Brothers (Three)

The Border Port in late autumn was intoxicated by the morning fog. The wooden houses, towers, hills, and fields all dissipated in the mist. The neat warships of the Da Nei house swayed with the waves, as if they were still lingering in the sleep of last night. Standing on the shore, you can see that the bow of the merchant ship was shaking with shadows. It was someone who was scrubbing the decks by the early sailors. A ray of sunshine suddenly appeared, and the sea water and the sky were instantly dyed lilac orange-yellow, and the thick fog was melted away "suddenly". The white sails, green trees, crowds, and birds appeared one by one in the lilac sunlight, and gave the thousand-year-old harbor a boiling vitality.

Shinda Toshino narrowed his eyes stinged by the sun, and looked at the warships in the water with exhaustion and pride. These big guys, I have supported you for twenty years. For this fleet, his annual salary of 60 stones was actually only thirty stones. His wife, who married from the 200 stone family, did not live a good life with him. She was worried about the prosperity of her parents' family the year before yesterday and died in a depressed mood. In order to take care of his two children, he had to guard the port during the day and make some bamboo tools to subsidize the family when he returned home at night. Fortunately, the north and south are the most prosperous places in Japan, and the bamboo tools he made are not worried about sales. Every now and then, vendors came to his dilapidated house of the samurai master to put down a string of Chinese money and take away the things he had made.

Twenty years have passed, and the knife in his hand is old. I remember how powerful the Navy of the Danai family was after following the king Hiroshi Ouchi to fight Fengqian. It’s a pity that the Matsuura Nakara Nakara was despicable and shameless, and he actually wanted to use the night attack trick. Thinking of the fire that night, Toshio Nianda couldn’t help but close his eyes. Twenty years have passed, and the painful cry for help in the fire is like yesterday.

The days of revenge are coming. The navy, which was formed after 20 years of 20 years, has regained its glory. In recent years, their opponents went to the sea to provoke the Ming fleet in order to survive in the Southern Dynasties, and the main ships have basically sunk into the sea. On land, Kyushu explored the subject, Imakawa Sadae was rushing forward step by step and has recovered most of the territory of Kyushu. The Southern Dynasties, which lost their maritime benefits, are like a candle in the wind, extinguishing them is just a matter of raising their hands. Prince Huailiang, the former arrogant general of the Southern Dynasties, cut his stomach in the deep mountains of the Yabu tribe of the Chiqian Dynasty this spring, and the destruction of the Southern Dynasties was faster.

When the spring of next year begins, I will follow the fleet to fight south and fulfill the general's last wish. Shinda Toshino held a few Hongwu money in his pocket and silently planned to collect all the property of those unsightly guys in the South. Each of them divided some of them and took back the 20-year-old efforts and the capital and profit. The temples there had a lot of Chinese money in their hands, and they just happened to get it back for expenses. If you have the chance, go to China to grab one. The people who went to China to rob were said to have made a fortune in the past few years. Thinking of the copper coins, Shinda Toshino was almost drooling.

I have made more bamboo utensils recently, and I guess I can sell some money to buy a piece of clothing for my daughter. The deadly vendor said he has gone to Kyushu these days, why haven’t he come back? It’s strange, why hasn’t anyone returned from the merchant ships that went to the south to trade these days? Is it windy again? Isn’t it heard of windy at this time in previous years! (Note: Historical facts, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the casting process was not up to standard, and the coins circulating on the market were all copper coins from the Ming Dynasty. Friends who advocated the ancient Japanese casting industry can check the historical materials written by the Japanese themselves).

The sun gradually rose, and the light was floating on the sea surface and gold was leaping. Many merchant ships doing business in the Seto Inland Sea began to rise sails. The neat horns of the sailors startled up groups of seagulls, and the hula la covered the sky and the sun was very spectacular.

"No, what is under the wings of a seagull in the distance?" Shinno Nianda felt keenly dangerous with more than 30 years of military career.

"Mirage, mirage"! The people around them shouted excitedly, waved to the sea while shouting. Those who saw the mirage would gain endless wealth in their lives. The ancient legends made people crazy. The hurried pedestrians and busy sailors stopped and joined the cheering crowd.

The mirage became clearer and clearer. The fairy boat in the heaven Kingdom was majestic and magnificent, higher than the towering building of Ishiyama Castle (the predecessor of Osaka). The towering cloud sails penetrated into the sky, and the bow of the boat lined the blue sea, cutting through the waves and sailing towards the port.

"Enemy attack"! Toshio Shinda shouted, "Bastard, it's not a mirage, the enemy attack"!

No one paid attention to his alarm, and most of them were intoxicated in the dream of getting rich. The fairy boat seemed to hear cheers, slowly turned the bow of the ship, and pointed the warship in the port with its sideways. The admiral on the warship suddenly woke up and ordered the sailors to quickly untickle the cables and raise the sails with a crying voice.

"Enemy attack"! Finally someone heard the shouts of the warriors.

There was a mess on the pier, and men and women ran away regardless of their kindness.

The incoming ship calmly opened the porthole, revealing the black muzzle. With a loud noise, the sea surface was once again covered by smoke. Several warships on the outside of the port were beaten to pieces before they could rise. The sea water poured in from the broken ship's side with whirlpools. The panicked sailors didn't care about putting out the fire, picked up a wooden tool and jumped into the water, swam desperately to the shore. Before they could swim far, the warship sank into the bottom of the water with thick smoke. The huge whirlpool was like the mouth of the Yagi Snake, swallowing all those who had no time to escape. In a moment, the whirlpool dissipated, and the red blood and white foam came up, and were sent to the sky by shells falling into the water, reflecting a strange color in the sun.

"Battle, beat me hard," the little overlord Fang Mingqian shouted, "Watch the flag, and sink everything that floats on the water to the water, and send everything that dares to fight back to the sky to me."

The adjutant received the order, and the colorful flags were waving on the lookout platform of the Zhenyuan ship. With the rhythm of the colorful flags, artillery fire poured into the port and on the dock like raindrops.

"Table ping-top", the artillery finally woke up and fired a shot into the sea in vain. The shells took five hundred steps, but before they reached half the distance from the Ming Dynasty warship, they fell into the water, splashing a splash of water.

"Ping, Ping, Ping", several shells flew over and fell around the fortress. The bulky copper cannon flew into the sky with the soil. A beautiful arc was drawn under the sun and smashed heavily into the fish shop on the dock. The wooden house was tilted. The surviving fisherman hid everywhere with his head in his arms, cursing in his heart why God caused such a disaster.

Several injured Japanese warships staggered out of the port, desperately sailing towards the Ming fleet, leaning up and moving up. Only when they get close can they fight back. Their artillery that could not exceed 500 steps was simply setting off welcome fireworks at such a long distance. Fang Mingqian would not leave a chance to counterattack for his opponent. The fleet was in circles back and forth, and the cannons on the side were fired one after another, and the huge water column rushed the enemy ship up and down.

A Japanese warship sank, and the desperate sailors cried and disappeared into the smoke. The second ship did not last for five minutes, and then entered the first wake, the third ship..., the fourth ship..., the broken mast and the remaining masts floated all over the sea with smoke.

"Boom", a warship was hit by the fire warehouse, mast, ship side, canvas, and the remaining limbs of the sailor flew into the sky together. As the shells fell, they were lifted up by the explosion of huge waves and fell again...

"Get close, row hard, get close." A large number of sampans rushed out of the port. The warriors on the boat rowed hard, and operated the sampans as flexible as dolphins jumping on the water. The samurai who were sitting in the boat did not paddle were tied with fire, and they wanted to rush up and die with each other.

"I'm so stupid, I won't change my tricks in so many years." Fang Mingqian saw the other party's suicide squad in the telescope, and a few contemptuous smiles appeared on the corner of his mouth. This trick of rushing into the enemy fleet was his specialty in the past. Unexpectedly, after more than 20 years, someone dared to show off his skills.

"Instruct each ship to be careful not to let the other party approach and greet the guests with a musket."

In order to prevent the smoke from obstructing the teammates' sight, the colorful flags and colorful lights rose on the main ship at the same time. The musketman, who had been itchy for many days, lay on the top side and poked out the long-awaited muzzle.

Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifteen steps, "release"! With a long command from the sailor, the guns rang out neatly, and the warriors rushing over fell from the sampan like cut reeds, and blood dyed the clear sea red.

"I deserve it. You guys have today in these beasts in their clothes." At the end of the fleet, the captain of the Yaoguang Captain Song Ting laughed loudly.

"Pu! A crossbow flew over and nailed it to the side of the Yaoguang ship. The tinder on the crossbow head ignited the deck. The sailors on the ship were calm and raised their drain tubes, and several sea water spurted out together, extinguishing the fire.

"Unfortunate", Song Ting spat and shouted, "Blow off the bed crossbow on the opposite earth slope." The gunner pushed the only small cannon on the ship that could move freely along the track, aiming the muzzle at the earth slope on the shore. This was the invention of the former captain Shao Yunfei. The warships can only concentrate firepower in a queue to exert their maximum power. According to the specifications, the cannons are arranged on both sides. For star-class ships without bow guns, the bow and stern are protective blind spots. If they are corrected by the opponent's side within the range of the cannon during the naval battle, they will surely die. For this reason, Shao Yunfei specially solicited the opinions of the commander and left a small cannon that can be pushed on the guide rails for each star-class ship. In the naval battle in Hongwu in the twelve years, this cannon exerted unexpected power, so it has been retained as the standard for the star-class ship of the Ming warships until now.

Several shells flew out and hit the dirt slope. The smoke of gunpowder dissipated. Several Japanese warriors poked their heads out of the grass, wiped the mud on their faces, and began to harass the Ming fleet again. The dirt slope was the front end of the port, and the Yaoguang and Kaiyang fell at the tail of the fleet were just enough to reach the range of the crossbow guns. The warriors hidden in the gutter saw the cheapness. Crossbow arrows were fired, and the sails of the Kaiyang warship were ignited. The captain directed the sailor to pull off the main sail, let the channel open, and automatically fill the team's tail.

A large group of warriors appeared on the earth slope, in groups of more than twenty, with cables on their shoulders, spreading the crossbow bed that they usually need to be pulled by a cow, and adding crossbow arrows.

There were sailors on the Yaoguang throne and were nailed to the deck. They held the iron rod of the crossbow with unwillingness to resign, struggled, and wrapped the fire with their clothes.

Grandma, Song Ting cursed at the earth slope with hatred. Military discipline required him not to fall behind. The warship accelerated away from the earth slope and circled northward. There were several Japanese pirate warships there to rush out, and the flagship asked everyone to block them back to the port.

Several shells whizzed past the Yaoguang and landed accurately on the earth slope. The violent explosion caused more than one meter of smoke and dust. The shrubs on the earth slope were ignited, and the Japanese samurai hidden there were burning to howl.

Song Ting looked back and saw that not far away, three star-rated ships lined up in a row, cleaning up the cannons and crossbows on the shore one by one. On the flagship that was leading, the Ming Dynasty battle flag was flying fiercely.

"It's this guy Chen Hao, who has been a student, and he is just a sure fight." Song Ting waved at Chen Hao's ship, regardless of whether the other party could see it, and turned around and devoted himself to the annihilation battle against the enemy ship.

"Bastard, I'm here to see where you run." The Yaoguang followed the main fleet and poured angry shells onto the Japanese pirates' ship.

The pale faces of the dead girls appeared in front of Song Ting again. It was the twenty-sixth one. Song Ting clearly remembered the numbers at that time. The girl had just met Yan, and even though she lost her blood color, her face still had the beauty of youth.

"They have no way to live," Fang Mingqian's words echoed in his ears. The girl committed suicide by swallowing gold. She closed her lips before she died, for fear of waking up her sleeping companions. Less than one-tenth of these girls who were robbed by Japanese pirates could have the courage to survive.

Several Japanese samurai who fell into the water bit their daggers and floated on the wooden board to approach Song Ting's ship.

"Send them to the road", Song Ting wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and gritted his teeth to order.

Several muskets poked out, the warrior's body flipped, and was swept away by the waves of water from the warship. The blood stained the red sea water, and as the waves slowly spread, the waves that emerged from the warship rushed to the water surface also turned red.

The warships and merchant ships in the port were in a mess. No one expected that the Ming Navy would come so quickly. All the criminals in the world had the same luck mentality, thinking that they could escape God's punishment. They even believed that they could repay their blood debts on their behalf. The Mongols landed in Fukuoka, which was far away from Kyoto, so people living in Kannet were eager to see the bloody art and jewelry on the Kyoto market. For robbery, there were samurai and ronin people, and Kyoto's nobles, monks and merchants fully enjoyed the spoils. Anyway, the distant country has always been tolerant and has never held them accountable. The ronin who committed crimes in previous years was caught and was often sent back to the country by the other party and handed over to the general.

However, today, all luck has become history. Fang Mingqian led the fleet to "clean up" the port without mercy. The navy of the Danei family sank into the sea before the first voyage was held. Later, the Ming frigate who arrived at the port turned the bow and began to suppress the firepower points on the shore. The Goryeo warship with the Li family flag arrived slowly, lowered the sampan, and prepared to forcibly land.

The wooden house on the shore was hit by shells, and a raging fire ignited. Shunno Nianda and a team of archers, who were hiding behind the wooden house, were preparing to attack while the Ming army landed, and escaped from the fire in a mess, rolling all over the ground, hoping to roll out the flames on their bodies.

According to historical records, when the Mongolian army came to attack, the Japanese samurai used the longbow to counterattack, forcing the Mongolian soldiers to fail to land, and finally buried in the night in the Kanfeng. Why did the longbower fail to work this time, and the Kanfeng did not bless the Kanfeng. Shinno Nada thought depressedly.

A shell left the track and just hit his body, and fell into the fire with his body. Toshino Nianda struggled to stand up from the fire, and his charred body kept rolling, twisting, and twitching.

In their history, they only recorded how they were favored by the gods, but they did not record in their history. In their ignorant era, which nation spared no effort to train batches of overseas scholars for them.

In their history, they recorded how they defeated the Mongol invasion, but there was no record of who had provoked disputes over and overestimated their abilities.

Their history will not record how they betrayed the country that once had kindness to them again and again at critical moments.

Their history will not record. In the second year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to stop the Japanese pirates from harassing the border. How they brutally killed five of the seven envoys.

Their history will not be recorded. In the second year of Hongwu, Japanese pirates attacked Shandong and plundered dozens of miles, countless people were killed, and more than ten villages and towns were burned to white land.

Their history will not record that in the third year of Hongwu, when the two sides agreed to repair the situation, who still detained the other party's envoy for four years, did not provide food and clothing, and let them "subscribe to the temple"!

Their history will not be recorded. At the request of Daming and the temple, "In the fourth year of Hongwu, he plundered Wenzhou", "In the fifth year, he robbed Haiyan, Jipu, and the other beastly atrocities in Fujian", "In the sixth year,... the Japanese pirates, Lei Deng", "In the Jiaozhou", etc., which were publicly supported by the state.

They can use lies to cover up the facts, but forget that the positions of the strong and the weak can sometimes be compared.

They can pretend to be innocent or ignorant, but one day they will understand that whoever sows the seeds of hatred will surely reap the fruits of hatred.

"I have fulfilled my promise back then. Brothers and sisters, I hope you close your eyes peacefully under the fountain." On the Yaoguang ship, Song Ting lit the cannon medicine with his own hands. Between the sea and the sky, his hometown where he was trampled by Japanese pirates back then appeared vaguely, and countless pairs of eyes looked at each other with smiles.

Notes from Drunkard: 1. The crimes of Japanese pirates stated in this section are historical facts. Those who are interested can refer to relevant historical materials.

2. The Bian Port is located at the junction of the three kingdoms of Sezu, Hanoi and Izumi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of Japan. It was divided into the north-south border at that time and was an important port connecting the Kinai and Seto Inland Seas. It first belonged to the Ouchi family, and then to the Hosokawa family.
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