While the KPA fleet was bombarding cities on Japan's southeast coast, Luo Yue had already taken the Xiangyang ship and rushed to the waters near the Noto Peninsula to reconnoiter the hydrological situation of the landing site and the coastal defense facilities.

While stationed in Shanghai, Luo Yue commissioned the navy to take images of the Noto Peninsula and the Izu Peninsula, and applied to send a survey ship to the coastal areas of the two peninsulas to measure the hydrology and indeed land at the sites. However, Luo Yue himself was too busy with military affairs to get out of his way, so he was unable to observe the battlefield in person. Although Luo Yue had already determined the landing location through the information collected in the early days, after all, he had not been able to see it with his own eyes, and Luo Yue always felt that he had no bottom in his heart. Now the landing fleet can finally attack, but because the speed of the four Zhenyuan-class ironclad ships is too slow, Luo Yue decided to take the Xiangyang ship first and rush to the waters near the Noto Peninsula to observe the situation.

Before the crossing, the Xiangyang ship is the oldest warship among the five crossing warships, and it has been in service for 12 years, and 6 years have passed since crossing this era, although the East China government has made every effort to maintain these crossing warships and extend their service life, but the technical level of this era is too backward, so these five modern warships have varying degrees of loss, fortunately, the main loss is the hull and mechanical power part, and the ship's electronic equipment and weapon system are basically intact. The most affected is the speed of the ship, the original maximum speed of the Xiangyang ship was 28 knots, and the current maximum speed can only run at a level of about 25 knots, and in order to reduce the wear and tear of the machine, it is best not to drive at a speed of more than 20 knots, but this is also nearly 1 times faster than the speed of the landing fleet.

A day later, the Xiangyang arrived in the waters near the Noto Peninsula and released a drone to observe the selected landing site.

The landing site chosen by Radake was the Haza Town area, which is located in the central and western part of the Noto Peninsula. In Chinese, the word "machi" means "field boundary", "field path" or unit of measurement, while in Japanese, it mainly means town. Haga-cho is also a small town or town.

The topography of the Noto Peninsula is mainly low hills, but in the middle of the peninsula, there is a narrow plain terrain, from the west to the east, with a total length of about 15 kilometers, running through the entire peninsula, and the width is about 3-4 kilometers.

Judging from the picture sent back by the drone, the beach in the area of Haza Town is indeed very flat, which is conducive to the landing ship directly rushing ashore, so it is very suitable for landing operations, and the beach garrison in the area around Haza Town is also very lax, although some batteries are also built along the coast, but these batteries are very simple, not only all the open-air batteries are not to mention, but also equipped with not many weapons, the artillery is at most 100 mm caliber, the role is not so much defense, but more suitable for vigilance.

Originally, Japan's coastline was nearly 30,000 kilometers long, and even if it did not include the inland sea, only the outer outline exceeded 5,000 kilometers. At present, there are three main key areas in Japan, the first is the Tokyo Bay area, which is the capital of Japan, and naturally it is listed first; the second is the Nagasaki area in the southwest of Kyushu Island, which is Japan's main foreign port and naval base, and it is naturally also a key area; the third is Osaka, the Kyoto area, which is Japan's commercial area and has a very developed economy, and most of the areas in this area are located in the Raito Inland Sea, and only a very small part is close to the outer sea, and generally speaking, enemy warships will not go deep into the inland sea, so it ranks third.

In addition to these three key defense areas, the defense of other areas can only be done to the fullest, so it can also be said that once Japan loses its sea supremacy, it will not be able to stop the enemy from landing at all, and of course Japan can also choose to release the enemy's troops to the shore and then engage in a decisive battle with the enemy on land.

The Noto Peninsula is not a well-developed area in Japan, and the local economy is mainly based on fishing and fishing under the sea, and there are no big cities, so it is natural that the garrison on land and shore is very empty.

In addition, the footage transmitted from the drone also found that there are several small wharves and a lot of fishing boats on the shore, Luo Yue is also very happy about these situations, because there are fishing boats, which means that there must be villages nearby, so that after the People's Army lands ashore, it can not only find the locals to understand the situation, but also catch some free labor, anyway, this time the East China government is here to destroy, so there is no need to have any scruples, the Japanese should be used as coolies. In addition, these small piers can also be used to load supplies, and it can also save the People's Army the effort of building temporary trestle bridges.

On the whole, the Haza area is indeed suitable for landing operations, and Ragaku is also full of confidence in the success of the landing, so he can launch a landing operation now when the landing fleet arrives.

Two days later, the landing fleet finally reached the sea near the town of Haza, and at 5 a.m. the next day, the KPA launched a landing operation, which was carried out simultaneously with the fire on the other side.

Luo Yue was not a rigid commander, and any landing operation should be carried out in the order of first striking with firepower and then carrying out a beach-rushing landing. At present, it is clear that the coastal defense strength in the Haza area is quite weak, and if it is carried out step by step, it will be too time-consuming, so it is completely possible to strike and land on the opposite shore at the same time, so as to speed up the attack. Of course, it is good to be able to quickly destroy the coastal defense battery, if not, but as long as the fire attack on the opposite shore can contain the coastal defense force of any enemy army and cover the landing force ashore. Moreover, the People's Army already has a special landing ship, which can send a battalion of troops ashore in its entirety at a time, and there is no need to assemble troops after going ashore, and after the landing force has landed, the task of capturing the batteries can be completed by landing troops.

After the order was issued, the four Zhenyuan-class ironclad ships and the two armored cruisers Jinhai and Baohai each determined their targets and opened fire and bombarded them, while the four landing ships that were the first to attack also started at full speed and drove away in the direction of the shore beach.

It will take some time before the landing ships rush to the beachhead, but the roar of the guns on the warships broke the silence before dawn, and I saw that on the faintly bright sea, the artillery fire was extinguished one after another, and a series of explosions sounded near the coastal batteries.

The Japanese soldiers guarding the fort did not expect that they would be attacked from the sea at all, although they also received news that the Japanese coast was being shelled by the KPA fleet in the past few days, but the KPA's shelling was mainly concentrated in the southeastern region of Japan, and there were no valuable targets at all on the Noto Peninsula, so how could the KPA attack here? Therefore, the defenders here were defenseless at all, and the soldiers who were keeping vigil were taking the opportunity to sleep, and as a result, the KPA array of artillery shelling was full of head-to-head and face-covered shelling, and suddenly the few batteries were hit by no strength at all, and in 30 minutes, 5 or 6 batteries were destroyed by the KPA artillery, and the remaining 2 or 3 had completely lost the power to resist, and during the entire shelling, all the batteries only returned fire with a dozen guns, and they were all indiscriminate, completely inaccurate.

At this time, the four landing ships rushed to the shore and beach at almost the same time, the flap in the bow of the ship was lowered, and the soldiers of the KPA rushed out of the landing ship one after another and landed on Japanese territory. At this time, the warships also stopped shelling, and handed over the rest of the battle to the troops who landed. At the same time, Luo Yue sent four landing ships of the second batch of landing troops to the shore again.

Before leaving, Luo Yue had already assigned tasks to the first batch of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division to land, the 1st Battalion was responsible for the vigilance of the beach, the 2nd Battalion was to attack the shore defense battery, if the battery was destroyed by the fleet's artillery fire, it was to sweep away the wreckage of the battery and eliminate the remaining Japanese soldiers, the 3rd Battalion was to capture the dock and prepare to welcome the large force ashore, and the regimental headquarters of the 1st Regiment stayed on the beach to establish a temporary command center to receive all the troops.

As soon as they went ashore, the troops acted according to the order, and the first battalion immediately dispersed into companies to occupy the key points near the beach, and then quickly set up arrangements to guard against enemy attacks. Although it is unlikely that Japan will deploy too many troops in Haza Town, it cannot be ignored.

The second battalion was more scattered, and could only run to the various shore defense batteries in platoons, but fortunately, most of the batteries had been destroyed by the naval guns at this time, and the remaining 2 or 3 were also frightened, and they had not recovered at this time, so when the KPA troops arrived, they had no resistance at all, and some of them were killed by the KPA, and most of the soldiers surrendered to the KPA.

The troops attacking the pier also proceeded very smoothly, and at this time there were only a few fishermen on the pier who were on vigil, and of course there was no resistance and all surrendered honestly. In fact, this so-called wharf is very simple, it is a centralized berthing position for a fishing boat composed of 5 or 6 trestle bridges, only one of which is built of stone, and tens of meters deep into the sea, more than a dozen large fishing boats are moored on both sides, the rest of the trestle bridges are wooden structures, and the depth of the sea is also shorter, and the mooring are small and medium-sized fishing boats, but roughly calculated, there are still a lot of fishing boats moored at this wharf, and the size adds up to at least hundreds, it seems that the scale of this fishing village is not small.

At 6:30 a.m., the landing operation was basically over, and the KPA had taken full control of the landing beach area and established a relatively complete beachhead; even if a large Japanese army came to attack, it would be enough to resist for a while, and it also mastered a small wharf, and the KPA transport ships could dock at the stone trestle at the wharf to load and unload goods and disembark personnel. Moreover, the whole process of fighting went very smoothly, and the KPA suffered almost no casualties, except for the early shelling, not even a few shots were fired.

So Luo Yue also immediately ordered, ordering all transport ships to dock at the dock in turn, immediately unload personnel and materials, and then let the Xiangyang ship put down the boat and send him ashore to direct the next move.