When he woke up the next day, Lee Sik found Shimazu Chinata curled up in his arm. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Zhi looked at this beautiful Japanese girl with some emotion.

This is the second woman after she has traveled to this era. Of course, compared to Cui He, who was warm and friendly to him when he was poor, Shimazu Chixia is very ordinary. In Li Zhi's heart, Shimazu Chixia's status may not be as good as one percent of Cui He's.

In fact, Lee Sik used this woman as a trophy for the conquest of Japan. That's why yesterday I forcibly acted regardless of the girl's feelings.

This is an era of male superiority and inferiority, and if there is only one woman in the upper ranks, other men will be regarded as monsters. In this era, the status of the side room other than the wife was very low. And Li Zhi didn't even give Shimazu Chixia for the wedding, strictly speaking, Shimazu Chixia didn't even count as Li Zhi's side room.

So Li Zhi didn't feel any guilt about Cui He because of one more woman.

However, when Li Zhi really possessed this Japanese girl, he fell in love with her. Li Zhi treats her as one of his own women and hopes to protect her and give him a good life.

So that she can gradually forget about her cousin.

Li Zhi thought about it, and suddenly felt that Osaka Castle might be a good place to live. If you can take down Osaka all at once, you can let Shimazu Chinatsu live here forever.

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On 26 November, the second group of 10,000 soldiers arrived in Osaka.

As soon as Zhong Feng got off the boat, he stretched out his head and looked east and west on the pier, as if he wanted to see something strange. If it weren't for Zheng Kaicheng and Li Laosi pulling him and asking her to hurry into the castle to meet Li Zhi, he really had to see the surroundings around Osaka clearly before stopping.

However, Osaka Castle was empty, which disappointed Zhong Feng.

When I entered the Osaka Castle Castle Tower and saw Li Zhi, the three regiment leaders saluted. Zhong Feng stood up straight and said, "Commander, why is this Osaka deserted, and everyone has run out." ”

Li Zhi took a breath and said, "Since we occupied Osaka, the citizens and peasants of Japan have abandoned the city and fled and have never returned. The Japanese seem to regard us as invaders and do not want to live under the rule of the invaders. ”

"Some time ago, in a remote village, more than 100 Japanese were caught to do labor, and they promised to give them three taels of silver a month. As a result, the soldiers who imprisoned the laborers were slightly inattentive, and the laborers dispersed in a hurry. ”

Zheng Kaicheng was stunned and said, "This is very tricky, so there is no need for labor." ”

Li Laosi said: "In this way, it is very dangerous to transport baggage or something inland far from the coast, right? The Japanese are so hostile to us that they will inevitably report all our every move to the local Japanese army? ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "That's true." I'm afraid it will take a long time for the Japanese to accept that an outsider like us rules the land of Japan. ”

Everyone was silent, and Li Zhi said: "But the good news is: Japan's big cities are not far from the sea. Our fleet can reach most of the Japanese cities. And since we occupied Osaka, several Japanese princes have raised their banners against the Tokugawa shogunate! ”

Zheng Kaida, who was sitting at the bottom, said loudly: "Yesterday's news, the Hizen clan also raised the banner of rebellion in response to the Shimazu clan and began to attack the feudal towns that were still loyal to the shogunate in Kyushu. ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "More and more feudal towns are beginning to fall, and the inland that we can't reach can be handed over to these princes. In this way, the Tokugawa family can only surrender to us in the end. ”

When the generals heard Li Zhi's analysis, they were relieved.

Li Zhi looked at the map, pointed to the location of Edo, and said, "Let's go to the port of Edo Castle to bomb first, and see how the Tokugawa family reacts." ”

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At the southern tip of the Izu Peninsula, Li Zhi's fleet encountered the Tokugawa family's navy.

Edo Bay was the base camp of the Tokugawa naval forces. When Toshiki reached the Izu Peninsula south of Edo Bay, the Tokugawa navy received a beacon fire alarm from the guard boats, attacked it, and set up a position to stop Riki from continuing to advance.

The Tokugawa naval army had more than 100 Ataka ships. An ataku is a fortress-shaped warship that wraps the top of the hull in a wooden plank to look like a huge box on top of a sea ship. On these "boxes" were arranged a number of shooting holes, inside which many archers and iron gunners were arranged.

This type of Ataka ship has a high center of gravity and cannot adapt to the rough seas of the ocean, so it is only suitable for fighting in the coastal waters near the Japanese mainland. However, for Japan, which did not have many cannons, this kind of wooden plank-wrapped Ataka ship had considerable defensive power and was invulnerable, so it became the main equipment of the Japanese navy.

Li Zhi stood on the ironclad ship Yangwei and observed the Tokugawa family's naval forces with a telescope. Li Zhi estimated: If the displacement of those houses is converted into the future generations, it will be about 200 tons, and each ship can carry one or two hundred people. There are more than 100 houses and more than 10,000 sailors.

Among the smaller Ataka boats, there are more than a dozen larger ones, about the size of a medium-sized Fukubune. These large Ataka ships seem to be equipped with three or four cannons and are the main force of the Shimazu family.

Although Japan is an island country, it has never developed an ocean-going naval force, has no maritime traditions, and the equipment of the naval army is relatively backward.

Although more than 100 Ataka boats also have sails, they are still propelled. Compared to sailing, paddling with an oar is more agile and faster. Dozens of oarsmen rowed desperately on each boat, allowing the Ataka ships to rush towards Li Zhi's fleet at a speed of seven or eight knots.

The Tokugawa navy had not yet seen Li Zhi's fleet, and they did not know what a cannon ship was. Their tactics were still stuck in the last century, and they wanted to rush close to the steamship and shoot the sailors on Li Zhi's ship with iron cannons and bows and arrows.

Li Zhi sneered, waved his hand and said, "The whole fleet rushed in and bombarded the Japanese fleet at close range with the broadside cannons!" ”

The flag commander hung the flag on the flagpole of the Yangwei, and ten ironclads and sixty-three steamships rushed towards the Japanese ship.

Li Zhi's ironclad ships were, of course, powerful naval warships, but in reality, Li Zhi's steamships were also highly armed merchant ships. Each steamer had at least twenty eighteen-pounder guns, nine on the port side and nine on the starboard side. For the Ataku ships of the Japanese naval army, these cannons are also rare weapons of mass destruction.

The two fleets gradually approached, and the distance was drawn from three to two, one mile, and the distance in front of the last two fleets was no more than two hundred meters.

Seventy-three steamers turned around and aimed their sides at the Japanese navy, which was close at hand.

The gunners adjusted the gun mount one last time and pulled the cannon.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Hundreds of heavy guns from dozens of steamers in the front row were aimed at the rickety Ataka ship, spitting out angry tongues of fire.