They didn't expect that in the face of the inferior situation of warships and numbers, Hongtang's people would be so resolute that they didn't even have a perfunctory look, so they opened artillery to force them to retreat.

Fortunately, although Hongtang opened artillery bombardment of the other sea's ships, he still kept the rules of the two countries not fighting each other, and the artillery fire only fell on the sea adjacent to these seagoing ships, and he did not aim at the other party at all.

The messenger who returned to the fleet of the Japanese kingdom lost face in front of everyone, and he was naturally ashamed and annoyed in his heart, and he wanted to divide the other party's five horses and scatter his bones and ashes.

However, the general of the Japanese State, Kayama Hisataka, still had a little bit of eyes, although the "Intrepid" had only fired a round of artillery fire before, but he couldn't help but be shocked by the powerful artillery equipped on the Hongtang warship.

Now within the Wa Kingdom, the Westerners are being chased and strangled, so they still have a lot of knowledge about the power of the Westerners' warships. At this time, he saw that the artillery fire on one of Hong Tang's warships could be as powerful as the guns of a powerful Westerner warship, but it was also beyond his expectations.

It was only at this time that Kayama Hisaka paid more attention to Hongtang's group of gangs called pirates, and he was a little more greedy for the six warships such as the "Intrepid".

Without waiting for Kayama Hidaka to give an order, Hongtang's fleet here began to make new moves, and when the drums on the flagship of the "Intrepid" sounded, the sonorous and powerful drum beat with a certain rhythm issued an order to the battleships surrounding it that only the people of their Hongtang fleet could know.

Suddenly, the sails of the Hongtang fleet, which was still in a stalemate with the Japanese alliance, rose sharply, the bow of the ship turned, and it began to turn, as if it intended to leave!

At this time, in terms of the number of people and the number of warships, the size of their coalition army is far greater than that of Hongtang, and this is the best time to get rid of this thief, if they are allowed to leave, then how will their coalition army deal with the next attack of Hongtang.

What's more, many pirates are willing to bow their heads, join the command of Kayama Hisadaka, and accept his leadership, in order to hope that the Japanese will beat the regular navy, can force Hongtang out of the Ryukyu Sea, and return their many pirates to a happy land?

Kayama Hisadaka also had his own plans, and in the past, Toyotomi Hideyoshi Maharaja ruled Kyushu, and gathered the most elite sea ships from the Japanese kingdom to cross the ocean to invade Korea, and finally returned with a heavy defeat. After this war, not only did they lose at least tens of thousands of horses and horses on the land and sea of Korea, but they also destroyed thousands of seagoing ships that the Japanese had managed to muster and beat.

Until now, there are very few large ships in the Wa Kingdom, let alone those fully armed warships.

At this time, it was not easy for Biryama Hisataka to gather so many sea ships around him, which was also the time when he, as a general of Satsuma, had controlled the most warships in the past ten years. He also knows that most of the pirates who have surrendered to him are people with ulterior motives, and no matter whether he wins or loses in the battle with Hongtang this time, the other party may have other big plans, so he needs to seize this opportunity to take this Hongtang look like a decent warship for his own use, this is the right way for him to increase his strength.

"Deliver my orders, rush forward, and never let the group of arrogant people who offend my Shimazu daimyo escape!!" Although there was the artillery fire of the "Intrepid" in front of him, which made Huashan Jiugao take a high look at the Hongtang warship, but he thought that the difference in strength was obvious, and he saw that Hongtang was about to retreat, how could he calm his mood again, and hurriedly gave an order, taking advantage of the opportunity of the other party's inconvenient turn to kill the past, and use his own strength advantage to fight.

"Boom! Boom! ”

A succession of artillery fire was launched from the Hongtang warship that was turning to one side, and fell into the fleet of the Japanese alliance that was killing the generals in order to approach the Hongtang warship.

Several unlucky ships were hit by the fire fired on the spot, and holes of large and small appeared on the decks of several warships in an instant. However, fortunately, these shells were only fired by a thousand catties of cannons, and the destructive power of the warship was not enough to make the warship incapacitated, except for a dozen or twenty unlucky sailors who were injured by the shells that blew off the deck and flew sawdust and air waves, the other losses were not heavy.

On the contrary, there were two fishing boats in the Japanese fleet, because the cannonball hit the sea and caused waves in the team, and was accidentally overturned, and dozens of sailors carrying the wounded on these two fishing boats scattered on the sea and swam towards the nearest warship, so that this round of Hongtang's artillery fire had a little unexpected gain.

The seemingly ferocious artillery fire, in the eyes of Kayama Hisataka at this time, made his heart breathe a sigh of relief, if all the guns on the Hongtang warship were as powerful as the cannonballs fired by the "Dreadnought" at the beginning, the philanthropist he Kayama Hisaka was really not sure if their fleet could defeat each other.

This round of artillery fire also made Kayama Hisadaka see that although the number of artillery fire in Hongtang was unexpected, its actual power was not enough to pose much threat to most of the coalition ships.

Of course, because of the patchwork of this fleet, in addition to the artillery fire of the ten warships under his command of Kayama Hidaka, the guns can be compared with the Hongtang warships, other such as the pirate warships, have also suffered a lot in long-range weapons, and it is rare to have a few cannons installed and can be used accurately.

Fortunately, Birshan, Hisaka is also a battle-hardened person, and at this time he also saw the unfavorable side of his side, so his decision was also very fruitful, and the order to attack the whole army on the spot was just like when Hong Tang faced the Dutch, in a vain attempt to use the number of warships and the number of people to approach and start a bloody hand-to-hand battle with Hong Tang.

At this time, the Hongtang warship was already turning its bow and rushing away into the distance, as if the previous confrontation with the Japanese alliance did not exist, and it only wanted to escape from the pursuit of the opponent's huge fleet.

How could the people of Danshuikeng, Huashan Jiugao and others be willing to fulfill Hong Tang's wishes, they also raised their sails one after another and chased after Hong Tang's fleet. When Hong Tang turned before, his speed was slower, and when he confronted the Japanese people before, the Japanese fleet had been slowly approaching Hong Tang's fleet quietly, so at this time, it seemed that the fastest warship in the Japanese fleet was actually only a few tens of zhang away from the warship at the back of her women's fleet.

(End of chapter)