The reason why Wu Daofu was confident that he was still ready to fight head-on instead of turning around and leaving in the face of the Japanese fleet, which was far larger than their fleet at this time, was actually because he was convinced that his team was definitely much stronger than the team composed of the Japanese and pirates.

Of course, Wu Daofu was worried that the combat effectiveness of the regular army of the Japanese people might be relatively strong, but when he saw the large fleet in front of him, although the number was huge, but the good and the bad were uneven, and it was obvious that there was a suspicion of indiscriminate refill, he was relieved.

The Japanese even brought in many fishing boats to make up the numbers, which exposed their own lack of confidence in their own ranks.

At the same time, Wu Daofu felt that such a tough battle should also be fought.

First, most of the pirates they are coercing now surrendered directly when Wu Daofu and them approached the lair, and only a small number of them surrendered after being defeated by Hong Tang, so naturally most of them will still have doubts about Hong Tang's true combat strength, so Wu Daofu just needs a real battle to prove how powerful they Hong Tang is.

Second, Wu Daofu has been looking forward to having a strong enough opponent to verify the combat power of their new army and the true strength of the six Western-style warships.

Therefore, this battle must be fought, and if it is not fought, it must be fought, and after making up his mind, Wu Daofu summoned the personnel of the aircraft department and discussed with them the specific combat matters.

Since the people in the Aircraft Participation Department became a sensation in the Battle of Hongcheng Fortress, Wu Daofujiu has paid more and more attention to the people in the Aircraft Participation Department, and he is always willing to discuss with them when there is something to do, and he has developed a good habit.

Originally, people who were born as pirates inevitably believe in their own abilities more in the past experience of life and death, and they will more or less have an arbitrary character, and it is rare to listen to the opinions of others.

It seems that the army of the Japanese country has already been killed, and Wu Daofu will find the people in the office to discuss the war, but it is too late in time, but in fact it is not.

The battle of the two armies of Hongtang and the Japanese alliance combined, one hundred and fifty or sixty seagoing ships, and more than 10,000 sailors, could not have brought the battle to a white-hot stage at once, unless the commander of the Japanese state was an idiot.

When they heard that Wu Daofu had made up his mind to compete with this mixed team, the dozen or so members of the Participation Office did not feel the slightest surprise, but conscientiously discussed with each other, and buried their heads in writing and drawing on the paper some ghost drawings that Wu Daofu seemed familiar with and seemed to be very unfamiliar.

This is the first time that Wu Daofu really observed the way of working in the department, everything was really beautiful and fresh, and even Wu Daofu saw a team member come out with a blank piece of paper, and quickly drew a sketch chart of the current battle situation on it, on which various symbols were used to represent the ships owned by the two teams. From time to time, a few members of the team went out for a while, and when they came back, they had a thick stack of papers in their hands, which recorded the approximate values and specific combat power of the opposing ships given by the lookouts in Hongtang's team.

At this time, the other party had sent more than a dozen warships out, and slowly approached the Hongtang fleet that was confronting it, and on one of the warships, there was a middle-aged man with a bald white shiny scalp in the middle, a circle of long hair tied up in the back of his head, and a middle-aged man dressed in an obvious Wa country dress wearing a one-piece long robe, rushed to a place only ten zhang away from the Hongtang fleet with a strong expression of contempt and stopped, and then shouted with a strange mouth:" We are the samurai of His Excellency Shimazu Iehisa, the great daimyo of Satsuma, you inferior pigs, you dare to send troops to harass and attack the Ryukyu Kingdom protected by our lord Shimazu clan, and you are limited to surrender quickly, and you can spare the life of a dog! ”

If it weren't for the special training in Hong Tang in the past few months to let them know the rules, it would be impossible for these once unscrupulous pirates to dare to return them in more filthy language immediately, and even start a war on the spot.

More than ten years have passed since Satsuma attacked the Ryukyu Kingdom and occupied the five islands of Amami, and the Shimazu clan, with far less troops than the Ryukyu Shoning King, was invincible and easily took Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyu king, which made them themselves confident in the strength of their warriors.

Among them, the Japanese imitated the Westerners to build a lot of power in our country's iron cannons, and the Ryukyuan people were severely damaged by these large-scale armed Japanese iron cannons. Now, more than ten years have passed, and the iron cannon, a sharp weapon, has gradually replaced their position as a brave Japanese sword warrior among the samurai of the Japanese Kingdom. Because of this, the generals and samurai of Satsuma were very confident in facing the group of pirates in front of them, who seemed to them to be nothing more than a rabble.

Of course, the Ryukyu pirates who defected to them must have provided them with a lot of really refreshing information about Hongtang, but with the arrogant personality of the Japanese people, these news were not passed on to their high-ranking nobles.

The arrogance of the Japanese people is not to belittle each other, this is an indisputable fact, it is only a few decades ago, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had just unified the Japanese country not long ago, dared to hit the egg with a stone, and poured the country's manpower and material resources to capture the Korean Peninsula, and then used it as a springboard to attack the more powerful Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, the war ended in a crushing defeat at Toyotomi Hideyoshi, followed by tens of thousands of Japanese samurai.

The same is true of Satsuma's attack on the Ryukyu Kingdom this time, with their small princes in a corner who only care about their puppets, they dare to send troops to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom, which is far more powerful and rich than them, although they defeated the Ryukyu Kingdom with the advantage of weapons, but in all fairness, the Satsuma Shimazu clan is indeed at a disadvantage in the paper strength of the two sides of their battle.

Of course, not to mention the Japanese army during the Opium War, and the period of dark history when the Republic of China resolutely sent millions of troops in a vain attempt to control the whole of Great China with a single island country, these are enough to prove the arrogant nature of the Japanese people.

"Hehe, it's pretty crazy, let the gunners set off a round of artillery fire, welcome to them!" The staff office was still calculating and weighing, and when he heard that the soldiers had come to report the arrogance of the Japanese people, Wu Daofu smiled and said to the soldiers like a clown.

"Yes!" The soldier who gave the order walked out with excitement on his face, and it was not long before the hull of the "Intrepid" shook, and at the same time, more than a dozen huge shelling roars resounded throughout the sea.

"Oh!!"

Not long after the sound of artillery bombardment sounded, there was a shouting of soldiers outside the ship, it seems that this round of artillery fire has worked, it is estimated that the Japanese people who came to persuade them to surrender were also scared away, no need to go out of the warehouse, Wu Daofu can imagine the scene that happened on the sea.

"Report to the head of the regiment, our staff has come to a result, we can fight!" The director of the Whale Division's Aircraft Division is a half-way pirate military division in his early thirties, but not from Hong Tanggen Zhengmiaohong, named Xiao Xiurong, the previous battle of Hongcheng Fortress was also completed under his leadership, and now he is a very important think tank in Wu Daofu's heart.

What was sent to Wu Daofu along with Xiao Xiurong was the specific combat effectiveness reference given by them after comparing the combat strength of the two sides and the real strength of the warships, which was also the influence of Li Tianyang on the part of Hong Tang, who converted the intangible and qualitative military strength into tangible and qualitative figures, so that commanders like Wu Daofu could see it at a glance.

It was accompanied by a crude but feasible plan of action.

"Time is a bit rushed, and there are still many flaws in the battle plan that we have worked out with the best efforts of the aircraft department." Xiao Xiurong was actually very dissatisfied with this improvised plan, and he was cautious and detail-oriented, but he actually hoped that he could refine the battle plan before handing it over to Wu Daofu.

"Yes, to be able to come up with such a feasible plan in such a short period of time is much more detailed than what my old bones thought. Besides, according to the comparison of the military strength of the enemy and us that you have calculated, even if it is a head-on battle, our overall strength is not inferior to the other party, and I don't believe that just with our group of brave and warlike sons, can we still not handle the other party's rabble? Wu Daofu is already very satisfied with the plan made by Xiao Xiurong and their participation department, he is self-aware, he is not one of those unparalleled generals in the drama, without this group of think tanks in the department to advise him, how can he not make such a detailed plan in such a short time.

In the comparison of troops, Xiao Xiurong turned the opponent's warships and sailors twice the value of Hongtang's fleet into numbers, and compared them with Hongtang's troop value, and came to the conclusion that their overall strength of Hongtang had a slight advantage, which Wu Daofu did not expect. Although he was also full of confidence in the players above and below Hong Tang, the overall size of the other party was there, and he couldn't help but feel that in terms of the number of people and the number of warships, they Hong Tang still had the upper hand.

However, Wu Daofu couldn't find any flaws in the troop conversion method given by Xiao Xiurong, but when he thought that the Dutch would play with their Hongtang forty or fifty warships with a few warships, he was also relieved. Now that the battle on the sea has begun to get rid of the crude combat method of the sea of people tactics, as Hong Tang learns the Westerners' warship combat methods, battleship coordination mode, and large-scale deployment of powerful artillery, they are now afraid that with only six Western-style warships, they can also make the rabble of more than 100 various sea ships in front of them drink a good pot.

"Then don't say much, let's get ready for war!" Wu Daofu rubbed his hands, his eyes were excited and murderous, and he said hideously.

(End of chapter)