While they were waiting for the first shot, in the dark night, a ship like a hill was sailing at high speed across the sea towards the Kochi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.

The whole ship is equipped with 195 crew members, plus 100 personal guard soldiers accompanying Zhang Qiang, a total of 296 people.

After the removal of fourteen guns, especially the kind of thirty-two-pounder guns that were huge up to 2,85 tons, one on each side was reduced, a total of two, and on one side there were nine left, the thirty-two-pounder guns weighing 2.35 tons, two of the twenty-four guns were removed, and the eight twenty-four-pounder guns on the left and right of the upper floor were not reduced, but the eighteen-pounder guns were reduced by two, the twelve-pounder guns were removed three, the nine-pounder guns were removed by one, and the six-pounder and three-pounder guns were removed two each.

Ninety-five guns removed fourteen guns, although the firepower has decreased, but Zhang Qiang thinks that there is really no need for ships with a total weight of nearly 800 tons to carry too many guns, and this is five more guns than other people's third-class battleships, and people only have 76 guns.

After various proportions, after sea trials and the second transformation, the weight was reduced, and the efficiency of the no-load was improved, so the speed went up half a knot, and the speed could reach 15 knots when pursuing at full speed, of course, it had to rely on a little wind speed, and the wind speed could not be too low, and the speed of ten knots was enough for ordinary navigation and combat, but it could still be increased by half a knot after such adjustment.

In the future, even if the sailing time is long, the age is a little older, the decline is not too strong, the speed of half a knot is still bearable, so that the service life can be used for a longer time, after entering the shipyard to remove the plankton accumulated at the bottom of the ship during this time, after repainting, Zhang Qiang took his new warship to sail again to experiment with the new ship, and the birth of a new ship needs to be constantly experimented and improved.

Halfway through, he was bumped into by a transport ship to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and Zhang Qiang learned about the cabinet and the second prince, so he asked the new ship to come to Shikokufu.

There is nothing to be afraid of Zhang Qiang in the Four Kingdoms Mansion, where are nearly 36 naval warships stationed, and there is also a regiment of 2,000 sailors and marines, at the most critical moment, he can still run to Xinlu Mansion, there are many Han people in Xinlu Mansion, all of them are Han people who were loyal to him in the past immigrated from the Huaxia Kingdom, and at the same time, there are more than 6,000 garrisons of a brigade stationed, and there is also a regiment of sailor marines, and thirty-six sailor fleet warships, which are enough to cover him from where to leave, so for his own safety, Zhang Qiang does not feel any danger.

The warship met in the bay of Kochi Prefecture in Shikoku Prefecture and the five 800-ton warships that patrolled the except, and then the battleship escorted him into the harbor, and the personal guards went down first and half of the people cleared the field and guarded, Zhang Qiang waited until the garrison of the Marine Division reported the situation to him first, and then disembarked and rode to the palace.

On the way, Zhao Hui, who received the news, came to greet him with his personal guards, and the two of them marched forward side by side.

"I heard that you have already contacted the second prince?" Zhang Qiang asked in a low voice.

Around him, on the left and right, there are personal guards to protect him, and the entire street has been closed, and the people who closed the street are the sailors and marines, all of whom are Han soldiers, and there is no danger for two people riding high-headed horses.

"Yes, after some negotiations, the other side accepted our opinion, withdrew from cooperation with the Japanese, and left the country, but if they want to go away, they must kill the Japanese on the island, at least control the situation, otherwise they will not be able to evacuate safely, so we have to cooperate with them to launch a full-scale counteroffensive to eliminate the Japanese on Denios Island, if this counteroffensive is successful, we can at least get 400,000 to 500,000 Japanese soldiers or more Japanese civilians."

Zhao Hui said.

"I don't want any more Japanese on this island, and I want to find a way to get rid of them. The Cabinet has organized an emigration, a large-scale migration, to draw fishermen from the coast, especially those who are familiar with Japan, as well as the original fishermen from the coastal towns and islands, and then to bring some Tusi people from the mountains of Sishan Prefecture to come here. The Japanese soldiers here will be transferred to other directions one after another, and their families will be emigrated to Qiongzhou Island or Treasure Island, and your task is to ensure that at least 90% of the Japanese will be emigrated and will not cause trouble. Zhang Qiang said.

"But Your Majesty, despite the continuous emigration and fighting of the people of the two prefectures here, there are still close to three million Japanese people, so many people, and those Japanese people who have been very obedient and have returned to us, and have been sinicized, do these people also want to emigrate?"

Zhao Hui was a little undecided, he knew that if such a one-size-fits-all cut continued, the Japanese soldiers in Shikoku Prefecture and Xinlu Mansion on the front line would be shaken, and the damage caused would be immeasurable, and it might cause large-scale revolts and uprisings, so that the hard-won achievements of Xinlu Mansion would be burned.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, if you don't obey us, you will be taken away, and you will be taken prisoner, anyway, we will eliminate this Japanese, I hope that in the future it will be a unified nation, not a hodgepodge of countless nationalities. We can advocate differentiation and respect national characteristics, but we can't let them have full identity, independence is too strong, the Japanese nation is more independent and more cohesive than our Han nation, so we can't let their people surpass our people, we must let them become a minority. Zhang Qiang patiently explained to Zhao Hui.

The two returned to the palace and stood on a platform at the highest point of the palace, looking into the distance.

Soon, a violent explosion was heard from the front, and it was Japanese artillery fire bombarding the positions of the new army in Shikokufu.

The direction of attack of Dabao Liquor was in the direction of Kagawa County, where he led 100,000 militiamen who were young and strong, and 50,000 who had been trained and tempered in battle, and who were commanded by 3,700 instructors who had been trained by the Taixi people.

Surrounded by about 10,000 artillerymen with 1,800 cannons, an average of five people wielding a cannon, 500 of these cannons are 4,000 catties of cannons that can fight 2,500 meters away, and 300 of them are heavy cannons brought down from their ships by the Taixi people, all of which are 32-pounder cannons, 24-pounder cannons, and 18-pounder cannons, with the longest firing range reaching 2,400 meters away, and the latest firing range reaching 1,600 meters. Echelon distribution.

For these cannons, they paid 500,000 quintals of raw silk, 3,000,000 taels of silver, and 1,000 swords to the Qing Dynasty.

Since the Huaxia Kingdom occupied the south, the raw silk of the Qing Dynasty was cut off, and the silk silk was quickly exhausted, and the Qing Dynasty had to import raw silk from other places, because there were few large-scale silkworm breeding in the north, and the raw silk of the Ming Dynasty was cultivated in the south, and the north was in use, and some in the north were coarse cloth, although there were some farmers in Shanxi Prefecture, but they could not provide all the raw silk needs in the north, and even Kangxi had to wear coarse cloth clothes in ordinary times.

Although Japan is not as large as the scale and quality of breeding in the south of the Ming Dynasty, it also has raw silk, which can just meet the Japanese market, and at the same time has a lot of storage through the original Lu trade, so it can be exchanged for raw silk for the cannons of the Qing Dynasty.

The shortcomings of the cannon of the Qing Dynasty are obvious, the quality is not good, it can't be fought for long, the key is that the rate of fire is not high, two rounds in three minutes, which is much higher than before, but it can't be compared with the Huaxia Army at all, the Huaxia Army has three shots a minute, and the cannons of the Taixi people can basically reach one shot a minute, and the quality is better than that of the Qing Dynasty, and the weight is light, but the Taixi people can't bring them too many cannons due to the blockade of the Huaxia Army and the water division.

Just these more than 700 gates, they were still squeezed out by the Great Qing Dynasty, and the Taixi people brought some of them themselves, and then removed some of them from their own ships and gave them them.

The other artillery is the artillery on the city wall before the demolition, all of which are some old-fashioned Portuguese artillery traded, the firing range is 1,300 meters away, these cannons are considered heavy artillery, but 200 guns, some of the remaining cannons have complex sources and short ranges, some are still small cannons, the general cannons of the Ming Dynasty, their iron cannons.

In order to overcome the enemy's defense line as soon as possible and take Shikoku Island, the Japanese did their best to concentrate the heavy artillery of the whole country on this defense line.

The effect is still obvious, the enemy in the direction of Kagawa County was beaten and couldn't raise his head, the flames were everywhere, the soldiers ran around, panicked, the first hit Kagawa County was the Daiho Liquor General, the daimyo general and the Shimazu Yamashita commander discussed, the enemy opposite them was the first line of defense guarded by the indigenous soldiers of Southeast Asia, as well as the militia servants of the third prince, and the second line of defense was the defense line guarded by about 50,000 militiamen after Prime Minister Yan's family was dispersed in the militia ranks, These militias were auxiliary militias of the Shikoku Prefecture regular army, which were formed by the Japanese people. On the county side was a regiment of Han Chinese regular army soldiers, and 10,000 Han Chinese regular army soldiers.

The vast majority of the soldiers of the Shikoku regular army, which was composed of Japanese people, defended the Kochi prefecture, about 100,000 people, and the rear was the indigenous people of Southeast Asia and Nanyang, and the second line of defense under the command of the instructor corps composed of Han regular army soldiers, about 80,000 people.

These Dabao Liquor Industry has long figured it out, after all, many soldiers on the other side are still Japanese people, and it is really not difficult to figure out the enemy's deployment.

About 30,000 Han Chinese regular army soldiers were guarding the county town of Ehime, and the defense line was a militia servant army composed of indigenous Southeast Asian natives, and an artillery unit composed of Nanyang Han people in the rear, where a total strength of 80,000 troops.

This time, Dabao Liquor prepared to make a surprise attack to Kagawa County to take Kagawa County, and then use reserves to attack Ehime Prefecture and directly cut off the enemy's landing sites on both sides.

As for the battle on the other side, he will wait for his side to make a breakthrough before attacking, and the enemy will definitely mobilize forces to help Kagawa Prefecture.

At that time, he could transfer the artillery unit to the position on the side of Kochi Prefecture, let the artillery cover 300,000 Japanese soldiers, and the troops of 50,000 princes to carry out a surprise attack, take down the enemy in one fell swoop, and drive the enemy into the sea.

After half an hour of artillery bombardment, 100,000 Japanese young men began to assault.

Guided by the dotted torches, countless Japanese youths jumped out of the trenches and rushed over.

While rushing, shouting, the fire fired on the opposite side was scattered, it seemed that they were frightened by the bombardment of artillery, although it was a solid bullet, but the salvo of 1,800 artillery pieces was still terrifying.

(End of chapter)