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Zhang Wei thought about his future plans for a while, and felt that the top priority should be to immediately blockade Japan and cut off all foreign material exchanges between Japan. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Japan is an island country that relies heavily on foreign material exchanges, and a naval blockade of it is tantamount to cutting off its lifeline, and the day it is blocked, the day Japan suffers losses.

As for the Japanese troops in Keelung Harbor and the Penghu Islands, they were already surrounded, and as long as they sent battleships to cooperate in the battle, they could easily be annihilated.

Therefore, Zhang Wei sent a telegram back to Li Zhaoshui, first sending two battleships and a destroyer in charge of escorting to Keelung Port to assist Chief of Staff Du Shihui in annihilating the Japanese 16th Division and the Japanese Taiwan Brigade, and then went south to cooperate with Deputy Chief of Staff Wang Dajun to eliminate the Japanese troops on the Penghu Islands and assist in occupying the three counties east of the Central Mountain Range; The remaining warships continued to destroy the Japanese army, and did not want 1 of the Japanese troops to fall into the water still alive, and then assembled in the direction of Naha Port and occupied Ryukyu Island tomorrow.

Zhang Wei left a middle-level government official on Miyako Island and made him the magistrate of the newly established Yaeyama Prefecture, with jurisdiction over the Yaeyama Islands and Miyako Islands, and asked him to set up the county government on Ishiyu Island; The local government was equipped with 1 destroyer, 2 torpedo boats, 1 cargo ship with a load of 5,000 tons and 1 cargo ship with a load of 3,000 tons, and a battalion of militia.

It is 160 nautical miles from Miyako Island to the port of Naha, and in order to arrive in Naha before dawn tomorrow, Zhang Wei decided to set sail after 10 p.m.

At around 8 o'clock in the morning of the 20th, when Zhang Wei arrived off the coast of Naha Port, all the warships had already gathered here.

Ryukyu Island is known as the southern gate of Japan, and the Japanese government attaches great importance to the defense of Ryukyu Island, and has built two fortress batteries in Naha Port, guarding Naha Port from the north and south.

The Japanese officers and men on the island learned from the officers and men of the torpedo boats who had fled to Naha Port that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy had been annihilated and that more than 90,000 troops and equipment had been buried at the bottom of the sea.

Since the afternoon of the 19th, there have been naval warships of the Lanfang Kingdom coming to the sea off Naha Port and blocking Naha Port, now they can't escape if they want to, surrender is impossible, their families are all in the country, for the sake of their families, they can only die in battle, just hope to kill a few more Lanfang soldiers before they die in battle, and get war merits, so that the family in the country can live a better life.

The Japanese garrison wanted to block the landing of the army of the Lanfang Kingdom with the fortress artillery and strong fortifications on the island, and was ready to die, in this case, Zhang Wei gave Li Zhaoshui an artillery order, as long as the fortress cannon was blown up, Zhang Wei could put the soldiers directly in the north of Ryukyu Island, and then slowly eliminate the Japanese army on the island.

While Li Zhaoshui arranged for the battleships to begin shelling the enemy's fortress guns, Zhang Wei continued to drive north in a Xinhua-class torpedo boat.

After about 10 kilometers, slowly approaching the coast at a place called Chatani, and at a distance of 2 kilometers from the coast, Zhang Wei asked the torpedo boats to stop their advance, put the 1st Regiment of the 20th Division directly on Ryukyu Island from the system, and ordered the regiment commander to first deal with the defenders of Naha Port, and then occupy the entire Ryukyu Island.

The so-called fortress guns in Naha Port are fortress guns, fortress guns and shore defense guns, and the fortress guns are still old-fashioned guns that were dismantled from China after the First Sino-Japanese War, with a range of only 9 kilometers, while the naval guns of the Lanfang Navy have a range of 15 kilometers.

Li Zhaoshui ordered the three battleships to stop at a distance of about 10 kilometers from the fortress batteries, and to ensure their own safety as the top priority.

After everything was ready, Li Zhaoshui decisively ordered the cannon to be fired.

30 shells weighing 386 kg, at a speed of 869 m / s, "roared towards the fortress battery," boom! Rumble! Rumble! "A continuous burst of shells exploded around the fortified battery with an earth-shattering sound that made the ground shake felt throughout the island; Suddenly, the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere, and the flames were everywhere.

After the smoke passed, I saw through the binoculars that the South Fort was in ruins, and the fortress built by the Japanese was really not resistant to bombing.

The remaining fortress guns of the Japanese army began to fire at the battleships of the Lanfang Kingdom, but due to the lack of range, they could only blast up columns of water in front of the battleships, without posing any threat to the battleships.

The battleship soon opened fire again at the North Battery, and after the first round of shelling, the Japanese batteries continued to fire shells at the battleship; This was followed by the third round of shelling, which completely muted the Japanese battery; The fourth round of shelling was free fire with the aim of clearing the remaining small-caliber fortress guns.

Shortly after the complete destruction of the fortress battery, the 1st Regiment of the 20th Division of the Lanfang Army had already arrived in the direction of Naha Port.

Without the threat of fortress artillery, the army of the Lanfang Kingdom picked up the Japanese army with backward equipment, just like playing. For each attack, the regiment commander arranged for one platoon to advance in a straggler formation at the front, and immediately lay down after encountering a blockade, waiting for the rear artillery to clear the Japanese firing points. This strategy of gradual advance was mainly to reduce the sacrifice and to deal with the Japanese army without supporting firepower, which was very effective, and the troops advanced quickly.

The Japanese saw that defense was not the way, so they chose to take the initiative to attack, but as soon as they rushed out of the position, they were greeted by a continuous, overwhelming mortar shells, after which the shells hit the barrage of heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and the Japanese troops were knocked down in pieces, and most of the Japanese soldiers did not even shoot a bullet, they were harvested and killed, and the frightened Japanese troops in the rear quickly hid in the fortifications.

The regimental artillery battalion fired shells at the Japanese fortifications continuously, but they could not blow up the fortifications, first firing grenades and then armor-piercing shells, but they could not work, and the regimental commander had to turn to the navy for help, hoping that the naval artillery would support and blow up the enemy's fortifications.

Li Zhaoshui arranged 1 destroyer, approached the coast, and according to the parameters provided by the army, opened fire on the enemy's fortifications, and the caliber artillery was much more lethal than the 65mm mountain artillery, but only fired two rounds and 8 shells, and the Japanese fortifications were blown up, and all the Japanese troops were buried in the fortifications.

After dealing with the defenders of Naha Port, there are some armed policemen left in other places, and the firepower is not comparable to that of the Lanfang Army.

The regimental commander ordered the regimental headquarters to be stationed in Naha Port, and the 1st Battalion was responsible for clearing the area south of Naha Port, and the other 3 battalions were to slowly advance north from Naha and gradually clear up; Zhang Wei's request was to clean up all the Japanese on Ryukyu Island, kill all those who dared to resist, and gather all those who did not resist for lifelong labor reform, of course, it was more cost-effective for young and beautiful women to sell for money, but they could only engage in one occupation for life.

After the occupation of Naha Port, Zhang Wei formed an engineer battalion and used the surrendered Japanese as free labor to build the port of Naha, hoping to build it into a port that could dock at least 30 destroyers and cargo ships of more than 8,000 tons, and use it as a supply base for the blockade of the Japanese fleet.

Zhang Wei studied the map for a long time and decided to establish Ryukyu City, which consists of six counties: Ryukyu County, Yaeyama County, Amami County, Donghae County, Jeju County, and Tsushima County.

Zhang Wei introduced his thoughts to Li Zhaoshui.

Li Zhaoshui thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, it is not difficult to do this, now that the main force of the Japanese navy has been completely annihilated, there are no troops stationed in these places, only some police, and militia troops can occupy them, but in this case, they can only implement a semi-encirclement of Japan, and cannot play the role of a complete blockade." ”

"Take your time, you first sum it up, and you will soon occupy these places, at least the routes of goods between Japan and Korea, Daqing and other places will be cut off; In addition, battleships, battlecruisers, and destroyers were sent to blockade the sea in several other directions and shell Japanese coastal cities; At the same time, let the staff send a telegram, saying that we are at war with Japan, and any ships entering and leaving Japan will be sunk, and all countries must restrain their merchant ships and do not go to the surrounding waters before the end of the war, otherwise they will be sunk, and the Lanfang Kingdom will not be responsible. ”

Li Zhaoshui discussed with the naval staff officers and decided that each county should be equipped with two destroyers and five torpedo boats, and that one battalion of militia should be stationed in each county. At the same time, 3 battleship formations were organized, each consisting of 1 battleship, 2 battlecruisers and 10 destroyers; The 1st Formation patrolled the sea east of Tokyo to the Osumi Strait; The second formation patrolled the Whale Sea and cut off the transportation channel between North Korea and Japan; The third formation patrols the sea east of Hokkaido to Sendai to Tokyo; The remaining warships were stationed in Ryukyu and Keelung.

Li Zhaoshui suggested appointing Zhang Hailong, a special staff officer, as chief of staff of the Northern Fleet, who would be responsible for commanding all warships, occupying the four counties set by Zhang Wei, and completely blockading Japan and shelling Japanese coastal cities.

Zhang Wei thought about it for a while, and felt that this would reduce his workload, so he agreed to the appointment, but asked Li Zhaoshui to help Zhang Hailong more at the beginning.

After receiving the appointment, Zhang Hailong first arranged for 20 ocean-going mine-laying submarines and 10 Xinhua-class submarines to go to the Bungo Waterway, Kii Waterway, Ise Bay, and Uraga Waterway to lay mines to block the entry and exit of Japanese merchant ships, and to patrol the surrounding waters to find opportunities to sink all passing ships, regardless of their nationality. The second formation is responsible for assisting each county to occupy a predetermined island or archipelago, and after completing the mission, it will go to the Whale Sea to carry out patrol missions. The first and third formations were to wait for the establishment of a naval supply base in the east before being sent out on patrol duty.