Baba Toshishige watched the flames spread rapidly through Nagasaki Castle, full of despair, but there was nothing he could do. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Every few moments, hundreds of shells exploded in the wooden castle of Nagasaki, and the fire that was ignited was simply not something that could be extinguished by manpower.

Nagasaki is over, and Japan's most prosperous port is over.

Li Zhi actually crossed the vast East China Sea and attacked Japan.

There was a scream in the sky, and hundreds of shells were smashing down. A shell landed at the front of the street, and dozens of citizens on the street suddenly ran wildly as if they had seen a ghost.

The city of Nagasaki was completely out of order, and it was full of citizens who were rushing out of the city with their belongings. The crowd of people in the streets rushed towards the horse farm and passed him. A strong man with a package in his arms was in a hurry to get out of the city, and in a panic, he crashed into the shoulder of Baba Rishige and knocked Baba Toshige to the ground.

Baba was just about to get up when a teenager who had escaped from the city stepped on his hand and nearly broke him.

With a look of embarrassment, he put away his aching hand, jumped up and shouted, "Go!" Back to the office! ”

There was another scream in the sky, and hundreds of shells were fired at Nagasaki Castle. Knowing that he would either be burned to death or killed by a cannonball if he stayed in Nagasaki any longer, he quickly mounted his horse and fled out of the castle with his whip raised.

More than a dozen Ashigaru soldiers ran after the fast horses of the horse farm. A few Dutch merchants had nowhere to run and chased after Baba Toshishige to hide outside the city.

On the Yangwei, Li Zhi stood on the side of the ship, watching the 63 pointed ships and 10 ironclad ships carrying enough firepower to bombard Nagasaki Castle six miles away, and he was in a good mood.

The Japanese burned the Li family fine cloth in Hirado, and Li Zhi was going to burn the Japanese Nagasaki.

Li Zhi's eighteen-pounder cannon is actually a kind of "long cannon" with a very outstanding firing range, and the direct firing range is more than three miles, and if it is projectile, this kind of cannon can shoot ten miles. Of course, if the shell is thrown at a distance of ten miles, it will not know where it will fall. However, when projectile six miles away, Li Zhi could still ensure that all the shells were scattered in Nagasaki City.

This is a completely asymmetrical war. Not to mention that the Japanese did not have artillery at this distance to return fire on Li Zhi's fleet, in fact, the Japanese did not even have a few cannons. There were eight artillery pieces in the harbor of Nagasaki Port, and Li Zhi knew through his binoculars that they were the Dutch's "four-shot cannons", with shells weighing 12 pounds and the farthest range of projectiles being only four miles.

Li Zhi bombed the port city six miles away, and the Japanese could only stare dryly.

Seventy-three large ships fired their bows from left to right, and more than 700 shells were fired at Nagasaki Castle every minute. It took only ten minutes for the port of Nagasaki to be blown up in flames. The Japanese-style buildings are almost entirely made of wood, and there is no suspense that they are all set on fire.

Nagasaki had lost its strategic value, and the artillery on the pier, having abandoned eight guns, also withdrew.

The city of Nagasaki has become a sea of fire.

A Japanese businessman was distressed about raw silk worth 10,000 gold, and beckoned the clerk to rescue the raw silk in the yard in the fire. However, dozens of clerks pushed the raw silk cart and walked dozens of steps, and they were surrounded by raging fires in front and behind. The clerks did not dare to push the cart anymore, so they abandoned the raw silk and fled out of the city, hoping to escape from the city before the fire burned them to death.

A silk merchant ran out with a piece of yarn in his left hand and a piece of silk in his right hand. However, his weight was too high and he ran slowly. As he walked, he suddenly found that his path was blocked by a collapsed merchant house. The second-floor merchant house collapsed in the middle of the alley, blazing, blocking the merchant's path.

The merchant's eyes widened, and he finally realized that he could no longer save his wealth. He couldn't save his life any longer, so he threw away the silk and yarn and scattered his legs to find another way out.

Li Zhi let the cannon fire ten rounds, and then stopped shooting. The whole of Nagasaki was on fire. Both the elegant Japanese merchant houses and the fortified Dutch merchant houses were engulfed in flames, and there was no need to continue the bombing.

It is not known how many goods were destroyed by this fire. Even some of the slower Japanese were burned to death.

However, these are no longer considered by Li Zhi, since Japan has chosen to go to war with Li Zhi, Li Zhi has to let Japan understand what pain is. The destruction of Nagasaki Castle is just the beginning.

The burning of the entire city has raised the temperature for miles around. Li Zhi took off his coat and waited slowly on the boat.

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The fire burned for a whole day before it gradually became smaller. The whole city was in ruins by this time, and there was charcoal and black ash everywhere. Although the fire has become smaller, there are still dark fires burning in the buildings that have been turned into charcoal. It's just that this dark fire doesn't hurt people anymore, and the dock is already usable.

Li Zhi led 4,000 soldiers of the Tiger Division to disembark at the dock and attack a small castle outside Nagasaki.

The castle was the seat of Nagasaki's Baba Toshishige. In Zheng Kaida's letter, Li Zhi knew that this Nagasaki government had burned the entire Shikifu of Hirado, and wanted to catch this arrogant samurai with his own hands.

In order to seize this Nagasaki commission, Li Zhi also took the only 500 cavalry on board off the ship.

Nagasaki had a wide range of responsibilities, not only managing the commercial affairs of Nagasaki and Hirado, but in fact being the highest shogunate official in the Kyushu region, and arbiting all kinds of conflicts between the local princes. There were two offices next to the Nagasaki Commission, and 4,000 soldiers from the Japanese princes, the Saga Nabeshima family, were stationed, and these 4,000 soldiers were also under the command of Baba Toshishige.

The Japanese soldiers had never seen the power of the Tiger Warriors. Prepare to hold the city.

Although the main building of a Japanese castle, the castle tower, is often small, that is, the size of a small building in later generations, Japanese castles often dig trenches and build walls near the castle tower according to the terrain, forming a stepped defense system. In the entire defense system on the perimeter of the castle, it is possible to garrison thousands of soldiers and horses.

In fact, the 4,000 soldiers of the Saga Nabeshima family were well equipped, and 2,000 of them were armed with Japanese-style arquebuses, iron cannons. The remaining two thousand men were armed with ten-word guns. The 4,000 soldiers were all dressed in ashigari made of iron and armor, which was quite protective against cold weapons.

However, in front of Li Zhi's cannon, all armor and equipment were in vain.

Fifty eighteen-pounder cannons were erected a mile in front of the Japanese castle and began to be reloaded.

The 4,000 soldiers on the periphery of the castle set their arquebuses in the shooting holes of the wall, and were ready to fight a hard-fought offensive and defensive battle with Li Zhi, but Li Zhi had already ignored them. Li Zhi's cannon was aimed at the castle's main building, the castle tower, and was ready to bombard the three-story castle tower with flowering bombs.

The castle tower is made of masonry, and the defense bow and arrow are very competent. Not even a rocket can ignite the castle tower. During Japan's Sengoku period, such a castle could be surrounded by attackers for several months.

But in front of Li Zhi's eighteenth-century cannons, this old castle of the sixteenth century is like papier-mâché.

Li Zhi waved his hand, and fifty cannons opened fire in unison. Without any suspense, the cannonball smashed into the walls of the castle tower and exploded inside. With a loud rumbling sound, the castle tower in the distance was blown to pieces like a watermelon falling to the ground.