The atmosphere on the deck immediately became tense, in terms of numbers, the number of warships of the Japanese Kingdom was a little more than their own, but the size and attack power of the side must have surpassed the Japanese people by a lot, but their fleet was foreign, they did not know the enemy at all, and the terrain was not as familiar as the enemy.

"Order the cavalry and the ships carrying goods to retreat, and the other warships will line up in a column to prepare to meet the enemy, Gan Lao, the details will be under your command!" Wang Junlin's expression was calm, he stood on the bow of the boat, and gave a faint order.

"Obedience." Gan Ziqi agreed, took a deep breath, and issued a series of orders.

The earth-shattering war drums sounded on the calm sea, and all the sailors and warships that received the order became nervous, pulling the fleet of cavalry and goods, while lowering the small boat for communication, began to change the sails, and slowly retreated.

Another fifty ships sailed to their positions according to the requirements of their training, the ships were joined end to tail in a triangular wing-wing formation, and the officers drove the soldiers into their positions, and the fifty ships were equipped with three hundred (six each) of improved small stone throwers, and specially trained operators carefully carried the powder packets at hand; In addition, there are one hundred and fifty huge giant guns. The crossbow had been opened, and it was aimed at the black dot in the distance.

After the drum sounded three times, the sea was silent, and only the sailor flag of Dou Da hunted in the sea breeze. Everyone was already dressed up and standing on the deck of the flagship, watching the warlike approach of the Japanese kingdom. Wang Junlin squinted at the direction of the flag fluttering, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "We have the upper hand." ”

"My lord, it is better to send someone to ask them about their intentions first." Gan Ziqi asked Wang Junlin for instructions.

"It's fine." Wang Junlin nodded in agreement.

"Who wants to ask them what they are here for?" Gan Ziqi didn't look back at the subordinates behind him, and asked sharply.

"The villain is willing to go." The person who asked for the order was a Japanese man named Yasui Ichiro, a pirate leader of the Japanese Kingdom that Gan Ziqi had subdued during this time.

"Very good, then you can go!" Gan Ziqi glanced at this subordinate approvingly, and with a wave of his hand, a soldier had already put down the boat, hoisted Yasui Ichiro, and sailed towards the fleet of the Japanese country.

"One hundred and twenty-five enemy ships, seventy-five fighting ships, and fifty stray ships!" Suddenly, the lookout soldier shouted.

"Got a walker?" Gan Ziqi frowned.

"Our army is full of large sailing ships, and it will be disadvantageous if we let the enemy get close to the enemy." Because he was not familiar with Gan Ziqi's subordinate sailors, Wang Junlin gave Gan Ziqi full command, but at this time, he couldn't help but remind that after all, there were fifty gold, silver and jewels behind, and it would be a pity for any ship to sink into the sea.

"Humble duty understood." Gan Ziqi raised his hand and shouted: "Inform all ships, prepare to meet the enemy, and listen to my orders to attack!" "Giving such an order is obviously not taking Ichiro Yasui to heart.

The Wakokus had apparently spotted the massive fleet that had appeared in front of them, and they stopped at the farthest point of sight, as if hesitating about something. Such a large and neat fleet is very rare on the sea of this era! No one dares to act rashly and provoke a strong enemy for no reason.

"Maybe the Japanese are going to give up." The same thought crossed the minds of all of them. However, after a short pause, the Japanese began to change their formation, with fifty ships marching in front of the ship in a horizontal formation, and seventy-five fighting ships in the rear, in columns.

"The Japanese want to rush forward with a walker, and the escort fighting ships will attack." Gan Ziqi said, and as soon as the words fell, the fleet of the Japanese Kingdom began to approach again.

"The Japanese people are not good." Wei Chi Jingde felt a little uncomfortable on the boat, and couldn't help but be a little worried, and said: "The Japanese people are still approaching, it is obvious that they have bad intentions, they are simply looking for death, and the person sent by Gan Lao may not be able to live." ”

"It's just a widow, and if you die, you'll die, and it's too late to say anything more." Gan Ziqi raised his eyes and glanced at Yasui Ichiro's boat, and said coldly.

Wang Junlin also had a murderous face: "I wanted to do business with the Japanese people for a few years first, but since this is the case, then I will cripple their sailors first!" ”

Shen Guo'er thought for a moment and said, "If the information we collected before is not wrong, the current Wa Kingdom is the imperial woman who has an in-law relationship with the Su I clan, Feng Yu Shiwu Ji is the ancient emperor. This woman's nomination of Prince Shotoku as regent was a man of great skill who was in the midst of political reforms centered on strengthening imperial power. At the same time, they also sent envoys and many people to study in the Sui Dynasty, but the reform had only been carried out for three or four years, and their national and military strength was not much stronger. ”

The Nara period in which Prince Shotoku lived, that is, the era when Nara (Heijokyo) was the capital, was a very famous period of reform and prosperity in the history of the Wa Kingdom, and it was the heyday of the development and prosperity of the Wa Kingdom towards the Ritsu system, especially in terms of political and economic systems, class relations, culture, and foreign relations.

Moreover, the Imperial Court of the Wa Kingdom also tried to rectify the chaotic political situation, reduce financial expenditures, reform the military system, and already had the ambition to expand its territory to the surrounding areas, and the first plan set by the Prince Shotoku was to collect and annex all the pirates in the waters of the Wa Kingdom and the Korean Peninsula, but the king was in the first place, so that Gan Ziqi had already controlled all the pirates.

Prince Shotoku was furious, and he was afraid of the Great Sui behind him, and he didn't dare to act rashly, but recently he got the news that the Sui Dynasty, which was extremely powerful in the eyes of the Japanese people, had lost to Goguryeo, and most of Prince Shotoku's jealousy of the Great Sui disappeared, after all, Prince Shotoku had never seen the three kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla in his eyes, and in his ambition, he wanted to turn these three kingdoms into his own national territory.

Therefore, when Prince Shotoku learned that a Sui Dynasty ship passed by, he sent a sailor over, and according to his idea, after annihilating this sailor, the power of the sailor in this sea area weakened, and they could take the opportunity to carry out the original plan.

It's a pity that although this Prince Shotoku can be regarded as a great talent, he is far from underestimating the combat power of Wang Junlin's sailors, and this can't be blamed on them, after all, under normal circumstances, a battleship as large as Wang Junlin's sailors and the stone-throwing machines, long-range furies, and gunpowder packs equipped on them should not appear.

"My lord, the sailors of the Wa Kingdom are no different from pirates, and they have often dressed up as pirates to rob maritime merchants over the years." Gan Ziqi sneered and sneered.

Wang Junlin said with a smile: "This is related to the fact that the Japanese are a small island country, they originally had a limited area on the island, limited resources, and limited food they planted, but their population reproduction ability is very strong, but the population is quite a lot, coupled with the frequent occurrence of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons, which determines that they have been very predatory since ancient times. ”