Chapter 1064 Tang Empire Territory: Yakushima

Naval Lieutenant Zhang Linong, although he has the rank of navy, is a naval officer, and the military academy he attended before was also a serious sea school, and he has nothing to do with the army, but his style of fighting is with a strong army style!

When commanding the troops to attack, the listed formation is exactly the three-column horizontal formation commonly used by the army now, and there are shotguns in front of the formation, when the attack is launched, the shotguns fire first, then suppress with muskets, and then launch a charge!

When you charge to the front, don't forget to hit a salvo, and then a wave of grenades!

After such a three-plank axe, these pirates who are still stubbornly resisting on the dock are basically killed and wounded, and many of them die under the guns without even having a chance to escape!

Some people may have asked why they didn't hide and hide, and then relied on obstacles and buildings to resist, so that they could hold out longer and inflict greater damage on Zhang Linong's troops.

The reason is simple!

They are not the army!

They are just a group of pirates, you can't expect them to be able to make the kind of perfect tactics that only the regular army has, and after being dispersed, they can still fight separately, in the modern era when the means of communication and command are backward, not to mention these pirates, even if the Tang Army wants to do this, it is difficult for the machine.

In this way, in the end, they can only fight separately and then be broken separately.

Why didn't there be street fighting for several years, and then before and after World War I, there were large-scale street fighting?

Because it was not until after the First World War that there were machine guns, wireless or wired communications, and at the same time the army was more organized, so that it was possible to carry out decentralized operations, and before that, engaging in decentralized operations was a dead end.

And the battle mode of street fighting is scattered combat!

In several battles before, the Ming army also tried to abandon the city wall and resist stubbornly in the urban area, and in the end, it was not divided and surrounded, and then exterminated, as for more after the city wall was lost, it was forced to retreat to the city for stubborn resistance, and these examples of battles were all failures without exception.

provoked the Tang Army, but they would simply bombard the whole city, or even set fire to the whole city.

The cities in these years are not big, most of the small cities are only a few hundred meters long and wide, and the medium-sized cities are only a few kilometers long and wide, and only the super cities of Jinling City and Youzhou will have a length and width of more than ten kilometers, so the vast majority of cities do not have much room for street fighting.

Not to mention, this is just a small dock on a remote island, just a few houses, if it weren't for the fact that these pirates were just behind the slope, the naval artillery fire could directly kill them, and there would be no room for them to hide and scatter the battle.

They can only gather and fight head-on!

As a result, they lost simply and neatly!

After more than half of the more than 100 people were killed and wounded, the remaining swarm of bees ran away again!

Zhang Linong, like last time, still did not let the troops pursue, and now his main task is not to pursue, but to occupy the dock, and stabilize the defense of the dock, and then receive the transport ship to dock.

By the time his field guns were brought down from the transports, it would be time to attack the towns deep inland, and now, early.

Anyway, it's just such an island, and there are only a few small towns on the island, you can fight whenever you want, and you don't even have to worry about them running away.

Now almost the entire Yakushima Island is surrounded by the Ryukyu Fleet, and the only major port is blocked, and they have no ships if they want to run, and they can't break through the blockade of the Ryukyu Fleet.

Yakushima is not a large island, with a total area of only 500 square kilometers, which may sound like a small number, but when converted into a figure of length and width, the length from north to south is only about 20 kilometers, and the width from east to west is only about 20 kilometers.

Moreover, most of the terrain on the island is mountainous, and there are various peaks on the island, and there are more than 30 peaks with sea waves of more than 1,000 meters, and the highest one is even more than 1,900 meters, what does this mean?

This means that most of the island's terrain is actually unsuitable for human life, and only a small part of the coastal area is flat and can be used by the locals for farming.

At present, there are not many people on the island, the total number is only more than 2,000 people, and nearly half of them are pirates, these pirates and natives are basically gathered in a small port on the northeastern coast of Yakushima and live in the surrounding area, but in fact, before the arrival of the pirates, this Yakushima Island was even more desolate, only a few natives lived, not even a port town, at most it was a small village.

The arrival of the pirates allowed these to grow gradually, and eventually a dock was built where large ships could be moored, and many buildings were built, barely a small town.

The port attacked by the Ryukyu Detachment of the Tang Navy was the only small port on Yakushima, of course, this small port city was not crowded on the seaside, the seaside was just a wharf.

A few hundred meters past the wharf is the center of this small port city, where there is a simple earthen and wooden fence wall, but even such a simple city wall is estimated to have a circumference of more than 500 meters.

A town of this size, on the mainland side of China, is at most a small village or town, and it is not even as strong as the defense power of the granges of those powerful people.

Dealing with this kind of small town like a village, Zhang Linong felt that there was no pressure at all, as long as the artillery was transported ashore, and the cannon bombardment could basically blow these earthen and wooden fence walls to pieces, so that they had nothing to hide, and when the time came, they would either die in battle, surrender, or flee into the deep mountains and old forests of the island, and they had no other choice.

At the same time, the topography and traffic situation of Yakushima also means that as long as this small port city along the coast is laid, then the rest will basically not be taken care of, as long as the coast of the island is blocked, those who flee into the mountains and forests will starve to death sooner or later, and if they do not starve to death, they will become savages, and there is no threat to the next actions of the Tang Navy.

Anyway, the commander of the Ryukyu detachment, Rear Admiral Feng Qirong, was not interested in any follow-up emigration on this mountainous island, he only needed a port and a supply depot.

Next, Zhang Linong's Marines began to consolidate the defenses on the dock, and at the same time began to repair the rudimentary wooden dock.

When the fleet shelled the port just now, some of them were not captured, and the accuracy of the shelling in these years was not very good, and many shells fell into this small pier, and then the pier was damaged.

This is not a simple repair, there is no way to moor and transport a large number of supplies such as artillery ashore.

As for the pirates hundreds of meters away, Zhang Linong didn't have the heart to deal with them for a while, as long as those pirates didn't stupidly rush over and take the initiative to fight, he was not in the mood to attack now, waiting.

Those pirates may have been really frightened by the bombardment of naval guns and the attack of Zhang Linong's marines, so they hid in a simple village hundreds of meters away, and did not come out to counterattack.

As for escaping, a few people must have it, but most of them still didn't run, because they didn't know where to run, and it was difficult for them to run into the deep mountains and old forests, so they didn't have to fight, they themselves would have to starve to death inside.

By the time the dock was repaired and the transport ships began to dock to unload the guns, it was already evening, and the advantage of unloading the guns was busy for more than an hour, and it was night when the work was over.

So after nightfall, Zhang Linong ordered the troops to be on guard, and then began to rest, as for the war, there is no hurry to come back tomorrow.

Those pirates hundreds of meters away, probably unwilling, actually took advantage of the night to launch a small-scale sneak attack, the result was very sad, although Zhang Linong's troops rested, but arranged a guard force, and a large number of torches were lit, the lights were bright, and I saw the black figure coming, not to mention the first to fight a row of guns.

As a result, after dawn the next day, they found several bodies in the clearing, and then nothing else.

After using the rebellion, Zhang Linong led the marines to officially launch an attack on the town hundreds of meters away!

Needless to say, the process of the attack, the artillery bombarded, and then a charge was basically over, after the pirates had already lost the heart to resist after the failure of yesterday's day and night raids, and after a casual symbolic resistance, they surrendered obediently.

Of course, it is not excluded that someone escaped!

But it doesn't matter!

The important thing is that they have taken this small port city once and for all, and then used it as a supply port!

When Rear Admiral Feng Qirong led the officers of the detachment ashore, he also held a simple monument erection ceremony by the way, and the inscription had several lines on it, namely: Yakushima, the territory of the Tang Empire, and April 19, the eighth year of Xuanping.

When the Tang Navy goes to many islands, regardless of whether there are natives on the islands, they will do this!

Well, Datang Western Company is similar, but there will be a sentence added after the monument of Datang Western Company: Datang Western Company's territory!

In order to stabilize the rear, the naval officers and men of the Ryukyu Detachment did not embarrass the ordinary natives on the island after landing, they were just ordinary farmers and fishermen, and had nothing to do with pirates and the samurai of the Liver Fu clan.

As for the hundreds of prisoners of war who surrendered, according to the rules of the Tang Dynasty against pirates, they were naturally to be shot to death and then hung on the dock to dry.

However, Feng Qirong considered that his fleet was too far away from the mainland, and the manpower on hand was insufficient, so it was difficult to build this Yakushima into a stable logistics supply port.

Therefore, it was decided that in addition to those pirate leaders who committed great crimes and wanted to be shot as a warning, other ordinary pirates should be forgotten, let them do coolies, and dedicate the power of Weibo to the construction of Yakushima Port by the Tang Navy!

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