Liu Haojia chuckled twice and said: "Some small errors are normal. However, if we are dealing with the cold weapon era, this tactic is still useful. But these people don't know that things are different now. Now is an era where firearms rule the roost. Already!"
After saying that, he put down the telescope and said: "This is my order! The current formation of the squadron remains unchanged. When the battle begins, we will insert it through the middle of the Shimazu family's navy, penetrate their formation, and cut their fleet in half." ! Then the whole team turned to the left. As for the navy on the right, leave it to the merchants. Tell them that they only need to hold back the Shimadzu navy!"
After Liu Haojia gave the order, the fleet began to accelerate slowly and gradually turned into a column. The pirates also began to slowly adjust their formation, forming a horizontal formation under the command of Liu Guangting. However, due to the adjustment of the formation, this horizontal column lags behind the squadron column.
Just as Liu Haojia was adjusting his formation, on the Anzhai ship in the center, people from the Shimadzu navy were also observing every move of Liu Haojia's fleet.
On the topmost open-air deck of the Anzha ship, there were a dozen people dressed as samurai gathered. One of the people in the middle was dressed in gorgeous contemporary clothing, with a pocket on his head, and a sword and a ribbed knife stuck in his waist. . The dozen or so samurai next to him are also dressed in the same way, and they look very impressive together!
This person is the general sent by the Shimadzu family, Kaguyama Hisaka. After receiving the news, the Shimazu family gathered all available ships and sailors to form a huge fleet, which was more than Liu Haojia's fleet in terms of number of ships alone. But this is already the entire maritime power of the Shimadzu family!
When the Shimazu family knew that the Ming Dynasty fleet was attacking, their first reaction was not fear or anger, but excitement!
Because in the early days of maritime trade between Japan and other countries, the most prosperous port was Kagoshima! However, as time went by, more and more maritime merchants came to Nagasaki District for trade, and Kagoshima gradually declined!
So this time when I heard that the Ming Dynasty fleet was attacking, everyone in the Shimazu family felt that this was a good opportunity to revive the reputation of the Shimazu family! As long as these Ming fleets are defeated, everyone will know how powerful the Shimazu family is, and will feel that Kagoshima will be safer, and maybe some people will be willing to trade here!
Moreover, they also dreamed of seizing a large number of ships and arming themselves to dominate the sea. That's why they put all their efforts into forming this navy army. For this reason, the Shimadzu family almost emptied the port and even forcibly took over many merchant ships.
When talking about Kaguyama Hisaka, one thing has to be mentioned, that is, he is a tough foreign expansionist of the Shimadzu family! And this person is quite smart. He did not blindly target other famous people like others, but directly pointed at the Ryukyu Islands!
His purpose is to control Ryukyu first, and then control Ryukyu, that is, Taiwan. And just a few years later, Kaguyama Hisaka would directly lead the fleet to capture the Ryukyu Islands and control the Ryukyu royal family, so that they never had the opportunity to ask for help from the daimyo. This situation lasted until the Qing Dynasty.
The current Huashan Jiugao still doesn't know the achievements he is about to establish in the future. Of course, the greater possibility is that he will never have this opportunity again due to Liu Haojia's intervention.
At this time, Kaguyama Kutaka had already put down his telescope. He said to the dozen samurai around him: "It seems that this group of Akito intends to break through from our center. Moreover, the fleet on their right looks very scattered and scattered. It doesn’t look like we are soldiers and horses together, what’s going on?”
A warrior next to him bowed and said, "Your Excellency, General, maybe those people are just pirates gathered by the Ming army to assist in the battle."
Huashan Jiugao nodded and said: "It should look like this. Those maritime merchants from the Ming Dynasty are a group of greedy people. Maybe they saw that the fleet sent by the Ming Dynasty was huge, so they wanted to get a share of the pie! "
At this time, another samurai said: "General, what you said makes perfect sense! But they probably didn't expect that we would use all our strength to fight them! Those Ming people are vulnerable at sea. When the time comes, they will be in our Shimazu family Weeping under the sword of a samurai!"
There was also a samurai on the other side who said, "That's right! After we defeated the Ming Dynasty's fleet this time, we should pursue the victory and take this opportunity to capture Ryukyu."
! With Ryukyu as a springboard, we can push forward in the direction of Ryukyu! When we take control of Ryukyu and Ryukyu, the strength of our Shimadzu family will skyrocket again! The plan of His Excellency the General-in-Chief can be fully realized! "
Kaguyama Hisaka nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, and then said majestically: "We Shimazu family samurai must have this spirit of winning! But we must be cautious when fighting! After all, Akito's fleet is looking at You can still fight if you get up! Now I give the order!"
As soon as they heard that Huashan Jiugao was about to give an order, the other warriors immediately stood up and bowed to wait for the order. Just listen to Huashan Jiugao say: "Qingtian Army, He Yejun, then your fleet will move closer to the center, especially the Anzhai fleet will form a cross-shaped formation with my own fleet. When the Ming army tries to break through in the center, we must concentrate our firearms to attack them , stop them, don’t let them penetrate our formation!”
As soon as he finished speaking, two warriors bowed and loudly agreed. Then Kaguyama Kudaka continued: "Half of the ships on our left wing will be divided, and Anhe-kun will command them to attack the Ming army! The other ships will be commanded by Tagawa-kun. All you have to do is hold off those pirates!"
Immediately afterwards, two warriors responded loudly to express their understanding. Then Kaguyama Kutaka waved his hand and said: "When we blocked the Ming army's forward, the other people crossed from the left and right wings and disrupted their formation. Then it was time to show the bravery of the Shimazu family samurai! Capture as many ships as possible! I wish you all great success!"
At this time, all the warriors responded in unison: "Ha Yi! I wish my family a long military fortune!"
Kaguyama Kutaka waved his military equipment vigorously and said, "Okay, let's get ready! The rise of the Shimazu family will be fought here!"
All the warriors agreed in unison and dispersed, holding the boat back to their own boats. The battle between the two sides was about to begin.
As the fleets of both sides get closer and closer, everyone from officers to soldiers on both sides becomes nervous! Even Liu Haojia put on armor. However, he did not put on a full set of armor, but only half armor. Because it is a rule not to wear armor in naval battles, and as the commander of the entire fleet, he must abide by it.
