As mentioned before, the Mishima pirates were an important source of the "real Japanese" that invaded the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they had not seen this battle, they had heard repeatedly from the fleeing pirates about the Qi Family Army and their heavenly mandarin duck formation!

Seeing this scene, the Japanese pirates who had paid a heavy price to climb onto the ship and were ready to kill everyone were like mice seeing a cat, and the fear in their blood was awakened... their courage quickly faded. Some people's legs were shaking and they couldn't even hold their knives.

Cold weapon combat depends entirely on training and courage, both of which are indispensable.

Once one side loses their courage, the only thing that awaits them is failure.

The Japanese pirates brandished their long swords with a fierce look, but they were unable to resist the Five Elements Formation. They shouted and swung their swords desperately, but most of them were blocked by shields. If the shields couldn't block them, their comrades would block them in the Longqing style. The gun barrels made of fine iron were not afraid of being chopped at all.

At the same time, the bayonets behind the two men would wait for an opportunity to stab out, ending the lives of the Japanese pirates on the opposite side.

In the narrow space on the ship, this formation is simply invincible. Even if they encounter samurai among the pirates, they can still kill them easily...

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At this time, on the forecastle of the escort flagship, the four iron balls finally burned red.

The gunners had already prepared for firing...mainly to isolate the iron ball from the propellant. Otherwise, the gun would fire as soon as the iron ball was put into the barrel, and they would not be able to grasp the timing of firing, and might even kill the gunner directly.

They wrapped the propellant powder in oilcloth into a tube, and then pasted a piece of wet mud cake on top like a pancake. Then they slowly put it into the barrel and carefully tamped it with a stick.

Chu Liuxiang poked the red iron ball with the pliers and saw that it was already red and even. He said in a deep voice: "Reload!"

The gunner and assistant gunner returned the gun carriage to the loading position. The loader and the powder man held their breath, carefully picked up a red-hot iron ball with pliers, and pushed it into the muzzle together.

Then the loader, risking his life, poked the barrel with a cleaning rod so that the red and fiery bullet could stick to the propellant.

Everyone was afraid to breathe. If there was a hole in the mud, it could shoot the loader out along with it...

When the loader pulled out the smoking cleaning rod, his legs went limp and he sat down on the deck.

The gunner quickly pulled him away to avoid affecting the resetting of the gun carriage.

Several assistant gunners worked together to push the large gun back to the firing position and inserted the fuse.

Chu Liuxiang personally aimed at the Antaku ship. The two sides were 500 meters apart, within the range of accurate shooting, so he could just aim and shoot. But the ebony ship was rising and falling in the waves, and the red iron ball could not wait for him to slowly aim...

Chu Liuxiang held his breath, feeling the rhythm of the deck under his feet. In the interval between the slow waves just after the front wave passed and the back wave just started, he quickly ignited the shortened fuse.

With a loud bang, the red-hot iron ball flew out in the white smoke and slammed into the already tattered Ataka ship, immediately causing screams and cries of surprise.

"Hit it!" the gunners cheered.

"One more shot!" Chu Liuxiang stared at the Antaku ship and was disappointed when he didn't see any thick smoke.

When the smoke cleared, the loaders had finished loading another gun.

Chu Liuxiang shot out another red fireball. This time he deliberately fired half a second later. The red iron ball pierced through the cloth sail and fell into the sea.

The sail finally lived up to his expectations. Smoke gradually rose, and soon a flame appeared.

At this time, the people on the Anzhai ship discovered that the sail was on fire, and they hurriedly screamed and tried to find a way to put out the fire. However, the sail was more than two meters high, and even water could not reach it.

What, undo the sail? If such a big sail falls on the boat, everyone on the boat will be screwed...

The pirates could only scream and jump, watching the canvas on the tall mast blazing. The sails set the mast on fire, turning it into a big torch...

The Chu Six-shot Artillery Group was so excited that they fired the remaining two red-hot bombs. As a result, one of them flew away, and the other

One of the bombs hit the roof of the Atakabune castle tower. Soon, smoke began to rise from the tower on the ship.

Now there was a lot of fun on the Ataka ship. There was fire above and smoke below, and soon there was fire everywhere. From time to time, Japanese pirates with their bodies on fire jumped into the sea screaming.

"This cannon shot was fired at Niu Boyi!" Wang Rulong killed a Japanese pirate with his own hands with a fierce blow of his sword.

It's not that the war situation has become so serious that all the main generals have to go into battle. But the generals trained by Qi Jiguang will fight to be the first in every battle!

How can you teach your subordinates to fight bravely if you don't lead by example?

Of course, there is also the factor that Wang Rulong is addicted to killing Japanese pirates...

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But to the disappointment of the Living King of Hell, when they saw the Ataka ship on fire, the last bit of the Japanese pirates' fighting will disappeared, and they jumped from the Wuwei ship back to their own Guan ship like a tide.

Many of the Guan ships could not even wait to pick them up and retreat, and they began to row their oars desperately, rushing towards the Ataka ship.

Obviously, there must be some important person on the Ataka ship. The lives of those Japanese pirates combined are not as valuable as his alone.

Wang Rulong also saw it and was overjoyed. He roared and ordered, "Chase, chase! Don't let any ship escape!"

The commander on the stern deck quickly beat the cowhide war drum.

The sound of drums made people's blood boil. The sailors worked hard to adjust the sails and cables to make the Wuwei boat catch up with the wind.

The gunners were also busy. They moved all the stocks in the ammunition depot onto the deck and generously gave them to the retreating Japanese pirates.

The angry Ataka ship was given special attention, and countless shells poured down on it, as if to sink it alive.

At this time, the Japanese pirates on the Antaku ship finally couldn't hold on anymore and hoisted the white flag.

"They surrendered." Haierge pointed at the white flag and cheered to Wang Rulong.

"Those customs ships haven't stopped yet." Wang Rulong muttered and pretended not to see it.

Unfortunately, he had a boss. A blue and white flag was raised on Jin Ke’s boat, which meant an order for a ceasefire.

Wang Rulong could no longer pretend not to see it, so he had to ask his commander to issue a cease-fire order. He then led the Wuwei ship to bypass the burning Anzhai ship, occupying the upper wind and ready to directly hit the enemy ship at any time.

Ten armed sand ships also surrounded the Anzai ship and the more than twenty Guan ships that were carrying out rescue operations around it.

Then, Jin Ke sent people to use a large iron trumpet to shout at the pirates in Japanese, ordering everyone to lay down their weapons, and all the rowers to leave the cabin and kneel on the deck with their heads in their hands. Those who disobeyed the order would be killed immediately!

This was what Marshal Qi had asked the interpreter to teach them when they were in the military camp. But they only repeated a few sentences to say to the prisoners, and they didn't teach them anything else, and there was no need to learn them.

The Japanese pirates understood and quickly followed the instructions. All of them gathered on the deck, knelt on the ground and held their heads in their hands. They surrendered very skillfully. They were indeed a generation that grew up in the Warring States Period.

Japan's Warring States Period lasted for a hundred years, but the population dropped from seven million to twelve million. You can imagine how tragic the surrender was.

At this time, the Japanese on the Ataka ship were transferred to the Seki ship one after another.

At first, Haierge was worried that the pirate leader on the ship might have mixed in with the ordinary pirates and would be difficult to find, but now he realized that he was worrying too much.

He saw several small men, who were dusty but obviously dressed in gorgeous clothes, coming to a ship surrounded by Japanese samurai. The pirates and boatmen on the ship all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to a young man wearing exaggerated armor.

"Hey, this is different from the Japanese pirates we defeated before." Wang Rulong was also very interested. He wiped the blood on the sword on the corpse of the Japanese pirate, and then sheathed it with a knife flower.

"Yeah, the pirates usually don't wear pants, and I've never seen one wearing armor." Haier Ge laughed teasingly, "If this falls into the water, there's no way to get it out."

"It looks like a big fish." Wang Rulong clasped his hands behind his back, stretched his muscles and said, "Look at this delicate and tender fish. It's a pity that Tong Zigong is not here."

Haier Ge felt a chill and was about to speak when he heard the lookout above his head beating the gong again.

The sound of the alarm gongs made the security team members, who were just about to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly become nervous again.

The Japanese pirates were even more frightened and trembled in fear, not knowing what fate would befall them.

"What's going on?!" Haier Ge asked, looking up.

"An unknown fleet was spotted at six o'clock!" The lookout reported loudly, "There are ten ships of about 200 tons. No flags were seen, so we can't tell if we are the enemy or not."

"Could it be the reinforcements from the Japanese pirates?" Haierge was a little worried.

"That's great. I haven't had enough fun yet." Wang Rulong grinned excitedly. He took the telescope and looked behind him. He saw ten ships slowly approaching this side.

"Damn it, it's not reinforcements." Wang Rulong said unsatisfiedly, "It's the Li Dynasty navy."

The warships of the Joseon navy were also very distinctive. Although they also relied on oars instead of sails, they had high ends and a low deck in the middle, like a crescent-shaped ship. Although they looked very bad at first glance, that was just the backwardness of shipbuilding technology. In fact, the Joseon Dynasty had to make great efforts in warships because of practical needs... the long coastline and the close proximity of the Japanese pirates in the three islands... The craftsmanship and manufacturing level were better than those of the Japanese.

The crescent-shaped boat that looks like a sliced ​​watermelon is the "sword boat" of the Li Dynasty navy. It is said to be famous for its speed and can pierce the enemy's formation like a sword.

However, given the Li Dynasty people's habit of bragging, this statement is probably quite exaggerated.

As Wang Rulong expected, before the Coast Guard fired the warning shot, the Li Dynasty sword ship team had already stopped far away and only sent a small boat with a white flag to talk.

While Jin Ke was busy receiving the prisoners, Wang Rulong asked someone to bring the small boat under his ship.

After a while, a captain came up and was stunned when he saw Wang Rulong.

When he boarded the ship, he saw the posture of these Celestial Empire soldiers and thought they should be the imperial army, and the elite among the elite. But when he saw Wang Rulong in a blue-black shorts, which was very different from the imperial army of the Ming Dynasty, he didn't know what to call him.

After a while, he came back to his senses, bowed deeply, and said humbly: "Your Excellency, I am Jiang Bula, the patrol commander of the right-hand navy of Jeolla, Korea. I saw the coastal defense signal smoke and came to check it out. I wonder what the lords of the Celestial Empire are doing in our place?"

ps. Second update, there is one more update...