Chapter 2110

Although they were fighting in a completely unfamiliar environment, the Ming army troops who landed quickly demonstrated their professionalism and separated about two hundred people to build a beachhead near the landing site to prevent the main force from leaving the landing site and entering the interior.

After landing, the enemy launched a counterattack here. At the same time, several small teams were sent east and south from the landing point to investigate the enemy situation in nearby areas, and early warning observation posts were established outside the landing point.

A batch of supplies will be transferred ashore in the future to ensure that the landing troops need to operate in nearby areas. Therefore, a defense system must be established at this landing point to prevent troops entering the interior from being cut off from their supply lines.

After gathering, the main force was divided into three teams, front, middle and rear, and set off in batches from the landing point to the southwest target. In this way, even if an enemy situation occurs during the march, different ways of responding can be selected according to the situation.

Although it was basically certain that there was still a gap between the opponent's strength and our own, the Ming army was still very cautious in its attack. They did not rush forward just because the landing process went smoothly. They still acted step by step according to the predetermined battle plan.

The military quality reflected in not advancing rashly when winning, not retreating in defeat, and being able to deal with various situations in the combat process in a reasonable way is also part of the military strength of an army. Almost all the elite troops under Xu Xinsu are in accordance with Haihan

They are trained in the military model, and their combat methods are more inclined to standardized operations. They advance on the battlefield in a steady and steady style, trying not to leave a chance for opponents who are weaker than themselves to make a comeback. In the Ming Dynasty, they are already considered a first-class strong army.

, it is no problem to use it to deal with the civilian armed forces on Fujiang Island.

Since this area is almost all farmland and the view is almost unobstructed, it is difficult for the armed personnel on the island to organize a defense as the Ming army advances. The Ming army successfully arrived at the target area and discovered that there was a shipyard here.

There are still two large warships that have not yet been completed. However, there is no one in the dock. It is obvious that a collective evacuation was organized before the arrival of the Ming army.

"Burn this place down!" the command given by the leading officer was brief and clear.

At present, the whereabouts of the coalition forces have been exposed, so there is no need to worry about setting a fire here to let the opponent know its location. Setting fire to the opponent's shipyard and casting this signal can also have the effect of psychologically attacking the opponent.

If the opponents couldn't stand this stimulation and gathered together to confront the Ming army head-on, that would be exactly what the Ming army wanted.

There are too many fire starters in the shipbuilding area. For example, piles of shavings produced by processing wood can be seen everywhere. Soon the soldiers found a large amount of dry firewood from behind the kitchen here, and some lighting tools.

Then, according to the commander's order, they began to light fires everywhere inside and outside the shipyard. Especially for the two unfinished warships that were still in the shipyard, fire starters were arranged on the bows, sterns and decks to ensure that they could continue

Burn it cleanly.

Soon a raging fire broke out in the shipyard, and the smoke that rose up was a hundred feet high. It was estimated that it would be difficult for people within a ten-mile radius not to notice this conspicuous signal.

The first target in the operation was successfully captured in this way, which made everyone in the Ming army quite excited and had more confidence in the next battle.

The next second target is a port located about three miles west of the shipyard, located at the end of this winding bay. If it hadn't been for Yuan Zhi's on-the-spot reconnaissance earlier, it would have been difficult for the Ming army to imagine that there was such a thing deep in the bay.

There is also a small port hidden. According to the intelligence provided by the Haihan Army, there are several warships parked at the target location. If the landing Ming army confirms that these warships are still there, they must try to destroy them. In order to prevent these

The warships escaped from the bay, and the coalition warships responsible for attacking Fukue Island have blocked the waterway in and out of the bay from the sea, in order to catch the turtle in the jar.

However, the shortest route from the shipyard to the port is through the water. The flat terrain along the coast ends at the shipyard, and further inland there are large tracts of mountainous land. If you want to go around by land, you have to go around.

It can only be reached in a large circle, and the distance is at least ten miles.

The commander did not rush to give orders to rush to the next target because he noticed that there was no ship activity in this bay at all. If the opponent's warships were still in the bay, they should have appeared near the shipyard at this time.

On the sea, it was appropriate to use shipboard firepower to fight the Ming army attacking the shipyard. Therefore, he had reason to suspect that before the coalition fleet reached Fukue Island, the warships docked in the bay mentioned in the intelligence had been transferred.

somewhere else.

To verify this conclusion, you don’t actually need to march more than ten miles to see the situation in the port. You only need to send someone with a telescope to a nearby mountain top to check the situation at the destination.

So a small team immediately set off from the fire scene and went to higher ground along the mountains next to the bay to find an observation point with a better view of the destination. Their actions soon achieved results, and they fired a round from the top of the mountain as agreed.

The signal flare informed the large forces waiting near the shipyard of the reconnaissance results - there was no warship they were looking for in the port at the end of the bay, and there were not even two small sampans.

This reconnaissance result also confirmed the commander's previous guess. The opponent had already transferred the local warships to other places before this, leaving only an undefended shipyard for the Ming army to attack. Although it was completed smoothly

Although he has completed this stage of the mission, the commander understands that the opponent's vitality has not been damaged so far, and he still needs to find ways to find the opponent's main force on the island and eliminate it.

However, regarding the situation in other areas on the island, the intelligence information obtained by the Ming army was extremely limited. They only had the military map provided by Haihan and the areas where people would generally live. As for where the opponent's armed personnel were hiding, they only had

I can only find it slowly.

However, they do not have to rely entirely on foot to screen the entire island. The flat and livable areas on the island are basically concentrated in a few coastal plains. It is much faster to take a boat to other areas to be inspected than to go on foot.

But such terrain also brought considerable difficulties to their combat goals. Although the armed personnel on the island may not be their opponents at all, the more than 1,000 Ming troops who landed on the island alone wanted to conquer an area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers.

Completing the search on Fukue Island is basically an impossible task.

For the current plan, we can only rely on the advantages of surface ships, first conduct an investigation on several key areas on the island, and try our best to eliminate as many enemy troops as we can find.

At this time, in the waters of Naru Island, about twenty miles away from Fukue Island, another small fleet detached from the coalition fleet was launching an attack on a bay port on the island. In fact, the information provided by the reconnaissance force only showed that

It is known that there is a port in this bay, but it is not certain whether there are armed personnel of the opponent stationed on the island. The coalition forces, with the idea of ​​​​hitting them wherever they go, in short, sent people to land on the island first, and then attacked the island.

Let’s conduct some searches in populated areas.

If someone jumps out to resist, it goes without saying that the resisters will be wiped out. And the military is actually very clear that taking such an action is very likely to encounter resistance. After all, the Goto Islands have been in a long period of time in the past.

It has been the home base of Japanese pirates for a long time. Even if the people who settled here are not Japanese pirates themselves, they are inextricably linked to Japanese pirates and are unlikely to choose to submit obediently to external forces.

Compared with Fukue Island, the other four main islands of the Goto Islands are much smaller in area, and the livable areas on the islands combined are not as good as Fukue Island, so the number of permanent residents is also much smaller. According to the coalition staff

The department estimates that except for Fukue Island, the population size of the other islands should be within a thousand people, so the solution will not be too difficult.

The only troublesome thing is that the coastline of these islands is winding and has many hidden small bays. The coalition fleet had to divide into several small teams to clear these target areas separately.

The troops attacking Naru Island basically encountered no decent resistance during the landing. After the leading troops landed, a group of armed ronin rushed out and tried to drive the outsiders off the beach. However, their bravery had no room for display in front of the muskets, and they

As a warm-up activity, the soldiers of the special operations group used only one salvo to dismantle the bluff offensive of the Ronin. After the few guys who escaped this round of bullets realized what had happened, they did not hesitate to abandon their casualties.

The accomplices fled without looking back.

This small port does not have the warships that the coalition forces expected to encounter. There are only a few small fishing boats moored on the shore. It seems that there are not many enemies here.

The landing Haihan army swept away the fishing village next to the port as quickly as possible. Perhaps the corpses of the ronin who had not yet cooled down at the port acted as a deterrent. Subsequent actions did not encounter any organized resistance. More than 300 local people

They were soon expelled from their respective homes and gathered together at the port. The initial search did not find many standard weapons from these houses. The few Japanese swords found were also rusty, which was obvious at a glance.

Haven't used it in years.

According to the confessions of the people, there were no organized armed personnel stationed in the local area, and the ronin who resisted the landing of the Haihan Army at the port were basically local young men. However, these people knew that their actions had caused great disaster, so they all fled at this time.

Entering the mountains and forests.

The combat mission of the special operations group is not to clear out fishermen and farmers from house to house. Since no evidence of organized armed forces has been found on the island, there is no need to stay on Naru Island anymore. A group of people come and go in a hurry

In such a hurry, it took less than two hours from landing to leaving the island. But during this period, the islanders who died at gunpoint due to resistance could only consider themselves unlucky.

A few hours later, the battle started on Zhongtong Island, and finally the real owner was encountered. The coalition fleet found two warships trying to leave the port in the bay north of Zhongtong Island, and then quickly used artillery fire to kill them without politeness.

It was sunk less than a mile from the coast.

The sailors on the ship discovered that there was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides. They were unable to resist the bombardment from the sea. They quickly chose to jump off the ship and escape, abandoning the warship that had begun to take on water and sink.

However, the coalition fleet did not leave after killing the two warships. Instead, it immediately organized a landing and conducted a raid on the port town here. Although the battle that unfolded was not too fierce, it finally allowed the special warfare

The men and horses of the regiment cheered up and dealt with it seriously.

There were about a hundred armed men huddled in the town, using muskets, bows and arrows and other weapons to attack the Haihan army trying to invade the town. However, their defense methods were too simple and the battle line lacked depth.

After the Haihan Army concentrated fire on the attack, they quickly lost coordination.

It took about ten minutes for the two sides to engage in battle. The Haihan Army tore through the opponent's weak defense line, invaded the town, cut apart the opponent's combat units, and then annihilated them separately.

At this stage of the battle, the gap in military quality and combat experience between the army and civilian armed forces became even more prominent. The special operations group was very familiar with this combat method of cutting up the enemy's formation, while the resisting side had no corresponding combat plan at all.

After discovering that enemies appear on one's flanks or even in the rear, one becomes panicked, fearing that they will be surrounded by opponents and unable to concentrate on fighting.

In a battle with an elite force like the Haihant Chapter, once confidence and attention begin to waver, it will only be a matter of time before they are defeated.

While the Ming army on Fukue Island was still searching for the next target, the battles on Naru Island and Nakadori Island had ended one after another. However, in addition to the stronger combat effectiveness of the Haihante Group, it also had a lot to do with the strength of the Haihante Group on each island.

Depending on the specific situation, if the tasks of the two sides are exchanged and the special operations group is responsible for clearing out the enemies on Fukue Island, then their operational efficiency will not be much higher than that of the Ming army, and the Ming army will attack Naru.

The ports of Zhongtong Island and Zhongtong Island will also not take too much time.

The special operations group captured a total of more than 40 people in the ports and towns of Zhongtong Island. After these prisoners were gathered at the port for surprise interrogation, they were detained on several troop transport ships. Haihan did not intend to stay on the island.

Staying longer, we learned from the prisoners' confessions that there were not many enemies on the island. Most of them had been wiped out by Haihan in the previous battle, and the people who escaped were actually no longer enough to pose a threat to the coalition fleet.

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These people who escaped will definitely find a way to notify Hirado, so the troops must be quick. The coalition fleet must try its best to launch an attack on Hirado Island before Hirado receives the warning. And there are not many islands in the Goto Islands.

There are basically no resources to defend, so Haihan has no interest in occupying these places. After cleaning up the targets and eliminating hidden dangers, he evacuated on his own initiative.

The voyage from Nakadori Island at the northernmost tip of the Goto Islands to the southernmost tip of Hirado Island is only more than 40 miles. With the sailing speed of the Haihan Fleet, this voyage can be completed in less than half a day.
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