Chapter 926: Night Raid on Vaulting Horse Harbor

However, Ma's wish to see Li Yuntian the next day was about to be frustrated, because while she was talking to the young woman, Li Yuntian summoned the senior military attache of the Navy Division on the Ming Yang to discuss the night attack on Jumping Horse Harbor, and Keiko Yamaguchi, Saburo Domoto, and Yamaguchi Hai were able to attend.

Li Yuntian knew that the Japanese in Jumping Horse Harbor must have known the news of the arrival of the Ming army's naval division, and they had only two choices, one was to leave Jumping Horse Harbor to avoid the limelight, and the other was to engage in a land battle with the Ming army's naval division in Jumping Horse Harbor.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, as long as the leader of the Waiko in Jumping Horse Harbor is in his right mind, he will never start a war with the Ming army's sailors, and the Ming army's sailors are not only powerful this time, but he also personally leads the army, unless the other party is crazy, he is willing to provoke the Ming army's sailors.

Therefore, in order to prevent the pirates in Vaulting Horse Harbor from escaping, Li Yuntian decided to attack Vaulting Horse Harbor overnight, taking them down in one fell swoop while the Vaulting Horse Harbor Wokou was still unprepared.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, in order to be able to annihilate the Jumping Horse Harbor in the most effective way, he prepared to advance by land and water, attacking the Jumping Horse Harbor from both the sea and the land, so that the Japanese Invaders would be surrounded in the Jumping Horse Harbor and annihilated them.

"In this operation, we must wipe out all the pirates in Vaulting Horse Harbor, so that they can know that I am a Ming country!" In one of the cabins of the Ming Yang, Li Yuntian said to everyone present with a stern expression.

"Don't worry, I will go all out to exterminate the Japanese invaders!" When the senior military attachés of the sailors at the scene heard this, they all bowed their hands to Li Yuntian and said in unison.

Under Li Yuntian's deployment, the ships of the naval division will surround the port of Jumping Horse from the sea, impose a naval blockade on the port of Jumping Horse, and shell targets on the shore.

The attack on land was handed over to Keiko Yamaguchi's men, and Li Zixi led a thousand Ming army sailors to assist him in his actions and attacked Vaulting Harbor from land.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Li Zixi followed Keiko Yamaguchi to act together was mainly to coordinate the relationship between Keiko Yamaguchi and Saburo Domoto and others.

In order to avoid any discordant things from happening in this battle, Li Yuntian specially sent Li Zixi to suppress the formation, after all, this was Keiko Yamaguchi's first battle.

In fact, Li Yuntian is also a little troubled by the attitude of Domoto Saburo and other Ming Dynasty Japanese coquettes towards Yamaguchi Keiko, because Yamaguchi Keiko is a Japanese girl, so Domoto Saburo is not convinced by her in his heart.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing for Li Yuntian, which means that Yamaguchi Keiko will not be able to control Domoto Saburo and others, but if Domoto Saburo is disobedient, it will obviously be detrimental to Yamaguchi Keiko's future actions, and it will indirectly disrupt Li Yuntian's strategy against the Japanese state.

However, so far, Li Yuntian has not had any good way to solve this contradiction, in the final analysis, Keiko Yamaguchi is a foreign race in the eyes of Domoto Saburo, and he is from a small country of Wa, plus he is a woman, so it is naturally difficult to convince the public.

It is worth mentioning that Li Yuntian fulfilled his promise to Keiko Yamaguchi, and the reason why Li Zixi led a thousand Ming troops to fight with Keiko Yamaguchi this time was because those Ming troops wanted to protect the twenty Fran cannons unloaded from the three-masted warship, and these Franco cannons would participate in Keiko Yamaguchi's attack on the port of Vaulting.

Although they were all recovering the port, unlike the Ming army's naval division recovering the Jilong Port, the Ming army's naval division that attacked the Vaulting Horse Harbor this time will carry out artillery bombardment of the buildings on the Vaulting Horse Harbor.

Obviously, the people living in Jilong Harbor are basically people who have fled from Daming to take refuge, and Li Yuntian does not think there is any need to cause too much bloodshed.

The Vaulting Horse Port is different, most of the people living on it are Japanese people who have emigrated from the Japanese Empire, and they are invaders for the Ryukyu Kingdom, so Li Yuntian will naturally not be polite, and at the same time, he also wants to give those Japanese people a dismount, so that they can know the power of the Ming Army's naval division.

After the meeting, the senior military attachés of the Ming Army's naval division left one after another, and Li Yuntian left Keiko Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Hai, Saburo Domoto and Li Zixi behind.

"In this attack on Vaulting Harbor, this king hopes that Tang Ben will take the lead." After pondering for a while, Li Yuntian looked at Keiko Yamaguchi and said quietly, "You are the boss, responsible for the postponement." ”

"Obedience." Keiko Yamaguchi didn't have the slightest surprise, and after bowing to Li Yuntian, she had already guessed that Li Yuntian would do this.

Yamaguchi Hai showed a surprised look on his face, he didn't expect Yamaguchi Keiko to really guess Li Yuntian's plan, it seems that Yamaguchi Keiko knows Li Yuntian more than he imagined.

"Don't worry, the prince will definitely eliminate those widows in Vaulting Horse Harbor." Domoto Saburo was pleasantly surprised, he never expected that Li Yuntian would entrust him with a heavy responsibility, and said to Li Yuntian excitedly.

After more than half a year of reorganization, Saburo Domoto now has considerable confidence in the combat effectiveness of his brothers, who have completed the transformation from Japanese to regular army in the past time, not only practicing hard every day, but also gaining a lot of weight due to the good food treatment.

For Saburo Domoto, he very much hopes to take advantage of this attack on Vaulting Horse Harbor to make a military exploit in order to wash away the label of "Wokou" on his body.

"The tide of battle is changing rapidly, and if there is a change beyond the plan, you are fully responsible for the situation." Li Yuntian not only wanted to arrange the matter of Saburo Domoto to take the lead, but also to establish Keiko Yamaguchi's dominant position in this battle, and then said to Keiko Yamaguchi in a deep voice.

"Humble duty understands." Keiko Yamaguchi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart when she heard this, with Li Yuntian's confession, Domoto Saburo would obey her orders even if she didn't want to.

"When the vaulting horse port is recovered, this king will give you a banquet to celebrate!" Li Yuntian bowed slightly, glanced at Keiko Yamaguchi and the others, and said in a deep voice.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Keiko Yamaguchi and the others hurriedly bowed to Li Yuntian and thanked him.

In the middle of the night, the quiet Shuri Port suddenly became busy, and the three-masted warships and old-fashioned warships of the Ming army in the harbor slowly and methodically sailed away from the docks, joined the warships parked in the sea outside the port, and sailed north in the night.

Among all the warships, the Ming Yang was naturally surrounded in the middle, and Li Yuntian stood on the deck of the bow of the ship blowing the sea breeze, looking at the sparkling sea in front of him.

"Xianggong, let's have some supper." Not long after, Lei Ting walked over, followed by Lin Xin, who had two trays of dim sum on it.

Unlike before, Lin Xin changed into a straight military uniform at this time, looking a little heroic, after all, it is inconvenient for women to appear in the army here, so it is better to dress up as a woman like Lei Ting.

"Sue sù the king, it's a few days of sailing from Ryukyu to Kyushu Island!" Li Yuntian picked up a piece of dim sum and took a bite, chewing slowly and methodically in his mouth, while asking Lin Xin with interest.

"You can reach Kyushu Island in four days with a tailwind." Lin Xin thought about it and gave an answer.

"Four days!" Li Yuntian nodded when he heard this, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Lin Xin saw that Li Yuntian was deep in thought, her eyes couldn't help but show a suspicious look, she knew that Li Yuntian would never ask her this question for no reason, could it be that Li Yuntian wanted to go to Kyushu Island?

However, Lin Xin obviously couldn't get an answer, because with her identity, there was no way to ask Li Yuntian this question, and this was a military secret, so she shouldn't ask.

In the early morning, the Ming Yang and other ships arrived at the port of Vaulting Horse.

Although the port of Vaulting Horse claims to be a "port", it is actually just a shabby-looking wharf with many boats of all sizes.

Li Yuntian stood on the bow of the ship and looked sternly at the Vaulting Harbor, which was silent in the quiet night, and the three-masted warships had already formed an encirclement posture in the Vaulting Harbor and were ready to shoot, just waiting for Li Yuntian to give an order, they sailed into the harbor to shell the targets on the shore.

Lei Ting, Lin Xin and the others stood quietly behind Li Yuntian, especially Lin Xin, her face was full of excitement and excitement, she never imagined that she would be lucky enough to witness the battle between the Ming army and the Jumping Horse Gang Waiko.

With the arrival of the ships of the Ming Army's sailors, the silent Vaulting Harbor gradually boiled, and it was clear that the people in the harbor had spotted the ships approaching on the sea.

The dock was soon filled with a crowd of sleepy-eyed people, who pointed to the huge ships with shocked expressions and discussed, for they had never seen such a large ship like a hill for the first time.

Just as the people on the dock were gathering more and more, three green flares with a sharp whistling suddenly rose in the air behind the dock.

"Attack!" Glancing at the three green signal flares in the sky, Li Yuntian gave an order in a deep voice, this was the signal he agreed with Keiko Yamaguchi, which meant that Keiko Yamaguchi had completed the encirclement of Vaulting Horse Port and had cut off the way of the Vaulting Horse Harbor.

Soon, three red flares screamed and rose from the Mingyang, which not only attracted Lin Xin's attention, but also made the people on the dock stretch their heads and look at this side in confusion.

Bang, bang, bang......

Then, before Lin Xin could react, a series of continuous roars suddenly came from her ears, which made the entire sea shake in an instant, and she jumped, only to see sparks blooming one after another on the hull of the three-masted warships facing the port outside the Vaulting Horse Harbor.

Boom, boom, boom......

In the crisp morning light, Lin Xin could see countless small black dots flying out of the three-masted warship, drawing a parabola in the air and landing in the crowd at the dock, and then the fire flashed and exploded one after another, causing blood to splash on the dock and limbs to fly.

"Oh my God!" Looking at the people on the dock who were swallowed by the explosion, Lin Xin was stunned, covering her mouth with her hands, her face was full of shock, she had never seen such a tragic scene.

In the face of the cannonballs falling from the sky, the men on the shore had no power to fight back, and there was no other way but to flee in panic and look for shelter.

Li Yuntian silently looked at the crowd of wolves on the dock, because they gathered together to watch the excitement, it was difficult to escape the intensive shelling of the three-masted warship, and many people were affected by the explosion of the cannonballs on the way to escape, and they all screamed and fell in a pool of blood.

"This king is tired, go back and rest first." Li Yuntian was not interested in appreciating a massacre with a huge disparity in strength, so he walked back to the cabin, judging from the current situation, the Japanese in Jumping Horse Harbor were caught off guard, and the rest of the things did not need him to worry about, after this round of shelling, Jumping Horse Harbor was just around the corner.