After leaving Shiguo, Zhao Guoliang and his bandits continued northward, passed another Oshima Awaji Island, and entered Osaka Bay.

Zhao Guoliang had originally thought it was very good. He brought his army to Osaka and robbed him if he could. If he couldn't, he would bypass Osaka and go directly to Kyoto. According to their army's combat effectiveness, he could rob the emperor of the Japanese army before the Japanese army could react. The rest of the emperor was simple. He signed the city alliance directly and did whatever he wanted!

But ideals are beautiful, but reality is skinny. Zhao Guoliang was stunned after facing Osaka Bay. The entire Osaka is a large city with a total population of more than 300,000, which is no less than some prefecture-level cities in China.

After the local tyrants such as Zhao Guoliang harmed Kyushu and Shiguo, they formed an impression in their hearts that Japan has poor mountains and bad waters and cannot have any brilliant civilization. A city like Nagasaki with a population of 70,000 or 80,000 should be the largest. Yang Shilong has only been to Nagasaki, but he has never been to the mainland of Japan. However, he heard that Japan has three relatively large cities, Osaka, Edo, and Kyoto, but Yang Shilong really thinks it is only one larger than Nagasaki.

But when I came to Osaka, I found that the area of ​​this big city is not inferior to that of cities such as Hangzhou and Yangzhou. Because domestic metropolis are all two-story and three-story buildings, one-third of the population lives outside the city, the area is really not large. However, Osaka's buildings are all bungalows made of wooden boards and bamboo. They look one by one, and the momentum is even larger than that of domestic cities.

At this time, the Osaka defenders had already seen the Ming warships outside the port, and immediately rushed out of the port and rushed towards the Ming warships.

Zhao Guoliang was originally preparing for landing operations, but he was not prepared for naval battles at all. He had no choice but to order the navy to withdraw from the battle immediately, and all ships went to the sea outside Osaka to assemble. The Japanese navy saw that the Ming army ships were very fast, so he pretended to chased them for more than ten miles and then went back.

After leaving Osaka Bay for more than 40 miles, Zhao Guoliangcai made the fleet break down and asked the intermediate officers to concentrate on the flagship for a meeting.

After seeing the four regiment commanders and all the warships' stewards, Zhao Guoliang asked, "Everyone has seen the battle in the morning. The strength of the Japanese pirates is far above us. How do you think we should fight?"

The commander of the 1st regiment of the Eighth Division was a warrior and said carelessly: "Sir, what are you afraid of? These three-inch nails can beat us? Tomorrow the navy's ships will work directly with the Japanese naval army, and our army will take the opportunity to get ashore. I don't believe that more than 10,000 of us can't beat them?"

Li Tinglong shook his head and said, "No, the Osaka Navy has more than 20 Anzai ships, and there should be a lot of small trumpet ships left. The navy cannot resolve the battle quickly. If the navy does not end, it will not be able to close the shooting to support the army, so there will be too many casualties!"

Zhao Guoliang's Japanese dispatched troops have been fighting for more than a month, with nearly 2,000 combat and non-combat reductions, and now there are less than 10,000 left.

Zhao Guoliang nodded when he heard Li Tinglong say this and said, "Old Li is right. See what is the best of both worlds?"

The guys in the cabin were illiterate. The only two people who knew literacy were Yang Shilong and Zhu Jiang. Yang Shilong was just a leader, so Zhu Jiang was the one who was more clear-headed.

Zhu Jiang thought for a while and said, "Admiral, we have seen it in Nagasaki that the houses in Japan are made of wooden structures and the roads are narrow. As long as there is a fire, they can be connected in pieces. Why not let's use fire to attack again?"

"Fire attack is good, but it's really difficult to transport people to it, and the Navy cannot end the battle as soon as possible?"

Li Tinglong's eyes lit up when he heard the fire attack: "Sir, I have another plan to use the fire attack!"

"Oh? Say it quickly!"

"Sir, you know that I have been a pirate before and have had contact with the Ming army. The Ming army navy has a kind of fire dragon coming out of water, which can be fired out of water for five or six hundred steps. After landing, it can ignite the gunpowder in it. It can be used to burn local ships. Why don't we make some fire dragon coming out of water to deal with Osaka?"

"Okay! This is a good plan! In this way, tomorrow, Lao Li, you will fight with the Japanese navy. I will bring the army's landing ship to the dock to prevent fire, and then land. What do you think?"

When everyone in the room saw that the commander had made a decision, they all agreed.

Next, the Ming Navy found a small island outside the sea and began to use the tools in his hand to create fire dragons out of water.

The Ming army's "Wu Bei Zhi" records: Use five feet of thatched bamboo to remove the joints and scrape them thinly with an iron knife. Each front and back is equipped with a wooden dragon head and a dragon tail. The mouth of the dragon head is facing upward, and several branches of the magic rocket are installed in the dragon's belly, connecting the rocket's medicine lines together and lead out from a hole in the lower part of the dragon's head. Under the dragon's body, two large rocket launchers are installed inclined in front and back, and their medicine lines are always connected together. The total medicine lines of the magic fire creeping in the dragon's belly are connected to the bottom of the two rockets in front. "Water Battle" can burn fire three or four feet away from the water, that is, the flying water surface is two or three miles away, like a fire dragon coming out of the river.

The serious fire dragon had to carve the front into a dragon's head when it came out of the water, but now the project has been rushing. In addition, there is no big wood on the island of Japan, so some bamboo can only be used as propellers, and then the naval artillery fire medicine was tied to the large bamboo. In this way, a shoddy fire dragon was completed.

Zhao Guoliang tested one and saw that a bamboo thruster could only launch a pack of gunpowder a hundred steps away, which was too close. Anyway, domestic supplies had been transported, and some gunpowder was found. Zhao Guoliang ordered eight thrusters to be tied together, so the launch distance could reach 500 steps.

When Zhao Guoliang saw that it could be used, he ordered the whole army to take action. He made more than 200 copycat versions of Fire Dragons coming out of the water in one night.

It was already dawn the next day after all, and Zhao Guoliang saw that his soldiers had not closed their eyes all night, so he decided to take a day off today, have lunch in the afternoon, and have a night battle in the evening.

At midnight, the weather was clear tonight, which was just right for setting fires. Zhao Guoliang ordered the whole team to set off and rush to Osaka Bay.

The Osaka Navy has been in a panic these two days. At night, the navy warships were on duty, and observation posts were placed on several small islands in Osaka Bay to prevent the Ming army from attacking in the middle of the night.

So when the Ming army took advantage of the starlight entering Osaka Bay, they were immediately discovered by these observation posts, and then a beacon fire was ignited on the island. The garrison in the city found that the Ming army was coming again. This time the navy came out in full swing, and hundreds of warships rushed out.

Because the navy wanted to entangle the Japanese navy, it could not use its own speed advantage. Fortunately, the Japanese navy had only more than 20 ships, and the other small boats could not reach the tall ship side of the Ming warship. However, in order to prevent the enemy from jumping to the gang, Zhao Guoliang placed 100 army musketeers on each warship just in case.

The Ming army's troop transport ships were much slower than the warships. After the warships came forward, twenty troop transport ships, led by Zhao Guoliang, took advantage of the night to sneak around the main battlefield and approach Osaka Castle.

After finding a shallow place outside the city, Zhao Guoliang put down a battalion of 500 people and asked them to take the fire dragon out of the water to get close to Osaka Castle to set fire.

Now the attention in Osaka Castle is attracted by the naval battle in Osaka Bay, and these five hundred people quietly approach the Osaka Castle Wall.

Three hundred meters outside the city, the Ming army led the fire dragon out of water and set it up, then ran away from a distance.

More than 200 fire dragons suddenly appeared in the night. The soldiers guarding the city in Japan were stunned. Why did they still set off fireworks?

But it was different for these fireworks to fall into the city. These fireworks ignited the gunpowder bag on the top, and burned wherever they landed, and there were more than twenty fires in Osaka Castle immediately.

The firelights accompanied the Japanese navy in the bay immediately lost the courage to fight and turned around and fled, but their ship speed was not the opponent of the Ming Navy. Li Tinglong followed behind him and sank the twenty Anzhai ships.

By the end of the naval battle, it was already dawn. Li Tinglong led his navy back to Osaka Bay. He could see the fire in Osaka twenty miles away.

The fire burned for five days, and Osaka Castle, which had just been built, was burned down. Because of backward urban planning, the fire could not be effectively extinguished. Three-quarters of Osaka Castle were burned down, and less than 350,000 residents in the city escaped.

Zhao Guoliang did not stay here to watch the fire, but took the army ashore the next day and grabbed a guide and headed for Kyoto 80 miles away.

Kyoto in Japan was not Tokyo in later generations, and Tokyo in later generations was called Edo in this era.

At the end of the Nara period, in order to get rid of the influence of the Nara Buddhist temple power, Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Heiankyo, located in Yamacai Kingdom in 794 AD. Since then, the Heian era has begun and the history of Kyoto as the capital of Japan has begun. The location of Heiankyo refers to Feng Shui ideas, and imitates the capital of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty in China. It is a traditional city-style city. Heiankyo is about 5.2 kilometers long from north to south and 4.5 kilometers long from east to west, and an area of ​​one fifth of the capital of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty in China. The emperor lives in Ouchiri is located in the north of Heiankyo, with Suzaku Road as the center. The city is divided into two symmetrical parts: Ukyo and Zuokyo.

Zhao Guoliang came to Kyoto with his troops but was out of stock. It turned out that someone had come to Kyoto after the attack on Osaka to transfer Emperor Akimasa. Although the emperor had no rights in Japan, it was a symbol of a country after all, so naturally the Ming army could not be arrested.

However, the Emperor left in a hurry, and the gold, silver and jewelry left behind were cheaper. Zhao Guoliang robbed more than 800,000 taels of silver in Kyoto. Zhao Guoliang did not want the food. It was more than 80 miles away from the sea and was in the inland. It was really inconvenient to bring such heavy food.

He was still a little unwilling to accept the situation before he was caught. He asked his men to go to the palace to capture a maid, wanting to ask where the emperor had gone.

The maid had never seen these tall soldiers, one by one, like evil ghosts in hell. When she learned that these evil ghosts wanted to find the Queen, she led Zhao Guoliang to a temple in the city.

When Zhao Guoliang saw that the emperor did not escape, he was overjoyed. He rushed in with his people and grabbed a monk and asked where the emperor was.

When the emperor was captured, Zhao Guoliang was completely stunned. Unexpectedly, the emperor was a woman! She was still a girl in her twenties!
Chapter completed!