The Young and Vigorous Eighth Prince

"Then let's send more troops... We have finally captured the five cities, we must not let them take them away again!" A gleam of light flashed in Oda Nobuo's eyes.

"Oh, by the way, send more troops to the five shipyards as well. Tell them that if they can't defend them, then destroy the warships there! Don't let the Dayan people get away with it!"

Upon hearing this, Fujiwara no Kiyomizu nodded and immediately went out to give the order.

The order was quickly passed down, and Censhan quickly dispatched 10,000 Japanese soldiers. As for the reinforcements for the remaining five coastal cities, they were sent from various islands along the coastal areas.

When the Japanese pirates responded, Jiang Fan had already rushed to Jiazhou Prefecture, which was the closest to Yongning Prefecture. There were 4,000 soldiers and horses rushing to join Jiang Fan.

In addition, 4,000 soldiers and horses were sent from each of the remaining four cities. The soldiers and horses heading to the five cities also encountered military supplies sent from Huaining Prefecture on the way.

After Jiang Fan joined the 4,000 soldiers, he immediately launched an attack on Jiazhou Prefecture. The 10,000 Japanese pirates guarding the city did not take the 5,000 siege troops seriously at all.

But before they could react, or even reinforce the city gate or take any measures, the city gate was directly destroyed by a cannon.

In fact, the city gates of coastal cities were not built very solidly. After all, there were no threats along the coast except pirates, and the real threats were at most some rebels.

However, the possibility of rebels appearing along the coast was extremely low. Therefore, the city walls were not built high and the gates were not strong.

Normally, if there was such an attack, and the city gates could not withstand the impact of battering rams, they would pile up stones behind the gates.

But the Japanese pirates instinctively felt that the city gate was impenetrable, so they had no time to react, and then it was blasted open by a cannon.

The army rushed into the city, and the Japanese pirates in the city rushed to the city gate to stop them, but unfortunately, they were facing an army with rifles and assault rifles. They couldn't even touch the edge of the army, and were directly shot by bullets!

When the Japanese pirates came to their senses, there was only fear in their eyes. Not only did they not dare to rush forward to fight, they even dared not get close.

The 10,000 Japanese pirates did not hold out for half an hour before they were completely defeated, and most of them fled out of the city.

However, they had no war horses, and compared with the cavalry of the Yan army, they were slaughtered one-sidedly.

The Yan army chased the Japanese pirates from the city to outside the city, and then to the seaside. Only less than a thousand of the ten thousand Japanese pirates escaped into the sea. When they saw the army coming, they all jumped into the sea.

There was no one to help them at the beach, so they could only flee into the sea. Whether these people could survive depended on their luck.

After the counterattack of Jiazhou Prefecture began, the counterattacks of the remaining four prefectures also began one after another. Facing the well-equipped and advanced Yan army, the Japanese pirates were easily wiped out even though their strength was more than twice that of the Yan army.

The five cities were thus recaptured. Of the 50,000 typhoids, at least 40,000 remained in the five cities, and less than 10,000 fled into the sea. It is estimated that no more than 2,000 or 3,000 survived. As for the rest, they were probably eaten by fish.

After Jiang Fan recaptured the five cities, he left his army in the five cities, recaptured the shipyard as soon as possible, and met with the senior craftsmen in the shipyard.

He saw the giant ship under construction and put forward his own ideas for transformation. The shipyards in the five cities were very curious about Jiang Fan's new idea for the ship and all said they could build it.

The shipyards in the five cities all have five large ships under construction, so Jiang Fan now has thirty large ships under construction. In more than a month, as long as the steam engine from Huaining Prefecture can be delivered within the specified time, the large ship can be built!

If transportation is carried out from Huaining Prefecture to the coastal areas, it will take ten days.

The steam workshop in Huaining Prefecture is already mature, and a steam engine can be manufactured in about five or six days. If it starts working at the same time, it should be able to manufacture 20 to 30 steam engines at the same time.

Jiang Fan sent the size and model drawings of the steam engine to Huaining Prefecture as fast as possible. If sent by fast horse, it would arrive in two to three days.

Calculating the time, it should take less than two months to complete the construction of thirty steam ships. This makes Jiang Fan very much looking forward to what the ships will look like after they are completed.

In addition to the hull, Jiang Fan also prepared to equip it with naval guns and heavy machine guns. He had already thought of the design of this thing. If the smelting technology could be improved, many of his ideas could be realized.

While Jiang Fan was busy building warships, on the other side, the Chaichuan Shipyard had suffered a surprise attack by 10,000 Japanese troops.

Unfortunately, although the Japanese pirates acted at night, Jiang Fan had already informed the Huaining Army stationed here that there were secret sentries at various important locations.

Therefore, no matter how careful the Japanese pirates were, they were still discovered as soon as they sneaked in. Then, they were led into an ambush by the Huaining Army, and only less than a hundred people out of more than 10,000 people escaped.

The hundred men fled back to Censhan in panic. Just as they told Oda Nobuo the news of their failure, the Japanese who went to Yongning Prefecture to gather information also rushed back.

After learning that their army had not been discovered outside Yongning Prefecture, Oda Nobuo was completely stunned. When he heard that the people he sent to rob the shipyard were almost all killed by strange weapons, his heart sank even more.

Before Oda Nobuo recovered from his shock, news came from Jiazhou Prefecture. Jiazhou Prefecture was seized, and the shipyard was also seized.

Oda Nobuo had no choice but to place his hopes on the remaining four cities. He hoped that the remaining four cities could hold out, but he also knew in his heart.

If the Yan army really had that kind of strange weapon, even if reinforcements were sent, the four cities would probably not be able to be defended.

He now only hoped that he could deliver the news to the four cities as soon as possible. Even if the four cities could not be saved, at least the huge ships in the shipyard must be destroyed.

In this way, he waited for more than ten days, but received bad news one after another. The remaining four cities were all captured without any reinforcements.

The Yan army captured the four cities almost at the same time. The news from their side had just been passed on and had not yet been implemented.

After hearing that four cities were captured and the shipyard was lost, Oda Nobuo's face changed slightly. Dinghai Island is actually not bad, at least it can be self-sufficient.

This is also the reason why he chose to set up his base here. If he left here and went to the isolated islands overseas, even if those islands were large, there would be no island as big as Dinghai Island.

At that time, all supplies will have to come from inland. Otherwise, even if we occupy the island, it will be difficult to feed the people on it.

Even when they first came to Dayan, they survived by looting supplies on shore. He really didn't want to leave Dinghai Island.