: Burning the Battleship

Because of the firearm problem, the Japanese did not gain any advantage in fighting the battles they were best at.

Now that the warships on both sides are messy, it means another battle between the two sides.

As a result, the Korean soldiers suffered a great loss and were directly killed by more than a thousand people.

However, Huashan Jiulang led more than a dozen warships to successfully escape from the impact of the Ming army's warships.

Seeing the soldiers and warships of the two countries fighting together, Huashan Jiuro's eyes turned bloody.

He can accept failure, but he will definitely not accept losing to the Korean soldiers, which is a shame.

"Come on, launch a rocket, I will burn the Ming army fleet."

"Sir, I can't do it. There are many of our soldiers there."

The deputy under his command also wanted to remind Jiulang of Huashan.

But Huashan Jiuro looked at the nearly 100 warships fighting together and decisively ordered the launch of rockets.

"Start the rocket, and the defiant dies."

The Japanese soldiers on more than a dozen warships did not dare to disobey the orders and immediately began to fire rockets to the melee fleet.

"Swish..."

Thousands of rockets quickly ignited the sails on the battleships, and some of the wooden decks on the battleships began to catch fire.

As more and more battleships were ignited by rockets, the ammunition depots of warships began to be ignited and exploded.

The warships that had lost power were soon ignited by the fired warships next to them, and the sea surface turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Soon, another warship ammunition depot was ignited and exploded.

The soldiers on the warship jumped into the sea to escape, but there were fired warships everywhere, and no one dared to save them.

As the governor of the Ming Dynasty to North Korea and the commander-in-chief of the attack on Japan this time, Lu Aiguo's flagship warship, of course, would not collide with the Japanese warship.

They led fifty or sixty warships to watch the battle in the rear. When they found that something was wrong, they immediately ordered the warships to retreat.

Two hundred warships were actually severely damaged by the Japanese fleet this time, leaving only sixty warships.

In addition, more than 10,000 Korean soldiers died in battle, most of them were burned to death by fire or drowned because they jumped into the sea and could not be rescued.

So many people died in battle, which made Lu Aiguo very distressed. The Korean soldiers were all trained by Lu Aiguo.

He could only order the fleet to suspend the crossing of the Dayu Strait and wait for the arrival of the main force of the Ming army.

The Japanese also sank nearly fifty warships this time, most of which were impacts and sunk.

Six thousand Japanese soldiers also killed more than 4,000 people this time.

Although both sides had huge casualties, in general, the Japanese fleet did not fail, but instead was the victorious side, because they defeated the more with less.

Lu Aiguo was very brave, but he had nowhere to use his strength in the sea.

In order not to be killed by the Japanese rescue warships, he did not chase after more than a dozen retreated warships of Kyuro Huashan.

The Sammo Peninsula is the main foreign trade port in the Satsuma Phantom and the main base of the Japanese Navy.

In 1609, the main force of the Satsuma clan's army expedition to Ryukyu was driven out from here.

The guard of Yamakawa Port is Shimazu Tadaroya, who is the uncle of Shimazu Hiroshima, the lord of the Satsuma vassal state, and is also a powerful naval warfare general.

When the Korean soldiers came to attack the Satsuma Peninsula and Kyushu Island, Tadaro Shimazu almost burst into laughter.

Facing the powerful Tokugawa shogunate, North Korea actually dared to send troops to fight, which was a death sentence in Shimazu Tadaroya's eyes.

The famous Japanese naval general Kyuro Kawayama led a fleet to attack the Koreans, and Shimazu believed that he would win easily.

When Tadarashi Shimazu saw that there were only ten warships and came back under the leadership of Kyuro Kawayama, his face immediately became very ugly.

"Huashanjun, why did you come out with sixty warships? "

Huashan Jiulang shook his head:

"Shimazu, I am ashamed of being besieged by the 300 Korean warships and finally sunk one or two hundred of their warships. As a result, we also lost fifty warships and thousands of brothers. This is simply a shame!"

In order not to lose face in front of Tadaro Shimazu, Kyuro Huashan mentioned a hundred more warships to the Ming army's casualties.

His words scared Shimazu:

"What? Do the Koreans have so many warships? No wonder they have suffered such great losses. Don't be sad. You have won the battle!"

...

When the Japanese fleet returned to Yamakawa Port, the main fleet of Daming finally arrived at the Osumi Strait.

The navy that came this time was twelve iron armored warships and seventy sail warships led by Zhang Huangyan.

The Army was the 20,000 Ming Dragon Banner Army led by Li Dingguo.

These two armies are not only well-equipped, but also carry a medical ship of hundreds of people.

When Lu Aiguo received the news that the main force of the Ming Dynasty arrived, he immediately went to the Ming army's flagship Hongwu to meet Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan.

Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan were discussing how to attack Jiuzhou Island, and suddenly the soldiers came to report:

"Report to the two generals, North Korean Governor Lu Aiguo asked for a meeting."

"Oh, please."

Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan said almost in unison, laughing after saying that.

The North Korean slowly approached Hongwu, and the soldiers set up the hanging ladder. Lu Aiguo stepped onto the Ming Dynasty iron armored warship for the first time.

Looking back at the North Korean, Lu Aiguo suddenly discovered that the tall North Korean warship had become much smaller at this time.

While feeling moved, Lu Aiguo looked up at the tall chimney of Hongwu, which was emitting black smoke at this time.

Li Dongyang was shocked and thought to himself that if they could have a few such iron-clad ships, they would definitely not be burned.

"Governor, this is the real armored warship of the Ming Dynasty. It would be great if we were given two..."

Thinking to himself, Li Dongyang said it out casually.

Lu Aiguo asked, looking at his capable subordinates:

"There is no sail, can you drive away with one? You can only think about this in your heart."

"Yes, the Governor taught the lesson!"

Li Dongyang hurriedly admitted his mistake honestly.

After visiting the Hongwu quotation, the two were about to turn around to meet the Ming army's chief general, suddenly Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan walked onto the deck.

Li Dingguo knew Lu Aiguo, and they had met him in North Korea.

Although Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan were the main generals of the Ming army, they could not have given the son of Lu Xiangsheng, the loyal soul of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Aiguo's face, and finally came out to greet him.

Lu Aiguo and Li Dongyang hurriedly stepped forward and bowed:

"North Korea Governor Lu Aiguo and Deputy Governor Li Dongyang have met two marquises."

"Two generals, please give up the gift quickly"

Li Dingguo and Zhang Huangyan hurriedly helped Lu Aiguo and Li Dongyang up.

Li Dingguo was a marquis, Zhang Huangyan was an earl, and Lu Aiguo was also an earl.

Among the few people, Li Dingguo has the highest status, and he has another identity, that is, the Prince Consort of the Ming Dynasty, but no one else knows it yet.

Several people had seen the ceremony and immediately walked into the Hongwu command room.

After arriving at the command room, Lu Aiguo fell to Li Dingguo again:

"Governor, our army suffered heavy losses in the battle of the Osui Strait, with more than 100 warships sank and more than 10,000 soldiers killed in battle. Lu Aiguo was incompetent to ask the Marquis to punish him."

Seeing Lu Aiguo suddenly kneeling, Li Dongyang reacted quickly and hurriedly fell to Li Dingguo:

"The last general is incompetent, please punish the marquis."

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!