Within a few days, Zhang Qiang personally sailed out on a ship, escorted by 12 1,000-ton warships, 36 300-ton warships, and 100 60-ton Canton transport ships of the First Fleet, circling around Xinlu Mansion and watching Kong Youxing's battle with the Japanese in the open sea.

These battles were small-scale beach battles, with the Japanese landing on the beach and the garrison of the Xinlu Garrison Command led by Kong Youxing on the defensive side.

Across a bay, the Japanese pushed their boats into the sea with solid shells fired from this side, and then a huge procession of peasants boarded the boats with kingai-1 arquebuses or broadsword spears and katanas, and rushed towards the beach, which was only a few kilometers away.

The beach has long been filled with the corpses of Japanese farmers, densely packed, and it looks like the Japanese soldiers who carried out a long-live assault at night during the Pacific War in the Pacific War.

But the Japanese seemed to have made up their minds to use the number of people to pile up a victory, and constantly sent people into the water, and some even swam across the bay with weapons on their heads, and then ran onto the beach, but just a few steps were killed by the platoon of guns that broke out in the pillbox, trembling a few times, and after the kinetic energy of the bullets disappeared, they withered down like a rag and died lightly.

The battle inside the telescope was very cruel and fierce, and the Japanese artillery fire was not jealous, nearly a hundred cannons, Zhang Qiang could see from the artillery fire on the beachhead that the solid shell was larger than the mouth of the bowl, a little bigger than a football, even if it was nearly eight miles away from the coast, through the lens that had been upgraded to close to the ordinary quadruple telescope of later generations, Zhang Qiang could also see that the shell was very large.

Smashed on the ground, rubble flew everywhere, sometimes killing one or two people who were hurrying out of the rear, and sometimes smashing down some improvised auxiliary fortresses.

Kong Youxing's side was also under great pressure and some casualties, and there were constantly people with guns and columns with large spacing from the villages five miles behind, rushing forward from some favorable low-lying terrain to support the beach fortifications at the front.

In some places, such as the docks, where some wooden bridges have been built, the enemy has already poured up, but Kong Youxing will not give up these places, and does not want the enemy to occupy the dock, and then gather more troops according to the fortifications and obstacles on the dock to attack the fortifications in the rear.

The current battle is close to the beginning of the First World War.

Or the Hundred Years' War fought by Spain, the Netherlands, and England in the 18th century, or the fortress battle between Napoleon and the anti-French coalition in France.

Zhao Hui, who accompanied Zhang Qiang, frowned and asked, "Your Majesty, why are the Japanese so dead-eyed?" Why not attack from somewhere else? ”

Before Zhang Qiang could figure out how to answer this question, Feng Quan beside him said: "Because we also have this gang of strong people in other places, they are not without temptation, but they have already been defeated, these days we have killed a total of 100,000 farmers cannon fodder troops, captured 7,000 seriously wounded people, most of these seriously injured died the next day, and now only three or five hundred people can survive, these people were put into the construction of the port by us, and now about half of them are dead, Most of the people who survive and are healed now are treated well, doing some less laborious work in the harbor and paying them,"

Hehe, Zhang Qiang knows that Feng Quan, the old fox, has a way to do things, and he can change the way to do what he wants, and he copied from the lower grassroots level of the later generations of Taizu, and moved the people, people are using the methods of this era to give you great difficulties, and then show grace to you, let you jump out of the dire situation, see me pull you out, should you be grateful to Dade for repaying me?

It was his means that quickly stabilized the situation and caused the rise of Xinlu Mansion.

While several people were discussing, a fast traffic boat came from the rear, and several soldiers who were obviously heralds climbed up and whispered a few words to Feng Quan, who was as full as earth.

Zhang Qiang looked at him suspiciously, "What's the matter?" ”

Feng Quan said: "Your Majesty, the second prince's men and horses have landed directly from the Kagoshima dock, and now they are fighting fiercely on the dock, the Huaxia Army Marine Corps is rushing to support, our militia has been defeated and is retreating to the city, the enemy soldiers and horses are constantly killing towards the county seat, the enemy is coming on several merchant ships of the third prince, we are defenseless, and they have succeeded in a surprise attack." ”

Zhang Qiang was also very surprised, and suddenly he thought: "Isn't there a sailor patrolling there?" And what about the battleships of the Mariners? ”

Feng Quan smiled bitterly, "The naval warships are patrolling the sea areas of the islands on all sides, and now there are only three six-hundred-ton warships on the other side of the dock, judging from the feedback from the news, the surrounding warships are entangled, and they all went to pursue the enemy's fleet, even the three battleships are no exception, and the nearest one is also fifty nautical miles away, so there is no time to return to help." ”

Zhang Qiang immediately said: "Then we will rush immediately, Zhao Hui, leave two ships here to monitor and support, and the others will return to the dock to intercept the enemy's ships transporting follow-up reinforcements, and the guards and marines who stayed on the ship will immediately approach the shore, and rush to reinforce the county town from the land passage and Lord Feng, the enemy should not have many people ashore, the sailors and marines have 1,000 soldiers and horses, and the guards of the guards regiment have 2,000 soldiers and horses, and 3,000 people are enough to suppress the enemy, plus the defenders of the county town and the troops mobilized along the road, it is enough to drive the enemy into the sea."

I will take the fleet to intercept the enemy's troop fleet, and I will also send transport ships to contact the battleships that have been led away by the enemy, assemble in groups, and then assemble in detachments, and assemble as quickly as possible, so that the enemy cannot be broken individually, so that even if we win, we will suffer heavy losses. ”

The fleet's ten thousand-ton warships, thirty three-hundred-ton warships, and eighty sixty-ton warships immediately changed course, turned around from the hidden harbor and headed for the county seat of Kagoshima, and on the way at a small pier dropped the personal guard regiment and the Marine Corps to follow the troops, as well as Feng Quan, who would go to the nearest military camp to borrow horses and carts, and then quickly transport the soldiers to the vicinity of Kagoshima Prefecture to meet the enemy.

Since the road was repaired, many of the troops in Xinlu Province have used carts, war horses, and even horses to move quickly, making the mobility of these garrisons in Xinlu Province gradually close to the mobility of soldiers and horses in the Huaxia Kingdom.

The soldiers and horses of the Huaxia Kingdom are now mules and horses, basically each garrison camp will be equipped with carts, horses, or some eliminated war horses, which can be ridden on the line, which is much more labor-saving and faster than people walking, horses must run faster than people, on the exclusive post road, there are things in wartime can be immediately changed to the road for soldiers and horses to pass, and speed up the mobilization of soldiers and horses.

If the average Ming army is the fastest daily travel of 50 miles, then the daily speed of the infantry of the Huaxia Army is at least 55 miles, this is because the Huaxia army basically relies on the situation of walking, if there are a large number of mules and horses, riding away, not only saving the physical strength of the soldiers, but also shortening the arrival time, saving the soldiers carrying packages, carrying spears and walking dozens of miles after overwork, but also drag the tired body to fight with the enemy, horseback, riding mules and horses can be faster than the fastest walking so five to ten miles, Horseback infantry was much faster than ordinary soldiers, riding twenty to thirty miles, that is, they could march eighty miles or more in a day.

If you add the carriage, then a lot of war horses can also be used less, pack horses are not only heavy, and the speed is not slow at all, as long as the dispatch is good, basically can achieve a speed of 65 kilometers or 80 kilometers a day, if you accelerate the 100 kilometers a day is not blowing.

Therefore, for the road that was only a little more than 100 kilometers, or the cinder hardened road that had been repaired, Feng Quan took 3,000 soldiers and horses, and then collected 10,000 militia troops from all over the way, young and strong, and 5,000 soldiers and horses, and returned to Kagoshima County before dark.

(End of chapter)