Chapter 344: Saigo Takamori's Transfer

At the foot of Mt. Sendake!

"Your Royal Highness, the situation is a little strange, the enemy shows no signs of breaking through, and it is quiet on the mountain. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Omura-kun must be waiting for the enemy to continue our attack, so that we can wait for work."

"Quite possibly! This group of enemies is relying on their excellent weapons, and it is a very shameless act to consume our living forces in this way, not real samurai, but against such enemies, fortunately, we have a local advantage, and the longer it is consumed, the better it will be for us. ”

Masajiro Omura and Arisugawa Gong nodded to each other and chatted, this time they were killed, and they would not take the initiative to attack, but surrounded and waited for the enemy on the mountain to rush down.

While they were waiting for the New People's Army and the Allied Navy to break out, the main ones crossed them, burrowed to the shore on the left rear, and drove seven warships along the bay towards Edo Castle.

Soon they sent out small warships of the Japanese army!

"Handsome! Little devil's warship! ”

"Tell Colonel Omar Cow that if you can take it, take it and sink it if you can't!"

Colonel Omar Bull, who received the order, immediately issued an order: "Raise the British flag, and then speed up, let Bush rush behind the pig's leg from the right side, and be sure to block and capture this battleship." ”

Omar Bull thought very simply, since there are warships here, then the navy or the commander of the pig-legged is not far from here, so he has to capture one to obtain information.

"A warship of the Western Ocean. Slat-sama, it seems to be British, look at their battle flags! ”

The commander of the Katamaru battleship, Itabu Kawayoshi, was thinking about why the British warship appeared here at this time, and he really couldn't figure it out, but he realized that there was something bad and suddenly shouted: "Not good! Their battleships were accelerating, and one of them rushed behind us, drive quickly, get rid of them. ”

"Boom..!"

"Slat-sama, it's late, we're surrounded by front and rear, and the British are warning us in the shelling! What are we going to do. ”

"Boom..!"

Another cannonball hit, quite accurately, just in front of the warship, the splash of water splashed on the deck, the slats had to stop the ship, and soon a battleship came in front of them, the slats wiped the map to communicate, and asked in Japanese: "Lord Yoshi, why did you attack us, we didn't make a mistake." ”

Originally, I didn't hope that the foreigners would listen to Dong's own words, and I didn't want the battleship to stretch out his musket in unison, and a head of the moon who looked like a merchant shouted: "We were attacked by pirates when we came from Kobe, and we suspect that you are pirates, now accept the inspection, if you are okay, we will let you go, otherwise we will sink you." ”

"Ahh Lord Yang, we are not pirates, we are the navy of the new government, there are no pirates here! After hearing this, the slats were relieved, it was not here to fight, it turned out to be to catch pirates.

"Bastard! You say no, don't you? Lay down your arms and get checked! ”

There was a loud shout from the other side, the slats looked bitter, and they wanted to say something about the eight grid tooth road, but they didn't have half a temper in front of Lord Yang, the caliber of the cannon, the black hole musket, can kill people, if he offended the British Empire, the emperor would not let him go, and the lesson of the Satsuma Domain was not far away.

So I had to honestly squat down with a headshot, and wait for the other party to jump over and control the whole boat.

The alliance soldiers entered the ship to check that there was no one else, and then their true colors were revealed, and one by one they mentioned that they had grabbed the battleship and began to torture them.

"Lord Yoshi! What's going on, we're not pirates! ”

"My lord, you tell Yoshi-sama that we are not pirates, we are the new navy under the wave of Saigo Takamori-sama, we are the soldiers of the new government, and we are the Meiji Emperor..."

Slats asked the merchant of the other clan who was talking just now for help, but he gave him a look helplessly, and then said sarcastically: "Your Excellency, I'm sorry, in fact, they are pirates, and you have been captured." ”

After speaking, the head of the moon generation bowed respectfully and sincerely to the slats.

The slats really vomited three liters of blood, fainted, and then was dragged to Yang Dongfang's battleship to be interrogated by him personally, at first this little devil was very angry, and he didn't say anything, but when the New People's Army demonstrated what it means to be tens of millions of scrapers and kill his subordinates, he honestly confessed everything, after all, torture is really not something ordinary people can carry.

After interrogating a few sailors one after another, they roughly understood the situation of the Japanese navy, and the seven warships killed them at the first time, and the target was the Japanese naval camp.

"Takamori Saigo! Very good hemp? Another Satsuma Domain's ministers, set out and kill them! ”

However, their sneak attack was not very successful, because this was the coast of Tokyo Bay outside Edo Castle, and the sound of artillery just now alarmed Saigo Takamori, who took the people and commanded four warships to go out of the camp and took the initiative to look for them, and they were not blocked inside.

At this time, there were only a dozen or so sail-driven warships here.

"Boom..!"

First, the artillery bombardment was overturned, sinking several ships, and then the camp batteries of the Japanese army returned fire, but the distance was too far to pose a threat at all, so let Omar Niu and others destroy it.

Then two warships went in and captured all the ships inside.

"The next generation has changed, and these things can only be used as inland river transport ships."

Yang Dongfang didn't dislike them either, he could sell them for a few bucks when he got them back, it was better than nothing, he burned down the naval camp and the water village, and the seven warships went out to find the real warships.

"Handsome! Four warships of the Japanese army were found in the front, all of which were steam ships, but they were all small ships. ”

The enemy ships were spotted at the forefront, waved the signal flag, and the news was passed on, and in addition to the four battleships, there were five sailboats.

"So what are you waiting for? Sink or make the imps surrender and sacrifice their ships! Yang Dongfang said lightly, the most inferior on this side are medium warships, can't you still deal with the little devils? They don't have to eat.

Soon, the seven battleships in the shape of the finished product were divided into two, Yang Dongfang was responsible for protecting the battleship carrying the technicians, and the other five were in the center of the all-metal ironclad ship, and they were killed in a zigzag to the opposite side.

"Saigo-sama! The enemy has divided his forces! Only five ships were used, but they were still very strong, our ships were much smaller than theirs, no more than ten guns per ship, and we were not retreating. ”

"Shwk.! This is good news, the enemy is underestimated, and we must seize this opportunity to rush over and fight them to the death, and then defeat the ships that captured them. Saigo Takamori stared greedily at the mighty battleship, and slapped his subordinates when he heard the words:

"Bastard! How can the people of the emperor say such a thing, we are invincible, kill the past, how can the soldiers of the empire escape, pass the order, all the warships rush over, the sail warships rush over from the right by taking advantage of the shallow water on the shore, the goal is to approach the enemy's warships, attract the enemy's firepower, the steam warships will attack the main one, focus on shelling the one in the middle, cut off their middle point first, and divide the enemy's battleship formation. ”

"Hay!"

Saigo Takamori had a good idea, and at first Omar Ox's firepower was concentrated on the sailing warship that wanted to rush by the tide from the shallows, giving him hope.

However, as soon as the cannon on the New People's Army's side sounded, he realized that it was wrong, not only the difference in the size of the warships, but also the difference in the weapons on the ships.

"Saigo-sama can't do this! The enemy's artillery was too far away for us to reach, and all the sailboats were sunk in an instant. The enemy's artillery is too powerful. ”

Saigo Takamori's nails were buttoned into the flesh, his heart was dripping blood, and at the same time, there was a fear spreading, but he was forced to press down by his ambition for the rise of the empire, and gritted his teeth and said: "We will definitely win, and the Japanese Empire will definitely unify Mishima under the leadership of the new emperor, go out of the ocean, attack Korea, and dominate East Asia." U-turn and turn backwards at full speed,"

"His Majesty the Emperor is onboard! Turn in! ”

"Peat! This group of grandsons is pretending to be forced again! "Yang Dongfang, who was watching this scene in the rear, was about to die of anger, and these guys didn't know how to save some cannonballs for Lao Tzu, and the sail warship that hit the wool thread had a hoist, wasting cannonballs in vain, and hit the flagship of the little devil first!

The Oba Ox, who was in command at the front, had no such consciousness at all, they were cannon ideas, and the fierce shelling brought him a strong sense of excitement, and he was dancing and boasting with the crew.

"See, the sailboat of the pig's leg is not enough for us to blow up in one round, such a spectacular scene of the pig's leg must be frightened, they are about to obediently surrender and admit defeat, what are we called. In the native dialect of the special envoys, the soldiers who surrendered without a fight. Ha ha! ”

"Colonel! Look, you guessed it, the pig-legged people were terrified, but they also ran away! ”

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Oba Niu was silent for a moment, and then burst out and roared: "What are you doing, chase me, sink them, these pigs are too samurai, if you let these pigs go, the envoy will tear me apart." ”

Sure enough, Yang Dongfang's ship behind him had already accelerated forward with all his might.

Soon the five battleships received the order and moved forward at full speed, and after a while, they became goose-shaped, and the all-metal ironclad ship in the middle fell behind because of its much heavier weight, but at this time, Yang Dongfang's ship chased after it, so that it didn't have to chase it, and went back to protect the technical battleship, and he chased it down with people.

"Shelling! Hurry up and shell it, and be sure to take out the pig's leg before the envoy catches up. ”

"Boom, boom, boom.!"

The shells in the rear kept coming, and soon Saigo Takamori found that the Tsushima had been hit, the boiler had been blown up, and it was impossible to sail, so he decisively ordered the ship to stay behind and counterattack, buying time for himself to escape.

"For the sake of the future of the Imperial Navy, in order to leave some seeds for the Empire, please leave it to you." After bowing to the Tsushima, Saigo Takamori ordered again: "Let the Kikusho be separated and go to Pu'an." ”

"Colonel, the pig's legs have been divided, what should I do!"

"Order Bush to lead people to chase the battleship on the right, and we will chase the flagship of the pig's legs." Omar Niu did not hesitate to give the order to divide the troops, but he had to sink the immobile Tsushima first.

The stubborn Tsushima was soon sunk, and Omar continued to chase after him, and soon he was about to catch up again, at which time Saigo Takamori divided his forces again.