On the rough sea, Xu Hao pinched the railing in front of him to maintain his balance, he has never been seasick since he was a child, and he likes the taste of tossing on the water.

July is the hottest summer months, and summer is quite difficult for the crew, but the fleet has just gone to sea, and there is no shortage of vegetables and drinking water, otherwise the warships alone will definitely not be able to stay out for long.

From the ship's tower, he watched the entire fleet attack the fleet of ships that had arrived to reinforce the Japanese kingdom, of which fifteen sail gunboats appeared, and the rest were the largest and most advanced Ming warships, a total of forty-six.

In the past few days, there has been no rain and wind, accompanied by the sound of drums and rumbling cannons, hundreds of Japanese ships full of soldiers were unscrupulously shelled by the Daming naval division, even if the two ships collided, the low and thin Japanese naval ships were not vulnerable at all, and were easily sunk by the tall and sturdy naval warships.

The warring sea area was located near Iki Island between Tsushima Island and Hizen Province in Kyushu, and the Japanese people who hurriedly crossed the sea could never have dreamed that the Daming Naval Division would appear in this sea area without warning.

The ships and few troops on Iki Island were all transferred to Tsushima Island, and even if they didn't go to the Daming Naval Division, they were not afraid to face the enemy on their backs.

Xu Hao actually had no interest in Tsushima Island, and after receiving the news that the North Korean army had sent troops without authorization, he immediately commanded all the warships to plan to blockade the Tsushima Strait, and then threaten the Japanese mainland, retreat to attack Iki Island, and avenge the shame of the dead people.

As soon as the fleet arrived here, it found that a large number of ships were coming at the sea level, and Xu Hao immediately made a decision and ordered Sun Ming, an experienced commander, to order the battle.

After several years of combat and strict training, the officers and men of the Beiping Water Division, who were mainly trained to operate the sails, chased and intercepted the Japanese ships that turned around in a hurry.

By surprise. Dozens of Japanese ships were sunk and the rest of the ships hurriedly turned their bows to escape for their lives.

Xu Hao was worried about encountering an unpredictable hurricane, and said: "Stop the pursuit and send troops to storm the island." ”

Mu Yi asked, "What about the widows who fell into the sea?" ”

"Let them feed the fish." Xu Hao didn't even look at the Japanese people who were struggling desperately in the sea.

On July 24, 2,000 Jurchen warriors led by Liu Heng landed on Iki Island in a small boat, and the guardian army Saemon Hirai Takataka led a hundred knights to rush out, and was immediately killed by bows and arrows More than 80 people, Hirai Takataka died on the spot.

Four pieces of artillery were then transported, and after just half an hour, the gates collapsed. The Jurchens shouted and slaughtered the city in a massive manner, and the city lord Zongma Rokuro committed suicide in despair.

Xu Hao didn't bother to ask who the islanders were and who were the Japanese invaders, and when he found that there were more than 80 Han Chinese and Korean slaves on the island, he ordered the extermination of all creatures on the island.

At the same time, the North Korean army is struggling. With 5,000 troops against a mere 500 Japanese invaders, more than 1,000 people were killed. The difference in combat power was beyond Xu Hao's expectations.

Fortunately, North Korea itself has continuously sent troops to help in the war. Li Xianmao personally took the lead in the battle, and 8,000 men beheaded 200 Japanese invaders, captured 600 people, burned down more than 2,000 houses of islanders, plundered ships, and burned crops. Recovered and released 180 Han Chinese and Korean slaves captured by the Japanese invaders.

Later, the Korean army landed in Nilao County, and encountered an ambush on the march, originally thinking that the other party was a Japanese army, but later found out that it was a regular Japanese army. Many generals of the left army were killed one after another, but fortunately, the right army fought desperately to repel the enemy, and the Korean army was forced to retreat by boat.

When the news was sent to Iki Island, Xu Hao was furious and said in a deep voice: "If the North Koreans want to continue fighting, it is important to let the chickens and dogs of Tsushima Island not stay." ”

This move immediately made the Korean monarchs and ministers feel a great loss of face, and they replaced Li Xianmao and many other generals, and increased their troops by 10,000. In the battle of Tsushima in history, North Korea, with a total strength of 18,000 troops, failed to wipe out only 600 Japanese troops, but suffered 2,500 casualties, and the Japanese suffered only about 20 casualties.

Because the combat effectiveness of the army was so embarrassing, the Korean Left Parliament suggested that the Han people should not be returned to the Ming Dynasty, but the monarch who followed the doctrine of greatism did not agree in the end.

On July 30, the Damei fleet appeared in the sea near Hakata Bay, which immediately shocked the Ashikaga shogunate and Kyoto.

Zhenxi Prefecture sent the Shaoji Fujiwara Qing to urgently dispatch the guard troops to the coastal stone dam position built to resist the Yuan army, and they were ready for battle. More than 40,000 people flocked to the Imperial family samurai unit of Mizen and Nishima, the samurai of the Ouchi family, the strong soldiers of the Otomo family, the Hojo family to protect Chikugo, the Adachi family to protect the Higo family, and the samurai troops of Satsuma, Osumi, and Hinata, which belonged to the Shimazu clan.

The daimyo of Shikoku and other daimyo in the rear hurriedly began to build the second line of defense with a samurai group of 80,000 people under their command.

The seagulls were hovering in the sky, Xu Hao used a clairvoyant mirror to find that the stone dam was unexpectedly unsightly, and the Japanese warriors on the dam liked to tie tattered flags sewn from various coarse cloths behind their backs, and all kinds of battle flags covered the sky and the sun, which was really bluffing at a glance, and the visual effect was good.

Because the people on Iki Island were killed, the Matsuura Party, which made the most powerful Japanese invaders, hated the Ming army to the core, and saw that although the ships of the other party were tall and big, there were only 30 ships in total.

In the early morning, the head of the royal family, Jiro Kusano, mobilized 300 boats of all kinds to come to the sneak attack with oars, intending to set fire to the ship.

The Daming sailors lowered their sails and lined up side by side, returning fire with artillery, catapults and rockets, while the crew stood on deck and raised their muskets to fire a volley.

The small boat that the Japanese warriors were riding suddenly fell into the salty sea water with a scream, or was shot through the body and spewed blood, and there were patches of floating corpses on the sea, they were mentally prepared for the thunderclap-like cannons, because the Yuan army had used firearms, but they didn't expect that this time they were facing muskets, but they were far more powerful than the firecrackers and other firearms of the year.

More than half of the 300 ships were quickly sunk, and 3,000 Japanese were killed in the battle, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Matsuura Party, and Jiro Kusano was forced to commit suicide by disembowelment.

Xu Hao ordered the release of small boats, sent Mu Yi's 1,000 flintlock pistol troops, and stood on the narrow coastline after landing.

Fujiwara Kiyoshi is overjoyed. In order to save face, the Japanese army was ordered to attack the Ming army that was not firmly established, and a group of Japanese people rode horses to kill, which was the most proud tactics of the Japanese people, and had defeated the invincible Mongolian army in the world.

Xu Hao smiled and continued to send a musket team to reinforce Mu Yi, and Mu Yi's subordinates began to shoot non-stop on this narrow terrain that seemed to be the most beneficial to the Japanese people.

It was a completely one-sided slaughter, and where were the musket opponents who rushed up one by one? Despite the howl of the fierce samurai, he was quickly beheaded by one or more projectiles.

Xu Hao wasted no time in using the longest-range artillery to bombard the Japanese on the stone dam. Under the deafening sound of cannons, the huge battleship could not help but shake violently.

Looking at the flesh and blood of the Japanese warriors, Xu Hao was in an extremely happy mood, and the sultry of the years was swept away, smelling the smell of gunpowder. A big smile appeared on his face.

The battle lasted for a whole day, and the Japanese people who were obscured by the smoke of gunpowder were baptized and suppressed by thousands of shells. It's completely out of order. The samurai, who had no subordinate relationship with each other, ignored Fujiwara Kiyoshi's military orders, and continued to come to their deaths for the sake of the dignity and glory of the samurai.

When the Japanese people were horrified to find that they had killed 6,000 elite men and horses, they watched in a daze as the Ming army, which had run out of ammunition and was addicted to it, disappeared into the sea.

The next day, the Daming Sailor made a comeback, still showing off his might on the coast, but in fact, the route was fixed. Xu Hao repeatedly warned the captains of the ships to be careful of the reefs under the seabed.

The huge defeat spread back, and for a time the people's hearts were unstable and the whole country was terrified, and rumors came one after another. It is said that the Ming army came to avenge the Han people who were killed by the pirates.

The Ming Dynasty occupied the moral high ground, unlike the early Mongols who attacked the Song Dynasty, the Japanese people felt the same and did not hesitate to fight, and the nobles and people accused the shogunate of conniving at the pirates, which attracted the Ming army to retaliate.

From time to time, there were rumors that the Ming army invaded the East China Sea, Beihai and other coastal cities, and there were rumors that the Ming army occupied Hokkaido and Kyushu, and the people swore that there was not an inch of grass left in the place where the army went, and a large number of people fled to the Guannai, so that there was no rice in the city near Kyoto, and the fishermen did not dare to go to sea, and the people were hungry.

The ministers of the Kyoto Imperial Court were particularly alarmed, and some even advocated moving the monarch and the imperial court to Kanto and recruiting samurai ronin to defend Kyoto.

The emperor had to recreate the scene of that year, and he came to the shrine to pray for seven days and nights, and the prince went to Shimizu Shrine to pray, and sent someone to Ise Jingu to say, "I wish to replace the national disaster with my body." "The princes and ministers offered gold and silver to the temple, wrote scriptures and recited sutras, and so on.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu couldn't sit still, he himself wanted to maintain friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty, and immediately sent an envoy group of fifty people to arrive.

The team hurried to the front line, took a boat holding a white flag, and shouted Chinese to meet the top general of the Ming army, but the ship was sunk by a cannonball, and all the staff fell into the water.

On the ship's floor, Mu Yi looked at the Japanese officials who were calling for help, and said with a smile: "There are gains on both roads, the Jurchens are really fierce, and they do not fall behind the warriors of the Japanese Kingdom, killing thousands of people such as the old and weak, robbing more than 1,000 women and children, and I don't know how much money and so on." ”

Xu Hao glanced at the envious brothers around him, and said with a smile: "The Japanese country is a little richer than the Koreans, and they can't grab much." The herald hoisted the sails and set off, and we couldn't go home empty-handed. ”

Under the thunder of joy, thirty warships raised their sails and headed off into the distance without even saying hello. More than a dozen warships divided into two routes burned and looted all over the country, and according to the original plan, they returned to Yingzhou with a full load of property and prisoners.

Three days later, the fleet arrived in Satsuma Province in southwestern Kyushu, and while the Shimazu clan was empty, the 3,000 musketeers forcibly sacked Kagoshima, burning down many castles and towns, killing thousands of inhabitants and plundering the same number of women.

Xu Hao indulged his subordinates to burn for two whole days, took the spoils of war, and led the high-morale fleet straight to the Ryukyu Kingdom.

After the battle, the rest of the negotiations is none of his business. (To be continued......)