Chapter 6 Shelling of Anpei-Nagasaki and Burning of Kagoshima

After waiting for the warship sent to Ezo Island for two days, Mu Yi and the others left the port of Itsuhara with the remaining two steel-hulled warships, four steamships, and two steamships of more than 1,000 tons, and went to blockade the Japanese islands.

There are more than 20 130 heavy guns left on Tsushima Island, and there is also a regiment of infantry, plus the naval marines, so there is no need to worry about safety.

After leaving the port of Itsukuhara, Mu Yi and his fleet first occupied Ikishima Island, because it was close to Kyushu Island, and the most important thing was that there was a lot of land that could be cultivated here. Muyi left here two companies of infantry, as well as an artillery battalion. The artillery battalion with twelve cannons was deployed on the east side of Iki Island. From here, shore artillery can threaten the west coast of Kyushu. Of course, some captives were left behind to help them build forts and fortifications.

Leaving Ikishima, Mu Yi and his men headed south, slowly along the western coast of Kyushu Island, and when they encountered Japanese ships, whether fishing boats or merchant ships, they ordered them to return to the port at once and come out again to sink them. For those who have a temper and look down on the people from the Ming Dynasty at all, you are welcome, and you don't care if you hit it with a steel-hulled ship. Few wooden ships can withstand the impact of a steel-hulled ship of more than 1,500 tons. Basically, the account fell apart after being bumped into.

When the fleet passed by Hirado Island, Mu Yi smiled and said, "Lao Zheng! It's time to go to your father-in-law's house, do you want to go up and have a look? ”

"Huh! Damn, when I first arrived in Japan, I was angry with a lot of Japanese people here. Later, when I got better, I met my father-in-law who looked up to me. However, now that the old people are gone, the others don't care about them. Lao Tzu has no good feelings for the Japanese! Looking at Anping Island here, Zheng Zhilong inevitably thought of what happened in Japan at the beginning.

"Since you say so, this thing will be easy to do." "We don't have the energy to occupy this place for the time being, but we have to let them know that we are coming." ”

Turning back to the staff officer, he said: "All ships are close to Anping Island and carry out a round of shelling on Anping Island!" ”

When the warships of Yaogang approached Anping Island, they found that there were many ships parked on the dock. Mu Yi changed his order and opened fire on the ship first.

After a burst of shelling, the large and small ships on the pier of Anping Island were either torn apart or burst into flames. After the bombardment of the ships on the pier, another round of shelling was carried out on the buildings on the shore of Anping Island. Considering the limited number of shells carried, he left after a round.

The flotilla arrived in Nagasaki in the same way, with a burst of artillery bombardment. Basically destroyed the ships on the pier.

In fact, at this time, several islands in Japan received the news that the Ming Dynasty naval army had called, and it had already become a mess.

When the kiln ship entered the port of Itsukuhara, several Japanese ships it encountered were bound for Kitakyushu. When they arrived in Kitakyushu, they told the officials on the shore, and the officials did not dare to slack off, so they immediately sent people to the north by boat, crossed the sea to the island of Honshu, and quickly delivered a message to Kyoto. At the same time, he did not forget to cross the Fengyu Strait to deliver a message to Shikoku Island.

Although the arrogant Japanese were defeated in Korea, they were not convinced from the bottom of their bones, but the fleet they went out to expedition not only did not bring them news that made them feel honored, but it was the naval army of the Yaogang people who came to the door, which made them very nervous.

The Satsuma clan of Kyushu Island occupied a large area of land near Kagoshima, and especially after controlling the Ryukyus, they were not ordinarily financially strong, and they kept a large number of warships, and their naval forces were particularly good at fighting. In Japan, it is known as "the army of Nagasu, the navy of Satsuma". Although many warships were sent to occupy Jeju Island with the shogunate's fleet, they still had more than 30 large ships parked in the harbor. These ships can be used as merchant ships or war ships in peacetime. So Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain, is not ordinary arrogance. Hearing that there was a quick Malay report that the Ming Dynasty naval army had occupied Tsushima Island, this famous man went crazy.

The staff persuaded: "Master! Let's listen to the military orders of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna. General Tokugawa Ietsuna would never tolerate such a thing, and if he guessed correctly, Shogun Tokugawa would soon get the news, and the general's military order would soon arrive. Because we're close here, we're the strongest. The Tokugawa shogun would definitely let us go into battle, even with us as the main player. If there is no accident, the master will also lead the army into battle as the main general. ”

The staff member's words were very comfortable to listen to the daimyo, and he let out a long breath and said, "Hmm! Command our ships to prepare for battle at once, and fill them with **, bows and arrows, weapons, and food. We're always ready to go. ”

However, such news must be fed back from the Tokugawa shogunate to the Satsuma Domain, and the time will not be short. It was useless to send the news to Kyoto on a fast horse, the emperor at this time was just a decoration, and the news had to be sent to Edo (Tokyo) again to Tokugawa Ietsuna to make a decision.

Didn't wait for Tokugawa Ietsuna's order to come. When Mu Yi's fleet arrived, the boats they were going out to sea to fish, and the merchant ships that were about to go were blocked.

The daimyo of the Satsuma clan couldn't bear it, and refused the advice of his staff, mobilizing all the ships to fight the warships from the Ming Dynasty. More than 30 large ships could weigh several hundred tons, and there were nearly 100 fishing boats, but they all came out to participate in the war with large and small guns.

Tsumitsuhisa Shima of the Satsuma Domain was very experienced, and ordered the generals who led the team to go to sea, seal the Osumi Strait, and intercept the Ming Dynasty naval army. Because, judging by the direction of the Ming Dynasty's naval forces, the daimyo of the Satsuma clan must have gone to Kyoto, because it was the seat of the emperor. Therefore, the navy of the Ming Dynasty must pass through the Osumi Strait.

In fact, Mu Yi and they are not in a hurry at all, they just want to contain the Japanese, and it is better to consume more Japanese strength. So, their fleet is moving very slowly, how to save coal.

As they approached the Osumi Strait, the lookouts spotted a large number of warships in front of them.

Mu Yi said: "It is not allowed to use 203 caliber cannons against wooden ships. He turned back to Zheng Zhilong and said, "Old Zheng, I see that you seem to be very interested in firing at the warship, so you should do this dirty work!" ”

"Huh! You're trying to pick up some leisure! Zheng Zhilong deliberately pretended to be very painful, frowned and said, "Alas! What is this called? At the beginning, I especially wanted to fight, and wanted to sink more opponents' ships, but now, sinking a few enemy ships, the gunners are grinning when they are happy, and they don't feel interesting! ”

"To be honest, it's really boring to fight such a battle," Mu Yi leaned back in his chair and squinted his eyes, "However, the mood of the officers and soldiers is not good!" In this case, it will be difficult to fight the battle well! ”

"Good! Let's learn to do ideological work, too! As he spoke, Zheng Zhilong picked up the radio microphone and shouted, "Attention all boats, pay attention to all ships!" A large number of Japanese warships were found in front of us, and this time we had to smash them all into the sea, regardless of their size. However, many of our officers and men have already developed the idea of underestimating the enemy. This is absolutely not allowed. Everyone understands that the arrogant army will be defeated! In the future, if I find that someone is not serious about fighting and always fires air cannons, I will immediately transfer him away from the navy, and when the transport ship comes, I will immediately let him go back with the transport ship. Let him never be allowed to enter our navy. ”

After a pause, Zheng Zhilong said again: "You all know about the Japanese Kou!" Most of them were sent out by the Satsuma clan on the coast in front, and it is likely that the ships in front were sent by the Satsuma clan. The warships of the Satsuma Domain are the strongest in Japan, and we must let them know today what the strongest naval army is. Now I order, all the ships in a horizontal formation, attack and advance. When you enter the firing distance, you can fire at any time without asking for instructions. ”

Waiting for Zheng Zhilong to put down the microphone in his hand, Mu Yi asked him: "Lao Zheng!" Were those Japanese really sent out by the Satsuma Domain? ”

"How do I know?" Zhang Zhimu said, "Many samurai went to be pirates without fighting a lot, and there were people everywhere. ”

"Huh! You're talking nonsense when you open your mouth! In fact, Mu Yi still admires Zheng Zhilong's ability to do ideological work.

"What nonsense is not nonsense? Just boost morale? Zheng Zhilong is still very satisfied with his approach.

In such a battle, Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong also used binoculars to look at the situation of the opponent's warship in front of them, and sat down without asking. They knew that there was no suspense at all about dealing with these ships, and they had seen the scene again, a shell hit the enemy ship, and it exploded directly into pieces, plus the arms and legs flew along with the ship's plank. There's nothing to see.

However, after a while, the Xiurong they were riding fired a cannon, and the tea couldn't be drunk, because the vibration of the cannon was too great, and the teacup couldn't hold it at all.

The kiln gang people still use the old tactics, always keep a distance from the opponent, fire outside the range of the opponent's artillery, and constantly knock out the opponent one by one. When the opponent knows that it is powerful, it is impossible to run. Taking advantage of their speed and maneuverability, the Yakaoka warships continued to sink the ships of the Satsuma Domain. In the end, those small boats were left, and the kiln men were reluctant to shell them, so they entertained them with 12.7 mm bullets. Ordinary fishing boats, as long as they are hit with a string of bullets, cannot plug the leak at all. Especially if the distance is close, the bullet will penetrate the boat directly from the top down, and the water will quickly pour into the boat.

However, this time Mu Yi did not take prisoners, because they still have a long time at sea, and to take prisoners, food and water are a very heavy burden.

At the end of the day, Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong looked at the chart for a while, and Zheng Zhilong pointed to the map and said, "Kagoshima Port is a bay formed by the Satsuma Peninsula and the Osumi Peninsula, and it is also a natural harbor. ”

Mu Yi said, "Then let's go inside and have a look!" Otherwise, it's not good not to say hello to the host when you come here. ”

"I think it's okay! Hehe! After Zheng Zhilong finished speaking, he smiled, turned around again, and ordered the staff officer: "Inform all ships to enter Kagoshima Port, and find a valuable target on the shore, and you can shoot freely." ”

After issuing the order, Zheng Zhilong said to Mu Yi: "Next to Kagoshima Port is the residence of the Satsuma Domain, and most of the castle is made of wood. The Satsuma clan is also called Kagoshima Ban. ”

Mu Yitou didn't look up and said, "It's just so that we will use *** to deal with them!" Who let them have nothing to do and take the initiative to provoke us? ”

Seeing that Zheng Zhilong didn't speak, Mu Yi asked, "What's wrong?" Can't do it? ”

"Humph!" Zheng Zhilong snorted twice and said, "There's nothing I can't do, the reason why I hesitated is that the Shimazu family has always believed that they are the descendants of the Qin Shi Huang family and came to Japan later." ”

"Huh! And what's going on? Mu Yi listened to Zheng Zhilong's statement and felt very interesting, "Since they are all a family, why do they still follow the Japanese to attack North Korea, and want to occupy North Korea and destroy us?" ”

"What Commander Mu said is not right," Zheng Zhilong said, "they are Japanese, and they say that they are the descendants of Qin Shi Huang in order to put gold on their faces in front of the Japanese." The Japanese look very arrogant, but in fact, there is still a deep inferiority complex in front of us Chinese. These guys, don't look at themselves as descendants of Qin Shi Huang, have never taken care of the Chinese in Japan. I don't think we need to be polite! ”

"Then let's give them some colors to see, so that they know what the Chinese are like?" Mu Yi almost gritted his teeth and said.

These Japanese who sailed out to sea in wooden boats did not know that the Ming Dynasty warship they wanted to intercept was such a steel warship, and thought that it was a wooden sailing ship like them. Therefore, when they waited for them to find the warship, which was not only much larger than theirs, but also smoked, it smashed the warships on their left and right, especially the slightly larger ones, one by one, and they realized that the warships they were facing this time were too powerful, and their kind of artillery did not pose any threat to people at all. By the time they tried to run, it was too late, and after the kiln gang had smashed all the big boats, he began to use machine guns against their small boats.

After the Japanese boats were dealt with, Yaogang's fleet headed for Kagoshima.

The lookout soldiers on the Yaogang warship used their observation equipment to see several large artillery batteries on the sea port and reported to Mu Yi. Mu Yi ordered: "Don't worry, it's closer, and use the 203 cannon to solve it at once." ”

There were a total of three forts on the shore, and Mu Yi clearly ordered, in addition to the Xiurong that he was riding, another steel-hulled warship to deal with the forts together.

Zheng Zhilong interjected: "Commander Mu, the three batteries there must be dealt with seriously, they have been operated by the Japanese for many years and have been expanded several times, each battery is a main battery, and there is a battery next to it, and there should be an order to use all the firepower to bombard." ”

"Good! I'll listen to you," he said waving his hand to the staff officer, "Tell me to go!" ”

Muyi and his navy were also bold, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese did not know them, the steel-hulled warship took the lead, approached the Japanese shore battery, and fired at a distance of less than a thousand meters.

There was no suspense, and the battery was quickly hit by 203 plus 130 caliber cannons. Although the fort is built of boulders, it is very strong, but it depends on what it is for, after the 203 caliber shell hits, the fort quickly flew into the sky. Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong smacked their tongues after reading it.

Zheng Zhilong said: "This is the highest fort, and the Japanese officials want to be the first to know the outcome of the naval battle, and it is estimated that the officials and samurai of the Satsuma clan on the fort are indispensable." ”

"This is the beginning!" Mu Yi put down the telescope in his hand and said.

Regardless of the destroyed forts, the Yaogang warships continued to advance in the bay and continued to advance in Kagoshima Port, and there were also forts in several key places on the road, but they didn't expect the Ming Dynasty warships to come, and the Yaogang warships destroyed them all along the way.

All the way to Kagoshima Port, Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong saw through binoculars that there were still many large and small ships parked on the shore, and Mu Yi couldn't help but say, "The Satsuma clan is really rich!" And so many ships. We're going to destroy the ship first, right? ”

"It's better to deal with the batteries first, you see there are three large batteries on the dock, I don't know how many artillery guns can be there, although they can't hit accurately, but after all, they are a threat." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Good! I see that all our warships are preparing and dividing the work to destroy them all at once and not give them a chance to speak. Mu Yi said.

Although the sound of the kiln gang warship bombarding the fort in front of it was heard from a distance on the Kagoshima side, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain, and the officials and staff here did not expect that it was the ship of the kiln gang people coming, and they were still drinking in the tavern on the pier, waiting for news from the fleet.

When the Yaogang warship began to shell the fort in Kagoshima Port, the explosion of "boom" shook the entire Kagoshima Port to the ground, and the wine cup on Shimazu Mitsuhisa's table shook and jumped, he knew that the situation was not good, and he didn't care about any prestige, so he shouted at the top of his voice: "Go and see what's going on?" ”

After a while, someone rushed in in a panic and shouted: "Oh no, master, our forts, the forts are on fire!" ”

"What?" Mitsuhisa Shimazu put on his slippers and ran outside. Out of the wine house, the three mighty forts in front of me were half shorter, emitting black smoke and flames, and they were already scattered.

At this time, Shimazu Mitsuhisa also saw that the sea was full of black smoke ships, and he understood that it was the warships of the Ming Dynasty that came over, no need to ask, his own ship had not hit others, and they had attracted them. At this time, Shimazu Mitsu wanted to smoke himself in anger, and at this time, several samurai came with him to persuade the daimyo to leave quickly, it was not safe here. But Shimazu Mitsuhisa was already mad and shouted, "I'm not going there either!" He drew his sword and shouted at the sea. At this time, the samurai went over and dragged him away.

Thanks to the soldiers who dragged him away, after the bombardment of the fort, the guns of the kiln began to shoot at the ships on the shore, and the dock was blown up like hell at once.

Buildings such as the boats parked at the pier and the sake houses on the shore were razed to the ground.

Today the daimyo is the lucky one. After flattening the boats on the pier and the buildings on the shore, the kiln men began shelling Kagoshima Castle.

The first round of shelling used an aluminum ladder charge, and the high-explosive ** blew up the small city in thick smoke and exploded. The Japanese, who had never experienced such a blow, were suddenly stupid. But at the beginning of the second round, the kiln gang people launched ***, which was basically a wooden house in Kagoshima Castle, and it soon became a sea of fire.

At this time, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the daimyo of the Satsuma Domain, was running towards the city by the samurai, and suddenly the city in front of him was blown into a large candle, and the samurai and the daimyo were so shocked that they stopped in place and did not dare to move, at this time, the smoke in the city turned into a fire all over the city, and Shimazu Mitsuhisa was gone, and his family and all his wealth were in the city. He ran away and rushed barefoot into the city, and the warriors could not let him rush in and catch him.

Daimyo Shimazu Mitsuhisa knelt on the ground, slapped the ground and wailed. However, at this time, he would not have thought about how many such disasters they had brought to the people there by sending troops to North Korea several times.

Glancing at the burning Kagoshima Castle through a telescope, Muyoshi said, "Let's go!" There's so much more to do! Damn little Japan, remember the lesson! ”

"The Japanese are like that, if we defeat them today, they will respect us extraordinarily!"

"Isn't that cheap?"

"That's right, the Japanese are cheap! They all admit it themselves! Zheng Zhilong replied very seriously.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.