Eighteen old warships launched a suicidal assault on the four cruisers, the Akitsuzu, Suma, Chiyoda, and Izumi were sunk one after another, the Fuso, Tsukushi, and Naniwa were severely damaged, and the remaining eleven Japanese warships successfully entered the attack range and fired torpedoes at the Nankai-class cruisers, and then, instead of turning around, these battleships shelled the blurred black shadow and continued to fire torpedoes, the Japanese Navy showed the most tragic side.

Lü Liang hates his own suicide attacks because of his lack of strength, which is tragic in a beautiful word, and Lü Liang does not want a tragic situation in his army. None of the more than 30 torpedoes fired by the Japanese ships hit the Nanhai-class cruisers, because the radars on the Nanhai-class calculated the distance between the two sides and maneuvered to prevent being hit by torpedoes.

In the face of the crazy Japanese warships, the Nanhai-class cruisers temporarily retreated, and just when the Japanese thought that they had repelled the Chinese navy, the Chinese destroyer detachment divided two destroyers to drag the two Japanese destroyers, and the remaining six accelerated towards the other Japanese warships and fired torpedoes again.

The Chinese destroyers used their rapid-fire guns to suppress the guns of the Japanese warships, and fired torpedoes after closing the distance. The word tragic once again fell on the Japanese army.

The Matsushima, Hashidate, Shimakai, Uji, and Akashi were hit by heavy torpedoes and sank one after another, and the remaining Japanese warships did not dare to engage again, so they turned around and got into the middle of the convoy under the cover of night, and fled in the direction they came. More than fifty transport ships were ruthlessly abandoned, and a large number of transports turned around at the beginning of the battle, wanting to retreat, and did not fully enter the Seto Inland Sea until the end of the battle. Thirteen ships were sunk by the Chinese fleet.

There must have been mines laid in the Seto Inland Sea, and there was also the threat of torpedo boats, and Ryukai did not order the fleet to chase them. After this war, Japan completely lost its sea supremacy, and the few remaining old warships could not threaten China's maritime security, so they could finally carry out landing operations with confidence and boldness!

The news of the total annihilation of the Japanese Combined Fleet was strictly blocked by the upper echelons, and the naval battle took place at night. The investigation found that the fishermen near Shimonoseki did not notice the course of the battle, but only said that they heard the rumbling sound of artillery and saw the light of fire in the sea. Constrained by the level of communication in this era, the Japanese government could easily block information, but no one was proud of it, and the upper echelons were in chaos due to the total destruction of the navy, and even Ito Hirobumi had lost faith in Japan's future at this time.

The Combined Fleet pinned too much hope on Japan, exhausted its national strength and lost its fleet. Hope for Japan's rise was lost. Hua Guo really took a good move, and made Taoguang Yanghui to the extreme, such a powerful fleet can hide from the eyes and ears of the world, this is not a small ship, but a powerful fleet including super battleships.

In the Japanese fleet, there were observation ships of Great Britain, France and other powers, and a British cruiser from the Far East Fleet participated in the entire battle of Tsushima between Japan and Russia, but unfortunately after the collapse of the Russian Pacific Fleet. The British considered the war to be over, and the world's first ironclad naval battle was over. There were too many experiences to sum up, so on the 22nd, he left the Combined Fleet directly and returned to Singapore. As a result, this shocking naval battle was missed, which led to the destruction of the Japanese Combined Fleet without the observation of other countries, and the so-called Chinese fleet and super battleships turned out to be completely from the word of mouth of the surviving Japanese naval soldiers!

The upper echelons of Japan, who did not know that Huaguo was about to land on the mainland, only made port defense deployments. The purpose was to prevent the attack of the Chinese fleet, and although the country was mobilized for the Russo-Japanese War, it did not make preparations for anti-landing operations.

The vast sea area from Liaodong to Vladivostok has been swept away, and the Chinese Pacific Fleet has successfully gained sea control as a yellow finch. Lu Hai led the main fleet, divided into three sub-fleets, to carry out the task of blocking Japan's main sea lanes. The high speed and high-performance radar make the blockade simple, but Japan is an island country with a vast sea area, and it is impossible for the main fleet of China to completely blockade it, so it can only take the form of a key blockade.

From 25 to 2 p.m. on the 26th, the main fleet of China sank a total of 13 Japanese transport ships, most of which were ships secretly transporting supplies in the direction of Liaodong, and the Tsushima Strait was a key blockade area, and even small fishing boats would be intercepted by Chinese destroyers, which also completely cut off the idea of the Japanese upper echelons continuing to support the 500,000 army forces in Liaodong.

At this time, the landing fleet departing from Zhoushan arrived at its destination, the port of Tsumisaki on the southern edge of the Satsuma Peninsula on the island of Kyushu. The port of Tsumisaki was the first landing point decided by the General Staff after a long period of reconnaissance and analysis, and it was the closest to China, and there were no large coastal fortifications nearby, and the military strength of the Japanese army on land was relatively weak. The disadvantage is that the port is only a small port, unable to dock 7,000-ton transport ships, there are only three wharves on the port, and there are no perfect loading and unloading facilities, which cannot meet the landing of nearly 40,000 marines at all.

However, the General Staff did not decide to land all of them. The 1st Regiment of the 1st Marine Division was responsible for landing and capturing Pilasaki, and Colonel Cai Songpo would personally participate in the landing and command the operation.

At 2:13 p.m., the Nanhai-class cruisers and Guangzhou-class destroyers of the escort fleet began shelling the port of Pilasaki, and according to intelligence, there were only three old-fashioned front-loading guns here as shore fortifications, and a large number of advanced heavy guns were placed in key defensive areas such as Tokyo Bay.

The Japanese soldiers, who had already received the alert order and entered the first-level combat state, reacted quickly and were not frightened by the fleet, but unfortunately the rapid-fire guns were the first to aim at the artillery in the open air, and the Japanese soldiers were powerless to fight back in a sea of fire, and the three coastal defense guns were reduced to ashes.

Immediately after that, the escort fleet began to shoot at close range, and the ultra-high rate of fire coupled with the close range of shooting, the escort fleet scored good results beyond the training level, and the high-explosive bombs exploded in the small town of Tsumisaki, and a large number of low-rise wooden houses were destroyed in an instant, and the Japanese civilians who had enjoyed peace for a long time suddenly fell into a terrifying and ruthless war.

The wooden house was set on fire, and Lu Liang had been looking forward to the burning of Japan for a long time, but unfortunately it was raining lightly during the bombardment, so that Tsumisaki was buried in the fire.

Near Tsuzaki, there are soldiers from a company of the Japanese Army Reserve Force, all of whom are local Satsuma, many of whom are veterans. Company commander Takeda was leading the company on a training tour outside the city when he suddenly heard a violent explosion. The army soldiers were not given an order to be on guard, so Takeda did not know what was happening and who the enemy was. But how can we endure the attack on our hometown? So he immediately led the company of more than 120 people to advance to the port area.

The raindrops of cannonballs blocked Takeda and the others outside the city of Pillow Saki, Takeda was restless wielding a katana, he couldn't enter the city, and his wife and children were still inside! The cries were faintly heard in the explosions and burnings, and the criminal war always brought pain and hatred, but this is a national war, and one side must fall, and any language in the face of interests is childish and ridiculous.

Cai Songpo climbed down from the side of the transport ship with his back to the landing field, and entered a mechanized landing craft, which carried a regimental commander and 18 soldiers and began to start, and after bypassing the transport ship, Cai Songpo's eyes were met by nearly 100 landing craft of the same type, and a group of soldiers were advancing towards the landing field under the cover of artillery fire.

Countless shells crossed the sea, Cai Songpo on the landing craft did not feel much fluctuation, and there was no explosion on the nearby sea, and everything went more smoothly than the usual training. Despite this, the soldiers still showed different signs of nervousness, most of them clutched their guns and frowned, and some took out the pendant with Lu Liang's head from their arms and kept chanting.

"Three minutes!" The captain raised three fingers to signal that there were three minutes left to dock, at which point the tension reached its peak and the machine gunners in front of the landing craft began to fire. Finally, with a shake of the hull, the baffle was opened, and the soldiers rushed down.

The scene in front of them was different from what was imagined, the landing soldiers who had arrived earlier had already taken control of the small landing field, and there were no fortifications, no mines, no explosions and stumps in front of them. Cai Songpo immediately thought that there were no Japanese defense troops here, and a regiment of soldiers and several thousand people immediately marched in depth under Cai Songpo's command.

The soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment captured the port, the 1st Battalion captured the city of Tsuzaki, and the 2nd Battalion assisted in the capture of the landing ground and the construction of fortifications. Cai Songpo personally led the 3rd Battalion to the port, where there were three small piers where the remaining 2nd Regiment and Artillery Regiment of the 1st Marine Division could land and unload artillery and logistical supplies. According to the plan, only the 1st Marine Division would land at Tsushizaki, and after the 1st Division had moved north to capture the batteries south of Kagoshima, the landing fleet would land in Kagoshima Port, where there were larger and better port facilities. (To be continued.) )