Yi Sun-shin looked at the slowly rising red flames on the three giant ships of the Hongye Fleet, and was stunned and unable to move.
His performance was considered to be restrained. Countless sailors in the entire North Korean Navy were staring dumbfounded at the fires rising in the dark night, trembling with fear.
I saw flames rising one by one from the giant ship, slowly rising into the air, and finally there were as many as forty-five. Under the dark night sky, the flames kept flickering, suspended in the air.
.You can vaguely see the upper and lower structures through the firelight. You can vaguely see some heads below, but you can't see anything at all above. You can only see a spherical curvature of cloth with a hole in the middle.
The North Korean soldiers' calves were shaking and they couldn't even stand firm. However, the troops of the Yuqiu clan here were not much better. They were also frightened and overwhelmed by the strangeness in front of them - but they were
Be at ease - because those floating will-o'-the-wisps are obviously drifting in the direction of the North Korean navy.
"What on earth is this?" North Korean sailors gathered together and pointed at the slowly floating will-o'-the-wisps.
"Is it a ghost?"
"Or a god?"
"It can't be witchcraft, right?"
"Is this a bad omen?"
"Why can Japanese pirates summon divine fire?"
No one can answer their questions, not their officers, not the supervisors accompanying the army, not the captains and generals of each ship, not even their greatest commander Yi Sun-shin - no one knows what those floating will-o'-the-wisps are.
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Until the will-o'-the-wisp started throwing things down with little bits of fire.
"This is..." Li Yiqi's adopted son Li Jiaqi is the captain of a wooden house boat. At this moment, he watched blankly as a spherical object with sparks fell on the deck of his ship, and made a "boom" sound. Most of them
Everyone ran away in panic, but Li Jiaqi still led a few brave North Korean sailors to surround him, wanting to see what the gift from the gods was. As they got closer to the spherical object, they discovered that the position of the light was gradually moving towards it.
The ball moved - and then they realized it was the fuse.
Before they could scream, more and more spherical objects were dropped from where the will-o'-wisps were, hitting the ship with a "crackling" sound.
What followed immediately was a series of deafening explosions. Li Jiaqi and other North Korean sailors were caught off guard and were left with only stumps and broken arms, and the rest of them were also stunned.
"The gods have sent down divine punishment!"
"What a bad omen!"
"God is angry!"
"The will-o'-the-wisp is here to take people's lives!"
As the will-o'-the-wisps drifted, explosions occurred one after another. The North Korean sailors who were attacked were completely stunned. They knelt down one by one, kowtowed to the deck, and begged the gods to forgive their sins.
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"Hey, don't throw so much away. Just listen to the cries. The morale on this ship must have exploded."
At this time, on the hot air balloon released by the Momiji Fleet, the commander of the hot air balloon, Nobuichiro Iru, was condemning his two subordinates. Even though he could only command a small hot air balloon and two soldiers, his military rank was
The air force captain and two of his subordinates are also non-commissioned officers - the inflated military rank of the air force has always been the object of ridicule by the army and navy. As the chief of staff, Sanada Masayuki patiently explained to his subordinates at the beginning that the high rank of the air force was because they all
It was a technical branch, but the army and navy didn't buy it at all. Sanada Masayuki tried to continue working, but the smart Imagawa Ujihira persuaded him not to do useless work.
"It's a tradition of the samurai family that it would be nice if the Navy and Army didn't call each other 'Red Deer'. Do you still expect them to treat the Air Force well?" - Imagawa at the time
Ujihira left such a puzzling sentence.
"In order for the hot air balloon to fly normally, the amount of bombs loaded is still too small." Iruichiro looked at the few remaining modified version of the baked bombs placed in the frame, shook his head with some regret, and then picked up the large frame.
Edge looked down and locked onto another Korean cabin ship with lights on. "Once it floats above that ship, continue to drop bombs."
This is not the first time that an "aircraft carrier" carrying a hot-air balloon has been put into combat. During the decisive battle with the Spanish in Manila, Imagawa Ujihei used this strange move, which caused a lot of trouble to the Spanish fleet. Until then
At that time, people in the Military Industry Department realized that the hot air balloon that Imagawa Ujihei wanted to develop was not a flashy thing, but could really play a role on the battlefield. However, the weight that the hot air balloon could carry was limited, and the amount of ammunition it could carry was limited.
It is more limited, has to return supplies frequently, and is extremely vulnerable to attacks when taking off and landing, which has become a major limitation. Therefore, in the battles in Southeast Asia, hot air balloons have been used more for reconnaissance rather than combat.
However, when fighting in Nanyang, most Nanman armies would quickly accept the appearance of this new weapon after being surprised at the beginning - but this is obviously not the case with the current North Korean army. They are still in panic and have not cheered up. Maybe it is because
It was now a dark night, so they could only see clusters of flames suspended in the air, and they may have mistaken them for some strange power.
When Chuanshi Ping tried to release a hot air balloon in the dark against all objections, many staff officers raised objections - the Air Force had previously trained to release hot air balloons in the dark. Although there was no problem with the operation, it was still the first time in actual combat.
Once. Coupled with the poor visibility at night, it was difficult for the officers and soldiers on the hot air balloon to aim. They could only rely on the firelight of the Korean army's wooden house boat to determine the position. This was true. Ichiro Iru had just mistakenly mistook the two boats.
The ship's lights recognized the bow and stern lights of the same ship, and they threw a series of baking bombs into the sea between the two ships, wasting precious ammunition. However, the baking bombs that were actually thrown on the ship did not explode.
No matter how many people were there, it was mostly used as a psychological deterrent - but the effect was beyond everyone's imagination - almost all the North Korean sailors on the ship were frightened, thinking that they had offended the gods, so they lowered the will-o'-the-wisps.
Punish the world.
"Send a signal and let the noose on the ship pull us back and replenish ammunition." After seeing his men throw down the last roasting bomb, Ichiro Izumi waved his hand and ordered. His deputy immediately lit the torch and headed towards
The aircraft carrier gestured several times. After a while, the rope tied to the lower frame of the hot air balloon slowly tightened, slowly dragging the hot air balloon back in the direction of the headwind.
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"This must not be a god! It's just a Japanese pirate's magic!"
Among the mournful army, only a few people such as Yi Sun-shin remained awake and tried to wake up the companions around them. "We throw our heads and blood to defend our home and country. How can we be punished by God? The gods must be on our side."
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While shouting, Yi Sun-shin personally took out his gun and fired continuously in the direction of the will-o'-wisps. However, the hot-air balloons flew too high, and the bullets flying upward had neither power nor accuracy, so there was nothing that could be done with these hot-air balloons.
"What kind of strange and obscene technique is this? It's not necessarily a magic technique, right?" Yi Sun-shin gritted his teeth and stared at the bunches of will-o'-the-wisps in the sky, but suddenly found that they were all slowly moving back.
Yi Sun-shin instantly recalled the appearance of these will-o'-the-wisps when they first appeared - they all seemed to rise from the three giant ships of the Red Leaf Fleet.
"Kill those three ships. The Japanese sorcerer must be on top of them!" Yi Sun-shin made a decisive decision and gave an order to his fifteen turtle ships. The turtle ships were covered with iron plates and dropped from above.
There was nothing they could do with the baking bombs, so the turtle ship did not suffer any damage from the hot air balloon attack, and its morale was relatively stable - while on the wooden house ship
The navy has become completely chaotic and beyond control.
Yi Sun-shin gave an order, and the fifteen turtle ships immediately twisted flexibly in the fleet, freely shuttled among the complex waterways and rocks, and sailed quickly towards the three aircraft carriers of the Hongye Fleet. Even in the dark night,
They are not afraid. They are all sailors who grew up on this coast and know the hydrology of every place well.
Closer, closer, the distance is getting closer. Although the three giant ships are big, there are no gun windows on the sides. The iron gunners on the deck can't damage the turtle ship's armor at all.
The sailors on the ship only felt that victory was in sight. As long as they rushed closer, they could counterattack this giant ship!
"boom!"
Violent explosions sounded out of thin air, and the two turtle ships at the front were blown almost over in an instant. Fire emitting thick smoke instantly rose up and quickly engulfed the turtle ships. The sailors tried to put out the fire, but because of the turtles
The progress was slow due to the closed nature of the ship. All the North Korean naval forces were dumbfounded, not knowing what was happening in front of them. This was clearly the power of artillery... but the ships of the Red Leaf Fleet clearly did not have artillery... Even if there were artillery, the upper half of the turtle ship
They were all covered with iron armor, and it was impossible to be hit like this by a single shot.
Another turtle ship did not believe in evil and continued to rush forward - its bravery allowed others to see clearly what happened. A loud noise came as it happened, and the explosion came from the fragile belly of the turtle ship - even if
Even though the whole body is covered with armor, the belly of the hull cannot be covered - and that becomes the turtle ship's fatal breach.
The North Korean sailors were completely desperate. Through the windows of the turtle ship, they looked at the burning friendly ship in front of them and the three giant ships that were already close at hand - but the short distance between them and the giant ships
But Wan Tian Chao, I don’t know what kind of dangers are hidden under the calm sea surface - is that a magic spell again? Why does the sea surface explode?
"The mine that Admiral Chen Lin gave me last time in Taiwan was really useful." Imagawa Jihei looked at the test explosion effect of the mine with satisfaction, and then looked at the sailors who were preparing next to him, "But because of the effect of this mine
Great, Fire Dragon Izuku and Divine Fire Flying Crow probably won’t be used anymore.”
"Tie the letter to the arrow and shoot it over to them." Imagawa raised his hand and signaled his iron gunners to pick up the bows and arrows that had not been used for a long time, and pointed at the Korean turtle ships parked not far away, "
Explain our purpose of coming, show our identity, and show them the secret order with the emperor's seal, which will make them angry immediately. I don't have time to linger here. To be precise, it's too late. They should also know it.
Come on, if we continue to fight, it will only end in total annihilation for them."
"Your Highness?" Governor Konishi was a little confused when he heard this, "The battle ended so quickly, obviously not much time was wasted."
"No, I suddenly realized that we missed something." Imagawa Ujihira showed a wry smile, then shook his head and said, "If Toyotomi Hideyoshi pretends to attack Maple Leaf Mountain Castle, he will lead his army to attack His Highness Tokugawa and Mitsuji's troops.
, that would be bad.”
"Ah? Attack His Highness Tokugawa directly?" President Konishi was shocked. "The first version of the plan we leaked to them was to lure the Toyotomi family to attack His Highness Tokugawa, so as to give us the opportunity to attack from both sides? Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Since everyone knows that we deliberately leaked this plan to him, how can we follow it?"
"He just might take advantage of this and take advantage of the blind spots in our Yuqiu family's thinking. All of us who know the inside story of the plan, including His Highness Tokugawa himself, feel that it is impossible for him to attack His Highness Tokugawa. If he takes advantage of this
If we complete the raid at one point and annihilate the Tokugawa Army and Imagawa Army in Mino, the Eastern Kingdom will be an empty city." Imagawa Ujihira rubbed his hair with some distress and sighed, "Although we will win in the end,
It’s just that a lot of people will inevitably die. I’ve been planning this for ten years just to avoid this... The trouble is huge and there’s really no way around it.”