The spectacular scene of the explosion of the destroyed Japanese boat not only did not frighten the Japanese samurai, but made them even more crazy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAll the samurai shouted "Itaya" and paddled hard towards the Dutch fleet.

The Dutch fleet pulled anchor and set sail in an attempt to escape the Japanese attack. However, Edo Bay is a calm inland sea, and there is not much wind in normal times, and the maximum speed of sail warships sailing in this kind of inland sea can only be four to five knots.

"Hurry up, paddle hard! Bump into it and blow up these abominable red-haired ghosts! Sakai shouted loudly and commanded the samurai on several ships around him to charge at the Dutch.

Sakai Tadanao is the fourth son of Sakai Tadakatsu, and the Sakai family is also a famous family in the Tokugawa shogunate, but Sakai Tadanao, who is not from the main house, does not have much status in the Sakai family, and the education and training he received since childhood are not as good as his brothers, nor as good as his cousins, and when he fights with other feudal lords, he has no chance to make meritorious contributions.

Now that Japan has formed a kamikaze team, all the samurai participating in it are required to be prepared for self-sacrifice, and the task of attacking the Dutch fleet in small boats is to die for life, and most of them will die at sea.

Because of this, Sakai Tadanao saw the opportunity for his own meritorious service, such a dangerous thing, the sons of the Sakai family would not do, although they are also samurai who are not afraid of death, but the formation of a death squad, to die with the enemy, let the low-level samurai do it at sea, they are high-level samurai still waiting to inherit the family business.

Unlike the Chinese polyandry system, Japan has a polygamy system, and Japanese nobles can marry three side chambers in addition to one main room, plus an unlimited number of concubines. The status of the son from the side room is slightly lower than that of the son from the main room, but the son from the concubine has a lower status, which is equal to the Chinese concubine.

Sakai Tadanao is the son of a concubine, and if he wants to get ahead, he takes the initiative to accept this dangerous mission and takes a kamikaze to attack the Dutch fleet.

"Brethren, hurry! Our Tokugawa shogun and Sakai-sama were watching us from the upper floor of Edo Castle! Tadanao Sakai, who had a tinder jar on his body, shouted.

The Japanese boats were loaded with gunpowder disguised as grain, 200 catties of gunpowder per ship, which were sealed in a sturdy clay pot with powdered powder into granules under the guidance of the Ming people, and were disguised as grain bags. The slender bow of the ship had a sharp iron drill that could be nailed to a Dutch ship when it hit it. As long as the fuse is lit, two hundred pounds of gunpowder is enough to blow a large hole in the Dutch ship.

In the smoke that filled the front of the "boom, boom, boom", the rows of Dutch battleships were again under heavy artillery fire, and the shells fired from the gun doors in turn swept across the sea.

Sitting on the Japanese boat, the red-hot cannonballs that could be seen with the naked eye were almost clinging to the surface of the sea, and they slammed into the Japanese boat. Some of the shells missed their targets and fell into the sea, raising huge columns of water.

"Boom" A small boat not far from Sakai Tadanao was hit by a cannonball, Sakai Tadanao saw with his own eyes that the small boat was like a paper boat stuffed into firecrackers by a child, and in an instant it turned into a pile of scattered fragments, and the gunpowder on the ship exploded violently, and a scarlet flame rose on the surface of the sea, which became more bright red because it was mixed with human flesh and blood fragments.

The ten Japanese samurai on the ship, without thinking about it, knew what the fate was, and the moment the boat exploded, their souls were all taken back by Amaterasu.

The force of the explosion was so great that the shock wave added to the waves and caused Sakai's boat to shake constantly.

"Bang bang bang" kept on the shells falling in the sea on both sides of the boat, raising white columns of water that rose to the sky. The Japanese boats shuttled back and forth between the water columns and forests, dodging the incoming shells, and rushed towards the Dutch fleet without hesitation.

All the Japanese samurai used all their strength to row the boat desperately. Most of these samurai are old samurai, with old arms and legs, and their physical strength has decreased significantly compared to when they were younger, but the honor of the samurai stimulates them to burst out the potential in their bodies.

"It's the last time anyway! After this battle, you will be able to return to Amaterasu! The old samurai Kato Tsavo said secretly in his heart.

After all, when I got older, my arm began to ache after a few strokes of the oar. But at the thought that this was a fight for the honor of the samurai, and that his son would be able to inherit his honor after the battle, Kato's arm became more and more powerful when he rowed the oars. Everyone on board was paddling with all their might, and the boat sped close to the water, rushing like an arrow off the string towards a Dutch battleship in front.

Looking from the air, you can see that arrows are flying on the surface of the sea, rushing towards the Dutch fleet at full speed. In the smoke-filled fleet, shells continued to burst out, and the arrows that were shot on the sea were immediately shattered. But the other arrows did not stop, but rushed at a faster speed.

"Damn the dwarves!" De Knight scolded angrily.

"It's over! We shouldn't have come to Edo! We should go back after looting Osaka! A Dutch soldier cried as he watched the Japanese boats rushing towards him.

"Quick, musketeers shoot!" Trop shouted.

The Japanese boats were already very close to the Dutch battleship, and had already entered the blind spot of the light guns on the upper light gun deck of the Dutch battleship, while the heavy guns on the lower gun deck were too slow to reload, and the muzzles were inconvenient to turn, and the heavy guns that had just finished firing a round were too late to shoot.

The Dutch musketeers on board stepped onto the deck, raised their muskets, and aimed them at the Japanese boats speeding towards the sea. As the saber in the hands of the Dutch officer fell, the Dutch soldier pulled the trigger.

Plumes of white smoke erupted from the ship, and dense bullets drilled into the sea, stirring up small columns of water. Some Japanese samurai were unfortunately shot, sprayed blood mist, and collapsed in the cabin; Some Japanese samurai fell into the sea, and the sea immediately turned blood-red.

Kato Tsavov rowed desperately in the boat, and on the Dutch battleship thirty paces away, a dense barrage of bullets came at him, and the samurai on the boat fell one after another.

Of the ten samurai, only Tsao Kato and three survivors remained, and the rest were killed.

"Quick! There's still a little bit of distance! Kato Tsavov shouted at the top of his voice.

The boat, under the action of inertia, maintained a high speed and crashed headlong into the Dutch battleship in front. Only the sound of an iron drill piercing into the plank was heard, and the sharp iron drill on the bow of the ship was nailed to the Dutch battleship.

"Dive! I'll leave it to me! Kato Tsavov shouted.

The three surviving Japanese samurai jumped out of the boat, burrowed into the sea, and struggled to swim behind. These samurai were exhausted and didn't know if they would be able to escape the blast, but if they jumped ship and left, there was always some hope of surviving.

"Bang bang" A volley of bullets came from the Dutch ship, and Kato Tsov was shot several times, blood mist erupted from his body, and blood came out of the corners of his mouth. But with a smile on his face, he opened the tinder jar, and the flickering flames inside came into contact with the fresh air, and the flames immediately grew larger. Kato Tsov picked up the tinder jar and stretched it out to the root of the fuse.

"Boom" A huge fireball rose at the bottom of the Dutch battleship, and a column of skyrocketing water tens of meters high rose on the surface of the sea! A large hole was immediately blown open in the side of the battleship, and the explosion spread to the ship, and a fire broke out in the cabin, the gun deck was in shambles, the heavy guns were overturned like toys, and the Dutch soldiers on board were unsteady.

"Extinguish the fire!" The Dutch captain shouted.

The Dutch soldier carried a bucket and poured water on the flames. The Dutch soldiers in the bilge rushed desperately to the big hole, using wooden boards, quilts and other items to try desperately to plug the hole. Because the hole that was blown open was so large that a Dutch soldier was swept into the water as soon as he approached the hole.

There were Dutch soldiers who blocked the hole and tried to prevent the battleship from sinking.

But nothing was done, because another Japanese samurai kamikaze suicide boat crashed into it.

The battleship began to hopelessly overturn to one side, the deck of the ship was tilted to forty-five degrees, and it was still tilting, and soon it capsized and sank into the sea, and a huge whirlpool appeared on the sea, and the Dutch soldiers who had not had time to escape were swept into the whirlpool and carried to the bottom of the sea by the sunken ship.

Seeing the brave samurai die with the Dutch one by one, a young samurai on Sakai's ship shed tears.

"Masao! Men bleed without tears! Pull yourself together! Sakai Tadashi rebuked the half-grown little samurai.

Sakai Tadanao's ship was a command ship, this boat was a little larger, with 20 people paddling, and the wood for the shipbuilding was much better, using dried cedar wood, which was relatively strong, and it was a regular boat.

"Bang" a cannonball grazed Sakai's small boat and landed in the sea, and the Japanese on board could still feel the scorching temperature of the shell.

Then another shell whizzed, and this time the boat was not so lucky, and was hit by the shell to the edge of the ship. However, the quality of the boat was significantly better, and it was not shattered by a single shell like other suicide boats, the shell only smashed a hole in the boat, and the broken planks killed and wounded the rowing samurai.

"Damn the red-haired ghost! We, the samurai of the Tokugawa family, will surely send you all to the bottom of the sea! Sakai Tadanao pulled out his sword and pointed forward.

"Fight for the honor of the samurai! Itachi! The impassioned roar of Japanese samurai echoed across the sea.

One after another, the boats were shot and exploded and sank to the bottom of the sea, but more boats rushed up and crashed into the Dutch warships without hesitation.

Commanding a small boat to crash into a Dutch battleship, a samurai shouted, "Sakai-sama, take them away!" I'll leave it to me! ”

Sakai nodded with red eyes, grabbed the twelve-year-old samurai, and the two jumped into the sea together. The six surviving samurai on board also jumped off the boat one after another, struggling to swim backwards.

"Boom" The Dutch battleship rose into flames. (To be continued.) )