Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1027 Maru no Cross Pattern

Japanese family crest culture is popular, and every prominent family has its own family crest, which is used to mark identity and industry.

These family crests are various, such as the sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum pattern of the Japanese imperial family, the bamboo sparrow pattern of the Uesugi family, and the Sanada family who is relatively short of money, directly used six Yongle Tongbao to make the family crest.

Every family crest represents a side of Japan, and ordinary Japanese may not remember it all, let alone the Ming Dynasty, which did not care about the outside world.

Fortunately, Qian Bingdeng did some research in order to go to Japan, and he was able to identify some of them.

When Xu Junsheng heard that he was from the Tokugawa shogunate, he also breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the soldiers below: "It's fine for now, keep sailing forward."

When mentioning Japan, the people of the Ming Dynasty first thought of Japanese pirates and felt very afraid, but in fact Japanese pirates were not the state behavior of the Japanese shogunate. The leaders of Japanese pirates were Chinese pirates and smuggling sea merchants. Few failed daimyos and samurai were hired by the Chinese as thugs, so they were called Japanese pirates by the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Japan is not yet a monster, and the army of the shogunate is not a pirate. Meeting them is much more satisfying than meeting pirates.

After hearing Xu Junsheng's words, the soldiers on the ship immediately started their respective tasks, and the two lucky boats continued to sail towards Nagasaki.

Although it was said to be a ship of the Tokugawa shogunate, the fleet did not change direction and went to say hello to the navy of the shogunate, but sailed northeast to Nagasaki Port according to the original plan.

"General! The Japanese ship changed direction, as if trying to intercept us!"

Xu Junsheng and Qian Bingdeng were about to go back to the ship building when the soldiers on the watch suddenly shouted.

Hearing this, Xu Junsheng picked up the binoculars and looked like a Japanese ship. He saw ten Anzhai boats rowing their oars, making ripples and changing directions, as if they really wanted to intercept them.

"My lord, don't you think we are a smuggling ship?" Xu Junsheng put down the binoculars, "Don't the Japanese even have a binoculars?"

After hearing this, Qian Bingdeng pursed his lips and said, "Since it's the Tokugawa shogunate's ship, they can stop it if they want to. It's up to them to show their identity!"

"It's okay, let's move on!" Xu Junsheng didn't have any opinions after hearing the words. He really didn't pay attention to ships like Japan.

On the sea in the distance, ten Anzhai boats are sailing through the waves. Compared with this era, this kind of boat is undoubtedly outdated.When Japan conquered Korea, the main force of water warfare was this kind of house boat.

This kind of ship is rarely equipped with artillery, so it is basically a dish when facing the warships of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, on the deck of the leading ship, a Japanese general in gorgeous armor was watching the Fuchuan in the distance.

Japanese armor is very distinctive, mostly made of bamboo strips, leather and hemp rope, and pursues gorgeousness, especially the attire in front of the samurai helmet.

The board walls of the ten Antaka boats and the flags on the backs of the samurai are all printed with "clover sunflower pattern", but the fleet is not owned by the Tokugawa shogunate, but belongs to the foreign daimyo Shimadzu.

Under the persuasion of Tagawa Qizaemon, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa, the second generation lord of the Shimadzu family, considered the interests of the Satsuma clan, and finally decided to agree to Tagawa Qizaemon's request to intercept the envoys of the Ming Dynasty and disrupt the connection between Huang Mingchao and the Tokugawa shogunate .

The date when the fleet of the Ming Dynasty departed from Nanjing had already been reported to the Satsuma Domain. Afterwards, the fleet stopped at Ryukyu, and the Shimadzu family further found out the traces of the Ming Dynasty mission.

In order to intercept the mission of the Ming Dynasty, Shimadzu Mitsuhisa immediately ordered his younger brother Tadaro Shimadzu to lead ten Anzhai boats with more than 1000 horses, under the banner of the Tokugawa Shogunate, to intercept the mission in the sea area that the mission would pass through.

The leading samurai is the third son of the Shimadzu family's first generation feudal lord, Shimadzu Tadaro. He is dressed in a big suit and a gorgeous double-breasted gown with the Shimadzu family's Maruno cross pattern printed on it. His helmet is also very beautiful. It was gorgeous and put on the fur of the animal.

Beside him, several retainers stood beside him with flags on their backs, wearing bamboo armor, swords and ribs at their waists, and a long knife in one hand.On the deck, the light feet with bamboo hats and iron cannons are standing by the slab wall of the Anzhai ship, looking very elite.

"Full speed, let's go, welcome to the ship of the Ming Dynasty!" Tadaro Shimadzu looked at the two lucky ships of the Ming Dynasty with a binoculars, and ordered loudly, "みんな实别せるとこまでの船!"

"Commander ga order, speed races advance!"

"One piece のspeedい油いだ!"

As soon as Shimadzu Tadaro gave the order, a series of Japanese words came to mind in the boat. The sailors at the bottom of the boat listened to the urging, shook the oars desperately, raised the speed of the boat to the highest speed, and headed in the direction that the Fuchuan of the Ming Dynasty was about to pass. rush away.

The fleets of the two sides approached quickly, and after a while, the soldiers in charge of the lookout on the Fuchuan could already see the running figures of the Japanese soldiers on the Anzhai boat.

Ten Anzhai boats, with a rectangular wall surrounded by wooden boards on the hull, a feudal flag inserted in each of the four corners, and shooting holes on the board wall for iron cannons to shoot. They broke through the waves and gradually blocked the way of the Fuchuan. , wanting to force Fuchuan to stop.

At this time, Xu Junsheng was slightly wrinkled. The advantage of the blessing boat is that it has sails, and it travels very fast with the wind, but if it stops, it is not as flexible as the Anzhai boat with oars.

He saw that the Japanese ship had no intention of moving out of the way. If the Fuchuan sailed with full sail, it was very likely to collide with the Japanese ship. boat exchange.

Japan's Anzhai boats are similar to the warships of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the means of communication also stayed in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Interpreters have been doing Japanese trade for a long time and are proficient in Japanese semaphore.

"General, the other party said that the shogunate has a lock-down order, let us lower our sails for inspection!"

The interpreter climbed up Wangdou, took the flag strokes for a while, and then shouted down.

"Didn't you tell them that we are Daming's envoys?"

"The humble job has already informed, but the other party said that they have not received the order from the shogunate, and all ships must be inspected!"

Right now, Japan is not a vassal of China. When Chinese ships enter Japan, it is reasonable and moral for the Chinese navy to require inspections, just like the Ming Dynasty navy wants to strictly investigate Chinese ships. The envoy's visit is giving you shame, but you still want to check my feelings.

"My lord, let's do this!" Xu Junsheng had the arrogance of a soldier, and he didn't really want to accept the inspection, but after all, he was on a mission to Japan for friendly trade, and he couldn't overturn the Japanese ship, so he was a little entangled.

Qian Bingdeng breathed out his nose, and was silent for a while. He had been sent to Nanyang, and he had suffered in Champa and the Malacca Sultanate. These small countries did not pay attention to the Ming Dynasty. Now Japan wants to check, his airs Still able to put it down, "Do what they want!"

Seeing what Qian Bingdeng said, Xu Junsheng was no longer entangled in his heart, and ordered the fleet to lower the sails.

The soldiers on the deck ran for a while, untied the sail ropes attached to the wooden stakes, and several bamboo sails came down at the same time, and as they turned over and landed, the blessing boat lost its wind power and gradually slowed down.

At this time, on the ten Anzhai boats coming side by side, Shimadzu Tadaro held the samurai sword in front of him with both hands. When he saw Mingchuan lowering the sail, he showed a "Yoshi" expression on his face and ordered loudly: "Left and right の 両wingを迴れ、明国の船を抜け出さないように.”

"Hi! Ojou はすぐ Operation!" A retainer nodded immediately.

The ten Antaka boats were mobilized for a while, Shimadzu Tadaro's boat and another boat met the Fuchuan head-on, and the four boats on the left and right began to accelerate to the two wings, trying to surround the two Fuchuan.

The Anzhai boat was rowed by oars, and its movements were dexterously adjusted. It immediately formed a "U"-shaped pocket formation, trying to put the two Fuchuan into the mouth.

Seeing this, Xu Junsheng's face turned cold. He had lowered his sails. As far as Fu Chuan was concerned, he expressed no malice and was willing to accept the Japanese side's interrogation and show his credentials.

As a general in the army, after fighting on the battlefield, he has gradually formed a habit, that is, when facing anyone, he likes to put himself in a safe position where he can respond quickly. This is the instinct of a veteran general on the battlefield .

"Everyone cheer up and return to their respective positions!" Xu Junsheng suddenly ordered.

The army has been in battle for a long time, and they can feel the current situation, and they are already in a disadvantageous position. The soldiers immediately ran back to their posts after hearing the words.

"What's going on?" Qian Bingdeng was ignorant of military affairs, and didn't understand Xu Junsheng's instinctive vigilance, so he couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw him issue orders.

Xu Junsheng didn't turn his head, he fixed his eyes on the Anzhai boat that was already in front of him, "I'm just a little uneasy, I hope I'm overthinking it!"

Qian Bingdeng's heart tightened when he said that, at this time, the two Anzhai boats were already about twenty feet in front of Fuchuan.

The two Fuchuan ships are both large ships of nearly 600 materials, each with a tonnage of more than [-], while the Japanese Ataka ships are about [-] to [-] tons each, which is half smaller than the Fuchuan, and there is no Fuchuan. ship high.

The Ataka Ship is surrounded by board walls, like a small fortress, but the ship building of Fufufune is much higher than the Ataka Ship, and you can look down on the deck of the Ataka Ship from above.

Soon the distance between the two sides continued to narrow. Qian Bingdeng saw the light foot wearing a bamboo hat on the Anzhai boat, and suddenly there was a wolf howl, and more than a dozen claws flew out of the Anzhai boat and landed on the Fuchuan at the same time. With a pull, the flying claw hooked the side of Fu Chuan, and the two ships quickly approached under the action of the pulling force.

At this moment, Qian Bingdeng saw a Japanese general on the Anzhai boat, wielding a samurai sword and wearing gorgeous armor.

At that moment, he wanted to come to the binoculars to take a look at the general by accident, but his face immediately revealed a look of shock. In the circular field of vision of the binoculars, the general was wearing a gorgeous double-breasted coat outside his armor. On the vertical stripes, several "maru no cross" patterns are printed in succession.

Qian Bingdeng turned pale, "No, it's the Shimadzu family!"

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