Murakami Takeyoshi stood at the bow of the boat, the stern oar was rowing desperately, and the mud mixed with blood and water splashed with the rowing of the oar, while quickly calculating the way out of the Noshima Murakami sailor, the stones on his head were whistling and shooting into the ship formation without stopping.

Two or three hundred steps ahead, dozens of small morning boats have completely set up a defensive formation, and are quietly waiting for the Noshima Murakami Navy to come forward to fight, the purpose of this Lu Date Sailor is very clear, they do not seek to defeat the Noshima Murakami Navy, but only to drag the Noshima Murakami Navy! As long as it is dragged until the low tide, even if he Murakami Takeshi has the ability to defy the sky, it is impossible to change the outcome of the defeat of the Noshima Murakami Water Army.

The speed of the oar's rowing was not necessarily fast, and the mud on the bottom of the sea splashed with the oar's rowing, which was enough to indicate that the low tide had already begun, and it would not be long before the big ship could not sail in Kojima Bay, which Murakami Bukichi did not expect at first.

With the kung fu of kicking the breath, the surging Noshima Murakami Water Army met the Date Water Army! In fact, according to the number of ships of the Date Navy, the two wings could not fly together, in a specific place and a specific environment, Ge Long Hengxin successfully arranged a formation with two wings flying together, and it was also very good to make the advancing Noshima Murakami Navy feel unusually awkward.

Yes, awkward, that is, uncomfortable, the Date Navy ship has few villains, but if you add the twelve copper cables that are blocked on the river, it will form a situation where the Noshima Murakami Navy can see and reach but can't rush, because the copper ropes are heavy and the draft is deep, Kozafune can cruise between the copper cables. Large ships with deep drafts, such as Sekibune, are not passable. This gave Date the opportunity to set up two wings and fly together. The water battle between the Date Navy and the Noshima Murakami Navy was fought between Kohayafune. And if the Noshima Murakami Navy wanted to get through Guò safely, it would have been necessary for Kohayafune to open the way, but now all of Kohayafune's energy has been involved in the water war, which is what makes the Noshima Murakami Navy feel awkward up and down.

Murakami Takeyoshi knew that once he continued to delay due to small waste and big problems, the Noh Island Murakami Navy would immediately be disheartened and immediately defeated, because this was no longer a planned and premeditated retreat. Rather, he escaped from death.

Murakami Takeshi yelled: "Charge!" Takekishi Murakami didn't care about the small problem of how much the copper rope could damage the ship at the moment, and at the time of life and death, such a big event that should have been avoided as much as possible became a small matter, and all he knew now was that once it was delayed, it would be a dead end.

The forcible assault of the ship regardless of life and death is not something that Murakami Takeyoshi can do under an order, and not everyone can see it as clearly as Murakami Takeyoshi, let alone everyone is willing to sacrifice their lives for Murakami Takeyoshi, and the last one is the idea of the Murakami Navy up and down at this moment.

Since the small hayafune can sail freely between the copper cables, the small hayafune on the side of the Noshima Murakami naval army are more numerous than the Date naval army. In their eyes, Kohayafune's victory must have belonged to them. Once you defeat the Date Army, it will be easy to cut the copper rope and clear the way out.

Murakami Takeshi drives others to open the way for himself, and in the eyes of those who open the way, it is distorted into sending people who are originally disobedient to death as cannon fodder, and opening the way for the troops of Murakami's cronies.

Although Murakami Takekichi did not have any thoughts in this regard, in Murakami's view, most of the ships that opened the road were ships that broke through to the forefront, and the tide in Kojima Bay was rapidly ebbing, and there was not much room to turn around, and it would take a lot of time to let the ships behind and the ships in front change directions. What's more, in the eyes of Takeyoshi Murakami, most of the vice generals of the ships who opened the way were their cronies and descendants when they were on Noh Island, and a few of them were old people who fled to the Higo Kikuchi clan with him, and there was no concept of cannon fodder sent to death for his cronies.

Once the ship in front of it declined, the original indomitable momentum was scattered, and it was no longer possible to organize the momentum of forcibly breaking through. Murakami Buyoshi could only jump like thunder on the boat, and kept reprimanding the ship general in front of him with his flag.

The battle in the Kojima Strait continues, and Katsuro Hengxin is still fighting for his future, and he is circling with the small hayafune of the Noshima Murakami Navy, and because of his lack of energy, some of the small hayafunes of the Noshima Murakami Navy's Navy secretly rowed away from the battlefield.

On an earthen platform by Kojima Bay, Zhengheng stood on the earthen platform, his face was calm, and he didn't worry about Hirai HD and Kakuro Hengxin, he smiled slightly: "I can't see that Shichiro Saemon Captain didn't stay in Ako in vain, but he still trained a fighting navy for the Date family." ”

The cronies and retainers around him know that their lord is in a very good mood now, and the sign of a good mood is that he likes to use some generic names to express his joy for them when he speaks, on the contrary, if he says his name directly, then it means that he is already very displeased.

Kawasaki Yorihiro and Yoshida Masanari glanced at each other, and both saw a trace of jealousy and envy in each other's eyes, Ge Lang Hengxin's background was not as good as theirs, in their eyes, he was a repeated villain, and he climbed to their heads step by step by virtue of his military exploits.

Masahiro was quite clear about his retainers' thoughts, and his purpose in promoting Miyazawa Heihachi and Katsuro Hiroshin was to motivate them.

The reason why Miyazawa Heihachi didn't feel uncomfortable at the beginning was that Numata looked tempting, but in the eyes of many people it was a dead place. Katsuro Hengxin is different, his specific position is the acting official of Ako County and the general of the Date Navy, and another ship general in Kasaoka Castle is equal to the status of the island of the island, but more of a position is to do a good job for the political and horizontal task of opening up the Harima country, it can be said that Noyama Yoshitomo, Kiyokawa Henghide, Taoyama Masayori, Katayama Moricho is the first person under the authority, and it is even closer to Noyama Yoshitomo in terms of authority.

The purpose of promoting Katsuro Hengxin is to tell all the retainers of the Date family that no matter what kind of background you are, no matter what kind of immoral things you have done before, as long as you are conscientious, meritorious and meritorious under the command of the Date family, you will be able to get the corresponding reward, and the feudal princes can also be expected.

Zhengheng also has a hidden intention to promote these people, that is, the Date family was originally founded by Zhengheng, and Zhengheng has no brothers, no uncles, and no close kindred, so he has to promote important ministers from his unrelated retainers.

In the absence of an education system, he can only select important ministers who have a sense of identity with the Date family from among the heroes, which is also where Zhengheng has no choice but to do so, of course, he also has some ideas, these ideas are still immature, they have not been tested, and I don't know if they are feasible.

Zhengheng once again glanced at Kojima Bay, which was still fighting, and suddenly noticed that Kojima Bay had become smaller, and a happy smile appeared on his face, like a child seeing a favorite toy, and shouted loudly: "The tide is receding, let's attack!" ”

Behind him, the 6,000 Date Army, divided into hundreds of bamboo rafts, was already on standby!

Normally, Kojima Bay is a calm bay, but it is not a place where rafts can sail, but when the tide recedes, the bay, which looks unusually open, becomes thin and narrow, exposing a large area of the beach.

Zhengheng said to the retainers who were about to go on the expedition: "Everyone, you don't have to chase down the Noshima Murakami Navy, just clean up those stranded ships, I think there are at least forty or fifty large and small ships stranded in the tidal flats now." ”

After all, Ge Lang Hengxin couldn't resist the water army of Nojima Murakami, who was bent on breaking through, and when he learned that the tide was receding, the moment he saw hundreds of bamboo rafts in the water, he once again burst out of the strength of his whole body, ignoring the cannon fodder theory of the side branches, and decisively broke through.

In the evening, that is, on the 30th day of July in the 23rd year of the reign of Emperor Nara (1554), Murakami Takeyoshi finally broke through the defense line of Kojima Bay, rushed to the vicinity of Inujima in a panic, and then looked at the strength of the Noshima Murakami naval army, and almost vomited blood, but it also made him cry and suffered heavy losses.

The originally high-spirited Noh Island Murakami Navy has five or six hundred large and small ships, of which there are more than 250 large and small Guan ships, and now there are less than 50 behind him, of course, if you add the two teams of Murakami and Murakami Takemitsu, the loss of the Guan ships will be more than 130 ships, and what is even worse is that after the two island attack battles of Manabe Island and Kokushima Island, the combat strength of the Noshima Murakami Navy has shrunk again.

When neither Takeshi Murakami, who rushed into Inujima, nor Masahiro, who was still finishing up in Kojima Bay, had not publicized the battle of Kojima Bay, the reconnaissance ships of the Salt and Water Army, which had been outside Kojima Bay early in the morning to check the situation, were startled.

The Salt Salt Water Army, when the Date family and the Xiangxi family reached an alliance, had reached an agreement to return to the Date family at the meeting of the Salt Salt Islands, but what they never expected was that as soon as the agreement was reached, they encountered the big battle of the Date family.

It was also a decisive battle that decided the fate of the Chinese region, and the names of the three coalition forces of Ouchi Yoshinaga, Mori Takakei, and Mishima Murakami can be said to have frightened most of the personnel of the salt and water army. Although Zhengheng also did not believe in the salt and water army, he did not inform the other party about the matter of Kojima Bay, but just asked them to guard the salt islands. However, there were still many people who raised the question of whether to turn against each other, and the alliance that had caused a lot of trouble in the islands had to convene a conference again, and the conference was suppressed.

In the end, it was Miyamoto Dentai, who was the most powerful, who proposed a plan that everyone agreed, to guard the salt-saturated islands, and as long as the Murakami naval army did not take the initiative to cause trouble, they would not cause trouble, and then closely monitor the movements of the Date army, so the reconnaissance ship was dispatched to cruise outside Kojima Bay. (To be continued......)