I am Emperor Wanli

Chapter 67 Lu Tong's Fury
After hearing what Ishii Sanxing said, Lu Tong laughed out of anger. As he laughed, a sad look appeared on his face.

The Eastern Japanese know our details so well. The southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty has been harassed by the Eastern Japanese for hundreds of years, but the Ming Dynasty remained numb and did not think about understanding this enemy across the water.

Lu Tong waved his hand and said, "Okay! I have received your reply. You can go back now."

Ishii Sanxing stood up and took a look. Seeing that Lu Tong had a serious expression, he was secretly happy.

Well, the admiral of the Ming navy was frightened by our Onibutō’s clever plan.

As expected, the people of the Ming Dynasty were all so fierce in appearance but timid in spirit.

Ishii Sanxing secretly despised him, turned around and left, jumped onto the speedboat, stood at the bow, held his head high, like a victorious general, and headed towards the dock.

Several deputy generals and lieutenant generals gathered around.

"Admiral, Matsuura-do is going too far!"

"Admiral, teach them a lesson!"

An experienced deputy general said, "Admiral, you must not do this. The Eastern Japanese envoy was right. If we open fire, we will be provoking a border conflict."

In the past, many famous generals in the Nine Frontiers were beheaded by the imperial court for this crime, and their heads were sent to the Nine Frontiers.”

Another senior lieutenant general echoed, "Admiral, the Eastern Japanese know our details very well. He is indeed right.

We have not followed the king's orders to pursue them here. Even if we win a great victory and kill the two pirates, Xie Da Naotou and Chi Sanjin, and the East Japanese send envoys to the court to file a complaint against us, Admiral, you are in danger!"

Lu Tan stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the vast ocean waves.

The waves are ups and downs, boundless.

"Last year, I went back to Beijing with Hu Butang and others to report on my work and met the prince."

Lu Tong said slowly.

"The prince knew that I was the admiral of the Zhejiang Navy, and he repeatedly reminded me that the purpose of establishing the navy of the Ming Dynasty was to gain control of the sea, to defend against the enemy at sea, and to prevent the people along the coast from suffering from pirates.

No more suffering from pirates!"

Lu Tong burst into tears, holding onto the side of the boat and angrily said: "Since the Hongwu period, the southeastern coast of our dynasty has been plagued by Japanese pirates. It has been intermittent and continuous. It was the worst during the Jiajing period.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed or wounded by the pirates. Their families were destroyed and they became homeless.

Our Ming navy, led by the eunuch Sanbao, sailed to the West seven times, with great military power, intimidating the world. At that time, the southeastern part of our Ming Dynasty was least threatened by bandits, and the people along the coast lived and worked in peace and contentment.

Now, the Ming navy is still there, but it can't even protect the folks along the coast."

He turned to look at the generals and said, "Brothers, we all fought hard on the battlefield against the Japanese invaders. Many brothers and comrades fell beside us. But it seems that these Japanese invaders can never be killed or slain. Why?"

Lu Tong pointed at Hirado Port in the distance and said bitterly: "Because of it! There is Hirado Port and the Matsuura Party! We killed a group, and they transported another group away!
They are like swarms of locusts, flying into our Ming Dynasty, devouring the people and leaving no vegetation. They are like swarms of leeches, lying in our Ming Dynasty, sucking blood and eating flesh, and harming the people!
If they are not eliminated, there will be no peace in the southeast coast!"

The generals were silent, and the soldiers were silent!

"Listen to their reply, how arrogant! They sent robbers to our home to burn, kill and rob, and we chased them, and they dared to blatantly protect the robbers and murderers!

Can we bear it?"

Lu Tong asked in a firm voice.

"If we can endure this, we are not the Ming Navy. We are fucking sons of bitches!"

Lu Tong's roar ignited the anger of all the soldiers in the camp!

Thousands of arms were raised high, like a forest and a sea.

"Can't bear it!"

"Beat him, bastard!"

The sound was deafening, causing waves to surge in the sea.

"Generals, obey the order!"

"exist!"

"Line up for battle. The express fleet and the patrol fleet go out in front, beware of the ships rushing out of the harbor. The main ships line up on the sea and bombard Hirado Harbor.

The rest of the ships patrol the two wings and cover the rear wing!"

"Yes!"

"All the generals will do their best. If the court has any blame, I, Lu, will bear it alone."

All the generals looked at each other.

"What are you thinking about now? The hundreds of thousands of innocent souls of soldiers and civilians killed by the Japanese pirates in the southeast are watching us from the sky, watching how we pour out our anger on the Japanese pirates' lair!"

"Yes!"

All the generals responded in unison.

Under the cover of four patrol boats, the two speedboats rushed into Hirado Port and circled the water twice.

The boats of the Matsuura Party immediately weighed anchor and rowed to catch up.

After circling three times, the speedboat drew a simple map of the docks, moored ships, shore facilities, and the castle town a little further away, and turned back. The paddle boats of the Matsuura Party chased for a while, and saw the speedboats and patrol boats of the Ming Navy return to the dense fleet, wandered around twice, and turned back in disappointment.

Lu Tong looked at the simple map presented to him and began to deploy.

"Here, here, and here, these three docks have the densest concentration of ships. Use mortars and load them with shrapnel shells."

"Here, and here, these two docks are protruding, very close to the port exit. Select six fast gunboats, go straight over, line them up in a row, fire with long guns, and then turn around and leave after the fire.

The speedboats and patrol boats in the front team should provide cover."

"This is the dock storage area, connected to the castle town. The houses in the East Japan are all the same, short and connected, and they like to use wood to build, and they are equipped with rockets!"

"After the battle, the main ship will rush here and use the largest cannon to fire a few shots at their Honmaru Castle."

"Yes!"

The main castle of Hirado Castle.

After hearing Ishii Sanxing's report, everyone smiled.

The four family elders all spoke out to flatter Matsuura Takanobu.

"The feudal lord has a brilliant plan!"

"The feudal lord's power is overwhelming, and the Ming people will eventually succumb to your might."

"Haha, after hundreds of years, the Ming people are still like this!"

Matsuura Takashige laughed out loud, feeling very proud.

"boom--!"

Several loud noises were heard, shaking the main tower of Hirado Castle.

"Big gun! This is the sound of the big gun firing!"

Matsuura Takanobu screamed loudly.

"Who is using the magnifying glass? The southern barbarians? There haven't been any southern barbarian ships coming lately!"

Everyone shouted in panic.

"Report!"

There was a messenger at the door reporting.

"What's up!"

"It's an Akihito ship, firing at our Hirado Port!"

"Nani!"

Matsuura Takanobu jumped up from the tatami and rushed outside. When he reached the entrance, he ran directly to the platform of the Honmaru without even putting on his wooden clogs.

The four family elders and Ishii Sanxing followed closely behind.

Outside Hirado Port, more than a dozen ships were lined up in a row, with black smoke and flames rising continuously from the decks. Then, shells flew through the air and landed on the three docks where the most ships were moored at Hirado Port.

The shells fell, and after a few breaths or even a dozen breaths, they suddenly exploded, sending up a ball of fire that engulfed everything around it.

The flesh and blood of the people affected were flying everywhere, the broken pieces of the ship's planks were flying everywhere, the rolled-up canvas was set on fire, and black smoke began to billow out of the cabin.

Six Ming Dynasty ships set sail in a line and broke into Hirado Port. Then they lined up and fired at the ships moored at the two outermost docks with their port sides.

The shell flew straight out, hitting the ship 100 to 200 meters away, sending debris flying everywhere. If it hit the deck, it would go straight through and make a groove.

It hit the side of the ship, creating a black hole.

It looked like the hull had swallowed the shell, but as the hull swayed from side to side, you could tell that the shells that had penetrated the hull had caused great damage to the interior of the hull.

After firing three rounds of artillery shells, the six ships turned around and quickly sailed out of Hirado Port.

Matsuura Takanobu's eyes were about to pop out and he screamed in pain.

But his shouting was drowned out by the whistling sound coming from the sky.

Sparks rose from the black smoke billowing from a dozen ships outside Hirado Port. They were like spears with flames trailing their tails as they flew through the air, passed over the Hirado Port dock, and landed heavily on the storage area and the nearby castle town.

Whoosh, another round of rockets flew up.

Six rounds were fired in a row, and nearly a hundred of the Prince's rockets set the warehouse area and the castle town on fire. Then the wind helped the fire spread, and it quickly became a whole.

The entire storage area turned into a sea of ​​fire, and countless goods were reduced to ashes in the fire.

Half of the castle town was on fire, and countless people were running and screaming in the sea of ​​fire.

Matsuura Takanobu looked at the devastated Hirado Castle, which looked like a doomsday scene, and almost fainted.

The four family elders and Ishii Sanxing looked at each other in horror.

When did the Ming people become so cruel!
Bang, bang, a few gunshots.
Four projectiles flew straight at them, smashing half of the main castle behind them. The rubble that fell down buried them all.

(End of this chapter)