"100,000 men have 30,000 spears, 500 artillery pieces and half of them are killed, how many troops did the Dutch have in the battle?"

"There are more than 10,000 people in the army, more than 2,000 cavalry, and more than 500 artillery pieces, ** we were attacked by a sneak attack, and Tokugawa Hidenaka entangled 150,000 elite samurai in Nagoya, and they all rushed to kill each other! The battle is not at all the same as before! ”

Shen Xing couldn't help but laugh when he heard Zheng Zhihu's report, thinking to himself, do you think the Japanese are stupid? Every time you go to kill and rob everything, you will destroy other people's races, and when will they not fight hard at this time?

"Okay, you have no merit and hard work for more than a month, for the sake of you not being a member of the Chinese army, each of you will receive fifty military sticks, only this time will not be an example!"

"Xing'er, this is too cheap, these bastards, you don't have to give face to your father-in-law, what should you do, just do it according to your rules!" Listening to Zheng Zhilong's words, Shen Xing waved his hand helplessly, and then returned to the table and continued to listen to the analysis of the staff officers.

"**, now it is found that most of the Dutch warships are stationed in Yokohama, Chiba and other places to defend Edo Castle! Most of the defenders around Edo were transferred to Nagoya to block our vanguard, and now there should be less than 50,000 regular troops in the city, but Edo is the capital of Japan, with about 500,000 inhabitants. ”

"Good! As long as Edo is taken, Japan will naturally fall apart, and the 150 warships that are ordered to support will be diverted to Yokohama to surround the Dutch warships, and all of them will be destroyed, and not a single one will be released! Another 100,000 marines were transferred to Nagoya day and night to fight, and the Manchurian iron cavalry and the Korean light cavalry spared the island of Honshu and besieged Edo Castle! ”

After issuing this series of orders, Shen Xing stood under the large map on the wall for a long time and did not leave, carefully stroking the Indonesian archipelago and the Philippines with his hands.

"Father-in-law, you see that although these places are not very big, most of the local areas are rich in products, and if you add tens of thousands of them to your original 50,000 people, do you have the confidence to take them?" Before Zheng Zhilong could speak, Zheng Zhihu, who had just finished being beaten, and Zheng Zhibao was lying on the chair and screamed first.

"Xing'er, leave this task to us! If we can't take it, our brothers are willing to engage in military law! Zheng Zhilong looked at these two flesh and blood brothers who were not angry, and said in his heart: "Xing'er, you should give them a chance to atone for their sins!" Let Sen'er also follow, with him, there shouldn't be anything wrong, if such a trivial matter can't be done well, our Zheng family really has no face to take over this Japanese province to manage! ”

Shen Xing nodded, and then silently smoked the cigarette in his hand.

The scale of the Yokohama-to-Yokoma battle was unprecedented, and both China and the Netherlands could be regarded as concentrating all their elite navies, and it could be regarded as a real thermal weapons confrontation. Although the war lasted only three days, it shook the West, and the name of the Chinese Empire resounded all over the world. The ancient and wealthy country of the East has subverted all previous imaginations.

The Dutch Empire had the title of sea coachman, and naturally they were proud of the capital, in the face of the menacing Chinese Navy, they relied on their combat experience and skillful ship skills, and adopted flexible tactics to attack and harass. The large Galen galleons also showed their maneuverability advantages at this time.

After sinking several advance warships of the Chinese Navy, the commander of the Dutch Navy, Ray Jason, was overjoyed, believing that the Chinese Navy was nothing more than that, and attributed all the previous losses of the Dutch warships to the incompetence of the commander. I don't know that the Chinese Navy has once again played a trick to lure the enemy into the depths.

When more than 200 of Ray Jason's warships poured out of their nests and pursued them to the open sea, the more than 50 Chinese Navy warships that had been scattered and fled suddenly stopped, and lined up in a row to make a desperate fight. Although Lei Jason had a bad premonition, he still rushed into the encirclement of the Chinese Navy with his numerical superiority.

In line with the arrogance of the Dutch, he wanted to completely wipe out the main force of the Chinese Navy on this vast sea. However, as soon as the Dutch sailors entered the range of the artillery, the Daifuku battleship group carried out a powerful fire suppression. Only then did Ray Jason discover that the range of the guns of the main ships of the Chinese Navy was far superior to theirs.

The reason why the main warships of the Chinese Navy did not take the initiative to attack was completely because they were afraid that their Dutch fleet would escape along the coastline after discovering the gap, so that the Chinese Navy could not be stopped even if it was strong, and their Galen sailing ships had an innate advantage in speed and flexibility.

But now that the entire fleet has been transferred to the deep sea, the Chinese Navy has the possibility of cutting off their rear routes, coupled with the overwhelming firing distance, Lei Jiesen feels an unprecedented crisis, and an invisible net seems to be slowly spreading towards his fleet.

Regardless of whether you are moving forward quickly or going backwards at full speed, the Chinese Navy in front of you is so unhurriedly cooperating with your performance, you advance and he retreats, you retreat and he advances, just like a group of bloodthirsty sharks who see the opportunity to make up for it and bite it, anyway, you only have to be beaten.

If you want to assault from the left and right, but the outflanking fleet of the Chinese Navy has long been waiting for you, and the most numb thing for Ray Jason is that the huge leather kites on the Chinese Navy warships are hung with big living people with teeth and claws in mid-air, and from time to time they float to your head and smash down a few ** bags with fuses burning.

"Your Excellency Commander, the Chinese Navy is too cunning, they don't confront us head-on at all, if we continue like this, we will be all finished!" Ray Jason looked up at the kites that had been sporadically hit by muskets, and then he couldn't help but close his eyes for the next scene, because those who were hit on the kites did not die instantly, but struggled to pull all the leads on their bodies and jumped into their ships shouting.

"Crazy people, the Chinese are a bunch of crazy people, tell the fleet to lower the sails and move forward at full speed, and fight with them! Only by crushing them from the front can you run out of the encirclement! ”

Ray Jason's desperate strategy is very correct, Galen's galleon is small in size, fast in speed, and has a large number of gun firing ports on the hull, as long as it breaks into the firing range, there is a complete possibility of a battle. But the Chinese Navy Daifuku has a big advantage, although the speed is a little slower, but the loading capacity of the big guy can shock your jaw.

Seeing that the Dutch did not plan to escape and changed to fight with you, the Chinese Navy also changed its strategy randomly, and the assault boats filled with incendiary materials and fire oil were quickly lowered to the surface. Under the operation of two or three groups of daredevils, the boat moved forward like a mad dog.

Now Lei Jason was completely dumbfounded, these hundreds of small boats not only blocked the pace of progress, but also urged the ** barrel, whether to fight or not to fight is an unsolvable problem. In the end, he gritted his teeth and gave the order to attack. Of course, the result was just as he expected, and the small boat that was hit immediately burst into flames, and the man who drove the boat plunged into the water like a fish and disappeared without a trace. And those who were not hit continued to move forward.

The cannon fire continued to sound, and Ray Jason looked at his own warships that were sporadically caught in the sea of fire and jumped to his feet and shouted, while the Chinese Navy in the distance watched quietly without attacking or advancing, like a hunting fisherman and other prey struggling in the net by themselves, struggling until you used up the last bit of strength, and they could easily close the net.

"Your Excellency, Commander, many warships are leaking!" Ray Jason hurriedly picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked into the group of ships, only to see the members of the Chinese Navy who occasionally showed their heads out on the sea to breathe were swimming in their hulls. If you look closely, aren't these people the same people who have just jumped from ship after being hit by their own fire?

"They're water ghosts who are proficient in water, oh my God! The dead soldiers of the Chinese are actually water ghosts, it is incredible, we can't escape now, and all the ships will be scuttled if we wait. Lux orders all the men to lay down their arms and surrender! After saying this, Lei Jason sat on the deck with a weak body.

The decisive battle of Nagoya kicked off with the steady advance of 100,000 marines to the city, and the rich and willful Shen Xing pulled more than 1,000 new artillery pieces to the front of the position without saying a word, and more than 10,000 shells were discharged, and the remnants of the Zheng family were dumbfounded. It turns out that war can still be fought in this way.

More than 100,000 daimyo samurai and Dutch reinforcements cowered in Nagoya Castle, originally dreaming of fighting in the streets of the city, but when the cannon rain came at midnight, they were not prepared at all, and most of them were killed and wounded. As soon as they walked out of the streets, laid down their arms, and surrendered on their knees, neither civilians nor sergeants were spared death.

After shouting several times, only a few thousand people came out to surrender one after another, and most of them were Dutch mercenaries, Shen Xing couldn't help but sigh and shook his head, ordering the army to launch the final dragnet clearance. A group of ten people marched forward in unison, and every house was opened by hand, and after a day and a night of clearing, Nagoya was completely bombed into ruins. According to a rough estimate by later generations, the Japanese soldiers and civilians suffered 250,000 casualties in this battle.

The brutality of the war was not just killing, but the panic that spread like a virus, and more and more fleeing civilians flocked to Edo Castle, because the road to the north of Honshu Castle had long been completely cut off by the cavalry led by Dolgon. Tokugawa Hidenaka and Tokugawa Yoshinao and others were in a state of panic.

Edo Castle was in disarray due to the sudden influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees, and there were many bandits, shops, and residences, despite the Tokugawa shogunate's best efforts to suppress it in order to maintain stability. But it still pours for thousands of miles like a river bursting its banks. The once prosperous capital has become a purgatory on earth in the blink of an eye.

After packing up the Dutch fleet, the Chinese Navy also landed in Chiba and drove straight in. Five days later, when Shen Xing and the others arrived at Edo Castle, the Tokugawa shogunate, under the leadership of the emperor, raised the city and knelt down, and thousands of Japanese samurai knelt on the ground with their swords in their hands and shouted the emperor's name, and died with sadness and generosity.