open sea

Chapter 580 Chaos
In Osaka Bay, in the words of the Warring States Period, this is a sea battle that can influence the situation of the world.

Gather the powerful generals of the pirates under the Daimyo of the Western Kingdom, and divide the troops into four groups to attack the Oda water army guarding the Kizugawa River at the same time.

In Long Junxiong's eyes, it was obvious that this was a land battle at sea.

The warships are small but strong fortresses. When the closed ships collide, the ships are light enough to fight against a large number of long spears with sabers, mixed with a small amount of long-range troops mixed with iron cannons and big bows, and quickly harvest the lives of the enemy. , and was also killed by the enemy.

The huge shape of the shark ship floats slowly on the sea, as if it is incompatible with the adjacent battlefield that has become a sea of ​​flames. Long Junxiong looks at the situation on the battlefield like a real general, with an extremely calm mind—that is, in the Japanese Warring States period. Under the classical feudal system, he was able to take stock of the situation so calmly. After all, outsiders are always calmer than insiders.

The Oda Navy has good military discipline. Even though they are inferior in terms of military strength, they have more courage in combat than the Fourth Route Navy, and the number of iron cannons far exceeds that of the Fourth Route Navy. Often there will be a few small boats fighting to their death The result of suppressing the Oseki ship with a large bow and iron cannon, and then burning it with fire.

In the past, the Murakami navy attached to the Mori family was called the best in the world. They played a vital role in water battles with their baked jade like a thunder in the palm of a pottery pot. Throwing the clay pot into the boat can make the enemy have nowhere to escape, but because of this, the Murakami water army's offensive momentum is too fierce, and they rushed straight into the encirclement circle set up by the Oda water army along the coast.

On the Kizukawaguchi position, the Longbow Iron Cannon Team, which had been ambushing for a long time, launched an attack on the sea at the same time after they entered the range. The eyes from behind are attracted.

The Oda navy at sea is not equipped with many iron cannons. There may be eight archers on a small morning ship carrying twenty pirates, but there will only be one or two iron cannons, and none of them are independent formations, but the iron cannons on the shore have The difference is that more than [-] iron cannons formed a formation, and fired salvos towards the seaside according to the dug trenches and wooden barriers.

At the same time, only one centurion was shooting. When the shooting was over, the iron cannon in their hands was handed over to their backs, and they took another shot and continued to shoot. Each of them had two gunners.

Moreover, there are several large iron cannons named Datong in their formation, which fire more slowly, but the shells weigh one or two, and every time they fire, they will make a loud noise like a thunderbolt. plate.

Seeing that the Murakami sailors were at a disadvantage due to the attack from land and sea, the Matsuura Japanese pirates on the other side rushed out of the gap in the ship formation, outflanked the Oda army from the other direction, and sent a fleet to the shore iron artillery team to fight back with longbow iron cannons——Matsuura Japanese pirates are the most equipped with firearms in the four-way navy. As the Matsuura family next to Nagasaki, where the Nanyang military government dumped them, they were the first to trade with the Portuguese and Wang Zhi, and imported a large amount of firearms from the Ming Dynasty.

To catch up with the replacement of Guangdong Dusi's weapons, a batch of matchlock guns and old-style fire guns in the past were also exported at high prices. Individuals can be assigned a firearm. Although they don't expect to have any good things in their hands, at least they will have the ability to fight back.

During the long period of learning to handle inferior firearms, Matsuura Japanese pirates created a special way of using firearms, that is, trying to stretch their arms as much as possible to keep the iron cannons and firecrackers away from the face and body, which is called Matsuura Liutie cannonball.

Through the prismatic shooting holes on the ship's wall, a long and short gun was erected, shooting randomly towards the shore from a distance of more than a hundred steps. Although the accuracy was extremely low, it relied on a large number of firearms to suppress the gunner on the case.

Relying on this moment of respite, the Murakami navy gathered forces and fought with the outflanking Oda navy. Before Long Junxiong's fleet reached the edge of the battlefield, the two sides burned more than ten warships of different sizes to each other.

Commanding the defense on the shore is the Oda Clan General Nobumori Sakuma. Seeing that the defense of the navy under his command is not good, his eyes have been looking at the twelve large ships floating on the sea in the distance. The enemy, compared with the twelve big Ming ships, their warships are vulnerable in naval battles.

Even though he still has more than [-] warships ambushing in various river mouths as ambushes, but there is no huge Anzhai among the more than [-] warships, and the small morning boat is afraid that it will be smashed to pieces before the battle with the huge Fuzhou boat. , No matter how many ships want to win a naval battle, it is wishful thinking.

"Let all the teams disembark, set up formations at the mouth of Kizukawa, and order the water troops to retreat to the land. Our opponents are water thieves. If they gain power, they will land and seize them randomly. Lead them into the inland river, and arrange siege ships between the two river mouths. Team, defeat them with land battles!"

The so-called looting refers to the plundering and burning of places after the victory. In any country and in any era, it is an indispensable part of war. In addition to this, there is human hunting, which is the slave market for buying and selling people.

In comparison, Oda Nobunaga, who is called cruel, possesses extraordinary humanity in these two aspects. Before Shangluo, he also took a lot of reckless actions. However, after Shangluo, he strictly restrained military discipline in the Gyeonggi region. Yikui sold it for money, of course, his cruelty did not lie in this aspect at all.

Other big names are different. For example, Takeda Shingen, who is known as the god of war, because his family has a mine, other people hunt a commoner and sell it for twenty or thirty dollars. In order to prevent slaves from being redeemed, he priced slaves at one tael The money is put into the mine if you can't redeem yourself, the men use it to mine, and the women use it to make people sleep.

Another military god, Uesugi Kenshin, is much better. There is a permanent slave market in Kasugayama Castle, and they never drive up prices like Shingen.

In the era of life-and-death military struggle, cruelty is the commonality of human beings. Of course, there is true benevolence and righteousness in the world, but those who really pay attention to benevolence and righteousness die before others know their benevolence and righteousness. The only benevolence and righteousness left is righteousness. The benevolence and righteousness of later generations are different.

And the great righteousness in the era of military struggle is often loyal to the emperor and diligent king is righteousness, and the monarch is a hero when he is in battle.

The [-] Oda Ashgaru were led by their respective warriors and divided into fourteen teams of three routes. They formed formations along the river for concealment. The warships of the teams on the sea also slowly shrank towards the inland river under orders from the land, and gradually retracted their formation to the land. On the way, Long Toshio's plan fell through, and the pirates under his command did not meet Sakuma Nobumori's expectations, and they chased to land without hesitation.

However, what was different from Sakuma Shinmori's expectation was that he underestimated the enthusiasm of these pirates for victory, burning, killing and looting—the small early boats rushed up the shoal horizontally, and there was a worrying noise as the boats rubbed against the sand and gravel. There was a loud noise, and teams of pirates in disheveled clothes rushed to the land. The captains shouted military orders, and the soldiers hurriedly assembled.

Some people, often Matsuura Japanese pirates, stood on the tilting boat, regardless of the distance or the situation, and stretched their arms to shoot at random with iron cannons and bird blunderbusses.

On the surface of the sea, Long Junxiong knocked his head in distress: "Oh, it's messed up!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)