleet across and landed. ”

Tong Ziming said yes.

So, Wu Weizhong switched with Tong Ziming and went to Tong Ziming's warship.

At this time, Shimazu Yoshihiro of the Wa Kingdom really led more than 300 warships to rush towards the location of the flagship of the Ming army, and he even rushed forward on a ten-zhang long Azhai ironclad ship.

Here in the Ming army, Tong Ziming immediately ordered the cannon to be fired after these warships arrived.

So, under the cloud sails, the dark rows of cannon muzzles suddenly spit out tongues of fire, and when the waves rolled, these shells were fired.

The artillery range of the Ming warships could reach several thousand meters, and hundreds of warships fired their cannons at such a time, which naturally poured like a rain of iron in the sky, and in the sound of thunderous drums in winter, many Japanese ships were beaten into pieces of wood.

On the Japanese side, because the maximum firing range of its artillery is only a few hundred meters, it is equivalent to an ordinary Franc machine iron cannon, and the hull itself cannot be equipped with multi-layer artillery in the hull, only the middle pavilion is aggressive, and before it rushes within a few hundred meters of the Ming warship, it can only be passively beaten.

Shimazu Yoshihiro's face was naturally very ugly when he saw this, although he had already guessed that the main warship of the Ming army would definitely be difficult to deal with by seeing the Ming army's double-deck ships of fifteen or sixteen zhang long, but he did not expect that the main warships of the Ming army were not only large, but the key was that the artillery was so powerful.

Peng!

After Shimazu Yoshihiro saw that the ironclad Ataka ship he was riding on was also hit several times, and the central pavilion was also hit once, he had to order a retreat in advance, giving up the idea of fighting against the Ming army.

It's just that when retreating, Shimazu Yoshihiro still looked back, and when he saw that the Ming warships did not catch up, he was immediately shocked.