Li Jin followed the route planned by the War Department and went all the way south, straight to Fuzhou Mansion in Fujian.

On the third day of going south, I had already rushed to the vicinity of Wenzhou, and it was quite stable along the way, and there was no accident.

However, after arriving in the waters of Wenzhou, Li Jin and Xu Da had to be cautious.

Whether it is the information of the imperial court or the information obtained by Li Jin, the sea area near Wenzhou is the most rampant place for the Japanese invaders.

There is no doubt that there is a great force of Japanese pirates hidden here, but Li Jin and the imperial court have not been able to discover the lair of this Japanese bandits.

"Wei Guogong, this island in the sea of Wenzhou is densely packed with stars and complex waterways, so the sea area here has always been unsafe."

Li Jin and Xu Da stood on the deck, and Li Jin constantly explained to Xu Da the situation in the nearby seas.

"In the Song Dynasty, there used to be a strong navy in charge."

"It is connected to Suzhou and Hangzhou Jiankang City in the north, and overlooks the entire East China Sea in the south, so the geographical location is very important."

"In the East China Sea, it is also a place where soldiers must fight, but unfortunately our emperor has implemented a sea ban, and some military facilities here are all cheap."

"The island chain formed by so many islands, if the Japanese can't come out here, it will be extremely troublesome for us to go in and exterminate them."

"Even if one is not careful, it will run aground on the reef and become fish on the chopping board."

"In some places, once you give up, it takes a lot of energy to regain them."

Listening to Li Jin's slightly reproachful words, how could Xu Da not know the importance of these places.

These days, discussing coastal defense with Li Jin, Xu Da can also be regarded as having some insight into naval operations.

In the past, Xu Da felt that on the vast sea, if he wanted to find the enemy, it was simply looking for a needle in a haystack.

Those pirates are very difficult to find as long as they hide in the sea.

This difficulty is much higher than chasing the Mongols in Mobei.

The Ming soldiers were never afraid of the enemy, and they were confident that they would defeat any enemy who was the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, but what they were most afraid of was not finding where the enemy was.

There is no force, but there is no opponent to vent, and finally the enemy is consumed alive at sea, which is the most terrifying.

But after communicating with Li Jin for a while, Xu Da felt that the sea was actually not so terrible.

Even in Xu Da's view, there are many commonalities between naval battles and land battles.

Whether it is a land war or a naval battle, it is a part of the war, and the march to fight the war, in the final analysis, is logistics.

After all, as long as you are human, you have to eat, and you need food and grass to eat.

When fighting on land, it is necessary to find ways to cut off the supply of food and grass to the other side.

Occupy strategic points, intrude on the enemy's logistics, and let the enemy army be led by the nose.

The same is true for fighting on the sea.

It's just that the strategic places on land have become islands.

The sea is vast, and the only way to get supplies is the islands.

If you want to exterminate the Japanese Bandits, you can only eliminate the trouble of the Japanese Invaders forever by occupying all the islands where the Japanese are standing and making it impossible for the other party to obtain supplies.

And in the island chain in Wenzhou, it was supposed to be a bridgehead in the sea area controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty, but it was given up by Zhu Yuanzhang, how can this not make Li Jin annoyed?

"The emperor also has a hard time doing this."

Xu Da saw that Li Jin blamed Zhu Yuanzhang, and couldn't help but speak for Zhu Yuanzhang:

"Although Zhang Shicheng was defeated at the beginning, his remnants were still not to be underestimated, and these people fled to the island by sea ship, in a vain attempt to continue the confrontation with the emperor."

"Although Fang Guozhen in the south surrendered, the remnants of his subordinates did not choose to surrender, and like the rest of Zhang Shicheng, these people fled to the islands in the Fujian Sea and continued to be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty."

"The most hateful is the pirate Chen Zuyi, this thief set off a bloody storm in the Liangguang area."

"Even the governor of the navy who sent out to suppress the bandits died in the South China Sea, and the 10,000 sailors were all wiped out, which can be described as a heavy loss."

"These pirates and remnants of rebellious parties are entrenched in the seas near the coast, often capturing the coastal people and strengthening their power."

"In order to protect the coastal people from these people, and at the same time prevent these forces from becoming bigger, the emperor issued a ban on the sea."

"If the board doesn't go to the sea, the role at the beginning was very huge, otherwise I'm afraid that now these would-be robbers will have more than such a little power."

Li Jin was a little speechless, since these people were about to ride on Zhu Yuanzhang's head, then Zhu Yuanzhang should clean them up fiercely, instead of giving up the ocean.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yuanzhang is still a small peasant thinker, believing that the Ming Dynasty has abundant products and outstanding people, and only relying on the Central Plains is enough to feed the hundreds of millions of people of the Ming Dynasty.

There is nothing to be gained from entering the sea, and it will take a lot of energy, and the gains outweigh the losses, after all, you can't grow food on the sea.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who holds this kind of thinking, is interested in the sea.

As for Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen's remnants, and Chen Zuyi, it was just a coincidence, and Zhu Yuanzhang found a good reason for himself.

Li Jin was about to continue arguing with Xu Da when he suddenly heard a sharp whistle from the watchtower.

"To the southwest, an enemy ship was spotted."

Li Jin's face instantly became nervous, and he picked up the monocular and began to look in the southwest direction.

Sure enough, Li Jin only searched for a moment before he found the ship.

The skeleton flag is the same as himself, and the hull is as dilapidated as ever, and at first glance it looks like it has been through the vicissitudes of life and the devastation of time.

The other party only had one ship, and his side had more than forty, Li Jin naturally had no fear, and immediately ordered to continue moving forward.

Li Jin's purpose was only to pass through the waters of Wenzhou as soon as possible, reach Fuzhou Prefecture, and rescue Deng Yu.

During this period, Li Jin didn't want to cause trouble, and Xu Da next to him just had the same idea.

Li Jin saw that the other party only had one ship, and felt that the other party should not dare to come to his trouble, so he didn't take it to heart.

But things always backfired, Li Jin didn't want to cause trouble, but the other party didn't intend to let Li Jin go like this.

I saw that the broken ship was swaying towards Li Jin's side, and at the same time, it kept raising the flag to make Li Jin's entire fleet stop and be monitored.

When Li Jin heard the herald's words, he almost laughed angrily.

It seems that these Japanese robbers are used to being arrogant in this sea area, and when they see that they and others want to leave, they think that they are afraid of them.

Li Jin looked at Xu Da and asked:

"Wei Guogong, what do you think?"

"What do you think? Naturally, it is to do good deeds and give them a ride. ”

Xu Da's face was cold, and he didn't have a good impression of these widows.

If it weren't for the rush and the reluctance to make trouble, the thief ship just now would have been sunk by his order.

Now that the other party is so uninteresting and anxious to reincarnate, of course he has to satisfy the other party.

"Boom!"

Xu Da and Li Jin's words did not fall, but the other party fired first.

The cannonballs fell in front of the fleet, stirring up a huge column of water that looked imposing.

Subsequently, the other party called the flag again, asking Li Jin and Xu Da to stop the boat quickly and accept the inspection, otherwise they would not be polite.

Xu Da didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered to sink the other party without leaving a living mouth.

Then, like a giant beast awakened, the flagship began to get busy.

Then on the side of the flagship, the muzzles of black holes were exposed, and the dense cannons pushed into the muzzles, which looked extremely terrifying.

"Boom, boom!"

"Boom, boom!"

The continuous sound of cannons resounded in the sea area of Wenzhou, and the tongues of fire spit out by more than 100 Hongyi cannons continued to bombard the deck of the weak ship.

In less than a moment, the ship was quickly torn apart, disintegrated, exploded, and then sank dramatically.

It took less than half a cup of tea, and there was nothing but a small whirlpool left in place.

As for the Japanese on board, they were blown to pieces by shells before the ship sank.

Even if there was a fluke that was not killed, they were drowned in the whirlpool along with the ship.

This is the first time that the Ming treasure ship has roared on the sea, resounding throughout the East China Sea, which means that the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese will enter a new stage.

Since then, the offense and defense have changed shape, Kou can go, and I can go!