Great Song Pirate

Chapter 544
The person who came to report was a fisherman from Tanegashima. He was a clever guy who was fishing at sea that day. When he heard that the skeleton army attacked Akaogi Port, he didn't even return home. He was also chased by a skeleton army ship for a while, and he was scared to death. Fortunately, the skeleton pirate ship finally gave up chasing him for some reason, so he ran all the way to Osumi country, and was caught by a small official by the sea. Sent to the government.

Of course, this guy is not qualified to see Urau Kubo at this time, he can only kneel outside the mansion and wait for Urau Kubo's retainer to send the news to the mansion, the retainer who reported the letter knelt and replied: "I don't know the specific situation. As soon as the untouchable who reported the news heard that Akaogi Port in Tanegashima was attacked, he immediately ran over by boat, and the rest of the situation is not clear!"

Urau Kubo pondered for a while and immediately said: "Send Saburo Takeuchi to come here! Hurry up!"

Not long after, a samurai ran over quickly, prostrated himself in front of Uramo Kubo, and shouted, "Saburo Takeuchi sees the lord!"

Urau Kubo immediately said to him: "Skeleton pirates are aggressively attacking Tanegashima in Shimadzu. The current situation is unknown. I order you to go to Shibushi Castle immediately, gather a thousand prefectural troops there, take twenty warships, and quickly go to Tanegashima. Island, support the Shimadzu family, Shimadzu's current strength may not be enough to fight against the skeleton pirates! Be quick! Don't let Tanegashima be taken by the skeleton pirates!"

Saburo Takeuchi immediately obeyed the order and left Urau Kubo's mansion to get busy with his affairs. After Urau Kubo thought for a while, he called another retainer and told him, "Take my handwriting and set off immediately, without stopping. Send it to Dazaifu and submit it to Master Fujiwara to report the movement of the skeleton pirates, please ask Master Fujiwara to gather the fleet as soon as possible and go to the black island to destroy the skeleton pirates, otherwise we will never have peace! Go!"

The retainer also received the order to leave the mansion, got on his horse and rushed to Dazaifu with Urau Kubo's handwritten letter, while Takeuchi Saburo hurried all the way to Shibushi Castle, it took nearly half a day before Takeuchi Saburo arrived at Shibushi Castle , Seeing Urao Yuhe there, he passed his father's order to Urao Yuhe, who did not dare to delay, immediately mobilized the army of Zhibuzhi City for Saburo Takeuchi, and allocated another He had twenty boats, so they quickly boarded overnight, sailed out of Shibushi Bay, and headed for Tanegashima!

Shibushi Bay is nearly [-] miles away from Akaogi Port in Tanegashima, and it will take almost a whole day at their boat speed, so when their fleet approaches Tanegashima, the Fuba Army has already captured Tanegashima. It was the fifth day of the island. During these five days, the Fubo army had already sorted out Tanegashima, and firmly controlled Tanegashima in its hands.

When the sentinel boat spotted the fleet slowly coming from the north in the early morning, it did not contact Takeuchi's fleet immediately, but took the initiative to avoid it, and sent the news back to Xu who was resting in Akaogi Port as quickly as possible. Yi there.

After hearing this, Xu Yi immediately stood up and laughed loudly: "It seems that the lord of Osumi Kingdom doesn't know that Tanegashima has fallen into our hands, so he sent so many people and boats to die in such a hurry Already! Since they are delivered to your door, let’s not be polite, just eat them! Today is Wang Feng’s fleet patrolling the north! Order Wang Feng, don’t be polite to them, immediately assemble his fleet to fight, and the request is not to let go Pass a Japanese boat and a Japanese man!"

Since Xu Yi captured Tanegashima, he has not rested for days. In addition to clearing away possible resistance forces on the island, he has also set up a lot of lookout posts and beacon towers on the shore. When they appeared, they immediately ignited the beacon and spread the news to Chiweimu Port. At present, these things have not been completed, so at sea, the fleet of Diao Bin, Kong Qingxi, Wang Feng and others will be arranged to patrol in turn.

It happened to be Wang Feng's fleet that was on duty today. Wang Feng himself took his ship Qinglong to patrol the waters north of Tanegashima. Several warships formed a battle formation and headed towards the Takeuchi fleet. It was easy for him to deal with such a small fleet, so he sent someone to send a message to Xu Yi , and started to act.

Takeuchi felt a little uneasy along the way. The name of the skeleton pirates has been in his ears for the past two years. The entire coast of Osumi country has been harmed by them, but because he has been working under Uramo Kubo, he has never encountered these things. Skeleton pirates, and then last year, I heard that Master Dazai Fujiwara dispatched a surprise army to wipe out the skeleton pirates entrenched on Kuroshima Island. I thought this was the end of the matter, and there would be no more skeleton pirates to harass them in Osumi Country. Territory, but I didn't expect to hear that the skeleton pirates came back a few days ago, and they took back the Black Island in one fell swoop, and wiped out the Oshima Army stationed there. It's hard to say what happened now!
Takeuchi has never paid much attention to the Fubo army. In his opinion, only their Yamato warriors are the real braves. Pirates are pirates, just a bunch of mobs. How can there be no way to deal with them?So yesterday, when Urau Kubo said that he was ordered to lead troops to Tanegashima to support the Shimadzu family, he ran over excitedly, hoping to meet the skeleton pirates this time, so that these pirates can also learn how powerful he is. , but I don't know why, since he took the fleet out to sea, he always has a feeling of unreliability in his heart.

After a day of sailing, with the morning sun, he stood on the leading boat and looked towards the direction of Tanegashima, breathing the clear sea breeze, and the feeling of irritability in his heart improved a lot.

The thousand soldiers he brought this time are the elite of the Uramo family of the Osumi country stationed in Shibushi Castle. The main purpose is to defend against the attack of skeleton pirates. , when the city lord there specialized in training the government soldiers and the water army, after more than a year of training, Zhibuzhi City has formed a fleet with nearly a hundred warships and more than 3000 elite soldiers capable of water warfare. In the eyes of the students, it is enough to fight against the skeleton pirates, but after they formed an army, Fujiwara had already captured Kuroshima, so they had no chance to fight against the skeleton army. Now they finally have this opportunity, and Takeuchi really wants to take this opportunity If they become famous in the first battle, then their Takeuchi family will be famous in Osumi country in the future.

Thinking of this, Takeuchi felt refreshed, and the sense of uneasiness that had lingered in his heart for a day was also swept away. There was nothing to be afraid of. He had heard that there was a terrifying ballista on the skeleton pirate ship before, but now he didn’t have to be afraid. Yes, because after Fujiwara Jun captured Kuroshima, he captured many skull pirate ships with some ballistas on them. Urasheng Kubo spent a lot of effort to buy one from Fujiwara Jun, and found it People imitated it, and now each of the twenty warships he brought is equipped with a ballista. With such a thing, what is he afraid of?Even if he really ran into the Skeleton Army fleet at sea, he now has the confidence to fight!

"Master Takeuchi! Look quickly, there seems to be a fleet heading towards us from the southwest!" A sailor on a ship suddenly shouted to Saburo Takeuchi, and pointed his finger in the direction of the southwest sea.

Saburo Takeuchi set up an awning and tried his best to look in the direction of the sailor, but he immediately saw a lot of sails on the sea. With his eyesight, he quickly saw that there were at least ten boats coming from the other party. The expectation that had just been raised was immediately hit hard!
Because the sails of the dozen or so ships he saw were much larger than the sails of his ship, and it seemed that each of the opponent's ships had more sails than his ship, so large and so many Ships with sails are still rare for their Yamato country, and only Dazaifu has some large warships. In China like their Osumi country (the Japanese order is divided into big countries, upper countries, China, lower countries, and Osumi China is just China!), it does not have the strength to build such a large ship, even Satsuma is impossible to own such a large ship.

Zhu Xin felt his heart skip a beat, knowing that the other party was definitely not the fleet of Satsuma. At this time, who could have such a fleet of large ships here?Takeuchi's heart began to sink, and only now did he know why Urasumi Kubo attached so much importance to these skeleton pirates. Needless to say, these ships must be the fleet of skeleton pirates!
"Order the ships of the fleet to prepare for battle, and the opponent is probably the skeleton pirate!" Saburo Takeuchi ordered loudly.

As his order was conveyed, the sailors and soldiers in his fleet immediately began to get busy, and they encountered the fleet of skeleton pirates here, but they did not expect that when they wanted to come, the skeleton pirates No matter how powerful it is, Tanegashima will not be taken down. After all, the Shimazu Army on Tanegashima also has a lot of soldiers and horses. How can the skeleton pirates be occupied?

But now it seems that they have estimated the situation with some optimism. Tanegashima is ahead, and the fleet of skeleton pirates appears here. What does it mean?But at this moment they have no chance to make other choices!
"Skeleton flag! Master Takeuchi! The other party is really a skeleton pirate!" Sailor pointed at the approaching fleet and shouted to Takeuchi in a panic.

"You don't need to say it! I saw it! The ballistas of each ship are ready for kerosene bombs! The archers are ready for rockets! Let's show the skeleton pirates how powerful our Osumi army is!" Takeuchi ordered impatiently.

At this time, a fast boat approached Wang Feng's Qinglong, issued a semaphore, and informed Wang Feng of Xu Yi's order. Wang Feng on the ship tower said with a smile: "Please don't worry, my lord, I can't run away from them! They are delivering food to your door." !"

(End of this chapter)