0688 Ready to land
When the captains who were the first to enter the harbor saw the situation in the harbor, they were all excited! Because there are still some ships moored in the harbor. These ships were either too laden to be used for combat, or they were ships of other daimyos, and Tanigawa Gonroku did not dare to requisition, so they were parked in the harbor.
If Tanigawa Gonroku had known that the outcome of the naval battle would be so one-sided, he would have sent all these ships out. As a result, he hesitated for a while, and now it's all cheap Liu Pei!
The captains of the advanced harbor did not care to attack the shore, and desperately urged the sailors to approach the ships docked at the pier, and as soon as they got close, they would first sweep the deck with shotguns, and then lead the sailors to rush to the deck, hack the remaining sailors, and seize the entire ship.
You must know that seizing the ship is a battle that can both save face and gain real benefits. It's a lot more exciting than sinking an enemy ship at sea! The ships that sailed into the harbor later found that the fattest results had been robbed by their comrades, so they vented their anger on the people of the Japanese country who were watching the battle on the shore! Simply shoot the cannonballs at crowded places!
These Japanese people didn't expect that there would be a naval artillery bombardment of the land, so they didn't dodge at all, and let the shells fly through the crowd, creating a bloody alley! When the first round of shooting was over and blood was smeared on the ground, the would-be wrecked with! They screamed desperately and fled in all directions.
That's the most wrong thing they ever did. Because most of these Japanese people lived in Nagasaki Castle, they didn't know that Lu Liu Pei's next goal was to shell Castle Xiating. They had already been beaten by a volley of artillery while they were on the shore, and when they fled back to their homes in the city, an even more ferocious round of shelling awaited them.
On the high ground on the shore, in the houses, in the trees, the people were stunned by the terrible sight in front of them. Broken limbs, splatters of blood woke them up! After a few moments, they screamed and began to flee desperately in all directions!
However, these groups of people have no effective organization, and they are all frantically trying to escape back to their homes. So it is inevitable to collide with each other, and I don't know how many people die by trampling? As soon as a person falls, he often can't get up! Only those who are lucky will be able to escape home
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Seeing that the crowd was scattered and there was no target to aim at in the air, Liu Pei's fleet gradually stopped shooting and continued to approach the shore. As for the pitiful few small batteries in the harbor, they were destroyed in the blink of an eye by the guns of a dozen ships, and they did not play any role at all.
After Liu Pei's fleet approached the shore, he calmly lowered anchor and began to shell the castle of Nagasaki. But this time the shells they used were no longer ordinary shells, but red-hot arsonite shells!
Until the end of World War II, the houses were made of bamboo and wood. This structure can protect against earthquake damage, but they can't do anything in the face of flames!
During World War II, U.S. Air Force General Li May took advantage of this to carry out large-scale bombing. Almost half of Tokyo was burned. Today Liu Pei does not have planes and incendiary bombs, but he has arson bombs. Moreover, the Japanese had not experienced the attack of arson bombs, so there was no way to deal with it at all.
The spherical shells, which had been hot, smashed directly into the houses on the shore after they were fired. The shells pierced through the multi-storey houses and finally landed on a certain location. The heat of the cannonball itself begins to bake the surrounding items until it ignites the wood or something else around it!
When Liu Pei's fleet fired arson bombs to the eighth round, a fire finally appeared in Nagasaki City! As soon as the fire head appears, it can't be stopped! The multiple fireheads keep expanding, merging with each other, and finally joining together! Wait until a sea breeze blows and the fire becomes more violent! Thick black smoke rose and blackened the entire Nagasaki sky.
The sudden fire burned many Japanese people to death in their homes. However, most of the Japanese escaped from the castle and ran outside the castle tower to pray for shelter. After all, the area of Nagasaki at this time was still relatively small, so it was easy for people to escape. If the area is large, I'm afraid that I will be smoked to death before I can escape!
Liu Pei saw that the fire had already risen, so he ordered the shelling to stop. Now he is very poor, and one shell can be saved. By this time, the flames had spread throughout Nagasaki, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger, even affecting the port.
Liu Pei could feel the heat on deck, and he had to make the fleet retreat to avoid the flames. Right now
Liu Pei regretted very much that he should not have used arson bombs! Everything will burn under the fire, what else will you rob?
The fire burned until I was late at night, and it was not extinguished until it was no longer burning! The surviving people of our country wept and ran back to collect the wreckage of their homes, trying to find something in the ruins of their homes. But under the power of Zhurong Shen, is there anything left? Where the fire shrouded, everything was burned, and even the bodies could not be found!
The next morning, when Liu Pei saw that the fire was extinguished, he sent his troops ashore. The troops who came ashore also carried artillery. This batch of cannons has just been produced. During this time, there were many "inventions" of the Academy of Sciences. This batch of artillery was made specifically for the army, and it is already capable of mass production.
This kind of artillery is the more famous Napoleonic cannon. It is best used when following the infantry. This kind of cannon is powerful, relatively lightweight, and easy to push the cargo. Under normal circumstances, a horse can be dragged and run.
As soon as the soldiers came ashore, they felt the hostility that the Wa Kingdom must have. These Japanese people stared at them with great hatred. But no one rushed up to fight, just stared at you with chilling eyes.
Tanigawa Gonroku, who had not slept all night, received a report that the enemy was landing, and he immediately jumped up and ordered the small surname to put a battle armor on him. If he can annihilate the enemy who lands, this will be his only chance to redeem his credit.
Liu Pei felt that there were not many soldiers to carry, only more than 600 people in total. However, there are not many soldiers in Nagasaki Castle, about 800 people.
Since the landing was very troublesome, the army of Nagasaki was the first to appear on the battlefield. When the gates of the castle tower opened, the army rushed out. The first to pour out were more than 200 iron cannon ashigaru, followed by spear ashigaru. Behind them are the elite ashigaru and samurai armed with swords. Tanigawa Gonroku and several henchmen samurai followed. At this time, Tanigawa Gonroku has already made up his mind to die!
By the time Tanigawa Gonroku completed the formation, Liu Pei's soldiers had not yet fully landed from the ship. Tanigawa Gonroku rushed to take advantage of the chaos to attack, but he glanced at the dense artillery on the battleship on the shore and extinguished this thought.