Chapter 667: Operation Dawn

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Watanabe An stood by the Edo River, looking at the sailing warships under construction, his eyes full of joy.

At this moment, in addition to the 18 sailing warships that the British helped them build, not far away, the 18 sailing warships that the Sam people helped him build also started.

In this way, he will soon have 36 sailing warships in Japan.

This number will greatly exceed the warships of King Yan.

At that time, he will truly become the maritime overlord of the East.

The most important thing is that in this contract with Sam, he requires Sam to provide a complete sailing warship manufacturing process.

When the sailing warship is built, he will also have a group of craftsmen who can make sailing warships. In the future, there is no need to beg the British or Sam people to help them build sailing warships.

"How are the 500 craftsmen selected for Beidi prepared?" Watanabe An said when he thought of something.

Two months ago, under the contact between Sato Masahisa and Temuta, the first batch of Japanese envoys passed through the Japanese Sea and arrived directly at the Beidi coast.

Then, they went to the Khan's Court and met the Beidi Khan, Mule Hongzhen.

After joining the Yan-attack alliance, they chose to ally with Beidi.

The Beidi people agreed to trade with Japanese and provide them with war horses, furs, iron ore and other items.

At the same time, they decided to pull Goryeo into the alliance they formed to deal with the King of Yan together.

Although Goryeo was somewhat unwilling, under the pressure of Beidi, they finally agreed to this.

And they, Japanese, promised to provide Beidi and Goryeo with the manufacturing technology of flintlocks and artillery.

Half a month ago, Beidi asked them to provide 500 craftsmen to assist them in forging muskets and artillery.

He immediately agreed to this.

After all, in his opinion, if the Yan-attack alliance could not defeat the King of Yan, the King of Yan would inevitably destroy other powerful families next.

Then only Dongying and Beidi in this alliance can get out of the civil strife in Dasong.

They need to unite and continue to deal with the threat of King Yan.

"Reply to the general, get ready. They can set off tomorrow and go to Beidi." Aso Taro said.

Watanabe nodded. If there was no King Yan, he might be able to send troops to Dasong directly and turn Dasong into a colony of Dongying.

But there happened to be such an unpredictable prince in the north of Dasong, which disrupted all his plans.

And once this prince unified Dasong, his ambitions would never be realized.

So, even if he tried his best, he had to find a way to get rid of this King Yan.

Even if he couldn't get rid of him, he had to win over his enemies to contain him and not give him room to expand.

The alliance to attack Yan was only the first step. If the alliance to attack Yan failed, it would be necessary for Beidi to contain King Yan and King Yan from the north, and Dongying to contain King Yan from the east.

The second step was to publicize the threat of King Yan and win over the Western countries to deal with King Yan together.

To him, this King of Yan at most got help from Western missionaries, and his achievements would be limited.

He could not defeat the Westerners.

In short, he must not let Dasong rise again and surpass Dongying.

He was thinking about this when a Dongying official came hurriedly and said to Watanabe An, "A letter from General Sato."

Watanabe An was now very concerned about the situation in Dasong, and he immediately opened the letter.

He just glanced at it and frowned slightly.

"Is this King of Yan crazy? But if so, it's time to give him a surprise." He murmured.

Although this news surprised him a little.

But since it happened, he could just follow Dongying's plan.

Turning around, he said to Masawa Taro, "Immediately order the Wufeng pirates to go to Dasong Jinghai, and at the same time order the Dongying navy and the Wufeng pirates to join together and go to the Yanzhou waters to sneak attack the Yanzhou navy and annihilate them in one fell swoop."

During this period, Dongying's spies have been investigating the situation of the King of Yan's fleet.

They found that most of the warships of Yanzhou were docked at Jinghai Wharf.

For this reason, they had carefully formulated a sneak attack plan two months ago.

"Yes, General." Masawa Taro bowed.

Watanabe nodded, "At the same time, let 100,000 Japanese warriors prepare. If the Yanzhou navy is successfully annihilated, my Japanese army will go to Qizhou."

Then, he sighed: "It would be better if there were help from the French and Sterdan people, but I didn't expect that our plan was resolved by the King of Yan."

With a fierce look in his eyes, he said: "If that's the case, the Portuguese are worthless. It's better to send troops to seize the entire Yizhou and drive the Portuguese away."

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Yanzhou Sea.

When Watanabe issued the sneak attack order, Zhou Yi was leading 32 warships and sailing towards the Fukuoka Wharf of Japan.

After weighing it, he decided to concentrate all his forces to eliminate the Japanese waters in Fukuoka first, and then go south to eliminate the Wufeng pirates.

After three days of sailing, they arrived at Fugang Fukuoka Sea.

Immediately, Zhou Yi sent a warship to Fukuoka Pier for reconnaissance.

The warship returned with a reassuring message that the Japanese warships were still docked at the port.

However, the soldiers of the Japanese navy were carrying shells, ammunition, food and other items, which was obviously a sign of action.

Looking at the setting sun, Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said to Gong Ying: "If we come two days later, the Japanese navy will probably launch a surprise attack on Jinghai Port. At this time, your highness is right."

After a pause, he said, "Let the crew rest well tonight and launch an attack on Fukuoka Wharf tomorrow morning."

"Yes, General." Gong Ying responded.

Then, Zhou Yi's flagship raised a red flag and a blue flag.

This was the order to launch an attack tomorrow morning, and the time was set at Mao time.

After a night's rest, Zhou Yi got up before dawn the next day.

He took out his pocket watch and kept staring at the time.

At Mao time, he ordered the warship to move forward.

The captain of each warship had a pocket watch, and they also did not waste time and followed the flagship.

After half an hour of sailing, they arrived at Fukuoka Wharf.

At this time, the sky was hazy, and the eastern sky had just turned pale.

Through the telescope, Zhou Yi saw the warships of the Japanese Navy lying quietly on the sea surface of the dock, as if they were sleeping.

With a sneer on the corner of his mouth, he asked Gong Ying to raise the flag of attack.

Under his order, 32 warships turned at the same time.

Sixteen of them sailed north, aiming their sides at the Japanese warships at Fukuoka Pier.

The remaining sixteen sailed south, also aiming their sides at the Japanese warships at Fukuoka Pier.

At this moment, at Fukuoka Pier, a Japanese soldier came out of the cabin and urinated on the deck.

Today, they are about to set off for Jinghai, Yanzhou.

Whistling, the Japanese soldier finished peeing and pulled up his pants.

He raised his head suddenly and saw a lot of black behemoths in the dim color of dawn.

Rubbing his eyes, he was about to take a closer look.

Suddenly a fire lit up, and then he heard a thunderous sound.

Countless red hot bullets flew towards him like a stream.