Updated: 202-0-25

Haiying Yang is a native of Jincheng, Shanxi, 26 years old this year, and the third mate of a shipping company. He drove the Prince at full speed, all the way north to the sea off Shinagawa, and then slowly slowed down. To the north of the Shinagawa Sea is Edo Castle.

In the small restaurant under the cab, Wang Tiezhu asked Shui Wuji, Tan Ke and You Nanzhe to discuss how to better use the cannon to speak under Edo Castle. Tan Ke and You Nanzhe strongly recommended that M7 howitzers not be used for the time being.

Tan Ke said: "Captain, although You Nanzhe and I are both artillerymen, we play mortars and recoilless guns, and howitzers have never been used. We have only been touching the M7 for two or three hours, and it is no problem to fire shells, but the coordination between our artillery crews is not good, the shelling speed cannot be improved, and the accuracy will be very poor. If we hit the target without firing n shells, we will lose our deterrent effect against devils. ”

Wang Tiezhu glanced at You Nanzhe, who was sitting on the side, and asked Tan Ke, "What is your opinion?" ”

"We propose to deal with targets for targeted killing, using 62mm mortars. Mortars we are familiar with, there is no pressure on the first hit. If we didn't have a fixed target, we practiced artillery and bombarded Edo Castle with howitzers, or burned devils with Kasan rockets, and we had seven incendiary bombs. ”

Wang Tiehammer nodded, "Okay, you are the authority, so your opinions are the main thing." Give you twenty minutes to prepare, no problem, right? ”

"Ten minutes is enough."

In the afternoon, hundreds of ships sailed back and forth on the Shinagawa Sea. They brought boatloads of earth and rocks and dumped them into the middle of the sea in a place that was already the rudimentary form of land. Not far from here there is already a piece of land made of earth, on which are forts high. There are more than 10 guard ships roaming the sea around the perimeter of the construction ship to do a vigilance.

Last June on the day of the US Navy Commodore Matthew? Perry led the fleet into Edo Bay, which aroused the shogunate's sense of crisis, so he specially appointed Egawa Hideryu, the acting officer of Nirayama Prefecture of Izu Kunitakata Prefecture, to reclaim land in Shinagawa outside Edo Castle and build a maritime fort. In the original time and space, the shogunate built a total of five forts, which are also known as "Shinagawa Odaiba". But only one has been completed and the others are still under construction.

At half past four o'clock in the afternoon, Egawa Yinglong was supervising the construction at sea by boat, when he suddenly heard two loud "booms", and the Shinagawa No. 1 Battery, which had just been completed, ignited two signal flares. He hurriedly turned back when a silver-gray ship suddenly burst in, and was speeding towards the No. 1 battery.

The fishermen came to a large boat with no sails, no pulp, no sea vessel, and the speed was very fast, and they were very surprised, so they rowed the small boat towards the Prince. The Prince was extremely fast, and the waves that rolled up staggered the oncoming fishermen's boats. At this scene, Egawa Yinglong immediately ordered the guard ship to go to intercept it immediately. More than a dozen garrison ships stepped forward and shouted to the Prince: "Stop, stop!" ”

The Prince would ignore it, and in the blink of an eye, it rushed out of the encirclement of the garrison fleet. Egawa Yinglong came to the big ship with the sun and moon flag in a murderous spirit, and the cannon in the bow of the ship was raised high, and he hurriedly approached the ship to board the Shinagawa No. 1 Battery.

It was five o'clock in the afternoon, and the Prince was seven nautical miles from Edo Castle and two nautical miles from the fort. Many of the battery's cannons had already hurriedly unloaded their armor and aimed at the Prince.

Wang Tiehammer stared coldly at the fort on the shore with a telescope. Putting down the binoculars, he picked up the walkie-talkie, "Tan Ke, You Nanzhe, the Prince is going to slow down and slowly approach the fort." You have aimed the cannon for me, and if the little devils dare to move, I will kill them. ”

The Prince slowed down slightly, and it got closer and closer to the battery, 2000 meters, 00 meters, 600 meters. The numerous construction ships on the sea were so frightened that they fled to the shore.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the battery hurriedly lit a signal flare. The loud noise of the flare is comparable to that of a cannon. Generally speaking, any vessel that hears such a loud noise will honestly stop and be inspected. But the Prince paid no heed, and continued to approach the battery.

"Just one boat, dare to come to Shinagawa Odaiba!" After Egawa Yinglong boarded the fort, he used a monotube for a long time, and laughed angrily. Although the shogunate once issued an instruction against the warships of the European and American powers - "forbearance is precious". But this ship is flying the flag of the sun and the moon, and it has nothing to do with the European and American powers. It was already 500 meters, and Egawa Yinglong was getting closer and closer to the Prince, and ordered, "Shoot two shots to scare him away!" ”

The gunners of Battery No. 1 were all soldiers from Kumamoto, who had always been militants, and when they heard the order to open fire, they all shouted "Hai, Hai" in high spirits.

Wang Tie Hammer went from the telescope to the Shinagawa Battery, there were three cannons aimed at the Prince, and the Japanese soldiers on the gun emplacement, like flies, some walked to the side of the gun with a bullet pusher and a cannon brush; Others put bags of stuff into the barrels.

"Left full rudder!" He immediately gave the order to change course so that the Prince was parallel to the battery.

The Prince had just completed a 90° turn and drew an arc on the sea. With a "boom", white smoke rose from the fort, and a large iron pellet fell into the water 200 meters on the port side of the Prince.

Without waiting for the king's hammer to order, the two mortars in front and behind the Prince immediately spoke. By this time, the sky was already dark, and the front and rear decks of the warship were rising with red flames, and two parabolas dragged long white smoke, and with a screaming sound, pierced the sky, and landed on the Shinagawa Battery.

Then two fireballs rose and explosions were heard. Through the binoculars, it is clear that the fragments of the ruins on the fort and the human limbs flew out of the fire at the same time.

Tan Ke and You Nanzhe hit their first shots respectively, and the two of them were very excited, and they immediately used their whole body solutions to shoot quickly. Flames continued to erupt from the muzzles of the cannons, and the sharp whistling of tearing through the air continued to echo over the dusk sea. Smoke billowed from the Shinagawa Battery, and orange fireballs from high-explosive shells rose from the Fort.

At this time, the garrison fleet fanned around the Prince from behind, and Shui Wuxian immediately commanded Ban Xue, Fu Baichen and others to set up two machine guns and shoot at the fleet. "Do-do-do~~~~" The bullet rain swept over, and the devils on the garrison ship suddenly turned on their backs and planted themselves in the water.

Wang Tiehammer glanced back, and more than a dozen garrison ships had been shot and began to sink one after another.

The cannons that threatened the Prince were all incapacitated, the devils on the gun emplacements were dead and wounded, and in the firelight, all the cannons were overturned by the shock wave, and the people and messy debris flew in all directions.

Wang Tiezhu immediately ordered to stop firing mortars and use Kasan rockets instead.

One of the first rockets to land smashed into the position and exploded immediately. After the shell exploded, countless sparks erupted, and these sparks flew out, pouring into a space of nearly 100 square meters, and quickly burned. The soldiers who were about to fight and save people just now suddenly shouted in the flames.

One rocket after another fell all over the fort, countless sparks burst out in all directions, and a few drops of sparks drilled into the bunker of the command post and fell on Egawa Yingnian's body. Jiang Chuan Yingnian was so frightened that he hurriedly went to slap, but the more the sparks were beaten, the more they burned. "Ah~~" The piercing pain caused him to fall to the ground at once, his clothes were quickly set on fire, and a moment later the flames engulfed Egawa Youngen's entire body.

Seven incendiary bombs turned the man-made land in the middle of the sea into a sea of fire, and the entire fort was like a layer of flames on the sea, and many soldiers screamed and rolled in the flames. Soon the fire was burning to the ammunition depot, and a huge fireball rushed out of the bunker, and the thick glutinous rice juice stone wall bunker was overturned in the blink of an eye, and the flames scattered in all directions, splashing everywhere, and then turning into an even more violent fire, engulfing everything around it.

The burning Shinagawa Fort burst into flames, dyeing the sky and sea red, and the original silver-gray Prince seemed to be covered with a coat of iron and blood. In the twilight, the Sea Eagle drove the Prince slowly past the Shinagawa Battery. The sea breeze continued to send a scorching smell, and the Japanese ships on the sea had long since scattered and fled.

"Alas~~" Wang Tiehammer stood on the front deck, looked at the Shura field in the sea of fire, and let out a long sigh, "Although it is an enemy, it is too tragic!" ”

"Captain, this is a devil, there is no need to regret it." Tan Ke, who was leading the brothers to maintain the cannon, couldn't help but say.

"It's not a pity, it's a sorrow for them. They should never commit a lot of crimes against the Chinese people, and the blood debt must be paid in blood! ”

Kaitaka Youngke commanded the Prince to approach the shore and anchored at the mouth of the Sumida River outside Edo Castle, with the muzzle pointed directly at the city of Edo.

Edo Castle was originally a small ruined castle, with offices and farmhouses that were almost the same, and there were only a few small fishing villages nearby. After the opening of the Tokugawa shogunate, large-scale construction of Edo Castle began, and after the expansion of three generations of shoguns, Edo Castle was almost completed. Later, the castle area expanded to the southeast of the castle, and the mansions of the feudal lords were built near the castle, and industrial and commercial settlements were built on both sides of the river and near the mouth of the river. In other words, Edo's densely populated, industrially and commercially developed areas are relatively close to the sea!

In the cab, after Haiying Yang broke down, he asked Wang Tiehammer for instructions on whether to let everyone tidy up and clean up before starting the meal.

"Try M9, let Tan Ke and You Nanzhe each shoot three shells, and then start eating."

It was getting late, and there was not a single light in the direction of Edo Castle, except for Shinagawa to the south, where the fire burned red in the sea.

On the foredeck, Tan Ke steered the M9 in the direction of Edo Castle, adjusted the elevation and azimuth angles slightly, and then instructed Zhang to open the gun latch, and the loader sent the shell into the gun chamber, and then closed the gun bolt. Ye Danqing bolted the fire cable to the fire latch.

Tan Ke covered his ears and shouted "Fire!" Hearing the command of the gun commander, all the people on the gun position covered their ears, only Ye Danqing couldn't cover his ears, he opened his mouth wide, grabbed the fire rope with both hands, centered on his left foot, rotated his whole body to the left, and pulled the artillery.

There was a loud "boom", and a huge fireball erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and the Prince trembled as if awakened by this earth-shattering loud noise. Immediately afterwards, the rear deck You Nanzhe commanded the rear main gun to also fire the shells.

Open the bolt, return the shell, throw it aside, stuff it again, turn off the bolt, and put it!

"Boom, boom, boom~~" The two cannons fired three shells each in one go. Flames were rising from the southeast of Edo, and thick smoke was rising into the sky.

At this time, more than a dozen small boats rushed to the opposite shore. On the ship at the head, a man stood up, put his hands together in the shape of a trumpet, and shouted at the Prince.

Wang Tiezhu listened to it and smiled, "It should be Latin, only Xu Nanying understands it here." ”

Then the boat stood up again, and he shouted in Chinese. The sea breeze sent a strange cry intermittently: "Negotiation...... Please stop the shelling, we negotiate ~~~ Vice Governor Uraga is on board ~~~"