With the drums of war beating, hundreds of ships of the Ming Dynasty marched towards Sado Island, an island inhabited by Japanese people, and there were quite a few of them.

In the past, this island was a place where prisoners were exiled on a small day, but now it is during the Warring States period of a small day, and it is obviously overkill to exile prisoners, and at this time this island has been occupied by the Honma family.

More than 30 years later, one of the so-called ten great warring states of the Wa Kingdom, one of whom was named Uesugi Kenshin, would launch several attacks on the island before finally taking it under his command.

And now, Uesugi Kenshin has not yet been born, and he has not gathered troops and horses to attack this island, this time it is hundreds of warships of the Ming Dynasty.

When there were still a few miles from the shore, the Japanese people on this island obviously discovered the abnormality on the sea, looking at the huge fleet heading here, one by one was obviously nervous, and the sound of gongs and warnings was endless, and then, countless small boats carrying the Japanese people, towards the Ming fleet on the sea.

Zhang Mao stood on the tower in armor, after the wind and waves, the clothes on his body were already soaked, and his body was like a chicken in soup, and on the deck below were thousands of Ming soldiers who were also like chickens in soup.

He looked around at the soldiers below and said in a loud voice: "The old man knows that the clothes on your body are uncomfortable, and the old man is also uncomfortable to wear, and he wanted to repair them on this island, but now it seems that they cannot be repaired.

Seeing that there are no enemy ships in front of them, these people are obviously friends and foes, whether these people are Japanese or not, I will wait until we destroy them first, fight a battle first, earn military merits first, and then I will do repairs! ”

"Pass on the commander's order, the whole army will turn the rudder, line up in the north and south, prepare the artillery, and fire it all in unison within 100 steps!"

At the sound of an order, the sound of trumpets and war drums sounded in unison, the flag was waved again, and more than a dozen ships in the front began to turn their rudders and adjust their hulls.

Xia Yuan leaned on the railing, squinting his eyes and trying his best to look, the Japanese ships coming from Sado Island were densely packed, at least two or three hundred, and all of them were very small.

Compared with such a behemoth as the Ming warship, it is simply a small fishing boat.

In the rumbling sound of war drums, the fleet of the Honma family had already reached the engagement range with more than a dozen Ming warships at the front, followed by thunderous cannon fire.

Hearing this cannon fire, Zhu Houzhao suddenly became anxious, "Hurry, hurry!" There's a fight ahead, hurry up! ”

The ship they were on was originally at the front, on a par with Zhang Mao's ship, and even faintly exceeded some of them.

But now, the sailors in the cabin who were in charge of rocking the oars were tired and almost collapsed, but they couldn't speed up at all.

After all, there was a whale carcass in tow behind the boat.

Seeing that the artillery fire in front of him was becoming more and more intense, Zhu Houzhao jumped to his feet anxiously, and he couldn't wait to carry a knife to cut off the ropes that tied the whales one by one, and abandoned the whale in order to speed up the speed, but he was really reluctant.

He was in a hurry, and the battle ahead had already entered a white heat.

This Honma family is considered a relatively powerful daimyo, and because it hangs on an island and faces the sea on all sides, it is natural to vigorously develop the naval army, and the naval strength in its hands can be ranked among the top in the entire Wa country.

But now there are more daimyo than dogs, and all the daimyo combined, their military strength is far inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention that he is just a family, mentioning the whole battle process, it makes these Japanese people feel sad, two or three hundred ships are a lot, but compared with the ships of the Ming Dynasty, it is like a yacht meets a cruise ship.

In front of the incomparable tonnage, the arrows shot out one by one did not pose a threat at all, and before they even reached the range, they were annihilated by the huge waves set off by the Ming ships.

There are also those shells, although they are not flowering shells, and it is very difficult to fight whales, but it is more than enough to fight these Japanese ships, and the Japanese people on board die and jump into the sea.

The whole battle process can be described by the word crushing.

Soon, under the strong artillery attack, a gap was opened in the fleet of two or three hundred Japanese ships, but the dozen or so Ming ships in front of them ignored it, turned the rudder to adjust the hull, and rushed through the gap and drove forward.

The rest of the Japanese ships, as well as the Japanese who jumped into the sea, have their own ships behind them to deal with them, and now they have to rush to the beach and land, because the island in front of them has obviously begun to assemble a large army.

It is necessary to reach the shore before the army gathers, and fire cannons to block the assembly of these people, otherwise when the soldiers disembark, it is likely that they will be blocked.

Under the harvest round after round in this way, by the time Xia Yuan and Zhu Houzhao finally rushed over, most of the fleet of the Japanese had been wiped out, and only a few dozen ships remained.

At this time, the whole sea was full of red, and there were countless Japanese people in the sea, some dead, many still alive, some holding on to the planks, and some fluttering vigorously in the sea.

"Stop the ship, stop the ship!"

Zhu Houzhao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the group of dogs in front of him was quite conscientious, and he knew that he would leave a mouthful of soup for himself to drink.

He hurriedly stopped the ship, and he was not ready to chase it any further, and when the chase passed, the landing battle would definitely not be rushed, and it would be better to fight these widows first.

Xia Yuan happened to think the same way, looking at the widows fluttering in the sea, one by one yelling and shouting, he turned his head to Zhu Houzhao and said, "Your Highness, has Your Highness ever heard a word?" ”

"What?" Zhu Houzhao's brows furrowed, and he looked a little impatient at this time, he was in a hurry to give an order and organize people to open fire.

"Hit high, hit low, hit stupid."

"Huh?" Zhu Houzhao was stunned.

"Your Highness, you see that these Japanese people on the sea are like live targets, just let the soldiers use them to practice the accuracy of the fire gun and the archery of the bow and arrow."

Xia Yuan pointed at the countless fluttering widows on the sea, smiling, the smile on his face was still that kind feeling, but it made Zhu Houzhao feel a kind of hairy feeling in his heart, somehow, he saw a kind of happiness and hatred from this smile.

He licked his lips and smacked his lips again, "Hongu. Why do you think you seem to have a deep hatred with these widows? ”

"Of course, in the past hundred years, there have been many people slaughtered by the Japanese people on the southeast coast of my Ming Dynasty, this is a blood debt that pours the sky, doesn't His Highness have a deep hatred for this?"

"That's natural." Zhu Houzhao's expression was straight, and when he talked about the troubles, how could he not have hatred.

But he always felt that Xia Yuan's deep hatred for the Japanese people was not only that, not only because of the years of trouble, but also for other and deeper reasons.

Xia Yuan didn't allow him to continue to think about it, squinted his eyes and said: "Now is the time for me to wait for revenge, to avenge the people of the Ming Dynasty who died in the trouble, and such a good live target, no need to use it in vain, just enough to let our soldiers practice archery and accuracy, Your Highness, what are you waiting for, give an order quickly." ”

"Wait a minute, I will give the order, this palace still has a word to say."

"What are you going to say?"

“.”

Zhu Houzhao didn't look at him anymore, he looked at the Japanese people on the sea with the side of the boat, took a deep breath, and shouted with all his strength: "私は天下の兵馬大元帥朱厚照で, あなたたちを討爾しに来たのです,死んでください!" ”

PS: I'm coming back late, and I can't stay up, so let's make a change today, sorry, tomorrow Saturday and three more.

(End of chapter)