The ensuing battle was much different from the Battle of Hakata Bay.

The Northern Korean army was the elite of a hundred battles, and there were generals who personally supervised the battle, even if they suffered huge losses, they still continued to sail towards the Ming army, fired bows and arrows at them, and set up ladders and hooks after desperately approaching, trying to board the Ming ships for hand-to-hand combat.

But the same trick has already been seen by the Ming army, and when it comes to naval warfare, the Northern Korean naval army is really not as skilled as the Kyushu naval army. Besides, it was daytime, so there was no way to sneak on the ship while the Ming army was not paying attention.

As a result, all of them were killed during the climb, fell into the sea by overturning ladders, and were even smashed in the skulls by shells dropped by the Ming army, and as a result, almost no Japanese troops were able to climb the deck of the Ming ships......

The artillery of the Ming army was fired every few moments, and each time it could take the lives of countless Japanese soldiers.

This time, the Ming army was using shotguns or grapeshot shells from beginning to end, and they found through actual combat that these two kinds of shells were fired in the face, causing much greater damage than solid shells.

The two sides fought fiercely from noon to dusk, and the Japanese army was still helpless against the Ming army. In the face of great sacrifices, they finally calmed down and began to appear as deserters.

At this time, the Japanese army suddenly discovered that the problem of ship blockage was finally solved, and sea traffic returned to normal.

It's just that the price is too much......

More than half of the Japanese ships were either sunk or riddled with holes, and drifted in the Kanmon Strait.

The Kanmon Strait, like Hakata Bay that day, was dyed blood-red. Blood-stained waters slowly flow eastward out of the strait and into the Seto Inland Sea, carrying countless mutilated limbs and shipwrecks......

The escape soon turned into a rout, and the remaining Japanese troops either fled back to the north shore, or fled to the south coast, and some even fled directly to the Seto Inland Sea.

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The high-level of the shogunate watched the battle at close range, and the shock caused to them by this battle was much greater than that of the high-level officials of the Southern Dynasty who listened to the sound of cannons in Shuicheng.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu on the shore was devastated by the blow, and he knew that he would never be able to defeat the Ming naval army in front of him.

This means that the plan to rescue Kyushu has completely failed, and the dream of reunification of Hachihong and Yiyu is impossible to come true. Not to mention the ethereal dream of the emperor...... All of them were shattered in this rout of disparity in strength.

General Spoyi and other retainers also felt a deep sense of loss. The defeat in this battle not only dealt a heavy blow to the Muromachi shogunate, which was like the rising sun. Moreover, the self-confidence of the Japanese because of the repulsion of the Yuan Dynasty was completely extinguished......

The fear buried in the depths of my memory came back to my heart.

This made the people of the shogunate annoyed, but they also had a faint sense of peace, feeling that the Heavenly Empire should be like this, which was in line with their vision of the Han and Tang Dynasties......

It wasn't until the Ming warship discovered them and opened fire on them that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the others were recalled from their complex emotions and faced with a bleak reality.

"General, we're too close to the sea, let's quickly retreat to Shimonoseki City." General Spooyi saw a large iron egg falling behind him, tearing a large hole in the general's curtain, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered someone to protect the general's retreat.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was no longer stiff, and silently accepted the arrangement of the pen.

The shogunate officials fled back to Shimonoseki Castle in embarrassment, and they were relieved. Then a tricky question came to mind, other messes can be slowly cleaned up, what about the 20,000 Japanese troops who have already crossed the sea?

"How did it become 20,000?" After listening to General Spo's questioning, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu asked rhetorically.

"Later, when we retreated, many of the ships withdrew to the opposite shore, and the sailors and soldiers disembarked and went to the castle to ask for shelter." Spooy will explain:

"So now there are at least 20,000 of our people on the other side of the strait, and dozens of other ministers, including His Excellency Imagawa, who served as a pioneer officer, are also on the other side."

In fact, it was because of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's previous order that those who retreated were killed, and a team of warlords was also sent, so this situation occurred. Of course, no one dares to mention which pot at this time.

"There's no way to pick them up for the time being." Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought about it, sighed, and said, "Let them settle down in Kitakyushu first." Then contact the Southern Dynasty and let them be responsible for providing food and grass! ”

Saying that, he slammed his hateful punch on Xiao Ji and said: "This time it really made them miserable, and I have to beg them, it's really depressing!" ”

General Spoyi sighed and said, "Leave the matter here to me, and the general should hurry back to Kanto." When the news of the defeat in this battle came back, Kyoto was sure to be in chaos again. ”

"Who dares not to look long, I will not be polite!" Ashikaga Yoshimitsu gritted his teeth and said: "I can't control the Ming Army, and I can't clean them up?!" ”

"At present, the great enemy still needs to be united." General Spoyi advised: "It's not too late to settle accounts after the autumn. ”

"Well...... "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can achieve today, and it is indispensable to listen to persuasion.

~~

After seeing off the Shogun, who had hurried back to Beijing, General Spoyi hurriedly managed to send someone to avoid the strait and go from the Seto Inland Sea to the territory of the Otomo family in Eastern Kyushu to contact the Southern Dynasty to discuss the follow-up matters.

A few days later, the people sent finally arrived at Dansheng Island with great difficulty, and after explaining their intentions, they were sent to Mizujo by the Otomo family.

As a result, before the group arrived at Shuicheng, they learned from the mouths of the defeated defeated army that Shuicheng had fallen.

Shuicheng has indeed been captured by the Ming army. This is actually not in the plan formulated before the war, but a temporary play added by Wang Bi and the Hu Quan brothers after discussion.

Originally, they took the lead first, simply broke through the 'Protector Divine Wall', besieged Shuicheng, plundered Dazaifu, and comfortably annihilated the Kyushu army that came to help one after another, and they had completed all the tasks perfectly.

Wang Bi and the others were also very happy, so they fought unhurriedly for a while, but after the Japanese fleet won the Battle of Hakata Bay, their minds began to change.

The moment they saw the battle report, the army generals were sour. Good fellow, destroy more than 1,500 enemy ships and destroy more than 30,000 enemy men. Directly compared to them.

This sour mood reached its climax after the Battle of the Guanmen Strait, and this time it was even more exaggerated, destroying more than 2,000 enemy ships and annihilating more than 50,000 enemy men.

Compared with other navies, their army's achievements are completely unmatched.

The Ming Dynasty started by relying on the army, and the world mainly relied on them to fight down. The army has always had a sense of superiority in front of the navy, how can it stand this?

Brothers, no, we can't just do it. Now some people in the sailors say that we are specially picking up loot, and when the battle is over, we will not be able to raise our heads at all.

So they hit it off and decided to make a vote, so that the navy could not steal the limelight.

After some planning, Wang Bi brought another 20 artillery pieces from the rear and bombarded the city wall in turn, day and night.

This time, instead of bombarding the middle and upper part of the wall, the cannon was fired at the root of the wall, and it didn't take long to make several large holes.

Of course, the foundation of the city wall is the thickest, and if there are holes, they will not collapse. So the Japanese didn't care too much, and of course they couldn't help it.

Who knew that the Ming army was just digging a few holes.

Last night, Hu Bo took 200 soldiers with good water qualities, each holding a piece of cork and carrying a jar full of gunpowder, and under the cover of the sound of cannons, he crossed the moat, stuffed the gunpowder jars into the big holes, and then inserted a stick of incense into one of the jars, and lit it as a delay lead.

When they withdrew to the other side of the river, they saw that the city wall exploded like a thunderbolt, and in the earth-shattering explosion, the wall of the water city collapsed for a long time.

(End of chapter)