Inukami Jusaburo was left with only a tattered loincloth, his broken right leg dangling wildly in mid-air, and he whimpered from the toothless, bloody hole in his mouth.
On the pier beneath the lighthouse, five hundred Satsuma soldiers, freshly fed stewed pork, each carrying a tin megaphone, shouted insults at the chain of ships on the sea.
" Kuki Yoshitaka, you coward!"
Look who's hanging on the lighthouse!
" Inukami has already been stripped naked by Prince Great Yan, and you, you water monkey, still dare to come closer? Don't you want your wife at home anymore?"
"Get back to Ise Bay and eat shit! There are 100,000 Great Yan lying in ambush on the shore. Castrate them one by one!"
On the sea, in the watchtower of " Nihon Maru ".
Kuki Yoshitaka looked up at the lighthouse through his bronze telescope and immediately recognized the palm-sized black mole on Inukami Jusaburo's body.
Upon seeing the group of lively Japanese soldiers speaking with Satsuma accents on the pier, he suddenly dropped his binoculars.
"My lord, there's a trap on the shore!"
The deputy general beside him turned pale.
" Inukami Ue led a full 20,000 elite troops, and they were all wiped out so quickly?"
And why would those Satsuma soldiers speak on behalf of the Great Yan people?
Could it be that the Great Yan has truly acquired a firearm even more powerful than the Subduing Fire Thunder)?
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Look how dark it is in the woods on the shore; could it really be the main force of the Great Yan's artillery battalion lying in ambush?
Kuki Yoshitaka's eyelids twitched twice.
He was inherently suspicious, and his hasty advance earlier was intended to catch the enemy off guard. Now, seeing his commander reduced to a naked, defeated dog, his confidence crumbled.
"Send the order! The large ship should lower its oars and slow down, stopping four hundred paces away!"
First, send ten small boats to scout out the situation, to see if there are any firearms on the shore, and how many they are hidden!
The massive fleet of ships slowly came to a stop, and ten light, small boats emerged from both sides of the formation, carrying three hundred daredevils, and paddled swiftly toward the dock.
Gu Moran watched this scene from his horse, patting Kim Seon-a's shoulder in his arms:
"Princess Goryeo, it's up to you now."
Kim Seon-a bit her lip and slid off the horse.
She ripped off the cumbersome black cloak she was wearing.
He took a hard bow from a bull horn from his guard and strode up to the rock at the very front of the dock.
The sea breeze made her thin trousers cling tightly to her thighs, outlining a breathtakingly rounded curve.
Kim Seon-a nocked a three-edged iron arrow with her right hand. The remaining White Tiger Gang Qi in her body surged up her arm to the arrowhead, and a dazzling white light shone on the tip of the arrow.
collapse!
The bowstring twanged, and the iron arrow traversed three hundred paces across the sea, accurately piercing the throat of the helmsman of the lead boat.
The helmsman didn't even utter a sound before clutching his neck and plunging headfirst into the sea.
Kim Seon-a stood atop a high reef, took a Goryeo breath, and shouted into the harbor in Korean:
"Listen up, soldiers of Goryeo!"
I am Princess Kim Seon-a!
Those ships flying the White Tiger Flag on the sea are all Japanese pirates in disguise!
Turn all ten of our remaining turtle ships sideways to block the waterway. We cannot allow a single Japanese pirate to enter the port!
Inside the harbor, the sailors on the ten remaining Goryeo turtle ships heard the princess's voice and their eyes turned red. They frantically rowed their oars, positioning the ten iron-clad turtle ships across the breakwater breach and anchoring them firmly to the seabed.
Behind the horse caravan,
Looking at the foreign woman struggling desperately on the reef, and then at the group of soldiers behind him, Mei Boqian, the Marquis of Luoyang, felt his molars ache from grinding them together.
The successful beach landing was mainly due to Xie Linyuan's efforts.
If they don't make some contributions, the Mei Clan won't even be worthy of carrying Prince Yi's shoes after returning to Luoyang!
Mei Boqian ripped off his helmet and smashed it on the ground, then drew his sword and roared at the eight hundred private soldiers from Luoyang behind him:
"What the hell are you all looking at!"
We're proud men, how could we let a woman outdo us?
If you don't want your whole family to be farmers for generations, come with me into the water and kill people!
The eight hundred private soldiers from Luoyang were aroused and, stripped of their heavy armor, jumped shirtless onto dozens of small sampans on the shore.
Mei Boqian stood on the foremost sampan, holding a torch soaked in kerosene in his left hand and a short knife in his right, leading his fleet to collide head-on with ten small Wa boats charging towards them.
The sounds of wooden planks clashing and swords piercing flesh exploded instantly outside the breakwater.
A Wa ronin jumped off the ship's side, brandishing a katana, and slashed Mei Boqian's left shoulder, causing blood to gush out immediately.
Mei Boqian didn't retreat even half a step. His left hand, holding a torch, shoved it directly into the ronin's eye socket, while his right hand, holding a short knife, plunged it into the man's abdomen, yelling at the top of his lungs:
"Hold on! We'll die outside the breakwater!"
The two sides fought hand-to-hand in the narrow waterway, with people screaming and falling into the sea every moment.
Mei Boqian led his private army from Luoyang, sacrificing over two hundred lives to fill the bay, effectively blocking Kuki Yoshitaka's probing vanguard outside the breakwater.
The battle lasted for a full half hour.
The first quarter of Chen Shi (7-9 AM).
The thick morning fog on the sea suddenly parted.
The northwest wind that had been blowing into the sea paused for a moment, and then the thick-bowl-sized banner of the Great Yan commander on the dock suddenly turned around and fluttered in the northeast direction.
Zhen Meili, who was crouching on the reef, suddenly jumped up, waved and shouted towards the high slope:
"Your Highness! The tide is out!"
The southwest wind has risen! The fireboats are ready.
On the high slope, Gu Moran looked at the thin silk dress that clung to Kim Seon-a's chest, blown by the sea breeze, and pinched her pale face, which was a little cold.
"Come on, I'll take you to see a big fireworks display."
Twenty speedboats were already prepared in the reeds on the inner side of the harbor.
The cabins of each fast boat were crammed with bundles of dried reeds soaked in raging oil, bags of sulfur and saltpeter, and at the bottom were thirty Heavy Subduing Fire Thunder modified from Zhen Meili.
The prows of all twenty ships bore the black family crest flag of the Inukami family.
Gu Moran walked down the slope and called over Satsuma, who had been the most vocal in cursing at the dock.
He pointed with his riding whip at the chain of ships on the sea:
"Go, select sixty skilled Satsuma men to sail these twenty boats out for me."
When they arrived at Kuki Yoshitaka's place, they claimed that Inukami Jusaburo Great Yan escaped.
Once we're within thirty paces, light the fire, jump out of the boat, and swim back. Those who survive will each receive an additional fifty taels of gold and a thousand catties of white rice!
Corporal Satsuma glanced at the eighty Atakebune ships that stretched like a mountain on the sea, swallowed hard, then steeled himself, bit his index finger, and drew a bloody mark on his forehead:
"Your Highness keeps your word! For gold and rice, we'll do it!"
He turned around and selected sixty Satsuma assassins who were also shirtless. The three of them jumped onto the speedboat in groups of three and cut the mooring ropes on the shore.
Taking advantage of the strong southwest wind that had just picked up, twenty fast boats hoisted their sails and shot out of the breakwater like twenty arrows released from a bow.
The Satsuma corporal at the bow rowed frantically while shouting in the most authentic Satsuma dialect at the Atakebune opposite him:
"Lord Kuki, save me!"
We are Inukami's personal guards!
We've seized twenty ships full of gunpowder from the Great Yan people and broken out! Quickly, come to our aid!
To make the performance more convincing, Pu Yunshan, on the shore, led his archers to the dock, drew back their bows, and fired dozens of wooden arrows with the arrowheads removed at the stern of the speedboat, shouting in unison:
"Catch the deserters! Don't let the gunpowder ship escape!"
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