"Damn! Order, the starboard side of the whole fleet is ready for battle, and give Lao Tzu a fucking bang! The commando team's original order remained unchanged, grabbed the beach, and couldn't take the Wakayama Fort, so asked Li Shun to come and see him himself! ”

Hearing the sound behind the side, Wang Yanxia couldn't help but be taken aback, hurriedly raised the monoculars, and looked back, only to find that the Awaji Island Fort was ready for battle at some point, and the dozen or so shells were fired by the Awaji Island Fort, although none of them hit the target, but Wang Yanxia, who felt the threat deeply, had a somewhat unpleasant face, and gave a battle order with a gloomy face.

Unlike the incompetent and lazy commander of the Wakayama Fort, Saburo Kabe, the commander of the Awaji Island Fort, Masahiko Haruzama, is a standard professional soldier with a strong personality and good ethics, and it is precisely because of his loyalty that he is not allowed to be sent to the Awaji Island Fort, a place where birds don't, but he was not depressed by this, and he was still diligently training the soldiers of the fort, and it was because of this that he was able to lead his troops to resist when he learned that the Qing fleet was killed, It is a pity that the fort facilities are old and in disrepair, and only 18 of the 38 shore guns on display can barely shoot, but unfortunately the accuracy is not good, and after a round of shooting, not a single shot hits.

"Sons, come again, aim at the Chinese fleet, and give me a bang!"

In the face of the results of the battle, Masahiko Harayama is obviously extremely dissatisfied, but he is also helpless, there is no side, although he has always been very strict with training, but there is no support from above, the battery has not been updated for decades, the old artillery also lacks maintenance and ammunition, the so-called training on weekdays is just a drill, and the days when the real cannon can be fired are only a handful, and the huge battery only has less than 300 shells and gunpowder, and this, it is still Haruyama Masahiko who has worked hard to get it, It is obviously unrealistic to expect his subordinates who lack actual combat experience to be able to hit in one fell swoop, but Masahiko Haruzama is not discouraged, and he is still energetic and gives orders.

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

The adjustment of the Qing fleet takes time, and the loading of the old guns of the Japanese state is also very cumbersome, although the time for the two sides to issue orders is in order, but the time of firing is almost the same, just at the same time as the light bursts out from the portholes of the Qing warships, the eighteen shore guns on Awaji Island also began to fire a salvo, and the roar suddenly became one, but I saw two waves of shells staggered in the sky, whistling and smashing at their respective targets.

The gunners on both sides are all newcomers to the battle, but the gap in the quality of training is huge, not to mention the side, each gunner of the Qing army has fought more than 200 shells in a year, which is far from being comparable to those soldiers who only let go of one or two cannons in the Japanese country, not to mention that the three warships of the Qing fleet have sixty naval guns firing in a salvo, and on the other hand, the Japanese batteries can only use eighteen artillery guns, this gap is really too big, there is no doubt, the results of the battle under the bombardment are very different- The Qing army only fired a salvo, and it was enough to destroy six Japanese shore guns, killing more than 30 Japanese soldiers, and more than a dozen wounded, and the Qing army was just a bullet on the rear deck of the "Weifeng", two sailors who were busy were slightly injured, but the hull was fine, there was no side, the range of the Japanese shore guns was limited, and the shells flew to the Qing fleet at the end of the crossbow, and even the ship deck was not penetrated, let alone brought great trauma to the Qing warships.

"Steady, don't mess around, keep banging!"

There were more than 200 soldiers in the Awaji Island Fort, and a quarter of them fell in a pool of blood, and the rest were timid and timid, and there were not a few people who were holding their heads and running away.

"Very good, come again, pass the order, the commando team move quickly, be sure to take the Wakayama Fort before the end!"

Compared with Masahiko Haruzama's impatience, Wang Yanxia was obviously much more relaxed, but he didn't dare to take it lightly, waved his hand, and gave the order again.

The power and number of artillery on both sides are very different, and the morale is also very different, the result of this battle is naturally doomed, three rounds of bombardment, only four shore guns can still insist on firing on the Awaji Island battery, as for the soldiers, there are only more than 30 dead and wounded, that is, Haruyama Masahiko himself was swept by the flying shrapnel in several places, and blood sprayed wildly all over his body, like a bloody man, but even so, he refused to give up his last effort, and still roared with all his might, Spurred the remaining soldiers under his command to make the last resistance, and the artillery battle was really stalemate for a while.

"Row, row, rush to the beach, hurry, move quickly!"

Not to mention that the fierce battle between the fleet and the Awaji Island fort continued, but it was said that more than 200 soldiers of the commando led by General Li Shunqin were rushing towards the beach under the Wakayama fort with all their might, although the sailors accompanying the ship had done their best, but the current in the strait was turbulent, and the small boat was repeatedly washed away from the course, and had to be adjusted frequently, so that the speed could not be fast.

Li Shun is born in the rivers and lakes, and then followed Li Minxing into the palace of Prince Cheng, starting from an ordinary guard, seven years has been promoted to the high position of the general, last year is a good opportunity to be released, to join the new army as a general, this expedition, and is in danger of being ordered, to take on the first battle of the beach, he does not want to be defeated for the first time, besides, he can't afford to lose, if you can't take Wakayama before the Japanese side reacts, this expedition will inevitably be in danger of failure - the reason why the surprise attack is a surprise attack, What you want is a sudden effect, and whether Wakayama that is stuck in the main road in and out of Osaka Bay can be successfully taken is the most critical battle in the game, and now that the fort has been destroyed, it is the best opportunity to take advantage of the situation, how can Li Shun not be in a hurry, but he has no way to be in a hurry, he can only roar and drink again and again to order the sailors to row forward.

"Follow me, rush, get the fort!"

After all the effort, the boat finally landed on the beach, and before the hull was stable, Li Shun had jumped off the bow of the boat like a sharp arrow, regardless of the depth of the water on the shore, he still had no knees, roared, and rushed to the shore by treading water.

"The two teams A and B are deployed on the spot, and the rest of the people come with me to clear the enemy camp and leave no one alive!"

Seeing this, Li Shun felt a little calmer, but he still didn't dare to be careless, leaving two small teams of men and horses to defend on the spot, but he led three teams of soldiers to rush into the barracks under the fort, and swept down, and found that this place was also empty, and he didn't even see a ghost shadow, which made Li Shun inevitably have a sense of depression that hit the empty place with a punch, but there was no way, so he could only lead his troops back to the top of the hill in a stupid way. The signal for the successful capture of the battery was sent back to the detachment.

"Fire, fire, fire, don't stop, fire, fire!"

The Wakayama Fort has fallen into the hands of the Qing army, but the artillery battle between the Awaji Island Fort and the Qing fleet is still continuing, and the Qing fleet has almost no losses after six rounds of bombardment, but there are only two shore guns left on the Awaji Island Fort that can continue to fire, and there are only twelve soldiers who can still insist on operating the artillery.

"Order: The whole fleet aims at the place where the enemy flag is, fire a salvo, and kill him for Lao Tzu!"

Seeing that they had been fighting for so long, and they had not been able to break through the resistance of the Awaji Island Fort, Wang Yanxia's face immediately turned ugly, biting his lip, and his face was extremely hideous, squeezing out the death order from between his teeth.

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

Wang Yanxia gave such a death order, and the gunners of the whole fleet were also ruthless, and quickly loaded the shells, and under the orders of the gunners of each ship, they fired in turn, and sixty huge cannonballs roared across the sky, and smashed heavily on the fort, under such a dense critical attack, the place where Masahiko Harayama was suddenly plunged into a sea of death, countless shrapnel flew in all directions, and in an instant, Masahiko Harayama was torn to pieces. Throwing away the half-loaded cannon, he fled from the fort in a panic, and the turret that had been roaring for a long time suddenly fell silent, except for the broken corpses and blood all over the ground, there was no living mouth on the huge fort.

"Order, the whole fleet will anchor on Wakayama and rectify it on the spot!"

After the seventh round of shelling, Wang Yanxia did not rush to give a new order, but took a monocular to look at the Awaji Island Fort for a long time, and saw that it was already dead silence, so he was sure that the enemy battery had no power to resist, so he did not order the artillery bombardment again, let alone order the fleet to sail into Osaka Bay, but ordered the whole fleet to move closer to Wakayama, and stopped at the outer edge of the Yujima Strait, at the same time, a dragon flag rose on the Wakayama Fort and fluttered in the wind, which marked that the gateway to Osaka Bay had been broken by the Qing army. The unprotected Osaka Bay was thus exposed to the guns of the Qing army......

"Report, Watanabe-sama, Shina is attacking in a big way, and is fighting fiercely with me and the two forts of Wakayama and Awaji Island, please make it clear!"

Just over an hour after the Qing army captured the Wakayama Fort, a fast horse had already arrived at the Osaka Commission, ignoring the taboo of the local celebrities at the banquet of Ichiro Watanabe, the daimyo of the commission, hurriedly broke into the flower hall where the banquet was held, knelt down in front of Watanabe Ichiro, and hurriedly reported the emergency battle report......