When this battleship with twin rapid-fire guns installed in the front and rear gun positions appeared on the main channel, several merchant ships were entering and leaving the channel that originally entered the port, and when they saw this warship with teeth and claws appearing, everyone immediately felt a strong sense of panic. (Please remember our DukA.)

And the other merchant ship flying the Japanese flag obviously hadn't figured out the situation yet, seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately turned around and turned back to the port Lu Zhiyuan looked at the busy scene of Naha Port, he smiled and ordered loudly, "Drive into the port, let's go and see what strength the Japanese dwarf has here."

The battleship significantly increased its speed and rushed to the channel of the port, and the lookout post kept coming in the news, "70 degrees on the left, on the slope of 2 kilometers, more than three guns of one artillery battery were found"

"At a position of 60 degrees on the right, at a distance of more than two kilometers, one battery was found, and two artillery pieces were observed"

Lu Zhiyuan observed the terrain left and right with a stern expression at this time, the positions of the two batteries were relatively far away, and he saw that the caliber of the installed artillery would not be too small, otherwise it would not be able to defend the port at all......

"Lord Lu's lookout post said that two gunboats are coming, 20 degrees to the right in front"

Lu Zhiyuan smiled slightly, we just came to make soy sauce, if you don't let us in, we will go in

"At the 2500mm position, the side chord is 30 degrees, to ensure that 8 rapid-fire guns shoot at the same time, the 1st and 2nd gun positions shoot at the left gunboat, and the 3rd and 4th gun positions shoot the right gunboat on time, that bastard wastes shells, Lao Tzu deducts his salary" He ordered loudly.

Captain Jiro Tanaka was a samurai of the Satsuma Domain, a Ryukyu kingdom that had been the domain of influence for decades, and three years ago, the Emperor's army finally formally incorporated the land into the Empire of Japan, and he led a fleet of four gunboats to defend the harbor as the highest-ranking naval officer stationed there.

The lookout post had already heard the news that an unflagged three-chimney battleship had appeared outside the port, and when he heard the news, Tanaka Jiro's first feeling was, how could there be such a thing? In this era, it is not that there are no pirates, but it is absolutely impossible for pirates to have a battleship with three chimneys......

After confirmation, the battleship in the distance did not fly any national flag, and Captain Tanaka also studied at the military academy, and it can be said that he understood this common-sense problem very well, and the battleship without the national flag was definitely a dangerous signal, and he immediately ordered the cruising fleet to meet it, and at the same time had notified the batteries on both sides to strengthen their vigilance.

Captain Tanaka commanded his own gunboat "Torishima" to quickly plug in, and the other gunboat was inserted in front of the gunboat in front of the front, and he naturally understood that it was impossible for his two small gunboats to confront the battleship on the other side, so he hung up the red and white signal flag signaling the other side to stop the ship from a distance, and at the same time ordered the gunners to be on full alert

This offshore gunboat "Torishima" is one of the four 40-ton small warships ordered by Japan from Britain, equipped with one 70mm gun and two Nordenfei machine guns

Obviously, although the rate of fire of the 70mm gun on Bird Island is good, there are still some opportunities against wooden ships, but for ironclad ships, it is obvious that this caliber is too small He took the telescope and looked at the battleship that was approaching in the distance

He always felt that something was wrong with this battleship, but from such a distance, the monoculars he was equipped with were completely ineffective, and the situation on the other side was really not very clear......

"Order, signal to the battery, let them ......" Jiro Tanaka turned around and was about to give a new order to the officer behind him

"Captain, fire on the other side......" the officer next to him shouted loudly

Tanaka was startled, turned to look at the battleship that was rushing towards him with black smoke suddenly, and sure enough, black and white smoke was already rising from the gun emplacement...... A few seconds later, the opposing shells had already swept over the top and right side of the gunboat, falling into the explosion and setting off a wave of spray

"Counterattack counterattack" Tanaka shouted loudly, and the small 70mm cannon in the bow of the ship couldn't wait to roar, "Bang bang...... Bang bang ......" At this time, the sound waves generated by the opponent's first round were heard by Tanaka. But...... Obviously, the caliber of the opponent's artillery is far superior to the 70mm gun on this small gunboat, and after a shell is fired, it falls far into the sea water between the two sides, but Tanaka clearly saw that at the moment when his artillery counterattacked, the opponent's gun position once again rose thick black smoke ......,

In the telescope, the opposing battleship has been shrouded in constantly rising smoke, and the strong wind on the sea surface quickly blows away the smoke, and every time the battleship is revealed from the smoke, it means that a rain of bullets has fallen...... For such a rate of fire, Jiro Tanaka was completely shocked

But after firing four rounds in a row, 32 shells on the 601 ship were fired, and the two small Japanese gunboats on the opposite side were still unharmed, so Lu Zhiyuan's face was a little unhappy, in fact, this can't be completely blamed on the shooting officers of each gun position, after all, the trial voyage of this new battleship has only been more than a month, and there are only 30 rounds of live ammunition firing.

Moreover, now the speed of the battleship is close to the speed of 16 knots, and the ups and downs are also more than that of the mainland Zhiyuan, and there is no intention to continue to order and urge, "Order, the Maxim machine gun on the side of the ship is ready to engage in battle, and when it enters the firing range, it will coordinate the attack."

Looking at the small Japanese gunboat in the distance struggling to turn its course in the rain of bullets, trying to avoid the shells, the corners of Lu Zhiyuan's mouth rose slightly, he was waiting patiently...... For rapid-fire guns, especially at short distances, evasive actions are largely ineffective, and almost every seven to eight seconds, a rain of bullets whistles out and pounces into the distance

At this time, the artillery on the batteries on both sides of the harbor finally began to counterattack, and as the black smoke rose from the forts, the cannonballs smashed into the harbor channel, setting off a lot of waves

"Pipe band, the officer on the side of "7 guns firing from the Japanese batteries on both flanks" immediately sent the news of the lookout post.

"After continuing to attack the enemy ship and sinking it, immediately turn around and try to attack the battery"

The 11th round of shelling of the third and fourth artillery positions finally ushered in the long-lost results, in fact, it was less than two minutes from the start of the battle to now, which made everyone wait too long......

Two 120mm high-explosive warheads hit the Japanese gunboat on the right side in front of the battleship, and the high-explosive shells easily penetrated the hull of the wooden hull and penetrated into the cabin

The Japanese soldiers on the Japanese gunboat panicked into the bilge to start repairs, and then there was a panic to escape from the bilge, for this small gunboat of only 25 meters, two large holes with a caliber of nearly two meters, that almost instantly, the bilge was filled with seawater......

At this time, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to 2,500 meters, and at this distance, the shells of the Japanese small gunboat had been able to fly through the hull of the 601 ship, but for the officers and soldiers on the 601 battleship advancing at high speed, this was just an exciting episode.

The opponent's battleship under the pressure of its own rapid-fire guns, constantly changing directions, which also made the opponent's bow bow of the small caliber, but very cumbersome artillery firing frequency, followed by the 11th round of hits, the third and fourth gun positions once again exerted great power, the twelfth round of four again concentrated the already precarious Japanese small gunboat, directly into the cockpit, the explosion caused the entire gunboat superstructure suddenly lit into a large torch.

Very perfect destruction, Lu Zhiyuan nodded, muttering in his mouth, "These stinky boys in the third and fourth artillery positions are fighting well......

Jiro Tanaka was already sweating at this time, and the opponent's fierce firepower was only two minutes from the first round of cannoning...... It must have been less than two minutes, and the other party had already fired 12 rounds of shells like a madman, and in a few seconds, he would be the target of the opponent's 8 artillery pieces, which would be an absolute nightmare

In the distance on the left was a British merchant ship that had just docked in port yesterday, and he had an idea and gave a loud order, "Move over to the British ship"

However, Lu Zhiyuan didn't plan to let him get close to the British ship, and used the British ship as a shield to call, he gave a loud order, "Catch up with the Japanese ship, sink him, don't let him escape"

Before the order reached the side of the driver, the No. 1 and No. 2 gun positions, which had been depressed for a long time, were stimulated by the continuous fire of the third and fourth gun positions, and finally opened two 20-kilogram high-explosive shells that directly hit the fleeing small Japanese gunboat, and one shell hit the waterline of the side chord, and after drilling into the hull, a long hole of more than one meter was opened near the waterline.

After another shell penetrated the plank on the side of the ship, it exploded directly in the bilge, igniting some flammable items, and in just two or three seconds, the flames rushed from the bilge to the deck, and the whole ship immediately came to a noticeable standstill.

Tanaka Jiro didn't expect this electric artillery battle and tragic version of the ending at all, and just when he was stunned, several soldiers hurriedly ran over and shouted at him, "Captain Tanaka, the ship is about to explode, let's go."

He was surrounded by a group of people who jumped into the icy waters of the China Sea in February, but after the violent explosion, a large circle of broken wooden planks floated on the surface of the sea, and several soldiers grabbed the planks and tried to row towards the distant shore.

The 601 ship obviously did not intend to stop there, the battleship spit smoke straight into the inner harbor, and the naval guns began to fire at the batteries on both sides, these two batteries were not built by the Japanese army, but by the early Ryukyu kings, and the guns were purchased after the Japanese occupation with the British breech Armstrong guns instead of the original cast iron guns.

However, the breech guns on these batteries are all old goods, not to mention the slow firing speed, the firing angle is also small, when the 601 ship entered the port, the turret was unable to bombard, one is the problem of firing angle, and the other is that those merchant ships of various countries in the port, if they hit, this consequence is not a general strict zhòng

At this time, the ships of these countries were still moored in the harbor, including those of the United Kingdom, the United States, and France, as well as those of small countries such as the Netherlands and Portugal, and even two British light cruisers, seeing that it was so lively inside, and they also began to raise their fire and pressurize, but they all adopted an attitude of watching from the sidelines towards this battleship that lawlessly attacked the Japanese gunboats.

Obviously, this was a premeditated war, and although this rampage battleship did not fly any flags, anyone who knows a little about this Ryukyus will know that the conflict here should come from that side

After the 601 ship discovered the shortcomings of the opponent's battery, it immediately began to sweep up the Japanese ships moored in Naha Harbor, and the other two Japanese gunboats anchored were still nervously firing at this time, and the guns in the bow were obviously not willing to be beaten in such a place, but unfortunately, these two fixed target positions were too easy to be discovered.

Soon the two wooden ships were drowned in overwhelming artillery fire, and they did not even find a chance to counterattack with one and a half guns, and seeing that the expected tactical requirements were met, the 601 ship immediately issued three signal flares and began to occupy favorable terrain to shell the batteries on both sides

Soon the operation of destroying the two batteries began, and the shelling of this fixed target position was a complete surgical delicate work, because it was transferred to the port, the muzzles of the two turrets could not shoot at the dead corners on this side, and soon the exposed platforms on the batteries were completely baptized.

Outside the port of Naha, there is a Japanese squadron of 500 people, at this time I heard the rumbling of cannons in the port, and naturally knew that something had happened, as an army stationed in Naha, it was to control the security of the Ryukyu Kingdom as a whole, and in fact, there were almost no Japanese military forces stationed in the nearby cities, and some were only police forces.

The supreme commander of the infantry squadron was Nobu Suzuki, and their camp was only two miles from the port, and it was clear that the question of whether to reinforce the port was now a matter of urgency

Nobu Suzuki was in his forties, and he was an officer who had participated in the Rebellion to Conquer the Emperor, and after his defeat, he participated in the war to overthrow the rule of the shogunate, so he was sent to Ryukyu by the military department to garrison it. Originally, there was not only one squadron stationed in the Ryukyus, but there were as many as six squadrons in total.

However, after the failure of the plan to annex Taiwan, the originally tense Sino-Japanese relations were inexplicably eased in the following years, and the Japanese government, which had always had doubts about the annexation of the Ryukyu Kingdom, did not hesitate to let the Ryukyu King sign the edict of abdication and annexation to Japan, realizing the goal of annexing the Ryukyu Kingdom.

However, after the diplomatic negotiations with the Qing government, Ito Hirobumi and the Japanese diplomats obviously discovered the attitude of the Qing state in the Ryukyus, that is, they cared about face, but had no intention of war, so the Japanese government adopted a procrastination method on this issue, and the negotiations have been negotiated, but the result has never been reached

So in the past two years, the army has been transferred back to the mainland for training, and the management of the Ryukyus has become more and more normalized, I didn't expect that the opponent's counterattack came so suddenly and without warning, hearing the rapid cannon sound on the port side, Suzuki Shaosa immediately decided on one thing, and could only hold on and wait for reinforcements

A race against time began the excavation of fortifications......

Outside the port, several large merchant ships finally appeared, at this time the two batteries guarding the port have been cultivated many times by cannon fodder, although there are still Japanese defenders on it, but if you want to stand on the gun position and shoot, it is absolutely impossible,

Zhang Kui stood at the bow of the second merchant ship, and was quickly ordering, the 2000 troops brought this time can be described as the elite, and he also knew that this was an extremely difficult actual battle, and the enemy he was dealing with was precisely the Japanese whom the teacher had always hated the most, so he naturally wanted to take the lead......

When he reached the port of Naha, he saw two black smoke batteries in the distance, and it was clear that this was the target that the first assault had to capture, but it was just ...... The task seems to be completely undifficult

After the merchant ships docked at the wharf, Qi's second battalion, as the vanguard, took the lead in seizing the commanding heights and key points near the wharf, but the pre-envisaged resistance of the Japanese army did not appear at all, which surprised Qi Fang.

Qi Fang climbed up to a tall building without frustration, looked around, and at the same time assigned four teams to search for the enemy situation within 5 miles around, and soon in a shop on the dock, several businessman-like people came out, saw the nurse soldiers who were on guard, and hurriedly came up to hand over a letter.

"What? Someone came to ask to see with a letter covered with Lord Qin's private quote? Qi Fang was confused, how could this place also have Lord Qin's eyeliner, and hurriedly assigned a team of soldiers to wrap these people around and hurriedly go to see Zhang Kui.

Qin Kai was moored at Sesame Island, twenty miles away from Naha at this time, he and Lu Han's two people were lying on the map carefully looking at the chart, calculating the time, Lu Han said with a smile: "Gale, if this Ryukyu is taken, I think it will take at least three days for the Wa Kingdom to react, so I don't know how the Wa Kingdom will react."

"Of course, the greater the reaction, the more profit we make, this battle siege and reinforcements, be sure to get a good vote, a few boats in small Japan are still good, they are all pulled out by their Meiji Emperor Province for frugality, I am very interested in visiting"

"I don't know if the person who answered the port has received it?" Lu Han looked at the clear sky in the east

"Don't worry about them, we go to occupy the small port in front of us according to the plan, we must stay up there for a few days, let the soldiers have enough rest, once the fight starts, it will not be something that can be slept if you want to, we have to let the little devils of the Japanese country recognize the fact that this is the Ryukyu country, not the Okinawa of the Japanese country"

In the harbor of Naha, the Chinese soldiers patrolling and guarding the area had made the truth of the matter clear, and one of the two British destroyers finally raised its fire and sailed out of the harbor, thinking about the north, and the 601 ship obviously had no intention of interfering with him, completely ignoring the existence of these great powers here.

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