"Nani?!" The Japanese navy went up and down, and Qi Qi was shocked for a while.

It wasn't until a boat directly hit the red lanterns that they realized that the lanterns were hanging from the masts of dozens of small sampans.

The height of the sampan mast was not enough, and the Ming army also added a bamboo pole and used the other end of the bamboo pole to pick up the red lantern.

The height of the bamboo pole and the mast is the same as the height of the lantern hung by the real Ming warship. Tonight was calm again, and the small sampan was basically floating, and it was really difficult to find flaws from a distance.

But the small sampan, which only holds two or three people, is not a hundredth of the size of a normal battleship, and of course it is difficult to be hit.

Looking at the empty small sampans with hanging lamps, the Japanese navy once again fell into doubt, what kind of fame is this.

They were already scared, but now they are even more suspicious. The three sailors stopped at the mouth of the bay together, and the three commanders hurriedly gathered on Otomo's ship for urgent consultations.

"What do you think?" Otomo holds a bamboo pole taken from a small sampan, and a red lantern hangs from the other end of the bamboo pole.

Looking at the slightly beating lights in the red gauze lanterns, Matsuura Pingxin said in a deep voice: "I was a little scared at first, worried that it was a trap of the Ming army. But when I thought about it, I was ecstatic, because I realized that it was not a trap at all, but a ......"

He thought about it for a moment and made an analogy: "The scarecrow of the farmer!" ”

"Scarecrow?" Shimazu's eyes lit up and said, "Well said, it's a scarecrow!" ”

"The farmer was so annoyed by the sparrows that came from the field that he tied them with straw and put a hat on them and dressed them, so that the sparrow would think that he had been in the field and would not dare to fall." Matsuura nodded and said:

"In my opinion, the same is true of the Ming army. It was too tiring to send warships to patrol the mouth of the bay every night, so they used this method to scare us from approaching. ”

"Are you sure it's not a trap?" Otomo asked in a deep voice.

"If you don't do this at Wankou, we'll go in the same way. If we do, we might be scared away," Matsuura said confidently, "If it's a trap, it's too clumsy." ”

"Makes sense! It must be what you say. Shimazu praised Matsuura Heinobu for a long time: "I didn't know that Heinobu-kun was such a wise man before. ”

"Where, it's still far from below." Matsuura Pingxin was busy with modesty, and asked Otomo by his own name: "How do you judge your own name?" ”

"I agree with that." Otomo nodded and said, "Put yourself in your shoes, we have been harassing the Ming army for several days, and they have sent fleets to expel them over and over again, which will indeed be annoying." In this way, we want to scare us away effortlessly, anyway, we never dare to get close, only knock and beat from a distance, and we can't see the flaws. ”

"Doesn't this mean that our paralysis operation has worked?!" Shimazu said in ecstasy.

"That's how it should be!" Otomo's name exhaled turbidity, and the eyes of the whole person changed. "I didn't expect the Ming army to relax so quickly. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm so excited! ”

"Yes, the peasants use the scarecrow to be lazy, and the Ming army uses the 'scarecrow' to rest in peace!" Matsuura said in a deep voice.

"So what are you waiting for? Change your plans! Shimazu said excitedly: "Since the Ming army is so big, we don't need to be so careful." ”

Over the years, the Kyushu Navy has suffered too many losses in front of the Sea King's Great Ming Sailor. When the Japanese were no longer as popular as they were back then, but became a high-risk industry, they would thank God every time they went to sea and came back alive, and they didn't ask for any benefits......

Now, an opportunity to inflict a heavy blow or even eliminate the Great Ming Sailor suddenly appeared in front of them, and the hopeless adventurism of the Japanese came to the fore again.

The three of them threw away the previous idea of preserving their strength and leaving as soon as they dipped it, and finally unanimously decided to attack with all their might!

After Matsuura Heinobu and Shimazu returned to their respective ships, the three of them gathered their men and announced a change of plan, which was unanimously supported by their subordinates!

The previous gloomy atmosphere was swept away and replaced by frenetic excitement!

This nation is like this, when there is no hope, they are submissive, groveling, and once they see hope, they immediately change their faces and strike hard!

In this process, the Ming fleet in the bay has not moved, and the people on board are obviously sleeping peacefully as they expected.

On the fourth watch, the three sailors rowed at full speed at the same time. In the sound of rapid paddling, the Kyushu Navy quickly approached the anchorage of the Ming State Navy Division in the center of the bay.

The tactics of the Japanese naval forces in this era were no different from those of the Baijiang Village naval battle in the Tang Dynasty, that is, a three-piece set of arrows, fire attacks, and broadside battles.

During the battle, they paddled desperately, taking advantage of their speed to quickly approach the enemy, first throwing the sulfur that was abundant in Japan, and then setting it on fire with rockets.

If it can start a fire, they will ignore it, and if the fire is not enough to burn the enemy ships, they will take advantage of the chaos of the enemy army busy fighting the fire, take the opportunity to take the ship, jump on the enemy ship and engage in a white-knuckle battle!

Their ships are covered with towers that look like illegal buildings, just to make it easier to jump on enemy ships in the event of a war!

Under the full force of the sailors' oars, the dense Japanese ships swooped down like locusts on the Ming anchorage miles away.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the Japanese had already seen the lantern torches on the Ming battleships.

This time it won't be scarecrows anymore, because they can clearly see the silhouettes of those Ming warships, terrifying like prehistoric behemoths in the dark sea. If it weren't for the sleeping beasts, they wouldn't have dared to approach them.

At the thought of being able to sneak attack such a giant beast and inflict heavy damage on it, the Kyushu Navy was breathing heavily with excitement, holding the bow and arrow and throwing rope in his hand tightly, just waiting to enter the shooting range!

300 zhang, 200 zhang, 100 zhang......

Just when the two sides were a hundred feet apart, a Ming warship suddenly burst into flames, and an earth-shattering sound of cannon was heard, and the muzzles of the upper and lower rows of black holes were fired at the same time!

Snakes erupted from the muzzles of the cannons, and shells whistled and smashed into the oncoming Japanese fleet. This cannon sound is another signal for attack, completely waking up the sleeping bay!

The Ming warships lined up in a long row, and then fired at the same time, and the continuous sound of artillery was deafening, covering up all the sounds in heaven and earth, and also making the Kyushu Navy stop thinking.

When they came back to their senses, they saw that the sea was full of broken wrecks and countless broken limbs on the surface of the sea in all directions. Countless officers and soldiers who fell into the water were crying and shouting for help......

The Kyushu sailor, who was still in high spirits, was hit hard in a blink of an eye.

(End of chapter)