Chapter 224: The Battle for Shikoku Island: Prelude
The Hawk assault ship plundering and rioting tactics used by Sun Lin have another name in imperial military science, called "fighting the autumn wind". As it intended, the Hawker assault ship can carry out the tactics of plundering and rioting at the same time, and can plunder all the ships passing by, of course, this practice is limited to ships that are known to be enemy strength, including ships like plundering other powerful forces or rushing ashore to loot the town, the former is forced by Sun Lin for fear of accidentally provoking other powerful forces, as for the latter, Sun Lin does not need to be formulated, all Hawk assault ships know the way, Because they have not yet been arrogant to more than 40 people, they dare to compete with a Xiyi village where all the men in the village can be converted into ashigaru or even samurai in 1 minute (the sickle used by the scythe samurai is similar to the agricultural tool scythe used by the Xiyi farmers, and the farmer can become a sickle ashigaru when equipped with a farm tool sickle, and now the Xiyi has not issued a sword abolition order, so many slightly wealthy Xiyi families have katanas, and the Xiyi people have an innate ability to use the katana, that is, the knife method, as for the armor............. The armor of the Xiyi people is worn as if they are not worn)
The Hawker assault ships were twin sailing ships, while all the ships in Xiyi were oared boats, except for the Thousand Stone Ships. The Oarboats move faster than the Hawker in rain or in strong waves, as they don't have to rely on the wind, while the Hawker Assault is in the sky. But unfortunately, under normal circumstances, unless the passing ships have enough oil and water,
Otherwise, the Hawker assault ships would not have attacked, and in addition to the fact that the Kuril Islands has a typical tropical maritime climate, the weather in other months is very sunny except for the frequent typhoon weather between June and September. And it's April, so at present, Sun Lin's nearly 100 Hawk assault ships are in an extremely rampant period.
From the Zoran Maru Islands in the north of the Western Continent to the outpost island of Kyoto Island in the south - the Kyushu Islands, all the islands in the Land of the Thousand Islands can be seen, and the shadow of the Hawk assault ship can be seen in general, generally one is the main Hawk assault ship, plus 1 samurai Kozao and 2 bow Kozao of the Maori Navy Army, the small fleet that attacks the Xiyi people, if it encounters a configuration such as Kozao and Sengoku ships, the sun does not set and the side can achieve a perfect victory, and can guarantee that at least one Kozao ship can be towed back with only a slight repair to go to the battlefield.
And if it encounters a ship with a Seki-class or even an Atakate-class ship, the fleet will make a detour and report the news to the Fish-Man Warriors of the Fish-Man Sea Area Reconnaissance Group that is following the fleet, asking them to lure the Naga warriors and the samurai Kozao clan hidden on the uninhabited island of the Thousand Islands. And the next thing is not something they can control, but they all know that within 5 days, the port that is in a state of expansion before the Zoran Maru castle tower will definitely have more than one more Atakaku type ship that needs to be repaired. The practice of never setting the sun immediately attracted the attention of the shogunate, and after learning that nearly 40 warships of various types had been captured or destroyed in the hands of the sunset side in the past 10 days, and that many of the family's trading fleets had been raided like locusts, the shogunate immediately sent the fleet of the shogunate family to encircle and suppress it.
Although Sunset has advanced navigation skills, as well as the help of Maori sailors and Sea Clan soldiers, but the strong dragon can't suppress the ground snake, the Zunmu faction occupies the familiarity of the land of the Thousand Islands, and several times encircled and suppressed the Sunset side navy that hid and rested, with the help of the guidance of the Sea Clan soldiers, most of the encircled Sunset, Xiyi soldiers were able to escape in small boats before the encirclement net was synthesized, but the battleships and trophies and other things that could not be taken away had to be burned when evacuating.
As a result of this situation, more and more Hawker assault ship sailors could only become light infantry because they had no ships, and they could only stay in the first expeditionary naval base of the uninhabited island group where Sun Lin was located, and the combat effectiveness of the fleet was also weakened to a certain extent.
In desperation, Sun Lin had no choice but to choose a contraction strategy, continue to shrink the previously demarcated plundering sea area, and began to implement the backup plan.
On the other hand, the shogunate, which found that the plundering fleet that never set was gradually decreasing and began to retreat to the Zoran Maru Islands, finally ended the previous sluggish state when the main fleet was annihilated and the Japanese maru was captured, and invested the financial resources of the United Nations in the hands of those shogunes, driving them to launch a more fierce attack, and it was necessary to drive these raiding fleets to the Zoran Maru Islands.
After a few victories, the navy of those Zunmu faction families was inevitably a little conceited, coupled with the drive of money, these Zunmu faction families completely ignored the persuasion of those loyal emperor faction families, and directly vetoed the claim that the reason why the sun never set was defeated was to prepare a trap for Xiyi's navy to jump into, and used a few families that defected from the loyal emperor faction to join the counterattack army, to laugh at the loyal emperor faction's families are cowards.
And this counterattack fleet, which rolled bigger and bigger like a snowball, and finally formed dozens of Xiyi families to unite and drive the Sunset Raiding Fleet out of the Western Continent, and finally suppressed the Sunset Navy's activities on April 27 to Shikoku Island, a famous island in the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands, which is currently the closest to the Saranmaru Islands.
The reason why it is called Shikoku Island is because this island was ruled by the kingdom of the Shikoku people before the establishment of the United Nations of the Saiyi Islands, and the four castle towers located on the four coasts of the southeast and northwest of this island are the capitals of the four extinct Saiyi kingdoms, so this island has become the Shikoku Island in the people of the Saiyi.
Of course, ordinary people don't care about any history, because this kind of thing has nothing to do with them, and the reason why all Xiyi people remember this island is because the birthplace of Shinto Buddhism in the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands is here, and there is a very famous Shinto main temple in the western continent - Honnoji Temple is located in the center of Shikoku Island.
At present, there are exactly 4 Xiyi families on Shikoku Island, they are Miyoshi, Changzong Ibu, Kopan and Hinata, and the 4 families occupy Hizen, Higo, Ueno and Gangpu on Shikoku Island respectively, and jointly maintain the safety of Honnoji Temple, because they are afraid that the sun will never set on the empire in the ensuing battle, and the 4 Xiyi families became the first to join the Saiyi family of the Shogun. As a result, all of the counter-offensive fleets, including the 4 families, are currently stationed in the port area outside the Ueno castle tower or near the coast for recuperation.
In their opinion, with so many Xiyi warships and warriors here, it is impossible for the plundering fleet that has been beaten and can only flee to make a counterattack. But the truth is that those raiding fleets not only dared to do it, but also ............ To put it simply, those raiding fleets have also found a whole bunch of elite thugs to find a field.