The speedboat that went out to reconnoiter soon came back, bringing back a piece of news that moved Wu Daofu and the others: on the dock and sea surface of Amami Oshima, a large number of various sea ships are now gathering, and according to the experience of the reconnaissance team, seven or eight out of ten of them are likely to be pirates.

This is even worse than Wu Daofu and Xiao Xiurong expected, because there are more sea ships on the sea, and the reconnaissance speedboat did not dare to get too close to the vicinity of Amami Oshima, but judging from the information gathered from this circle, at least eight or nine groups of pirates of considerable scale appeared on this sea.

In addition, in the last battle, there was not much loss, and the main ships of the Japanese who escaped in the end, and finally Wu Daofu counted on the "Intrepid", this time in the waters of the Amami Islands, at least there is a fleet size no less than the scale of the previous time, and the overall quality of this time is much higher than the previous fleet that used fishing boats to piece together the quantity.

Wu Daofu and the others were also very surprised, what kind of promise did this Japanese make to gather such a group of pirates who were unprofitable and unruly in the Amami Islands. However, this did not prevent Wu Daofu from sitting on the "Intrepid" at this time to revise the plan of this operation.

Originally, according to Wu Daofu's assumption, at this time, in addition to their own twenty or so warships, the other pirates should have scattered after the battle with Hong Tang, and it was impossible to follow a boss with no future. Even if among them, the Japanese are willing to spend a little profit to win people's hearts, but presumably the Japanese are not stupid, and those who are still being wooed must be those elite people who have experienced a hundred battles, and the rest of the indiscriminate guys are definitely not in the scope of consideration of the Japanese people.

Therefore, they originally planned to kill the generals directly like this, and split six Western-style warships and ten fortune ships together to stalemate with the remnants of the opponent's sailors. At the same time, the other warships took the opportunity to storm the garrison on Amami Oshima, which could not only force the Japanese warships on the sea to fight with the Hongtang warships, but also take advantage of Hongtang's numerical advantage to simply cut down the opponent.

After the overall situation on the island was decided, the fleet of Japanese sailors who were eager to come back to help the garrison on the island at this time on the sea was estimated to have also entered the defense range of the six main Western-style warships and ten Fu ships led by Wu Daofu, and were pinned down by the Hongtang warships. When the Hongtang soldiers on the island kill one more horse gun, they will be surrounded by the Japanese fleet that is pinned down and unable to move, and then this group of Japanese people will be unable to fly.

However, plans are always beautiful, but the reality has made Wu Daofu's wishful thinking come to naught, if this set of plans is implemented again, then just this group of pirate fleets in the waters of the Amami Islands will be enough for Wu Daofu and their fleet to eat a pot, not to mention that they still want to send a large force to attack Amami Island under the noses of such a large group of pirates.

The Dutch fleet was able to confront more than 50 warships of Hongtang on the sea of Jilong Harbor, and it relied more on the strength of Western-style warships, as well as their slightly faster than the Fufu ships, and used the speed advantage to consume Hongtang's fleet little by little. But even so, Hong Tang and the other side were in a stalemate on the sea for three or four days, in fact, the loss of their main warship was not too much, and if they really fought again, Hong Tang could hold on for a few days, but the reason why the Dutch retreated in the end was that their own ammunition reserves were exhausted and they had to go back to replenish ammunition.

In the same way, although Wu Daofu had six Western-style warships under his command at this time, it did not mean that they could treat each other as if they were nothing. Maybe not all the sailors in these fleets can be compared with the soldiers of Hongtang, but at this time, it is not Westerners who control Western-style warships, but Hongtang members who have only experienced more than half a year of operation technology, compared with the operation skills of Westerners, Hongtang's sailors must be inferior.

Wu Daofu is confident, but it does not mean that they are arrogant, so after the first plan was flawed, they quickly formulated the second plan.

This second plan is not really a big change, but the focus of the attack is shifted from Amami Oshima to this fleet of pirates and Japanese ships.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, more than 20 Hongtang warships will definitely not be able to compete with this fleet of Japanese people who is estimated to have at least more than 100 warships, but 40 Hongtang warships are completely able to compete with the other party.

Especially after the first battle between Hongtang and the Japanese more than two months ago, Hongtang, who had few losses, fought a beautiful naval battle, and the whole team was full of strong confidence in defeating the Japanese. At the same time, although there were many pirates gathered in the waters of the Amami Islands at this time, Wu Daofu knew the nature of the pirates, and when the other party's losses reached a limit, it was their inevitable choice to flee in rout, and they would never be desperate for an irrelevant person.

The most important point is that although I don't know what kind of promise the Japanese people made to gather so many pirates, in just over two months, even if the Japanese general Huashan Jiugao can pass people, it is absolutely impossible to condense this group of pirates into a rope, and there will inevitably be a big mistake in cooperation and tacit understanding. And in the actual battle in which the battle situation is ever-changing, the more mistakes the opponent has, the greater the flaws they will expose, and the greater the possibility that Hong Tang will defeat the opponent at that time, just like the last battle with the Japanese people.

But Wu Daofu and they didn't upgrade and didn't worry, last time it was the Japanese people who took the initiative to fight, so when they were chasing Hongtang, they gave Wu Daofu a good opportunity to avoid the weak and attack the strong, and then the other party was defeated after the battle.

But in this battle, it is true that Wu Daofu and they took the initiative to fight, and after learning the experience of the last defeat, presumably the Japanese general Kashiyama Hidaka will definitely not make the same mistake again, so Wu Daofu and they want to find a good chance to fight again, maybe they need to be more patient and cautious.

The most important thing is that this time, if the Japanese people learn Hongtang's strategy of repelling the Dutch in Jilong Harbor, and only hope to stalemate with Hongtang in the waters of the Amami Islands, and slowly deplete Hongtang's ammunition and material reserves, Hongtang's supply line is too long, and Hongtang will naturally not feel good.

At that time, if Wu Daofu and the others still want to capture Amami Island and annihilate the Japanese people, then they will inevitably have to fight with each other on the other side's sea, and the losses may not be as easy as last time.

(End of chapter)