"Well, you think the Shimazu family can hold the mainland this time?" One of the merchants asked with great interest, "Isn't it possible that Japan's dead and powerful feudal domain will be destroyed like this?" ”

"I don't think so, no matter how much the war with the three kings of the East China Sea didn't hurt the Shimazu family, maybe there are still a lot of elites in Satsuma Country, and there is more than enough to defend the city if it is not enterprising, so how can it not destroy the country." The other was not convinced.

"Hey, you said that the Choshu Domain on the other side of the river will not send troops to interfere, how can you say that the Satsuma Domain also kept them at the beginning, maybe this time the Choshu Domain will keep the Satsuma Domain for the same reason, after all, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold!" A third businessman also made his own statement.

"I don't think it'........" The first merchant was not convinced, and several people began to argue. They are all old businessmen here, and they have met and cooperated with Zheng Zhilong at the beginning, so they naturally have a lot of confidence, enough knowledge, and a deep understanding of Japan, and can see a lot of problems.

Therefore, there are still a lot of dry goods after this controversy, which has attracted many onlookers.

Some Chinese businessmen gathered around here, commenting on each other, listening to each other, and some people found a point of view that they supported and participated in it, making it quite lively, and also making some Japanese civilians who had passed by very envious to watch here.

Except for the samurai lord, other people who dare to gather together like this will definitely receive scolding and beating, but these Ming people can also talk about these things they don't know like the samurai lord, which is a privilege they have never had.

These Japanese civilians only stopped and looked at them for a while, and did not dare to stay long, so they planned to leave, but it was precisely by staying for a while that their lives were saved.

Nagasaki is a port city, so it naturally has a good coastal defense, but how advanced the Japanese are in casting artillery, if they still have some craftsmen in casting muskets, they have no knowledge of artillery at all.

These shore guns were all purchased from Portugal, and they were all defective products eliminated from some warships, and their range and power can be imagined. And the reason why Portugal is here to trade honestly, instead of plundering, is because there are few people, and after going ashore, whether you can defeat the shogunate's army is still two words.

After all, at this time, the shogunate had just ended the war and had only been around for more than ten years, and there were still two or three hundred thousand army forces in the entire Japan, which were not at all one or two thousand Portuguese soldiers could plunder.

The cannons on the naval fleet are all of the latest type, all of which are cannons cast by the latest technology this year, and the firing range is more than five kilometers, which is not at all comparable to the old Japanese shore guns.

The sea level outside Nagasaki is vast, so when the Haijuan fleet just appeared, it was discovered by the Japanese in Nagasaki, and soon several ships were ushered up to guide them, they thought that the other party was also a merchant who came to trade, but the fierce and unstoppable momentum made them realize that it was not good.

This was an enemy attack, but they couldn't send a message for a while, and they could only hope that the guards in Nagasaki would be able to see it.

Shen Yourong's march was not hidden, he didn't need to cover up, he didn't come to occupy here, but only to demonstrate and bomb.

Looking at the menacing enemy, the interior of the port of Nagasaki reacted quickly. Dozens of battleships sailed out and went out of the harbor, trying to intercept each other. It's just that when the two sides were close and compared with each other, the Nagasaki side felt cold in their hearts.

The largest ship on their side was only comparable to the destroyer, the lowest kind of ship on the other side, and the twenty or thirty tall warships of the other side looked down on them like giants.

Especially at this time, the gun window opened on the side of the opponent's ship, and the black and swarthy gun barrel in the depths made these Nagasaki sailors feel bad in their hearts.

It's not like these dozens of warships are gunboats, but this is a military force that even the Portuguese and Dutch don't have.

However, to their despair, this is what happened. I saw that these strange warships circled around the sea, and then lined up in an unusually familiar formation.

This formation, a line formation that only they would have lined up when firing with muskets. Seeing this formation, the shogunate generals who commanded the sea to meet the enemy were all dead, but he was very familiar with the power of this formation, and if he replaced it with a more powerful cannon.

He couldn't ........ imagine this kind of picture, it must be a desperate hellish demon. In his eyes of extreme fear and despair, countless fires bloomed in the daylight, and even the blazing sun could not hide these brilliant lights.

In the roar, countless loud noises broke out, and this naval battle, which was known as the beginning of Japan's loss of the country, broke out.

In the face of dozens of Japanese ships, Shen Yourong did not relax at all, the flag was quickly issued, and the captains of the ships also attached great importance to it, cheered up, and used 100% of what they had learned in their daily training, and seized the T-shaped horizontal team with some panicked and unfamiliar methods.

To the surprise of these captains, the opposite fleet was almost stunned and unresponsive, watching them go around in circles and seize the advantageous sideline.

However, this is not uncommon, and they reacted in the same way when they lost the pirates, not knowing the consequences of allowing them to occupy the T-shaped horizontal terrain.

It wasn't until his side took advantage of the speed advantage that he stood upwind of the terrain, and the Japanese fleet on the opposite side still didn't react much, but kept rushing forward, as if he wanted to jump into a gang fight.

It's just that how could Shen Yourong let them get their wish!

"Fire!" He calmly gave the order, which was then passed on to the other warships by the staff officer through the flag.

Rumble!

There was a clear sequence, the various warships began to shell, and the battles at sea were almost always like this, the boring shelling, the technology on that side was good, and the luck was good, and the shells fired out hit the enemy first.

After talking about the shelling, almost all of them were transferred into the sea, none of them hit, there was no way, the range of the Ming fleet was long, and the battle was naturally launched in the distance, but how accurate can the breech guns be? Despite the fact that the firing device has been replaced with a flintlock without much delay, it is also not accurate enough.

"Is it too far away?" After looking at the results of the battle, Shen Yourong decisively ordered, "Continue to get closer and engage at close range." ”

"Sure enough, it still doesn't work, I don't know when I will be able to experiment with the power of the T-shaped formation." The T-shaped tactic was proposed by Zhu Youxiao, saying that it was an artifact of naval artillery warfare, Shen Yourong had always wanted to experiment, there was no chance to exterminate pirates, he thought that the Japanese Navy would have a chance this time, but the first time he fought with a country's navy, he was cautious, he widened the distance to the maximum, and all of them did not hit, and he couldn't see the power of the T-shaped formation at all.

And after his judgment, the other side does not seem to have artillery, it is simply the same as the pirate gang fighting as the main attack method of the old navy, in order to save ammunition, he also gave up the opportunity to experiment tactics, close the distance, close to the attack.

Soon, still maintaining a certain formation of the battle line, the battleships and cruisers gathered together, began to circle around, and then gradually approached, and as for the other destroyers who came with the ships, they took advantage of their flexibility, scattered in all directions, distributed around the battlefield, waiting for an opportunity to move.

Just after the sound of the cannon, the Japanese sailors who found that there was nothing to do did not have time to rejoice, and they were immediately shocked by the dazzling operation of the other party, the other party's speed was very fast, and their own ships could not keep up at all, so they could only turn around in the same place, let the other party move, just adjust the bow of the ship in time to maintain the direction of attack.

The time of boredom began, but since it was the first time to engage a regular army, the officers of the entire fleet did not care about this boredom, but concentrated on carrying out their own operations, although they were now aware of the weakness of the Japanese sailors, but it was an excellent opportunity to accumulate experience, which was more important and serious than the actual engagement.

The same is true for Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi, both of whom are the captains of a cruiser, and they are also seriously experimenting at the moment. They have been drifting on the sea for a long time, and naturally they know the power of this kind of Western plywood ship, and the artillery is really like having eyes, drilling directly into people, and now they have the opportunity to operate such a ship, so they naturally have to learn it later, and the future is the world of this kind of ship.

Rumble!

After about a quarter of an hour, the artillery rumble rang out again, and the second exchange of fire, uh, no, it should have been a one-sided firefall that began again.

This time the distance was much closer, and there was no long-range means to bully the Japanese sailors, so the Ming fleet directly bullied to about 100 meters and began to fire. This is really a bullying distance, the Japanese sailors still have a lot of distance to get close, and by the time this distance is over, the Ming artillery has already blasted the ship into a sieve.

Boom Boom!

The gunners took aim carefully, adjusted the angle, and then turned the flintlock, ignited the propellant, and fired the lead bullet.

In the rumbling sound, sawdust flew sideways, and the Japanese Navy could only be beaten in despair, trying to close the distance, but they couldn't reach it, the other side was fast and agile, and it was not at all that they could approach.

In less than half an hour, there were some broken planks floating on the whole sea, and almost all the ships were blasted to the bottom of the sea by the excited gunners, and not a single one was left intact.

The naval battle was short-lived, but the impact was great, and Nagasaki had no defenses at all, and the only last defense was the poor shore artillery. However, how can these poor shore guns, which only have a range of one kilometer, be the opponent of the twelve-pound cannon with a range of five kilometers of the Ming fleet.

I saw that after these fleets that frightened them eliminated the sailors, they sailed into the port, and then calmly and calmly formed a row, facing the entire port with the side side, and the black hole of the cannon made people suppress fear.

Bang!

The shelling began!