The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

What is the relationship between Ming Dynasty and Japan?

This is quite complicated.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang listed Japan as a country not to be conquered because of the failure cases of the Meng Yuan expedition to Japan.

Later, the Ming Dynasty hoped to use the tributary relationship as a means of restraint to eliminate the quarrels with the Japanese state.

However, the Japanese pirates' understanding of tribute was completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty hoped to use tribute to win over the Japanese, so as to suppress the Japanese pirates' intrusion on the southeastern coast.

But the Japanese regarded paying tribute as an opportunity to make huge profits.

In the end, the Japanese made money, but the intrusion of Japanese pirates along the coast was not reduced by half.

After seeing the true nature of these two-legged beasts, the Ming Dynasty stopped trading with the Japanese, which resulted in even more ferocious attacks by the Japanese pirates.

Since then, there has been no normal relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese state.

Throughout history, the Japanese invaded Korea, Ryukyu, China, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Every place they could touch was plagued by these beasts.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Heyi is obsessed with exterminating his family.

After all, these humanoid two-legged beasts can do nothing but harm others.

The main reason for sending troops to Ryukyu this time was not to help this former vassal state.

After all, Emperor Zhu Da was not the good old emperor who sacrificed himself for the sake of face.

His main purpose was to beat the beasts, and the second was to capture the entire Ryukyu Kingdom as a springboard for an all-out attack on Japan.

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The sea conditions outside Naha Port were not good today, and the undulating waves kept the ship bumping on the sea.

This situation is very common for the officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy.

But some officers and soldiers of the Foreign Legion suffered a serious crime.

Some of the landlubber soldiers vomited so hard that their legs were weak and their eyes turned white. When they vomited, the surrounding soldiers also suffered, and the sour smell filled the entire cabin.

Fortunately, they soon heard the sound of a cannon, which meant that they were about to land.

At this moment, on the bow of the Ranger, Captain Iafumi Nobu pointed at the large number of Japanese pirate ships pouring out of Naha Port and shouted an order:

"Each ship fires at will and quickly clears out these small sampans!"

This time the Royal Navy dispatched a total of 20 warships, all of which were cruisers, because Zhu Heyi knew very well that the Japanese country during this period had no large warships at all.

For example, the Japanese ships in front of Jia Wenxuan looked like a large area, numbering nearly a hundred, but it was hard to describe the head.

In 1635, in order to thoroughly implement the seclusion order and to restrict various princes, the Tokugawa Shogunate promulgated the "Samurai Laws" to restrict daimyo, which stipulated that daimyo nationwide were prohibited from possessing warships exceeding 500 koku (49 tons). Take ship closure as the main force!

The promulgation of this decree directly resulted in the entire Japanese navy until the end of the shogunate's rule, which was almost entirely composed of small sampans.

Nowadays, it is really difficult for these little dwarfs to rely on these small sampans to cross the ocean to invade Ryukyu.

As the order to attack was issued, hundreds of artillery pieces of the Royal Navy began to spit anger.

"Boom boom boom..."

Black clouds rolled up on the blue sea, and the tongues of fire were like lightning.

In an instant, hundreds of cannonballs pierced the air and hit the group of Japanese sampans with a high-speed sound. The next moment, dense water columns surged up.

Amidst the loud roar, several unlucky ships were hit by artillery shells.

In the rolling fire, the shock wave mixed with explosive fragments not only tore the people on board into pieces, but even the ship was directly blown into two pieces.

These small Japanese standard sampan battleships, which are several meters long and large ones more than ten meters long, and do not even have keel ribs, have almost no ability to withstand the fire of the Ming army.

This is why both the Ming and the Korean armies like to directly ram Japanese ships when they are fighting Japanese warships, because all Japanese warships are built in a lapped manner, without keels or ribs, and will break upon collision.

"Baga! Fight back! Fight back quickly!"

Seeing his own casualties, a Japanese officer on a slightly larger Anzhai ship jumped to his feet, raised his saber and pointed at the Ming army fleet, which was still a mile away, and shouted.

Upon hearing his order, the Japanese soldiers immediately raised their iron cannons (matchlock guns) and started shooting at the Ming fleet in the distance.

Several Guobeng (Folan cannons) on the ship also began to spit out tongues of fire.

However, the killing range of iron cannons is 200 meters, and the killing range of Guobeng is 500 meters. The bullets and shells fired by the Japanese were all smashed into the sea. Because they were all solid lead balls, they could not even hurt the swimming fish.

Their counterattack was not so much a knockdown as an act of courage.

"ridiculous!"

On the bow of the Ranger, Jia Wenxuan looked at the Japanese counterattack like a joke, with disdain on his face.

"Fire with all your strength, leaving no one behind!"

The Ming fleet opened fire with all its strength, and under the dense shells, one Japanese sampan after another was blown into a ball of fire.

This situation of being beaten unilaterally made all the Japanese sailors on the sea turn pale.

At first, they thought of rushing up to shoot at close range or joining gangs to fight.

But as the number of casualties increased, the Japanese sailors realized that they had no chance of rushing to the Ming warships, and were massacred halfway through.

As a result, the remaining Japanese sampans began to retreat to Naha Port in the rear.

But it is not that easy to retreat. Under the ultra-long range of the Ming army's artillery, the Japanese sampans were still blown to pieces one after another.

Such a scene frightened Shimazu Tsuyu and Togo Kuhara who were watching the battle on the shore.

"Baga! Where did these Akito come from? Aren't they all dead a long time ago? Why do they appear here! Why do they suddenly attack us!"

Shimazu Tsugumi's eyes almost popped out of his head when he looked at the carnage on the sea.

At first, when Dongxiang Jiuhara sent people to tell him that the Ming navy was attacking, he, like everyone else, did not believe it.

But now, he just wants to know where this Ming army came from, why they attacked them for no reason, and why they were so brutal!

Dongxiang Jiuyuan opened his mouth.

Although he didn't know where the Ming army came from, he wanted to remind Shimazu Tsugumi that the Ryukyu they occupied was actually strictly a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army had absolutely good reasons to attack them. And considering the relationship between Japan and the Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising at all that a war breaks out.

Just as the two of them were anxious looking at the carnage on the sea, some people on the Ming army's warships were as anxious as they were.

These people are the officers and soldiers of the Foreign Legion.

At this moment, they had poured out of the cabin, and their hearts were bleeding as they watched the Japanese sampans disappearing on the sea one after another.

How many heads have been robbed of them!

Many people have even begun to pray silently in their hearts, praying that the next shot will not hit, and praying that more Japanese people will escape back to the shore alive!

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