I didn't expect the Ryukyuan people to fight this time, and until Zhao Xingdou and they came back to help, the Amami Walled City was still in the hands of the Ryukyuan people.

As long as the walled city is still in their hands, Zhao Xingdou and they are relieved, compared to the strength of the land war and the Japanese Zhao Xingdou They have already seen it, and when the number is not superior, Zhao Xingdou They are not sure of defeating the other party.

But compared to the land battle, Zhao Xingdou dared to pat his chest and say that even if he faced a fleet twice as large as their Hongtang, they could deal with it and slowly eat it away.

Of course, the opponent here only refers to the pirates and Japanese people that Zhao Xingdou is familiar with, not to the Western fleet such as the Dutch fleet in the Netherlands.

The Japanese people didn't expect Zhao Xingdou to come back so quickly this time, when they saw two warships on the horizon the day before yesterday, the leader of the Japanese people already felt that something was wrong, although they increased the intensity of the attack, but this time they were in order to conceal and surprise, the actual soldiers they brought were only 4,000 people, plus the pirates who were temporarily recruited, it was only 6,000.

According to the intention of the Japanese commander, after Zhao Xingdou and their Hongtang fleet were transferred back to the waters of Iriomote Island, it would take at least three or five days before they would be alerted, but they did not expect that only three days later, most of them had already returned to help, which also made the wishful thinking of the Japanese commander come to naught.

The land warlords were unwilling to give up, so as a weak naval battle, they would naturally suffer a great loss, and after expelling all the warships and pirate warships that could be used in their hands to entangle Zhao Xingdou and them, the Japanese commander continued to increase the attack on the Amami Walled City.

However, in Zhao Xingdou's opinion, although the strength of their twenty-three warships in Hongtang at this time was entangled in the face of enemy warships that were about the same number as their own, they had no intention of dealing with the other party.

Seeing that the opponent took the initiative to come up, Zhao Xingdou waved his big hand, and more than 20 warships rushed up flexibly, and the fierce artillery fire of the three "Yang Fan-style" warships that bore the brunt of the ship exploded from the flanks of the hull, and the whistling shells fell on the sea, the warship, bringing bursts of water waves and wood chips!

In contrast, although there were sporadic artillery fire on the Japanese warships and pirate warships, they could not be compared with the Hongtang warships in terms of power and quantity.

Even the newcomers of the Ryukyu Naval Division, who had just been ordered to evacuate but had not gone far, and even the Ryukyu warriors who were squatting hard in the Amami Walled City, were dumbfounded!

This was the first time that the Ryukyu warriors had seen the scene of artillery fire firing on a large scale, and the scene of the sky falling apart made them feel shocked and unable to help themselves for a long time.

However, what I didn't expect was that the Ryukyu warriors in the Amami Walled City had the courage to pluck up again, and they no longer flinched in the face of the enemy's strong attack, and they fought the attacks of the Japanese again and again with the remnants of the army.

And the pirates and widows who came out to entangle Hongtang's fleet were not the first time to deal with Hongtang, and when they were prepared in their hearts, they were still shocked by Hongtang's fierce artillery fire.

There are three "Yang Fan" warships as arrows, and the twenty-three Hongtang warships have brought their flexible formations and fierce and powerful artillery fire to the best, but it is only half an hour's effort, and the warships that have been singled out to entangle the Hongtang warships have already suffered many casualties, and most of the rest have quickly run away, not daring to get too close to the Hongtang fleet.

Originally, there was a big gap in the strength of the sea, and there were many rabble pirates among them, they were recruited by the Japanese to fight the SF Feng War, but once it became such a dangerous situation, how could the pirates be willing to bury the strength of their team for the sake of our Japanese people!

Once the other party does not dare to take the risk of engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Hongtang fleet, then they will have no chance at all to fight long-range weapons.

The pirates retreated, and the remaining few Japanese warships were more difficult to maintain, and soon Zhao Xingdou sank the four Japanese warships in the sea, and then launched a more rapid offensive in the face of the Japanese brigade with the middle gate wide open.

"Damn, if you can give me even three more hours, I can take this walled city!" The battle situation on the sea, Shimazu Hisao, who was the commander of the Satsuma Tibetan Japanese this time, saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

As the ninth son of Shimazu Daimyo Shimazu Iehisa, Shimazu Hisao himself is famous for his wisdom and calculation, and he is also a rare talent in the Shimazu Daimyo family, so this time his father pinned his hopes on attacking Amami Goto, and the burden in his heart is not small.

I made a lot of plans in advance, and they all came true one by one, but they fell short at this last moment, which really made Shimazu Hisao very ashamed.

The Japanese retreat was very resolute, no matter how fierce Zhao Xingdou was and how fierce the attack was, but Shimazu Hisao let people get on the ship at any cost, relying on the strength of the merchant ship to retreat to the east.

Beside them, although the pirates did not have the courage to confront Hong Tang's warship head-on, it was no problem to harass them. With the help of the pirates, coupled with the previous scheming of the Japanese people on the opposite side, Zhao Xingdou wanted to follow the Japanese fleet to continue the attack, so that they would have to pay at least a greater price, but in the end, the unknown fleet that suddenly appeared on the eastern horizon was stopped.

In fact, this fleet, which suddenly appeared on the sea level, was actually just an empty fleet of Japanese transports, and their warships and merchant ships were used as one-time troop transports, and the food they carried was simply insufficient, so behind their fleet, Satsuma organized a fleet specifically for them to transport food.

In addition to transporting grain and sailors who followed the ship, this Japanese fleet did not even bring two coolies who unloaded with the ship, and had to let the Japanese soldiers unload the food themselves, where did they get their combat strength.

Of course, how could Zhao Xingdou know all this, just out of caution and eagerness to rescue the team members in the Amami Walled City, Zhao Xingdou immediately gave up the plan to pursue and let this group of widows leave.

The most important thing is that Zhao Xingdou also knows that with the ammunition carried by his own fleet, it is actually too much to say that he will rely on artillery bombardment to achieve large-scale destruction of the Japanese fleet.

Now Hongtang's overall equipment is improving, but as a natural defect of artillery in this era, the elevation angle is only a few degrees, the firing range is only two or three miles at most, and the accuracy is less than half, how can you do what Zhao Xingdou expected!

(End of chapter)