The area of ​​Tsushima Island and Iki Island is really not small, especially Tsushima Island, which is more than 100 miles long and more than 30 miles wide. It is a handful of islands like this, along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

So, why did Yang Cong give up such a large island to North Korea?

The reason is actually very simple, because the main purpose of his attack on Hirado this time was to "grab" the silver, not to expand the territory.

If it was for the purpose of expanding territory, he would naturally not let such a large island go. However, this is not the best time for the Ming Dynasty to expand territory.

The Ming Dynasty is now in a mess, and many places need money, while expanding territory also requires money, a lot of money.

Not to mention anything else, just talk about the defenses of Tyrant Island and Iki Island. If the Ming Dynasty sends troops to garrison after taking them down, the food and salary of the soldiers guarding the island would be a considerable expense. More importantly, there are no cities, no fortresses on these two islands, and even no military port.

If the Ming army wants to garrison here, it is necessary to build cities and fortresses, and the port must also be expanded. These two islands are more than a thousand miles away from the Ming Dynasty. I don’t know how much time it takes to build cities and fortresses.

In short, in a word, it is time-consuming, laborious, and more expensive to be placed at this time, as long as Tsuma Island and Iki Island, it is time-consuming, hard and expensive, and it is not worth the effort. It is better to hand it over to the vassal state North Korea to manage it. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is the sect leader, and it is a matter of one sentence to get back these two islands.

It was precisely because these two islands had neither cities nor fortresses that the Ming army's attack was extremely smooth that Yu Dayou and Qi Jingtong took Tsushima Island in less than a day, and then transported food, supplies and soldiers for a day. Immediately afterwards, they took Iki Island in less than half a day, and then transported food, grass and soldiers. In less than four days, the two islands fell into Yang Cong's hands.

Next was to attack Matsuura's old nest Hirado Castle. Although the battle ahead was as simple as cutting melons and vegetables, Yang Cong did not take it lightly. He specially formulated a detailed offensive plan and decided to go to the front line to supervise in person.

Early in the morning of the fifth day, hundreds of naval warships set off with tens of thousands of infantrymen. In less than an hour, Hirado Castle was already in sight.

On the flagship, Yang Cong held up his telescope and stared at the outline of the city ahead, never relaxing for a moment. As the navy fleet approached, the image of Hirado Castle finally gradually became clear.

The size of Hirado City is not large. Judging from its roughly area, it is not even as large as that of the small county town of the Ming Dynasty, its walls do not seem to be very high. As a reference, Yang Cong judged that the height of the city walls of Hirado City will definitely not exceed one zhang.

Such a city is not worth a spoil for the elites of the Southeast Army. They don’t even need to build siege equipment, they just use chariots.

The infantry stood directly on the roof of the car, raised an iron shield to prevent arrow attacks, and was covered with muskets and artillery. As long as the chariot was pushed to the city wall, all infantry jumped up with a "whizz", even saving time to climb the ladder.

Isn’t it easy to attack such a city?

Yang Cong was imagining the scene of siege in his mind. Suddenly, something he didn't want to see appeared in the telescope, and his brows couldn't help but frowned.

What exactly did he see?

What appears in the telescope is the gun's muzzle!

On the city wall, dark muzzles were clearly exposed behind some arrows!

This Matsuura family actually has artillery!

Where did it come from?

An ominous premonition came to Yang Cong's heart. Could it be that these artillery were given to others when Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua were in power?

Judging from the size of the gun mouth, it seems to be similar to a tiger squat cannon. It is very likely that the city wall is placed with the Ming army-style tiger squat cannon.

This is a problem, because Hirado Castle is not far from the port, and the port dock is within the range of attack by artillery, and the port here is obviously a small port for fishing boats. The Dafuku ship cannot get close to land, so the only way is to use the Cangshan boat.

The thickness of the deck of the Cangshan ship cannot be compared with that of the Dafu ship. Even if the tiger squat cannon and the shells are too dense, it may be sunk.

He counted carefully and found that there were quite a lot of artillery in Hirado Castle, and there were at least dozens of guns near the port!

This is really troublesome. You must know that the port terminal of Hirado Domain can only be docked by several Cangshan boats, and each Cangshan boat is carrying twenty infantrymen, which means that only dozens of infantrymen land in each batch.

What is the result of dozens of infantry facing dozens of cannons?

There is no need to think about this at all. As long as the enemy's artillery is not as accurate as it is, it is basically difficult for anyone to escape these dozens of infantrymen.

What to do?

Yang Cong frowned and pondered for a while before turning to Yu Dayou and said, "Zhifu, have you seen the cannons on the city wall?"

Yu Dayou put down his telescope and nodded solemnly: "I'll see it."

Yang Cong immediately suggested: "Why should we use the owner's cannon of the lucky ship to cover several Cangshan boats and try to lean on it? If the enemy's firepower is too strong, let's think of other ways."

Yu Dayou nodded helplessly and said, "That's all."

Soon, under Qi Jingtong's command, the fifty Fu Ship warships lined up in an orderly manner near the waters on the front of Hirado Castle. After a tense adjustment, the bows of the fifty Fu Ship warships "boom boom boom" were heard from the huge roar of artillery at almost the same time.

The main guns of the Fukushima warship are all giant cannons of more than a thousand kilograms, with a range of more than two miles, so they can attack the defenders on the city wall without entering the artillery attack range of Hirado Castle.

This first round of artillery was just adjusting the shooting elements, so the accuracy of the shells was not very good. Only a small half of the fifty shells fell on the city wall, and the others were either close or far away.

The defenders on the city wall probably didn't expect there were artillery with such a long range, so this round of bombardment caused quite a few casualties. At least dozens of people were hit by huge shells and spurted back blood and didn't even have time to scream.

Not long after, a huge roar of artillery fire came from the bows of the fifty lucky ships in front of them again. This time, the accurate head was obviously much stronger than last time, and almost all the fifty shells hit the city wall.

However, the defenders on the city walls were not fools. As early as the roar of artillery sounded, everyone hid behind the arrow piles quickly. Therefore, although the hit rate in this round was high, the casualties caused were not as much as the previous round.

When Yang Cong saw this situation, he waved decisively: "It's now, send someone to try it."

Yu Dayou nodded with a serious expression, then waved his hand and ordered the flag bearer to attack.

Soon, four Cangshan boats quickly approached the port wharf. Twenty infantrymen jumped down from the side of the ship without hesitation and jumped onto the wooden boards of the dock. However, they did not line up and did not wait next to the ship for the subsequent infantrymen to come down.

These people actually ran around the dock as if they had taken the wrong medicine!

At this time, fifty lucky ships on the sea opened fire again, and fifty huge shells flew towards the city wall, and the roar of artillery fired from the city wall. Dozens of cannons roared one after another, and the shells smashed straight to the dock.

However, that accurate head is really unsatisfactory. Dozens of shells are like scattered flowers in the sky. They are flying everywhere, and there are not a few hits to the dock. None of the twenty infantrymen on the dock were shot!

What's going on?

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but be stunned. Is this accurate too much?

Even if you don’t aim, you will not be the result of directly emitting the cannons!

Yu Dayou suddenly realized: "So it's an iron cannon!"

Iron cannon?

What's the thing?
Chapter completed!