Ichiro Inoue stood next to Kato Hiroki, watching the Japanese pirates climbing on the boat with blazing guns, and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart.
At the beginning, his 30,000 troops surrounded the Ming army of less than 1,000 and attacked. It took him a long time to fight, and then he killed those Ming troops with their lives.
It was still in an open area at that time. If those Ming troops were allowed to occupy a dangerous position, just like they are doing now, and attack themselves from a high position, I'm afraid they still don't know how many people would die in order to capture so many thousand people.
Now that Kato Hiroki is attacking the well-positioned Ming army so openly, Inoue Ichiro feels that Kato Hiroki is just looking for death.
If Inoue Ichiro felt that Kato Hiroki had some strategies and knew how to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses, he launched a surprise attack at night.
Inoue Ichiro even had some expectations for Kato Hiroki, thinking that Kato Hiroki might really be able to defeat the Ming army and avenge his own shame.
But seeing Kato Hiroki acting so recklessly, Inoue Ichiro was completely disappointed.
Climbing a giant ship like this to defeat the Ming army is simply a fantasy. The Ming army's cannons are so powerful that Inoue Ichiro still vividly remembers them and is terrified.
Once that kind of firecracker is launched, it seems to be endless. A tactic like this will only lead to death.
Ichiro Inoue thought that he and Kato Hiroki were now in the same boat after all, and couldn't help but persuade him:
"Kato-kun, this is not the way to go."
"The Ming army's firearms are more powerful than you can imagine. If we continue charging like this, the casualties will only become more severe."
"We'd better withdraw..."
Before Inoue Ichiro finished speaking, he was interrupted by Kato Hiroki who suddenly turned his head and glared at him.
I saw Kato Hiroki now like a gambler who had lost all his money, with red eyes, protruding eyeballs and bulging veins, glaring at Inoue Ichiro fiercely.
"What did you say?"
Kato Hiroki gritted his teeth and spoke out a cold voice word by word, and he slowly pulled out the Japanese sword in his waist.
If there is any disagreement, Inoue Ichiro's blood will be splashed on the spot.
Next to him, Kato Hiroki's confidants were slowly approaching Inoue Ichiro, as if they were going to attack Inoue Ichiro.
Inoue Ichiro was shocked. He originally wanted to persuade Kato Hiroki to avoid the edge for the time being. After all, it would be too stupid to risk his death so quickly.
But seeing Kato Hiroki looking like this, Inoue Ichiro knew that if he said the second half of the sentence, he would definitely die.
So, Inoue Ichiro quickly changed his words and said:
"We can change the way we attack."
"Don't we have a lot of kerosene on our warships?"
"We can put kerosene on the arrows and shoot them on the sails of the Ming army. When the Ming army goes to save the sails, we can take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack."
"In this way, we will definitely be able to board the Ming army's warships and kill the Ming army without leaving a single piece of armor."
Kato Hiroki's eyes lit up, he put the knife back into its sheath, patted Inoue Ichiro heavily on the shoulder, and said:
"Inoue-kun, you are so cunning."
Later, Kato Hiroki asked two personal guards to look at Inoue Ichiro, and he personally ordered people to bring the kerosene over, intending to burn the battleship in front of him.
Kato Hiroki's side is not going well, but the Japanese pirates from other directions have gradually begun to board the deck of the Ming army's warship.
Especially the Ming warships on the periphery were the first target of the Japanese pirates because they were closest to them.
Often the Ming troops on these warships had just dressed up and before they even stepped onto the deck, the Japanese pirates had already climbed onto the warship through hooks and ropes.
There was no nonsense between the two sides and they started a hand-to-hand battle directly face to face.
Although the Ming army had not yet fully assembled at this time, not many Japanese pirates boarded the battleship deck.
The Japanese pirates were so powerful that before all the people below boarded the deck, only dozens of them launched an attack on the Ming army. They were very arrogant and surly.
In their view, these Ming troops were just soft-footed shrimps, no match for these tough bandits.
After all, as the vanguard of Japanese pirates, they are often the most ferocious and bloodthirsty among them.
These people looked down upon the Ming army and rushed forward with howls.
But as soon as they fought, they were instantly stunned by the Ming army.
This time, the people accompanying Li in and out of the sea were not his Yiwu soldiers, but the 20,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp brought out by Xu Da.
These 20,000 soldiers were originally the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty. They had a deep understanding of fighting with cold weapons, and killing people was like chopping melons and vegetables.
Although they learned firearms from Li Jin, they did not abandon their cold weapons. Instead, their killing skills became more simple and unpretentious because of their training with Li Jin.
Originally, they only knew that chopping the neck was the most lethal way to kill people, but after learning the structure of the human body from Li Jin, they knew where stabbing was equally deadly.
This greatly improved the killing efficiency of these people, allowing them, soldiers who were already killing people to kill, to kill more efficiently.
And the knowledge they learned was applied to these Japanese pirates for the first time. I wonder whether these Japanese pirates were lucky or unlucky?
The Japanese pirates roared and rushed towards the Ming army, hoping to scare the Ming army.
They had used this tactic before to defeat many Ming army guards.
The guardsmen had not yet engaged in battle, but they were already frightened when they saw them shouting so wildly. This has also become a common tactic of Japanese pirates.
Before fighting, you must first roar to threaten the enemy.
But this time, they clearly encountered a tough situation.
The Ming soldiers in front of them were not moved at all, they just looked at these Japanese pirates with cold eyes.
There was neither fear nor ridicule, just looking at the charging Japanese pirates calmly, as if looking at a group of dead people.
By the time the Japanese pirates realized something was wrong, the Ming army in front of them had already waved their weapons indifferently.
There are still some differences in weapons between this group of Ming soldiers and the Yiwu soldiers trained by Li Jin.
Because these Ming armies have been fighting against the enemy for many years, they have developed the habit of using cold weapons. Therefore, in addition to their own fire blunderbuss, they often also have their own specially made cold weapons.
Some have swords, some have spears, some have axes, sledgehammers, and so on.
But this does not affect the fighting power of these people. When they use cold weapons to kill, the evil spirit exuding from their bodies is much more than that of the Japanese pirates.
When these Japanese pirates boarded the Ming army warship, the fate of this group of Japanese pirates was already determined.
They are already evil wolves themselves and can easily tear the Ming army into pieces.
But when the Ming army showed its fangs, the identities were immediately reversed. Only then did the Japanese pirates realize that they were the poor Mianyang.
Massacre, a bloody massacre.
More than a dozen Ming soldiers who stepped onto the deck faced off against more than thirty old gangsters. In an instant, the gangsters were killed, but the Ming troops were not injured at all.
When some gangsters saw this scene, they were so frightened that they turned around and tried to escape. Unfortunately, their escape route was blocked by the rushing Japanese pirates, so the gangster had no choice but to jump into the sea to escape.
As time went on, more and more Ming troops came out of the deck and began to participate in the battle against the Japanese pirates. The Ming army's advantage on the field began to expand.
Kato Hiroki couldn't care about anyone else at this time, he only had eyes for the battleship in front of him.
He just wants to take this battleship and use it to realize his ambition of dominating the ocean.
The kerosene was quickly brought up, and Kato Hiroki couldn't wait to release the arrow to implement Inoue Ichiro's plan.
However, the confidant next to him stood up to stop Kato Hiroki, saying that there were brothers above who were working hard to climb, and if he released the arrow rashly, he would probably hurt his own people.
"Bang bang bang!"
Before he finished speaking, several gunshots were fired from above, killing several Japanese pirates who were climbing up again.
When Kato Hiroki heard the gunfire that upset him, he no longer cared about the brothers above and directly ordered the arrows to start shooting.
Rockets shot out in all directions, and the giant ship that was calm just now instantly turned into a sea of fire.
The sail was originally made of oilcloth, and with the blessing of kerosene, a fire immediately ignited. A pillar of fire that was more than ten meters high suddenly rose from the ground and lit up half of the sky.
"The water is running out, the water is running away!!!"
Frightened shouts rang out on the giant ship, and Kato Hiroki curled up with a ferocious smile and ordered again:
"Go to their side and board the ship!"
Taking advantage of the situation, Kato Hiroki is determined to win this time!
