"You said that the sailors of the Ming Dynasty are attacking the Hirado Domain?"

The eyebrows of the shogunate general Matsudaira Nobutsuna were raised, and sure enough, when the Tokugawa shogun handed over the Hirado domain to Tagawa Nanazaemon, he didn't quite agree, one is that after all, this Tagawa Nanazaemon is the son-in-law of Zheng Zhilong of the Ming Dynasty, this is a Ming person, but the daimyo of Japan canonized the city, which can easily cause the dissatisfaction of the daimyo of the feudal clans; Second, now that the relationship between the Zheng family and the Ming Dynasty has completely broken down, and now that the Tokugawa General has taken in the Tagawa clan and the Zheng clan, that is, to oppose the Ming Dynasty again, does the Great Imperial Office really think that its strength can already compete with the Ming Empire?

It's only been how long it has been, from the canonization of the daimyo to the present, only more than four months have passed, and the Ming Empire has directly hit the door, but what to do?

Matsudaira Nobutsuna is very reluctant to make a move, but, if you don't make a move, if you change to other places, it's nothing, but the Nagasaki Domain and Hirado Mishima can't, this is the center of the entire Toei foreign trade, it's too important for Toei, there must be no mistakes, Daming set the target on Hirado Mishima as soon as he came up, the next step may be the Nagasaki Domain, the loss of the Nagasaki Domain, for the shogunate, is definitely an unbearable loss!

"Baga Ya Road! Tagawa Nanazaemon this troublemaker! Sooner or later, the whole Dongying will be dragged into the water by him! The order was given, and the sailors advanced at full speed, went straight to Hirado Mishima, detoured from the south, and outflanked the back road of the Ming army's sailors! ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna shouted, "Someone is coming, immediately send someone back to Edo, meet the Great Imperial Palace, and ask him to immediately mobilize his forces and move towards the Nagasaki Domain, this Ming Empire is definitely not good; Send a letter to Matsuura Town, the daimyo of the Nagasaki Domain, asking him to mobilize Nagasaki's forces in the direction of Hirado Mishima, if it is only a naval battle, he can watch from the sidelines, once the Ming army dares to land on Hirado Mishima, or if Nagasaki wants to attack, it must be blocked from landing! ”

Matsudaira Nobutsuna led the Toei Water Division all the way to the southeast and rushed over.

The distance between the two sides was only forty or fifty miles, and the sailors marched at full speed, that is, in an hour or so, they could rush to Hirado Mishima.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna was Toei's veteran general, and he was experienced, and he led the naval division to make a direct detour, moving from the flank to the south of Hirado Mishima, and rushed towards the Ming naval fleet.

On top of the handsome ship, a sentry suddenly exclaimed, "Master Overseer, Master Overseer, a fleet has appeared to the south of us, and we are less than twenty miles away!" ”

On the deck, Cha Xuan and Zheng Haotian were shocked, at this critical time, a fleet appeared behind them!

Zheng Haotian hurriedly came to the watchtower and looked into the distance, sure enough, a fleet was rapidly advancing in his direction, and now the distance was at most fifteen miles!

"Order, order the battalion on the right flank to immediately approach the troop carrier and protect the safety of the troop carrier with the rear battalion!"

Zheng Haotian's heart shook, he didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly ordered, and then jumped down from the watchtower, came to the front of Cha Xuan, and said urgently: "Master Inspector, the situation is a little bad, this fleet is not weak, at least sixty or seventy warships, although the size is not very large, but once we attack our troop carriers, we will suffer heavy losses!" ”

Cha Xuan frowned, and shouted: "In this case, order the fleet to retreat temporarily, leaving the front army battalion to contain the Zheng family's fleet, and order Shi Lang to lead the left wing battalion to retreat immediately and advance to the southeast, and the rear army battalion to protect the troop transports to advance in the direction of Fukushima, avoiding the incoming fleet, let's meet again where this fleet is sacred!" ”

Zheng Haotian smiled bitterly: "Don't guess, it must be Dongying's sailor fleet, at this time, the Dutch fleet does not dare to come to Dongying, Cohen does not have the courage to start a full-scale war with the Ming Empire, as for other forces, it must be Dongying's sailor fleet, there is no doubt that this little devil in Dongying is really bold enough......"

Cha Xuan sneered: "Hehe, I'm afraid they won't dare to fight, we can't find an excuse to clean up the Oriental Woko!" You have been by the emperor's side for a short time, I don't know very well, the emperor hates the most in his life is not the Manchurian Tartars, but the Oriental Japanese slaves in front of him, as long as there is a chance, the emperor can't wait to bulldoze all the four islands in Dongying! It just so happens that we will take this Dongying fleet to export evil anger first! ”

One order after another was conveyed, the Imperial Fleet retreated on the whole line, opened a certain distance from Zheng Cai's fleet, and instead concentrated three large battalions and began to rush towards the Dongying Fleet, as for the rear army battalion, because the rear army battalion was not strong, it could only protect the troop carriers to advance in the northwest direction, preparing to temporarily land in Fukushima in the northwest direction.

There is no way, thirty troop carriers, carrying the entire Tianxiong army, fifty or sixty thousand troops, even if the troop carriers are more than two thousand giant ships, the personnel are too dense, once they encounter artillery bombardment, they will definitely suffer heavy casualties, they can only ensure that the Tianxiong army does not suffer losses first, and there is nothing wrong with other slowdowns.

As soon as the troop transports withdrew from the battlefield, the Japanese naval fleet had already pounced on them and launched an attack on the large battalion on the right flank, which had arrived first.

In an instant, the artillery of dozens of warships launched an attack together, and the artillery salvo filled the entire sky densely!

The sailors of the large battalion on the right flank also showed no weakness, all the battleships opened their distances, lined up in horizontal formations, and began to return fire with broadside guns, and a fierce battle ensued between the two sides!

Matsudaira Nobutsuna was full of disdain for the right wing battalion in front of him, the fleet in front of him was too small, only thirty warships, although it looked not small, but, just by being big, he could win the battle?

However, after only one wave of competition, Matsudaira Nobutsuna was dumbfounded, the flowering shells of the right-wing battalion were almost lifted into the air at the same time as the shells of the Dongying fleet, but the effect was really different, the strength of the Dongying fleet was too weak, and it was even inferior to the Fujian naval division of the Zheng family, most of the battleships were equipped with Fran machine guns, the range was too close, and the power of the shells was limited, even if there were many of them, it would not help, in front of the flowering cannons of the Ming army, it was enough to see at all, and the shells smashed on the main battleship of the Ming army, that is, a big pit, But the shells of the Ming army fell on the battleships of the Dongying fleet, it was not a matter of pits, but directly destroyed a large part of the deck, and if it was hit on the side side, it would be even worse, the entire side was blown up, and the sea water poured directly into the cabin!

Hiss!

Matsudaira Nobutsuna gasped, I'm Diniang, such a powerful artillery!

(End of chapter)