Chapter 40: The Coalition
Quite a few boats! ”
On an old-fashioned single-gun deck shark ship with a stern, Long Junxiong wears a Nanyang cuirass and a helmet on his head, and looks like the general flag of the Ming army.
At this time, he was standing in the stern, holding a brass telescope and looking at the Oda naval army waiting on the coast in the distance.
His car is an old ship in the South Seas, but in terms of the year of launching, it is far from old, the thick board material can block the lead feather arrows, and the type of ship that pays attention to the first attention to the artillery can also allow it to bear the eight guns on the side of the ship to launch a salvo, although it is far less than the so-called six Ding Liujia, but its five hundred material regulation of the shape of the ship and sixteen gunwales are enough to deter all enemies in this sea area.
After the five old shark ships, there are more than 200 Japanese offshore and inland river warships, of which the small morning boats with a length of 7 or 8 steps are the least, and most of them are 10 to 17 steps long.
But Long Toshio did not have a house ship, these Japanese ships under his command were all warships captured by Chen Bazhi after the Western Daimyo expelled Maori, and in order to make up for the disadvantage of jumping battles, he also had eight three-masted Daifuku that were originally used as grain ships in his formation.
Belonging to the East Asian ship system of this era, Daifuku is very different from Anzhai, and the Fu ship is developed on the basis of the Song Dynasty sea ships; The small haya boat was expanded by a canoe, the Sekibune built a small house on the small morning boat, and the ata built a large house on the larger small morning boat.
This kind of ship shape is good, the only disadvantage is that it has been used for too long, the battle of Baijiangkou in the Tang Dynasty, Japan used this ship, the sneak attack on Mongolia is still this ship, and the exploration and trade with the Ming Dynasty is still this ship, and it is still this ship, and it is ...... Old friends reappeared.
The Ataka ship had more troops, but the oars and sails decided that they needed more helmsmen, and the Japanese warships were not stained in water battles, but once the water battles changed from water battles to hand-to-hand combat with jumping boats and dancing knives, the advantage appeared.
The Daifuku ship carries a little less troops, but the sail operator only needs less than ten people, which is more worry-free, and Long Junxiong also added two light Fulang machines to the Fukufu, which is already as good as he can be armed.
However, although there are differences in the shapes, the purpose of both ships is the same, which is to fight at sea and fire.
The distance between the two sides was seven or eight miles, and Takashi squinted his eyes and observed the coast: "There are only more than a hundred ships, Oda will not be on this point of warship, there may be other ambushes at the mouth of the river, gather people and horses on the shore, they want to lure us to the middle, give orders!" ”
"The four-way navy, after the war, fought on their own, each blockaded Osaka Bay, and fought to the death with the enemy, everyone boasted of being a fierce general of the Western Navy, let us see what we can do!"
Putting away the binoculars, Takashi Toshio crooked his lips and smiled, he wanted to annihilate all the forces of the Oda clan at sea in one battle, the enemy wanted to seduce him, and he also wanted to seduce the enemy...... He was born in a Japanese and did not have any clever tactics, but he had the manpower to lure, four fleets of two hundred ships, although he did not have many ships, but the combat power was stronger than four or five hundred ships.
Before he took over these naval forces, the four naval armies under the daimyo's command distributed throughout the western country were similar to the Japanese Kou, and the main ships were all small morning ships, and a dozen or so soldiers on board could make waves and attack a hundred and ten ships at every turn, which seemed to have a surging force, but in fact it was less than 2,000.
In the end, it was the personal soldiers who followed Chen Mu's side, and he was exposed to Chen Mu's arrangement of the Ming Navy, and now the small morning boat under his command has been divided into communication boats, and the main warships are all ships carrying dozens of troops, reorganizing the army, and greatly enhancing the combat power of the naval division composed of naval troops.
Of course, the most fundamental purpose of such a reorganization is to strengthen the ability to project troops, and any general of the Ming army who has fought in Japan will understand that the navy cannot achieve decisive results in a war in the island area, and the real victory or defeat still depends on the army, and Long Toshio is no exception - he has a full 6,000 troops under his command!
Following the military order, the Oar-powered Kohaya boat shuttled between the battle formations, and the Murakami Naval Army and the Matsuura Yakuza Japanese Army recruited by the Mori clan approached from the left flank and prepared to attack the enemy's well-garrisoned Kizu Kousui Army.
On the right flank of the Niko Hidden Naval Army and the Otomo Naval Company, more than 80 large and small ships and ships detoured to the side of Ishiyama and blockaded Osaka Bay from the periphery.
"Don't open fire, we will slowly move closer to the left flank in the upper half of the sail, and if the enemy is approaching, Dafu will volley!"
Takatoshi guessed that the Oda navy should have an ambush at the Kizu Kawaguchi, but he had no fear, and with the Murakami navy and the Matsuura Wako, he advanced to the left flank, and his 12-gunboat Chinese army slowly approached.
He is expected to have a telescope, and he can observe a little more clearly, but the generals of the Oda Navy are not blind, twelve giant ships, regardless of the shark ship or the lucky boat, the length of more than twenty steps is already a giant ship here, and the huge shadow is advancing towards the right flank ambush circle and brings a great threat to people.
Several generals of the Oda Navy have a headache, they also have more than 200 ships, but there are only more than ten ships that can really be called Daguan ships, and the leaders of each team take the boats, and the rest of the small morning boats and small seki ships are countless, but now this situation is ...... The Numano Iga garrison, which was engaged in the frontal battle, retreated without a fight, and the main horse guards of Manabe, who were responsible for blocking Osaka Bay on the back road, were blocked, and the circle of troops became smaller and smaller.
They have already suffered such a loss, just last year, six Daming ships with a fleet of grain ships to the stone mountain to transport grain, when the news rushed to the Oda Navy only three large ships, led a group of small early ships did not dare to attack the shark ship, had to intercept the grain ship in the Awaji Country Strait, but was repelled by Daifuku as a grain ship, and two large ships were burned.
This time, after receiving the news in time, they quickly assembled nearly 300 warships, but when they gathered the Ming army, they simply gathered more than 200 large and small ships, and it seemed that this battle could no longer decide the outcome at sea.
The sea area is constantly compressed by huge shadows, giving the Oda Navy teams more space for communication - they are almost face to face, just shout if you have something!
The various divisions hurriedly shouted, the sea was in chaos, and seeing that the battle was about to be routed before the war began, Numano Igamaru and Numano Okuma Mamoru who had returned to Tsuguchi agreed on tactics: "Drag it down, wait for Nobunaga to gather troops and horses, and lead them to the land to fight!" ”
Before the battle, Takashi Toshio followed the Warring States tradition to give them the power to set up 'human hunting' and 'indiscriminate taking' on the spot in imitation of Oda, Takeda, Uesugi and other daimyos, as long as they defeated the enemy, they could be rich and prosperous in a war.
In a short period of time, with seven Daseki ships as the vanguard, the Murakami naval army of more than 40 large and small warships under the leadership of Murakami Takeyoshi met the retreating Numano team, and the ships of the two sides first fired at each other with fierce bows and iron cannons, and then collided violently, and the Manabe team, which was the rear of Oda, had led the fleet to attack Murakami's flank.
When the first baking fire arrow smashed on the Oda Clan's Numano Iga Mamoru on the Ataka ship, a large area of fire burst out, and the Ming Dynasty's Japanese Qinwang Chief Military Officer Chen Bazhi's subordinate Shanyang Province Imperial Sea Chief Military Officer Long Junxiong's attack on Japan's Gyeonggi officially began!
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