Chapter 160 The Battle of the Sun (1)
Fifty years on earth are nothing compared to heaven.
Looking around the world, how can there be immortality in the sea and sky?
However, the martial fortune of Huangming will surely last for a long time.
This country is the one!
The father-in-law's martial fortune will inevitably prosper.
This saint who comes out in three thousand years!
"The battle against Japan has never happened in China. Now my treasure sword is facing eastward. Who dares to take the lead? You must be more determined. Once the Qiansui Gorge is swept away, I will be honored in Japan. All history books are famous for you and I."
Wu Yun's long-lasting Eunuch Wei looked up at the sky, letting the sunlight pierce into his eyes, and never opening his eyes.
There are ** patterns between every inhalation and inhalation.
After more than ten breaths, the father-in-law's tiger eyes opened and the sky changed.
A dark cloud over the southwest suppressed the sun.
Under the dark clouds, another albatross was spreading its wings and flying.
"Marine affairs are here! The fate of the imperial army is here! The national destiny of the imperial Ming Dynasty is here! "
With a "boom", my father-in-law opened the folding fan, looked around the generals, and made a sound of a crane: "My treasure sword, I'll try the depth of the world. Who can hold this treasure sword to take Li Dan's head!"
After saying that, Lao Jiu brought his father-in-law's sword.
"I'm willing to die!"
The captain of the Fourth Regiment, Yuki Yamamoto, stepped out and took the sword with the word "YiBi" engraved on the hilt.
"One is the beginning of all things, the original is established and the Tao is born. One is the book that gives you hope that your life is as gorgeous as summer flowers and your death is as quiet as autumn leaves."
The father-in-law concentrated and bowed solemnly: "Li Danzhi's head, please!"
On October 23, the "Battle of Japan" named by Eunuch Wei broke out.
The Japanese battle was implemented in two steps. The first step was the joint fleet attacked the Li Dan fleet in the Qiansui Gorge. After clearing the enemy on the sea surface, the Guards Division landed to attack Li Dan's old nest Tuhara City to completely defeat Li Dan's forces.
The joint fleet was personally directed by Chief of Staff Shen Yourong, using 152 main warships and more than 5,000 officers and soldiers; the army dispatched the third and fourth two regiments of the Guard Division, and more than 8,000 officers and soldiers.
Based on all aspects of information, the base camp judged that there were about 100 sea ships directly belonging to Li Dan, and dozens of sea merchant ships attached to him. The Hinata power belonging to the Tohara Castle can be ignored.
In terms of troops, Li Dan's troops were approximately 11,000 to 15,000. Their overall strength was not as good as the Imperial Army, but they occupied the right places and people, so the enemy should not be underestimated.
Before the war, Eunuch Wei pointed out in his mobilization speech that he should be strategically despised the Imperial Army of Li Dan’s army, but must be taken seriously in tactical terms.
"You must move quickly. Once the navy succeeds, the army must land immediately and occupy the territory of the original city with a destruction and destruction!"
According to the spirit of the instructions of Eunuch Wei, the base camp fine-tuned the combat plan, and from the third and fourth corpses, one brigade of officers and soldiers was transferred from each of the third and fourth corps to undertake the task of "blocking the enemy".
The enemy that blocks the enemy is the Satsuma army that may rush to Li Dan from the direction of Tsurumara Castle.
Before the outbreak of the battle, the sea ship directly belonging to Li Dan had discovered the vanguard of the joint fleet, but the other party did not come forward to contact him, but turned around and went back.
Frontline commander Shen Yourong judged that the ships were likely to be back to Qiansui Gorge for information. In order to prevent Li Dan from receiving the news, he prepared in advance and increased the disadvantages and casualties of the Imperial Army's attack, Shen Yourong immediately decided not to wait for the subsequent troops to arrive and launched an attack on Qiansui Gorge in advance.
This decision was supported by Yuki Yamamoto, the captain of the Fourth Regiment of the Guards Division. When he decided to inform the officers and soldiers, the fourth regiment burst into cheers and his fighting spirit was very high.
The reason is that the Fourth Regiment has a large number of Japanese officers and soldiers, and officers above the squadron leader account for 40%. This time, the Imperial Army's conquest for Japan is of greater significance to these Japanese officers and soldiers. The victory or defeat will determine their appearance in which they return to their hometown!
Is it a coward or a hero, all here to fight!
"Sale lift, maximum speed!"
Under the command of Shen Yourong, the vanguard of the joint fleet consisting of 65 large and small warships followed the Japanese naval ships and broke into Qiansui Gorge in the early morning of the 23rd.
The Ming army's ships broke into the sea and the Japanese ships on the sea were greatly panicked. Before they could send an alarm, the Ming army ships began to attack.
The sinking of Yourong Banner ordered all ships not to fire their guns, but to speed up the enemy ships, burning enemy ships by throwing grenades and using firearms such as "Fire Dragon to the Sea".
This tactic is because the hit rate of sea artillery bombardment is too low and the number of warships on our side is not advantageous, so fire attack disrupting the enemy is the most effective way to defeat the enemy.
At the same time, the Fourth Regiment, which was set out with the vanguard, was under the command of the corps captain Yuki Yamamoto, and the soldiers fired a large number of rockets at Japanese ships with muskets.
For a moment, fires rose from the sea and smoke filled the smoke.
The Japanese army rushed to meet the enemy and found it difficult to gather ships, so it was quickly broken and cut off by the Shen Yourong Division.
Compared with the Japanese warships, the main warships of the Ming army, the Fu Ship, had a larger hull and a higher hull. Therefore, the commanders of the Fu Ship used the advantage of large ships and high ships to forcibly hit Japanese ships, and threw a large amount of gunpowder onto the enemy ships from a high position, using this method to burn three enemy ships in succession.
This scene seems familiar, but it is a replica of the Wusong River Camp, the predecessor of the Imperial Army, twenty years ago, when the Guangdong Navy attacked the Japanese Navy in the Korean waters.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Joint Fleet and former Chief of Staff of Wusong Water Camp, Xu Dayou, led more than a dozen eighth-level tiger fast ships to spread box-type mines in the direction of the Japanese ship retreat.
These big guys who spent a lot of money to buy at that time but were not used for actual combat finally came into use.
Amid the repeated explosions, at least six or seven Japanese ships were blown up by mines.
In some areas, the ships on both sides were mixed together, and the sound of guns like fried beans was endless. Navy officers and soldiers were brave and fearless. Under the cover of the guns of the army officers and soldiers, they threw a large number of hooks onto the Japanese ships and dragged them forcibly, so that the Japanese ships could not echo each other.
Li Dan's subordinates were mostly pirates and ronin. He was very experienced in plundering at sea and was very fierce in nature, but he was no match for the Imperial Army after all.
After more than an hour, the sea battle situation became clear.
Li Dan's troops either pulled the sails and fled, or abandoned the ship and jumped into the sea. Japanese warships were burning everywhere on the sea.
When Li Dan, who was riding a horse from the city to the beach, was stunned by the scene at sea. He was immediately furious and scolded the Ming envoy who came to him a few days ago for being shameless, and also scolded the court and army of the motherland for being untrustworthy.
But what's the use of scolding these? Most of his ships were destroyed and he no longer had the strength to compete with the Ming army at sea.
Under the persuasion of his subordinates, Li Dan had to order all the personnel to retreat to the city and send people to Hinata and the neighboring Tsurumaru Castle for help.
"Tell Shimazu Tadahoku that if he doesn't come to save me, the next person in Ming Dynasty will definitely take him into surgery!"
Chapter completed!