Just when Zhang Qiang was facing more and more Japanese and it was difficult to deal with it, the attack fleet led by Feng Quan and Zhao Hui had already begun to land.

Due to the fact that the pier was damaged, the fleet was able to use small boats to transport soldiers little by little and began to land.

Tens of thousands of small boats were lowered, and the first wave of 3,000 militia troops from Xinlu Province who landed took an hour to reach the land, and as soon as they landed, they encountered stubborn resistance.

Although the enemy had naval artillery bombardment on land, there were still many soldiers in the shore fortifications who were not killed, and many people were forced to hold their positions, and as soon as the 3,000 men and horses landed, they encountered many swarming four national militias who were obstructed, these people were wandering samurai, and they could pay with their lives in order to be promoted to real family samurai, and under the drive of the official family samurai, they rushed to the scattered Xinlu soldiers who landed.

A group of fifteen militiamen carrying Jingai-2 arquebuses had just stepped into the water and were still more than 30 meters away from the shore when a group of four-way militiamen ran out of a sheltered bunker and rushed over brandishing their swords.

Fifteen puzzled soldiers hurriedly opened fire from the boats, and in one round of firing seven or eight samurai fell to the ground, their bodies bleeding into knee-deep water.

Fifteen soldiers were still standing waist-deep in the water, and they were transported by a 60-ton transport ship with a pointed bottom and a draft of more than two meters, and they were sent to a place only 30 meters from the shore at the risk of sitting on the beach, and the bottom of the ship was scraped with the bottom of the sea.

Fifteen soldiers on the boat were also nervously staring at the beach, seeing the enemy rushing over, they immediately raised the Jingai-1 arquebus in their hands, and before they could fire, the militia with the Jingai-2 arquebus in their hands had already started a round of salvo, they had already waded in front of the waist-deep sea water with their guns, the sea water had already exposed their waists, there were many enemies after a round of shooting, for so many enemies, they did not have time to reload the second round of shooting, they were in a hurry, the jumping gang soldiers on the ship had already fired, and seven or eight people fell into the sea.

The militiamen who had dropped the boats elsewhere were far away from the bunkers, so there was no one to stop them.

At this time, they had already stepped on the beach, and tongues of fire came out of the bunker far away, which was the fire of the four militias to stop them, and there were also a lot of four militias running out in some places.

Here, after two volleys, it was obvious that the four militias, who numbered fifty or sixty people, could not be killed, and many began to rush forward, so hand-to-hand combat began in the sea.

Soon most of the fifteen militiamen carrying guns were killed, the enemy was too many, too ferocious, the militia could not fight the enemy with guns in their hands, and cold weapons were still superior in hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the soldiers on the second loaded boat opened fire, and the enemy fell four or five more, and all fifteen soldiers on this side were killed, and the transport boat retreated, killing and wounding the enemy with fire, and the enemy was only a dozen or so dead, and there was no way to find the bad luck of the transport boat, because the transport boat had gradually moved away, and the sea was getting deeper and deeper.

But when the soldiers who landed elsewhere saw such a crushing defeat here, some people immediately ran over and opened fire on the remaining dozen or so Quadruple militiamen, and after a volley of firing of guns, all of them lay down on the beach.

There are many such cases, and there are even some places where the soldiers and horses transported by small boats are killed by the enemy in such a ferocious way, and some people even seize the small boats and then are killed by the soldiers on other small boats behind.

After repeated assaults and repeated tug-of-wars, three thousand soldiers were finally sent to the beach, where they rushed in neat formations to enemy bunkers and firing points, clearing the four militias with three-pounder cannons.

Two hours later, a second wave of Southeast Asian natives was brought ashore, and the militia carrying them drove the South East Asian natives into a hand-to-hand charge against the four militias.

Three hours later, a regiment of the third wave of the regular army of Si Lu Province came ashore, brought artillery, a single flintlock gun, and under the command of the general, the team began to attack along the beach towards the pier, and four hours later the pier was captured, and the indigenous and former militia of Southeast Asia began to clear the pier and repair the trestle.

Five hours later, the pier was repaired, a pier capable of holding sixty-ton transport ships was cleared, and a steady stream of militia and small artillery was brought ashore, and in six hours, a larger pier was repaired, and one hundred and eighty-ton ships docked, and more militia and regular troops, as well as more men, supplies, and twelve-pounder cannons.

Seven hours later, after repeated tug-of-war and fierce fighting, the soldiers of Xinlu Province occupied ten miles of the beach and five miles of the wharf, and took the wharf and the beach under their own control, and the number of troops had reached 12,000.

Began to try to advance to the beaches on both sides, and the team reached 5,000 people on one side, of which 3,000 were cannon fodder, Southeast Asian indigenous cannon fodder, Japanese samurai cannon fodder, 2,000 militiamen, and a regiment of the regular army with 2,000 people guarding the docks.

At night, the enemy began to fight back frantically, nearly 70,000 militiamen frantically rushed towards the wharf, at this time there were already 20,000 militia landing, they became the backbone of the resistance to the enemy, the two sides repeatedly fought in the place five miles in front of the wharf, due to the inferior firepower, the four militia died 20,000 troops before the militia and cannon fodder of Xinlu Province were compressed back to within three miles of the wharf, and then were suppressed by the twelve-pounder guns of the 300-ton warship docked in the sea near the wharf.

In the second half of the night, the enemy became even more ferocious, 70,000 people rushed to the wharf, and a field brigade of Xinlu Province that had landed on the wharf frantically exported artillery fire and bullets, and two militia brigades around them fought with the enemy on a wide surface of five miles on the left and right.

In the end, he even drove the captured Japanese on the dock to fight for cannon fodder, and nearly 50,000 people died in one night within fifteen miles of the pier.

Among them, 20,000 are cannon fodder in Xinlu Province and the Japanese on the docks, as well as the natives of Southeast Asia, as well as militiamen, and the soldiers of the field brigade did not have many casualties, more than 1,000 people, which also shows that these soldiers are indeed the elite of a hundred battles.

At dawn, the sea was cleared, and the six-hundred-ton warship came up to support the beach with more fierce salvo fire, suppressing the enemy to a town seven miles away, without the help of night, the militia on Shikoku Island wanted to get close to the pier, that was a dream, and they had to pay several times the price to get close to the pier, and when they got close to the pier, they had to face the people's cannon fodder driven by the enemy and the indigenous cannon fodder of Southeast Asia, as well as the Japanese people's cannon fodder and samurai cannon fodder in Xinlu Province, Feng Quan also had Japanese people, in order to consume these Japanese, He also did not hesitate to use these cannon fodder.

Of course, they must be given a little sweetness, and if someone dies in battle, these Japanese family members will immediately become Han Chinese people when they come back.

Just like the Chinese who wanted a city hukou in later generations in the seventies and eighties, they racked their brains for this and were willing to give their lives.

If they can make meritorious contributions, they will immediately become a militia, and the status of the militia in Xinlu Mansion is comparable to that of a Jiupin official of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, there was no need to be so tragic and desperate, but although the soldiers and weapons and equipment of Xinlu Mansion have been strengthened by the Huaxia Army, they are still a little not very powerful, and the flintlock pistol is only a thing that the regular army has, in the militia, Feng Quan is a civilian official According to the rules of the Huaxia Army, civilian officials are not in charge of the army, and the status of Xinlu Mansion is special, and Feng Quan can fight again, so he controls the militia, and the militia is the local security force of Xinlu Mansion, and it is also the gun in Feng Quan's hand.

Kong Youxing has to face the suppression of the entire Japanese, the regular army can be defeated and mobilized at any time in his hands, and it cannot be divided into two parts, this time only 10,000 regular troops were sent to Feng Quan, and the other 50,000 soldiers and horses were Feng Quan's troops, which was also the largest force Feng Quan could mobilize.

With the strength of the militia, it is a little difficult to fight a war of annihilation against the forces of the second prince of Shikoku Island, which has 500,000 troops, and no matter how strong the militia's combat effectiveness is, it is not as strong as the regular army, so it can only be fought so tragically, and the shoals and reefs around Shikoku Island do not allow large-scale fleets to approach, otherwise how can the enemy approach the dock so quickly with the firepower of the fleet.

The suppressive firepower of the fleet is only about five miles from the shore, and no matter how much it is, it will not be enough, even if the 24-pound cannon can hit ten miles away, it is a drop in the bucket, and in the face of the battlefield more than ten miles wide, it is impossible to suppress the enemy without flowering bullets, but the flowering bombs given by the Huaxia army are limited, and they can only attack with solid bullets, and the solid bullets are one hit, and in the face of the scattered enemy, it is just scratching the boots, which is slightly better than nothing.

At dawn the next day, all 60,000 troops landed on the ground, Feng Quan left Zhao Hui to command in the fleet, and he took the guards ashore, at this time the trestle bridge on the shore had been repaired almost, and there were three thousand-ton warships that could provide twelve ships to dock, but the thousand-ton battleships could not dock, and could only stand by in the deep water of three miles near the dock, and the docks were some thousand-ton ships and six-hundred-ton ships.

As soon as he went ashore, Feng Quan felt a headache, 30,000 militia and cannon fodder troops were killed and wounded in the landing battle in one night, although the enemy suffered heavy losses, it is estimated that 100,000 people have lost their combat effectiveness, but the enemy still has 100,000 people, and his own troops are only 10,000 regular troops, 20,000 militiamen, these militiamen have to shrink their defenses, and even the coastal fortifications 30 miles wide on both sides must be abandoned, and shrink to the coastline of 15 miles dominated by the wharf, and the depth of defense has reached 7 miles. Seven miles away was the enemy's army of 100,000 men.

"Forward, capture the county seat of Kochi," Feng Quan's first order to land was such an order.

25,000 troops were deployed to attack the enemy.

At the same time, the 10,000 cannon fodder captured were put in front of them, and their families were guarded in the camp near the dock.

"Mobilize 2,000 soldiers on ships to defend the pier and the prisoner camp, and the remaining 5,000 militia to spread out on both sides of the pier to defend against enemy attacks." Feng Quan said to all the officials who followed.

He said to a naval commander beside him: "You lead thirty warships and one hundred transport ships to escort a hundred merchant ships back immediately, and by the way, take those Japanese cannon fodder and the families of the people back to be imprisoned as other people, and then transfer 10,000 militiamen from Kumamoto Prefecture and 10,000 cannon fodder samurai who voluntarily sign up, we are not enough troops." ”

(End of chapter)