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Zheng Chenggong held a monocular, looked at the sea, felt the rumbling cannon, and looked at this almost one-sided naval battle, Zheng Chenggong had a deeper understanding of steam-powered warships, and Zheng Chenggong knew that if it was an ordinary warship, it would definitely not be able to fight so easily if it was not an advantage in numbers.

On the surface of the sea, there were burning and smoking Japanese warships, and even some of them had fallen apart and were beginning to sink, and on the sea, there were floating broken planks everywhere, and there were Japanese sailors who had fallen overboard.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

The sound of muskets never stopped, and the sailors on the warship, holding muskets, kept shooting the Japanese sailors on the water, or shooting the people on the Japanese warship.

"Commander, really don't take prisoners and shoot them all?"

Zheng Chenggong said: "You want to take prisoners and kill them all, in addition, pass the order to go down, increase the intensity of artillery bombardment, and after the battle is over, the formation will enter Hirado Port to clear the way for the Korean army to land in Hirado." ”

"Yes!"

Immediately, a naval officer went to convey the order, and everyone began to intensify their efforts to shell the remaining Japanese warships, and by this time the naval battle was nearing its end.

Jiro Matsuura and Hikaru Maeda had already been killed, fifty or sixty Japanese warships had been destroyed or sunk, and the rest did not dare to fight anymore and began to flee in all directions.

It is strange where this can be fled, with the speed of these sail ships, and it is often caught up before they have not traveled far, and then they are destroyed or sunk.

More than an hour later.

The battle on the sea was almost over, and the sound of artillery fire was almost inaudible, except for the occasional sound of muskets, which were the sailors shooting the Japanese sailors on the sea.

"Formation, go to Hirado Port!"

Zheng Chenggong was no stranger to the port of Hirado, and the fleet began to form and sail towards the port of Hirado, and in less than an hour, the port of Hirado was in sight.

Zheng Chenggong held the binoculars and looked at Hirado Port, Zheng Chenggong's face sank, it turned out that there were already a lot of Japanese people at the dock of Hirado Port, and a lot of artillery was erected, of course, it was the kind of old-fashioned front-loading cannon, which was relatively backward.

"Lean over and plow the entire Pinggang wharf with artillery fire." Zheng Chenggong gave the order.

As he got to know more and more about these steam-powered warships, Zheng Chenggong knew that relying on his own naval guns, he could completely cover the entire Hirado Pier with artillery fire, while the Japanese lacked understanding of these steam-powered warships, so they actually set up a position on the pier, and actually wanted to prevent Zheng Chenggong's warships from approaching the dock.

The formation of warships approached and approached the pier, and many warships began to open fire, and one by one the shells whistled out and landed on the pier one by one, with a violent explosion.

On the pier, the explosion of the flowering bombs, the screams, the smoke of gunpowder, the light of fire, mixed with the debris swept away by the explosion waves, human figures, and even stumps and broken arms, etc.

"Beautiful, just do it!"

Standing on the "Suzhou" ironclad ship, holding a telescope, looking at the situation at the dock, Zheng Chenggong was happy for a while, worthy of his own battleship, this artillery fire, this power, this range, if it was before, I couldn't think of it.

………

The residence of the lord of the Hirado Domain.

Matsuura Kushin, the lord of the Hirado Domain, walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, and in the hall, there were several other Japanese military generals, one of whom seemed to be extraordinary, holding a teacup, drinking tea leisurely, this was the military commander Nakamura Masayoshi sent by Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Nakamura Masakishi said: "Matsuura-kun, I think it is useless to send so many people to the dock, if Zhang Feng's fleet can reach the dock, it means that they have defeated our fleet, and it is impossible to stop them from landing at the dock." ”

Matsuura Kushin said, "Then I'll go and give an order to all the samurai at the dock to withdraw." ”

"Bang!"

The door of the hall opened, and a Japanese general, covered in blood, staggered in, and as soon as he entered, he shouted miserably: "Oh no, our samurai at the docks are dead, all dead, our warriors are all dead." ”

"Yaga, what's going on?" Matsuura Kushin asked sharply.

Even Nakamura Masakichi, who was leisurely drinking tea with a relaxed face, hurriedly put down the teacup and looked at the Japanese military general who broke in in a daze.

The Japanese military general said: "Your Excellency Matsuura, they have a lot of warships, all of them are large warships, and before they get close to the dock, they opened fire fiercely, we... Almost all of our warriors are dead, and now they are starting to land on the docks. ”

"Yaga, a bunch of waste." Matsuura Jiuxin was so angry that he said in disbelief: "I didn't set up a lot of cannons at the dock, built a lot of fortifications at the dock, and even deployed thousands of strong archers, how could this be?" ”

The Japanese military general said: "That's completely useless, it's useless at all, our artillery can't reach their warships at all, their warships are out of the range of our cannons, and we can only be beaten, where can we shoot back." ”

Shoot far away!

Matsuura Jiuxin said: "I don't believe it, how can their artillery be able to hit so far. ”

The Japanese military general lowered his head and looked miserable, and Nakamura Masakashi said: "Matsuura-kun, it seems that they have landed at the dock, I don't know how many people have come." ”

The Japanese samurai immediately replied: "They have at least thirty ships, all of them are large warships, and the number of personnel should be only a few thousand, not much." ”

Under normal circumstances, if it is not a transport ship, but only a warship, each warship has about 100 people, and even if it is a 3,000 warship, it will have about 200 sailors at most.

A warship has 100 or more people, some of whom are responsible for driving the warship, and some of whom are responsible for firing cannons, and there are often only a few dozen sailors who are truly free to maneuver.

This time, if they landed at the dock of Hirado Port, more than 30 ships would be able to land at the pier and kill one or two thousand people, but as soon as he heard that there were only a few thousand, Nakamura Masakichi laughed, "Matsuura-kun, our chance for revenge has come." ”

Matsuura Kushin has lost so many people this time, and it is estimated that the fleet in the open sea is also finished, and Matsuura Kushin is thinking about revenge, and his eyes immediately light up.

How many people did Nakamura Masakichi bring over this time, Matsuura Kushin is very clear, Nakamura Masatoshi brought 50,000 male soldiers over, 50,000 male soldiers!

These Japanese soldiers were all on Hirado Island, in several large military camps built temporarily, and so many people were used to deal with Zhang Feng, which came in handy.

………

Port of Hirado.

On the dock, some sailors had already disembarked and boarded the dock, carrying muskets, cleaning up the battlefield, mending the swords of those Japanese samurai who had not lost their breath, collecting the trophies that could be collected, and carrying them onto the ship.

"Tsk, look here."

It was a makeshift fortification, but it was already in tatters, apparently hit by multiple shells one after another, and the ruined fortifications were covered with corpses, some of which were charred black.

"This katana seems pretty good."

A sailor's sharp eyes saw a katana on the ground, picked up the knife, slowly pulled it out, and saw the cold light shining, and couldn't help but praise it with satisfaction.

The sailors cleaned up and cleaned up the battlefield, while Zheng Chenggong stood on the "Suzhou" ironclad ship, looking at the sea in the distance, and a fleet had already appeared on the sea, Zheng Chenggong knew that this was a transport fleet from Incheon Port.

More than a dozen 3,000 warships and several escort warships were coming towards Hirado Port, and two Korean legions, more than 6,000 people, were transporting to prepare for the landing at Hirado Pier, and then conduct ground operations to advance to the depth of the Hirado Domain.

All obstacles on the wharf have been removed, and the landing of the two Korean regiments has gone very smoothly, and more than 6,000 people have landed at the wharf in less than an hour, and even brought ammunition and supplies to help transport the transport ship.

The convoy completed its mission and began to leave the port of Hirado, which had an important transport mission to return to the port of Shanghai immediately to resupply and transport a large number of soldiers from the port to Japan.

Zhang Feng played a big game of chess, using all the transport ships, including the carriers of Xu Liangyi's ocean-going fleet, as well as the ships that had been repaired and renovated at the Shanghai shipyard.

As the sun gradually turned westward, the convoy had already gone away, and Zheng Chenggong saw that the two Korean corps were ready to leave the dock and prepare to move forward on the ironclad ship "Suzhou".

Suddenly, Zheng Chenggong was stunned, because the terrain around the pier was open and he could see it far away, Zheng Chenggong saw that a large number of figures seemed to appear in the distance, Zheng Chenggong hurriedly looked with a telescope, and this time he saw clearly, a huge Japanese army came in the distance.

The Chinese officers who led the Korean army also found out, quickly drew their sabers, and commanded these Korean soldiers to line up to meet the enemy.

The Great War is about to begin.

Sure enough, in less than a few minutes, a burst of intensive gunfire rang out, and the North Korean regiment was equipped with smoothbore front-loading guns, using a three-stage shooting method, round by round shooting, which seemed to be relatively well-trained.

The training in peacetime was relatively tight, and there were Chinese instructors in charge of the training, and the results of the long-term training were reflected at this time, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was good, yes, but one was a hot weapon, the other was a cold weapon, and the gap was reflected at this moment.

Holding the binoculars and looking at the battle ahead, Zheng Chenggong said in his heart, this is the musket, it is really good, at least the attacking Japanese fell on the road of charging one after another.

After visually measuring the distance and estimating that his artillery could hit those Japanese, Zheng Chenggong wanted to join in the excitement and ordered to open fire and shell the attacking Japanese soldiers.

"Boom, boom, macro ......"

With the support of a large number of naval guns, the Korean soldiers fought smoothly, and after several failed attacks and left behind two or three thousand corpses, they finally retreated and no longer dared to attack.

The several Chinese officers in charge of the command just now also saw that there were too many Japanese soldiers, and it was estimated that it would be a difficult and long-term battle, so they ordered to start building fortifications based on the wharf to prepare for a long battle.

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Today's three watches, the first one is sent! (To be continued.) )